The actor and his Mr. Fu

On the wall between No. 9 and No. 10 North Street, the ivy brothers were gossiping again.

Brother: Last night, Mr. Wang saw the actor cooking instant noodles. Are instant noodles really that delicious?

Brother: It should be delicious.

Brother: My husband also made soft-boiled eggs for him. Yesterday, the boss of Ayan wanted to eat them too, so my husband gave him a bowl of closed doors.

Brother: Ha.ha.

Brother: Mister probably misses Mr. Beihai a little bit.

Brother: But my husband is dead.

Brother: Yes.

Brother: Yes.

……

Xu Bai found that the window of the study next door was always open. Sometimes he looked up and saw Fu Xitang standing by the window with a book or coffee.

Is the big boss overseeing the work?

After another scene was filmed, Jiang Sheng hurriedly gave Xu Bai a cane.Leaning on crutches, Xu Bai walked to his rest chair and sat down, tilted his head back, and turned to look at the next door.

The window is empty again.

"Brother Xu, what are you looking at?" Jiang Sheng asked curiously.

"It's nothing." Xu Bai smiled, wiped off his sweat a little, and took a sip of water.The weather is getting hotter and hotter, even if Shen Qingshu is at home, he buttoned his coat to the top, covering himself in a panic.

What Xu Bai didn't see was that Fu Xitang was already sitting on the balcony at this moment.Today, Ah Yan washed the sheets and hung them on it. The white sheets fluttered with the wind, sometimes revealing Fu Xitang who was sitting in a corner of the terrace.

He was sitting on a white chair with a small round coffee table in front of him. Today's refreshment was English milk tea with hazelnut cake.He only took a small bite of the cake. At this time, Fu Xitang was leaning on the back of the chair a little leisurely, wearing a loose white shirt and black trousers made of linen. The sleeves were a bit like puff sleeves, British style.His legs were crossed, and the book "A Flower" was placed on his lap.Sometimes I turn a page, and sometimes I stop to write something on it with a pen.

Suddenly there was the voice of reciting poetry from next door.

"Our rustling leaves answer the wind and the rain. Who are you, so silent?"

"I am but a flower."

The young man's voice was clear and full of emotion, which made Fu Xitang couldn't help but stop writing and look at the next door again.Xu Bai next door was just rehearsing, constantly adjusting his emotions, and humbly accepting Yao Zhang's guidance.

Shen Qingshu will read a poem in the play, but it is embarrassing that he is the only one in this play.In other words, he has to read poems into the air, alone, a one-man show.

This is not a recitation in class, nor is it the impassioned slogans gathered by many progressive young people. Xu Bai felt that if he did not grasp the pace properly, the audience would laugh uncontrollably in the cinema when the movie was released.

No, before the movie is released, Yao Zhang will kill him.

"No, no, you can't do this. Listen to me—I'm just a flower. It should be like this, and your tone should be a little more indifferent. The word flower, don't stress it, just imagine..." Yao Zhang He has always adhered to his demanding requirements for every picture and every line, and the live radio is not a joke.

Xu Bai nodded repeatedly, and then ran to the corner of the garden alone to ponder.The fence blocked his figure, but the voice still reached Fu Xitang's ears along the wind.

Tagore.

Fu Xitang remembered these two lines of poem, you live too long, you always have a lot of spare time to kill, reading is a good choice.So he looked down at the book in his hand again, and found some blurred annotations on the corner of the page.

The annotations are written in blue ink, and each stroke is carefully written, but it seems that the hand is not strong enough, and it is a bit childish. It looks like a primary school student's handwriting.

He will ask questions about some details of the article, and he will draw a sentence that he thinks is particularly well written with a wavy line, and draw a small heart next to it.

One small heart, two small hearts... This is No. 12 small hearts, Xu Bai must have been a loving child when he was young.

Fu Xitang picked up the pen and continued to write something next to the blue note.

This afternoon Xu Bai read the poems all afternoon, but he couldn't do it well, and when he got off work, he felt a little uncomfortable in his throat.Jiang Sheng immediately went to buy him Pang Da Hai for him to drink, but the taste of this thing was really not good.

Then, as soon as Xu Bai returned to the next door, Ah Yan came up to him with a bowl, "Nong, Rock Tang Sydney."

Xu Bai was a little surprised, and then thought that the voice from the next door might have come here.He noticed that the bowl in his hand seemed to be in the shape of He Hexuan, so he knew it.

"Are you eating He He Xuan again tonight?" Xu Bai asked.

"Yes." Ah Yan spread her hands: "I kind of miss my cook, and I don't know when he will come back."

Ah Yan ran the train with his mouth full, Xu Bai doubted at first whether the cook who got lost in the Pacific Ocean existed or not.But after living here for a few days, he found that they really needed a cook.

