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On the third day after that phone call, Jiang Xing met Lu Yunkai.

The familiar person was standing in the crowded airport with only a simple bag of luggage, wearing jeans, a sweater, and a gray coat.His hand was tucked into the sleeve of his overcoat, and he stood there as if in a painting outside the world.

Jiang Xing stepped forward and gave the other party a simple hug.

He carried Lu Yunkai's luggage and took him to his rented apartment.

This is a rather large house located in the suburbs. It has three floors. It has a large garden that is not inferior to the land area of ​​the house. The living room and the rooms facing the garden on the second and third floors have a huge French window with a beautiful single The curtains are drawn open to reveal a garden with ponds and wildflower trails.

Jiang Xing pushed open the door of the guest bedroom on the second floor.

The house he temporarily rented didn't have many rooms—correspondingly, each room had a very large space.

In a space of about [-] to [-] square meters, there is a chaise longue in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows. Opposite the chaise longue is a double bed against the wall. There is a small door to the left of the big bed. This small door is the small door of the cloakroom.The left side of the big bed turned into a small living room, with a sofa, a coffee table, and a wall-mounted TV. There was also a small wine cabinet on the left side of the living room. Of course, there was nothing in the wine cabinet.

This is a room that has been carefully prepared.

Because the big bed has been replaced with a brand new quilt cover, a few soft high pillows are pressed on the quilt cover, and hangers are also hung in the closet. Although there is no wine in the wine cabinet, there are several bottles of colorful drinks ingeniously placed. The small refrigerator was filled with mineral water—even in the corner of the floor-to-ceiling windows, there was a pot of small plump succulents.

Every detail is amazing.

Lu Yunkai felt that he should thank Jiang Xing.

But he couldn't make a happy expression, and he couldn't say thank you.His cheeks and lips seemed to be solidified by mud and sealed by glue, and there was no way to make a single expression or word.

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Lu Yunkai stayed here.

Jiang Xing didn't accompany Lu Yunkai every day. He just joined a theater troupe in England, and everything had to start all over again, whether it was differences in habits at home and abroad, or differences in diet, or differences in interpersonal relationships, or the most important thing about Jiang Xing. Xing's own drama strength——

Jiang Xing had to spend [-] percent of his energy on all kinds of things.

But this did not affect Jiang Xing's attention to Lu Yunkai.

In other words, although I am making a new effort in a new place, compared to the days when I only slept for three hours a day in the past three months, I don’t know how many times more leisurely.

In fact, Jiang Xing thought that the process of being with Lu Yunkai was a very leisurely rest process.

It is true that Lu Yunkai's current state is not very good, but this kind of bad performance is extreme - it's just that Lu Yunkai is not very talkative.

But if possible, Jiang Xing actually hoped that Lu Yunkai could behave... more like a patient.

A few days ago, on the second and third day after Lu Yunkai arrived in the UK, Jiang Xing took Lu Yunkai to a well-known psychiatrist here, hoping to get some useful advice and help through professional diagnosis and treatment.

They did give Jiang Xing very useful advice and help, and also made Jiang Xing discover a lot of things that he hadn't noticed before—whether in life or psychologically, in short, Lu Yunkai has been diagnosed with depression.

Feeling sad for a long time, low mood, anhedonia; insomnia, appetite; poor concentration, hopelessness, guilt, and finally suicide.

They wrote a prescription from the doctor and bought antidepressant prescription drugs; he followed the doctor's advice and took Lu Yunkai to participate in the surrounding community activities, trying to establish a new interpersonal relationship.

Together, their schedules became very healthy—at least excluding the time when Lu Yunkai suffered from insomnia, they were very healthy.

I usually go to bed at ten o'clock in the evening and get up at six o'clock in the morning or earlier.

When Jiang Xing was going to drama training, Lu Yunkai was at home trying to improve his cooking skills. He made home-cooked dishes at first, but honestly speaking, his skills were mediocre; later, Lu Yunkai found out that it took him three hours to finish it. When the food was not as delicious as Jiang Xing cooked it for half an hour while humming a song, he quietly hid away, and instead tried to make some... small pastries or something?

To be honest, when Jiang Xing saw the fruit platter made by Lu Yunkai for the first time, he thought it was some kind of artistic reproduction.

It's not that Lu Yunkai's knife skills progressed to the level of a professional chef in an instant and Jiang Xing was shocked in an instant; it's that the arrangement and color matching of the fruits...is indescribably charming.

