Chapter 22: There's a Grandpa?

Synchronized with the fancy basketball training, Lin Ming Yang's dancing potential was tapped a little bit, even Emily lamented the speed of his progress, and Kenny Ortega was smiling from ear to ear. Lin Mingyang's performance gave him complete confidence to end the filming of the movie early, which would gain more precious time for the post-production of the movie.

After the main actors' "dance" skills became successful, the crew accelerated the filming schedule of the movie. Every day's schedule was full, not to delay the class, busy shooting, and on weekends to participate in the dance training, this period of time has become Lin Mingyang's busiest period of time. This busyness finally ended with the arrival of the hot summer, and the crew finally finished all the filming before the long summer vacation.

Counting the post-production and pre-release preparation time, the movie will probably be released in early September, before which Kenny Ortega gave all the actors a long vacation. After The Boys from Orange County was released on FOX and achieved good ratings, the other party took the initiative to ask Lin Mingyang to write the scripts for the second season and raised the pricing of the scripts by $10,000 per episode, so Lin Mingyang was able to take advantage of this vacation to complete the work.

Before the vacation, producer Eckles also had a special talk with Lin Ming Yang, who was intrigued by the boy Kenny Ortega had discovered. It was a very pleasant conversation, Eckels asked Lin Ming Yang about some of his plans for the future, his idea was to persuade Lin Ming Yang to become a professional actor, to give up the opportunity to study at university later and go straight into Hollywood, Eckels could find some suitable roles for him, and to be in the business of being an actor, to be famous before it's too late.

Lin Ming Yang regretfully expressed his parents' wish for him to persist in completing his studies, and he himself didn't want to miss out on furthering his education at the university level. As for the matter of being famous, Lin Ming** wasn't worried about it, the sensation caused after the release of Song and Dance Youth was something that neither Ecks nor the Disney Company had expected, and the story of Hollywood's overnight success was roughly like that.

However, in front of Eckles, he still implicitly expressed his willingness to try some different roles, after all, the other party is a Disney company executive, in the future can help their own place there are still a lot of places, now can not put words too dead.

"If you really want to get some knowledge in college that will be useful in the future, I suggest you choose a major related to film and television, of course in the United States there are only two top schools in this area, either the film department at UCLA or the New York University Film School." Ecks didn't care too much about Lin Ming Yang's previous attitude, instead he enthusiastically introduced these two schools for him.

"The difference in strength between these two schools is not too great, which makes it a bit difficult for me, does Mr. Ecks have any good suggestions?" Although Lin Ming Yang already had plans in his heart, on the surface, he still put on an appearance of listening to advice with an open mind.

"Personally, I still recommend the New York University Film School because it's my alma mater. If you go to school there, I can recommend a few good professors for you, and I guarantee that their profound knowledge will benefit you a lot. But the film school can be quite difficult to apply for, but of course you still have two years to prepare, so this shouldn't be a difficult task for you!"

UCLA occupies the Hollywood location, Lin Ming Yang originally thought that Ecks would recommend him to go there, but he didn't expect him to coincide with his own thoughts, which made Lin Ming Yang to reconsider his relationship with Ecks.

Eckes recounted some of his own interesting stories in school for Lin Ming Yang, at this point he had already taken Lin Ming Yang as his junior, and when the chit chat was almost coming to an end, he suddenly mentioned something else.

"Felix, you've received specialized fighting training before?"

"No ah?" Lin Mingyang looked at him in confusion.

"Really?" Ecks looked as if he didn't quite believe Lin Ming Yang's answer, "I saw that when you started your dance training, your movements were brief and forceful, the first thing that gave me the impression was that you had received relevant training!"

Ecks' words made Lin Ming Yang slightly stunned, in fact, he himself also found this problem, at first he thought it was a habit developed from playing regularly, but then he found out that the other teammates started practicing at about the same time as he did, but whether it was in terms of physical fitness or reflexes, he was a step ahead of the others. This made him suspect that Felix had received some kind of special training when he was younger, but he didn't find any record of it in his diary.

"Maybe I'm overthinking it!" Ecks saw that Lin Ming Yang's expression didn't look like a fake, and didn't dig any deeper into the details, who doesn't have a little secret in their heart?

