north of the arctic

When I drove to Zhejiang Hengdian Film and Television City that day, there was a light rain in the sky.At that time, it was winter, and Hengdian, which was sandwiched between Jinhua City and Quzhou City, was located in the Jinqu Basin, so it was extremely cold that day.

I parked the car, got out of the car wrapped in a coat, and met a group of girls I met in the post bar.

Those little girls are fans of a certain male star, and that male star happened to be acting in a costume drama with Shuibei that day, so I pretended to be a fan of that male star, and followed those who wore thin clothes even in winter, Girls with makeup sneaked into the crew together.

They visited the famous male star, and as Baishuibei's number one fan, I visited Baishuibei.

Those girls who often come to Hengdian to visit the class, the leading girls seem to know the staff of Hengdian Film and Television City, so, in order to evade fares, a large group of us held umbrellas and walked on a narrow path early in the morning.

I think I drove all the way from Suzhou to Zhejiang, and then I got up early in the rainy day that is suitable for sleeping to visit Shuibei.

Walking along one bluestone path after another, seeing one man-made palace after another, when I still want to marvel at the scale of Hengdian Film and Television City, I have already followed the girls to the studio where Shuibei is located, Qinwang Palace.In case the staff of the crew thought our group was too messy and noisy, the leading girls checked the number of people, maintained order, said some things to know when visiting the set, and then led us to the set.

Walking into the studio, I saw a series of high-end camera studios placed on the studio, several lighting engineers and photographers were on the side, discussing the angle of lighting while smoking cigarettes, and the clothes and trousers of several makeup artists The pockets are filled with all kinds of pens, and they help the actor apply powder for a while, and help the actor draw eyebrows for a while. Almost everyone on the set is like ants on a hot pot, running around.The girls walking with me saw the male celebrity sitting on a deck chair, wrapped in a down jacket and holding a hot water bottle, and flocked to him.And I turned around and looked at the extras sitting not far away smoking, playing cards or eating melon seeds, looking for Shuibei.

The extras were sitting on the steps in twos and threes. There were girls in thin palace clothes wrapped in old padded jackets, cuddling together to keep warm, and some men in Hanfu who seemed to be playing the role of scholars gathered together and sat cross-legged. On the marble floor, fighting the landlord, and some tired extras just sat aside, resting their heads with one hand, eyes closed.In the cold wind, they were like big and small props, sitting there, just waiting for the director's order, and then they played some inconspicuous roles such as court ladies, guards or death row prisoners.

Seeing their appearances, I thought, probably that's how Shuibei came over these years, like a lifeless prop, coming and going as soon as you call it.

"Excuse me, do you know Baishuibei?" I walked up to the two girls, greeted them, and asked where Shuibei was.

Maybe I came to look for someone among the extras. The two girls looked at me incredulously, then shook their heads. One of the girls pointed to a few boys who were playing cards and said:

"They have been in Hengdian for many years, you ask them, maybe they know the person you mentioned."

I thanked them, walked up to those boys who were fighting landlords, bent down, and asked:

"Excuse me, do you know Baishuibei?"

Hearing this, the players who were playing cards stopped and looked at me. Then one of them, a tall, thin, dark-skinned boy, pointed in a direction in Mandarin with a northern accent, and said:

"Bai Shuibei, he just went to change his clothes, and now he might be touching up with the makeup artist. You can go over there and have a look."

"Okay, thank you." I thanked the little brother, and then walked towards the other side.

Walking into a fairly warm palace, the prop masters were arranging the props, and several actresses in Hanfu were playing with their lines in their hands, and I turned left and right, finally in a group of small Baishuibei was found at the place where the maids gathered.

"Shuibei, someone is looking for you." A little court lady eating candy shouted behind a heavy curtain.Only

Hearing Shuibei's voice from behind the curtain, he responded, "Okay, I'll be right there."

