cool autumn

Since the bidding meeting for the military port, Xunyang City has been turned into a puddle of muddy waters. Some people want to fish in troubled waters, while others want to take advantage of the situation.

Previously, the Huang family took a short cut and forcibly snatched the share that was originally due to the Yuan family, forcing it to allocate some of it for balance. However, at the level of project approval, the Yuan family's network is far more sophisticated than the Huang family's. Yes, Mr. Yang is very powerful behind the scenes, but the people behind the Huang family have not dared to show up so far. Given the information that Zhou Ran has learned, it can be concluded that this person must be a member of the political circle. Family, but there is a dilemma in the dark, literati are good at taking advantage of the situation, soldiers are good at fighting the world with their fists and strength, each pair has advantages, but they are not willing to be inferior to others.

Of course, no matter how much you talk about, no matter how fierce the competition is in secret, everyone on the surface appears to be quite calm, and when they meet each other, they still smile and chat happily, creating a harmonious surface atmosphere together.

The Huang family is now entangled by the Yuan family, and the Lin family already has Lin Kuofeng and Lin Jingxian sitting in charge, there are not many places that really need his help, and after school starts, Xingyue Entertainment on Lin Wangbei's side has also been opened in full swing Apparently, those actors and contestants who the judges felt had potential and increased popularity had all been included in Xingyue.

Zhou Ran's daily itinerary has been going back and forth between the school and Xingyue. Huo Wendong returned to Luding City two days ago, and I heard that Huo Dashao started to dance again. I don't know which unlucky daughter I found this time, yelling Whether it's an engagement or something, the posture should be true, so Huo Wendong ran back with his luggage after staying in Xunyang for a few days.

On this day, the weather was just right, and it was rare for Zhou Ran to hide at home to rest, so Mu Wei brought Li Mingliang and Chen Haiqing home. Obviously, the start of school time is not short, and they are still in the same class, but Zhou Ran left. In class, he either used his mobile phone to make calls, or went straight to Lin Wangbei's place with his schoolbag, and didn't even have time to listen to them. No, there was a long-standing grudge in his heart, and he couldn't wait to come to his door when the day was over.

"Hey, where is the little monster running away... Qiang Qiang Qiang," as soon as the door was opened, Li Mingliang rushed in with a laugh, posing in a posture to restrain the monster, and threw himself at Zhou Ran with stern eyes. .

Zhou Ran rolled his eyes while watching, and reached out to stop his movement, "Singing opera, go to the next door, Grandma Xu likes to watch and sing Peking opera recently."

Sister Mu Wei dragged Chen Haiqing into the room with a grand appearance, stood there with her hips akimbo, "Everyone is free today," raised her eyebrows, "Let's go, go out to get together, feel your little heart and think about it carefully , How long has it been since you had a good word with us, if you don't make a good deal of it today, then you will really have nothing to say in the future."

"Okay, let's go, we have already agreed with Aunt Ning," Li Mingliang smiled and pulled Zhou Ran who was still lying on the bed, and threw away the heavy tome in his hand with one hand. Pulling off the blanket covering his lap, seeing Boss Zhou Ran's displeasure, he quickly motioned to the two people next to him.

Being watched and pulled away by Zhou Huaning, as soon as he walked out of the gate, a gust of wind blew in his face, and before taking two steps, Zhou Ran wanted to go back and hug the quilt again, obviously it was almost summer, but the weather was still so cold.

However, after thinking about it, let it go. If I really go back, the three around me will definitely be unhappy.

Looking to the left, Li Mingliang was turning his head and chatting with Chen Haiqing. Mu Wei met his eyes, the corners of her mouth curled down, and she walked to his right with a turn of her footsteps.

Her eyes were very light, and she looked a little emotional and melancholy, "You've been really busy recently," but her tone became even lower after a pause, "I guess I'm going to leave here for a while, and I want to get together like this in the future It's hard to mess around."

Zhou Ran silently, Mu Wei will take over the power in Mu Nan's hands in the future, and now it is imperative to be sent out to practice. , said softly, "You haven't told them yet?"

Mu Wei shook her head, pursed her lips and said nothing for a long time, then she seemed to recover after a while, raised her smiling face again and looked at Zhou Ran, "I will be your backer when I come back, who dares to bully you?" , I’ll be the first to run to support you, haha.”

They said they were going to play, but in the end they went to the mall to buy a lot of snacks and sat and chatted in rows in the square. Zhou Ran casually listened to their whimsical topics, touched the phone in his pocket and began to miss the man's silence Wu Yan, everyone is busy these days, he was thinking about whether he should call Huo Wendong to say hello, when the phone screen lit up.

The person on the other end of the phone was Geng Xu, Zhou Ran heard him talking to him in a low voice, he was probably still churning about something, and the radio wave was mixed with the sound of Shashasha’s pages scraping, “The thing you asked me to check has some clues. Yes, although I'm not sure if Hu Jinbiao once hid those secret materials in his hometown or somewhere, but recently, during a secret investigation, I accidentally encountered another force secretly investigating Hu Jinbiao's matter, it seems The forces behind it are extremely tyrannical, Gu Yang and I didn't dare to contact them head-on, and we don't know much now."

