Chapter 76 Calculation
After half a month, the filming of the crew was on track.
The routine of life in the mountain village, plus the previous exercise, made everyone energetic and the filming progressed quickly.
As time goes by, Xu Zhizhi's interpretation of the role of Yang Mai becomes less awkward and more familiar.
The character of Yang Mai is fierce yet gentle, tough yet warm, and her every frown and smile expresses her own emotions.
She may seem reckless in doing things, but she has her own unique ideas and can always achieve her goals.
Don't take too much of other people's things, but don't let others take even a little more from her.
He is a character with brains.
Xu Zhizhi had to put in a lot of effort in private to play her well. Since she didn't have many scenes in the past two days, she turned to Feng Jie to cooperate with her and practiced her acting skills over and over again.
Because of the change in interpretation style and expression, Xu Zhizhi also made mistakes but was able to recover well.
Occasionally, when Yan Xue took a break, she would also cooperate with Xu Zhizhi, and the two would practice continuously in private.
Only by familiarizing yourself with the performance over and over again can you perform it to perfection.
As the saying goes, ten years of hard work off stage only takes three minutes on stage.
The children in the village had nothing to do, so they would gather around the two people, squatting and watching them perform.
At first they would laugh and joke around, after all, it is easy to laugh when watching people act. But after two or three days, they became more serious.
Especially since they also became young actors, Yan Xue and Xu Zhizhi really took care of them and taught them how to act. Only then did they realize that acting also requires skills.
He Li didn't, she was told how to act by Xu Zhizhi.
I have to say that the brain of the top student is very useful. He can act well in no time. His acting skills are good and his temperament has become much more cheerful.
The afternoon after Xu Zhizhi taught her how to hide money, her parents came back with her younger brother.
But they didn't come back to work, and they only came back for three days. After that, my father stayed and my mother continued to take my brother back to attend cram school.
The reason he came back was simply because he was annoyed by He Li's brother's troubles and the people from the charity platform who came to his house, so he wanted to hide.
They have already spent the money, how can they return it?
It's just that the girl didn't go to the city to study, but studied in the town! What's the big deal? Why cut off the financial support for this?
When the couple came back, their faces were gloomy, and you could tell how upset they were after losing such a large sum of money.
Xu Zhizhi stood on a high place, where she could see the situation of the He family.
"Human greed is like a snake swallowing an elephant. They really think that the money is what they deserve. They never thought that it is for He Li." Yan Xue's eyes were cold, her lips slightly opened, and her tone was sarcastic.
She couldn't stand such people, and she didn't want to see them happy.
Hidden by the leaves, Xu Zhizhi leaned forward slightly and moved her body. "It's okay. If you eat my food, you have to spit it out. My money is for a specific purpose."
After this incident, she thoroughly investigated the use of funds by other girls except the five students in the girls' school.
Fortunately, there is no problem, otherwise she would have sued the platform.
"You, you, I used to think that you were a scheming and deep-minded person who liked to hide things. I didn't expect that you were so... consistent inside and out." Yan Xue tilted her head to glance at Xu Zhizhi who was looking at the He family, and spoke frankly about her previous opinion of Xu Zhizhi, while also saying that her own thoughts had changed.
Xu Zhizhi tilted her head and looked at Yan Xue in confusion. She had never expected that Yan Xue had so many thoughts.
It turns out that the entertainment industry cannot just focus on appearance and personality. Gentleness is just Yan Xue's protective color.
Just as the two were talking in a low voice, the He family also started to make a noise.
The woman called out to He Li in a sharp voice, asking her to fetch water and clean up the dusty room at home, to bring food to her brother, and to wash her brother's clothes.
The thin little girl was ordered around in circles, and one man treated her like several others.
He's uncle and aunt lived next door. They heard the noise and came out. Seeing He Li moving a large basin of clothes, the aunt pointed at her and scolded her, "You love your child so much now that you're back? You're so lazy, ordering Li Li to do the work like that!"
Upon hearing this, He Li's mother immediately turned around and looked at her sister-in-law, rolling her eyes with an expression of complete disdain.
"I'm ordering my daughter around, why should you feel sorry for me! My daughter hasn't had eyes for others, it's a pity that He Li calls me mom." She was very pleased and said boastfully.
