Dressed as cannon fodder to marry into a wealthy family

Yan Zhao put Elizabeth's snare around Xuebing's neck, the white cat wobbled a few steps, pia groaned and fell to the ground - the drowsiness after anesthesia and the new weight from the loss of balls made it impossible for her to control her balance.

After raising it for more than half a year, no matter how rebellious the cat is, Yan Zhao carefully picked it up and put it in its favorite cardboard box.

Xuebing meowed feebly a few times, resentful and pitiful, Yan Zhao stroked its head, the cat squinted its eyes and purred.

When the brothers came back, Wang Zai abandoned the cat scratching post, ran to the snow cake, and tilted his head to see, well, the brothers have become sisters.

Wang Zai was excited: "Meow meow!"

Xuebing is still like a little bitch: "Meow woo woo..."

Yan Zhao was speechless: "Wang Zai seems a little happy..."

Shen Yuanting nodded its head: "You little bastard who gloats."

Wang Zai stared innocently, and went to lick the fur on Xuebing, trying to create an atmosphere of brotherhood and respect.

Yan Zhao fished it away: "Stop licking your brother's wound."

Wang Zai burrowed into Yan Zhao's arms, rubbing his clothes with cat hair.

At night, Yan Zhao spread out the suitcase and packed clothes inside.He checked the weather forecast, and the city of X was still around 25°C these days, and the temperature would not drop in the short term, so he picked up a soft and breathable t-shirt, folded it twice, and put it in a storage bag.

Shen Yuanting took out a slightly thick denim jacket from the cloakroom, folded it up to the corners, and put it in the box.

Yan Zhao: "Oh, don't, it's almost too much to fit, just buy a coat when you go to City X." He doesn't like to bring too big suitcases, so make sure they are as light as possible.

Shen Yuanting pretended not to hear, helped him tidy up the other messy things, and made a small space to put the commonly used medicines in, and asked him: "Have you adjusted the alarm clock, you can sleep until 8 tomorrow at the latest point."

Yan Zhao: "The tune is 06:30, I will wake up with you."

Shen Yuanting: "I haven't been able to sleep in for a few months, why don't you hurry up and take a rest?"

Yan Zhao said: "I won't see you for a few months, it's better to hurry up and see you more."

Shen Yuanting smiled slightly.

The next day, Shen Yuanting was wearing an apron, frying soft-boiled eggs, while Yan Zhao was making coffee, and the two cats were nestled on the dining chair, their tails wagging lazily.

Yan Zhao: "I never thought I would spend a morning like this before."

Shen Yuanting: "Then what kind of morning do you imagine?"

Yan Zhao: "It's just me. I never thought I'd fall in love."

Shen Yuanting lowered his eyelashes: "...I should say this sentence."

Yan Zhao was still not used to the taste of black coffee, so he added cream balls to his own.

After serving breakfast on the table, Yan Zhao gave Wang Zai an order: "When I'm not at home, be a good big brother and don't bully Xuebing."

Wang Zai rolled his yellow eyes, and responded seemingly innocently.

Shen Yuanting patted it on the head, Wang Zai turned over and hugged his hand with his paws.

The two chatted, Shen Yuanting said to see him off this morning, Yan Zhao ate a sandwich and said, "Farewell, you will hit the morning rush hour every time you come and go." Getting stuck in the middle of the road is undoubtedly one of the ten most annoying events in life one.

Shen Yuanting just sipped his coffee, beating around the bush: "Sometimes being considerate is not a kind of empathy."

Yan Zhao knew that he wanted to spend more time with him, so he said, "Then you come, don't blame me if you get stuck in traffic, it's all your fault."

Shen Yuanting sent Yan Zhao to board the plane, this seems to have become the habit of the two of them.Yan Zhao sat on the plane overlooking the gradually shrinking city, knowing that he could not be captured from the picture, but he was also very relieved.

There is someone waiting for him.

Yan Zhao thought it was filming in City X, but when he arrived at the meeting place, he realized that he had imagined it. The real shooting location was in a remote town on the outskirts of City X.

They had to pass through a mountain forest in the middle, the mountain road was rugged and steep, and there were rusted guardrails standing on the edge of the road, which seemed to be defenseless.

On the way up the mountain, a car coming from the opposite side bumped into them, so the crew's motorcade was blocked on the road.

