The Eye of the Storm

Chapter 9

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"Director Cao, there's not much gas left. There is the last rest stop in front of me. I'll go and add some gas." The driver's voice pulled Liang Sizhe back to the car at the moment.

"Go," Cao Xiuyuan put down the script in his hand and took out a cigarette case from his pocket, "Stop for a few minutes, I just got out of the car and smoked a cigarette."

"Okay." The driver responded.

The car stopped at the expressway rest stop. Cao Xiuyuan and Zheng Yin got out of the car to smoke. Liang Sizhe stayed in the car for a day and felt suffocated.

On the way back, he took a long detour. Cao Xiuyuan probably finished smoking a cigarette, so he walked back to the car, so as not to face embarrassment.

The cigarette in Cao Xiuyuan's hand really only had a short piece left. He was listening to what Zheng Yin was saying, but he couldn't tell what his mood was. It's just that when he saw Liang Sizhe approaching, that kind of straight scrutiny fell on him again.

Soon, Zheng Yin noticed that Cao Xiuyuan's eyes were different, and when he turned his head, he also saw Liang Sizhe. Originally, Zheng Yin was talking quickly, but when he realized that Liang Sizhe was approaching, he stopped and said nothing.

You should be talking about yourself. Liang Sizhe guessed.

Cao Xiuyuan puffed out his cigarette, and a few people got back to the car.

"How long will it take?" Cao Xiuyuan asked.

"About an hour." The driver said while driving.

"Send me to Ah He's." After Cao Xiuyuan finished speaking, he turned his face to look at Liang Sizhe, and said the first thing he said to him since he got in the car, "Follow Zheng Yin in a while, and he will arrange for you. The conditions may not be much better in the place to live, but the environment will be similar to the script, you need to get used to it first, experience it, and I will let Zheng Yin inform you when there is news later."

"Okay." Liang Sizhe nodded and replied.

"Then I'll take him to Yinsi Street." Zheng Yin in the front row turned back at this moment.

"You decide." Cao Xiuyuan looked down at the script and said casually.

"Take Xiao Ye over too, okay?" Zheng Yin asked again.

"Whatever you want." Cao Xiuyuan said, and after a while, he added, "That would have to be his willingness to go."

"He won't go over, I'll tie him up," Zheng Yin said with a smile, "You can just let me come."

Cao Xiuyuan also laughed: "You can deal with him if you have a plan."

"I have Zhao'er," Zheng Yin picked up the phone and raised it at Cao Xiuyuan, "Wait, I'll give him a call, and he'll come with me right away."

After speaking, he made a phone call in front of Cao Xiuyuan. The beep sounded, Zheng Yin pressed the speakerphone.

After a few seconds, the other side picked up, and a boy's voice came from the phone. He sounded young, and his voice was youthful: "Hey, what's the matter with Uncle Yin?"

Hearing the voice from the phone, Cao Xiuyuan also looked up from the script.

"Where is it?" Zheng Yin asked naturally.

"I'm doing my homework at home," said the boy.

"How can you be so good? What homework do you do?"

"Math," the boy said with ease, like that, "I'm opening the square root, I'm driving really hard, I'll hang up if I'm okay."

"Hey, wait," Zheng Yin said quickly, "Xiao Ye, don't go out yet, wait for me at home, I'll take you somewhere in a while."

"Where are you going," the boy's voice on the phone sounded uninterested, obviously unwilling to come out with him, "I'm opening a square root, don't bother me!"

"Take you to open meat, or not?" After Zheng Yin finished speaking, he glanced at Cao Xiuyuan with a smirk.

"Really or not?" The other side of the phone was clearly excited, "Where are you going?"

"You'll know when you come, it's a good place, get ready."

"What a good place? You must be lying to me."

"Really, you don't believe it, don't blame me for not reminding you to prepare in advance."

"Ah? No... Uncle Yin, that, what do I need to prepare?"

Zheng Yin held back his laughter so hard that he could hardly hold back, he calmed down for a moment before opening his mouth again: "Take a bath, tidy up nicely, clean, by the way, don't bring any money, Uncle Yin, please, save money It's the first time you've been tricked by someone else."

"Ah? Are you really taking me for a meat meal?!" Zheng Yin said something like that, and the tone on the other end of the phone was a little shocked.

"When did Uncle Yin lie to you?"

"Oh... OK." The boy was dubious.

