Chapter 388: Chilling

After dinner, change into a clean and refreshing costume.

At this time, Zhang Yuan's appearance was completely different from the one-armed blue-clothed look he had during the day. He was now wearing the brown suit he wore in the early days.

Because the scene to be filmed tonight is an early plot, which tells the story of Li Mochou returning to the ancient tomb to seize the Heart Sutra, and the master and apprentice working together to fight the enemy.

There are three women and one man acting in this play, namely Li Mochou, Hong Lingbo and Xiaolongnu.

There are only five people in the Tomb Clan, and four of them are fighting among themselves...

The only one who didn't come was Lu Wushuang. It wasn't because he didn't like internal fighting, but he had already stolen the secret book of his master Li Mochou and ran away.

Are there any serious people in your Tomb Sect?
Having worn wet clothes the entire day today, Zhang Yuan changed into dry clothes. Just as he warmed himself up for a moment, he began to smile bitterly.

"I have to soak it in water later and keep it wet."

When they arrived at the ancient tomb scene, the three actresses all had a good relationship with him and greeted him as soon as they saw him.

"Coming!"

"Hello, Brother Zhang Yuan."

The master and his disciple Li Mochou were reciting the lyrics, while Xiaolongnu smiled, nodded at him, and then waved gently.

"I have a cold."

"Hmm." Liu Qianqian sniffed.

I flew to Wuhan during the day yesterday to celebrate the New Year with my elderly parents, and then flew back in the evening. The weather was cold and I was tired, so I caught a cold.

Not to mention her, Liu Qianqian's physical fitness is very good.

Many staff members in the crew suffered from headaches and fevers. The work pressure of the crew is indeed quite high.

"What's the matter?" he asked when he saw her acting suspiciously.

"My godfather investigated the matter of Sister Meng Guangmei, and it turned out to be just as you said. There is something wrong with that Italian."

"I see."

Zhang Yuan thought that Liu Xiaoli didn't talk to him in person but asked her daughter to convey the message, which showed that she didn't want to get involved in this matter.

In fact, helping with the investigation was already a way of giving him face, and it was done out of consideration for our normal friendship.

This matter is indeed difficult to explain and rather troublesome, and we have to find a good time to do it.

"By the way, the water is very cold now, so you have to be careful." Zhang Yuan recalled his experience during the day.

"I can hold on!" Liu Qianqian immediately said seriously, "Don't look down on me."

"Besides, when we were filming The Legend of Sword and Fairy, didn't we also go into the water in the lotus pond in winter?"

"I have experience, I'm not afraid." She was still as stubborn as ever.

Then she relaxed her eyes, held her chin with both hands, and asked in a tender voice, "Are you worried about me?"

"I'm reminding you."

"You just worry about me."

“Okay, okay, okay.”

"Hey hey hey..."

"But this scene is different from the lotus pond in The Legend of Sword and Fairy."

"Same." Liu Qianqian's eyes sparkled as she looked at him, "Aren't you always by my side?"

I'm talking to you about something, but you always talk to me about other things.

No one knew which bastard designed this scene, but soon, Zhang Yuan and Liu Qianqian were tied to a tree stump that was about one person tall with hemp ropes.

Of course, the tree stump is made of plastic. If it were made of solid wood, both of them would not be able to lift such a large piece of wood even if they worked together.

Being tied up was still considered okay. What was more cruel than making him jump into the stream in the morning was that they would both be tied to this tree stump and thrown into the pool of water nearby.

According to the plot design, this was a torture method used by Li Mochou to force the two to hand over the "Jade Girl Heart Sutra".

Tie the master and disciple to both sides of a wooden stake. Once they get into the water, only one of them will be above the water, while the other will drown and suffer.

According to the story and character psychology, this scene is actually reasonable.

Because what Li Mochou did went beyond wanting to torture the two people to obtain the "Jade Girl Heart Sutra".

But she was jealous when she saw that there was a man treating her junior sister so well, and she thought of her past with Lu Zhanyuan.

He wanted to use this method to witness the two people sacrificing each other for their own survival and expose the feelings between Long Guo and the two.

She had been hurt, so she wanted to prove that all men in the world were like this, not just the one she met.

Otherwise, wouldn't it be you who is wrong?
Li Mochou is extremely radical, and this method is consistent with her character.

So even though this scene required going into the water, which would be very tiring and cold, Zhang Yuan would never say no.

