Narrow alleys, gray tile houses, yellow lanterns, white moon.

The town should be quiet at night, with a thin dingo or two screaming, and a few rats running along the corners of the wall to their burrows, like the silence and closure to which it has been accustomed for centuries, like the childhood of every old man.

This "should" has been broken.

A group of people pushed and shoved a thin girl from the end of the alley, and the girl's faint cry was interrupted by their shouting.

The cacophony echoed through the alley, and only the sound of someone closing the doors and windows could be heard.

"Do you still want to comb yourself? They can weave, what will you do? You can't support yourself if you comb yourself, let you live a good life, you can't learn to comb by others!"

There was a woman in the crowd who was pinching and twisting the girl's body as she spoke, and a group of men next to her watched, even with a smile on their faces.

"I can cook, Auntie, I beg you, don't marry me to my cousin. ”

The girl's cry was very weak and helpless, and the small pain in her body was far less than the despair in her heart, and her aunt spent eight taels of silver to let her serve her stupid cousin, how could she not despair in such a life.

Get married?

That was after giving birth to a son, and she was simply sold as a livestock.

Outside the pile, a man had been silently smoking a cigarette pipe, his thin braids around his neck like a malnourished snake. The verbal involvement between the woman and the girl only annoyed him.

"Okay, fourth sister, go and serve your aunt and uncle well, I have eaten so much rice at home over the years......"

"I ate rice, and I did the work! I owe you what I earn myself, you can't sell me, Daddy, I beg you, don't sell me, I'm begging you, Daddy!"

That man was the girl's father, the head of their family, their owner.

When facing her father, the girl's voice was cowardly at first, but gradually let go and turned into a moving and mournful cry.

The girl's body was dirty, her black braids had long been torn and messy, her whole face could only be seen clearly by a pair of bright eyes, her clothes were shabby, her feet were bare, and she was also covered with mud.

The men were too lazy to listen to her, and when someone said that this was not a place to make trouble, they grabbed the girl and wanted to take her home quickly.

Child, no matter how much you cry, it's good to take it home and close it and starve for a few days.

There was a sudden thunderclap in the sky.

The moon, which was still above people's heads just now, didn't know when it had been obscured by dark clouds.

A thunderbolt frightened the others and woke the girl up.

Rather than being ruined for a lifetime, it's better to die here.

The white thunder, the screams of the people, the blood stains left by the girl hitting the stone wall, the weak figure of her lying on the ground.

As the door creaked open, the noise fell silent.

The man in a white robe walked slowly out of the door, and behind him, his scholar carefully carried the lamp.

The man looked at the girl lying on the ground, then at the group of people blocking his door, and shook his head.

He and his scholar were out of step with the qiē in front of them, their heads were cleanly shaved, their braids were neater, and the corners of their clothes were not frayed.

Because he is the owner of this house.

The scholar untied a small money bag from his waist and threw it into the pile.

The brown purse smashed on the long gray-black stone road, the last scene that the seriously injured girl saw in a trance.

“Cut！”

The short man didn't say anything after shouting Cut, he spent more than ten minutes watching the multiple angles of this scene before he nodded.

"Okay, Cao Xi makes up for the close-up, and Chi Chi rests. ”

The girl who had already gotten up from the ground shivered, and had already put on the shoes handed over by Chen Fang.

They have filmed this scene several times, and every time after filming, director Kang Yan will not say whether he is satisfied or dissatisfied with this scene, but has put forward new and specific requirements countless times, striving to make his film picture reflect the texture of oil painting.

This is also Kangyan's personal characteristics, the pictures he shoots are always rich and deep, and the feelings of the characters in the play are also like undercurrents in the dark river, with silent and passionate power.

It is precisely because of his personal color that the character selection of the entire "Feng Kitchen" has undergone drastic changes.

The actor's name was changed to Guan Jincheng, and his identity changed from a weak teenager Xiucai to an adult lifter.

The cast personnel naturally changed from a group of young male actors (18~30) to young male actors (25~40), and finally settled on Cao Xi, who was born in drama and worked tepidly in the entertainment industry for more than ten years.

This kind of revision also led the entire script to enter a state of changing while shooting, Kang Yan would draw the desired storyboard effect on the script himself, and then drag the screenwriters to discuss it frame by frame, and then put forward opinions on the script, the impact of this approach on the screenwriters is not only work, but even psychological - the movie finally started shooting in April, and now it has just passed the May Day holiday, Wei Yu and Fang Shiyi have reached the point where they want to vomit when they see Kang Yan.

After the whole scene was filmed, it was already past 12 o'clock in the morning, and the staff who stayed up all night had a bowl of hot and tasteful wine-stuffed balls or ginger juice that would warm up the whole person when eaten with a rich milky aroma - this was an additional benefit of the crew's night shift.

"It's going faster than expected. ”

Kangyan called the two leading actors and the two screenwriters together and said to them.

