Twenty minutes later, Gao Lei called, and Zhou Yan pressed "Answer" lightly.
"Xiao Zhou, it's me. We drove about halfway, but a landslide occurred, and the road was buried by mud and rocks, so we couldn't continue walking."
Zhou Yanqing's heart skipped a beat, it was Meng Shiping's voice.
He stared at the road ahead and said calmly, "Brother Meng, can we pass by walking?"
"Yes, it collapsed in a small area, and people can walk and cars can't pass through."
"Then retreat a few hundred meters to leave the danger zone, I will be there soon."
"Okay, you also pay attention to safety." Meng Shiping hung up the phone.
Zhou Yan narrowed his eyes slightly, concentrating on observing the road ahead, distracted by other things in his mind.
From the day he stepped into Song Yu's company, he was dormant by Song Yu's side like a hunter, looking around, trying to catch the poisonous snake before it showed its fangs and bit Song Yu. Everyone around Song Yu could be that snake, or maybe more than one. He has been cautiously looking at everyone in Song Yu's circle, and Meng Shiping is the one he is most wary of.
Meng Shiping is Song Yu's partner and half-boss. After Song Yu's death, the obituary published on the studio's official blog must have been issued at his behest. He knew that Song Yu was suffering from depression, but he instructed the studio to deny it.
Depression is not an unspeakable disease, why deny it? If it is to shirk responsibility, wouldn't it be even more dereliction of duty if the artist who has been with him for ten years has not known that he has severe depression
There is also the fable "The Farmer and the Snake" sent by Gao Lei. Before Meng Shiping cooperated with Song Yu, he was an unknown actor in the circle. After joining Song Yu, he gained status, power, and wealth. It is true that this is inseparable from his ability, but the opportunity was thrown to him by Song Yu. It can be said that the help Song Yu gave him was enormous, almost changing Meng Shiping's life. It is not impossible to say that Meng Shiping is the snake that repays kindness with revenge.
More importantly, Zhou Yanqing deeply remembered Gao Lei's cautious, apprehensive, and frightened eyes in the cafe that day, and Gao Lei's email warning him not to pursue Song Yu's death, otherwise it would be dangerous.
Gao Lei has rich work experience, is well-known and well-connected in the circle. A person who makes him feel scared and dangerous can only be a person with stronger ability and means than him. Among the people who have appeared so far, apart from Meng Shiping and Zhou Yanqing, he can't think of anyone else.
That's why he contacted Gao Lei to find Song Yu's medicine. At least the current Gao Lei is harmless to Song Yu, but he didn't expect Meng Shiping to come with him.
Driving through an S curve, Zhou Yanqing saw a lot of falling rocks on the road, and the road dozens of meters away was buried under piles of mud and rocks. This rural road runs along the mountains, and landslides are prone to occur in extreme weather. Fortunately, it was at night and no traffic accidents were caused.
Zhou Yan took a photo and sent it to Weiwei, asking her to contact the village cadres, and then got out of the car.
The rain didn't stop, Zhou Yanqing walked too hastily and forgot to take his umbrella, he walked into the rain without hesitation, crawled over the mound and saw the dazzling headlights not far away.
Meng Shiping was holding an umbrella, leaning against the half-open car door and smoking a cigarette. A figure came running from the rain curtain, and he immediately threw his cigarette butt to meet him.
"What's the matter with you? You can forget such an important thing!"
As soon as Zhou Yanqing approached, he was met with an angry roar from Meng Shiping. He shrank his neck and stammered, "Brother Meng, yes, I'm sorry."
Meng Shiping glanced at Zhou Yanqing's wet hair, swallowed his anger, and said in a cold voice: "This medicine is very important to Mr. Song, and you can't leave it alone. Don't make this kind of mistake again in the future. If you want to eat, remember to remind Teacher Song."
"Okay, okay."
Zhou Yanqing took the storage bag wrapped in several layers of plastic bags, and quickly glanced at Meng Shiping. Maybe after standing outside the car for a long time, his lips were a little pale with cold, and the anxiety and anger on his face did not seem to be fake.
Meng Shiping stuffed the umbrella into Zhou Yanqing's hand, waved his hand without saying anything more, and said, "Go back quickly, and be careful."
On the way back to the village, the rain was much lighter, so Zhou Yanqing drove the car very fast. He was afraid that Song Yu would disagree, so he didn't say hello when he went out. Song Yu should have returned to his residence by now.
When approaching the village, Zhou Yanqing turned off the engine and stopped the car. After sitting quietly in the car for about a minute, Zhou Yanqing carefully opened Song Yu's storage bag with the faint light of the phone screen.
There is a seven-day portable medicine box inside, one layer per day, only four days' worth is contained, there are capsules and tablets, and even if you touch a single one, you will be found.
In addition to the medicine box, there is also a box of common painkillers and a white medicine bottle, which should be the original medicine bottle, but the label on the bottle has been torn off, leaving only a little glue that has not been torn clean.
Zhou Yan took a deep breath and unscrewed the medicine bottle, which contained small white round pills, very small, about 2 mm in diameter, and there were probably dozens of them. After hesitating for a while, he nervously poured one out of the bottle, and then he took out the refill of the signature pen he carried with him and put the pills into the pen tube.
Exhaling heavily, Zhou Yanqing restored the storage box to its original state, and also restored itself to its original state.
While eating, Song Yu noticed that the little assistant ran out of the classroom, and then Weiwei also went out. He thought it was because the two met eyes and found a place where no one was around.
But Weiwei came back soon, and the little assistant didn't come back until the end of dinner.
He wanted to make a call to find someone, but found that he didn't even leave his assistant's phone number, so he had to go back to his room and call Meng Shiping.
Just as the phone hung up, there was a knock on the door.
Song Yu opened the door, outside the door, Zhou Yanqing was drenched all over, with crystal clear drops of water hanging from her hair. It was raining and the temperature was low at night, his eyes were a little red, and his lips were pale with cold.
Song Yu was not surprised, because Meng Shiping had just told him on the phone about Zhou Yanqing's going to get the medicine a minute ago, and also told him about the landslide.
He just felt a little unbelievable, as well as some subtle shock and touch.
"Teacher Song, Brother Meng and the others have brought the medicine." Zhou Yan lightly raised the corners of his mouth and handed over the things in his hand with a faint smile.
Song Yu was dazzled by Zhou Yanqing's smile, which was more touching than ten miles of spring breeze. He stretched out his hand to take it in a daze. He didn't know what to say. After thinking about it, he finally said "thank you".
Zhou Yan waved his hands lightly, with a look of relief on his face: "I was negligent in the first place, so you should take a rest, and I have to record a show tomorrow, so call me if you have anything to do."
Song Yu nodded, and the moment Zhou Yan turned around lightly, he subconsciously grabbed the opponent's wrist.
"Teacher Song, is there anything else?" Zhou Yanqing didn't know why.
Song Yu cleared his throat to relieve the soreness in his throat, and he said, "Weiwei said that there is no water heater where you live, you go get your clothes and take a hot bath with me."
Zhou Yanqing originally wanted to say no, just rub it with hot water, but after falling into Song Yu's eyes as deep as the night sky, the words rolled around on the tip of his tongue and became "Okay".