Chapter 2 The Body of Lies
This is the so-called butterfly effect. Ye Wei made the old principal make a fool of himself, and the old principal made him unable to afford it.
After the rally, he was taken to scold by the principal and received his "little punishment" - his "cutefish" working hours increased by five hours!
Harvard-West Lake has many community services, one of which is called "cutchfish": Grade 7, Grade 8 students clean on campus after school, each person must do one hour a year, while Grade 9 students need to mop the floor three hours a year, and are also responsible for cleaning the canteen during lunch.
Now he has been spending five more hours and wants to spend time with those lower graders!
So...what is the big deal?
This is why Ye Wei feels strange and he should complain that he is even genius, but he has not experienced too much suffering. This kind of "punishment" is simply a joke.
It was all caused by that dream. He felt that he had grown up a lot, which was a good thing, right? No matter what, just do whatever you want, everything is as you please, this is me!
Thinking of this, Ye Wei couldn't sit still in the classroom. The math teacher thought he was still the bad student who was not focused in class. It was really difficult to find an Asian who was so poor in mathematics! In fact, Ye Wei was always thinking about his family affairs. Whenever he thought that his father would die in anger, he would sweat a coldly.
After one class, he couldn't stay any longer, so he found Teacher Grace Aishi and wanted to go home to rest on the grounds that he was feeling uncomfortable.
Perhaps his face was indeed ugly. Teacher Aishi was accurate, but don’t think that this would reduce the punishment. There is no way, and it cannot be reduced for five hours and a minute.
So, VIY, who was in the limelight, hurriedly left the campus, which made many people scratch their heads in a hurry, looking for him to play, looking for him to know, looking for him to be unlucky... Why can't they find him anymore?
After leaving Harvard-West Lake, Ye Wei got into a taxi and did not go home, but went straight to his father's dentist's clinic.
Hogan-Yeah's private dentist clinic is located in Santa Monica. When Ye Wei arrived at the coastal city, it was already noon.
The clinic is not big, with one living room, one bedroom and one bathroom. There is only one dentist, Ye Haogen, and an old black nurse who has been working for many years. In the bright hall, there is a Frankenstein-like dental chair, surrounded by an office desk, sofa, medicine cabinet, and some elegant plants.
"Dad!" Ye Wei rushed into the clinic hall and saw his father in a white coat tidying up some dentist tools beside his dental chair.
When Ye Haogen heard the reputation, his middle-aged face was full of surprise, "Why, why are you here?"
"Oh, you old guy!" Walking in front of him, Ye Wei hugged his father excitedly, feeling like he was a different life, as if the last hug was eight years ago, which made him feel hot and choked up.
But the moment is real, dad is fine, it's just a long and smelly dream. Anyway, no matter whether it is true or false, I must protect my dad and my family!
He put away his mood and smiled and said, "I skipped school."
"What!?" Ye Haogen frowned in surprise.
"Haha, I've deceived you. I left after getting the teacher's consent. Today I always feel that something is wrong with you. Come and take a look at it." Ye Wei pressed his father's shoulder with both hands and kept looking at him. His father was still the energetic elite dentist, and he had a youthful spirit because of his pursuit of the movie dream.
Ye Haogen looked at himself and smiled helplessly: "I'm fine. You saw it too. Should you go back to school?"
"Please, dad, don't be so rigid." Ye Wei looked angry, "I finally came out, just pretend to be a day off."
"Okay, okay, who has never been young?" Ye Haogen has never been a strict father. This time he laughed again, "But don't blame my dad for not reminding you that the grades of C in each subject will not bring you a 16-year-old new car key. Your mother has warned me."
He continued to pack up his tools and said with a smile: "You want the latest Land Rover, right? This is a look at the performance of "The Wedding Time". If it wasn't a box office bomb, you'd only get a second-hand Volkswagen."
When Ye Wei heard "The Marriage Day is Coming", his expression became deep. He was thinking about what to do next. After thinking about it, the most important thing now is to figure out one thing.
That is, the good script "The Wedding Time is Coming" was filmed badly, was it the bitter fruit of the producers' efforts but not as expected, or was it a bunch of garbage liars who were filming badly because of their random tricks?
The latter is 99%. Anyway, when he grew up in his dream, he called Kevin Thomas after he went to the University of Southern California to film, asking him to see the original production information of "The Wedding Time is Coming", production schedule, director's log, etc., but the guy was unable to provide it to him on the grounds that the company had been in bankruptcy for many years and the information had been lost.
What a ridiculous reason, he believes that no professional filmmaker will lose such important original materials!
Kevin Thomas did not let him see it, but only one thing was explained: there were a lot of problems with those things. The layman couldn't see it, but the insider could.
To give the simplest example, there are several scenes in "The Wedding Day is Coming" that were filmed in Florida. For an independent film with a budget of 2 million, it would be a question whether to release the scene this time. The key is, is that the large cost of the scene really used for filming?
Or are the people who travel by filming filming, making filming become second, and travel is the first?
There are many tricks in the "landscape survey fee" alone.
This is still a way to at least conceal its purpose. Some are more direct and more rampant, and clues can be found in those production documents.
If Kevin Thomas really took their family's additional investment several times, and had a total investment of $1.8 million, he wouldn't let that bastard go!
Thinking of this, Ye Weiyi looked serious and said, "Dad, I have another thing. You know I am making a short film and preparing to participate in next year's school film festival, so I am very interested in the production schedule of "The Wedding Day is Coming" and the documents in the director's log. I want to take a look."
The first Harvard West Lake Film Festival, the school announced the event shortly after the school year started.
