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Chapter 131: Chickens Fly and Dogs Leap

Chapter 131: Chapter 131: Chickens Fly and Dogs Leap

Filming continued, and after completing the scene on the sedan chair, they moved on to the indoor wedding ceremony scene.

After getting off the sedan, He Jinxia was assisted by Cheng Xiaohua, her phoenix crown removed, and the long train of her wedding attire was lifted up by several crew members, as they hurried to the next shooting location.

The wedding attire was elaborate but cumbersome to wear, and if possible, He Jinxia wanted to finish shooting all scenes involving the wedding attire that day.

The residence of the Ciming family had been set, but it was a bit far from their current location, and the group had to cross almost half of Film City to reach the designated site.

Upon arrival, they caught the end of another production team that had been using the site, wrapping up for the day.

This crew seemed to have many more people than "Small Bridge, Flowing Water, People," and everyone appeared energetic. He Jinxia watched from the outside, noting their efficiency in cleaning up the set and thought they seemed more professional than her own crew.

When Huang Yuanyuan emerged from the set, she glanced at where He Jinxia was, attracted by the distinctive red of her bridal wear.

She casually asked, "Which crew is that?"

Her assistant immediately replied, "That should be the ’Small Bridge, Flowing Water, People’ crew. The one in the wedding attire is He Jinxia, also known as Fat Emperor. She’s been quite popular recently, having dropped 80 pounds in just a few months from a high of 200 pounds."

Huang Yuanyuan uttered an "Oh," taking a closer look at He Jinxia before saying, "She did quite well with the weight loss, you can’t tell she used to be that heavy."

The assistant’s eyes shifted as she said, "Sister Yuan Yuan, why don’t I find some time to ask her assistant for a few weight loss tips? You’ve been wanting to lose weight too, haven’t you?"

Huang Yuanyuan snorted softly, glancing at her, "Don’t I have my own personal dietitian?"

The assistant, chastened, immediately bowed her head in silence.

But the next second, Huang Yuanyuan’s breezy voice floated over, "It’s still a good idea to ask for a few tips anyway. After all, it’s not common in the industry to lose 80 pounds without side effects and still look this good in figure and skin."

The assistant nodded like a pecking hen and quickly agreed.

After waiting about another ten minutes, the other crew finished packing up, and He Jinxia’s group entered the site, starting to set up the scene rapidly.

He Jinxia was helped to sit in a corner, where she had her makeup touched up and was fed snacks by Cheng Xiaohua, enjoying a relatively relaxing break.

The props team bustled about and finally brought out the most pivotal live prop for the scene—a rooster!

In the script, on the eve of Su Qingwan’s marriage, Ciming Jiayou also left a letter at home, expressing his willingness to comply with the emperor’s request to go to the border to maintain defense once more.

Although Ciming Jiayou was still a graceful young man, he grew up on the border and was incredibly skilled, having fought on the battlefield in his teens. Even though his current title was inherited from his father, he had genuine military achievements.

The reason the Ciming family returned to the Capital to settle was due to Ciming Jiayou’s father, the Old Marquis, whose health was declining. With the harsh climate and scarce resources of the border region, the Old Marquis’s illness worsened day by day, forcing the family to relocate from the border back to the Capital.

The Old Marquis had originally planned for his legitimate son, Ciming Jiayou, to transition from a military officer to a civil servant, leading the entire Ciming family to transform from a military clan to a scholarly one.

Any military family is borne amidst a countless number of enemy and kin bones, and the Ciming family used to be flourishing with several hundred members a century ago. But once they joined the battlefield, after a hundred years, the family dwindled to less than ten people.

The loss was unbearable; they truly could not take it anymore.

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After returning to the Capital, the Emperor sighed in every way possible and earnestly requested that the Ciming family continue to defend the border for several more decades until a new generation of capable military leaders emerged.

The Old Marquis faced immense pressure and refused to relent, wishing to protect the few remaining seeds of the Ciming family. Unfortunately, despite all his schemes, he failed to anticipate Ciming Jiayou’s thoughts—

He had secretly run off to defend the border without their knowledge!

Once the Ciming family learned of Ciming Jiayou’s departure, they immediately sent a letter urging his prompt return, which was to be delivered posthaste to the border.

Because time was of the essence, the letter had yet to reach the border, and Su Qingwan’s wedding was imminent. The date set for the auspicious occasion could not be changed, so when Su Qingwan arrived at the Ciming household, she was greeted with a ceremony alongside a rooster!

When a husband cannot return from afar, the local custom is to use a rooster to stand in for the groom and complete the wedding ceremony with the bride.

After the setting was prepared, He Jinxia’s next scene was to enact the ceremony with the rooster.

This scene was a bit difficult, as she needed to display the expressions of Su Qingwan’s shock, unwillingness, feeling of humiliation, but an inevitable marriage to the rooster.

The reason for Su Qingwan’s humiliation in this scene was that everyone in the Capital knew that Ciming Jiayou had already returned, but on the day of the wedding, a rooster was used to replace him, signaling the groom had bolted—perhaps dissatisfied with his bride!

Moreover, the Ciming clan still wanted Ciming Jiayou to return from defending the border, so they couldn’t reveal his whereabouts publicly, only vaguely stating that he had urgent matters to attend to elsewhere.

The ambiguous stance of the Ciming family led onlookers to speculation, and the rumor that "Su Qingwan was disliked by Ciming Jiayou" started to spread right there during the ceremony.

The rooster was already positioned properly, and just as the assistant director was about to begin filming, the rooster clucked a few times and suddenly fluttered away to somewhere else—

Leaving a trail of feathers where it had stood.

It wasn’t until the props team frantically recaptured the rooster that those on set could settle down and clean up the feathers from the ground.

As the assistant director was about to announce the start of filming again, the rooster flew off once more, plummeting miserably halfway through its flight and fleeing in a life-threatening scurry.

The scene once again descended into chaos as everyone tried to catch the rooster.

He Jinxia stood at the entrance, her eyebrows imperceptibly furrowed, as the chaos was too much to bear!

If a single rooster could cause such turmoil within the film crew, what would happen if the rooster continued to be restless—would the scene ever be filmed?

Just as He Jinxia was about to say something, suddenly, a solemn and authoritative voice came from behind: "What are you doing?"

She paused and turned her head, only to see Director Gu Qiao, followed by a group of actors—Luo Sifang, Yang Xiaoqing, Luo Dingxin, and even Gu Runfei was there.

All the important characters in the drama had gathered together. What was Director Gu planning?

Seeing Director Gu arrive, the film crew members who were chasing the chicken immediately stopped in their tracks and stood in order, some guiltily lowering their heads.

Seeing that no one was chasing it any longer, the rooster also stopped running. It leisurely walked around, clucking foot by foot, and confidently strutted from left to right and from right to left in front of everyone, its demeanor much like that of an entitled lord.

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