Rebirth of Siheyuan starts in the 1980s

Chapter 394 Sure enough, it is right not to ask for help.

I found that Xu Qingdong had been lying there concentrating on writing and didn't even notice that Cao Zhiqiang came in, so Cao Zhiqiang deliberately coughed first.

As a result, Cao Zhiqiang coughed three times, but the other party still didn't respond. He was still typing with his arms bare, a cigarette in his mouth, and no intention of raising his head.

In desperation, Cao Zhiqiang had no choice but to say: "Director Xu, it's me! Cao Zhiqiang!"

Xu Qingdong frowned and raised his head slightly.

When he raised his head and saw Cao Zhiqiang and Xiang Dongfang behind him, Xu Qingdong blinked and reacted immediately.

"Well, Cao..."

Just after saying this, Xu Qingdong realized something, and quickly took off the cigarette hanging from the corner of his mouth, stubbed it out in an ashtray crowded with cigarette butts, and then stood up quickly: "Oh, President Cao, why are you here?

?This, how embarrassing is this?"

Immediately afterwards, Xu Qingdong looked at Xiang Dongfang and said quickly: "Wait a moment, I will go back to the house and change clothes."

"Forget it." Cao Zhiqiang chuckled, "They are all big men, I..."

Speaking of this, Cao Zhiqiang was suddenly startled, turned to look at Xiang Dongfang, and instantly understood something.

"Secretary Xiang." Cao Zhiqiang said to her, "You go back first. Director Xu and I will have a chat here alone."

Xiang Dongfang smiled slightly: "How about I go outside and wait for you."

"No need." Cao Zhiqiang said, "The sun is so bright outside, it would be inappropriate for you to wait outside."

"It doesn't matter." Xiang Dongfang said, "I'll just go find a shady place outside."

Cao Zhiqiang frowned: "That's it, then you wait for me at the door of this room."

"Yes." Xiang Dongfang nodded and then exited the room.

Cao Zhiqiang then turned around and said to the embarrassed shirtless man Xu Qingdong: "Director Xu, why are you here?"

"Hi." Xu Qingdong smiled, "Isn't this what it is? It's clean here. There aren't many people. I can do whatever I want, shirtless.

It’s not like being in the director’s office, where you have to dress up, which is really boring.”

"What are you writing?" Cao Zhiqiang asked again, "Are you so absorbed in it?"

"Hey, you really asked the right question!" Xu Qingdong laughed and patted his slightly bulging belly, "Originally, I was going to find you, but you just happened to be here.

I am rewriting the script, which is the script of "Love in Guting" that you gave me last time."

"Rewrite the script?" Cao Zhiqiang frowned, "Isn't the script already written? Why do we need to rewrite it?"

"because……"

"etc!"

Cao Zhiqiang waved his hand and interrupted Xu Qingdong: "Let's not talk about that for now, Lao Xu, can you go out? I mean, can you work elsewhere, or do you have to stay here?"

"Yes, why not?" Xu Qingdong said, "I am a director. When I have no work, the management here is very relaxed. I don't have to stay at the Beijing Film Studio."

"That's good." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "Then you get dressed and come with me, bring everything you want to write with, and I'll take you to a nice place."

"Where are you going?" Xu Qingdong frowned.

"Jianguo Hotel!" Cao Zhiqiang said.

"Jianguo Hotel?" Xu Qingdong was stunned, "Why are you going there?"

"Nonsense." Cao Zhiqiang said, "That's where I live, and it's more comfortable there than here. At least, the air-conditioning there is enough, so you don't have to go shirtless in the heat.

Although it is very comfortable to be shirtless, but...

Forget it, let’s not talk about that anymore, let’s just ask you if you want to go.

If you go, just take your things with me and I will open a room for you so you can write well and we can chat.

If not, I will leave immediately and never stay.

I'm going to die, you're too hot, like a steamer, I can't stand it."

"Wait!" Seeing Cao Zhiqiang preparing to leave, Xu Qingdong said quickly, "Go, who can't say no? But, it's just lunch..."

Cao Zhiqiang chuckled: "I'll treat you to three meals a day, okay?"

"Hey! You should have told me earlier!" Xu Qingdong chuckled, "If a gentleman like you says that, then whoever doesn't will have a grandson."

Cao Zhiqiang smiled and shook his head: "You, you, if you didn't say this earlier, it would be over. Hurry up and change your clothes. When we get back to the place, I will tell you some good news."

"That's OK!" Xu Qingdong smiled and nodded, "I also have good news. Let's tell each other when we get there, hahaha."

Just like that, since there were only two men in the room, Cao Zhiqiang and Xu Qingdong, Xu Qingdong stopped being reserved and put on leather sandals directly, and then found a gray short-sleeved shirt to put on. That was done.

