Death of the Rhino

The number on the elevator kept increasing, and when the elevator door opened, Xu You knew it was the 21st floor.Xu You habitually turned to one side, reaching out to block the elevator door.After Qu Buyan entered the elevator, Xu Youcai went in, stood on the side of the elevator button, and pressed a floor.This elevator has a basement floor, but he thought that Qu Buyan, who frequently uses his car and doesn't take much care of it, would park his car outside.He should park everything outside.

Xu You stared at the buttons of the elevator, only to see Qu Buyan on the elevator door in a blink of an eye.This scene is the same as when he and Qu Buyan met for the first time.Qu Buyan still had that unhurried scent of perfume.Ke Xuyou, what is it now?

On the first floor, the elevator door opens.After Qu Buyan got out of the elevator, Xu Youcai withdrew his hand blocking the elevator door and followed.As expected, Daqie was parked in the parking space in front of the building.Didn't Qu Buyan say that he is not familiar with this car and doesn't often drive it?The Grand Cherokee, which is not often driven, parks in the parking space with the most impeccable posture, and the distance from the left and right edges of the parking space is almost the same.

Get in the car, fasten the seat belt, insert the key, turn the signal, step on the brake, release the handbrake, and give the gas pedal.Xu You knew everything about it like the back of his hand.This time he sat upright on the leather driver's seat, not because he was afraid of getting the seat dirty, but because he didn't want to make his injured back so painful.

"Rongfu." Xu You turned on the air conditioner, but Daqieli was still scorching hot after being exposed to the sun all day.Qu Buyan slightly turned down the car window to breathe.

When the car drove out of the community, Xu Youcai saw the name of the community - Shuilinwan community - a high-end community not far from Wanping Building, but still some distance from Rongfu.

If it wasn't for the fact that he didn't have a mobile phone, Xu You must have checked what the crime of driving without a license was.This way, he still drove very carefully.Xu You thought, maybe Qu Buyan went to see Shi Hezi again, and "Rhinoceros" will be released in less than a month, but judging from his experience at the billiard shop in Mandu Square, the current publicity is not enough. .

If a film wants to attract the audience's attention, it must have an eye-catching gimmick or focus.But the current "Rhinoceros", apart from some rumors that the actors' acting skills are not good enough, there is no news at all.It can be called a clear soup with little water.

It is said that Rong Mansion's dishes are famous for their clear soup with little water. Thinking of this, Xu You couldn't help but smile.Did Qu Buyan and Shi Hezi meet in Rongfu because it fits well with the current "Rhinoceros"?During this journey, Qu Buyan didn't say a word. In the rearview mirror, he seemed to be thinking about something, and his eyes seemed to be completely empty.

In front of the gate of Rongfu, Xu You got out of the car and opened the door for Qu Buyan. His posture and attitude when opening the door became more and more like a professional driver.After Qu Buyan got out of the car, Xu You closed the door.I didn't get in the car again, but stood under the tree next to the parking space like a professional driver waiting for the guests.

Xu You raised his head and turned around the tree, but he didn't see a cicada.What about the cicadas that were noisy with their lives on the tree before?Has life been babbled?The cars on the road were lifeless, so they were making more noise than last time.

That cicada must have thought the cars on the road too noisy, so it flew away.

Qu Buyan came out more slowly this time, Xu You came out after he walked around several trees, followed by two men - one was a gray-haired, middle-aged man in his 30s.The other wore a hat, a mask, and a white T-shirt.As soon as the two of them left, Xu You trotted to Daqie and opened the car door to wait. They were so far away that they couldn't see clearly.

After the man in the hat went out, he got into a black van and left.The gray-haired man said a few words to Qu Buyan in front of the Rongfu gate, then got into the car and left.Xu You saw these through the window glass of Daqie's back seat, and he also saw Qu Buyan walking towards Daqie with a packing box in his hand.

Qu Buyan stopped in front of the car door, and handed the packing box in front of Xu You.Xu You took it in doubt and asked, "What is this?"

"Dumplings." Qu Buyan turned and walked in the opposite direction of the front of the car, Xu You looked at Daqie who had been ignored again, closed the car door sympathetically, and followed Qu Buyan.

On Qu Buyan's body, apart from the smell of perfume, there was only a little tea scent.It doesn't taste like dumplings.I can be [-]% sure that there are indeed hot dumplings in the packing box in my hand.Xu You's saliva began to flood again.

Qu Buyan entered a 711 convenience store on the side of the road, took two glasses of mineral water and sat down in the convenience store's seat for customers to eat.Xu You who had been waiting by the door sat on the seat next to Qu Buyan.

Qu Buyan unscrewed one of the bottles of mineral water, put it in front of Xu You, and said, "Eat."

Xu You's stomach surrendered once again. "thank you".After Xu You thanked him, he tried his best to suppress the eagerness in his heart to open the packing box.The steamed dumplings with firm skin and attractive luster are lying neatly in the packing box.

Xu You smiled silly, swallowed, looked at Qu Buyan and asked, "Teacher, do you eat?" Xu You thought, Qu Buyan probably didn't eat.

Qu Buyan didn't speak, he unscrewed the mineral water at hand, but didn't drink it, just unscrewed it and put it on the table.Xu You swallowed a few more mouthfuls of saliva, and when he was sure that Qu Buyan had no interest in these tempting dumplings, he picked up one of them and put it in his mouth to chew.

