The half-yellow, half-green sycamore leaves whisper the flood of autumn, the autumn of Shanghai is a golden smile on a sunny afternoon, the afternoon sun dyes the neighborhood as far as the eye can see into an intoxicating warm color, the light light passes through the leaves swaying in the wind, and projects fragments like creepers on the red brick wall, interpreting the mottled nature of Shanghai.

To shoot a promotional video about Shanghai, in addition to the high-rise buildings in Pudong and the Bund of the International Architecture Expo, there are also the old wharf, Sinan Road, Chenghuang Temple, and Zhujiajiao..... And, of course, Tianzifang.

Tianzifang is a pure Shanghai-style alley, which is crowded with old-fashioned houses, one, two, three, high or low, interspersed with red bricks and green tiles interspersed with lanterns, signboards, paper fans, Chinese knots, moss and potted plants in these thick colors dotted with a touch of green.

Visitors leave memories to be recalled in this ancient alley, and a series of characteristic shops and art workshops inadvertently jump into your sight, so that people can feel the literary and artistic atmosphere in the cracks of the wall all the time.

In the past, it was crowded with tourists, but today it is even more lively, there is a narrow alley surrounded by water, at the moment there are several cordons and police to maintain order, there are many black machines and mechanical arms reflecting the sunlight in the cordon, there are blonde foreign workers and beautiful Chinese models wearing cheongsam.

Therefore, it caused countless people to stop and watch, pointing at the inside from time to time, but when asked who was inside, no one knew.

Fortunately, no one knew that Cheng Xiaoyu was filming a promotional video for Shanghai's Olympic bid, if the news leaked, it is estimated that the pot has exploded here, and at this time Cheng Xiaoyu was filming Zhou Peipei's footage in the alley.

Zhou Peipei, who was wearing an amaranth red velvet cheongsam, sat a little nervously in front of a red brick wall covered with vines, and a cup of coffee on the small table in front of her exuded a curling aroma.

It's just that Zhou Peipei's expression is not relaxed enough, it is a little tight, and there is no such beautiful and soft smile that Cheng Xiaoyu needs.

After Cheng Xiaoyu called the card, he took the director's tube and said loudly: "Take a rest first....", then walked to the opposite side of Zhou Peipei and turned the chair, grabbed the back of the chair and said: "Aunt Zhou, everything is perfect, it's just a smile for you to put the finishing touch....."

Zhou Peipei picked up the coffee and was about to take a sip to hide the little embarrassment in her heart, but Cheng Xiaoyu had to stop Zhou Peipei's movements, stretched out her hand to stop her and said, "Aunt Zhou, this coffee is a prop.....

Zhou Peipei reacted at this time, the staff had told her just now that in order to make the shooting look better, the cup in this cup is not real coffee, but richer pigment water.

Zhou Peipei's face was slightly drunk, and she said with an "ah": "I forgot..... Almost out of the woods!"

Cheng Xiaoyu said with a smile: "What's this, there are many scenes that make people cry and laugh when making movies, such as when riding a horse and galloping, for the safety of the actors, someone is actually leading, an electric fan is placed in front of him to blow up his hair, the display speed is very fast, I also have to give a serious performance quickly, and most of the scenes of eating are fake food, only when shooting commercials, they will really eat, and the actors often eat until they want to vomit.... I filmed a fat man who was stuck in a chair again, so I deliberately chose a smaller chair, but the actor was really stuck by the chair, and there were six or seven people in the crew who couldn't pull people out, so I had no choice but to use a saw to cut off the chair and get people out...."

Zhou Peipei listened to Cheng Xiaoyu say some jokes that comforted her, and her mood relaxed, although these jokes were not very funny, but it did not prevent Zhou Peipei, who had a relatively low laughing point, from covering her mouth and laughing, like a blooming hibiscus with bent branches and leaves.

In order to shoot an ideal picture, Cheng Xiaoyu had to guide Zhou Peipei, and after a little thought, he said: "Aunt Zhou, I think you should have come to Tianzifang, right?"

