The Eye of the Storm

Cao Ye stayed at the company until very late that night.

The end of the month is a busy time, and he plans to work overtime to finish all the work for the remaining days. It just so happens that there is no film to be released on the National Day file in Luomeng this year, so he can go to Shanghai to stay for a while.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, when Cao Ye left the company to go to the underground parking lot, Liang Sizhe sent a video invitation.

Cao Ye picked it up as he walked, "Is there a show next night?"

Liang Sizhe seemed to have walked to the parking lot of the crew, the light was dim, and there were noises on the lens, so it didn't look very clear.

The camera only stayed on Liang Sizhe's face for a few seconds, then shook for a while, as if turned around and then lowered, and then Xiaomeng's face appeared on the screen.

"There is a kid who wants to tell you something." Liang Sizhe said outside the camera.

"Brother Xiaoye, this is the star badge for you." Xiaomeng's hand dangled on the screen, dragging out afterimages, as if he wanted to put the star badge in the frame, but he couldn't find the camera. Location.

After a while, another hand appeared on the screen, holding Xiaomeng's wrist and helping him align the badge with the camera.

Cao Ye could almost imagine Liang Sizhe's current posture - half squatting on the ground, holding a mobile phone in one hand, and holding the child's wrist with the other.

"I'll put it on when I get back." Cao Ye said to Xiaomeng with a smile.

Xiao Meng only appeared on the screen for a few seconds before running away, the camera shook again, Liang Sizhe stood up and got into the car.

Cao Ye heard Song Qingyan whispering outside the screen, "It seems that a paparazzi is secretly filming", Cao Ye jokingly answered, "What are you secretly filming? Did you say you have an illegitimate child?"

The camera turned to look at Liang Sizhe's face. Although it was a very low angle of death, the corners of his jaw unexpectedly made it look nice.Liang Sizhe glanced sideways at the window, and said with a smile, "You have already mastered the paparazzi routine, maybe you really are." After he finished speaking, he took the water handed by Song Qingyan, and when he raised his head to drink the water, his Adam's apple slid up and down, which made Cao Ye remembered Liang Sizhe's furrowed brows, rolling Adam's apple, and suppressed emotion in the bathroom the night before.

After Liang Sizhe finished drinking the water, he picked up his phone again. Seeing Cao Ye sitting in the car, he asked, "Going home?"

"Go to your house." Cao Ye said.

"Going to my house is also going home." Liang Sizhe said with a smile.

Cao Ye really planned to go to Liang Sizhe's house. The "Thirteen Days", "Red Man and Red Woman" and "Wangchuanzhichuan" on the video site were all deleted versions. Before returning to Beijing, he asked Liang Sizhe, Liang Sizhe said that all the movies stored in his place are full versions.

"Do you really want to read my version?" Liang Sizhe said at the time, "Then do some mental preparation before watching."

"So exaggerated?"

"It's not bad, you can try."

More than half an hour later, Cao Ye drove to the door of Liang Sizhe's house with ease.

Pushing the door open, the room was empty. Cao Ye turned on the overhead light. While changing his shoes, he looked at the room, and couldn't help but guess how Liang Sizhe felt when he returned home after each movie finished.

It should be about the same as myself, Cao Ye thought. He didn't have any special enthusiasm for going home, but just changed to a more comfortable but deserted place to sleep.

So instead of going home, he prefers to stay in Yinsi's small cinema, chatting with those filmmakers of the same age who have a lot of ideas, it will make him appear less lonely.

The screening room on the second floor was still the same as it was last time. When Cao Ye entered the room again, he felt a little emotional. If he hadn’t accidentally discovered that Liang Sizhe was watching the same surveillance screen twice in a row, he might still be deceiving himself until now.

He stood in front of the exhibition stand and looked at the row of films starring Liang Sizhe.

