The Eye of the Storm

After that, Cao Ye went back to Lomon again.The National Day holiday was over, and all departments of the company began to busy themselves with promoting the project. Cao Ye had been a playboy for a week, but was urged to go back by several phone calls.

On the morning of leaving Shanghai, Cao Ye woke up and went to the bathroom to take a shower. When he came out, he saw Liang Sizhe standing in front of the sink, drying his hair with a hair dryer.Cao Ye was still sleepy, and stood behind Liang Sizhe, leaning wet on his shoulder: "By the way, help me blow it up."

The two of them are close in height, so it is easy to blow the blower. Liang Sizhe moved back the hand holding the hair dryer.

The hair dryer made a buzzing noise, and Liang Sizhe's slightly long hair brushed against Cao Ye's face, making Cao Ye feel a little itchy.He raised his hand to grab a lock of hair, raised his head eagerly: "Liang Sizhe, let me tie your hair for you."

With his fingers, he gathered Liang Sizhe's shoulder-length hair together, held it, and wrapped the hair rope between his fingers.

He was a complete novice, clumsy and stretched. He did it three times and tied his hair with a hair tie, so that he could appreciate his own work.

It was crooked, and there was a strand of hair on the side of the neck.

The two looked at each other in the mirror.

Liang Sizhe turned his face sideways and asked him, "Is it okay?"

"My boyfriend is naturally beautiful," Cao Ye said, unwinding the hair rope and returning it to him, "It looks good no matter what."

Liang Sizhe was amused by him, took the hair rope, and did not expose him explicitly.

Cao Ye's return to Luomeng this time was not as easy as last time, and the company had piled up a lot of things waiting for him to deal with.He met many people, besides Xu Anqiao, Zeng Ran, Ding Mao, and Chi Mingyao also met several animation directors.

In addition to the several film and television projects that are being promoted, Luo Meng's next work focus is on the expansion of theaters. He has to visit several cities in person to investigate the distribution of local theaters.

In mid-October, Cao Ye was going to S City for a business trip.

The driver sent him to the Capital Airport, he got out of the car and walked into the hall, and went straight to the counter to go through the check-in procedures.

There was only one person standing in front of the VIP counter, and Cao Ye recognized Zheng Yin from behind at a glance.

He hesitated to wait for Zheng Yin to leave before going over, but Zheng Yin finished the check-in procedures, turned around at this moment, and saw Cao Ye standing a few steps away.

Cao Ye couldn't remember for a while that he hadn't seen Zheng Yin for a few years. In the first few years, he deliberately avoided Zheng Yin. Later, Zheng Yin and Cao Xiuyuan went abroad to develop together, and they never met again.

Zheng Yin didn't look old, he still looked like a few years ago, wearing a well-tailored long trench coat and dragging a silver-gray suitcase, he still had that elegant and gentle temperament.

Cao Ye in his teens could run away, but Cao Ye in his twenties could only be pinned in place, watching Zheng Yin approaching step by step, stopped in front of him and said, "What a coincidence, Xiao Ye, I didn't expect See you here."

Cao Ye tried his best to look mature and calm, and smiled: "Yes, you came here alone?"

He didn't ask clearly, but Zheng Yin is so smart, he immediately recognized that he was asking Cao Xiuyuan: "Your father is still preparing for the movie, I will go to other places to scout the scene first."

Cao Ye breathed a sigh of relief, he really didn't want to see Cao Xiuyuan.

Zheng Yin waited for Cao Ye to complete the check-in procedures, and then went through the security check through the VIP channel with him.

No one mentioned what happened back then, so Zheng Yin naturally asked him where he was going this time.

Cao Ye said to go to S City, Zheng Yin said with a smile that he also went to S City ten years ago, and then turned to look at him: "Guess what we went to S City back then?"

Ten years ago, in City S, Cao Ye had a long and distant city name flashed in his mind. He looked at Zheng Yin: "Are you going to Yancheng?"

"That's right," Zheng Yin smiled and recalled, "When I was scouting nearby cities with your dad, I heard people talking about the Music High School in Yancheng. Brought Si Zhe back to Beijing."

