In the city [entertainment circle]

21

When Shen Xiao heard this, he just nodded, and then began to silently place dishes in the pot.

Li Ruosen didn't know what to say, and Wu Tao didn't speak.

Several people sat at the table in silence, and for a moment, the box was as silent as a library.The bustling voices outside kept coming through the crack of the door, which was not well isolated... Li Ruosen turned his gaze.

Shen Xiao on the left was expressionless, his glasses were covered with a layer of white mist, and Wu Tao on the right was also expressionless... "How is Teacher Shen feeling today?" He hesitated and asked.

Shen Xiao turned his gaze to him, because there was a layer of white mist on the glasses, so Li Ruosen couldn't see his expression clearly, "It's good

. "Shen Xiao said, he scooped up some beef slices for Li Ruosen, "Mr. Wu can do as he pleases. "

Li Ruosen looked at the beef in his bowl. The hot pot that Shen Xiao chose was quite famous. When Li Ruosen was on the set, he heard someone next to him mention it. It seemed that it was difficult to reserve a seat. It's a bit difficult to look at the seasonings next to it. There are too many varieties, and I don't know how to choose.

"Why don't you eat mine." Shen Xiao put the seasoning in front of Li Ruosen in front of him, "I haven't touched it, it's clean." He said to Li Ruosen, "But there is garlic in it, if you are not used to eating it , I'll replace it for you."

"No need." Li Ruosen said, he actually doesn't eat much hot pot, and many of the seasonings are blind, and it is impossible for Li Zhengying to let him go out to eat hot pot, he always feels that the food is not clean, so he usually eats hot pot. To make a clear soup pot at home, at most put some spicy oil in the dipping sauce... To be honest, this is the first time Li Ruosen has seen such a red hot pot with butter.

Wu Tao didn't need Shen Xiao to greet him, he had already started to do it himself, and he still had time to take care of Li Ruosen, he quickly cooked some meat slices and put them in Li Ruosen's bowl, "Master, eat more." He said to Li Ruosen, "Thank you, Teacher Shen."

"Just call me Shen Xiao." Shen Xiao looked at Wu Tao and said.

Li Ruosen sat between the two of them. For some reason, he didn't feel this uncomfortable when he was alone with Shen Xiao, or when he was alone with Wu Tao.

He always felt that the two were at odds, especially Wu Tao. He seemed to have tried his best to restrain himself, but he still couldn't help showing a little dislike for Shen Xiao—he didn't understand whether it was because of Li Zhengying, or because he simply didn't like Shen Xiao. Xiao this person.

"Mr. Li left in a hurry." Seeing that Li Ruosen was being taken care of, Shen Xiao stopped working for him. He boiled goose intestines in the spicy pot, "I thought he would stay for a few more days."

"Brother has something to do." Li Ruosen explained.

"I heard from the crew that you moved away?"

Li Ruosen put down his chopsticks, "This is what Big Brother means." He subconsciously turned his head and glanced at Wu Tao.

Wu Tao put down his chopsticks immediately, "I have something to excuse me."

Shen Xiao didn't speak, until Wu Tao passed by him and left the box, he took off his glasses covered in water vapor, "Your elder brother, did you arrange a new hotel for me?"

"En." Li Ruosen responded in a low voice.

Shen Xiao felt that Li Zhengying was indeed sick.

Although he wasn't completely sure that Li Zhengying arranged for Li Ruosen to live in the new hotel was related to him, but he thought there should be 80% of the relationship.

Is it because of what?

Li Zhengying should know that the hotel arrangements for the crew, including Li Ruosen's room, were arranged by him.

So, why not change to the hotel he arranged in the first place?

Shen Xiao thought of Wu Tao.

He thought Wu Tao should have said something to Li Zhengying, what could it be?own past?It was because Li Ruosen stayed in his room for a long time.

Or maybe both?

The dense fog in the hot pot restaurant covered Li Ruosen's face, he couldn't see Li Ruosen's face clearly, but it was like this, instead he had a feeling of seeing flowers through the fog.

He remembered what he had heard that afternoon.

"...I feel that he looks like a person." After filming a scene, the director who was watching the replay on the monitor with Shen Xiao suddenly said so.

Shen Xiao looked at himself in the camera, and Ying Yujing next to him, "You mean Ying Yujing?"

"No, it's the screenwriter." The director leaned back on the chair and said, "I always thought he looked familiar before, but I just remembered who he looks like when I saw Li Zhengying."

