Infinitely Criticizing the Villain for Being Like My Ex-Boyfriend

"It looks like a snake but it's not a snake. It usually hibernates during the winter. If you wake it up, it will sting you down there."

As soon as the riddle of the masked man Luo Zi came out, all the players were stunned. As adults, they quickly guessed what this guy wanted to say. Suddenly, many people frowned and showed disgust.

“Haha…hahahahahahahaha.” The man with the middle-parted hair suddenly burst into laughter, attracting the attention of all the villagers who were queuing up to get tickets.

"Interesting, this old guy..." He winked at the players and smiled in an extremely ambiguous way.

"Is it a stick? My mother often hits my butt with a stick." The little boy, about eight or nine years old, scratched his head, looked at the person next to him, and smiled embarrassedly.

"Loach! Is it a loach?" The little girl licked her lips. "My brother caught one before. It's delicious. It tastes like a snake!"

Luo Zi's mouth suddenly opened wide, as if he had gained some kind of happiness from the child's clean and pure gaze, and his voice became trembling: "Almost, dear child... I almost guessed it, think about it... Have you seen your father at night normally..."

"I know what you are talking about." A gentle voice suddenly interrupted Luo Zi.

Everyone looked over and saw a handsome young man in a thin black jacket. He wore a pair of glasses that only intellectuals wear. Even in the hot summer, he buttoned his glasses all the way to the top, looking very bookish.

Facing the strange looks from everyone, Zhang Chunliang gently adjusted his glasses and answered in a resounding voice, "It's a snake-headed frog, right?"

Everyone was stunned for a moment.

Luo Zi stared at the young man who interrupted him. His facial features were covered by the mask and his expression could not be seen clearly, but the aura around him became gloomy. He said in a hoarse voice, "Wrong."

"The snake-headed frog looks like a snake and hibernates." Zhang Chunliang's voice was so pleasant that it attracted the children's curious eyes. "It lives in the rice fields in the countryside of Qiannan. It is an amphibian that is very beneficial to crops. But they are very timid..."

Zhang Chunliang suddenly lowered his voice and said, "If you don't sleep at night and go to play in the fields, waking up the sleeping snake-head frog...it will bite your butt fiercely!"

The children were startled by his startled voice, but when they realized what was happening, they giggled and shouted happily at Luo Zi: "Luo Zi! Luo Zi! It's the snake-headed frog, give us the movie tickets!"

"Why have I never heard of this animal?" Luo Zi looked at the young man who ruined his good deeds and asked grimly.

"Well, it's normal that you haven't heard of it." Zhang Chunliang's eyes were serious and clear, and he seemed to convince everyone.

Because I made this up.

"I'm a journalist." To prove his identity, Zhang Chunliang pulled out a journalist card with a big red seal from his chest pocket and waved it in front of everyone. "In order to collect the most exciting reports, I have been to many places. It was only when I accidentally heard local people talking about this animal that I was able to guess the answer."

Luo Ziding stood there motionless, as if he wanted to deny his answer. But in this era of backward information and inconvenient transportation, he had only been to Xinxing City at most, so he had no idea what the "Former South" that this guy was talking about was.

And judging by the admiring looks people gave him, they must have believed his lies - he was an educated young man who had traveled far away and a famous journalist!

As if he saw his hesitation, Zhang Chunliang frowned seriously and emphasized in a literary manner: "My fellow villager, you should know that a gentleman's word is as good as his bond. Are you going to go back on your word? Or do you know other answers? Why not tell us so that we can see which answer is the most correct?"

Luo Zi was so angry that his chest swelled - there were so many men watching, if the child gave that answer, no one could do anything to him even if he was innocent. But if he gave that answer, it would be considered "hooliganism" and he would be beaten half to death!

He has used similar tricks before the start of many movies. Sometimes it was to take pictures from a box, sometimes to guess small paintings, and sometimes to guess riddles... He used different methods to attract the children's attention.

Every time after his reminder, the children looked at him with eyes of pure expectation, and then spit out the obscene answer in his heart with their little mouths, his heart felt itchy and he felt crazy with pleasure.

Of course, he still had to educate the children with an angry look on his face: "How can you think like this? Alas! Children, your ideological awareness needs to be improved!"

The children knew they had said something wrong, but they didn't dare to go back and tell their parents. Some of the timid ones would even pester him and try to please him during the whole movie, asking him not to tell their parents...

This trick has always worked for him, so why did he fail at the hands of such a nosy bastard?

"It seems that there are other answers." Zhang Chunliang suddenly smiled in the silence, "I was just planning to do a report on rural customs. Open-air movies are a very worthwhile activity to discuss. Selflessly giving away tickets before the movie starts like you is even more of an anecdote. Perhaps, I can record it..."