He is really good at talking, instead of starting with Cao Xiuyuan, he talked about Liang Sizhe. Cao Ye was indeed interested in this topic, and then he asked: "When you first met Liang Sizhe, what was he like?"

"He said he had a fight with the dog downstairs," Zheng Yin said with a smile, still remembering it vividly, "he also had a violin at home, which was broken by him and the neck was broken. Yes, in short...it doesn't look like someone who can win the best actor in the future."

Cao Ye thought about the broken violin, and Zheng Yin beside him sighed: "In the blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed."

They walked together for more than ten minutes, talking about movies and Liang Sizhe.

Cao Ye could feel that Zheng Yin was deliberately leading him to a topic of interest, and they chatted quite speculatively, but there was a gap of ten years and a stranded barrier in between, after all, they could not return to the relationship between father and son. .

When parting, Zheng Yin said that we should go out to have a meal together next time. Cao Ye answered "Yes" without hesitation, knowing that if Zheng Yin asked him out again next time, he would probably find an excuse to turn him down.

The next day, after meeting with the local distributor, Cao Ye went to Yancheng by himself.

He has been to many places in these years, and he always feels that the south and sea are almost the same, but probably because of his relationship with Liang Sizhe, he feels that this city is special.

He called a car to go to the Music High School, the driver was talkative, he heard that he came from other places, and recommended local attractions to him with great enthusiasm, Cao Ye didn't have much time, and he had to go back to Shanghai to meet Liang Sizhe at night, and declined to say next time Be sure to come and have a good time.

When we arrived at the Music Attached Middle School, just in time for the end of the evening, Cao Ye saw sixteen and seventeen-year-old boys flocking to the school gate wearing loose school uniforms and carrying various musical instrument boxes on their backs.

He glanced at it from a distance, and told the driver to return on the same road as he was afraid of catching up with the peak traffic jam.

On the way back, the driver took the initiative to talk about Liang Sizhe: "You don't know, do you? This school once produced a big star."

"Who is it?" Cao Ye replied to the email, knowingly asking.

"Liang Sizhe!"

"Oh," Cao Ye pretended to be calm, "I've heard of it."

Seeing that he was calm, the driver threw out new gossip: "My friend's relatives live in the same community as Liang Sizhe."

Cao Ye raised his head as expected: "Which neighborhood is it?"

"That can't be said."

"You're fooling me." Cao Ye smiled, "To tell you the truth, I came here just to see Liang Sizhe's alma mater. I'm his fan."

"Yo." The driver looked at him from the rearview mirror, slightly surprised, "Looking at you, I thought you were some celebrity."

He was naturally likable, after a few chats, the driver turned around and sent him to Liang Sizhe's community.

The community is a bit old, and the mosaics on the walls of the building have fallen off a little, and it looks a little mottled.

There was no elevator, so Cao Ye stepped up the stairs.The driver didn't know the specific house number, but only said that he was in Building No. [-]. Cao Ye walked up one level at a time, and suddenly felt that this scene seemed familiar, but he couldn't remember where it happened.

He went up to the sixth floor, lay down on the window sill of the corridor and looked down for a while, then walked down again.

On the way to the airport, I just remembered that the familiar scene happened in "Thirteen Days".

When Xiaoman was following Peng Yan, he also went up the stairs one by one in the same way, stopping for a while every time he passed a door.

It turns out that it's the same feeling when you like someone.

Flying to Shanghai to meet Liang Sizhe at night, when Cao Ye mentioned this matter, Liang Sizhe said a little funny that it was not the community where his home was located.

Cao Ye couldn't believe that he would be deceived: "The driver looks very honest, but he lied to me?!"

"Maybe I heard about it, I know the neighborhood you went to," Liang Sizhe said with a smile, "It's also very close to my old house. Why did you think of going to Yancheng?"

"I met Uncle Yin." Cao Ye said, "He said that ten years ago, he and Cao Xiuyuan brought you to Beijing from Yancheng."

"Oh, you said that time," Liang Sizhe recalled, "I was no longer in the old house at that time. Mr. Cao and the others went to the new house to find me. I haven't gone back for many years, and the house may have been covered with spider webs. If you want to go, I will take you there next time."

