The Eye of the Storm

Not far away, Liang Sizhe and Wang Haiming had already reached the school gate, and stopped at this moment, waiting for the three people behind to catch up.

The three of them quickened their pace to follow, and when they were still a few meters away, Mu Ke pulled Meng Yangxin's arm, so Meng Yangxin slowed down again.Cao Ye noticed that the two girls had something to say and wanted to avoid him, so he walked over first.

"I don't think we should mention this matter," Mu Ke whispered to Meng Yangxin when Cao Ye came to the front, "Mr. Mo said in our class before that she asked Liang Sizhe if he needed everyone's help. Liang Sizhe only said that he didn't want what happened to him to be the talk of others."

"I think he and Liang Sizhe have a good relationship...otherwise Liang Sizhe wouldn't have brought him here to meet us," Meng Yangxin argued in a low voice, "So he should know even if we don't say it?"

Mu Ke cautiously said: "I think whether Liang Sizhe tells him or not is his own business, let's not talk about it..."

"Okay, listen to you, don't talk anymore." Meng Yangxin finished speaking, glanced at Mu Ke with a smile, and joked, "You like him so much, then go and confess to him, don't miss this opportunity. "

"Forget it, you," Mu Ke blushed quickly, and patted Meng Yangxin's arm, "I'm going to become a big star, what am I?"

"Anyway, you are also a deputy chief, and maybe he needs someone else's company at this time." Meng Yangxin glanced at Liang Sizhe in front of him.

Mu Ke shook his head disapprovingly: "When he was in the hospital, some of our friends wanted to see him, but we all reached the door of the ward. He called the nurse to persuade us to leave. Later, Wang Haiming went to see him by himself. , came back without seeing anyone, Wang Haiming had the best relationship with him before..."

Cao Ye followed the two people in front and approached, Liang Sizhe looked at him and asked, "Why are you walking so slowly?"

The reunion of old friends should be a joyful event, but Liang Sizhe's complexion turned slightly gloomy, and turned into the sharp and indifferent look they had just met.

"Shall we chat for a while?" Cao Ye smiled at him and stood beside him.In fact, he saw that Wang Haiming wanted to talk to Liang Sizhe alone just now, so he walked a few steps slower on purpose, but Liang Sizhe didn't seem to appreciate it.

Liang Sizhe breathed a sigh of relief when Cao Ye followed.Although he knew that Wang Haiming came to ask about his situation out of good intentions, he still couldn't avoid his repulsion.In front of Cao Ye, Wang Haiming should not mention anything related to the car accident again.

Moreover, Cao Ye was walking behind with Mu Ke and Meng Yangxin just now, and he was a little worried, afraid that they would reveal the situation at home to Cao Ye.Mu Ke is also reassuring. Teacher Mo should have mentioned in class that he didn't want others to talk about this matter, but Meng Yangxin, a classmate from another class, may not be so. Ordinary friends who have been in the same symphony orchestra.

Liang Sizhe doesn't want Cao Ye to know everything about him, it has nothing to do with trust, but he extremely rejects all the eyes and emotions about "sympathy" imposed on him by others, and even hates the words related to sympathy that others use on him— ——"Poor", "It's a pity", "It's too miserable", he resisted all of these.

After the incident, he was suddenly extremely sensitive to the emotion of "sympathy", and no emotion could irritate and crush him as quickly as "sympathy".Almost as if he was allergic to this emotion, he doubted whether the original intention of all friends and classmates who knew about this matter to talk to him and help him was out of sympathy.

He even began to use this emotion to divide the people he came into contact with. Zheng Yin said that if he lost the election, he could introduce opportunities for him out of sympathy, while Cao Xiuyuan said that fair competition was not; The reason is that Cao Ye gave him the script because he "wanted to make him happy".

It was hard to imagine that if Cao Ye wanted to make him happy out of sympathy, then he would still be happy.

