You can make it through

You should say, "Okay, I see—"

After he paused for half a second, he said, "Mom."

Shouting awkwardly.Li Dongyao then shouted: "Got it, Mom!"

Mother Li left.

Zhang Yang lay back on the bed, held up his long legs that were half covered with pants, and asked Li Dongyao, "Does your mother think I'm lazy and ignorant?!"

"What did you do for her to think like this?" Li Dongyao asked him.

Zhang Yang pursed his lips: "The daughter-in-law in the TV series must behave well when meeting her parents-in-law for the first time!"

Li Dongyao hugged him: "You are not a daughter-in-law, and they are not your parents-in-law."

"Then what am I?"

"My lover, their relatives. They are your parents and your relatives. Relatives don't need to please!" Li Dongyao said.

Zhang Yang stared at him fixedly, Li Dongyao was watched by him for a long time, so he simply came up to him and kissed him.

The two huddled together for a while before getting dressed and going out.

The two elders were actually watching TV, which was showing entertainment news.The protagonists of the news are Zhang Yang and Jiang Ao.The two hugged each other in the underground garage.The host said that the two are both talented and handsome, and they seem to be a good match.

After the news was broadcast, the two elders all turned to look at Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang waved his hands anxiously and explained: "It's not like that. The news is full of nonsense. We recorded a program together yesterday. I haven't seen it before. The situation was that a car came by. He was afraid that I would be hit by the car, so he pulled me away. Just hit me, that's all. Entertainment news likes to talk nonsense the most."

Zhang Yang finished talking in a nonchalant manner, seeing the expressionless faces of the two elders, he couldn't help feeling depressed.Unexpectedly, at such a time, such a scandal broke out, then Jiang Ao must have come to restrain him, thanks to his kindness to guide him yesterday.Of course, it wasn't all good intentions, he just wanted to finish the recording and go home quickly.

After Li Dongyao listened, he went to the balcony to make a phone call to the boss of Xingyao's PR department.

Suddenly, Father Li said, "I know that child."

Mother Li also said, "That's right, the youngest of the Jiang family has become a star."

Zhang Yang didn't know why.

Father Li smiled: "It's a kid from a friend's house, that Jiang Ao. It looks so familiar, I just thought about it for a long time!"

Mother Li nodded: "Me too."

It turned out that the expressionless face just now was just recalling.

Zhang Yang breathed a sigh of relief.Li's mother said: "His mother told me that the child has had several boyfriends in the United States, both black and white. His mother doesn't like Europeans and Americans, and hopes he finds an Asian."

Zhang Yang took another breath.

Li Dongyao came back from the phone call with a smile on his face: "Yangyang, do you know that once the news of yours comes out, the ratings of the new episode of the show will explode!"

Zhang Yang choked on his throat, stunned.

The attention of the two elders was also completely attracted, and Li's mother asked curiously: "What program?"

Li Dongyao found previous programs on TV, and the two elders sat side by side on the sofa, watching with relish.

Zhang Yang looked at the two elders, then at Li Dongyao who was beaming with joy, and finally understood where did Li Dongyao's harmless aura come from.

He immediately relaxed, and violently carried Li Dongyao into the bedroom in front of the two elders: "What's your attitude? The paparazzi broke my scandal, and you actually think about the ratings!"

"Such a kid, what are you afraid of? You have nothing to talk about!" Li Dongyao grinned.

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Yang's cell phone rang, it was an unfamiliar number.He connected, Jiang Ao deliberately lowered his voice: "Is it Zhang Yang?"

He called him by his first name.Other traffic called Zhang Yang "Teacher Zhang".

"Well, yes." Zhang Yang said.

Li Dongyao came over and asked, "Who is it?"

Zhang Yang turned on the speakerphone.

Jiang Ao said: "I want to treat you to dinner."

Zhang Yang squinted at Li Dongyao.

"Is it okay?" Jiang Ao asked nervously and carefully.

"Yes." Zhang Yang looked at Li Dongyao provocatively.

"That's great!" The other party almost cheered.

Li Dongyao shouted: "I want to go too!"

"Who?" Jiang Ao asked.

"Unimportant people." Zhang Yang said.

"Oh." Jiang Ao said weakly.

