Crossover Actors - Chapter 21

[Chapter 21]

As night falls, each group prepares for tonight’s night show.

The room was crowded with people, so there was nowhere to go, but it was enough to make Qu Yanting sit still. He went up the stairs to the fifth floor, where the noise from downstairs became distant.

The voice-activated light was as dim as a candle, and Qu Yanting sat down on the stairs. The lights went out, he didn’t bother to cry, he leaned his elbows on his knees, his hands resting on his lowered forehead, trapped in the darkness.

Not long after, someone came up from downstairs.

Qu Yanting just sat down on the cold steps and was hesitant to go to the sixth floor.

With a snap of a tongue, the light came on.

It was Lu Wen who came up, with Ye Shan’s makeup and hair, holding the script, trying to find a quiet place to recite his lines. He sat down on the steps, but did not find Qu Yanting sitting on the stairs above the corner.

Qu Yanting didn’t make a sound, and his breathing was so shallow that it was barely audible.

When the script was opened, Lu Wen lowered his voice and read sentence by sentence, repeatedly debugged pauses and accents, read it once and repeated it for the second time, his serious appearance was completely different from usual.

One of the most important scenes in tonight’s filming, there is a crying scene, the whole is a process of emotional explosion. The object is still Tao Meifan, and Lu Wen feels a lot of pressure to play with the senior.

Besides, Qu Yanting came to stare at the show, staring at his role of Ye Shan.

After reading the second time, Lu Wen closed the script and recited the lines from beginning to end.

Qu Yanting heard it in his ears, he wrote it clearly, and Lu Wen memorized it exactly. After reciting it, Lu Wen still felt that it was not enough, so he started the fourth time.

Unable to remain silent, Qu Yanting coughed lightly.

“Fuck!” Lu Wen was accustomed to being surprised, there’s someone here!

He got up and rushed to the corner, and finally found that Qu Yanting was sitting on the stairs, on a first-come-first-served basis, and it was not easy to ask people, “Why are you here?”

What Qu Yanting wants to say is: “Don’t make a sound, read silently.”

Lu Wen explained: “I didn’t know you were there, I didn’t mean to disturb others.”

Qu Yanting said: “I asked you to keep your voice.”

Lu Wen went back Sitting down, imitating Qu Yanting’s posture, propped up his forehead, and pressed his thumb on his temple. He was silent for a while, and asked before a rainy day, “Can we discuss something?”

If Lu Wen’s tone wasn’t too gentle, Qu Yanting would have thought that some director, producer or investor was talking to him.

He slowed down: “What’s the matter?”

Lu Wen said, “If I screw up and there are too many people on the set, you have to teach me a lesson, can I find a place where there is no one?”

Qu Yanting’s palm slipped and clasped his fingers to cover With half of his face, he filtered the smiling voice into a dull voice: “The crew has a lot of eyes, so just go back to the hotel.”

Lu Wen said seriously: “Then go to your room or my room?”

Qu Yanting suspected Lu Wen of Stockholm. It’s a pity that actors who act badly will be scolded. It’s not something that can be prevented from happening in the future when the audience gets through it during the performance.

Qu Yanting didn’t encourage or put pressure on him, he just said objectively: “Don’t think about how to act, just get into Ye Shan’s state, just follow the reaction in your mind.”

Everything was ready on the set, and the two returned to 302.

The monitor moved into the room, and Qu Yanting took a seat beside Ren Shu. It was a tough night, and there was a large cup of strong tea on the table. He said “hard work”.

“I’m used to it.” Ren Shu said, “I hope the filming goes well.”

Qu Yanting asked, “What do you think?”

Ren Shu replied, “No clue, Xiao Lu caught up with this scene for the first time in a crying scene, so let’s try one first. Try it.”

Qu Yanting pondered: “If it’s good, don’t praise him, he’s easy to squeak. If it’s bad, don’t yell at him. It’s even more troublesome if you yell at him. Whether it’s a compliment or a derogation, we’ll talk about it after the filming, don’t affect his mood.

” .” Ren Shu agreed and smiled, “You know him quite well.”

Qu Yanting turned his phone to silent and began to stare at the show.

Today is Saturday, Ye Xiaowu and his classmates went out to play, and before they came back, the room seemed deserted.

Mother Ye took a large batch of clothes from the balcony and carried them into the bedroom. The house is small, Ye Shan and Ye Xiaowu sleep on the bunk and share a desk. After Mother Ye folded her clothes, she rolled up her sleeves and sorted out the messy tabletop.

The brothers’ books were all piled up on the table, as well as comics and magazines borrowed by Ye Xiaowu. Ye Mu is classified one by one. The test paper does not need to look at the name. The high score is Ye Shan, and the failing grade is Ye Xiaowu.

