Chapter 47 You're worried about me
At this moment, the memories of her dead began to attack Dong Hailan.
Inside the dilapidated rented room, she gently gripped the girl's skirt sash. Although she wasn't using any force, the girl seemed to be tied up and couldn't break free.
"You tore my clothes during filming... You look young, but you're quite strong."
She stood up and maintained an ambiguous distance from the person opposite her.
"Where did you just touch?"
"I……"
Did the director say to touch that area?
"I……"
"Do you still want to touch it?"
"Yes, I'm sorry."
"I'm asking you, do you still want to?"
Dong Hailan closed her eyes, trying to banish the memories from her mind.
She could imagine that her face must not look good.
Qian Wei asked worriedly, "Sister Lan, are you alright?"
"It's okay, it's just a bit cold."
"Yeah, it's gloomy, and the weather forecast says it'll snow tomorrow. I thought if it snowed we wouldn't have to pave the cement roads, but the director said it'll be done this afternoon!"
Qian Wei took a bite of the sweet potato.
It's no longer hot after being blown by the cold wind.
"I don't think I'll starve to death even if I become irrelevant and retire from the entertainment industry after I go back."
Dong Hailan forced a smile and said nothing.
The people around the director couldn't be seen in the live stream, but Dong Hailan's fans noticed something was wrong and kept asking what had happened, but they couldn't get an answer.
The task for the morning was still to gather firewood.
Before it even started, Chu Zheng ran up to Shan Qingshan and begged him to get him a carrying pole. Before he could finish speaking, Zhou Chong stopped him and asked, "Who is the most compatible person in the world with Qingshan Xiaobao?"
"It's you!"
"Who will grow old with Qingshan Xiaobao?"
"It's you!"
"Who could be the person that Qingshan Xiaobao loves to the point of life and death, and who he absolutely must marry?"
It's still you!
Zhou Chong was satisfied and released the man to get his carrying pole.
Shan Qingshan handed a carrying pole to Chu Zheng, then said to Zhou Chong, "You're so boring."
Qian Wei was laughing so hard she almost split her legs.
Dong Hailan seemed preoccupied. When she went up the mountain, she took a half step back, walked to Shan Qingshan's side, and lowered her voice to prevent the viewers in the live broadcast room from hearing.
Was that person who came to see you today?
"Um."
"What do you want?"
"They asked me if I was interested in collaborating."
Dong Hailan responded with an "Oh".
She understood that since there was a collaboration, the details couldn't be revealed later.
She stopped asking and left.
As soon as she left, Zhou Chong rushed over, his eyes cold and a little jealous.
"What are you whispering about? Why does she have to be so close to you?"
Before he could finish speaking, Shan Qingshan suddenly reached out and blocked his forehead.
Zhou Chong reacted a step too slowly and bumped into Shan Qingshan's palm, feeling Shan Qingshan's hand hit something.
"Can't you watch where you're going?"
Zhou Chong hurriedly grabbed his hand and saw that Shan Qingshan's hand had been scraped by a tree.
"You're injured."
Shan Qingshan withdrew his hand.
"It's nothing, don't make a fuss."
Zhou Chong felt guilty and distressed. "Don't make a fuss. Why did you use your hand to block it? You could have just hit my head."
"You still have bandages on your head, do you want to get better?"
Zhou Chong was speechless, touched his forehead, and then quickly smiled again.
"You're worried about me."
Shan Qingshan: "..."
Zhou Chong: "Am I not far from finding a partner?"
Shan Qingshan: "No."
Zhou Chong: "...You answered too quickly, I'm a little hurt."
"Just accept it."
Dan Qingshan quickened his pace, traversing the rugged mountain path as if it were flat ground, and soon left Zhou Chong behind. After collecting firewood in the morning, the production team hired a professional team in the afternoon to help all the guests pave cement roads in the village.
Cement roads were paved to the doorstep of every household.
When the project was completed, Qian Wei suggested leaving their handprints on the side, and everyone agreed.
The handprints of several guests remain on the cement ground; as long as this road exists, these handprints will remain as well.
Netizens reacted enthusiastically to this.
Why do my eyes feel like I need to pee?
[To get rich, build roads first. The program team's act of building roads is truly brilliant!]
Seeing their handprints together, I inexplicably felt a sense of family.
[That's great, Xiao Bao has so many people around him now.]
