Chapter 735: A Climax-Filled Drama (7000 Words)

The County Magistrate's Wife passed away very peacefully.

……

According to the driving scene shown earlier, Master Tang was kissing her while threatening to "handle" her until she was thoroughly satisfied.

It is unknown whether he actually did or not.

It is worth mentioning that when the film was released on Earth, the corpse was not played by Liu Jialing; it was a clear continuity error.

There is a theory that Liu Jialing did not play dead people for certain special reasons.

This continuity error is very obvious, and it is unknown whether Jiang Wen did it on purpose.

In fact, after the scene of the Hongmen Banquet, the overall rhythm of the film became tighter and began to reach a climax.

The exchange of blows between Master Huang and Zhang Mazi began to become faster and more ruthless.

The County Magistrate's Wife was dead, and Zhang Mazi demanded that the wealthy gentry of Goose City all come to attend the funeral.

At this moment, he was already laying out his plan.

Halfway through the funeral, the Bandits wearing Tongzi Masks burst out.

They kidnapped the people from the two great families and Master Huang, threatening to kill the hostages if they did not get the money.

Interestingly, didn't Huang Silang previously have Hu Wan wear a Tongzi Mask to disguise himself as Zhang Mazi and his men to kill the County Magistrate and the County Magistrate's Wife?

Therefore, when Hu Qian saw the Bandits wearing Tongzi Masks, he thought they were his own men and cautiously probed, asking, "Hu Wan?"

Hu your mother's head!

The Bandit went up and threw a punch!

It was very clear that these were the real Bandits, the brothers under Zhang Mazi.

The cinema was once again filled with a joyful atmosphere.

Zhang Mazi shouted loudly at this moment: "Good men! I am the County Magistrate of this county; if you want to kidnap someone, kidnap me!"

The Bandit said: "Keep your life to help us collect money. Within three days, if the money arrives, we release the people; if the money doesn't arrive, we kill the hostages."

Zhang Mazi was addicted to acting at this point, grabbing the gun held by the person opposite him and shouting repeatedly: "Shoot me! Shoot me!"

There is a detail here.

That is, Third Brother did not wear his own Tongzi Mask; he chose to wear Zhang Mazi's Jiutong Mask.

——Let me be the boss for once!

Third Brother's thoughts were clearly a bit much.

Just when the audience thought the mission was accomplished, a Reversal appeared.

Another Huang Silang popped out and shouted loudly: "Kill them! Let them kill them! The Body Double is there to do this for me!"

It turned out that the one who had been captured was not Huang Silang, but his identical Body Double.

Huang Silang stood on high ground and said to Zhang Mazi: "Little brother, don't worry about me, definitely don't worry about me!"

——"Little brother."

A group of people were all dumbfounded; damn it, there was a Body Double?

In fact, Huang Silang's side was also very confused.

Hu Qian said: "Master, I suspect Hu Wan has defected to Zhang Mazi!"

What was even more hilarious was that with such a big commotion going on here, on the other side, the priest at the funeral never stopped his mouth, chanting methodically until he recited the final sentence: "Amen."

In this round of high-level exchanges, although Zhang Mazi's side did not land a fatal blow, they did manage to get the money sent by the two great families, so they still profited.

Looking at the table full of money, Master Tang cried and laughed at the same time, saying this was money exchanged for his wife's life.

Third Brother slammed the table and roared: "Then does our Xiaoliuzi's life not count as a life?"

Such deep brotherly love.

But the next moment, Seventh Brother asked: "Brothers, why did we come here?"

"For the money!" everyone replied.

"Has the money arrived?" Seventh Brother asked again.

"It has."

"Let's go!" Seventh Brother clapped his hands and said.

This made Huo Yuan and the others raise their eyebrows, feeling that everything was so real again.

They remembered the vows made before Xiaoliuzi's grave.

"Third Brother swears to avenge you!"

"Fourth Brother swears to avenge you!"

Once they had money and the enemy was powerful, they no longer wanted to continue; they only thought about taking the money and leaving.

Huo Yuan thought of a certain type of person in history.

"There is a type of person who originally wanted to overthrow the old forces, perhaps wanting to fight the Emperor."

"But once he killed the County Magistrate and sat in control of a county himself, he no longer wanted to fight the Emperor; he only wanted to be the County Magistrate."

