"The fourth act?" the village chief laughed. "There has never been a fourth act."
Is that true
"Since I was born, people in the village have been acting on me." Ning Qing's voice said in Ning Ning's ear, "They don't really like me, they respect me, it's just superficial..."
After a pause, he gave a low smile: "He held me high for the sake of breaking me down in the future."
The fourth act is there and always has been.
The other three scenes were put on the stage, but only the fourth scene was put in reality, day and night, continuously performed, and the actors were the Ning family and everyone in the village.
But what is this for
Such tragicomedies are created on the screen for the sympathy and tears of the audience, but what good are they doing
"Can you imagine? Everything around me is fake. The mother-in-law who brought me food every day, the playmate who grew up with me, the village chief who raised me instead of my father... Suddenly during the ancestor worship ceremony They all changed their appearances, beat me, scolded me and insulted me, but they all felt at ease, said to me to eat and drink, and pretended to be good to me, just to feel less guilt when they finally did it." Ning Qing laughed at himself, "So How could there not be a fourth act? This is the fourth act, the people in the village acted on me."
Or rather, the play we play.
Behind the mask, Ningning's eyes swept across the faces full of desire.
If the grandmother did not suddenly remarry with her mother to someone outside the village, maybe they would continue the fourth act, generation after generation, stage the same scene, and finally end up with the same ending.
"We don't have any grudges, why did they do this? It took ten or twenty years to find me happy? No, even if there are one or two people who are willing to spend this time and effort, not everyone is willing to spend this time. God, there must be some reason for the people in and outside the village to persevere." Ning Qing smiled strangely, "After thinking about it, there is only one reason..."
on purpose.
They deliberately attacked Ning Qing, made him stunned, made him feel like his life was a joke, and made him more angry than ever.
The three acts of the ancestor worship ceremony are completely smoke bombs, in order to cover up the fourth act, to cover up the real reason.
- Dedicate this absurd fourth act, the protagonist who was toyed in the play, to the Cinema of Life.
"What are you doing?" shouted the former Lotto winner. After the dull thunder, it finally started to rain. He raised his hand to wipe the rain off his face and urged impatiently, "Hurry up and start! "
The rain washed Ning Ning's body, the darkness around her, and the snow-white mask on her face.
"Don't worry." She said slowly, "Let's talk about it first, which three will go in later?"
The former Lotto winner was taken aback and asked, "What three?"
"The Cinema of Life will start on time every night at twelve o'clock. The films are shown randomly. No one knows which film will be shown tonight. I only know..." Ning Ning looked around the crowd, "Only three of you can enter. ."
There was an uproar, and the former Lotto winner immediately retorted: "Nonsense, how could only three people get in?"
"Because on me, you can only get three tickets at most." The eyes behind the mask glanced at the village chief, "The annual ancestor worship ceremony is not just for this, to torture a person, whether his surname is Ning or not, but as long as He is in pain and despair, and the Life Cinema will send him three tickets in total, and only those who have tickets can enter the Life Cinema."
This is Ning Ning's understanding of this ancestor worship ceremony.
Otherwise, why does this village have to torment a person so much? Pei Xuan's lesson, Ning Ning's first reaction was that they wanted to fish for tickets.
"There is no such thing." The village chief retorted, with a firm and righteous statement, "My ancestors have been in the village for generations, and they have presided over ancestor worship ceremonies. I have never heard of what you said. Just open the cinema and let the people present. Everyone goes in!"
Ning Ning stared at him for a while.
Strange, he didn't look like he was lying.
"I've never heard of what you said." Ning Ning said slowly, equally decisive and righteous, because she didn't lie, "You have seen the current situation, use your method, the cinema. I can't even see a shadow, that's all I can do."
"How could you not?" The village chief roared, then froze for a while, his voice weakening, "How could you not..."
Why not
Ning Ning grew up outside the village, and she never acted in the fourth act.
What used to be used on Ning Qing can't be used on her, or the situation has been completely reversed now. In the past, people from the village acted for the Ning family, but now it is Ning Ning acting for them to show them. Stunned, painful, furious.
An angry man pushed the village chief from the side, and the others hurriedly pulled him. He struggled and roared as if venting: "Give me an explanation, ask me for money every year, give you so much money every year, and finally I can get something?"
It was raining, and the village chief sat in the muddy water without speaking.
"Yeah, give us an explanation."
"I don't want to explain, where's the ticket? Give me the ticket!"
"How old are you, whether it's the first comer last comer or the seniority, when will it be your turn?"
"Stop and stop, stop and stop, I haven't seen the ticket yet, everyone, don't remember the infighting first, so as not to be fooled!"
"Again, who can prove that you must have a ticket to get in?"
"I can prove it."
The chaotic and noisy voices suddenly stopped, and everyone looked at them, their eyes fixed on Ning Yuren.
"I can prove it." Ning Yuren repeated, then walked slowly to Ning Ning's side, turned around and said to everyone, "Most of the people here may not know each other, but they all know me."
This is not a boast, but a statement of a reality.
As a generation of actresses, and she is still a popular actress who has not quit the entertainment circle, she is there as long as there is TV. Even people who don't watch TV can hear about her from the mouths of those around them.
