Chapter 51

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Kang Jie quickly passed him by, and entered the elevator with his team’s assistant agent.

Cheng Lu went to the front desk and got the room card. The crew had already booked the entire hotel. Upon checking into the room, the crew members followed the information provided by Cheng Lu to reserve three rooms, not registering Si Junduo’s name.

Cheng Lu took her extra roomcard and passed it to Si Junduo. She explained, “I’ll just get an extra room.”

However, Si Junduo didn’t take it. “There’s no need to do something so troublesome. I’ll stay with Ming Ming.”

Cheng Lu: …

You could but that isn’t necessary.

“The hotel has vacant rooms,” Cheng Lu helpfully offered. “You 1 Respectfully don’t have to be squeezed in a room with Ming Ming.”

“It’s okay, leave it be.” Wen Mingyi understood Si Junduo very well. Even if Cheng Lu gave him a single room, they would still end up in the same room together tonight, so there really was no need for it. ”We just so happen to have some stuff to discuss. There’s no need to be too bothered.”

Cheng Lu saw this and could only agree. In her heart, this felt strange. This was just too intimate. Every time they went out, they would stay in the same room. There was always this sense of peculiarity.

When they arrived in front of the elevator and waited for it to come down, Cheng Lu informed Wen Mingyi some of Kang Jie and Yu Xuanwen’s taboos, reminding him not to say the wrong things.

Wen Mingyi nodded his head. “Relax.”

After lunch, Yu Xuanwen gathered everyone in the hotel’s conference room to have a meeting and to inform them that they would enter the village tomorrow.

“The signal over there isn’t good. Sometimes the phone has no signal. So if you have anything you need to settle before you leave, remember to settle it. You can buy something to eat and drink. After all, the mountain village is relatively poor. There’s only so much you can eat, and you all may not be used to that…”

Yu Xuanwen talked a lot, and finally ended off with, “By the way, Kang Jie, you can get to know Xiao 2 Also nickname for Little Wen, used to indicate closeness Wen. In this commercial, you’re playing his teacher.”

Kang Jie raised his head when he heard these words, and gave Wen Mingyi a glance. Wen Mingyi smiled at him. Kang Jie smiled back at him.

“Here’s the script, when you both return home, take a look. Within the week, we’ll finish filming and depart from the mountain.”

Wen Mingyi took the script. It really was a very simple public service commercial.

The parents of this rural left-behind child, Wang Cheng, headed away to work while he and his grandmother depended on each other to survive since he was young. He studied in the village’s school. One by one, his teachers left the impoverished mountainous area and went to the city. Wang Cheng could only head home and stay with his grandmother.

Until one day, the village head said that a new teacher had come, and gathered the children from the village into the classroom. However, Wang Cheng did not go. He felt that the teacher would leave after a while. Whatever he learned, he would forget. What was the need to study then?

But the teacher found him and told him, “Learning is like planting. No matter how vast the soil is, however little the vegetable seeds are, it’s still better to plant a little than none at all.”

Under the persuasion of his grandmother and teacher, Wang Cheng went to school again.

One year passed, then two years passed, and then many more years passed. The room that was once filled was having fewer and fewer people. Wang Cheng became the only one in the village who insisted on studying. With the help of his teacher, he went to the county to attend high school. Every winter and summer vacation, he could find his teacher in the small room with new students, and he saw fewer and fewer people inside.

The grown-up Wang Cheng asked him, “Aren’t you going back? Are you planning to stay here forever?”

The teacher said, “I will leave when there’s someone who can take over for me.”

However, the person who came to replace him hurriedly left after a few months. The environment in the mountain village was so bad that not everyone was willing to stay there.

Wang Cheng looked at his teacher, a thought sparking in his heart.

At the end of the college entrance examination in June, Wang Cheng received the admission letter from the teacher’s academy. Wang Cheng’s parents returned to the mountain village and happily celebrated with him. The teacher gave him a pen and hoped that his studies would go well.

That night, Wang Cheng told the teacher that when he graduated, he would take over his job. When that time comes, he could leave.

But the teacher said, “You’re still young, you can still have a better future. You don’t need to replace me.”

However, Wang Cheng had decided. In the summer of four years later, he returned to his hometown and stood outside the door, seeing the man who dedicated ten-odd years to this mountain village

He walked to the podium and took the book from the teacher’s hands. He said, “From now on, leave this to me.”

The teacher left.

He finally left.

He gave his own learning tools to his once favorite student, unburdened himself and left the village. Many people came to see him off. Even the lady who had a crush on him also silently gave him one last look.

He waved back at them and left this barren village.

Wang Cheng gazed at his back, and gave a silent smile.

The closing remarks of the commercial wrote out: “We will always respect every person who is willing to dedicate himself to something. To educate, is to thank the dedication and to continue the inheritance.”

Upon reading this script, Wen Mingyi sighed sorrowfully. He covered his heart and questioned himself. He definitely could not be able to dedicate ten years of his life to something like this, and those who could were even more commendable and worthy of praise.

To have everyone be the best of themselves was already a difficult task, let alone helping others.

Undoubtedly, in this script, he played Wang Cheng and Kang Jie played the core of this commercial — his teacher who dedicated his ten-odd years.

As for the rest, because they were not in many scenes, Director Yu intended to use either the villagers or the staff of his team.

Once the meeting ended, everyone returned to their own rooms.

Wen Mingyi was unable to finish discussing with Si Junduo about entering the village tomorrow, as he’d turned into a pale yellow cat, so he had to type the rest of the content to update him.

