Chapter 519: The Dead Are Gone, the Living Must Continue to Move Forward

In the homestay.

Jin Li first opened the advertising filming plan handed over by Lu Wanwan.

When signing the endorsement contract, Jin Li had mentioned that she had to stay in the crew to film for these few months and would not take other schedules or run to other places.

But Black Bear didn't want to let go of the traffic brought by the co-branded product selling out, so it decided to send a team to Chitang Village in person to film the advertisement.

In the quiet room, there was a faint humming sound of machine operation; that was the air conditioner releasing warm air.

The surging rain fell on the windows and the ground, knocking out a gloomy melody.

After a while, Jin Li put down the advertising plan in her hand and turned to look at the pitch-black window outside.

It was late at night, and the village didn't even turn on the street lights. She could only vaguely see the scene of the rain falling by the light in the room.

Jin Li stared at the rain outside the window for a while, sighed lightly, and reached out to touch her heart that was still beating violently.

Even though she had returned to the homestay, her emotions hadn't been completely released, and she was a bit restless.

She thought for a while, pushed the door open, and walked to Xu Wenwen's residence.

After arriving, she found several actors in the room. They were a bit worried about Xu Wenwen's state, so they took a shower and rushed over to soothe her emotions.

These actors tried hard to say some happy things or jokes, wanting to make Xu Wenwen laugh, but she kept her head down and had no expression.

It wasn't until Jin Li came over that her emotions fluctuated slightly.

Xu Wenwen's voice was hoarse: "You better not go tomorrow, I'm afraid you will also leave with him."

Jin Li was stunned.

She quickly reacted; Xu Wenwen was not talking about her, but using Xie Yingying's identity to talk to Yuan Xiaoxiao.

She had gradually walked out, but some people were still stuck in the past.

Jin Li didn't think about the plot arrangement in the script at this moment, nor did she think about how to persuade Xu Wenwen, but stood from Yuan Xiaoxiao's perspective and said:

"I have to go over."

She stared at Xu Wenwen and said word by word: "The living must see people, the dead must see corpses. I want to see with my own eyes whether that person is him."

Xu Wenwen suddenly shouted in a breakdown: "No, you can't go over, you will definitely leave with him too. You can't accept that he fell in front of you, you didn't grab his hand...

It was me, it was me who hugged you tightly and refused to let you move forward. If you moved forward a little more, maybe you could have grabbed him!

It's my fault, it's all me, if it weren't for me holding you—"

Jin Li said calmly: "If you hadn't held me, maybe I would have sacrificed too. You didn't do anything wrong, I understand you."

"Yingying, you did the right thing in this matter. You can only blame natural disasters, only blame why I let him walk in front, only blame why I didn't grab his hand."

"I watched him disappear in front of me, but I was powerless. I was about to grab him, I could clearly grab him, but I watched him disappear in front of me..."

Jin Li's eye sockets were slightly red, and she said with tears: "It's my fault. If it weren't for me wanting to go up the mountain to find the missing villagers, if I hadn't insisted on going up the mountain first instead of waiting for the police rescue team, he might have been fine. It's my reason, it's me!"

"No, it's not you. I don't want you to disappear in front of me. I watched him slide and fall with my own eyes. I don't want to sacrifice anyone else, so I grabbed you tightly. If I let go, you could have grabbed his hand. It's my reason..."

Xu Wenwen cried bitterly and reached out to cover her head.

The other actors looked at each other, and everyone didn't dare to speak, fearing to destroy this indescribable atmosphere.

At this moment, they felt what it meant to enter the play and what an actor is.

Everyone's heart was very heavy.

They suddenly realized that acting is not child's play, but interpreting other people's lives. Respecting the characters in the play is what they should do.

No matter if it's a big character or a small character, no character is completely useless.

Among the people present, the most complex one was Ma Mingqi.

The "Wei Yaoyang" he played sacrificed in front of the village official; this was in the play.

With his identity, he could guide Xu Wenwen to walk out, but he couldn't do it.

The moment he finished filming, he stood in front of Xu Wenwen and said to her: "I'm back, don't cry."

Originally, he thought Xu Wenwen was crying in a breakdown at him, which was just getting out of the play.

But after that, he realized that he had thought of "getting out of the play" too simply.

Xu Wenwen didn't get out of the play; she didn't treat herself as Wei Yaoyang in the play. His appearance clearly told her—

Wei Yaoyang was dead, and he would never come back!