The first set that Lu Yun came to Jiang Xing for was a miniature reproduction of their garden landscape.

White radishes are used for the pool, cucumbers and gourds are used for the trees, the green grass is the leaves of strawberries, the safflower is the pulp of strawberries, and the taupe soil is like a layer of chocolate powder or cocoa powder. The cascading changes of the terrain!

When the fruit platter was served, Jiang Xing didn't want to eat it. Instead, he took out his mobile phone to take several photos, silently posted them on Weibo, and then tried to taste the taste...

To be honest, the taste is almost the same as the previous ones. It can't be said to be unpalatable, but it really can't be called delicious. It's just the basic taste of the fruit.

Jiang Xing glanced at Lu Yunkai, then at Lu Yunkai again, and finally admitted with complicated emotions that there are indeed people who are born to make art...

In addition to eating, Jiang Xing sometimes practiced dramas in the house at night, and Lu Yunkai sat next to him most of the time and flipped through a book of "The Complete Works of Humor King's Jokes". Although in order to avoid re-entering the play, he always just said two lines of cannon fodder and then ended.

Weekends are the most free time for two people.

Although both Jiang Xing and Lu Yunkai won the title of Best Actor at the International Film Festival, no one in the UK knew them.For the locals living here, they are just "two new neighbors", or "one is very pleasant, the other is a little silent", or "both are good people".

They tried to do nothing on weekends, just sitting on the British subway, every line from the beginning to the end, repeatedly, from the sun just until the stars also set, this feeling of doing nothing is particularly leisurely, and A little bit of excitement, like a child who should be studying, spends his reading time on playing, with a little rebellious and successful joy.

This is just one of those times.

Later, they went shopping in a foreign country and tasted snacks like the last time they came here.

I went to buy tickets to watch the football game again, but I managed to go to the next city to watch the training and got my autograph and jersey.

They fed the pigeons again in the square with the big fountain.

Holding a handful of bird food in his hand, when the small water droplets sprayed from the pool to the sky fell from the top of his head, hundreds of snow-white pigeons fluttered their wings and flew together, and when they landed on the shoulders and arms in twos and threes - it was amazing. Forget about the time, place, and other people around you.

this is life.It can be good or it can be bad.We can't have only the good, but we don't have to choose only the bad either.

... Later Jiang Xing brought a deer home.

That's right, not a cat, not a dog, or Bambi; just a real deer, a full-grown buck with strong antlers on its head.

This time Jiang Xing did not come back alone.

A big truck came back with the deer and Jiang Xing. The crew members got off the truck and helped Jiang Xing drive the deer into the fairly spacious back garden.

The neighbors poked their heads out curiously, and the film crew patted Jiang Xing on the shoulder and gave him an encouragement of "you go!", then got in the car and drove away.

After Jiang Xing let the neighbors around him see his deer, and explained that it was necessary for work and that he would definitely take care of this deer so that it would not hurt anyone, the neighbors left just like the crew members just now. Xia Jiangxing and Lu Yunkai.

Jiang Xing glanced at the deer, then looked at Lu Yunkai and thought for a while, and then he said: "This time the play needs a deer as a prop, and what I have to do is to have a good relationship with this deer, and become with it. Like a family."

Lu Yunkai: "..."

"Then," Jiang Xing said again, "but sometimes I have to do drama training. When I'm not around..." He took out his coat pocket and took out three A4 sheets that had been folded several times. The size of the paper, and Lu Yunkai said, "Probably, just take care of it according to what is written on it."

Lu Yunkai: "..."

Lu Yunkai took the papers.

Before looking at the papers, he turned his head and glanced at the stag next to him.

The stag took two steps on the spot, blinked its eyes, its antlers shook slightly, and faintly flashed a little cold light together with the eyes.

Then, he and Jiang Xing started a life where raising a deer was more meticulous than raising himself.

To be honest, although this deer is mainly a performance prop for Jiang Xing, Jiang Xing still has to practice drama after all, and he is always away from home three or four days a week, and Lu Yunkai, he is there when Jiang Xing is, He was still there when Jiang Xing was gone.

And three meals a day, walking time every day, grooming every day, and even taking them to the grassland for a few laps every now and then... It is unimaginable that in addition to paying attention to the hunting problem of the stag, it is also necessary to solve the problem of stag hunting. Deer mating problem.

