The Wind of China Entertainment 2005

Chapter 660 Arrival
It is difficult to describe what Harbin is like in summer simply by imagination.

Even though it carries the reputation of "Little Paris of the East" and "Russia of the East".

The promotion of "See You Tomorrow" was going smoothly. Liu Shishi felt that it would not play a big role in the follow-up, so she took a flight and went straight to Harbin to meet the person she had been thinking about day and night.

As soon as I got off the plane, Zhou Yaoyao and Zhou Qi called me via video.

Two young faces were pressed closely together, almost overflowing from the small screen of the mobile phone, chattering non-stop.

Originally, the two little guys were looking forward to traveling to Harbin with their aunt.

Unfortunately, the older one has to go to school and there are still a few weeks before summer vacation. The younger one is in kindergarten, so he can take leave.

But he was stopped by Lu Yuan, who said righteously that kindergarten is the most critical time in a child's entire educational career, and it is important to lay a solid foundation and focus on academic studies.

Liu Shishi knew very well that Gou Shishi actually didn't want her to bring a small soy sauce bottle.

Well, she thought so too.

"Aunt, are you here yet?"

"Aunt, where are you? I'll tell you a secret. Mom eats chili peppers with her butt."

"Qiqi, you big idiot, mommy didn't eat the chili peppers with her butt, it was because I ate the chili peppers and went to the toilet that my butt hurt!"

The two little mouths were like firecrackers, talking one after another, crackling without stopping.

Liu Shishi raised her phone, turned around, and looked at the airport for them: "Look, I just got off the plane."

"Aunt, don't worry about uncle, I want to see the big tiger, wooo!"

Zhou Qi spoke excitedly and hurriedly, yelling, and then got punched hard by Zhou Yaoyao.

"Aunt should go see uncle first."

"why?"

"Because uncle must miss aunt very much."

When Liu Shishi saw this scene, she felt happy for Lu Yuan, thinking that her love for her niece was not in vain.

"Bad sister!" Zhou Qi held his head.

His uncle told him on the phone yesterday that he couldn't go with them, and he kept it in mind.

Can remember all day long!

After teaching her brother a lesson, Zhou Yaoyao turned to look at Liu Shishi, resting her chin on her hands.

"Aunt, you can call uncle first and just say 'hmm. There's a traffic jam and the plane is late.' Then we can go see the penguins first. I want to see the penguins."

"Look at the big tiger, woooo, ouch!"

You are really a good niece of your uncle. Liu Shishi complained wildly in her heart and agreed without hesitation.

"Okay, I'll go see the penguins and the big tigers first."

After chatting for a few sentences, I saw that the tourists around me seemed to recognize me, so I quickly ended the call.

After signing a few autographs and taking a few photos, Liu Shishi got into a business car parked on the roadside before the reporters swarmed in.

Taiping International Airport is located in Daoli District, HEB City, Heilongjiang Province, about 33 kilometers from the city center.

The car was driving on a wide asphalt road. Outside the car window, there was a picturesque scenery with lush green trees.

Liu Shishi felt the slight chill and asked, "How many plays does he have today?"

"You can finish work early today." Zheng Qian glanced at her through the rearview mirror: "Sister Shi Shi, do you want to go to the hotel to rest first, or go directly to the crew?"

"Of course, I'll go directly to the crew." Liu Shishi answered without hesitation.

"Teacher Lu means that you should go to the hotel to rest first and then go there in the afternoon."

"how?"

"The scene I'm going to shoot this morning doesn't look very good."

Liu Shishi raised her eyebrows, looked away, and said suspiciously, "Kissing scene?"

She remembered that there was no kissing scene in this drama. Zhou Yi and Gu Qiuyan both had their own families, and their feelings were quite subtle.

Even if they met again after a long separation, they just hugged each other gently, and expressed their longing for each other more through eye contact and sporadic words.

Could it be that he secretly changed the play and so he doesn't want to go there alone?

