Chapter 79 - night play in the rain

It rained continuously for more than two weeks, and most of the community where the filming was filmed was flooded, which directly disrupted the filming plan of the crew. Jiang Yin also specially flew to Wuhan for a meeting. Fortunately, the previous shooting schedule was very tight. The original two-month shooting content was compressed to one and a half months, leaving a lot of room for subsequent changes.

“So shoot the next episode first?” Xia Xiqing couldn’t help feeling a little worried, “But with Zhou Ziheng’s body shape…”

“Okay.” Zhou Ziheng took the words directly, “I will work hard to lose weight in the past few days, and with makeup on, I don’t think it’s a big problem.”

“There is no other way, otherwise we will not be able to catch up with the Berlin Film Festival.” Kuncheng rubbed his chin and sighed.

Holding a pen in her hand, Jiang Yin tapped lightly on the desktop, “Don’t talk about film festivals, this is something for later. Our original planned date is World AIDS Day on December 1st, which has the same meaning and timing.” It’s not bad, after Double Eleven and before Double Day, avoid strong files. However, at least two months should be reserved for post-production editing, plus the time for review. Do the math.”

Zhou Ziheng frowned, “The filming will be finished in August at the latest.”

But now there is only one week until July, and the time is too tight.

“If you don’t make up the shots, you can finish it smoothly.” Director Kun looked at the scene arrangement, “There are not many shots left, not many scenes.”

During these rainy days, the crew finished filming all the scenes that needed rain, and even the assistant director joked, “This is the most economical crew I have ever been in. The rain scenes are all real rain.”

They had just transitioned to the convenience store where Jiang Tong worked in the play. The scene and props staff were setting up. Xia Xiqing and the assistant director stood aside and waited. Hearing the assistant director joking, Xia Xiqing also said, “Wuhan is like this. It’s better.”

Coincidentally, Zhou Ziheng, who had just finished putting on makeup, walked over and stood beside Xia Xiqing, listening to him continue, “When I was in high school, it was flooded at every turn. It’s like sailing a boat, and I caught a fish on the way.”

Speaking of which, Zhou Ziheng laughed first, “Where are you drowning?”

“I was a little shorter than now at that time, maybe 1.8 meters or so, and when I was the worst, I drowned my knees.” Xia Xiqing leaned against the door and recalled, “At that time, there were many boys in the class who carried girls out and let them go Go to the bus stop or something.” As he spoke, he suddenly laughed, “At that time, Chenchen was almost carried back, he thought it was embarrassing and refused to agree, and the two of them almost didn’t quarrel.”

The assistant director laughed, “Xi Qing, you didn’t take the opportunity to carry the female students in class?”

Zhou Ziheng imagined the scene for a while, turned his face to look at Xia Xiqing, and smiled as if watching the excitement, “Yes, what about you?”

“Me?” Xia Xiqing smiled angrily, “I don’t care about myself, who has nothing to do to carry them, I wish someone would carry me, every time it rains, it will ruin several pairs of me sneakers.”

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Zhou Ziheng giggling all the time, even the assistant director was a little puzzled.

Is it so funny?

After the assistant director left to do other things, Zhou Ziheng bumped Xia Xiqing with his shoulder, “I’ll carry you.”

Xia Xiqing glanced at Zhou Ziheng, and it happened that the stage manager called his name, and he responded, and put the half-drunk coffee in Zhou Ziheng’s hand, ready to go to the director’s place.

“If you’re not allowed to carry it, don’t you also carry it?”

Leaving these words lightly, Xiaoxiao took Xia Xiqing away with an umbrella, leaving only Zhou Ziheng smirking on the spot.

Standing next to Director Kun is another newcomer to the group, Guo Yang, a handsome actor in his forties, and with his sharp suit in the play, it is easy to give people a good impression. Xia Xiqing had already met him on the night of the meeting, and the two had already met each other beforehand.

