The audition went well.
A character who can barely be called the third male, the younger brother of the heroine who does not have a high sense of presence, the relationship line is almost equal to zero, so not many people are fighting for it.
As soon as Ye Qin entered, a smile appeared on the face of the director sitting among a row of people. It is said that the director's most important thing in casting is appearance. After Ye Qin read two lines, he said "yes" three times in a row, without making any other comments, and asked him to go back and wait for news.
In the past four or five years, Ye Qin has also participated in the filming of some TV dramas, and he knows that in this circle, a casual sentence should not be taken too seriously. Before the contract is signed, it is best not to hold any hope, because everything can happen. can happen.
After the audition, he drove back to the high-speed rail station. He didn't catch up with breakfast and lunch, and he suddenly had a stomachache on the way. He went to the station and bought a sandwich, and sent a message to Zhou Feng while eating.
The two met at a coffee shop in the east of the city. The next morning, Zhou Feng arrived first and saw Ye Qin walking in wearing a mask, raised his hand and waved at him: "Here is Aqin."
Ye Qin walked over to sit down and took off his mask. Zhou Feng made a fuss and stopped him: "Don't pick it up yet, aren't you afraid of being recognized?"
"Did you live in the mountains these five years?" Ye Qin smiled, "I'm really not a big star, standing on the street and shouting 'I'm Ye Qin' may not be recognized by anyone."
Having not seen each other for many years, the two of them chatted casually, and they regained the familiarity and tacit understanding they had when they were young.
Zhou Feng still likes to have a hippie smile, but now there is less unreliable glibness and more calm vigor. His tanned skin and strong figure make him look tough and resolute, full of masculinity.
When asked why he hadn't contacted him once in five years, he slapped the table and said angrily: "My dad did something wrong back then and threw me to a place where there was no signal base station. The ground is not working, I ran three times and was caught back. The mobile phone was useless, so I had to write to you guys. I wrote it for several nights with a kerosene lamp. I walked more than 20 miles in the mountains before I found a mailbox and sent it. , Who knew none of you replied to me!"
Ye Qin laughed straight after hearing this: "I had already moved house at that time, the ghost knows where your letter was sent."
"Liu Yangfan and Zhao Yue are abroad. It's normal if they don't receive it, and you don't even move..." Zhou Feng realized something was wrong halfway through speaking, "You moved? Where did you move?"
Ye Qin said: "Move to an apartment in the suburbs. But now that house is also sold."
From the word "also", it is not difficult for Zhou Feng to deduce that the small villa where their family lived was the first to be sold. Looking at Ye Qin's current attire and running around, it would be foolish not to see that there is something wrong with his family.
The atmosphere was suddenly silent. Zhou Feng took a sip of his coffee and frowned bitterly. He threw sugar cubes into the cup and asked Ye Qin nonchalantly, "Why, did you change to a bigger house again?"
Ye Qin did not follow his words to fool him, but told the truth about his family's bankruptcy, including Ye Jinxiang was later prosecuted by the procuratorate for illegal fund-raising, and he is still in jail, and because he had no money to go to school, he received the admission notice. I didn't go to C University to report, but I chose to be an artist because the money comes quickly.
Although he could avoid taking on the family's debts by giving up his inheritance rights, he didn't. He promised that the victim would pay for his father, so he was once heavily in debt, and his situation improved after he slowly paid it off in the past two years.
Zhou Feng was stunned for a while, seeing Ye Qin's understatement, and there was no trace of resentment in his words, so he didn't show surprise on his face, and coughed lightly: "Then where do you live now?"
"The dormitory arranged by the company." Yeqin said.
"Where's auntie?"
It was Luo Qiuling who asked. Ye Qin looked down at the table, and raised it again after a few seconds: "Passed away."
In the summer five years ago, Ye Jinxiang was imprisoned, and Luo Qiuling went around to raise money to pay off the family's debts. At that time, Ye Qin was immersed in his studies all day long, and his mind was only about being admitted to C University. He hated Ye Jinxiang, and he knew that the current situation was inseparable from Luo Qiuling's cowardice in marriage. The attitude became more indifferent and numb.
It was raining heavily on the last day of the college entrance examination. As soon as Ye Qin came out of the examination room, he was called by the hospital to identify the dead body. Seeing his mother's face disfigured by a car accident, he felt a dull feeling in his heart. The pain from the gnawing of thousands of ants.
