Chapter 11 Dare not burn a raw rhino
Gan Wei opened the script and took a look at it. The first feeling he had was "standard".
The scenes, characters, backgrounds, and scenes... the parts that a script should have are not messy at all. You can tell at a glance that the creator is an excellent student who graduated from a professional school.
However, the ability of the screenwriter's profession has little to do with whether he graduated from a professional school. There are many examples of unconventional people defeating regular troops in the industry.
Therefore, Gan Wei just sighed in his heart and then began to read the contents of the script.
The first two episodes are called [Convenience Store No. 444] and [Ghost Detective]. One is the appearance of the three protagonists, explaining the character image and personality; the other is a simple short story, which can be regarded as explaining the world view and some background settings.
These two short stories were shown to Qin Lan by Meng Bai before, and Qin Lan also roughly described some of the story contents when chatting with Gan Wei.
So when Gan Wei, who had been spoiled in advance, read the first two stories again, although she still couldn't help but admire the excellent narration and amazing writing of the script, the wonderfulness of the story itself was inevitably discounted.
However, even so, Gan Wei had put away her previous contempt and speculation about Meng Bai.
It seems that Qin Lan recommended this young man to her just out of appreciation.
But at this level, it is not enough for her to invest real money to shoot the script.
Gan Wei glanced at Meng Bai who was sitting opposite. The young man was looking out the window, as if he was admiring the street view in front of the building, with a confident look.
It must be said that for an investor, it is really hard not to have more confidence in him with his confident look.
Gan Wei retracted her gaze and continued to flip through the pages.
The third story is called [Ghost on the Bed], which sounds like a classic ghost story template, and it is also a new story that Qin Lan has not described to her.
Gan Wei first browsed the story casually as before, but she couldn't help but put the script flat on the table, and then leaned forward to read it carefully.
After she finished reading, she didn't turn the page, but closed her eyes and meditated. Then she opened her eyes, turned to the front again, and read the story again from the beginning.
[Qingqing is an independent fashion designer. She has been married to her husband for many years. They have a good relationship and are very loving.
Qingqing's husband likes to study various incense and collects many strange and peculiar incense auction items at home.
Under the influence of her husband, Qingqing gradually became interested in traditional culture and often went to various remote areas to collect old objects for inspiration.
A month ago, Qingqing came to the mountainous area in western Shanxi as in the past. This time, she received a pair of three-inch golden lotus embroidered shoes here, which were exquisite and unique in shape, and people liked them very much.
After returning home, her husband brought a basin of water as usual to wash Qingqing's feet and massage her to relieve his wife's fatigue. Qingqing flirted with her husband while talking about the gains of this trip.
As they were talking and laughing, Qingqing mentioned that she had been feeling a little sore in her feet recently, as if she had worn small shoes for a whole day. In addition, she didn't know when she was injured on her forehead, and there was a Band-Aid on it.
Hearing Qingqing's words, the husband was stunned, but soon began to comfort his wife that she might be too tired recently.
A long separation is better than a new marriage, Qingqing flirted with her husband barefoot. While they were whispering to
each other, the two had already set up the "chessboard" and were ready to "go to war". But at this moment, the sudden ringing of the phone interrupted the battle. Qingqing answered the phone and it was a woman's voice. The other party said that she had made an appointment with Qingqing today and was now at the door.
Qingqing was a little confused because she didn't remember who she had made an appointment with today. But since the other party was already at the door, she couldn't turn him away. Qingqing had to temporarily truce with her husband and go downstairs to greet the guests.
The visitor was a beautiful woman who called herself "Yanyan", wearing a European retro black lace pearl dress, black silk mesh gloves on her hands, and carrying a leather lady's bag in her hand.
After entering the house and sitting down, the woman took out a golden cigarette case and lighter from her bag, leaned on the sofa with her legs crossed, and acted like a socialite in the foreign land of the Republic of China.
