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<b>Showbiz* Sexy Queen (IX)</b>
The director gave the crew a day off to prepare their luggage and by midday on the third day, the crew chartered a plane to Kunlun Mountain.
After a series of plane rides, car rides, truck rides and cattle rides, the crew finally arrived at the location chosen by the director in a state of disarray.
The director chose a location relatively close to the mountains because the setting of the novel 《The Burial Man》is in the mountains of Kunlun, after all, the safety of the crew had to be taken into consideration and they could not really go into the deep forest.
After considering the cost and time it would take to build a place to live, the director chose to go to a nearby village of a thousand people and share a house with the villagers.
However, for various reasons, such as safety, number of people and emotions, it is necessary to share a house with several people so that they can take care of each other.
After the director told the crew about the decision, Mei Mu Lan immediately looked at him with glowing eyes and raised her chin to point at Ling Yi Yao who was standing with her back to them.
Then she turned her head, her eyes locked firmly on his, the look so long and intriguing that the director shivered, practically shuddering.
These days, after months of living together, the director has long recognized Mei Mu Lan’s nature, and even though he still sees her with a charming and lovely face, he just can’t feel the slightest bit of aesthetic appeal.
Instead, he immediately recalled that when Mei Mu Lan was looking at Ling Yi Yao, her wolf-like eyes were green and oozing with power.
And Ling Yi Yao is Ling Tianye’s niece, the director and Ling Tianye are childhood friends growing up together, they have a very good relationship.
He also has a big brother-like care and closeness to the delicate and tiny little Ling Yi Yao.
The director said in his heart: A dead friend is not a poor friend, Ling Yi Yao, this is the peach blossom you have attracted, go and enjoy yourself!
It is said that if you get in the way of a relationship, you will be kicked by a donkey, and for the sake of his own life, the director said in a serious and very solemn manner,
“At the village headman’s house, the people staying together are me and the photographer, and the people staying in the second are ……
The nineteenth family, the people that will stay together are Ling Yi Yao and Mei Mu Lan, ah, this villager’s room is smaller and can’t squeeze more people in, so it’s just you two sharing a room.
OK, the next family, is ……”
The director finished reading out his arrangement with a sweaty face, feeling like his back was about to be pierced by Ling Yi Yao’s stern gaze.
He ignored the hot and condensed eyes behind him and quickly disappeared at the end of the crowd, gloating as he thought: I can’t handle Yao Yao, but there’s always someone who can handle you now, right?
Seeing that the stare was ineffective and that the outcome was already decided, Ling Yi Yao did not struggle any more and went to the villager’s house at the end of the village, carrying her luggage with her.
Mei Mu Lan immediately followed, her face smiling brightly, almost blinding passers-by.
Mei Mu Lan said,
“Ling Yi Yao, we’re actually moving in together, ow, I feel my heart beating violently, what about you what about you? Don’t worry, I will treat you well and I will be gentle.”
Ling Yi Yao’s habitual woodenness: “……”
I don’t want to know why it sounds so strange and colorful coming from you when we are just living together.
The two settled into a room in the villagers’ house. Ling Yi Yao refused to share a bed with Mei Mu Lan and slept on the sofa.
She also performed her standard of wood chopping in front of Mei Mu Lan when she was admonished.
Mei Mu Lan looked at the neatly arranged firewood of exactly the same length and size, and suddenly felt pain all over her body.
She swallowed and consoled herself by thinking: After all, we’re under the same roof, so we just need to brush up on Ling Yiyao’s goodwill.
It’s not quite working yet, but it’s a good idea.
After more than three months of filming in the Kunlun Mountains, the crew of 《The Burial Man》had only completed about half of their shooting tasks, which was much slower than the director’s expectation of completing them in four months.
The weather here is really bad, like a child’s temper, sometimes it’s windy and sometimes it rains, sometimes it’s windy and sunny one minute, the next minute it’s cloudy and overcast, this makes it impossible for the crew to shoot normally, so they have to take the time to shoot when the weather is good, and when it turns cloudy, the whole crew takes a break.
Because of this, filming has slowed down.
And whenever it was a cloudy day when the crew took a break, Ling Yi Yao would leave Mei Mu Lan’s sight and go and stay somewhere else.