Or maybe Cao Ye also has such sympathy for himself, but he hides it so well that when he gets along with him, he doesn't care about these details at all...

Liang Sizhe thinks it's not that he doesn't need company, it's just that what he needs is not a person who can accompany him through the difficulties. He needs to overcome the difficulties by himself. A person who can accompany him to forget the past and make him happy.And Cao Ye is the one who can make him happy, maybe not a little bit, he is really happy these days, especially when he came out this morning.

Thinking of the morning, Liang Sizhe wanted to laugh again, so he turned his face and glanced at Cao Ye.

Obviously, he didn't seem to be in a good mood just now, but now the expression on his face suddenly became softer, and there was even a faint smile in his eyes. Cao Ye asked strangely, "What's wrong?"

Liang Sizhe shook his head with a light smile: "No, I just suddenly thought of something in the morning."

"Stop it, stop it," Cao Ye exploded as expected, "It's in broad daylight!"

Wang Haiming also wondered why Liang Sizhe's mood seemed to brighten up suddenly, and asked curiously, "What happened in the morning?"

Liang Sizhe stopped laughing: "It's okay." Seeing the two girls following behind him, he said again, "Let's go, let's go in and look around your school."

The area of ​​Yangyin is small, but it is very distinctively built, and the shadow of music can be seen everywhere.Wang Haiming dutifully acted as a tour guide on the side, introducing their usual practice venues, performance venues and class locations.

"That's the Steinway Garden," Wang Haiming pointed forward, "Can you see the design inspiration?"

"Like a treble note." Cao Ye said from the side.

"Yes," Wang Haiming nodded and smiled, "It's the treble notation in the stave. You also study music?"

Cao Ye smiled at him, but said nothing.

"He's also teasing Xiaoti." Liang Sizhe said for him.

"By the way, when it comes to the violin, Li You came to give a lecture last year." Wang Haiming pointed not far away, "It's in that building."

"Can you invite Li You?" Liang Sizhe glanced in the direction he pointed, "So powerful."

"Yeah, it's a pity that we didn't catch up this year. I heard that Li You even played a solo live at that time."

"Li Youmei?" Cao Ye asked from the side.

"Of course she is beautiful," Wang Haiming said with a smile, "I heard from the seniors who attended the lecture last year that Li You is not only beautiful, but also has a special temperament."

"Oh, that's it." Cao Ye said.

After visiting the school, it was almost evening, and several people sat down in a nearby restaurant. At the beginning, the conversation was all about Liang Sizhe. After all, it was a legendary experience to be personally selected by the great director Cao Xiuyuan.

Meng Yangxin asked with great interest: "He's standing right in front of your house? How did he find your house?"

Liang Sizhe's tone was normal: "The vocal teacher took it with me."

"What about after seeing you? What did he say?"

"Ask me if I want to go back to Beijing with them for a try, and I will come here."

"Wow - it's that simple?"

"Well, so there is nothing legendary," Liang Sizhe took the topic away from himself, "Let's talk about you, what professional courses do you usually have?".

A few people chatted about school affairs, Liang Sizhe ate with his eyes downcast, and occasionally he would look up at the person who was talking when he encountered something interesting.

Cao Ye was not interested in the campus life they were talking about, he secretly glanced at Liang Sizhe from time to time while eating.Although after getting along for this period of time, he was already very familiar with Liang Sizhe, but when Meng Yangxin mentioned it, he couldn't help but search Liang Sizhe for traces of publicity and high spirits.

But can't find it.Liang Sizhe looked unusually calm, and his every move was calm. Compared with the other three students who were full of energy, he was taciturn and even out of place.

On the way, Liang Sizhe got up and went to the bathroom to pay the bill in advance, and the topic of the other people fell on him again.

Meng Yangxin finished drinking the orange juice in front of him, pushed the cup aside, lay down and whispered, "You guys think, will Liang Sizhe be very popular by now next year?"

"It's hard to tell if he is popular, but I think he will be popular." Mu Ke said.

