Chapter 38: Looks like social death
A long time later, Luo Li also asked Jing Xiaoqiang: "Why did you see me, an ugly duckling, among so many beauties?"
Jing Xiaoqiang replied: "Because you are Lori."
Then he was slapped by the girl.
Loli’s understanding was correct. She was not tall, her head was a bit big, her facial features were delicate and she was small, always with a Loli air.
Little did people know that the manager of the musical theater has to interview many actors every day.
Jing Xiaoqiang has really seen countless people.
Regardless of gender, most people who come to Broadway to pursue their dreams are capable.
But whether or not a show can survive on the Broadway stage involves many comprehensive considerations.
The same goes for actors; being pretty doesn't necessarily mean success.
In a sense, beauty is even a burden that will suppress an actor's acting skills and talent, and always grab the center of attention.
Over time, actors become too lazy to improve their acting skills. If the goal can be achieved by just being pretty, why bother?
The acting skills will naturally be wasted.
In fact, acting is not a mysterious thing. Once you have fully understood the relationship between performing arts and life, and realize that playing a role is the threshold to playing yourself, most people who love acting can hone their acting skills.
At this time, the actor's innate temperament may be the key.
Anyway, the moment Jing Xiaoqiang saw Luo Li, it didn't matter what major she studied, this girl had a chance...
Especially since she came to register alone, she was dressed rather poorly, and even looked a little panicked as she looked around.
Jing Xiaoqiang naturally reached out to help: "The student union is obliged to help freshmen adapt to all aspects of school life. This is my pager number. You can contact me anytime if you need anything."
He pretended so well that the finance lady took a look and found that the girl was not the prettiest. The main thing was that the boy looked really tall, steady and reliable. She wondered what major the senior was in?
Just didn't say anything.
Luo Li gratefully took the scrap form and tore off the note. Jing Xiaoqiang had no ulterior motives: "Do you want to move things? Do you want to do some hard work? There are a group of boys waiting outside."
Before Luo Li could respond, the parents around her started to ask, "What about us? Why don't we give out our pager numbers? Isn't it the student union's obligation to assist all freshmen?"
Yes, yes, yes, Jing Xiaoqiang’s pager number has been given to many girls!
The more beautiful the parents are, the more positive they are!
I feel that my daughter at least has an organization to rely on at school, and she also has someone to contact and ask questions when she returns home!
Boys would say: "Just call us from the third floor..."
It was not until noon that several boys realized, wow, how come this senior also lives in the dormitory on our freshman floor?
He had no intention of hiding it, he just wanted to make the little girl feel a little safer.
Jing Xiaoqiang's roommates and classmates had long admired him to bits. Through the window of the finance office, they saw him interacting with almost all the pretty girls!
Two particularly pretty ones even shook hands!
Envy, but not jealousy or hatred: "Brother Qiang! I will follow you from now on. Please introduce us to more opportunities to meet girls!"
"Brother Qiang, you go find sister-in-law first, and we brothers will follow her to solve our own problems..."
Jing Xiaoqiang didn't care about this superficial contact at all. There were more beauties in Pingjing Film Academy and Drama Academy back then. He found out the contact information of all the beauties in the school and knew everyone's information like the back of his hand.
What's the use?
Smart beauties know that this is their most precious resource and will never waste it on students.
Not smart... It's annoying to get along with him, isn't it a waste of your time?
So for most people, falling in love at this stage is really a waste of their studies.
Jing Xiaoqiang listened to these hormone-filled words and shook his head secretly. You went through so much trouble to get into college, just to fall in love?
Trade four years of romance for a lifetime of humility?
Just like what I did back then?
But he didn't say anything and just quietly wolfed down his fitness meal.
At a certain stage, there are actually no food taboos or essential foods to eat. Just maintain a balanced and reasonable intake. But during this stage of rapid growth, you have to eat a lot, eat non-stop, and eat six meals a day.
Chicken breast, salmon, eggs and other things are the most efficient. You can replenish the nutrients by eating them without consuming more food to supplement them.
But at this point, the boys didn't really notice the size of Jing Xiaoqiang under his shirt; they just thought he was pretty strong.
He was also recognized as the vanguard of military training.
This year, for the first time ever, we have this project that makes the boys very excited.
Jing Xiaoqiang almost forgot about this incident, but it didn’t matter, it was just fitness.
So the freshmen of the entire major simply held an evening class meeting. Most of the boys and girls were still shy and didn’t even remember their names, and they immediately plunged into the intense and lively military training.
The university next door even has a one-year military training!
But most girls must remember this tall and strong cockroach...
Having a simple and easy-to-remember name can easily give you an advantage in social situations. If you also have a distinctive appearance, you will almost certainly be the first to attract the attention of the opposite sex.
However, this kind of attention may lead to two extremes: either social demise or priority in choosing a spouse.
So during the military training, all the freshmen wore camouflage uniforms and marched and stood at attention in the palm-sized campus.
They will definitely meet up with other majors from time to time. The girls from the acting department would actually start to make fun of the boy pretending to be a senior!
Make all the boys in other majors envious!
Jing Xiaoqiang acted like General Patton reviewing his troops, and walked by with his chin raised and saluting indifferently.