The eldest brother of the He family came out with a slight limp and looked at his younger siblings. "Lili is the elder sister, so it's her responsibility to take care of her younger brother. If you don't do more housework now, what will happen if you don't know how to work when you get married?"
One of them has a red face and the other has a white face, and it can be seen that they cooperate very well.
The aunt glanced at He Li, and after her eyes met hers, she sneered and looked at He Li's mother.
"Okay! You said your daughter doesn't need my concern, so take your daughter to the city when you go back! Don't expect me to take care of your child and not pay a penny for food!" Aunt He Li was no pushover either, and she hit the soft spot directly.
The eldest brother of the He family immediately looked at his younger brother and said, "You don't care about your sister-in-law. What is she saying?"
"What did my guy say wrong? You go out and don't say a word, you don't call or send text messages, and we take care of the children without paying you. When you come back, you just take advantage of the situation and let the children take care of you. Since you think your brother and sister-in-law are not good, then take the children to the city!" The uncle was not to be outdone and directly rebuked the eldest brother.
He had previously taken care of his elder brother because he had a disability in his legs and married and had children late in life. But two days ago, he heard from the people who rented a house next door to his elder brother in the city that his elder brother had applied for a scholarship for He Li in the city.
There are 800 yuan every month, and 800 yuan is given to Lili alone, but the couple never said a word and only gave 150 yuan every month reluctantly.
If they hadn't seen what their eldest brother's family did and the fact that the family who rented the house were his wife's relatives, they would have had no idea about this.
They earn 800 yuan a month, but only give 150 yuan to the children, and they have to subsidize the children so that they can have enough to eat.
On the contrary, they gave everything to their son. How could they be so partial?
What happened today was done on purpose. The couple either took the baby to the city.
Either you take 200 yuan a month, and give me another 100 yuan for food during the winter and summer vacations.
As my uncle spoke, the villagers gathered.
Most families in the village favor boys over girls, but they will be more reserved in public because they are their own children after all.
What the eldest brother of the He family did was a bit too much.
The most important thing is that Uncle He Li is not a sucker. He doesn't give anything and the girl eats and drinks for free.
Seeing the villagers looking at her, He Li's mother couldn't hold back her face. She looked at He Li angrily and said, "You debt collector, since your uncle doesn't support you and thinks you're wasting his family's food, then live in a room by yourself and don't go to your uncle's house in the future."
As for bringing it to the city, sometimes even if there is a scholarship, it won’t happen, let alone if there is no scholarship.
The younger brother looked at this scene and made a face at He Li.
Although He Li looked a little hurt, she didn't cry and just looked at her father.
"Your mother is right. You are a grown-up girl now. You should cook for yourself at home in the future. There is no money at home. You have to be frugal. If your brother fails the exam, he will have to pay 20,000 yuan for school selection!" The eldest brother of the He family frowned as he looked at his money-losing daughter.
Uncle He Li was so angry that he didn't expect his elder brother to do this, and turned around and went into the house.
He Li's aunt went to pull He Li away, then turned to He Li's biological mother and said loudly: "Since you don't want to raise this girl and think she is a waste of money, then she will be adopted by my family from now on. Her household registration will be changed to my family, and she will call you uncle and aunt from now on."
"We are not unwilling to support him... What are you talking about!" The eldest brother of the He family sighed helplessly, "We just don't have money. We can't let Ji Zong study in the town. What will he have in the future if he does that?"
He Li understood and her eyes suddenly turned red.
She had been admitted to a key junior high school in the city, and her grades were pretty good. At the time, her father said it didn't matter where she studied, but now it has become that studying in the city is a failure.
Auntie pulled the man behind her and scanned the man in front of her. "Then give the money. He Li's living expenses have increased to 200 yuan. You can give us another 100 yuan every month. You have to go to my field to pick up even a scallion at home. You let her live in a room by herself. You want to starve her to death. If you don't agree, I will talk to the village officials and cry to your son at school."
The eldest brother of the He family thought about it and nodded slowly.
Auntie snorted and left with her people.
What she said was enough. If she didn't give him the money, she would go to the county town and let this family know what shame was.
The eldest brother of the He family looked gloomy. He Li was really a money-loser who couldn't even eat anything. If he had known this earlier, he would have strangled her to death.
