Flame red

It is said that the cherry tree specially transported from Japan in the Mu family courtyard can cover half the roof of the house with a layer of snow-like pink white during the flowering period, which makes the ancient well and rocks under the white magnolia stand out. Elegant, the neighbors passing by will stop to look at it, and sigh in their hearts that the flowers and colors here are really pleasing to the eye, even the newly built azaleas in the community look bleak.

But Mu Yu has never seen a scene of flowers blooming. When she left home, this cherry tree was just planted. The branches were wrapped in a circle of light blue plastic film, and even a few leaves were missing.

The servant at home told her that the master specially redecorated the windows of her room so that she could sit by the window and enjoy the blooming scenery when she came home.

Mu Yu followed his father into the house. I don't know if it's because of the season. Even if the magnificent corridor is covered with colorful blankets, it makes people feel extraordinarily cold.

She shivered, and went straight to her room without looking at the newly replaced oil paintings and sculptures on the wall.

Mu Yu's mother happened to come to the corridor from the living room, and stood in front of her affectionately, and hugged Mu Yu with her arms wide open.

"You are finally back for the New Year." She sighed like this.

"...En." Mu Yu remembered that he hadn't been home for a long time, and felt a little guilty, so he nodded and said nothing.

"Let the cook cook what you want to eat." Her father followed up from behind, and he seemed to be in a good mood, so he said with a smile. "I don't have enough food, so I ask people to buy it."

Mu Yu hesitated for a moment, habitually put his hand into his pocket, and when he touched Yanhong's cell phone, his heart felt empty as if a piece was missing, so he shook his head. "No need, it's not yet New Year's Eve." She replied flatly.

"How can you say that? When you come back, it will be the eve of the New Year's Eve." There was a trace of reproach in her mother's tone, and she dragged her to the living room. "You didn't come back last year, our couple lived in a deserted place."

Mu Yu was thinking about Yan Hong's side, and wanted to go back to the room, but when he heard his mother say that, he was too embarrassed to break free.Followed all the way to the living room, crossed the screen embroidered with a hundred birds facing the phoenix, and sat on the soft and spacious sofa.

Her father followed him, made tea himself, and said with a faint fragrance of tea: "This year's Chinese New Year, I invited my acquaintances to have dinner together. It's been a long time since we have dinner together."

"That's right, Mu Yu and Xiangzhi are either you absent or she has something to do at the dinner party in previous years. They can't get together." Mother looked Mu Yu up and down and sighed. "You can come back this time, thanks to her for helping."

"Mom." Mu Yu turned his head, originally wanted to ask something, but in the end he didn't say anything and nodded silently.

"Let's treat the Lu family to a meal anytime, after all, I always ask them to help cure diseases and disasters." Father said.

"How about tomorrow? Isn't Master Lu still here?" Mom immediately suggested.

"Okay, then I'll make a reservation for the restaurant now, and you can call Master Lu later."

Mu Yu watched silently as his father took out his cell phone and started making calls. After he had settled the private room, he said casually, "I'm going back to the set."

Her mother immediately frowned and asked, "Is there no holiday for the big Chinese New Year?"

"I asked for leave before New Year's Day. If the progress can be completed smoothly, maybe I can finish it on New Year's Eve." Mu Yu explained.

Compared with the holiday arrangements, it is obvious that her parents are more worried about her body.Mu Yu's father looked at her seriously. "You fainted just now, take a rest for two days, and I'll talk to the director."

"Then it won't be possible to finish the project on New Year's Eve." Mu Yu said. "I can't delay the entire crew just because I'm alone, and everyone else is waiting to go home for the New Year."

Her words made sense, and the parents in the living room also hesitated.In the end, she really couldn't hold back Mu Yu's determination, so her father sighed. "Okay, then you have a good rest tonight. I will take you to the set tomorrow."

Mu Yu nodded and stood up without waiting too long. "I'll go back to my room first."

"Well, okay, I'll call you later for dinner."

Mu Yu hummed, turned around and walked to the second floor.She didn't bother to hide her hasty footsteps, and returned to her room with her not-so-familiar memories. She opened the door and found that the layout inside was exactly the same as the day she left home in high school, and she felt a little bit moved.