Xie Lianxue came back from not far away, closed the car door, and said: "There are troublemakers in the poor mountains and rivers. If you don't scold him, you really think you are the emperor of the land. That's fine, you can go."

Yan Zhao thought, and reminded Shen Yuanting not to get stuck in traffic, but instead he got stuck in the road first.After entering the mountain, the signal gradually weakened, and the "Have you arrived at the company?" on the screen was followed by a small tail in circles.

Yan Zhao looked at the loess hillside outside the window, with sporadic greenery growing on it, and on the guardrail in the distance, there was a sign saying "Be careful of falling rocks".

Yan Zhao asked: "The rainy season here is very dangerous."

Xie Lianxue said: "More than that, it is dangerous all year round. The local area has long planned to rebuild the road, but the funds have not been allocated for a long time."

The two chatted for a few words, but didn't discuss this issue much.

The town is really rustic, not the kind of quaint tourist attractions deliberately created, but a poor and backward atmosphere, as if yellow sand hovered over the whole town, and the sky was gloomy.

It seems that not all isolated places are Xanadu.

The first piece of advice Xie Lianxue gave him was: "Remember to let the water in the faucet sit and settle after receiving it."

Yan Zhao glanced at the water basins in the yard. They were all filled with water, and there was a thin layer of sand at the bottom.

Yan Zhao also convinced Xie Lianxue: "Where did you find this place... I think Ying Hongyu is also filming around here. He is still on the mountain, and he is at least 20 years ahead of here."

Xie Lianxue: "Being ahead of 20 years is also at the level of 00. Don't be too disgusted. There is still some time before the rainy season. Let's finish filming as soon as possible, and then we can withdraw."

If it weren't for the location requirements of the script, Xie Lianxue would not be willing to stay in this corner, and it would be inconvenient for him to wear skirts.

"Red Parrot" is Yan Zhao's shooting script this time.

The background of the story is located in a small frontier town, which borders neighboring countries, where fish and dragons are mixed, and there is a turbid undercurrent under the peaceful appearance.

The protagonist You Wenguang was born in an ordinary family, but his father accidentally became addicted to drugs, his mother died of domestic violence, and the family was broken.

In a gang fight, You's father became a victim, while You Wenguang survived with his face, and became the drug lord Q's slave.He is injected with a ration of "red parrot" every week, which can keep him sane and not crazy like other drug addicts.But once he goes against Q's ideas, the pain of drug addiction will crush his spine. At the age of 15 he fired his first shot, blowing the head off a debtor.

On the surface, You Wenguang had succumbed to Q, but secretly built a bridge with the police informant. After five years of dormancy, he finally found a chance to eradicate his enemy and killed Q himself.Just when he was about to surrender himself and stand trial for the crimes he committed over the years, he was stabbed in the stomach with a dagger by a passerby—before he died, he vaguely remembered that the first shot he fired was precisely the murderer. the man's father.

The filming period was very bitter, the weather in X City was weird, the sun was scorching during the day, and it rained non-stop at night. I slept with a dry quilt, and when I woke up the next day, the quilt was so damp that it seemed to have been soaked in water all night.Some people in the group had blisters like rice grains growing in the crevices of their fingers, densely packed, not itchy, but looking oozing.

Another thing that everyone can't stand is that the signal here is extremely poor, the phone can't be connected, and the message can't be sent out. There is only one public phone booth to contact the outside world.

Yan Zhao ran to the phone booth more diligently than he went back to the dormitory, and the old lady guarding the phone booth knew him.

The old lady liked him very much and often talked to him. Once she said that the young people had all left and did not want to stay in this backward place, only the older generation stubbornly stayed in their hometown.

Then Yan Zhao suddenly realized that there were almost no young people in the small town. They were either children who were not familiar with the world, or old people who were very old. Perhaps soon, the former would be taken to the city by their parents and never come back. And the latter guard the land and perish.

After a week, the field manager will go to the city to buy supplies to improve everyone's life.

Upon hearing this, Yan Zhao's eyes lit up: "I want to enter the city too!"

The field manager scratched his head and advised him: "Six hours back and forth, the mountain road is bumpy, it's uncomfortable."

Yan Zhao: "It's okay, I have motion sickness medicine."

Just as the field manager was about to say "That's good", another voice said, "I want to enter the city too."