As soon as Master Tang heard they were leaving, his eyes lit up, and he said: "Let's go!"

Seventh Brother asked: "Then why are you still crying?"

The Master immediately said seriously: "I can stop crying!"

In an instant, there was another burst of laughter in the cinema.

"What the hell, I can stop crying, hahaha!"

Everyone's eyes turned toward Zhang Mazi, who was drinking alone to the side.

He sat far away and did not even go near the pile of money.

"Boss, when are we leaving?" Seventh Brother asked.

Zhang Mazi just quietly lit a cigarette.

After exhaling a cloud of smoke, he said indifferently: "Not leaving."

At this moment, everyone felt he was incredibly cool.

This was inherently a movie exploding with hormones, and it was mainly concentrated on the character Zhang Mazi.

He stated: "Liuzi, the Madam, two lives, must be repaid by Huang Silang."

——Not Forgetting Original Intention.

The Counselor said he was a gambler, and one who couldn't win at that.

Zhang Mazi took a puff of his cigarette and just gave an indifferent "Oh."

Then, he said: "The people aren't leaving, and we don't want the money either, distribute it."

"No, Boss!" Third Brother reached out, pressed his hand on the money, and asked: "Who are you distributing this money to?"

Here, a close-up shot was given to Zhang Mazi, filming his profile.

This man, who had always displayed a masculine side, actually had a fleeting moment of softness in his eyes and brows at this moment.

Light and shadow hit his side profile.

He seemed to be him, yet also seemed not to be him.

His eyelids drooped slightly, he smiled faintly, and the cigarette burned at his fingertips.

He said softly: "Distribute it to the poor, of course."

Huo Yuan and the others widened their eyes abruptly.

"This expression, this action, and this line... from form to spirit, this is all imitating... that person," Huo Yuan thought in his heart.

For some reason, he, who was more emotionally expressive, suddenly felt a bit sad and wanted to cry.

"No, then who is poor?" Counselor Tang asked.

"Whoever is poor, they are the poor," Zhang Mazi seemed to have said a platitude.

But combined with reality, this didn't seem like a platitude at all.

Does the money given to the poor really all end up with the poor?

Some people have plenty of ways to define—who is poor!

In the cinema, some audience members thought: "What the hell kind of nonsense literature is this?"

Others thought: "Luo Mo really dares to write, really dares to satirize, and really dares to film it!"

……..

……..

Everyone put on the Jiutong Mask and started throwing money into the homes of the poor from the windows.

During this process, Second Brother and Third Brother arrived at the brothel, and Third Brother wanted to throw money inside.

He felt that inside were all daughters of poor families who had been sold.

Second Brother and Third Brother didn't stop after throwing one bag; they kept throwing it inside.

This was like a large-scale scene of tipping female streamers.

Top-tier donors Boss One and Boss Two are so generous, ying ying ying!

Listening to the laughter of the women inside, listening to them laughing until they were trembling, Second Brother and Third Brother didn't even realize there was someone behind them.

Hua Jie was one of Huang Silang's people; she appeared behind the two of them at some point and snatched off their masks.

"So the County Magistrate's men are Bandits!" she said with a smile.

Alright, the female streamer and the top-tier donors have met in reality.

Seeing this, Second Brother and Third Brother had no choice but to capture Hua Jie and take her back.

Very good, she thus successfully got taken back to the enemy camp and infiltrated the interior.

The women here are often infiltrated by people.

Now it's my turn to infiltrate your interior.

The scene shifted, and one could hear the Counselor say: "Kill! It's a must!"

He felt that anyone who had seen the true faces of the Bandits had to be killed.

Upon hearing this, Third Brother immediately took out a knife: "Counselor, the first person to see the true faces of the Bandits is you."

In the end, Zhang Mazi told Hua Jie that he was Zhang Mazi.

Hua Jie was immediately scared into fainting.

On the other side, Hu Qian was reporting to Huang Silang that a group of Bandits were wearing masks and distributing money.

Huang Silang said: "Those who use masks are Bandits? We have masks too."

"That is the County Magistrate!" Hu Qian said.

Huang Silang took the money bag and said: "Not earning money when it's there, and distributing it to the poor? Is this something a County Magistrate who bought his office can do?"

