Chapter 200

How about staying for a night, anyway, I have already bought toiletries such as toothbrushes and towels.

So after settling Wei Ming down, Zhu Lin started cooking noodles for herself.

But she still had something hidden in her heart. What is the ending of "A Terracotta Warrior"?

That thick stack of manuscripts was actually unfinished. The second life he read was about to end in tragedy. It looked like it was just missing an ending.

She glanced at the master bedroom, really wanting to pull this kid up and let him write the ending.

Sleeping, sleeping, did the reader sleep!

Then Wei Ming woke up, watching Zhu Lin slurping noodles and immediately leaned over.

"Give me two bites too, wake up from the wine."

"I haven't heard of eating noodles to wake up from wine. I think you are just hungry." But Zhu Lin still spoiled Wei Ming and took a pair of chopsticks and a bowl for him.

Wei Ming didn't use a bowl, and directly picked two chopsticks from Zhu Lin's bowl.

"I'll just taste it."

Zhu Lin hummed lightly, and then asked: "Which Hong Kong filmmaker did you eat with today?"

"You know Xia Meng, right."

Zhu Lin shook her head, which is not strange. The era she was active in was when Zhu Lin was still young, and she retired in 1966. She hasn't filmed for more than ten years.

Wei Ming introduced Xia Meng's achievements, and by the way, popularized the Three Princesses of the Great Wall. Speaking of Chen Sisi, Zhu Lin knew. In the 1960s, her "Three Smiles" was very popular in the mainland. Zhu Lin had seen it more than once when she was a child.

"Chen Sisi is so beautiful, she is only the Third Princess, then the First Princess must be more beautiful!"

"It seems they are ranked by age," Wei Ming laughed, "I have a group photo with her here, you wait a moment, I'll find it."

Wei Ming turned out the group photo taken at the National People's Congress last year and showed it to Zhu Lin. At that time, Xia Meng was already 46 years old.

However, the first thing Zhu Lin saw was the grandma in the middle.

"You are really capable, you even got this kind of group photo!" That is Grandma Deng!

Wei Ming said modestly: "It's all the old people caring for the younger generation."

In fact, it is thick-skinned, and people don't care that he is a child. This photo has helped Wei Ming a lot. I have to mount it later.

Next, Zhu Lin focused on Xia Meng. She was indeed very beautiful: "And she can be so beautiful and elegant at her age, it is really rare."

Wei Ming: "You will definitely not be bad when you reach this age. I will ask a friend in Hong Kong to bring you some skincare products later."

"No need, I only used a little bit last time." Zhu Lin thought of the little pen pal with impure thoughts again.

After eating, although it was very late, Zhu Lin was a bit unable to sleep. She asked Wei Ming: "Have you finished the story of 'A Terracotta Warrior'?"

"Finished, I just finished the ending today."

Zhu Lin asked busily: "Where is it, where is it, let me see!"

"At school," Wei Ming said. He finished the last 2,000 words during work hours, and then went to the Yanjing Hotel to eat, "You want to hear it, I'll tell you."

So the two huddled on the sofa and started a late-night story. Feeling a trace of coolness in the night, Wei Ming took another blanket and covered the two of them.

Zhu Lin felt strange, as if the two were sleeping under a quilt, but the ending attracted all her attention.

Wei Ming first asked her where she read, and then continued from there. When she heard that Lily died in Meng Tianfang's arms, Zhu Lin's tears flowed down directly.

Wei Ming took the opportunity to hug her shoulders and patted her gently, and Zhu Lin didn't resist. At this time, she needed some warmth, so the two under the blanket got closer and closer, almost sticking together.

Then Wei Ming talked about the third life, decades later in the 1980s, a Hong Kong tour group came to the Terracotta Warriors scenic spot.

At this time, Meng Tianfang had turned into a cultural relic worker, and in the Hong Kong tour group, he saw a young girl who looked exactly like Dong'er and Lily.

The two looked at each other, a glance for ten thousand years, and the story ended here.

I thought Zhu Lin would be happy for this happy ending, but what she cared about was: "Why did Dong'er's reincarnation become a Hong Kong girl?"

Said: Is it because of that Mao Mao Amin!

Under the blanket, Wei Ming hugged Zhu Lin and explained seriously: "Because I want to publish this novel in Hong Kong, so I must have some Hong Kong elements."

