When Li Tang woke up, he felt a little dizzy, but it didn't hurt. He raised his wrist and looked at his watch. The luminous display showed that it was almost six-thirty, but there was a little light outside the window, so it was probably almost dawn.
He turned his head and glanced at the bed next to him. The quilt was raised and quiet. He put on his clothes and got up gently.
"Snapped!"
The light in the room turned on, and the person on the bed next to him also sat up.
"So early, Xiao Li!"
This man looked to be in his early sixties, with a frowning and bitter face.
"Teacher Ge, I'm sorry to wake you up." Li Tang apologized hurriedly.
Teacher Ge waved his hand and said with a smile: "No, I get less sleep as I get older. In fact, I wake up early when I'm hungry, just stay in bed."
The teacher obviously spoke with a Shaanxi accent, and then asked: "This is your first time in Shaanxi, are you still used to it?"
Li Tang scratched his scalp and said: "I have been to Xi'an twice before, both for tourism, but this is really my first time here. They are all very good, and the noodles are delicious, but the Lao Yulin last night was so good. I I’m still dizzy to this day.”
I have been here twice before in my previous life, but this is my first time in the northwest of my motherland.
"Haha, you were okay last night. I think you have the best drinking capacity in the group except for the bad guys. You actually had a hard time on the road yesterday." Teacher Ge said with a smile.
Li Tang followed Xiao Teng and they were the last group to join the group, and it was indeed a hard day on the road yesterday. Yesterday morning, I departed from Beijing and took a two-and-a-half-hour flight to Xi'an. Then I went into the city and went to the train station. I then took a green train for nearly seven hours before arriving at Yulin, a small city in the northernmost part of Shaanxi.
It was already dark when we arrived at the hotel where the crew was staying. The directors who arrived first, including the two leading actors Ge Zhijun and Fu Biao, as well as other colleagues in the crew, were very enthusiastic and specially set up two tables for them to catch up.
Faced with everyone's enthusiasm, Li Tang accidentally drank and became a little dizzy. In the end, he was helped back to his room by his roommate, Teacher Ge.
The crew had limited funds, so of course they couldn't afford to stay in a star-rated hotel, so they rented two floors of a hotel in Yulin Old Town, with a total of more than 20 rooms, which could accommodate nearly 60 members of the crew.
The crew of less than sixty people is probably the smallest crew Li Tang has ever worked on. The bottom line is that there is no money, so everything has to be calculated carefully.
Director Qi Xin is different from what Li Tang imagined. He is not the kind of petty bureaucrat who only speaks in official accents. He looks like he is in his thirties or early forties, wears a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and speaks very elegantly. The most important thing is to speak meaningfully and have a deep understanding of the script. It is not like just trying to get addicted to being a director, but really doing something seriously.
The temperature here in the early morning is close to zero, and white smoke comes out when you exhale. The streets of the old city are undulating, and you can still see the beacon tower of the ancient Great Wall in the distance. I heard from the director last night that beyond the Great Wall is the Mu Us Desert, where there are often sandstorms in spring and autumn.
Li Tang ran two laps along the old street. He didn't feel cold at all despite being active, and there was even heat on his head.
Back at the hotel, I happened to meet Fu Biao in the corridor who was going out to have breakfast. Last night was the first time he and Fu Biao met. They had come here as early as the beginning of the month to experience life.
"Hey, Xiao Li, it's so early!"
Fu Biao narrowed his eyes as soon as he saw Li Tang and greeted him with a smile. He also looked at Li Tang, who was wearing thin clothes and had steam rising from his head, and said with envy: "He is a young man after all, but he is full of fire!"
"Brother Biao, it's early for you too!"
Although they met for the first time last night, the two of them have become very familiar with each other after drinking together.
Fu Biao can be regarded as a big brother, but he doesn't have the arrogance of a big boy. On the contrary, he smiles when he meets everyone, has no airs, and is very easy to get close to.
In fact, apart from being labeled as a comedian in Feng's comedies, Li Tang first knew him on the screen as the vicious third child in "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma Bridge" directed by Zhang Yimou.
Let me say one more thing about Director Zhang's "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma Bridge", which was produced in cooperation with Shanghai Film Studio. However, it was controversial after it was released and is generally considered to be a very poor film by Director Zhang.
Li Tang rewatched the movie after time travel. Gong Li's performance was as brilliant as ever, and the performances of Li Xuejian and Li Baotian were absolutely top-notch. He really doesn’t understand how high the domestic audience, or more accurately the domestic critical media and film critics, have their movie-watching appetite and the standards for judging movies, so that they would criticize such an excellent movie. .
"Hey, Xiao Li, will you come down for breakfast later?"
The ground floor of the hotel is a restaurant, and the crew's meals are all arranged here.
"Well, I'll take a shower and come down."
"Then what do you want to eat? I'll tell you in advance." Fu Biao said enthusiastically.
Li Tang didn't even think about it and said directly: "Pour the oil on the noodles."
How can you not taste the specialties here when you arrive in northern Shaanxi?
Fu Biao immediately gave him a thumbs up and said, "Smart!"
Then he did not forget to say: "Hurry up, it won't taste good if it gets mushy."
"Yes!"