The two sat down in the living room, and Yanyan told Qingqing the purpose of her visit, hoping that Qingqing could design a set of clothes for her. She said that her requirements were very simple, as long as the quality was in place, it didn't matter if it was labor-intensive or
material-intensive. After that, Yanyan also took out 30,000 cash from her handbag.
Faced with such a big customer, Qingqing was naturally happy. She agreed to Yanyan's request at once, and then took her to visit some old objects in her collection.
What Qingqing didn't expect was that Yanyan was quite familiar with these collections, and she talked about them very well, which made Qingqing feel like a confidant. In her joy, she prepared to take out the embroidered shoes she had just received to watch.
But when Qingqing turned around and took the shoes back, she found that Yanyan had left. In addition to three stacks of cash, there was only a note on the table, which read "The clothes will be sent to No. 74 Fenghuangshan Road after they are finished.
" Yanyan's mystery made Qingqing a little confused, but the joy brought by the big order made her ignore this "little problem." After packing up the money and the note, Qingqing returned to the room and continued the "endgame" with her husband.
After a storm, both of them grew up a lot. Just as Qingqing was enjoying the afterglow, she heard some subtle strange noises in a trance.
Standing up and looking around, Qingqing suddenly found that the pair of embroidered shoes that should have been placed in the studio were now on the windowsill.
Qingqing didn't remember bringing the embroidered shoes into the room, and her husband denied that he had moved the shoes.
The husband comforted Qingqing, saying that she might have put them on the windowsill and forgot about them. Then he told Qingqing not to always put the shoes against the bed, which was not good.
Qingqing asked in confusion, what's wrong with the shoes hitting the bed?
The husband explained that there is an old saying among the people, "Shoes hitting the bed, ghosts get on the bed."
Qingqing was startled by this, and then she saw the smile on her husband's face, and realized that he was deliberately scaring her, and the two of them flirted again.
Qingqing didn't take the embroidered shoes to heart, and began to concentrate on designing clothes for her "big customer".
Because the design of the pattern requires tailoring, Qingqing wanted to contact Yanyan and ask her to come over and try it on in person. But the phone number Yanyan left before couldn't be reached, so Qingqing had no choice but to go to the address left on the note.
Qingqing followed the navigation and drove all the way, but the more she drove, the more she felt that the surrounding environment was wrong. Until the navigation prompt sounded "reached the destination", Qingqing looked up and found that she had come to a cemetery called "Phoenix Cemetery".
And at this time, there was a team of people in white mourning clothes holding a funeral ceremony.
Qingqing was so scared that she turned the car around and drove back home, but the weird things were not over yet.
As soon as she got out of the car, the neighbor's dog started barking at her. When she got home and wanted to see if she remembered the address wrong, she found that the note and 30,000 cash left by Yanyan were all gone.
A series of things made Qingqing feel a little weird, and she couldn't help describing these things to her husband.
However, after listening to her, her husband did not agree with his wife's feelings, but comforted her by saying: I don't know much about the money, and there are many possibilities for the dog to bark at her. Maybe it's just that her car crushed the dog's rice bowl.
Qingqing did not accept her husband's comfort, but thought of a folk saying-dogs can see "things" that people can't see.
Although there are many doubts, life still has to go on day by day, and chess still has to be played one game at a time.
On this day, Qingqing and her husband were busy with a new chess game when they suddenly heard a strange sound again. She subconsciously looked at the windowsill, and
sure enough, she saw the pair of embroidered shoes again. However, before Qingqing could react, the pair of embroidered shoes moved strangely. Qingqing was distracted again, and a big red skirt appeared on the shoes. Looking up along the skirt, she found that Yanyan, whom she had been unable to contact, was standing there at this time, looking at her expressionlessly.
Qingqing was so scared that she suddenly jumped up and rushed to the windowsill, but there was nothing there at this time. When she turned around, she saw Yanyan sitting on the bed, taking over her "endgame".
"Ah--"
Qingqing screamed and woke up from her dream. It turned out that it was just a dream. She turned around and looked beside her, but found that her husband was not in bed.