He Li's mother looked at the two people who left and began to mutter something insinuating.
The eldest brother of the He family pushed her to go and work, but the two of them didn't dare to call He Li now. What if He Li clamored to go to the city with them when they went back in two days? Every place in the city costs money, and they couldn't afford it.
Yan Xue finished watching the farce and looked at Xu Zhizhi, "How was it? Did you see anything?"
"Uncle and aunt have achieved their goal. They just wanted more money. Also, do they know about the scholarship?" Xu Zhizhi asked curiously.
It was obvious from He Li's expression that she knew about it, otherwise she wouldn't just be a little sad.
Yan Xue nodded. "I asked my assistant to do it and spread the word. My uncle and aunt knew about it a few days ago. They thought the scholarship was still there, so they stood up for He Li and asked for a little more money to give to He Li."
"When school starts, I'm going to start discussing it with Uncle He Li and Auntie He Li," Xu Zhizhi whispered.
Funding is a must. He Li's parents will only allow her to finish junior high school. Even if she passes the entrance exam to high school, she will definitely not be able to continue, so she needs funding.
Give some money, and if he really gets into high school, increase it depending on the situation.
If your grades are good, you can get some tuition reductions.
The two were ready to leave, after all, they had another important scene to shoot in the afternoon.
Before the two took a few steps, a round of enthusiastic greetings came. Xu Zhizhi followed the voice and saw a large family, two middle-aged men in their 53s and 54s, with two young men, two women and two children, getting off a van.
They were dressed more brightly than other people in the village, and since they had a car, they should be doing pretty well.
It's not a festival, what are they doing back here?
As for coming back to build roads to make money, they don't look like the kind of people who come back to work and make money.
Xu Zhizhi couldn't help but take a few more glances, her eyes fixed on their faces and figures as they greeted people enthusiastically, and watched them carrying large and small bags into a bungalow beside the road.
"What's wrong?" Yan Xue patted Xu Zhizhi's shoulder and looked at her with confusion.
Xu Zhizhi immediately looked away and shook her head. "It's nothing. There are just a lot of people coming back these past two days. I've created jobs and I can make money at home."
There are many left-behind children in the village whose parents live in the county town or other provinces all year round, and sometimes they can't see their parents for half a year. Now that the road is being built, if everything goes well, they can stay with their parents for more than half a year.
It’s not much, but it’s better than nothing, and the probability of them being healthy is higher with parents.
It’s a great thing. Yan Xue has a very kind heart.
"Yes." Yan Xue smiled slightly when she heard Xu Zhizhi's words.
The two of them returned to the crew and started filming after going through it again.
Today was the first time that the poverty alleviation officers came to the house. They saw Yang Mai threatening his brother-in-law to move out of his house, and he was holding a kitchen knife and slashing at his opponent fiercely.
This was Xu Zhizhi’s first time getting a weapon. The kitchen knife was of course a prop, but it felt heavy in her hand, and must have been made of heavy wood with a lacquer brush.
If the kitchen knife fluttered, it would be easily noticed by the audience, and using iron might hurt people, so sandalwood was used in the end.
A young man was standing opposite, and he said with a smile, "Sister Xu, please spare his life."
"Hahaha, let's see if you know what's what," Xu Zhizhi weighed the kitchen knife and gave the young man a wicked smile.
Laughter broke out at the scene.
To liven up the atmosphere, the two of them began to take their positions.
Yangmai was carrying pig grass on his back when he heard the cries of two children from a distance. His face became serious and his steps became much faster.
When Yang Mai entered his house, he saw the mess in the main room and two children standing there crying miserably.
She quickly put the pigweed into the ear room and saw her brother-in-law coming out of her house.
"What are you doing!" Yang Mai said angrily.
The brother-in-law, wearing a flowered shirt, shook his head and said nonchalantly, "Yangmai is back. Make me something to eat. I'm starving."
After saying this, he looked Yang Mai up and down, his purpose was self-evident.
"I'm your sister-in-law," Yang Mai stepped forward, held the two children behind her, and glared at her brother-in-law.
The brother-in-law didn't care. "You take care of the two children. It's not good to have no man in the family. You can marry me if you want. I still don't need the betrothal money. The two children are also mine. I will definitely treat them as my own..."