"Of course it's correct." Luo Zi suddenly loosened his teeth, revealed a strange smile, tore off a ticket from the table in front of him, and handed it to Zhang Chunliang: "The reporters in the city are really amazing! I hope you enjoy watching this movie tonight!"

Zhang Chunliang smiled shyly: "Excuse me, I was afraid that I might make a wrong guess and be laughed at by the villagers."

Luo Zi stared at him for a long while, but did not respond. Instead, he continued to face the group of children: "It seems that the answer to this riddle has been taken away by this uncle! So, little kids, do you want to hear the next question?"

"A curved ditch, soft and red, black trees uprooted, the river water rushing straight ahead!"

"I know!" The bright and lively girl shook her long, smooth black hair and smiled: "This is the Qiushui River! When I was a student, my parents took me there for a trip for a while."

All the players looked at each other, and finally seemed to understand something. They began to answer questions one after another and made up nonsense stories as if they had suddenly realized something.

Luo Zi's rage could no longer be concealed by a thin mask. If he had not been concerned that this was "that person's" territory, he would have crushed to death these bastards who had ruined his plans.

That bastard reporter borrowed a pen from someone and actually pretended to remember something, as if he was really going to send the report back to the newspaper - never mind, let these idiots go in quickly, he gritted his teeth and started grinding, for the first time he urgently hoped that the movie would start soon.

While everyone was talking nonsense, the girl with the middle-parted hair stood aside, laughing so hard that tears were about to fall.

"Interesting...Haha, these guys!" He put his hand on a villager, pointed at the group of guys who came in with him, and laughed unscrupulously.

He didn't care at all that the players looked at him with somewhat unfriendly expressions.

Soon, all the players got movie tickets.

They walked towards a flat area surrounded by colorful torn flags, their steps a little hesitant - compared with the previous side quest, this time the entry was so easy that it made people feel inexplicably uneasy. Could it be a trick?

Zhang Chunliang stepped directly over the colorful flags and ropes, observing this long-disappeared open-air movie event with a curious look on his face.

It was probably around seven in the evening and it was already dark. There was a bright headlight at the back of the open space, which barely illuminated the entire venue.

Country people always eat early, and there is a wonderful movie to watch today, so they brought all kinds of long and short stools to the venue and sat down, chatting and laughing while eating melon seeds.

Some people who didn't have time to eat put some dry steamed buns and pickled mustard in baskets, ready to eat while watching the movie. Occasionally, when they met someone they knew, they would greet them warmly and break off half a steamed bun to give to them so they could chat while watching the movie.

More and more people gathered at the venue. Zhang Chunliang arrived a little late and could only sit at the back. However, he had no stool, so he just stood there.

At the front, a staff member had already pulled up a white curtain and placed it in front of everyone in an orderly manner.

Every move they made would cause the villagers to exclaim in amazement.

"Actually, it's quite enjoyable to watch an old movie in such a lively place." Li Zhuang found a wooden stool from somewhere, walked to Zhang Chunliang, and said with emotion.

The staff in charge of the projection had already assembled the projector and was trying to play it. In the darkness, the projector light suddenly flashed.

In that dazzling light, the entire open space suddenly became as silent as a vacuum, and everyone became black and white people without any color.

At first glance, everyone seemed frozen in the dazzling light, expressionless and motionless - the scene was like a poor sketch, and looked extremely weird. But when darkness came, the familiar noise began to sound from all directions, greetings, scolding, sounding lively but extremely deliberate, like some kind of overly exaggerated performance.

If you listen carefully, you can hear some tiny laughter mixed in with the voices of this group of people, as if they are secretly rejoicing about completing some terrible prank.

Li Zhuang looked around and felt a little uneasy. Every time the projection light disappeared, he always felt that someone was spying on him in the dark with ill intentions.

He clenched his hands and looked up at the other players nervously, only to find that they had been unintentionally squeezed by the villagers and scattered all over the open space.

"Oh no." This was the only thought in his mind.

"Fellow villagers, the movie is about to start!" The short-haired woman with a red armband shouted, "Watch your children carefully. Don't run around when the movie is playing! Please keep quiet when watching the movie - keep quiet!"

When the noise finally died down, everyone stared intently at the huge screen. The projector made a mechanical "click" sound and finally released the picture.

The light and shadow on the screen flickered awkwardly for a few seconds, and then a line of movie titles slowly emerged accompanied by passionate music.

Wang Zhaodi Has Something to Say

Starring: Chen Aihua, He Shi, and Ah Tang.

Supporting actors: Li Zhuang, Lu Zhi, Zhang Chunliang, He Jiaojie, Qiu Yiran, Hou Kecen, Niu Pansheng, Wang Er, Zhao Junxiang.