One must be reasonable in what he does and does, and he can tolerate anything that is beneficial to his work.

But what bothered him was the crew's filming methods.

In this drowning scene, they made the two protagonists really drown!
The underwater cover for the camera was ready. After the two people went into the water, they really had to shoot while fully immersed in water.

Generally, TV drama crews use special effects for underwater shots like this, and real shots are rare.

"Come on, get ready. Li Mochou will speak first, then she will flick her whisk and the wire team will pull Yang Guo and Xiao Long Nu up."

Yu Min and Zhao Jian are both here at the moment, and everything is arranged together.

"ACTION!"

"Junior sister, you asked for this."

"Don't blame me for being rude!"

call!
Meng Guangmei, with purple hair and green clothes, turned around, swung his silver whisk in an arc, and then raised his hand to strike.

The next second, Zhang Yuan felt himself rising into the air and flying towards the center of the pool.

"Card!"

Change angle.

After shooting several times, this shot was finally passed.

The next shot is the scene of two people falling into the water, which is followed by the previous one.

These shots of falling into water from mid-air must be cut and filmed separately, otherwise it would be too dangerous.

"After filming the scene where the two of you fall into the water together, we'll separately film the scenes where you struggle individually underwater." Zhao Jian stepped forward and said.

"Xiao Longnu has a cold, Zhang Yuan, let her shoot first, so she can go back and rest early after the shoot."

"No need."

Before he could say anything, the stubborn Xiao Long Nu spoke first: "I can insist."

"Just listen to the director." Zhang Yuan ignored her.

"I can."

"Don't talk nonsense." Zhang Yuan glanced at her and said, "Hurry up. If you hadn't wasted time during the day, I would have been watching TV and eating barbecue in the hotel right now."

"Woo..." She pouted, looking unhappy.

Boom!
Not long after, the two people were dropped into the air by the wire team, about one meter above the water surface. As the camera turned on and the cable loosened, they fell into the water.

This time, Zhang Yuan requested that he be at the bottom and Xiaolongnu be at the top.

He came to hit the water, which was safer.

Gululu.

Once he entered the water, the icy water soaked through the three layers of his costume in less than two seconds.

The feeling of being enveloped in coldness is really uncomfortable.

The moment he came into contact with the ice water, he involuntarily took a deep breath.

He also felt that, perhaps because it was already night, the water seemed colder than during the day.

How cold is it?

He was so cold that his penis almost shrank into his stomach!

"Puff...Ha!" Zhang Yuan took a deep breath after being pulled out of the water a few seconds later.

"Is the lens okay?"

“We have to do it again.”

"Grandma's..."

The two were hung up again.

Xiao Longnu was better off because she was on top and only the hem of her skirt was wet, while most of her body was dry.

"Pull it up a little bit, yes, a little bit higher, it was exposed just now."

At the director's request, the two were hung to a height of more than two meters but less than three meters, which was twice as high as before.

"Zhang Yuan, are you cold?" Liu Qianqian asked from across the tree stump, directly above him.

"You'll know after you experience it yourself." Zhang Yuan replied with a deep breath.

"I brought some hot ginger tea. I'll give it to you to drink during the break to warm your body." She knew that Zhang Yuan had offered to take care of her downstairs, so she said this a little embarrassedly.

Before Zhang Yuan could reply, the director on the other end shouted, "Get ready."

"Come... throw it!"

There are two safety locks on both sides of the wooden stake. When the action team presses the switch, the two ropes are released together and the stake can be smashed down straight.

But I don’t know whether it was water that got in or there was a minor problem with the machine.

This time, one of the locks was more than a second slow in releasing it.

It didn't matter that they were slow, the two of them immediately flipped sideways in the air.

By the time the other lock was loosened and fell down again, the two people on the wooden stake had reversed, with Xiaolongnu facing downwards and Yang Guo facing upwards.

Boom!
After falling into the water, Liu Qianqian was not prepared and felt a large amount of cold pool water rushing into her mouth and nose.

The sour and uncomfortable feeling spread from her nasal cavity to her lungs, and in an instant she felt the pain of a drowning person.

"So he was so cold just now..." The moment this thought flashed through her mind, she felt her whole body twitching, from her hands and feet to her neck, no part of her body obeyed her commands.

During the day before, she shot a whole day of fighting scenes, half of which involved hanging on wires and spinning in the air.

I had already caught a cold and had depleted a lot of energy, and now the sudden shock of cold water made me become stiff.

