The reborn manotaku

At five o’clock in the morning, the sky was half black and not white.

With the sound of Xi Suo, Li Huai gently got up and prepared to wash.

Cheng Yuanyuan half-opened her eyes in confusion, “Husband, are you leaving?”

Li Huai said softly: “Sleep, I’ll call you when I get to the place.”

After washing and getting dressed, Li Huai pushed the suitcase that had been packed last night and went out.

The urban scene of “Long Sky” has ended, and the crew is divided into two groups, a group of people go to the frontier to prepare first, while Li Huai and Jiang Wen are a group to shoot road scenes.

After entering the elevator, I happened to meet the mother of the leader of a listed company upstairs, wearing a big pink tai chi suit and holding a flower fan.

“Xiao Li, on a business trip?”

“Oh, Aunt Zhang, you’re really early.”

“It’s only two years before the Olympics, responding to the call of the country, creating culture and creating health, and dancing in the square.”

“Yes, yes, you have a high level of consciousness…”

The driver Lao Zhang was already waiting downstairs, and after Li Huai got into the car, he first went to have breakfast, and then went all the way to the Capital Airport.

Lao Jiang had already left a few days ago with the crew, so only a young male assistant from Xinghai accompanied Li Huai to sit in the waiting hall and wait.

Li Huai looked at a copy of “Zi Wu Yu” boredly, and the assistant on the side looked at him and said hesitantly: “President Li,

this play is over, I’m leaving…”

Li Huai nodded with a smile, “I know, concentrate on doing “Long Sky” well, with the experience of participating in these TV series, I can find a good position anywhere.”

This young man from the northeast was a little unwilling, “Seeing that our company is about to rise… Mr. Li, why aren’t you angry at all?

“No need…”

Li Huai shrugged with a smile, “You said that I am also a small family, is it not good to enjoy life happily, what if I get angry and the money is not spent?”

The assistant was speechless for a moment, and suddenly felt that he should not ask this question.

At this moment, Li Huai saw an old man and a young man passing by in the corridor next to him, dressed in ordinary clothes and ordinary appearance, but he felt that this old man was a little familiar.

Before he could remember where he had seen him, the old man saw him and turned a corner and walked over.

“Boy, remember me?”

“You are…”

“I went to your first book signing party, and the writing is good, that is, the black donkey’s hooves are blindly compiled, and the later books are more mysterious.”

“Oh, it’s you, hey, the novel is made up, don’t really do anything stupid.”

Li Huai is a little speechless, now the tomb robbery novels on the market continue to be hot, there are many tomb robberies as skins, earning money to play beautiful women are bones, and the sales results are quite good.

Of course, normal people are just entertainment, but some time ago it was reported in the news that a group of young people really went to planing graves to make a fortune after reading the novel, and ended up in the bureau.

“I’m not a fool…” The

old man nodded, “But in the future, when you write a book, you must also make a special note: there are no demons and monsters in the world at all, do not promote feudal superstition.”

“Okay, listen to you.”

Li Huai couldn’t laugh or cry, this old man was really interesting.

The assistant on the side looked at the time, “President Li, it’s time to board the plane.”

Li Huai nodded, “Uncle, goodbye.”

After the two left, the young man next to the old man asked respectfully: “Master, where are we going this time?”

“Nanchong, something happened over there…”

On a road to KS, the ancient Gobi reflects the vast snow-capped mountains, and the vast blue sky seems to have been washed by water.

Several RVs and trucks of the crew were parked on the side of the road, and the two cameras were facing a Mitsubishi jeep in the middle of the road.

“Lao Tzu is not doing it!”

Li Huai got out of the car like crazy, slammed the door, and walked in the opposite direction of the highway.

Jiang Wen then quickly got out of the car, and after chasing a few steps, he gasped and scolded,

“Erzi, say that you still have a temper in a few words, and if you have the ability, you will walk back to the capital!”

Li Huai turned his head abruptly, “Why do you talk about me, why do you look down on me!” Ha… By the way, of course you mixed well, mixed up with a green head!

“Wow!”

The two immediately scuffled together, but after a few strokes, they gasped at the same time and lay on their backs on the road, looking at the sky stupidly.

“You said… It’s Mid-Autumn Festival soon, what are we doing in this damn place? ”

“…… Fucking life!

“Card!”

After the assistant director shouted to stop, Jiang Wen quickly got up to watch the playback.

Li Huai took the coat in the hands of the staff and draped it, while holding the warm saffron water and drinking it.

He rolled on the ground several times in a row, and each time he felt a chill in his back.

After arriving at KS a week ago, they found a place to start filming road scenes.

This scene is because the driver has a stomach trouble, Lao Cai and Xiao Lin are not allowed to go, and can only drive by themselves. Perhaps because of

loneliness, or perhaps because of the magnificent wilderness of the frontier, the two gradually became acquainted, put down their masks, and began to tell the misfortunes of their respective lives.

The relationship was just better, and because of the conflict of ideas between the two generations, various spats began to break out.

In order to express the magnificent no-man’s land, Jiang Wen specially chose this place. There is no village

in front of the village, no shop behind, and it is a three-and-a-half-hour drive from the nearest city, and in order to save shooting time, most of the week is spent camping.

For Li Huai, camping is really not a romantic thing, even if the RV is wrapped in a thick quilt, it is frozen enough that he does not even dare to go to the toilet.

After looking at the ginger pattern on the opposite side for a long time, he nodded with satisfaction, “Okay, this one is over!”

