Senior Superstar

It was an oolong for Wang Yuming to come to him.

Li Shixin actually knew it himself.

He happened to steal the limelight that should have belonged to Xu Ge in the opening ceremony, and Wang Yuming also listened to the advice of passers-by, thinking that he who received the highest applause from the audience was the brightest star in the audience.

With Li Shixin's current influence, Weibo and Dou Shou combined have less than 200,000 fans. With this amount of traffic in the current time and space, he is at best a well-known Internet celebrity.

Not even a third-tier star.

But in the face of Wang Yuming's request, he still wanted to give it a try.

Because he deeply knew that, with Wang Yuming's way, this time blocking the way for help in the middle of the night was fortunate to have met him. If he was replaced by the second star, he would either be beaten up as a robber or blasted away as a psychopath.

No star would use his traffic resources to help him find a wife for an old man he didn't know—especially, the chances of finding someone in this search seemed extremely slim.

After returning to the homestay, a group of old fans have already started activities. After Li Shixin greeted Wu Ming, Liu Feng and others, and said that he had some matters to solve today and could not do activities with them, he went back to his room and turned on his laptop.

Wang Yuming's life experience can be found in the memory of Li Shixin who inherited the old man. And through an in-depth conversation last night, he already understood the relationship between this veteran and his wife Yan Baoxia.

After a short while, he sorted out the two decades of emotional experience and made a preliminary copy.

In fact, if we talk about it, Yan Baoxia was lost due to Alzheimer's in the end, and there is nothing special about the emotional experience of the two of them.

What the two of them experienced was truly ordinary at that time;

When Wang Yuming was seven years old, his father died of illness, leaving behind six children, four of whom were given away by their mother.

His mother also died when he was seventeen. Just over eighteen years old, Wang Yuming signed up to join the army and was assigned to an automobile company in a certain department in Xining.

Because of his earnest study and responsible work, Wang Yuming has been named "a model on the Qinghai-Tibet line" and "excellent party member".

A female soldier from Tangshan in the army thought he was nice, so she introduced her younger sister Yan Baoxia to him.

At that time, Yan Baoxia also lived in the army, helping her sister with children and cooking. The two had known each other for a year, and after getting to know each other, they made a marriage contract.

In August 1970, Wang Yuming went south to Hengyang with the army, and 10 days later, he went to the border to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Vietnam, and he went there for three years. During this period, Wang Yuming won the third-class personal merit for leading soldiers to rescue an ammunition truck in the rain. In addition, he has received three company awards. During this period, Yan Baoxia, who lived alone in her hometown in Tangshan, visited the army twice.

After that, Wang Yuming recovered and returned to his hometown. Because there is no father, no mother, and no brothers or relatives to help, the conditions are very difficult. But Yan Baoxia did not dislike her because of the difficult living conditions. On the contrary, she traveled a long distance to Huixian County to formally hold a simple wedding with Wang Yuming and gave birth to a son a year later.

But because the planned economy was implemented at that time, the rations of each villager were distributed uniformly by the production team. Yan Baoxia's household registration is in rural Tangshan, and Wang Yuming's rations alone cannot support her family. In desperation, Yan Baoxia had to take her children back to her hometown.

After that, Wang Yuming went to Huixian Agricultural Machinery Factory to work as a lathe worker. The monthly salary is 42 yuan, 20 yuan is sent to his wife, 12 yuan is spent on meals, and another 10 yuan is saved for emergencies.

After working for three years, he has never been to Tangshan once, because the fare is too expensive.

In July 1976, Wang Yuming finally went to Tangshan to meet his wife and children. As a result, on the third night, an earthquake that shocked the whole country occurred. Fortunately, no one in the family was killed. It was just a collapsed beam that hit the leg of Yan Baoxia who had run out of the room and came back to save her husband.

In 1984, the family of four finally settled down in Hui County after the domestic household registration was changed from agricultural to non-agricultural. Later, with the thrift and hard work of the husband and wife, they finally earned the money to buy a house and bought a house in Hui County. In order not to burden the two children in the family, Wang Yuming still works part-time on the construction site after retirement, and usually takes care of his wife.

Until 2018, the 70-year-old Wang Yuming decided to retire completely and spend the rest of his life with his wife in peace of mind. But only 25 days after he officially retired, his wife disappeared.

Such a story, if you don't look at the result, can be said to be so ordinary that it is almost trivial.

But Li Shixin sorted it out, combined with some details he had heard from Wang Yuming, and implemented this ordinary and trivial story on the script...

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It took a whole day for Li Shixin to adapt Wang Yuming and Yan Baoxia's more than forty years of emotional experience into a script.

The story in the script has undergone some artistic processing, but it is basically based on facts. Divide these forty years of love into seven stages.

For a whole day, Li Shixin sat in front of the computer.

The huge creative passion supported this sixty-one-year-old body, making him forget about eating. It wasn't until he repeatedly read the written script twice and confirmed that there was no problem in making a 30-minute microfilm, that Li Shixin let out a long sigh of relief, rubbed his sore waist and stood up.

Seeing that it was dark outside at some point, he just smiled and walked out of the room.

A week-long cultural festival is underway, with performances on the streets of Linxia Ancient City every night. A group of old fans are not here, they must have gone out for a stroll.