“Fortunately, I’m also tall,” Guo Yang, who is 1.9 meters tall, laughed. “Otherwise, a tall Jiang Tong wouldn’t be able to act weak in front of ordinary people.”

Kuncheng also laughed out loud, “This is a movie with the highest average height of male actors I have ever filmed. I feel like falling into a pit every day.”

Guo Yang has also struggled in the entertainment industry for many years. He was unsuccessful in his early years and has not been able to become popular. However, after entering middle age, he has won the love of many young female fans because of his elegant temperament and superb acting skills.

In this play, he plays Cheng Qiming, a corporate executive who noticed Jiang Tong because he was buying cigarettes in a convenience store. He saw Jiang Tong think of his younger brother, and treated him very well. In the name of visiting him, he would also bring gifts when he was on a business trip.

Jiang Tong was resistant at first, but gradually he was willing to accept his kindness. Later, when I accompanied Gao Kun to the test, I learned from the doctor that the virus in his body had developed drug resistance, and it was very likely that the person who infected him had already taken the drug and developed a drug-resistant reaction. He took the drug It was late again, and immunity was almost gone. If they want to continue treatment, it is far from enough to rely on the free first-line drugs distributed by the state, but they have no money to buy drugs at their own expense.

Seeing that Gao Kun was admitted to the hospital due to complications and high fever, Jiang Tong worked desperately, but still couldn’t help him, so he had to borrow money from Cheng Qiming for help. Coincidentally, when Gao Kun and Lingling were hanging out together, the two of them read a magazine and saw an interview with Cheng Qiming.

At that time, Lingling even mentioned gossip, “I heard from a little sister who works in a high-end club that this man doesn’t like little girls and only finds ducklings in the club to accompany him for drinks.”

Gao Kun misunderstood Jiang Tong because of this, and the two had a big fight.

This is the scene they need to finish today, and it is also the last rain scene of this film.

“Jiang Tong is here, just in time, let’s talk about it together, this part is two literary dramas plus one conflict scene.” A little assistant held an umbrella for Director Kun, and he walked outside the glass door, “Wait a minute how many times we will use?” There are several shots from different angles, one of which is outside this door. Therefore, when you move your position, you should pay attention to it, and try to make this position clear.”

After roughly explaining it several times, Kuncheng returned to the monitor.

“Getting ready for the first shot.”

“Scene 74 of “Tracking” for the first time, Action!”

At twelve o’clock in the morning, Jiang Tong, who took over the shift for two hours, had moved more than a dozen boxes of goods in a row, filling the vacancies on the shelves one by one. He is afraid of strangers, and it is inconvenient to hear that he has no way to be a cashier, so he can only do some more difficult and tiring work.

The cashier colleague Archie came over suddenly, clutching his stomach, patted him on the shoulder, and said loudly to him, “Jiang Tong, I’m going to the bathroom, my stomach hurts like hell, please help me stand at the counter, thank you .”

Jiang Tong lowered his head halfway, took off the gloves and put them in his pockets and walked to the counter. Fortunately, there was no one in the early morning, so he didn’t have to worry too much.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he thought this way, the automatic welcome voice of the convenience store at the door rang, Jiang Tong raised his head slowly, and then quickly lowered his head, only a pair of legs in expensive suits were in sight.

The customer took a cup of coffee, stood in front of the counter again, and said kindly, “Hi, please give me that pack of Yellow Crane Tower Gypsophila.”

The other party’s voice was really gentle, Jiang Tong only heard the word “Yellow Crane Tower”, squatted down in a hurry to find a bag for him, and pushed it over with his head down.

“No, I want a baby’s breath with a blue soft bag.”

blue.

Jiang Tong knew that he had found the wrong one, so he squatted down and found the blue Yellow Crane Tower, held it in both hands and handed it to the guest, stammering sorry, in a low voice.

The hands that took the cigarette were clean, with neatly manicured nails.

“Thank you, how much is it?”

Jiang Tong glanced, glanced up cautiously, saw the number on the screen, and reported it to the guest standing in front of him with difficulty.