"Then I'll hang up." After Zheng Yin finished speaking, he hurriedly hung up the phone. The moment the call was cut off, a burst of laughter broke out: "Brother Yuan, did you hear me? The little guy usually doesn't have a door on his lips, but he is actually a What about the chick?"

Cao Xiuyuan also smiled: "What do you say to him every day." There was no intention of anger in his tone.

"I call it breaking into the enemy's interior. When I look back, I'll take all his money. Look at him. He can't go anywhere without money. Just stay on Yin 4th Street."

Cao Xiuyuan was noncommittal, shook his head and said with a smile: "He has a lot of friends, so your trick may not work."

"Don't worry," Zheng Yin said with a smile, "I still have a move."

The atmosphere in the car was visibly livelier because of the phone call.

Liang Sizhe understood, Zheng Yin was going to take him to a place to stay, and a boy would go with him. Judging from their reactions and conversations, it was speculated that it should be the son of director Cao Xiuyuan.

The off-road vehicle rushed down the highway and drove into the city, and the number of vehicles on the road increased significantly.

Liang Sizhe looked at the speeding capital city through the car window. He has been here more than once, to participate in the violin competition with the school's instructor. I went back to Rock City soon after the game and never really visited the city.

Maybe this time I can have a chance to take a good stroll. This thought came to his mind.

The driver parked the car in front of a quiet villa area, and Cao Xiuyuan got out of the car.

When the door was closed, Zheng Yin turned his head and said to the driver, "Let's go, Brother Lei, let's go to Yinsi Street. It's a bit hard to find. You drive to Anyuan Bridge first, and then I'll show you the way."

After the car went straight all the way to Anyuan Bridge smoothly, Zheng Yin verbally instructed the driver to drive the car into a small alley, only one or two kilometers away from the nearby main road, but the environment in the alley It is 108,000 miles away from the wide and flat road outside.

The alley is dilapidated, like a deserted area forgotten by the city. At first glance, the stains on the cement pavement glowed greasy under the sun, and it was not difficult to see the traces of oil fumes on the front of the street shop.

There is a big "demolition" written on the windows and walls of almost every storefront, which is firmly embedded in the red circle, just like those who live in this alley and cannot escape this kind of life.

"That's the one, Lan Yan," Zheng Yin pointed to a store in front of him through the front windshield, "Brother Lei, please stop in front."

After the car drove forward for a short distance, it stopped steadily. Only then did Liang Sizhe clearly see the "Blue Banquet" in Zheng Yin's mouth - the door is fancy, it should be a KTV, but it looks more like a TV show. The kind of karaoke hall of the last century, the cheap golden door and window frames are quite a bit gaudy.

"Get out of the car." Zheng Yin pushed open the car door and walked out, raised his legs and stepped up the steps to enter the hall.

Liang Sizhe went around the car, took off his suitcase, and walked up the steps with one hand.

The entrance hall is narrow and deep, and the light is dim. At first glance, you can only see the stairs leading up to the end. Since the official business hours have not yet arrived, only the innermost one of the ceiling lights is turned on, and the atmosphere is dark and ambiguous.

Zheng Yin was standing at the entrance of the stairs talking to a middle-aged woman. His voice was not loud, but the woman opposite had a really loud voice. The words she said entered Liang Sizhe's ears literally.

"Brother Yin, don't worry, we are doing serious business here."

"Director Cao's son is coming too? Then, should Director Cao come to us to pick a few actors?... Hahaha, I know, don't worry, I'll tell them when I look back, be honest, don't think about climbing Gaozhi to provoke Young Master Cao ."

"Picked a new guy? Who is it?" The woman turned her head to look at Liang Sizhe at the door, raised her chin, "Is that right?" The woman had thick makeup on her face, and foundation accumulated on the smile lines at the corners of her eyes. His face was as pale as wallpaper in the light.

"Yes," Zheng Yin beckoned to Liang Sizhe, "Liang, come here."

Liang Sizhe put the suitcase on the ground, pulled out the lever, and dragged it over.

"Oh, Director Cao's vision is really good, this temperament," the woman put her arms around her chest, looked at Liang Sizhe from head to toe, and said, "I still have long hair... I can become a superstar in the future, or the future. the actor?"

Zheng Yin let out a low cough, stretched out his hand and pulled the woman aside, Liang Sizhe heard him whisper, "It's not settled yet, don't make any noise."

Liang Sizhe was not interested in eavesdropping on their speech, and put his fingers on the lever of the suitcase, looking around the environment casually.