When he returned to the room, the old man had already changed into a costume. He was wearing a 1965-style yellow army cap tilted on his head. The most eye-catching thing about his upper body was the collar of a blue turtleneck old-fashioned pullover sweatshirt exposed around his neck. On the outside is a loose orange velvet cardigan, and on the outside is a military green old-fashioned police vest, and finally a black tunic suit. What’s interesting is that the collar of this tunic suit is also inlaid with a circle of yellow wool, probably to combine warmth and protect the collar into one.
The old man's attire is exactly the image of Mr. Li described in the script.
The old man was about to go out when he saw Li Tang come in. He pointed to his bed and said, "We have sent you your clothes. You can put them on in a while to feel the character. Oh, by the way, what should you have for breakfast?" "
"Thank you, Teacher Ge. Don't bother me. I just met Brother Biao and he has already called me."
"Oh, I'll go down first if I'm hungry."
As soon as the old man left, Li Tang quickly took off his clothes and got into the bathroom to take a combat shower.
The costumes are probably ready except for the underwear inside and outside, a plaid shirt, an old-fashioned but very thick flat-collar cardigan, and a brown leather jacket.
The trousers are ordinary blue trousers, but the legs are a bit fat, and there is also a pair of Jai Alai brand basketball shoes.
Li Tang put it on in front of the mirror and turned the collar of his plaid shirt outside of his flat collar sweater. The original person's memory told him that this kind of dress was very fashionable in the early 1990s.
After finishing wearing it, I looked at it carefully in the mirror. It was rustic and fashionable that was unique to that era.
Yes, Not Bad!
Satisfied, he went out and went downstairs.
"Xiao Li, hurry up, the noodles have just been served." Fu Biao quickly raised his hand to greet him when he saw him.
Each person has a bowl of hot oil-splashed noodles, and there are also spices such as chili pepper and vinegar on the table.
Li Tang suddenly thought of a line in the play, and asked Fu Biao, who was sitting opposite and mixing noodles, "Would you like spicy food?"
"want!"
"I come!"
Li Tang picked up the fried red chili peppers, scooped out the top chili oil with a spoon and sprinkled it evenly on his bowl of noodles.
Then he asked: "Do you want some vinegar?"
Fu Biao seemed to have come to his senses, deliberately not looking at Li Tang and said: "Yes!"
"Would you like a beer?"
Fu Biao quickly mixed the noodles twice more and ate them. When he heard Li Tang's question, he nodded repeatedly: "Yes!"
Li Tang suddenly stopped talking and looked at him quietly.
Two or three seconds passed until Fu Biao swallowed the noodles in his mouth and suddenly realized something was wrong. He timidly raised his head and saw Li Tang's expressionless face and said hurriedly: "No!"
As soon as Fu Biao's voice fell, there was a clapping sound from the side.
It turned out that director Qi Xin was sitting at the table next to him. He had just watched the interaction between the two with great interest, and he couldn't help but applaud when he saw the wonderful things. Fu Biao's performance in this crucial part is so wonderful, especially the scene when he timidly raised his head to look at Li Tang was particularly hilarious.
Of course, he did not forget to praise Li Tang and said: "Xiao Li, you prepared well, but you also stole the scene from Public Security Li."
It turns out that the first line in the script asking "Do you want spicy food?" was Li Gongan's line. Then Li Gongan helped Fu Biao spread spicy oil and asked him "Do you want jealousy?"
When Fu Biao buried his head and yelled "yes" as a matter of course, Li Tang, who had been watching coldly, couldn't bear it. He always couldn't stand Li's way of greeting criminals, so he directly grabbed the vinegar pot and poured vinegar into Fu Biao's noodle bowl. , while deliberately asking him: "Do you want a beer?"
This scene is the beginning of two completely different attitudes towards the criminals being escorted by Publican Li and Publican Zhang played by Li Tang.
When he heard the director's praise, Li Tang said shyly: "Director, Brother Biao and I are joking."
Ge Zhijun, who plays Public Security Li, and Fu Biao, who plays the fraudster Yu Tai, were both personally selected by the director. Of course, he was also quite surprised by Li Tang, who was recommended by director Xiao Teng.
Although the investment in the movie is not large, every director wants to make money with the film he makes. The reason why he chose Fu Biao, who is currently popular, is because of box office considerations. Now that Li Tang has joined the cast, it is even better.
Although Li Tang said it was a joke, Qi Xin still nodded with satisfaction, and then said to the two of them: "Baoning Fort has almost done it. It will be no problem to put the first scene there tomorrow after the filming starts. Bar?"
There is a small farmhouse next to Baoning Fort. The production's artists and props have been busy there for more than a week. It is the hiding place of Yu Tai, the fraudster played by Fu Biao, and the villagers there are all under Yu Taihe's control. His co-defendant had cheated him out of money, so he was being held captive. When Publican Li and Publican Zhang entered the village to arrest people, they alerted the villagers, so they chased and intercepted them one after another to prevent them from taking away Fu Biao. Fortunately, Publican Li was experienced and escaped the pursuit of the villagers. The two of them took Fu Biao very quickly. Escaped the village in a panic.
Fu Biao said while slurping noodles, "I have no problem."
Qi Xin turned his attention to Li Tang again. In fact, he mainly asked Li Tang.
Li Tang pondered for a moment, and then said slightly conservatively: "I... uh, you can try it."
First update!
(End of chapter)