He took out a one hundred yuan note from his wallet and handed it to Jiang Tong, waiting patiently for his change, finally said thank you, opened the door and left.

Jiang Tong breathed a sigh of relief when the automatic voice at the door ended. When he looked up, he could only see a half figure under a black umbrella, opened the door and got in.

“Cut!”

Although Kuncheng has a good personality, he strives for excellence in filming. This scene of buying cigarettes was filmed a total of 21 times. In fact, he also felt puzzled. Xia Xiqing and Zhou Ziheng were full of tension when they played together, but they always owed a little bit of meaning to each other, and it took a long time to find that feeling.

“Wait a minute for those scenes, which are the scenes in which Jiang Tong and Cheng Qiming are getting acquainted. You have to show a sense of attachment to your father, but the scale should not be too high, and you must grasp it carefully.”

Hearing what Kuncheng said, Xia Xiqing found it even more difficult.

Children who lack fatherly love since childhood often have two personality tendencies when they grow up. One is the extreme desire for fatherly love, and they always look for similar substitute emotions from others; Aversion to love and similar emotions.

Xia Xiqing is obviously the latter, and asking him to play the former is completely a gap-like leap.

Bite the bullet and acted a few times, Director Kun still felt dissatisfied, “You only have softness in your eyes, and you don’t have the kind of dependence that you have opened your heart to him.”

After talking about it for a long time, Zhou Ziheng, who was standing aside, also participated in the discussion, “Director, do you really think Jiang Tong is open to Cheng Qiming? Although I look at it from Gao Kun’s point of view, I think Jiang Tong In fact, Gao Kun is the only person who really relies on him, and if he hadn’t had to, he wouldn’t have asked Cheng Qiming for help.”

The two almost quarreled because of their roles, but this was already a common thing in the crew, everyone did their own thing and no one intervened. When the two of them said that they couldn’t get along, Xia Xiqing finally expressed his point of view.

“If he is really dependent on Cheng Qiming, he must have told him that Gao Kun’s illness was early in the morning. He has been hiding it, which is actually a kind of distrust.” He paused again, “What’s more, Like Jiang Tong’s living environment, he watched his mother bring all kinds of adult men home from a young age, and would yell and scold him when he was a little unhappy. In such an environment growing up, I think he would treat a middle-aged man It is unrealistic for men to feel dependent.”

Zhou Ziheng glanced at him worriedly, and reiterated his point of view to Kuncheng. Even Guo Yang, who was watching the battle from the sidelines, stood in line, “Actually, I also think their analysis is more reasonable. If I were to play Jiang Tong, I would be more afraid and cringe.” Speaking of this, he began to joke again, “But I I can only play the middle-aged Jiang Tong hahaha.”

It was only then that Kuncheng compromised. He felt that his own thinking was a bit biased, but he has always been a director who is willing to accept suggestions from actors. Filming is a team creation, and sometimes directors may not necessarily have a deeper feeling for a certain role than actors.

“Then let’s do it again in this way.”

After another three or four shots, Zhou Ziheng stared at the monitor, looking at the emotions in Xia Xiqing’s eyes in the camera. For Xia Xiqing, pretending to be weak was not difficult at all. Coupled with his face, there was no sense of disobedience at all. But what was amazing was that apart from timidity and shrinking, he looked at Cheng Qiming with complex emotions, the uneasiness of accepting other people’s kindness, and a kind of stubbornness hidden in his bones.

Those emotions belonged to Xia Xiqing.

“Okay.” Director Kun glanced at his watch, it was already three o’clock in the morning, “Let’s hurry up, we won’t be able to shoot at dawn.”

The last scene is the conflict scene where Gao Kun participated. The stylist took Guo Yang down to change clothes, the makeup artist came up to touch up Xia Xiqing’s makeup, and Zhou Ziheng was helping him with the scene.