"No." Zheng Qian hurriedly shook her head: "There is no kissing scene in this play, it is an interrogation scene."

"Interrogation scene?" Liu Shishi was even more curious and said nonchalantly, "What's the point of an interrogation scene? Just go to the crew."

The crew of "The Cliff".

"Sister Shishi, we're here!"

Zheng Qian pushed open the car door, only to see Liu Shishi holding a cell phone in the back.

She thought the other party was just conceited and making careful preparations for the upcoming meeting. Just as she was about to say something, Liu Shishi took a few photos with a "click" and then sent a voice message.

"Yaoyao, Qiqi, it's really unfortunate today. There's a traffic jam on the road. I just called and asked, the penguin house and the Siberian tiger garden are closed. They are doing a big cleanup. I will go for you tomorrow."

After fooling the two kids, Liu Shishi jumped out of the car and swung her ponytail.

"Lead the way!"

"Okay." Zheng Qian blinked her eyes. Spring cleaning, what the hell was that? She didn't understand what was going on.

Led by Zheng Qian, Liu Shishi entered a dark and gloomy interrogation room.

In spy war dramas, the interrogation scene has always been the climax of the plot.

Through an interrogation, not only will the plot advance rapidly, but the characters will also be portrayed in a more three-dimensional way.

Everyone takes off their disguises and faces their deepest desires and fears.

The person who tortures the confession uses all his tricks to test the other person's physical and psychological bottom line step by step, and to get the answer he wants from the target's mouth.

The prisoner struggles hard in the double torture of physical and mental suffering. He has to maintain his disguised identity and keep the crucial secret. If he shows any weakness, he will lose everything.

There is no intrigue, no hypocrisy, only pure blood and violence.

Because we were in a difficult situation where the enemy was strong and we were weak, these methods were basically used on our own personnel.

There are exceptions.

For example, in the spy drama "The Disguiser", the Kuomintang secret agents fought among themselves and even arrested their own action team leader Ma Kui.

However, due to limited production costs, the torture scenes in "Insidious" appear rather crude. Although the actors' professional abilities are up to par, the real torture instruments are just a few chains, making it difficult to show the cruelty.

In fact, in most spy dramas, the depiction of torture instruments is often perfunctory, with only a few red marks symbolically showing the pain.

The torture instruments themselves were merely symbolic and presented as a formality.

The Cliff is completely different.

Before filming began, Jiang Wei consulted a large number of historical archives and worked hard to make the scenes more realistic and appropriate by using creepy and categorized torture props.

Liu Shishi, who just came in, felt as if she was there, as if she had returned to that special era.

The next scene will be the interrogation of Zhou Yi’s wife Sun Yuejian after her arrest.

Yongmei plays Sun Yuejian, a liaison officer of the CCP's Harbin underground liaison station, who is interrogated after being captured by the puppet Manchukuo police.

The interrogator was her husband Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yiwenming interrogated the suspect for four hours but obtained nothing.

Gao Bin was impatient with this and was dissatisfied with Zhou Yi's gentle approach, so he replaced him with the inhumane Lu Ming.

At this time, Lu Yuan and Yongmei were standing in front of an interrogation stand.

Hearing the noise behind him, Lu Yuan turned his head and his originally cold and depressed eyes instantly became gentle.

He took two quick steps and squeezed her hand under the ambiguous gazes of the lighting and recording staff.

"Didn't I tell you to go to the hotel and rest for a while and come back this afternoon?"

Liu Shishi pouted, love in her eyes, and threw herself into his arms, putting her face on his chest, rubbing it twice, and smelling the familiar scent.

"I miss you."

"Tsk tsk tsk." Li Hongtao, who played Lu Ming, had a sour expression.

Lu Yuan was too lazy to ignore him and just pretended not to hear him. Liu Shishi quickly realized that there were other people here, so she took a step back, restrained her expression, and smoothed her slightly messy bangs in a calm manner.

