Aesthetics of Violence [Entertainment]

Outside the entrance of Regal Hotel.

The parking guy has already parked his beloved horse for the guests, and now he is following behind him silently, waiting silently for the owner to take out his wallet.

Zhu Zan looked at the time displayed on the phone screen, confirmed the location sent to him in the text message again, turned off the screen, and then turned his head and smiled at the parking boy.

Seeing that the little brother was indifferent, and followed him like a ghost, with a flattering and threatening smile on his face, Zhu Zan got goosebumps on his back, and hurriedly took out his wallet to get some change, not saying anything. Idle: "You guys run around in the wind and sun every day, do you have a high salary?"

The parking guy said: "To tell the truth from the boss, the wages are not bad. Thanks to our big boss who is rich enough, a small employee like me can live a decent life."

"The boss treats you well?"

"Of course! I heard that the boss here is a good person, so there are so many people who want to work here, and the competition is fierce!"

"Are you all employees in the establishment?"

"Yes, boss, you don't know, right now, there are no hourly workers or temporary contracts. They are all full-time employees with a job number!"

Zhu Zan nodded, and looked through the middle of the wallet. He couldn't find the change, and finally took out a pink note from inside, slowly smoothing the folded corner of the note, and handing it to the parking boy's hand quietly. Said: "Then Mr. Huang knows that your regular employees force you to ask for tips from customers?"

The one-hundred-yuan banknote was spread out in the palm of the parking boy, and his arm visibly shook.

Suddenly, Lei Zi shouted in the distance.

"Director, I'm sorry to keep you waiting."

Zhu Zan followed the voice and saw Lei Zi floating towards him like a black shadow. He stared at Lei Zi's suit and leather shoes. This set of outfits should add color to any man. It seems particularly inconsistent on the body.Maybe it's because Zhu Zan is used to seeing Lei Zi's inattentive appearance, but seeing this majestic posture now makes him feel very uncomfortable.

Zhu Zan said, "What's wrong with you? Are you going to a wedding or a funeral in such a suit?"

"You told me you were going to see your father, why don't you dress more formally?"

"What dad? Who told you that?"

Lei Zi said in shock: "Our big benefactor, my father, Young Master Huang!"

Zhu Zan was so frightened by the appellation in this wealthy soap opera that he couldn't help but raised his hand and slapped Lei Zi on the head: "Speak up! What a disgusting name like Bala."

Lei Zi said "Ouch", "The young master of the Huang family, referred to as Huang Shao, everyone calls him that. Since I have him, I can see a bright future for our program group! Hey, everyone is happy, Qin Wen usually With such careful budgeting, he was willing to treat us to a good meal some time ago..."

Zhu Zan was stunned, no wonder there was an invoice for "stationery" with an astonishing amount in his reimbursement form this morning.

Lei Zi knew that he had slipped up when he got excited, so he quickly kept silent.

But it was too late, Zhu Zan looked at him with a smile: "Since when did you go out for dinner together? With the funds? Who went?"

Lei Zi shrank his shoulders in fright, the suit on his body couldn't support his aura anymore, so he trembled with him.

"Director, you're not on a business trip. Let's explore the way first. If the restaurant tastes bad and hurts your stomach, it won't be worth it. Do you think..." Seeing Zhu Zan laughing Getting more and more creepy, he raised his fist and swore against his temple, "Just this time! Don't make an example next time! Next time we will definitely not abandon you!"

These words became more and more wrong, Zhu Zan hooked his fingers at him: "Come here."

Lei Zi dare not.

"I won't hit you, come here!"

Lei Zi took a few steps over slowly, observing Zhu Zan's expression carefully.

He suddenly withdrew his smile, "I'll fucking kick you to death!" As he spoke, he kicked his feet in the air.

Lei Zi yelled while hiding: "Don't, don't, Dao'er, Dao'er, don't kick it, this is a dress I rented, if you break it, you can't do it!"

The two of them fought all the way in the hotel built with gold bricks and glazed tiles, acting like no one else was there, ignoring the gazes of the arty, extravagantly dressed, and disdainful men and women around them.

Walking into the box on the third floor, I saw that Xiao Heng and Huang Xiangyan had already arrived, and there were a few people I didn't know, all of whom were friends brought by Huang Xiangyan to join in the fun.

