golden moonlight

In the summer of 1985, Sui Tan left Shanghai, where he was born and grew up, for the first time in his life.

He took the green leather train for the first time, and the outside of the swaying carriage was full of scenes he had never seen before, the endless railway tracks, the cool tunnel, the big lake with blue waves, and the long bridge across the river. It's all so fresh.

But these novelties did not make him happy.He left Shanghai alone, carrying a heavy luggage, carrying all the things he could bring, and after taking the train, he needed to transfer three buses to reach his destination.

It was the place where his father used to jump in the queue, a small village that couldn't be named.Every time he changed cars, Sui Tan's frown became tighter. When he got on the last car, what Sui Tan saw outside the car window were endless mountains and hills, occasionally mixed with pieces of tofu. The fields are the same, and the livestock that I have only seen on books, newspapers and TVs appear near or far in the fields. Everything that is unfamiliar makes Sui Tan's face extremely gloomy.It's obviously a fair, delicate and pretty face, but it makes people shy away and dare not talk to him.

The person who came to pick him up was a local villager surnamed Geng. He was over 70 years old, his child died young, and he and his wife were always alone. They had a bad life in the village.When Sui Tan's father came here to jump in the queue, he once helped the old couple hunt for meat all winter. There were some wild rabbits for the small ones, and a wild boar for the biggest ones.Sui Tan's father was not a fuel-efficient lamp since he was a child. He made his own gun and dared to go hunting. It was this wild nature that made him give up his job in Shanghai and choose to do business in the sea.

No, more precisely, it should be "speculation".

Living in the most cutting-edge city in the country, Sui Tan's father has a keen sense of touch that allows him to know what is scarce and easy to sell on the black market.He "purchases" illegally from the coastal and southern regions, and even Hong Kong and Taiwan, and then sells them at high prices in inland cities. As long as you are brave enough, this is almost a lucrative business.

But the stakes are high.Sui Tan's father felt the pressure from his family within two years of his job.His wife has disappeared for a long time, his father and mother have passed away one after another, and no one can help him take care of the children anymore.What's more, his job made him have the possibility of being visited from time to time. Although he could travel all over the country, and even hide in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Sui Tan could not.

After all, Sui Tan is just a kid who hasn't graduated from junior high school.

So my father sent Sui Tan to the countryside, the most remote and safest place he could think of.

It was also the place Sui Tan least wanted to come to.

He was not close to his father since he was a child.His father spends less time at home, and spends even less time with him. From childhood to adulthood, Suitan was raised by his mother, grandparents, and grandparents, but he had no father.But even though he was not close to his father, he never thought that he would end up with the tragic fate of being sent to the mountains by his father not long after his grandparents passed away.

He was abandoned by his father.The young Sui Tan still couldn't understand his father's situation and thoughts, let alone his father didn't let him understand.A man always puts his career first. Educating children is a woman's business. He doesn't need to explain too much to his son.

Father asked Sui Tan to bring an envelope of money to old man Geng, which made old man Geng feel a little at a loss.Sui Tan looked indifferently at old man Geng, who shook his hands and glanced into the envelope, then folded the envelope hastily in fright, Sui Tan hated that petty look from the bottom of his heart.

"Take it. Anyway, he only has a lot of money, and he can't give anything else."

Sui Tan couldn't understand what old man Geng said in response.Old man Geng's words were sloppy, and Sui Tan could only understand one or two out of ten sentences. Anyway, he didn't want to talk to these people at all, so he didn't listen or speak at all, and just moved his own things to live. Entered old man Geng's adobe house.

Here he began what he thought was a dark new life.

Still have to learn.Sui Tan is already fifteen years old, and he will graduate from junior high school in one year. There is a junior high school in the village, and there is only one class for each grade. What he went to school was something he knew before he entered junior high school. He couldn't understand what the teacher said, and he couldn't understand what the classmates said.Not only did he not understand, but whenever those people looked at Sui Tan with the eyes of "people from outside", he felt disgusted from the bottom of his heart, and he didn't want to stay in this environment for a minute.

So what if you go to school, so what if you don't go to school.Sui Tan thought to himself, anyway, he would spend the rest of his life in this shitty ravine, why did he still have to go to school?Once the young and angry heart was enveloped by hatred, he almost lost the ability to think normally. After that, Sui Tan spent almost every day in the deserted mountains, and he would rather spend the whole day with him. Those plants and trees he doesn't know and can't speak are companions, and he doesn't want to get along with those he hates.

