After dinner, the two of them left the restaurant. Liang Sizhe walked to the side of the road and wanted to beckon for a taxi. Originally, he planned to take the bus by himself. It's not really rich.
When he took the bus to the Electric City to buy an air conditioner yesterday morning, he had read the map on the back of the bus stop sign in advance, and had memorized the bus route to Yangyin, but now that Cao Ye wants to go with him, he changed it temporarily. The idea is to take a taxi, after all, this young master should have never squeezed a bus.
When he walked to the side of the road, there was a taxi waiting at the red light across the road. Liang Sizhe was about to raise his hand to call for a taxi. Cao Ye grabbed his wrist and raised his chin to indicate to a subway station not far away: "Let's take the subway to go there. Bar."
"Huh?" Liang Sizhe was stunned for a while. He thought that Cao Ye would not even see that he was poor now
"I've never been on the subway." Cao Ye said, looking at the subway station.
"Oh," Liang Sizhe glanced back, "Okay, I've never taken the subway before." But the reason is different, there is no subway as a travel option in Yancheng.
The year before last, the local news station said that the first subway line would be opened within five years, bringing Yancheng into the "subway era". At that time, the parents quarreled a few words about this matter at the dinner table-they could quarrel over every little thing, Liang Sizhe can't remember. The specific reasons for their quarrel at that time seemed to be only a small difference in the common words, so the two choked inexplicably.
Liang Sizhe remembered that he was eating with his head down and silently eating, listening to them quarreling with each other every word. The tone was not too intense, but he was very annoyed and wanted to yell at them, "Hurry up and get a divorce. Okay", but he still didn't say the irritability that suppressed his heart. He hurriedly finished eating and put the chopsticks on the dining table, then got up and went back to his room. Now that I think about it, I really regret it. If I shouted at that time, would it change the trajectory of the future? Would the accident have been avoided
The subway station is clearly marked, and even if the two have never taken the subway before, they can easily buy a ticket and enter the station. There were not many people taking the subway in the afternoon, but the seats in the car were still occupied, so the two could only stand on one side of the aisle holding the handrail above their heads.
As soon as he got on the subway, Cao Ye answered a call. Liang Sizhe heard him call a name on the other end of the phone. It was a name that he hadn't heard before, or maybe he had mentioned it but forgot.
Cao Ye has many friends. There are several who have mentioned names in front of him, such as Lin Yan, Chi Mingyao, He Fangwen, Dabai... If a few names are mentioned too much, he will leave some impressions in his mind. Forget it.
As soon as Cao Ye answered the phone, he mysteriously asked the person on the other side to guess where he was. After a few guesses, he couldn't get it right, and he revealed the answer with great interest: "I'm on the subway! Have you ever been on the subway?"
What was said over there, Cao Ye said: "I'm not going, you didn't have time to call you last time, and now I don't have any time... What are you bragging about, you buy me a subway, you buy me a subway model almost!"
Liang Sizhe watched the advertisements passing by outside the carriage, and listened to Cao Ye bickering with others on the phone. After staying with Cao Ye on Yinsi Street for a long time, he almost forgot that they were originally from two worlds. If Cao Xiuyuan and Zheng Yin hadn't threw them to Lanyan, maybe he would never have been with this in his life. Teenagers who have taken the bus and subway have an intersection.
But speaking of himself, he rarely took the bus before. His pocket money has always been abundant, and the violin that he always carries on his back is quite expensive, so if he goes out and beckons for a taxi, he will never walk a few hundred meters to get there. Stop waiting for the bus.
What's more, when I go back from school every Friday afternoon, I always catch the bus when there are the most passengers. It's really uncomfortable to be so crowded that I can't stand. After he experienced it once a few years ago, he never took it on a Friday afternoon. bus.
Perhaps it was because he had always spent money recklessly and recklessly before the accident, and this year, he quickly spent the six-digit balance on his bank card to only five digits left.