According to the plan, this scene should have been filmed in ten working days, and now the schedule has advanced so much, and in addition to the joy, there are also problems.

Everyone's eyes were on Chi Chi.

The little girl holding the ginger juice and hitting the milk blinked.

"What should I do, Chi Chi, the scenes where you have hair have been filmed. ”

Fang Shiyi swore that he didn't gloat at all!

"Oh, let's keep shooting. The girl smiled and scooped a piece of white milk cake with a spoon and put it in her mouth.

Cao Xi, who had been silent, looked at the long braid on the back of Chi Chi's head, shook his head and said, "Didn't you go to Great Gaul in five days, didn't you say that you can't shave your head before then?"

Because of the change of director and script and other reasons, the movie "Feng Kitchen" was launched many days later than expected, which made Dou Baojia have illusions, thinking that Chi Chi, who went to participate in the Greater Gallic Awards, was at least a hairy Chi Chi. She negotiated with the director, hoping that Chi Chi's shaving scene would be filmed after she returned to China.

Unexpectedly, because the actor's performance is good enough, the filming process of the whole movie is much smoother than expected.

"Why don't you shoot my scene first, and then move her hair when Chi Chi comes back. ”

The rest of Cao Xi's scenes were abused in Guan Jincheng in the northwest, and he was able to propose to suffer this hardship in advance, because he was really thinking about Chi Chi.

When a girl participates in the first film festival in her life, she can't go barehead and wear a wig, right?

Cao Xi, who also has a four-year-old daughter, is more than ten years older than Chi Chi, and the two of them are master and servant in the play, and they are also spiritual partners in love, and he treats Chi Chi as his junior outside the play.

Kang Yan shook his head: "Even if the scenes on your side are advanced, they can only be filmed for one or two scenes, and there are some scenes that the entire crew has to directly change the scene, and now this side has been withdrawn first...... The cost is too high. ”

He has always done things in a down-to-earth manner, without a little sense □□ color.

Taking over this project, Kang Yan actually accepted Du An's invitation, and heard that She Bing left the crew before the start of filming, he was originally very unhappy about this project, as a young director who has risen sharply over the years, he doesn't want to have traces left by She Bing on his medal of merit in the future.

After arriving at the crew, he found that the whole situation was much better than he expected, the management would not interfere indiscriminately, the assistant director Chi Kaihua got along well, and Kang Yan and he each brought their own shooting teams to work.

In addition to shooting movies with Kang Yan, Chi Kaihua also plans to make the filming process of the movie "Feng Kitchen" into a documentary, this idea has won the support of investors, Chi Kaihua has his own things to do, and will not interfere with Kang Yan's ideas at all.

The actor gave him a huge surprise.

Now Kang Yan can fully understand why Du Lao will be so obsessed with Chi Chi, no wonder not only asked him to introduce him as a director, but also told him to communicate with Chi Chi. The girl's spirituality and expressive power can stimulate the director's creative desire, and the collision of acting skills and ideas has given him a lot of new inspiration and ideas, and he can always get higher results than expected. Just like this cry just now, her emotional level is very clear, her attitude towards her mother and father is completely different, and she obviously knows who she should really resent in this family.

Kang Yan himself couldn't help but sigh, cooperating with Chi Chi, what you want is one plus one calculation, she can even give you the results of two plus one and three plus one, this is really addictive.

Cao Xi, who played the leading role, is a drama professional from a professional class, and he used to play supporting roles in movies, but he has a good reputation, dedication and communication, in order to play the role of Guan Jincheng, a weak scholar, he lost three kilograms of weight in ten days, so perseverance and dedication make Kang Yan very admirable. What satisfies Kang Yeon even more as a director is that the character played by Cao Xi has a special tension, and there is a convincing attraction between Wen Xin played by Ji Chi.

Well, this kind of attraction is both inside and outside the play...... Kangyan agrees.

"Come according to the plan, shave your head when you should shave your head, there is no need to delay the progress of the whole movie for small things. Listening to others, Chi Chi, who had finished eating the ginger juice and hitting the milk, said to Kang Yan.

I said so, and it was useless for others to say anything else, so everyone happily decided to shoot the scene of "Wenxin shaving his head" tomorrow.

After returning to the hotel where he was staying, Chi Chi called Dou Baojia under Chen Fang's Jianyi.

"What! shave your head in advance! You actually agreed!"

"Otherwise, there is no need to delay everyone's progress in such a trivial matter. ”

Dou Baojia is going to be angry, an actor said that his appearance is a trivial matter, so those celebrities who spend tens of millions of dollars every year to maintain it spend a lot of money to do "small things"?

"Can something that can be solved with a hair set be considered a big deal?"

Chi Chi never understood where Dou Baojia was excited.

Dou Baojia gasped and took a minute to calm himself down.

"I'll be there tomorrow morning, I'll have to watch you shave your head, oh my god......"

Listening to Dou Baojia's old hen muttering, Chi Chi made an impatient grimace at Chen Fang.