Thinking about it, too, after nearly ten years of absence, there are still review books for the college entrance examination on the bookshelf, and the periodic table of chemical elements is pasted on the wall. There is always a feeling that I am still the high school student lying on the table and calculating functions.But when she returned to reality in a trance, she found that the rustic school uniform that she wore back then looked a little smaller, and the globe that used to need to stand on tiptoe to get it can now be easily touched by raising her hand.

"It turns out that the most familiar place can really become distant and unfamiliar..." Mu Yu laughed at himself, then closed the door, and took out Yanhong's mobile phone.

She quickly entered the landline number of Wu Zhina's apartment, and pressed the dial.

The square dance music slid past his ears like a stream of water, and Mu Yu found himself a little dry, not because of nervousness, but because of worry.

This is probably the second time she has left Yanhong without permission, and compared with the determination of the first time, she is more at a loss in her heart now.Mu Yu believes that this is definitely because the departure this time was not decided by himself after thinking about it, but was taken away by his family without knowing it.

She remembered that when she woke up in the hospital that day, her father told Yan Hong that she would not return to her, and she would live with her parents again.At that time, Mu Yu felt as if someone had knocked his forehead with a spiritual card, his thoughts were a little confused and his head hurt badly.

If Yan Hong doesn't come back——she wanted to say something, but Master Lu told her sincerely that the Lu family had already found a way to solve the current situation, and after a while, Mu Yu's side would be able to return to normal.

No, but that's not the point at all.

Mu Yu frowned at that time, and said nothing, because she knew that even if she said something, it would be of no use. ——She just couldn't help going back and thinking, if Yan Hong didn't come back, if she had promised not to leave her that day, in the end it was nothing more than a casual comfort on the bed with dim light and continuous sleepiness.

But for some reason, Mu Yu knew very well that Yan Hong would not leave.If she made another phone call and showed the slightest hint that she needed her, the child would come right away even if it was across the Pacific Ocean.

Because that is Yanhong, Yanhong who has no other meaning in life except protecting Mu Yu.

The square dance was repeated twice before the other side answered.

"I'm taking a shower." Yan Hong complained to her helplessly.

Hearing her voice, Mu Yu subconsciously smiled softly, and even she herself felt a little unbelievable after laughing. "I'm going to film tomorrow, and I'll go back after the film is finished," she said.

"Huh?" Yan Hong was a little surprised. "Don't you live at your house?"

"Is that my home too?"

"I don't mean that... I mean, you should live with your parents, right?"

"Then what do you do?" Mu Yu asked back.

"Ah? Me?" Yan Hong didn't seem to expect that she would say that, her tone was a bit dazed. "Me? I..." The child obviously paused for a long time, but finally changed the subject. "My phone is still with you."

"That's right, so I'm going to take it back for you later?" Mu Yu said.

Yanhong let out a hey. "Wouldn't it be good to ask Mu Xiangzhi to give it to me? Anyway, we are in the same school."

"Yanhong, do you want me to go back?"

"You are so straightforward."

"Then you can answer me directly."

"I don't know how to answer you." Yan Hong's voice was still as straightforward as before, even so flat that it was almost perfunctory. "You are with me only to prevent those things from hurting you. To be honest, my blood is useless for some reason now. Since Master Lu can find a solution, it would be better for you to stay there, right?"

The first sentence said that he didn't know how to answer, but the latter sentence analyzed the current situation almost cruelly, and it was clear that he had already given Mu Yu an answer.But whether this answer is based on rational analysis or Yan Hong's inner feelings, she doesn't know.

If the child is so unwilling in his heart—to be honest, Mu Yu finds that he is looking forward to Yan Hong's unwillingness.

"Yanhong." She laughed, and when she retorted, she found that her throat was uncomfortably blocked, and she felt an illusion of pain in her heart.But she still smiled and said to the child: "I will be with you, never to avoid the harm of those things."

--yes.

Yanhong groaned, and then said: "The bath water is getting cold, I'll take a bath first."

"Ah."

Mu Yu didn't stop him, and quietly heard the other party hang up the phone, without panic or hesitation.

She suddenly found that she knew how to feel uncomfortable in her heart, not because of something, but because of someone.

The quiet room is getting colder and colder, surrounded by furnishings and furniture that Mu Yu is familiar with but now feels strange, the gray seal doll is still on the bed, she always leaned on the doll to look through the review book, often looking at I couldn't help dozing off watching it, and the blue signature pen drew several distinct marks on the doll.But Mu Yu will not feel distressed or disgusted by these traces, he will hug him when he should, and let him go when he should let go, clean and not entangled.

