The Eye of the Storm

Chapter 45

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Cao Ye stepped on his slippers and went to the bathroom to wash up. Across the closed door, Liang Sizhe heard him humming a song briskly while pouring water inside.

Although Cao Ye always seemed to be carefree, it was the first time he was so happy to see him.

… Okay, there are more than 40,000 yuan left in the card, so you can always afford an air conditioner, right? As for the expenses in the future, let's talk about it later, the road ahead is not necessarily how to go.

Liang Sizhe picked up the script by the bedside and opened it to read it. The script had been in his hands several times, and it was only now that he felt at ease.

It's just that although his eyes fell on the script, none of the words above actually entered his mind.

He couldn't help but recall the words Cao Xiuyuan said - "Either one is an idiot who cannot be carved by rotten wood, or a genius who is a blockbuster". He didn't think he would be a genius. Before coming to Yinsi Street, he never thought that he would As an actor, even though he has made a lot of films these days, he has no idea so far about how to play a role well.

But it's not like a fool who can't be carved by rotten wood, right? Liang Sizhe had a hard time accepting that this possibility would have something to do with him.

Genius and stupidity... These two possibilities are too extreme and too contradictory. Even if he plays the violin well, Liang Sizhe has never claimed to be a genius. He knows that behind this is the result of his day and night efforts. There are very few geniuses in this world, and he never thought that he would be one of them.

After taking a shower, Cao Ye walked out of the bathroom humming a song. He sat on the edge of the bed in front of the electric fan and let the wind blow through his wet hair: "Did my dad say when to ask someone to come to be safe? air conditioner?"

Liang Sizhe's eyes lifted from the script: "No, it should be just a few days."

"You said he wouldn't forget?"

"No way."

Cao Ye turned his head to look at him. The electric fan was blowing right on his side, blowing his hair up. He looked at Liang Sizhe: "We have an air conditioner, are you happy?"

"It's okay," Liang Sizhe said, "I'm very happy."

"Not at all."

"I'm just like this, and I'm not happy and angry." In fact, I couldn't be happy at all.

"Hey, you're quite deep," Cao Ye laughed, "pretend to be cool."

When he was sleeping at night, Cao Ye still remembered about the air conditioner. He turned off the lights and lay on their respective beds. Cao Ye said in the dark, "You said, can my dad remember to install the air conditioner for us tomorrow?"

"Who knows." Liang Sizhe closed his eyes and said, thinking that if you didn't pester me to watch "Midnight Bell" in the afternoon, maybe I'd already make an appointment for tomorrow's door-to-door air-conditioning installation service.

"If I don't come tomorrow, I'll call him." Cao Ye said to himself.

Hearing this, Liang Sizhe opened his eyes suddenly: "..."

"I can't just remember that I have a son and then forget it..." Cao Ye continued.

"Tomorrow will come," Liang Sizhe closed his eyes and said, "Go to sleep."

The next morning before Cao Ye was awake, Liang Sizhe took a taxi and went to a nearby home appliance city for a walk. There were all kinds of air-conditioning brands, and the salesman introduced them all over the place. A brain drilled into his ears, making him dizzy. He thought that if Cao Xiuyuan or Zheng Yin really came to buy the air conditioner, they wouldn't be interested in spending time with the salesperson, just pick the most expensive one and leave...

But the prices of the most expensive ones are surprisingly high. If I swipe this card, I am afraid that I will be close to the poorest people. After turning around, he picked a Japanese brand wall-mounted air conditioner, which looks very high-end, less than The price of 10,000 is barely acceptable, but I still feel a pain in the flesh when I swipe the card.

It's not an easy thing to fool Cao Ye. Yesterday, Cao Ye could believe the sentence he said, "Cao Xiuyuan will find someone to install the air conditioner for you", he already felt incredible.

Thinking about it, Cao Ye might have been overwhelmed by this sudden fatherly love. Otherwise, with his intelligence and observation skills, it would be impossible for him to pass the test so easily. How cold is Cao Xiuyuan to Cao Ye at ordinary times to make him so happy because of an air conditioner...

The home appliance store delivered to the door. On the way, Liang Sizhe talked with the driver. After arriving at Lanyan, he asked the master to bring the air conditioner up first. After a walk outside, he finished his breakfast slowly, guessing that he did not go out to buy an air conditioner. Well, then he waved and ordered another breakfast to take away, then got up and walked back to Lanyan.

