The Eye of the Storm

Cao Ye stepped on his slippers and went to the bathroom to wash up. Through the half-closed door, Liang Sizhe heard him humming briskly while pouring water inside.

Although Cao Ye seemed to be carefree all the time, it was the first time he saw him so happy.

...Okay, there are more than 4 yuan left in the card, can you always afford an air conditioner?As for the subsequent expenses, let's talk about it later, the road ahead is not necessarily how to go.

Liang Sizhe picked up the script by the bedside, opened it and looked at it. The script had been in his hands several times, and it was only now that he felt at ease.

It's just that although his eyes fell on the script, none of the words on it actually entered his mind.

He couldn't help but think back to the words Cao Xiuyuan said - "Either a rotten idiot, or a blockbuster genius", he didn't think he would be a genius, he never thought about himself before coming to Yinsi Street Will become an actor, even though he has made up a lot of movies these days, he has no idea how to play a role well so far.

But it wouldn't be an indestructible fool, would it?Liang Sizhe couldn't accept that this possibility would have something to do with him.

Genius and stupidity...the two possibilities are too extreme and too contradictory.Even if he played the violin well, Liang Sizhe never claimed to be a genius. He knew that behind this was the result of his hard work day and night. There are very few geniuses in this world, and he never thought he would be one of them.

After Cao Ye finished washing, he came out of the bathroom humming a song. He sat down on the edge of the bed in front of the electric fan, letting the wind blow his wet hair that had just been washed: "Did my dad say when he would ask someone to come and take care of you?" air conditioner?"

Liang Sizhe raised his eyes from the script: "No, it should be just a few days."

"You said he won't forget?"

"No way."

Cao Ye turned his head to look at him, the electric fan was just blowing on his side, blowing his hair up, he looked at Liang Sizhe: "We will have an air conditioner, are you happy?"

"It's okay," Liang Sizhe said, "I'm very happy."

"Not at all."

"That's how I am, I don't show my emotions or anger." In fact, I couldn't be happy at all.

"Hey, you're quite deep," Cao Ye laughed, "Pretending to be cool."

When going to bed at night, Cao Ye still remembered about the air conditioner. After turning off the light, the two lay on their respective beds. Cao Ye said in the dark, "Tell me, can my dad remember to install the air conditioner for us tomorrow?"

"Who knows." Liang Sizhe said with his eyes closed, thinking that if you hadn't pestered me to watch "Midnight Bell" this afternoon, maybe I would have made an appointment for tomorrow's door-to-door air-conditioning installation service.

"If he doesn't come tomorrow, I'll call him." Cao Ye said to himself.

Hearing this, Liang Sizhe opened his eyes suddenly: "..."

"You can't just remember that you have a son and forget it in a blink of an eye..." Cao Ye continued.

"It will come tomorrow," Liang Sizhe closed his eyes and said, "Go to sleep."

The next morning, before Cao Ye woke up, Liang Sizhe took a taxi to the nearby home appliance city and went shopping. There were all kinds of air conditioner brands. He drilled into his ears all at once, making him dizzy.He thought that if it was really Cao Xiuyuan or Zheng Yin who came to buy the air conditioner, they would not be interested in wasting time with the salesperson, just pick the most expensive one, pay and leave...

But the prices of the most expensive models are astonishingly high. If I swipe this card, I am afraid that I will be close to the poor. After a round, he picked a Japanese brand wall-mounted air conditioner, which looks very high-end. The price of [-] is barely acceptable, but I still feel a pain when I swipe my card.

It's not easy to fool Cao Ye. Yesterday, Cao Ye could believe what he said, "Cao Xiuyuan will find someone to install the air conditioner for you", he already found it inconceivable.

Thinking about it, Cao Ye might have been dazzled by this sudden paternal love, otherwise, with his IQ and power of observation, no matter what, it would be impossible for him to get away with it so easily.Just how indifferent Cao Xiuyuan is to Cao Ye in normal times to make him so happy because of an air conditioner...

Home Appliances City delivered the goods to the door. On the way, Liang Sizhe chatted with the driver. After arriving at the Blue Banquet, he asked the master to deliver the air conditioner first. He took a stroll outside and finished his breakfast slowly. He guessed that he was not suspected of going out to buy air conditioners. Then he beckoned and ordered another breakfast to take away, then got up and walked back to Lanyan.

