A widower's entertainment

Chapter 264 [Chen Taohua] (Subscription Request)
Winter in the north comes more suddenly than in the south. A cold wave, accompanied by falling snowflakes, arrives without any warning, and in an instant the entire northern land is covered with heavy snow, a vast expanse of white.

Lin Youcheng continued to work on the script as usual, and then went to Lu Xun Academy of Literature for classes every few days.

As the first snow fell, Lin Youcheng had just finished writing the script for the TV series "My Brothers and Sisters" and immediately asked Zheng Xiaolong to take it over.

After reading the movie script brought back by Zheng Xiaolong, the Beijing Television Art Center quickly decided to shoot a TV series of this family film. However, it was obvious that just as Zheng Xiaolong thought, the colleagues at the art center were naturally very moved by Lin Youcheng's script "My Brothers and Sisters", and they were all looking forward to shooting the TV series version.

They had been waiting for Lin Youcheng's TV series script. After Lin Youcheng finished the manuscript, he naturally took it back to the Beijing Television Art Center as soon as possible to start preparing for the filming of the TV series. It should be said that when Lin Youcheng was writing the script, the art center had already started preparations.

It was obvious that the people at the Beijing Art Center didn't know that the spy war drama script they had been longing for had been replaced by a family drama script, and Lin Youcheng also began to actually write stories on the spy war theme.

But those have nothing to do with Lin Youcheng. Lin Youcheng did not pay much attention to the filming of the TV version of "My Brothers and Sisters" by the Beijing Television Art Center.

Now Lin Youcheng has begun preparing to write his next novel, "The Hidden".

Just like the original "The Sound of Wind", some wars are visible, while others are invisible. There is no rain of bullets, no billowing smoke, but the people trapped in it are like walking a tightrope on the edge of a cliff. If they make a mistake, they will be crushed to pieces.

Now, Lin Youcheng's "The Hidden" also tells the story of underground war.

The background of this war was in 1945, when the Anti-Japanese War was drawing to a close. The wrestling between the Kuomintang, the Communist Party and Japan became increasingly fierce, and undercurrents surged under the calm sea. Because the military intelligence agent Li Haifeng defected to the Wang Puppet Regime in Nanjing, Yu Zecheng, a member of the Military Intelligence Department, was ordered to go to Nanjing to assassinate the traitor, but unexpectedly embarked on another path. After being instigated by the Communist Party of China, Yu Zecheng returned to the Military Intelligence Department as an underground party member and became a rivet in the heart of the Kuomintang. In order to assist Yu in his work, the party organization sent the hot-tempered and outspoken Eighth Route Army Cuiping to serve as Yu Zecheng's fake wife. As time went on, the struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party became more intense, and the couple also faced major tests in their lives...

To be honest, the success of the TV series "Insidious" lies mainly in the screenwriter, who has a very good grasp of the rhythm. There is usually a small suspense in the first 10 minutes of each episode, which is resolved near the middle, and then a big suspense is set, which is resolved near the end, and there is another hook at the end. A grenade is used as a foreshadowing, which is buried in the second episode and used again in the last few episodes. The design is very ingenious.

After writing it into a novel, Lin Youcheng naturally had to make some adaptations. Of course, the general content of the story remained unchanged.

The most important thing is that there is no need for Lin Youcheng to change the content. Every character in the entire "The Disguiser" story is alive and full of flesh and blood.

Whether it is a spy war or a romance, the plot is equally exciting.

Separation from loved ones and death are the most terrible things in the world, and Comrade Yu Zecheng experienced both.

One is the unforgettable initial belief, the other is the eternal concern that develops over time.

Although Zuo Lan is Yu Zecheng's lover, it is Cui Ping, the fake couple, who ends up with Yu Zecheng.

To be honest, Cuiping became an honorary couple with Yu Zecheng in order to cooperate with him in his undercover work. She was temporarily sent by the party organization to replace her sister who had an accident. Yu Zecheng didn't know her at all, so he was nervous when he came to pick her up.

But it is this special heroine that makes everyone's eyes light up.

There's no way around it, because the character of Cuiping is so refreshing. A woman who has never left the Loess Plateau, has never seen the world, is noisy, has no culture, no education, is lazy, and is extremely unfashionable suddenly appears in front of everyone, and becomes husband and wife with an intellectual with obsessive-compulsive disorder. The internal conflicts in this story are also quite exciting.