He turned his head and saw that it was Xie Lianxue.

When Director Xie came here, the long skirt was fluttering, but now he doesn't bother to dress himself up, so he snatched the assistant director's pants and tied them with hemp rope as a belt.

But the truck only has two seats, one for the leading role and one for the director, who is it for?

Yan Zhao and Xie Lianxue stared at him together.

Field manager: "...I understand."

After more than three hours, the signal in the upper right corner of the screen finally changed from zero to nothing, and Yan Zhao was almost moved to tears.

Xie Lianxue sent him the memo, and the two split up to buy supplies.Yan Zhao made a video call with Shen Yuanting while filling the shopping basket with toilet paper.

Shen Yuanting felt that he had lost weight, and asked him for the second time: "Is the crew's accommodation conditions good?"

Yan Zhao: "It's okay, it's similar to a student dormitory, with a single guard. The food is okay, native chicken and duck, original ecology and pollution-free."

However, the fact is that the dormitory is not as big as the toilet in his house. There are eight people in the upper and lower bunk beds. The only TV is still broken, and the fan burps after two days of blowing.There is a solo guard, but there is one, and the crew has more than 100 people. In order to take a bath, they can line up from evening to early morning.The food is also so-so, no different from ordinary crews.

This is still the case for basic necessities of life, let alone entertainment.

Yan Zhao sighed: "Working at sunrise and resting at sunset, I feel like I have become an ancient person."

Although this ancient man can be traced back to the few skulls in the museum in City B.

Yan Zhao also praised Shen Yuanting for his foresight. It was very cold in the town at night, and he had to wear the denim jacket he stuffed in when he went out.Shen Yuanting didn't talk much, most of the time it was Yan Zhao who was talking, but across thousands of mountains and rivers, he could feel the cherished feelings of the person opposite.

After paying the bill, Yan Zhao returned to the car, the tallest house in City X was only a department store, the rest of the houses were low and gloomy, and the sky could be seen at a glance.

Yan Zhao remembered, and said, "You can see stars here at night, many and very bright."

Perhaps this is the only gift that nature left to this city. He was forgotten and abandoned, so nature gave it the most beautiful stars.It's just that in the daytime, when everyone has to run around for their livelihood, it doesn't matter how bright the stars are.

But the weather is not good right now, gloomy and cloud-covered.

Yan Zhao stretched out his hand and grabbed the wet wind: "It seems to be raining here."

Shen Yuanting told him: "You guys have to take the mountain road, if it rains, wait until the rain stops before you go."

Yan Zhao: "Well, I know, don't worry about me. Are you at home, I want to see Wangzai and Snow Cake."

Shen Yuanting said, "Not here."

Yan Zhao thought the same, is it working time now?

Shen Yuanting sent him some recent cat movies: "Let's just watch it."

When Xie Lianxue came back, she found that Yan Zhao was still on the phone, and said casually, "It's a good relationship." Unlike his little bastard, who was so heartless, he actually asked him about Yan Zhao's news just now. Is it not easy?

It was Xie Lianxue who drove the car when they came, and Yan Zhao was replaced on the return trip.

Yan Zhao reluctantly said: "I'm going back to the set, hang up, eat well, don't drink coffee at night, I won't be able to sleep later."

Shen Yuanting: "Well, you pay attention to safety."

After hanging up the phone, Yan Zhao looked up at the sky, the rain was already falling.He asked, "Wait for the rain to stop or go now?"

Xie Lianxue glanced at the weather forecast: "It says that the rain will stop in half an hour. Light rain is not a problem. It's even more dangerous when it gets dark. Let's go now."

The car was driving on the mountain road, after six o'clock, the last ray of light in the sky was still stubbornly resisting.In the distance, there was a muffled thunder.

The wipers regularly crushed the raindrops into a water curtain. Yan Zhao was restless and felt suffocated due to lack of oxygen, but he couldn't figure out why he felt this way.

In order to divert his attention, he chatted with Xie Lianxue about movies, suddenly a gust of cold wind blew his face, he glanced around, Xie Lianxue opened the car window, not sure if he was looking at the sky or the mountains.

The other end of the sky is also dark, but the crystal lamp in the room is extremely bright.

The well-dressed designer assistant opened a blue velvet jewelry box and showed the customized finished product to the big customer: "Considering your request, we have adopted..."

