Chapter 167: The movie "Based on the novel of the same name by Zhao Yunsheng"...

Gu Xuan came back after buying breakfast and found Gu Mei sitting in the main room with Wang Ying and Zhao Yunsheng drinking tea and talking.

Gu Xuan bought some steamed buns, fried dough sticks and sesame cakes, which the few of them ate with their tea.

After breakfast, Wang Ying said, "You guys still have to go to school, don't worry about us, we'll go shopping on our own."

"I have to go to school, so my brother doesn't need to go. Let him drive you out to play." Gu Mei said.

"Well, do you have any plans?" Gu Xuan asked.

"I'm going to visit a relative, but I don't have any other specific plans," Zhao Yunsheng said. "Oh, Yingzi is going to investigate supplementary food."

Gu Mei put down her teacup and shook her head. "Yingzi, you can enjoy work, but you never finish your work! Rest when you need to rest! Play when you need to play."

"I'm just going to take a look and broaden my horizons," said Wang Ying.

"Then let my brother show you around. I'm going to school."

Gu Mei rode her bike to school, while Gu Xuan took Wang Ying to visit the capital.

Gu Xuan took them to Wangfu Street as their first stop. There were many shops here, including a food stall selling non-staple foods.

Wang Ying wandered from shop to shop with great interest. She rarely had the feeling of traveling through time and space when she was in Beichong, at home or at work, but now she had a very obvious feeling. She couldn't help but compare the situation with her previous life here. Moreover, she remembered many details surprisingly well, which was incredible.

Zhao Yunsheng took a camera and took a photo of Wang Ying from time to time.

"Let me take a group photo of you." Gu Xuan said.

"Sure, sure. Director Gu will take pictures for us personally." Zhao Yunsheng handed the camera to Gu Xuan.

Gu Xuan looked around, found a place for them, instructed them on their standing posture, and then pressed the shutter.

After taking pictures of the two of them, Gu Xuan asked Zhao Yunsheng to go away, took a picture of Wang Ying alone, and then returned the camera to Zhao Yunsheng.

Zhao Yunsheng took the camera and said to Gu Xuan, "Take a photo of the two of you together."

"Okay." Gu Xuan said as he walked towards Wang Ying, stood beside Wang Ying, crossed his arms, and tilted his head slightly towards Wang Ying. Zhao Yunsheng pressed the shutter and took a photo of the two of them.

Zhao Yunsheng and Gu Xuan also took a photo together.

The few of them were feeling a little hot, so Gu Xuan went to buy three bottles of Coke and each of them drank one.

"This is a foreign product. Beichong doesn't have it yet." Zhao Yunsheng said after taking a sip of Coke.

"Well, it's just started being sold in the capital, and it's not available everywhere." Gu Xuan shook the bottle.

Wang Ying took a sip of Coke and thought, it will be everywhere in the future.

Not only Coke, with the reform and opening up, more foreign products will enter the market, enriching people's material culture and suppressing many domestic brands.

Wang Ying saw a shop selling traditional dim sum and walked in to take a look. He found that there were many more varieties than what their factory produced, with different shapes and exquisite packaging.

"Buy some." Zhao Yunsheng said.

"It's hot now, why don't we go back and buy it that day." Wang Ying thought about it and only took one of their posters.

The three of them spent the entire day shopping, only buying a few things at the children's store. The rest of the time they were just looking around. The capital was currently undergoing construction and renovation, and by the end of the day, the three of them were a bit dusty and dusty.

When we returned to the Gu family's courtyard, Gu Mei had already returned home.

"How was your shopping today?" Gu Mei asked.

"It's fine, except you're not here." Wang Ying said with a smile.

"Oh my, Yingzi, you're so sweet." Gu Mei said with a smile, "Someone will be coming over soon. I'll introduce him to you."

"Boyfriend." Wang Ying said firmly.

"Gu Xuan! Did you tell Yingzi?" Gu Mei yelled at his brother.

"No." Gu Xuan said unhappily.

"He didn't tell me, I guessed it myself," Wang Ying said. "What kind of person is he?"

"Gioco." Gu Xuan said.

"Gu Xuan, you are so annoying." Gu Mei glared at her brother.

"When will the pretty boy arrive? We are going to have dinner." Gu Xuan completely ignored his sister glaring at him and continued to call his future brother-in-law the pretty boy.

Gu Mei raised her hand and glanced at her watch: "We'll be there soon!"

"Let's go wash our faces and change our clothes," said Wang Ying.

After Wang Ying and the others washed their faces and changed their clothes, Gu Mei's pretty boy boyfriend also arrived.

He was indeed a fair-skinned young man, and his surname was Bai. He was a bit shy, and he was a little excited when Gu Mei introduced Zhao Yunsheng to him.

"I, I like your book very much." Comrade Xiaobai blushed and looked even more like a pretty boy.

Gu Xuan happened to be tanned, and standing next to him, the contrast was more obvious. Seeing him like this, Gu Xuan felt even more disgusted.

"Let's go eat." Gu Xuan took the car keys and walked out.

Gu Mei glared at her brother's back and called Xiaobai and Wang Ying and his wife to get in the car.