The original version here is a Japanese tour group, and Dong'er's reincarnation is also a Japanese girl. The actor of the Japanese tour guide and Xu Fu are also one actor, hiding an Easter egg that Xu Fu might have eaten the elixir of life and lived in Japan.

However, Wei Ming changed it to Hong Kong for the market, and the previous plot did not completely follow the movie version, and had some of his own innovations.

Zhu Lin felt that this explanation was reasonable. She yawned and prepared to sleep. It was already past 11 o'clock, and she had to go to work tomorrow.

Wei Ming suggested: "So sleepy, then I'll hug you to sleep."

"Ah?" Zhu Lin opened her eyes suddenly. She hadn't had time to react, but her whole body had already floated up.

Wei Ming felt it, it could be about 100 jin. Based on Sister Lin's height, it is moderate in fat and thin.

This was the first time Zhu Lin felt this kind of "princess hug." Wei Ming copied her legs with one hand and clamped her armpit with the other, inches away from his chest, wondering if he could feel her suddenly accelerating heartbeat.

Fortunately, Wei Ming just hugged her back to her bed and didn't ask to stay.

However, when he turned to leave, he was kicked in the butt by Zhu Lin's foot, letting you come uninvited to hug sister.

Wei Ming wanted to kick back or hit back, but Zhu Lin shrank into the quilt and made full defensive preparations.

Wei Ming had no choice but to rub his butt and leave.

Hearing the sound of closing the door, Zhu Lin poked her head out, but couldn't sleep at all. In the dark, her two long legs clamped the quilt and tossed and turned, and even started oral practice in the middle of the night, sticking out her tongue at the air.

Early the next morning.

Wei Ming slept okay. After he got up, he went to the bathroom to release water first. Just as he was powerful, he suddenly heard light footsteps behind him.

He turned around and saw Zhu Lin walking towards him with sleepy eyes, and Zhu Lin also saw him and it.

"Fuck!" Wei Ming straightened up quickly.

Zhu Lin was also scared out of sleepiness: "Why don't you close the door!"

Wei Ming: "Sorry, I forgot you were there too, but you don't have to be embarrassed, you are going to be an actor in the future, just treat it as liberating nature training."

"Go away!"

Zhu Lin directly helped him close the door. That is, she had read some medical books and had pictures on them. If it were an ordinary girl, she would have been scared away.

But even so, this picture is still very shocking, deeply imprinted in her mind, even when cooking breakfast, it still lingers, especially when seeing the rolling pin.

To be honest, the photo is very different from the real thing. The textbook is still too conservative.

During the meal, Wei Ming told Zhu Lin that he might be busy for the next few days.

"Because I have to receive Hong Kong filmmakers, I also have to participate in the follow-up co-production film, so I might not have time to pick you up. You can come by yourself, I will definitely live at home at night."

"Let's talk about that later, I also have a lot of things, not necessarily free to come over." Zhu Lin buried her head in drinking porridge, feeling that the relationship between the two was a bit abnormal.

This is a dangerous signal. Rational people should cut it decisively, but Zhu Lin is a bit reluctant.

Because she rode a bicycle over yesterday, Wei Ming didn't send her, and the two went their separate ways.

On the way to the unit, Zhu Lin saw a newsstand and wanted to see if there was any report on the Hundred Flowers Award.

But she saw the newly released "People's Literature." Someone had already bought it in front, and said to the companion next to him: "There is Wei Ming's new poem in this issue!"

Zhu Lin guessed it should be "Love for Life." When she opened it, she saw Wei Ming's name, so she decisively bought one to collect.

Wei Ming took the manuscript of "A Terracotta Warrior" to the school journal office, got the ending he wrote, and by the way, asked for leave from Deputy President Zhou. It is not certain whether he can come to the unit in the next few days.

Then he turned his manuscript into three copies with the school journal office's copier. Since working at the school journal office, he no longer has to bother Mei Wenhua to copy the text.

He kept the original manuscript of these three copies, cast one to "Story Monthly," and sent one to the old man in Hong Kong, just counting on it to earn Hong Kong dollars for himself.

But it's just a novella, I'm afraid it can't make up for the deficit of Qi Baishi's painting, so Wei Ming also prepared three songs, which took a long time to complete, and sent them to Mao Mao Amin together today.