Cao Ye thought about the broken violin that Zheng Yin mentioned, and he had a vague idea in his heart. He asked Liang Sizhe, "Next time I pass by Yancheng, can I go and have a look?"

"Yes," Liang Sizhe said with a smile, "That's your home too, you can go there if you want."

After turning off the lights before going to bed, Liang Sizhe asked in the dark: "Cao Ye, do you want to know what is the relationship between your father and Uncle Yin?"

Cao Ye was silent for a moment, then said in a low voice, "Partnership and long-term friends with benefits."

"You guessed it?"

"Well, sometimes I can't help but think about it."

Liang Sizhe raised his hand to stroke Cao Ye's hair.

After a long while, Cao Ye sighed and said, "If Uncle Yin didn't have this relationship with my dad, I should have a good relationship with him... But it's not necessarily true, maybe without this relationship, he wouldn't be so good to me. .”

"Don't always underestimate yourself, Cao Ye," Liang Sizhe said, "I think Uncle Yin's kindness to you may not be entirely because of your father."

"Maybe." Cao Ye said.After seeing Zheng Yin, he felt a little soft-hearted. He could clearly remember the details of getting along with Zheng Yin ten years ago, so he felt more and more regretful.

"Let's Try Again" finished filming in late November, and everyone else's roles ended early, leaving Liang Sizhe and Xiao Meng as the only cast members.

Xiao Meng knew that he was seriously ill and needed A Peng to spend a lot of money on his treatment. He sneaked out of the hospital while A Peng was boxing, not wanting to drag A Peng any longer.

A Peng called the police and brought the dirty Xiao Meng back, but the police found out that he had been a fugitive for many years.Ten years ago, A Peng's girlfriend was raped, and he accidentally killed someone. When he wanted to surrender, his girlfriend chose to swallow her anger and conceal the fact of being raped by her family's persuasion. Therefore, A Peng could only become a fugitive and kept his name incognito all these years , being an outlaw in an underground boxing ring.

On the night of the finale, the main crew of the crew held a hasty finale banquet.In name it was a wrap-up banquet, but in fact it was a dinner together in the restaurant of the hotel.

The production crew has been going up and down for nearly four months, leaving early and returning late. As an actor, Liang Sizhe still has off-duty time. The rest of the crew can only sleep for four or five hours a day, and they are all exhausted.

The assistant director poured out the wine and said, "We were exhausted after four months of filming. Like director Cao Xiuyuan, one filming took one year or two. How can we survive?"

"I heard that director Cao's useless shots can account for three quarters," asked the photographer next to him, "Si Zhe, is it true or not?"

"Really," Liang Sizhe said, "but it can't be regarded as a waste shot. He cuts several versions of each film, and the final version is the one he thinks is the best."

"No wonder he's a genius," Du Zhui murmured, "It's incomparable."

Liang Sizhe and Cao Ye had to catch an evening flight, so they left the wrap-up banquet early.

The main creator of the film crew walked out of the hotel to see them off, and the driver moved a few suitcases to the nanny's car. Du Zhui came over to shake hands with Liang Sizhe and Cao Ye, saying that he hoped to cooperate again if he had the opportunity.

Cao Ye drank too much at every green banquet. This time he was worried about getting on the plane at night, so he didn't refuse everyone who came to him like before, but he almost took a sip of the wine offered to him in return.So now he feels that he has surpassed the category of being slightly drunk, and is starting to get a little over the top.

He was a little dizzy, raised his hand around Liang Sizhe's back, put it on his shoulder, and shook hands with the rest of the crew to say goodbye.

When Cao Ye shook hands with the lighting engineer, Liang Sizhe turned his face and glanced across the road.

He sensitively captured the momentary flashing lights on the opposite side of the road, mixed among the flickering car lights.He turned slightly to block Cao Ye.

"Is there a paparazzi taking pictures?" Du Zhui followed his gaze and asked in a low voice.

Liang Sizhe turned his head and said "Yes".Immediately, Cao Ye withdrew his hand and stood up straighter.

After saying goodbye, they got into the car, and the car merged into the main road. Cao Ye looked back and said, "Is it okay?"

"It should be fine," Liang Sizhe said, "There will always be paparazzi to film when the production team is finished."