Zhou Peipei nodded and said: "Of course I have been here, when it was two thousand years, when it was only a few galleries and art studios, I came here....."

Cheng Xiaoyu smiled again and asked, "Have you come with my dad?" Normally, Cheng Xiaoyu would not mention Su Changhe, but Zhou Peipei herself often said that there was a strong sense of nostalgia when she said it, but there was not much sadness, which was why Cheng Xiaoyu dared to mention it, if Zhou Peipei had been in a state where she couldn't get out, Cheng Xiaoyu would never mention it.

In fact, Zhou Peipei came out of the shadow of her widow very early, although this is a misfortune, but birth, old age, sickness and death are common things in the world, and indulging in grief cannot change anything, plus Zhou Peipei believes in Buddhism, so it is relatively peaceful, and then one thing after another makes her have no time to think about it, so that she quickly accepted this reality and rebuilt her life.

Zhou Peipei turned her head to look at the alley on the other side, and said with a reminiscent smile: "Of course I've been, I'm not like your sister, I love to take pictures, at that time, the mobile phone didn't have a camera function, and it was very inconvenient to take selfies, so I often dragged your father everywhere to take pictures..... Most of the photos in the album were taken by your dad for me. ”

Cheng Xiaoyu said with some surprise: "I think you chose to shoot your footage here, it won't be that my father took a photo for you here, right?"

Zhou Peipei sighed: "It turns out that there is no creeper with this wall here, and the coffee shop is not called this name, and it is not a ..... people."

Cheng Xiaoyu raised his eyes and glanced at the green wall covered with red bricks and said: "The pace of life will not stop for a moment, anything in the past is a warm memory, I couldn't accept it when my mother left, but now in retrospect, it is not the loss of pain, but the warmth she gave me, I couldn't understand it at the time, and now I feel precious..."

Zhou Peipei picked up the fan and slapped Cheng Xiaoyu and said, "You kid, do you think your Aunt Zhou is so weak that she needs your comfort?" Although the action is really not very polite and disrespectful to Director Cheng Da, it actually represents no mustard intimacy.

Cheng Xiaoyu let out an "oops", pretending to be aggrieved: "I'm not comforting, I'm talking to Aunt Zhou.....!

Zhou Peipei put the fan back and shook it: "That's good, okay, you can start filming, this time I guarantee to have a satisfied smile....."

Cheng Xiaoyu stood up and said, "Okay...."When he was about to get to the camera, Cheng Xiaoyu turned around again and said, "Aunt Zhou, I'll sing you a song!"

Zhou Peipei said a little strangely: "Singing?"

Cheng Xiaoyu nodded and said, "I think you should like it....."

Zhou Peipei nodded noncommittally and said, "Okay, then I'll listen to what song you sing to ..... me" (BGM - "Old Street" Li Ronghao)

Cheng Xiaoyu said to the staff on the side: "Find me a guitar...."

After a while, the staff borrowed a guitar from a bar not far away, Cheng Xiaoyu found a chair to sit behind the camera, crossed Erlang's legs and rested the guitar on his legs, first plucked the strings casually, and then began to sing softly:

A faded photo

It seems to bring me a little nostalgia

The hot noodle soup sold by the old man at the end of the alley

The smell permeated the old backyard

Stray cats sleeping soundly on a swing

The setting sun shone over him, and he squinted

The postcard sent from the same table

Lying quietly inside the desk

The spring is coming to an end

There are also door curtains carved with patterns

Narrow on both sides of the long aisle

Smoke still rises from the old house

It has just finished the season of light rain

Mom and Dad walked through the old street together

I can't remember what day of the year

It's been a long, short time

There's no going back now

Time has long passed

Cheng Xiaoyu sat in half shade and half sunshine, with a white T-shirt, a handsome and delicate face and a faint singing voice, which reminded Zhou Peipei of those scenes in the past, and couldn't help but smile with sweetness and astringency, as if returning to the season of first love........