godfather

Meng Xiaobei was transferred to the No. [-] Middle School near his home to study, and has been in the same school as Meng Xiaojing ever since.

Meng Xiaobei has always been unafraid of outsiders, not afraid of adapting to the environment, maybe he is used to wandering life as a child, has lived everywhere, where can a man not just hang around?He quickly got acquainted with the teachers and classmates in the class at school. As the "school grass" brother, as soon as he stepped into the school gate, he was the focus of the whole school inside and outside the building.And on the "Roll of Honor" blacklist in the hands of their senior academic affairs team leader, there is another difficult-to-get big kid who often fights and disobeys school rules and kicks the edge.Xi'an ordinary high school has average conditions, and there are not so many extracurricular interest group activities. After class, Meng Xiaobei plays basketball and games with his classmates every day, goes to the video room, plays billiards, and goes shopping with girls to go shopping in the city to eat and drink...

He and Meng Xiaojing still don't get together very often, they sleep in the same room with bunk beds at home, go their own way when they go out, and each has a group of friends.On weekends, I go to Fangshang to eat a bowl of steamed buns, and sometimes go swimming in the Bahe River with my companions.

Once, Meng Xiaojing asked him to go to the video hall to watch the latest Hong Kong-produced films.Meng Xiaobei teased, "Hey, why don't you ask Wang Xiaoyuan from the class next door to accompany you!"

Meng Xiaojing said: "It was blown last semester, and it has been updated. Don't ask."

Meng Xiaobei: "Tell me honestly, how many do you blow off?"

Meng Xiaojing said: "It doesn't count, I haven't had a serious girlfriend."

Meng Xiaobei: "Don't pretend to be me."

Meng Xiaojing counted with his fingers: "Does the primary school count? Four, how many do you have?"

Meng Xiaobei walked with his head down: "I've always only had one, and I didn't intend to blow it."

Meng Xiaobei only discusses this amount, and doesn't compare with his brother.He's a man, one is worth four others, and there's more than enough, why don't you pull him out for a walk?

There is something in Meng Xiaojing's words: "You, you don't dare to brag to others, do you?"

"What do you mean?" Meng Xiaobei said seriously, "Sincere love, do you understand?"

Meng Xiaobei never confessed to his brother about his relationship issues, and Meng Xiaojing didn't get to the bottom of it, and didn't mention the person's name.Perhaps this is because the twins have a soul in each other's hearts, which one the other is in love with, and I can clearly feel it with a hit in my heart.

Meng Xiaojing disagreed: "The two places are separated and not together, what kind of sincere love can be maintained?"

Meng Xiaobei asked back: "You are in the same school all day, how long do you last?...Meng Xiaojing, who have you loved since you were young?"

Meng Xiaojing looked up and walked without responding.

Meng Xiaojing once told Xiaobei in a slightly teasing and flamboyant tone that he met a female college student on the train. She was a 20-year-old sophomore who returned from Beijing to Shaanxi to visit relatives.At the moment of parting, the college student was reluctant to leave, and deliberately left her phone number, asking Meng Xiaojing to call her. After getting off the car, the eyes of the crowd were full of water, and they waved back and forth.It felt like that whenever Meng Xiaojing spoke a word, that female college student was willing to go with him, and she might even be abducted by him.

Meng Xiaobei was very gossip: "Then did you call someone to make an appointment?"

Meng Xiaojing was expressionless, and asked back: "What are you calling? Don't be ridiculous. I tore up the phone number and threw it in the trash can when I got off the train. Who knows who on the train?"

Meng Xiaobei could tell early on that his younger brother was handsome and had a tepid personality, but he was cold-hearted and had never really loved anyone.

A small private video room in the basement of a family hotel.In the dark room, filled with smoke, a few rows of worn-out purple-red sofas and reclining chairs sat young people watching an all-night movie.The movie camera shakes and changes, casting colorful light and shadow on everyone's face.The story tells the story of a frail, handsome, down-and-out single white-clothed scholar Ning Caichen, who meets a kind and sad female ghost Nie Xiaoqian in an ancient temple on a barren mountain.

