7 a.m., breakfast time. People arrived one after another.
Lu Tianming, Rao Yuqiu, Lu Qingyan, Lu Qingshan and Mei Lingshang are all here.
Huang Yingyi and Lu Tianming lived in "Worou Villa" for two months and returned to Daicheng during the Spring Festival.
After breakfast, Lu Qingshan and Mei Lingshang studied runes with Jiang Qiuyun.
At 10 a.m., Mei Lingshang went to the film and television base to investigate. She served as the assistant to Wang Yuan, general manager of "Kunlun Myth Film and Television Base". While doing internship, she inspected the operation of the base, mastered first-hand information, and prepared to write her graduation thesis.
The second phase of the film and television base has been completed, making it the largest film and television base in China. Covering an area of 100,000 acres, the scale is twice that of Hengdian Film and Television City; the investment is 30 billion, which is five times that of Hengdian Film and Television City. With careful design and heavy investment, the film and television city has exquisite buildings and beautiful flowers, plants and trees.
The entire film and television city has attracted a large number of employees, who are busy filming during the day and living nearby at night, turning it into a small city.
In addition, there are many tourists who come from all over the country to visit and spend money here, stay for three to five days, and breathe the fresh air full of spiritual energy.
Sixty miles around the film and television base, the property rights of all mid- to low-end buildings, hotels, and B&Bs are in the hands of the Lu family. These are not for sale, only for rent, not for sale. As long as you are a film and television employee, the rent is not too expensive. In this way, those young people who pursue their dreams and come here to do group performances will not have nowhere to live and have to sleep under the bridge.
In addition, Lu Cheng is also building villas and caves in beautiful places, some of which are for sale, but the price is extremely expensive, 10 times more expensive than the best areas in the Magic City. Therefore, most villas and caves are still mainly rented.
This time, the scope of Mei Lingshang's inspection only included how to shoot movies in the film and television base, and did not involve the income from real estate. She was afraid that the Lu family would be exposed and criticized by the public.
Under the guidance of her master Jiang Qiuyun, Mei Lingshang not only inspected the overall operation of the base with Wang Yuan, but also contacted the producers, directors, actors and even extras to understand their living conditions.
In the entire film and television city, the saddest thing is the extras.
There are bachelors everywhere here and beautiful women everywhere.
Most of the extras are single, have left their hometowns, and have no worries.
Many girls feel that they have good looks and figures, so they want to try their luck in the film and television city. After the results came, I realized that there were too many good-looking girls with good figures here, and I was immediately overwhelmed. Without the advantages of appearance and figure, he is no different from an ordinary group performer.
The extras have to play various professions every day, sometimes they are coolies, sometimes they are policemen, sometimes they are passers-by, sometimes they are gangsters. Such many and frequent career changes will have an impact on the psychology of the group performers, which will more or less cause some mental problems.
The life of extra actors is very hard. They have to get up at four or five o'clock every morning to wait for filming, eat the lunch boxes provided by the crew, and do the most tiring work. They need to shoot over and over again. In the summer, they are exposed to the strong sun and it takes a long time to wait. Hours. They have to wear separate clothes in winter and no one cares about how they feel.
Day after day, year after year, waiting for good luck to arrive, a director will take a fancy to me, and then he will become famous in one fell swoop.
It's a pity that most people can't wait for that day, and end up doing nothing for more than ten years. Finally, they wake up, their dreams of stardom are shattered, and they go home.
The more Mei Lingshang came into contact with these people, the stronger her "Taoist heart" became.
She was still young and did not understand the meaning of cultivation. She originally thought that cultivation would help improve her chess skills, have a healthy body, and possess some super powers.
By observing the lives of those extras, she truly realized that cultivation is the pursuit of freedom. It is a kind of all-round freedom from body to spirit. There is no temptation on the outside and no entanglement on the inside. You can experience freedom through the rest of your life. Cultivation is the journey of freedom in the spiritual realm.
A month later, one evening, she returned to "Worou Villa" and told her master how she felt.
Jiang Qiuyun smiled and said: "Although we practice 'witchcraft', it is the same as the later immortal way. If you want to understand the meaning of cultivation, you can read Taoist classics.
The pursuit of freedom and liberation by cultivators is, on the one hand, the liberation of knowledge and ability, and on the other hand, the liberation of the state of mind. The former has the requirement of "increasingly for learning and daily loss for the Tao", while the latter has the requirement of "modesty", "weakness", " Face the world with attitudes such as "softness", "mindfulness", "sitting and forgetfulness", and "turning into a butterfly".
Taoism emphasizes "the unity of man and nature", "the correspondence between man and nature", "doing things without fighting, benefiting without harming", "cultivation in the body, its virtue is true", "an open mind and a solid belly", "the law is based on yin and yang, with simplicity Respond to redundancy, respond to complexity with simplicity.”
At the end of the practice, you can "take advantage of the righteousness of heaven and earth, control the debate between the six qi, and swim infinitely", and you can be like a roc, carried by the clouds to the sky, and soar in the sky with its wings.
The roc rises with the wind in one day and soars up to 90,000 miles!
That is true freedom. "
Mei Lingshang smiled and said, "Thank you, Master, for clarifying my confusion."
Jiang Qiuyun said: "Go and call Qingshan over for dinner."
Mei Lingshang went to find Lu Qingshan and found him studying runes on the computer.
She walked over quietly, looked at the computer screen, and found that the runes on it were unfamiliar.
She put one hand gently on the other person's shoulder and asked softly: "What rune is this?"
Lu Qingshan said: "Last night, my dad listed 3,800 runes for me, saying that these runes may be used in research related to nuclear fusion."
Mei Lingshang wanted to ask: "How did your father know? Where did he get these runes?" But she didn't dare to say it. In the entire "Worou Villa", the person that Mei Lingshang couldn't understand the most was the head of the family, Lu Cheng. Although Lu Cheng always looked kind and cheerful every time she saw him, she still felt pressured.
Lu Cheng was originally a person with a peaceful personality, but when facing younger people, especially the young and lively "prospective daughter-in-law", he had to maintain the appearance of the "family man".
Lu Qingshan stood up, wrapped his hands around Mei Lingshang's slender waist, hugged her to his chest, and said: "The Lu family's status today mainly depends on runes. My father has studied runes very deeply. My mother and my sister are much better! If 'Wuru Villa' is a university, then my father is the principal and also a doctoral supervisor; my mother is equivalent to the dean; my sister is equivalent to a graduate student; you and I are both Beginner students.”
What Mei Lingshang was looking forward to was a simple hug. She was happy in her heart and said with a smile on her face, "I understand. Your mother is calling you to eat!"
"Oh, let's go."