That crying was a farewell to Wei Yaoyang's permanent departure.

It wasn't until Jin Li continued to talk to Xu Wenwen as "Yuan Xiaoxiao" that Ma Mingqi discovered the mystery.

"Sigh!"

He sighed heavily in his heart. He originally thought he had some talent in acting and was a bit complacent.

But looking at the communication between Jin Li and Xu Wenwen, he realized that he was still far, far away.

If every actor had to have such a sense of play as Xu Wenwen and Jin Li, then he couldn't meet the standard at all!

Jin Li hugged Xu Wenwen and patted her back to comfort her.

"Dawn will come every day. What we have to do is to carry his will and practice it well."

It didn't rain the next day, but the weather was still gray.

Wei Yaoyang had sacrificed, but his scenes hadn't ended. This was the character's last scene, and it was also Ma Mingqi's last scene in the crew.

After filming this scene, he officially finished.

Ma Mingqi's emotions were average today, and he didn't like to talk.

But not only him, everyone in the crew didn't like to talk, including the staff.

Lu Wanwan, as the person in charge of Black Bear, not only had to watch Jin Li's advertising filming this time but also formally discuss the implantation cooperation with the "Yonglu" crew.

As a special person, Ye Weijie allowed her to visit the crew.

Originally, Lu Wanwan wanted to talk to Jin Li about the advertising plan first, but she keenly sensed the atmosphere of the crew and stayed still first.

On the scene, Jin Li and other actors were preparing.

Jin Li was holding "Five Three" in her hand, but she rarely didn't brush questions, but was in a daze.

Lu Wanwan found Jin Li's two assistants and asked in a low voice: "Do you know what scene the crew is filming today?"

Chen Qin nodded: "I know, today we are filming the farewell and funeral scene."

Lu Wanwan's speech was a bit stuttering, "Fu, funeral?!"

No wonder the atmosphere at the scene was so heavy!

She asked quietly: "Then do you think it's appropriate for me to talk to Jin Li today?"

Chen Qin's mouth opened slightly, just about to say something, but was suddenly interrupted by another assistant.

Xiao Cheng pulled Chen Qin and said politely to Lu Wanwan: "We are not very clear about this. Why don't you discuss it internally first? We are not responsible for handling Jin Li's schedules, just her life assistants."

Lu Wanwan's lips opened slightly. She didn't have any bad intentions, just wanted to hear other people's thoughts.

However, Jin Li's assistant was very cautious and didn't dare to reveal a word.

Just when she didn't know what to do, the scene had been set up, and the field manager called the actors to gather.

The sky outside the window matched the script, but Ye Dao thought about it and felt that he still had to get some rain, so he called a sprinkler truck.

The artificial rain curtain drizzled and wetted the ground, and the camera aimed at the temporary mourning hall set up in the middle.

In the middle was a coffin covered with a party flag, surrounded by many flowers, and Ma Mingqi was lying in the transparent coffin in front.

The last finishing scene was very simple: close your eyes and walk through the whole process with no expression.

Before, Ma Mingqi dared to make some small movements while filming, but at this moment he didn't dare at all.

If he made some noise, he would feel that this was a disrespect to the character.

People are dead, he still dares to play, then is he still a corpse?

Ye Weijie shouted: "Action!"

The whole scene was silent, even the staff didn't dare to make any sound, only the music of the rebirth mantra was playing.

The room was so quiet that one could hear the rain outside.

Ma Mingqi lay in the transparent coffin, and the makeup artist drew wounds on his face and exposed arms, simulating wounds scraped by stones and trees.

Yuan Xiaoxiao and other village officials stood in the mourning hall in a daze, not moving at all.

Until now, they didn't dare to admit this fact.

Wei Yaoyang sacrificed.

He left this world forever.

Villagers kept coming over to offer flowers with sobs. A villager brought his child and knelt in front of the mourning platform to repent in public.

Last night, the reason why the village official went to the mountain in the wind and rain was that he heard that a family's grandson didn't return after going up the mountain, so everyone went out to search.

I don't know if the scene was too realistic, but this villager and grandson also performed extraordinarily, showing the fear, cowardice, and sadness of rural people.

Besides that, Wei Yaoyang's relatives also rushed over, punching and kicking this villager, and others didn't dare to step forward to stop them.

"If it weren't for your grandson going to play elsewhere and not returning, my Yaoyang wouldn't have gone up the mountain to find him, and wouldn't have encountered a landslide!"

