"Mr. Yuan, are you from a rural background? Or did you go to the countryside to experience life for this drama?" Sun Honglei asked curiously.
"I grew up in Xihong City, but my grandfather is from the countryside. I often went back to the village to play when I was a child. So this kind of work is not difficult for me." Xiang Nan said with a smile, "Come on, let's eat noodles first. I There is also canned beef in the box, Tang Wei, go and take out a piece to go with the meal."
"Thank you." Sun Honglei said with a smile, "I am really blessed to follow you."
After finishing the meal, Xiang Nan boiled another pot of water.
"Conditions in rural areas are not good, so bathing will be troublesome, so we can only make do with wiping with a hot towel." He taught Tang Wei and Sun Hong, "In addition, you must wear clothes when going out. It is now -25 below zero. At this temperature, you may catch a cold at any time. There is a lack of medical treatment here, so if you really get sick, just wait and suffer."
Tang Wei and Sun Honglei both nodded.
After wiping their bodies with hot water and scalding their feet, the three of them went to sleep separately.
In the 1990s, not many households in rural areas had heating systems. Especially since Donggou is a poor mountain village, no one can even afford heating. Heating is basically done with a heated kang.
Fortunately, Xiang Nan had grown up in the countryside since he was a child and was really familiar with this kind of thing, so he quickly lit up the kang and made the kang head very hot, so the three of them fell asleep quickly. I didn’t get too cold at night.
However, Zhang Ziyi, Ji Bo, Song Yuncheng and other people who grew up in the city suffered. They didn't know how to use the fire kang, and they didn't add a fire to the kang hole.
As a result, the fire bed beneath me was freezing cold. Even if I put on all my clothes and covered myself with a quilt, I still couldn't withstand the severe cold and I was shivering from the cold.
On the first night after arriving in Donggou, a dozen people caught colds.
After a hard time, they gained wisdom. Later they understood the use of rural fire kang, and they couldn't help but sigh.
…
After the crew settled in Donggou Village, they quickly started filming.
After starting up, Xiang Nan and Zhang Ziyi were first arranged to live, eat, and work together in a fellow villager's home to experience rural life for a month.
Xiang Nan understood this.
When filming "Red Sorghum" and "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit", Gong Li was also arranged to experience life in the countryside; when Zhang Yimou himself starred in "Old Well", he also went to the village to eat, live and work with farmers, waiting for the filming of the movie to start When he was young, he was no different from a real farmer.
Xiang Nan immediately followed Zhang Ziyi to his hometown.
Carrying water, cooking stoves, cooking, feeding pigs and chickens, chopping firewood, raking grass... Xiang Nan is no stranger to rural work, and he quickly integrated into local life.
Zhang Ziyi, on the other hand, had never experienced such hardship since he was a child, so he felt very uncomfortable for a while.
For example, using a pole to carry well water, two buckets of water weighed about thirty kilograms, and she couldn't carry them at all. As soon as I got up, my shoulders were sore from the pressure of the shoulder pole.
Seeing this, Xiang Nan put an extra towel on her shoulders. "You try again. If it doesn't work, pick up the empty bucket first and slowly add weight. Anyway, we have a month to experience it, so we should Enough."
"No, that would be too slow. I must master it as soon as possible and not be too squeamish." Zhang Ziyi shook his head.
The heroine of hers is inherently unstable. It is said that at that time, Zhang Yimou went to the Chinese Opera to choose actors, and her classmate Zeng Lai was originally selected. But she was out at school that day, so Zhang Yimou had no choice but to use her.
If she continues to act arrogant and coquettish when experiencing life, I'm afraid Director Zhang will really be replaced. After all, her movie has not yet started filming, and even if she is compensated, it will only be tens of thousands of yuan. Director Zhang can fully bear this loss.
So she threw the towel to Xiang Nan, then took a deep breath, gritted her teeth and picked up the pole. Then he took a breath and walked home.
Xiang Nan knew that she must be in pain when she saw that the pole was so heavy that her body was bent, her face turned white, and her lips turned purple.
Carrying water on a shoulder pole is really not easy. A weight of several dozen kilograms rests on one shoulder, and I have to wait for calluses to form before I feel any pain.
Zhang Ziyi has been dancing since elementary school. She has thin skin and tender flesh. She is really waiting for calluses to appear. She doesn’t know how many layers of skin she will have to shed.
…
Sure enough, by dinner time in the evening, Zhang Ziyi could no longer lift half of his arm, and he would make a hissing sound from time to time.
"Is your shoulder swollen? Do you want me to check it for you~" Xiang Nan asked with concern upon seeing this.
Zhang Ziyi nodded.
She then followed Xiang Nan into the house, slowly opened several slits on the cotton-padded jacket, and then exposed her shoulders.
The most important lesson for those who learn to dance and perform is to liberate their nature and release themselves. This level of exposure is really nothing to an artist. They wore low-skirted and backless outfits, which were even more revealing than this.
Xiang Nan took one look and was shocked.
Her right shoulder was red and swollen, and there were even signs of bleeding.
"What's wrong? Is it serious?" Zhang Ziyi also turned to look, but he didn't see clearly.
"It's indeed a bit serious. Fortunately, I'm prepared." Xiang Nan nodded, and then took out Nanyun Baiyao and iodophor from the box.
"Be patient, I will help you debridement first, and then help you apply medicine~" Xiang Nan explained, then dipped a cotton swab in iodine and wiped her wound first to reduce inflammation and antibacterial.
"Hiss~" Zhang Ziyi couldn't help but take a breath as the cotton swab wiped the wound.
"What, my hand is too heavy?" Seeing this, Xiang Nan quickly lifted the cotton swab.
"No, the potion is too cold." Zhang Ziyi smiled awkwardly.
Xiang Nan also smiled, gently wiped the wound for her, and then applied Nayun Baiyao on her, "She should be much better tomorrow."
"Thank you, Yuan Shuai!" Zhang Ziyi said gratefully.
"You're welcome, we should help each other." Xiang Nan waved his hand and smiled.
Zhang Ziyi nodded.
…
In the next month, Xiang Nan helped Zhang Ziyi many times.
For example, when she went up the mountain with someone to hug grass, her hands were scratched by blades of grass and branches, and it was he who helped her treat the wounds with band-aids; when she was feeding chickens, she was chased around the yard by geese, and it was he who took action in time to save her. The big goose grabbed her; when she was cooking, she was accidentally splashed by oil, and her hands got blisters. He helped to break them and then applied medicine...
With help coming and going, the relationship between the two also improved by leaps and bounds.
Just when Xiang Nan was about to capture Zhang Ziyi, Miao Pu suddenly arrived in Donggou in a car.
"Why are you here? Didn't I tell you not to come?" Xiang Nan asked with a smile.
"I miss you, come and see you." Miao Pu said, stamping his feet. It was really cold in the spring on the dam.
The temperature in Yanjing is almost freezing, but here it is still more than ten degrees below zero, which is almost life-threatening.
"You also said that if you come to see me, you don't know how to wear thicker clothes." Xiang Nan said with a smile, "If you really get cold, I will feel so distressed. Okay, come into the house with me."
"Yuan Shuai, who is this..." Zhang Ziyi looked at Miao Pu and asked in surprise.
"This is my girlfriend, Miao Pu." Xiang Nan introduced with a smile.
"..." Zhang Ziyi suddenly looked shocked.