After thinking for a while, Qingqing got up and went downstairs, and then walked towards the basement, where her husband's workshop was.
The door of the basement reflected dim colors under the lights at night. Qingqing took a deep breath, reached out to grab the door handle, and was about to turn it, but a hand stretched out from the side to stop her.
Startled, Qingqing turned around quickly, only to find that it was her husband standing beside her. She asked him why he didn't go back to the room to sleep so late. Her husband didn't answer, but responded vaguely a few times, and then dragged Qingqing to go back to the room.
Women are always meticulous about the subtle changes in men. Qingqing sensitively discovered that her husband's attitude was a little strange.
Then, she thought of some strange phenomena her husband had recently, such as his body being a little weak, his eyes full of dark circles, and his condition getting worse and worse. At the same time, he had less communication with her, hiding in the basement every day, and no one knew what he was doing.
Once the seeds of suspicion are planted, they can take root and sprout without irrigation. The next day, Qingqing took advantage of her husband's absence to come to the door of the basement, but found that the door lock had been changed at some point, which aggravated Qingqing's suspicion.
Thinking carefully, all the weird things started from taking back the embroidered shoes. Qingqing judged that there was something wrong with the shoes. Thinking of this, she took the embroidered shoes and went to the corner outside the house against the barking of the neighbor's dog, intending to burn it.
But when she was about to throw the shoes into the brazier, her husband who had gone out before came back and snatched the shoes out of the brazier. Then she thought of many reasons to persuade Qingqing to keep the shoes.
But Qingqing no longer trusted her husband at this time. She began to wonder if her husband had done something strange to her. She couldn't help but quarreled with her husband. However, her husband was not angry. He still whispered to comfort Qingqing, but he was still determined to keep the embroidered shoes.
After spending a night in a trance, just when Qingqing finally calmed down slowly, she saw Yanyan's "ghost" again at home. This time Qingqing finally couldn't bear it and screamed.
Her husband heard the sound and came over, hugged Qingqing to comfort her emotions. Qingqing suppressed her trembling voice and said that she wanted to drink a cup of hot water to calm down. Then, taking advantage of the opportunity when her husband got up, she found the key to the basement from his clothes.
In the anxious obstruction of her husband, Qingqing ran to the door of the basement, opened the door, and saw the scene she "expected".
There was an altar in the basement room, on which was a black-and-white photo. The woman in the black-and-white photo was the "Yan Yan". In front of the photo, the pair of embroidered shoes was also enshrined.
At this time, Qingqing finally understood that Yan Yan was the "ghost concubine" her husband had found, and the pair of embroidered shoes was the instrument for the spirit to reside.
No wonder her husband's health was getting worse and worse, no wonder he turned a blind eye to all kinds of strange phenomena, no wonder he resolutely did not allow himself to burn the pair of embroidered shoes...
Qingqing collapsed and rushed out of the house, driving on the street in the heavy rain. It was not until the rain gradually became so heavy that she could not see the road clearly that she stopped the car and went into a "444 Convenience Store" on the side of the road to hide from
the rain. 】Seeing this again, Gan Wei couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
When I first watched this plot, like "Qingqing" in the script, I thought I knew the truth and saw through Meng Bai's routine.
The following plot is nothing more than the three protagonists following Qingqing home to "exorcise evil spirits". Then I found out that "Yanyan" was actually a "good ghost" and there was a reason why her "husband" worshipped her. There were some misunderstandings here. In the end, everyone cleared up the misunderstandings and happily made dumplings together, no, they played chess together.
Gan Wei was still complaining in her heart at the time. This kind of dog-blood plot is the same as those crappy domestic horror movies. The only better thing than them is that there is no whole "Qingqing is actually mentally ill" kind of rotten life in the end.
She looked back with some disdain before, but after watching the later plot, Gan Wei realized that she really overestimated herself.
Or in other words, she underestimated the young man sitting opposite her.