After finishing speaking, a "female" with a bun and exposed temples, lightly swept moth eyebrows, pink-faced flowers, long hair floating, light shirts brushing the floor, and dressed in plain white Hanfu came towards me.He is wearing red lipstick, his small mouth is like a delicate red cherry, two strands of soft hair on his cheeks are blowing in the wind, and his bright and sparkling eyes are rolling, five points mischievous, five points mischievous, Holding the hem of the skirt with both hands, the footsteps are light, like flawless white jade, and like sweet wine.

Probably seeing me standing there in a daze, Shui Bei stepped forward, spread his five fingers, waved in front of my eyes, and asked:

"Shannan, why are you here?"

I came back to my senses, looked at Shui Bei who opened his eyes and looked at me curiously, and explained:

"It just so happens that I'm on vacation for two days, so I'll come to see you."

"Sit here." Shuibei pulled me to a corner with some foldable chairs, and beckoned me to sit down.

Seeing him admonishing something with a little maid for a while, and chatting and laughing with another boy who played the role of bodyguard, I said to him, "Shui Bei, go get busy."

"It's okay, my play hasn't started yet, I'm here to accompany you." Shui Bei smiled, sat on the chair next to me, and looked at the busy actors together.

"Are you going to play a woman today?" I asked.

"That's right, dance on the city gate for the heroine. There's no way, in such a freezing day, you have to wear such thin clothes, let alone the heroine, which girl can bear it."

Shui Bei spoke in a relaxed tone, thinking that this seems to be a routine thing for him.

At this moment, two or three girls came up to us with a large bag of milk tea, handed two cups to Shui Bei, and said, "The director invited everyone to drink."

After finishing speaking, one of the girls with unlined eyebrows, melon-shaped face, black hair shawl, beautiful and charming, no worse than the heroine sat next to Shuibei, looked at me, and asked Shuibei: "Shuibei, who are you?" ah?"

Shuibei gave me the milk tea and straw in his hand, and introduced to his friend: "This is my brother, Li Shannan."

At that time, Shuibei's tone was full of pride and pride, as if he was showing off to everyone that my brother Li Shannan specially came to visit my class on this heavy rainy day.

"Shannanshuibei, it's fun." After the girl finished speaking, she giggled and said to me:

"Brother Shannan, can I call you that? I'm Xiaomei, a colleague and friend of Shuibei."

"Hi Xiaomei, thank you for taking care of us in Shuibei these days."

I replied with a smile, while Shuibei remained silent, and helped me remove the packaging from the plastic straw with a smile, poked a hole in the top of the milk tea cup, and handed it to me.

"Don't say that, I've known Shuibei for two years, and we're all on our own."

Xiaomei said, and slapped Shuibei on the back suddenly, and Shuibei stared at her first, and then smiled at her.

In the outside world, Shuibei has a cheerful side, and a completely opposite side to the gloomy temperament at home.

I think, perhaps for him, what he has brought to him after two years of traveling abroad is positive.

When the three of us were talking and laughing, there were women's shouts and curses in the hall.I followed the reputation, and saw the well-known actress who played the supporting role, dressed in brocade clothes, standing upright, with her hands on her hips, angry at the make-up artist who was doing her makeup, and from time to time burst out some ugly words. foul language.

Seeing the scene, Xiaomei tugged on Shuibei's sleeves, and said, "It's over, the female devil is going crazy again."

After a pause, Xiaomei looked at the angry actress at the side with distaste, and softly pulled the two men, Shuibei and me, to complain, saying:

"She's not good at acting. She's in her thirties. She plays silly and sweet female roles all day long. In the last scene, she acted while chewing gum, and the director didn't say anything about her. And she also likes to play tricks. Others, play big names. It is said that last time when their crew went to a certain satellite TV to promote, she made the host, fans and other actors wait for an entire hour."

"It's not the first time the two of us have seen this kind of female star."

Shui Bei said calmly, but I just swallowed helplessly as I looked at the angry female star with crow's feet around her eyes.

Sure enough, the TV screens and the photos of the female stars on the billboards cannot be compared with real people.