Packing out a stack of comic books, Mother Ye sighed and checked the drawer to see if there were any more. As soon as she opened it, it was filled with exam papers from last semester. She took out and folded them one by one, and found a notebook hidden at the bottom.

Mother Ye took it out, not knowing whether it was new or old, nor did she write her name.

The camera pushed a close-up, the cover was opened, and the word “early morning” flashed by, which was Ye Shan’s neat and vigorous handwriting. Seeing the words like a face, Qu Yanting remembered Lu Wen’s silly appearance squatting outside the door and stuffing a note.

Mother Ye turned page by page, her cheek muscles tended to tense.

The lock on the living room door rang, and Ye Shan came back. He went to the seafood market before dawn to stock up and spent the whole day at the fish stall.

After entering the bathroom to wash his hands, he shouted into the room, “Mom, today’s business is good.”

After washing her hands, Ye Shan walked to the bedroom: “Mom, I’ll go on Sunday, too, you have an extra day off.”

Mother Ye never responded . , When Ye Shan walked in, she turned around expressionlessly, her eyes filled with miserable sadness.

Ye Shan saw the notebook in Ye Mu’s hand, his face changed, he rushed over anxiously, but stopped timidly when he got close to the table, not to mention the expression on Ye Mu’s face.

“Mom…”

“What is this?”

Ye Shan was silent and did not answer. Mother Ye didn’t want to see him silently, so she asked again: “What is this? What

did you write?” Ye Shan was at a loss, and the unwiped water droplets covered her palms and merged with sweat.

Mother Ye lost her patience. She turned to the most recent page and read out the line: “At three o’clock in the morning, Mom, you scolded me. Ye Shan, did I scold you? What do you mean?”

Ye Shan She shook her head in a panic: “Mom, I wrote nonsense, it’s nothing!”

Mother Ye ignored him and turned to the previous page: “The day before yesterday, at 4:57 in the morning, Mom, slap me on the face.”

No. 7 , at two in the morning, I was locked out and my mother ignored me.

On the 3rd, at 4:30 in the morning, my mother took Xiao Wu back to his hometown by himself, but I couldn’t find them.

Mother Ye turned forward page by page, reciting sentence by sentence: “On the 29th, at 3:30 in the morning, I dreamed that the day of the high school entrance examination…”

These are all Ye Shan’s dreams, and I can’t remember when it started. , Ye Shan’s dreams are getting more and more frequent. In the middle of every night when he woke up, it was difficult for him to fall back asleep, so he got up and recorded the content of his dream.

Ye Shan begged Ye Mu to stop reading, he stretched out his hand to grab the notebook, but Ye Mu vigorously swung it away.

Ye Mu’s breathing was slightly rapid: “You have been having nightmares?”

Ye Shan’s eyes were already red, and he denied: “No…”

Unfortunately, Ye Mu didn’t believe it, and stared at him and asked, “Ye Shan, you woke up in the middle of the night. , is it all because of these nightmares? But your nightmares are all dreams of me and your own mother?”

Ye Shan burst into tears, and Mother Ye asked him, “Dream of me scolding you, beating you, I don’t Let you go home? I’ll take Xiao Wu, I don’t want you anymore, do I?”

“Ye Shan, do you have paranoia? Do you have a mental illness?!”

Mother Ye glanced at the words again, raised her hand, and smashed the notebook on Ye Shan’s chest, she choked: “I’m busy day and night, pulling you two brothers. It’s great, in the end it became You are the villain in your dreams!”

Ye Shan took a step back and dropped the notebook by her feet.

“Thinking about it every day, dreaming at night.” Mother Ye raised her voice, “Let’s make it clear today, how dissatisfied you are with me? How much grievances do you have in your heart!”

Ye Shan bit her lip to suppress her crying Tears streamed down one after another, unable to say a word.

A strand of hair fell from Mother Ye’s temples, looking embarrassed and haggard, she pressed her chest and said bitterly, “Okay, if you don’t tell me, I’ll tell you.”

Ye Shan cried and begged: “Mom… I’m wrong. Now …”

But Mother Ye has already said, “You think I’m not good to you, I don’t pay attention to you, do you? You go to the fish stall to help, you do this and that, but I hurt Xiao Wu even more, in your heart Unhappy, aren’t you?!”

“What you feel most wronged is that I forced you and Xiao Wu to exchange the admission ticket and let you take the exam for him, so you can’t go to a key high school, isn’t it Ye Shan?!”

Ye Shan desperately denied, She couldn’t hold back her cry any longer: “No, no…”

“What is that?” Mother Ye had tears in her eyes, “I’m your mother, and I made you have nightmares.”