I don't care about it, so I won't indulge it.
He is now concentrating on military training.
The instructor also particularly likes this tall, flexible boy with excellent physical coordination.
Shanghai is a place with a strong petty-bourgeois atmosphere, and the Drama Academy is a school with a particularly strong petty-bourgeois atmosphere.
Teachers all say that military training is just a face-saving project.
Only Jing Xiaoqiang was extremely serious. The forced training at this stage was very helpful to him. He got up at six o'clock every morning, went out to the hotel to exercise until eight o'clock, and returned to the team before half past eight with his fitness meal. At noon, he went out again to prepare the afternoon fitness meal.
Don't waste a minute or a second.
Moreover, the tough and mature aura in him was best felt by soldiers. Whenever the girls started to make a fuss, the instructor would shout slogans instead.
Jing Xiaoqiang and the others would march in step, shout one, two, and walk past the girls with disdain.
The female instructor refused to accept this and coaxed the other girls to goose-step past the boys while screaming in a group.
After a while, the line of girls majoring in acting started to compete with the line of boys majoring in choreography, which had a similar number of people.
When they met on campus, they turned their faces to each other and shouted slogans while marching in step.
It's so fun.
The boys in stage design were so excited that they would comment on the girls every day after military training. There were twenty-one girls in two performance classes, and almost every one of them could be marked out!
The girls were also said to be excited, probably because it was the first time they were away from their parents' homes. They gathered together to make noises with the opposite sex and screamed even louder than the boys.
This made the boys in the acting department feel jealous.
Then, during the first weekend night training, the provocation was launched.
Jing Xiaoqiang didn't care about these little things at all. He didn't expect the military training to be so strict.
We don't stop on weekends, and there are occasional emergency gatherings or even training at night, but the night training lasts until nine o'clock, and before the lights go out at eleven o'clock, it is definitely a rest time.
He sat cross-legged on the lawn and thought, why not wait until nine o'clock and then ride his bike over to sing a few songs. The main thing is not to let people down after making a promise.
Because this campus located in a busy section of the city doesn’t even have a football field, and the only basketball court doesn’t even have lights.
It can be seen that the area is so small that it is almost the same as a primary or secondary school.
There are several high-quality lawns with exquisite street lamps that show the bohemian style.
Therefore, night training mostly consists of marching in formation on the lawn, and then sitting cross-legged to talk about the thoughts on the military training.
Of course, the most common singing in the army is also indispensable.
There were about two hundred people in total, divided into one company of boys and one company of girls, singing revolutionary songs as well as songs from Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Jing Xiaoqiang always sat on the sidelines, watching the kids making noises with the attitude of an elderly bystander.
In the end, they asked the male choreographers to choreograph!
The funniest thing was that this boy who was studying drama in the acting department actually held a guitar and sang "I Do it for You"!
At that time, Jing Xiaoqiang really wanted to ask back, "Does your mother know?"
In fact, he can sing quite well. He has a professional degree in drama, and his pronunciation and singing are quite regular. Compared with amateur singing enthusiasts, he is definitely more than capable.
I sang an English song that was basically rote memorization of pronunciation. Although it sounded a bit awkward in the context, it was enough to hold the scene.
With his fair and handsome appearance, his singing was still very effective after taking off his military cap. The teachers passing by on the road stopped and listened to the voice of youth with a smile.
Jing Xiaoqiang had the same feeling, and even thought that if I introduced this guy to a nightclub to sing, it would cost 100 yuan a night and I would take 50%.
If you find ten more dance halls and introduce ten singers to them, you can make a net profit of 500 yuan a day. The primary stage of capitalist exploitation will be achieved. 150,000 yuan a month, almost enough to buy a house. How wonderful!
Then I heard almost all the girls screaming and cheering like crazy!
The boy from the acting department came over proudly and made a gesture of "you are invited". His instructor was even more delighted and kept clapping and encouraging his team members to sing those singing rhymes.
The dancing boys lined up in a row, and even the instructor was gritting his teeth: "Whoever can sing must win!"
Everyone immediately gave up and said, this is a professional thing. We are painting majors. Wouldn't it be playing to our weaknesses and avoiding our strengths to compete with acting and drama majors?
Jing Xiaoqiang didn't seem to think about his singing skills at all, and was encouraging him: "Why don't you all sing together in a heroic and high-spirited chorus, and chop the devils' heads with your swords..."
Then I heard the girls from the acting department start to scream in unison: "Xiao Qiang..."
At this time, the male choreographers actually worked together to push Jing Xiaoqiang out!
Yes, that’s right. Instead of us taking the blame together, it would be better for you to bear the humiliation alone. Please!
Jing Xiaoqiang pretended to be dead, but he didn't care. He just despised these straight men in his heart.
As a result, among the girls in the acting department, there was a girl who stood out. She had an outstanding face and a talented figure. Even the military uniform could not hide her curves, and the belt around her waist even created an effect of mountains and hills.
She started with a front handspring, and amid the screams of girls and the clicks of tongues of boys, she came over with a ballet spin: "Come on, fake snow-capped chief, I'm going to say something dirty to you, if you give in, I'll treat you like shit and let you go..."
It's full of provocation and teasing.