He said a lot of high-sounding things and then walked towards Yang Mai.
Yang Mai was so angry that he reached out and picked up the two children, then turned and went into the house.
Before the brother-in-law could react, he didn't expect that the next second, Yang Mai came straight towards him with a shiny kitchen knife.
She walked towards him with a bad look on her face, shouting, "Come on! Come on! I'll chop you to death! I'll let you know the consequences of saying such things!"
She held a kitchen knife, but her brother-in-law was still stubborn and thought that the other party didn't dare to chop.
Unfortunately, the opponent was very fast and chopped at him without hesitation. He dodged and the knife hit the wooden beam, leaving a mark.
The brother-in-law was so frightened that he started to flee in all directions.
After watching it twice, the poverty alleviation cadres, that is, the male and female protagonists appeared.
The brother-in-law started to sneak behind Zhao Fuxiu and the others, and turned the tables and slandered Yang Mai, saying that he didn't even believe in visiting them and now he wanted to chop people.
Yang Mai was still angry, glaring with anger and wanting to chop his brother-in-law into pieces.
My brother-in-law started hiding everywhere, but finally he got so scared that he ran away.
As cadres, Zhao Fuxiu and others who know the villagers well said: …
Watching his brother-in-law leave in disgrace, Yang Mai could only restrain himself.
She straightened her clothes and glanced at them lazily, "What's the matter? If you don't have anything, just leave. You're wasting your time on work."
Yang Mai doesn't like these village officials. When she went to ask about the land before, they tried to smooth things over and said that the land and homestead originally belonged to her husband's family.
She was so angry that she almost fell down on the spot. If it weren't for the certificate her husband had obtained earlier and the land certificate of the house, she would have been so angry that she would have died.
Naturally, there was a commotion in the end, and it took several days before she could tell everything clearly.
So it didn't leave a good impression. Now the nose is not a nose and the eyes are not eyes.
"We are the new village secretaries, this is..." Zhao Fuxiu introduced herself and the people around her.
They mainly came to talk about poverty alleviation policies. Later, they planned to plant crops with higher economic value, so they needed to unite the villagers so that when the seedlings or something came down, they could communicate about the planting quota.
The land here is suitable for growing sorghum and chili peppers, the prices of which have been relatively high in the past two years, so they want to carry out large-scale planting so that the village's income will be better next year.
Yang Mai listened impatiently, then looked at the young cadres and said directly: "I'm not interested, I won't plant it!"
Then he turned around and comforted the two children.
Zhao Fuxiu and others who stayed behind looked at each other, then turned around and left.
"Okay! It's over!"
Xu Zhizhi held the two little babies in her arms, looking at them with a mixture of laughter and tears.
They were specially found child actors. They had stopped crying at this moment. They looked very cute and resembled Xu Zhizhi a little. I had no idea where they were found.
There were three NGs in this scene, mainly due to some positioning and not hitting the right spot. In addition, the kitchen knife had to be replaced later, so it was necessary to pause and continue.
After Xu Zhizhi came down, she felt pretty good.
The makeup artist came forward and began to touch up Xu Zhizhi's makeup, and then fixed her hair.
The following is a scene where the mother-in-law comes to make indirect accusations and is scolded back by Yang Mai.
Xu Zhizhi has mastered the essence of swearing to a certain extent and performed very well, ending with only one NG.
After these two scenes, Xu Zhizhi entered the rest stage.
She sat down in the lounge area and watched the two young actors perform, mainly acting out the scene where the brother-in-law came, and made them cry in the process.
Xu Zhizhi found it quite interesting.
While drinking ice water, Xu Zhizhi felt that she was being stared at and turned to look in the direction where she was being stared at.
For fear that the villagers might interfere too much, we had crew members surrounding us during the subsequent filming, and there were certain barriers and obstructions.
However, this could not stop the curious people, and Director Zhou stopped paying much attention to it over time, but he would ask people to stop taking photos and videos to prevent some of the filming content from leaking.
Most of the villagers are still simple and don't have the habit of holding mobile phones.
But when Xu Zhizhi looked over, she saw the two people looking at her, holding their phones and whispering excitedly.
The crew obviously saw them and blocked their way, asking them not to take pictures.