“Mom…”

“Okay, If you have the ability, I dream of your dad going!”

In an instant, Ye Shan’s expression became stunned, his knees went weak, and he threw himself on his knees in front of Ye’s mother.

Mother Ye’s voice finally lowered, like recalling an old story, and like dropping a sharp knife on Ye Shan’s head: “If you hadn’t been going to the movies when you were eight years old, your dad would have rushed back to pick you up… There will be no accident on the road.” In the

close-up shot, Lu Wen was sluggish for three seconds.

Qu Yanting looked away from the screen and looked at Lu Wen’s figure kneeling on the ground. The broad shoulders tightened, trembling with breathing, and the back bowed into a shallow arc, looking so helpless and humble.

He saw Lu Wen grabbing the corner of “mother”‘s clothes, and he wept and said, “Mom… I know you hate me.”

So he did everything he could to please the other party and to get the same closeness between mother and son as his younger brother. . Those frequent dreams amplify and map not grievances at all, but fears formed over the years due to guilt.

Mother Ye denied softly: “Ye Shan, you are my son, I will not resent you.” But

before she became a mother, she was a wife who loved her husband deeply. In the long and bitter years, she has experienced another pain.

“I always think of your father when I see you.”

Tao Meifan pushed Lu Wen’s hand away.

Lu Wen’s eyelids were flushed, he blinked, and slowly slumped on the ground. He lowered his head and picked up the notebook, tears pattering on the paper.

Stab, he tore the page.

Weeping, crying, howling.

One after another record, every morning after waking up from a nightmare, was all destroyed.

Everything at the scene seemed to stop working, except for Lu Wen’s heart-wrenching cry. He clutched the toilet paper and described “I’m sorry” hoarsely, but his lips and teeth trembled, and there was no sound.

Qu Yanting let out a slight emptiness, immersed himself in and pulled away from all this, and couldn’t tell whether it was Lu Wen or Ye Shan, or who it was?

Breathless, he got up and quietly left the room.

At the same time as the door closed, the picture was frozen, and the filming of this scene was over.

The staff rushed in, and Ren Shu immediately got up and strode towards the two actors, applauding as they walked. The photographer stepped aside: “I’m almost crying.”

Tao Meifan wiped the end of her eyes and asked with a smile, “Director Ren, how are you?”

Ren Shu nodded again and again: “I’m very satisfied, really, I’m very satisfied.”

Tao Meifan said: “This scene is really enjoyable, Xiao Lu is not afraid at all.”

Lu Wen was still sitting on the ground, he was not as old as he was The seniors were very experienced and couldn’t get out of the role quickly, crying so much that the temples hurt suddenly, and just stopped the tears.

Ren Shu dragged him: “Get up quickly! Xiao Lu, I’m still worried that you won’t be able to catch Mr. Tao’s play, but I didn’t expect the filming to be so smooth. The emotions and limbs are in place, delicate, and the performance is quite good.

” With a painted face and red and swollen eyes, he looked like a sad blind bear.

Tao Meifan joked: “Let my son slow down and wash his face.”

Lu Wen went to the bathroom to wash his face in a daze, poured cold water, and recovered his soul. After completing the process of entering the play and re-entering the play, there was a sense of emptiness left. .

There were many people in the room, and he wanted to be alone.

Lu Wen went downstairs and walked to a place with few people. He thought he was aimless, but in fact, with Ye Shan’s emotions, he walked to the vine unknowingly.

In the script, there is also one in my hometown in the north, which was planted by Ye’s father during his lifetime, and he planted this one after he came to Chongqing.

Lu Wen walked over and stopped when he came closer, not expecting someone inside.

Under the vine, Qu Yanting sat there alone. He turned his face to the side, resting his arms on his back, lying on the edge of the table regardless of his filth. The light from the light bulb hit between the protruding brow bone and the bridge of his nose, like moonlight falling on a mountain peak, and his eyes were hidden in the dark.

Lu Wen was stunned unexpectedly. He thought that Qu Yanting had left and was staying here, but he didn’t know why Qu Yanting was staying here.

Alarmed by him, Qu Yanting straightened his body. There were no sporadic waves in his eyes, but there was a temperature, which was probably a little colder than the wind in the middle of the night.

After looking at each other for a while, Lu Wen said first: “I didn’t act badly.”

Qu Yanting said hoarsely: “You act very well.”

This is the first time Qu Yanting has praised him since he met.

Lu Wen was not surprised, but displeased. The director praised him, and Teacher Tao also praised him. The director applauded excitedly, and Teacher Tao laughed and said he was addicted.

He stared at Qu Yanting and asked in a deep voice, “Then why are you unhappy?”

[End of This Chapter]