Chapter 169
This was the first time that Jiang Ning sat in a cinema and watched a movie adapted from her own work.
Not to mention other viewers who have not seen this movie, even those who have seen it again were amused by the funny parts in the movie. The cinema was filled with the joyful atmosphere of the New Year.
Jiang Ning was also amused. While watching the movie, she also saw the superb acting skills of the actors behind the funny scenes.
Don’t think that comedy is easy to act. To make it funny and not out of place, you have to immerse yourself in the role.
The same goes for Jiang Bai. He appeared in the middle of the game, and he was amused by the jokes in the beginning and smiled happily.
He is actually a very simple person, and his sense of humour is very vulgar, similar to the general public's taste. Basically, the same humours that amuse other audiences are also his humours.
Until he saw himself appear.
How do I describe that feeling? Very strange.
He moved his body uncomfortably and paid attention to the movements around him. Fortunately, it was dark in the seats below and no one could see him.
Then he paid attention to his performance on the big screen.
He felt as if he was torn apart, and felt that the person on the big screen was definitely not him. In the director's lens, that little monk was clean, transparent, and bright, with a layer of faint golden light covering his whole body, a rouge-red mole on his brow, and a cold expression, as if he were a god who had fallen to the mortal world, looking at the countless living beings in the world.
How could such a calm and detached temperament belong to him?
In Jiang Bai's heart, he is as humble as dust.
The audience in the cinema watched Fahai appear with his two little disciples. Since the first scene was a long shot of the three of them and the focus was on Fahai, no one noticed the two little disciples behind him at first glance. But the next second, the camera zoomed in and everyone could see the faces of the little disciples behind him at once.
For a moment, they all thought they were dazzled. But when they saw the close-up of the character Ming Yue, her beauty that dominated the screen directly struck their eyes. Many of them couldn't recognize her and let out a "hiss". At the same time, some people from Jiangjia Village who saw Jiang Bai let out an even louder "Shaha!" '
They couldn't help but reach out and pull the people around them: "Look, do you think Fa Hai's apprentice looks like Jiang Bai from the big guy's family?"
Not everyone in Jiangjia Village knows or is familiar with Jiang Bai. Firstly, Jiang Bai was too invisible in the village before. Secondly, there is a real barrier between the people in the village who study and those who do not study and go out to work. They don't play together at all, and they are not a small group. Even the children of each room play with their own children. People from the first, second, and fourth rooms are really not familiar with Jiang Bai. At most, when he walks with Jiang Song on the road, everyone will know that he is Jiang Song's younger brother. Usually, when people from the other three rooms see Jiang Bai, if they ignore his iconic height, other children may really not know who he is.
Not to mention, migrant workers work outside all year round and rarely see each other during the Chinese New Year. Jiang Bai, a student, studies outside all year round and is a homebody. He would rather read at home and is not willing to hang out with those migrant workers in the village who like to gamble during the Chinese New Year. They become even more strangers to each other.
But there were still people of the same age as him, his elementary and junior high school classmates, and people from the same third room, who recognized Jiang Bai.
But some people still didn't react: "What Jiang Bai?"
The person who recognized Jiang Bai was anxious: "Third room, his father is the tallest in the village, a big guy, Jiang Song's younger brother!"
When you mention Jiang Bai, no one knows him, but when you mention Jiang Song’s younger brother, everyone reacts.
The youngest son of the tallest man in the village!
They all knew who it was, but they had no impression of Jiang Bai. When they heard him talking about him, a cold, blurry face with round eyes appeared in their minds. When their friends reminded them, they realized that they looked a bit like him, and smiled and said, "It's a bit like him."
His friends were anxious: "It's not like him! Don't you think it's him?"
"How is that possible?" His friend watched the movie and laughed a clear and stupid laugh.
There were no seats at the end of the movie, so people had to stand. Those who had just seen Jiang Bai all hissed and looked at each other in bewilderment. Some even stood on tiptoe, pointing at the screen and shouting excitedly, "Is that the guy from before? My god, he looks just like him!"
“Did he come to our cinema?”
"Coincidence, right? They just look alike, right?"
Is there anyone who looks this similar?