Hu Qian was stunned.

Huang Silang didn't say much else, just put a Jiutong Mask on him.

"However they distribute, you go and rob! Create chaos for them!"

At the same time, he wanted to send people to investigate this person, County Magistrate Ma Bangde.

Outside the door, Huang Silang's man said: "Master Huang ordered us to create chaos for them, watch how Laozi creates chaos for them!"

They broke in, and a couple was counting money.

He asked how they would compensate them.

The man said any compensation would do.

He asked the woman again, did she know why the money was being distributed?

The woman wearing a bellyband said, because the Bandit grandfather is good to us.

"Good to you?" He began to reach out, then let out a laugh: "Not good enough yet!"

The scene that followed was a certain well-known series from the island nation.

——《Husband Before My Eyes》.

The others were still egging them on from the side: "Screw! Screw! Screw!"

The next day, this couple went to the county office to report the crime.

Then, everyone gathered in the room, and the Secretary cursed loudly.

"Six people, and while the husband was right there, and letting people watch?"

"Pah! Disgusting! I even keep the lights off!"

The Secretary cursed it as disgusting, then went outside to vomit.

Inside the room, only the brothers were left.

Next, please enjoy a grand poetry recital——《Boss, You Understand Me》.

Old Seven spoke first: "Boss, you understand me; I never do things that bully others by relying on power, I like to be passive."

Old Three said: "Boss, you understand me; as is my habit, I never ask for help from others."

Feels like a craftsman.

"Boss, you understand me; if it were me, no one would be left alive to file a complaint," Old Four said.

"Boss, you understand me; although I, Old Five, am the oldest, I am still to this day..." He looked around at all the brothers, and said embarrassedly: "Commonly known as a virgin."

The more impressive parts were still to come.

Zhang Mazi looked toward Old Two.

"Don't look at me," Old Two said: "Boss, you understand me; if I were the one to act, the one lying on the table should be her husband."

They are all fucking talents!

Fortunately, Zhang Mazi became the audience's mouthpiece in the movie, saying: "I can hear it now, every one of you possesses unique skills."

He felt Old Tang was acting strange; with such an obvious matter, there was no reason for Old Tang not to see it.

Then they rushed into Old Tang's room and started... the boys' dormitory inspection mode.

During the inspection, a head poked out from under the table.

"Child, child!" Secretary Tang said loudly.

"Child?" Zhang Mazi asked.

"Whose?"

"Mine," the Secretary said.

Zhang Mazi looked at this old-looking big head under the table and asked: "You're a child? How old?"

"Eight years old."

"Come out."

A tall and burly body appeared.

"This is fucking eight years old!?"

The whole venue burst into laughter instantly, and the Cinema went wild with joy too.

The mother and child said they came to find Secretary Tang for money.

Zhang Mazi gave the gems to the mother and child.

Some people here interpreted that this 8 years old actually has a metaphor.

Then, Zhang Mazi was actually prepared to go distribute money.

The Secretary refused to go.

Zhang Mazi told him, if you don't go, someone might come to find you in the middle of the night. When that time comes, just chat slowly, keep your cool, the slower the chat, the better.

Huang Silang's spy discovered the County Magistrate was wearing a mask to distribute money.

He immediately had Hu Qian and the others also wear masks to kill the County Magistrate, creating a scene of the Bandits having an internal feud and firefight.

But for some reason, in this segment, the background music was cheerful, as if it were about to dance.

Hu Qian and the others all prepared to wear the Sitong Mask; those with Sitong are our own people, kill everyone else.

As it turned out, Zhang Mazi's side had been watching in secret for a long time and had also switched to Sitong.

The two groups rushed out and bumped into each other; everyone looked up, and they were all fucking Sitong.

Everyone picked up their guns, not knowing who to shoot.

What a perfect——【Looking Back at the Sword in Confusion】.

On the other side, someone really did come to find the Secretary in the middle of the night.

It was Huang Silang.

He began to try to pry words out of the Secretary: "You have at least three things to tell me."

The Secretary listened to Zhang Mazi's words and managed to keep his cool, not spilling everything.

Just at this moment, Hu Qian ran in and said the Bandits in the city had a firefight, and all six people were dead.

It had just started raining heavily; the process of the firefight was actually very chaotic, and everything was very blurry; in the end, they saw corpses wearing Sitong in the rain.