All kinds of cheering wolf cries suddenly sounded…

……

The old streets of KS are well preserved and very exotic, especially when the golden glow of the sunset falls, accompanied by the cheerful and beautiful sound of the dutar piano…

This made Li Huai always feel that Avanti, who was riding a donkey upside down, would appear around the corner.

After a day of rest here, Li Huai invited the whole crew to eat.

Grilled buns, Southern Xinjiang finger rice, red willow skewers, jar meat, figs… Local specialties bring everyone to life.

The next day, they turned around and headed straight for Tower City. Tacheng and Taxian

are two places, Taxian is on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, and Tacheng is on the China-Pakistan border.

They’re coming here to shoot an important scene.

The convoy drove through the vast no-man’s land of the Saarbulak steppe with clouds of dust.

It’s not inhabitable, and although it’s just as vast and magnificent, the climate is extremely harsh, as it’s the gateway for cold Siberian air to the south.

Winter winds are raging, and the snowstorm is more than a meter deep.

In summer, mosquitoes are rampant and can bite people’s skin, and the locals call it “ten mosquitoes a dish”.

And on the vast Gobi Desert, a row of earthen houses suddenly appeared.

“Teacher Li, this is it.”

On an off-road vehicle, Li Huai said to Li Xuejian next to him.

This is also an old drama actor, who is well-known throughout the country and respected for his deeply rooted roles such as Song Dacheng, ****, and Song Jiang.

Li Huai also sent an invitation with the psychology of trying his luck, but he didn’t expect that people would immediately agree to it as soon as they read the script.

“This place…”

Li Xuejian shook his head with some solemnity in his eyes.

His voice was a little muffled, as if he was pinching his nose and talking.

Because he had just undergone nasopharyngeal cancer surgery five years ago, the whole person was very thin, although he was just over 50, as soon as Li Huai saw him, he remembered his grandfather who had passed away a long time ago.

The motorcade stopped in front of the earthen house, and an old lady had heard the sound and walked out, her silver hair was messy, like a layer of ash, and her face was wrinkled like a ravine on the high slope of loess.

After Li Huai and Lao Jiang got out of the car, they hurriedly walked over a few steps, “Aunt, slow down, is Uncle Wei at home?”

“Went on patrol…”

Auntie looked at the convoy with a hint of curiosity in her eyes, and her voice was a little restrained.

Li Huai smiled and pointed to Li Xuejian next to him, “Aunt Liu, do you know this teacher?”

Aunt Liu glanced at it suspiciously, a little unsure, “You… You are Song Dacheng, why did you age like this?

Li Xuejian smiled and held Aunt’s hand, “Sister Liu, I’m over 50.”

“Oh…”

This Aunt Liu suddenly realized, and quickly beckoned a few people into the house, at first a little restrained, but after a while, she talked and laughed with Li Xuejian.

“What about Huifang?”

“Well, it’s much more foreign than me.”

“What about Wang Husheng, is he dead?”

“…”

Li Huai looked at all this with a smile, but there was an indescribable taste in his heart.

In 1964…

After the owner of this place, Uncle Wei, transferred from the Beijing Military Region, he responded to the call of the state and came to the original XJ Production and Construction Corps here.

With a gun in one hand and a pickaxe in the other, he reclaimed the edges. This Uncle

Wei’s wife, Aunt Liu, is from Lu Province and couldn’t stand the hardships here at first, but just prepared, she was chased back by Uncle Wei.

This stay is 40 years…

All the people were gone, and only the old couple remained here, becoming the only family in the vast wilderness.

Eight kilometers further west is the Sino-Kazakh border monument.

There is no entertainment, no beauty, the old couple herds sheep and patrols the border every day, and the road has long been enough to circle the earth several times.

The last time Li Huai came, the only impression of the inland was a TV series “Longing” that she watched when she went to Lu Province to see her son more than ten years ago.

The construction corps has long been a thing of the past, and the border guards also have disciplined fighters patrolling.

Unlike the grain fields in Rally, there is no order that they must stay here, or rather, they are not necessary.

Li Huai never understood what made them stubbornly choose to stick here.

After a while, the afterglow of the setting sun shrouded the earth, accompanied by the jingling of bells, and Uncle Wei, dressed in an old military uniform, appeared on the horizon with a flock of sheep.

The convoy camped on the spot, and the crew began to make various preparations for tomorrow’s shooting. Teacher Li Xuejian kept chatting with Uncle Wei while carefully observing his demeanor. Desolate, silent,

when they came here, everyone seemed to be much silent, and after nightfall, they slept early.

……

“Xiao Li, wake up.”

Early the next morning, Li Huai was called up by old ginger in a daze.

“It’s still early, what for?”

“Come out and see!”

Not knowing why Lao Jiang was so excited, Li Huai put on his clothes and walked out of the RV.

When he saw the situation in front of him, he instantly remained motionless.

A ray of the rising sun pierced the darkness and dyed the small half of the sky white.

In the center of the yard there is a rough wooden pole that curves and slopes, as if weathered, and there are many tree scars.

I didn’t pay attention last time, Li Huai only now knows that this is a flagpole.

Uncle Wei and the old man were standing under the flagpole raising the flag, there was no national anthem, no soundtrack, just silently and solemnly pulling the rope.

A gust of wind blew, and at the top of the humble flagpole, the five-star red flag, which had faded slightly, gently swung.

Under the flagpole are two old men who are already hunched over, but they are trying to stand up straight…

Li Huai’s lips trembled a little, and he turned his head to look at Jiang Wen,

“This is why the sun also rises!”