recession

Chapter 46

In the dream, there was a bee buzzing around my ear, and it didn't stop.Tao Liyang opened his eyes with difficulty. It turned out that the phone had been vibrating.

"Hello, who is it?"

"Who is it?" The person on the other end of the phone was taken aback for a moment, "Did you lose your soul?"

Tao Liyang was dizzy and couldn't recognize whose voice it was for a moment.He moved the receiver away from his ear and looked at the caller ID, only to realize that it was Zhou Yecheng.

"Sorry. I didn't notice." He pinched the bridge of his nose, lifted the quilt to get up, and opened the curtains. The sudden sunlight made him unable to open his eyes.

Zhou Yecheng smiled and said, "What's the matter? Are you still sleeping at this point? Who were you busy with last night?"

Tao Liyang ignored his banter: "What is it?"

"What's the matter with me? Didn't you find me?"

"I'm looking for you?" Tao Liyang frowned.

The clock by the bed reads four o'clock in the afternoon.He spent the past few days upside down, staying in the study to write manuscripts every day, nestling in a chair to sleep for a while when he was tired, eating something casually when he woke up and continuing to write.Last night, the pain in my shoulder was so unbearable that I went to bed and slept until this time without thinking.

"You still don't admit it." Zhou Yecheng's tone was brisk and deliberate, "Two days ago, the property management company sent me this month's visitor records. Didn't your name, screenwriter Tao Da, be on it? Don't remember? Do you want me to send it to you?" Take a look? But I wasn’t at home that day, you didn’t find me, why didn’t you call me? Tell me, why are you looking for me?” ①

Tao Liyang had just woken up, but he was still groggy. After listening to him spouting such a big talk, after reacting for a while, he remembered that he used Zhou Yecheng's name to enter the community when he was with Xu Yunqing last time.I couldn't help but smile wryly in my heart: "I'm not looking for you. You're almost fine, so just tell me if you have anything to say."

"I knew I wasn't looking for it." Zhou Yecheng's voice was still smiling, "Okay, okay, I don't care which acquaintance you use me as an excuse to meet. After all, I don't want to be a raft for nothing. You borrowed it." My name, it’s not too much to come out and have a drink with me, right?”

Tao Liyang's tongue was a little bitter, and he went to the living room to get a glass of water: "Okay, I will..."

Zhou Yecheng cut off his words: "Don't change the day. I just came back from the film and television base, and I have to leave in two days. When will I change the day? Just today, I will send you the location, don't make excuses, hurry up Come on."

After finishing speaking, the phone was hung up in a hurry, and a message was sent soon.Tao Liyang pressed his eyebrows with a headache.According to Zhou Yecheng's personality, if he didn't go today, he might come to his house to drink madly at night.Sighing, he went into the cloakroom and grabbed some clothes, then turned and went to the bathroom to take a shower.

After drying his hair, he was barely awake.It's just that the figure in the mirror still looks gloomy and decadent.There are two missed calls on the phone are from Zhou Yecheng, I'm afraid I have to wait anxiously.It is rare for him to be impatient like this. Tao Liyang guessed that he had something else to do, so he replied a message and said he would go, took the car keys and went out.

The address Zhou Yecheng gave was a bar he frequented.The entertainment industry on the whole street is very concentrated. Tao Liyang used to be a regular customer, and spent many nights and even days hanging out here. Now he hasn't come here for more than half a year.

The room number was on the third floor. He remembered that this floor was full of large boxes. When he went upstairs, he couldn't help frowning secretly.He raised his hand and opened the door, and there were indeed many people sitting inside.Most of them were familiar faces, and some of them even slept with each other. Tao Liyang subconsciously wanted to escape.

"Li Yang." Someone spotted him with sharp eyes.All eyes were focused for a moment, and they were all greetings anyway, and some people turned to Zhou Yecheng and said, "It's because you are saving face... There was so much noise that I couldn't hear clearly, Tao Liyang always smiled and nodded perfunctorily.

Sitting on the sofa by the window, Zhou Yecheng said he thought you wouldn't come, but when Tao Liyang approached, he couldn't help but be taken aback: "Have you been taking drugs? You look so ugly."

Before Tao Liyang could speak, someone brought a wine glass from the other end.They are all acquaintances, it's not good to be very reluctant, and after a drink, you can't favor one person over another.He hadn't come to such an occasion for a long time, and after dealing with it, his body was sweating a little.Then he sat down, unbuttoned a button, pressed his eyebrows, and asked Zhou Yecheng in a low voice, "Why are there so many people?"

"If you invite one, there are naturally too many. Anyway, we all know each other, so what does it matter? Or do you want to meet me alone?" Zhou Yecheng sat aside to watch the fun, lazily took the gin at hand and poured it into the glasses of the two of them In the middle of the day, he hooked the glass and touched him again, and took a sip by himself, "It's you, what are you doing? It's hard enough to see you."

Tao Liyang pursed his lips: "What's the problem? Am I not sitting here now?"

"Don't use this to perfuse me. It's not the first time I've asked you out after the drama wrapped up. It's okay once or twice. I haven't seen you for half a year. Why are you really like what they said, you're good?" He said in a joking tone. , but a pair of eyes looking at Tao Liyang are very bright.

