half blind

Seeing director Li Shu again, Zhang Qing felt as if he had passed away.

Obviously the audition for "Yu Da Ping" was two or three months ago, but it seemed like a long, long time.

Everyone in the circle knows that Li Shu is very strange.He never participated in any gatherings and social events in the entertainment industry, and he didn't save face for any stars on the set.Some time ago, I heard that he scolded a female celebrity to tears, and that female celebrity was so angry that she would not act even if she had to pay liquidated damages.

And Li Shu's own works don't have much attendance, so his reputation in the circle has not been very good.

Bad temper, putting on airs, messing around, disrespecting actors... these are just what Zhang Qing has heard of.

But now, he doesn't seem to have much choice.

"Director Li, drink tea." Duanmu Rou brewed tea and poured a cup for each of them.

"Okay." Li Shu smiled, held the teacup but didn't drink it, instead looked Zhang Qing from top to bottom in the steam.

This look made Zhang Qing feel uncomfortable, so he coughed dryly, and opened his mouth first, "Director Li, you came all the way to come here, a little star with a collapsed house, what's your business?"

Li Shu still didn't speak, just looked at him with a smile, Zhang Qing was a little helpless, so he had no choice but to drink tea and let him watch.

"Okay." After a while, Li Shu seemed to have finally seen enough, and said with a sigh, "That's great."

"what?"

"I'm talking about you." Li Shu looked at Zhang Qing with admiration, "Compared to that time, it's like a completely new body."

Zhang Qing twitched the corner of his mouth.Isn't that right, Zhang Qing is also the first star who can experience such ups and downs in such a short period of time.

"It's not a star, it's an actor." Li Shu put down his teacup.

"Didn't you say that I'm not worthy of being an actor?" Zhang Qing said helplessly.

"That's right, you were indeed a low-profile star at that time. No matter how familiar your lines are, no matter how familiar your facial expressions are, you are still just a poor imitator, and you are not qualified to be called an actor at all." Li Shu said, "But it's different now, you're transforming."

Zhang Qing was at a loss.Transform into what?

"Transform into what I need." Li Shu stood up, took out a pen and a business card from his pocket, and wrote something on it, "Next Friday at [-] o'clock in the evening, Liancheng Film and Television City will turn on. There is my phone number on it, if you have anything to contact, but don’t be late, the filming will start that night.”

"Wait... what?" Zhang Qing was a little confused by this episode, "What drama? What role?"

"Song Meiting, the leading actor in "Yu Daping"!" Li Shu had already walked towards the door, and he didn't even look back when he shouted.

"This person... flew over for two hours to meet you, but he ran away without even drinking tea?" Duanmurou's eyes widened.

Zhang Qing was also stunned for a while, then looked down at the business card in his hand, on which the time and place were scrawled.

"Sister Rou." Zhang Qing raised his head abruptly, "That means... I have a play to act in?"

"Ang." Duanmurou was taken aback for a moment, and then suddenly realized, "You have something to play!"

"I have a play!"

"You have a role to play!"

Zhang Qing hugged Duanmurou's waist excitedly, and hugged her around several times, "I have a play! I finally have a play!"

The actor who played opposite Zhang Qing was called He Fangqiu, who was five years older than Zhang Qing, tall and straight.He didn't even need to change his costume, he looked like a warlord.

Zhang Qing thought that he arrived at the set two hours early, but He Fangqiu was already wearing a military coat that was so dirty that he couldn't see his original color, sitting on a folding stool in the middle of the set, sucking on instant noodles .

Dust was flying everywhere on the set, and several large transport trucks rumbled past, carrying tons and tons of loess and sand.As soon as the wind blows, it all goes to He Fangqiu, but He Fangqiu doesn't seem to mind at all, and continues to eat instant noodles, which doesn't affect his appetite at all.

Zhang Qing didn't know He Fangqiu at that time, so he just thought he was a worker who was resting when he was tired from work, so he went up to ask for directions.

"Master, is Director Li Shu here?" Zhang Qing asked.

"Ah?" He Fangqiu stopped eating noodles, but he couldn't hear the roar of big trucks all around him.

"I'm looking for director Li Shu, do you know where he is?" Zhang Qing approached and asked loudly.

"Yo, I know you." He Fangqiu looked at Zhang Qing's face and smiled, "You are that gay Zhang Qing."

Zhang Qing was so angry that he almost couldn't breathe.Boy is he so famous now?Even the workers who eat dirt on the construction site know that he is gay?