Old Master Huang was so happy, he dragged the Fourth Master to identify the bodies.

But upon opening the masks, the bodies on the ground were actually Hu Wan and the others!

Huo Yuan immediately remembered the words from the beginning of the movie: "Sometimes, dead people are more useful than living ones."

Zhang Mazi started using dead people again, and he used them beautifully!

The rain kept falling.

In the dark of night, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled.

On this night of wind and rain, with thunder rolling, the distance was pitch black and could not be seen clearly.

Everyone could not see the person, but they heard the voice.

A voice full of vigor shouted loudly: "Hu Wan is the Bandit! The Bandit is Hu Wan!"

"Killing the County Magistrate's Wife, kidnapping the wealthy gentry, and bringing disaster to the people of Goose City—it is your Master Huang's Hu Wan!"

Every time the thunder of lightning roared, it illuminated the figures of Zhang Mazi and the others slowly walking over.

When the lightning faded, everything turned black again.

After this repeated a few times, he walked closer and closer, and closer and closer.

The audience only felt that this scene was so badass and incredibly cool.

"I was wondering why you wouldn't spend money to suppress the bandits; so it turns out you are a thief crying 'stop thief'!" said Zhang Mazi.

Brilliant! This move is brilliant!

The entire layout was for the sake of revealing these corpses at this very moment.

He walked up to Huang Silang and said, "You're pointing a gun at me? You're pointing a gun at me?"

He said sternly, "You want a showdown with me!?"

Thunder exploded inside the Cinema, and Master Huang could only fire his gun at Hu Wan's corpse to vent his anger.

Zhang Mazi said, "The Bandit Hu Wan has been shot dead by Master Huang five times now. Killing kin for the sake of righteousness? Or silencing a witness by murder?"

"Silencing a witness by murder: you are the leader of the Bandits, Zhang Mazi!"

"If it's killing kin for righteousness, then that's easy to handle: you put up the money, and I'll suppress the bandits."

This wave of climactic Drama made the vast majority of the audience in the Cinema cheer with satisfaction.

This round of confrontation clearly held the upper hand.

Moreover, this entrance was very cool, full of momentum, and very satisfying to watch.

The performance tension was dialed straight to the max!

But, is this enough?

Three Best Actors gathered in one movie; the Hongmen Banquet scene counts as a dialogue scene, and this thunderstorm scene counts as an explosive scene.

As the director, would Luo Mo feel that this is enough?

Not enough, not satisfying enough yet.

The tension is not high enough!

After Huang Silang was thwarted, he stated, "Three days later, I will definitely give the County Magistrate a Surprise."

This was equivalent to empty talk, and it was also stalling for time.

Zhang Mazi said to Master Tang, "You translate for me, what is called a Surprise?"

"Does this still need translating?" Master Tang dared not say.

"I'm telling you to translate for me, what is called a Surprise!" Zhang Mazi said loudly.

"No need to translate, it's just a Surprise," said Master Tang.

"Don't you understand what a Surprise is?" Huang Silang also said.

Zhang Mazi's voice grew louder amidst the thunder: "I just want you to translate for me, what is called a Surprise!"

"Translate it for me, what the hell is called a Surprise!"

"What the hell! Is called a fucking Surprise!!!" He pointed forcefully at the ground with his finger while his voice grew louder, his momentum grew stronger, and he pressed forward step by step.

The thunder was completely drowned out by his shouting.

At this moment, Zhang Mazi no longer restrained any emotions.

Just as Huang Silang had evaluated him at the beginning, his domineering aura was fully exposed.

It Is Clearly just a 【Surprise】, and talking about it over and over again, but the audience found it satisfying to watch, and thoroughly satisfying at that.

The performance tension of the three Best Actors reached its peak at this moment.

Huang Silang was finally forced to the point of cracking his voice, and could only say, "A Surprise is that three days later, I will put up 1.8 million, for you to leave the city and suppress the bandits!"

You said I couldn't win the bet, you said I couldn't earn Huang Silang's money?

Now, I have won.

………

………

Before Liuzi's grave, Zhang Mazi indicated that the matter was already seventy percent done.

He told the Second Brother to leave the city.

Afterwards, Zhang Mazi and Master Tang chatted and spoke from the heart.