But it didn’t really work, because no matter where she went, Mei Mu Lan would eventually find her and look at her with a smile and arched eyebrows, a little haughty expression, like a child who had gotten away with a prank, with all her emotions showing straight on her face.
Ling Yi Yao noticed that Mei Mu Lan’s eyes were beautiful, round and narrow, clear and spiritual, and when she saw her, her eyes would immediately open wide in surprise, full of her.
Ling Yi Yao had a dangerous feeling every time she saw her eyes, she had a feeling that this person would affect her, and these unstable emotions were unnecessary for her true self.
She always had a bad feeling that her life would be changed by this woman. And she doesn’t want to change now, so she distances herself from her, away from her. Although the result was not to her liking.
Just like now, she left the set once again and went to the Kunlun Mountain range outside the village, she climbed up the mountain and reached a natural flat spot on the mountain, she stood still and her eyes went over the distant mountain clouds and saw the azure sky.
As she looked at this natural picture of the mountains in the sky, an indescribable feeling of loneliness arose in her heart.
She felt like the mountains and clouds, existing between heaven and earth for an unknown number of years, seeing the sea change and the stars shift.
Everything is changing, but what remains the same is not only the change, but also the silent spectator herself.
And at that very moment, a pair of hands suddenly attacked her, wrapped around her waist and carried her down to the ground, and then a familiar stammering voice rang in her ears, the soft and elegant voice of Mei Mu Lan.
She said in a rush,
“Hey, don’t kill yourself, I haven’t played with you yet? If you have any problems, tell me, I will help you to find a solution. Jumping off a cliff is a tragic and unattractive way to die, you know? Come on, take a deep breath. Come on, calm down,”
Ling Yi Yao: “……”
With a blank face, she grabbed her hand, squeezed her wrist area and disengaged her hold.
Then she stood up, patted the mud on her body, got low/down and pulled Mei Mu Lan, who was still lying on the ground, up and said,
“I am…… thinking about the plot, how did you find your way here without killing yourself?”
Mei Mu Lan deflated and said,
“You were standing on the edge of the cliff, and I was scared. It’s a good thing you didn’t try to kill yourself, otherwise I’d be a widow. If you dare to jump, I will jump with you, youjump, ijump.”
Ling Yi Yao: “……”
Suddenly I feel so tired, this kind of speechless mood, who can understand?
Mei Mu Lan suddenly remembered that Ling Yi Yao had asked a question and replied,
“Oh yes, I followed you here, I grew up studying theater, my family taught me some ancient martial arts moves in order to make my body agile, I didn’t expect it would come in handy today.”
She arches her eyebrows and smiles.
Ling Yi Yao had gotten used to her nonsense, and in any case, they had been together for most of the year, and she was beginning to understand her.
This Mei Mu Lan, apart from being a bit of a collector, weird and in a strange state of mind, is actually a nice person.
It is said that she has never played a film role before, but in her first scene in the set, she was able to portray the woman in the cabaret, who was so beautiful and amorous that she seemed to be ruthless, without ng, in a single line, which made the director applaud and exclaim that she was a natural talent for acting.
And she was able to establish friendly relations with everyone except her, so she seems to have a good personality and emotional intelligence.
As Ling Yi Yao was lost in thought, a hand appeared under her eyes and she blinked to see Mei Mu Lan looking at her with a worried expression.
She asked,
“Tell me what you’re thinking about, and I’ll help you with it, as three people are better than a wise man, there are more ideas than one, and maybe you can find the answer in my ideas.”
Ling Yi Yao’s gaze came into contact with her sincere and pure eyes, and she immediately averted her gaze and walked to the edge of the cliff, saying,
“It’s the final scene in the plot where the female undertaker jump off the cliff.”
Mei Mu Lan also walked to the edge of the cliff, she closed her eyes and took a deep breath, when she opened her eyes again, her original leisurely and lazy aura changed immediately.
At this moment, she was like the undertaker who was about to jump off the cliff, her body exuding emptiness and desolation.
Her deep, dark eyes were seemingly emotionless, like a delicate human doll, devoid of any semblance of human emotion.
Then she softly hummed a song, the old nursery rhyme in a soft voice, resounding** between the cliffs, and the doll-like figure began to be tinged with the fireworks of the world, her eyes interpreting the vicissitudes of change over the years, from childhood innocence, joy, freedom and tenderness to emptiness, desolation, pain and despair, a thousand emotions flashed by.
