The Eye of the Storm

Neither of them was hungry at night, and it was a little late to go downstairs for dinner. Before going out, Liang Sizhe opened the suitcase, took out another bank card from the mezzanine and held it in his hand.

"I'll go get some money first." Liang Sizhe stood up, put the suitcase together and stood by the wall.

Cao Ye also jumped off the bed and put on his shoes, "I'll go with you."

The ATM machine was facing the street, and the two of them walked there slowly, and it took more than ten minutes to walk one kilometer.

Liang Sizhe stood in front of the machine and inserted the card, and looked at the balance in the card. This was the only card he had left that had not been maxed out, and it was also the card with the most balance. There were still more than 4 yuan in it. .Liang Sizhe stared at the number for a while, then lowered his eyes and thought for a while, and took out 2000 yuan.

He rolled up the wad of money and held it in his hand, turned around and said to Cao Ye, "Okay, let's go."

"I want to take it too," Cao Ye waved the card in his hand at him, "wait for me."

Liang Sizhe looked at the card in his hand, and recognized at a glance that it was the one that caused him to toss back and forth for more than two hours the night before, wondering if this card could really withdraw money...

Sure enough, Cao Ye stood at the ATM machine, pressed a few buttons, turned around and waved to Liang Sizhe in disbelief: "Liang Sizhe, come and see!"

Liang Sizhe knew what was going on just by looking at his expression, but he still walked over cooperatively. Cao Ye pulled him to look at the balance displayed on the screen, and said in disbelief: "Can you believe it? A card!"

Liang Sizhe raised his eyebrows slightly: "Well, we can really eat."

Cao Ye looked rejoicing: "Thanks for not ordering more, otherwise we would not be able to pay for the meal."

"That's right." Liang Sizhe said.

"It's too risky, there's only 100 yuan left..." Cao Ye was terrified.

Liang Sizhe raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder without changing his face, thinking that you were already very dangerous when you bought that pair of jeans.

On the way back, Cao Ye called Zheng Yin and said, Uncle Yin, you are too picky, the card you gave me was only enough to buy a pair of jeans and a meal!

Zheng Yin was probably a little surprised on the other end of the phone, and immediately asked him a few questions.

While Cao Ye was on the phone with Zheng Yin, Liang Sizhe was doing calculations in his head, wondering how long the 4 yuan balance on his bank card could support him.

Going back to Yancheng to finish high school, is the university tuition enough?If it is not enough, I can only borrow it everywhere, but I don’t know if I can borrow it. It should be easy to say when I go to college. I can earn money while working, and I should be able to support myself...

After he got out of the depressed emotions last night, he suddenly found that there was not much time left in life for him to be sad. He was faced with too many practical problems to solve. One night, it seemed to be quite far away from him. He had already started to worry about the tuition and living expenses, not to mention the make-up classes and the college entrance examination...

The past year has been muddled, he nestled in his cave as if time stood still, but now he is suddenly forced to wake up, and suddenly finds that the wasted time is passing fast like revenge, so that many things seem to have no time to proceed in an orderly manner to face.

Leaving the cave and standing in front of the devastated life, he is like a wild animal that has been domesticated for a long time in a zoo and is suddenly released. Facing the ever-changing and dangerous wilderness, he is at a loss as to what to do.

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The room was stuffy and noisy, and at night the two climbed to the roof. Liang Sizhe didn't want to carry the guitar before climbing up, but Cao Ye took it out and carried it on his own.

"Let me do it." Liang Sizhe said, reached out and took the guitar off Cao Ye's back, holding the neck of the guitar in his hand.After going through the previous episode, he now looks at Cao Ye as if he were his own younger brother—although he doesn't have a younger brother, but if he imagined that he had a younger brother, it would be best if he looked like Cao Ye, innocent, simple, and innocent. Carefree.

Cao Ye is more than two years younger than him. Liang Sizhe only treated him as a friend of the same age when he was not considered a younger brother. So he started to give way to him everywhere - although this kid didn't bother to call him brother except when he was pretending to be good.

"You go first," Liang Sizhe put the guitar on the windowsill, "I'll close the window behind."

"Oh, good." Cao Ye responded, reached out and grabbed the window frame, raised one leg and pressed it against the window sill.

"Hold on firmly." Liang Sizhe warned.

In the process of climbing up to the roof, Liang Sizhe looked up at Cao Ye from time to time. Cao Ye climbed much faster than before, and his two long legs were both precise and steady, and he climbed up in a short while.Seeing him on the roof, Liang Sizhe breathed a sigh of relief, grabbed the drainage pipe next to him with his fingers, lowered his eyes and began to concentrate on climbing up.