The sun rises and the sun sets, the stars turn and the stars move. Within a few days, Sui Tan was so numb that he didn't know whether his heart would beat or not.He can't speak three words a day, and often lies on a hillside for a whole day, only the hillsides with different plants can bring him a sense of freshness.

I don't know how many days it was, but he came to a red hillside.

Not only red, but red and green.There are crimson fruits in the green leaves, which look plump and attractive.Sui Tan was attracted by the rich crimson color. He stepped forward and carefully observed the red fruit. He couldn't recognize what kind of plant it was, but felt that the color and shape looked more like a fruit. A small, blood-red heart.

He looked up for a while, then reached out and picked a fruit, put it to his nose and sniffed it.Sui Tan's nose was lightly inhaled a mix of sour and ripe breath, he hesitated for a while, wrapped the fruit in the corner of his clothes, and wiped the fruit carefully with the cloth there.

He made up his mind to take a bite, and suddenly, a strong fruity sour smell filled his mouth instantly.Sui Tan had never eaten something so sour in his life, and immediately shrank, threw away the remaining fruit in his hand and stood there, being so sour that he stomped his feet.

"Bah! Bah!" He spat out the pulp in his mouth, so sour that tears came out.

"Who is it!" A clear voice came from the red and green trees.If it was normal, Sui Tan might have turned around and ran away when he heard the voice. He is interested in trees and fruits, but not in people at all.But now he was so sore that he couldn't straighten up, there was no room for him to run.

There was a rustling in the woods, and then the sound of a person's footsteps came directly in front of Sui Tan.

"Huh?" The man made a surprised voice, and then said something Sui Tan couldn't understand.Sui Tan didn't want to listen at all, he turned around and walked back while trying to open his sore eyes, but the man stopped him and said something simple that Sui Tan could understand.

"Eat this!" the man said, and then a small porcelain bottle appeared in Sui Tan's sight after finally recovering.

It was an inconspicuous little bottle, but the hand holding it was small and looked quite soft.Sui Tan followed this hand and raised his head to look, and saw a handsome country boy, about his age, looking at him curiously and worriedly.

Seeing that he didn't take the bottle, the boy said again: "Sweet, eat it."

Maybe it was because Sui Tan could understand these two sentences, maybe it was because he was so sour that he heard it was sweet, and Sui Tan immediately felt that he needed this sugar so much.He stretched out his sour curled up body, took the bottle from the boy's hand with a wrinkled face, and opened it to have a look.

I can't see what it is, there are only pieces of irregular pulp, but after opening it, there is indeed a sweet smell that makes the index finger waft out.Sui Tan raised his eyes to look at the young man, who was looking at him expectantly, unable to hide any thoughts on his innocent face.

Sui Tan poured out a piece of fruit pulp and put it in his mouth.

It is indeed delicious.Sweet and sour, the meat is also very solid.Sui Tan seemed to have tasted this taste before, he recalled it, and then looked into the bottle again.

"Is it hawthorn?" He asked the boy holding the bottle.The boy nodded, a simple smile appeared on his face.

"Yes, I did it myself."

Sui Tan looked at the boy, and felt for the first time that there was someone here who could communicate with him.Although the young man spoke with a heavy accent, he spoke few words and articulated clearly, so it didn't take much effort to understand what he said.

More importantly, Sui Tan has been alone for too long.It's not that he doesn't want to communicate with people, it's just that he doesn't want to communicate with people he hates.The boy who gave him candied hawthorn... Indeed, at least he didn't dislike him.

Seeing Sui Tan sizing him up and not speaking, the young man seemed a little embarrassed.He retracted the hand that was holding the bottle, wiped it on the corner of his clothes, and his eyes flickered.Obviously he helped Sui Tan, but at this moment it seemed like he had done something wrong.

"Mountain, hawthorn... sour, you can't eat it directly." He said this sentence as if he was out of words, and because of his stuttering, he spoke very slowly, so Sui Tan understood it.Sui Tan looked up at the green leaves and red fruits on their heads in surprise: "So this is hawthorn?"

The boy was also a little surprised: "You don't know Hawthorn?"

He said this as if Sui Tan was an idiot, Sui Tan's complexion immediately turned ugly. "Why do I want to know each other." He said this, and he didn't intend to talk to the young man any more. He just thought that the people here are really annoying, and then he turned around and wanted to leave.

The young man didn't know which sentence he said wrong, he just felt that this person seemed to be upset.He froze for a moment, then hurriedly grabbed Sui Tan again, but he didn't know what to do, so he just stuffed the bottle in his hand to him again.