Just for the rehabilitation of the severed finger, I invested more than 100,000 yuan at a time. I went to the doctor in a hurry. At that time, I also lost my head. I thought I would see the effect. Just an institution. At that time, he spent several months insisting on rehabilitation every day. One day, he went to the city's top 3 hospital for re-examination, but was told by the doctor that the fractured nerve and the nerve could not be restored to the flexibility to play the violin. He was likely to be deceived. . When he got home, he woke up from a dream and thought that the thought that he once thought he could play the violin again was just a delusion from beginning to end. In a fit of rage, he broke his most precious violin.
If Cao Xiuyuan didn't suddenly appear at his door that night, it is estimated that he would have gone to the liar rehabilitation center to make trouble the next morning. The rhythm of the trouble had been planned in advance. "The rehabilitation instructor beat him and broke two of his fingers, and then went to the eighth floor to find the dean who always appeared on TV to make fake advertisements, and beat him again, and broke his two fingers again.
-Isn't a broken finger recoverable? Doesn't the ad say it can be restored? Didn't he pull out a bunch of technical terms during the consultation at that time and promised him that he would be able to play the violin again? Then let them experience for themselves whether the so-called rehabilitation method is so effective! It's best if things get bigger, and the media will help with a free publicity wave to let everyone know that it's a liar organization.
If he really did that at the time, would he be squatting in prison and eating prison food now... Liang Sizhe thought a little in a trance.
Cao Ye hung up the phone. Seeing Liang Sizhe staring at the dark tunnel outside the window, he couldn't help but ask, "What are you thinking?"
Liang Sizhe blinked his eyes and said, "I'm thinking, fate is really magical..."
Mingming had suppressed himself to such a desperate point, but he was not allowed to indulge in indulgence, tried every means to make up one after another, and let him know such a rare young man, let him sink. Unable to sink, climbing up and climbing so hard, in the end, fate tortured me like this, what kind of path did it want to lead him to...
But he didn't say that. He turned his head to look at Cao Ye, and said slowly, "It actually makes us two get to know each other."
There was no joy or anger in his expression, and Cao Ye was also startled: "Don't you want to know me?"
"No," Liang Sizhe realized that what he said might have caused a misunderstanding, and added, "I was just thinking, if I follow the normal trajectory, I may not have a chance to meet you."
After all, if he could play the violin, even if Cao Xiuyuan really approached him and asked him to be an actor, he would have refused without hesitation... After all, he used to have a firm mind and never thought that he would have the possibility of acting.
"Maybe," Cao Ye thought for a while and said, "Maybe we'll meet on this subway."
"subway?"
"Yeah, look, I've never been on the subway, I've always been curious about what the subway is like, so I always take a ride, even if it's not with you, I'll be with other friends, too. Maybe I will come and sit by myself, maybe. You, you are in college," Cao Ye said, putting his arm on his shoulder naturally, "Occasionally you will need to take the subway when you come out, maybe we will meet Now, there is no seat on the subway, we just stand here with the handrail, and then I see you carrying the violin, because I can play the violin too, so maybe I will have a word with you, and then we chat, After chatting happily, we exchanged contact information and became friends, so at this moment, ding ~ fate coincides."
"Ha, there is a possibility..." And this may be quite cute, making people feel better after hearing this, Liang Sizhe smiled, "Have you ever thought about being a director just like your father? ?"
"Well, I don't want it." Cao Ye categorically denied it.
Liang Sizhe was a little surprised: "Why?"
"Like my dad's character, he won't be satisfied with what kind of movies I make, and maybe he'll point fingers at my works. Besides, he's almost a god, no matter how good I do it, he will Living under his shadow, being compared by people who know what to do but don't know how to do it, it's annoying to think about it..."
"That's true." Liang Sizhe smiled, but he didn't expect Cao Ye to look like a little playboy, so he thought about it quite clearly.
Before getting off the subway, a classmate from the Affiliated High School called and heard Liang Sizhe say that he was coming by subway, so he went to the subway entrance to pick him up in advance.
