Xu Wangqiu looked back and saw a girl wearing a white shirt and green military pants. The girl is eighteen or nineteen years old, and she looks very much like Dandan in the movie "Return", with two braids of hemp, a pair of big and round eyes, and the whole person looks very energetic because of these big eyes. He suddenly smiled: "Su Bai, when did you come back?"

Su Bai is Su Zhensheng's youngest daughter, Su Zhensheng moved with Tianma Factory, except for the eldest son who is in college, the remaining three children have moved over.

Su Bai is two years older than Xu Wangqiu, and after graduating from high school, he joined the team in Renshou. Last year, the national college entrance examination was resumed, and she ran back to Xiuying Studio from Renshou. Su Bai's other homework is good, that is, his English is weak; and Xu Wangqiu's English is particularly good, as a junior brother Xu Wangqiu helped Su Bai make up for his English for a period of time, and finally Su Bai was successfully admitted to the Chinese Department of Peking University.

At the beginning of this year, when Su Bai went to school in Beiping, he specially told Xu Wangqiu to take the exam well and come to Beiping when the time comes.

"Just came back this afternoon. Su Bai looked at Xu Wangqiu and smiled: "Wangqiu, how did you do in the exam?"

"It's okay, it should be fine. Xu Wangqiu said confidently, "I just came back today, if I also take the train, maybe I can meet you on the train." But I came back from a coal truck. When I came back, it was pitch black, and my sister barely recognized me. ”

Su Bai's big eyes flashed with curiosity: "Why did you only come back today, isn't the Nortel exam already over?"

Xu Wangqiu said with a smile: "I made a few friends in the Chang'an exam, and I played in Chang'an for a few days, went to Huaqing Pool to take a bath, went to see the Terracotta Warriors, and went to Huashan to watch the sunrise, and I didn't want to go home anymore." ”

As a Chinese girl, as a young woman in literature and art, Su Bai has a special feeling for Chang'an, and said enviously: "Actually, I have always wanted to go to Chang'an to see, but unfortunately there is no opportunity, I must go to see it in the future." ”

Xu Wangqiu felt that this was not a problem at all, and it was easy to solve: "If I am admitted to Nortel, we will leave early when school starts, go to Chang'an to find my friends, let them be tour guides, take us to Chang'an for two days, and then go to Beiping together." ”

Su Bai is full of confidence in Xu Wangqiu's entrance examination to university: "Even my father said that you are a genius, and it must be no problem to take the Nortel exam." But she couldn't agree to Chang'an's suggestion: "I want to go with you, but your freshmen start school half a month later than us, so we can't go together." ”

The two talked as they walked, and soon entered a unit building, similar to the cadre building of Factory 132.

Coming to a door on the third floor, Su Bai took out the key and opened the door.

Su Zhensheng has very old qualifications in the film industry, and his reputation is also very large, and his salary is level 4 in literature and art, and he can get more than 200 a month. The house is naturally much better than Xu Wangqiu's house, not only has a special living room, kitchen, but also has a bathroom.

In this era, a house with a bathroom is a very luxurious thing, and ordinary families do not have this treatment, and if anyone can use a flush toilet, it is even more unthinkable. When the people of Xichuan criticized Jiang Qing's life for being corrupt and degenerate, one of them was: "Gui'er Jiang Qing's life is too corrupt, and he even uses a flush toilet." ”

Su Zhensheng's house is also much better furnished than Xu Wangqiu's, with a round table in the middle of the room, covered with a white lace tablecloth, and a plastic fruit bowl with fresh oranges inside. Behind the table are several rattan chairs covered with white backrests. In the left corner of the wall is a standing lamp, next to which is a bookshelf with various books neatly arranged.

Xu Wangqiu's family and Su Zhensheng's family are two worlds, and Xu Wangqiu can know Su Zhensheng entirely because of his brother Xu Wangchuan. In 1975, various domestic film factories began to resume production, and due to the lack of sufficient talents, Xiuying Studio recruited a group of young people from Rongcheng in addition to a group of technical backbones from the Northeast Film Studio and Bayi Factory. Xu Wangqiu's elder brother Xu Wangchuan and Han Shanping entered the factory at this time; after they entered the factory, under the leadership of the master in the factory, they started from the most basic work such as lighting and scene recording, and learned the relevant knowledge of film; Xu Wangchuan's work was lighting, that is, later lighting assistant.

When Xu Wangqiu is fine, he often runs to Xu Wangchuan's crew, and Su Zhensheng is the director of the feature film room, and he often goes to the crew to take a look; Xu Wangqiu worshiped Su Zhensheng as a teacher, in addition to talking to the old man, he actually took a fancy to his influence and connections. The relationship in this era is too important, people with relationships can make the first pot of gold in their lives by reselling corn, it doesn't matter that selling hardware supplies is speculation, and the film industry is no exception.

Su Zhensheng heard the sound of the door opening, looked up, and saw Su Bai and Xu Wangqiu behind her. He put down the book, took off his glasses, and said with a straight face: "Stinky boy, don't come and tell me after the exam, do you don't do well in the exam, don't you dare to meet people?"

