Guizhou is known for its reputation of "the land is not three feet flat, the sky is not clear for three days, and people do not have three cents of silver".

It can be seen that the natural conditions here are harsh and life is difficult.

In the 60s and 70s, the country shouted a slogan called...

"Prepare for war and famine for the people, and put good people and good horses on the third line."

As a result, a massive campaign to support the Third Front construction was launched in some southern regions, led by Guizhou.

Countless intellectuals, workers, teachers, and doctors left their homes, responded to the call, and went to other places to spend their youth.

This massive plan to support the Third Front was actually a helpless move under the threat of the Red Iron Curtain from the northern power.

At that time, the country even made plans to destroy the entire north with nuclear weapons.

The story premise of "Qinghong" takes place against such a background.

"Hi!"

Zhao Xunxun stayed in the capital to learn how to drive and get a driver's license, so he did not go to the set.

Zhang Yuan had no choice but to push his luggage by himself and came to a suburban mining machinery factory near GY City, the capital of Guizhou.

"Imported goods are different." Zhang Yuan pushed the expensive suitcase given by Meng Guangmei's sister and muttered as he walked.

At this moment, a clear and cheerful female voice suddenly came from not far ahead.

"Who..." He raised his head and looked from a distance, and found a tall and thin figure waving his arms and walking towards him.

You can feel that this person's steps are light and his whole state is very refreshed.

"long time no see!"

Gao Yuanyuan stopped one meter in front of him, her eyes flashing, and she kept looking at the man in front of her.

"Well, I haven't seen you for two years."

"almost."

He seems to be more handsome than before. Is it true that men grow up gradually?
Gao Yuanyuan found that Zhang Yuan's temperament was slightly different from before, and seemed sharper.

Kwada...Zhang Yuan hugged the other person.

"Ah!" Gao Yuanyuan exclaimed.

Zhang Yuan patted the man's back twice, then released his arm.

"You hugged me like this when we said goodbye last time, and now I'm giving it back to you."

“Hehehe…” Gao Yuanyuan recovered from her surprise and then started laughing with her hands covering her mouth.

He still remembered how they said goodbye... Hearing this, Zhou Zhiruo felt a sweet joy in her heart.

"I see you on TV all the time."

The two talked as they walked.

"Really? I often see you on TV, too." Zhang Yuan replied.

"I was too busy before. I had the opportunity to appear in "The World's Number One". I heard that you were in that crew."

"Well, it's a pity. It would definitely be more interesting if you came."

Zhang Yuan said this while observing Gao Yuanyuan.

Well, time flies.

I haven't seen her for two years, and her cheeks are obviously thinner. I wonder if she lost weight for the filming.

Gao Yuanyuan is the "permanent guest" of the Future Hupu Goddess Contest. She has been the runner-up for four consecutive times and won the championship for the fifth time, which is enough to prove her appearance and popularity among the audience.

Those who suppressed her in the previous four sessions were all masters.

Alyssa Chia, Chingmy Yau, Tong Liya, Liu Qianqian...

Besides, she and Sissi both look like the girl next door.

It’s just that Sissi is a naive little sister, while she is a bright and beautiful childhood sweetheart.

Sissi's facial features are relatively small, but she is just the opposite, with large facial features.

"By the way, how is your arm?" Gao Yuanyuan suddenly asked.

"Ah...it's healed a long time ago. The scar is very light now." Zhang Yuan raised his left wrist. There was a shallow, long scar on the inside of his wrist.

This was the scratch she sustained when she was on the set of The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, helping her block the flying fragments of a broken sword.

Gao Yuanyuan carefully touched it with her fingers and recalled the thrilling experience at that time.

"It was thanks to you that I reacted quickly, otherwise I would have been disfigured."

"It's okay. You look good no matter what." Zhang Yuan replied habitually.

"Hehehe...you are such a sweet talker. You wouldn't say that to all girls." Gao Yuanyuan blinked her big eyes and looked at him.

"I'm just telling the truth." Zhang Yuan replied seriously.

In the Chinese entertainment industry these days, there are indeed few who are prettier than her.