"When?" Zhang Yang asked, Li Dongyao was in a hurry and wanted to grab the phone, but he let him go.

"Is it okay tomorrow?" Jiang Ao said.

"Okay, you can send me the address on WeChat." After Zhang Yang finished speaking, he hung up the phone, not giving Li Dongyao a chance to speak.

Li Dongyao yelled: "That kid won't come for real?"

Zhang Yang sneered: "Who said that just now, such a kid, what are you afraid of!?!"

The next day, Jiang Ao dressed up seriously before going out.

The agent asked him: "What are you going to do?"

He said, "Meet someone important."

The manager sounded the alarm: "Romance object?"

"I want someone to fall in love with." Jiang Ao's face was full of spring.

He has a crush on Zhang Yang, especially after that hug.What's more, he himself is so good, he is not at all like the big name, pretentious, and difficult to deal with as rumored by the outside world. On the contrary, the careless aura on his body attracts him very much.

Jiang Ao arrived at the restaurant early, and he occupied the entire second floor.He was looking forward to it.

Zhang Yang finally arrived, dressed in white, white shoes, white clothes and white hat, half-length hair hanging down his shoulders, he had no makeup, and his eyebrows were like swords.All in all, a good look.

He stood at the door and said to him: "It's so early!"

Jiang Ao looked straight.

Zhang Yang came in, followed by people, one, two, three.The latter two, Jiang Ao, knew each other. They were uncles and aunts who often went to play at home, and good friends of their parents.they follow

He said hello, Jiang Ao had to get up and give up his seat.

"They have to follow, and I can't help it!" Zhang Yang spread his hands.

Li Dongyao shouted: "Hello Xiao Jiang, I am your brother Dongyao. I played with you when you were young and took pictures for you!"

This year, the 20-year-old boy was crying and smiling at the same time, and finally realized for the first time what it means to be mixed.

Father's Day belated episode

At the end of last year, under the operation of Li Dongyao, Xingyao launched the Starlight Project, which specially supports new directors to make movies.In order to support Li Dongyao, Zhang Yang took the initiative to pick a script from a new director and starred in it for free.

The movie tells the story of a stepfather and his polio-affected stepson. It is adapted from a true story and is tentatively scheduled to launch in September.

Although it is a compulsory performance, Zhang Yang dare not neglect, he has never acted as a father.After discussing with the director, he contacted the prototype Lao Zhu and decided to live in his house for half a month.He deliberately cut off his long hair, deliberately tanned a lot, and deliberately learned some local dialects in advance.

He set off in early June, and as usual, Li Dongyao personally sent him to the countryside.

Old Zhu's house is on the shore of Luoma Lake in northern Jiangsu, and it takes more than four hours to drive there from Shanghai.Li Dongyao is not too tired, he and Zhang Yang are too busy with work, usually we can only see each other when we find time.

Lao Zhu is 72 years old this year, and I heard that he can go fishing by boat and work in the fields.His stepson has long since changed his surname and is 41 this year.He found a wife with a bad eye because of handicap. They have a son and a daughter. The eldest son is [-] this year and has excellent grades.The second daughter is fourteen this year, and her grades are also top-notch. She will take the senior high school entrance examination next year.The year before last, he borrowed money to start a pig farm. The pig farm was doing very well, and he paid back his capital within a year.

This is the information that Zhang Yang knew in advance, and he told Li Dongyao in detail.

After hearing this, Li Dongyao said with emotion that good people are rewarded with good things.

Zhang Yang said: "Good people are not born."

Li Dongyao didn't understand his words.

In the past two years, he has changed his way of acting, his understanding and perception of life has changed a lot from before, and his understanding of roles has also deepened.The directors love him even more.However, he still loves to argue with him.In Xiao Huan's words, this is the interest between the two of them.

As long as gossip reporters take photos or videos of two people arguing or being intimate with others, they will write scribbles.Today it wasn't that he had a new love and dumped his old love Zhang Yang, and tomorrow it was that Zhang Yang cheated on Xiao Xianrou.

The public loves it.The year before last and last year, the public thought that the couple who would break up most in the new year, they both ranked first, and no one was optimistic about them.