Huang Xiangyan was really casual, wearing all black, sweatpants and a casual T-shirt, it didn't look like meeting customers, but rather going downstairs to the supermarket or throwing away trash.He leaned against the armrest of the chair, propped his forehead, and crossed his legs.Seeing Zhu Zan and Lei Zi, he waved his hands lazily as a greeting.

Zhu Zan sat next to Xiao Heng, only to hear him leaning over and whispering in his ear: "I helped you find out, how did you convince him to invest in you? He just said that he was very interested in you. It doesn't look like he was taken advantage of, but he looks quite happy."

Zhu Zan also lowered his voice: "I said earlier, we are a win-win cooperation, how could he be taken advantage of?"

Xiao Heng still felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was weird.

Although the agreed time is exactly twelve o'clock noon, for these people who are familiar with the wine bureau, they are used to arriving about half an hour earlier. Ask people to open their mouths.

But obviously, that performance company is not familiar with this set of customary social atmosphere.

There were only two of them, a man and a woman, and they both stepped in.

The first person to enter the door was a woman, she was also wearing a formal suit, Lei Zi quietly breathed a sigh of relief, he was finally not the only freak dressed up here.She has her hair in a bun, and the broken hair on her forehead is combed meticulously. She is capable and elegant, but there is an inexhaustible sharpness in her eyes. Although she is a woman, her aura is strong enough to suppress more than half of the room. Such a man, with such an easy-going appearance, people really can't see her real age.

Behind her, a thin man walked in. He was indeed short in the eyes of a man, and he was only a little taller than the woman wearing stiletto heels beside her.He lowered his head slightly, lowered his brows and eyes, and tied a bun behind his head. He looked cool, but he was very casual, and he didn't care about the flying hair.

He was wearing a pair of off-white linen slacks with the trousers rolled up, and a white long-sleeved T-shirt on his upper body. He did not have any patterns and worked quietly.The sleeves were rolled up several layers, revealing a small section of slender white forearm, holding the black coat in his right hand, and a red bracelet on his left wrist, which made his skin pale to blue.

This is a handsome man with delicate features, but he has not yet shown his expression, but it is already difficult to get close to.

Zhu Zan's line of sight was just half blocked by the woman in front. He couldn't see the man's face clearly, but he could see half of his body, especially the bracelet, which looked familiar.

In fact, it was not a special red bracelet, but it was sold for ten yuan or six at street stalls during the Spring Festival. But at that time, Zhu Zan only felt that the red on the man's hand was particularly conspicuous.

The woman looked around and said slowly: "Hi, it's the first time we meet. We are from Beluga Performance Company. I'm Aroma, and this is Deng Weiyi..."

There was a roar in the ear, the three words were like a switch connected to a bomb, and the mountain shook in an instant, dizzy and dizzy, and Zhu Zan couldn't hear any sound.

If this is another dream, and it is the same as the countless reunions in the previous dream, if this is the case, then let him wake up earlier.

But this time seems to be a little different, Zhu Zan didn't wait for the scenes of reunion in dreams, staring at each other, or talking.That man was like an unrefined stranger, he didn't give the other people in the room a little look or sound, but silently followed behind the woman, and finally sat in the diagonally opposite direction of Zhu Zan.

"Okay, everyone is here, and we can serve the food." Huang Xiangyan gestured to the waiter who was standing by, then turned his head and picked Zhu Zan as the opening speech, and smiled, "Director Zhu, long time no see , are you busy these days?"

Zhu Zan twisted his head to keep his gaze from falling on that person, and he greeted Huang Xiangyan's greeting without blinking, trying his best to make his voice unrecognizable: "The show is still on, so it will be busy."

Huang Xiangyan acted as if he had just heard about this incident, and put on a look of sudden interest: "Speaking of your program, I also watched it, it was good, the response was quite enthusiastic, especially that young man named Zhong Mingcan , but news about him has been everywhere lately." Having said that, he suddenly smiled, "I heard that you guys are quite familiar with each other?"

Without changing his face, Zhu Zan took a glass of beer from Xiao Heng, "I'm not familiar."

"But someone saw him eating alone with you, isn't that familiar?"

"Well, I can't remember clearly, maybe I met by chance, it's a table sharing."

Huang Xiangyan smiled brighter. He hissed, "Hey, there are no outsiders here, and I have no other intentions. I just want to express my concern as an investor. After all, this is the first work I invested in."

