Three days later...
Put a tape into the VCR.
Ningning returned to the chair and sat down, raised the remote control in his hand, and pressed the switch.
Ning Yuren appeared on the screen. This is Ning Yuren when she was young. She was not affected by cancer. Her skin was crystal clear and her eyes were flowing, just like her name - Yuren.
"This is my first time to travel." She said to the camera, "I traveled to ancient times and became a not-so-favored harem concubine. There are 3,000 harem beauties, and we are all vying for the same man."
She didn't just describe it verbally, she acted along with it.
Ning Ning held the remote control in his hand and looked at her motionless.
She has many questions in her mind, such as what happened to the staff in the movie theater? Are the masks on their faces connected to the decorative masks in the room? Why can only change the past twice, what if it is changed three times? Her mother died, and no one answered these questions. Ningning could only find answers in the diary she left.
Ning Yuren is an actress, so she recorded all the stories of her time travel, but not in the form of words, but in the form of movies.
These stories are stored on CDs and videotapes. Ning Ning watched it for three days in a row, and she discovered a secret - the talented actresses that everyone said were not geniuses.
Ning Yuren is also a mortal person. She didn't act well at first, but as she transmigrated into a person, she experienced more and more lives, and finally quantitative changes caused qualitative changes!
But all this has a source.
This source is the videotape in front of you!
"... This is my first time-travel, my first life." Ning Yuren on the screen had finished the last scene, she concluded with a smile, "The time is July 7, 1990."
On July 7, 1990, this is the source of everything. On this day, someone will give my mother a movie ticket and guide her into the cinema of life.
This person is very important. He must know more than his mother. Ningning turned on his mobile phone, checked the period of July 7, 1990, and then murmured to the screen of the mobile phone: ""The Man in the Picture".
During the period from April to October 1990, director Shi Quan filmed a costume movie "The Man in the Picture", and selected the previously unknown dragon actor Ning Yuren to play the second female lead in the film. Yin Hongxiu, this film is the starting point of Ning Yuren's acting career. She started from this film and embarked on the road of becoming an actress.
"Director Shi Quan, starring Shi Zhongtang, You Ling, Ning Yuren, supporting roles..." Ning Ning flipped through the staff list, they were all famous directors and actors at the time, but now those who passed away passed away, retired from retirement, and married into wealthy families. Married into a wealthy family, there are only one costume and martial arts who are still active in the entertainment industry, but she doesn't know these two people.
Think about it, who can help her at this time? Who is exquisite in the circle and can contact these two people
Ning Ning called her agent Li Boyue.
"Liu Shimei and Tao Yun?" Li Boyue asked suspiciously, "What are you doing? Why are you looking for these two people?"
"I want to ask them something." Ning Ning said, "...My mother during the filming of "The Man in the Picture"."
"The Man in the Picture?" Li Boyue laughed, "Then you don't have to ask them, there is a better candidate."
Ning Ning was stunned: "Who is it?"
"Remember the psychiatrist I asked you to see last time, but you didn't see it?" Li Boyue said, "He is the adopted son of director Shi Quan, and his name is Wen Yu."
That afternoon, at the entrance of a tea restaurant.
Li Boyue called: "Are you here yet?"
"I'm here." Ning Ning looked at the door of the tea restaurant while answering the phone.
She arrived fifteen minutes ago, but for some reason, she kept lingering at the gate and didn't dare to go in. The name Wen Yu kept echoing in her mind, which made her feel almost nostalgic.
"Maybe it's just the same name and surname." She said to herself, "Ningning, don't think it's him when you hear a name."
After completing the psychological construction for herself, Ning Ning pushed in the door and looked around. There was a person on the left against the wall waving at her. It was Li Boyue.
She walked towards him, her eyes gradually falling on the man sitting with her back to her.
A tall man in a gray suit.
The sound of music is flowing beside him. In front of the piano in the middle of the cafeteria, the pianist's fingers are scattered on the black and white keys, playing "river flows in you", which is directly called "you flow in my memory forever". A sad and gentle piano piece.
"Hello." Ning Ning sat in front of him and reached out to him, "I'm Ning Ning, nice to meet you."
The man opposite looked up.
This is a very strange face, this is a very strange man.
If Wen Yu in her memory was a little angel, made of cotton candy, soft and sweet, then the man in front of her was an archangel embossed on the inner wall of the church, cast in marble, hard, eternal, and the proportions of his appearance and his body tended to trend. Nearly perfect, with the divinity of overlooking the world from above.
"Hello, Wen Yu." He held her outstretched hand, and his voice was beautiful and special, giving people a feeling of pure and innocent, stern but inviolable, "I heard that you have something to do with me?"
Ning Ning looked down at his hand, a hand wearing white gloves.
"Yes." She quickly raised her head and smiled at him, "I have some questions to ask your father, can you arrange for us to meet?"
He shook his head gently: "Sorry, my father is in the hospital, and the doctor said he needs to rest."
The first handshake was only five seconds, and the first conversation was only five seconds. He released his fingers and looked at each other. Ningning didn't know what to say for a while.
"By the way, what do you two want to drink?" Li Boyue interjected.
Wen Yu: "Milk."