When Liang Sizhe and Cao Ye came out of the elevator, three of his classmates were waiting at the door, two women and one man, looking down the elevator while chatting. When they saw him coming out, they all straightened up and waved at him.
Liang Sizhe got off the elevator, and the only boy came over and patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "Long time no see, Sizhe, I was just stunned before I recognized him."
"Yeah, long time no see." Liang Sizhe also smiled at him.
The boy looked at him: "This hairstyle is quite suitable for you, when did you keep your hair up?"
"Is it reserved for the movie?" the girl next to her asked.
"No," Liang Sizhe said with a smile, "I was too lazy to go to the barber shop at home before, my hair was long and hot, so I tied it up."
"Oh... who is this?" The boy gestured to Cao Ye next to him.
"This is my friend," Liang Sizhe raised his hand and put his hand on Cao Ye's shoulder, "Cao Ye." He introduced Cao Ye in turn, first introduced the boy, "Wang Haiming, commander," and then introduced two girls, "Mu Ke, violin, Meng Yangxin, accordion."
"Are you going to make a movie together?" The girl named Meng Yangxin looked at Liang Sizhe and then at Cao Ye.
Liang Sizhe turned his face and glanced at Cao Ye, and was about to get around the topic when Cao Ye first said with a smile: "Yes, we play brothers, don't we look like?"
"Well..." The girl took it seriously, looked at the two of them seriously, turned to look at the other girl, and said hesitantly, "The height is still the same..."
"Isn't it? We don't look alike?" Cao Ye said seriously, "The director chose us just because we looked alike."
"It seems to be a bit similar," said another girl, Mu Ke. "The nose, the nose is a bit similar, isn't it?"
"Is there? Why do I think it's not like that at all... Is it a real brother?"
"It's a sworn brother." Cao Ye said.
"Hey," Meng Yangxin laughed, "what else does it look like? You lied to us."
Cao Ye quickly became acquainted with the two girls, but the girls walked slowly, so the three fell behind slightly.
Two steps away, Liang Sizhe and Wang Haiming walked in front, Wang Haiming's voice was deliberately lowered: "Is the matter over Yancheng resolved?"
"It's almost there." Liang Sizhe said.
"That family... did they make trouble with you again?"
"No, I won't make trouble if I lose money."
"How much did you lose in the end?"
"More than one million, the court sentenced." Actually, I didn't really want to talk about this matter, but Wang Haiming helped a lot in the time after the incident, so Liang Sizhe couldn't bluntly avoid these questions.
"More than one million..." Wang Haiming frowned, "Then do you have enough money now?"
"Enough, there's still a lot left after the compensation," Liang Sizhe pretended to smile lightly, "Also, I still have two houses, don't worry." - Although I didn't think about selling it, the old house is still small. I have lived in it for more than ten years, and there are traces of memories everywhere. The new house was just moved in two years before the accident. The layout and details were all designed by my father.
"Where's your guardian? Is it your aunt?"
"She, my daughter is in her third year of high school, so she can't take care of her family. Besides, I don't need a guardian anymore after my eighteenth birthday. It's good and free."
"But it's good to be picked to play in a movie, and it was picked by Cao Xiuyuan. It's more promising to be a big star than to play the violin." Wang Haiming comforted him.
Liang Sizhe smiled and said noncommittally, "What big star? It's not worth it, and there will be an audition later. It's a question of whether you can choose or not."
"It doesn't make sense for you to be selected. Look at the people who are popular now. The one that Cao Xiuyuan picked in the past two years is called Zhang Minghan, right? He doesn't seem to be very outstanding, with thin arms and thin legs. Like a girl, are you... The facade of our music affiliated high school can't be wrong."
"Don't lift me up like that," Liang Sizhe smiled, shook his head, and added, "After the audition, there will be an audition, and many people will try it together, and there is not necessarily only one person left at the end of the audition. There may be a lot of surprises in the middle of a newcomer's film."