With such an opportunity to show off, he was of course excited to participate, so he wrote a three-minute public service advertising script, recruited friends to form a production team, and completed the shooting together. He is still in the post-production editing.
Ye Haogen naturally knew that he was still looking forward to his son's performance, and nodded with a smile: "Okay, I have time to ask Kevin."
"No, now ask him, dad, I'm really in a hurry! Let's do this, give me his number and I'll tell you."
Ye Wei was very persistent, and Ye Haogen didn't find it strange. His son always had a willful side, which made people feel troubled, "Okay, wait for us to have lunch first?"
"Now!" Ye Weizhen was not in this mood and robbed his father's phone like a robbery. He clicked on the address book and called a contact person...
"Hey, hey! Kevin? Yes, it's me." As soon as he connected, he pretended to say hello enthusiastically and walked to the bathroom of the clinic.
Seeing that his son was mysterious, Ye Haogen shrugged helplessly. I guess the purpose of making a short film is not the real purpose?
Kevin Thomas's equally enthusiastic voice came from the phone: "But, what's wrong? Isn't this your father's phone? It seems that someone has skipped school?"
"Yes, haha, this is the thing..." Ye Wei laughed and said his purpose. Kevin Thomas was surprised to hear it: "Wow, work so hard!"
After closing the bathroom door, Ye Wei pretended to whisper, "Kevin, let me tell you the truth. It's actually a girl. I told her that I had a movie at home, but she didn't believe it. I couldn't show her the final version of the DVD, so I need these, these things that seem to be very professional."
At this moment, Kevin Thomas felt that he understood everything, and suddenly laughed: "Oh, I understand, haha, no problem, I'll give you some storyboard pictures."
"No, Kevin, everything, I need everything!" Ye Wei was anxious, as if he was talking: "The storyboard can only take off her top, a piece of information and a piece of clothing! Oh no... Forget it, Kevin, now you know everything, you won't report it to me, right?"
"Haha, no, I understand. I will bring it to your father tomorrow and I will give it to you."
"Now, I'm urgent, now!"
"It seems that girl is really hot? Haha, the information is in the company's office, and I am in the company, but I can't leave now..."
"I'll get it, you're waiting for me in the company."
Ye Wei ended the call without saying a word, looked at himself in the mirror on the wall, slowly changed the angle of his face, and murmured: "Dear, you really have some talent for acting."
A cold smile appeared on that childish and handsome face.
Without going to lunch with his father, Ye Wei left in a hurry, which gave Ye Haogen a headache.
The production partnership between Ye Haogen and Kevin Thomas is called Vido-Pictures, named after the first two letters of Ye Wei and his sister Dorothy. It is opened in an office in a small office building in Santa Monica, and there are no employees. The affairs of "The Wedding Day is Coming" are managed by Kevin Thomas.
In less than half an hour, Ye Wei rushed to the company's office. Kevin Thomas had been waiting for a long time.
"Hey, just!"
Kevin Thomas is a white man in his forties, wearing a blue casual suit, a uniform body, a smile on his face, and a kind look, which makes it easy to divide him into the category of cultural sages. He did go to college and was also a well-known film graduate from the University of North Carolina School of Art.
This identity, coupled with his ability to speak, is enough to make some people who dream of movies fascinate.
"Kevin." Ye Wei also seemed very enthusiastic, looking around with not many office equipment, "Where is that information?"
"You'll get it, here." Kevin walked to the computer desk next to him, with several large stacks of thick documents on it, "It's all here."
Ye Wei's eyes lit up and he rushed over and looked around. The production schedule, budget expenses, storyboard pictures... are all there!
"Is there any more? Is there any more?" he asked, flipping through the drawers of the computer desk, taking whatever is useful, like a thief doing a looting.
Looking at him next to him, Kevin Thomas smiled and his contemptuous look was like looking at a silly boy. To be precise, a prodigal and brainless playboy.
When Ye Wei put the stacks of documents into the bag, Kevin said: "Wei, if you use up these materials, you will return them to me. I still have some usefulness."
"No problem, I will pay you back in two days." Ye Wei pretended to agree.
At this time, Kevin Thomas had some idea and hesitated mysteriously: "There is something I don't know if I should tell you..."
"What? Tell me quickly, tell me quickly, I won't tell anyone." Ye Wei was curious and anxious, and wanted to be fooled by him, right?
“There will be a yacht party on the beach of Santa Monica tomorrow night, and there will be many models participating…”
Ye Wei suddenly shouted excitedly, "Wow! Is it the angel of Victoria's Secret? Or the playboy? Can I go!?"
As if satisfied with his reaction, Kevin Thomas smiled happily and said, "It's not that top-notch, but it's also very hot. I like to make friends. I don't know much. If it weren't for the release, I wouldn't want to go there. But I think you'll be interested, so it's good to go and have fun."
"Of course I'm interested, they will like me." Ye Wei wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth. His performance was a bit exaggerated, but the other party couldn't see it either.
He knew what this guy had to do. He was tempting him to take a fancy to his money. As long as he threw money at that shit party, he would look like this bitch. Those third-rate models who were jealous of money would post it. After all, he was a minor child and would only get cheaper Kevin Thomas in the end.
Sure enough, Kevin Thomas was a little excited: "If you really want to go, you have to prepare today. Those models are not little girls, and it is useless to be cool. They only like rich people." Ye Wei smiled ambiguously: "I know, I know."
"I must not tell you about this, and I cannot tell anyone! Otherwise, I will be in trouble. I will pick you up tomorrow night, so I will go to see a movie."
"Haha, I understand completely." Ye Wei laughed, looked at Kevin Thomas' disgusting smiley face, and touched the phone in his pocket, sneering in his heart: But, you are really in trouble.
Chapter completed!