The plot fragment of "Clouds in Beijing" got high marks.
【 In Beijing, Ma Daren Hutong, Dongsi archway, in front of Yao's compound. There is a buttonwood tree at the door, and there is a tea urn under it. A mule car stopped in front of the door. ]
(Fu Yao's housekeeper comes out of the dark door and walks among the drivers. )
Good morning, housekeeper!
Good morning everyone. Have you eaten?
The housekeeper has already eaten. What, wait here?
Driver A: Yes! Look at this war-torn, who doesn't know that home is safe? But we have to eat, right?
No, coachman b, foreigners' guns don't have eyes. Who meets who is unlucky. You said that foreigners had a good life. Why did you come to the Great Qing Dynasty to make a scene?
Driver c, alas, once this foreigner enters Beijing, we will have no peace!
Driver a doesn't say so. Hello, Mr. Luo, what's the teapot at your master's door for?
The housekeeper (laughs) quenches his thirst. (Glancing at the tea urn) Yo, the water has bottomed out. You wait, I'll continue for you.
Driver A: No need, Master Luo. We are not thirsty. We ask for nothing. Your boss is really a good man!
The housekeeper is not. There is no one better than our boss in the world. (pointing to the note posted at the door)
Everybody (squinting up) We don't know this word. Would you please read it?
The housekeeper presented a specific medicine for cholera, dysentery and dysentery.
Driver a, that's not bad. Why don't you bring us some and rest assured on the way?
Butler (laughs) Do you still need to worry about going with our boss? He's carrying it, isn't he just like you?
Tell us about your master.
Butler (shaking his head) has nothing to say. I know he is engaged in medicine.
Everyone. (Spread out)
(The door opens, and Yao Sian comes out and stands on the steps looking at the sky. )
Yao Sian is very big.
Butler: Yes, sir.
Yao Sian, after we leave, the water in this tea jar is not allowed to be broken, just like when I was here, remember?
Butler.
Everyone (in unison) is really a good person!
Yao Si 'an returns to the door, thanks Coral for coming out and walks to the drivers. )
Xie Shanhu (touching the mule's hair) Is this mule full? Be careful, you still have a long way to go.
Don't worry, everyone is full!
(Coral enters the door)
Driver c, your boss is really lucky. That concubine just now was really beautiful!
Butler (laughs) Don't talk nonsense, that's our master's adopted daughter. Your tongue won't rot if you are so loquacious.
(Driver C slaps his mouth with a smile, and everyone laughs. )
[Montage, time goes by. ]
(Coral comes out with Mulan and Mochow)
Driver miss c, please take my car. You see, my mule is better than his.
(Close-up of Mulan's face, close-up of two cars)
Yao Mulan: No, I want that.
Everything in the world is strange. If I take another car, maybe everything will be different from today and my life will be very different.
(Mrs Yao scolds Silverscreen for being too noisy)
Mrs Yao, who told you to dress like this? Get away from me, I'm tired of watching you!
(Silverscreen bows her head and says nothing. Xia Qing smiled and helped his wife get on the bus.
Everyone gets on the bus, and the little maid Frankincense sits at the door, crying. )
Yao Sian (looking at the probe, to his wife) just let her come up. At least I can give you a hookah or something, don't you think?
Mrs Yao nodded and motioned for frankincense to come up. The car drew down the curtains and set off with a whip.
[Narrator] I still remember that the day we left was July 18th of the lunar calendar. It's early autumn, and the summer heat hasn't disappeared. The sound of guns in Eight-Nation Alliance has opened the door of Beijing. Later, I heard from my father that the war began in May of that year. Eight-Nation Alliance captured the coastal battery, and the Boxer Movement demolished the railway leading to Beijing. The situation is already very critical. Just when Empress Dowager Cixi hesitated, Prince Duan forged a joint letter from a western diplomatic mission, demanding that the state administrative power be returned to Emperor Guangxu. The queen mother was furious and ordered a declaration of war against foreigners with the Boxer Rebellion. The Boxer Rebellion committed many evils in Beijing, killing innocent people under the banner of helping the Qing Dynasty to destroy the foreign countries, which made people panic. German envoys were killed, Dongjiaomin Lane was surrounded, and the streets of Cheng Nan were in flames. However, even in this case, my father is still not ready to leave. It was not until July that we heard that the Allies were going to enter the city soon, and our family got on the mule cart and hurried south.