But only the two of them know that their relationship is unbreakable.Anyway, Li Dongyao thinks so, and Zhang Yang wavers occasionally, especially when he is having an affair with a newcomer.

Li Dongyao is a rare good boss in the industry, he doesn't follow unspoken rules, and praises people based on his strength.His style is decent, but it doesn't mean that others don't have unreasonable thoughts about him.There are always some rookies who think they are superior in strength, eager to climb into his bed and squeeze Zhang Yang out.

Li Dongyao has a good temper, and often sees through without telling the truth, and is made a fuss for nothing.Everyone calls him the warm male boss, the central air-conditioning warm.Zhang Yang was angry with this, angry that he saw through but didn't tell the truth, angry that he was indiscriminately warm.

The two arrived at Lao Zhu's house in the afternoon.

They lived in the innermost part of the village, next to the lake, in a small two-story western-style building covered with white tiles, with two bungalows on the left and right.There are four rows of red brick and tile houses [-] meters behind the house, surrounded by a human-high fence, which is the pig farm.

The house is surrounded by fields full of vegetables.

It happened to be the weekend, the children were all there, and a family of four came out to welcome the two of them.When they saw Zhang Yang for the first time, they were so nervous that they didn't know where to put their hands and feet. After all, in their eyes, he was a big star that everyone knew.

Xiao Zhu continued to greet them: "Sit inside, sit inside."

Zhang Yang asked him: "Where's your father?"

Little Zhu paused, looked at him and sighed heavily: "Sit down and talk to you."

Zhang Yang and Li Dongyao were sitting in the main room, after Xiao Zhu's wife gave them two big glasses of water, she hid in the next room.The two children stood far away and looked at them. The girl wanted to take pictures of them with her mobile phone, but she didn't dare.

Xiao Zhu first showed Zhang Yang the place where he lived. The room on the second floor was clean and tidy.A bouquet of gardenias was planted on the window sill, and the fragrance was strong and tangy.

Li Dongyao said: "The flowers are so fragrant." He circled around and said: "The environment is good, much better than Zhang San's home!"

Zhang Yang picked up the flowers and smelled them.

Xiao Zhu smiled sheepishly, "My daughter did it, she likes watching your movies."

The three of them went back to the main room to talk about Lao Zhu.

Since Xiao Zhu got married, Lao Zhu insisted on separating the family from him and lived alone in the old house. No matter how much he begged, he was unwilling to live with him.He fell ill the year before last, and Xiao Zhu took him in for a few days, and when his condition improved, he ran back again.

"He bought the coffin himself, and the paper money for the shroud. He said that if he died, I would help him bury it." Xiao Zhu sighed.

Li Dongyao looked at Zhang Yang, he was staring at Xiao Zhu's legs, both legs were twisted and weird, but luckily he was able to walk.

Aware of his gaze, Xiao Zhu patted her legs with both hands: "My dad has carried me on the back for three years and sent me to get an injection, otherwise I can't walk by myself."

After finishing speaking, he sighed again: "I told him that I want to give him a pension. Now he doesn't even want me."

"I don't want to cause you any trouble." Zhang Yang said.

Xiao Zhu shook her head and smiled wryly: "Now everyone is talking about me, saying that I treat him badly. Otherwise, why would he not want to live with me?"

He looked towards the next room, where his wife was cooking pig food for the afternoon, and the mixed smell of plants and rice bran wafted over, very strong.

"Others also pointed at her behind her back, saying that she was pushing me. How can it be!" Xiao Zhu spread her hands helplessly.

People's words are scary, but Xiao Zhu is also difficult to do.Little Zhu wanted to take Zhang Yang to see Old Zhu, but Zhang Yang said there was no rush and let him do his own work. He and Li Dongyao wandered around, from the pig farm to the village, and then back to the lake embankment.

There is an island in the middle of the lake, and green reeds grow on the island. When the wind blows, the reeds float with the wind.There was an old couple rowing a boat and casting a net to catch fish.

Li Dongyao asked Zhang Yang: "Why do you think Lao Zhu is afraid of causing trouble to Xiao Zhu?"

"Many rural elderly people are like this. They feel that their children's lives are difficult and they don't want to burden them." When he was just walking around the village, Zhang Yang noticed the slogan printed on the wall—suicide is not advisable, suicide will go to hell.

