Chapter 477

Jilin, Mount Changbai.

At this time, the makeup and styling team of the *Journey to the West* crew and the script supervisors Li Chengru and Yu Hong have arrived at the filming location one step ahead.

Besides the construction of the venue, there is also the styling for the protagonist of this episode, Teacher Red Boy.

"At this time!"

He is also a big name, almost the biggest name among the male actors in the *Journey to the West* crew. A Golden Rooster Best Actor, eh! As for the actresses, it's Sister Xue and Sister Lin.

And so many people will watch this show in the future. If Sister Wang Fei sees him naked, it would be too shameful!

Seeing Teacher Xi is so determined, Li Chengru gives Wei Jiefang a wink—Uncle, you go!

As Wei Xi's temporary agent, Wei Jiefang coughs twice: "Xi Zha, where is it naked? Isn't he still wearing a red bellyband?"

Xi Zi: "That bellyband can't cover the butt either!"

Wei Jiefang: "As a man, is the butt important? Isn't it enough if the front can be covered?"

Xi Zi stops: "Is that so? I'm young, you can't lie to me."

Wei Jiefang steps forward: "And as an actor, where is there no sacrifice? Grandpa Chen Qiang of the Beijing Er Yingchang almost got shot to death because of filming. We can't compare to old artists, but a butt can always be sacrificed, right? It's a bit cold, but it won't hit your butt."

"This..."

Seeing Wei Xi loosen up a bit, Wei Jiefang adds some effort: "Xi Zha, let me tell you, I recently met a little animal in this area. How about letting it take us to catch a thousand-year-old ginseng later?"

"Ah? Thousand-year-old ginseng, that must have become a spirit!"

Wei Jiefang: "Yeah, otherwise why say it has to be caught? As soon as people come, it runs away. Without a guide from Mount Changbai, you can't find it at all."

"Then, alright, alright."

Lao Lao Lao Wei gives Li Chengru an "OK" gesture—done.

Li Chengru clasps his hands and bows—it still has to be you.

Then he pulls Wei Jiefang aside: "Uncle Wei, can you really find a thousand-year-old wild ginseng?"

"That's just teasing the child, why are you taking it seriously?" Lao Lao Lao Wei laughs.

Early the next morning, Lao Lao Lao Wei takes Xi Zi and follows a sable into the mountain.

The sable is a specialty of Mount Changbai, with habits of fearing people. When it sees people approaching, it will flee in panic. However, this sable runs two steps and then runs back to wait for them, and even climbs onto Lao Lao Lao Wei's shoulder and points into the distance.

There are still a few days before the official filming, and Xi Zi is relatively free before filming starts.

At this time, the main team including the director and photographer has returned to Yanjing, doing the finishing work for the episode of *Kingdom of Women*.

Zhu Lin came back with them, and she has also been at CCTV for the past two days because she is dubbing for herself.

When dubbing, she has to look at the screen of her own performance. Seeing her noble and elegant temperament and affectionate eyes, she can't help but shiver. "Yi, Tang Seng can even endure this. Admire, admire. If it were Ma Xiaowei, I would have been unable to get out of bed long ago."

"Director Yang, what are you worrying about?" After dubbing for a morning, she sees Director Yang Jie with a worried face when coming out of the dubbing room.

Director Yang takes out a piece of paper again, on which are the lyrics: "This is the one Yan Su wrote, called *It's Hard to Meet and Hard to Part*. Good, really good, not inferior to Wei Ming's *Daughter's Love*, only more restrained in emotion."

She is worrying about which one to choose. Zhu Lin asks: "Is it illegal to use both?"

Yang Jie is stunned, then laughs: "I entered a thinking trap. Right, who says an episode can only have one interlude song? These two songs express different emotional focuses. I can put them in different places. It's still you young people who have bright brains."

Zhu Lin feels it's not a matter of bright brains; it's purely learned from Wei Ming.

He is someone who wants both if he likes both, and this is something that the law doesn't allow, yet he dares to do it. What is it to want both songs?

After leaving CCTV, Zhu Lin returns to her home in Nanluoguxiang. Summer is coming soon, and it's more comfortable to live here, and the safety factor here has long exceeded other residences.

