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Chapter 4 The First Original Screenplay

During the warlord period of the Republic of China, a remote place called Hongshui Town in the northwest, blocked by three mountains, belonged to the "three-no-regulation" area.There is a local man named Zhen Sanfa, who is not only the mayor of the town, but also the largest landowner in the area. He also has an armed force as lackeys in his hands, who do all kinds of evil and run amok.Moreover, the local natural environment is harsh, and they are often harassed by bandits. The people live like purgatory every day!
Finally, a group of people stood up and began to resist Zhen Sanfa. His name was Ma Ziren.After killing Zhen Sanfa with a group of brothers, he became the new mayor.But the local people were not very happy, because Zhen Sanfa got his position by killing the old mayor. To the people, it was just another master serving him.

But Ma Ziren was different, he uncharacteristically abolished the tyranny of the former mayor, lived in the landlord's compound, but continued to live in his own simple earthen house, and did not let the people call him the lord, just the mayor.

He led the villagers to reclaim the land and dig canals so that when the dry season came, everyone would have water to plant the land and avoid hunger.

He drove away the foreign priests who had been entrenched in the town and were deceived and abducted in the name of preaching.

He built fortresses, led the group to prepare armies, and finally drove away the bandits who had harassed the town for decades.

Gradually, many people in the surrounding area knew that there was a new mayor on the other side of the mountain to maintain law and order and protect the villagers, and Ma Ziren's reputation became bigger and bigger.

However, during this process, some good brothers in the past gradually began to separate from him, because these people followed Ma Ziren at first thinking that they could live a life of a master in the future, instead of working every day, continuing to live in earthen kilns and eating chaff and vegetables. Even his wife He Hong did not understand why their family continued to live this kind of hard life.One of them, Li Sihu, was one of the first brothers to follow Ma Ziren, and even started planning to replace him.

Then one day, Ma Ziren led a lot of people into the deep mountains, because he heard that coal mines were found in the mountains, so he wanted to build a coal mine to improve the lives of the villagers. This journey lasted for several months.Li Sihu felt that the opportunity had come, and gained the trust of his eldest brother by means of rhetoric. Then he pretended to be a tiger, and grandiosely lived in the long-awaited deep house compound, and hooked up with his eldest brother's wife, He Hong.

When the two of them were doing business, he even tricked He Hong into lying to his eldest brother's youngest son that he was his real father.

Ma Ziren's reputation was too high, and Li Sihu didn't dare to replace him directly, so he still did things under his banner every day. He was clearly his own order, but he said it was the mayor's instructions, and the common people believed it, and followed Li Sihu to do many absurd things.

However, paper can't hold fire, and Ma Ziren will come back eventually.So Li Sihu bought the people around his elder brother in advance, and planned to kill him during the exploration. Fortunately, at the last moment, the younger brother next to Ma Ziren rescued him. After learning the truth, Ma Ziren was furious and ready to go back to settle accounts with Li Sihu.

Ma Ziren rushed back angrily, and found that Li Sihu had brought the people to welcome him at the intersection. In order not to hurt the people by mistake, and to maintain everyone's dignity, Ma Ziren still resisted and played brotherly love with Li Sihu. The scene was very nasty and funny.

When Li Sihu was acting before, he had already hinted whether he could let him go, and Ma Ziren also expressed in code words that it was absolutely impossible.So the welcome ceremony ended, the people dispersed, the two sides were at war, and soon the fire broke out in the landlord's compound!

Ma Ziren worked so hard to kill Li Sihu, his men and his betrayed wife, but he and other brothers were also plotted against and fell into a pool of blood.

After the war ended, only Ma Ziren's youngest son was left alive in the courtyard.The child walked out of the room and looked at Ma Ziren who fell on the ground. He picked up the wooden spoon with his childish hands, learned the shadow puppet show he had watched before, and wanted to dig a hole to bury his father Ma Ziren, but then remembered what his mother said, saying that Li Sihu was his father. For a while, he didn’t know who his own father was.
The content of the script ends in the scene where the younger son is digging a hole with a wooden spoon and crying to the two "fathers".

After Jiang Wen finished reading the script, he took a deep breath and slowed down...

"Are you fucking trying to kill me? This isn't a hint anymore, it's just a matter of naming names and saying who's who!"

"Why? Isn't this just an ordinary rivers and lakes story! Let the bullets fly, why are you worried about this? Trust me, you just need to tell me whether you like the script or not!"

"I like it, but I really like it, it's just passed the review..." Jiang Wen felt that the script was too risky, and unless the department responsible for the review acted stupid, they would be able to see the clue at a glance.

"So in order to pass the review, we can't take it too seriously. We have to arrange gags, goofy jokes, and sexy scenes. This is your specialty. If you want to make this movie look unscrupulous! This way the risk of passing the review will be much smaller. If it doesn't work, why don't you still have me! The big deal is to ask the old man when the time comes, and I will definitely review it for you."

"Since you have Xiao Gu's words, Lao Jiang, you can try it." Uncle Ge also felt that if this script could be made, it might be a good movie. In fact, he didn't think much of the book "One Step Away".

"Wife, what's your opinion? Do you want to shoot or not?" Jiang Wen would always ask his wife Zhou Yun's opinion first on any important matter.

Don't look at Jiang Wen's aggressive look, but when facing his wife, he is more obedient than his third grandson.Zhou Yun has a fierce and tough personality, and she is the only one who dares to confront Jiang Wen directly on the set without giving any face.If he made food for Jiang Wen, he would feel that it was not tasty, so he immediately threw it into the trash can.He bought clothes for Jiang Wen, and if he dared to show that he didn't like it at all, Zhou Yun would immediately give them to the security guards in the community.

Moreover, many of Jiang Wen's movies were invested by Zhou Yun on his behalf, and she was also responsible for the daily financial expenses. If a movie book wife didn't like it, then he would basically not think about making it anymore.

Zhou Yun took the script, weighed it carefully, then closed it gently, and said with a smile, "Shoot! Why didn't you shoot it? Aren't you always worried about the last deleted scene in "Let the Bullets Fly"? This movie script can actually be regarded as a sequel to "Let the Bullets Fly", and we, the talented Gu, will guarantee you, so why not shoot it?"

Jiang Wen was very happy to hear his wife's approval of the script and his own encouragement!A fierce slap on the thigh!
"Then fuck it!"

(End of this chapter)