It reminded him involuntarily of the news that he had unintentionally seen before. Many elderly people in rural areas would choose to commit suicide in order not to cause trouble to their children after they fell ill.He told Li Dongyao the news.

He was shocked when he heard it, and even suspected it was fake.The two walked a long way in silence, and Li Dongyao said, "It's not all the children's fault."

Zhang Yang remembered the details in the script, Lao Zhu went to the Civil Affairs Bureau for help, and the Civil Affairs Bureau said, why don't you send the child to an orphanage.Lao Zhu hesitated for a long time, and even went to the orphanage to have a look. The dirty children were crawling all over the ground.He can't do it.

The poor have no choice.

In the evening, Li Dongyao stayed overnight, and the two were lying on the bed, one was working on his mobile phone, the other was reading the script, and at the same time chatting with each other.

Li Dongyao suddenly said: "I finally understand why my brother insists on doing charity."

Zhang Yang immediately put down the script, looked at him with his chin resting and waited for him to continue.

"You're still very curious about my brother!" Li Dongyao deliberately hurt him.

"Yes, after all, he hasn't let go yet." Zhang Yang deliberately angered him.

"You can be angry with me too!" Li Dongyao pretended to be upset.

Zhang Yang kicked him: "Quickly go on."

Li Dongyao finished speaking in a few words. Li Xurong had been away from home for ten years and was teaching in the countryside, so he ran with him.He has lived in Guizhou, Guangxi, and the poorest places in China. Having tasted poverty, he naturally understands the helplessness of poverty.

Zhang Yang didn't say a word for a long time after listening, Li Dongyao looked at him silently.

"I found out—" he said.

"Don't find yourself falling in love with him again." Li Dongyao warned.

Zhang Yang smiled crookedly, "You guessed it, how boring!"

Li Dongyao pulled him into his arms and rubbed him.

Zhang Yang lay on his lap, looked into his eyes and said with a smile, "I found out, you Li family members like to run behind other people's butts!"

Li Xurong chased him, Li Dongyao chased him back then, he didn't look back even if he hit the south wall.He knew that now Li Xurong was still chasing his guy pitifully, and that guy was much more difficult than him.

Maybe, I can't figure it out in this life.Thinking of this, Zhang Yang laughed happily.

Li Dongyao said seriously again: "Go back and discuss with Xiao Huan, and do some projects for the elderly in rural areas."

Zhang Yang leaned forward, kissed his mouth, and said vaguely: "You are better than him."

Li Dongyao left the next day, and Zhang Yang asked to see Lao Zhu after feeding the pigs with Xiao Zhu for three days.Xiao Zhu called Lao Zhu home for dinner, but at first Lao Zhu couldn't say it, but Zhang Yang invited him, and he agreed to come.

It was an ordinary thin old man, wearing an old washed white shirt and trousers, and a straw hat, with a cigarette in his mouth, walking from a distance with his back hooked, and his steps were swift.

Xiao Zhu's eldest son told Zhang Yang that his grandfather was in good health and could carry a hundred catties of rice around.

Seeing Zhang Yang, the old man looked around and said, "Are you playing the role of the son or the father?"

Zhang Yang said: "I will play you."

The old man was stunned, looked at him again, then shook his head and said, "Which one looks better to me than you."

Zhang Yang was amused, so he took the opportunity to chat with the old man, telling him that he needed makeup for acting in a movie, and his face would change if he smeared it on. He also showed him the stills of the educated youth and the ancient general, as well as some behind-the-scenes photos from the filming. .

The old man was very interested in this, he read a picture, and occasionally commented, either he looked like a sheep in his house, or he looked like a pig in his house, Zhang Yang couldn't stop laughing at the old man's humor.

The two grandsons also came over to watch. The granddaughter lay on the grandfather's back and refuted him: "You don't look like a pig, grandpa, you have a problem with your eyes."

Lao Zhu chuckled, he had to say he looked like a pig.The two grandparents were still bickering.

Zhang Yang observed silently, and found that the optimism in the old man's bones was contagious. The two grandsons had a very good relationship with him, and they would tell him everything.Xiao Zhu and his wife can also chat with him.

Not a cranky old man.