It's no wonder they couldn't believe it. The truth is, appearing on TV and making movies are so far away from them, as if they are not in the same world or dimension as them. The movies they know most about are the Four Heavenly Kings, Chow Yun-fat and Stephen Chow, and that is far away in Hong Kong.
Even if they were given ten thousand imaginations, they would find it hard to imagine that the people in the movie are right next to them.
But just now, they seemed to have really seen it.
This little commotion and rustling noise did not attract widespread attention in the cinema, and people around who were concentrating on watching the movie even scolded them to be quiet.
Jiang Bai actually heard some noises around him, so before the movie was over, but almost over, he said to Jiang Ning beside him: "I'm going out first, I'll wait for you at the door of my grandfather's house."
The 'little grandfather' that Jiang Bai mentioned is Grandpa Uncle Jiang, and his old house is less than a hundred meters away from the cinema.
At this time, the brothers Jiang Guoan and Jiang Guoliang, with their wives and sons, and Jiang Guoliang with his girlfriend, were also watching the movie in the audience seats below.
Others couldn't recognize Jiang Bai, but Jiang Guoliang was very familiar with him. Unlike others who were still a little unsure after recognizing him, he recognized at a glance that this was his nephew Jiang Bai who was only a few years younger than him.
Jiang Guoan curiously reached out and poked his shoulder, stretched his head and asked him: "Do you think Mingyue looks like our Baizi?"
Jiang Guoliang was shocked, then turned around and said to Jiang Guoan: "What do you mean by look alike? This is clearly it!"
But many people still couldn't believe it until the end of the movie, when the names of all the actors in the film scrolled up like a wheel.
They clearly saw the words "Jiang Bai" behind the actor who played Mingyue.
Those who had seen Jiang Bai in the back shouted after seeing the name: "Jiang Bai! It's really Jiang Bai!"
"Fuck, Jiang Bai went to act in a movie!"
"What Jiang Bai? Which Jiang Bai?"
"Look at the subtitles above. Mingyue is played by Jiang Song's younger brother. Did you see his name? Jiang Bai!"
Many people who had not originally looked at the final cast list were reminded and only then noticed Jiang Bo’s name after the cast list. They all seemed to have discovered a new world.
"Jiang Bai is here too. I just saw him. He looks exactly like in the movie. So handsome!"
"I saw him in the ancestral hall this morning. He was almost as tall as his father. I thought he was handsome at the time, but after watching the movie, I realized that he was actually so handsome!"
"Really? Did you really see him? How could he be more handsome in person than in the movie? He was wearing makeup in the movie, right?"
"Really? The real person is more handsome, handsome in a different way!"
"I know, I know. When he was little, he was raised as a girl. Until he was six or seven years old, no one realized he was a boy. It was because he was so handsome!"
First of all, a child with a pair of big, bright, black eyes already has an advantage in appearance. Jiang Bai also has long, thick, black eyelashes, a straight, high nose bridge, and fair and tender skin. He looked like a doll when he was a child. He was definitely a little beauty.
"His brother is more handsome!"
Many people do not have a deep impression of Jiang Bai, and are more familiar with his brother Jiang Song. Jiang Song has a sunny filter and a really good-looking face. Unlike Jiang Bai's slightly soft appearance, Jiang Song has thick eyebrows, big eyes, sword-like eyebrows, starry eyes, and clear edges and corners, giving people the feeling of a sunny boy.
The three siblings have one thing in common: they all have excellent skin. Jiang Song loves sports so much. He goes up mountains and down rivers in the summer, and his back gets sunburned and peels. But after covering himself up in the winter, his skin becomes white again.
But at this time, no one wanted to know about his brother, they only wanted to know about Jiang Bai.
"Didn't they just say someone saw him? Where is he?"
As soon as the movie ended, the lights in the cinema came on and everyone was looking around for Jiang Bai.
The brothers Jiang Guoan and Jiang Guoliang were also looking for Jiang Bai. Only Jiang Ning quietly pulled up her scarf and quietly left the cinema. She came to the door of her grandfather's house. In the darkness, a thin and tall figure stood there with his hands in his pockets. When he saw her coming, he said coldly, "Let's go."