Pushing the door and entering the room, Cao Ye had already washed up, and was crouching on the ground with his head tilted, looking at the outer packaging carton of the air conditioner.

Liang Sizhe walked in: "What are you doing?" His eyes fell on the air conditioner on the ground, "Your dad brought the air conditioner?"

"Well," Cao Ye replied, looking back at him, looking very happy, "What did you do when you went out?"

"I woke up from hunger, I went out to eat breakfast," Liang Sizhe handed him the breakfast in his hand, paid attention to the expression on his face, and saw nothing unusual, "I brought you a copy back."

"Thank you Brother Si Zhe." Cao Ye said sweetly.

Cao Ye sat down at the table to eat xiao long bao, his cheeks were stuffed, he swallowed and said, "My dad actually remembers the air conditioner."

Liang Sizhe took the script by the bedside, opened it, and asked absently, "Did you say when to come?"

"I said, the day after tomorrow afternoon." Cao Ye said after taking a sip of soy milk.

"Yeah." Liang Sizhe responded.

After the sun went down in the evening, the temperature dropped during the day. After dinner, the two walked around the nearby alleyway. When they reached the corner, they encountered the little white dog. Cao Ye squatted down and fed it with ham sausage while watching. While eating it, he stretched out his hand and touched its head: "I also have a dog, raised in my grandfather's house, it's so big," he stretched his arms and gestured with Liang Sizhe, who was squatting on the side, "Next time I'll bring it here. show you."

"What kind?" Liang Sizhe got a little tired from squatting, and stood up on his knees.

"Husky." Cao Ye thought he was going to leave, peeled off the rest of the ham and threw it in front of the puppy, and also stood up.

"Going in a different direction today?" Liang Sizhe asked.

"Okay."

Compared with the smoke-filled food stalls on Yin Fourth Street, the street is quieter and quieter. Near the street are a row of sporting goods stores, grocery wholesale stores and hardware stores. Several stores have been closed. Two people Strolling around the side of the street with nothing to do, the sporadic storefronts that are still open are all lit up with exaggerated neon lights at the door of the store.

A store near the end of the alley was dark and narrow, with "Xiao Ke Record Store" written on the door, but the words "Xiao Ke Cinema" were printed on the light box standing on the street. Cao Ye paused, a little curious. Looking up at the second floor, I looked at the storefront: "This place is actually a theater?"

Liang Sizhe followed his line of sight and looked up. The curtains of the upstairs window were drawn, and the faint light in the room was faintly revealed. He had a bad premonition in his heart. In his early days, the young boss, who was sitting in the cool of the shop, greeted him, "Hey, are you watching a movie?"

Liang Sizhe hadn't spoken yet, but Cao Ye asked with interest, "What movie?"

"There are all kinds of movies, come in and pick?"

"Okay, let's go in and pick," Cao Ye said, holding Liang Sizhe's arm and walking in, turning his head to look at him, "Didn't you say you're almost finished with those discs?"

"It's almost finished, but..."

"But what?" Cao Ye pulled him into the store.

"It's all right," Liang Sizhe said, and said in his heart, but I think the "film" that the boss said may not be the same as what you understand...

The boss led them to the display rack where the discs were placed: "Choose whatever you want. If it doesn't suit your taste, there are still some that you haven't taken out."

Liang Sizhe breathed a sigh of relief when he stood in front of the exhibition stand. The boss slyly didn't take those "films" outside. Some of the films on the shelf were quite classic. After a cursory glance, he saw "Titanic" and "Titanic". "This killer is not too cold".

"This?" Cao Ye raised his hand and took a plate of "Vulgar" from the top shelf, turned his face and asked Liang Sizhe, "See?"

"You can pick," Liang Sizhe half-squatted down to look at the rows below, "Just pick the ones you haven't seen before."

Liang Sizhe didn't know much about movies, so he took a few old classic movies with names that he had heard of before, and put them on the ground beside him. Just as he was putting "V for Vendetta" in the past, there was a sound coming down the stairs from the other end of the narrow house. footsteps.

The two of them turned their heads to look at the sound. A man and a woman came down the stairs. They were both in their early twenties. The woman was wearing a plain dress with her head lowered, as if she was afraid of seeing people. The man next to her was wearing The flowered shirt looked like a street gangster. When he saw the two boys downstairs looking up, he raised his arms in a showy way to hug the girl next to him, and took her into his arms. The girl blushed and muttered something in a low voice, but she still didn't break away the arm that was holding her.

