Xi'an Mansion, a street whose name I don't know.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the street was already full of traffic, and the shops on both sides of the road were naturally open for business very early.

Bai Yujing, dressed in a jade-white linen dress, rode a bicycle out of the alley, came all the way, passed by different shops, and people kept greeting her, and she also responded with a faint smile.

"Yo, Xiaobai is here?"

"Sister Jing, can you make money by opening a store like this?"

"Haha, Yujing didn't open a store to make money, right?"

"Yujing is a standard 9-to-5, much more comfortable than us!"

Bai Yujing smiled and responded, but the bicycle did not stop, riding leisurely all the way, and finally stopped at the door of a shop. Then she parked the car, pulled out the keys, unlocked the door, and rattled the shutter door.

The shop's sign is just two words: flower shop.

On the glass doors of other people's shops, there are all kinds of big characters, which can be regarded as a kind of propaganda for passers-by, but the glass door of Bai Yujing's flower shop is blank.

Open the bead curtain, push open the door, and the fragrance is fragrant.

The shop is not big, thirty or forty square meters, and the types of flowers are also limited, one or twenty kinds, but the store is either hanging or potting, and she takes care of it very quietly.

The roller shutter door is closed, the door opens, and only a beaded curtain hangs down, which is considered to be open for business.

Bai Yujing pushed the bicycle into the store, hid it behind the flower stand, and then cleaned it up daily, the time was already half past nine, and after a while, sure enough, there were customers coming to the door.

It's a small commercial street, and it's not bustling, but there is a large commercial office building not far from the neighborhood. And out of the office building along this street forward, three or four hundred meters away, there is a food street, this street, is on this road, so. Don't worry about what you do, it's not easy to get rich, but you can always make some money.

There are a total of four flower shops on this street. Other people's houses open before eight o'clock in the morning, and they are open until seven or eight o'clock in the evening, Bai Yujing no, she opens the door at nine twenty, and at noon, when the white-collar workers go to eat on the snack street, she also closes the door and goes home to eat, and even has to take a nap at home. Doors open at 2 p.m. and stay open until 5:30 p.m.

Her business certainly didn't go much better.

However, although it is not better than others, her shop has been open in the past few years, and there are really many repeat customers who are willing to come to buy flowers.

There is only one reason, she is beautiful enough.

At 9:40, a young man in his early twenties came over on a motorcycle tricycle and stopped in front of the flower shop. shouted loudly: "Sister Bai, your flowers." ”

When Bai Yujing opened the bead curtain and went out. The young man had already moved a bamboo basket from the truck full of plastic boxes, and when he saw Bai Yujing, he grinned, his teeth were snow-white, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he still had that thick Xi'an accent, "Sister." It's too heavy, I'll put it in the store for you!" he took a few steps to move the bamboo basket into the store.

Bai Yujing smiled and thanked him, and then entered the door.

The young man said, "Sister, you count." Isn't it bad?"

Bai Yujing smiled: "Don't count, sister knows that you won't lie to sister." As he spoke, he returned to the counter, took out one hundred and fifty dollars, walked out and handed it to him, "One hundred and fifteen, right?"

The young man put the money away without looking, and said, "What's wrong!"

After collecting the money and leaving, the young man couldn't help but look back at Bai Yujing, a little shy, but he plucked up the courage to say, "Sister, you look so good today!"

Bai Yujing smiled when he heard this, and pretended to be dumbfounded, "Yo, okay, I dare to joke with my sister!"

When the young man saw her look, he looked fascinated, and he was stunned for a moment before he came back to his senses, his face was red, and then he smiled embarrassedly, and stretched out his hand to point to the bamboo basket as if he was embarrassed, "Sister, I personally selected flowers for you, and I guarantee that they are the brightest and most beautiful, and you must sell better than them!"

Bai Yujing smiled, "Okay, thank you, come and get a basket in the evening, sister invites you to eat ice cream!"

The young man agreed, and then reluctantly opened the bead curtain, started the car, and drove away.

Next, she opened the lid of the bamboo basket, took out the flowers inside one by one, put them together, and then wiped her hands clean. There were no customers in the store for a while, so Bai Yujing went to turn on the stereo, put on a CD, turned the volume down slightly, and then took out the book that he hadn't finished reading yesterday from under the counter, leaned back on the recliner in the center of the store, and read the book.

It's just that today, she felt a little abnormal.