Pushing open the door and entering the room, Cao Ye had already washed up, and was squatting on the ground with his head tilted to look at the outer carton of the air conditioner.

Liang Sizhe walked in: "What are you doing?" His eyes fell on the air conditioner on the ground, "Did your father bring the air conditioner here?"

"Well," Cao Ye replied, looking back at him, looking very happy, "What did you go out for?"

"Woke up from hunger, I went out to have breakfast." Liang Sizhe handed him the breakfast in his hand, paid attention to the expression on his face, and didn't see anything unusual, "I brought you a copy back."

"Thank you Brother Sizhe." Cao Ye said sweetly.

Cao Ye sat at the table and ate the steamed buns, his cheeks puffed up, he swallowed a mouthful and said, "My dad really remembers about the air conditioner."

Liang Sizhe took the script by the bedside and opened it, and asked absently, "Did you say when to come?"

"Say it, the afternoon of the day after tomorrow." Cao Ye said after taking a sip of soy milk.

"En." Liang Sizhe responded.

After the sun went down in the evening, the temperature dropped during the day. After dinner, the two walked around the nearby alleys. When they reached the corner of the street, they met the little white dog. Cao Ye squatted down and fed it with ham sausage, watching While eating it, he reached out and stroked its head: "I also have a dog, which is so big at my grandfather's house." He opened his arms and gestured to Liang Sizhe, who was squatting on the side, "I will bring it here next time." show you."

"What breed?" Liang Sizhe was a little tired from squatting, and stood up on his knees.

"Husky." Cao Ye thought he was going to leave, so he peeled off the remaining sausage and threw it in front of the puppy, then stood up.

"Go in a different direction today?" Liang Sizhe asked.

"Okay."

Compared with the row of smoky food stalls on Yinsi Street, the street is quieter and more deserted. Close to the street is a row of sporting goods stores, grocery wholesale stores and hardware stores. Several stores have closed. Strolling in around the street with nothing to do, the few scattered stores that are still open all have exaggerated neon lights on the door of the store.

A store near the end of the alley was dark and narrow, with "Xiao Ke Record Store" written on the door, but the words "Xiao Ke Cinema" were printed on the light box standing on the side of the street. Cao Ye paused, curiously Looking up to the second floor, he looked at the store: "This place is actually a movie theater?"

Liang Sizhe followed his line of sight and looked up. The curtains on the upstairs windows were drawn, revealing the faint light in the house. He had a bad premonition, thinking that this place probably wasn't a serious movie theater. In the early days, the young boss who was sitting at the door of the shop to enjoy the shade greeted him, "Hey, do you want to watch a movie?"

Before Liang Sizhe could speak, Cao Ye asked with great interest, "What movie?"

"There are all kinds of movies, come in and pick them out?"

"Okay, let's go in and pick it out," Cao Ye said, holding Liang Sizhe's arm and walking in, turning his head to look at him, "Didn't you say that you are almost finished watching those DVDs?"

"It's almost over, but..."

"But what?" Cao Ye pulled him into the store.

"It's okay." Liang Sizhe said, and said in his heart, but I think the "film" the boss said may be different from what you understand...

The boss led them to the display rack where the discs were placed: "Choose whatever you want. If there is nothing that suits your taste, there are still some that have not been taken out."

Standing in front of the display rack, Liang Sizhe breathed a sigh of relief. The boss did not take those "films" outside. Some of the films on the shelf were quite classic, and he saw "Titanic" and "This Killer Is Not So Cold".

"This?" Cao Ye raised his hand and took a plate of "Vulgar" from the top shelf, then turned his face and asked Liang Sizhe, "Do you want to see it?"

"You pick." Liang Sizhe squatted down to look at the rows below, "Just pick the ones you haven't seen."

Liang Sizhe didn't know much about movies, so he took a few classic old movies whose names he had heard before, and put them on the ground beside him. When he was putting "V for Vendetta" over, there was a sound of going down the stairs from the other side of the narrow room. footsteps.

The two people turned their heads to look at the sound. There was a man and a woman coming down the stairs. They were both in their early twenties. The woman was wearing a plain dress with her head lowered, as if she was afraid of seeing people. The man next to her was wearing The floral shirt looks like a street gangster. Seeing the two boys downstairs looking up, they raised their arms flauntingly to embrace the girl next to them, and brought her into his arms.The girl blushed immediately, and muttered something in a low voice, but she still didn't break free from the arm that was holding her.