Zhou Ran frowned, pondered for a while, and then replied in a deep voice to the other end of the phone: "Be careful yourself, don't expose the target, we are not in a hurry about Hu Jinbiao, just follow behind and wait, when the time comes, the big fish will always Proud."

Geng Xu answered and hung up the phone.

For dinner, everyone proposed Zhou Ran to treat guests. It was a western restaurant, and there were still a lot of seats left for the evening stalls. The four of them chose a seat in the back, and a large potted plant was placed on the left side, which was so vague that people could not see them clearly. Zhou Ran used to choose a seat facing outwards, and Mu Wei sat next to him.

Li Mingliang excitedly ordered prawns and spaghetti. After Chen Haiqing and Mu Wei had chosen, seeing Zhou Ran still looking thoughtful, he patted him on the shoulder with a smile, winked and said: "You Which girl are you missing? Come, tell me."

Before Zhou Ran could reply, Mu Wei raised her brows and pursed her lips, obviously gloating and said, "Look, then it's here."

Everyone looked over at a glance, and the person walking in was the Huang Siyue that I often met before, but she walked a few steps but did not continue to walk in, but walked to a woman with curved eyebrows, playfully tooting Lips, seeming to be coquettish and flattering to say something.

"That girl looks so familiar." Chen Haiqing touched his chin and tilted his head for a while, then suddenly remembered, "I remember, she seems to be a student who just transferred this semester, just across the corridor from us." , I saw her talking to Mu Wei a few days ago."

Mu Wei was not at all embarrassed by the hot eyes of everyone, opened her hands, let out a sigh of relief, squinted her eyes and smiled, "The girl probably sees me sitting with A Ran, always looking for a way She asked me about Aran, heck, it's not bad, she also invited me to eat a few cakes..."

After a pause, she was stimulated by Zhou Ran's contemptuous eyes, and Mu Wei hurriedly sat up straight to defend herself, "I swear to God, I just answered her a question." Making a shy look, she said: "She asked me if Ah Ran had a girlfriend, and I told her no, that's all..."

Zhou Ran rolled his eyes greatly. He didn't have a girlfriend, but a man had one.

After eating, Zhou Ran pretended to answer the phone and slipped away while Chen Haiqing took Mu Wei to go shopping and buy clothes.

In the morning, Lin Wangbei sent him the information of the actors who planned to sign this time, and asked Zhou Ran to go and see the scene at night, so that he could have a look at it anyway.

Most of Zhou Ran had studied the information of those actors in detail. Among them, there were indeed a few with good qualifications and great potential in the future, but there were two actors who were listed side by side in front of him, and he kept frowning after seeing them.

The entertainment industry is a big dye vat, and these large and small entertainment companies have become small dye vats that have been differentiated. This is actually a relatively individual and independent group. It's just that there are more such existences, and they become one.

If you want to get ahead in the entertainment circle, apart from strength and luck, you have to rely more on selling and climbing.Today's unspoken rules are already a relatively common phenomenon. If you want to climb higher, you need to climb more beds. When you really reach the top one day, when you suddenly look back, you probably can't count. How many beds have I crawled back and forth from.

But Zhou Ran himself has his own principles and limits, and he doesn't care what others do, but since Xingyue is held in his hands, he has to look like a human being, at least get out. It's no shame.

Lin Wangbei's office is on the top floor of the building, on the sixth floor.

Usually, some empty houses were filled with so many people at once, and the people coming and going were bustling with people watching. Zhou Ran walked in the quiet corridor, and walked into Lin Wangbei's office calmly facing the anxious eyes of those people.

Probably Zhou Ran's behavior was too natural and casual. By the time they realized it, Zhou Ran had already turned the doorknob and went straight in.

As soon as he entered the door, Zhou Ran couldn't help raising his eyebrows, curling his lips and squinting his eyes, "It seems that I came here by accident."

Lin Wangbei pushed away the boy who was about to climb onto him with embarrassment, looked at Zhou Ran a little awkwardly, looked at the indifferent boy next to him with a straight face, and reprimanded him in a deep voice, "Go out first, and accumulate time if you have time." Use your own experience, exercise and consolidate your own strength, and don’t try to take other heresy ways with me.”

The boy squinted at Zhou Ran, bared his face unconvinced, and approached him with disdain, "Looking at you like this, you know that if you don't play around, don't be complacent, I will become a big star sooner or later, when the time comes Maybe you still look up to me and lick my shoe upper."

Zhou Ran looked at him with a half-smile, and didn't answer, but raised his eyebrows at Lin Wangbei, "Is this the kind of virtue you chose?" After a pause, he stretched out a finger to forcefully push the boy's head away. , chuckled, "You go, I will ask the company to pay you the breach of contract fee."