The dumplings in Rongfu are also clear soup with little water.But the warm soup made the unhealed wound in Xu You's mouth look like a medicine bath.

"You don't know Feng Qianjiang." When Qu Buyan was speaking, his eyes seemed to be wandering on the road outside the store.With dumplings stuffed in Xu You's mouth, he chewed very seriously, but couldn't answer.

Qu Buyan's declarative sentence seems to be the conclusion that he came to after talking with Feng Qianjiang.So Xu You adjusted the order of Qu Buyan's words on his own initiative - "Feng Qianjiang doesn't know you."

But now he understood that the gray-haired middle-aged man who came out of Rongfu just now should be Feng Qianjiang, the director of "Rhinoceros".Could it be that the man wearing the mask is Park Guangbai, the hero of the movie?

Xu You knew these two people.One is Director Feng Qianjiang, who has directed many popular films, and the other is a dark horse actor with a background in web dramas, and Pu Guangbai, a young star in the film and television industry; they don't know Xu You, but Xu You knows them.Xu You, who was in charge of the planning of "Rhinoceros" when he first joined Liyuan, met these two on the set many times.But Xu You just remembered.

"I haven't worked in Liyuan for a long time." Then I got into a car accident and was imprisoned for two years, so the filming of "Rhinoceros" was not followed up.Xu You didn't add anything to the last sentence, staring at the dumpling in front of him, he really wanted to eat another one, but he controlled it.Because he didn't know if Qu Buyan had any plans to continue the chat.

"The planning is not good." From the glass in front of him, Xu You saw Qu Buyan looking at him. "Poor planning" means "Rhinoceros" is poorly planned, or——"Rhinoceros" is poorly planned?However, no matter which one it is, it seems that it has nothing to do with Xu You.So Xu You is thinking now, should he send another dumpling for import.

"Are you doing it for the promotion of "Rhinoceros"?" Xu You asked because of the dumplings lying there waiting to be tasted.He deliberately replaced the word "planning", which can be both a verb and a noun, with propaganda.At least that way it doesn't feel ambiguous.Moreover, "Rhinoceros" is different to Xu You.The screenwriter of the film is Mr. Yun Zhouyun whom he admires.

"One piece of "Rhinoceros" is replaced by a Dior endorsement. Resource replacement." Xu You saw the song in the glass without saying anything, and had no intention of chatting.So he picked up a dumpling and put it in his mouth with peace of mind.The air conditioner in the store was turned on a little low, and the dumpling soup was a little cold.But also light and moist.

Resource replacement is no stranger to film and television workers.For Park Guangbai, a newcomer in the film and television industry, a good endorsement for a movie that doesn't sell well is a sure-fire deal.After all, high luxury has improved the quality of the spokesperson.You can guess without even thinking about how much Director Feng and Producer Qu have put in to compete for this extravagant endorsement for the new couple.

Xu You had also heard this word from mynah.Businessmen like resource replacement.

After the last dumpling was eaten, Xu You packed up the packing box and put it in the trash can next to him, then took a contented sip of water and flushed down his throat.Then sit quietly in a chair and think.After thinking about how to return the key in his hand, he only thought about it for two seconds, and all the things that came to his mind turned into dumplings.

"Dumplings can only be packed." Qu Buyan said something, got up and walked outside the store.Xu You picked up the unscrewed mineral water that Qu Buyan had forgotten on the table, and followed.

Dumplings can be packed, so what can't be packed?Steak medium rare?Xu You followed behind Qu Buyan, holding a mineral water bottle in both hands, staring down at the floor tiles in front of him.Because the medium-rare steak has a bloody smell that Qu Buyan doesn't like, or is it because Xu You wants to pack it?Or, because it was packaged by Qubuyan, so the dumplings are okay?

However, since you don't like the taste of dumplings in Daqie, why pack this dumpling?Perhaps, the steak in the Red Mansion is not as good as the dumplings in Rongfu.

"Are you looking for a job?" Qu Buyan in the back seat of the car leaned on the seat and closed his eyes, his voice was still soft.

"No." Xu Youshi returned to being a vagrant again.A penniless vagrant.But he didn't want to admit this fact here.

"You're a good substitute driver." In the rearview mirror, Xu You saw that Qu Buyan opened his eyes and looked at him.Last time, he also commented on his past planning career in the same way. The word "good" does not know whether it is commendatory or derogatory, or it has no meaning at all.

"Teacher, I think... I'm leaving Shanghai." Xu You said it with a guilty conscience, and he said a lot of white lies.This is not a lie, but gray truth.He is leaving Shanghai, so I can no longer act as a substitute driver for him.

"Half a month, I will settle your salary." Qu Buyan finished, and then lazily closed his eyes.Half a month, July NO.11, the day when "Rhino" premiered.Two days later, it was Xu Qu's death day.

Xu You also needed such a salary as travel expenses to visit Xu Qu in Nanjing.

Daqie drove all the way to Wanping Building, Qu Buyan got off the car and went directly into the building without saying a word.Xu You drove the big car to the underground parking lot. This time, he didn't hide at the stairs, nor did he pretend to be a passerby standing outside the car.He just sat in the car, waiting for his employer to get off work.

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