He told Master Tang that his name was Zhang Muzhi.

"A good name, Governor of Yanzhou, Governor of Yuzhou, Muzhi—your late father hoped you would achieve great things."

Zhang Mazi told his life story, who he had followed, and what places he had been to.

After returning to the country, with warlords fighting and the world in chaos, he chose to become an outlaw.

"Muzhi, also came to be called Mazi."

"What a pity, such a good character 'Mu'," the Master sighed.

Zhang Mazi looked ahead with deep eyes.

"People are unwilling to believe that a bandit's name is Muzhi. People are more willing to believe it is Mazi, and people are especially willing to believe that his face should have fucking pockmarks on it."

Huo Yuan and the others listened to this dialogue and only felt it was wonderful.

People are only willing to see, and can only see, what they want to see.

Afterwards, Huang Silang began a new layout; he wanted to use landmines to blow up the County Magistrate who was leaving the city to suppress the bandits.

Through inquiries, he also learned that Master Tang was the real Ma Bangde, and Master Tang was the real County Magistrate.

On the other side, Hua Jie began pointing a gun at herself with one hand and a gun at Zhang Mazi with the other. She felt that she, Second, and Third had been doing well, but now Second was gone, and Third was also leaving; they had all been torn apart by him.

"Were you bought by Huang Silang?"

"Yes."

"Has he hit you?"

"He has."

"Have I hit you?"

"No."

"Do you hate him?"

"I do."

"Do you hate me?"

"I do not."

"Then why don't you point your gun at him, but point it at me instead?"

"Because you are a good person."

At this moment, Huo Yuan and the others felt their brains explode.

This dialogue was too explosive!

Zhang Mazi stood up abruptly and said in great Anger: "What kind of damn bullshit logic is this!"

"A good person has to be pointed at with a gun?!"

Who would have thought that it was their idea to let Hua Jie hold the gun, thereby showing that she was a person of courage, and then join the ranks of the Bandits.

Seeing Hua Jie defect, Zhang Mazi let her go see if the 【Body Double】 he had captured was really a body double or the real Huang Silang.

As a result, as soon as Hua Jie saw the body, she recognized it was a body double.

Did she actually know Huang Silang's body like the back of her hand?

After leaving the city to suppress the bandits, Zhang Mazi and the others had a gunfight with the fake Bandits under Huang Silang.

In the gunfight scene, the whistles appeared again; the group of Bandits used whistles to communicate, a Team Encryption, which was especially cool.

Every time the whistle appeared, the audience felt this setting was very satisfying.

It was just a pity that Second Brother died; some audience members guessed that someone must have leaked his itinerary.

During this process, Lao Qi's mouth was shot, and he could no longer blow the whistle.

He asked the Master to blow a random note for him to attract others to come and support this side.

But the Master blew a random note, and it actually blew out the content of their encrypted voice: Boss is dead.

Lao Qi snatched the whistle: "You blew Boss to death!"

In the Cinema, Huo Yuan laughed until he was looking for his head on the floor.

He just loved this kind of plot; he laughed so hard his teeth and gums were all showing.

Someone immediately went over to check on Boss's situation, and Zhang Mazi said: "Bullshit, am I not still alive?"

That person immediately blew the whistle: Boss is not dead.

Zhang Mazi glared at him and asked: "Why didn't you blow 'bullshit'?"

The whistle sounds began to emerge.

On the subtitles were a few lines of large characters: Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.

——《Strictness》.

Cao Tong, who was disabled but strong-willed, clutched his stomach and said: "Ouch, ouch."

The people beside him were startled; were they going to move him onto a wheelchair and send him to the hospital?

"Ouch... my stomach hurts from laughing," said Cao Tong.

After defeating the enemy and capturing the fake Zhang Mazi, he told everyone that the woman and the eight-year-old child had both been killed by him, the tall man had been sawed in half by him, and the woman had been scared to death on the spot.

Everyone felt that this mother and son were Old Tang's trickery and could not possibly be his real wife and real son.

As a result, Old Tang was very anxious; he drove the carriage full of silver and was about to rush to Shanxi.

Yao Yu whispered to Huo Yuan: "Master Tang probably really had family members taken as Hostage, requiring him to take money to redeem them. His trickery is actually half-true and half-false; Zhang Mazi doesn't care, so he just gives him money and jewels."