Especially as the story progresses, Cui Ping and Yu Zecheng often have frictions at first, but gradually they develop a tacit understanding and become more mature in their behavior. She secretly helps Yu Zecheng complete tasks several times, and the two of them spark love, become a real couple, and give birth to a daughter for her husband. Unfortunately, on the eve of liberation, Yu Zecheng, who was full of expectations, was forcibly dragged to Taiwan by Stationmaster Wu to continue lurking.

Lin Youcheng stopped writing and looked at the heavy snow falling outside the window.

Unlike the time in Chunfeng Lane, when he could only sit by the fire, write for a while, and then warm himself by the fire for a while, Lin Youcheng's courtyards in the capital are now all equipped with heaters. The house is warm and there is no need to worry about catching a cold.

Lin Youcheng continued to bend over the table, writing the manuscript.

The innovation of "Insidious" lies in the fact that it is a very humane, family ethics-style spy drama, but at its core it is extremely idealistic and is a story about faith.

Compared with "The Sound of Wind", the story uses suspense and brain-burning as the framework, and is filled with family and country feelings, and indifference to life and death. It is logically rigorous and emotionally rich, but there is no love in the story. Of course, Gu Xiaomeng's emotions transcend love itself, because that is true love.

In "The Hidden Cam", there is more love.

"Cui Ping, can we discuss something?"

"what?"

"Can you give birth to a girl with a smaller mouth?"

"I also want to give birth to a boy with bigger eyes!"

Lin Youcheng still remembers this conversation. There is no doubt that this is the love between Yu Zecheng and Cui Ping, so lovely and so real.

In Lin Youcheng's opinion, "Spy War" is an excellent spy war film, but love also accounts for a large proportion of it. From Yu Zecheng's understanding of the Communist Party of China, joining the Communist Party of China to his unswerving belief in the communist ideal, every important link in this process is related to women and love.

The first two were mainly because of Zuo Lan. When Yu Zecheng worked for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Chongqing, although he wholeheartedly resisted the Japanese and sympathized with the Communist Party, he was still loyal to the party and the country. The dispute between him and Zuo Lan in the Shaanxi Guild Hall was a clear proof, so Zuo Lan herself once thought that she had failed to persuade Yu Zecheng to defect. Later, Yu Zecheng joined the party and the country because he basically treated him as a discarded pawn and ignored his life. He was rescued after being shot, but in fact he had no other way to go. But in this desperate situation, the reason why he was not completely unwilling to embark on the path he had to take was only because he had feelings for Zuo Lan and hoped to live with her, so he was also defined internally as "a person who participated in the revolution just for a woman."

For Yu Zecheng, meeting Zuo Lan was undoubtedly the biggest turning point in his life and the real opening of his life. His love with Zuo Lan was romantic and idealistic, which was consistent with the faith reflected in Zuo Lan. When Zuo Lan visited Tianjin, his boss emphasized a sentence to her: "Revolutionary love is the most romantic." But it was undoubtedly Cuiping who laid the foundation for Yu Zecheng's final belief. In the day-long fights, in the crisis of danger, and in the spiritual harmony of sharing joys and sorrows and beliefs, Yu Zecheng and Cuiping forged a love of mutual support and perseverance. It was during this period that Yu Zecheng truly believed in communism, so his introducer to the party was Cuiping, which was not only formal, but also spiritual.

Otherwise, Yu Zecheng would not have said, "Zuo Lan gave him a belief, but the power of this belief was indeed given to him by Cui Ping."

It's like Cui Ping once asked Yu Zecheng: "Are you going to see the sign (intelligence signal), or do you really want to take a walk with me?"

Yu Zecheng’s answer was wonderful and sincere: “Both.”

This is a belief within the limits of pure emotion. Loving your wife is also loving your motherland.

Loving your wife means sticking to your beliefs.

When Yu Zecheng was informed by the organization that Cuiping had indeed died, he burned the paper with the telegram, remained silent, retched, and his hands and feet became uncontrollable, and he fell to the ground and could not get up.

Then, as usual, he made the bed on the floor and laid out their shoes. Facing the empty bed and the room, just like when he faced Zuo Lan's body, the time he could indulge in grief was so short, so short.