Tao Liyang smiled indifferently: "This is nonsense again. If Mr. Zhou makes a phone call, why don't I come to accompany him?"

"I can't call you. That is to say, I got hold of it today." Zhou Yecheng leaned closer to him, "What? The one you mentioned last time has succeeded again?" ②

"Who are you talking about?" Tao Liyang asked calmly.

"How do I know who? You didn't tell me the name."

Tao Liyang lowered his head and sipped a little wine: "That means you misremembered, there is no such person."

Zhou Yecheng naturally didn't believe it, and looked at him with a smile on his lips, while Tao Liyang looked at him without avoiding it.After a while, Zhou Yecheng sneered: "Forget it, if you don't have it, then you don't have it." He put down the cup and leaned on his shoulder, "I'm very tired, let me lean for a while."

"Then you should rest at home, this is not a place to rest."

While talking, the room became more and more lively.Alcohol and lust are entwined and fermented, and there is almost no place for peace.From time to time, people looked over and saw their ambiguous postures, but they just showed a clear smile.

"It's so lonely to be alone." Zhou Yecheng closed his eyes, "What have we not done? You won't be stingy if you rely on me?"

Although Zhou Yecheng can have fun, but to be clear, he is not a person who likes to mention old things.Tao Liyang couldn't tell what it was like to hear his tone of voice.Thinking that the guess is [-]% correct, and drinking is just a pretext.But Zhou Yecheng didn't take the initiative to speak, Tao Liyang didn't ask, and his face didn't show it, until Zhou Yecheng turned sideways, breathing past his ear, and slowly rubbing his hand on his thigh, he gently pressed it down. his wrist.

"Yecheng." Tao Liyang still said calmly, "Don't make jokes. You are not a person who turns back. In this case, I have to take it seriously."

Zhou Yecheng raised his elbow to rest on his shoulder, and put his face very close: "I'm not, or are you not?"

Tao Liyang pretended not to understand: "What's wrong with you? Are you drunk, or in a bad mood?"

Zhou Yecheng just laughed and didn't answer.

"How about I take you back." Tao Liyang touched his temples, "I think you are really tired, go home and take a nap?"

Zhou Yecheng stared at him fixedly, then suddenly got up from Tao Liyang, took a sip from his glass and said, "I can't stay at home, so I came out."

This sentence made Tao Liyang's heart sink, and he continued: "I had a fight with my dad today, and he asked me to get married."

Tao Liyang frowned, and Zhou Yecheng sneered again: "It's better for your old man, you can think about it, and don't care about these things at all."

"He can't think about it, there's nothing he can do after a long time. When I came out in college, if my mother didn't stop me, my legs would be discounted." Tao Liyang said softly, "Why don't you tell your family."

"What are you talking about? Wait until my legs break too?" Zhou Yecheng shook the cup in his hand, and suddenly asked him, "But you came out early enough. I didn't know it was in college. What do you think?" ?”

"It's just a coincidence. I didn't think too much about it."

Tao Liyang came out of the closet after Xu Yunqing and Li Shuang got together. He had always thought about getting the family affairs settled first, and then talking to Xu Yunqing, not wanting him to bear any pressure.In the end, before it was too late, there was someone else beside Xu Yunqing.But Tao Liyang still said it, quite a bit self-defeating.When Tao Cheng smashed a chair on his back, he even felt a little relaxed.

Just thinking about it now, these things are simply meaningless.He didn't want to say more, so he brought the topic back to Zhou Yecheng: "What are you going to do?"

"What can I do?" Zhou Yecheng smiled, "You really think my dad won't know if I don't tell you? He knows it well and doesn't care. He always wants to hold a grandson. Don't say I can't treat women at all, even if I can , I don't want to harm other girls."

"It's best if you think so." Tao Liyang nodded slightly.

But Zhou Yecheng changed the subject: "Actually, it's not that I haven't thought about telling the truth. The window paper and fig leaf have all been uncovered. It's better to live or die than it is now. Give my parents a little hope, and they won't give up. .”

"It's not that serious." Tao Liyang saw his gloomy expression, "I'm really going to die, I will definitely go to your house to find someone."

Zhou Yecheng smiled, stopped after a while, and took another sip of wine: "It's just that, sometimes I think about it, and I'm really ashamed." He pointed to the other people in the box, and then pointed himself backhand: " Look at this bunch of monsters, ghosts and monsters, if I switch with my dad, maybe I also want to pressure my son to get married... But as long as I'm more secure, I'll just..."

He didn't go on talking and looked at Tao Liyang.It's not good for Tao Liyang to remain silent.Forced to smile: "Does this mean that you want me to cover for you? It's not difficult, but my reputation is not much better than yours. If you look for me, I'm afraid..."

"Don't play dumb, you know what I mean." Zhou Yecheng stroked his lips with his index finger, his voice was very soft, "It's up to you whether I turn back or not."

Tao Liyang lowered his eyes, Zhou Yecheng slowly withdrew his fingers, and pressed Tao Liyang's hand.Under the dim light, his face was half-bright and half-dark, as if hiding thousands of emotions, he came closer little by little.At the moment when his lips were about to touch, Tao Liyang turned his head and avoided it.

"Yecheng." His Adam's apple moved, and he pulled out his hand lightly but firmly, "You are drunk."