Speaking of his lines, Xia Xiqing glanced at Zhou Ziheng. His complexion was very ugly, and there were herpes on the right corner of his mouth, some of which had been broken. His eye sockets were sunken, his face was unhealthy yellow, and the lymph nodes in his neck were swollen. Although he knew it was the make-up artist’s work, he couldn’t say why, just looking at Xia Xiqing felt distressed.

“Don’t look at me.” Zhou Ziheng covered his face with the script.

“Don’t look at him,” the makeup artist sister supported Xia Xiqing’s chin with her hand, “I can’t even put on makeup if you just look at him.”

“Who’s watching him?” Xia Xiqing turned his head away and heard Zhou Ziheng laughing beside him.

He suddenly remembered that at the very beginning, he came to the audition to prevent the other little fresh meats from filming with Zhou Ziheng, and had to spoil the situation. Thinking about it this way, I was really stupid at the beginning.

But if he didn’t come, they might still have an unbreakable relationship until now.

“Scene 76 of “Tracking” for the first time, Action!”

It rained continuously. After moving the goods, Jiang Tong quietly entered the staff lounge, took off his coat and soaked up some water with a towel before putting it on again.

When he closed the locker, he saw the bento box inside, and a small box of chocolates.

After this night, I will buy a serving of hot three-fresh bean curd early tomorrow morning, and take them with me to the hospital to find Gao Kun. Jiang Tong closed the cabinet door, took out his cell phone and checked the time, and when he was about to put it back, a text message came. He hurriedly stuffed the phone into his trouser pocket, walked out of the lounge, and looked around.

Outside the convenience store stood a man in a neat suit, still holding the dark umbrella. He leaned back the umbrella and showed his face to smile at Jiang Tong.

Jiang Tong glanced at the cashier. The night shift with him tonight was a girl who was following the show with her head down. He made an excuse to go out and bent over repeatedly when he saw Cheng Qiming.

Cheng Qiming walked to the eaves of the convenience store, put away the umbrella, and smiled kindly, “Others have shifts, why do you work the night shift all night every day?”

The rain was loud, but fortunately his voice was also loud, so Jiang Tong could barely hear it. He lowered his head halfway, trying to explain but couldn’t, “I…I…”

“I’ll just ask, don’t be nervous.” He naturally reached out and patted Jiang Tong’s thin shoulder, but Jiang Tong hid sensitively without looking up.

“Oh, by the way,” Cheng Qiming immediately changed the subject, “You said you have something to tell me, what is it?” Jiang Tong’s body smelled of disinfectant, and he asked again, “It’s because of your sickness.” friends?”

Jiang Tong understood this sentence very clearly. He nodded immediately, and subconsciously wanted to use sign language, but just raised his hand and put it down, explaining to him with great difficulty, “Illness, illness…serious…need, need a lot…money… You, you…” He was so anxious that he accidentally choked and coughed several times, Cheng Qiming stepped forward and patted him on the back, “Slow down, slow down.” He looked up and looked inside the convenience store, “It’s not convenient to talk here, why don’t you talk to me in the car?”

Jiang Tong glanced at the car, shook his head, “I…I want, I want…to borrow some…money…” He said the last word money very lightly, the humbleness in his bones and the embarrassment he had since childhood made him really helpless. Withdraw money everywhere. But he was also afraid that Cheng Qiming would think he was a liar, and wanted to explain clearly to him, so he took out a notebook and pen from the pocket of his work uniform, “You… you… wait… I…”

After finishing speaking, he squatted down quickly, desperately trying to write down what he wanted to say, what disease Gao Kun had, why he got it, and why he had to be treated at his own expense. Anxious, trembling all over.

“Don’t worry, come on, let’s get up and talk.” Cheng Qiming pulled Jiang Tong up, “We’d better go to the car, you can sit, it’s so inconvenient to stand here.”

Jiang Tong shook his head first, but then shook his head and nodded again. Ren Cheng Qiming opened the umbrella, half-armed his shoulders and walked to the expensive car, and opened the door for him in a gentlemanly manner.