My heart was so cold that it skipped several beats.

The chilling feeling of death spreads throughout the body. Only those who have experienced it can understand the feeling of being a living dead, where one is conscious but unable to move.

Fear filled my heart, but it was only fleeting.

"Pull!" Several big men from the action team stepped forward and tried to pull the two men ashore, just like last time.

But I was horrified to find that I couldn't pull it anymore!

They forgot a few things.

Xiaolongnu's hair weighs six or seven kilograms, and the gauze dress she wears is even more layered.

Once soaked in water, the weight increases dramatically.

In addition, she was at the bottom this time, falling straight down. The big men felt as if they had become several times heavier and their feet kept slipping.

Zhang Yuan knew something was wrong, but his hands and feet were also tied to the stakes. He struggled a few times to loosen them slightly, but it was too late to completely free himself. Seeing that the big men had pulled two or three times, each time only lifting a little bit, he knew that these few people alone could not do it.

There are already several props and lighting guys running here.

But he estimated that the two had been in the water for thirty or forty seconds, and it would be bad if they delayed any further.

He closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, strengthened his waist, and exerted all his strength. He turned suddenly to the left, and with the buoyancy of the water, the wooden stake also flipped over.

With a gurgling sound, the wet white clothes and the frozen little dragon girl came to the surface of the water.

Zhang Yuan prepared himself and held his breath before entering the water.

The water was not too deep, only about the height of a person. When he stood in the water, most of his head was visible.

With a little more effort, the rope around his legs finally came loose.

He put his legs on the ground, stepped on the bottom of the water, and pushed upwards with force.

The guys on the water and the few who had just arrived also exerted their strength at this time, and then they pulled the two men ashore.

"Cough cough cough..." Zhang Yuan supported himself with his hands and knelt down on the ground with difficulty.

"Sissi, are you okay?"

I only heard Zhao Jian asking in a low voice beside me.

The little dragon girl, who was shocked by the ice water and had become stiff as a string and unable to speak, was pulled ashore. She lay stiffly on the ground and has not moved at all since then.

"Maybe he choked on water? Should I do CPR?"

"No, artificial respiration."

"Hmm!" Zhang Yuan, who was feeling uncomfortable all over, heard this and stood up from the ground with a somersault. He waved his hand and said, "Let me do it!"

He left the crowd and came to Liu Qianqian.

"You need to press the chest first, then blow air. I know what you are doing." Zhang Yuan volunteered to squat down.

"Really? Then hurry up!" Zhao Jian was worried that something might happen and didn't care about anything else.

Zhang Yuan then put his palms together and pressed them against Xiaolongnu's chest.

then……

Just as he was about to reach his goal, a thin arm blocked that plain chest.

"I'm fine." Liu Qianqian's lips were pale but her cheeks were slightly red.

"I'm glad you're okay. Bring me a towel!" Zhao Jian breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that she could speak.

Zhang Yuan stood up with some annoyance, acting like Mr. Fu Biao in "Big Shot".

Just one step away!

Shaking his head, he pulled Zhao Jian aside.

"did you see?"

"what?"

"Freezing the girls like this."

"Uh... I saw it."

"I was as cold as a grandson during the day, and my generation has been reduced to nothing." Zhang Yuan said with a serious expression: "I understand that the crew is filming."

"If the effect is to be realistic, I understand that."

"But it's really inhumane to shoot underwater scenes in this weather."

"This..." Zhao Jian was also worried.

"If nothing else, at least there has to be some way to keep warm, otherwise something bad will happen sooner or later."

"Okay, you're right. I'll think of a solution tonight and I'll definitely solve this problem tomorrow."

Zhao Jian is a martial arts director from Hong Kong Island. He is a commoner and easy to communicate with.

Generally when shooting underwater scenes, all you do is wrap it in plastic wrap or something.

But with the temperature of the water, plastic wrap probably won't be of any use.

Zhao Jian asked the people in the action crew for a long time, and then he called someone to ask, and then he came to the actors.

"Well, I'll contact the water project company in the nearby scenic area and ask them to lend me a few diving suits. They're warm and close fitting, so I can wear them under my costumes and they won't be noticeable."

Zhang Yuan and several other actresses readily agreed that Zhao Jian was efficient and would use any tricks as long as they worked.

Unlike Yu Min, who graduated from a professional school, he likes to argue when encountering problems and is far less efficient than him.

