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I don't know where I heard the theory that if people often dream, they don't sleep deeply, but sleep lightly.Yang Jian always fell asleep when he was too sleepy to open his eyes, and sometimes he even unconsciously lay down in front of the computer.Since the studio has no windows, every time he wakes up, he can’t see the bright sky, but only sees the warning hands on his watch. He dares not close his eyes anymore, and quickly stands up to wash his hands. Before the elevator in the building opens, he takes the fire escape. Let the air blow downstairs, and eat something by the way, so as to put an effective end to sleep.

Under such circumstances, is it possible to sleep lightly during the few short hours?How ignorant the body is.It is difficult for Yang Jian to verify the conclusion of the hearsay. The system in his body that can sense whether he is tired or not has long been disrupted by coffee. People always sleep more and more sleepy. It can be seen that the desire for rest is endless, and it is his to be able to control it. Lucky and capable, the only thing that troubled him was - he had too many dreams.

Symptoms started around early July, or late June?These dreams were chaotic when they were going on, but they could be recalled when they woke up, and they became clearer and clearer, always occupying part of his thoughts and affecting his concentration.Really annoying, Yang Jian stood in front of the mirror and tapped his head, as if he could see a cloud of white mist inside, what are you doing?Get out, he said to it.

There are times when he can't help himself.

The first email came out of the blue.At that time, Yang Jian was waiting for a set of parameters to be sent back from the laboratory. When the mailbox rang, the sender was a weird user name that looked like garbled characters.

It’s not gibberish, Yang Jian took a closer look, [email protected], the albatross is over the top of the head, it’s a line from Pink Floyd’s lyrics.

He loves this band.

I like it so much that I can think of the title of the song directly when I see the lyrics, "Echoes", a 23-minute song, this is the first sentence sung after the prelude of about two and a half minutes.

A strong premonition landed at this moment.Have you ever heard this song for Li Bai?Li Bai likes it or not.The memory has become so far away.The mail had been dragged to the trash can, but the mouse was released at this moment. Yang Jian raised his index finger and looked at the screen quietly.The parameters came back, he copied it into a sketch, and wrote the last number. The pencil he just sharpened broke, so the 5 was thicker than the previous string.

Yang Jian finally opened the email.

时间：2007年6月21日（星期四）22：02

Brother, how are you doing recently?Finally one day I had a rest, I went to the city to find an Internet cafe, and wrote this letter.I just registered the mailbox, and the interface is in English. I don't know if I am doing it right, and whether I can send it out.

Now it's two o'clock in the afternoon on our side, no colleagues came out with me, and no one walked on the road, they were all lazy and went to bed.By the way, haven't I told you yet, I'm going to Africa!Didn’t you expect it to be called Morocco, as if it’s very close to Asia and Europe at the northernmost point?I heard it from others, and I can't figure out what this place is. Anyway, it's not Africa at all. The city is very close to the sea, and there are densely packed small square houses everywhere, with flat roofs, small windows, and painted walls. It is pure white and looks like building blocks from a distance.

There are a lot of whites, a lot of Arabs, and very few blacks like Bolt and Jordan.They like to eat seafood, and they also like to build squares and tall pointed stone monuments, and their English is very poor, and I am also very poor, it is too difficult to communicate, my US dollars are not easy to use, but I don’t want to exchange them for local di Ram, there is no chance to spend money anyway.

There are bearded loafers everywhere, and when I walk down the street and meet their eyes, I feel like I'm going to be robbed.I bought a new knife as soon as I got off the plane.

The crew found a place like a film and television city, called Ouarzazate (I seem to have spelled it wrong), quite far from the city, full of palm trees and loess, those houses are built like palaces, the color is like a pyramid, and there are high walls inside , tall pillars, all painted murals.I haven't read the script either, so I don't know what story they want to tell. Judging from the styling list, it seems like a **** hunt for treasure?The protagonists are all in disgrace all day long.

We slept in tents, there was no rice to eat, chili sauce and naan every day, the actors were able to shower every day, and our hair and makeup team did it once a week.

I thought there would be lions running after me in Africa, so I was scared, but not now, I still want to send you an email.Where is the prairie in those films?Am I from this Africa?It should be the rainy season now, the grass is as high as my waist, the antelopes are jumping in it, the river is flooded, and the wildebeest crosses the river and tramples it down.And the baobab tree, its trunk should be sweet, right?Just thinking about it makes me hungry.

It's time to time out, the Internet cafes here are so expensive!I typed too slowly, deleted, deleted, and changed, and felt that what I said was quite boring.will you seeThat's it for today.

I hope you are well.

That night, Yang Jian dreamed of a wildebeest crossing the river, the tremors of the ground went straight to his heart from the soles of his feet, he also dreamed of a seaside town as described by Li Bai, Bolt dunked a basketball, and an old-fashioned plane crashed in the desert.He was a pilot himself, and the burning sensation of the explosion was simulated as real. He was dug out and carried on a stretcher, and his soul was steaming. He saw his charred body turn into black water, seeping through the canvas and flowing gravel, It was scalded dry in an instant, making a hissing sound like a poisonous snake spitting out a letter.

Waking up he remembered the book, The English Patient.He was as tired as he had been slumped in bed after months of care by Hannah Almasy.Where do dreams come from, books, mail, my own brain.Yang Jian didn't have time to think about it. A few days later, his account received a payment. One of his designs had been put into production. The money was sent from the reservation provider. But it was enough for Yang Jian to put all his energy into it.

With the first, people tend to wait for the second, which is a natural expectation.But Yang Jian didn't. He deleted the first email. As for the second email, he hoped that Li Bai would not send it to him.

