He suddenly recalled an incident from his childhood:

When Beichuan Liang was still in elementary school, he saw a female wild cat that had just given birth to kittens on his way home from school. The cat seemed to have eaten something by mistake. It was lying in the shadow of the alley, foaming at the mouth and twitching its limbs, and was about to die.

He then rushed home, made a whole bottle of soapy water, ran back there, pressed the cat's head and poured the water down her throat.

In fact, even Beichuan Liang himself didn’t know whether the methods he saw in this book were useful.

His mother was a little confused as to what he was doing in such a hurry, so she followed him closely. After seeing what Beichuan Liang did, she touched his head and comforted him:

“It will survive.”

"Even for the sake of the kittens next to it, it has to struggle to survive."

A day later, Beichuan Liang saw the cat in the alley again.

The mother cat, who was so emaciated that only skin and bones were left, was lying there. Several kittens, who looked like they had just opened their eyes, were huddled together, drinking milk.

It gently licked the tops of the kittens' heads.

"I just don't know if I can remember this when I grow up."

His mother was beside him, touching his head and making this comment.

Just as Beichuan Liang was recalling the past in a trance, his mother had already picked him up from the ground, and she said calmly:

"I will go and sleep now."

"All the lunch boxes have been knocked over. I have to get up early to make them for you tomorrow."

“The ones in the school cafeteria and canteen are expensive and not filling.”

"you should go to bed soon too."

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After finishing the filming of an entire plot, Kitagawa Ryo and actress Omi Emi, who played the mother, discussed the details of the performance for a while. The other party is also a powerful actor from the LALALAI troupe. They also co-starred in "Youth Taboo Game" a few years ago.

Just as the conversation between the two came to an end, when Kitagawa Ryo was about to find Arima Kana to discuss matters related to the performance, he turned around and saw Arima Kana's mother, Ms. Arima, who had bought an insulated box from somewhere and was eagerly distributing cold drinks and ice cream to the staff around her to relieve the heat.

"You have worked hard."

"Kana, thank you for your care."

"There will be more trouble later."

Ms. Arima was like a high-speed spinning top. She kept a slightly humble smile on her face and turned all the way to Kitagawa Ryo.

"Thank you."

Beichuan Liang did not intend to refuse this kindness, or rather, he felt that if he accepted it, the other party might be more obedient in the subsequent filming work.

Although the logistics department also provides food and drinks, they are generally benefits for the actors. However, since Kana Arima joined the crew, Ms. Arima has brought some small gifts every two days, including today's ice cream and cold drinks.

After distributing the last popsicle in the insulated box, Ms. Arima took her daughter, who had empty hands, to sit in the corner to rest.

"As for Kana, she's still too young. Eating these will easily cause stomach upset."

She explained to her daughter in a gentle voice:

"For example, there was a child star named Nanmu. Because his parents didn't pay much attention to him, he secretly ate too much ice cream before work. As a result, he couldn't come to the shooting day because of acute gastroenteritis. Not only did he miss the opportunity to appear in the popular ice cream commercial, but it was difficult for him to get work afterwards."

Arima Gana nodded to show that he was listening.

"So, maybe you are a little dissatisfied with your mother now, but when Kana grows up, you will understand her."

Ms. Arima touched her daughter's head and continued:

"For Kana, Mom is really working hard."

"I had to look at other people's faces everywhere, beg people for favors in a humble manner, and was even kicked out by security guards."

Having said this, she reached out and held Arima Kana in her arms, and spoke like she was dreaming:

"Luckily, Kana finally got the role."

"Fortunately, all of my mother's efforts were not in vain."

Arimaka stood there stiffly.

She just felt that the words sounded quite familiar.

I'm working on the PPT for my defense today, so I don't have much time to write. I'll update it as normal tomorrow.

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Chapter 35: Beichuan, Liang brother senior

"For the last part of the script, I would like to modify the plot and some of the lines."

During a break in the crew's filming, Kitagawa Ryo naturally sat next to director Gotanda Yasushi and spoke to him sincerely.

"Huh? What's wrong?"

Yasushi Gotanda asked back with some confusion. The script of "Spider" was his masterpiece. If it was not Kitagawa Ryo who said this, he would probably have retorted with a tough attitude.

"It can be considered as something I was inspired to do these past two days."

Kitagawa Ryo nodded calmly in the direction of Arima Kana and her mother. As the filming of the movie was in full swing, the other party seemed to have lost their initial composure and began to get restless.

In the entire crew, it can be said that except for Kitagawa Ryo, Ms. Arima showed an attitude of not letting any of the others, from the assistant director to the photographer to other supporting actors, go to them every day to try to get close to them, and her words and deeds imply that if there are any good jobs in the future, can you give priority to Kana Arima.

She even approached director Yasushi Gotanda secretly and asked him seriously if he could give her daughter more roles in the movie. Although she was blocked by Gotanda with just a few words, she did not seem embarrassed at all and acted like a dog-skin plaster.

In fact, in Beichuan Liang's opinion, if children often see their parents bowing and nodding respectfully to others, they will definitely feel uncomfortable, whether they feel sorry for them or feel ashamed.

"Tell me what you think."

Yasushi Gotanda pondered for a while, then he opened the script in his hand, turned to the last scene, and looked up to ask Kitagawa Ryo.

The plot of "Spider" is very clear. After the hero had to give up the first county selection meeting because of his mother's accidental injury, his baseball club was also eliminated in the second round due to the lack of an absolute main force. Everyone blamed him for the fault, so the hero gave up baseball and chose to quit the club.

The male protagonist, who was severely hit by this incident, was spotted by a scout from an agency while strolling on the street. They hoped that he could debut in the entertainment industry as an artist.