Anyway, the second sentence of this person is a little bit human.

"Li Shu is in front, I'll take you there." He Fangqiu took the instant noodle box and drank the soup inside, wiped his mouth, and stood up.

He Fangqiu led him forward, the road was full of messy piles of cement, boards and other tools for making, and the two of them had to skip and jump across.

"Hey, master, by the way, what are you doing with the big carts of soil here on the set?" Zhang Qing still couldn't hold back his curiosity, and asked.

"Of course it was used as a set." He Fangqiu said while stepping over a bag of cement, "Do you think that during the Republic of China, all roads were asphalt?"

Zhang Qing was taken aback, "But it doesn't take so much soil to pave the road? Usually..."

Isn't it all right to sprinkle a layer on ordinary roads?

Even many dramas don't care about the road at all, as long as the actors' costumes and buildings are from that era.

"Don't compare Li Shu's movies with those shoddy TV dramas." As if seeing Zhang Qing's thoughts, He Fangqiu said with a smile, "He is right in front, see?"

Zhang Qing raised his head and saw Li Shu as expected.

I saw a building under construction in front of me. The frame was basically complete and the periphery was being built.Li Shu was also wearing a dirty military overcoat, and was standing on the scaffold, holding a bucket of cement in his left hand and turning his head with a gray knife for plastering the cement in his right.

"Li Shu! I brought back your hero!" He Fangqiu put his hand around his mouth like a trumpet and shouted.

"Oh!" Li Shu was very happy when he saw Zhang Qing, "You two came just in time! Hurry up and help me, I am short of people here!"

"Hey, I just sent someone over, but you still caught him as a coolie!" He Fangqiu complained, but still walked over.

"Zhang Qing, come over here and pass me the bricks; Fang Qiu, don't come here, go and see if the trees brought back from over there can be used!"

"All right, all right, who told you to be the director." He Fangqiu turned around and walked away as if resigned to his fate.

Zhang Qing walked over to help Li Shu pass the bricks, halfway through the handing, he suddenly reacted, "Fang Qiu? He Fangqiu? He Fangqiu who plays Sun Weilin?"

"Yes!" Li Shu laid a brick skillfully, "with your partner!"

Zhang Qing was taken aback, and then a wave of shame welled up—he actually regarded the actor who played opposite him as a worker on the set!

I don't know if Li Shu saw Zhang Qing's thoughts, and laughed loudly, "How is it? How do you feel about joining the group?"

"Very... different." Zhang Qing said honestly.

Li Shu laughed even more happily, and he didn't know which laughing nerve he was poked at. "It's different, right? It's right! Let me tell you, you just need to take a good rest now!"

"Rest——" Zhang Qing threw the bricks into a lifting bucket with difficulty, "Do you mean to move the bricks in the group?"

"It means taking back your heart that revolves around entertainment and business, and rolling in the yellow earth!" Li Shu laughed.

"Plum tree!" He Fangqiu's voice came at this time, "Where is this peach tree poking?"

"Hey!" Li Shu turned his head, and Zhang Qing followed his gaze to look back.A crane pulled a half-sized sapling here.

Li Shu put the cement and ash knife on the shelf, climbed down from the scaffolding, and patted the dust on his clothes, "Here and here! The hole is dug, poke this way!" "

Several workers gathered around, unloaded the saplings from the crane, and carefully poked them into the dug earth pit.

This time Zhang Qing could only stand by and watch, always having the illusion that he was an outsider.

Fortunately, He Fangqiu didn't bother to help. He stood beside him and lit a cigarette, and handed him one, "Smoking?"

"I don't know how to smoke." Zhang Qing smiled.

He Fangqiu nodded and put the cigarette in his mouth.

Zhang Qing was in a daze for a moment. He remembered that Zhou Nanchen often smoked on the set, but if Zhang Qing was with him, he would always keep his cigarette a little farther away calmly and spit the smoke outside.

Moreover, Zhou Nanchen who smokes always gives people a very elegant feeling, and this He Fangqiu, with his rough posture, looks like a migrant worker carrying bricks.

"This peach tree was brought from Shandong." He Fangqiu pointed at the tree with an unfinished cigarette, "Before Li Shu found several local peach trees, but they were not satisfied after trying. There are two shots of a young tree and an old tree in it, and the appearance of the two trees must match."

"Is it so strict?" Zhang Qing was a little surprised.

He Fangqiu smiled, "You should save this sentence for later and sigh. You, a little trafficker, will suffer from it in the future."