After ten years of debut, Liang Sizhe is not considered high-yielding. In addition to the "Liang Sheng Zhu Meng" he directed, Liang Sizhe has acted in a total of ten films so far, averaging one film a year. No wonder some people always say that he is lucky, but his production is low Everything is fine.

Cao Ye picked up the DVD case of "Red Man Red Woman". Liang Sizhe on the cover was facing the camera sideways, with a lighted cigarette between his fingertips, as if he was staring at a certain place to let go.

Cao Ye suddenly realized why he felt like old friends at first sight when he saw Lin Huan for the first time. He had seen this poster before, and when Lin Yan showed it to him, he felt upset and only glanced at it. It left a mark in my mind.

A few days later, when I went to the set, Lin Huan was also facing the camera from this angle. At that time, he mistakenly thought it was "love at first sight", and with Lin Yan being beside him, he started chasing Lin Huan fiercely after half a month. Thinking about it now It seems that the person who made him fall in love at first sight was not Lin Huan, but Liang Sizhe.

It's...pretty ridiculous.

Then start with this film.He had to admit that he was really curious about Liang Sizhe's appearance in different costumes.

Cao Ye put the DVD into the projector and sat on the carpet. The picture on the screen gradually changed from thick black to bright. The dim sensor light in the corridor turned on. The high-heeled shoes stepped on the stairs, and the steps were a little messy. The camera only captured the calf. But I could tell he was drunk.

Stepping on the stairs with high heels, the keys jingled, and the man opened the door and walked in.

The ends of the long hair hung down, the man bent down, wiped off the stain on the toe of the shoe with his fingertips, then took off his shoes, lifted them up and walked into the room barefoot.

A woman's voice came from another room, an elderly man, speaking in shrill Shanghainese, asking him why he came back so late.

"To make money." The man said angrily.It was a man's voice.

The stockings and skirt were taken off and thrown on the ground, then the camera moved up and forward, and turned to the mirror. The man with his bare upper body supported the edge of the table with his hands, and bent down to see the red lips in the mirror. The lips opened and closed, and the tone was different. Answering the voice outside the door patiently: "What's the reminder? Did I urge you to die early?"

The camera moved up again, revealing an indistinguishable face in the mirror. The man wet his handkerchief with water and wiped off the makeup bit by bit. break, and then he will curse a few times impatiently.

The opening words jumped out, the distorted four big characters of "Red man, red woman", Cao Ye regained his senses a little.

Li Twenty.If I remember correctly, before the results of the Academy Awards came out, almost all film critics said that Liang Sizhe would be the biggest surprise in the Chinese film industry that year.

Originally, I couldn't imagine Liang Sizhe's appearance in different costumes, but when the title of the film came out, I realized that this character actually had a strange fit with Liang Sizhe.

No wonder why Cao Xiuyuan chose Liang Sizhe as the leading role again at that time. It is hard to imagine any other actor who can play Li Nian like this.

The credits receded, and under the feasting environment, Li Nian brought the wine to the private room of the karaoke hall.

Li Bian is very beautiful, but this kind of beauty can't dilute his masculine characteristics. Anyone who looks at him can still recognize him as a boy in his early twenties.

Li Nian works in a karaoke bar and hangs out with a group of hostesses. In the words of the proprietress, Li Nian is dedicated to serving those perverted men. They know that Li Nian is a man. Insulting him with words - "Are you really a man? With a handle? Can that handle be used?"

When they said this, Li Erhan sat on the side silently, he was not very obsequious, he looked a little cold, but this coldness made those men even more excited.

Li Bian is short of money, and his mother is seriously ill, so he needs this job of accompanying wine.Although the woman beat and scolded him every day since she discovered his transvestism a few years ago, Li Nian still had to earn money to treat her illness.

The job of accompanying wine made Li Nian some resistance to put on women's clothing, because every time he put on it, it meant that he had to endure the situation of being humiliated again.