She has already filled the swimming pool with water and can swim after a few more days of sun, but it's a pity that Little Xue and Ma Xiaowei are not here, and there is no motivation to wear a bikini.

After returning to Beijing, she has already received a letter from Gong Xue. Little Xue actually took a job in Hong Kong, starring in a co-production film for Xia Meng's company with Siqin Gaowa. She heard her say that the script made her very moved, but her character is a woman who has lived in Hong Kong for twenty years, which is not easy for her, so she has to experience life in Hong Kong for a period of time.

For people of their level, it's not difficult to be a female lead in a movie; what's difficult is encountering a good team and a good story.

Like several scripts that were handed to Zhu Lin before, she let Wei Ming help her take a look. Ma Xiaowei said there was no need to film them. Not only would they not win awards, but the spread would also be limited, and no one would remember them in a few years.

Filming this kind of movie requires running to remote areas to suffer and be tired; it's better to stay in Yanjing to perform stage plays.

If *Journey to the West* wasn't a national key project, Zhu Lin, as the female lead of *Don't Want to Pay*, would still be rehearsing stage plays now.

Without a man by her side, Zhu Lin put all her energy into the rehearsal. It should be officially staged within this year. Everyone in the People's Art Theater believes that the response to this play will probably be even greater than *The Two Donkeys*.

"I want~ you by my side, I want~ you to dress me up, the wind of this night blows, blowing the heart itchy~ my lover..."

Zhu Lin hums the little song in the play and arrives at the People's Art Theater, and then sees several old seniors like Vice President Yu Shizhi and Lan Tianye chatting with a woman in the corridor.

Hearing Zhu Lin's song, the woman turns her head and glances at her. Yu Shizhi immediately introduces her.

Zhu Lin doesn't need much introduction; there aren't many people in China who don't know her now. Old Yu focuses on introducing this forty-something woman: "This is Director Huang Shuqin from the Shanghai Er Yingchang."

Zhu Lin knows this clearly. She is Xie Jin's imperial deputy director. Gong Xue had a cooperation with her in *Herdsman*.

Zhu Lin thinks, oh my, could this be coming to find me to film?

This is Zhu Lin's half-understanding. Old Lan introduces one more sentence: "Although Director Huang is a film director, she has a deep connection with our stage play circle. Her father is the old gentleman Huang Zuolin. Every time she comes to Yanjing, as long as she has time, she will come to the People's Art Theater to see."

Huo!

Zhu Lin understands now. Huang Zuolin, ah! "North Jiao, South Huang" are the two great mountains in the stage play circle. Mr. Jiao Juyin is one of the founders of the Yanjing People's Art Theater, while Mr. Huang Zuolin holds the Shanghai People's Art Theater. The two, one in the south and one in the north, laid the current pattern of stage plays.

At this time, Huang Shuqin has already graduated from under Xie Jin. Last year, directing Wang Meng's original work *Forever Young* can be considered her first representative work.

This time Huang Shuqin really came to Yanjing for a new film. Recently, she saw a reportage literature by Jiang Zilong, *Long-Haired Man*, which writes about the experience of the famous Hebei Bangzi opera singer Pei Yanling from bitter practice to success.

Jiang Zilong is from Cang County, Cangzhou, and Pei Yanling is from Suning, Cangzhou, right next to Wei Ming's hometown. When Wei Ming was a child, he even went to the neighboring county with his grandmother and second grandmother to watch Pei Yanling's performance.

After Huang Shuqin saw this story, she felt that a female actor playing a man so successfully is a miracle in itself, and it is also a woman playing a male ghost, in which there are many stories that can be imagined.

So she finds Pei Yanling, goes to the troupe where she is, eats and lives with her, interviews, and digs into stories and details about her, and then goes home to write the script.

This script was finally finalized as *Human, Ghost, Love*, which tells the life story of a theatrical actress named Qiu Yun.

Although there is no Hebei Bangzi, and it has a great discrepancy with Pei Yanling's personal experience, the story is very solid and has passed the review of the Shanghai Er Yingchang.

The male lead of this script is the father of the female lead Qiu Yun, who is actually the foster father who was cuckolded by Qiu Yun's mother. When writing the script, a candidate flashed in Huang Shuqin's mind, and that is Li Baotian.