Her instincts, which were far more than ordinary people, made her feel that something was not quite right.

In between reading, she couldn't help but put down the book several times and looked out the door.

There was a lot of traffic outside the door, a little noisy, some people stopped, some people asked for the price, some people hooked their shoulders and walked while talking and laughing, everything seemed normal, but when she sat down again and picked up the book, she could really feel as if someone was watching her.

At ten o'clock, a customer finally came to the door.

This should be a new customer, because it is not surprising that the moment he saw the shopkeeper, the young man was obviously stunned, and he was stunned for half a minute before he came back to his senses at the beckoning of the shopkeeper.

"Are you...... White...... White ......"

Bai Yujing smiled and asked, "What flowers does Mr. need?"

The young man was stunned for a moment, and then said slightly awkwardly, "I want a bouquet of lilies." ”

Bai Yujing naturally showed an expression of "understanding", and the young man was stunned again, and at this time, Bai Yujing had already gotten up to fetch flowers for him.

Pick the freshest lilies with dewdrops, assemble them into a bunch, wrap them with colored paper, purple ribbons, and ...... This set of processes, she did not hurry, the clouds were light and the wind was light, and the young man stood in place in a daze, dizzying.

After about a minute or two, the bouquet was wrapped, and she turned around, her eyes bright, "Sir, is this okay?"

The man was stunned for a moment, and quickly took it, "Oh, yes!

Bai Yujing smiled and nodded, "Do you need anything else?"

The man shook his head.

So Bai Yujing said: "Okay, this bouquet of lilies, I will collect thirty-six yuan from you." ”

The young man hurriedly took out the money and paid the money, Bai Yujing took the money, looked for the money easily, and then said lightly: "Thank you for coming." Welcome to come back next time. With that, she ignored the customer, and walked back to herself, sat down on the chaise longue, and picked up the book.

The young man was stunned for a moment, as if trying to find an excuse to say something. But in the end, he walked away slightly awkwardly.

In the past few years, Bai Yujing has experienced scenes like this too many times, and it can even be said that as long as she opens a store to do business, such things will happen countless times almost every day.

In one morning, five or six bouquets of flowers were sold piecemeal.

From start to finish, treat every customer who enters the store. She is all the same smile, but she will never accept any accosting, and for her, selling flowers seems to be just piggybacking, her main business is more like listening to songs and reading books.

It was nearly half-past eleven, and the light at the door was dim. The beaded curtain fluttered, and someone came in.

Bai Yujing put down the book unhurriedly. Standing up, "Hello sir, what flowers do you need?"

The person who came was a young man, who looked more than 1.8 meters taller, a head taller than Bai Yujing, which brought her a great sense of oppression. But his smile was gentle, and he reached out and pulled out a stack of papers from his backpack, along with a business card, which he attached to it. handed it over and said, "Hello Miss Bai, my name is Li Qian, and I came from Shuntian Mansion on purpose, can I talk to you?"

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The casting of "The Legend of the New White Lady" encountered a problem.

For this TV series, if the two roles of Xu Xian and Xiaoqing can still be dealt with, and the requirements for the selection of actors are not so strict, then the white lady Bai Suzhen, the first heroine, is absolutely unable to deal with it in the slightest.

In the depths of Li Qian's memory, as far as he watched movies and TV series in another time and space in the past few years, judging from the perspective of the audience, the entire domestic film and television series has experienced nearly forty years of development, and there are countless movies and TV series, but in her opinion, the ones that can really leave an eternal impression on him, and it is indeed the most classic role in the Chinese film and television drama industry, the first is two: one is CCTV's Monkey King, and the other must be the White Lady.

It may be a bit of a raise, is Cao Cao's classic in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" classic? Teacher Bao Guoan, is that role creation a bull fork? Zhuge Liang is not a classic? Prime Minister! Professor of the Department of Excavators, there is wood! In Li Qian's opinion, it is even more brilliant than the Zhuge Liang in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in this time and space! Then, Lin Daiyu is not a classic? The king of the daughter country?

Otherwise, Weng Meiling's version of Huang Rong's classic is not classic, Xiaolongnu, Nie Xiaoqian, the coquettish proprietress in the murderous black shop in the depths of the desert, or, the person who shouts, "A good life is a lifetime, a year less, an hour less, and a minute less is not called a lifetime"?

That's all classics, of course!