After that, Xu Qingdong found a leather bag, put the manuscript paper and ballpoint pen on the table into it, and turned off the electric fan. Then he put a bag under his arm and said to Cao Zhiqiang excitedly: "Let's go, my dear?"

Cao Zhiqiang chuckled, turned and left the room, and found Xiang Dongfang waiting under the eaves at the door.

It was also very sunny outside the house at this time. In just a short time, Xiang Dongfang's forehead was covered with sweat, and even his chest was wet.

But let alone Xiang Dongfang, who was covered in sweat. He was so attractive that Cao Zhiqiang couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

Well, it's just that it's hot and my mouth is a little dry.

"President." Xiang Dongfang laughed immediately, "Are you out?"

"Ahem!" Cao Zhiqiang cleared his throat, "Yeah."

Immediately afterwards, he found that Xu Qingdong had also come out. Cao Zhiqiang quickly said with a serious face: "That's it, it's too hot today. We are going to Jianguo Hotel and chat slowly at my place. Do you... want to come together?"

"Okay." Xiang Dongfang smiled, "I am your secretary. I will go wherever the president goes."

Cao Zhiqiang nodded, turned around and said to Xu Qingdong: "Let's go, Lao Xu."

After that, the group of people came to the car in front of the office building and got in the car together.

This time, Cao Zhiqiang was in the cab, Xu Qingdong was in the co-pilot, and Xiang Dongfang was sitting in the back.

Sitting like this is convenient for Cao Zhiqiang and Xu Qingdong to chat, and the cab and passenger seat are relatively air-conditioned, and Xu Qingdong is particularly afraid of heat.

Yes, this car has air conditioning, which is a relatively rare feature these days.

After the car started driving and the air conditioner started blowing, Cao Zhiqiang asked while driving: "Lao Xu, what is the good news you are talking about? Also, don't call me President Cao. Just call me Xiao Cao."

"President Cao..."

"Why!"

Cao Zhiqiang interrupted Xu Qingdong: "Didn't I just say that we shouldn't do this in private? I'll call you Lao Xu, and you can just call me Xiao Cao."

Xu Qingdong chuckled: "Okay, Xiao Cao."

"That's right." Cao Zhiqiang chuckled.

Xu Qingdong smiled again and said: "That's right, Xiao Cao. Didn't you say before that you didn't plan to make movies in your own name and wanted to find a film studio to affiliate with? I found it for you."

"Oh?" Cao Zhiqiang turned his head and glanced at Xu Qingdong, then continued to stare ahead and said, "Which factory are you looking for?"

"Does Youth Film Factory know?" Xu Qingdong asked.

"Youth Film Factory?" Cao Zhiqiang smiled, "You don't mean the Youth Film Factory affiliated with Nortel College, do you?"

"Yes, that's the one!" Xu Qingdong smiled and said, "I showed the script to the relevant person in charge of Nortel Youth Film Studio. They said the script was good and there was no problem. If we raised funds and equipment ourselves,

, you can affiliate with their unit for filming, and after filming is completed, you can also apply for release in their name, but..."

"But what?" Cao Zhiqiang asked.

Xu Qingdong said: "However, they requested that the film actors should try to use their students or teachers from Nortel. As for the script, they felt it was too thin and had too few conflicts. They asked for it to be thicker, especially to add a little history and reality."

Cao Zhiqiang frowned: "It's okay to say that the previous one asked teachers and students from Nortel to participate in the performance, but the script was too thin. What does it mean specifically?"

Xu Qingdong said: "Let me tell you, the subject matter of this script is good. The conflict between teacher and student love is very interesting and impactful, but the open ending at the end is not very good. It is best for lovers to end up together."

A happy ending for the family.”

"Ah?" Cao Zhiqiang frowned, "That person really said that?"

"That's really what you said." Xu Qingdong nodded.

Cao Zhiqiang pouted: "Isn't this nonsense? The essence of this story lies in asking for something but not getting it, in the balance between desire and restraint, in the conflict between the constraints of reality and emotion, and in the rationality of the dream.

To be more precise, the fact that two people have loved each other but cannot be together is actually the most reasonable and touching part.

If two people are really lovers and eventually get married, that would be unreasonable.

Let me ask you, the male protagonist is only sixteen years old, can he marry a twenty-six-year-old female teacher?

And in the ending, the female teacher has to resign and leave the school to live in another city.

Can the male protagonist abandon his younger siblings and elope with a female teacher who is ten years older than him?"

"Obviously not." Xu Qingdong shook his head.

"Isn't this it?" Cao Zhiqiang shrugged, and then sighed.

"My story, no matter how beautiful the process is, how it heals, how it goes in both directions, but in the final analysis, it is a forbidden love.

Since it is a taboo, you must respect the taboo and don't be tempted to break it.

