Death of the Rhino

The whistle of the glass tip, the rustling of the cool wind, Xu You's ears woke up from the dream first.Then it was his nose that woke up, the dew-washed air high in the sky, wading through his nostrils sullenly.

Xu You's eyes under his fingers slowly opened, and a piece of mournful vermilion struck.Xu You's eyes hadn't woken up yet, and he slowly focused on the vermilion in front of him.It turned out that it was just an umbrella.

Xu You followed the handle of the umbrella in front of him down, turned his head sideways, reached out to hold the umbrella handle, got up and sat on the bench.Xu You looked at the umbrella in his hand again, and looked around, but no one was there.The damp dust on the floor under his feet told him that there was a light rain last night.

Xu You looked at the book in his arms and tested it with his fingers. The cover was a little cold, but not damp.Xu You breathed a sigh of relief, put the book flat on his knees, and freed his hand to fold the umbrella.The rain on the umbrella surface has dried, and the vermilion canvas will not turn red there.

Xu You folded the umbrella carefully, the folds of the umbrella surface were all along its original lines, and the umbrella buckle was not loose or tight.Xu You stood the umbrella on the floor, leaning against the armrest of the bench.After looking at it for a while, I picked it up again and stood it on the bench with the umbrella body leaning against the back of the chair.

Xu You breathed a sigh of relief, put the book on his lap into the bag, stood up and carried it across his body.Xu You looked back at the umbrella and left quietly.

Xu You didn't take the elevator, he went down the stairs step by step until he reached the basement floor of Wanping Building.The basement floor is connected to the Mandu Plaza next door.Xu You followed the underground passage with mixed voices on the basement floor to the basement floor of Wandu Plaza.

The sound of the smoky keyboard, the accompaniment sound that might break the door at any time, Xu You stopped in the muffled and crisp sound of the impact.

On the small blackboard in front of the percussion door, there are recruitment notices written in not neat chalk characters.Xu You stepped into the dilapidated room at the threshold, looked at the bald man behind a pile of spicy melon seeds and iced tea, and said, "Boss, are you hiring?"

With half a cigarette in his mouth, the boss shook his legs, moved his eyes from the colorful magazine to Xu You, looked him up and down, and said, "What's wrong?"

When the boss spoke, the cigarette was still in his mouth, and the sound he made was flat and indistinct.Xu You moved closer to the counter and said, "Look, can I do it?"

The boss squinted at Xu You in front of him, switched the cigarette in his mouth to the other side with his tongue, raised his chin and asked, "When will you come to work?"

Xu You smiled and said, "Now. Is it done?"

The boss squinted at Xu You, and looked back and forth from top to bottom again.After a while, the boss closed the magazine in his hand, rolled it into a random roll and put it under his armpit. Erlang put his legs down, squinted his eyes and frowned and groped under the chair.It took a long time for the boss to loosen his frowning brows. He dragged a pair of flip flops and came out from behind the counter. He looked up at Xu You and said, "There is a camera." Then he left.

After Xu You watched the boss leave, he looked around the shop.Four pool tables, two with guests.There are more than a dozen cue sticks hanging on the wall full of graffiti, two old three-seater sofas beside the wall, a pile of peanuts and melon seed skins on the coffee table in the middle of the sofa, and an ashtray full of cigarette butts.In the corner of the room stood an old and frail air conditioner; by the wall next to the counter was an upright glass-door refrigerator with the same blunt teeth.Next to the refrigerator is a small freezer of unknown age.

When Xu You walked into the counter, he saw clearly the chair the boss was sitting on just now.It was an old wooden armless chair with mottled scratches and no grain.Xu You felt that this chair should be the oldest person in the store.

Xu You cleaned up the sundries on the counter table before taking off the satchel and putting it on the counter.He straightened the seat behind him a little bit before sitting on it upright.Xu You picked up the plastic-sealed consumption slip on the side, wrote it down carefully, and put it back in its original place.In this closed space in the store, it is monotonous and messy, with the sound of abuse accompanied by the smell of low-quality cigarettes, it is very suitable for reading.

"Hey, have you heard, what is the name of the movie that will be released soon? The one played by Shi Hezi." The male voice paused, and another bass voice said: "It seems to be called "Rhinoceros" .I heard my wife mention it a few times.”

After a sound of billiard balls, the male voice said: "Yes, yes, it is "Rhinoceros". The male lead, Park Guangbai, is so sloppy in acting. My wife still insists on watching it with me."