"Who?" Shen Xiao didn't care about why the director knew Li Zhengying. In this circle, there are very few people who don't know him, and the few may be people who can clearly remember his appearance.

"One of my seniors." The director is not very old, only a few years older than Shen Xiao, and he leaned on the chair, "My senior is really beautiful, his hair is very long, She doesn't smile much, and she's cold when she doesn't smile, but when she smiles, there is a small dimple on her cheek... There are really too many boys who like her, and everyone looks up to her and thinks she is Tomorrow's superstar, because she is very good at everything, dancing and singing well."

"What happened later?" Shen Xiao couldn't help asking.

"Then she suddenly stopped coming." The director sighed, "She dropped out of school without graduating... We thought at the time that something happened to her, but later it seemed that she married into the Li family."

"Li Ruosen is Li Zhengying's younger brother, right?" the director said to himself, "They really look alike." He said to Shen Xiao, "Actually, he doesn't look like a girl either, but... what is it?" The look? Anyway, it's very similar, I felt a sense of familiarity when I saw him for the first time, but I didn't expect that after so many years, I still remember her appearance."

The director told Shen Xiao a lot of stories about his senior sister, and he didn't even know where to find a photo of his senior sister many years ago.

The woman in the photo is just dressed simply, with a shirt on top and a long skirt on the bottom. Her hair is very long. She didn't smile, but just looked at the camera coldly.

But once you see it, you will never forget it.

There was even a moment when Shen Xiao actually overlapped her and Li Ruosen together.

"I don't know how she is doing now."

Shen Xiao suddenly thought of what he had heard, "She has passed away."

The director was a little surprised.

"Many years ago, it seems to have passed away."

He felt that at this woman's age, she shouldn't have a son as old as Li Zhengying, so there was a high possibility that he and Li Ruosen were half-brothers.

Sitting behind the monitor, Shen Xiao remembered what Li Ruosen had revealed to him, that Li Zhengying cared a little too much for him—he had a strange guess in his mind—but this guess seemed too shocking.

"I thought Li Zhengying would let you leave after seeing the living conditions here." Shen Xiao said after thinking for a moment, he didn't know whether he should tell Li Ruosen that, because from what he observed, except for Li Zhengying's love for Li Ruosen Except for Ruo Sen's excessive concern, he didn't seem to do anything out of the ordinary—at least from what he observed of Li Ruo Sen, his dissatisfaction was limited to Li Zhengying's excessive concern.

"Brother just asked me to change places." Li Ruosen said, "He asked Mama Wang to prepare my usual things for me, and said that I could stay here for a while." When he said this, his expression Some couldn't hide the excitement, just like elementary school students who were allowed to stay overnight.

Shen Xiao looked at it, and also thought that Li Ruosen like this was quite cute, so he poured him a cup of tea specially provided by this store, "What happened this morning." He said to Li Ruosen, "Don't worry, I will It’s easy to be serious when you’re working.”

In fact, he wasn't angry at Li Ruosen, it was just that he didn't like such things happening at work.Shen Xiao has always felt that his temper is not very good, which is why he doesn't have too many friends. Even he feels that he is not a good person to get along with, so how can he have too many friends?

"I was wrong in the morning." Li Ruosen said hastily, "I should have stayed on the set."

Shen Xiao has always felt that Li Ruosen's temper is simply too good. He never seems to be angry. This is indeed one of the reasons why he didn't go to the set, but Shen Xiao also knows that it is impossible for the screenwriter to be on the set all the time. Yes, and the bigger reason is actually Wu Tao.

He deliberately concealed this matter and did not report it to Li Ruosen.

Shen Xiao also understood that this should be what Li Zhengying meant, but he really didn't understand what Li Zhengying was thinking. If he didn't want Li Ruosen to stay in the crew, why let him stay here for a long time?

"Your elder brother, do you really want you to stay on the set?" Shen Xiao couldn't help asking.

Li Ruosen said, "I don't know." He said, "But he doesn't mean to let me go home immediately." For him, this is already a signal that he is allowed to stay on the set.

Shen Xiao didn't speak. He looked at Li Ruosen and suddenly realized that his nails had been trimmed. He clearly remembered that when he saw him yesterday, his fingertips were still uneven.

It's just that for some reason, he didn't ask. After all, his relationship with Li Ruosen is not that familiar yet.