[Flashback]
Yao Mulan, dad, why did you say those antiques were worthless waste yesterday?
Yao Sian (calmly drinking tea) If you treat them as waste, they are naturally waste.
Dad, Yao Mulan, where are those Oracle Bone Inscriptions you received last time? You said you would teach me to read the words written on it.
Yao Sian (touching Mulan's head) Good boy, Dad has hidden them.
Where is Yao Mulan hiding?
Yao Sian (pointing to the back garden) there.
Yao Mulan, what if someone digs them up?
Yao Sian (sighs) Listen, son, everyone has his own taste, and things are the same.
(Mulan nods vaguely)
Yao Sian (turns to the servant girl) Where is Tijen?
Mrs Yao, he is feeding his eagle. I invited him over.
[Narrator] Smoke filled the roads, and broken walls was looted by Eight-Nation Alliance. The scene is very sad.
On the afternoon of the fourth day, we arrived at Renqiu. Everyone is exhausted. They went to bed early after a hasty meal.
(In the middle of the night, in the inn)
Mrs Yao Mulan, Mulan! Ah-
Mrs. Yao is surprised to find that this is a dream. She sat up and stroked Mulan's hair gently. )
Yao Sian (coming in with an oil lamp) What's the matter? Stay up so late.
Mrs Yao, I had a nightmare. I dreamt that Mulan was gone, and I woke up with fright.
Yao Sian's dreams are all reversed. Go to sleep, huh?
(Thunderstorm, flickering oil lamp light and shadow, fading away)
[Narrator] On the morning of July 25th, it was cloudy and everyone was in a bad mood. However, we still have to follow the road, so we will go south, and more than 60 miles down, it is Hejian County. The mule in my car slipped yesterday and limped. Dad asked me to change to another car, but I refused. However, it was this mule that changed everything later.
[Inside the car]
Yao Sian, what did you dream last night?
Mrs Yao dreamed that Mulan was washed away by the flood, and I couldn't find her anywhere. I still don't feel well.
(Noise outside the car)
People (panic) boxing bandits are coming, boxing bandits are coming!
(Gunshots, hooves)
Yao Mulan: Dad, Mom, what happened ahead?
The mule in Mulan's car was startled by the heavy gunfire and ran to the front. The road is crowded with people.
Mrs Yao (looking around) Mulan-Mulan-
[Mulan's car]
Mom Yao Mulan, I'm here! ——
(The mule keeps running and disappears)
When the dust settles, everyone goes back to the car. )
Yao Mochou (panicking) Sister, where is Sister?
Mrs Yao (patting her forehead) Oh, no, she's still in the car! (Running out of the car and shouting as he runs) Mulan-Mulan-
(Yao Sian gets off the bus and grabs his wife. )
Yao Sian, you go back and I'll go after her.
(Yao Sian gets on the horse and flies away. The family looked at each other in disappointment. )
(Time flies, people are worried)
(Mr. Yao flies back)
Did Mrs Yao find it?
Mr. Yao (shaking his head and bowing his head) No.
(Mrs Yao froze, her eyes ached, the camera zoomed out, and the panoramic view of the avenue faded out.)
[Narrator] My parents are very anxious. The situation was so chaotic that no one knew where I had gone. Mom and Dad posted searching for you on both sides of the road. Fortunately, otherwise, I may never see them again.