Because after sending it, no matter how much he thought about it, he knew he would still click on it.

It was a bit late that time, more than ten hours after the mail arrived, because Yang Jian had been struggling so much during the previous period, he was finally able to catch his breath, and if he didn't close his eyes, he would be blind. He read this text ——

时间：2007年7月19日（星期四）15:41

What a coincidence, this time is also Thursday, I will continue to send you emails on Thursday in the future!It's good to keep a tradition.Instead of going to the city, a co-worker offered to lend me my laptop, even though I don't know her very well... it counts as a loan!I'll go to the Internet cafe when she doesn't want to.

It's almost eight o'clock in the morning here, and we shot a night scene all night, with more than a dozen, we had to go up and touch up the actors' makeup, and now we can rest until two o'clock in the afternoon.I was wrong last time. What they made was not a treasure hunt movie, but a romance movie. In the scene yesterday, they kept kissing under the moon.I'm going to bed soon, brother, how are you sleeping during this time?I lie on the floor and sneeze non-stop every day, it seems to be because of the sand, my nose is peeled off.Once, I couldn't sleep and secretly put on makeup on myself. I painted it like Cleopatra, and the makeup remover almost hurt my nose.

It’s hot every day, and it’s the hottest time in Beijing. Remember to buy watermelon instead of eating Sichuan food every day. Cook some mung bean soup for yourself when you have time. A handful of beans and a large pot are enough. Quench your thirst.It is rare to eat fruit in the film crew, but you can drink mineral water casually. The mineral water here is aerated. Colleagues say it is called soda, and the taste is not as good as the non-aerated one.

By the way, that lamp, do you remember?It was the one who found a rich man who traveled around the world all day long. I just checked QQ and saw that he started traveling again!This time, we actually have to come to Morocco again. The plan is September. According to this progress, we have not finished filming half of the film. Maybe we can see each other?He said he wanted to come to me, but it depended on what the boss wanted.Wow, he calls the person who goes to bed every day the boss!In fact, it doesn't matter if you see him or not. He is very annoying at work. We can't be friends, just acquaintances. I haven't made any friends here. There are very few acquaintances. You told me before, let's make some friends, at least one Two are needed, but I don't have any now and don't necessarily have any problems.

You know what I need, you've always known it, it's just a matter of admitting it.

I do miss you every day, when I'm busy, when I'm free... let's not talk about it, don't block me just because you see this!I'm about to return the computer to someone else. I really want to know if you read the email last time, but what about this time?Of course I want you to watch it, but I will be very nervous when I think of you watching it...

Finally teach you a word!It should be a phrase. I learned it from an Ethiopian in the crew. I told him the meaning in English, and he told me how to say and write it in their mother tongue.Take a good look, Ewedihalehu, the rules of pronunciation are different from those in English. Only when we meet face to face can I teach you how to read!That will have to wait until I return to China, and then I will tell you what it means.

The starry sky here is very low and it is clear that there will be meteors in the early morning one day, so I made a wish!

I hope you are well!

In the turbulent and tired light sleep that day, Yang Jian dreamed of shooting stars.I also dreamed that the watermelon was crushed by me during the night run, the mung bean vines covered the high-rise buildings in Zhongguancun, the water in the moat was bubbling with carbon dioxide, and Cleopatra stood under the spinning Milky Way and stretched out her hands to herself.Waking up with sore back and back pain, poor quality sleep with no rest effect is common, but to this extent, it can only remind Yang Jian of his boring high school days. Basically, after school every day, he will not leave, nor will he help the students on duty , sitting on the window sill in the last row to sleep, hard sneakers stepping on the window edge, knees and shoulders against the glass, dusty curtains blocking him, and no one bothering him.

This is really not a labor-saving nap position, and not everyone can maintain balance, but Yang Jian just likes it.When I opened my eyes again, it was already the evening sun, my head was hurting, and the student on duty was finishing up, he would jump off the window sill to stretch his muscles and bones from sleep, put on his schoolbag and leave.There are always people following behind, many girls and boys, and there are fewer people on the campus. They are afraid of the vocational high school gangsters in the small alley outside the school gate asking for money, but they all know that Yang Jian is not afraid.

It seems that there is still such a saying, Yang Jian?It would be nice if he didn't turn around and ask gangsters for money!

This made Yang Jian feel aggrieved thinking about it at this moment, after all, it was something he had never done before.What made him even more aggrieved was the mess in the previous dream. No matter what Li Bai mentioned in the email, he saw what he saw in the dream. This brain is really loyal to those few short paragraphs of text!This kind of thing is not strange, it is simply troublesome. He started to take sleeping pills from time to time, so that his brain can be peacefully quiet when his body is resting. Set an alarm clock every minute, and the rimless glasses that live with him are so noisy that he complains at every turn, saying that he is going to have a nervous breakdown.

This is also something that can't be helped, there is no one minute for people to delay, it is the same for both of them.Several demand parties are interested in their products, but not everyone is willing to take the risk and provide a deposit in advance.If the production investment is not enough, the output will not increase, and it will become a problem to expand the market and production scale. The rimless glasses often say that he and Yang Jian are black and white heroes, airborne martial arts, lack of martial arts, but poor.

Yang Jian smiled, you are right, he nodded to his partner.I thought a lot about it.If it accumulates slowly, it’s not a bad thing to plan a steady flow of water and a long stream of accumulation, but for Yang Jian, all this will be completely meaningless if it is slow. His partner also wants to make a fortune early and return home to take care of his sick parents, so they continue to They have to rush, worry, and go to any possible place to grab an opportunity. It seems that they have returned to the time when they had no products, no patents, and nothing.