Climbing to the fifth floor, he looked up, and was about to stretch out his hand to grab the edge of the roof, when Cao Ye poked his head out, leaned on the edge of the roof, looked down, and stretched out a hand towards him, although Liang Sizhe could easily climb up, and It was not necessary to borrow strength, but he still held Cao Ye's hand and let the other force pull him up.

Climbing up to the rooftop, Liang Sizhe took off the guitar on his back and handed it to Cao Ye. Cao Ye held the guitar and fiddled with it. He kept playing the song "Little Star". He could only sing the first four lines, playing and singing over and over again. Once again, enjoy yourself without being bored.

"Didn't you bring your violin back?" Liang Sizhe turned to look at him.

Cao Ye stopped playing the guitar: "I have it, but I didn't bring it at home. Do you want to play the violin?"

"No," Liang Sizhe smiled, "I'm a little curious about how you play the violin."

"Hey, I'm not good at pulling." Cao Ye was a little embarrassed, "You must know it at a glance."

"Do you know that I must pull well?"

"I think you should be able to pull well." Cao Ye thought for a while and said.

Liang Sizhe smiled. In fact, he was really good at playing the violin before, and he has never been humble in this respect.

Cao Ye leaned over with the guitar in his arms, and stuffed the guitar into Liang Sizhe's arms: "I taught you how to play "Little Star" last time, but it hasn't been fulfilled yet."

"Aren't you hungry again?" Liang Sizhe joked at him.

"No, it was an accident that day," Cao Ye raised his hand and scratched his forehead, "This time it's a real lesson... Do you know the score?" He squatted to Liang Sizhe's left, holding the string with his left hand to demonstrate to him, softly Humming the score: "dodosososo, fafamimirredo..."

Of course, Liang Sizhe could play "Little Star". He had memorized the piece by heart before he was two years old. So when Cao Ye pressed the strings with his left hand to demonstrate to him, he plucked the strings with his right hand, and the acoustic guitar immediately rang out. The crisp musical sound was like the invisible gurgling water under the moonlight. He followed in a low voice the four lines that Cao Ye had been repeating just now, and continued to sing:

"wraveller in the dark,

Thanks you for your tiny spark,

He could not see which way to go,

If you did not twinkleso."

When Cao Ye first sang, he looked at Liang Sizhe in surprise, Liang Sizhe lowered his eyes and plucked the strings, but did not meet his gaze.Cao Ye did not disturb the atmosphere very well, and continued to press the strings with his left hand. He stopped pressing the strings when Liang Sizhe stopped after singing four lines.

"Hey, don't you sing really well!" Cao Ye was pleasantly surprised, his eyes looked bright, and he could find traces of the stars above his head and the clouds in the sky.

"It's okay," Liang Sizhe said with a smile, "Can you earn enough money for a meal?"

"Yes, what do you want to eat?" Hearing the joke in his tone, Cao Ye joked back, "May I treat you to a good meal?"

"Forget it," Liang Sizhe said with a smile, "don't lie to me."

Cao Ye also laughed, and said: "So the last few lines were sung like this, I have completely forgotten." He recalled the lyrics Liang Sizhe sang just now, and sang it a cappella in a low voice.

In the middle of the night, the voices and singing downstairs quickly quieted down like an ebb tide. After climbing down from the roof, the two took a bath one after another, and each climbed into their own beds to lie down and sleep.

Liang Sizhe came out of the bathroom, went to the door and turned off the light, and then drew the curtains tightly. The room was pitch black, and the electric fan was humming to send air to the two beds. He walked to his bed in the dark.Cao Ye lay down first after taking a shower, and Liang Sizhe reckoned that he was almost asleep by now.

Xu Shi heard the movement, and Cao Ye turned over rustlingly, turned his face to Liang Sizhe's side, and called him in a daze, "Liang Sizhe."

Liang Sizhe was lightly taking off his shoes and going to bed, when he heard this, he paused, and asked in a low voice, "Are you still asleep?"

"Falling asleep..." Cao Ye's voice was full of sleepiness, "Good night."

"Good night." Liang Sizhe said softly.

After saying this, he didn't go to bed immediately, but sat on the edge of the bed and looked at the sleeping boy on the opposite bed.He suddenly felt that a certain part of his heart seemed to be soft at this moment, as soft as Cao Ye's voice when he said "good night".