Although Zhang Qing was a little annoyed at being called "Little Flow", but he really had nothing to refute for a while.

"Are you familiar with Director Li Shu?" Zhang Qing asked.

"Not really familiar, but we've also been shot together." He Fangqiu said, "He has a bit of a weird temper, but there's nothing to say about his attitude towards his works. You should take it easy."

"Ah." Zhang Qing was taken aback for a moment, had he been shot together?

"This guy surnamed He was an idiot before he acted!" The worker who was working over there yelled.

"You're the one who talks too much!" He Fangqiu also yelled back, all the workers laughed, and there was a burst of joy in the air.

Life in the crew of "Yu Da Ping" is very different from Zhang Qing's imagination.

He didn't know most of the actors in the crew, and the names of these people had never appeared in hot searches or entertainment news, but they were actually more serious and devoted than many big-name stars Zhang Qing had worked with.

Almost all the scenes of the entire crew are built in real scenes, and the actors have more or less participated in the construction of their own home buildings.

Seeing those small buildings, alleys, alleys, carriages and horses built up little by little, and finally presented in front of my eyes, Zhang Qing seemed to have really entered the story for a moment.

Everything in front of me is the midsummer of 1920, that splendid but decaying, passionate and sentimental country.

Song Meiting and Sun Weilin are playmates of childhood sweethearts. Song Meiting was born in a scholarly family. His father was a scholar in the former Qing Dynasty. It is said that his ancestors were also high officials.

Sun Weilin's father was a warlord, and he didn't have many big characters in his stomach. He wanted to let his son know more about scholars, so Song Meiting and Sun Weilin got acquainted.

The two children happily grew up to be teenagers, and they are entering the most turbulent age.The warlord was shot down, and Sun Weilin had to take care of the whole family overnight.Song Meiting's house was robbed by passers-by. Master Song and Mrs. Song couldn't bear the humiliation, they tore a white cloth on their porch and committed suicide.

So there are two teenagers without father and mother.

Sun Weilin was not a decent person since he was a child, and he was very interested in doing crooked ways. After taking over his father's army, he didn't do anything good, and started a gangster business; while Song Meiting didn't know what to do in school all day long, with a firm and dazed look , suddenly left without saying goodbye, only holding the 20th birthday present from Sun Weilin - a gold watch, which has since disappeared.

So far, after three years of separation, the land in the Northeast is full of smoke and smoke, and Sun Weilin is doing very well in his own territory. He is not a righteous person, and he will do whatever he gets.It wasn't until the young master who hadn't seen him for three years came back suddenly and told him that he was going to join the army, that he didn't know that Song Meiting had gone to the military academy for the past three years.

Song Meiting excitedly told Sun Weilin what is freedom and what is communism.His eyes were much firmer than three years ago, and he built up his belief out of thin air, thinking that he was on the right path, and wanted to persuade Sun Weilin to join him.Sun Weilin didn't do it, but he was reluctant to let his Young Master Song go away like this - why he was reluctant, the son of a warlord with no brains had never thought about it.

Sun Weilin chased all the way from the northeast to Nanjing. Although he was stubborn at the time, he also knew that he couldn't stop Song Meiting from chasing after his illusory righteousness.He didn't know anything about communism or Marx, but he gave Song Meiting whatever he wanted.For grain, for the army, for silver dollars...

Both of them had an affair, and Song Meiting felt inexplicably indebted to Sun Weilin.So they came and went, and they became lovers according to Sun Weilin's wishes.The two swore to heaven and earth that they would spend a lifetime with each other.

However, the battle was fought endlessly afterwards, with external troubles and internal troubles.In order to defend his teacher who taught him about communism, Song Meiting disappeared in the battlefield full of gunfire. He didn't even retrieve the whole body. When Sun Weilin arrived, he only received the gift from the undead soldier Song Meiting's gold watch.

He didn't believe in communism at first, and almost didn't ask that teacher to die with Song Meiting, but he just held back.

He still didn't understand what Song Meiting was after, how a thin page and a single sentence could take away his lover.

How can you die for the world, but refuse to live for me alone?

Sun Weilin thought about it all his life but didn't understand what it was. He went abroad early, and then on the day of the founding of New China, he threw Song Meiting's relic, the gold watch, into the sea on the cruise ship on the other side of the ocean.The tears that had been held back for half a lifetime also came down, and the scene of Qin Huai was singing on the radio.