Chapter 793: Excuse Me

Since Yu Mengling said so, Lu Yan He read it again.

This time, holding the interpretation of the ending, Lu Yan He specifically focused on some detailed parts.

Then, his scalp went numb.

When he read this script for the first time, he felt that this family of several people lived a simple and quiet life.

However, holding the doubt of why the ending happened, he went to look at the previous story again.

In several places, it suddenly felt wrong.

One place was:

At the beginning of the story, the head of the family received several guests who came to order boats.

At the same time, in the inner house, the eldest daughter of the family sat under the eaves and shed tears, and her younger brother went to comfort his sister.

From their conversation, it could be learned that the reason she shed tears was because her husband died of drowning.

Later, someone came to order goods and chatted with the head of the family, saying that several months ago, the head of another family that made boats died of drowning due to a shipwreck. Previously, they all went to that family to order boats, but now within a radius of dozens of miles, only this family still made boats.

Another place was:

The child brought home by the eldest daughter—the grandson of the head of the family, showed talent for making boats at a very young age and was praised by the head of the family.

On the contrary, although the younger son of this family was not scolded or humiliated by his father to his face, it could be seen from many details that his father was dissatisfied with him.

However, from the information presented in the script, the younger son of this family was a person with a very gentle temperament and a very good temper.

As an uncle, he was also very patient and caring towards his nephew. When the whole family was picking shells by the river, the nephew accidentally fell into the water, and it was he who saved him quickly because he was paying attention to the nephew's movements in time.

The nephew had a high fever that wouldn't go down, and he climbed over the mountain overnight to invite a doctor to save the nephew's life.

After noticing these details, a story behind the script had already been outlined in Lu Yan He's mind.

The eldest daughter of this family married the head of another family that made boats, and the head of this family, in order to grab business, tampered with his son-in-law's boat and killed his son-in-law.

So, the customers of his son-in-law's family transferred their orders over.

And their father, in order to kill them all, also tried to kill his own grandson several times, whether it was drowning or high fever, it was his tampering.

After noticing these, Lu Yan He continued to look further back.

More dialogue and story blank spaces were all verifying Lu Yan He's conjecture.

Because of the gossip of the neighbors, the sister wanted to take the child back to the original home—

Their father kept a straight face and let them stay, not allowing them to leave.

The sister's mother-in-law

came to visit them, proposing to take them back, after all, it was their only bloodline. Their father, on the grounds that "two women cannot stand up a household and cannot support a new head of the family," let his daughter and grandson stay, saying he would raise them well, and when the grandson grew up, he would naturally inherit the family business.

When Lu Yan He read it for the first time, he really thought this was a father who was not good at expressing concern and love, so he expressed it so awkwardly, and the original intention was concern for his daughter and grandson.

Reading it this time, he felt cold all over.

On a rainy night, the son went to cover the wood that hadn't been painted with oilcloth and bumped into his father holding his nephew out of his sister's room.

The nephew was already asleep, leaning dependently in his arms.

He said: "These days your sister has been sleeping uneasily, and the child urinates a lot at night."

Reading it for the first time, Lu Yan He felt the love of a father who was not good at words and was reticent.

Thinking carefully now, on a night with thunder and rain, entering the room, and not even waking up the sister and nephew—

Isn't this strange?

Fortunately, he bumped into it. This son, who was also not good at words and gentle, in order to let his father sleep peacefully, insisted on holding his nephew to his own room.

What if he hadn't bumped into it?

Was it another accident after drowning and high fever?

Too many obscure, blank, and not directly presented things.

Lu Yan He watched with fear and trepidation.

Then, before the son killed his father, there was a scene where the son accidentally bumped into the eldest daughter kneeling in front of the father, shedding tears and kowtowing, saying "If not for father's protection, daughter and A Bao cannot live in the world."

Just this one sentence.

Reading it for the first time, Lu Yan He thought it was the eldest daughter who hadn't walked out of the pain of losing her husband, revealing her true feelings in front of her biological father.

Reading it again, it was a plea for mercy.

Looking again, after this sentence, the nephew was about to go inside.

He quickly got up, hugged his nephew, covered his mouth, smiled at him and made a gesture of silence, and walked out.

Reading it for the first time, Lu Yan He thought he didn't want his nephew to interrupt this scene of revealing true feelings.

Looking again, actually, as gentle and silent as he was, did he guess something at this time? So, he didn't want his nephew to hear anything?

When he was about to kill his father, it was his father who was sick, lying on the bed, and he was serving medicine on the side.

His father told him that the day of delivery was coming, don't delay things.

He said he wouldn't, and fed his father the medicine.

That night, his father passed away.

Wait—

Lu Yan He was stunned and looked back again.

He suddenly realized that he had made a mistake

again.