Since his academic performance was not outstanding and his original career path as a professional baseball player was cut off, the male protagonist accepted the business card with the idea of ​​giving it a try, and signed the contract by imitating his mother's handwriting without telling her.

But because he started late in life and had never taken any professional acting courses, his private acting work was not smooth. Even though his appearance was quite outstanding, that was all he could do.

But even so, after actually getting the first considerable salary in his life, the hero still couldn't suppress his inner excitement. He chose to confess everything to his mother and even bought gifts for his sister and mother.

But he did not get what he wanted. His mother did not think highly of his so-called "actor" job. In her mind, actors were those who appeared on TV at eight o'clock in the evening, so she kept nagging her son.

The mother hated all instability and anything that could be called a variable. On the one hand, she hoped that her son could focus on his studies and honestly go to university, such as Tokyo University, Waseda University or Sophia University. In fact, she didn't know anything about these schools, but she still insisted on doing so. On the other hand, the mother very naturally "borrowed" most of the salary from him to subsidize the household expenses.

In fact, he knew very well that a loan relationship could not exist between parents and children. He felt uncomfortable when he lent the money, but he did not dare to ask for it. However, if one day his mother really returned the money, he would feel like a worthless person.

He felt sorry for himself, but also for his mother. Obviously, she had always looked down on this profession and the content of the work, but every time the salary was settled, she would be the first to ask about his income, pretending to be casual.

The second conflict between mother and son broke out. The son, who wanted to give up his studies to participate in professional acting training and become a formal actor, argued with his mother.

From that moment on, their relationship went beyond that of relatives and became like that of two calculating businessmen.

Everyone was hysterically digging up old issues.

It has nothing to do with family ties, it's just an old account of money.

In the end, it was still the younger sister who ended the dispute. Because there was no one to cook while the mother and son were arguing, she had been hungry all day and cried timidly on the sofa, which made the two of them give in again.

His mother still couldn't stop his choice.

After shifting all his time and energy to his acting career and systematically studying professional courses related to acting, he finally began to enter the rising period of his career.

Then, the mother easily completed the transition of her role.

She regards her children's achievements as her own success and always believes in this.

But for the son, his mother's words or actions sometimes have reached the point where they affect his work and life.

"So, in the last scene, the son who took his mother to climb the mountain actually wanted to kill his mother."

"But the final scene only stays on the second before he pushes his hands out, which can be regarded as an open ending."

"He would read an essay on the top of the mountain, an essay he had written when he was a child, titled 'Spider', which was an ode to maternal love."

"He would think that his mother had been good to him from the beginning to the end, but unfortunately, because the right to define the word 'good' was still in his mother's hands, he would feel pain."

Gotanda Yasushi nodded and raised his eyebrows:

"So, what do you want to change?"

"Let me do a one-person show, remove all the lines from the mother's last scene, and I'll finish the whole movie."

Beichuan Ryo did not hide anything and put forward his request quite forcefully.

"Hey, I'm the director, okay?"

Gotanda Yasushi laughed and teased, but he did not refuse immediately. Instead, he patted Kitagawa Ryo on the shoulder:

"But let me take a look first."

"Ah."

Kitagawa Ryo nodded, and he turned to find Omi, who was playing the role of the mother, to explain the matter.

Yasushi Gotanda looked at Kitagawa Ryo's back with interest, then smiled and shook his head.

Of course he believed in Beichuan Ryo.

Because he had seen Kitagawa Ryo's solo acting in the last scene of "He Once Lived" when he was an assistant director.

It was a performance worthy of any big screen.

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"Scene 26, first shot, Action!"

When he saw his mother standing alone on the edge of the cliff with her arms open and her eyes closed, breathing in the fresh air, Beichuan Ryo had even imagined himself stretching his hands forward.

She was completely unguarded; after all, a mother never imagines any malice from her children.

But in fact, his body was still standing there, not moving at all.

"Mom, will you feel happy?"

"Of course. I've wanted to come here for a long, long time."

This morning, my mother specially applied a thick layer of hair oil on her permed hair, and every strand of hair was shining as if it was wearing a brand new hat.

The pungent smell of hair oil, foundation and perfume has always stimulated Beichuan Liang's sense of smell. She does this every time she goes out to play, hoping to make herself look whiter and look more like the actor's mother in the photos.

"You haven't changed, Mom."

Beichuan Liang forced himself to smile with a somewhat pale face. He stretched out his palm, clenched his fist, then unclenched it, and then clenched it into a fist again.

"If you think that I can give you face and give you publicity, then so be it. Even if you think of me as a cash cow, you can shake it as much as you want."

"Just like you said, if you hadn't given birth to me and raised me, no one else would know me now, right? ...Right?"

It was the first time that the mother saw her son like this. She shook her head timidly and remained speechless.

"That's enough... that's enough... that's it, whatever you like."

"You are my mother. You have never been mean to me. That alone is enough."

He lowered his head with a dejected expression, and muttered softly:

"Because you're my mother...I can't help it, right?"

"It's my problem—probably."

The essay titled "Spider" that he wrote as a child came to his mind:

"Sometimes I feel like my mother is like a spider. She is smart, patient, and clever like a spider. She is always working hard and knits beautiful and comfortable sweaters for me and my sister in winter."

"Spider eggs are very fragile. I think spiders grow into such ferocious and scary appearances just to protect their children."

"At the same time, like a spider, my mother will arrange everything for me in an orderly manner."

“It’s like invisible threads are spread all over every corner of my life.”

He remembered that his mother was very happy at that time and thought he was a filial child.

But in fact, it was not the case. When he wrote the essay, he just happened to see an animal knowledge in a magazine:

Baby spiders eat their mothers after they are born.

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