"Then you said that you will win the best newcomer award? Cao Xiuyuan won the last leading role."

"Then I can't say for sure."

"I think it will," Cao Ye added into the discussion, and said with a slight smile, "Maybe we will win Best Actor."

"Haha," Meng Yangxin laughed, "The film king is too difficult."

"The director is Cao Xiuyuan." Cao Ye drank up the ice-cola in front of him, and the straw made a "hohohoh" sound. He pulled out the straw and put it aside and continued, "Cao Xiuyuan's film has produced two movie stars and two Actress."

"I know that Cao Xiuyuan is very good," Meng Yangxin said, "but Xu Mingyue and Qi Sheng are two film kings, one is in his 30s and the other is in his 40s, and their acting skills are very good. Liang Sizhe has never acted in a movie before. .”

"Oh, yes," Wang Haiming, who had never participated in the discussion, sighed and echoed at this time, "And just now Si Zhe told me that there were several rounds of auditions alone, and it has not yet been decided whether he will be the lead actor or not. I said that these big directors are really tormenting people, maybe it will take a year and a half to get in, and in the end the bamboo basket will be empty, and then what he will do will be a problem..."

The mobile phone placed on the table vibrated. Cao Ye looked down and saw a call from Zheng Yin. He picked up the mobile phone and got up to answer it outside the door: "Uncle Yin, what are you doing?"

"Your dad and I were surveying the scene abroad, and there was no signal for a while," Zheng Yin said with a smile on the phone, "What's the matter? Are you finally willing to concentrate on preparing for the role?"

"You're abroad...then when can you come back?"

"It's hard to tell. It will be a week at the earliest. You know how to rush me now. I never saw you in a hurry when I was in China."

Cao Ye exaggerated: "Didn't I suddenly become anxious? Recently, I was so anxious that I couldn't sleep, just like... ants on a hot pot!"

"Tuan Tuan Zhuan, where did you learn all the idioms in elementary school?" Zheng Yin was amused by him, "Okay, then I will let Zhang Minghan talk to you first, he is also trained by a pure newcomer, some experience is for you Should help."

"Then should I call him?"

"Let me tell him," Zheng Yin said patiently, "If you tell him as a child, he may not take it seriously. I will finish talking to him in a while and ask him to call you back. Just wait Already, after he finishes chatting with you, I'll find an assistant director to take you to the crew to talk about it in detail."

"Don't look for that Beijing accent." Cao Ye still remembered the bad things that Beijing accent said about Liang Sizhe outside the door that day.

"Which one?" Zheng Yin responded, "Oh, you said Wu Feng, he is a photographer, so don't look for him... Besides, others are not bad, but sometimes they speak more straightforwardly. From now on, those people will be your seniors. You can’t have such a big prejudice.”

"I just don't want to talk to him."

"Okay, okay, don't talk to him," Zheng Yin smiled along with him, "Children have a temper."

Zheng Yin has always been prudent and prudent in handling affairs, seeing that Cao Ye has finally taken a liking to Xiao Man's role, he arranged things properly in a few words.

Cao Ye hung up the phone with peace of mind. In this world, the first thing he believed in was his mother Li You, and the second one he believed in was Uncle Yin. Ever since he was a child, there was no such thing as Uncle Yin who promised but ended up breaking his word.

Sure enough, after they bid farewell to those classmates, Zhang Minghan quickly called.

At around nine o'clock in the night, people came and went on the sidewalks around the campus. When Cao Ye answered the phone, Zhang Minghan said on the other end of the phone, "Have Xiao Ye eaten yet?"

"Brother Minghan has eaten." Cao Ye said.

Hearing this, Liang Sizhe glanced at him, and once he heard the tone and address, he knew that Cao Ye had started to behave again.Brother Minghan... is it the Zhang Minghan you saw in the audition last time?In the middle of the night, why did Zhang Minghan suddenly find something to do with Cao Ye?