From that day on, there was no family member around him, and in the days to come, he could only face it alone.
The atmosphere was quieter, and Zhou Feng couldn't help but feel sorry for him when he was shocked. Ever since we met, he found that Ye Qin was very different from before. He used to love face, and would rather speak hard to the end than show his weak and incompetent side. He must have experienced a lot in the past five years, so that he became like now This way the clouds are calm and the wind is light, no matter how miserable and desolate, you can knock out your teeth and swallow it in your stomach.
"Let's not talk about that." It was Ye Qin who broke the dullness first, and changed the subject, "Why did you come back this time? Is there anything I can do to help?"
Zhou Feng just didn't know how to pick it up, so he touched the steps and hurriedly said: "It's nothing else, let's see you, by the way..." He took out a postcard from his pocket, "By the way, find someone."
Three days later, Yeqin and the other two members of the group went to City S again to film the reality show in which they were temporarily added.
Zheng Yueyue attached great importance to this filming, and bought business class tickets for several people, saying that in case they meet fans, they can hold on to the scene. The plane flew at four o'clock in the afternoon, and the group was dragged to the airport at two o'clock. He Hansong drank tea in the VIP lounge, Song Wei snored on the seat, and Ye Qin found a corner to sit down and asked the private detective How's the news going
The information provided this time is only a thin postcard. The postmark shows that it was sent from H province next to the capital. However, the sender has no signature or date. It is difficult to check which post office it is delivered from, let alone find out the specifics. address. The other side said that if you still want to try it, it will take some more time.
Ye Qin told Zhou Feng the known news according to the facts, Zhou Feng asked him how much he spent, and then called him a sum of money far exceeding that figure. Ye Qin knew whether he wanted to help himself, or he only took the money spent on inquiring about the news, and returned all the rest.
Zhou Feng said in WeChat: [These are the salaries I saved as a soldier, we are friends, you take it, don’t be burdened]
How could there be no burden? When he was desperate five years ago, Ye Qin also asked Liu Yangfan and Zhao Yue for help. They took money from their family to help him for the sake of friends for many years. For several years, he had no contact with those two people.
The scope of human activities is divided into classes, the Ye family mansion collapsed, without his superior family background, he is nothing.
Ye Qin sent Zhou Feng a clenched fist expression: [Boss Zhou is mighty]
Then he calmly brought up the topic of finding someone, and asked Zhou Feng why he didn't find someone himself, leaving the Zhou family with such great power, was it stupid to find wild detectives
Zhou Feng sent a sighing expression, I don't know if it's because of Ye Qin's stubbornness and helplessness, or because he couldn't find anyone, or both: [My dad still wants to send me back so that I can serve as a soldier for eight years , I was still a little uncomfortable when I first got home, so I had to pretend to be a good baby for a while]
Ye Qin turned back to the photo album and looked at the photo of the postcard. The handwriting on it was light, and the words "Happy New Year" could still be discerned from the faintly discernible words.
He switched back to WeChat and asked: [Is the postcard written by the monitor?]
This long-lost friendly address seemed to have also aroused Zhou Feng's memories, and he replied after a while, affirming: "It's him, I won't recognize his words wrongly"
The plane is much faster than the high-speed train, and it was still light when we arrived at S. Yeqin did not bring a suitcase, and waited at the exit for several other people to go to the turntable to pick up their checked luggage.
This time I will stay for three days and two nights, I brought a lot of change of clothes in my bag, because the company is not manpower enough to distinguish between the assistants and them, and Zheng Yueyue stuffed two sets of costumes for the show and a cosmetic bag into Ye Qin’s schoolbag .
At this moment, multiple flights arrived at the same time, and the place to pick up luggage was crowded. Ye Qin waited left and right for no one to come out, temporarily put the heavy schoolbag on the ground, rubbed his shoulders and looked around, thinking that there were fans there, Sister Yueyue clearly thought too much.
When his eyes glanced over the exit, he accidentally caught a tall and straight figure from the back.
Ye Qin's eyes widened suddenly, and he subconsciously took two steps in that direction. The backpack at his feet lost its support and fell to the ground with a plop. Only then did he regain his senses, picked up the bag and put it on his back again.