“Come in.”

Just as Jiang Tong was about to bend down to go in, suddenly a person came out and pulled him out with an indescribable force. Jiang Tong was startled, and when he looked up, it was Gao Kun!

“High…high…”

“Come here.” The umbrella that Gao Kun was holding was overturned on the ground, the rain was splashing on his face, his eyebrows were furrowed, and he stretched out his hand to push Cheng Qiming away, “You **** What are you doing?” After speaking, he pushed again, “Where do you want to take him?”

Cheng Qiming wanted to explain, but Gao Kun was about to hit someone before he could explain clearly, Jiang Tong immediately stood between them, too anxious to speak, so he could only yell, grab Gao Kun’s hand, All the small notebooks in my pocket fell to the ground.

Gao Kun suddenly thought that he had just finished the injection and there was still a hole in the needle, so he immediately withdrew his hand, but the anger in his heart could not be suppressed, “Let go of me, let go!”

Jiang Tong was startled by him, let go of his arm in a daze, and looked into his eyes.

“Go home.” Seeing him standing there motionless, Gao Kun roared again, “I told you to go back, don’t you understand human speech?”

“Don’t do this, he’s doing it to help you…”

Gao Kun directly interrupted Cheng Qiming’s explanation, “Did I let you talk? Please stay away from him, and don’t look for him if you want to harm others! Don’t think that you can spoil others casually because you have two dollars !”

Jiang Tong suddenly understood what Gao Kun meant.

He bent down silently, picked up his already drenched little notebook, and handed it to Gao Kun without saying a word, but Gao Kun was furious, and he hadn’t finished talking with Cheng Qiming, so he couldn’t care less about Jiang Tong.

“Let me tell you! I don’t care if you like men or women, but you are not allowed to touch Jiang Tong! He is not your kind of person, please stay away from him!” Gao Kun said, remembering the time before The boy seen by the Epidemic Prevention Center was also white and clean, younger than Jiang Tong, but after playing in the bar for a night, he was drunk and raped and contracted AIDS, and became just like him , tremble with fear every day.

Gao Kun pushed Jiang Tong with his elbow, “Go home, go home.”

Jiang Tong’s notebook was pushed away by him again, and he picked it up in a hurry, stood up and was about to give it to him, when he found Gao Kun lying at his feet.

He was so frightened that he immediately knelt on the ground, hurriedly hugged Gao Kun’s head in the torrential rain, and turned around to face Cheng Qiming. He wanted to hand him the small book in his arms, but he had no choice but to keep telling him Kowtow, the incoherent voice was cut into pieces by the heavy rain.

“Save… him… please, please… you…”

After knocking several times, Cheng Qiming couldn’t bear it, so he could only squat down and the two of them lifted Gao Kun into the car and closed the door.

“You go to the co-pilot, we have to send your friend to the emergency room now.”

Jiang Tong sat in the co-pilot, but almost turned around, staring tremblingly at Gao Kun lying unconscious in the back seat.

Cheng Qiming glanced at him, sighed, started the car and drove to the hospital.

“Pass.”

It took 14 takes for this scene to be taken. The three actors struggled in the rain for an hour and a half. As soon as the director called to stop, several assistants immediately stepped forward with umbrellas and wrapped them with bath towels. There was a problem with the car that Jiang Yin arranged for Xia Xiqing, Xiaoxiao could only take him to Zhou Ziheng’s RV temporarily, anyway, it was raining heavily at this time, and there were almost no paparazzi staying.

“Finally, we finished the filming before dawn, and if we continue to waste like this, we will get sick.” Xiaoxiao took the clean clothes and the hot black tea that he had prepared earlier, and took off the makeup on Zhou Ziheng’s face, “Xi Qing is sick It’s been half a month.”

Xi Qing smiled and said thank you, Xiaoxiao then followed Ronaldinho to the front driver’s seat, and helped them close the curtain very considerately, “You can sleep for a while, and it will probably be dawn when you go back to the hotel.”

