"Ye Chu".
Shang Ye opened his eyes.
Shi Shan walked in gracefully, carrying a script and a book in his hands.
Strangely enough, although his physique and facial features had not changed much, the sense of oppression he gave Shang Yechu was not as strong as before.
"Rehearsing a scene?" Shang Yechu pinched the bridge of her nose. "Can we do it after dinner?"
Shi Shan smiled bitterly and said, "Director Xu said that it will snow heavily tomorrow. If we can't finish this scene in a real snowy setting, you and I will atone with our deaths."
Xu Hanwen has completely lost his mind.
Shang Yechu didn't know how many times she had repeated this sentence in her heart, as she picked up her script: "18-46?"
“Yes. It’s been changed.” Shi Shan sat down and put the book on the table. “The scene where I died.”
Filming doesn't follow the order of the episodes; it's not uncommon for a character to die in one scene and be alive and well in the next.
"How come I didn't see it—" Shang Yechu swallowed her words. Xu Hanwen had probably sent the message to the WeChat group first, and the official announcement hadn't been released yet. Shang Yechu had been offline for two months, so it was normal that she hadn't seen it.
"What are you going to do with this?" Shang Yechu tapped the book. It was a copy of "Complete Tang Poems," volume number unknown. This was Li Yiming's personal codebook in the drama.
Shi Shan gently shook his head: "I'll tell you after we finish rehearsing this scene."
This is a scene depicting the sacrifice of Li Ruhui. In the play, Li Ruhui, under the orders of Li Yiming, covers the escape of a group of renowned scholars and scientists by boat.
The number of scholars was too large, their presence too conspicuous, and their coordinated action would attract too much attention. Li Yiming devised a plan to break them up into smaller groups, disguising them as social workers from different social classes, and having them quietly board the ship and leave.
However, somehow word got out, and the operation leader, Shen Yanzhi, had already cordoned off the shore, forbidding anyone from boarding the boats or leaving. The mission was now in grave danger.
This group of people is extremely important. If they do not seize this opportunity to leave Ruguan, they will be forcibly taken to Taiwan by the Kuomintang to live out their remaining years. This would be a great loss to the country.
At the critical moment, Li Ruhui gritted his teeth and came up with a do-or-die idea.
Li Ruhui directed his comrades to disguise themselves as company employees and force their way onto the ship under the pretext of being eager to do business. Shen Yanzhi naturally assumed that the scholars and scientists were among this group and began to detain and inspect them one by one.
After checking only a few people, Shen Yanzhi found a hard object in one person's waist bag—it was naturally a pistol.
Before Shen Yanzhi could figure out how a group of scholars had suddenly learned to wield swords and spears, a comrade shouted and took Li Ruhui hostage!
The man pretended to be a member of the "Kunlong Gang," a well-known gang from another province, and said he was short of money and wanted to borrow some. He then fired three shots into the air.
Chaos erupted. Screams and commotion filled the crowd, and Shen Yanzhi's small team suddenly found themselves short-handed.
Shen Yanzhi certainly didn't want to let Li Ruhui leave, but Lu Huaizhang became the chairman of Ruguan Province through the connections of Li Yiming's parents, and those overseas Chinese were Li Ruhui's maternal uncle and aunt. As a mere action team leader, Shen Yanzhi didn't dare to rashly provoke this family.
The "kidnappers" held Li Ruhui hostage and ordered Shen Yanzhi's men to load the boxes of gold bars, silver coins, tea, and porcelain that Li Ruhui had brought onto the ship. They then selected several onlookers and demanded they board the ship as hostages.
Shen Yanzhi, of course, could not agree. Not only did he stop the crowd, but he also declared righteously, "How could the life of Young Master Li be more important than the lives of so many ordinary people? Even if Chairman Lu were here, I would say the same thing!"
Left with no other option, the kidnappers had to abandon their demand.
After unloading the goods, the kidnappers cautiously led Li Ruhui towards the ship. Suddenly, a gunshot rang out; Shen Yanzhi's men had fired a shot from behind!
Chaos erupted again, forcing the kidnappers to retaliate. The team was ruthless, firing indiscriminately without regard for right or wrong. Fearing that hiding in the crowd would endanger innocent civilians in Ruguan, the "kidnappers" had no choice but to grit their teeth and fight back without any cover.
The kidnappers were few in number and naturally no match for the action team. While being held hostage, Li Ruhui suddenly realized something terrifying.
In such a chaotic situation, it would be truly strange if Young Master Li, a graduate of military academy, were unable to break free from the bandits!
Left with no other choice, Li Ruhui had to pretend to break free from the kidnappers and engage in a struggle with them.
During the struggle, Li Ruhui demanded that the kidnappers injure or knock him unconscious. The kidnappers naturally refused, so Li Ruhui simply shot himself in the thigh, rendering himself completely incapable of resistance.
With tears in their eyes, the kidnappers, using the injured Li Ruhui as cover, slowly climbed onto the boat and left.
The matter should have ended there. Unfortunately, Shen Yanzhi was truly cunning.
Shen Yanzhi initially thought the crowd he had stopped were the scholars scattered throughout the group, and quickly pulled out those whose names had just been called by the kidnappers to verify their identities. Unexpectedly, after checking them over and over, it turned out they were all just ordinary people!
Shen Yanzhi immediately realized that he had been tricked—the so-called "breaking up into smaller units" was just a smokescreen put out by Li Yiming. The real scholars had actually been hidden in the boxes of goods brought by Li Ruhui and had gone to sea with the "kidnappers"!
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