The person who killed his father should actually be the eldest daughter.

When the coroner came, the eldest daughter took the initiative to let go of A Bao's hand and took a step forward. It was he who pressed his sister's arm at this time to welcome outsiders as the eldest son of the family.

He just knew his sister's plan.

The coroner examined the body and told them that the weather had been cold recently, and it was easy to catch a cold. Was A Bao in their family having a high fever that wouldn't go down a few days ago?

He was surprised and said yes, and asked the coroner how he knew.

The coroner said that the one he invited to treat the illness that day was his father.

According to the coroner's examination, there was no doubt about the cause of their father's death; he passed away due to the recurrence of chronic illness caused by a cold.

Reading the script for the first time, up to here, Lu Yan He hadn't thought that the son had killed the father.

It was after the coroner left that the son went to the room to find a bag of medicinal powder and threw it into the stove to burn—

This scene made Lu Yan He think that the son had killed the father when he watched it for the first time.

Thinking about it again, how could one put poison in one's own room waiting for someone to find it?

This was to take the blame for his sister.

*The Boat*.

Lu Yan He called Yu Mengling.

"Sister Mengling? Is it true?" Lu Yan He told Yu Mengling his interpretation, "Is it what I thought?"

"Yes." Yu Mengling said with a smile, "As expected of a screenwriter, you thought of these after reading it for the second time."

Lu Yan He: "Anyway, when I read it for the second time, my hair was standing on end."

Yu Mengling: "Are you interested? Come and play this son?"

Lu Yan He said: "I… I haven't thought about this matter."

"This is a script written by my teacher." Yu Mengling said, "My teacher Zhang Qiuping from the Film Academy, she passed away last year. Before she passed away, she showed me this script and said she hoped it could be made into a film one day."

Lu Yan He was stunned.

"I didn't quite understand before why she would write such a script. At that time, I didn't know the second meaning of this script either. Until she passed away, she wrote about her childhood, her parents in her will, and I knew that there had always been a regret in her heart, which was that she didn't expose the truth that her father didn't love her and her mother at all while her father was alive. He had been using her and her mother to create the illusion of a warm family. In fact, her father married her mother for his official career, and her father had another family outside. Later, she knew about this, but in order to preserve the face of the whole family, she never said anything to the outside world."

Yu Mengling said these past events in a clear and light voice.

"Teacher told me the truth of this script before she passed away, and I understood

."

Lu Yan He listened silently.

"Teacher regretted it very much, because she felt that this was a scandal, and family scandals should not be publicized, so she endured it for a lifetime, hid it, and even acted as a daughter. By the time she really figured it out, her father had passed away, and she couldn't vent her anger anymore."

Yu Mengling said: "I promised the teacher that I would definitely make this script into a film, let everyone see this story, discuss this story, and then discover the truth behind this story."

Lu Yan He said: "Sister Mengling, you won't know what what you just told me means to me."

Yu Mengling was indeed confused.

"I don't know if this script will move you."

"I want to help you realize Teacher Zhang Qiuping's wish." Lu Yan He said.

"*The Boat*?"

"Yes, Lu Yan He's new film."

"His new script?"

"No, written by someone else."

"He is the director?"

"Probably not."

"Art film?"

"Yes."

"Which big director's?"

"Don't know, probably not a big director."

"Then how could he star in it?"

"Heard it was Yu Mengling who went to find him, Yu Mengling is the producer."

"Lu Yan He is even playing a supporting role for Yu Mengling?"

"I wouldn't be surprised who Lu Yan He plays a supporting role for. He doesn't care about billing at all. He is not that kind of hypocritical actor."

"However, with his status today, why bother? Doesn't he have enough of his own plays? He even went to act in such a low-budget film."

"The thoughts of artists, where can we mortals guess."

"Perhaps, this film can help him win an award?"

"Haha, would he take a film just to win an award?"

"What could it be, it can't be for the box office, right? This film is just an art film. Even if he stars in it, the box office will at most be a few hundred million, right?"

"Don't understand."

"Perhaps there is some point in this film that particularly attracts him."

"Do you have this script? Want to see it, what kind of script it is, to be favored by Lu Yan He."

…

In the industry, because of Lu Yan He's sudden acceptance, everyone became interested in the script of *The Boat*.

In fact, a script like *The Boat* was not kept secret before.

Zhang Qiuping from the Film Academy, many people in the industry knew her.

Her will also attracted a lot of attention and discussion in the industry at that time

The script she left behind was naturally read by many people, knowing what the situation was.

When Zhang Yuezhen heard this news, her heart suddenly panicked.

Lu Yan He actually accepted such a script?!

What does he want to do?

Is he trying to insinuate something?