"Come, let me introduce you. This is Teacher Li Hongtao, and this is Teacher Cheng Yu."

Lu Yuan took her to recognize the people, and Liu Shishi greeted them one by one.

Everyone knew her identity, and while they were polite, they couldn't help but be curious.

There was still some time before the filming started. Liu Shishi walked around the interrogation room, stopped in front of a half-meter-wide bench, reached out and gently touched it.

"Zheng Qian said this place is scary, but it doesn't seem like a big deal."

"Really?" Lu Yuan smiled and pointed at the bench she was touching.

"This bench is used for the criminal punishment of watering. The so-called watering means that the prisoner lies flat on the bench and is completely restrained from head to toe with fasteners."

"Then one end of the bench is raised and the other end is facing a large open faucet. The bound person's head is pressed under the faucet, forcing him to drink a large amount of water."

"The more they poured water into the victim's stomach, the more it swelled. When the stomach was swollen and round, they would step on it with their feet, pressing and releasing it. Water would then come out of the victim's mouth and the stomach would flatten again. This cycle would repeat until the victim could no longer drink or died from the large amount of water."

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"If there is no faucet, you can also cover your face with gauze and pour pepper water into your mouth through the gauze."

Liu Shishi suddenly retracted her fingers, took a step back, and accidentally bumped into an iron cage that was as tall as a person. The cage was quite similar to a fishing cage.

Lu Yuan said, "This is called a rolling cage. It's designed according to your height and is made of iron sheets all around. Do you see the iron nails stuck all around the cage? Each nail is no less than 15 centimeters long. Find a slope and put a living person in it and roll it around."

Liu Shishi swallowed in fear.

"For example, gasoline burning, choose any part of the defendant's body, such as the head, back, hand, leg, foot, or arm, and drip gasoline on it, then light it with a lighter and look here. This is called kneeling iron triangle, electric shock, and tiger bench."

Lu Yuan introduced the torture instruments in the interrogation room one by one.

"OK OK."

Liu Shishi covered his mouth: "Don't say it."

"Are you afraid?"

"Yeah, yeah." Liu Shishi nodded quickly.

Yongmei stood in front of the interrogation stand, her hair messy like straw and her body covered in blood, and she couldn't help laughing.

Liu Shishi looked at her and the torture instruments behind her, curious: "What kind of torture will Sister Yong receive later?"

Without waiting for Lu Yuan to introduce, Jiang Wei approached and found Yongmei.

"I just thought about it. The audience's standards are getting higher and higher. The more realistic we shoot, the better. If the torture scene is not painful, it will not fit Lu Ming's character. I plan to add some more large-scale scenes later."

Yongmei immediately responded: "As long as it's not stripping, I have no problem with it."

"It's not that. How could it be a strip scene?" Jiang Wei saw that she was thinking wrongly, and hurriedly explained: "I plan to put a dozen mice in your pants when filming starts. Are you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid." Yongmei agreed calmly. They were just some fake props.

Jiang Wei nodded and gestured to the props team.

The staff member came over with a bag. Yongmei saw the bag moving and making squeaking sounds. She swallowed and looked at the director with hope.

As soon as the bag was opened, Liu Shishi looked inside and was surprised to see that there were more than a dozen live mice inside.

She hugged Lu Yuan's arm and tightened it subconsciously, knowing what Yongmei would face later.

Rat punishment.

This is a special torture specifically for female prisoners, and it has an elegant name, called "Tiger and Leopard Playing in Spring".

A rat crawled inside the prisoner's body, entered through the hole, squeaking and biting her most vulnerable parts.

For female prisoners, this punishment does not result in death, but it causes great mental torture.

Yongmei was so frightened that her face turned pale and she was trembling: "It's real! I thought it was a prop mouse."

Jiang Wei said: "I didn't say I was using a prop mouse, but you don't have to be afraid, this is a field mouse, it won't bite people."