The two standing by the wall whispered for a while, and Zheng Yin's voice returned to normal: "Then I'll go first, pick up my young master, and come back later." After speaking, he raised his chin at Liang Sizhe, " Xiao Liang, wait here for a while."

Liang Sizhe responded.

After Zheng Yin left, the woman also entered the back room. Before leaving, she turned around and said to Liang Sizhe, "You can sit anywhere, don't be restrained." After speaking, she turned into the back room.

The waiter who sweeps the floor and the waiter who cleans the table perform their respective duties. No one pays attention to Liang Sizhe, so he finds a chair and sits down by himself.

It was almost evening, and the girls in the karaoke hall came downstairs one after another, Yishuier wearing heavy makeup and revealing clothes. Liang Sizhe vaguely guessed the nature of this place, and it probably wasn't like "doing serious business" as the woman just said. He was slightly surprised that the imperial city had no place to hide its filth and filth.

The girl passing by couldn't help looking back at Liang Sizhe - a young man sat in the karaoke hall before the opening hours, and this young man was really eye-catching, like Tang Sanzang who did not ask Hongchen suddenly broke into the Pansi Cave, making people unable to ignore him. exist.

It's just that this "young Tang Sanzang" bowed his head slightly, with a half-length hair tied at the back of his head, a few strands of unsuitable hair fell down from his forehead, and the contours of his face seemed to have been refined by the most dexterous hands. It has been carved so that even the shadow cast by the bridge of the nose on the side of the face is just right. The temperament of the young man is also very special, some sharp, and some decadent, just sitting there staring in a daze, like a carefully intercepted movie scene, full of a sense of story that people want to explore.

Liang Sizhe actually didn't think about anything, his mind was empty, and he stared at a stain in the corner of the wall in a daze.

It has been more than half an hour, and Zheng Yin has not been able to come, and he is about to fall asleep waiting. When I was in a drowsy state, a voice suddenly came from the door, a boyish, surprised and doubtful: "Uncle Yin, you really brought me here, is it reliable?"

Liang Sizhe's drowsiness faded away quickly, he raised his head and looked towards the door.

The sun fell very low in the west, the door curtain was lifted high, the outside was extremely bright, and the room was extremely dark. Liang Sizhe saw a tall and thin boy standing at the door, looking into the room with his head poking out.

Zheng Yin drove over by himself this time, locked the car outside, followed him up the stairs, and patted the back of the boy's head gently: "The car ran down before it was stable." Then he faced the room and lifted it up. He raised his voice, "Liang, come over here."

The young man stood with the back light, and when Liang Sizhe walked in, he could see his face clearly - a very good-looking boy, a pampered young master.

They are similar in height, and they are both looking at each other at the moment. Liang Sizhe seemed a little more casual, but Cao Ye didn't hide the scrutiny in his eyes.

"Xiao Liang, let me introduce you, this is Cao Ye, the only son of Director Cao Xiuyuan." Zheng Yin patted Cao Ye's shoulder.

Seeing it, Liang Sizhe thought. Although Cao Ye's appearance did not follow Cao Xiuyuan's, the unadorned look in his eyes when he looked at himself was exactly the same as Cao Xiuyuan's.

"Hello." Liang Sizhe said calmly.

Then he saw a moment of astonishment flash across the face of the boy opposite.

The next second, the teenager turned his head to look at Zheng Yin and whispered, "Uncle Yin, did you make a mistake?"

Zheng Yin didn't understand: "What?"

Cao Ye turned his face away from Liang Sizhe, and leaned close to Zheng Yin's ear. Although his voice was very low, because the distance was too close, Liang Sizhe could still hear clearly—

"It's nice to look good... but he's a man, right?"

Hold. Liang Sizhe almost blurted out a dirty word, but fortunately he held it back—no wonder he just looked at himself so hard that he felt that he was the one who was going to give him a bad meal

Zheng Yin was stunned for a moment, then he understood and burst into laughter: "Cao Ye, what are you thinking about!"

"I'm just not interested in men..." The young man said innocently halfway through, and suddenly reacted as if it was not the case. A hint of embarrassment flashed across his face, he raised his hand and scratched his forehead, looking at Liang Sizhe, " Ah... I made a mistake, didn't I?"

"Otherwise?" Liang Sizhe looked at him expressionlessly.

"I'm sorry, buddy..." Cao Ye apologized embarrassingly, and looked at Zheng Yin who couldn't stop laughing, "Uncle Yin, stop laughing, what are you trying to deceive me here?"