"You, you take it!"

Sui Tan frowned, looking at the bottle of hawthorn stuffed inexplicably.Fearing that he would not pick it up, the boy hurriedly pointed in one direction and said, "I still have a lot at home, and I can make them. If you like it, let me give it to you!"

Although there were not many words in this passage, the young man spoke in a hurry, and his accent immediately became thicker.Fortunately, he is easy to understand even when he speaks and gestures. Sui Tan looked at him anxiously, and the temper just now disappeared, so he found it interesting.

I don't know why, this boy seems to want to please him?

So Sui Tan stopped in his tracks and asked with great interest, "You know how to do it? How do you do it?"

Seeing that he wasn't unhappy anymore, the young man immediately softened his expression, his eyes sparkled, and he chatted a lot with him, most of which Sui Tan didn't quite understand.Originally, he wasn't really interested in making candied hawthorns, so he interrupted the boy before he finished speaking, and asked another question: "What are you doing here?"

The young man froze for a moment, and then looked in the direction where he appeared - there seemed to be more dense hawthorn trees, all bearing red and surprisingly sour fruits.

"I'm picking hawthorns. They're ripe and I'm going to pick them and sell them."

Only then did Sui Tan understand.It turns out that the boy grows hawthorn?

"Are you picking it alone? Isn't this the work of adults, your parents don't care?"

Hearing this question, the boy's expression was not as happy as before.He lowered his head slightly, and said in a low voice, as if he felt a little shameful: "My family only has grandma, and her legs and feet are not convenient... I will pick it..."

Sui Tan's heart tightened.Regardless of whether his question was probing the privacy of a person he didn't even know, he didn't care whether he had uncovered someone's scars, and he just asked bluntly: "What about your parents? They are not at home. Where did you go?"

The boy lowered his head, grabbed the corner of his clothes, and said, "I don't know..."

From Sui Tan's perspective, he couldn't see the young man's expression, but could only hear the undisguised and undisguised numbness in his still somewhat shameful voice.

Same numbness to parents as Sui Tan.

For a moment, Sui Tan had a hallucination, as if the red, sour hawthorn fruits hanging all over the mountains and fields were all hearts still tinged with blood.

It's all about your own heart.

And this young man who picked hawthorn picked his own heart one by one without knowing it, maybe sold it, maybe soaked it in sugar, and made it into bottles, jars of sweet and sour taste candied hawthorn.

"What's your name?" He asked the boy in a strange way.

The young man raised his head in surprise, and looked at Sui Tan's eyes, which were a little dazed at first, but after realizing that Sui Tan asked his name, those eyes lit up.

"Shi Xiaozha. My name is Shi Xiaozha."

He seemed to understand that Sui Tan didn't quite understand what they said here, so he wiped his hand on the corner of his clothes, then took Sui Tan's hand, and wrote stroke by stroke with his thin fingers Write down your name.

Teacher Xiaozha.

That's all the crew has done in the first week of filming.In fact, when it comes to the progress, the progress is almost the same as what Rong Yi expected, but Rong Yi can clearly feel that they could have filmed faster.

The biggest problem affecting the progress is that they adopted the opinions of Lou Yongrui and NUERA, and used a motion capture device.

The purpose of this set of equipment is to perfectly capture the facial expressions of the actors using the equipment. After professional rendering, the actors on the screen can be age-reduced.Given that both Rong Yi and Qu Haiyao will play children who are 30 years younger than their actual age, after several times of creative analysis of makeup and styling, Lou Yongrui and NUERA finally proposed a plan to use this set.

The equipment is easy to use, yes, but this means that Rong Yi and Qu Haiyao have to wear strange devices on their faces to complete the performance and filming, and not for one or two scenes, but for the entire teenage years The filming stage must be posted.

This was an unprecedented experience for Rong Yi and Qu Haiyao, and it caused a lot of obstacles in shooting.Originally, both of them could enter the characters and the plot smoothly, but when they saw the device on each other's face, they immediately realized that it was acting, and then laughed instantly.The first day of filming was terrible. Not only were the two of them laughing, but the other actors who played with them were also very difficult to get into the scene. The whole set was completely messed up by this new gadget.

