Starlight in the hand of rebirth

This closed small mountain village still maintains the old style. Most of the houses in the village are brick houses built decades ago, and there are some loess brick houses that have been abandoned but are still well preserved.

The young people in the village also thought about renovating the houses in the village after working outside to earn money.

But the road to the village is too narrow for vehicles transporting cement bricks, and the cost of manual transportation is too high, so few people are willing to build new houses in the village.

The township government once wanted to widen the village road, but it was finally abandoned because of the problems involving the villagers' fields.

The heroine Ah Ying played by Xia Fanxing sat on the ridge of the field, poured a bowl of tea from an aluminum pot and handed it to the man standing in the field.

This man is a college student who came to the countryside to jump in the queue.On the day he came, all the girls in the village blushed.

Because Aying's house had a vacant room, the college student was arranged to live in Aying's house.

"You...what's your name?" Aying asked while cleaning up the man's room.

The man was handsome, his skin was fairer than the girl's, and he spoke very nicely: "My name is Fang Lanting."

Ah Ying's name was randomly chosen by her father. In a few nearby villages, there is a girl with six English characters in her name.

After hearing the man's name, Ah Ying thought to herself: People in the city just have different names.She couldn't tell what was different.

Fang Lanting was unwilling to go to the countryside to jump in the queue.He hopes to read Pushkin in the morning light in a white shirt, instead of going to the field with his trousers rolled up at dawn.

The girl where he was arranged to stay was very warm to him, and Fang Lanting's impression of that girl was that of a dusty village girl.

Compared with the beautiful girls in skirts in the city, Ah Ying is as inconspicuous as the mud on the ridge of the field.

"Brother Fang, what's the city like?" Aying put down her hoe and asked Fang Lanting who was drinking tea.

Ah Ying has never read a book, and besides her own name, Ah Ying doesn't even know half a basket of characters.There are no places she has been to except her own village and the next-door village. The next-door village is Aying's grandmother's house.

The arrival of Fang Lanting brought a touch of difference to Ah Ying's day-to-day life.

She longed for this man, yearning for the place where he came from.

In the boring rural life, this enthusiastic and simple girl is Fang Lanting's little comfort.

Hearing Ah Ying ask what the city is like, Fang Lanting smiled nostalgicly and said, "There are tall concrete houses everywhere in the city, there are many cars on the road, there are movie theaters, swimming pools, bookstores and all kinds of fun things."

"Is the swimming pool a place for swimming?" Aying asked curiously.

"Yes."

Ah Ying was puzzled and said, "Why don't you go swimming in the river and build a special place for swimming?"

Fang Lanting sneered and shook his head: "The river is too dirty to swim."

Ah Ying doesn't understand why the people in the city are so particular. The river is too dirty to go swimming, but isn't the fish they eat caught from the river?

"This one is over!" Xu Miao shouted behind the camera.

Both Xia Fanxing and Fang Muhuai relaxed and went to the shade of a tree to enjoy the coolness.

Under the shade of the tree, there is an old aluminum pot and many rough porcelain bowls. These are the props of the crew and the actors used to drink tea when they were resting.

The tea is native tea grown by the villagers, and it tastes astringent.

Xia Fanxing drank a bowl of astringent tea without changing his face, and Meng Lizhen fanned her with a fan.

It's not officially summer yet, and this southern village has already started to get hot.

Fang Muhuai looked at the two of them, and said: "Why don't people say that it's good to have a partner, and I'm really happy to be basking in the sun."

"Then go find it yourself, don't stare at my partner." Xia Fanxing pulled Meng Lizhen into her arms.

"Cut, if you want to find it, you can do as little as possible." Fang Muhuai said disdainfully.

Xu Miao looked at the photos just now, and said to everyone: "Okay, I'll be here today."

It's only two o'clock and it's time to call it a day. It's almost unthinkable in other crews.

Xu Miao is a very capricious director, when and which scene to shoot depends on his mood.If he's in a bad mood, he doesn't start work all day.

Xia Fanxing felt that Tang Tian was also bold enough to put money on such an unreliable new director.

It would be good for the company if the film really won an award, but if it didn't, it would be nothing.

However, Tang Tian has always believed in his intuition, and he has never made a mistake in his investment.

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It was raining heavily that day, and there was no way to shoot, so the crew stopped working for a day.

The turbulent water washed the muddy ground beside the house into gullies.

The small mountain village surrounded by rain is as silent as a picture scroll frozen on paper.

The chickens in the yard are all huddled in the chicken coop, and the rain brings bursts of fresh and moist moisture.

Under the eaves, there are two bamboo reclining chairs side by side.

Xia Fanxing and Meng Lizhen lay leisurely, their hands clasped together, playing with each other's fingers.

Meng Lizhen touched Xia Fanxing's palm, and there was a thin layer of cocoon forming on the white, tender and smooth place, which was rubbed out with a hoe every day.

"Zhenzhen, when we get old, we will come to live in such a small village, but we don't need to do the work ourselves, we hire others to do it." Xia Fanxing said jokingly.

Although life in the countryside does not have as many entertainments as in the city, it is peaceful and comfortable without being disturbed, which is why so many people yearn for rural life.

Meng Lizhen followed her in everything, and said, "Okay."

But Xia Fanxing is just talking, it's okay to live in such a village for a while, but she will definitely not be able to live in it for a long time.

The mountain village is not only boring but also has frequent power outages, especially at night.Once the power goes out, the whole village is plunged into darkness, and there is no entertainment at all.