Things have come to this point, Yongmei is terrified, but she has no choice but to go ahead. It is impossible to use a substitute.

Unless there are certain unavoidable things, using a stand-in in a good crew is a shame for the actor, and his co-stars will also look down on him.

"I need to buy some more long johns," she argued for herself.

"Of course it's no problem, don't worry too much, we'll just go through the scene of getting into the trouser legs."

After a moment, everything was ready. Yongmei was tied to the interrogation rack and Lu Yuan stood opposite her.

As the scene notes were recorded, filming officially began.

"Action!"

In Harbin in summer, the temperature is a little cool at night, around ten degrees, so you have to wear a thin coat.

Around seven in the evening, after finishing the day's filming, Lu Yuan took Liu Shishi out for a walk.

The city of Harbin is full of European style.

This can be traced back to 1896, when Li Hongzhang signed the Sino-Russian Secret Treaty on behalf of the Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia, allowing Russia to build railways.

Harbin thus became a hub station on the China-Eastern Railway.

With the opening of the railway, a large number of Russian and other European immigrants poured into Harbin, bringing with them a rich architectural style and culture.

Central Street, known locally as Central Dage, is a landmark of Harbin. It is home to Madiel popsicles, black bread, kvass, chimney bread, Huamei Restaurant, and Madiel Restaurant.

After getting off the car, the two held hands and wandered around aimlessly like an ordinary couple.

Tonight's route is along Central Street, Daoli Market, Sophia Cathedral, Songhua River Bridge
"Crack!"

The lights of the Hagia Sophia were on and it looked magnificent. In the square in front of the church, Lu Yuan squatted down and took a picture of her.

Liu Shishi complained about his photography skills, but then said, "It is said that if you are lucky in the second half of the year, you can see the staff of the Polar Museum walking penguins."

"I don't know." Lu Yuan took a bite of the popsicle. It tasted just average, too sweet and greasy.

"This picture doesn't look good, take it again."

Lu Yuan refused and looked at the blurry photo on his phone: "I think it's quite cute, with a kind of hazy beauty."

"Menglong, you big-headed ghost, it was obviously you who took the photo too fast, and there are afterimages on the picture." Liu Shishi pinched him in annoyance.

"What does it have to do with me? It's the phone that's not working. Zheng Qian will accompany you to the Polar Museum tomorrow. Bring your SLR camera with you."

"we'll see."

"Hey, didn't you promise Yaoyao that you would go see penguins and Siberian tigers tomorrow?"

Liu Shishi sucked on the popsicle: "Why rush? The cleaning will take at least three or four days."

"You will definitely be a good aunt in the future."

"I am following your lead."

The two of them were fighting without restraint, and passers-by were not blind, so they soon discovered the two guys who were simply disguised.

"Oh my god, Lu Yuan!"

"Liu Shishi!"

Lu Yuan was helpless. Even though the two had already announced their relationship to the public and were not afraid of being secretly photographed, the public would still gather in droves when they saw them.

Everyone in the square seemed to be moving.

Fortunately, most of them were adults, and although they were curious, they just took out their mobile phones to take pictures and did not pull anything.

Amidst the shouting and flashing lights, the young couple slowly moved to the side of the road.

At this time, a black business car stopped in front of the two people.

The rear window was rolled down, Zhao Benshan poked his head out and joked, "Hey, isn't this Lu Yuan? He was shopping with his girlfriend and revealed his true identity."

"What a coincidence, Teacher Zhao." After Lu Yuan saw his appearance clearly, he shouted with a smile.

As soon as he finished speaking, Feng Xiaogang, who was sitting on the other side, stretched his neck and moved closer: "I was thinking of visiting the crew of "Cliff" in a couple of days, and I ran into you and we were just about to have dinner, so let's go together."

“It’s inconvenient.”

"It's convenient. Why not? I just happened to have something to talk to you about. It saves me from making another trip."

(End of this chapter)