The boy stared wide-eyed, seeing that Zhou Ran casually blew on the finger, as if he touched something dirty, it was so annoying that he jumped up and was about to get angry, Zhou Ran pulled the door open When it opened, the eyes of those people outside immediately focused on it. The boy's face turned red and then blue, blue and then black. He repeated several times before suppressing his emotions a little. He went away with a sound.

Throwing aside the materials in Lin Wangbei's hands, Zhou Ran randomly found a chair and sat down, clasped his hands, "Where's Sister Rita?"

Lin Wangbei rubbed his nose, and said, "Just now I got a call and went out, saying that I saw a new actor with good potential, and I can consider poaching him."

Those files that had been flipped through many times before were opened again, Zhou Ran frowned and looked at the actor profiles on the files that were only superficial and useless, the more he looked back, the more stinky his face In the end, he pointed to a few pages of actor information, "Except for the few I circled, the rest of them are not rolled over and have not signed contracts. They will all be cleared out. We Xingyue don't need such rat shit."

Lin Wangbei was a little embarrassed, "Although these are not considered high-end, but they have been cleared out as you said, I am afraid it will have a bad impact on our company." After hesitating for a while, he said: "Let's ask Sister Rita for advice. opinion?"

Zhou Ran frowned, didn't speak, just circled around the chair, his face was inexplicable, so gloomy that people couldn't see his thoughts clearly, after a while, he stood up and opened the door and walked out. When I left, I only confessed, "I will come over tomorrow, you let sister Rita prepare in advance."

Prepare, what to prepare?Lin Wangbei looked at his cousin slowly walking away, wondering whether to laugh or cry, thinking about what he said just now with a headache on his face, whether he did not change his original intention or planned to clear them up, or let Sister Rita make other preparations.Tsk, give him as many problems as possible.

Huo Wendong happened to call him when he was walking through the gate.

The night in Luding City is much warmer than that in Xunyang City. Huo Wendong is currently in a certain villa area, looking at all kinds of people downstairs, leaning in a corner to call Zhou Ran, when he heard the phone call The child let out a lazy 'Hello', and the corners of his mouth turned up unconsciously. The first sound Zhou Ran made when he answered the phone liked the unconscious protracted sound, and the ending sound was slightly upturned, which made people feel extraordinarily energetic. .

"Mu Wei said you went shopping today, did you buy anything?" Huo Wendong lowered his voice and spoke into the microphone, with an unconcealable smile in his eyes.

Zhou Ran looked at the endlessly flowing road, turned to the side, pursed his lips and did not answer his question, but directly raised other questions, saying: "I'm at my brother's side now, when will you come back, Huo Da?" How did the little engagement ceremony go?"

Huo Wendong looked at the suit and leather shoes downstairs, holding the bride with a smile all over his face. The young master Huo, who was full of ambition and breezy, raised a sarcastic arc, and his voice became more gentle, "Very good, I'm watching." Rubbing his fingers After a few times, he said again: "I'll be back in a few days. You have to eat obediently. Aunt Ning said that you have become more and more picky eaters recently, so you will not grow tall..." Before she finished speaking, there was Hanging up, looking at the quiet phone, I shook my head dumbfounded.

It is clear to Huo Wendong that Young Master Huo's sudden self-cultivation and his prodigal son's intentions are that his defeat is already doomed, and it's not because he resorted to some tricks and easily found a family with some background to marry him.

Huo Shuheng talked to him last night, and asked him to get ready to take over the Huo family as soon as possible. He seemed to know something from his appearance, even though he kept his emotions hidden in front of First Young Master Huo. It's true, but in front of Huo Wendong, the disappointment and heartache towards Young Master Huo can't be covered up no matter what,

Huo Wendong didn't care if Huo Dashao did something that made Huo Shuheng feel sad, just the attitude expressed by Huo Shuheng was enough to make him happy physically and mentally, and he dared to let go of his hands and feet to do what he wanted to do.

Seeing that the ceremony downstairs was almost done, Huo Wendong walked down the stairs slowly, standing behind Huo Shuheng, He Yunting next to him smiled and winked at him, made a few secret gestures with his hands, each of them knew each other look away.

The smiles of both of them had a lot of meaning. On the day Huo Shuheng talked to him, He Yunting asked Huo Wendong to talk with him in a quiet place all afternoon. No one knew what they were talking about and what agreement they had reached. , but looking at the appearance of the two in harmony, it is not difficult to guess that they had a very happy conversation this time, and they gained a lot.

From the beginning to the end, Huo Wendong stood in a corner of the hall quietly looking at First Young Master Huo and Ruhua Meijuan next to him, rubbing his fingers, thinking of the person he specially showed him before, his eyes became darker.

After a while, Assistant Xiao Wang walked up to Huo Wendong with his mobile phone, looked around, gave some advice in a low voice, and then quietly retreated

Huo Wendong stared at the mobile phone expressionlessly, until the banquet was over, he picked up the mobile phone and dialed the number.

"Hello, it's me, mother..."