"Humph, I don't believe it." Gao Yuanyuan raised her head and then squinted at him: "By the way, where are the two young girls who came to visit the set that year?"

“They are grown up now.”

grass.

You have such a good memory.

When we were filming "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber", Shu Chang and Xixi came to visit the set and play.

Especially Liu Qianqian. When she showed up that year, even Gao Yuanyuan exclaimed that there are still masters out there.

There's no way. No matter how beautiful a woman is, she can't resist age. Liu Qianqian is eight years younger than her, so it's normal for her to have a sense of crisis.

"They have grown a lot." Zhang Yuan replied calmly: "I have worked with them several times."

“They’re all martial arts movies.”

Zhang Yuan thought for a moment and then said, "It's very tiring to film with them."

"It's still easier to film with you."

He was not talking nonsense. Filming with Shu Chang Xixi was either the work of a big beard or the unfortunate thing of climbing snowy mountains in "The Untold Story". How could it not be tiring?

In comparison, "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber" is really relaxing.

Zhang Yuan never tells a complete lie, always half truth and half lie.

"Yeah, hehe..." Gao Yuanyuan laughed charmingly when she heard him say that.

You see, what does the little girl know? It would be better for her to get along with me...she thought so.

"I'll take you to meet the director." The two came to the vicinity of the crew.

"Director Xiaoshuai... Anyway, have a good chat with him."

Seeing that she seemed to be hesitant to speak, Zhang Yuan knew what was going on.

"Hello, Director Wang."

"Oh, hello, you're here."

Coming in front of a middle-aged man with a round head and squinty eyes, Zhang Yuan bowed and greeted Wang Xiaoshuai who was sitting in the director's chair.

The other person responded with a smile, but did not stand up to welcome him.

Zhang Yuan understood why Gao Yuanyuan hesitated to speak; it was obvious that the director had something against him.

"It's okay, I'll say something good for you." After saying hello, Gao Yuanyuan came to the side and whispered in his ear.

"The director is not a bad person, he is just getting impatient."

What exactly happened?

This film was approved in the first quarter of last year and was invested by Star Media.

At that time, in order to ask for leave for Xixi in the "Legend of Sword and Fairy" crew and go to shoot "May Love" halfway, she took out "Qinghong" to exchange resources with him.

The film was originally scheduled to start shooting at the end of last year.

But it has been delayed until now, just to wait for him, the male lead!
Last fall, Director Wang proposed several times that he wanted to use Li Bing, who had worked with Gao Yuanyuan before and whom he had used several times, as the leading male role.

But Xingmei rejected it.

Later, as he waited and waited in vain, Director Wang went to ask Xingmei if she could replace her with someone else, otherwise it would be a waste of time to keep dragging it on.

Xingmei hesitated at first.

Although Liu Qianqian's first agent Liu Yonghui went to Star Media to become its general manager, Liu Xiaoli kept her promise and helped him to drag it on.

But he couldn't make the schedule, and the other party was also anxious.

I had originally discussed with Liu Xiaoli whether we could cooperate with this young man later.

But while they were still hesitating, something happened on the side of "Little Fish and Flower"!
Then, Xingmei stopped hesitating when she saw that he was becoming more and more famous.

I was even a little afraid that he wouldn't come.

After all, this is an art film and the pay is low.

After confirming again and again that he would definitely come, he asked Wang Xiaoshuai to wait for him.

Moreover, Zhang Yuan did not raise the price and only took the 200,000 yuan salary that was agreed upon at the time.

Xingmei estimated that Zhang Yuan’s current movie pay should be more than ten times this, so she thought he was very considerate and was more willing to wait for him.

Now that the investors have spoken, what else can Director Wang do?
Just hold it in.

Wang Xiaoshuai thought, I have made many movies and won the Silver Bear Award at Cannes, so I am considered a famous director.

You made me wait for a young actor for several months?
But Xingmei thought differently from him.

The film "Qinghong" is somewhat of a sad literary work, and it was adapted by Wang Xiaoshuai based on his own life experience.

The heroine Qinghong in the film is the daughter of a couple who came from Shanghai to Guizhou to support the Third Front.