This sentence finally made Zhu Zan's expression change, he frowned: "The first work to invest in? We will talk to your Huang family when we agree on the next project..."

Huang Xiangyan directly interrupted him: "It's not the Huang family, it's me."

Zhu Zan said nothing, but his brows frowned even deeper.

"What? I only want to trust my dad, but I can't trust me?" Huang Xiangyan laughed a few times, "Don't tell me, he has a lot of affairs and is very busy. Besides, you came to beg me because you lack two coins. Is it not the same whether I give it to you or he gives it to you?"

Huang Xiangyan's arrogance and ability to turn right and wrong are simply astonishing. Zhu Zan complained, but he didn't look good on him.

"No, no," Zhu Zan said with a smile, "It's my honor that you are willing to invest in a director like me who has no works. It's too late to be grateful. How dare I not believe you? I'm just a little I'm flattered, originally the program "New Voice Against the Current" didn't have much budget when planning it, it's really a low-budget production with no big ambitions, I'm afraid that the money you put in will end up in vain..."

"Then please try your best not to let my money go to waste." Huang Xiangyan nodded slightly, with a bit of teasing in his eyes, and a lazy tone. He drank the wine in his glass and praised Zhu to empty the glass, " In terms of investment, I can be considered a fledgling rookie, but even if I don’t know the rules, I know that money can’t be spent on a parallel director who can only lose money, do you think this is the truth?”

Zhu Zan understood, and he drank up the wine in his glass, "Yes."

"So you take this as a test of water, I believe you will not let me down."

"Then what do you expect from me, Mr. Huang?"

"I don't expect much from you, but I have some ideas about your show."

"what idea?"

"Look, you are the director, are you involved in this competition from beginning to end?"

Zhu Zan replied: "Yes."

"Is that also the first person to know the result of the game?"

Zhu Zan replied again: "Yes."

"No one has the right to change the result of the game except you?"

Zhu Zan replied again: "Yes."

"That is to say, in fact, in the end, it is you, the director, who will confirm the final result of the competition?"

Zhu Zan paused, and replied, "Yes."

"And I'm your investor now..." Huang Xiangyan suddenly sat upright, he seemed a little eager to try, stared straight into Zhu Zan's eyes, and smiled more flamboyantly: "From now on, can I Made the decision for you?"

Zhu Zan responded calmly: "How do you want to decide?"

"Look, we are doing programs and doing business, and we need eyes to discover beauty and business opportunities. Your debut work is also my debut work as an investor. We must fight well in this first battle. In other words, the competition is not the key, what we can get in the end is the key. Whoever has the most popularity, who has the most traffic, who earns the most money, who is obedient, who should be the champion, am I right?"

Zhu Zan remained silent.

Huang Xiangyan didn't mind. He shook his head and continued: "Although Dong Lin knew that woman was dead, she was lucky and found a good partner. Originally, I just asked you if Zhong Mingcan knew you very well. I think this person is not bad, with high popularity and high traffic, he is a champion." He shook his head and sighed, "But since you said you don't know him well, I think he won't listen to you and me obediently in the future, then It's such a pity..."

"In that case, the championship will be given to..." He pondered for a moment, touched his chin, and finally made up his mind, "Let's give it to Feng Lan's group."

He spoke casually, as if he was just giving a piece of leftover steamed bun to the beggar.

It's like doing a good deed every day, but it only makes people feel disgusted.

Zhu Zan was so angry that his chest hurt, and there was an unknown fire in his heart, but he couldn't find an outlet, and he didn't know where to send it.

Huang Xiangyan was a penny-pinching person, last time Zhu Zan used Xue Tao to lead an army, which obviously hurt his self-esteem, so this time, no matter what, he had to mess up Zhu Zan's situation with his own hands.

He insisted on letting Zhu Zan know that in this world, even grasshoppers tied to the same rope can still distinguish between high and low.

Counting it, Zhu Zan was only silent for a few seconds at that time, and these few seconds were extremely difficult for Xiao Heng and Lei Zi who were sitting on both sides of him.

Fearing that the place would be cold, Xiao Heng purposely found a way to serve Zhu Zanman a glass of wine. The "crash" sound of the wine dripping on the glass wall could bring him a little peace of mind.But when the wine is full, this method has no effect.