After another sound of billiard balls, the bass voice said: "Just look at it, women, just go for Park Guangbai's face. If she looks at his face, can't you just look at your ball?" Immediately afterwards, pass There was a burst of tacit laughter.

After the sound of the ball hitting was cut in half, Xu Youcai closed the book in his hand, and there was only one table with guests on the pool table.Xu You stood up, walked to the billiard table where the guests left, wiped one of the cue sticks with a rag on the wall, hung it back on the wall, and turned around to wipe the other cue stick.

When Xu You was cleaning the club, he glanced at the ball inadvertently. The red 3, red 11 and red 13 were scattered on the side of the table away from Xu You, and the black 8 was on the side close to him.Xu You put down the rag, leaned over holding the club in his right hand, and set up the club with his left hand on the table.Xu You aimed at the black 8 that was close to him and dribbled the ball. The black 8 hit the farthest red 13 in a straight line.

Before Xu You straightened up, the red 11 had entered the hole beside him.Xu You raised his head with his body attached, and it was a man of his age who sent Red 11 into the cave.This man is handsome, with a smile on his face, turning the chocolate on the tip of the club in his hand.This is the guest at the next table.

Xu You straightened up, moved to the side of Black 8's table, attached himself, and dribbled the ball.The ball rolled over Red 11, Black 8 hit the edge of the table, and Red 11 remained motionless.Xu You straightened up, looked at the black 8 that had gone the wrong way, and smiled silently.

The man stood on the spot and bent down, sending Red 11 into the hole for just a moment, then straightened up and stood on the spot, saying, "I thought you were very powerful."

Xu You looked up at the man, smiled apologetically and said, "It's not that bad. It's just luck."

The man didn't look at Xu You again, and returned to his table.Xu You picked up the rag again and wiped the clubs clean, hung them back on the wall, and then lifted all the billiard balls from the bottom of the table and placed them in the middle of the table.As for the black 8, he thought about it for a while, and put it on the fixed point line.

"Guanmu, isn't "Rhinoceros" from your company?" Xu You behind the counter didn't look up, but he could tell that it wasn't the man's voice just now.The voice was a little hoarse.There was no provocation in this voice.

"Yeah, and I'm in charge of the publicity and planning. It will be released in over a month." That was the man's voice.

Xu Youluo's eyes on the book lost focus again: So, he is the film and television planner of Liyuan Film and Television Media?

After a muffled sound of the ball hitting the table, a hoarse voice said, "Is it really like what those people said?"

After a clean billiard sound, the man said, "Yes. The face, the ball, and the acting skills. All of them."

The hoarse voice laughed and said, "Then I have to go to the theater to verify and verify."

The man also smiled and said, "Okay, I'll give you some movie tickets then."

"I'll give you a few movie tickets at that time", Xu You said to Myna and Ah Dai.That was two years ago. At that time, he was still the film and television planner of Liyuan Film and Television Media.

"Rhinoceros" is the first film he is responsible for independently. It tells a love story between a man with a strong appearance but a fragile heart and a woman of his dreams.The film was planned to start shooting two years ago. It was supposed to be released at the beginning of the year, but it was postponed for some reason.

At ten o'clock in the evening, the boss, hunched over and dragging his flip-flops, wandered back into the store.The store has been cleaned by Xu You.The boss took out a greasy key from the pocket of his big trousers and threw it on the counter, saying, "Salary settlement, WeChat or Alipay?"

Standing at the counter, Xu You said with a embarrassed smile, "I'm sorry, boss, I don't have a mobile phone."

The boss tilted his head, looked at Xu You with squinted eyes, walked around to the counter, groped in the drawer of the counter for a long time, found out a non-brand mobile phone with paint peeling and broken screen, threw it on the table as well, and said, "Here you go first." Pay the cash. Call me if there is anything to do in the store." After finishing speaking, the boss put his hands in the pockets of his big pants, bowed his body and dragged his flip-flops and left.

"thank you boss."

Xu You didn't sit down until the sound of the boss's flip-flops rubbing against the ground disappeared.He took out a facial tissue, wiped the phone with the broken screen just now, and tried to press the half-painted button at the bottom, but the phone screen showed that the battery was low.Xu You looked at the power strip on the table, picked up the plug on it and tried it out, and it fit right.

Xu You took out another tissue, wrapped the key on the table and rubbed it a few times until the oil stains on the key were wiped away, before putting it back on the table.

At two o'clock in the morning, the sound outside the store gradually died down, and Xu You got up and went to the billiard table where the guests who had just left were playing.This time I just wiped the cue sticks and hung them back on the wall, picked up the billiard balls under the table and put them on the table, and put the black 8 where it should be.He cleaned up the garbage on the coffee table, picked up the garbage bag, and went to the garbage can outside the store.