"Your nails..." Shen Xiao asked suddenly.

Li Ruosen withdrew his hand subconsciously, and then returned to normal, "What's wrong?"

"Have your nails been trimmed? Don't get me wrong, I just like to observe." Shen Xiao was afraid that Li Ruosen might misunderstand, so he explained, "I like to observe others when I'm free."

"Yeah." Li Ruosen looked down at his fingers, "I've already cut them."

But this morning, it was still the same, Shen Xiao thought, looking at Li Ruosen's attitude, he felt that Li Zhengying should have trimmed it for him.

That huge sense of disobedience surged into Shen Xiao's heart again, and he exhaled... Even he, a bystander, felt suffocated at the moment, not to mention Li Ruosen, who was really in the center of the whirlpool people.

I don't know when, it seems to be raining again outside.Shen Xiao listened to the pattering rain outside the window, and looked at Li Ruosen beside him. He wanted to say something, but at this moment, Li Ruosen spoke suddenly.

"Does Teacher Shen want to say something?" Li Ruosen asked suddenly.

He always felt that Shen Xiao wanted to say something to him, whether it was inviting him to eat hot pot, or some previous conversations, he could feel that Shen Xiao had something to say to him.

I just don't know why, he hasn't said it all the time.

why?

Because you can't say it?

"Mr. Shen, say whatever you want." Li Ruosen said.

"In the afternoon, the director told me that he had a senior." Shen Xiao said.

Li Ruosen looked at Shen Xiao, and he thought about the age of the director, "...is it my mother?" He asked.Seeing Shen Xiao nodding, he felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.

For so many years, even in the Li family, her name was rarely mentioned.

Both Ruoyu and him understood Li Zhengying's indescribable thoughts, so no one wanted to mention this name, but Wang Ma and others did not dare to mention this name.

So as time went by, no one knew what this Mrs. Li's name was.

Hearing a stranger mention her now, Li Ruosen couldn't even express how he felt. He felt a little dazed and curious, "...what was she like before?"

"A very beautiful person."

"She has always been." Li Ruosen thought of his mother in his memory. Her body was always clean and tidy, with a faint and elegant fragrance. She seldom talked about her past to them, maybe It was because he and Ruoyu were too young at that time, they only wanted to play around every day, they were not interested in their mother's past, they only knew that this gentle and beautiful person was their mother.

They are the ones who love them all their lives.

"I remember she played the piano very well." Li Ruosen said, he remembered that when he was a child, he always played with Ruoyu on the big tree in the backyard, and she liked to sit in the room on the second floor and play the piano.

The curtains are made of white gauze, and a branch of the big tree can just reach the balcony on the second floor.

He and Ruoyu always like to sit there and listen to her playing the piano.

I still remember one time, when he wanted to climb up to the second floor quietly, he almost lost his grip in the end—he just remembered that he fell into a fragrant, warm embrace.

It is mother's arms.

He didn't expect that someone still remembered her now.

"That should have happened many years ago, right?" Li Ruosen asked softly, "It should be before she married into the Li family. At that time, she was still Mrs. Li."

Shen Xiao stretched out his hand, he wanted to pat Li Ruosen's shoulder, but in the end, he just put his hand on Li Ruosen's shoulder, "She's fine, the director still remembers her."

"Do I look a lot like her?" Li Ruosen asked suddenly.

Shen Xiao looked at him in surprise.

"The director probably remembered her when he saw me and elder brother." Li Ruosen had already figured out what Shen Xiao really wanted to ask, "Elder brother really cares about me, it's because of her... But it doesn't matter. Not the kind of emotion you think."

In fact, it's not that Li Ruosen has never thought about this. After all, Li Zhengying's attitude is too ambiguous, but after a long time, he also understands that Li Zhengying's feelings for him are just seeing things and thinking about others.

It's just that he doesn't want this only sustenance for him to disappear in front of him, so it seems that the desire to control is too strong.

Maybe it’s like a canary. The owner likes it, thinks it’s beautiful, and loves it very much, but he never thinks otherwise.

"Wu Tao." Li Ruosen suddenly said.

Wu Tao immediately opened the door and walked in.

"Mr. Shen has been troublesome, and I feel a little sorry." Li Ruosen said, "This meal is my treat." He motioned Wu Tao to pay the bill.

"Mr. Shen still has a show tomorrow, so don't bother me."