Chapter 5: He Came from the East (Part I)
Early morning. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoThe sky is blue, the sun is warm and bright, and the air is clear and fresh. Living in this country, you often forget the fact that it turned out to be the most industrially developed country in the world. We have to admit that the United States has done an excellent job in environmental protection, and in contrast, China still has a long way to go in this area.
Li Mingcheng stood on the lawn in the front yard, breathed a breath of fresh air that did not contain industrial exhaust gases and had a very low PM2.5 content index, and then began to move his body and do warm-up exercises. When he felt that the muscles and bones in his body were moving, Li Mingcheng started to punch on the lawn.
Li Mingcheng's boxing is quite famous, there is a saying in the Chinese national arts circle, "Wen has Tai Chi to secure the world, and Wu has eight extremes to determine the world", the former is basically a Chinese person has heard of it, the latter is almost, but it's okay, at least after a series of Chinese movies about the Republic of China period, many people still have heard of it. Li Mingcheng practiced Bajiquan.
Li Mingcheng was taught this set of punches by Li Mingcheng's grandmother's house in a remote mountain village in Jiangjiang Province, and the lonely old man next to him. The old man's surname is Zhang, and he has forgotten what his name is. According to the elderly people in the village, Zhang Lao was an old Red Army who walked through the Long March when he was young, experienced eight years of resistance against Japanese aggression, and because he had a superhuman martial arts, he was assigned to a big man who became one of the ten marshals of the founding of China as a guard. After the establishment of New Huaxia, the big man once sent someone to comfort him and wanted to take him to Yanjing, but the upright Zhang Lao thought that he was uneducated and physically disabled, and refused on the grounds that he didn't want to be an idler, and the chief couldn't resist him, so he let him stay.
Zhang Lao originally had a wife, but that wife was really a hard-working woman, before the liberation of the family conditions were poor, the body was not very good, and after experiencing the great turmoil in the sixties, after all, he could not survive, and he died before he could give birth to a son and a half daughter for Zhang Lao. After that, Zhang Lao did not marry again, so he was so alone.
Li Mingcheng's grandparents saw that Zhang Lao was really pitiful alone, so they let one of their children recognize Zhang Lao as his godfather, and this child was Li Mingcheng's father. Since then, the Li family will go to chat with Mr. Zhang to send some home-grown vegetables, and they will also bring Mr. Zhang with him at the reunion dinner for the New Year. Because Zhang Lao has no children, he treats Li Mingcheng's father Li Dexian as his own, and he has nothing to say about Li Mingcheng.
Li Mingcheng is a premature baby, when he was a child, he was not in good health, he was a sick seedling, Li Dad and Li Ma ran to the hospital for three days and two ends, and all kinds of nutritional products were not bought less, but it was not good, and once I went back to my hometown, Zhang Lao knew about the situation, pondered for a while, and said to Li Dad, let Xiaocheng learn boxing with me. Li Dad and Li Ma totaled, hey, this can be had, strengthen the body. So Xiao Li Mingcheng began to learn boxing from Zhang Lao.
According to Zhang Lao, Bajiquan is a hard fist, and Li Mingcheng's physical foundation is too poor to practice fiercely, so he can only learn to learn fur, or it will hurt his body, which is counterproductive. Li Mingcheng practiced it like radio gymnastics. A few months later, it was really effective, Li Mingcheng's originally skinny and bony physique began to see flesh, and there were no minor illnesses or anything, and he was even a little stronger than ordinary children. The Li family was overjoyed, and asked Li Mingcheng to kowtow to Zhang Lao a few times at that time, and told him to treat Zhang Lao as his own grandfather.
Although Li Mingcheng only learned a bajiquan frame, don't underestimate it, it's no problem to clean up a little hooligan, it's hard to say one dozen five, one dozen two and one dozen three can be tried. It's just that in his previous life, Li Mingcheng was ambitious in high school, and he didn't have the heart to study, how could he still have the heart to practice boxing? And it gradually fell away.