After dinner, the old man wants to go home.Xiao Zhu asked him to move here again, but the old man waved his hands: "No, no." Then he left, and the two grandchildren followed him one after the other, going to his side to carry watermelons.He planted an acre of watermelons, and this year has a bumper harvest.

Xiao Zhu had no choice but to sigh at Zhang Yang, "Look, that's how it is."

Zhang Yang began to take the initiative to find Lao Zhu, and stayed at his house every day, picking watermelons with him, growing vegetables and fishing, and drinking together.At first, Lao Zhu was not optimistic about him, thinking that he could not do farm work, but later he thought that he could do everything well and still do it decently.

As time went by, Lao Zhu gradually opened up to him.Talk about some past events, how he and Xiao Zhu's mother got together, how Xiao Zhu's mother left, and how he took Xiao Zhu to treat his illness.Life was difficult in the past, but Lao Zhu never complained, and he spoke happily.

He said that it was not easy for Xiaozhu to be what he is today, not only because of him, but also because he himself has suffered a lot.He has to raise children, which is a big burden.He cannot burden him.

Zhang Yang said: "But people in the village say that he is not filial, and that his sister-in-law is not good."

Lao Zhu said that the mouth grows on other people, what they like to say.

"It's good for you to be aware of your own affairs." Lao Zhu took a sip of white wine.

The longer he gets along with Lao Zhu, the more Zhang Yang can feel the optimism and transparency in the old man's bones.He is not confused and lives clearly.

In a blink of an eye, more than ten days have passed, and the Dragon Boat Festival is about to happen. The day before the Dragon Boat Festival coincides with Father's Day in the United States.

Xiao Zhu didn't know about Father's Day, but his sons and daughters did. They bought him a new pair of shoes with the lucky money they had saved. Xiao Zhu was very happy, but immediately thinking of Lao Zhu, he became unhappy.

"I didn't buy him anything." Xiao Zhu regretted that he didn't prepare in advance.

Zhang Yang comforted him: "Those who don't know are not guilty, besides, this is a foreigner's festival."

Xiao Zhu hurriedly made two catties of white wine at the entrance of the village, and took two catties of pork head meat from her own house, and asked Zhang Yang to take it to Lao Zhu.If he sent it, the old man had to say a lot.

Zhang Yang went to Lao Zhu with wine and meat, and at first he said he bought it himself.

The two sat in front of the house, facing Luoma Lake, drinking one cup after another, chatting gossip.When he got bored, Zhang Yang said that Xiao Zhu honored you, and today is Father's Day.

Lao Zhu didn't say a word, and continued to sip his meat and wine.

Zhang Yang said again: "Xiao Zhu is worried about you. I'm worried. You can see that he is limping, and he comes to your place twice a day, one early and one late. Everyone thinks he is looking for pigweed. , actually to see if you are okay."

"And my sister-in-law, she keeps her head down and dare not look at people when she walks on the road. At first I thought she had bad eyesight and couldn't see the road clearly. She told me a few days ago because she didn't feel filial to you enough to hold her head up. Sister-in-law can't speak nice words, if I didn't stop the meat today, it would have to be more than ten catties."

Old Zhu chuckled twice: "She really stuffed me with ten catties of meat before. I don't have a refrigerator here, so it almost broke down."

Zhang Yang thought, he knew they were kind to him.

"They all have good intentions," said Lao Zhu.

"Then you still let someone poke their backs!" Zhang Yang looked at him dissatisfied.

The old man's cloudy eyes turned to the distance, and the reeds on the shore of Luoma Lake were rippling.He drank two glasses of wine in a row, Zhang Yang was frightened and stopped him when he poured the third glass.

"Can you stop making that movie?" Lao Zhu suddenly looked at Zhang Yang pleadingly.

"why?"

"How can I be so good!" The old man sighed.

Zhang Yang filled the third glass of wine for him, and the old man raised his head and drank it down in one gulp.

People are like this, they dare not tell the truth when they are sober.Only when you are not sober, dare to speak presumptuously.Old Zhu was drunk, and he began to talk about why he didn't want to live in Xiao Zhu's house.

