1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 234 I'll bully you together!
When the crew left the next day, An Gang specially arranged a bus to take them north.

Dozens of workers who had just taken a break came to see him off!
In the summer, when they looked back from the car, they could still see them standing in the snow from a long distance away.

……

Angang's driver took Xia Tian and his friends directly to Yongchun City.

In the summer, I saw several abandoned Clivias on the roadside that were frozen to death by wind and snow.

Well, in July of this year, this thing broke.

It’s the same routine as the later ornamental walnuts, bodhi seeds, Pu’er tea... and the later shoe and cryptocurrency speculation.

Without stopping, after passing Yongchun, they arrived in Heilongjiang Province in the summer.

Here, Xia Tian saw some of his former friends in Yanjing.

I have said it before, in the summer before 83, I arranged for many of my friends on the street to run away - so as not to end up in prison for ten or eight years for fighting.

Most of my friends went south, but some went north!

Now these are...but aren't there too many?
"How many people were there at the beginning?"

"Six!"

"So what is this now?"

"56!"

"Are you trying to confuse me with ethnicity?!"

"No, Brother Tian! They all came with me to the Russians to exchange things! You gave us financial support in the beginning, and we developed very quickly. Isn't it that more and more people are coming..."

Xia Tian: I want you to stay out of the limelight, do some business and make some money. Don't try to make me go on a cross-border spree or go crazy!

This is just a part of the people. Do you also want to exchange planes from the Russians? !
But this is not the fault of the six guys here. The Russians are in short supply of light industrial products.

We need friends in the south to bring in a lot of this hair, and then take it to the border to exchange it with the Russians.

It's not worth it if you are small, but if you are big and there is no one, you can't do it.

"Alright! Be careful! What's going on over there now?"

"Okay, you guys keep an eye on what's going on. If over there... I mean, in the future, if there's chaos over there, just keep an eye on the valuable...aircraft, cannon, engine production lines and the like (whispering)"!
The Russian bear collapsed on Christmas Day 91, five years later?

……

In the summer, they soon arrived at the previously agreed filming location - Pingshan Town, Heilongjiang Province.

Just stay in the local guesthouse.

This is a forest farm, a deer farm, a hunting ground... It's a vast area with few people. There are large tracts of forest and snow!
The further north you go, the colder it gets and the heavier the snow!
When I was in Anshan before, the snow didn’t even reach my ankles.

But now here, the snow on the roadside is up to the knees!
Zhang Li, Deng Jie and the others are from the south and have rarely or even never seen such heavy snow as that in the north!
The vast expanse of white snow was very rare to them.

But the cold also scared them. The temperature was minus 30 to 40 degrees Celsius at night and nearly minus 20 degrees Celsius during the day. They had never experienced winter like this before.

The crew just arrived here, and the deer farm treated them to a meal. Ouyang was greedy and had an upset stomach. He got up at night and ate in a corner of the wild, shivering...

When I looked at it the next morning, it had frozen into a lump!

Seeing this situation, he took a breath of cold air~
Granny Liu said, "My butt is frozen just by going to the toilet!"

This is not a joke. Anyone who has used the toilet outdoors in Northeast China knows it.
There is a joke here - when you pee, you should bring a small stick and smash the ice while you pee, so as not to get frozen!
……

Let's get down to business and start filming! The longer we put it off, the colder it will get.

There are three main contents to be filmed in this section: the death of Feng Ji, Liu Laolao rescuing Qiao Ji and driving the carriage home in the snow, and Baoyu walking away in the heavy snow.

When the filming started, the actors walked in the snow and if they weren't careful, the snow would reach their knees!

Because it was too cold, the crowd dispersed after watching for a while.
To film Feng Jie’s death, Deng Jie had to wear clothes that were not too thick, and the “corpse” was wrapped in a mat and dragged in the snow!
Her face was livid, and her long black hair was scattered messily in the snow, highlighting the law of cause and effect - she was too clever!

It was thirty degrees below zero, and Deng Jie's feet were still bare, with her toes sticking out of the mat, as she was being dragged forward in the snow.

I have tried my best to prepare in advance in the summer, but there is still ten or twenty minutes left when shooting.

By the time the filming was finished, Deng Jie was almost frozen to death.

A group of people surrounded her, put coats on her, stuffed hot water bottles in her pockets, and poured hot tea into her mouth...they finally warmed her up.

Deng Jie opened her eyes dazedly and saw Xia Tian stuffing a hot water bottle into her arms. She smiled with difficulty, with a kind of broken beauty.

She really sacrificed too much for the role of Feng Jie!

In order to prevent her hands and feet from getting frostbite, I bought her some frostbite ointment in the summer.

Not to mention humans, even machines can't stand this weather.

The camera worked in the open air for twenty minutes and was then taken into the room to warm up.

As soon as it entered the hot room, the camera casing was immediately covered with a layer of snow-white, crystal-clear frost, just like the ice room in the refrigerator.

Finally, I put a cotton jacket on the camera in the summer, which saved me a lot of trouble.

The scene where Granny Liu and Ban'er drive Qiaojie home in a carriage is easy to shoot. It can be done in two takes. We can definitely make it work by editing the scenes later.

In the brothel, Granny Liu went to rescue Qiaojie. The first time she didn't bring enough silver, so she left crying. The second time she pawned her belongings to rescue Qiaojie.

