recession

I don't know if it was because of the chat with Xu Yunqing, but Tao Liyang had a dream all night.It was weird, like when I was still in college, I only vaguely remembered that I was on the edge of a certain cliff, and the ground collapsed inexplicably.He watched Xu Yunqing fall, and couldn't hold him back, so he jumped down without any struggle, but before his hands touched his sleeves, he suddenly woke up.

Tao Liyang opened his eyes, his heart was still pounding, it took him a long time to calm down, he checked his phone, it was only four o'clock in the morning.He threw the phone aside casually, pulled the quilt over and lay down again to continue sleeping, but tossed and turned for a long time, he couldn't fall asleep no matter what.

Tao Liyang persisted for about ten minutes, but he still didn't feel sleepy at all, and felt extremely bored.I simply got up, got a glass of water, and walked to the balcony to breathe.

In this hotel, the balconies of two adjacent rooms are very close to each other, and the distance between them is less than half a meter.Tao Liyang leaned on the railing, turned his head and glanced at the next door, but unexpectedly found that there was a light coming from the gap in the curtain.

Did you not sleep?Or wake up too?Tao Liyang frowned, Xu Yunqing was a light sleeper, and never kept a light on when sleeping.He thought of the dream just now and couldn't help shaking his head.When did Xu Yunqing fall into the cliff, he has always been a person who walks the Yangguan Road, only he can't cross the single-plank bridge, fell into the ditch, and he doesn't know when he can get out.

It's just that Tao Liyang couldn't move his footsteps because of thinking like this, so he just watched the light next door on the balcony, and it didn't go out until it was almost dawn.Tao Liyang raised his wrist and glanced at his watch, it was a quarter past six.He drank the cold water in his hand, went back to his room, changed his clothes, and drove to the set.

Since it was the first scene today, the producer seriously asked someone to calculate the time, and the filming started after ten o'clock.But the scene notes and props are already on the set.Tao Liyang walked up from a small building next to him. His office was on the second floor.

In fact, according to Tao Liyang's status in the circle, even if he came to talk to the group, he didn't have to be on the set every day, but because he didn't write the script himself, he was somewhat worried.He offered to stay at the scene, of course the coordinator couldn't wish for it, and the arrangement was quickly made.

The play written by Wang An is called "Reverse Journey", and the protagonist is Li Song, a primary school teacher.He is a single father who lives with his three-year-old daughter.However, the child died instantly in a car accident.The driver who hit the man was a powerful second-generation official. He should have been fully responsible for drunk driving, but escaped legal sanctions.Li Song finally chose to move away from the sad place when he had nowhere to ask.In the past five years, Li Song found a new job in a training school and re-established a family. However, when he was gradually getting out of the gloom, he accidentally discovered that one of the new batch of students was a girl. It's the child of the perpetrator...

The story is nothing more than the unrevengeable revenge and the peaceful life, the murderer who caused the death of his daughter and another innocent child...

Wang An has always liked to write these plots that show the torment of human nature. Tao Liyang is also familiar with his style. After watching the scenes that are going to be filmed today carefully, there is nothing to change for a while. The specifics have to wait for the scene. It depends on the director's intention after filming.I simply flipped through the book and continued to sort out the materials of the historical film.

He was very interested in these things at first, and he didn't feel tired after tidying them up. A few hours passed without paying attention. He didn't lift his head from the computer until the door knocked for a while, holding his shoulders.

"Teacher Tao?" Coordinator Huang An poked his head from the door, "The filming is already underway, and the director said that you should go and have a look if you have nothing to do. He has a later scene to be changed and wants to discuss it with you."

"Okay." Tao Liyang nodded, "I'll go over here after I tidy up."

When Tao Liyang arrived, he was filming the scene of Li Song getting along with his daughter before the car accident.

The little actor who plays Li Song's daughter is called Zhang Yue. She is a child star and looks very well-behaved.

