It was already evening when Zhang Yuansheng got off the train.

It seems that it is going to rain, the sky is gloomy, and layers of gray clouds cover the setting sun that has not yet completely set. Looking up, the distant world is dark and gloomy, affected by the noisy and crowded crowd on the platform, The air became more oppressive and stuffy.

A newsboy shouted loudly at the side of the platform: "Sir, sir, buy a newspaper. A copy only costs one penny. The latest Quanmin Daily! All kinds of news about current affairs are readily available!"

Zhang Yuansheng paused, took out a penny from the pocket of his gown, and handed it over, and then took back a newspaper—it should have been printed not long ago, and when he opened it, there was a strong smell of ink from the dark yellow paper. .It's just that there is no new news. It is nothing more than that the old warlord has fallen somewhere, and the new warlord has risen somewhere, or that the republican government that has not been established for a long time has issued some orders.

Before Zhang Yuansheng had finished reading the entire newspaper in a hurry, a slightly surprised voice sounded not far away: "Master, Master, Master Yuansheng!"

An old man with gray hair and wearing a black cloth shirt led two servants through the crowds and came to him, holding a photo in his hand. After comparing with Zhang Yuansheng, the smile on his face deepened: "Yes. The young master of the courtyard is right? The old slave is Zhang Gui, the housekeeper of the Zhang family. There are too many people getting out of the car. I took the two of them and started looking for it from the front. It is really the old slave's fault to teach the young master to wait."

"It's okay, I just got out of the car." Yuansheng Zhang stretched out his hand to help the old man who was bowing to him and said, "Uncle Zhang doesn't need to be so polite with me. My mother often mentioned your care for her before she was alive. You can just call me a courtyard student."

Zhang Gui shook his head again and again: "How can it be done? The young master is the master, and I am a slave. How can you call him by his first name and break the rules. Xiao Wu Xiao Liu, what are you two doing, why don't you hurry up and help the young master with the suitcase?" Take it over here! Don’t worry about deducting your wages when you go back! Master, are you tired from the journey? The car is already waiting outside, so let’s go back home.”

The jeep is parked at the gate of the train station, and you can see it at a glance when you go out.

Little five and little six put the suitcases away, and then squeezed together in the co-pilot.Zhang Gui originally wanted to squeeze in, but was stopped by Zhang Yuansheng: "There is such a big open space in the back, Uncle Zhang and I can just sit together, there is really no need to be formal."

The car started quickly and gradually picked up speed after passing through the crowd slowly.

Zhang Yuansheng looked out of the window. At first there were various shops and western-style buildings, then there were slightly older bungalows, and finally there were endless wheat fields and sorghum fields.

It was August, and the wheat was almost harvested at this time, but the sorghum was not yet ripe. The stalks as tall as a person were swaying in the wind, and the leaves were dyed dark green by the evening mist, just like the forest waves and pines.

Zhang Yuansheng took a deep breath of the air filled with the fragrance of rice flowers, and couldn't help but praise: "That's great."

Zhang Gui laughed: "The young master has been abroad for a long time, and he is used to seeing big scenes, so he thinks this country and village are beautiful, like we are facing these all day long, so we don't think much of it."

Staring at Zhang Yuansheng's side face for a while, he sighed: "When I received the photo sent back by the young master half a month ago, this old servant felt that the young master and the handsome man were completely printed out of the same mold back then. Now that I see the real person, It feels more like it."

Zhang Yuansheng bent his mouth and was about to say something when he caught a glimpse of a red figure outside the car window out of the corner of his eye.

Turning his head, he saw a woman standing in the middle of the sorghum field in front of her, wearing a big red flowered jacket, with two black braids hanging on her chest, her face was hidden in the dark twilight, but she couldn't see clearly. Her sight, even with the movement of the vehicle, can clearly feel that she is always firmly nailed to herself.

Zhang Yuansheng was shocked: "Uncle Zhang, there are people in the field!"