Upon seeing that the mountain village’s signal was poor and there might be no signal, Si Junduo frowned slightly, insisting on entering the village with him.

Wen Mingyi couldn’t say no so he agreed.

The village’s mountain was very low and sparsely populated. Many young people had chosen to go out of the village to work. Only the elderly and children stayed in the village.

The director had already come to this place a few times before. Now that the filming was officially starting, the assistant and the village head only needed to confirm once more as to what they had said before. At the start, the village head had excitedly agreed the moment he saw them. Likewise, he was so happy, informing that the villagers would cooperate, and the crew need not worry.

Wen Mingyi looked at the sky above his head. So blue, he thought. This was the bluest sky he’d ever seen.

On the first day of entering the village, everyone wasn’t in a hurry to shoot. Instead, they busied themselves with the staff and actors’ residency. Since there was no hotel here, they could only stay in a fellow villager’s house. Seeing that they were very important people from the city, he chose one the best households to arrange their sleeping quarters in.

When it was time for Wen Mingyi’s arrangement, Yu Xuanwen saw Si Junduo standing next to him. He was a little confused. He asked his assistant, “Who’s that? They don’t look like Xiao Wen’s assistant.”

“He said he was Xiao Wen’s brother,” the assistant said. “Xiao Wen’s agent said that his brother happened to be passing by here to do work, so he followed him here too.”

Yu Xuanwen nodded. “That’s true. Xiao Wen is still a student. Then will his brother stay until the filming ends?”

“I don’t know,” the assistant answered. “I’ll ask Cheng Lu later.”

“Forget it.” Yu Xuanwen didn’t care about these things. “It’s nothing big. See to whatever he wants.”

The house where Wen Mingyi and Si Junduo stayed was the village chief’s niece’s home. As the days approached the New Year, this house only had the village chief’s niece and her newly turned five-year-old child.

“His father went to work.” The woman was busy greeting him enthusiastically and said, “You two should sleep in this room. This is his father’s and my room. Since his father is not here, and I sleep with my child, it’s just nice and empty for you.”

She said as she patted the quilt and smiled. “Two days ago, my uncle said that you all were coming, so I specially basked the quilt out. Now, the quilt is soft and fluffy.”

Wen Mingyi politely thanked her. With a single look, it was obvious it was a new quilt. He felt that the people in this village were very friendly.

“Are you both hungry?” After the woman gave a tour of the house, she took out some melon seeds and peanuts to welcome them. “Do you want to eat rice? I’ll make it for you two.”

“No need,” Wen Mingyi said. “We came here after eating.”

“Then when you are hungry, just tell me.” She looked at Wen Mingyi, her eyes full of fondness. He was indeed a celebrity. This child looked so handsome; what did he eat to grow like this?

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Wen Mingyi asked how to address her. The woman recalled and smiled, “You can just call me Zhang- jie . Dabao 3 I e, a nickname for Big baby / Big treasure. , come here.”

She beckoned, and the child who was hiding outside the door ran over with heavy thuds.

The child was so chubby, seemingly spaced out but looking utterly lovable, his eyes filled with curiosity. Wen Mingyi thought he was rather cute. He stretched out his hand and took out a few candies from his pocket and handed it over.

Dabao looked at his mother, then reached for it and took it. “Thank you gege ,” he said.

“You’re welcome.”

Zhang- jie smiled. “This is my son. If you want to stroll around the village these days, you can let Dabao take you there.”

Wen Mingyi nodded. “Okay, thank you.”

Si Junduo looked at the people in front of him, then looked at the shabby furnishings in the room, silently sighing in his heart.

He touched Dabao’s head, thinking about leaving some money for the child when he left.

The directing team started their work, looking for local extras, and prepared their filming equipment.

Wen Mingyi didn’t participate in this, so he strolled around the village with Si Junduo.

During winter, the river in the village always freezed over. He wanted to go skating, but was stopped by Si Junduo.

“Be careful, otherwise you might fall,” Si Junduo warned.

Wen Mingyi had to give up. “Then you’ll accompany me to ice skate when we go back.”

“Alright,” Si Junduo agreed.

Wen Mingyi took the opportunity to add a request. “And skiing too. I haven’t skied in a long time.”

“Okay.” Si Junduo had no objection. Indeed, he had not skied with Wen Mingyi in a long time.

He turned his head to look at Wen Mingyi, and said softly, “Will bring you out to play another day. It seems that I haven’t been out to play with you for a long time.”

This was a fact. Wen Mingyi thought about the three years they had missed. He was saddened and couldn’t help scolding Jiang Zimo in his heart again. He was to blame, that spicy chicken!

“En,” he replied. “When we are both free.”

“En.”

Though it was still early, the village had turned dark. Wen Mingyi saw the stars above him as soon as he raised his head. He patted Si Junduo’s arm in surprise. “Look, so many stars.”

It was also the first time Si Junduo had seen so many stars. When he used to go out with friends in the mountains, he did see a night sky dotted with stars, but to see so many stars, this was a first.

So beautiful, so dazzling.

He glanced at Wen Mingyi, who was next to him gazing up at the stars, and smiled warmly.

The author has something to say:

Gong and Shou are not related by blood. Neighbor gege, neighbor didi. Occasionally calling Ge out of politeness~

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Also nickname for Little Wen, used to indicate closeness 3

I e, a nickname for Big baby / Big treasure.