When it comes to the degree of classics, they are all palace-level characters, palace-level presentations.

But if we talk about the influence on all strata and ages of the entire Chinese society, when it comes to the transparency and popularity of the image, and the degree to which it is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, there is no doubt that in front of Monkey King and the White Lady, all characters must bow down!

Frankly speaking, a "Legend of the New White Lady", filmed in 1991, premiered in 1992, and introduced into China the following year, and won the ratings championship in various places at that time, which is not surprising, but this drama was rebroadcast in the central one and eight sets of programs until 2004, and it was still able to win the ratings championship of the channel that year, and it was rebroadcast again in 2006, and still won the championship...... It's a miracle of miracles!

This achievement, this lasting charm, the whole country for 40 years, only this one!

And the soul of this TV series is Bai Suzhen and the White Lady.

It can be said that as long as this actor is selected and acted, then this drama will be fine, even if the other roles are weak, this drama is still of high quality, and once this role can't be filmed, it can't play that kind of charm...... This drama is blind!

However, the actor for the role of Bai Suzhen is not easy to choose.

Because the image of the white lady ingrained in Li Qian's mind is too classic.

First of all, she has to be beautiful, and she must be very beautiful, then she must have a quiet and gentle elegance, and then, if she can still have a little fairy and a little heroism...... That's perfect!

To put it simply, what this role requires is to be a virtuous person, a wife, and a certain amount of wisdom, heroism, and a trace of immortality!

can enter the kitchen, go to the hall, do more than the junior, and beat the hooligan...... She is the best and most beautiful model that all Chinese can imagine about the image of their wives!

Although it is difficult to find such an actor, it is not impossible to find it entirely.

Feng Yumin, Yu Bojun, Zhao He, Cao Zhan, Jin Han. They all recommended candidates, and Li Qian first crossed out those who were under the age of 30...... Before the film was filmed, although Li Qian had already given a sub-shot, in the hearts of the other main creators, the White Lady. The thousand-year-old snake demon, of course, is beautiful and young, but no, Li Qian knows very well in his heart that what he is looking for is definitely not a beautiful Hua Dan, and at the same time, it must not be a big Tsing Yi with excellent acting skills but not beautiful enough.

Acting skills and beauty are both important, but neither is the most important!

That elegance, that charm and style of a good wife and mother. That's the most important thing!

For actresses, they often have to be at least thirty years old to get that gentle and virtuous temperament.

Hua Dan in his twenties, no matter how beautiful they are, Li Qian will not use them.

Again, the fundamental reason for the final success of this drama lies in the unique temperament of the White Lady! And this temperament is not experienced by young girls who have experienced the precipitation of life. You can't take it out!

And then, the temperament does not match. Stroke it out.

Some actresses are beautiful, but when they look at their facial features, they feel too three-dimensional and too hard, which obviously does not meet the requirements.

Well, even with such strict candidate criteria, there are still three left on the shortlist.

And none of them are ordinary people.

Appearance, figure, acting skills, temperament, age. are basically up to standard.

However, when I really started to get in touch, I found that I couldn't take any of them.

The first one was a direct refusal, and people didn't even read the script, just mentioned it. The other party's agent asked if it was a movie or a TV series, and Li Qian said that it was a TV series, and the other party directly replied: Don't accept TV series.

The second place has always been mixed up in the TV drama circle, and the forced score is not so high for the time being, but there is no schedule.

If you postpone filming for a period of time to wait for her, it's not completely impossible, but the problem is that people are popular, and the film appointment has been scheduled until the middle of next year. Moreover, according to Zou Wenhuai, who inquired about the entertainment industry, her salary is now the most expensive!

So, I had to give up.

Then, the third candidate once gave Li Qian a certain hope, because before Li Qian looked for her, she had been resting for more than two years because of giving birth to a child, and it is said that she is now preparing to make a comeback.

After receiving the invitation from the crew, the other party did express great interest at first, and after reading the script, he was even more enthusiastic, and it is even said that he was eager to talk to the director about her views on this role. But before she could ask to see the director, her agent had already told her that the director of this play was the singer Li Qian.

Then, leave it at that.

Of course, people have their own considerations, for the current entertainment industry before 2000, female stars, especially actresses, once they get married and have children, they will not be able to pay the price, so the comeback is extremely important to them.