Meng Xiaojing's eyes had a different kind of brilliance, and he gestured excitedly with his hands from time to time: "This is called a movie montage, which splices together two shot clips from different time and space. I just recall Xiaoqian Baisha sitting in the bow of the fishing boat at dusk in Jinghu Lake, then turned back to the inner monologue of the male protagonist, and finally introduced the theme song...how touching! The filming is great!"

Meng Xiaobei said: "The costumes of the scholar and the female ghost are pretty good, but the two giant panda ears on Xiaoqian's head are almost interesting! If I design this film for her, I don't use double buns, I will use elegant visual effects The ribbon tied Wang Zuxian’s hair up, a hat or veil was worn on different occasions, and a single white jade swing made it more artistic to sit on the bow.”

Meng Xiaojing said: "Nie Xiaoqian is wearing a hat? It's blocking Wang Zuxian's beautiful forehead, don't worry."

Meng Xiaobei touched his brother's smooth forehead: "Xiaoqian, don't be too picky."

Meng Xiaojing poked him with a cigarette butt: "Get out!"

The two came out of the video room at night, chatting and laughing all the way along the street, Meng Xiaobei imitated the Cantonese slippery tune, and sang with all his heart, "The road of life—the sweet dream is like a long road—the wind and frost on the road—the wind and frost hit the face dry—"

At that time, Meng Xiaojing had a very strong interest in acting.Meng Xiaojing was born with a celebrity face. He tanned his skin in high school and developed a more masculine look. His facial features are handsome, and he somewhat resembles the popular hero Hu Yajie in the TV series "Plainclothes Police" at that time.

Meng Jianmin teases his second child at home from time to time. It was all your father's fault back then. I plead guilty!Lao Tzu was limited by a set of outdated thinking in the planned economy of state-owned enterprises and factories, lacked a strategic long-term vision, and made a major mistake in decision-making!At that time, I didn't expect that the times were changing so fast, and I didn't expect that there were such things as going to the sea, restructuring, private ownership, practice stalls, self-employed million-dollar households, and TV drama stars.Why didn't I see that my son has literary talent and the temperament of an actor?If you had helped you win that cream ad at the beginning, Meng Xiaojing, you might really be the male version of Shirley Temple in China today!

However, it is too late to go back and look for the regrets that were missed ten years ago. The missed positions have already been filled by more talented young people.Later, as soon as children's films such as "Panda Mimi" and "Thunderbolt Beibei" were released, child actors became a speculative industry that generations of parents scrambled for.There is no shortage of talented and ambitious people in this country. What everyone lacks is time and opportunity.

It's no big deal for Meng Xiaobei and his brother to live in the same room, the biggest conflict is rushing to school every morning to grab the bathroom.Meng Xiaojing cleaned up in the bathroom every day, and that time was enough for him to get under the covers and sleep again.

Meng Xiaojing put his face in the mirror and looked at it, opened his eyelids and eyelashes, and murmured: "Meng Xiaobei, come here and help me take a look, my eyelids are oily!"

Meng Xiaobei took the toothbrush away without rinsing his mouth, just put on the toothpaste and brushed his teeth quickly with the toothbrush in his mouth.

Meng Xiaobei said with a froth in his mouth: "You eat too much mutton and big meat, don't eat it in the future and you won't get oily."

Meng Xiaojing: "It's really oily, please help me find out what's going on."

Meng Xiaobei said angrily: "I don't know! I never had double eyelids, can't you tell!"

Meng Xiaobei grew up with a pair of single eyelids.He spit out saliva, with foam still hanging on his lips, squeezed past his brother, stood still in front of the toilet, and boldly opened the front crotch of his shorts, hissing.

Meng Xiaojing frowned in disgust and said, "Meng Xiaobei, can you come in to pee later? I haven't brushed my teeth yet."