Gu Xuan took them to a state-owned restaurant for dinner. Gu Mei said at the table, "I miss Yingzi's spicy chicken."

"Can you cook there? I'll cook for you tomorrow," said Wang Ying.

"No, no, no, I'm just talking. I'll talk about it when I go back during the summer vacation." Gu Mei waved her hands.

Gu Mei's boyfriend, Comrade Xiaobai, admired Zhao Yunsheng very much. Halfway through the meal, he gradually became familiar with Zhao Yunsheng and was not so shy anymore. He began to ask Zhao Yunsheng questions about literary creation.

There were five people at the table. Gu Mei and Wang Ying were talking, Xiaobai was staring at Zhao Yunsheng, and only Gu Xuan was eating alone, ignored by everyone.

After dinner, today’s activities ended and everyone went straight home.

Wang Ying and Zhao Yunsheng were tired after a day of work. They returned to Gu's house, washed up, and fell asleep.

The next day was the preview of the movie "Late Autumn".

The preview will be in the afternoon, and since they have nothing to do in the morning, Wang Ying and his friend plan to visit Zhao Yunsheng's great-uncle first.

Gu Xuan followed the address and sent Wang Ying and the others to an alley. The two of them went in and came out again carrying gifts.

"What's wrong? Were you treated as a scoundrel and kicked out?" Gu Xuan joked with them.

Zhao Yunsheng smiled and said, "No, the people in the compound said they moved away. They also gave me an address, take a look."

Gu Xuan looked at the address and raised his eyebrows: "This place is nice."

Zhao Yunsheng laughed and said, "Then there's a real possibility that they'll be kicked out as a beggar."

Wang Ying and Zhao Yunsheng didn't pay much attention to this visit. They just thought that since they were already there, they might as well go and get to know the place.

Gu Xuan drove back. The Zhao family's relative's house was surprisingly not far from Gu Xuan's. It was also a small courtyard house with its own entrance and courtyard. Living in a private courtyard these days was quite a feat.

Zhao Yunsheng knocked on the door and an old lady opened it. She had silver hair and looked very kind.

"Who are you looking for?"

"Hello, is this Zhao Fengnian's home?" Zhao Yunsheng asked.

"Who are you?" The old lady narrowed her eyes as she looked at Zhao Yunsheng and Wang Ying, her gaze finally landing on Zhao Yunsheng. "Oh, you're from the Chengjun family, right?"

"Yes, do you know me?" Zhao Yunsheng said with a smile.

"You've seen the photos. Come in, come in." The old lady opened the door, took two steps back, and shouted inside, "Old man, relatives are here."

Wang Ying and Zhao Yunsheng looked at each other and it seemed that they would not be driven out as extortioners.

An old man came out of the wing room and came into the yard. He recognized Zhao Yunsheng at once.

"This is Yunsheng from the Chengjun family!"

"Sixth Grandpa, you still remember me. This is my wife Wang Ying." Zhao Yunsheng introduced with a smile.

"You're married, but you didn't even send us a letter! Come in and sit down, come in and sit down." Mr. Zhao had a loud voice and looked to be in good health.

"Old lady, please make some tea quickly. Nephew's wife, please sit down quickly." After entering the main hall, the old man started to make arrangements again.

Wang Ying was surprised by the old man's enthusiasm.

Zhao Yunsheng said, "Sixth Grandpa, I have a friend who drove us here. He's waiting at the entrance of the alley. I'll go talk to him."

"Come over to my house and sit down with me."

"I'll go ask."

Zhao Yunsheng went to talk to Gu Xuan, the old man, and Wang Ying, asking about some family matters. He asked how Beichong was doing and how his family was doing. Wang Ying could tell that the old man still missed his hometown very much.

Zhao Yunsheng came back alone.

Sixth Grandma brought tea and snacks, and sat down with a smile to drink tea and chat.

"Are you here on a business trip?" asked Mr. Zhao.

"I guess so. One of my novels was made into a movie, and I came to attend the preview." Zhao Yunsheng was still a little embarrassed.

"Oh, our Zhao family has produced a cultured person! What's the name of the movie and when will it be shown? Let's go and see it." Old Zhao Fengnian was really a little excited.

"It's called 'Late Autumn'. It's going to be screened first, and it'll be some time before it's released publicly," said Zhao Yunsheng.

"Not bad, not bad. He has a lot of potential. With Chengjun's personality, it's a wonder he managed to raise a cultured son. Is he still working at the food factory?"

"The non-staple food factory no longer exists. It has been split into several new factories, and he is the head of the non-staple food store," said Zhao Yunsheng.

"Yeah, that's fine. How about your mom? Is she retired?"

"I'm retired and I'm taking care of our kids at home," Zhao Yunsheng said, pulling out a photo of Yueyue from his bag. "My daughter, Zhao Xinyue, is two and a half years old."

"You take such good care of it, why don't you bring it here to play?" Grandma Liu said while looking at the photo.

"The journey will take a long time. I'll bring her over to play when she grows up," said Wang Ying.

"What about Yingzi? What job does she do? You can tell at a glance that she's capable!" Sixth Grandpa asked again.