After saying that, he waited for her to hold his sleeve again.
The snow was slippery, and Jiang Ning held him to prevent him from slipping and falling.
He felt that his body was as strong as a mountain, and like an immovable stone pillar, he could protect Jiang Ning and allow her to hold on to him and walk without falling.
In the Jiang family, he is actually more like her and Jiang Song's brother than Jiang Song.
Jiang Ning didn't hesitate and directly grabbed his arm. The brother and sister walked home in the snow, crunching on the snow.
The winter nights are really dark, so dark that you can't see your hand in front of you, but Jiangjia Village is still quite lively. On New Year's Eve, every household stays up all night, and all the lights are on all night. Many people from nearby villages who come to Jiangjia Village to watch movies also come out in groups and go back in groups.
There are also many people who have returned from working in other places and do not go back home at all, but go to the homes of people they know to gamble.
Although they had already come out, the person they were talking about was Jiang Bai, who had just played Mingyue in the movie.
"Tell me, is it him?"
"The name is already typed out, how could it not be him?"
Someone suggested: "Why don't we go to his house and take a look?"
They haven’t been to Jiang Bai’s new home yet!
Some people want to go, and naturally some people don't want to go, especially Jiang Bai and Jiang Ning who are college students. They are like people from two different worlds. These unruly people feel like they are shorter than the college students. They feel guilty and short of breath and dare not go.
But there were also people who were curious and wanted to watch the fun, so they went to Jiang's house to find Jiang Bai, such as Jiang Guoliang and his girlfriend.
He and his girlfriend and her parents came to discuss their engagement at the end of the year. After the discussion, his girlfriend's parents went back first, and his girlfriend stayed in Jiangjia Village for two days to see if he and his parents were easy to get along with and what their family traditions were like. She was going to go back in two days, but heavy snow fell for several days and nights, and the thick snow was nearly three feet deep. All the boats and cars were gone, and his girlfriend was trapped in Jiangjia Village and couldn't go back. After waiting for a lot of time for the weather to clear up, it was already the 29th day of the lunar year, and during the Spring Festival travel rush, it was no longer possible to buy a ticket to go home. She and Jiang Guoliang were in the best and most affectionate time of their lives. Jiang Guoliang was handsome, sweet-mouthed, and good at coaxing people, and he coaxed his girlfriend to call and go back, and stay in Jiangjia Village for the New Year.
Now Jiang Guoliang takes his girlfriend to the Jiang family.
Jiang Guoan's wife was also very curious. Although she was over 30 years old, she had always been well protected. She looked like a girl in her early twenties and had a spoiled and innocent temperament.
This was her first year in Jiangjia Village for the New Year after all her marriage. Upon hearing this, she said to Jiang Guoan, "Shall we go to your second brother's house too? Is your little nephew really going to make a movie?"
The eldest aunt is obsessed with looks, otherwise she wouldn't have fallen for Jiang Guoan. She is interested in all fashionable things. Now the most fashionable person in Jiangjia Village is undoubtedly Jiang Bai.
There were also many other people from the third room who were of the same age as Jiang Bai and were heading to the Jiang family.
The village watched a movie, and Jiang Qinqin, who was always at the forefront of fashion, naturally couldn't miss the excitement. She went with her two nephews and nieces. Jiang Qinqin's home was only sixty or seventy meters away from the Jiang family's new building. When she arrived at the door of her house, she shouted to her window: "Mom! I'm going to play with Jiang Ning!"
When the piano mother, who was watching the Spring Festival Gala at home with the piano father, heard the sound, she immediately walked to the window and shouted: "Then come back early! Are you cold? I'll get you a hand warmer!"
"Mom! I'm not cold!" As he said this, he ran towards Jiang Ning's house on the thick snow.
It was also her first time to visit the Jiang family's new house. She held a flashlight, and her two nephews and nieces followed her quietly. Before they even reached the Jiang family's house, she started shouting in a loud voice, "Ning Ning! Ning Ning!"
Jiang Ning and Jiang Bai had just arrived home and were changing into cotton shoes in the living room. They came out when they heard the noise.