While the assistant was talking, he observed the customer's reaction. The man's expression was flat, and he just motioned him to continue talking.

The big customer provided them with a piece of top-quality lotus corundum. The output of this gemstone is very low, and those over 5 carats can only be seen at international auctions, but this piece has a full 21.86 carats, and the color is just 50% Pink and 50% orange, like a red lotus at dusk, is perfect.Coupled with other matching gemstones and diamonds, as well as the well-known identity of the chief designer, there is no doubt that the price of this ring can reach tens of millions.

The assistant was curious, who would such a cold man give the ring to?But she couldn't ask such a question, so she could only continue to talk about the designer's design philosophy.

Shen Yuanting came home and called out, but neither Wang Zai nor Xue Bing responded.When he returned to the bedroom, he was not surprised to find that the quilt had raised two small hills.Shen Yuanting lifted the quilt, and two cats were sleeping on Yan Zhao's side of the quilt.

Shen Yuanting: "...Aren't you bored?"

Wang Zai yawned lazily and squinted at him, while Xue Bing got up, rubbed her paws on the soft quilt, and began to step on the milk.

Shen Yuanting: "..." If it wasn't too rude, I even wanted to force them to change the sheets and quilts.

Shen Yuanting walked around the kitchen, all the dishes were just bought by the housekeeper, they were very fresh and verdant, but Shen Yuanting had no appetite.He originally wanted to heat some toast to make do with it, but remembering Yan Zhao's advice, he still sprinkled a handful of noodles and put a handful of vegetables on it.

It started to rain outside, and the wind was very strong. Xuebing was afraid of thunder, so she huddled up uneasy. Wangzai stayed by her side and licked her fur.

Shen Yuanting turned on the TV, played cartoons for Wang Zai, and read a book by himself.

After 10 minutes passed, Shen Yuanting was stunned, and went back to look at the paragraph he glanced at just now, but found that he had no impression of that paragraph of text, and he couldn't extract effective information from it after reading it for the second time.He seemed to have suddenly lost the ability to read, and those square characters were just a meaningless, ink-colored imprint.

Shen Yuanting simply turned on the phone, checked WeChat, and scrolled up from the last one to the top.He opened the text message box again, and there were many messages in it, each from the same person.He is unwilling to delete any of Yan Zhao's messages, even if it's just an "oh" or "1", those that have to be discarded are backed up by him.

At the end of the mailbox is the first text message Yan Zhao sent him:

[My friend said that he saw a cat that looked like Wangzai near the trash can in a certain community, but he couldn’t remember the name of the community. 】

Bad lie.

Whether it is the Shen Yuanting who has not met him in the past, or the Shen Yuanting who has spent hundreds of days and nights with him, and will even spend tens of thousands of days and nights with him in the future, everyone can See through the loopholes at a glance.

Shen Yuanting thought, has it been so long?That rainy night seems to be still yesterday, and it seems to be a memory of the previous life.

Shen Yuanting stared at the text message for a while, and with a crisp "pop", he remembered that there was still a pot of flowers on the balcony, which Yan Zhao had just bought the day before he went to the set.He said that the flower was very delicate, and only a careful person like Mr. Shen could keep it alive. He asked Shen Yuanting to take care of it and check his homework when he came back.

Shen Yuanting stood up abruptly, rushed to the balcony to rescue the potted plant, the flower pot was blown over, and the flower fell to the ground, half dead.

Shen Yuanting moved the flower indoors, intending to google how to save the flower, but his body froze suddenly.

The latest push.

City X, landslide.

Shen Yuanting entered the news with a blank expression. The news was only a few hundred words long and the content was rough. It only said that there were popular stars among the victims and they were being rescued at X City People's Hospital.

He turned off the message and called up the address book. There was an a before Yan Zhao's name, so he was always the first in the address book.He called Yan Zhao, but couldn't get through, there was no beep to make him wait, and the mechanical female voice repeated "the number you dialed has been turned off" over and over again.

Without the slightest hesitation, Shen Yuanting grabbed the coat on the sofa and called Secretary Li: "Book me the nearest flight to City X, if you don't have one within half an hour, report to the Air Traffic Management Bureau and connect to City X." Airport."

It was dark outside the window.On the plane, he suddenly smelled a strange smell in the ICU, and his only memory of this abbreviation was Yu Wei lying on the hospital bed.