[Under a big tree in the country, a group of people read the notice]
The villagers offered a reward for finding the missing girl-Dear: Yao Mulan, a ten-year-old girl, red trousers in white, with regular facial features, black hair, pigtails, small feet, small face, fine white skin, three feet tall and a Beijing accent. I accidentally got lost on the road between Xinzhongyi and Hejianfu. If the benevolent gentleman reports his whereabouts, he will be rewarded with fifty taels; Bring back, reward 120, as God is my witness, never break your word. Beijing Madaren Hutong, Hangzhou Sanyanjing Shuanglong Tea Shop, Yao Sian Bai Jing.
(Zeng Wenpu passes by, stops at the notice, ponders for a long time, and turns away)
[Narrator] I fell into the hands of a group of traffickers, who locked me in a dark room with another little girl. After these people arrested the girls, they asked the rich to pay the ransom, and the poor sold them as maids. My brocade was sold to Beijing by traffickers. Later, I learned that the original advertisement for me was posted in a village not far away.
(Woman enters the door)
Congratulations, Mrs Yao. Someone has come to redeem you.
Yao Mulan (happily) Really? who is it?
This woman doesn't know her name. She is Mr. Zeng.
Yao Mulan. oh What about Dimfragrance after I leave?
A woman, her family will come to redeem it.
Yao Mulan, can I go with her?
Woman, then your family will pay twice as much. Come on, go to the living room and I'll comb your hair.
[Narrator] I finally left that hellhole, got on the boat and went to the lower reaches of the Grand Canal. The long river is endless, just like endless years and life.
Miss bitch, here we are.
Thank you, Yao Mulan. God bless you.
(Mrs Tseng greets her)
Mrs. Tseng, good boy, you have suffered.
(Mulan throws herself into her arms and cries)
Master Zeng, Miss Yao's family is here!
Zeng Wenpu (walks over to study Mulan) Are you the young lady of the Yao family?
Yao Mulan is, uncle. Show your respect.
Zeng Wenpu, where do you live in Beijing?
Yao Mulan Dongsi Pailou, Madaren Hutong.
Zeng Wenpuen, what's your father's name?
Yao Mulan's name is Yao Sian.
(Zeng Wenpu pulls out a piece of Oracle bone)
Do you recognize what Zeng Wenpu wrote on it?
Yao Mulan: This is a Oracle Bone Inscriptions with the word "country" written on it.
Zeng Wenpu is right, right! You are Yao Mulan, you can't go wrong. I'm afraid only Yao Si 'an's daughter knows about Oracle Bone Inscriptions. What a clever little girl! I have several brothers here. Do you want to meet them?
(Mulan nods)
Mrs Tseng, Pingya, Chinya and Sunya, come out. Sister Mulan is here!
Zeng Pingya, Zeng Jinya and Zeng Sunya run out of the cabin and look at Mulan. Mulan bowed her head shyly. )
Mrs. Zeng, don't stare at others. Sister Mulan will be shy. Look, this is your brother Pingya, this is your brother Chinya, and this is your brother Sunya.
Hello, brother Yao Mulan. Auntie, why didn't my parents pick me up?
Mrs Tseng (touching Mulan's head) Good boy, they left first. They will hear from you later.
Yao Mulan, where are you going by boat?
Mrs Zeng, let's go to Taian.
Yao Mulan, have you met my parents?
Mrs Tseng didn't. We didn't know you were going to Hangzhou. Come on, have something to eat first. You must be hungry.
(Two people walk into a beautifully decorated hut)
Mrs. Zeng Mulan, go and wash your face first, and I'll ask the maid to find you a dress to change.
Mulan ate slowly, and Mrs Tseng looked at her lovingly.
Does Mrs Tseng taste all right?
Yao Mulan is fine, thank you. When can I meet my parents?
Mrs Tseng didn't see them, so it's hard to say. You come back to your hometown in Taian with us, and they will come to you.
Yao Mulan. oh Then how did you find me?
Zeng Wenpu (walks in) It's a long story. I'll tell you later. Anyway, I found you, didn't I?
Mrs Tseng (lightly chastising), the child is asking you. Please tell her well.
[Flashback]
If Zeng Wenpu doesn't send the child in three days, I will report it to the official. Then don't blame me.