There is no Hehexuan in foreign countries. If there is no cook, would it be difficult for Mr. Fu to cook every day?It's unimaginable.

Xu Bai sat down with a bowl in his hand, and said while eating, "Didn't you say that he fell in love with a sea monster? What kind of sea monster? Is it a mermaid?"

Having grown so big, Xu Bai has never seen a few foreign monsters, and the monster life is not complete enough.In his limited cognition, there are three kinds of monsters in foreign countries - mermaid, vampire and werewolf.

"The mermaid that fart is a shark, and I have turned into a bubble." Ah Yan rolled his eyes old-fashionedly.

"Then are there still sharks now?" Xu Bai was curious.

Ah Yan shook her head, "Nope. There used to be one in Beihai Park, which was raised by a Manchu nobleman. Do you know that there is a big cage under the water? The big cage is as big as a boat, so-so wide, well-made Very pretty……"

"Ayan." Suddenly, Fu Xitang's cold, non-smoky voice came from behind.

Ah Yan immediately shut her mouth tightly, blinked at Xu Bai, and stopped talking.Most of these past events happened many years ago, so Xu Bai, as a demon who broke his shell after the founding of the People's Republic of China, naturally didn't know about it.The word "old things" usually touches on some sensitive topics.

Xu Bai's mother said: An old demon with no past and no secrets is either stupid or insane, referred to as senile dementia.

Don't pry lightly, curiosity will kill the demon.

Thanks to her, Xu Bai was able to restrain his curiosity.So the cage as big as a boat in the North Sea became a small episode, and soon disappeared with the wind.

But what Xu Bai didn't know was that his own life was about to set off big waves.

Visitors began to come to No. 10 North Street, and among the people who visited Fu Xitang, nine out of ten were old monsters who had lived for an unknown amount of time, and the remaining one was an old and powerful monster.

Moreover, these monsters are all nocturnal, and each of them chooses to visit at night.At night, Xu Bai happened to be there.

First time here, it's dinner time.

As soon as the three sat down at the table, people came.He looked like an honest middle-aged man, with presents in his left and right hands, and he bowed to Fu Xitang in a respectful manner when he entered the door, which was a bit old-fashioned.

"Sir, it's still the same as before, it hasn't changed at all." As the man spoke, his eyes were turning red.

Xu Bai was thinking about whether he should avoid it, so Fu Xitang asked him to sit down and have dinner together.During the dinner, Xu Bai listened to their conversation and roughly figured out their relationship.

This old demon is a tailor, who used to help the Fu family cut clothes.

He babbled on many things from the past, Xu Bai concentrated on being an audience and never talked too much.To Xu Bai's surprise, among the gifts brought by the tailor surnamed Li, there was not only Ah Yan's gift, but Xu Bai's as well.

Xu Bai was stunned, took the gift and turned to look at Fu Xitang - this shouldn't be, how could he prepare his share?

Fu Xitang was also silent for two seconds, and then said, "Since it's for you, take it."

Xu Bai still wanted to shirk it, it was too strange for him to accept a gift from a stranger for no reason.But just as he was about to speak, Fu Xitang looked over as if he had a heartbeat.

Your life is important, accept gifts to save your life.

So Xu Bai got an extra sapphire blue bow tie with excellent workmanship and material.

Before leaving, Tailor Li handed Xu Bai a business card and said, "You can come to me when you are free, my workmanship is pretty good."

Xu Bai was at a loss, could it be that he was finally discovered because of his extraordinary bones and talents?

If the bow tie at the beginning just made Xu Bai a little confused, then the sudden compliments and more and more gifts later made Xu Bai sure that there was something tricky about it.

On the fifth day, a successful person came to the family and is now investing in real estate.According to Ah Yan, this person used to be very unsafe and always making troubles, but after being reformed by Mr. Fu, he finally became honest.But now it seems that he is not honest enough, engaged in real estate, speculative.

Successful people have troubles that they can't tell, so they can only turn around and praise Xu Bai.This is simply Ye Yuanxin 2.0, boasting that Xu Bai is a heaven and earth, and booking an Oscar for next year for him, talking about Xu Bai wanting to kill himself on the spot.

He also said that he would invest in Xu Bai's next movie.

This must be wrong!

After the guests left, Xu Bai rushed to Fu Xitang's study with a cane at a speed of 800 meters.When he reached the door, he stopped to take a breath, and then knocked on the door with his fingers, "Mr. Fu, it's me, can I come in?"

"Enter." Fu Xitang's answer was still as precious as gold.

Xu Bai opened the door and went in, and realized belatedly that this was the first time he had entered Fu Xitang's study since he moved here.