Then she hooked her lips into a light smile, a few hints of lingering despondency, a few wisps of nostalgic bewilderment, a murmured song, etched with a thousand years of time, between shifts of light and shadow, she shifted from complexity to simplicity, and finally, with a touch of relief, she opened her arms slightly and jumped.
Of course, someone tugged behind her, and Mei Mu Lan, returning from the plot and once again being the chirpy, always-talking Mei Mu Lan, said excitedly,
“How was it? How was it? Did I do a good job? Gee, it feels okay but it’s just a little short, you know what’s missing?”
She asked with a troubled and puzzled face.
Ling Yi Yao looked down the cliff and she said,
“She didn’t really want to jump, I think, and it was clear from the way she sang the songs of her childhood that she didn’t want to die. An intelligent woman like her, who had dominated everything and played the various elites of modern society, would not have given up her life if she didn’t have a choice.
She should have been unable to help herself, but there was something unbearable about her. Humans are the most complex creatures, and there are a thousand Hamlets for thousand of people. The real meaning is only to be expressed implicitly, the rest is left to the audience to understand.”
At this point, Ling Yi Yao changed her tone to a lighter one and said,
“Thank you so much this time, your interpretation was great and helped me a lot, thank you.”
Mei Mu Lan smiled narrowly and said shyly,
“Oh, don’t say that, how embarrassing, how annoying, my whole body is yours. Just come to my ** tonight and I’ll accept your love for me in return.”
Ling Yi Yao: “……”
She turned around and left without a moment’s hesitation.
Mei Mu Lan pointed her finger and shouted at her back,
“Can’t I give my life to you then? Hey, wait for me!”
Ling Yi Yao: “……”
Nothing is left to chance, ignore it.
Another three months passed quickly, and at the moment when Ling Yiyao, the 《Burial Man》, jumped off the cliff, the director shouted in a loud voice,
“Cut! End of the film!”
Everyone in the cast exhaled, relaxed and said,
“Finally finished filming.”
That’s the end of the film, it’s not about the actors, it’s about the post-production team.
The crew quickly packed their bags and returned to the city the next day.
The film, which was shot over nine months, was officially closed and the day after the group returned to the city, they went to the hotel together to celebrate.
The director, who has always been stingy and cheap, was finally generous at the end of the day, saying in a small, weak voice,
“It’s been a lot of hard work, so I’m treating you all to a celebration party, so don’t steal it from me, but……” I wouldn’t mind if someone paid for me.
But before he could finish, he was interrupted by the cheers of the crowd.
Photographer A,
“Shit, the stingy director wants to treat, it’s a once-in-a-century event, I’ll order the most expensive one!”
Director’s assistant B,
“The director’s treat? Let me see the menu ah, come, waiter, I order shark’s fin, bird’s nest, bear’s paw ……”
Mei Mu Lan’s eyes glowed,
“Ah, I’ll have the full Han Chinese banquet, is there one? No, then a Buddha jumping wall, a roast suckling pig and a ……”
The director stood silently behind them and lifted the flat glasses on the bridge of his nose, a shiny white light flashed and a “ding” was heard around them.
Then an eerie, dark aura spread out and covered the whole room, and everyone present was overwhelmed and shivering by this aura.
Photographer A,
“It’s a bit cold all of a sudden, what’s going on?”
Director’s Assistant B,
“I had a bad feeling, like the director didn’t bring any money or something.”
Mei Mu Lan’s eyes glowed,
“It’s okay, we can mortgage the director here and be the boss’s wife’s pressed husband.”
Director: “……” fist pumping.
Other onlooking crew: “Huh!” Light the candles!
The director held up his glasses, smiled evilly and carried these three people downstairs, booked a small private room separately, then ordered a few bowls of beef noodles and said,
“Well, this is the appetizer, after you finish this, then meet us in the private room upstairs. Remember what I said, it’s all eaten up O.”
With that he opened the door to the room, locked the three of them in and returned to the upstairs room himself.
Other crew: “……”
The director walked in and said,
“Come on, come on, don’t be polite to me, order whatever you want, don’t be polite.”