you after the mist

The day before the filming started, Tang Ran rushed to S City. The mountainous area he was going to this time was located in a poor county in S City. It took six or seven hours to drive there, including about two hours of mountain roads.

It is already winter, the morning dawns too late, and the fog is heavy again.According to the plan, the film crew will start at nine o'clock and arrive around three o'clock in the afternoon. The main content of the activity is to send books and clothes, and it is expected to be completed in two hours.Then go back the same way and try to drive out of the mountains before dark.

Tang Ran didn't quite approve of such an activity, so he surrounded a group of children with short cannonballs and asked them to repeat the words of thanks that had been memorized in advance. This was not showing love, but just a show.However, this program on Channel Y is linked to a well-known international charitable foundation, and the annual goodwill ambassadors of this foundation in China will also be selected from the guests who participated in the program that year.Shen Xi also had this intention in accepting this program for him, and he didn't have many reasons to refuse.

There are two female artists traveling together, one named Bai Yuan, in her 50s, a veteran actress.Another Xiaohuadan named Qin Yunlian is a signed artist of Tang Ran's studio, and has never worked with Bai Yuan before.Last night, he made a special call to ask Tang Ran if he was in the car with Bai Yinghou today, if there was anything he should pay attention to.After chatting with her, Tang Ran asked the program team if he would ride with another male guest.

"No." The other side replied, "It was originally planned like this at first, but Mr. Jiang is flying over tomorrow morning, we will arrange another car to pick him up at the airport, and then we will meet up on the road." Gao Ping Xin's film crew has always been under tight schedule, and it's normal for Jiang Ning to come here early in the morning.

When he set off the next day, he really didn't see Jiang Ning. According to the arrangement of the program team, Tang Ran didn't bring an assistant with him. Besides him and the driver, there was also a cameraman named Li and a female director in the car.

The situation on the road does not need to be photographed, so the photographer just plays with his mobile phone after getting in the car.

The female director introduced herself as Tang Ran's fan, and she kept talking along the way.From Tang Ran's debut "Collect Before Songs" all the way to "Zhu Yan Ci Jing" which he is currently filming.

"I heard that the heroine in "Zhu Yan Ci Jing" is a mountain teacher, so will you feel intimacy when recording this program now?"

"There will be some." Tang Ran nodded and said, "Our latest filming location is in a mountain village. We usually have contact with the children in the village, and we have some understanding of their lives. It is very difficult. But we stay here now. In fact, the environment here is better than here. So I feel very honored to be able to participate in this program this time and help those children as much as I can."

"Teacher Tang." The choreographer dragged his voice and said, "We really don't record this session, so you don't need to be so official. Can't you talk about other things? Emotional lines or something."

"It's not official." Tang Ran smiled. "I signed a non-disclosure agreement. What you want to hear is beyond the scope of what you can say."

"Okay." She pouted and changed the subject happily.

The car had already entered the mountain at this time, and the road was terribly narrow.The car is close to the mountain wall, and the other side is the cliff.Go up one by one.Tang Ran never gets motion sickness, so she feels better now.The photographer was out of luck.He put down his phone and said to the driver, "Stop, I want to vomit."

"Be patient." The driver held the steering wheel in one hand and the walkie-talkie in the other, and stopped after greeting the car behind.

As soon as he stopped, the photographer opened the car door, jumped out covering his mouth, bent down and vomited on the side of the road.

Seeing that neither the director nor the driver intended to move, Tang Ran took a few pieces of paper and a bottle of mineral water from the side, walked over and handed them to him.

"Thank you." He took it, rinsed his mouth, straightened up and wiped his mouth. "It's raining."

The sky was gloomy like evening.When Tang Ran was in the car, he thought it was because of the heavy fog in the mountains, but now that he got out of the car, he found that there were continuous drops of rain falling down.

The driver poked his head out to beckon them into the car.

"What did he say?" Tang Ran heard the driver speak another dialect.

"He said that it will rain heavily soon." The photographer muttered, "I can't, it's already been stepped on, the weather forecast won't be so inaccurate."

As if to prove that what the driver said was true, not long after getting in the car, the rain started to get heavier.Bean-sized raindrops hit the car like hail.

"How can it rain so much in winter?" The director's face turned pale.

No one answered her words.The driver is a local and should be familiar with this road, so when he first entered the mountain, no matter how steep the mountain road was, he was very calm.But now, his expression became serious.

Tang Ran was a little worried. At this speed, it might be difficult to arrive today.

The car was moving with difficulty, and the distance between the convoys was getting closer and closer. Tang Ran looked back and saw that there were two cars behind, and there was an extra car at some point. Jiang Ning and the others should have caught up.

Voices from the walkie-talkie broke the silence. Tang Ran couldn't understand their dialect, so he could only wait for the photographer to translate.

"Teacher Tang." The photographer turned his head, "It's raining too much, it's not safe to continue driving. There is a village [-] kilometers ahead, let's stop there."