In the second half of the film, Li Yan, who had been swallowing his anger, finally broke out and fought with the guests.Half of his wig was torn off, the men stepped on him under the soles of his shoes, and his skirt was torn during the fight. When he left the private room, he received news that his mother was critically ill, so he rushed to the hospital in embarrassment.He was waiting at the entrance of the hospital when a man approached and put a suit on him.

Li Nian put on women's clothes again at his mother's funeral. Everyone who came to the funeral home looked back at him, but he ignored him.He bought a bouquet of fresh flowers and put them under the tombstone, staring at the person in the black and white photo for a while.

That night he resigned from his job as an accompanist, and when he returned home, he stepped on high heels and danced a dance under the moonlight.Just like the opening, the camera only shot his calves, and the red high heels were dancing on the floor, looking beautiful.

When the ending song sounded, Cao Ye didn't recover for a while.

No wonder Cao Xiuyuan yelled at reporters after the award ceremony.Liang Sizhe subverted his performance in this film and was amazing enough, but it is really unfair that he failed to win the best actor with this film.

I have to admit that in this film, Cao Xiuyuan is also good enough as a director. When Li Nian took off his high heels at the beginning of the film, he bowed down and carefully wiped off the stains on them. After kicking a long distance, the other shoe kicked heavily against the wall. From this detail alone, we can see the change of Li Nian's attitude towards his transvestism.

Cao Ye went to find relevant materials from that year, and the news said that Cao Xiuyuan rewrote the ending of "Red Man, Red Woman" himself.The screenwriter originally wanted to end the scene where Li Yan attended his mother's funeral in a different dress, but Cao Xiuyuan added the dance under the moonlight at the end.

The reporter who wrote the report was probably a fan of Cao Xiuyuan, saying that Cao Xiuyuan was probably the only one in the mainland, and he would add such a beautiful and hopeful ending to a film about transvestites.

Cao Ye recalled the dance under the moonlight, and he thought that Liang Sizhe's words were probably right. He hadn't seen Cao Xiuyuan's film in the past ten years, and he almost forgot how the god in his mind shone when he was young. .

This film made him realize that Cao Xiuyuan, who is not his father, is indeed radiant, but all these years he has shrunk himself in the shadow brought by Cao Xiuyuan, refusing to stand a little farther away, leaving his son's identity, standing in a " From the perspective of "people", evaluate Cao Xiuyuan objectively.

Let's watch another movie, Cao Ye was stunned for a while, then walked to the shelf, "Wangchuan" or "Thirteen Days"?

"Thirteen Days" is his shared memory with Liang Sizhe, maybe he can watch it with Liang Sizhe... But why there is only one box for other movies, but there are two boxes for "Thirteen Days"?Is it the difference between the deleted version and the uncensored version?

Thinking in this way, he picked up the DVD and stared at the cover of "Thirteen Days" for a while. He was very familiar with that cover, it was Liang Sizhe's WeChat avatar.

He opened the disc case, and a thin piece of paper floated out of it.

Cao Ye didn't have time to bend down to pick it up, because he saw the photos in the disc case.

He recognized at a glance that the photo was taken on Yinsi Street, to be precise, it was Yinsi Street where it snowed in winter.Because he once asked Huang Ying to take a photo for him whenever it snowed all over the place.

He picked up a few photos inside, which were taken from different angles, on the street, at the end of the alley, in front of the Lanyan gate, and took a picture of Xiao Xiaobai standing in the middle.

He squatted down and picked up the paper that had just fallen to the ground.The ink writing on the paper has faded and looks old, but the handwriting on the back of the paper is still very clear. The vertical line of words is Liang Sizhe's handwriting-"Happy 17th birthday, another Xiaoman in the world. You Always the best boy ever."

It was not the first time Cao Ye had heard this sentence, but now he realized belatedly that Liang Sizhe's last words were addressed to him on the night of the Academy Awards ceremony.

At that time, he thought that looking at each other was an illusion, but now he realized that Liang Sizhe, who was standing on the awarding platform, was indeed looking at him. At that moment, they really looked at each other.