"Is it not okay to just take a video? Celebrities are just like that. It won't cost them anything to take a video and post it on a platform. It can also increase their popularity!" One of the men put away his phone and muttered.
Another person also said: "That's right, what's so strange about that? Just because you're a celebrity, you can accept people's cell phones?"
Xu Zhizhi was not prepared to go, but looked at Feng Jie.
Feng Jie nodded and walked forward to the side of the groundskeeper.
"If you film the footage we filmed and spread it, the crew has the right to sue you. We won't collect your cell phones, but we advise you two to be careful." Feng Jie spoke politely, but at 1.76 meters tall, she was taller than the two of them, and with her well-trained muscles, the two of them immediately turned green in the face.
One of them was stammering and preparing to speak, but the other person reached out and grabbed him, saying that he would not tell anyone and then ran away quickly.
The stage manager smiled at Feng Jie for resolving the situation, then sat down to watch the filming.
Xu Zhizhi didn't take it to heart.
After lunch at 5pm, there was no filming scheduled for today, so Xu Zhizhi wanted to walk around to digest the food. Yan Xue found her and said, "I think the rice fields and the river are beautiful. I haven't really appreciated them before. I think we should go out and take a look, and walk around to digest the food."
"Okay," Xu Zhizhi agreed immediately.
Feng Jie, who was still eating nearby, finished her meal in two bites, stood up and prepared to go with Xu Zhizhi.
Yan Xue looked at her and said, "You haven't eaten enough, right? Eat first, and we'll just walk around. It's nothing."
"It's okay, eat first." Xu Zhizhi looked at Feng Jie and told her to eat quickly.
The village is different from the city. If you don’t eat enough, you can order takeout anytime and anywhere. Here, if you don’t eat enough, there will be no food to eat later. You have to eat snacks or stay hungry until tomorrow morning.
Yan Xue looked at Feng Jie preparing to defend herself and said again: "Are you still afraid that I will sell out Xu Zhizhi? I'm not a bad person."
"...Okay, go ahead, come back early, and call me if you need anything." Feng Jie was helpless. She ate late, and she had to wait until Xu Zhizhi finished her meal before she ate her first bowl. Plus Xu Zhizhi agreed, she had no choice but to agree not to follow.
Xu Zhizhi nodded. As for the other assistant, he was still eating like Feng Jie.
Yan Xue didn't bring an assistant, so the two of them went out together.
The river meanders and twists, and the two sides look like a silver ribbon. On both sides are rice fields that are similar to terraces, but wider than terraces, with golden rice that is about to be harvested.
At a glance, it stretches for four or five kilometers, all of which are paddy fields nestled against the mountains and rivers.
The crew mainly chose these scenes for filming because they look so beautiful.
Xu Zhizhi and Yan Ning walked downstream along the path beside the stream, and then turned back from the original bridge, which was considered a viewing and activity.
There is so little entertainment in the countryside that a scene like this is truly a delight to the eyes.
After walking for more than ten minutes, the two were already in the rice fields.
Xu Zhizhi also took out her cell phone, took a lot of photos of Yan Xue, and picked a bunch of wild chrysanthemums.
She takes great photos, so Yan Xue took many of them in a row.
They were both very happy.
Just as the two walked onto the bridge and were about to cross the bridge and go back to the other side of the path, two people came towards them from a distance.
Xu Zhizhi felt that the two people looked familiar, because they were the ones who got off the van earlier.
The two stood on the path by the river. Because the paparazzi couldn't get in, they didn't wear masks. Looking at the clear river, Xu Zhizhi was about to speak when she saw two people quickly surrounding her.
The surrounding area was farmland, and the terrain was relatively open and flat. Anyone who looked over would be able to spot the four people. So Xu Zhizhi did not panic, but watched them approach.
The two of them were about thirty-three or thirty-four years old, only four or five years older than Yan Xue.
But judging from their appearance alone, there is a huge difference between them, as Yan Xue looks only about twenty-four or twenty-five.
Xu Zhizhi looked at them and asked first, "What do you two need?"
It was obvious from the way they approached that they were coming for them, so Xu Zhizhi asked directly.
"We're just looking for two of you to have some fun with. We're the two of us and we're rich! You name a price and we'll have some fun together." The younger man looked at the two of them playfully and said in a frivolous tone.