Huo Yuan, who had been a bit confused just a moment ago, said: "Great minds think alike."

As a result, just as Master Tang was on the road alone, he was blown up by a landmine.

His body was buried in the silver all over the ground, while his lower body was blown into a tree.

He told Zhang Mazi that there were two things he had lied to him about.

But before he could finish, he died.

The Master Tang played by Zhao Huan had an explosive acting performance here.

While he was calling out "ouch, ouch," his eyes gradually widened, and then in less than a second, his pupils suddenly dilated!

Some people were marveling at the god-level performance.

Some people were furious: "You should have just said it, what exactly were the two things!"

Regarding what exactly the Master was referring to with the two things, it could be said that there were various opinions and all kinds of guesses on Earth.

Luo Mo actually had his own ideas too.

He had originally intended to film his own ideas into the movie to give the audience an answer.

But just as he was about to film this scene, he changed his mind.

"I cannot be sure if what I think is correct either," he thought to himself.

More importantly, when he saw this Drama on Earth, he felt very painful and frantic inside.

——"Let the World Feel Pain"!

That dog of a director thought to himself: Hehe, let them all guess, just like I did back then, guess as hard as you can!

In the end, Zhang Mazi returned to Goose City with the silver and the Wanmin Umbrella.

He actually started handing out silver again and again and again.

And this time, he publicly declared first that he was going to deal with Huang Silang, and in three days, he would cut off his head!

The biggest climax of the entire film was unveiled at this moment.

Silver was spread on the ground of Goose City, but during the day, no one dared to pick it up.

Lao Qi and the others asked Zhang Mazi, with just the four of us, are we going to kill Huang Silang in three days?

And we even let the word out, telling him we would kill him in three days?

"If the word isn't spread, this matter cannot be accomplished," Zhang Mazi said.

"Then what are our odds of winning?" Lao Qi asked.

Zhang Mazi held up three fingers.

"Isn't three percent just risking our lives?"

Unexpectedly, overnight, all the silver was gone; it had all been picked up.

Seeing that the commoners had taken all the silver, Lao Qi and the others thought the commoners would help them.

They were more excited than the last.

"Now we have forty percent, right?"

Someone else said: "Fifty percent!"

Lao Qi said: "Seventy percent!"

Zhang Mazi still held up three fingers.

Huo Yuan and the others nodded slightly.

"They've already taken the money, who would still risk their lives for you," they thought to themselves.

This was very realistic, and also very cruel.

"That can't be right, the commoners have taken all the money, and it's still only thirty percent?" Lao San was puzzled.

"If the silver is just taken like that, then the money was given out in vain," Zhang Mazi said while holding a cup.

But Zhang Mazi knew very clearly that the odds of winning had not increased, so why did he still give out the money?

The reason was simple.

Huang Silang knew their 【Kindness】, so he could make moves again and again based on that 【Kindness】.

Zhang Mazi knew their 【Evil】, and this time, what he was going to rely on was their 【Evil】!

Sure enough, Huang Silang sent out several carriages.

Under his tyrannical power, the commoners of Goose City returned the money one by one and placed it into the carriages.

Lao Qi and the others were stunned.

"The silver has all been collected by Huang Silang!"

"The odds of winning are now less than ten percent!"

Zhang Mazi stood on high ground overlooking all of this, yet he held up a six, his face calm.

"Huang Silang didn't even show his face, and the commoners handed over all the money, so where does the six come from?" Lao Qi said.

"Well said! Why?" Zhang Mazi began to guide them step by step.

"Fear!" Lao Qi and the others said as if it were obvious.

"What is inside fear?"

The three faces were blank; they couldn't answer.

"There is 【Anger】," Zhang Mazi said in a deep voice, "I will definitely hook out the 【Anger】 from the bottom of their hearts!"

Huo Yuan and the others felt an electric current surge through their entire bodies.

"Brilliant! Simply brilliant!"

If a pie falls from the sky, no one will cherish it.

But if it is obtained and then lost, that is different.

Huo Yuan couldn't help but think in his heart: "Damn it, the script is written so Ox-like, holy shit!"

"To have obtained it and then lost it is even more painful than never having possessed it at all!"

(End of this chapter)