"Read it?" The boss greeted quite naturally.

"It's over, the movie is good." The bastard said in a long tone.

"Is the theater upstairs?" Cao Ye turned around and asked the boss, "Are there any good movies showing?"

"VIP small hall, you can choose it for me, I will put it below, you can just go up and see."

A man and a woman just went out when another couple came in, said hello to the boss, and walked straight to the Korean movie area at the back, looking like regular customers.

"Let's go up and watch one?" Cao Ye crouched down and put the selected discs on top of the stack that Liang Sizhe had picked. "Anyway, I have to go back and watch a movie if I have nothing to do."

"... Want to watch it?" Liang Sizhe felt a little embarrassed. The couple who had just come down the stairs could tell which movie they were watching at a glance, but Cao Ye might have been abroad for a long time and didn't know much about the local area. National conditions, I really regard this as a theater.

… Well, it’s not wrong to say a theater, after all, it depends on what is the freedom of customers.

He was just thinking that Cao Ye had already started to choose a film from the stack of discs on the ground. He picked one out and said, "Is this okay? Johnny Depp's film should be good."

Liang Sizhe glanced at the title of the film, "From Hell", like a thriller: "Okay, just watch this." No one stipulates that serious films can't be watched here...

The boss didn't seem to care what movie the customer was watching. He took it and glanced at it: "The movie is two hours long and costs 30 yuan."

The two paid the money, and the boss put the disc into the projector and waved his back to them: "Go up, wait for five minutes, and go to Hall 3."

The stairs were a little narrow, and the passageway was opaque. They were only lit by a light bulb hanging on the wall. Cao Ye and Liang Sizhe went upstairs one after the other. When they stood at the door of the second floor, they were a little surprised.

Rao was mentally prepared, but Liang Sizhe didn't expect the environment here would be so shabby - a narrow and deep layout similar to the first floor of Lanyan, divided into five airtight spaces by partitions, filled with dim light, almost Full of hidden and erotic undertones…

"This place is really..." Cao Ye paused and struggled to find a suitable word, "special." He walked over and laughed at the simple number "3" on the partition, "Hey Liang Sizhe, Come and see, this is Room 3."

Liang Sizhe walked over, wrote a "3" with chalk on the wooden partition, and drew a circle outside, which was really special...

There was a sound of footsteps on the stairs, as well as the conversation between a man and a woman - another pair of guests came up. Is it soundproofing here? Liang Sizhe couldn't help but have this thought in his mind.

Cao Ye ignored the two people who came up from behind, opened the door and walked in: "It's okay inside."

The two people looked over here, Liang Sizhe was a little uncomfortable, and walked in with Cao Ye. There was a white curtain hanging on the front wall of the compartment. Looking up at the projection equipment above, it projected a light blue dazzling light. In the cold light, there is a leather two-seater seat next to the door.

Cao Ye sat up and tried it. When the upper body leaned back, the back of the chair automatically lowered, and the support plate below was lifted up, supporting the calf on the ground and turning it into a reclining chair.

"Come and try, it's quite comfortable."

Cao Ye straightened up and pulled Liang Sizhe's arm, he got up, and the reclining chair returned to the shape of a seat.

Although he instinctively thought of what might have happened on this reclining chair, but seeing Cao Ye's interested expression, Liang Sizhe pressed the words of refusal under his tongue, and walked over to sit down despite the discomfort in his heart.

"You lean back," Cao Ye raised his hand and squeezed his shoulder, "Let's put it down together."

Liang Sizhe followed him, his upper body leaned back, the support plate behind his legs was lifted, and the two of them were lying on it.

Although this feels a bit strange, the reclining chair under him is still spacious, and the two people lying on it will not be close to each other, Liang Sizhe feels that it can be tolerated. The hair tied at the back of his head was a little uncomfortable, he raised his hand and pulled the hair rope down and put it on his wrist.

At this moment, pictures began to appear on the projection wall. Cao Ye raised his head and looked at it: "Do you want to turn off the light? Where is the switch?" to the switch.

"Will it be outside?" Liang Sizhe turned to look at him.

"I'll go out and have a look." Cao Ye pushed open the door and walked out. After a while, the lights in the compartment went out, leaving only the light from the film on the projection wall in the room.