Hey, little leader, listen carefully.
[fade out]
Zeng Wenpu: I gave the man five taels of silver and he asked someone to bring you here.
Yao Mulan: Oh, I see.
(Cassia walks in)
Hello, Mrs. Gui.
Mrs Tseng (nodding) This is Miss Mulan from the Yao family. Mulan, this is your aunt Gui.
Cassia (smiling) Miss Yao is really beautiful. No wonder our grandfather didn't sleep for you for three days and nights. I just saw such a beautiful figure today. Miss, you can call me Cassia in the future.
Hello, Cassia, Yao Mulan.
Mrs. Zeng, I ask you to help me find the materials. Did you find it?
Cassia, I have been to several stores, and the materials are not suitable. This is the best.
Mrs. Tseng, this is not good either. Why don't you let her try on Sunya's clothes? They are almost the same size.
(The girl brings clothes and Mulan puts them on)
Cassia, don't say anything. It would be better to dress up as a boy!
Mrs. Zeng, it's time for us to eat, too. Please tell the housekeeper to take a message to Mr. Yao and tell him that the young lady has been found. Please rest assured.
Gui (nods).
[Exterior view of the ship, pull away, fade out]
Narrator: I spent the Mid-Autumn Festival that year by Dongping Lake. The moon in the water and the moon in the sky complement each other, and the breeze makes me feel very comfortable. But I still miss home, Mochow, Coral and Mom and Dad. Where are they now?
[Close-up of the Moon, Fading Out]
[In front of the ancestral home of the Zeng family, a large group of people gathered around to watch the fun]
Zeng Zhifu has worked hard all the way.
Zeng Wenpu (laughs for a while) Both adults are involved.
[Narrator] Seeing the two stone lions in front of Zeng's house, I seem to have returned to the door of Madaren Hutong. When I was very young, Mochow and I played at the door, always trying to take the stone ball out of the lion's mouth, but we could do nothing. Mom saw it and made us laugh. I was really stupid.
When I think of my childhood, I will never forget my days in Tai 'an. I became friends with three boys in the Zeng family and met another girl, Manni.
The servants of the master and wife, Miss Mannia and Mrs. Sun, have arrived at the door, waiting for you to meet them.
Mrs. Zeng Mulan, this is the sister I have often told you about. Come on, let's go and see them.
(When they arrive at the purlin, Mannia and her mother get up and return the gift, and Mulan and Mrs Tseng return the gift. )
Look, Mrs Tseng, how beautiful Mannia's sister is. Isn't it, Mulan?
Mulan nodded, the two girls looked at each other curiously, and then disappeared.
[Narrator] After that day, Mannia and I lived together. We went to a private school and sewed together. I admire her for her skillful hands.
Great-grandson Yatai, why don't you go to school?
Mother Zeng Sunya, I have a headache.
Cassia married his wife. He is too young to bury himself in reading all day. Can an eleven-year-old child still read all the books in the world? I'm afraid I have become a fool.
Mrs Tseng (smiling): Then go and play with Mulan's sister and don't touch anything, ok?
Zeng Sunya knows, Mom! (running to the backyard)
Mrs Tseng (shaking her head) This child! (Walking into the house)
[Mulan's room]
Yao Mulan, look, you pulled the thread out again, so you have to put it back in.
Great Sunya, I can't wear it.
Yao Mulan (pie mouth) is so stupid. Get out of the way and let me help you.
Sun Manni, I'll do it. (Take over the work)
Zeng Sunya (cheekily) good sister-in-law, just put it on me, and I'll trouble you once.
Sun Manni shameless guy, who is your sister-in-law?
Yao Mulan good sister-in-law, please help him put it on.
Sun Manni (angrily) You also called. Well, one day I really become your sister-in-law, and you will call me that every day.
Cassia (enters) It's hard to say. When you become our daughter-in-law, perhaps Mulan is already a member of our family!
Mulan blushed, Mannia smiled and Sunya smiled at them.