After Rong Yi wanted to cry for a day without any tears, on the second day he worked up all the energy to get on with this thing.Their time was very tight. The filming location in their youth was in a real mountain village, and the conditions were very simple. Shang Jinsheng, who was invited to play the old man Geng, was old after all, and it was impossible to do it under such simple conditions. Work too long.Moreover, Rong Yi's condition is relatively ideal now. During the holiday period, she was fed a few pounds by Qu Haiyao, her face became rounder, and she looked closer to the state of a teenager.At the beginning, they imagined that Rong Yi could finish filming his youth when he was in good condition at the beginning of filming. When he was tortured by the filming work and made a ghostly appearance, he was just suitable to play Aunt Hawthorn in adulthood who is not human.

So they have no extra time to waste, and must execute according to the schedule.The progress on the first day was obviously slow. The original plan was to shoot at least two scenes on the first day, but there was not a single usable shot on the first day.After returning home from work at night, Rong Yi discussed with Qu Haiyao in the room for almost half the night, and changed the scene on the original announcement the next day, and first filmed the scene on the hillside where Sui Tan and Shi Xiaozhao first met. play.

As a result, the shooting of the scene on the second day went quite smoothly.Different from the situation of how to shoot, how to get stuck, how to shoot and how to laugh, this first encounter scene under the hawthorn tree is almost every shot.Rong Yi deliberately did not notify the actors on the original notice of the time change, but asked them to come to the scene to watch the filming of the scene. The actors present were all amazed at the excellent performance of Qu Haiyao and Rong Yi. The level is actually due to the long talk between the two last night.

Just like Rong Yi encountered a bottleneck when filming "The Flying Yesenia", he knew that there was no way, but he needed to create further.He and Qu Haiyao discussed a bold solution, that is, not to completely separate the characters from themselves, but to treat Sui Tan and Shi Xiaozhao as Qu Haiyao and Rong Yi in a parallel world.

"You mean, Sui Tan is you Qu Haiyao, just a Qu Haiyao who was born in Shanghai in the 70s and was thrown into a mountain village by his father when he was 15 years old. And Shi Xiaozha is me, just Is it the meaning of the hawthorn that grows in the mountain village?"

"Yes, that's what it means." Qu Haiyao excitedly said, "This is called a parallel world, and I think many people like it."

"Who likes to do this? How come I haven't heard of it?"

Hearing this, a weird smirk appeared on Qu Haiyao's face, obviously not serious. "It's the CP fans of the two of us! They often create various parallel worlds, for example, I am an uneducated gangster prince, and you are the second in command of the gangster, although you always want to usurp the throne after my dad dies , but in the end we two got involved, you will not usurp the throne, but become the successor sister-in-law of the gangster."

Rong Yi was stunned when he heard it: "Fuck, it's quite interesting...do you have such a thing now?"

"Yes. Some fans write novels, and some fans make videos. It's so much fun! They even cut our sex scene!"

Rong Yi was almost choked to death by her own saliva. "Is this group of fans going to do it day by day..."

"That's right!" Qu Haiyao was also filled with righteous indignation, but the target and tolerance were obviously different. "We're useless enough, we've had sex so many times, yet we still need fans to cut the bed scenes for us!"

Rong Yi was startled by Qu Haiyao's stinky and shameless posture, stared at him wide-eyed for a long time but couldn't hold back a word, and finally had to pinch his face hard to show his indignation.But this idea really attracted Rong Yi, he simply grabbed the script and started weaving a "parallel world" in his mind facing the scene.

The second day of shooting proved that their thinking and hard work really worked.Under the effect of this "parallel world", even if there is a strange trap on Rong Yi's face, this person is still Rong Yi himself.Qu Haiyao no longer thinks about Sui Tan or Shi Xiaozha in his mind. This is the story of Qu Haiyao and Rong Yi. Standing in front of him is Rong Yi. This is the first meeting between him and Rong Yi. .

After the first shot, Rong Yi and Qu Haiyao leaned behind the monitor to see the effect at the same time. Both of them felt that this method directly led to an obvious result, which was the love reaction between Qu Haiyao and Rong Yi. , and now it fully affects the relationship between Sui Tan and Shi Xiaozha.Even though it was just the first time they met, even though the two grasped the points of their respective roles very well, when they appeared in the same screen and got along with each other, anyone could see that there was a secret surge between them that was different from their relationship with them. something between others.

Who said love is invisible?Qu Haiyao looked at the monitor, and a thought came to his mind.Since there is such an obvious atmosphere different from others between lovers, then this is not invisible, not metaphysics, love must be a truth that modern science has not yet researched.

The fact that he and Rong Yi are in love must be a truth that surpasses modern science.