"I debuted very late, and I became popular very late, but I became popular almost overnight, don't you think it's strange? How can a person change so much overnight?" Ning Yuren asked himself and answered, "Because I am with you guys. Some of them, as well as some of their parents, have also been in the cinema of life, and more than once."
As Ning Yuren said, among the following group of people who came back from outside the village, some are old and some are young. Because the ancestor worship ceremony has been suspended for a long time, it can be inferred that some of them are Some people have actually been in the cinema of life, but most of them have not been in it themselves, but a certain immediate family member in the family has gone in, and they are left behind by it.
"The reason why the village chief doesn't choose me is very simple." Ning Yuren laughed at himself, "I can get three tickets from Ning Ning, but I guess I can only get one... Including my four tickets, although it can't satisfy everyone, at least four people can get in, right? We have tickets, we know where the cinema is, and we can take you there!"
Ning Yuren appeared and said, some people believed it, some didn't believe it, but some people said impulsively: "Why is it so troublesome, as I said, kill her..."
"If you kill her, will the cinema still not appear?"
"Whoever makes the suggestion, whoever will do it, I won't do it anyway. I don't want the movie theater to not go in, but instead become a murderer and run around."
"Why are you all looking at me? Don't expect me to do it! You don't want to be fugitives, do I?"
If there is really no choice, some people will take the risk.
But now there are options, and three options—after all, there are three tickets, right
In the face of a silver lining, who wants to be the murderer in front of everyone's eyes? It's good for everyone.
"Stop, all stop." The village chief was still sitting on the ground, with his two sons on each side, he stood up with difficulty and scolded several times, but no one was willing to listen to him, he turned to the local people Say, "Don't look, go and stop them."
One person took a few steps forward, but seeing that the people around him were not moving, so he retreated again.
"Village chief, forget it." One kindly said, "They are all rich people in the village, why should you offend them?"
The village chief looked at them silently. Where did the right of the fathers and grandparents come from? It came from the ancestor worship ceremony, from the theater of life that appeared in the ancestor worship ceremony, but when the theater no longer appeared, this authority also collapsed.
The villagers looked at the bad old man in front of them with pity, and another person said hesitantly: "Village Chief, you and I are definitely going to die here, but other people and other people's children have to go out. , if you want to make a personal appearance outside, you can only go to these rich people, right?"
Changed, everything changed. The village chief looked at them with desolation and despair in his heart. He shook his head and said, "Why do you all believe her, not me? They are all liars, both mother and daughter are liars, there is no fourth act at all, let alone What ticket… ticket…”
A ticket fell from before him.
His eyes landed with it, watching it gently land on the ground, floating in a small puddle.
It is a thin piece of yellow paper, with a circular stamp on the left, which reads the admission ticket, and a rectangular box on the right, with Life Cinema in the middle of the box.
The world suddenly fell silent, the voices of people, the sound of rain, all disappeared.
The village chief lowered his head, stared at the ticket, and murmured, "Impossible, impossible..."
"Look." A devilish voice sounded from behind him, it was Ning Ning, "This is the movie ticket of life."
He turned his head and glared angrily and wanted to refute, but a person rushed over from the opposite side, followed by the second, the third...
"Don't grab it! I got it first!"
"Hey, queuing up to buy buns, are you still coming first?"
"Go away! I am the one who donates the most to the village every year, and the votes should also belong to me!"
Hearing is false, but seeing is believing.
No one knows where the ticket came from.
But they all know that the person who is most unlikely to deceive them together with Ning Ning is the village chief.
So the ticket suddenly appeared in front of the village chief, and the people who didn't believe in Ning Ning's set believed the most. These eight achievements are what Ning Ning said before: Torture a person, no matter whether his surname is Ning or not, but as long as he is in pain and despair, his life will be in the cinema. A total of three tickets were sent to him before and after the meeting.
The crowd huddled together in front of the small puddle, and those who couldn't get in simply crowded beside the village chief, shook his shoulders, yelled and scolded him, wishing he would spit out the remaining two tickets immediately.
"Heh, dog bites dog." Looking at this scene from a distance, Ning Yuren sneered, then turned to look at Ning Ning, stared at her for a long time without moving his eyes, and then said lightly, "You are not Ning Ning, are you? Who... what's the matter with you?"
Ningning didn't know what her mother saw on her face.
She just felt that her face was hot.
From the time people in the village started arguing, her face started to get hot.
… no, it was the mask that started to get hot.
Ning Ning lifted the mask off, the tentacles were like a fire, she loosened her fingers from the heat, the mask lay on the ground, the rain fell on it, and it was steamed into water vapor with a sizzling sound, white smoke filled the air, It grew bigger and thicker, and gradually rolled out of the white cloud, covering everyone present and covering the entire village.
"Look, what is that?" someone suddenly shouted.
The fog was too weird, weird and big.
Being in it, Ning Ning and Ning Yuren couldn't help but hug each other tightly, their hearts were pounding, and when they heard the man's shout, Ning Ning looked at the sound, but the fog was so thick that they couldn't see each other's face at all. She could only see black shadows in the white fog, suddenly turning their heads to look in her direction.
Looking behind her.
Ning Ning turned her head slowly.
The thick fog rolled, like the steaming clouds, and the two lanterns in front of the door fluttered to the right along with the thick fog. The light of the lanterns illuminated a tall building and an outdated cinema.