The students on the opposite side came in groups, some of them seemed to be drunk, Cao Ye lowered his head to make a phone call, and when he was about to collide with the person coming from the opposite side, Liang Sizhe raised his arms and walked around his back , grabbed his shoulders and led him to her side.

When the group of people walked over, Liang Sizhe didn't take back his hand, and put it on Cao Ye's shoulder. He didn't have the habit of putting on people's shoulders before, but now he felt quite comfortable.It would be better if Cao Ye was shorter, but it's not bad as it is now.

Cao Ye was different from himself who was "covered with thorns". He obediently let him put his shoulders on his shoulders, and even turned his face and smiled at him during the phone call.

The boy's bones are thin, probably because his joints were pulled too fast, his body is not fully grown, and his arms are even a little tight when he rests on it.

Liang Sizhe was always in a tense state when meeting a few friends from the past. After saying goodbye, walking side by side with Cao Ye on the street, he felt a sense of relief.Even though he knew that no one had any ill intentions towards him, even if he mentioned the past occasionally out of kindness and concern, he still couldn't face them calmly and relaxedly.

But unlike with Cao Ye, he doesn't need to strain himself and be wary of the past that may be mentioned at any time, whether it is glorious or tragic.He can completely relax and get along with Cao Ye, and he doesn't need to hold on to a skin with a proud past - that's really tiring, but he can't let go of his self-esteem in front of others, show his vulnerability, and present a weak and incompetent Liang Sizhe.

There was constant traffic on the road, and after walking for a while, Liang Sizhe waved for an empty taxi on the side of the road.The car quickly stopped beside them, and he withdrew the hand on Cao Ye's shoulder. Just as he was about to open the car door, Cao Ye grabbed his wrist to stop him, then moved the phone away from his ear, and spoke to the probe The taxi driver who came out said, "Uncle, please wait for a while."

"Tonight?" Cao Ye loosened Liang Sizhe's wrist, continued talking to the phone, and said something on the other end of the phone. He nodded and said, "Then I'll go find you in a while."

"Let's go?" The taxi driver came out and urged.

Cao Ye hung up the phone, answered "immediately", then turned to Liang Sizhe and said, "Get in the car, I won't be going back tonight."

Liang Sizhe looked at him in surprise: "Where are you going so suddenly?"

"My friend insisted that I go and play..." Cao Ye raised his hand and scratched his forehead.

"Oh, okay...then you can take this car." Liang Sizhe opened the door for him.

"Sit down, I'll take another taxi." Cao Ye stretched his neck, wanting to search for another empty taxi on the street.

Liang Sizhe looked at him with a half-smile: "Have you brought any money?"

"Ah," Cao Ye turned his face and blinked at him, "I really didn't bring it."

"I knew it," Liang Sizhe raised his hand to hold his shoulder, pushed him into the car with some strength, and then took out 300 yuan from his pocket and handed it to him, "I didn't bring too much when I went out. Is it?"

"Enough," Cao Ye took over, "Are you still enough?"

"That's enough for me, let's go." Liang Sizhe closed the car door.

"Goodbye." Cao Ye pushed down the car window and leaned out to look at him.

His hair was a little messed up by the night wind, Liang Sizhe looked at him, the boy lying by the window looked like a puppy, his eyes looked bright in the night, his furry head made people want to reach out and touch it .

The driver master must have been waiting impatiently, before he stretched out his hand, stepped on the accelerator and walked away.

Liang Sizhe watched the car merge into the traffic, turned around and went to the subway station. The 300 yuan he gave to Cao Ye was the only few large bills left on his body, and the only cash in his hand now was the change when he paid for meals.

On the way to the subway, he thought that he might really be possessed by Zheng Yin, and when he gave Cao Ye the 300 yuan just now, he gave a feeling of being a father... It’s just that raising Cao Ye is too expensive, Liang Sizhe is a little bit I thought with a headache, if this continues, I probably should really think about selling the house.