Zhang Gui, including Xiao Wu and Xiao Liu, all looked out of the car, but the speed of the car was not slow, and the sorghum stalks were dense and high, and the breeze swayed from side to side, like ripples on the surface of a lake, which soon covered the road. Dwells all the hidden things of the deeper depths.

It was just a blink of an eye, how could I see the woman's trace again.

After listening to his description, Uncle Zhang thought for a while: "That should be a scarecrow planted by the farmers in the field to scare the birds. It is so late, it is unlikely that there will be any women left in the field. Besides, this is not wearing a jacket. season of children."

Is that so?Zhang Yuansheng shook the sweat in his palms, turned his eyes away from the sorghum field that looked peaceful and quiet, and remained silent all the way.

The jeep stopped in front of a slightly narrow alley.

"We have a lot of alleys, and the cars ahead of us won't be able to get in," Zhang Gui said, "But there is not much distance left from here to Zhang's mansion, so I'm tired, young master, come down and walk for a while."

Zhang Yuansheng nodded, and after getting out of the car, Zhang Gui led him, followed by two servants carrying suitcases, and walked into the alley together.

The sky was getting darker, and the air was full of water vapor with a fishy smell.The masonry walls on both sides of the alley are high and deep, stretching forward as if there is no end, blocking the only part of the skylight from the wall.Zhang Yuansheng had to keep his eyes wide open, so that he could barely find a way out in the dim twilight.

"Master, be careful where you step." Uncle Zhang reminded him from time to time.

He didn't go far, and suddenly saw an old woman, face wrinkled like dried fish skin, gray hair tied into a small bun behind her head, holding a bowl of white rice in her left hand, with a solemn expression and slightly narrowed eyes. Walking forward, while grabbing white rice with his right hand and spreading it around, he muttered:

"Oriental rice grains, western rice grains, southern rice grains, northern rice grains, four and five square rice grains. On August [-]th of the Gengzi Year, Zhang Baoguang returned from childhood! Please go to Jiutianxuannv, Jiepo Tonglang, and send them back. Zhang Baoguang has come back with guts!"

Behind the old woman was a young woman who was holding a child in her left hand and two scissors in her right hand. Every time the old woman called out, the woman bumped the scissors in her hand back and forth, and at the same time responded: "Zhang Baoguang Come back!"

For some reason, Zhang Yuansheng always felt that the child's expression was dull and his eyes were dull, like an unconscious doll, being led by a woman and walking forward step by step.

Zhang Bo pulled Zhang Yuansheng to give way to the side of the road, and the three of them passed by them, singing in harmony and walking away slowly.In the narrow and dark alley, the hoarse libretto lingered for a long time, and against the strange behavior with unknown meaning, it seemed particularly eerie and strange.

"What are you doing?" Zhang Yuansheng couldn't help asking after the three left.

"Returning to the young master, this is calling the soul of the children in the family." Seeing that Zhang Yuansheng was still puzzled, Zhang Gui explained: "Our custom here is that if the children in the family are frightened, they will not be able to eat for a whole day. [-]. If you can’t sleep well, that means you’ve lost your soul. If you invite an elderly person to take their children with you, walk around the place where you usually play and shout. When the soul calls back, the child will be able to eat and sleep back to normal."

Zhang Yuansheng could not agree: "The child is frightened and should be sent to the hospital for examination. How can this make the patient recover?"

Zhang Bo smiled: "The young master has studied medicine abroad for many years, and he is very talented and knowledgeable. Naturally, he knows more than us rough people. They are just rural folk remedies. There are countless things to do for peace of mind."

A few people continued to move forward, and Zhang Yuansheng said again after a while: "However, from a psychological point of view, the elders bring their children to perform this kind of ritual-like behavior together, which can make the children valued to a certain extent. Sensation, so as to slow down the negative impact of being frightened and speed up the child's recovery speed. In this way, this folk remedy has some scientific basis."

Xiao Wu, who was saluting, scratched his ears and said with a laugh: "The young master of the courtyard student really knows a lot, and what he said is so small that he can't understand it."

"That's not true." Zhang Bo turned his head and stared at him for a while: "Young master is a scholar, you can't compare to him!"