Ecks just casually asked, but Lin Ming Yang put this matter on his mind. He went back and carefully read Felix's early diary, but still nothing. He turned the drawer all over and didn't find any earlier diaries, but it was the noise in the house that caught the attention of his mother's Catherine.

She knocked on the door of the room and saw that Lin Mingyang's room floor was piled with books, and couldn't help but ask, "Felix, are you looking for something?"

"A book I've read in the past, now I don't know where I've stuffed it." Lin Ming Yang casually made up an excuse, his hands still rummaging around.

"There's something I want to tell you!" Catherine hesitated, "About this summer vacation!"

"FOX TV gave me a new contract, and I have to deliver the script I wrote to them during my vacation!" Lin Mingyang thought that his mother had arranged something else for him.

"But that's not what I want to talk about!" Catherine shook her head as she looked at her son who was busy in the piles of books on the floor, "I heard that your grandfather has been sick for a while, but both he and I couldn't get away because of our work, so we want you to go to Canada during your vacation and stay with your grandfather!"

"Canada? Grandpa?" Lin Ming Yang froze and looked up, he then realized that he was so focused on dealing with his parents that he almost forgot that there were other family members and friends, he was instantly confused, where did this grandpa come from again, how come this person never appeared in Felix's diary?

Catherine seemed to have expected Lin Ming Yang to react this way, she squeezed her hand in a difficult way and said, "I know you don't want to go to grandpa's place, and to be honest he hasn't been very welcoming in the past, but your dad has already talked to him on the phone, and I think you'll have to make a trip over there this vacation!"

Lin Ming Yang could tell from his mother's expression that she should be extremely opposed to this matter, that relationship between grandpa and his mother that was not mentioned in Felix's days, it didn't seem to be that cordial, what was going on here? He held back his curiosity and asked, "It has to go?"

"I know that experience as a child has left you with very painful memories, but your father assured me that he would never treat you that way again, and all you have to do is stay there for a month and then you can come right back!" Catherine looked hopelessly at Lin Ming Yang in the room, "And you're grown up now, you won't be at his mercy anymore, won't you?"

Having never heard his parents talk about this grandfather who was far away in Canada in person, and the only group photo in the house could not be found of this old man, all the signs indicated that the family's relationship was estranged, especially since his mother, Catherine, was talking as if she was asking Lin Ming Yang to go through some kind of trial and tribulation, which further aggravated Lin Ming Yang's doubts.

Moreover, Catherine also inadvertently mentioned the things that happened when she was a child, could it be that her grandfather had once done something to herself that was difficult for her mother to accept? Thinking that all the peculiarities of his body probably had some kind of inevitable connection with that experience Felix had when he was a child, Lin Ming Yang was not only filled with curiosity about that grandfather of his that he had never met before.

"I can go!" Lin Ming Yang stood up from the pile of books, "But did dad tell grandpa about that incident, there are some things from the past that I may not remember too well!"

Lin Ming Yang accepted this matter so calmly, this made Catherine a bit surprised, could it really be because of amnesia that he forgot those things in the past? When she thought of this, she was worried about how Lin Ming Yang would be able to stay in Canada for a month.

Compared to his mother's worry, Lin Mingyang was a bit excited, he completely took this as an unexpected trip, I heard that the natural beauty of Canada is good, there is a ready-made opportunity to go to a trip how not to lose.

In the evening he posted the news through MSN, and soon received replies from others on the line. Megan was preparing to go to Hollywood for her vacation to audition for another TV series, and after that she had to go to New York for a fashion modeling casting call.

Reed, on the other hand, was still going to spend the entire summer at his father's gas station, and the only possibility for him to say goodbye to this boring job was for him to apply to a college far from home.

After hastily replying to Lin Ming Yang, Reed was busy going to play games, Megan did chat with him online for a long time, both of them barely saw each other during their vacation, so they could only talk to each other through the internet. Until both parents urged the two to go to bed, they only reluctantly offline, and then hid under the covers for another long phone porridge.

During the night Lin Mingyang had a strange dream, he dreamt that he had turned into a skinny little boy and was being chased around by a strange old man with a stick, and in the end he was scared awake.