Greetings."

"What?" Gao Mantang was quiet for a while and then asked, "You really didn't receive my script. It's a period drama called "The North Wind Blows". Did you forget it?"

Xu Rong confirmed: "It's really not true. The books I have here are generally spy wars. I will pay careful attention to other types of books. There is indeed nothing like what you mentioned."

"Are you free at noon? Let's have a meal together?"

"good."

Xu Rong hung up the phone blankly. He didn't know what Gao Mantang had done, but he still had to tell classmate Xiao Zhang that she should study by herself.

Classmate Xiao Zhang happily took a bite of the ice cream and asked, "What's the matter, Teacher Xu?"

"Isn't it cold?"

"It's not cold, it's not cold." Xiao Zhang shook his head and said, "Is there something urgent?"

Xu Rong nodded and said: "Gao Mantang said that he should talk to me about something and have a meal together."

"Then go ahead and tell me when you come back in the afternoon." Xiao Zhang said without thinking.

"Okay, then you go to study on your own first."

Xu Rong turned around and walked out of the school. After a few steps, he glanced back and saw classmate Xiao Zhang hunched over, with her feet propped up. She looked at the direction she was walking and it seemed that she was not going in the right direction, so he called her out: "

Xiao Zhang, are you going in the wrong direction? That's the dormitory over there."

Classmate Xiao Zhang's body suddenly paused, and he slowly turned his head and said with a dry smile: "Oh, I left my phone in the dormitory. Go back and get it. Teacher Xu, please hurry over."

After she finished speaking, Saya ran to the dormitory. She didn't want to study alone.

Xu Rong shook his head helplessly and smiled bitterly. It seemed that he would need to spend more time in the library or study room in the future.

Xu Rong arrived at the place agreed with Gao Mantang and met. Because it was still early, he did not go to eat immediately. He found a nearby teahouse and ordered a pot of tea.

Gao Mantang's Chinese character face and small eyes are full of high-spiritedness. With the popularity of "Crossing Guandong", he has completely taken over Haiyan and established himself as the top screenwriter in the country.

The two of them chatted for a while and talked about their current situation. Then Gao Mantang asked: "Xu Rong, how are you? Do you have any dates recently?"

When Xu Rong heard this, his eyes lit up and he said, "Yes."

But then, he blinked again, because he hadn't heard that Gao Mantang had any big productions to prepare recently.

Gao Mantang smiled and said: "Xu Rong, I have a book here, which is very good. I would like to ask you to play the leading male role. Do you want to accept it?"

Xu Rong looked at him blankly and thought to himself, my great screenwriter, you don't even let me read the script, you just want me to follow it. This is a bit too unethical.

Therefore, he did not respond, but said: "Teacher Gao, are you anxious?"

"I get angry when I mention this." Gao Mantang put down the tea cup he was holding and sighed, "When we signed the contract, the producer promised well that he would invite you to star, but it turns out

How could I have imagined that just when it was time to sign an actor, I was notified that you were unavailable and had resigned, which really shocked me."

"No, I called you just now to try to persuade you, and now I understand that there is a turtle grandson who is not doing anything in the middle of this."

Xu Rong looked at Gao Mantang in surprise and said: "Teacher Gao, can you let me read the script first? The period drama you mentioned doesn't even have an outline. It would be too disrespectful for me to agree to it."

You are responsible, aren’t you?”

Gao Mantang patted his forehead and said with a smile: "Seeing how anxious I was, I forgot about the real thing."

As he spoke, he took out a stack of notebooks from his document bag, handed it to Xu Rong, and said: "This drama, I tell you, is guaranteed to be more popular than "Enter Guandong"."

Xu Rong smiled and did not answer his question. The ratings of "Enter Guandong" have become a new record for CCTV, which is not easy to break.

For about half an hour, while chatting with Gao Mantang, he went through the outline and plots of five episodes, paused, and then went straight to the end. After reading carefully for a while, he closed the book and asked: "

Teacher Gao, currently...who has been decided to play the male lead?"

Gao Mantang shook his neck and said: "Xia Yu, isn't this nonsense? Find a thirty-year-old to play an eighteen-year-old young man for me."

Xu Rong scratched his head and asked Xiang another question: "Where is the first girl?"

"Yan Ni is the shopkeeper Tong from "Wulin Gaiden"."

"Well, I know her, and the book is indeed a good one." Xu Rong thought for a while and then said, it's actually not very authentic to do such a thing as cutting off Hu Hu when someone signs a contract. The director didn't come to him from the beginning, and now

Gao Mantang ran over. If he got involved, it would be bad for his reputation to spread. Moreover, although the plot in the first half of this book is quite exciting, due to the historical background, it is basically impossible to be as popular as "Crossing Guandong".

As soon as Gao Mantang heard his voice, he knew something was wrong and said: "Don't have any worries. The producer had already promised me before I came here. As long as you agree, I will take the director with you."

Xu Rong was stunned, and after a while he asked: "Teacher Gao, why? I feel like I don't have much appeal in period dramas, right?"

Gao Mantang laughed: "I'm not afraid of your jokes. In fact, part of this story... is adapted from my real experience when I was young. I feel that you are very similar to me at that time, so I decided to choose you from the beginning.

, not only is he as handsome as me in appearance.”

Seeing Xu Rong smiling, Gao Mantang seemed embarrassed. He also smiled and waved his hands, saying: "Actually, the most fundamental thing is the similarities in our personalities, the same persistence and the same entanglement."

Xu Rong hurriedly shook his head and said, "Teacher Gao, what you said is wrong. I'm not bothered at all."

Gao Mantang laughed and said, "How can you block Liu Heping for seven days without worrying about it?"

"How do you know that?"

"Liu Heping told me personally." Gao Mantang smiled and explained his doubts, and at the same time said with emotion, "When I was young, I did similar things. You are a little more lucky than me. You are the master of things."

I asked for success, but I didn’t ask for success.”

"Yes, good things are not famous, but bad things are spread thousands of miles."

Gao Mantang pointed his finger at the notebook in front of Xu Rong and said, "Just tell me whether you want to take it or not. If you don't, I'll go find Ling Xiaosu."

Xu Rong looked at him in surprise and asked doubtfully: "You seem to like Ling Xiaosu very much? I heard that you just wanted to invite him to play the role of Chuan Wu, but he happened to be unavailable at that time."

"Well, that's what happened. I think you two are the most similar to me among the young actors in China, but your advantage is that you are younger." Gao Mantang said seriously, "And I heard Zhang Xinjian and others before.

The old man said that your business ability is very strong. Although I don’t know much about acting, judging from the works you have produced, you can create characters better than him."

"The professional level is a matter of benevolence and wisdom." Xu Rong did not accept the compliment that he was better than Ling Xiaosu, but said, "I think it's more, maybe when you were young and I am now, we are more

handsome."

"Ha ha."
Chapter completed!