The garbage bin was full of garbage, and there were a few swollen and ruptured garbage bags sleeping next to it, exhaling a rotten and musty smell, lingering in the surrounding air.

Xu You looked around, and there was a trash can at another corner of the corridor.Xu You walked towards the trash can, which was already full, but it hadn't overflowed yet.Xu You put the garbage bag in his hand on the trash can, pressed it hard to make sure it wouldn't fall off, then clapped his hands, turned and went back to the store.

A man stood in front of the refrigerator in the store.The man was facing the refrigerator, and Xu You could only see his back and the scarlet umbrella in his hand.

"welcome."

Xu You greeted him politely.The man didn't turn around. From Xu Yousuo's perspective, his eyes remained fixed on the refrigerator doorknob.Xu You thought, maybe the doorknob that he had just wiped was not clean enough.

"What's your name?" The man's voice was soft and magnetic.The man still turned his back to Xu You, as if the words just now did not come from his mouth.

"Xu You, many Xu, free you." Xu You answered the question that the interrogator didn't care about the answer.Xu You's voice was like an excerpt.

The man turned around slowly, looked at Xu You who was standing there respectfully but with a little tiredness, and said: "Xu You." The man just repeated Xu You's name, with only a flat tone, without any intonation .

"You used to be an employee of Li Yuan?" The man asked again casually.

"Thank you for your umbrella." Xu You's thanks were always distracting.

The man looked down at the umbrella in his hand, raised the corner of his mouth as a smile, and said, "Why did you leave Liyuan?"

But I came to this billiard shop to work.Xu You knew that the latter sentence was something the man didn't ask.

"I've been in prison for two years." Xu You's answer was always frank.Honesty can sometimes reduce a lot of unnecessary troubles, which Xu You firmly believes.He never wanted to get into trouble.Not on the pool table before.Now, I don't even want to.

The man seemed to be more interested in looking at Xu You in front of him. When he confessed that he had been in prison for two years, he smiled calmly, as if he said something unimportant.

"Why go to jail?" The man's question was too private.

"Killed someone. A car accident." Xu You answered the five words concisely.In Liyuan, this is not a privacy worth mentioning.

"You're very sensible." Xu You couldn't understand what the man meant. He was used to the troublesome service in the elevator before?Or is it the current question-and-answer?When he didn't know how to answer, Xu You always responded by smiling.

After being silent for a while, Xu Youcai remembered his own job and said, "Sir, what do you need?"

The man looked at Xu You, reached into the pocket of his suit on his left arm, took out his work card and hung it in front of Xu You.Xu You looked at the job card that he also had one two years ago. Under the correct ID photo, the title column read: Director System; the name column read: Qu Buyan.

"Qu...Teacher Qu." Xu You almost blurted out.Xu Youcai was in charge of the producer of "Rhinoceros" two years ago. At that time, Xu Youcai hadn't been in Liyuan for a long time, but he had only heard of the name.At that time, Xu You would write down everything related to the film he was in charge of.Xu You has a good memory, once you write it down, you can't forget it.

Qu Buyan is obviously not used to this title, Li Yuan's employees all call him "Director Qu". The title "Teacher Qu" lingered in his ears for a long time before he was allowed to enter.

Xu You, who had been away from Li Yuan for two years, did not know that the legendary producer had also served as Li Yuan's director.In fact, there are many more that he doesn't know.For example, the reasons for the delay of the release of "Rhinoceros".

Qu Buyan put the work badge back into his suit pocket, stood the umbrella beside the refrigerator, and said, "I didn't wipe it clean."

Xu You was still wondering whether he was referring to the refrigerator or the umbrella, but Qu Buyan had already walked past him.Xu You turned around, bowed lightly and said, "Welcome to visit next time."

Qu Buyan's footsteps were very light, he stepped lightly on the ground and walked away, as if he couldn't bear to disturb the sleeping garbage in the corridor all day long.Xu You looked behind him sideways, and the scarlet umbrella was leaning against the refrigerator door, where Zhu refused to be red.

The author has something to say:

Dazai's nonsense:

Xiaoyu's journey to return the umbrella has begun.Finally, the lines are played, and if no one speaks, it will become a dumb novel.

It's the second part, so Qu Buyan, the protagonist of "Rhinoceros Series", was given a single line; by the way, he only had one line in the previous part.

There are still very few lines and descriptions of this person in this film, please use it slowly~