The Eye of the Storm

Zheng Yin relaxed, and drove the car to the main road in a hurry.

He felt that this operation should be able to cure Cao Ye for a few days - if there is no money, the child will not go anywhere.

He still knows Cao Ye, a kid who likes to play and is easy to cause trouble, but he has many advantages, such as not being hypocritical, easygoing with the situation, and able to take jokes.Let him live in Lanyan during this period of time, he probably complains a few words at most, and won't really get angry with you.The next time we meet again, he will definitely forget about it.

Cao Xiuyuan's son can't be wrong.Zheng Yin thought.

Zheng Yin's attitude towards Cao Ye was much more caring than Cao Xiuyuan's biological father.Since he followed Cao Xiuyuan as his assistant and producer ten years ago, he has never been absent from Cao Ye's birthday every year.

All of Cao Xiuyuan's works—whether it is the films he made, or his only son Cao Ye—he is very caring without exception.

Same this time.The script that Cao Xiuyuan wanted to make was a crime story that revolved around a boy living in a back alley.It is unbelievable to say that the script was originally created by their old partner Zhou Ru, but the birth of this script is indeed inseparable from Cao Ye.

That night, Zhou Ru sat at a table with Cao Xiuyuan and the others drinking, and when she heard that Cao Xiuyuan's son Cao Ye had come back from abroad, she became interested and wanted to meet whatever she wanted.

Zheng Yin took out a photo of Cao Ye from his phone and showed it to her.It was a photo taken on Cao Ye’s birthday last year. Cao Ye had just played a live CS in the wild with his friends that day—their team lost badly. His clothes were torn in several places, his trousers and sleeves Covered with dirty dust, the whole person looks dusty.When Zheng Yin coaxed him to take a picture, he was in a bad mood, with a bad face, and he was still carrying the birthday present that Zheng Yin gave him a few minutes ago—a valuable violin—on his back.

At that time, Zhou Ru suffered from exhaustion of inspiration and had no new works for two consecutive years. Who knew that after seeing this photo, she had a flash of inspiration, and when she went back that night, she typed out the main line of the story on the computer.

"A young man living in a back alley was overwhelmed by an expensive violin on his back." Zhou Ru said that she wanted to write such a story, where nobility and poverty are intertwined, back alleys and cities collide, about the life that cannot be escaped and the struggle that cannot be escaped. destiny.

It stands to reason that no one would be more suitable than Cao Ye for the role born because of Cao Ye, but Cao Xiuyuan has been hesitant to make a decision.

Two days ago when they went to Yancheng to survey the scenery, Cao Xiuyuan suddenly had a whim and said that he would go to the nearby Music High School to take a look.Because of this sudden idea, they brought Liang Sizhe from Yancheng thousands of miles away to Beijing.

However, as to whether to appoint Liang Sizhe to play this role, Cao Xiuyuan still didn't make a decision, but asked Zheng Yin to throw Liang Sizhe into a similar environment and wait.

Zheng Yin has worked with Cao Xiuyuan for many years, so of course he knows his intentions: Liang Sizhe does not have any acting experience, if he is really chosen to be the protagonist, then almost all his performances will come from instinct and his current life experience.However, the current situation is that, judging from the living environment of Liang Sizhe that night, his growth conditions seem to be too superior. He may not even know what kind of living conditions a boy in a back alley would be like, so he needs to put himself in his shoes. To observe and experience, to blend into that environment.

"What about Cao Ye?" Zheng Yin asked Cao Xiuyuan at the time, "Do you want to go with me?"

"If you can persuade him, then go there together." Cao Xiuyuan said.

The car stopped at the intersection of traffic lights, Zheng Yin stopped the thoughts in his head, took out his mobile phone and called Cao Xiuyuan: "Brother Yuan, I sent Xiaoye there...he is quite obedient, yes, don't worry... "

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Cao Ye walked back with a grim expression. While walking, he was aggrieved while searching for the 100 yuan he just casually threw out.

He planned to use the 100 yuan to take a taxi nearby and go to his friend's place.

However, it was nowhere to be found.

The 100 yuan disappeared without a trace, as if it never existed at all.

Cao Ye felt irritated for a while, and looked up at the busy men, women and children at the side of the alley—at this moment, he looked up at this "distressed young master" all over the place looking for money, as if he was watching a show.

The expressions on their faces were so consistent that Cao Ye couldn't figure out who took his money for a moment. He stood where he was, and said in a moderate voice, and he didn't know who he was asking: " Who picked up my 100 yuan?"

Of course no one answered him.Those who admit that they picked up money are probably not fools.

Cao Ye paused for two seconds. He also felt that the question was silly. He raised his hand and grabbed his hair, and continued walking back in disappointment.

Walking to the Lanyan, Liang Sizhe was still standing at the door. Cao Ye didn't know what was worth studying about these dirty and old doors. Could it be that he was judging the age of each store based on the thickness of the grease stains?

"Hey." He stood under the roadside stone, raised his chin slightly, and called out to Liang Sizhe who was standing on the steps.