"Zhang Yuan, ginger tea." While sitting aside to rest, Liu Qianqian brought a thermos cup.

[Received thanks from Liu Xixi, appearance +1! ]

"No cup?"

"Just drink it directly from your mouth." Xiao Longnu stuffed the thermos cup into his hand.

If I had been a step slower to stop you, you would have been doing mouth to mouth, and you still care about this... she thought.

She knew that if Zhang Yuan hadn't helped her just now, even if nothing happened to her, she would still feel uncomfortable for a long time.

She was really scared. She didn't want to experience that stiff feeling again.

Zhang Yuan didn't hesitate and drank it all in one gulp.

Turning around, I saw Liu Qianqian patting the back of her neck with a look of pain on her face.

"what happened?"

"I was already feeling a little sore, and after being chilled just now, I feel a little numb and a little painful now."

Zhang Yuan reached out and touched her. She lifted up her wet hair on her own initiative. She was very used to it and was not shy at all.

"With such heavy hair and the constant hanging on wires, the bones in your neck seem to be a little abnormal. Go check it out as soon as you get a chance." Zhang Yuan reminded after touching it carefully.

"You should have told me earlier that you were not feeling well."

"No discomfort."

Zhang Yuan knew very well that this girl was stubborn, so he held back and said nothing.

"This is what they call "If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight."

"Are you cold?" she asked when she saw Zhang Yuan exhaling white air.

"I'm used to it. How about you?"

"not cold!"

"If you're not cold, why are you shivering?"

Both of them were soaked and sat aside with towels wrapped around them. They couldn't change clothes and had to continue filming.

Seeing that the props man over there was still a long time to adjust the equipment and had nothing to do, he turned around.

"What are your plans for the future?"

"what?"

"After filming this movie."

"I'm back at school. I missed a lot of classes." Liu Qianqian wrapped herself in a towel and came over to whisper, "My mom and my agent said so."

"I am not allowed to film scenes with a beard anymore."

“It’s too tiring, takes a long time, and I lose money.”

This was obviously something that no one else could know, but she still told herself.

"So what are you going to do next?"

"My godfather is contacting several record companies..." she whispered.

In those days, it was very common for actors who were good at acting to also sing. Cheng Hao, Yuan Quan, and even Zhou Xun with his smoky voice released albums.

But Zhang Yuan knew.

From this step on, Liu Qianqian's personal plan actually had some minor deviations.

And this bias is difficult to correct, because some choices are the best solution at the moment, but not necessarily in the long run.
And her problem is not only in planning, but also in her personal character.

Her personality is actually not suitable for the domestic entertainment industry.

"Can you sing?"

"Of course!" She raised her head: "I like Wang Fei the most. I can sing all her songs."

"Oh, Wang Fei, I know her."

"Oh, yes, you know her. Can you take me to meet my idol?" She remembered that when she was filming "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils", Zhang Yuan and Big Beard had been to Wang Fei's house together.

“Can you play Mahjong?”

"will not."

"Then you won't be able to see her." Zhang Yuan thought to himself that if you don't know how to play cards, Old Wang won't bother with a little girl like you.

"Don't you believe me? I'll sing for you!" Her stubbornness came back.

"I haven't felt it properly yet." She spoke in her half-cooked, sweet voice with a hint of milk.

The song he sang was "Red Bean" by Wang Fei.

"A climate where snow blooms."

"We tremble together... and we will better understand what gentleness is."

Zhang Yuan listened leisurely. The singing was neither good nor bad, just okay for an amateur.

Liu Qianqian looked at herself and the other person who were shivering wet in the snow and ice, and thought of the lyrics again.

This song and this scene are so similar.

“So this song is about this feeling.”

She looked at Yang Guo's profile beside her, and saw his high nose bridge and melancholy eyes, and her heart trembled slightly.

It was like a seven-colored divine deer crashed into my heart.

After being stunned for a second, he smiled and continued speaking.

"I haven't held your hand yet."

"Walking across the barren sand dunes."

"Maybe from now on... I will learn to cherish eternity."

"Sometimes...sometimes..."

“I will believe that everything has an end.”

"There is a time to come together and a time to leave... Nothing lasts forever."

"But I...sometimes."

"I would rather choose to stay and not let go."

“Wait until you’ve seen all the scenery.”

"Maybe you will accompany me to watch the long flow of water..."

The girl's singing voice echoed in the closed scene, and it seemed that the biting air became a little softer with the rhythm of the music... (End of this chapter)