She sat on the bed to relax for a few minutes, and finally closed her eyes and lay down. The Yanhong mobile phone was slightly hot in her hand, like meteorite that was about to cool down.

Later, when his mother knocked on the door and asked her to eat, Mu Yu just fell asleep and dreamed of his grandma after a long absence.She was a little surprised when she woke up. After all, she hadn't dreamed of the old man for a long time, but the appearance of grandma and snake demon together was not something worth remembering.

She looked at the phone in her hand in a daze, and the screen on it had dimmed.

"Strange..." Mu Yu rubbed his forehead.

"What's wrong?" The mother standing at the door looked at her worriedly, then walked over, looked at her forehead and couldn't help complaining. "Does your head still hurt? That kid named Yan Hong is really too, with such a ruthless hand, you have bruises on your forehead."

Hearing what his mother said, Mu Yu turned his head subconsciously. "Mom, don't talk about her like that."

"What do you mean don't say that?" Her mother seemed a little angry. "Why do you protect her? Just because you lived together for a while?"

Knowing that her parents have opinions on Yanhong.Mu Yu didn't want to quarrel with them either, after all, the more they quarreled about this kind of thing, the more the conflict between the two parties might escalate.

She had no choice but to sigh, stood up and walked out. "Let's go and eat something."

Yanhong is not a child of unknown origin.

Mu Yu's parents knew about her relationship with her grandmother, and because Mu Yu had quarreled with them about her grandmother at that time, they were very careful not to mention the old man in front of her.

After resting at home for a night, Mu Yu's father drove Mu Yu back to the film crew early the next morning, and after explaining the situation to the director several times, he left uneasy.

Master Lu also came to the set, and handed Mu Yu a kettle, which contained fruit tea with a sweet and greasy fragrance.He told Mu Yu that the tea specially prepared by the Lu family can weaken the inner alchemy little by little, and when it is weakened to a certain level, he can find a way to guide it out.

Mu Yu took a sip between work, and the taste was surprisingly good.

The other actors in the same crew all learned about her fainting due to an accident, and came to greet her one after another. When Shi Han came, he looked warily at Master Lu who was closely behind Mu Yu, and then handed her a hot water bottle.

"I just made it at the hotel and it's still warm," he said.

After Mu Yu took it, he thanked him politely, pretended not to notice the stare between Shi Han and Master Lu, and looked at the script to himself.Occasionally, I heard Lin Chen next to me talk about the recent hot launch of "Yan Cui Sheng Chun", which really won a lot of attention.

The third season of "Rainy Day" still continues the usual routine, but there are no sunny places in winter, and it doesn't rain often, so I can only compromise on a gray and cloudy day, and occasionally I really want to shoot rain. To see the scene, I fired a high-pressure water gun into the sky, sprinkling patches of cold rain and mist, and I felt unbearable watching it.

Romantic dramas don’t need a stand-in, and they don’t want to shoot martial arts scenes. Even in the jet of high-pressure water guns, Mu Yu is dedicated to running around and rolling around according to the script. If he is lucky, he can pass by. Mistakes, she often had to soak in the rain several times, each time her face turned pale and shivered, the director couldn't stand it, so he hurriedly asked someone to change her clothes and get an electric blanket.

"You should pay attention to your image a little bit." Shi Han came over later and pushed away Master Lu who was pouring hot water for Mu Yu, reminding him. "Don't shower too hard, there are many fans watching."

"Just look at it." Mu Yu shrugged, followed Shi Han's gaze, and sure enough, not far away, he saw a group of people taking pictures with their mobile phones in unison.

To be honest, she doesn't remember the fans' faces and names very clearly. In addition, the few influential fans who are promoted as the main force of the support club on the Internet only remember their screen names. Mu Yu doesn't know what they really look like. pay attention to.

That's why he was surprised when Hu Li revealed that he was the president of the support club.

She thought casually, and when she took the hot water from Master Lu, she glanced at the fans in the distance.Instead of drinking hot water to warm her body, she almost knocked over the cup with a trembling hand.Master Lu was taken aback, and hurriedly asked if he felt uncomfortable.

Mu Yu pointed to the group of people, shook his head with a pale face and said nothing, or, he couldn't say anything.

Master Lu looked in the direction she pointed, and in the crowd, he vaguely saw a thin, elderly figure staring at him.