If the comeback works can have a certain dazzling performance and reawaken the audience's love for them, then there is still a lot to play in the future, if not, it will be a heavy blow, and even have to rest for a period of time before they can continue to come out to take over the play, and what's more, basically they can't play the young heroine in the future, and they must start to transform early to play the role of "mother-level", and for actresses, it will mean that the golden period is over early.

And the play "The Legend of the New White Lady", of course, is very good to read the script, but the rookie director, or a singer who came to play tickets after making a fortune, although he studied film, but, please, he is still in college, where can the standard be?

Although there are Feng Yumin and Yu Bojun in the producer list, and even the assistant director is Zhao He, it is said that they are just here to name and escort him, but in fact, they will not interfere with the specific shooting at all!

So, without waiting for Li Qian to meet with the other party and hand over his big killer - the storyboard script, the other party's agent had already categorically refused: I have been unwell recently, although I am very interested, but, I'm sorry!

Li Qian called Feng Yumin and asked Feng Yumin to contact the other party, hoping to get a chance to talk, but that time. The other party only needs to come up with an explanation, and even Feng Yumin can't open his mouth: It is said that Li Qian is a playboy-type character, I don't want my husband to misunderstand anything because of a play!

Thereupon...... The list of candidates for the role of Bai Suzhen has become a blank again.

When he was about to scratch his scalp, Li Qian also thought about it, or. In fact, her image quite meets the requirements of the White Lady, but after thinking about it, she still gave up. A cameo appearance in Guanyin Bodhisattva with limited scenes, He Runqing is probably competent, but if you want to play a big role like the White Lady, who eats heavy roles and tests acting skills...... Forget it!

Then, he also wanted to process the vegan bottle.

But I just thought about it, and then I shook my head.

The temperament of Cheng Suhua is very unique, atmospheric and calm. But with a slight coldness, the atmosphere is atmospheric, and the first impression is definitely not the kind of good wife and mother-like character.

Moreover, she is also a little too young.

As a result, Li Qian's casting work had to be temporarily suspended.

Until he took the time to go to Hangzhou to see the location and choose the scene, one day. Zhu Mingyu called suddenly, and then rushed to Hangzhou by car from Suzhou. handed Li Qian a newspaper.

And it's an entertaining gossip newspaper.

At that time, she seemed to have a stomach full of words and thoughts to say, and she even felt that she couldn't say it clearly on the phone, so she had to meet and let Li Qian say it in person after reading the newspaper.

However, Li Qian took a look at the newspaper. She didn't have to say anything.

The fifth page of the newspaper, which is not too prominent, published two photographs.

One is a woman in a flower shop, earnestly wrapping flowers, and the other is a girl riding a half-used bicycle. Long hair fluttering.

The moment he saw these two pictures, he brushed them, and the white lady in Li Qian's mind froze.

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The photo was taken quite clearly, but Li Qian didn't know the person in the photo.

After reading the report, he knew that this person's name was Bai Yujing.

Bai Yujing, the former No. 1 jade girl in China, appeared in Xi'an Mansion and seemed to be running a flower shop, and the reporter asked for an interview, but she refused. According to the reporter's observation, the flower shop he was running had little business, and after the shop closed, Bai even rode a dilapidated bicycle home, recalling the infinite scenery of the past and seeing the starlight dim today, which is embarrassing. ”

Li Qian looked at it and raised his eyebrows, flipped through the entertainment newspaper, and understood: Huang Yuqing recently held a small fan meeting in a hotel in Xi'an Mansion, these two photos are probably the additional harvest of the reporters interviewed in the past?

Bai Yujing.

It happened that the location had already been seen and selected, and Li Qian asked people to book a plane ticket and prepare to fly directly to Xi'an, while he began to call to find a relationship, and soon contacted the newspaper and found the person who took the photo.

Although the address is not exact, because the reporter can't remember it clearly, the approximate range is still there.

So, after Li Qian flew to Xi'an Mansion alone, he quickly found the street and the flower shop.

Her name is Bai Yujing.

Li Qian had never heard of her name before, but after reading the newspaper, he remembered it the first time.

Then, before going to Xi'an Mansion, after arriving in Xi'an Mansion, he called a few people to have a little understanding, and synthesized the statements of several people, and he probably knew the ins and outs of her in the film and television industry.

She is a native of Xi'an, she was discovered at the age of fifteen and starred in her first TV series, and in that era, in 1983, at the age of fifteen, she became popular with a role in that TV series that was not too brilliant, at that time, she was quickly named "Jade Girl" by the media and the audience.