Meng Xiaobei said: "You brush your teeth in front of the sink, and I pee in the toilet, so I'm in your way? After you big star brushes her teeth, washes her face, puts on cream and perfume, I'll be stuck in my crotch!"

Meng Xiaojing said: "The sound of you splashing water sounds disgusting to me, how can I brush my teeth?!"

His father and mother in the next room burst out laughing, saying, "You two brothers are so good, enough is enough! Your father and mother are still holding back after getting up, and you two are about to finish, hurry up and go to school for me"!

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After returning to Xi'an, the results of the final exam for the first time came out. Meng Xiaobei's grades were similar to his brother's in the next class. There were 48 students in the class, and he fluctuated around 25th.With such results, it is difficult for him to get into a university in Beijing among the estimated [-] candidates in Shaanxi Province, and it is almost an impossible task.

The exam papers were rolled into drawing paper tubes and put into schoolbags, and the two brothers rode home all the way.Meng Xiaobei said, Meng Xiaojing, your math and physics exams are really good, and you even got [-] points. If you lend me your math and physics scores, I will immediately climb to a new level!

Meng Xiaojing said that your language is much better than mine, but are you serious about your short legs?

Meng Xiaobei held the handle with one hand and slapped his thigh, "It's a pity that we don't look alike! If we really look like twins who look exactly like us, the admission tickets can be interchanged. During the college entrance examination, you can take the exam for me. Mathematics and physics, your language brother, I will help you cover it all!"

Meng Xiaojing laughed at him, "Meng Xiaobei, you really are a melon head. The national college entrance examination takes the same time for all subjects. When I take the Chinese test, you are also taking the Chinese test. You are a coward. No matter how much you look like me, you can transform yourself into a double body." Be the two of us!"

Meng Xiaobei threw his neck back and laughed, hahahaha.A pair of brothers and sisters who were struggling in the college entrance examination looked at each other, and suddenly found that they were much closer to each other.

The two brothers wrote papers in the house and sometimes copied each other's homework.Encountering a math problem that he can't do at all, Meng Xiaojing winked, "Let me tell you, as long as it is a math problem, my dad will definitely do it, ask Dad!"

Functions, trigonometry, sequence, solid geometry, analytic geometry, Meng Jianmin can do all of them.

Meng Jianmin lay halfway under the quilt, panting against the quilt, and drew geometric figures with a pencil.A math paper, Meng Jianmin hated iron and steel while explaining it, "It is hopeless, you two brothers, your father has been away from school for almost 30 years!"

Meng Xiaobei rubbed his hair and said, "Dad, you can go back to 30 years old and take the exam for me. I'm really hopeless. Why didn't I inherit your brain?"

Meng Xiaojing spoke sweetly, and said sincerely: "Dad, you are the level of entering Peking University and Tsinghua University from No. [-] Middle School. The country treats you unfairly."

Lying on the bed at night, Meng Xiaojing said to the people on the upper bunk, our father is a strong man, and he has no chance in this life.

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The schools in Xi'an are almost at the same time as those in Beijing. Since CCTV broadcast "Transformers", this movie has quickly become popular on campus with the momentum of spring rivers and wildfires.Before this, there has never been an animation that can reach such a popular level in China.Meng Xiaobei drew a thick pen "Character Atlas of Autobots and Decepticons", which was widely circulated in grades.In the canteen of the stationery store in the off-campus shopping mall, Transformers toys are sold everywhere, ranging from cheap goods on the street for more than a dozen yuan to expensive collections worth hundreds of yuan. Young people are crazy about them, and parents and teachers are extremely troubled.So much so that their No. [-] Middle School had to issue new school regulations, and Transformers were forbidden to enter the campus, and those who violated it would be suspended from school.