"It's you! It's you who killed him, all of you are accomplices, all of you have responsibility, you pay for my son, why don't you go to hell together..."

Seeing the villager's mouth beaten and bleeding, others stepped forward to stop them.

Wei Yaoyang's parents lost their temper at other village officials, glaring at them with red eyes.

"Why did only he sacrifice? Why wasn't it you who sacrificed? Why, why did he leave... woo woo, he said this year he would go home for the New Year, why did he leave..."

The parents fell to the ground in sorrow, crying heartbrokenly.

The watching staff were infected, and their eye sockets were also red.

Yuan Xiaoxiao, played by Jin Li, suddenly walked outside and smashed the stone wall hard.

Before long, her hand was bleeding.

Very painful.

But the physical pain was far less than the torment in her heart.

"Cut!!"

Ye Weijie shouted. Everyone mobilized all their emotions for this scene, and he didn't re-shoot.

This kind of strong emotional scene is very physically exhausting.

Some people sit all day, far less hard than physical work, but after a day of work, it is more tiring than pure physical work.

That's because this kind of work hurts the spirit.

For a person's body, whether it hurts the spirit or the body, it is a huge consumption.

After filming this scene, Ye Dao called for people to make up the detail shots and said: "Let's film here today, you go back to rest early."

It's only morning now, so fast?

Seeing the surprise in the actors' eyes, Ye Weijie explained: "Originally, a scene was arranged in the afternoon, but I see that your mental state is not very good, so it was moved to tomorrow. You should relax first."

The dead are gone, the living must continue to move forward.

Blind sadness is irrational.

After the funeral of Wei Yaoyang is held, the village officials who stay must continue to handle the affairs of Chitang Village.

Before, Wei Yaoyang had applied to Wang Hongdou for a transfer order to another village, but because of various procedural problems, it had not been handled.

It was dragged for a year and finally handled, but it encountered this kind of thing.

Su Yue, played by Wang Hongdou, left Chitang Village with a sad mood, almost like escaping, and went to another village.

Her guilt in her heart was no less than Yuan Xiaoxiao and Xie Yingying, because when she knew that a child didn't return, she was the first to propose searching the mountain.

Wei Yaoyang just echoed her idea.

Su Yue was always thinking, if she hadn't made this request that day, would Wei Yaoyang not have gone up the mountain, and then he wouldn't have had an accident?

Unfortunately, there is no if.

A natural disaster brought an indelible impact to every village official, making them no longer impetuous from then on, thinking three steps before taking one step.

In the afternoon, Jin Li took the initiative to find Lu Wanwan.

Lu Wanwan thought that Jin Li would still be immersed in the character's emotions, thinking about how to communicate with her gently later.

But after seeing Jin Li, she found that she had worried in vain.

Jin Li's state looked very ordinary, there was no sadness in her eyes, and she said with a gentle expression:

"I read Black Bear's advertising filming plan, the theme is very good. Where do you plan to film? I'm afraid I can't be too far from Chitang Village."

Lu Wanwan came back to her senses and said hurriedly: "Film in Chitang Village. I went to the mountain for a lap today. Many mountains here can be used for filming, and the scenery on the top of the mountain is also good."

As soon as the words came out, she couldn't help but pat her mouth.

Didn't she think about running out of Chitang Village and filming on the mountain of the next village in the morning?

She was too nervous facing Jin Li just now, and suddenly slipped her tongue, saying it was filming on the mountain of Chitang Village.

However, she was originally set to film on the mountain of Chitang Village, and many mountains in the local area met the requirements.

If she wasn't afraid that Jin Li filming on the mountain would touch the scene and think of Wei Yaoyang's sacrifice, she wouldn't have thought about changing the mountain.

Jin Li saw her hitting herself and was a bit stunned, "You..."

Lu Wanwan immediately said: "We can change the mountain, not film in the mountains of Chitang Village, run to other places to film. How about the mountain of the next village?"

Jin Li shook her head: "I don't think it's very good."

"You might not know that the mountain range here is continuous, crossing many counties. The mountain of the next village and the mountain of Chitang Village are actually the same mountain. Let's film here in Chitang Village. I have time on the weekend."

Lu Wanwan frowned and asked carefully: "Jin Li, are you okay? Can you film advertisements in the mountains of Chitang Village?"

Jin Li looked at her expression, suddenly understood something, smiled lightly, and her smile was soft.

"It doesn't matter, I am a professional actor, I can distinguish what is filming and what is real." ===== CHAPTER 520 =====