Sandwiched in between so many bungalows, this movie theater seems to be a bit independent, and the gatekeeper at the door is even more independent. He doesn't seem to care about the business of this movie theater at all, and is always vicious.
"You don't have a ticket, you can't..." Halfway through his words, the gatekeeper looked at the movie ticket handed to him.
Not a regular ticket, not an even-numbered designated ticket, nor an odd-numbered designated ticket.
This is a very special ticket.
It was covered with a stamp of a human head, the head of which was a bust of a man. Upon closer inspection, it also had a name: Zhou Aiguo, a name that was so widespread that it had no distinctive features.
The gatekeeper just glanced at it, and then quickly raised his head: "Where did you get this ticket?"
"Someone gave it." Shi Zhongtang said with a smile.
"Where is that person?" The gatekeeper was sitting on the doorstep, but now he has stood up.
"Run, but I guess he didn't run, he should be peeping nearby." Shi Zhongtang said, shaking his head, and finally nuzzling in one direction, "Do you think that is him?"
A white shadow suddenly floated out from behind a broken street lamp, and upon closer inspection, it was the man wearing a smiling face mask. The road stumbled.
The gatekeeper sneered and chased after him.
"Hey!" Shi Zhongtang raised the ticket in his hand towards his back, "No more tickets?"
The gatekeeper scolded secretly and threw it back.
The ticket in Shi Zhongtang's hand suddenly caught fire. With a wow, he let go of his fingers. The ticket on fire landed at his feet, and he stomped a few feet: "Be careful of the candle, be careful of the candle."
"One person, one vote, entry is void!" The gatekeeper's voice came from a distance, and when Shi Zhongtang looked up again, his back had disappeared.
Shi Zhongtang smiled.
Although he accepted the ticket for the smiling face mask, it did not mean that he had to do as he said. The reason why he came to the cinema was to see if the ticket in hand could really get in.
It doesn't really matter if he can't go in. The smiling face mask has tickets in hand, but he doesn't dare to come by himself. It makes it clear that there are things in the cinema that he wants and things he is afraid of - such as the doorman who chased him away like a rabbit? He could still come in while the gatekeeper caught him.
"Come on, big brother, it's up to you to fight the ticket dealers!" He shouted insincerely in the direction of the guard, Shi Zhongtang turned around and walked towards the cinema. When he entered the door, he paused and blew at the poster on the wall. whistled.
Title: "The Deception"
Starring: Zhou Aiguo
The poster shows three men with boxes full of banknotes in their hands, standing on the edge of a cliff with countless guns pointed at them in front of them.
The face on the far left looks familiar, vaguely a half-length photo on the ticket.
Shi Zhongtang turned back and walked into the door.
"welcome!"
A group of masked people greeted him warmly, wearing clothes of various dynasties, wearing various masks, and speaking various local accents.
"Guest, please come with me." A little girl wearing a Tang Dynasty lady mask said, "Your seat is here."
Shi Zhongtang looked at her with a smile, and suddenly reached out to lift her mask.
But she couldn't lift it, the mask seemed to grow on her face.
"Please don't do this." The little girl pushed his hand away. "My mask cannot be taken off."
Instead of asking her why she couldn't take it off, he asked skillfully, "How can I take it off? I want to see your face."
The little girl was stunned for a while, she looked up at him, and saw a pair of peach blossom eyes that were ruthless but seemed affectionate, no one knew whether what he said just now was intentional or not, she babbled for a moment, and replied: "Wait for my movie to be released. …”
Before she could finish speaking, she was pulled by the person beside her, so she hurriedly shut up.
Shi Zhongtang didn't embarrass her anymore. He wasn't in a hurry to sit down and watch the movie. Instead, he was very interested in the staff.
Finally, a staff member couldn't bear it any longer and said to him: "Guest, please go back to your seat, the movie is about to start."
"No hurry, no hurry, I'll go shopping first." Shi Zhongtang waved to him, continued to walk around the cinema with both feet, suddenly turned his head and said to the pile of staff behind him, "Can you guys take me? Sample?"
Several staff members have reached the limit of their patience with him, and most of the others are also dissatisfied. In other places, even if they don't chase people away, they will scold people, but they just follow behind him, looking like they dare not speak out. .
Shi Zhongtang narrowed his eyes and looked at them for a while, then suddenly turned around and ran towards the back.
"You can't go in that place!" The staff rushed over in a hurry, but it was a pity that Shi Zhongtang had avoided his father's pursuit since he was a child, and he was also an actor who starred in a martial arts movie. Finding a way out, he broke into the screening room.