...
Major official Weibo accounts also reposted and liked the post, supporting the program team's efforts to build roads for the village and help it prosper. This included the official Weibo account of the Provincial Propaganda Department.
After dinner, Shan Qingshan sent a text message to Quan Jing, expressing his intention to cooperate.
Quan Jing replied: 【Is it convenient to call?】
Dan Qingshan avoided the live stream and replied: 【Convenient】
They called immediately.
"Add me on WeChat first, and I'll send you the contract to take a look."
Shan Qingshan followed instructions.
Quan Jing sent over the contract and schedule.
The next two days.
We need to visit thirteen places in total.
Quan Jing said succinctly, "The province can give you 200,000 yuan for publicity expenses, plus your grandmother's pension, which the ministry will subsidize. You can start receiving money every month after January 1st. In addition, the ministry has discussed your family's situation and will give your family a minimum living allowance, 500 yuan per person, 1,000 yuan per month."
"good."
"But there's one condition: you can't be in a relationship for three years."
Dan Qingshan paused for a moment, then looked up and saw the bright moon hanging in the sky outside.
Under the bright moonlight, Zhou Chong was outside the chicken coop, asking the clucking chickens if they were about to lay an egg.
Three years.
Fifty million...
His three years shouldn't be enough to earn him 50 million.
Shan Qingshan looked away. He seemed to hear his heart speaking, but reason prevailed.
"Sure, no problem."
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After the live broadcast ended, Shan Qingshan told Zhou Chong that he would be filming a promotional video in the next two days. Because it was a collaboration with the government and needed to be kept confidential, the program had to be suspended.
Zhou Chong: "Then I'll go pack my things."
"I'll go alone."
Zhou Chong was stunned.
Shan Qingshan repeated himself, then said, "It's only two days. We'll leave tomorrow morning, and if all goes well, we can be back the day after tomorrow afternoon."
Zhou Chong was reluctant to part with him, but since Shan Qingshan had said so, he had no choice but to agree.
The director informed the other guests that Shan Qingshan was away filming a promotional video, in case they asked about it during the live broadcast the next day.
Qian Wei was happy for Shan Qingshan. "When Qingshan comes back, it will be New Year's Day. Let's ring in the New Year together, as if we're celebrating the New Year together. What do you say?"
The proposal was met with overwhelming support.
Qian Wei and the others immediately discussed how to spend New Year's Day.
Dong Hailan quietly left the room and called out to the director.
"Was that person from the publicity department this morning?"
"Yes, Minister."
They're ministers now...
Dong Hailan thanked him and returned to her place. While washing up, she looked at herself in the mirror and suddenly felt both strange and familiar.
When I met Quan Jing, she was still young and beautiful, but now she has quite a few fine lines around her eyes.
In retrospect, she and Quan Jing were never truly together.
She is one of the lead actresses in "Guanghua".
Quan Jing was a stunt double for another lead actor.
For many years, rumors about what happened back then circulated in the outside world, some true and some false, and Dong Hailan tolerated it all. She didn't want the rumors to reach Quan Jing and dig her out.
This was just a hasty relationship, destined to have no future.
Dong Hailan pursued him, and Dong Hailan also dumped him.
Quan Jing has never said that she likes her.
But when she told Quan Jing to get out of there, she squatted by the roadside and cried for a long time.
I only glanced at it briefly this morning, and although it was very rushed, it was etched into my heart as if carved by a knife and axe, and I remember it exceptionally clearly.
She has changed a lot.
It feels so unfamiliar.
She is no longer the little girl in Dong Hailan's memory who ran away to become a stand-in in order to break free from her family's constraints.
Dong Hailan turned on the tap and washed her face with cold water. Her hands were red from the cold water, but she seemed not to feel anything.
After hesitating for a long time, Dong Hailan asked the director for her phone back.
Fourteen years have passed.
Dong Hailan herself has changed her phone number no less than five times.
She doesn't know if she's changed her number or if the call can still get through.
The moment she pressed the button, Dong Hailan realized that this number had never left her heart.
The busy signal rang three times before the call was connected.
"Hello?"
It's her!
Dong Hailan hurriedly hung up the phone, leaned against the door, looking as disheveled as if she had been pulled out of the water after drowning, gasping for breath.
Moonlight streamed in through the window, revealing a silver thread on Dong Hailan's face.
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