Stupid root

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  Ye Sumang is not stupid, on the contrary, he is very clever.

  When someone's thinking is limited, Ye Sumang immediately made a very wise choice to think of ways together with everyone.

  Then he called Huang Bo into his office.

  "Huang Bo, this is the 'Sha Gen' personnel file, send it to all employees and let them go find him." Ye Su Mang handed over a document detailing Sha Gen's appearance and personality traits to Huang Bo. Just as he was about to leave with the documents, Ye Su Mang thought for a moment and called him back.

  "Tell them that whoever finds the actor last will be adopted and rewarded with 10,000 yuan."

  "10,000 yuan!? Isn't that a bit too much?" Huang Bo exclaimed in surprise. To think that even if the treatment at Tianxia Film and Television was good, 10,000 yuan was equivalent to three months' salary for an ordinary employee. In his opinion, having someone from their own company go find actors, why would they need to spend more money?

  "If you want a horse to run fast, you need to feed it well. Having a goal will give you more motivation, do as I say."

  "Alright, I'll listen." Huang Bo didn't say anything else. Whatever idea Ye Sumang was determined about, he would generally unconditionally agree with.

  In Huang Bo's heart, Ye Su Mang did everything for a reason.

  When Huang Bo announced the reward measures for finding actors to the company's employees, he immediately triggered a burst of excited cheers from all the employees.

  The company had already given everyone an extra bonus of 3,000 yuan due to the revenue from "Jade Dynasty", and now they have released another reward of 10,000 yuan. The employees felt that it was simply too fortunate to be working for this company at this time.

  "Manager Ye is really good to us employees, one wave of rewards after another..."

  "You don't think about it, Old Man Ye's character is top-notch, so naturally our General Manager Ye is also not bad!"

  "It's a good thing I left the old factory in the first place, or else I wouldn't have gotten such great treatment! I heard that the factory is having trouble paying salaries again and is about to go bankrupt..."

  The news brought out by Huang Bo made the employees outside buzz with discussion, while Ye Sumang, sitting in the office, smiled slightly, and every word of their discussion outside was heard by his ears.

  This is what he wants, a company to make employees feel a sense of belonging, in addition to strict work rules, it also needs to have a complete set of welfare systems. After all, the ultimate goal of everyone's work is to earn money and support their families, and good welfare systems are the foundation of this. As for occasional rewards, they can be considered small surprises that can further stimulate employees' enthusiasm for work.

  There is strength in numbers, and this saying is absolutely true. Just one day later, Ye Sumang received more than a dozen actor profiles that met the requirements from his employees.

  "Xia Yu, Venice Film Festival winner for Best Actor, starring in 'A Dog's Life', 'The Sun Also Rises'... too student-like, not quite suitable."

  "Hey, isn't this your brother?" Ye Sumang suddenly smiled and handed a document to Huang Bo sitting across from him.

  Unexpectedly, Huang Bo shook his head without even looking and said: "I've seen it long ago. But he's not good enough, he doesn't have that pure and simple energy like Sha Zhen, this kid is clever."

  "Uh..." Ye Sumang hesitated for a moment, nodded, since Gao Hu's good brother Huang Bo said so, it should be not too appropriate.

  The two continued to flip through the actors' information, when Huang Bo suddenly burst out laughing and handed a file to Ye Sumang, recommending: "Take a look at this person, how about him? Look at his smile, it's so cheesy, and he's even a movie emperor."

  "Really?" Ye Sumang curiously took over the materials.

  " Wang Baoqiang, starring in the movie 'Blind Shaft', won the Golden Horse Award for Best Newcomer, and was crowned double champion at film festivals in France and Thailand! Then... nothing?"

  Wang Baoqiang's information is very simple, but the photos on it are quite interesting. At first glance, Ye Sumang felt that he was too rustic, but when he looked again, he would realize that this boy named Wang Baoqiang smiled very "true", and had a mouthful of big white teeth, with a very pleasant appearance.

  Unconsciously, Ye Sumang compared the actor named Wang Baoqiang with the little boy she met at the restaurant, and found that they did have some similarities.

  "First find out the movie 'Blind Well' and then we'll talk." Ye Sumang had a good first impression of this actor, so she wanted to get to know him better.

  "The Blind Well" was not re-released domestically, but only participated in some film festivals. Ye Sumang had to spend a lot of effort to find it out, and fortunately found the clue at his uncle Ye Xian's place, and finally found the film that had been shelved for half a year from the Beijing Film Studio's archives.

  "Ah..." Ye Sumang blew off a layer of dust from the film and then put it into the projector.

  The film "Blind Shaft" is only 90 minutes long and was shot in a documentary style. In the film, Wang Baoqiang plays the role of a miner's son who goes out to work to pay for his sister's tuition fees while also searching for his father who has been missing for six months. Throughout the entire film, he wears a blue and white striped school uniform, looking very young and inexperienced, with a look of fear in his eyes, as if he is terrified of unfamiliar environments.

  "Not bad." What made Ye Sumang's eyes light up was the purity in the boy's eyes, which was rare!

  Huang Bo on the side also nodded in agreement, that kind of feeling of leaving school and entering the secular world for the first time, Wang Baoqiang acted very realistically.

  "Give him a call and ask if he's willing to come to the crew for a trial performance." It wasn't until the entire movie had finished playing that Ye Sumang stood up, and at the same time, she had already acknowledged Wang Baoqiang in her heart by 30%.

  At the same time, in a basement near the Kyoto Film Studio, Wang Baoqiang was using a dim desk lamp to read a book on self-acting skills.

  Although he played the lead role in "Blind Shaft" and won the Golden Horse Award for Best New Actor and Double Shadow Emperor, Wang Baoqiang's life did not change much. He was still unknown and every day he would wait at the gate of Kyoto Film Studio with those Beijing drifters who had dreams of performing.

  At the end of July in Kyoto, the weather was sweltering, and it was even more so in the underground room. Wang Baoqiang's house had six people living in it, with no electric fan or air conditioner, and the only ventilation came from a small half-window. If they opened it, mosquitoes would fly in through the unmeshed window, but if they closed it, the temperature inside would become stiflingly hot.

  Every day, he and his roommate are struggling with the difficult choice of feeding mosquitoes or living in a stuffy jar.

  Under the lamp's illumination, Wang Baoqiang once again focused his mind on reading, and soon his forehead was covered with a layer of sweat. Occasionally, a drop would fall, streaking across his eyelashes and landing on the book, splashing up a small water droplet.

  "Take care! Got your phone!"

  Suddenly a loud shout outside the door pulled Wang Baoqiang's mind out of his book, knowing that he had received a phone call, Wang Baoqiang immediately closed his book and ran out wearing slippers.

  "Hey, I...I'm Wang Baoqiang!" Wang Baoqiang was afraid that the crew would be looking for him to act in a play, so he almost ran all the way here, worried that if he delayed too long, the other party would get impatient. So when he received the call, his breathing was still a bit short of breath.

  "Hello Wang Baoqiang? I'm Ye Sumang. I have a new play that I'd like you to audition for, are you interested?"

  The boy's voice on the phone was very magnetic and pleasant to hear, but at this moment, Wang Baoqiang's mind was completely blank...