"Finished?" the boss greeted naturally.

"It's over, the movie is pretty good." The gangster said in a drawn-out tone.

"Is the theater upstairs?" Cao Ye turned around and asked the boss, "Are there any good movies playing now?"

"VIP small hall, you choose it for me, I'll put it in the bottom, you can go up to see it."

A man and a woman just went out, and another couple came in, greeted the boss, and went straight to the Korean movie area at the back, looking like regular customers.

"Shall we go up and watch one?" Cao Ye knelt down and put the selected discs on top of Liang Sizhe's stack. "Anyway, I have to watch movies when I have nothing to do."

"...Do you want to watch it?" Liang Sizhe felt a little embarrassed. The couple who just came down the stairs knew what kind of movie they were watching, but Cao Ye might have been abroad for a long time and didn't understand. Due to the local conditions, this place is really regarded as a screening hall.

... Well, it’s not wrong to talk about the screening room, after all, it depends on what is the freedom of customers.

Just as he was thinking, Cao Ye had already picked up the stack of discs on the floor and started to choose a movie. He picked out one and said, "Is this okay? Johnny Depp's movie should be good."

Liang Sizhe glanced at the title, "From Hell", it looks like a thriller: "Okay, just watch this." There is no rule that no serious movies can be watched here...

The boss didn't seem to care what movie the customer wanted to see, so he took it over and glanced at it: "The movie is two hours long and costs 30 yuan."

The two paid the money, and the boss stuffed the disc into the projector, and waved his back to them: "Go up, wait 5 minutes and play it, go to Hall 3."

The stairs were a bit narrow, and the aisle was opaque. They were only illuminated by a light bulb hanging on the wall. Cao Ye and Liang Sizhe went up the stairs one after the other. When they stood at the door on the second floor, both of them were a little surprised.

Even though he was mentally prepared, Liang Sizhe didn't expect the environment here to be so shabby—a narrow and deep layout similar to the first floor of Lanyan, divided into five closed spaces by partitions, filled with dim light, It's full of hidden and erotic meaning...

"This place is really..." Cao Ye paused, and struggled to find a suitable word, "Special." He walked over and laughed at the simple number "3" on the partition, "Hey Liang Sizhe , Come and take a look, this is Hall 3."

Liang Sizhe walked over, wrote a "3" with chalk on the wooden partition, and drew a circle outside, which is really special...

There was a sound of footsteps on the stairs, and a conversation between a man and a woman—another pair of guests came up.Can this place be soundproofed?Liang Sizhe couldn't help but think this way.

Cao Ye ignored the two people who came up from behind, opened the door and walked in: "It's okay inside."

Those two people looked this way, Liang Sizhe felt a little uncomfortable, and walked in with Cao Ye. There was a white curtain hanging on the front wall of the cubicle, and when he looked up, it was a projection device, which projected a dazzling light blue light. Cold light, a leather double seat is placed near the door.

Cao Ye sat on it and tried it. When the upper body leaned back, the back of the chair automatically lowered, and the support plate below was lifted up, supporting the lower legs resting on the ground, forming a reclining chair.

"Try it, it's quite comfortable."

Cao Ye straightened up and pulled Liang Sizhe's arm. Together with him, the recliner returned to the shape of a seat.

Although he instinctively thought of what might have happened on this reclining chair, seeing Cao Ye's expression of interest, Liang Sizhe suppressed the words of refusal under his tongue, walked over and sat down enduring the discomfort in his heart.

"You lean back." Cao Ye raised his hand and squeezed his shoulder, "Let's put it down together, both of us."

Liang Sizhe followed him, leaning back with his upper body, the support board behind his legs was raised, and the two of them half-lyed on it.

Although it felt a bit strange, the reclining chair under him was quite spacious, and two people would not be close together when lying on it, Liang Sizhe thought it was bearable.The hair tied at the back of his head was a little uncomfortable, and he raised his hand to smooth out the hair tie and put it on his wrist.

At this time, images began to appear on the projection wall. Cao Ye looked up and said, "Are you going to turn off the lights? Where is the switch?" He said as he got off the recliner and searched around the cubicle. to the switch.

"Will it be outside?" Liang Sizhe turned to look at him.

"I'll go out and have a look." Cao Ye opened the door and walked out. After a while, the lights in the cubicle went out, leaving only the light from the film on the projection wall in the room.