Looking up again, the figure was gone.
On the car to the hotel, Yeqin leaned his head against the window and looked at the bustling street scene of City S, thinking that he might have had too little sleep recently and was so tired that he was hallucinating.
He went to the United States five years ago, and he might not come back in the future. There are all living beings in the world, such a good person like him, if he is lost once, why should he let himself meet again in the crowd so easily
Ye Qin mocked himself that he deserved it, while persuading himself to relax. Anyway, Zhou Feng's self-confidence and certainty, he will never have the right to have it again.
Over the years, in addition to learning to survive independently, Yeqin also learned the very useful skill of self-comfort. But this sudden episode, like the sudden drop in temperature in summer, still affected his state when shooting the next day to some extent.
It happened to be an outdoor sports program, and it was impossible to hide in the corner as the background board. Ye Qin stepped on the ice skates and entered the venue, and fell a few times in the middle. ugly face.
Fortunately, the sister of the host is kind-hearted, and she took good care of him when he was on the show for the first time, and always brought the topic to him, saying "good-looking people are beautiful when they wrestle".
He didn't want to cause He Hansong's dissatisfaction, and he took advantage of the camera to turn to other places several times when he passed by, deliberately tripping Ye Qin, pushing him for a while, and passing him by quickly. Ye Qin was finally knocked down by him, his tailbone hit the ground heavily, and he fell on the ice, his face turned pale from the pain.
A camera came over to take a close-up, and He Hansong also came over to steal the scene: "Qinqin, what's the matter with you? Didn't you say that you learned to skate in a university club?... Oh, sorry, sorry, I remembered wrongly, it wasn't you who learned to skate, You never went to college."
Ye Qin had nothing to say about this extremely deliberate performance. After lying down for a while, she was helped up by the staff. The sister of the host who witnessed the whole process told him privately that this episode would be edited later, so he should not take it to heart. She also told him that education is not the only criterion for judging people.
Nowadays, the public pays more and more attention to the internal and external cultivation of artists. Ye Qin has been criticized for his low education since his debut. In their group, He Hansong is a student at the Capital Academy of Drama. He would go to the school cafeteria to pose for a photo shoot if he had nothing to do; Song? A good example of both study and study, he was invited to participate in the strongest brain before; the other two members are music majors, and after leaving the group, they returned to campus to continue their studies. Ye Qin is the only one left in the whole group who is ignorant and incompetent dross.
Therefore, Ye Qin had nothing to refute. He rubbed his buttocks and forced a smile: "It is true that I have never been to college, nor have I joined any clubs, so you are not allowed to laugh at me because I can't skate."
After a day of flying and dancing, Ye Qin thought he could finally rest, so he took out something to remove his makeup when he got back to the car.
"Don't move first, don't move." Zheng Yueyue stopped them when they got into the car, "I have to go somewhere, don't be in a hurry to take off your make-up and change your clothes."
Ye Qin guessed that there was nothing good to do, but he didn't show too much resistance. He Hansong was not so easy to talk, and said with a face: "Half an hour, even a minute more."
Zheng Yueyue said: "Boss Tang is also here."
He Hansong immediately straightened his waist, took out the powder cake from his bag and began to wipe and mend in front of the mirror.
Song Yue was the last to react, and leaned over to Ye Qin and asked, "Do you want us to accompany...accompany that again?"
Ye Qin turned his head and said in a low voice: "Kids, don't keep all the mess in your head, just treat it like someone's treat, and just eat with your belly open."
Naturally, this was not the first time Yeqin encountered such a situation of being brought to show his face in front of the bosses. To put it more harshly, with his status, there are very few chances of being picked up, and most of them still have to get acquainted with He Hansong.
In the place where He Hansong used to be, they were all background boards. After all, they were male artists, so he wasn't afraid of something that he couldn't handle. Most of the time, they just nodded and bowed their heads to say hello, and Mr. Zhang, Mr. Wang, Mr. Li called over one by one, and had at most two glasses of wine to express their feelings, so Ye Qin was not nervous at all.
Walking into the hotel, Yeqin stretched his neck and looked around. For a while, he wanted to go back and buy a plaster to stick on his tailbone. For a while, he thought that the hotel would look like this after the renovation. Yu tacky.