There are indeed male and female celebrities in the entertainment industry who bow down for money, but Xu Zhi and Yan Xue are obviously not included. Each of them can earn millions or even tens of millions from an endorsement. The person in front of them is, at best, a nouveau riche.
Maybe not, he just wanted to harass the two of them.
Yan Xue frowned and looked at the two people, angrily saying: "Don't look at us like that. Just because you have a few dirty money, you don't know how high the sky is and how deep the earth is."
"If you don't accept my toast, you'll be punished! We are well-known figures in Lin County. You have accompanied so many people and we didn't mind you. Why are you yelling at us here?" The older man looked at the two of them ferociously, raised his left and right hands and twisted their wrists, making a loud snapping sound.
Xu Zhizhi stretched out her hand, protecting Yan Xue behind her and looking at the two people with cold eyes, "I think you are the ones who dare to say such things without any sense. If you don't leave, I will call someone and call the police."
"It's just a touch and a sleep! Why are you pretending to be so noble?" The young man didn't listen to Xu Zhizhi's words, and with a sly grin, he stretched out his hand to touch Yan Xue's face.
Xu Zhizhi stretched out her hand, grabbed the other person's arm tightly, and twisted it with her backhand.
“Ahhhh… it hurts…”
The man was twisted and began to scream in pain. He wanted to break free from Xu Zhizhi but the pain was so severe that he was sweating and couldn't resist.
The older man clenched his fists and walked towards Xu Zhizhi.
Xu Zhizhi swung out a punch, and the opponent thought the force was very small and went straight for it, but was forced back by Xu Zhizhi's punch on the shoulder.
Xu Zhizhi stretched out her hand, and a small knife appeared in her hand.
The two of them stopped talking, and their expressions were extremely ugly after they stopped.
Yan Xue hid behind Xu Zhizhi, staring at the scene in front of her in amazement.
"Don't move. You should know me. I have learned some knowledge about killing. I know how to kill you!" Xu Zhizhi said with a sinister expression and a threatening tone.
The two of them subconsciously took a step back, their faces distorted.
The two looked at each other and seemed to have reached some kind of consensus. They took a step back and took out their phones. "Hello, is this the police station?"
Not only Xu Zhizhi was not expecting the whole development, even Yan Xue was stunned, and then her face looked extremely bad.
"You carry a knife with you and threaten us with it. I tell you, if you don't pay us back and apologize today, get out of this village and I will take your surname!" The man looked at Xu Zhizhi holding the knife excitedly, his eyes full of pride, as if he was saying how powerful he was.
Xu Zhizhi looked at the fruit knife in her hand and put it away calmly.
She thought these two people were a little strange.
The town police station responded very quickly at first. Even in the village, they arrived within half an hour.
At the same time, their incident also spread to the village, and the four of them were sitting in the village committee office.
The village chief looked at the four people with helplessness in his eyes.
Yan Xue and Xu Zhizhi are the gods of wealth in the village, and the crew they are in has brought income to many people. If the drama becomes popular, and the road is repaired, maybe some people will come to their village to travel and boost the tourism industry.
But now, they are being harassed.
The two people on the other side are notoriously domineering in the village.
The key point is that they also accused Xu Zhizhi of trying to kill them with a knife, and that she would go online to expose the incident and cry whenever she was unhappy. His family members also cried in the yard of the village office.
"Oh my god, kill those two bastards, how dare they kill them! They rely on their status as celebrities, with money and power to bully us ordinary people!" The middle-aged woman knelt on the ground, covering half of her face with a handkerchief, crying and cursing in her mouth. Her performance was very moving and she was an excellent singer and songwriter.
If Xu Zhizhi was not the person involved, she would probably be influenced by the other party and think that she was talking about some unforgivable person.
Yan Xue's face turned pale. She looked at the village director and questioned, "You just let her do whatever she wants? They were the ones who teased and harassed us, but now we are being blamed."
Feng Jie and Yan Xue's assistants also came, including Director Zhou who followed behind.
When he entered the room, he first observed the old lady who was a great singer and songwriter, and then looked at Yan Xue who was speaking.
"It must be handled seriously, and we cannot distribute the cases based on the noise. It's not that whoever makes a noise is right!" Director Zhou looked at the police and the village director and said with a stern face.