Xu Yunqing bent over and stood behind her, carefully braiding her hair.Sleepy-eyed, the little girl rubbed her face with her small hands, as if thinking of something, she turned her head to talk to her father in a childish voice...

"Cut!" Du Futing clapped his hands behind the monitor: "Thanks for your hard work, everyone, take a break for half an hour, let's do it again." He caught a glimpse of Tao Liyang and waved to him. "Li Yang, come here."

The assistant director got up and gave him the seat, Tao Liyang thanked him, and followed Xu Yunqing out of the corner of his eye, seeing him sitting not far away with his eyes closed and his head slightly raised for the makeup artist to touch up, then he looked away and sat down again.

"Basically there is no problem, but the little girl still looks a little stiff." Du Futing said to him.

It’s always like this when children are acting. It’s not easy to memorize the lines, so we can only shoot a few times to find the best one. Fortunately, the audience is not too picky about the roles of child actors.

In fact, Tao Liyang didn't pay much attention to the little girl, he just stared at Xu Yunqing, and hummed: "Huang An said you have something to change?"

"There is no need to make major changes, but there are a few lines that I think need to be polished." Du Futing handed him the script next to him, "Is the red pen underlining these lines a bit awkward?"

"I thought it was such a troublesome thing. Are you afraid that I will be lazy in the office, so you find an excuse to call me down?" Tao Liyang took it with a joke.Those were the lines written by Wang An. He didn't touch them, and quickly went through the plot before and after, and quickly revised several versions and handed them back.

"Such an expensive screenwriter, of course, has to make the best use of everything." Du Futing read it twice, probably satisfied, and laughed: "If you are not busy, sit here today, everyone will look for it when the machine starts. Find a feeling."

"Success." Tao Liyang originally planned in this way, and continued to flip through the script, but his eyes couldn't get to the point. After a while, he heard Xu Yunqing's voice, and looked up again.

Zhang Yue moved close to him at some point, so Xu Yunqing bent down to tease her with a smile.He took the candy from the assistant again, peeled it off and fed it to her.

"Yun Qing gets along well with the children." Du Futing said.

Tao Liyang didn't answer, he just suddenly remembered that Xu Yunqing and Li Shuang also had a child, and Li Shuang's belly was already slightly protruding during the wedding.But the child was miscarried six months into her pregnancy.

At that time, Tao Liyang was originally out of town, saying that he was collecting stories for the new script, but in fact, he went out to relax because of the depression of Xu Yunqing's marriage.It happened that the producer wanted to ask him to have a chat face to face. He returned to N City, but during the chat, he accidentally heard about Li Shuang's miscarriage.

Tao Liyang remembered that it was because of this child that they finally decided to get married. Xu Yunqing had always liked children, and now he was afraid it would be uncomfortable.Thinking this way, he drove downstairs to Xu Yunqing without knowing it.

It was almost early morning, and there was no one in Xu Yunqing's house. Tao Liyang knocked on the door again while dialing the phone.The phone hadn't been connected yet, but the residents on the opposite side were alarmed.It was indeed too late, even though Tao Liyang was well dressed and did not look like a villain, the woman still looked at him vigilantly: "Who are you looking for? What are you doing?"

Facing her probing eyes, Tao Liyang suddenly woke up, he thought yes, what is he doing?

He just wanted to see Xu Yunqing, maybe comfort him, just like Xu Yunqing used to do when he was unhappy.

But how long ago was it?Now Xu Yunqing has a legitimate wife by his side, no matter what, they should keep each other warm, so what's the matter with Tao Liyang?Where does he have this qualification?

Tao Liyang's whole body became cold for a moment, he hung up the phone, shook his head, and said that it was all right, he went by the wrong way.He went into the next corridor and forgot to press the elevator.

Feeling heavy and panicked, he sat stiffly on the stairs for almost an hour before walking down slowly.When they arrived at the garage, they were touching the keys when another car drove in. The driver pressed the window and greeted him in surprise: "Teacher Tao?"