He didn't want to cause too much trouble for others, so he usually either sat in the living room or lay down on the bed.

Fu Xitang was sitting at the desk, writing something with a pen in his hand.Before Xu Bai could speak, he raised his head and asked, "Is it because you can't figure out the client's matter?"

Xu Bai: "..."

Fu Xitang lowered his head again to scribble down a few words, and said, "Don't worry, it won't happen in the future."

Fu Xitang obviously already knew something, but he didn't want to say more.

But after all, it was about his own business, so Xu Bai couldn't help but ask, "Can I ask what's going on?"

Fu Xitang stopped writing, folded the letter paper, stuffed it into the envelope, and put it in the drawer on the right.After doing all this, he stood up, glanced at the chair next to him, and said, "Sit first."

Xu Bai had no choice but to sit down first.

He watched Fu Xitang stop in front of the bookshelf for a while, then took out a book, handed it to Xu Bai together with the previous "A Flower", and said: "The "Sesame Illustrated Book" mentioned by Beihai is hand-written." The transcript, if you still want to see it, here is the only one."

"Sesame Illustrated Book"?Xu Bai was stunned for a moment, and then realized that this is the treasure book he wanted to read when he was a child!

There is a chapter in "A Flower" dedicated to anecdotes and strange things. The illustrated book is mentioned above. The book records in detail the burial locations and types of many treasures in China, from jewelry to peerless swords and martial arts cheats. , for everything.

People say that this is the most made-up chapter written by Mr. Beihai, even many fellow monsters say it is nonsense, because no one has ever seen the book "Sesame Illustrated Book", and no one has heard of it .

But how old was Xu Bai at that time?

Calculated according to human age, he is only six years old, of course he is convinced.

He once felt that God gave him a long lifespan as a monster to let him go on an adventure - but he was photographed by his mother before he swam to the West Lake.

Now Fu Xitang told him that "Sesame Illustrated Book" really existed? !And right in front of his eyes!

Xu Bai almost couldn't wait to take the book from Fu Xitang's hand, without even noticing that half of his body was sticking out of the chair, and he almost fell on Fu Xitang.

After getting the book, looking at the four big characters painted with iron and silver hooks on the cover, he seemed to have regained a little excitement from his childhood.

He really didn't expect that a little obsession when he was a child would one day come true when he grows up.

Opening the book, a large number of illustrations and text annotations come into view.There are even many folding pages inside, and when unfolded, it becomes a huge and detailed map, and the location where each treasure is buried is clearly marked.And just as Fu Xitang said, all the characters and paintings in it are handwritten.

At this moment, Xu Bai was a little excited.

It's like you once got a flower seed by accident, and buried it in the purest fertile soil in your heart full of joy.But everyone tells you that the seed is dead, it will never break through the ground and germinate.

Don't wait any longer, stop obsessing.

you don't listen.

dont see.

Baitiao in the waves will always be Baitiao in the waves wearing a red cape and going to the sea, and then you grow up like this.

Another day by accident, the seed sprouted suddenly—it bloomed.

Fu Xitang leaned against the desk and looked at Xu Bai, and he was in a good mood at the moment. The "Sesame Illustrated Book" was originally a playful work he made to coax Bei Hai, so it is not suitable for outsiders to read.But seeing Xu Bai's comments on "Flower Sea Supplements", Fu Xitang's heart softened inexplicably.

Xu Bai wrote three comments in that chapter respectively, and the color of the handwriting varies, so it can be seen that they were not left at the same time.

For the first time, he drew out the four characters "Sesame Illustrated Book" with rippling wavy lines, and wrote naively—will there be eighteen palms subduing the dragon in it?

The second time he wrote - I went to the library to look for it, but I couldn't find it. I will go to the second-hand book market with my mother tomorrow.I will definitely find it.

The third time, after a long time, was also the last time. He wrote—is there really such a book, Mr. Beihai?They all said I was lying.

Behind this is an unhappy expression with a pursed mouth.

This made Fu Xitang couldn't help but see a lonely and lonely figure of a little boy in his mind.

After so many years, maybe he has recognized the reality now and no longer clings to the little attachments he had when he was a child, but Fu Xitang thinks about Xu Bai's seemingly easy-going appearance now, but feels that he is not so easy to "recognize the reality" .

Instead of letting that book continue to gather dust on the shelf, let it continue to serve its intended purpose.It can be regarded as a little compensation for Xu Bai.

Thinking of this, Fu Xitang said: "They are so attentive to you, they probably regard you as my person."

Xu Bai was immersed in the book, when he heard this sentence suddenly, he didn't pay much attention.After a while, he felt as if he had missed something important. He looked back and thought about it, and then he raised his head in surprise and said, "Your man?"

Wow, that's not what I understood, sir.