Now Li Mingcheng has picked it up and re-practiced, for nothing else, he has decided to take the road of acting in the future, he is still a Chinese, maybe he will encounter a martial arts movie or an action movie or something in the future, practice boxing, and at least have a little foundation when he starts filming, right?
Although I haven't fought for more than ten years, after all, I have practiced from childhood to adulthood, and after being reborn, this body has not abandoned martial arts, and still retains the muscle memory of boxing. The first time was a little raw, the second time was a little stumbling, and after Li Mingcheng hit it three times, it looked like a decent tiger.
Daisy was watching Li Mingcheng while he was boxing, and after watching her suddenly run into the house for a while, she ran out with her family DV a few minutes later, stood in front of Li Mingcheng, and filmed at him.
Li Mingcheng was very surprised, and couldn't help but look at her curiously, wondering what kind of moth this crazy woman was? The attention was scattered, and the fist in his hand was also out of shape.
"Oh, you practice your best, don't look at me all the time, don't know what professionalism is!" Daisy was upset.
Li Mingcheng suddenly realized, oh, it turns out that she is making her short film.
But let's not talk about lighting props or anything, not only is there no script, but there is not even a theme planning, where to shoot, whatever you want, the key cameras are so shabby, can you see things when you shoot them?
Li Mingcheng thought that he should have met a fake director student......
After punching several times, he was sweating, Li Mingcheng rested for a while and gasped, and then walked slowly to the house.
After entering the house, Li Mingcheng was about to take off his sweaty sweaty sportswear, and when his shirt was rolled up, he suddenly remembered that there was a tail behind his buttocks, and hurriedly put his clothes down.
"Hey, you can't shoot this."
Daisy, who was staring at the bright lines of the vest with her eyes shining, stopped doing it, "What can't you shoot?" I'm the director, I have the final say! ā
"Then you shoot yourself." Li Mingcheng is not used to her.
"I was wrong!" Daisy wilted all of a sudden, "Don't shoot, don't shoot." ā
While putting away the DV machine, Daisy wrinkled her nose at Li Mingcheng, who walked into the bathroom with his clothes.
"What are the big men shy about, if you have the ability, don't swim for the rest of your life!"
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After taking a shower and changing his clothes, Li Mingcheng prepared to go to the city center.
Once you have formed a habit, it is difficult to quit many things, although Taylor told him that he would not go again, but Li Mingcheng just can't control his legs, and he has to go around the street in the city center every day.
Li Mingcheng knew what he was expecting. What he can't control is not his own legs, but his own heart.
Today there are some exceptions, Li Mingcheng is no longer alone, Daisy is also coming, and her baby family DV.
Daisy took a shot on the way, and Li Mingcheng took a lot of effort to suppress the urge to complain about this extremely unprofessional director and photographer, and quietly made a beautiful man paper in front of the camera.
When I arrived at the old place, the streets were still clean and bright, the music bar not far away still played the same country music, and the mobile stall selling ice cream was still there, but the beautiful girl who sang with a guitar was replaced by an uncle with a bearded face full of vicissitudes.
Li Mingcheng stopped a few meters away from his uncle, his eyes were unfocused, and he didn't know where to look.
It seems that she really won't come.
"What are you thinking?" Daisy behind her suddenly asked.
Li Mingcheng was stunned, looked back, and found that Daisy didn't know when to pick up the DV again and start shooting.
After hesitating for a few seconds, Li Mingcheng finally decided to tell the truth, "I'm thinking about someone." ā
"Boys and girls?" Daisy asked again.
"Girls." This time the answer was quick.
"Girlfriend?" Daisy asked with a smile.
"No," Li Mingcheng also smiled, "It's just a friend." ā
"And do you like her?"
Li Mingcheng was stunned for a moment, thought for a long time, and then said slowly: "It should be ...... A little bit? I don't know. ā
"Oh." Daisy nodded.
Then the two looked at each other in silence.