In short, because this was a task carefully assigned by Jiang Xing, Lu Yunkai also carefully followed each item on the A4 paper, taking care of the deer much more carefully than taking care of himself.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Lu Yunkai himself could forget to take his medicine on time, and he would not forget to give this deer a diet that is accurate to 1g per day; Jiang Xing was also able to delay his time for eating and resting, but he did not dare to delay talking with him. This deer cultivates feelings and sends this deer to the pasture for a walk at a fixed time.

A week like this is enough, Jiang Xing and Lu Yunkai looked at each other, and felt that it wasn't that they raised a deer, but that they had invited a deer ancestor to come home and offer three meals a day on a regular basis.

But most of the time, serious efforts can always receive gratifying returns.

Although Jiang Xing and Lu Yunkai have already lost a few catties in a week, but it is also this week, this mighty and domineering stag seems to have classified Jiang Xing and Lu Yunkai as "his own territory" When strangers approach Jiang Xing and Lu Yunkai, they will always lower their heads and bend their limbs slightly, making a threatening gesture of attacking!

...Is there something wrong?

Jiang Xing and Lu Yunkai, two bitter hands who have never raised animals since they were young, really can't get the thinking orientation of this buck. Fortunately, at this time, the buck has already taken the initiative to follow Jiang Xing and Lu Yunkai in and out together, which can be regarded as the completion of the crew The request of "becoming a family with a deer".

It started snowing in the evening.

A red flame was burning fiercely in the fireplace, coating everything in the room with a layer of golden red.

The stag was dozing with his head on his forelegs by the fireplace.The light and shadow of the flame danced on its fur, and the shadows cast by the closed eyelids made it look completely still.

Jiang Xing sat on the leather sofa beside him and recited his lines.

The play to be performed this time is a fairy-tale play, in which he appears as a forest hunter with a stag.

The first scene of the forest hunter's appearance is to meet the prince in distress.

Then the prince lived with the hunter for a while, and they became friends, but the prince missed the world of flowers and wine, while the hunter refused to give up his homeland where he grew up.

They had their first but very violent quarrel.

This is in the hunter's cabin, and the hunter's deer is resting with its head down.

The hunter said to the prince—

Jiang Xing stood up from the stove, he stood beside the stag, and said to the vacant space in the living room: "—what you can't give up is your throne, not your friends; what you are deeply attached to is power and money , not your relationship with me!"

"——No, my friend!" Lu Yunkai suddenly stood up from the sofa, he took a step forward, his face was blushing from excitement, his eyes were fixed on Jiang Xing, as if there was a lot of heat bursting out of it out!

He said loudly and impassionedly: "I love you as much as I love my parents! But that is my home, and that is the war I have to face! The side knife on the gallows is already hanging on my neck , but I cannot escape from the battlefield like a coward! And my friend, you should not stop me, you should sing for me and be proud of me, and beat the drums for me, because I have decided to face my fate at this moment! "

"But I—" Jiang Xing turned his head all of a sudden, and he suddenly exerted all his strength, as if he would twist his neck in the next moment.

The eyes of the two met in the air.

There are indescribable intense emotions in the two pairs of eyes. They collide in the mid-air, wrestle in the mid-air, and concentrate on fighting in the mid-air!

In the end, Jiang Xing turned his eyes away, and he turned sideways to Lu Yunkai, facing his deer, and said quietly: "But I also have my destiny."

It is as gorgeous as the moment when countless salutes reach the sky, and it is as gorgeous as a spring breeze blowing away thousands of trees and flowers overnight.

The impact of the peak confrontation made the two people in the play feel a little trance, they have both mastered the essence, and the other party has mastered the essence; they both performed it perfectly, and the other party performed it perfectly.

The double, triple, and countless shocks made them feel the supreme happiness from spirit to body after entering the play with all their hearts and minds!

Suddenly the flame in the fireplace crackled.

The wind blowing snow outside the house woke up the stag who was dozing by the fire.

The stag raised its head vigilantly, inspected the surroundings, and after finding nothing wrong, it lazily lowered its head again.

There was a smile on Jiang Xing's face. He wanted to talk to Lu Yunkai. This was the first time Lu Yunkai showed such a rich expression after coming to England, and it was also their real, first rivalry—even if it was just in a room. In the rented villa, even if there is only one sleeping stag among all the audience.

He said, "You—"

He looked at Lu Yunkai.

Lu Yunkai was also looking at him.

Those black eyes with a little bit of gentle brown, at this moment, seemed to be swaying with shallow waves.

Lu Yunkai put his hands back into his pockets.

He said softly, "Brother Jiang, I want to quit the entertainment industry."