Jiang Qinqin smiled widely, and her bright eyes seemed to glow under the corridor lights of the Jiang family's corridor as she looked at Jiang Bai: "Jiang Bai, are you playing Mingyue in the movie White Snake that is playing in the cinema today?"
After cleaning up and washing the dishes, Jiang's mother went back to her room to watch the Spring Festival Gala. When she heard the noise from the main room, she looked towards the open door.
Jiang Bai was not used to Jiang Qinqi's enthusiasm. He took a step back, smiled, and nodded shyly: "Yes."
Jiang Qin almost screamed like a groundhog: "Is it really you? You actually went to act in a movie? How did you get there? Is it fun to act in a movie?"
She was so curious.
She particularly likes Richie Jen, and she sings well. She has had a dream of performing on stage since she was a child. Unfortunately, she was born in a remote mountain village. Not to mention the stage, she has never even been on the Children's Day stage. The biggest stage she has been on was the singing competition held by the provincial TV station last summer.
Unfortunately, although she likes to sing and sings well, she is far behind many professional musicians who can sing, dance and play musical instruments. She didn't even make it to the finals and was eliminated.
When she heard that Jiang Bai had actually made a movie, she was so envious that she wanted to go with Jiang Bai to see if she could make it.
Even if it's just a small role...
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but think of the pimples all over her face.
My originally enthusiastic heart suddenly turned cold as if a basin of cold water was poured on it.
Jiang Qinqin has a pretty face and a pair of extremely beautiful, watery and clear eyes.
But she doesn't know what's going on. Ever since she started getting acne during puberty, her face has been red every day. She has seen a doctor and applied all kinds of ointments, but the acne keeps coming back over and over again. She can't use facial cleanser, let alone put on makeup. For the sake of this face, she even gave up chili peppers and dared not eat any food that is even slightly spicy.
She had seen her face like this on TV without makeup once last summer vacation. The pretty little beauty in real life looked very, very ordinary on TV, which made her regret not wearing makeup.
Although she cannot appear on TV, she is still very interested in and yearns to see Jiang Bai making movies.
Jiang Bai said: "I don't know either. The director approached me."
At this time, Jiang Guoliang and his girlfriend also arrived. As soon as they arrived, they showed a bright smile: "Baizi! Ningning." He introduced his girlfriend who was about the same age as Jiang Song to the two of them: "This is your aunt."
His girlfriend was only 22 years old, and suddenly she became the aunt of two young people who were almost the same age. Her face turned red all of a sudden, and she snuggled up to Jiang Guoliang, and greeted the two of them shyly: "Hello."
After saying hello, her eyes uncontrollably rested on Jiang Bai's face.
The Jiang family's house is brightly lit. In previous years when they lived in the old house, the light bulb in the living room was only 50 watts at most. But in the new house, Jiang's father earned nearly 100,000 yuan this year, so he directly used a 100-watt light bulb, and the living room was as bright as day.
When she looked at Jiang Bai's face from such a close distance, she just thought he was so handsome! How can you be so handsome! My god, his nose is so beautiful, isn't it? And his mouth, is he wearing lipstick? Why is it such a moist bright red color? It’s even prettier than girls’ lip color!
She originally thought that Jiang Guoliang was very handsome, otherwise, as a girl from the suburbs of a provincial capital, she would not have fallen for a poor country boy who had nothing but his job. Isn't it because Jiang Guoliang is tall and good-looking?
But after looking at Jiang Bai and then Jiang Guoliang, they both looked so ordinary.
Jiang Guoliang saw that his girlfriend's eyes were fixed on her nephew, and he couldn't help but pull her to get her attention back.
His partner quickly came to his senses, glanced at Jiang Guoliang, and then couldn't help but look at Jiang Bai's face again, and couldn't take his eyes off Jiang Bai's face.
Dad Jiang was frying twisted dough sticks and sweet potato chips in the kitchen. They came back late this year, and the Jiang family didn't have any fruit platter or desserts, which were essential for entertaining guests, so they could only make them on New Year's Eve.
Father Jiang was in a very happy mood. Hearing the noise, he came out of the kitchen and poked his head out: "Guoliang and Qin are here. I just fried some sweet potato chips and fried dough twists, as well as potato and radish meatballs. You can try them."