Assistant Chen, who was strict and cautious, finally couldn't hold back and was amused by her.

Although he was very relaxed, before going to bed, Chi Chi still washed his hair well and then blew it.

"Well, we'll see you in the second half of the year. ”

She said goodbye to her hair like goodbye to an old friend who had always been with her.

"From today on, I am Chen Fengchu. ”

The time has already passed twelve o'clock, and the scene of shaving the head is really "today".

The girl's thin body leaned on the god case and shook it, this place was originally dedicated to the god of wealth, but now the statue of the god has long been pushed in, and even the incense ashes in the incense burner have been taken out and eaten.

There was a corpse that fell under the god case, and it tripped Wen Xin, causing Wen Xin, who was already angry and weak, to lie in front of the godless god seat.

There are still many corpses of people outside the ruined temple, and the Yellow River has burst, and a large area of land has become a hell on earth.

People have to avoid the flood, but also to avoid the famine and plague brought by the flood, under such a natural disaster, as a woman, Wen Xin has encountered too many ** - some people want to catch her and sell her for money, some people want to keep a seed before they die, and some people simply want to eat her.

Again and again, Wen Xin escaped, and he was exhausted physically and mentally.

Just now, a young man who had never known her in his life was beaten to death with a stone in order to save her.

Is it human?

Do people want to eat people?

Seeing too many people dying, Wen Xin was already numb, even if this person was trying to save her, she didn't feel much moved and sad. She had just broken free from death, with a body of blood, and those confusions about "people" were entrenched in Wenxin, and she had no time to think about it, she wanted to run for her life, she wanted to live, and she still had to do things.

Guan Jincheng gave her the silver hairpin Wenxin has been closely protected, and just now, she used that hairpin to stab the "person" who wanted to eat her.

Blood spurted out of the other party's neck, splashing Wen Xin's hand and face, and she looked at the blood, and even the world in her eyes turned red.

The dead are red, the heavens are red, the hunger on the earth is red, and their own hands are red.

This is a world full of red, after Guan Jincheng was taken away by officers and soldiers, she planted such a world headlong, no one can shelter her, no one can cover her.

Like a chick that has fallen from its nest to the outside, she is still alive, and she can only cry helplessly.

But those who had protected her for a moment out of sympathy left, either leaving her at the intersection or dying for her.

From her last protector, Wen Xin touched his letters.

Now, she looked at the notes with shaking hands, thinking maybe she was going to eat them to cushion her stomach.

This person's name is Chen Liu, a white case apprentice, who was introduced by a chef in his hometown to Suzhou to find a chef surnamed Song to learn art, but Chef Song asked him to meet in Beijing because he wanted to attend the Queen Mother's birthday banquet.

Looking at the letter, Wen Xin's eyes widened suddenly.

A strange thought popped into her mind.

If I become a man, at least, at least I will go to the capital a little more.

As long as I am this Chen Liu who is going to the capital with the letter, I will encounter much less danger.

"If I were him, if I were Chen Liu...... I can live, I want to live, I want to avenge Jincheng, I want to save Jincheng...... I can only be Chen Liu. ”

She muttered, there was no expression on her face, she didn't have any expression from the time she killed someone until now, she was so tired, so tired that the muscles on her face didn't move again, all the emotions were in those eyes, from confusion to delusion, to the current self-hypnosis.

In this murmur, her expression gradually became fanatical, this was her last way out of the desperate situation.

Looking at her expression, everyone knew that the only straw that the drowning person could grasp was in her arms.

Wenxin is the name given to her by Jincheng, accompanied by this name is that time of laughter and warmth, that qiē is the brightest place in her life, now she is depressed and helpless and in danger, and the only faith left to support her is to rescue Guan Jincheng who was exiled to the northwest.

For the sake of Jincheng, she can do anything.

Holding the silver hairpin with blood and Lu Yin, the girl's expression changed from a frenzy with a little weakness and joy to sadness, her eyes dimmed again, and finally she cried silently.

Tears streamed down her dirty face and into her chapped lips, taking away the last of her weakness.

What she was crying about, she didn't know herself.

Outside, it was empty, except for the rancid smell of wind blowing through the door of the ruined temple.

Everything that can be eaten in this world has long been eaten.

To become a man, you have to shave off your hair and keep a braid at the back of your head, which is what the men of this dynasty look like.

The man who was stabbed to death by Wen Xin had a small knife on his body, and there were blood stains on it that he didn't know who it was, Wen Xin stared at the knife for a long time, and finally slowly lifted it to the top of his head, holding the knife in his backhand, and pushing the sharp blade back from his hairline.

She could hear the sound of her hair being cut.

A stream of blood ran from the top of her head, down her emaciated, dirty cheeks, and over her pursed lips.

The green silk is tangled into a clump and falls.

Chen Liu once again regained his expressionless appearance.

It's just that in those eyes, something seems to be gradually lit up, with a sharp edge that can hurt people and a desperate madness.