I used rebirth to bury his captivating gaze.

Chapter 131 Yu Mei works as an extra (3 mud-brick houses in the shantytown are exchanged for apartme

The black bags of wood ear mushrooms that Yang Yumei and Chen Lixin had planted in the front yard of their three mud-brick houses were burned to pieces after the fire!

However, shortly afterward, just when Yu Mei and Li Xin were at their wits' end, the Seventh City Television Station broadcast a major news report about the shantytown renovation project. This news was immediately released.

In fact, the shantytown renovation project had been widely discussed among the public for some time, but Yu Han, Yu Mei, and Li Xin's family were too busy with their careers to have heard much about it and hadn't had much time to discuss it.

Yu Mei changed her crafts and careers one after another, only to face setbacks again. In the end, her only successes were her two daughters' excellent academic performance, and the most successful outcome was moving from a mud-brick house to a second-floor apartment in a residential building.

After the new apartment was moved and the renovation was completed, Liu Shulan continued to take care of both Sisi and Xiaosi's daily lives, including their schooling.

Then Yu Mei went on a long journey alone.

Yu Mei went to a county town in the south where a TV series was being filmed. Once, while chatting with a woman during her application for a new apartment after a shantytown renovation project, she overheard her niece talking about how her niece worked in a film and television production location in the south, starting as a minor extra, then a bit part, then a small featured extra, then a big featured extra, and then through hard work, eventually becoming a minor star and a major star.

She said goodbye to her family at the address provided by this person, and none of her family members stopped her, as they all knew she was a career-oriented woman.

Her ambition is her spiritual pillar!

Yu Mei took a train for two days and two nights to arrive in this unfamiliar small town.

It's called a small town, but it's actually about the size of a county town in northern China.

It was early May, and the nameless green-leaved tree was shedding its yellow, withered leaves.

This area is located in the south-central region. Every year in spring, the withered leaves on the branches are replaced by light green and tender new leaves, which take turns to replace the dark green old leaves of the previous year, much like the reproduction of offspring in the animal kingdom!

After getting off the train, she transferred to a bus and arrived at a film and television city. Then, she inquired about directions and took a bus to the meeting point for the extras.

Then, being unfamiliar with the area, I got off at the wrong stop, only to find out later that I should have taken bus number 6 and gotten off at the place where the extras were meeting to film.

This time she was right. She looked up at the signboard, which read "Actors Guild".

The meeting point is correct; there aren't any extras from the Screen Actors Guild at this time. They've probably all gathered and gone to film. Next, which street should we look for accommodation nearby?

The extras need to find a place to rent a house that is roughly the same distance from the location where they register and gather for filming, but the exact location is still unknown.

She asked passersby, but still couldn't get a clear answer. It's unclear whether she didn't ask clearly or didn't understand. In any case, she couldn't find where to rent a place near the filming location.

She was thirsty, so she went to the convenience store next to the actor registration area to buy a bottle of mineral water.

Just then, a young boy said he was an extra in the show, and he took Yumei to a nearby rental place to find a place to live.

Yu Mei is a woman who has started several businesses. Although she has experienced several business failures, she has gained rich social experience. At the same time, she has the "special ability of the law of time and space" in her body.

She simply asked the kind young man to show her the way to the apartment, and then she personally inquired about the rental price from the landlord and went inside to check out the apartment's interior.

On her way here, on the bus to this film studio, and while asking around, she was told to be careful not to be scammed. Some extras from out of town were particularly trusting, saying they were kind enough to pick her up at the station and then enthusiastically found her a place to rent. But this kind extra ended up charging her double the rent.

The enthusiastic extras and the landlord conspired to make the newcomers pay double the rent. The enthusiastic extras got half the benefit.

With the help of kind extras, Yu Mei walked for about ten minutes down the same street to the location of the extras' meeting service center. She rented a small room of about ten square meters on the third floor of a private residential building that resembled a hotel, without a living room or kitchen. It had its own private bathroom.

She rented the house. The kind man told her his name was Hao Xiaojun. They exchanged phone numbers and added each other on WeChat. Before coming, Yu Mei went to a large shopping mall in the street to buy her first mobile phone (Huawei), and then left. Yu Mei wanted to thank him by taking him to a snack bar for lunch, but he shook his head and said he had to go back because he had a scene to film in the afternoon.

Finally, Hao Xiaojun chuckled and hurried away. Yu Mei found it rather amusing to watch his retreating figure. She wasn't laughing because he was only shoulder-length, and seemed like a kind-hearted, slender young man. But Yu Mei would never tell anyone about her past.

That saying is true: Don't reveal your hand just because you feel a temporary connection with someone!

In the afternoon, she bought a set of bedding from a nearby store and took it to her rented room. She ate some instant noodles for dinner and went to sleep without buying a pillow.

The next morning, just as dawn was breaking, I heard the chirping of several small birds! The birdsong was crisp, sweet, and delicately clear!

Then she got up and saw a white cat outside the window meowing softly, the meows lasting only a moment before ending. It wasn't like the drawn-out, high-pitched, and deep meows of a typical Northeastern cat…

She washed her face, made a bowl of instant noodles she had bought yesterday, tidied herself up, put her ID card in her small handbag as a precaution, and planned to take it with her when she went out.

The North and South are different, just like humans and animals. Southerners' personalities are characterized by a gentle outburst, unlike the rough and careless nature of Northerners.

After eating instant noodles again, she took bus number 4, following the address of the actors' union registration office given to her by Hao Xiaojun. He had a role to play, so he didn't bring Yu Mei with him.

She rode the bus for about four or five minutes. The bus robot announced the stops, and she got off and slowly walked into the place with a sign that read "Union Actor Registration Office!"

The union office building is five stories high. The courtyard is large, and next to it is a real tank or combat vehicle that looks like an old prop used by actors in a movie.

The actors' union registration office was bustling with out-of-towners registering to be extras, as well as a constant stream of office staff.

I started by imitating others, going to the registration desk to hand in my ID card and fill out forms. Then I used a WeChat official account on my phone to answer twenty questions.

She watched as others had their phones filled out with twenty questions by an experienced person who knew how to answer them. If they answered the questions incorrectly, they might have to come back the next day to take the questions again, and the minimum score would be 90.

She looked at who the other freshmen had used, and Yu Mei, smiling broadly, had no choice but to trouble the experienced one to answer the questions.

The experienced person kindly took her first Huawei phone, and she answered twenty questions in just a few minutes. Yu Mei's phone then showed a perfect score of 100. She then went into a separate classroom, where a young female union teacher explained the requirements for becoming an actress: long, black hair, no tattoos, regular facial features, and being a citizen between 18 and 60 years old.

The female teacher glanced at Yu Mei's hair, which was a bit yellowish, and said that it was not up to standard and that she needed to go to a hair salon to dye it black.

After class, I spent ten yuan to get an actor's pass. I also joined the union's group for girls who wanted to sign up for roles.

Then Yu Mei went back to her rented apartment to rest. It was very hot in May, and she was basically wearing summer short sleeves and shorts.

The rented room has air conditioning, and the air conditioner is a commercial unit, costing 1.2 yuan per unit.

The room rate is over 400 per month without a kitchen, while the rate is over 700 per month with a kitchen.