The sadness of losing a loved one is so great, and the pressure of being almost in a desperate situation is so enormous, but compared with faith and ideals, he still chose the latter. At this time, Yu Zecheng is carrying the ideals and beliefs of Zuo Lan, Cui Ping, and many other people who are lurking like them. This is the motivation and pursuit that can make them give up some.

However, the sadness is still so real. Time and time again, the loved ones have turned into portraits that can only be touched but not hugged. It is a torture that no one can forget.

While writing the manuscript, Lin Youcheng couldn't help but stop writing, looking out the window, thinking about Yu Zecheng in the story. These tortures were the price of his ideals for Yu Zecheng, and he had to endure them all until his death.

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The snowflakes fell heavier and heavier, covering the entire courtyard with a vast expanse of white, filled with sorrow.

Lin Youcheng stood up and poured himself a cup of hot tea. He walked to the window, looked at the heavy snow outside, and couldn't help but open the window to let the cold wind in. Lin Youcheng calmed down a lot in an instant.

This story is indeed as deep as the sea, just like Qiu Zhuang in "The Sound of the Wind", shrouding Lin Youcheng's heart.

What kind of power is faith? When one is in an identity and situation where nothing can restrain him except faith, what kind of psychological struggle and will struggle does one face? When one does not know what the future holds, or knows that the future is sacrifice and failure, is faith equivalent to stubborn belief and dogmatism, or can it be called persistence?

Lin Youcheng thought about the faith in the story and the ending of Yu Zecheng's story, and his heart felt heavy.

This kind of heaviness came because Lin Youcheng also went to learn more about the information and history, which made the feeling even heavier.

Who would have thought that in the end, fate arranged for Yu Zecheng to be with Wanqiu, the woman with whom he had the deepest marriage and whom he kept meeting on the road of life. The story ends with his gloomy expression when looking at his wedding photo with Wanqiu, marking the fate of his emotions and destiny in life. This ending with such an expression also shows that this emotional line is the real clue of "The Hidden".

As for the ending of "The Disguiser", Lin Youcheng feels that the original ending is very good. Because a lot of information has not been declassified, judging from the public information, some people have very good endings, while some people have a miserable ending. This is the ending of these revolutionary predecessors. If we just casually come up with a happy ending, it would be distorted and might be unfair to those predecessors who sacrificed.

Even though the ending was cruel to Comrade Yu Zecheng and Comrade Cui Ping, and even though it was more tragic than death, in a sense, this ending was the best consolation for them.

You have to know that "The Disguiser" is a story with a spy as the protagonist. Lin Youcheng knows very well that behind the spy war, it actually tells the story of love and faith. It is a historical microcosm from birth to death and rebirth, and it is a brief history of love and faith.

At the end of the story, they were so close and yet so far away at the airport. Some people also don't understand why Yu Zecheng didn't let Cuiping see him, but in fact Yu Zecheng wanted Cuiping to get the film left in the chicken coop, because there was no one to entrust it to at this moment.

Yu Zecheng once said that we can only be together if we are alive.

But they didn't expect that the narrow strait would separate them forever.

Lin Youcheng thought that maybe one day in the future, Yu Zecheng and Cuiping's daughter would ask her mother, "Where is Dad?" "What is Dad like?" Cuiping would definitely say to her daughter with a big grin, "Although your dad has small eyes, he is a hero, he is smart, brave, and he imitates a hen very well!"

But why doesn’t Dad come back?

That's not about faith, it's about fate.

In that turbulent era, the power of faith can be strong or weak. In the face of the unpredictable fate, its effect is minimal. Love in such a special era also seems insignificant. Cuiping has to face the long life to wait alone in the future. The love and hatred in her life will never be able to float across the vast mountains and rivers. Yu Zecheng has to face the day-to-day and year-to-year suffering.

What else can Yu Zecheng do?

There was nowhere to go, and continuing to hide was the only common connection between him and Cuiping. Although they could never meet, he knew that Cuiping was with him in a corner of the battlefield.

At the end, Yu Zecheng looked at the wedding photo on the wall, and must have remembered that there was such a girl in his life, who knew nothing and could do nothing, and married him in a daze. But he left her only a daughter who he didn't have time to name and a forged marriage certificate.

The one he married was just Cuiping in his memory.

He didn't even know her real name was Chen Taohua.

(End of this chapter)