【After Qingqing finished telling her story, the dim convenience store suddenly lit up, startling the heroine Wang Xiaoya, who was listening to the story intently, and the passers-by who were also hiding from the rain.
The hero Xia Dongqing walked out of the warehouse and said that he had repaired the tripped circuit, which made Wang Xiaoya scold him.
At this time, the heavy rain outside had stopped, and Wang Xiaoya asked Qingqing what she planned to do next. Qingqing said that she still believed in her husband, and it must be that "female ghost" who used evil magic to seduce her husband, and she wanted to go home to save people.
As she said that, Qingqing got up and walked out. But as soon as she walked to the door, she was blocked in the store by Zhao Li, the "soul ferryman" who happened to come.
Zhao Li pointed out that Qingqing had been haunted by evil spirits recently, and said that he could help her catch ghosts.
Qingqing was shocked at first, and then thought about it. She felt that she had a better chance of success with help, so she agreed to take Zhao Li and Xia Dongqing, who claimed to be able to "catch ghosts", home together.
After rushing home, the husband was very excited to see Qingqing coming back. But seeing Zhao Li and Xia Dongqing following him, he became alert again.
Qingqing did not hesitate and pulled Zhao Li to go to the basement. But Zhao Li said that the ghost was not there, but should be in the bedroom upstairs.
Entering the bedroom, Zhao Li did not rush to pull out the ghost, but played with the burning incense burner in the room.
The husband asked excitedly, where is the ghost here.
Zhao Li raised his hand to signal him not to rush, and then pointed out that the incense burner should be burning rhinoceros horn incense.
"The so-called rhinoceros horn incense is made from the horns of rhinoceros. Ancient books say that raw rhinoceros dare not be burned, but burning it has a strange fragrance, and if it touches the clothes, people can communicate with ghosts." Zhao Li revealed the secret of the husband's incense burner.
Qingqing was furious when she heard it, and she wanted to smash the incense burner. The husband was also anxious. While stopping Qingqing, he shouted for Zhao Li to get out.
Zhao Li told Qingqing not to rush, and then signaled Xia Dongqing to let him reveal the real "truth".
Xia Dongqing first introduced herself, saying that she was born with "yin and yang eyes" and could see things that ordinary people could not see. Then she pointed out that there was indeed a ghost in this house, but this ghost was none other than Qingqing.
Back in time, Qingqing actually died of a severe head injury due to a traffic accident on the way back from Jinxi. After her death, her soul did not acknowledge her death, and her obsession attached to the pair of embroidered shoes she had collected, and she walked back home.
Qingqing mentioned before that she always felt sore feet, and the wound on her forehead had never healed, which were also feedback from reality on the soul. Including the "Phoenix Cemetery" she went to, which was actually where she was buried, and the funeral procession she saw at the time was her husband burying her.
As for why she, a soul, can exist in the world in the form of a physical body, it is because her husband used paper figures to attract her, set up an incense table in the basement to call her soul, and then used the power of rhino horn incense to enable her to communicate with spirits.
When people communicate with ghosts, one of them will fail. Being with Qingqing's soul every day, her husband's body gradually weakened.
Qingqing has always refused to accept the fact that she is dead, so the resentment and obsession that continue to arise have turned into a "ghost in the heart", which is the "Yanyan" that Qingqing has always seen.
At this point, all the truth is revealed. Qingqing was speechless, with only two lines of tears left.
But her husband did not accept this result. He grabbed the rhino horn incense on the table and said that as long as there was this, the two would have a long time to spend together.
Looking at the couple hugging each other, Zhao Li, as a "soul ferryman", did not take Qingqing away, but left here with Xia Dongqing.
In the following years, let this pair of lovers spend their last time together.
On the bank of the Wangchuan River, I will always rest with you.
In the mud, I will be entangled with your hair.
I have nothing to express, only a wisp of soul.
Ignite a furnace of spiritual resonance, and the withered bones give birth to a mandala. 】
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