Liang Sizhe was thinking about what to have for dinner later, when he heard this greeting, he slowly moved his eyes from the row of doors to his face.

"Did you see who picked up my 100 yuan?"

Liang Sizhe's gaze stayed on his face for a moment, and he said with care, "No."

"Really memorize...forget it," Cao Ye felt that it would be useless to continue to entangle with the 100 yuan, so he asked the next question, "Do you know where the ATM machine is nearby?"

"do not know."

Just as Cao Ye was about to speak again, the proprietress ran out of the store in a hurry, her voice was loud, and she arrived before anyone arrived: "Wait a minute? Mr. Zheng is gone, right?"

Cao Ye let out an annoyed "hmm".

The proprietress has been in this business for many years, and her ability to perceive words and emotions has penetrated into every cell of her body. She can easily see that he is not happy to stay here, so she stepped forward and coaxed: "Don't look at the environment on the first floor. So, what I have reserved for you is the best room in our place, you can go up and take a look and you will be satisfied, let's go, you two handsome guys..." Halfway through the conversation, I caught a glimpse of the suitcase lying not far away, "Hey? Is that your suitcase?" As he spoke, he was about to walk over to help him up.

Cao Ye took a step ahead of her, and his emotions were not aroused by the proprietress at all. His voice was still not high-spirited: "It's mine, I'll help it myself." He walked over, bent and held the top of the suitcase. Handle, picked it up and walked up the steps.

The aging wooden stairs creaked and creaked, Cao Ye walked at the front, Liang Sizhe was two steps behind him with the suitcase, the proprietress walked at the end, raised her head and shouted at the two boys: "The third floor, the innermost room. "

The third floor is a hidden guest house with low prices and extremely poor conditions. The people who live here are just looking for a bargain, and some tenants live there for many years.

The corridor is opaque, and is only illuminated by the faint light emitted by the sparse and dim overhead lights. From a glance, the old wooden door looks dark and a little creepy for no reason.

The two trolley boxes rubbed against the artificial marble floor and made a muffled sound. Cao Ye raised his hand to push the door at the end of the corridor, but he didn't push it, and the door was locked.

"I have the key," the proprietress trotted up to catch up, and took out the key from her pocket. "I just cleaned it today," she said, turning the key to open the lock, holding the door handle and pushing it inward, "come in How about a look?"

The room was quite big, facing south, it was almost seven o'clock in the evening, and the room was still bright.Although the furnishings were crude, they were indeed clean and tidy, and were incompatible with the environment downstairs.If you don't open the door and walk in to have a look, no one would have thought that this room would be so spacious and bright, just judging from the condition of the corridor.

Cao Ye stopped at the door, Liang Sizhe walked in sideways, leaned the suitcase against the wall, and walked around the room to look around.There are two double beds covered with clean white sheets, a small TV set is installed on the wall facing the gap in the middle, and a four-leaf lacquered wardrobe that looks a little inferior is stuck to the wall one meter away, next to the window A small wooden square table was placed in the place.Other than that, there are no other decorations in the house.

It's okay, Liang Sizhe thought, it's much better than what he imagined before he just walked in.

But when he raised his head, he met Cao Ye who was standing at the door, and the other party frowned slightly, almost writing the words "what a broken place" on his face.

Cao Ye wanted to speak straight, but the attitude of the proprietress in front of him was too enthusiastic, and he couldn't bear to disappoint him, so he swallowed back the words that were on the tip of his tongue, and changed to a slightly euphemistic way of saying: " Double room? We both live here?"

"Yes," the proprietress smiled apologetically at Cao Xiuyuan's precious young son, "little ancestor, this is the only good room we have here, where can I make a second room like this for you? Don't you believe me? I I will take you to the next door to take a look, the lighting is far from here, and the room is very small, if you are willing to live there alone, I will not stop you."

In fact, it was Zheng Yin who first proposed to arrange them in the same room. He was really afraid that Cao Ye would be a bad example. If Cao Ye took the girl back to the room or even lived together on a whim, he would not be able to explain to Cao Xiuyuan.Let him live in a room with Liang Sizhe, not to mention that Liang Sizhe is not happy to look at him, but this kind of situation of taking the girl back to the room can basically be avoided.

As for the proprietress, of course she didn't lie, Zheng Yin was indeed generous, but her conditions here were indeed limited, and she really couldn't afford a second decent room.Even the current room is a temporary remodel of the original eight-person room with bunk beds.

Cao Ye really went out to the next room to take a look. Just one look, he gave up the idea of ​​living in a single room.

The proprietress is right, the next door is really small, with an area of ​​about [-] square meters, most of the space is occupied by a bed in the middle, and the bathroom in the corner is even more cramped. People should not be able to turn around while taking a bath in it. body.

"Didn't you lie to me?" The proprietress followed behind him, "Knowing that you are all noble people, I specially vacated the best room of ours. I said, little ancestor, you can just make do with it. I'll go downstairs It's time to go, clean up yourselves."

After speaking, he brought Cao Ye out and closed the door.He handed them two more keys, and went downstairs to continue working without any delay.