Mulan, show me that tobacco pouch. I want to embroider.
Yao Mulan (throws her purse over) This is the old lady's. Don't break it.
Cassia, this is not a man's job. If you are really busy, you might as well tie some flowers and the two of them will teach you. You guys have fun. I'm going out first.
Aunt Sun Mannigui, take care.
[Narrator] This is the first time Sunya and I have cooperated. We made many beautiful ears and knots. Sunya and I both like plum blossom knots, which are exquisite and generous. It is said that men and women hand in hand is a kind of fate, who knows. But I believe, because Sunya later became my husband.
[Zeng Jia Hua Ting]
Mrs Tseng and Mannia have just finished their meal. Why are you embroidering again? If you always sit like this, it will be the Millennium. Take your brothers and sisters to the garden to see the cranes and pick up the feathers of two cranes. You and Mulan haven't been to the garden for a long time. Let's go for a walk today.
Sun Manni: Yes, madam. Mulan, let's go.
Mrs Tseng and Mulan, go and invite them. But one thing, don't bring crickets into the house, the owner will be angry when he sees it. Sunya, you should be more careful and don't be scolded by your father again.
"Zeng Garden"
Look, Yao Mulan, there are many impatiens there.
Sun Manning, it's beautiful. Hey Mulan, have you ever dyed your nails with impatiens?
Yao Mulan didn't. But it's fun to dye your nails Can you teach me how to dye them?
Sun manning
To tell you the truth, I envy Mannia. She knows everything a woman should know. I really want to be gentle and modest like her, but my parents say that I am like a boy and have no strength to do girls' things.
Mulan with golden teeth, let's go to the tree to find cicada slough!
Yao Mulan (excitedly) Well, I haven't climbed the tree yet.
(Two people come under the tree)
Zeng Ya, I watched from below. You go up and try.
(Mulan climbs the tree)
Yao Mulan Chinya, get up!
Zeng Jinya (shaking his head) You are very flexible. Find it yourself! Mom called me.
Yao Mulan (in fear) is back in Chinya, and I'm afraid!
(Mulan's foot slips)
Yao Mulan! ————
[Mulan bedroom]
Mrs Tseng and Chinya, why are you in such a hurry? What can we tell you about Mulan's kindness?
Zeng Wenpu (walks in) What happened to Mulan? Who did this?
Zeng Jinya (bowed his head) me.
How many times has Zeng Wenpu told you that he never has a long memory. Get in the yard!
[voiceover]
Zeng Wenpu, I told you to harm others, and I told you to harm others! Say, do you dare again in the future?
Once, I dare not. Dad, please give me a break.
Zeng Wenpu failed!
Mrs. Zeng (running into the yard) What are you doing? If you want to kill him, kill me first!
What did the old lady do to get so angry? I said Wenpu, the children should be in charge, but that's not the way to manage them. Chinya is weak on such a hot day. If anything happens to her, won't your parents feel bad? Somebody, take Chinya to my room.
Cassia is guilty, how could this happen! What if you want to leave a disability? Who gave the message to the master (to everyone)?
It was me (timidly).
Cassia (hitting her twice) is the root of your tongue!
Zeng (crying and indignant) I didn't lie. Others were catching crickets.
Cassia also said (sternly)! One more word and your mouth won't tear. If you don't play for me, this place is a mess, too.
Why is Mrs Tseng so fierce? She is still a child.
Yao Mulan, why did you hit Ailien?
(Everyone gathers around)
Mrs. Zeng, Amitabha, you are awake. You just gave us a fright.
Yao Mulan, I won't die. Now I'm hungry.
Mrs Tseng ordered the kitchen to make noodles for Miss Mulan. Stop climbing trees, okay?
I'm sorry that Chinya refused to talk to me after the storm. But after all, it was a child, and it was reconciled after a few days. I couldn't climb the tree and didn't go to the garden again, because it was cold and Mannia was not interested. But on the ninth day of September, we went to Mount Tai. Sunya accompanied me all the way and people always made fun of us.