It is estimated that by the time the letter reaches Hong Kong, Zhang Mingmin's album has already been released, and the musician "Ah Ming" also has some fame, so this time he suggested Mao Mao Amin cast to more famous singers and companies. After all, Zhang Mingmin will not release a new album in the short term.

This time it is still a special customization. I heard Mao Mao Amin say before that Tan Yonglin has achieved good results in the music scene after flying solo, and recently started to enter the Taiwan market, filming a lot of plays there, which shows that he is estimated to release a Mandarin album.

So this time Wei Ming suggested casting these three songs to PolyGram. At this time, PolyGram is estimated to be collecting songs for Tan Yonglin.

Passing by the South Gate post, the clerk on duty told Wei Ming: "Brother Ming, your letters are increasing again today!"

Wei Ming knew that it should be caused by "People's Literature" reprinting "Love for Life" yesterday. The reader letters brought by a poem after it became popular far exceeded novels. The fanaticism of poetry readers is obvious to all.

Although Wei Ming doesn't write many poems, he only has four in total, but when it comes to modern poets today, he is already someone who can be compared with Bei Dao, Gu Cheng, and others.

However, Wei Ming is worried that these letters contain money or food coupons again, because his previous feedback to old readers has spread, and many readers have posted on the newspaper after receiving signed new books.

While chatting, he saw Biaozi and Xiao Mei returning from the cafeteria. They were listless, having just finished the night shift.

And they didn't rest this weekend either, because it was almost the end of the month, and they were going south to get goods again, so they took time off.

Although they were very tired, Wei Ming still asked Biaozi: "The Hong Kong director is here and wants to find someone to accompany him to visit the capital. Do you want to go?"

Biaozi supported himself: "I'll go!"

If Yanzi is selected to star, he will definitely have to join this crew to follow his wife. So Wei Ming asked him to change his clothes and took him to the Beijing Er Yingchang. After arriving, Wei Ming asked him to sit on the motorcycle and take a nap, and he went upstairs to find Director Wang. Not long after, Xia Meng and others took the hotel car to the Beijing Er Yingchang, and the negotiations on cooperation officially started.

But that is a matter between the two units, involving specific investment proportions and profit distribution. Wei Ming doesn't interfere, and is not qualified to interfere, but his suggestions will be conveyed to Xia Meng and others through Wang Yang.

His main task today is to entertain Yuan Xiangren to visit Yanjing. Biaozi is a native of Yanjing and is responsible for leading the way. Wei Ming is responsible for taking photos and explaining.

To facilitate the travel of the three, the Beijing Er Yingchang also specially provided a sidecar.

A sidecar is a type of three-wheeled motorcycle, with a sidecar on the right side of a two-wheeled ordinary motorcycle, which was very popular during World War II. Many children in military compounds often drove them out to show off.

However, it is relatively rare in Hong Kong. A Xiang sat in the sidecar and felt very wow, and his address to Wei Ming changed from "Screenwriter Wei" to "Handsome Guy."

It's a pity that many ancient buildings in Yanjing can't be seen now, and it is in a stage of being neither old nor new.

Yuan Xiangren said: "I heard from my father that the old city wall of Yanjing is very wide and can even run cars. Can you take me to see it?"

Biaozi: "It was demolished long ago."

When he was a child, he could hardly see the old city wall, only some arrow towers and place names were preserved.

!

Wei Ming nodded: "Yes, in order to build more roads and subways, it had to be demolished."

"Too regrettable, then the Forbidden City wasn't demolished, right?"

"It's there, it's there." Wei Ming felt bitter in his heart, and had to visit the Forbidden City again.

While visiting the Forbidden City, Wei Ming introduced Biaozi's identity as a "martial arts student" in detail. Yuan Xiangren became interested, chatted with Biaozi about what martial arts they had learned, and wanted to learn from each other.

Biaozi looked at Yuan Xiangren's thin appearance and was afraid of beating him to death, but he still responded with a silly smile on his face.

At noon, they arrived at Jingshan Park, the decisive battle at the top of Jingshan.

Biaozi felt that he had underestimated Yuan Xiangren. This little guy still had two tricks.

In terms of combat effectiveness, Yuan Xiangren is actually stronger than his brother Yuan Heping. Yuan Baye is really the kind of thin and weak, but his action design ability is strong.