He made a brief survey of the village and decided to move there only after confirming that the people there had simple customs.
The village chief nodded repeatedly. The police officer beside him looked at the four people and finally focused his gaze on Xu Zhizhi. "Ms. Xu Zhizhi, why do you carry a knife with you? And do you intend to hurt anyone?"
"No! How could I do it on purpose? First, they were trying to do something to me, and second, I brought the knife to peel apples. This knife is very blunt, and it can only peel the skin at most. If you don't believe me, just take a look." After saying that, Xu Zhizhi stretched out his hand and took out an apple from the pocket of his black overalls, letting them peel it. "Brother policeman, if you want to peel an apple, it makes sense to bring a knife!"
Xu Zhizhi's words successfully silenced everyone present. It was really reasonable!
But every good person carries a knife with him when he goes out, always ready to peel apples!
Director Zhou smiled, and the other policeman couldn't help but almost laughed out loud.
The two He brothers standing by both had dark faces, mainly because the other party did not carry the knife intentionally.
The people who were crying outside also stopped, mainly because Xu Zhizhi's reason was ridiculously reasonable.
The police officer who was questioning the police officer's hand holding the pen trembled slightly. He coughed twice and then said seriously: "Test the sharpness."
The policeman nearby took the knife and tried it. It was very difficult to peel the apple. The knife was too limited in its use.
"Look, this is what the knife looks like. If I wanted to hurt anyone, I wouldn't have brought this knife. I didn't do it intentionally. They just wanted to hit us, so I just wanted to scare them." Xu Zhizhi spread his hands.
Yan Xue glanced at the He brothers, then at the village director. "They harassed us with their words and actions, but you ignored them and questioned us crazily. I think I should reconsider building a highway with the county. After all, some people here are too "simple and honest". I'm afraid that when the highway is built, I will be labeled a bad person."
The scene fell into silence, and the village director and the secretary began to sweat.
"No...no, don't be impulsive..." the village director said hurriedly.
The secretary quickly said, "No, that's not true. We will never protect bad people."
The two had previously thought that Xu Zhizhi and Yan Xue were young and easy to fool, but they did not expect the situation to take a turn for the worse so quickly.
The village chief turned around quickly and asked the men from the village to persuade the people crying outside to leave.
They said they were persuading him to leave, but in fact they were dragging him away.
The situation had stabilized a bit, but the He brothers began to feel lonely. The eldest brother of the He family stood up suddenly, pointed at Yan Xue's nose and cursed: "Get lost! Do you think we need a few million from you? You donated a few million, so what? You are just a prostitute in the entertainment industry!"
As soon as these words were spoken in front of the police, everyone at the scene changed their expressions.
The village party secretary wanted to rush up and slap the eldest brother of the He family in the face.
"Did you give the money? You gave four or five million to destroy the village!" the village party secretary yelled angrily.
The village chief stopped him tightly and said to the eldest brother of the He family: "You are not a man if you insult a little girl."
The eldest brother of the He family looked at his younger brother.
"What's the matter? Can't you do what you say?" After saying this, he glanced at Xu Zhizhi and Yan Xue with contempt, his expression full of disdain.
The two of them madly provoked Yan Xue and Xu Zhizhi, mainly Yan Xue and Xu Zhizhi was secondary.
Xu Zhizhi was not angry about all this. She folded her arms across her chest and looked at the two people with curiosity.
She wanted to know whether the two of them were doing this out of interest or for some other purpose.
From the moment they walked up to them and teased them intentionally, while their mother sat outside crying, to now deliberately provoking them, she wanted to know what their purpose was.
Just as Xu Zhizhi was thinking, Yan Xue spoke up. She looked at the police and said, "This constitutes intentional provocation. You should be detained for at least 15 days. If you don't deal with it seriously, I will describe this matter in detail to the county."
Yan Xue and Xu Zhizhi have similar number of fans, and Yan Xue is even more famous because she entered the entertainment industry earlier.
If such a thing gets out, the reputation of Lin County will be ruined.
The two He brothers looked at each other, as if they had not expected such a result, and their expressions began to panic.
"We didn't say anything, just a few words. Why do celebrities still make a fuss about it? Be careful or I will post it online and make you famous!" said the younger brother of the He family.