It is said that although she was still immature at that time, her pure and glamorous appearance conquered the whole of China almost overnight - before her, it was not that there were no actresses and female singers who were called "Jade Girl", but after her, she was recognized as the only "Jade Girl" in the whole country at that time, so she had the reputation of China's first Jade Girl.

Her beauty amazed the whole country, and her acting career was smooth sailing!

Speaking of acting skills, maybe her level is not too high, but her beauty is enough to ensure that she can become the best-looking and most beautiful super vase in China at that time.

What's more, it's not like people really have no acting skills at all.

Because it was said to be a very clever little girl!

However, she is just too beautiful and too red.

In 1988, Nanchang Mansion, she used to participate in commercial performances. was blocked in the hotel by a local powerful person, and the other party asked to "be friends" with her, and her agent of course desperately escorted her, so the other party then started to rob people.

It is said that at that time, she and her assistant, as well as another member of her entourage, were left behind by the agent who was outside. They were beaten to the point that their heads were bleeding, and even they had called the police, but the local police did not arrive for a full hour, and then, even the telephone line in the room was cut off, and at that time, there was no mobile phone.

Fortunately, she and one of the accompanying staff members did not go upstairs with them at the time, after realizing that something was wrong. She was very alert and chose to run out and call back to Shuncheonfu.

Then, with the extent that she was popular at that time, the news quickly spread to the ears of the relevant people, and the other party made a phone call, and no matter how awesome the local strong people were, they could only bow their heads and flash people.

But then her broker, the brokerage company. and even her friends, the directors she has worked with. They all persuaded her not to poke this matter out, anyway, it's okay, there is no loss, just forget it.

But she refused, and after returning to Suncheon Mansion the next day, she only rested for one day. At the age of 20, she held a sensational press conference to denounce the incident, which caused great social repercussions at the time.

Under the strong pressure of public opinion, it is said that in the end, it was the relevant departments of the central government that directly took action. Picking up the radish with the mud, and following the matter to investigate, something happened to the powerful person, and the local bureaucrats in Nanchang Mansion were rotting in a large area, and the Nanchang nest case shocked the whole country again for a while.

From then on, Bai Yujing's three words, no matter how much he felt that he was very awesome, he would not dare to provoke easily.

However, since then, it is said that she has been under more and more psychological pressure, and she gradually got tired of her acting career, and finally, in 1991, at the age of 23, she announced her retirement from filming and officially retired from the entertainment industry.

Eight years after her debut, she filmed a total of six TV series, including two heroines, three movies, all supporting roles, at that time, she was almost the dream lover of most men and boys in China, not so much that she was the first jade girl in China, but that she was the first generation of idol actors born in China at that time.

With her age, her appearance, and her talent, it may not be easy to win honors such as the queen of the film in the future, but to be a good actor and a popular superstar, it is destined to be smooth sailing.

However, at the age of twenty-three, she retreated bravely.

And since then, she has really disappeared completely, and her whereabouts are a mystery.

Some people say they have seen her in Singapore, others say that she has settled in Hainan, bought a piece of land and built a bamboo building in a seaside place in Sanya County, some people say that she has immigrated to Canada, and some people say that she is studying in the United States...... In short, there are different opinions.

The only accurate news is that it is said that after she retired from filming, she also had contact with some of her friends in the entertainment industry in the past, in 1994, a reporter received an internal information report, and she was photographed walking out with several showbiz people at the door of a hotel, and in that photo, she still has the same style. And walking beside her are all directors and actors who have worked with her in the past and are said to have a good relationship.

However, in seven years, this is the only definite and credible piece of information she has.

Until this time, a reporter accidentally discovered her because she went to attend Huang Yuqing's Xi'an Mansion fan meeting.

Of course, seven years have passed, and the outside world has long been different.

Even if she was already popular to that extent, but after seven years, when her photo appeared in a gossip tabloid again, maybe those people who took her as their dream lover back then would feel nostalgic for the years after seeing it, but the entire domestic entertainment industry has almost forgotten her.

The appearance of this report and those two photos has hardly caused any repercussions in the domestic entertainment industry, and there is not even a newspaper that reprints it and briefly mentions it.

Perhaps, there was only one Li Qian, who flew over from thousands of miles away.

And after finding a place and finding someone, he stood on the street and looked at each other for a whole morning!

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