Li Shixin knocked on Wu Ming's door, but after no one answered, he went straight to the several rooms where the film crew lived.

As soon as he walked to Wu Peng's door, Wu Peng came out of the room carrying a takeaway.

Seeing Li Shixin, Wu Peng was taken aback, "Hey, Teacher Li, I thought you were out to play! What's the matter, didn't you go to the cultural festival today?"

Seeing that Wu Peng was holding a half-left bridge rice noodle to throw away, Li Shixin took it with a smile, "Director Wu, you don't have any infectious diseases, right? I haven't eaten all day, if you don't have any infectious diseases." I'm not being polite."

"Hi!" Upon hearing that Li Shixin hadn't eaten, Wu Peng quickly pulled him into the room, and didn't let Li Shixin eat the bowl of leftovers. Instead, he poured boiling water to make a bowl of instant noodles for Li Shixin.

"Hey, slow down, Teacher Li, don't burn yourself. What are you doing? Why are you starving yourself like this?"

Seeing Li Shixin swallowing two and a half bags of a large bowl of Fumando with a sigh of relief, as if his hungry stomach was full, Wu Peng said distressedly.

Faced with Wu Peng's inquiry, Li Shixin picked up the instant noodle bowl and took a picture of the USB flash drive in his pocket in front of Wu Peng.

"Director Wu, I have a new script here. Look, are you interested in hanging out with me again?"

Wu Peng originally planned to buy a ticket and leave tonight.

It took too long to come out this time, it seemed like three weeks. Now that the "Mobei" series of videos has come to an end, the company has called this morning and asked him to go back and take charge of the shooting of Jin Wenqi's new song MV.

Seeing Li Shixin's USB flash drive, he hesitated. Immediately, he copied it and plugged it into the computer.

The reason why he hesitated was because he had completed the filming of the entire series of short films "Mobei" with Li Shixin, although his conditions in Linxia were too difficult.

Back to Shanghai to shoot the MV, happy and carefree. What's more beautiful is that the salary is also more. And this time it's Jin Wenqi's new song MV. Once it's filmed, it will definitely be good for his reputation in the circle.

No matter how you think about it, it's much better than staying in Linxia and being a nominal director for Li Shixin, the actual executive director.

With this in mind, Wu Peng clicked his lips when he saw the first two parts of Li Shixin's script.

"Mr. Li, your script... the opening is far worse than that of "Mobei". It's too bland!"

"You keep reading, and we'll talk when you're done." Li Shixin took a sip of the instant noodle soup and waved his hand.

Wu Peng curled his lips and turned his gaze back to the computer screen.

The first scene of the script, "The Ordinary Me and the Ordinary You", is about the acquaintance of the hero and heroine. A transport soldier met an ordinary rural girl through someone's introduction. From a professional director's point of view, if this script wasn't for Li Shixin, Wu Peng might have killed it right after reading it - without him, the storyline is too plain and old-fashioned.

Wait until the second act "Thousands of miles, I will see you", it is said that the hero is going to the front line, the heroine is in her hometown, and the two who have just been engaged exchange letters. Later, the heroine went to the army to visit, but there was still no big disturbance.

In fact, if it is a feature film, it can be said that it is a foreshadowing of the plot. But Li Shixin's script clearly stated that he wanted to make a segmented micro-movie like "Mobei". Such a bland start basically made Wu Peng lose interest.

But being patient, Wu Peng continued to read.

In the third act, "I can't give you a home, but I just want a Kang." He frowned, feeling as if the story had its ups and downs from here.

Immediately after the fourth act "I'm sorry, I can't afford to support you." and the fifth act "Look, God can't tear us apart." The plain story was finally laid out, and the core of the story began to be revealed. Wu Peng's eyes lit up all of a sudden.

After the sixth act "I will give the country for the first 30 years, and the next 30 years I will be my home, I will give you the rest of my life" and the seventh act "You lost and took my heart", Wu Peng is already a little bit I can't control my emotions.

After finishing the last scene, which is the ending of the eighth scene, "You stand in the light, this time I will come to you", Wu Peng bounced off his chair!

"Ms. Li, when are we going to shoot? I'll report to the company about this movie. I'll accept it!"

Seeing the excitement on Wu Peng's face, Li Shixin chuckled, and drank the last sip of soup in the noodle bowl, "If you can take it, we will start filming tomorrow."

"No problem!" Wu Peng patted his chest excitedly, "Mr. Li, don't worry, I will refund the ticket now. Although the beginning of this script is a bit dull, as long as you choose a good name, it may not be as good as "Mobei". The height is high, but the popularity will definitely explode!"

Seeing Wu Peng who pulled out his mobile phone to push the train ticket, Li Shixin smiled and nodded, "I think so."

After operating the ticket refund procedure, Wu Peng threw his phone on the bed and sat in front of Li Shixin: "By the way, Mr. Li, what is the title of the work?"

""Yan Baoxia, Your Man Calls You Home""

Seeing Li Shixin seriously say the title of a movie that was so low that it exploded, Wu Peng opened his mouth wide.

He returned to the bed silently, picked up the mobile phone on the bed, looked at the high-speed rail ticket that was gone in minutes, and cried.

"Mr. Li, is it too late for me to change my mind and go back to Shanghai?"