At this moment, Zhang Yuezhen's first reaction was to contact Chen Pinhe, wanting to discuss with him how to deal with this matter?!

However, she didn't do so. Because Chen Pinhe didn't know yet that she already knew about him and Lu Yan He.

This man Chen Pinhe, she knew too well.

She must maintain the current situation with Chen Pinhe, so that he could be with her with his current gentleness and love.

If one day he knew that she knew about this, would he still be willing to maintain such a face?

Or rather, could she still play an innocent woman who knew nothing in front of him, making him sincerely like her?

Zhang Yuezhen was at a loss.

"If you take *The Boat*, will you still take Huang Tianlin's film?" Chen Ziyan asked.

"Take it." Lu Yan He nodded, "The subject matter and type of these two films are completely different, so I can take them."

"*The Boat* actually made you decide to take Huang Tianlin's film?"

"Yes." Lu Yan He nodded, "And, I also communicated with Sister Mengling. For the script of *The Boat*, we want to make some modifications."

"What to modify?" Chen Ziyan asked.

"Make the expression of this film more obscure." Lu Yan He said, "Delete the scene where the son finds a bag of poison from the room and throws it into the stove to burn."

"If this scene is burned—" Chen Ziyan said, "Basically, there is no information that can clearly indicate that the father in this film was poisoned."

Lu Yan He nodded: "Just let the surface of the film look like a complete, daily family story."

Let such calmness fall into the cliché of "birth, aging, sickness, death, and father-son inheritance" in the eyes of the world in a more obscure expression.

Chen Ziyan was surprised to hear Lu Yan He's idea.

"Secrets that leave no trace and have no clear direction will stir up huge discussion and become works that are deconstructed and interpreted by everyone like *Mona Lisa's Smile*."

Chen Ziyan: "I thought you would want this film to be a clear, directional work."

Lu Yan He said: "I am filming a movie, not a manifesto."

"You are right." Chen Ziyan said, "We are filming a movie. In any case, the movie is the top priority."

For

the two films Lu Yan He took again, international film festivals smelled the scent and came.

The Hexi Film Festival, which will be held in Jinkou next month, also came early to ask Lu Yan He if he would announce these two films at the film festival and hold a press conference for the media around the world.

The Hexi Film Festival held in Jinkou, although Lu Yan He is not the honorary chairman of the main competition unit selection committee this time, he of course has to support it.

So, Lu Yan He communicated with Yu Mengling and Huang Tianlin and agreed to this matter.

This time, Lu Yan He had no films shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Hexi Film Festival.

To be precise, none were registered.

On the contrary, several films produced by Linghe were registered, but none were shortlisted for the main competition unit.

This was mainly related to the fact that the films Linghe made were basically still commercially oriented.

Linghe was going to hold a media promotion meeting at the Hexi Film Festival this time.

Mainly to recommend films produced by themselves.

Including those that had been filmed, those that had not started filming, and those that were preparing for development.

The series of works announced last August, Linghe basically started filming 100%.

This was also where Linghe wanted to take this opportunity to promote.

Which company is like Linghe, able to start filming 100% of its filming opportunities?

This time, the new works launched by Chen Yin included *Corpse Appearance 2*.

Li Yuefeng would return to star.

It's just that whether this film continues the worldview and characters of the first part, or restarts a worldview, and Li Yuefeng will play a new character, this is not known yet.

On the opening day of the Hexi Film Festival in Jinkou.

Lu Yan He and others appeared to support.

With the sample from last year, this year, many overseas filmmakers came.

Because the exposure was too big.

Especially being able to take this opportunity to meet with audiences and fans in China.

In recent years, film companies all over the world have had a trend, that is, paying more and more attention to the Chinese box office market.

The US and China are the two largest markets in the world.

However, the biggest difference between the US and Chinese markets is that the former is very xenophobic, and the audience is not willing to watch non-English films.

The latter, China, is not just Hollywood films. Films from France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, India… too many countries have achieved box office of over 100 million USD in the Chinese market.

Almost every country's film party wants to send their films to China for release.

Last year at the Hexi Film Festival, more than 100 films were screened in the film festival, achieving very good box office feedback.

And many films were favored by Chinese film parties because of this, buying distribution rights, and later screened on a large scale nationwide, many of which achieved good box office results.

There were 12 films with a box office of over 30 million RMB.

This is not the sprayers on the internet who say 10 million box office equals a flop.

For those foreign film parties, this is a real box office.

For them, the revenue is even as high as several million USD in revenue.

For such art films, such high revenue in a single overseas market is something that non-Hollywood films dare not even think about.

Therefore, this year, the number of films registered for the Hexi Film Festival has surged.

Even if they are not shortlisted for the official unit, there are many who pay out of their own pockets to set up booths and find buyers.