Zhao Yunsheng smiled and said, "That's really capable. He's the youngest factory director in Beichong."

"You're so young and you're already a factory manager?"

The two old men were very surprised, and their eyes changed when they looked at Wang Ying.

"It's a small factory," Wang Ying said modestly. "It produces biscuits and other side dishes."

Grandma Liu glanced at the gifts Wang Ying and the others had brought and asked, "Are those made in your factory?"

“Some are.”

"Come and try it, it tastes like home." said Sixth Grandpa.

Sixth Grandma used a fruit plate to unpack several of the gifts brought by Wang Ying and the others, and placed them on the fruit plate and brought it over.

The two elderly people were very surprised when they ate it. Grandma Liu said, "It's very well made. It's as good as the dim sum here in Beijing."

"These little fish crackers are delicious! They go perfectly with wine! By the way, you can have lunch here. Old woman, go down and buy a roast duck."

Grandma Liu tasted the fish biscuits and said they were delicious, but her favorite was the peach biscuits.

"It tastes better than what we sell here in Beijing." Sixth Grandma said, "If we can sell it in Beijing, business will definitely be good."

That is not an easy task. It is already rare to be able to sell in surrounding provinces and cities. If you want to sell it in Beijing, you have to wait for the market economy to develop for some time.

"You guys stay and talk to your Sixth Grandpa, I'm going to buy some groceries." Sixth Grandma stood up and said.

Wang Ying and Zhao Yunsheng chatted with the old man. The old man was homesick. When he listened to Zhao Yunsheng talking about family matters, he couldn't help sighing and even shed two tears when he talked about the death of someone he knew.

Zhao Yunsheng and Wang Ying had lunch at Sixth Grandpa's house. They had to attend a preview in the afternoon. After lunch, the two stayed for a while and then said goodbye.

Before leaving, Sixth Grandpa accompanied them all the way to the entrance of the alley and told them to come back again before returning home.

Gu Xuan calculated the time and came over to pick up the two of them.

Gu Xuan took the two of them directly to the Film Academy and first took them to meet his teacher, He Chong, the director of the movie "Late Autumn".

Wang Ying had seen Director He on TV in his previous life. He was already old at that time. He didn't expect that he looked like this when he was young. He was very enthusiastic when he saw Zhao Yunsheng.

Zhao Yunsheng and He Zhong, the master and apprentice, were discussing film and literary creation. Wang Ying, unable to speak, simply listened silently. While Zhao Yunsheng was talking to them, he would occasionally glance at Wang Ying and smile at her, as if to comfort her boredom.

Wang Ying didn't feel bored. This was the first time she had encountered these things in her two lives. She was curious about many things and listened with great interest.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Gu Xuan and He Zhong took Zhao Yunsheng and Wang Ying to the film academy's screening hall. A number of people had already gathered in front of the hall, and Wang Ying saw a few familiar faces: directors and actors she had seen on television later.

There were also several reporters holding cameras, waiting for the next interview session.

He Zhong introduced Zhao Yunsheng to directors he was familiar with. After they heard that Zhao Yunsheng was the original author of "Late Autumn", they were very polite to Zhao Yunsheng. One of them asked about the copyright issue of "Rebirth".

At this time, He Zhong would proudly introduce his disciple Gu Xuan: "The copyright of "New Life" has long been bought by my students. If you want to shoot it, you can do the photography and production..."

"Writer Zhao doesn't just have this one book; he has others. Writer Zhao, let's get in touch later."

The preview begins at four o'clock sharp.

Wang Ying and Zhao Yunsheng sat in the middle of the fourth row. Wang Ying remembered that this was her first time watching a movie since her rebirth. As soon as the theater went dark, Zhao Yunsheng took Wang Ying's hand.

The screen opens, without any opening credits, to a steam train approaching from a distance. The surrounding scenery indicates that the story takes place in autumn...

This is a movie adapted from Zhao Yunsheng's novel. Both this novel and this movie did not exist in her previous life... Wang Ying felt excited when she thought of this. She remembered a word she had heard in her previous life: the butterfly effect.

If she hadn't been reborn, then these people, all of them, wouldn't be gathered here to watch this movie. They were all gathered here because of her, the "butterfly." This feeling gave Wang Ying an indescribable excitement.

Zhao Yunsheng leaned close to Wang Ying's ear and whispered, "Yingzi, I'm so nervous."

Wang Ying held Zhao Yunsheng's hand tightly, leaned over and said, "This is just the first part. There will be many more in the future."

On the screen, a train hurtles past, its surroundings changing several times. Finally, it stops at the train station in Beijing. The heroine joins the crowd as she disembarks. Glancing around, she sees the film's title, "Late Autumn," appear on the screen, along with a line of text: "Based on the novel of the same name by Zhao Yunsheng."

Zhao Yunsheng squeezed Wang Ying's hand tightly. Wang Ying felt Zhao Yunsheng trembling slightly, so he squeezed back tightly.

The two held hands tightly, without further exchange, and watched the entire movie in silence. When the last staff member's subtitle disappeared from the screen, warm applause broke out in the theater...