Ye Qin only vomited these words secretly in his heart, and he would not say it. If they don't know that he came here as a guest to live in the high-end suite on the top floor seven or eight years ago, anyone who hears this will feel that he is sour.
Entering the spacious and luxurious box, Ye Qin only shrank behind He Hansong, looked down at the ground, and vowed to engrave this pattern in his mind and go back to Xbao to find the same style. Zheng Yueyue bumped into him several times from behind, making him raise his head and smile, and he quickly finished greeting He Hansong, then lowered his head and continued to study the carpet pattern.
At this table, there are program directors, TV station executives, and several sponsors. The sponsors were headed by Tang Chong, He Hansong's big sponsor. Everyone here didn't know the relationship between Tang Zong and He Hansong, so they urged He Hansong to sit next to Tang Zong and have a few drinks with him.
Unexpectedly, Tang Chong didn't follow the trend today, but said with a smile that there are too many people today, it is not good for everyone to watch jokes, it is better to let them perform a show to cheer up the fun.
Ye Qin's eyelids twitched, feeling Tang Chong's lingering gaze on him, and his scalp became numb.
Zheng Yueyue was used to this kind of scene, so she pushed the three of them forward: "Sing a cheerful song, let's just sing the single from last summer, cheer up, and don't let the bosses get in the way."
He Hansong, who was standing in the middle, was the first to lose face, and Song? was also stunned by this insulting request.
However, singing and dancing is their job, even if they change places, their status will not change. In the face of this group of big shots who can't afford to offend, even if you don't want to, you should pull the corners of your mouth to flatter and laugh.
It's just singing a song, and it won't lose a piece of meat. If you don't sing, you may even deduct money.
Ye Qin bit the bullet and took the phone, handed it to Song?, and whispered in his ear: "Just three minutes, bear with it."
I don't know which boss found out the accompaniment and played it on the mobile phone. After the prelude, the three of them were about to open their voices when Tang Chong suddenly stood up: "Stop, we still have a distinguished guest here." He raised his hand and looked at his watch. , "It's almost there, I'll go down and pick him up."
Ye Qin was almost choked by the sudden interruption, patted his chest, and listened to the sitting people discussing about "the eldest son of the Yi family" and "just came back from abroad", but he had no time to take it to heart.
When the door of the box was opened again, a whole room of people stood up to greet him, and some of them shouted "Mr. Cheng" with smiles on their faces, but Ye Qin didn't take it seriously. There are so many bosses surnamed Chen all over the country, and you can turn around seven or eight times if you just shout on the street. This Mr. Chen is likely to have a good father like Mr. Tang Chong, so what? As long as you walk into this smoky Vanity Fair, you will disappear from the crowd and become no different from everyone present here.
But when the person came out, Ye Qin felt as if he had been hit by a heavy hammer, and his whole body was numb from the shock.
"Sorry for being late, there is a traffic jam on the road."
The male voice was deep and thick, beating Ye Qin's eardrums with a familiar frequency, and the simple and polite words made his heart tremble, as if he was instantly transported back into the misty night dream.
Then, a gust of wind passed by itself, Yeqin raised his stiff neck, and watched the tall man who came in sit on the empty seat specially reserved for him, and looked around everyone in the box calmly and politely.
Although he didn't have much hope, Ye Qin would still secretly fantasize about the reunion scene in his heart whenever he couldn't sleep, when he was sad, or when he couldn't hold on.
During these more than 1,700 long nights, he has made no less than a hundred presuppositions, ordinary, beautiful, and even embarrassing scenes, all of which he has thought about.
But the reality will always exceed people's imagination, at least in his presupposition, no scene will be as unbearable as it is now.
"Mr. Cheng came just in time. The idol group is just about to sing to cheer everyone up." The director of the program said enthusiastically, "You just came back from abroad, so you probably don't know them? Come, come, Xiaohe will introduce himself first with his younger brothers Let's get to know Mr. Cheng."
He Hansong took the lead in saying his name, followed by Song? When it was Ye Qin's turn, he didn't know how he spoke, he couldn't even hear his own voice clearly, his five senses rapidly declined, and only his vision remained.
It was this little sense left that made him sensitively catch Cheng Feichi's gaze looking at him.
The eyes were calm and unwavering, they only stayed on him for less than a second and then moved away, as if looking at a stranger they met for the first time.