No matter how idiotic Lei Zi is, he can see that his director is being beaten all the way at this moment, but he can't do anything, so he has to look for help at the dinner table.However, where his eyes are, he either quickly avoids his gaze, or pretends to be drunk, or pretends to be stupid and ignorant.

Except for one person.

That person was as quiet as air, and he had no sense of existence since he entered the door just now. He obviously seemed to be out of the situation, but at this moment he was staring at Zhu Zan's direction, frowning, his eyes couldn't tell what was in it. It's not malicious anyway.

In Lei Zi's simple outlook on life, as long as there is no malice in his eyes, he is a good person.

He winked at the man, sending out a distress call that only he could decipher.

The man saw it, and only glanced at it, then looked away quietly.

Lei Zi roared in his heart, don't be like this, big brother, you are the last hope!

Before he could come out of his despair, the man actually spoke. His voice was very pleasant, clear and steady, but there was a bit of magnetic hoarseness. His hoarseness makes his nice voice even more special.

Zhu Zan couldn't help shaking, it was this voice, so recognizable, there was no mistake.

"Boss Huang, seeing that you are chatting so happily, we don't want to disturb you, but it seems redundant. If you continue chatting, we will leave first."

Huang Xiangyan seemed to have just noticed that there were two of them on the other side of the wine table. He was taken aback, and quickly waved to stop him: "Don't, don't, oops, look, I haven't seen Director Zhu for a long time, and we started chatting Just forget about business! Come sit, sit, pour wine and pour wine!"

His eyes slipped from Aroma to Deng Weiyi, paused for a few seconds, and met Aroma's sight again, "I've heard that 'Moby Dick' has been taken over by a female boss in the past two years, and someone It has become the best performance company in Pingjing City. A few days ago, I happened to know that you are cooperating with Pingjing TV this time. No, I decided to invite you to come and be a guest together. Seeing is better than hearing a hundred times. It turns out that your company is not only excellent in business ability, but even the employees are all outstanding in appearance!"

Aroma sipped her wine glass, her smile still on her face, she didn't say much, she just said: "President Huang, you're welcome." Then, she drank the wine in the glass in one gulp.

Deng Weiyi next to her talked less than her, and he was more stingy with his expression. He just lowered his eyes, like an emotionless robot, and drank his own glass.

Because of the domineering and straightforwardness of the two of them, and because no one wanted to go back to the awkward atmosphere a few minutes ago, the group of people catered to each other intentionally or unintentionally, and the wine table suddenly became extremely lively.

Huang Xiangyan was taken aback for a moment, then shouted "Okay, okay" twice, and then joined in. He drank one cup after another, and no one could disturb his good mood at the moment. He was very happy and happy.

Zhu Zan has been silent for a few seconds since he was speechless. He mechanically repeated the movement of holding the wine glass. Xiao Heng didn't know what he was thinking. There is no feeling when the cup is brought to his mouth.Xiao Heng was afraid that Zhu Zan would be found strange and would cause some new troubles, so he had to honestly refill his glass, filling it up as soon as the wine was empty.

Xiao Heng is also a cheater, dead-headed, and doesn't know how to exchange water for wine.In the end, Zhu Zan didn't know how much he drank, but he must be drunk anyway.

His stomach turned upside down, and taking advantage of no one's attention, he slipped out of the box to go to the bathroom, holding on to the wall of the urinal cubicle with his hands in embarrassment, his calves were sore and weak, and he vomited faintly.

I don't know when it started, but there was a person standing behind him.

Zhu Zan didn't have the strength to look back, but he also knew that the man just stood there quietly, admiring his embarrassment.

Deng Wei folded his arms across his chest, tilted his head, and looked at him coldly for a while.

Perhaps because of the stimulation of the drink, or perhaps because of the echo from the bathroom, the man's voice seemed to be a little hoarse than before.

"Young master, why did you become like this?"

The author has something to say: The story of Zhu Zan and Deng Weiyi is not the main line of this article, but they have to meet again at this time and on this occasion, and I can't help it.So... there is another new character coming out~ [Aren't there too many characters?Do you see it as a mess?It doesn't matter, Deng Wei will be offline after one chapter! 】

Hmm... that... actually... the protagonists of this chapter are Zhu Zan and Huang Xiangyan hahahahahahaha