Qinghong's father spent his entire life seeking an opportunity to return to the Magic City.

He wanted his daughter to return to the big city to live, and not spend her youth in the poor mountains like he did.

Wang Xiaoshuai's parents are from Shanghai who are supporting the third line.

Although Modu is known as a gathering place for "sophisticated egoists" on the Internet.

When the word "Magic City" is mentioned, many people sneer at it.

But in that year, as many as 150 million people from Shanghai traveled to various places to provide support on the third front, and this number does not include their families.

How many people does this city have in total?

So some things cannot be viewed one-sidedly. Wang Xiaoshuai’s parents are one of them. When he was two months old, he came to Guiyang with his parents.

Relying on his talent and connections, he entered the Affiliated High School of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and then entered the Beijing Film Academy, returning to a first-tier city.

But most people like his parents and like him can never go back.

A grain of sand in the era is like a mountain when it falls on everyone's shoulders.

Supporting the Third Front is glorious, but also hard.

At the same time, not everyone is willing.

Even if it is voluntary, not everyone will regret it.

Not to mention anything else, the fact that high school students in Shanghai and Beijing finish school at 5 o'clock is something that many students in second- and third-tier cities envy.

Not to mention the extremely rich educational resources and job opportunities in first-tier cities.

After coming to the Third Front Construction, I saw that the gap between my own life and the life of my children and those of my relatives in my hometown was getting wider and wider.

At this time, how many people would not be worried?

This is a natural contradiction between collective interests and individual interests, which cannot be simply explained by right or wrong.

Because this was adapted by Wang Xiaoshuai based on his own life, so it was actually him who wanted to make this film, not Xingmei.

As an investor, Star Media must be concerned about the issue of returns.

A movie like this, which deals with topics related to the negative impacts of national policies, is destined not to be released in mainland China.

Therefore, the way for this film to make money is simply to appear at overseas international awards ceremonies, and then sell copyrights and discs around the world.

As for CDs, they can also be sold in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

The presence of Zhang Yuan and Gao Yuanyuan, Zhou Zhiruo and Song Qingshu’s old partners, can add some selling points.

In this case, Xingmei needs Zhang Yuan's participation even more.

In fact, there is another reason why Wang Xiaoshuai is unhappy with Zhang Yuan.

After learning that the film was repeatedly postponed because of Zhang Yuan, Gao Yuanyuan has been speaking well of him.

"He's very good."

“I worked with him.”

"His image, temperament, and professional attitude are all very good..."

After hearing this, Wang Xiaoshuai felt very uncomfortable.

Wang Xiaoshuai first met Gao Yuanyuan during the filming of "Seventeen Years Old Bicycle".

Just like the first time Teng Wenji saw Yuan Quan.

Hey!
It was so stunning.

Gao Yuanyuan received ten love letters a day when she was in school, so how could she not understand this?

Goddess Gao knows very well that what you can’t get is the best.

This was a trick that Director Wang used, moving close and far away, which made this person very happy.

This is what they call "A wife is not as good as a concubine, a concubine is not as good as a maid, a maid is not as good as a prostitute, and a prostitute is not as good as a secret lover."

And stealing is worse than not stealing at all.

What is white moonlight?
If you roll in the sheets with someone every day, you are no longer called White Moonlight.

What you can’t get and can’t touch is called white moonlight.

It would be even better if he died young, that would be even more amazing.

If they don’t have what they want, they always praise another young actor.

Looking at the photo, he's pretty damn handsome.

Wang Dao felt very uncomfortable.

"Director Wang, is that our leading actor?" At this moment, a young man with a side-parted hair came to Wang Xiaoshuai's side.

"Yes."

"What a big deal, we have to wait so long for him." The young man said unhappily.

This person was the Qin Hao who became famous in the future.

He plays the second male lead in the film.

This person is a member of the famous Class 96 of the Central Academy of Drama, and is a classmate of Zhang Ziyi, Qin Hailu, Zeng Li, Hu Jing, and Liu Ye.

However, among this amazing lineup, Qin Hao was the top student in his major when he entered the school.