Zhou Ziheng had already changed his clothes when Xia Xiqing got into the car, and now he is the only one left.

“Turn around.”

Zhou Ziheng had a half-smile on his face, and lowered his voice a little, “I haven’t seen it from inside to outside.”

Xia Xiqing didn’t bother to talk to him, “Love can’t be turned around.” He quickly took off his shirt, and Zhou Ziheng obediently took a towel to dry his upper body, and put his short sleeves on his head.

The makeup on his face was washed away by the heavy rain long ago, and he changed into white short sleeves. Xia Xiqing looks like a student now, clean and refreshing.

“Let me help you with the trousers too?” Zhou Ziheng picked up the trousers on the table, shook them, and was snatched away by Xia Xiqing in the next second, and gave him a hard look.

Although he was joking, Zhou Ziheng still turned his face away because he was concerned about the assistant in the driver’s seat. His mind was full of the scenes from the scene just now, and his emotions had not been completely withdrawn.

After Xia Xiqing changed his clothes, he lay down on the sofa bed in the caravan, feeling that he had been hollowed out.

Zhou Ziheng also lay down on his side, kissed Xia Xiqing’s eyes, and whispered, “I’m all swollen from crying.”

After hearing this, Xia Xiqing covered his eyes with the back of his hand, thinking about filming, “If it is so swollen, I won’t be able to make it to the film tomorrow.”

“Don’t cover it up.” Zhou Ziheng kissed his palm, “You look beautiful when you cry, I like to see it.”

Xia Xiqing took his hand away and patted his forehead, “Why do I think you have sadistic tendencies? Are you a sick girl in your bones?”

“Sick and delicate? What is sick and delicate?” Zhou Ziheng grabbed Xia Xiqing’s hand and kissed it again.

“It’s just…” How to explain it, Xia Xiqing thought about it, but felt that he couldn’t explain it clearly, “Forget it, you can look it up yourself.” He looked at Zhou Ziheng who had lost a lot of weight, and he seemed to have lost some of his previous aggressive aura. , actually looks like a twenty-year-old child, even red hair can’t stop his youthful air.

Xia Xiqing first touched his face, then went down and squeezed Zhou Ziheng’s waist, “You have lost a lot of weight, and you must have lost fifteen catties during this time.”

“It’s almost twenty catties.” Zhou Ziheng sighed, “Director Kun said that I need to be thinner, my abdominal muscles and everything are gone.”

These days, Zhou Ziheng’s box lunches are all specially arranged by Jiang Yin. Sometimes he just eats a bowl of boiled lettuce, and even if he eats some apples cut into small pieces in the middle of filming, he loses weight when he sees him. He was proud of it His figure turned into a thin bamboo pole.

The body of an actor needs to be adjusted according to the role. This is my job. Zhou Ziheng has not experienced it in filming before. He is also willing to dedicate himself to art, but now he is filming with the person he likes, and he still doesn’t want him to see himself ugly. look.

Xia Xiqing poked his sunken cheek and sighed, “Hurry up and get it done.”

If you continue to lose weight like this, your body will collapse.

“You can’t stand it anymore.” Zhou Ziheng laughed.

“Why do you say that?”

Zhou Ziheng lowered his head and hugged Xia Xiqing, his voice was much lower, “Didn’t you say before that you just like this face and figure…”

Before he finished speaking, Xia Xiqing laughed. Zhou Ziheng looked up at him, “What are you laughing at?”

“Laugh at how I was tricked by a fool like you.”

“you…”

“Although I don’t dislike the white-striped chicken, you’d better get back to my figure as soon as possible after the filming is finished, otherwise…” Xia Xiqing moved closer to Zhou Ziheng’s ear, holding the small silver earring on his earlobe , the tip of the tongue was hot and humid, grinding against the cold metal and the gradually hot skin.

Like his voice, soft.

“A lot of poses can’t be unlocked.”