Once he almost dropped Xiao Zhu.There is a disabled child, and it is not his own. Everyone persuades him not to take care of him. If he keeps taking care of him, he will never get a wife again.

He took the three-year-old Xiao Zhu to the city and told him to wait for him on the side of the road, saying that he would buy ice cream for him.He went home by himself.

"Here—" the drunk old Zhu patted his chest: "My conscience hurts, thinking of him being a doll who can't walk, thrown on the side of the road, no one can pick it up, he will really die."

He couldn't bear the self-condemnation, so he ran back to find Xiao Zhu, who was still waiting for him, neither crying nor making trouble, and he didn't move even a bite of the food given by the kind-hearted person.

"He knew I was going to abandon him." Old Zhu wiped the tears off his face.

Zhang Yang clinked glasses with him: "Drink."

"I'm not as good as you say." Lao Zhu waved his hands and said, "I don't live with him because I don't think I'm worthy."

Zhang Yang said: "You have done enough."

Old Zhu smiled miserably at him: "Later, I had the idea of ​​throwing him away, many times. I didn't give up until he was ten years old and a doctor said that his leg was still recovering."

Zhang Yang's breath was stuck in his chest, so he could only drink non-stop.

That night, the old and the strong were all drunk.The next day, as if Lao Zhu had forgotten what happened the night before, he took Zhang Yang to plant vegetables for a whole day.In the evening, I went to Xiao Zhu's house for dinner. Old Zhu was the same as before, whenever Xiao Zhu brought up the topic of moving here, he would change the topic.

Going home in the evening, the two grandsons went with him to pick up the dried plums he made.The three of them were walking in the field at night, the sky was full of stars, the lively granddaughter sang loudly, and the old man's cigarette butt glowed red in the night.

Zhang Yang leaned on the door and watched the three of them drift away, thinking that to Lao Zhu, living alone was not a punishment, but a relief.

Only in this way can the uneasy conscience of the past be saved.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, Zhang Yang was leaving, and Li Dongyao came to pick him up in person.When leaving, Zhang Yang asked Xiao Zhu: "Do you think your father treats you well?"

Xiao Zhu replied without hesitation: "Without him, I would have died long ago."

Zhang Yang opened his arms and gave him a big hug. He wanted to whisper something in his ear, but hesitated for a while and finally said nothing.

Lao Zhu didn't come to see him off, he went fishing in Luoma Lake early in the morning.Zhang Yang said goodbye in the direction of Luoma Lake.

After returning home, Zhang Yang asked He Jiqing to re-edit the script, and the director almost knelt down when he saw the new script.In September, filming begins.In December, the movie wrapped up.In April of the following year, the production of the film was completed.In May, the film participated in the Shanghai Film Festival. The director won the Best Newcomer Director award and the script won the Best Adapted Screenplay. Zhang Yang once again amazed everyone by playing a complicated and human stepfather.

Xiao Zhu's son told Zhang Yang that after seeing the movie, his grandfather locked himself in his room and cried for a long time.And Xiao Zhu knew all along that Lao Zhu once wanted to abandon him.He thought normal people would do that.He didn't hate Lao Zhu, he still said that without Lao Zhu, there would be no him now.

The movie was released on Father's Day. Li Dongyao and Zhang Yang pretended to be spectators and watched it secretly. Many people at the scene were crying.

Even after watching it several times, Li Dongyao still wiped away tears along with him. Although Zhang Yang felt that he had played a lot, he still handed him a tissue without hesitation.

After the movie was shown, a male audience sitting behind the two asked his girlfriend, "Does Zhang Yang have any children?"

The girlfriend replied: "No, he is gay, don't you know?"

The male audience clicked their lips: "It's amazing to be able to act so well without children!"

Zhang Yang suddenly turned around and said to the two of them, "There will be one soon."

The two looked at him wearing a mask, thinking they had met his fan, and hurried away.

He turned his head and found Li Dongyao staring at him suspiciously.

"Didn't you always want to be a dad?"

Li Dongyao nodded: "Yes, but you don't like children."

"How do you know if you really don't like it or if you don't like it if you haven't raised it!" Zhang Yang rolled his eyes at him.

Li Dongyao immediately kissed his mask with excitement and excitement on his face.

"I'll contact the test-tube baby in the United States immediately!"