Zhang Yuansheng looked gentle and did not speak.It's just that there is a question that quietly took root in my heart, and after a long while, I finally asked it: "Uncle Zhang, you just said that it takes three days to call the soul, if after three days, the lost soul still hasn't been called back, then the lost soul is still alive. What about your child?"

Uncle Zhang was stunned: "This old slave didn't think about it carefully. According to the word of mouth of the previous generation, as long as it is called for three days, it should be able to call back the soul. If it is not called back, it is like the young master said. Yes, send it to the hospital and ask the doctor to have a look, it should be fine."

As soon as the words fell, he paused, turned around and smiled at Zhang Yuansheng: "Master, we are home."

"..."

"Brother Yu," Zhang Min's voice suddenly came from next to his ear: "We're here."

Yu Huo turned his eyes away from the script, only then did he realize that the nanny car had stopped at some point.

The horror-themed film he will act as the male number one this time is called "Soul Call", which is adapted from the novel of the same name by the famous folklore writer He De.

The background of the story is set in an era when human beings still settled on the mother planet Earth, which historians call the "Republic of China".

The father of the leading actor, Zhang Yuansheng, is a well-known old-fashioned warlord. He is brave, ambitious, and extremely talented in military affairs. He once set a record of 36 undefeated battles in a row. He can be called a generation of heroes in troubled times.It's a pity that heaven is jealous of talents, who died young when he was about to be in his early 40s more than ten years ago.

Zhang Yuansheng's mother was his father's first wife. She came from a scholarly family and received new education from abroad since childhood.Because he was dissatisfied with his father's warlord style of taking concubines and dissolute, he took Zhang Yuansheng to settle abroad when he was still a baby.

One and a half years ago, his mother passed away due to illness. Zhang Yuansheng chose to return to China after finishing his studies, not only to inherit the family business, but also to use what he had learned to serve the motherland.And the story unfolds from there.

During the shooting for more than a month before the Chinese New Year, Yu Huo followed the crew to shoot almost all the parts of the film that needed to be shot outside. Inside the house.

This is also the place where Yu Huo will mainly reconcile with the crew this time.

When I got out of the car, I saw the three-story old-fashioned villa building standing in front of me.It is said that the director specially asked a friend to borrow this place. That friend was extremely obsessed with all kinds of ancient buildings from the era of the mother planet Earth, and spent a lot of money to rebuild many buildings from different eras.The building in front of me just happened to imitate the architectural style of the Republic of China period, and integrated the architectural features at home and abroad at that time, so it was perfect for filming this drama.

At this time, outside the villa, according to the requirements of the script, another circular alley was built with green bricks to surround the whole villa, and the silver-white plastic curtain wall was being built outside to prevent outsiders from prying eyes during the filming process.

Because the scene to be filmed today is Zhang Yuansheng returning to the old house for the first time after burying his mother abroad. According to the script, the scene takes place in the evening and at night, so the director set the gathering time for the actors to be three in the afternoon. point.

It's just after one o'clock, except for the prop crew and other crew members who came to set up the venue in advance, Yu Huo is the first batch to come.

After the big adventure show was broadcast a year ago, Yu Huo's popularity among the crew has obviously multiplied several times.As soon as he got off the car, many people from far and near greeted him enthusiastically: "Happy New Year, Mr. Yu!"

"Happy New Year, everyone!" After responding one by one, Zhang Min led his assistants to distribute New Year's gifts to the staff, while Yu Huo walked half a circle around and looked carefully:

This style of house is very different from the ones that are common nowadays, and also very different from the ones in his original world.It seems that the two sides are a little blended, and it has its own distinctive characteristics, so don't go too far.

After finishing walking outside, I was about to go into the villa for a look, when an excited shout sounded from behind: "Brother Yu Huo, you are here too, I still think I am the only one at this point."

Looking back, it turned out to be an acquaintance - the actor Xiao Hua who met in the crew of "The Legend of Meng Ke" led by director Yang Tao and treated him well.

Eyebrows stretched, he smiled and waved to the other party: "Brother Xiao."

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