What will he see? A projectionist with black-rimmed glasses? A projector as old as the door lantern? A poster with a female star on the wall? Several racks next to each other, storing all kinds of film and video tapes
When the door opened, he saw a man in a prison uniform.
The man turned his back to him, took something from his face with his hands, and put it into the old projector in front of him.
Hearing the movement behind him, he turned around slowly.
Before Shi Zhongtang could see the other's face clearly, countless hands stretched out from behind and dragged him back. In the end, he only saw one thing clearly - the mask.
In this projection room, there was no film or videotape, from the floor to the ceiling, it was piled up with masks.
"Okay!" The staff pressed Shi Zhongtang on the seat, gritted his teeth, "The movie has started, please enjoy it!"
"Okay, okay." Shi Zhongtang smiled absent-mindedly, still thinking about things in the screening room, until the opening song sounded in his ears, his hands, his feet, his body gradually lost control, he couldn't help staring With big eyes, he looked at the line of words that appeared on the screen - "This film is based on a true story."
The next day, the crew of "The Man in the Picture".
Ning Ning looked at Shi Zhongtang's profile strangely. Was it her illusion? She felt that his face was particularly pale today, as if he had suffered a serious illness overnight.
"Li Lang." She was still filming, she pressed down her doubts for a while, and asked him coldly, acting like a princess of Lingshan, "Do you know how much you have to pay for doing this?"
Today's play is called "The Price".
In order to let the Princess Lingshan in the painting walk down, and to resurrect the dead, the male protagonist decided to collect the materials for making the resurrection medicine, including the soil of the emperor's mausoleum, the hair of Princess Lingshan, the fragments of the jade seal, etc. Enough for him to be raided and exterminated 10,000 times.
"I know." But before looting his family and destroying his family, Shi Zhongtang had already paid the price in advance. He pulled out the dagger from his waist and slashed his face fiercely. A long bloodstain ran from left to right, destroying his handsome appearance. face, he turned back and smiled at her, "Even if I get caught, no one will know who I am."
Ning Ning choked and seemed to be frightened by his smile. After a while, he put the fan in front of his face and laughed: "Even if you can escape the family annihilation, you can't escape a dead word yourself."
He was silent for a long time, and then gently repeated her sentence: "... Can't escape a dead word?"
The red lips behind the fan curled up, thinking that he had seized his weakness, and was about to pursue her while he was victorious, when he heard a sigh of relief, turning around and walking towards her.
Another burst of white mist boiled over.
Ning Ning, who was standing in front of the desk before, disappeared again, leaving only the picture of Princess Lingshan on the table.
Shi Zhongtang chose a pen from the Beacon Hill, dipped the ink from the Shanhai Inkstone, and then the tip of the pen fell on the picture. The sky outside the window turned into sunset, and he put down the pen and said with a smile, "Okay."
I saw that there was only one more person in the painting that only Princess Lingshan was there.
The man was standing at the head of the bridge, the wind was full of sleeves, and he looked at Princess Lingshan smilingly with a pair of peach blossom eyes—it was himself who painted.
"If I survive, you will survive, you and I will always be together." Shi Zhongtang smiled at the person in the painting, "If I die, I will come to accompany you in the painting, you and I will never be separated."
After he finished speaking, he dried the ink on the paper, and was about to take the scroll up and take it away on his journey to find medicine, when he suddenly frowned, propped up the table with one hand, covered his mouth with the other, and coughed violently. .
When he fell forward and fell on the table, the whole crew was in chaos.
"Son, are you alright!"
"Come on, get to the hospital!"
"ambulance!"
"I'm fine!" Shi Zhongtang shouted, standing up again with the help of Shi Dao's arm, and smiled palely at everyone, "A little dizzy, maybe it's heat stroke, I'll go to the side to rest, you guys continue."
When passing by Ningning, he grabbed her hand and leaned on her shoulder very naturally.
Shi Dao, who was ruthlessly abandoned by him: "..."
Ning Ning, who was overwhelmed: "..."
"Hmm." Finally Shi Dao coughed, "You Ling, send him back to rest."
"Oh, okay..." Ning Ning took the order.
The hotel is not far from here, and Shi Zhongtang is not so sick that he can't walk a step, but Yuji, who is following behind, is a little annoying. I don't know what they will write in the newspaper tomorrow. Ning Ning finally transported the person back to the hotel, and was about to leave, but he held his hand.
"Let go." Ning Ning is always unsmiling towards him, just like Princess Lingshan in the current drama to the male protagonist.
He always smiled at her, and seemed to like her angry look.
"Tell me." He was lying on the bed, looking at her with a face as pale as paper, his smile was a little lonely, "Is my life just a two-hour movie for you?"