However, Biaozi has a tonnage advantage after all, and his strength is obviously superior. But today is not to decide the winner, but to show his and his master's strength in front of the martial arts instructor, so Biaozi only stopped at the point and didn't let Yuan Xiangren lose face.

After the two stopped, Yuan Xiangren hugged Biaozi affectionately and asked: "A Biao, where did you learn it?"

Zhao Debiao: "Shichahai Sports School!"

Yuan Xiangren asked again: "Are there any younger students there?"

"Of course, we have been practicing martial arts there since elementary school, it's a childhood skill."

Yuan Xiangren patted his thigh excitedly: "Please be sure to take me to your school to see!"

Before coming, he and Xu Xiaoming had already read the script of "Heroes Come from Youth Since Ancient Times" and liked this story very much. However, a major difficulty in shooting this book is that it requires a group of teenagers and even children who know martial arts, which is not easy to find.

Now it seems that this doesn't seem to be a problem anymore. There are so many children, so you can always find a few suitable ones.

Wei Ming laughed: "I originally wanted to take you to Shichahai Sports School to select actors, but don't worry today, let's go select with the director tomorrow."

"Good, then where are we going next?"

Wei Ming: "Let's go to Dashilan to visit."

After playing for a day, tasting some old Yanjing delicacies, and taking many photos, Yuan Xiangren felt that the old man would definitely be very happy after returning to Hong Kong.

When it was getting dark, Wei Ming and the others sent people back to the Yanjing Hotel. Wei Ming asked by the way if Director Xie Jin's crew finished filming today?

Learning that they just finished work and people haven't left yet, Wei Ming went to chat for two sentences. Looking at their progress, they can completely finish filming at the beginning of next month, and it will definitely be released this year.

Finally, Wei Ming and Biaozi drove the sidecar back to the Beijing Er Yingchang to change their motorcycle, and met an acquaintance outside the Beijing Film Guest House.

"Director Wang?"

"Oh my, Writer Wei!"

Wang Shuchen hurried to shake hands with Wei Ming. He just returned from Cannes today, and returned with honors, so he has to stay in Yanjing for a while to make several reports.

"Thanks to your reminder, we found a French filmmaker who likes Chinese culture to help, otherwise we would really miss the main competition unit."

Wei Ming asked again: "Then did you win the award in the end?"

"Won, and it's two awards!" Wang Shuchen said excitedly.

These two awards are the Jury Prize and the Technical Grand Prize. Although they are not the most important awards, they are also a great breakthrough for mainland films.

Wang Shuchen also told him: "Because 'Nezha Conquers the Dragon King' won the award, we also sold the copyright of several countries, including powerful countries like Britain, the United States, France, and Japan, earning very precious foreign exchange for the country!"

"Good, good!" Wei Ming sighed, it's just a pity that "Tale of the Heavenly Book" doesn't have a formed segment, otherwise it would be good to take it over for publicity.

"By the way, the Hundred Flowers Award was restarted this year, and 'Nezha Conquers the Dragon King' also won Best Art Film. Do you know this?" Wei Ming said again.

"I don't know yet, but I think there shouldn't be any surprises." Wang Shuchen said calmly.

Wei Ming thought that was true. "Nezha Conquers the Dragon King" has no other competitors. The votes it won were higher than the votes "Little Flower" won for Best Feature Film, which is what the public expects.

In fact, this also shows that the output of domestic animated films is too low. It takes several years to produce a feature film, which is much worse than the output of live-action films. Talents in this area are far from enough.

It is really promising to engage in animation in the future. Just ask if you are afraid of 6 billion in nine days!

Reports on this Cannes Film Festival may have to wait two days for them to finish their reports before they can see the newspaper, but today Wang Shuchen shared some news about Cannes with Wei Ming.

For example, the winner of the Best Film Palme d'Or.

"The winner is 'Kagemusha' by Director Akira Kurosawa from Japan."

"Oh, that's not strange. His status in the world film scene is too high. Francis Coppola and George Lu Kasi of Hollywood are his fans." Wei Ming talked eloquently, and he remembered that this "Kagemusha" was the work produced by these two Hollywood bigwigs, so it was also the work with the greatest influence in the world in Akira Kurosawa's later years.

Wang Shuchen was very surprised: "You actually know the names of Francis Coppola and George Lu Kasi. I only knew it when I arrived in Cannes."