Prosperous.

Seeing the Hexi Film Festival, which was in jeopardy, suddenly revived, and even presented a more lively scene.

Just—

This is in line with the consistent positioning of the Hexi Film Festival.

Audience Award, Market Award.

Compared to the Xitu'er Film Festival, which is recognized as having the highest artistry, the Hexi Film Festival has always been better in media volume, public popularity, etc.

Now, the film trading part of the Hexi Film Festival has been done again.

This year's character unit is still continuing.

The first year was Lu Yan He looking for people.

This session is Wu Yang and the others doing it themselves.

Originally, they wanted to continue to do the character trading unit of Lu Yan He, but Lu Yan He declined.

Mainly because there is nothing special on hand that can support this unit.

On the contrary, Linghe is still a partner, responsible for the copyright trading market of the Hexi Film Festival.

On the first day of the opening ceremony, the film festival official and Linghe announced together that the game adaptation rights of *Corpse Appearance* were successfully traded at a price of 2 million USD.

Horror themes always have a market.

Besides that, *Oh My Sea* was also announced, and a Japanese film company obtained the remake rights.

It's not a live-action film remake, but an animated film. Linked to it, it will also be adapted into a 12-episode manga by Chinese manga artist Mingniao, serialized in one of the three major manga magazines in Japan.

It is worth saying that this is a cooperation negotiated by Chen Qin with the team.

Chen Qin believes that the film *Oh My Sea* is very Japanese-style hot-blooded, absolutely suitable for Japanese animation adaptation, so he took the initiative to make a plan, went to the door one by one to talk, and finally talked it out.

Although the transaction amount is not large, Xu Tianming specifically took it out as a typical commendation.

"Doing IP, we must figure out a way of thinking. Others coming to the door is because the influence of the IP itself is big enough, which cannot reflect our ability. Our work is to let others see a value that an IP has not yet been seen. *Oh My Sea* is such a representative."

Lu Yan He agrees with Xu Tianming's statement.

The transaction amount of less than 1 million RMB looks insignificant for Linghe's copyright derivative business, however, behind it is the market development that may be from 0 to 1. Coupled with the fact that Japanese manga and animated films themselves are very influential, this IP is very likely to be valued by them, further increasing the copyright value of this IP.

"Linghe is really lucky. At the beginning of its establishment, Sister Ziyan checked it, and then, Sister Ziyan found Xu Tianming and Chen Yin, one outside and one inside, so that Linghe does not have to face the problems of large investment, small output, and high risk like traditional film companies."

Lu Yan He said to Chen Siqi.

"So, doing management, the most important thing is to know people and use people." Chen Siqi said, "Linghe has several of them, which really makes people envious and jealous."

Lu Yan He: "Are Linyu and Zijun not good enough? I have always been very jealous that my classmates were dug away by you."

Chen Siqi: "What are you and mine? Yours is mine, mine is yours."

Lu Yan He: "…"

He felt that he could be considered a person who is good at words, but in front of Chen Siqi, he was often speechless.

Chen Siqi said: "I am planning to tell you one thing."

"Hmm?"

"We are planning to start another magazine."

"Hmm?"

"Pure literary magazine." Chen Siqi said, "Jiang Yin Publishing House has a magazine that is not doing it, and a magazine number is vacant. I want to make a pure literary magazine, international."

"International?" Lu Yan He was stunned.

Chen Siqi said: "Currently tentatively scheduled, only published twice a year. Of course, this is because this magazine is clearly losing money, and it is highly likely to lose money, but I still want to do it, because this magazine, I want to make an international version, unite seven publishing houses, and publish seven languages in the world every issue. And this magazine only invites submissions, inviting today's world's top, first-class writers to publish works."

Lu Yan He understood immediately.

"I support it." Lu Yan He nodded.

Chen Siqi has been "going to sea" for several years, and it has not been very successful. Now it is directly bird gun for cannon.

However, if Chen Siqi's idea can really be done, it will definitely be a very iconic milestone.

Because, so far, no literary magazine has been able to do this.

Literature is priceless to some extent, and to some extent, it is

cheap.

It is destined to be high and few—

In fact, it has never been popularized.

Stories are for the masses, but literature is not.

However, any country or nation cannot bypass it.

In a sense, can it be said to be a source?

If this is too much, then at least it can be said that it is a sign?

Chen Siqi wants to make such a magazine, which is no longer satisfied with the success and influence in the commercial field.

The Hexi Film Festival is being held in full swing in Jinkou.

Lu Yan He also took this opportunity to meet many friends and fulfill the friendship of the landlord.

People who came to Yuming last year came to Jinkou this year.

Two different cities, different customs.

It won't make people feel tired. ===== CHAPTER 794 =====

It also won't make people feel weary.