In other words, we can think about why there is such a taboo, but it does not mean that the taboo must be wrong and must be broken.

Without mentioning anything else, let’s just talk about the teacher-student relationship.

In movies, we can use this as a gimmick to stimulate everyone's hormones.

But in reality, if there is a teacher-student relationship around us, what would you think?

In other words, if you have children and your child’s teacher falls in love with a student, can you safely let this teacher continue to educate your child?”

"No!" Xu Qingdong shook his head, "I may not object to other people's teacher-student love, but if one of the teachers and students in this love is my child's teacher, then I will definitely feel uncomfortable."

"That's right!" Cao Zhiqiang continued to drive, "Old Xu, you are an adult and you have experienced more things. Then you should understand that although this story is beautiful, underneath the beauty is actually a cruel reality.

The female teacher in the movie is already twenty-six years old. She is an adult and has more mature thoughts.

And at her age, it was just the right time to talk about marriage.

In this society, if she does not get married at this age, it will be difficult to find a partner when she gets older, and physiologically speaking, it will also have an impact on fertility.

It can be said that according to the current understanding of the general public, if they calm down, they will hope that the female teacher in the movie should do a good job, then find a reliable man to marry, and form a normal family, instead of marrying students

fall in love.

As for the male protagonist in the movie, he is only sixteen years old, still a minor, and ignorant of everything.

Especially love. What do children of this age know about love? They are more of desires controlled by hormones.

Of course, the male protagonist here, not only due to hormones, but also because of his family environment, has a desire to be healed, to be understood, to have someone with whom he can lean on each other and keep each other warm.

But no matter what, the real dilemma is there.

If the male protagonist wants to get married, according to our country's marriage law, he must wait until he is at least twenty-two years old.

In the meantime, he has to wait for at least six years!

Six years later, the heroine will be thirty-two years old.

During these six years, would the male protagonist know how much blame and trouble the heroine would have suffered if she had just waited for him? Can he understand it?

And after six years, who can be sure that our hearts will not change?"

"I don't think this is a problem." Xu Qingdong said, "If it's true love, six years will pass by in a flash. For Yang Guo and Xiao Longnv, it's okay for them to be separated by sixteen years, let alone six years."

"Yang Guo and Xiao Longnu?" Cao Zhiqiang was stunned and turned to look at Xu Qingdong, "Oh, have you seen Jin Yong's The Legend of the Condor Heroes?"

"Hehe." Xu Qingdong smiled, "Don't look down on people, I have read almost all of Mr. Jin Yong's novels, and The Legend of the Condor Heroes at least twenty times."

Cao Zhiqiang was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

Also, let’s not mention Xu Qingdong’s background, but let’s talk about Xu Qingdong’s status as a director. It’s not difficult to write some Jin Yong novels.

After all, although Jin Yong's novels are not as popular as they were later, in fact some pirated versions, especially the traditional Chinese version, have long been popular in small domestic circles.

After all, Xu Qingdong is considered a member of the cultural circle. It is normal to read Jin Yong's martial arts novels.

Jin Yong's novels are not considered banned books nowadays, even the chiefs like to read them, let alone Xu Qingdong.

"Yes, their love may be as strong as gold and unwavering." Cao Zhiqiang nodded.

"But don't you think it's superfluous to force a happy ending where we get together six years later?

A movie is not a TV series. It doesn’t need to include all the content. What is needed is the essence.

And don’t you think it would be better to end with the female teacher leaving, this kind of open ending?

At that time, if you are an optimist and want them to be together, just imagine that they will meet again in six years.

If you are a pessimist, you will think that they will be separated from each other and will not be able to be together in six years.

That way everyone is satisfied, isn’t it good?”

"It's just that this unpleasant feeling is not good." Xu Qingdong said, "People have said that it is better to have a good ending, and it is best to enrich the background.

For example, aren’t China and Japan friendly now?

People have said that it would be best to add a Chinese-Japanese background to this teacher.

For example, this teacher's grandfather could be a soldier of the Eighth Route Army of our country, and his grandmother is a Japanese nurse who stayed in China. Then they came together because of love. Later, even if they suffered hardships, they were always friendly to our country, firmly believed that the country believed in the party, and always believed in the party.

China-Japan friendship.

At the same time, it also shows some of the friendliness of our people towards Chinese and Japanese mixed-race people, which makes us more generous and more in line with the main theme of Sino-Japanese friendship."

Hearing this, Cao Zhiqiang was speechless for a while. If he hadn't been driving, he would have put his forehead on his head and cursed.

It’s just a simple romance film, so why does it have to have a main theme in everything? Is it necessary?

Sure enough, it is right not to ask for help.

I still have my own film studio and I have the final say on my territory. This is the real freedom!

(End of chapter)