"You can arrange it." Tang Ran nodded.

For a distance of forty kilometers, it took a long time to drive in such weather.The choreographer kept pinching his hand, and there were red marks on his hand.

Tang Ran also felt a little guilty. When he went to live in the mountains, he also drove the mountain roads himself.But this is the first time I have encountered such a situation.

The car finally stopped. There were only a dozen families in this village, and the people staying here were mainly old people and children.

"Young people have gone out to work, so who is staying here?" Tang Ran and the others were picked up by a man in his 50s who said he was the village party secretary.He took the twenty or so people to the so-called village committee office, and found some benches for them to rest.

It was already past four o'clock, and the program team gathered for a meeting.Qin Yunlian probably got on well with Bai Yuan, and she was talking on the sidelines.Jiang Ning didn't come in, but stood in the open space in front of the door with a transparent umbrella.He was wearing a dark gray overcoat with a straight back, reminding Tang Ran of the pine tree he saw when he remembered.

"Actually, I think he's super good-looking, but he feels a little cold, and I've never had a chance to meet him before." Qin Yunlian spoke a little louder and was heard by Tang Ran.The young girl is not annoying when she becomes a nympho, and Bai Yuan just listens to her with a smile.

"But boss, I still like your face more." Qin Yunlian quickly added after seeing Tang Ran looking at her.

She usually has such a temper, Tang Ran didn't care at all.Bai Yuan laughed, "It seems that your boss has been offended, hurry up and apologize." She pulled Qin Yunlian over.

"Where?" Tang Ran gave them the stool he was sitting on.

Bai Yuan sat down, frowned and looked at Tang Ran, "You look a bit like Jiang Ning." She said suddenly.

Tang Ran was a little surprised, and didn't know how to answer her for a while.

The movie queen has been half-retired from the industry in recent years, and her knowledge of artists of their generation is probably limited. She didn't know that the two of them were rumored to be at odds, so she said such a thing.

Qin Yunlian felt that she had said something wrong just now, although she knew that Tang Ran would not be angry because of it, she didn't want to talk about this topic now, "It's not like, the face shape is also different."

"It's not about appearance, I just said it wrong." Bai Yuan thought about it, "It's about face, there is a breath between the brows, they are very similar."

The people from the program team finally finished their discussion and came over. One of them went out and called Jiang Ning in.

"Several teachers." The chief director stood up and said, "I can't tell when the rain will stop today. Even if it stops, it will be too late to drive over. Now I can only feel sorry for everyone, stay here for one night, and go tomorrow How to compensate for the time wasted, we will discuss it with you after we come down, what do you think?"

Having said that, bad weather is not a factor that can be controlled by humans. Tang Ran and the others agreed.

Now that a consensus has been reached, the next thing will be much easier. The program team asked the village director just now to help arrange dinner.After a while, two large iron pots were delivered.One pot of white rice, another pot of stewed cabbage, potatoes, and carrots.

Tang Ran had no appetite, so he ate some casually, put down his chopsticks, and went to watch the rain under the eaves.

"Teacher Tang." A choreographer came over.

"What's wrong?" Tang Ran saw that he hesitated to speak.

"That's it. You've seen the situation in this village. We just took a look around the village, and we asked about it with the branch secretary. We may have to share a room with two people at night."

"That's fine." Tang Ran said indifferently.

"It's fine if you agree. You and Mr. Jiang will stay at the branch secretary's house that night. His family's environment is better, and Mr. Bai and Mr. Qin will live at the village chief's house..."

"Who am I sleeping with?" Tang Ran didn't even bother to listen to him.

"Jiang Ning, Mr. Jiang." The other party froze for a moment. It's not that he hadn't heard that the relationship between the two was not good, but the room was limited, and he thought that they would not show it publicly, so he decided to arrange it this way, "What's the problem? ?”

Tang Ran pressed his forehead, "Have you already divided up?"

"It's almost the same share." Seeing Tang Ran's uneasy expression, he smiled carefully, "Teacher Tang, why don't I go to the branch secretary and ask if I can arrange another room?"

He didn't have much confidence in what he said, and Tang Ran didn't want to embarrass them, "Does Jiang Ning know? What did he say?"

"Teacher Jiang said he is fine, let us ask you." He saw that Tang Ran seemed to be loose, and he smiled happily.

"He's all right?" Tang Ran tilted his head and happened to see Jiang Ning coming out of it.He didn't look this way, put his hands in his pockets, and lowered his head.

"That's it. I have no objection." Tang Ran gritted his teeth and smiled.

"Hey, that's good. Sorry to trouble you." The director hurriedly said.

Tang Ran shook his hand, not even in the mood to say you're welcome.

There was nothing else to do here, so after everyone had finished eating, they split up and walked towards their night residences.Most of the houses in the village are earth-embroidered houses, only the houses of the village head and party secretary are brick houses.Tang Ran and Jiang Ning were led by the branch secretary to his house.