"Hahaha, you look like your brother is stupid."

Xiaomei pointed at me, laughed, and then asked me: "It's the first time you see a goddess like this, you should be very surprised."

"Well, it's really surprising."

As soon as I finished speaking, the director called the maids to get ready, and Xiaomei just greeted me when she heard the sound, and then left with a group of female extras.Although Shuibei and I sat in a corner, we could clearly see Xiaomei and the others when they were acting.Xiaomei played a dancer, standing at the back of the team, supporting the supporting actress who played the beauty of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.After dancing, Xiaomei stepped aside. At this time, the vicious beauty grabbed the hand of a little palace lady, and then asked the little palace lady about things in the palace.

Shui Bei pointed at the girl who played the little maid, and said softly to me: "That's what I told you last time, graduate from Chinese opera, and start from a side role here."

Hearing this, I looked at that girl, with flat eyebrows and bun face, with a small bun, she looked cute and cute, and she was in the same shape as the female star with raised eyebrows and scarlet lip makeup. A stark contrast.

At that time, there was only a slap, and the supporting actress raised her hand, and slapped the little maid on the face with a clear and crisp slap. "

Today was the first time she played a character with lines, but her face must have suffered. "Shui Bei looked at all that and said flatly.

It turned out that those slaps on TV were not based on the shooting angle and sound, but were actually slapped on people's faces.

After the slap was over, the director just yelled a card, and then said ruthlessly to them: "Do it all over again."

Then, the crisp slapping sound rang in my ears again, and it was repeated almost five or six times before it ended.At the end of the scene, the female star was wrapped in a piece of clothing, claiming that she was not feeling well, and she had to go back to the hotel to rest first, while Xiaomei walked up to us with the help of the girl whose half face was almost swollen from the female star's beating.As soon as she got off the stage, the wronged girl cried softly, tears falling unscrupulously, and Xiaomei just comforted her and told her not to be sad.

I just realized that extras are in such dire straits.

"Have you ever been beaten like this before?" I asked Shui Bei who was standing by and reviewing the dance steps.

"I have fought. Sometimes when I meet some male stars with poor quality, the fight scene is really hitting them."

Shui Bei responded, then flicked his sleeves, turned around, and said to me calmly, "But don't worry, I'm used to it."

"Shuibei, do you like acting?" I asked.

Flicking his sleeves and dancing lightly, he sternly shook his head and said, "Of course I don't like it, but I have to earn money to support myself. Everyone here is the same, who was not born by parents, but in order to make a living, I have to suffer." on."

After speaking, he danced to the song, and the staff called his name and told him to come over, while Xiaomei and I just quietly hid aside, looking at Shuibei standing on the tower.

The actress playing the heroine wore the same clothes as Shuibei, but the lines and face were for the heroine. When the beauty was photographed dancing for the emperor, Shuibei just kept silent and took off the clothes on his body. Down jacket, wearing a thin dress, standing in the wind of three or four degrees below zero, dancing against the wind.

The cold wind and drizzle hit Shui Bei's body. A group of people in warm clothes stood aside, watching the boy who was almost showing his muscles and bones dancing gracefully, like a bird standing against the wind. white butterfly.

After the song was over, when Shui Bei's lips were blue from the cold, the director who had watched the performance seemed dissatisfied, and said to Shui Bei, "The movements of the hands seem a little stiff, please do it again."

"Okay." Shui Bei just responded like this, without resting, and once again danced the dance just now.

With the wind blowing and the piercing rain, he wanted to move naturally, dancing this extremely complicated dance until the director was satisfied.When I saw that, I frowned at that time. When I was thinking secretly, let Shuibei not dare to do such a job again, Xiaomei told me that last winter, when the snow was falling, Shuibei replaced a male lead, I plunged into the open-air swimming pool and caught a cold for half a month.

When Xiaomei said this, I felt even more distressed. I just hoped that Shuibei would finish his work quickly so that I could take him back to rest.