Daisy suddenly asked again, "What was the name of that song you sang on the way here just now?" ā
"What?" Li Mingcheng didn't react.
"That Chinese song." Daisy prompted.
"Oh, you said that......"
"Can you sing it to me again?"
"Here?" Li Mingcheng's expression was very strange.
"Hmm. What, are you shy? Daisy said.
Shy? Li Mingcheng really didn't know what the state of shyness was, so he took a few deep breaths and cleared his throat.
"I'm going to do it."
Seeing Daisy behind the camera, she nodded, and Li Mingcheng sang a cappella directly on the streets of downtown Nashville.
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A lonely light stands at the window
I'll pretend you're not gone behind the door
The old land is more lonely if the full moon is revisited,
The candle flame in the middle of the night couldn't bear to scold me
A pot of wandering wandering is difficult to enter the throat
After you leave, the wine is warm, and the memories are thin
How to steal the time when the water flows eastward
The flowers ripen once they bloom, but I miss them
Who is playing a song with the pipa?
The years peeled off on the wall to see when I was a child
I still remember that we were all very young
And now the sound of the piano is faint, I wait, you haven't heard it
Who is playing a song with the pipa?
Maple Leaf dyes the story, and I see through the ending
I'll lead you through the ancient road outside the fence
In the years of desolation, even the breakup was silent
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A girl holding a DVV to shoot, and a big boy singing a song they don't understand the lyrics but can tell if it's a Chinese song. Pedestrians in downtown Nashville stopped to watch the strange sight, and even the bearded uncle who sang stopped "working." Although they couldn't understand what Li Mingcheng was singing, at least the melody that came into their ears was collected and processed by the brain, and the feedback was good and comfortable, so after Li Mingcheng finished singing, the crowd of onlookers spontaneously burst into goodwill applause, mixed with encouraging English.
Li Mingcheng smiled at them, bowed slightly to them like an artist who had completed his performance, and thanked them.
"Although it was a little strange at first, it was undeniable that it didn't feel bad after listening to it." Daisy, who was still filming, commented, "By the way, what's the name of this song?" ā
Li Mingcheng was stunned as soon as he wanted to answer, he suddenly couldn't think of how to translate the low-key luxury and connotative name of "East Wind Break" for Daisy.
In the end, he really had no choice but to tell Daisy in a blunt literal translation.
Daisy rolled her eyes after hearing this, "Well, the name is weirder than the song. ā
Li Mingcheng is very embarrassed, Dong Zhou, I'm sorry for you!
"But it's good." Daisy continued.
"Of course," Li Mingcheng hurriedly seized the opportunity to save face for Dong Zhou, "This is a Chinese style, which contains the unique cultural accumulation and historical heritage of our five thousand years of China!" ā
"Huaxia style?" Daisy touched her chin, "That's a good name, better than the one just now." ā
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After eating the Chinese dinner cooked by Li Mingcheng, Li Mingcheng and his aunt and uncle sat in front of the TV to watch the newly released "Prison Break".
Daisy suddenly poked her head out of the stairs and beckoned to him, "Leo, come up." ā
Li Mingcheng walked over for some reason, and as soon as she walked up the stairs, Daisy stepped over impatiently, pulled Li Mingcheng and rushed into her room.
Pressing Li Mingcheng to sit down in front of the desk, Daisy ran out again with a snort, and rushed in with the guitar that Taylor gave Li Mingcheng more than ten seconds later.
Shoved the guitar into Li Mingcheng's arms, sat down cross-legged on the bed, Daisy lifted the charged family DV and aimed it at Li Mingcheng's handsome face with a confused face.
"Finally, give yourself a chance to show yourself." Daisy said, "Sing something I haven't heard before." ā
It turned out to be this.,I thought I was going to close the door and do something ashamed.,I'm looking forward to it!
"Oh-" Li Mingcheng nodded, and then happily agreed: "No problem." ā
It's time to circle fans again!
Li Mingcheng smiled brightly at the camera and gently plucked the strings.