Wei Ming: "I used to have a girlfriend who was British, so I know more about foreign countries."

"Ah!" Wang Shuchen heard it for the first time and called "unbelievable!"

This is what he learned in Cannes, and it is the praise given to "Nezha Conquers the Dragon King" by foreigners. Now he gives it to Wei Ming.

To say that opening your eyes to see the world, it has to be these writers!

"Then what are you doing at the Beijing Er Yingchang?" Wang Shuchen asked.

Wei Ming: "A work I wrote is being co-produced by the Beijing Er Yingchang and Ms. Xia Meng's Blue Bird Film Industry. I came here for this matter."

Wang Shuchen sighed again that the young man's energy is really vigorous.

After confirming that Wang Shuchen would stay here for a few more days, Wei Ming agreed to find time to take Liu Rulong, the character designer of "Tale of the Heavenly Book," to visit him.

Wang Shuchen agreed, this was agreed long ago, let the young man go to the Shanghai Er Yingchang for an internship during the summer vacation.

On the way back, Wei Ming carried Biaozi on his motorcycle. He was exhausted. He had to go to work the night shift after resting at Peking University for a while.

When Wei Ming returned home, it was already past ten o'clock. Zhu Lin was not seen at home. Wei Ming was quite regretful. I don't know if she stopped practicing in the dormitory by herself. The tongue still has to be practiced!

The next day, Wei Ming went to the Beijing Er Yingchang again. This time Ms. Xia Meng was not there. She had returned to Hong Kong. The matter of selecting actors and scenes in the mainland was fully handed over to the Beijing Er Yingchang and the director. After the preparatory work was finished, the director would return to Hong Kong to report to her.

The Beijing Er Yingchang sent a director to assist Xu Xiaoming. His name is Yang Qitian, nearly fifty years old. He was an actor at first, and turned to behind the scenes after forty. He had served as an assistant director several times before.

A few years later, he will shoot a very famous domestic martial arts film "Heroine Thirteen Sisters," which is also the earliest 3D martial arts film in the mainland.

3D film is not only available in "Avatar." Hollywood has had it long ago, but the technology is just like that, and it can't reach the level of shock.

Although Yang Qitian's identity this time is a co-director, Wang Yang told him that Director Xu Xiaoming is the main one. As a mainland director, he is mainly responsible for communication and coordination, and also learning, learning how others shoot martial arts scenes.

Director Yang Qitian is very humble, not only polite to Xu Xiaoming, who can be his son, but also very polite to Wei Ming and Yuan Xiangren.

They first discussed the script and reached a consensus that if this film wants to succeed, the martial arts-skilled little wife and the husband who doesn't know martial arts are the key.

So today they came to Shichahai Sports School to start casting, and Wang Yang had already greeted the school yesterday, and the other party said they would try their best to cooperate.

Because "Shaolin Temple" had already been selected once, Li Lianjie was selected to play the male lead, so everyone was very envious, so the students were very enthusiastic about this casting, so that Zhen Zidan couldn't squeeze over at all in the back.

It was only after Wei Ming shouted Danny that he had a chance to appear in front of the director.

Since Zhen Zidan will join the Yuan family class sooner or later, Wei Ming doesn't mind doing a favor and introducing Zhen Zidan to Xu Xiaoming and Yuan Xiangren.

Zhen Zidan didn't recognize Yuan Xiangren, but when he said his mother's name was Mai Baochan, Yuan Xiangren's expression moved slightly. His sister Yuan Su'e had learned Tai Chi with someone before, and that teacher was named Mai Baochan.

He asked carefully and learned that Zhen Zidan's mother was indeed a Tai Chi master, and immediately confirmed the origin between them.

So he asked: "Do you want to film?"

"I want to!"

Yuan Xiangren: "Hit a set of boxing techniques you are good at."

Then Zhen Zidan hit a set of Tai Chi. Although Tai Chi is known for softness, Yuan Xiangren always felt that there was some ruthlessness on this kid's face, so he could arrange a role for him among several main villains.

But he is short, his oppression is poor, and he cannot serve as the biggest villain.

Yuan Xiangren nodded with satisfaction. Wei Ming directly let him stand beside them. It looked like he was definitely selected. He hurriedly thanked Wei Ming in a low voice, no, it's Brother Ming!

(End of chapter)