At that time, he didn't understand why Yu Wei jumped off the building, but he guessed that Yu Wei was in pain.He once saw Yu Wei in the middle of the night. The woman sat in the living room, lit the lighter, and burned one photo after another.

She spotted him and waved to him.The strange thing is that at that time, Yu Wei hadn't shown any desire for revenge, but Shen Yuanting didn't dare to approach her. Maybe the fire in the photo was too scorching, and Yu Wei's eyes seemed to be burning with the flames of hell.

After the plane landed, he rushed to the hospital immediately. City X is really too remote, the more backward the place, the less effective modern technology can play, let alone a place where wifi is not even popular.

He didn't forget to call Yan Zhao, but the ruthless female voice answered him.

It was completely dark, and the weather forecast has never been accurate. The rain that was promised for half an hour has not stopped until now.

The road was very dark, and the street lights were broken. Outside the hospital was a brick wall, painted white, covered with small advertisements or children's graffiti.

With a crash, muddy water splashed, and he stepped on another broken floor tile.

At the end of the line of sight, a lone lamp appeared, illuminating the only entrance.

Like a moth in a spider's web, he plunged into this narrow, dim light with a lonely heart.

The dim light was blurred by the rain, and the shadow was cut into countless fragments by the rain.In a trance, he saw a familiar figure.The young man was holding an umbrella, wearing the denim jacket he stuffed into the suitcase, his face was extremely gentle under the light, like the wind of late spring.

Yan Zhao: "..."

Yan Zhao: "???"

I hallucinated?

Apart from this, there seems to be no other reason to explain the figure in front of him. After confirming the relationship, Shen Yuanting seldom makes surprise visits, because the sudden appearance will only cause trouble for Yan Zhao's work—although he is also willing to deal with it.

Yan Zhao couldn't help but wonder if he went to the city occasionally, full of warmth and lust, and had hallucinations.

However, the umbrella that fell on the ground, and that wet, real hug told him that all this was not some shit illusion.

He hugged Shen Yuanting back, resting his chin on his shoulder.The man's hands tightened so tightly that his waist was almost cut off.

Yan Zhao stroked his back soothingly, like a cat, along the spine.

When the other party's heartbeat like a drum gradually calmed down, he asked, "Why are you here, and you didn't tell me?"

Shen Yuanting said, "I can't get through to your cell phone."

"Ah?" Yan Zhao took out the phone and found that it was indeed turned off.He pressed and held the power button, and the screen was on for a few seconds. After warning that the battery was out, he turned off the phone on his own initiative.

Yan Zhao was embarrassed and helpless at first, and then, a deep sadness seized his heart.

Yan Zhao held his hand: "Don't be afraid, I'm right here."

He's not an idiot, he already guessed why Shen Yuanting was in such a hurry.

Seeing the relaxed expression on his face, Yan Zhao felt very distressed, and led him out of the hospital, explaining, "I'm going to buy instant noodles now, and Director Xie and I haven't had dinner yet."

Shen Yuanting asked: "Why are you in the hospital?"

Yan Zhao: "Your colleague has an accident, so you don't have to come and visit him!"

On the mountain road, he finally remembered the reason for his restlessness——Ying Hongyu seemed to have fallen off the cliff during this time.

At that time, the rain on the other side of the town had almost stopped, but the dark clouds were still hovering over City X.He wanted to call Ying Hongyu, so he turned back.

After he persuaded Ying Hongyu to go back to the dormitory to rest, there was another news that a certain star was in distress.

Everyone is in this small town, what else can I do? I went to visit the doctor, but luckily the other person’s life was not in danger, and before the anesthesia, he was still saying "I want to eat pig's trotters tomorrow"...

Thinking of this, Yan Zhao asked: "Have you eaten, what did you eat?"

Shen Yuanting: "Boil noodles with green vegetables."

"No meat?"

"kindness."

Yan Zhao nodded, took three bags of Kang x Fu Braised Beef Noodles, and asked, "Where are Wang Zai and Snow Cake?"

"At home. Secretary Li is taking care of her."

"What about my flowers?"

"...The flowerpot was blown down by the wind, and the flowers were drenched in the rain, so I probably won't be able to survive."

Seeing him feeling guilty, Yan Zhao smiled: "If you can't live, you can't live. After we go back, let's go to the flower market together."