He hasn't felt this way for a long time. Soft heart has always been accompanied by weakness, and he has always known that he can't let himself be weak.But a certain part of the heart is still involuntarily sinking softly at this moment, making him feel the feeling that the invincible heart can't feel.

It felt a little sour and astringent, and mixed with a little sweetness. He felt his heart wrinkled and turned into a bitter pomelo with a rough skin and a plump and juicy inside. The juice of the bitter pomelo was squeezed with every heartbeat. Come out, and then flow slowly through his limbs along every blood vessel and every nerve ending in the body.

When he was lying down, Liang Sizhe felt that he was in a good mood. It was not the kind of good that everything was resolved and he was relaxed. Put your head behind your back and let your mind go to enjoy the goodness of the moment.

He suddenly felt that maybe he wasn't that eager to go back to Rock City. Maybe while persuading himself to stay with Cao Ye for a while, subconsciously he also hoped that Cao Ye could stay with him for a few more days.After all, after returning to Yancheng, he will have to worry about transferring to another school for himself, and facing the unfamiliar environment and unknown future alone, this feeling is still quite disturbing.

The next morning, Liang Sizhe was woken up by the ringtone of the incoming call. With his eyes closed, he reached for the cell phone next to his pillow and held it in front of him. He opened his eyes reluctantly and glanced at it. A series of unfamiliar numbers were displayed on the screen. Liang Sizhe frowned slightly. Thinking it was probably another harassing call, but still endured the drowsiness and pressed the connect button to put the phone to his ear.

The voice of the person on the phone was low and steady, that of an adult man, and he said straight to the point: "Sizhe, come out."

This voice woke Liang Sizhe up immediately, he immediately opened his eyes completely sleepy, and sat up from the bed: "...Director Cao?"

"Yes, there is an old Du noodle restaurant on the corner of the street. I will sit outside and wait for you." Cao Xiuyuan said on the phone.

"Oh, good," Liang Sizhe replied, and then glanced at Cao Ye who was sleeping soundly on the other bed, "Do you want to call Cao Ye?"

"No, you come here alone."

After hanging up the phone, Liang Sizhe turned over in a hurry and got out of bed, tied up his hair casually, and then went to the bathroom with his slippers on to wash up quickly. When he came out, Cao Ye was still fast asleep, showing no signs of being woken up by the phone call just now.

Liang Sizhe found a clean T-shirt to change into, put on his shoes, and went out with his mobile phone.When he went downstairs, he couldn't help guessing why Cao Xiuyuan came to find him in person suddenly, obviously he said before that Zheng Yin would come to inform him if there was any news.

He recalled the audition that day, Cao Xiuyuan sat behind the monitor, frowning and shaking his head at the screen.Could it be that Cao Xiuyuan came to see him for a showdown? ——Told him personally that he was taken to Beijing at that time because he had misjudged himself.

The road from Lan Yan to Lao Du Noodle House is more than 200 meters in total. When Cao Ye was carried back that night, the road seemed so long that it was unbelievably long, but now it is so short that it can be walked in just a few steps.

Walking along the way was extremely uneasy, although he had already made mental preparations these two days, convincing himself that he should wake up from this movie dream that did not belong to him, but now when he really had to face this result, he still had no way to avoid it Avoiding to fall into the struggling mood of "can you not wake me up".

From a distance of more than ten meters, he saw Cao Xiuyuan sitting in front of Lao Du's noodle shop. Cao Xiuyuan was sitting at an open-air booth, with the same serious expression on his face and the same scrutinizing eyes from the night before he came to Beijing.This gaze made Liang Sizhe feel that there was nowhere to hide his fragility, but he couldn't make his steps look stronger and more free and easy. Perhaps what Zheng Yin said was right, he was not suitable to be an actor.

Do you have to be in such a hurry?Liang Sizhe's footsteps involuntarily slowed down. After the showdown, he had to leave this alley, right?Zheng Yin said that he could stay here for a longer period of time, but Cao Xiuyuan didn't necessarily think so. Why would Liang Sizhe, who has nothing to do with Xiao Man, stay in the place that belongs to Xiao Man and refuse to leave?

When he walked in front of Cao Xiuyuan, Liang Sizhe managed to calm down a bit. His stress response always came in a timely manner, and the emotion of "let's do it this way" was well-timed in his heart, making a poor example of his fragility and uneasiness. block.Let's just leave Yinsi Street, say goodbye to Cao Ye, and then return to the established life track. He should remember this derailment experience for a long time.