But the stars here are particularly bright, and the night sky is full of fine silver light.

Meng Lizhen and Xia Fanxing were lying on the window edge to enjoy the shade. The power went out and the fan was useless.

"Is it still hot?" Meng Lizhen reached out to touch Xia Fanxing's neck.

Xia Fanxing squinted her eyes to feel the cool breeze blowing slowly, and said, "It's not hot anymore."

"I don't know how long it will take." Meng Lizhen sighed.

The weather is gradually getting hotter, the vegetation in the mountain village is lush, and there are more mosquitoes.Xia Fanxing was always bitten into big bumps, itching to death.

Meng Lizhen applied ointment and sprayed toilet water on her every day, but it was useless. The mosquitoes continued to bite Xia Fanxing one after another.

Xia Fanxing teased and comforted her: "It is said that if there are too many lice, I am not afraid of being bitten. Maybe I will develop antibodies from the bite, and I will be immune to all kinds of lice in the future."

"You think you are Spider-Man." Meng Lizhen went to rub her face.

Although Xu Miao went on strike from time to time, the filming went on smoothly.

Ah Ying's love for Fang Lanting is becoming more and more obvious. Whenever the villagers see them together, they will make fun of each other.

Fang Lanting felt very ashamed about this, he didn't love Ah Ying, but in this place he needed a comfort, an outlet for his emotions, and this person happened to be Ah Ying.

With this man, Ah Ying felt that her life in more than ten years was so bright for the first time.

She likes the temperament of this man who is incompatible with such a village, and likes the man reading poems that she can't understand on the ridge of the field.

Fang Lanting remembered many poems, including stories and foreign poems, and he often read them to Ah Ying when he was doing farm work.

Ah Ying couldn't understand whether the poems were beautiful or contained any philosophy, she only knew that every sentence Fang Lanting uttered was moving.

"Brother Fang, will you go back to the city?" Aying asked.

"I will definitely go back." Fang Lanting firmly believed that he could go back and continue studying.

Ah Ying thought of something, blushed, and said shyly, "Then can I go too?"

Fang Lanting didn't have as many twists and turns as the girl, so she said bluntly, "Of course."

This sentence misunderstood Ah Ying, she thought that Fang Lanting had made a promise to herself.

When the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination system came, all the young people who went to the countryside to jump in the queue were excited.

Fang Lanting dropped the hoe with trembling hands.He finally waited for this day, he was going back to the city, he was going to study.

Aying felt uneasy, she was afraid of what inevitable changes would happen after Fang Lanting returned to the city.Ah Ying hoped to marry Fang Lanting to bind this man, and even let go of her shame and begged her father to match them.

Ah Ying's father is not optimistic about Fang Lanting.The young man's heart was neither in the village nor in her daughter.

Several young people who jumped in the queue in the village agreed to go to the town together, take a bus and then go to the county town to transfer to the train to return to their hometown city.

They packed up their things at night and set off before dawn, carrying the few luggage on their backs to the town along the muddy and rugged village road.

When Ah Ying woke up, Fang Lanting had disappeared.

She was running hard on the village road, calling Fang Lanting's name constantly.

Ah Ying was tired, couldn't run anymore, and fell down.

Her father took her back, and Ah Ying never saw Fang Lanting again. She married into the next-door village and never went to the city in her whole life.

When filming the last scene, the female writer kept watching.

Probably because they have the same occupation, Meng Lizhen and the female writer chatted very well.

The female writer told Meng Lizhen that her mother, Aying in the story, attached great importance to her children's study.

The theory that reading is useless is very popular in the countryside.

Other families in the village always praise the child for being diligent and able to work, but Ah Ying is the only one who is happy for the child's good grades.

The female writer is the best-studied child among several children, and Ah Ying will do her best to cultivate this child.

"When I was young, she kept telling me that she wanted to go to university. There were movie theaters, libraries, swimming pools, and everything in the city. At that time, I only thought it was a mother's hope for her child, but then I realized, That was a wish she could not fulfill," Shu said.

Meng Lizhen felt an unspeakable sadness after hearing this story.

If it weren't for that special era, Ah Ying would marry a family agreed by her parents when she was old, and Fang Lanting would study in the city and take college entrance examinations.

They are irrelevant people, with life trajectories that are completely different from each other.

But they met.For Fang Lanting, this is an episode in life, a disaster.For Ah Ying, it was a real dream within reach.

The dream was shattered, and Ah Ying's love was also shattered.

"Cut!" Xu Miao yelled.

This is the last scene, and it will be over after the crew passes.

Meng Lizhen ran up to pull Xia Fanxing up.

Xia Fanxing hadn't recovered from the heart-piercing emotions, her eyes were red, and she looked at Meng Lizhen dully.

"I'm here, I'm here." Meng Lizhen hugged her, stroking her back like a baby.

The assistant came up with water and towels.

When Xia Fanxing fell, he was rolling on the ground dirty, and had several dirt marks on his face.

Meng Lizhen gently wiped her face, coaxing: "The filming is over, it's time to wrap up."

It took a while for Xia Fanxing to calm down, but she still hugged Meng Lizhen and didn't let go.

The crew of the whole production crew were all elated, and finally they could leave this filthy village after filming.

The villagers were quite reluctant to know that the filmmakers were leaving.

When they were there, the village was full of excitement every day.Moreover, in order to save money, the crew also hired villagers as group performers, and the price was really cheap.

The village head killed a chicken to entertain the crew for the last meal.

After eating, the crew left, and the mountain village returned to its closed tranquility.