Xu Wangqiu walked into the living room, sat down next to Su Zhensheng, and said with a hippie smile: "Master, I'm your apprentice, how can I not pass the exam." If I can't pass Nortel, it's not my loss, it's Nortel's loss. ”

Su Zhensheng knew the level of his apprentice and believed that he would definitely be able to pass the exam, but he was dissatisfied with his casual attitude, and said earnestly: "Wangqiu, it's a good thing to be confident as a director, but you can't be too complacent, it's not good if you become stubborn and self-serving." ”

Su Bai defended Xu Wangqiu: "Actually, Wangqiu is quite modest. I just asked how he did in the exam, and he said it was okay. ”

Su Zhensheng thought to himself that I should educate him, what are you doing, and said to his daughter angrily: "What do you know, don't be deceived by this kid's seemingly innocent face, he is crazy in his heart, in fact, he can't be looked down on by anyone." He can't even look down on directors like Xie Jin and Xie Tieli, who do you say he likes!"

As a traverser, Xu Wangqiu does have a sense of superiority in his heart, but he can't afford to look down on Xie Jin and them, and when he heard the master say this, he hurriedly said: "No, no, I definitely don't look down on Xie Jin and director Xie Tieli, their movies use Hollywood's classic film language to the extreme, and the level is very high, but the audio-visual language is not modern enough." It's like "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" doesn't have modern techniques, but can we say it's not good?"

Su Zhensheng said to Su Bai: "Look at you, my master said one sentence to him, and he could refute me ten sentences." ”

Su Bai smiled: "You wronged Wangqiu, can't people explain it?"

Xu Wangqiu suddenly remembered something: "Master, do you know Mr. Zhang Ke from Nortel?"

Su Zhensheng was stunned for a moment, and said excitedly: "Yes, what's the matter, did you meet Zhang Ke during the exam?"

Xu Wangqiu nodded and said, "Yes, I inadvertently mentioned you during the oral exam, and he was very excited and asked if you were alive." ”

Su Zhensheng patted his hand the handle of the chair, and said with relief: "I knew that this guy was not so easy to die." Then he explained to Xu Wangqiu and Su Bai: "Zhang Ke and I are old friends, we were both in the magic capital before the Anti-Japanese War, he is the director, I am the actor; after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, we joined the fourth team of the anti-enemy drama team, Zhang Ke is the director of the team, we acted all the way, propaganda all the way, that is the friendship of the revolution; how is his situation, he looks okay?"

In January 1938, the Dongying imperialists invaded and occupied North China, the Magic Capital, Nanjing and other places. In order to mobilize the whole people to resist the war, under the promotion of the anti-Japanese national united front with the cooperation of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party as the core, the third hall with Guo Moruo as the director was established to be in charge of anti-Japanese propaganda and mobilization work. In August, it was announced that 10 anti-enemy drama teams, 4 anti-enemy propaganda teams and 1 children's theater troupe would be established in Wuchang Tanhualin. Among them, the anti-enemy drama team was presided over by Guo Moruo, Tian Han, and Hong Shen for one month of training, and then assigned to work on the anti-Japanese front line in various theaters.

Xu Wangqiu has great respect for these predecessors who put down their privileged lives at a time of national crisis and went to various war zones to publicize the War of Resistance: "It seems that he is in good shape. However, I didn't ask much, after all, I met him in the examination room, and it was not easy to ask him about the specific situation. He didn't say much, probably to avoid suspicion. ”

Su Zhensheng nodded slightly and sighed, "It's great to hear that he is still alive." But if you want to talk about old friends, there is another one in Peking Film Academy, which is Zhou Ming. In 1965, he was transferred from Tianma Factory to Beiping Film Academy as the vice president, and then the movement broke out, and there has been no news of him, I don't know if he is still alive. ”

Xu Wangqiu saw that Master remembered his old friend, so he said, "Master, I will definitely help you inquire when the time comes." ”

Seeing Xu Wangqiu say this, Su Zhensheng said with a calm face: "I don't want you to trouble them, but you have entered Nortel, and there is nothing to say." When you get to school, you can go to these two uncles if you have something, and don't bother them if you have nothing to do. You must study well and not disgrace them. You are my apprentice, and they will definitely take care of you, but you have to remember that it has nothing to do with you, it is our business. ”

Xu Wangqiu immediately said, "Don't worry, Master." It's okay, I'm definitely not going to bother them. ”

The seriousness on Su Zhensheng's face receded, revealing a gentle smile: "Okay, let's not talk about these old things, let's talk about movies." I read your article published in "People's Film", and you are right, this movie has problems with the script, director, or other links, and the biggest problem is that it is not true. The scripts and movies in our factory are also in this problem. ”

Xu Wangqiu nodded and said: "Not only "The River Flows", but now domestic movies have this problem, and even the literary works on "People's Literature" have this problem. ”

Su Bai was very surprised when he heard that Xu Wangqiu's article was published on "People's Film": "Wangqiu, you can do it, you have published an article in "People's Film". Then he said to Su Zhensheng: "Dad, is there a "People's Movie" at home? ”

"People's Film" is only for units, does not sell individuals, and does not accept individual subscribers, Su Zhensheng naturally can't order it, but there are two copies in the library of Xiuying Studio, and after Su Zhensheng saw Xu Wangqiu's article, he borrowed one and went home. He got up and took the "People's Movie" on the desk, handed it to Su Bai, and said to Xu Wangqiu with a smile: "I think the idea of "The River Flows" is very good, showing the changes of the times through the fate of several families, but the characters are not well written, and the protagonist Li Mai has obvious three outstanding characteristics, not at all like a rural woman in the thirties. The protagonists are all false and unbelievable, so how can the whole story stand?"