"It's really outside." Cao Ye walked into the cubicle and lay down again. After a while, both of them realized that there was something wrong—the light came out of the picture and there was no sound.

"Do I have to wear earphones?" Cao Ye jumped off the recliner again, and looked around the cubicle without seeing the earphones. "The earphones are also outside, right?"

Liang Sizhe also got down from the recliner and searched with him, and finally found two headphones behind the recliner.

After a lot of tossing, the two of them finally lay down on the reclining chair with their headphones on. The opening credits of the movie had already passed. On the screen was a scene of a rock band performing on stage. The voices were loud and noisy, and the chopped performance images mixed with flashing sex scenes appeared alternately.

It is not uncommon for European and American movies to use bed scenes to cut into the main line of the plot, but perhaps the atmosphere in this cubicle is closed and gloomy. Two people squeezed together on a recliner to watch this kind of scene, a subtle embarrassment quickly spread in the cubicle.

More importantly, the scale of this scene is astonishingly large. Just the few explicit shots that flashed at the beginning are enough to classify this film as an [-]-restricted movie.

The scene on the stage was played, followed by another bed scene. Compared with the previous sporadic scenes, this time the bed scene was more coherent and explicit. The interlaced breaths are just right, but... is this really the "From Hell" that Cao Ye just picked?Looking at the picture on the screen, Liang Sizhe couldn't help but have this thought in his mind.

This shot is too explicit...

Why is the bed scene so long?Is it really suitable for the children next to me to watch?

Wouldn't the full nudity be too exaggerated?

Ah, the sex scene is finally over.

Wait, why is there another episode?

And most importantly... what about Johnny Depp?Why is it that the couple is always messing around, but the protagonist has not shown up yet?

Liang Sizhe took off the earphones and hung them around his neck, turned his head to look at Cao Ye, who was concentrating on looking at the picture on the screen, and forgot to eat the ice cream in his hand, and those two amber bead-like eyes were reflected on the screen at this moment The light on it looks slightly bright.That focused and curious expression reminded Liang Sizhe of the scene when he saw Cao Ye for the first time. At that time, he thought that Zheng Yin was going to take him to the Blue Banquet to have sex, and he also had this look on his face.

Actually watching so intently... Hey, this is not what you should watch, kid?Liang Sizhe bowed, raised the arm close to Cao Ye, and covered his eyes with his backhand. Cao Ye instinctively blinked, and Liang Sizhe's palms were itchy with his eyelashes brushing.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Cao Ye laughed softly after realizing it, "Don't block my eyes."

"Films forbidden by the eighteenth century." Liang Sizhe didn't take his hand away, worried that there were people in the next cubicle, he lowered his voice, "How old are you, kid?"

"You're only over eighteen." Cao Ye said with a smile in his voice.

"That's over eighteen, and, the film was misplaced, didn't you notice?"

Cao Ye smiled and clicked his tongue: "I think it's okay to make mistakes." He raised his hand to hold Liang Sizhe's wrist, trying to remove the hand that was covering his eyes.

Liang Sizhe pulled his hand away: "I'm going to find the boss." Just as he was about to get up, a woman screamed from the next door: "Ah—" Liang Sizhe paused, turned his face to the side to listen to the movement next door, Cao Ye also picked up Put off the earphones, "What's wrong?"

A young man yelled angrily from the next door: "Fuck, what kind of crap!" Then came the sound of footsteps, and the man walked up to the stairs and shouted, "Boss, isn't it "Nine Songs" that you're playing?"

"What's wrong?" The boss shouted up from downstairs.

"The opening shot gave my wife a heart attack, are you responsible?!"

"Wait, let me see! Hey, I really misplaced it. I'm sorry, buddy, I misplaced it! Now I will change it back for you!"

The screen went black, Liang Sizhe leaned back on the seat, and Cao Ye whispered next to him: "Hey, don't change it..."

Liang Sizhe glanced at him. Cao Ye was leaning sideways to listen to the movement at the door. The neckline of his T-shirt slid to one side, revealing his clean collarbone, which had a delicate luster in the dark environment.Cao Ye turned his face and smiled at him, showing a row of white teeth: "Hey, I knew we would have chosen that one too!"

After being disturbed by him like this, the original awkward atmosphere in the air disappeared.Liang Sizhe looked back, he thought that Cao Ye was just a kid, what Zheng Yin said in the car that day was right, although this kid didn't have a clue, but in fact he didn't have much experience with this kind of things, so innocent. very.