The branch secretary said that there are five children in his family, the two oldest have gone to work outside, and there are three younger ones, one son and two daughters.Let his son go to sleep in his and his wife's room at night, and give up the room to Tang Ran and the others.He spoke Mandarin, but it was not good, and there were still some dialects mixed in. Coupled with the heavy rain, Tang Ran sounded very struggling.It was Jiang Ning who reacted first, "I have caused you trouble." He said.

"No trouble, but the room is a bit small."

"It doesn't matter." Jiang Ning said softly.

In fact, that room is not small, but half of it is used to pile up sundries, so it looks very narrow.What was really small was the bed. According to Tang Ran's visual inspection, it was not even 1.5 meters long. The only thing that could be thankful was that there were two quilts.He stood and watched for a while with a headache, but there was nothing else he could do.

Originally, he didn't plan to stay for one night, and Tang Ran didn't bring pajamas, so he could only take off his coat and lie down.

I don't know how the program group negotiated the accommodation fee with the branch secretary, he thought.I have to give some extra money when I leave tomorrow, after all, I have stained the quilt.

Jiang Ning didn't come in for a long time, Tang Ran got up after lying down for a while, opened the door and looked out.

Jiang Ning supported his head with his hands on the table, there was no one else outside except him.

"Aren't you going to sleep?" Tang Ran asked.

Jiang Ning turned around: "Go to bed first."

"Sleep first?" Tang Ran was furious, pushed the door aside, and walked in front of Jiang Ning.

"I don't care what you're crazy about." He leaned down and grabbed Jiang Ning's collar, "You agreed to live together first. Now it's work. Please be a little professional, do you want to sit outside for a while?" Get yourself a cold at night, will you delay another day tomorrow?"

"I..." Jiang Ning did not expect Tang Ran to be suddenly angry.In the past few years, Tang Ran has been well-received in the industry. Artists who are as famous as him, including Jiang Ning himself, will not all have bad faces and play big names.But Tang Ran doesn't. In front of the media, he is always gentle, kind, and polite, as if he is calm about everything.Sometimes when Jiang Ning saw him on TV, he even felt that it was not someone he knew back then, but a wax figure with the same face.But Tang Ran at this moment, although angry, made Jiang Ning feel familiar, and he finally became vivid from a perfect dummy.

"Brother." The youngest son of this family appeared out of nowhere, and he didn't dare to step forward seeing Tang Ran's posture.

Seeing someone coming, Tang Ran let go of him and took a step back.

Jiang Ning stood up, straightened his clothes, and squatted down in front of the child, "What did Mom say?"

"Mom said you can use it." He said childishly, and then leaned into Jiang Ning's ear, "Are you guys fighting?"

"No, that brother was joking with me." Jiang Ning patted his head and took out a few pieces of chocolate from his pocket.

The child reached out to pick it up, but Jiang Ning didn't give it to him immediately. "Remember to give it to the two older sisters."

"Oh." The child nodded reluctantly.

Jiang Ning laughed, and stretched out his other hand to "pull the hook."

The child reached out and hooked him.

"Hey, go to bed early." He handed over the chocolate, and the little boy ran away bouncing.

Jiang Ning straightened up slowly and said, "You go in first, I'll come in later." After speaking, he walked to the side.

Tang Ran stood with arms folded for a few minutes, but still followed.

That is a kitchen.

When he came, Tang Ran saw that many houses in the village had chimneys, so he thought they used earthen stoves.The conditions of the branch secretary's family are better, but the gas tank has been replaced.

Jiang Ning stood quietly in front of the stove, with a carton of milk boiling in the pot.The water was already boiled, so he found two more porcelain bowls, put them aside after scalding, took out the milk in the pot, and passed it several times in the two bowls to let it cool down.

He did it so seriously that he didn't even notice that Tang Ran had come.

When he finally tested the temperature and turned around with the bowl, he saw Tang Ran.

"The temperature is just right." He froze for a moment, walked up to Tang Ran and handed him the bowl.

"Jiang Ning." Tang Ran didn't move, just looked at him, "Does this make sense?"

"It's meaningless, I know." Jiang Ning lowered his eyes, Tang Ran couldn't see his expression clearly.After a while, Jiang Ning said calmly, "Drink, you didn't eat much at night."

Tang Ran sneered.

Jiang Ning also didn't speak, but he didn't take back the hand holding the bowl.

The two stalemate for a while.

"Drink it while it's hot, it's getting cold." Jiang Ning said.

Tang Ran stared at him for a few seconds. Finally, he took the bowl, raised his head and drank it in one breath, and put the bowl back in Jiang Ning's hand heavily.

Jiang Ning cleaned up the kitchen in silence.Tang Ran hadn't left yet, standing there with his back against the wall.

Jiang Ning shook the water off his hands. "Okay, let's go."