The grandma and the eight-year-old actor both performed very well. Xia Tian explained the play to them and guided their emotions the whole time. When the filming started, they cried with all their heart.

Xiaoxu, Zhangli and Deng Jie were all crying as they watched, hugging each other and crying. Finally, it was Ouyang's scene, Baoyu ran away - Baoyu, whose family had been destroyed, turned into a homeless man, with dishevelled hair and untidy beard, leaning on a wooden stick, and walked away in the snow.

The time was chosen in the afternoon. The days are short in winter, and the sun sets at around four o'clock.

Baoyu walked towards the setting sun, without stopping...

It was getting colder and colder, but Xia Tian never stopped. He had to keep walking until he finally reached the top of the ladder and turned into a dark figure. Then Xia Tian shouted, "Go!"

Ouyang's feet were so cold that he lost feeling!
As a result, everyone took Ouyang back and he started crying!

Xia Tian wondered: Could it be that it was frozen?
As a result, Ouyang cried and said: "I thought about it to the end. I kept walking in the heavy snow, and kept walking... There was nothing left, nothing at all! Ah~~~"

This is the last shot of the TV series Red Mansions. He was so immersed in the role that he could hardly accept it and felt very sad.

It wasn't just him. When he said that, the actresses at the scene almost burst into tears.

Among them, Deng Jie cried the saddest.

Xia Tian had to persuade her: "Stop crying! Stop crying! Your face will become chapped if you cry in this cold weather!"

Later, Xia Tian found out that in the original version of the Dream of the Red Chamber, Feng Ji's cause of death seemed to be hemorrhage, which was the result of incomplete miscarriage leading to continuous bleeding.

Modern hospitals will perform a uterine cleaning to remove any remaining embryonic tissue and the disease will be cured.

But in ancient times, there was no such technology. If the medicine didn’t work, the patient would have to continue to suffer from the deficiency, which was also due to the limitations of medical conditions.

The reason why her husband divorced her was because of infertility.

……

The filming was completed in six days, and the next step was editing.

Xia Tian was not in a hurry to take them back, so we played for two more days. We might not have the chance to come again in the future.

Anyway, Director Wang also said that we will have a holiday right after the filming. Everyone will go home for the New Year and then resume filming after the New Year.

Now in the summer they are more or less “celebrities”.

Knowing that they had finished filming and were about to go back, the local forest farm held a party for them.

There are very few people in this place in winter, and everyone becomes very enthusiastic when they see strangers.

Everyone ate venison and drank white pear juice, and they were very happy!
But we can’t eat other people’s food for free!
Besides, I don’t know how it spread so quickly - the news of the big party in Anshan has spread here.

The folks are eagerly looking forward to them giving a whole performance in the summer, no, singing a few songs!
Then sing one!

Because of that time in Anshan, Xia Tian also relaxed a little.

Maybe it's because Dabai Li drank too much?

It was rare for him to let go and sing without any scruples, "People in the Northeast Are All Lively XX", "Home in the Northeast", "Destiny" and "Xianer"!
Wow, by the end of the song everyone is so happy that they feel like they are going to become immortals!

Northeast China + Errenzhuan + Shaman Dance + Rock and Roll, is there any hope?

For the last song, Xia Tian played the concertina and sang "Northeast Folk Song".

"The plum blossoms in Sanjiu turn red the snow all over the mountain
The shadow of the depressed branches and the crescent moon shine on people sleeping

The young man was driving the carriage, holding a long whip in his hand
The river breeze blew across his red face
......"

This is a sad story, full of untold sorrow in the biting cold wind of the black soil of Northeast China.

"There was a couple. The boy was going out to work, and he promised the girl that he would come back to marry her next New Year."

"The girl waited for her lover at home. Year after year, the Spring Festival passed, but the boy never came back."

"The girl waited and waited for her whole life, but she never got married. When she got old, she suffered from Alzheimer's disease. Every time she heard the sound of gongs and drums and firecrackers during the Chinese New Year, she thought that the boy had come back to marry her."

Everyone couldn't help but ask, "Where's the boy?"

"Maybe he died somewhere else..."

Xia Tan continued to sing: "The sound of gongs and drums in the first month of the year
The ground is red with the sound of firecrackers
Every household lights up lanterns

Another good year
Every household lights up lanterns

Another good harvest. "

……

The party was over, and Xia Tian went out wearing a coat and carrying a shovel.

He carved a bust of Lin Daiyu out of a large block of ice at the door!
Xiaoxu had been staring at him just now and saw him as soon as he went out.

Xia Tian hugged Xiao Xu in front of the ice sculpture and whispered, "Although this Lin Daiyu will melt, Chen Xiao Xu will always be here..."

As long as Lin Daiyu is alive, everyone will never forget Chen Xiaoxu.

After hugging in the cold wind for a while, Xiatian thought of a traditional Northeastern folk art - 18!
Xiao Xu: "Don't move your hands!"

Xia Tian: Oh, it’s winter and I’m wearing too many clothes!

"Don't tell Zhang Li, I carved it for you alone." Xia Tian said.

But Xiao Xu betrayed her: "Lily, he carved an ice sculpture for me and didn't let me tell you~"

Xiao Xu: Don't try to fool me! We have to form a united front to avoid being bullied by you!
Xia Tian: You still want a united front? I will bully you together! Don’t run away~
Thanks to the book friend "悟馋" for the 100-point reward!
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