Mount Tai in Yao Mulan is much higher than the Western Hills. I didn't believe it the other day. I'm sorry
Zeng Sunya didn't dare, but he was covered in small mounds. He still hoped to live up to his guests' visit.
Zeng Pingya, look, the Jade Emperor Hall has arrived.
(Everyone sits down to have a rest)
Look, Mrs. Gui, Mulan and Sunya are speaking Mandarin.
What is the official language of the old lady?
(Cassia whispers)
Old lady. Oh, oh! I said, mistress, you learned to talk socially before you became an official. If you really become an official, I will ask Mulan to be your wife. How's it going?
Sun Manni, oh, great, then I have to pay my respects to Mrs. Guan. Pay tribute to Mrs. Zeng!
(Laughter).
Zeng Wenpu Manny, come here. You can take them out to play, but don't go to the snake cliff, it's dangerous.
Sun Manni.
[Narrator] We had a good time that day. When we came back in the evening, we received a telegram from my parents saying that they would visit us in Taian in the middle of 10. I was so happy that I stayed up all night.
Sun Manni Mulan, what's Beijing like?
Yao Mulan (laughs) How can you make it clear for a while? You'll know when you get there. In the future, you will be carried by a red sedan chair. Aren't you going to marry the Tseng family as a daughter-in-law?
Sister Sun Mannilan, let's be sisters.
Hello, Yao Mulan!
(They hold hands in front of the oil lamp and swear)
When Sun Manni grows up and you marry the Tsengs, we will be together and be sisters-in-law for life, ok?
Yao Mulan is fine, but I won't marry Sunya.
Sun Manni, what about Chinya?
Yao Mulan (shaking his head) I don't want it either.
Sun Manni, how can you be my sister-in-law if you don't marry them?
Yao Mulan: I want to be with you, but I don't want to marry any of the three sons of the Zeng family.
Sun Manni, don't you like Sunya?
Yao Mulan, I don't know. But I like Pingya. He is very gentle and considerate. If you marry him, you will have a good life.
Sun Manni (nodding slightly) Then you can marry Pingya and I will be your second wife.
Yao Mulan (laughs) That won't do. You are older than me. In a word, I don't like boys unless I can be a man myself.
Sun Manni, what are you talking about? Is it bad to be a woman? Whether it's a man or a woman, it's arranged by God, and we can't change it.
How nice men are in Yao Mulan. They can do anything and go anywhere. Women can only sit at home and embroider, marry a husband, wait on him, have a son and wait for their daughter-in-law, just like us. How boring. For example, my brother Tijen, my mother doesn't care what he does, but he can care about us. He always says "you girls", which makes me very angry.
Sun Manni, how is your brother?
Yao Mulan is a pain in the ass, always bullying me and Mochow. My mother used to spoil him because he was the only boy in the family before my brother was born. When he loses his temper, he throws things, hits girls and scolds them. We can't control him
Sun Manni, where's your father? Doesn't he care?
Yao Mulan, my dad doesn't know. My mother is afraid of her father, but she always protects her brother. I am afraid of my mother, but I am not afraid of my father.
Sun Manni, your father won't let you bind your feet, will he?
Yao Mulan (laughs) Yeah. My mom wants to wrap it for me, but my dad won't let me. He said that no modern woman is foot-binding, and he wanted to teach me to be a new girl.
Sun Manni (nodding) This is fate. But I don't understand. What do you mean by new girl? How can we get married if we don't bind our feet?
Sister Yao Mulan Manni, I want to wrap it. Can you help me?
Sun Manni (laughs) Good.
Yao Mulan, then close the door. Let's start now.
[Narrator] Foot-binding tastes really bad. Only lasted for half a day and then gave up. I threw away the foot wrap and thought it was better to be full of feet. I decided not to try foot-binding, but to look like a boy's foot and walk more conveniently. But I will still envy Mannia's feet. They are really small and beautiful. Perhaps this is the gain and loss. Beauty is painful. If you want to relax, you have to put beauty aside.