When the scene in Shuibei was over, I, who was obsessed with his down jacket, stepped up the stairs of the city gate, climbed up the city gate, and wrapped him in the down jacket, who was shivering from the cold.

Seeing me coming, he smiled slightly, squinted his eyes and looked at me, and asked, "Shannan, can I dance well?"

"Fool, I really can't freeze you to death."

I said, and then urged him to quickly remove his makeup, change his clothes, and follow me back to the hotel.After saying goodbye to Xiaomei, Shuibei and I went back to the hotel.

As soon as he got back to the hotel, Shuibei kept sneezing because of the hot and cold.Seeing him sneeze, I urged him to take a bath, let him take a nap after taking a bath, and have a good rest.

In the evening, when I went out to buy dinner and came back, Shui Bei lying on the bed was hoarse, and said to me:

"Brother, I seem to have a fever."

Hearing this, I put down the takeaway in my hand, sat on the edge of the bed, looked at the little man lying in the bed, and touched his forehead, it was really hot.

"How? Dizzy? Throwing up? Or something?" I asked.

"A little dizzy."

"Oh, let you mess around, it's better now, I'm sick."

I complained, then twisted a towel, put it on his head, and rushed out to buy antipyretics.

On the way back to the hotel, it was snowing heavily in Hengdian that night.

"Come on, take the antipyretics first." I helped Shui Bei to sit up, and then handed him the antipyretics and water.

He frowned, his face was pale, he was sweating profusely, and looked very weak.

After he took the medicine, I simply cleaned up.After taking a bath, I saw him sleeping in a daze, and I didn't wake him up. I just sat next to him, lest he suddenly want to drink water or eat something.

"I have to ask you to take care of me. It's troublesome." Shui Bei opened his sleepy eyes and said to me in a low voice.

"No trouble, I'd be more than happy."

As I said, I tucked up the wrinkled corners of the quilt, lest the cold wind, like a mischievous little ghost, sneak into his quilt and make his illness worse.

"It's snowing again." Lying down, Shui Bei looked out the window, then laughed twice, and said:

"A snow day is really a special day for both of us. We meet when it snows and part when it snows."

After a pause, he looked at me and asked me seriously, "Why are you so persistent?"

That's right, why should I be obsessed with him? I can obviously find someone else to fall in love with, get together, and then start a family and start a business and spend the rest of my life together.

Why are you so paranoid that it's up to him?

"People say that being greedy is a wonderful thing. There is joy to be greedy, and someone to fall in love with. It can be regarded as a happy life."

I replied, facing Shangshuibei's eyes, I just smiled wryly, and said:

"So, what do you think of me? A big idiot who is chasing after me?"

"It's not like that." Shui Bei murmured while looking at the ceiling, denying my words.

"What was that like?" I asked back.

Shui Bei was silent at first, then lifted his quilt, patted the bed lightly, and said, "Li Shannan, go to bed."

"Ah?" I was a little puzzled by Monk Zhanger, what does Shuibei mean?

"It's been a long time since we slept together, let's go to bed." Shui Bei replied, and then shrank his body inside to make room for me.

I rolled over on the bed, got into the bed, and lay down, looking at the bent back, the scars on my back that I knew so well.

Shui Bei got up with difficulty, and turned off the only light in the room, and I asked the naked back:

"Why are you turning your back on me?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Shui Bei twisted his body, turned around, sucked the snot in his nose again, and said to me, "I'm afraid I might infect you with a cold."

Knowing the reason, I chuckled, stretched out my hands, put him in my arms, let him approach me, and said:

"It's okay, just let me help you share a little."

Shuibei has suffered so much in his short life, and there are too many things on his shoulders, so that I hope so much that he can rely on me, let me understand the pain in his heart, and let me help him more carry some.

In the dark and quiet room, he put his arms around my waist, like a restless child, and I could hear each other's heartbeat and breathing.

Thinking about the past so many years, I sighed, rubbed that hot face, and said softly:

"Bai Shui Bei, it's been two years, and I still love you."

"I know, Li Shannan."

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