Tao Liyang frowned at the headlights. He raised his hand to block the light and looked over. It was Xu Yunqing's assistant. In the next second, Xu Yunqing got off the back seat wearing a mask and hat.

Tao Liyang originally planned to leave, but happened to bump into him again, so he couldn't help being stunned for a moment.Xu Yunqing didn't look surprised, and said a few words to his assistant, and when the car drove away, he walked up to him, and his voice sounded a little hoarse: "Did you call me just now? You just finished recording the variety show at that time. The elevator didn't pick up. I called you back, but you didn't pick up again."

Tao Liyang was so distraught that he didn't notice this at all. He took out his mobile phone and took a look. Sure enough, there were several missed calls.

"Press the mute button." Tao Liyang said.

Xu Yunqing nodded and didn't ask him what's the matter. The two stood silently for a while, and Xu Yunqing said first: "Have you eaten yet? I'm a little hungry. Let's find a place to eat."

Xu Yunqing lived in a quiet neighborhood but not in the city center. Tao Liyang drove around for a long time before he found a Chaoshan restaurant that was still open.

Xu Yunqing was afraid of being recognized, so when he entered the restaurant, he wore a mask and said nothing. After hearing Tao Liyang ordered, he asked for steamed bream before the waiter left.

The meal was very quiet, and they deliberately started a few conversations, but because they both had something to avoid in their hearts, they broke off after a few words, and then they all fell silent.Tao Liyang couldn't ask what he wanted to ask, and he couldn't taste the whole meal. He only remembered the two chopsticks Xu Yunqing picked up for him, and he could barely taste a little sweetness.

"Am I taking you back?"

When he left the restaurant, it was still dark, Xu Yunqing turned to look at him when he heard the words, for a moment Tao Liyang felt that he seemed to have something to say to him, but in the end he just nodded.

The way back was faster than when he came. Even if Tao Liyang deliberately slowed down the car, he arrived at the community in half an hour.

It's just that he was about to ask Xu Yunqing to get out of the car, but found that he had fallen asleep leaning against the window.Tao Liyang thought about it, then drove to a nearby lake again, lowered the window and turned off the car, adjusted the seat, and carefully put his coat on Xu Yunqing's body.Xu Yunqing was probably extremely tired, and he didn't wake up. He just moved in a daze halfway, buried his face in Tao Liyang's overcoat, and unconsciously grasped the edge of the clothes with his fingers, as if holding a piece of driftwood.

Tao Liyang leaned on the window of the car, looking at him with a little moonlight, Xu Yunqing's tiredness was visible to the naked eye.Tao Liyang felt unspeakably uncomfortable in his heart, like using a thin kite string to scrape back and forth on the apex of his heart. He wondered if this was the married life that Xu Yunqing wanted to devote himself to?He is married to the woman he loves, why does it still look unsatisfactory?

Tao Liyang was filled with endless hatred at that moment, he hated Li Shuang, hated Xu Yunqing, and hated himself for being helpless.Dazed, he reached out his hand to touch Xu Yunqing's face, but stopped at the last moment, took a cigarette and got out of the car to smoke.

Tao Liyang walked back and forth around the lake, and didn't go back until his whole body was completely cooled by the night wind.Halfway through, I heard Xu Yunqing's voice, who seemed to be on the phone.

He was far away and couldn't hear clearly, he could only hear a few words, you should rest and recuperate first, we can talk about other things when you feel better...

The person on the phone didn't know what to say, Xu Yunqing paused for a while, his tone was still helpless and tired: "I'm not angry, really, in the final analysis, this is your business... I just think you should cherish yourself more Some......"

Tao Liyang lightly stepped on the branch under his feet, making a sudden noise.Xu Yunqing looked up and saw him stunned for a moment, forced the corners of his mouth to squeeze out a powerless smile, and said to the other end of the phone: "Let's do this first, it's getting late, you should rest first, and we'll talk about it later."