He quickly brought out a large plate of freshly fried fruits, placed it on the square table in the living room, and invited them to eat.
Jiang Guoliang and his friends were not polite either. They directly pulled their partners to sit on the long bench in the living room of the Jiang family and asked Jiang Bai, "I just heard you talking about making a movie. Baizi, did you really play Mingyue?"
Jiang Qinqin had asked this question once before. Just as he was about to nod, he heard someone outside shouting, "Jiang Bai! Is Jiang Bai home?"
In previous years, only Jiang Song was so popular, and no one wanted to play with him. Suddenly, so many people came to see him. He was still a little uncomfortable. He stood up with a cold expression and went to open the door, "At home!"
As soon as the door was opened, six or seven people, both men and women, rushed into the Jiang family.
Fortunately, the Jiang family’s main hall is so big, otherwise it would be really crowded.
As soon as they entered the room, they all stared at Jiang Bai's face, just like Jiang Qinqin.
In the past, they really had no impression of Jiang Bai, but now under the bright lights, Jiang Bai's outstanding appearance was clearly visible in front of them. One of them couldn't help but screamed: "Fuck! How come you suddenly grew so tall and so handsome?"
Jiang Bai has been selling clothes for two years and has also trained himself. Hearing this, he couldn't help but raise the corner of his lip and joked, "When did I stop being handsome?"
Jiang Bai was wearing a woolen hat on his head. Because he had to take a photo for Shampoo GG, his hair this year was not as short as in previous years, so he did not cut it. But he still didn't like slightly longer hair, so he pressed it all under the woolen hat, which made his delicate and three-dimensional facial features completely exposed to everyone's eyes.
They all stared at Jiang Bai's face in amazement.
The truth is, Mingyue in "White Snake" was filmed so beautifully by the director, and it was on the big screen, so the visual impact was amazing. Now that I was in front of Jiang Bai, I realized that Jiang Bai was not the extraordinary little monk in the movie, but a living person around them.
The two girls who came with them hid behind the crowd, staring at Jiang Bai with sparkling eyes. Jiang Bai felt a little embarrassed by being stared at, so he reached out and touched the woolen hat on his head. His social phobia kicked in, and he called them, "Sit down."
The two girls waved their hands quickly: "No, no, no, no, you guys are busy, no need to greet us."
They were from the fourth room. The girl who was talking was Jiang Ning's elementary school classmate, but she went out to work after graduating from elementary school and was not familiar with Jiang Ning.
Jiang Ning still stood up and greeted them with Jiang Bai, asking everyone to sit down. There were not enough benches, so Jiang Ning went to the kitchen to ask Jiang's father if there were any more benches.
Father Jiang said hurriedly: "There are a few old benches under the stairs."
He put down the work in his hands, and hurried to the place where miscellaneous items were piled under the stairs, pulled out four old benches, and took out an old piece of clothing that he no longer wore as a rag, and wiped the dusty benches. He and Jiang Ning moved them to the main room and let everyone sit down.
Just then, several young people, both known and unknown, came to the door.
Dad Jiang knew that his house would be crowded with people tomorrow and many people would gather to visit him. But he didn't expect that instead of waiting until tomorrow, a large group of people gathered at his house tonight, all of them coming to look for Jiang Bai.
Yes, not looking for Jiang Ning, but looking for Jiang Bai.
Even though they both got into college, Jiang's father paid more attention to Jiang Bai, but he still habitually focused his attention on his more dazzling younger daughter and unconsciously ignored Jiang Bai.
He didn't know what was going on, so he wiped his hands with a rag and stood at the place where the kitchen and the living room were connected, paying attention to the fire in the kitchen pan while paying attention to what they were saying.
Just listen to them talking about the movie they watched tonight.
Dad Jiang thought that some young people came out to talk about movies after watching a movie, and then Dad Jiang heard what they were talking about and what movie Jiang Bai had made.
Dad Jiang was confused, movie? What movie? Is Baizi in a movie?
In the main room, Jiang Qinqin was still curiously asking Jiang Bai: "You just said that the director came to find you. Why did the director come to you to make a movie? How did you two know each other? Why did he want to find you to make a movie?"
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