And back then, Zhang Ziyi, Liu Ye and the others were pulling their hair and crying in their quilts all day long because they couldn't hand in their performance assignments.

This old man does everything with ease and simplicity.

How could he not be arrogant in this situation?
But he is so awesome!
Oh, these guys who were far worse than me in school and had to rely on me for homework, have now ended up like this.

Then I am better than them. Shouldn’t I aim for the Best Actor award as soon as I graduate?
Then, he realized what it means that character determines destiny and what it means to start high and end low.

He thinks he is awesome, so he must be picky about the script.

If you are not the leading actor, you won’t go.

Don’t do anything that is not profound.

TV series...what the hell, I make movies!

Commercial Film?
I have artistic pursuits!
This guy had long rock hair in college and looked like an angry hipster.

In the first year after graduation, I turned down eight acting roles.

Look, how popular I am and how many people are looking for me.

I turned down three films the following year.

Don’t shoot if you are not satisfied.

In the third year, no one came to look for him.

Occasionally someone would call him and ask if he was still filming or if he had changed his career.

This person is really ruining his own life.

After much difficulty, I received a call from Wang Xiaoshuai, asking him to act in "Qinghong".

This guy knew that there were not many opportunities now, so he prepared very seriously for a long time.

After waiting for several months, there was still no news.

He thought the crew didn't want him anymore, so he panicked and called Director Wang.

Only then did I realize that the entire crew was waiting for the lead actor’s availability!

Who is it?

Who is so awesome?
Upon asking, I found out that he was a young man who graduated from a non-professional college and suddenly became popular in the past two years. He was a few years younger than him.

When he heard this, his arrogance came back.

Naturally, I feel uncomfortable.

Zhang Yuanke had no idea what he was thinking, and was led by Gao Yuanyuan to greet other actors.

There were only a few actors in this small crew, but we quickly became familiar with each other.

"Hello, hello." Teacher Yao Anlian, who plays Qinghong's father, is from Shanghai.

Wang Xiaoshuai specifically sought out actors from Shanghai in order to recreate the image of his parents in his mind.

Unlike the director and Qin Hao, this person was particularly enthusiastic as soon as he saw Zhang Yuan.

"Hello, Teacher Yao. I've long heard of you." Zhang Yuanke said politely.

And Zhang Yuan will soon know why he is so enthusiastic about him.

"Cheng Hao called me specially before and asked me to take care of you." Teacher Yao patted his shoulder and said.

Zhang Yuan: …

Done!

I forgot that Yao Anlian starred in "Sex and the City"!
He is very familiar with Cheng Hao.

Why did Zhang Yuan let Zhao Xinxin stay in the capital to learn how to drive?

Firstly, the conditions on the crew were difficult and there was no budget available for actor assistants.

He had to pay for his own food and lodging.

Secondly.

Zhang Yuan glanced at Gao Yuanyuan beside him.

I have eaten Zhao Min and kissed Zhu'er, so I can't let Zhou Zhiruo go.

Cleaned the light bulb specially.

But unexpectedly, Cheng Hao still reached out his hand.

"This woman is too smart, but that has its disadvantages..."

All they do all day is battle wits and courage.

"Cheng Hao..." Gao Yuanyuan narrowed her eyes.

"How is that popular guy Cheng?"

"Yes, yes, yes." Yao Anlian nodded immediately. He admired this junior very much at that time. He thought she was beautiful and smart, and would definitely achieve great things.

"What is your relationship with her?" Gao Yuanyuan turned to look at him and asked in a deep voice.

"She and I..." Zhang Yuan was about to explain when Teacher Yao spoke too quickly.

"Tsk, a handsome man and a beautiful woman, what else can they be related to?"

"They are a perfect match!"

Zhang Yuan: …

Good man, I just arrived at the crew and you took away the pot for me. How can this be okay?

Could it be that Zhiruo is going to leave me again?
But he didn't realize that after hearing that he and Cheng Hao were a couple, Gao Yuanyuan was not sad enough to look dim.

Instead, I feel more energetic!

Even in his eyes, there was a trace of desire that had been suppressed for a long time and a fiery flame of unwillingness to admit defeat... (End of this chapter)