The eldest brother of the He family immediately stood up, feeling that he had grasped the lifeline of Yan Xue and Xu Zhizhi, and said: "We are willing to apologize for this matter, and there is no need to detain you. You will also be able to film in the village in the future."
Xu Zhizhi said nothing and looked at Yan Xue.
Yan Xue looked at the two of them carefully and picked up her phone.
"Come on, explain this matter in detail, and then sincerely apologize to me and Xu Zhizhi, then we'll let it go and I won't pursue it any further." Yan Xue pointed the camera directly at the two of them, signaling that they could start.
Xu Zhizhi nodded slightly, indicating that she could accept it.
The village director and the village party secretary both breathed a sigh of relief and said that as long as the problem was resolved, it would be fine.
The same goes for the police. This matter just needs to be resolved and must not affect the road construction in the village.
The two looked at each other and began to recount the harassment.
During the period, the two of them tried to avoid the main point, but Yan Xue corrected them without hesitation.
Xu Zhizhi sat aside and watched quietly, with no intention of saying anything. She originally planned to let Yan Xue deal with it.
Director Zhou watched the two of them solve the problem and also watched them apologize.
The two corrected their words, started talking politely, and finally bowed solemnly to apologize.
Yan Xue didn't let them go until the two men bowed and apologized.
The police also sternly reprimanded the two men, and finally they signed a settlement agreement and the matter was settled.
In the end, the two of them left in disgrace, and Xu Zhizhi kept her eyes on their faces. Seeing the anger on their faces and the resentful looks, she wondered what was wrong.
The village chief said, "We would like to apologize to you two. You have come from a long way, but you have encountered such a thing."
"It's okay. It has nothing to do with the village," Xu Zhizhi soothed.
The village elders in remote villages are generally older and have different inner thoughts. It was good enough that they helped to curse together just now.
Director Zhou waved his hand and said, "Let's go back."
This day is really unlucky.
When the two came out, it was already dark.
Director Zhou pulled out a flashlight from somewhere and led the five people back using the flashlight.
Xu Zhizhi and Yan Xue, as well as Feng Jie and Yan Xue's assistant, were in the front, and Director Zhou was at the back. The filming location was only ten minutes away from the village office, so they didn't drive here, so they had to walk back now.
Director Zhou came here mainly because he was worried about Xu Zhizhi. He was not worried that she would suffer a loss, but worried that something would happen to her and that she would be in danger. He was afraid that some things should not be known by many people, so he did not even bring other people with him, but only brought his assistants.
Fortunately, when I went there I found out that I was just harassed, but my life was not in danger.
"You won't blame me, will you?" Yan Xue looked at Xu Zhizhi apologetically. After all, she had asked for forgiveness for the two without Xu Zhizhi's consent.
Xu Zhizhi shook her head and said smugly, "It's okay. I didn't suffer any loss. The one whose hand I twisted will probably be in pain for a long time..."
"Hahahaha, Zhizhi, you are so awesome!" Yan Xue smiled gently.
Director Zhou walked one meter away from the two of them and echoed, "She's amazing."
Feng Jie looked at Xu Zhizhi, stammered a few times, and finally said nothing.
Xu Zhizhi looked at the starry sky and walked back with them.
In a house far away, a family sat together. Two men muttered angrily, "It didn't work at all. We almost got sent to the police station. If we hadn't apologized in time, you wouldn't have seen us today!"
"Mom, your idea is terrible. Think of other solutions!" said another man.
The middle-aged woman wearing a bright red top and with her hair curled into wool curls frowned, "Isn't that the simplest way? It's a one-time solution."
"You shouldn't have done that back then! Now it takes so much effort to accomplish it." The youngest man complained, curling up into a ball.
The middle-aged woman opened her rosy lips and said slyly, "It's all for you two to start a family! You were so generous when you spent money, but now you're so lazy!"
The room fell into deathly silence, and everyone pursed their lips and kept silent.
A long time passed.
The old man took a deep breath of the cigarette in his hand, slowly exhaled a puff of green smoke, rolled his eyes and said slowly: "Then there is only one last way."
As the man finished speaking, there were a few "hmm" sounds from the audience.
Late at night, under a moonlit sky, four people walked out of a bungalow.
Carrying hoes on their shoulders, they walked along the dilapidated road in the village.
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