He quickly hung up the phone, walked up to Tao Liyang, shook the phone and said, "A colleague from the company." Then he reached out and handed Tao Liyang's clothes: "It's so cold, why did you get out of the car wearing a shirt? "

"I didn't feel it when I got out of the car." Tao Liyang glanced at him and lowered his eyelashes. He knew that he was not a so-called colleague at all, but what can he do?What happened to the couple, it was reasonable that they didn't want to tell him. Since Xu Yunqing went downstairs today, he has been acting stupid, but now it's hard for Xu Yunqing to lie to him.

Tao Liyang put out his cigarette, took his clothes, and walked back to the car with him: "Shall we go back now?"

Xu Yunqing glanced at his watch: "No. I have to shoot a commercial at seven o'clock. If you want it, just send me there."

He gave an address, which was quite a distance from his home, but it was very close to the TV station where he recorded the variety show last night.Tao Liyang started the car but couldn't help but whispered: "Time is so tight, you can just find a nearby hotel and sleep for a night. You don't feel tired after running back and forth."

Xu Yunqing paused for a while while buckling the seat belt, and said with a perfunctory smile: "It's okay."

Tao Liyang looked at his somewhat pale face and pretending to be nonchalant smile, his heart was even more blocked, took a deep breath, turned and went out from the lake.

Speechless all the way.

After entering the garage of the building, Tao Liyang said: "I won't send you in, has your assistant arrived yet?"

"I just sent the message and I'm already waiting in the dressing room." Xu Yunqing said softly, but didn't get out of the car.Naturally, Tao Liyang would not urge him, and Xu Yunqing asked after a while: "Are you angry?"

He was not in a questioning tone, Tao Liyang bit his back molars lightly, looked at the flickering lights not far away reflected in the rearview mirror, his Adam's apple moved, and said in a wrong way: "If I can If you don't, it won't be until now." He sighed, and finally turned his gaze to Xu Yunqing and said, "I don't want you to be so tired in front of me...I didn't intend to ask you anything, Not in the future. I just... just came back, so I came to see you. Anyway, I thought we were still friends."

"Of course." Xu Yunqing said, "You have always been the most important one."

After he finished speaking, he fell silent, leaning against the back of the chair, with a little vein showing on his slightly raised neck: "I... I may not be in a good state recently."

"I know."

"You don't know." Xu Yunqing gave a short laugh and said after deliberating for a while, "I just discovered that one mistake may not be able to cover up another mistake."

Tao Liyang frowned, Xu Yunqing calmed down after finishing speaking, closed his eyes and raised his hand to pinch his temples vigorously: "But it's always my own decision, it will be resolved and it will pass, you don't have to worry."

The conversation ended like that.Tao Liyang knew that his character would not say anything, Xu Yunqing would always be like a clam, unable to pry it open no matter what.After that, they had no contact for a long time. Tao Liyang saw him at a New Year's Eve party on a certain station, and he and Li Shuang sang a love song duet.

Or a golden boy and a jade girl, a pair of lovers...

"Lighting engineer, what's the matter with the light on the left?"

Du Futing's voice suddenly raised a few degrees, and Tao Liyang collected himself, only to find that Xu Yunqing had finished applying his makeup, and the little actor was climbing on his knee to listen to his play.

Tao Liyang lowered his eyes. He thought that if Li Shuang's child hadn't had a miscarriage, he would be around the same age as this little girl, and they might not have divorced.But what does that matter?Xu Yunqing likes children so much, as long as he thinks about it, he will always marry and have children in the future... No matter what the so-called mistake was at the beginning, Xu Yunqing may not have him in the right choice.

The hand beside Tao Liyang tightened unconsciously, and he was not surprised to find that no matter how many years passed, no matter how many psychological presuppositions he had made, it was still difficult for him to face such a result calmly.

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