"Really? Is it so cruel..."
The two people in front walked fast, and the gap quickly widened from two steps to a few meters away. The girl named Meng Yangxin suddenly lowered her voice and touched Mu Ke with her arm: "It's changed a lot, hasn't it?"
"Can it stay the same?" Mu Ke glanced at her.
"Oh, it's not like the same person before and after."
"What has changed a lot?" Cao Ye asked curiously, realizing that they were talking about Liang Sizhe.
However, after just a few minutes of getting along, the two girls let go of their guard against him, Meng Yangxin raised his chin and gestured to Liang Sizhe in front of him: "Let's talk about Liang Sizhe, the violinist of the Symphony Orchestra of the Middle School attached to our music, you know him. Did you play the violin before?"
"I know." Cao Ye nodded.
"His resume is quite... how should I put it..."
"Brilliant." Mu Ke answered.
"Yes, Brilliant. I think when we went to the province to perform, he gave our orchestra a boost when he stood there. The violin department is at the top, and he was the orchestra's principal. When he came on stage, wow, everyone offstage. The audience was all looking at him…”
"And solo." Mu Ke interjected at this time.
"Yes, he is also in charge of the violin solo... It's most suitable for that kind of flamboyant style. As soon as you see him, you know what it means to be high-spirited, because I think his character is a bit flamboyant and arrogant..."
"The unpretentious music style is also very good, and the melancholy and classical style of "The Liang Zhu" is also very suitable for him." Compared with Meng Yangxin, Mu Ke's tone is softer, "and I think his personality is not good. It's publicity, it's easy to get along with, a bit cold and humorous, and will scolded you indifferently..."
"She's a fan girl. She wears filters when she sees Liang Sizhe." Meng Yangxin said to Cao Ye with a smile, and then turned to look at Mu Ke, "Getting along doesn't mean you don't show off. How many times has he attacked you before?"
"It's not real, it's just a joke." Mu Ke spoke for Liang Sizhe.
"Zhang Yang..." Cao Ye raised his head thoughtfully and glanced at Liang Sizhe's back in front of him. To be honest, he could only use his imagination to outline in his mind the flamboyant, arrogant, and high-spirited chief Xiao Liang Sizhe, who seemed to have nothing to do with the Liang Sizhe he had seen during this time.
"It's definitely not public now. I'm talking about when I was in the middle school," Meng Yangxin sighed, "Oh, it's a pity, I was going to go abroad to participate in the competition, but I heard that it was on the way to the airport. Car accident, his father…”
At this moment, Mu Ke raised his arm and touched her, and motioned her to stop talking with his eyes. Meng Yangxin immediately realized that she was talking too much, and immediately fell silent.
Cao Ye didn't notice the movements and eye contact of the two people next to him. He was still thinking about the flamboyant Liang Sizhe that Meng Yangxin said just now.
—Liang Sizhe, who appeared in front of him, was taciturn, sharp, heavy, and fragile from the very beginning, like a beast that was stuck in a predicament, hesitant to move forward. Suddenly, Liang Sizhe flashed in his mind and said to himself before. Past words:
"If you haven't auditioned... I don't think so, maybe go back to Yancheng."
"I'm just curious what the script looks like, I've never seen it."
And he held the thick book "Self-Cultivation of Actors" and said, "How can such a professional book look good."
From the field of violin, which he is good at, into the world of movies, which he knows nothing about, it is almost a process of being shattered and rebuilt. Thinking that Liang Sizhe's heart may not be as calm and calm as he usually shows.
The sentence "I thought I couldn't pass the audition" originally thought it was just a self-effacing sentence that didn't take heart, but now that I think about it, it may really be an extremely unconfident self-deprecation.
What will the trapped beast look like after breaking free? Cao Ye looked at Liang Sizhe's back not far away, thought for a while, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, lowered his head and sent a message to Zheng Yin: "Uncle Yin, when do you have time? I have a question to ask you about acting."