"It's really outside." Cao Ye walked into the cubicle and lay down again. After a while, both of them realized that something was amiss - this movie was out of the picture without sound.

"Do I have to wear earphones?" Cao Ye jumped off the reclining chair again, and walked around the compartment without seeing the earphones, "Isn't the earphones outside?"

Liang Sizhe also got off the reclining chair to look for it with him, and finally found two headphones behind the reclining chair.

After a lot of tossing, the two finally lay down on the reclining chair with their headphones on. The title of the movie has already been broadcast. The picture is a scene of a rock band performing on the stage. The voices were loud and noisy, and the chopped performance pictures were mixed with flashing bed scenes alternately.

It is not uncommon for European and American movies to cut into the main line of the plot with bed scenes, but perhaps the atmosphere in this compartment is already closed and gloomy.

More importantly, the scale of this picture is really astonishingly large. Just the few explicit scenes that flashed at the beginning are enough to classify this film as an 18-ban restricted level.

The scene of the stage was broadcast, followed by a bed scene. Compared with the sporadic flashing scenes before, this bed scene is more coherent and explicit. The naked scenes of the male and female protagonists are lustful but not obscene, with dark tones. And the staggered breaths are just right, but... Is this really the "From Hell" that Cao Ye just picked? Liang Sizhe looked at the picture on the screen and couldn't help but have this thought in his mind.

This shot is too explicit...

Why is the bed scene so long? Is it really suitable for the children next to you to watch

Wouldn't the full nudity be too exaggerated

Ahh the bed scene is finally over.

Wait, what happened again

And most importantly... what about Johnny Depp? Why is it that the couple is always going around, but the protagonist hasn't shown up yet

Liang Sizhe took off his earphones and hung them around his neck, turned his head to look at Cao Ye, who was looking at the picture on the screen intently, and even forgot to eat the ice cream in his hand, those two amber bead-like eyes were reflecting on the screen at the moment. The light on it looked slightly brighter. That focused and curious expression reminded Liang Sizhe of the scene when he first saw Cao Ye. At that time, he thought that Zheng Yin was going to take him to Lanyan for a meat meal, and he had such an expression on his face.

To watch so intently... Hey, isn't this what you should watch, kid? Liang Sizhe bowed, raised the arm that was close to Cao Ye, and put his backhand on his eyes. Cao Ye blinked instinctively, and the lashes made Liang Sizhe's palm a little itchy.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Cao Ye laughed softly after reacting, "Don't block my eyes."

"The 18-ban movie," Liang Sizhe didn't take his hand away, worrying about someone in the next cubicle, he lowered his voice, "How old are you, kid?"

"You're only over eighteen, right?" Cao Ye said with a smile in his voice.

"It's also past eighteen, and, isn't this film misplaced, didn't you find it?"

Cao Ye smiled and clicked his tongue: "I think it's okay to be wrong." He raised his hand and held Liang Sizhe's wrist, trying to remove the hand that was covering his eyes.

Liang Sizhe pulled his hand away himself: "I'll go to the boss." Just as he was about to get up, a woman's scream came from next door: "Ah—" Liang Sizhe stopped, turned his face to listen to the movement next door, and Cao Ye took it off too. Headphones, "What's wrong?"

There was an angry rebuke from a young man next door: "Fuck, what a piece of shit!" Then the footsteps came, and the man walked to the stairs and shouted down, "Boss, you're not playing "Nine Songs"!"

"What's wrong?" the boss shouted upstairs.

"My wife's heart attack is frightened by this rip-opening scene, are you responsible?!"

"Wait for me to see! Hey, it's really wrong, I'm sorry buddy, it's wrong! Now I'll change it back for you!"

The screen went black, Liang Sizhe leaned back on the seat, and Cao Ye whispered beside him, "Hey, don't change..."

Liang Sizhe glanced at him, Cao Ye was leaning on his side listening to the movement at the door, the neckline of his T-shirt slipped to one side, revealing his clean collarbone, which glowed with a delicate luster in the dark environment. Cao Ye turned his face and smiled at him, revealing a row of white teeth: "Hey, I knew we would choose that one too!"

Being disturbed by him like this, the awkward atmosphere in the air disappeared. Liang Sizhe took his eyes back. He thought that Cao Ye was just a child. Zheng Yin was right in what he said in the car that day. Although the child didn't have a door on his mouth, he actually didn't have much contact with this aspect. very.