Ningning: "Milk."
After the two finished speaking, they looked at each other in silence.
"It's a coincidence." Li Boyue smiled beside him, "You two have similar tastes."
"I can't change my personal habits." Wen Yu said lightly, "When I was a child, my conditions were not very good. People I knew always gave me a white rabbit toffee soaked in water."
Ning Ning's little finger on the table moved slightly.
... She only saw two people do it with the white rabbit toffee soaking in water.
In "Abandoned Son", in 1987, the white rabbit was in full swing in China. It was a luxury candy whose price was about seven times that of other candies. Children drink.
Chen Guanchao, who grew up abroad, said that he had never heard of this. Out of curiosity, he bought a large bag of white rabbits and came back to soak in water. He got tired of drinking one cup, so he gave away the rest of the toffee... He Even the points of sugar are arranged according to the level of acting skills, so Ningning gets the most.
But she doesn't like candy.
"Send it to you." So he turned around and gave it to Wen Yu.
As a result, when she came back from training the next day, she saw Wen Yu holding a cup waiting for her. There was white gas on the cup, and there was a milky white liquid inside. The remaining toffee had not melted and was floating on top.
Because he couldn't beat him, Ning Ning had no choice but to raise his hand to tuck his long hair behind his ear, lowered his head, took a sip from his hand, then raised his eyes and said, "You drink the rest."
"river flows in you" was still flowing in her ears, Li Boyue raised her hand to call the waiters, smiled and said to them: "By the way, order some snacks or something, the food in this store tastes pretty good."
Ning Ning and Wen Yu opened the menu in their hands at the same time and turned three pages at the same time.
Wen Yu: "Wonton."
Ning Ning: "Wonton."
The two looked up from behind the menu at the same time and looked at each other in silence.
"... Hehe, hehe, milk and wontons, you two really have similar tastes." Li Boyue felt that she was about to become a repeater.
Ning Ning followed and smiled, and the man opposite also smiled lightly. There is nothing in him like Xiao Wenyu in her memory, except his preference for food.
"Let's have some other snacks." Ningning opened the menu and looked at him, "Is there anything you don't want to eat?"
"I can eat anything." Wen Yu replied politely.
"Then come first with crystal shrimp dumplings, chicken feet, beef shaomai, tofu rolls, and finally..." Ning Ning closed the menu, "Fungus and coriander dumplings."
Snacks were delivered. Wen Yu, who claimed to be able to eat everything, kept aloof from the last plate of fungus and coriander dumplings. He liked things the same as he didn't like. He was so focused that Li Boyue coughed beside him.
"What do you have to do with my father?" Wen Yu suddenly asked.
Ning Ning came back to his senses: "I want to learn about the filming of "The Man in the Picture" with him."
"Ask." Wen Yu.
Ning Ning was stunned for a moment, but didn't realize what was going on.
"It's a coincidence." Wen Yu put down her chopsticks and leaned her back on the sofa, "I happened to be on the set during that time, what do you want to ask?"
Although the situation is not as expected, but finally found an insider. Ning Ning lowered her eyes, then raised her eyes and said, "I want to ask, during that time, was there any strange person by my mother's side, that is, Ning Yuren?"
"...Ning Yuren." Wen Yu reacted strangely to the name, he first repeated the name slowly, then closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then opened his eyes and said to her, "I see Come on, there was something special about the crew that time—everyone was weird."
... Are you saying this for nothing
"But the strangest thing is my brother." Wen Yu asked, "Have you heard the name Shi Zhongtang?"
Of course, Ning Ning knew that she had done her homework before coming here. Shi Zhongtang, one of the most famous actors in the 1980s and 1990s, became popular all over China because he starred in the male lead of a famous martial arts drama. The "husband" in the minds of thousands of girls.
"My brother was the most famous actor at the time, and his star was brilliant, but after the performance of "The Man in the Picture", he suddenly committed suicide, and no one knows why." Wen Yu said lightly, "I am just like you, I I also want to know what he was going through during that time, whether there was any strange person around him, what was said to him, or what was done to him."
… not only failed to get the answer, but more and more questions…
After coming out of the tea restaurant, Ning Ning declined the escort of the two and walked on the street alone.
She didn't stop until the familiar building appeared in front of her, raised her head and muttered, "Why am I here again."
No. 35, Rouge Road, Life Cinema.
When I saw it for the first time, it was a resting place in the wind and rain. When I saw it for the second time, it was a golden palace that lit up her life. Now, when I saw it, Ning Ning's hand holding the handbag kept shaking. .
It was late at night, and no one lit the two strings of lanterns at the door, and suddenly they lit up, like a monster in the dark night, and suddenly opened his eyes.
"I don't want to go in..." Ningning murmured, she was scared. A voice in her heart told her that there are many ways to hone her acting skills, and she doesn't have to go to the cinema of life, especially now that she has the appreciation of Director Chen, she can receive a lot of dramas, even if she doesn't rely on him, she can rely on herself. The valuable experience she gained through the two trips, she can also go better and better...
But the moment I saw the new poster, the voice in my heart was silent.
Title: "The Man in the Picture"
Starring: Shi Zhongtang