The People's Daily reprinted the Xinhua News Agency's commentary and condemned this matter. The content of the Transformers animation is ridiculous!The theme is to promote militancy and anti-human thinking!This is the cultural aggression of American imperialism against socialist China that pollutes and poisons the younger generation!The People’s Daily Xinhua News Agency, as the leader of the mainstream media, published an editorial criticizing the liberalization of the bourgeoisie and trying to cool down the raging popularity of the cultural industries in Europe, America and Japan. However, none of this can stop the general trend of the times. The popular entertainment culture spread wildly all over the country, and people's hearts really came alive.

Meng Jianmin looked at the price at the counter of the shopping mall. A large Autobot cost 80 yuan, and the two brothers had to buy one each.Meng Jianmin said, "Your father simply won't buy it for you. After you finish the college entrance examination, go out to earn money and support yourself. You can buy whatever you like."

In the summer after the next year, Qi Liang sent Xiaobei a postal package from Beijing. Inside the box was a big red Optimus Prime toy that could transform into a car. It was more luxurious than the ones sold in Xi’an malls. Xiaobei's birthday present.

At that time, Meng Xiaobei not only had a high-ranking godfather, but also a close friend like Liangliang, a second-generation local tyrant.Qi Liang's affection for Meng Xiaobei is also a kind of complex that has been incessant since his youth.

The Optimus Prime robot, which was quite eye-catching in size, was placed on the desk, and Meng Xiaojing was "stuck" at that time.This time, Meng Xiaojing didn't mess with Xiaobei's things. He stood in front of the table and stared at the big toy. He didn't change his position after watching it for 10 minutes. There was a bright red in his eye sockets, which was the color of his eyeballs... …

There can be no secret comparison between brothers.Meng Xiaobei found out that his younger brother started to work again during the summer vacation to make money and save money.There is a man in their family courtyard who is self-employed. He rents half a store in the city to sell books, all kinds of genuine and pirated popular novels, film and television pictorials, posters of Hong Kong and Taiwan stars, and comics.At that time, Meng Xiaojing was helping people in the bookstore, selling novels and pictorials, and was commissioned according to the turnover every day.

Meng Xiaojing was sitting at the door of the bookstore smoking a cigarette, quietly scanning the crowds of different costumes passing by from the corner of his eyes.His heart and ambition are far above selling books at the practice booth.

Will Meng Xiaojing be reconciled to the lost opportunities in ten years?

Across the road from the bookstore, it happens to be the Xi'an City Repertory Theater.All the people coming and going from the gate of the theater troupe are local actors from Xi'an, people from the literary and art circles, and people who are familiar on TV.When rehearsing dramas in the troupe, it is common to see people unloading stage costumes, sets, and camera equipment from the van.

Meng Xiaojing caught sight of it from a distance, and the cigarette butt fell between his fingers.

He quickly got up, ignored the stall, and rushed across the main road, rushing to the crowd, "Uncle, I will come and I will come"!He helped people unload goods, moved into the backstage of the theater, carried large rolls of heavy canvas on his shoulders, and set up stage sets...

The young man Meng Xiaojing is handsome, sweet-mouthed, willing to bow his head to others, and willing to endure hardships.

Meng Xiaojing then uncovered the source of the opportunity and started playing tricks in the theater.The West Film Studio came to make a film, and selected young people aged [-] or [-] as the crowd background. Meng Xiaojing stood in a coat at the gate of the troupe in the early morning, queuing up, waiting for the director to come to pick people from the line... There was never a line that showed his face "ah" Immediately hang up the soldier A and the traitor B who got out of the camera, and then each character has three or two sentences, such as a green student on campus, a revolutionary youth shouting slogans, or a small running man in a white hat in a restaurant.

Meng Xiaobei asked casually once: "Meng Xiaojing, how much do you spend for a day's tricks?"

Meng Xiaojing sat by the bed and painted a pimple on his chin in the mirror: "...it's not much money, don't ask."

Meng Xiaobei: "How much?"

Meng Xiaojing said, "Five yuan a day for a boxed meal."

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