The Eye of the Storm

The next afternoon, Cao Ye hadn't come back yet. At noon, Liang Sizhe lay down on the bed and took a nap. When the knock on the door sounded, he just felt sleepy.

Hearing the knock on the door, Liang Sizhe's first reaction was that Cao Ye had returned. He sat up from the bed, his hair untied, got out of bed feeling sleepy and walked to the door.I thought I would see Cao Ye standing outside the door when I opened the door, but when I opened the door, there were two old men with vicissitudes standing at the door—it was the master who came to install the air conditioner.

Liang Sizhe let the two masters in, and the proprietress also came up, leaned her head in, leaned on the door frame, and said loudly, "Hey, you need to install the air conditioner!"

Liang Sizhe let out a "hmm".

"You are such a noble man...Why didn't Mr. Zheng tell me?"

The play needs to be a complete set, Liang Sizhe said in a normal tone: "Director Cao asked someone to come and install it."

The proprietress clicked her tongue and said, "The big director is so busy and still finds someone to install the air conditioner. He is very concerned about his son." It was probably the first time she saw Liang Sizhe with loose hair, and the proprietress kept looking at him, "When will you start acting?" movie?"

"I don't know." Liang Sizhe walked to the bed, picked up the hair tie to tie up his hair, sat down and watched the two masters open the cardboard box, and moved out the brand new air conditioner that he had spent a long time picking out.

"Then when you move out, the air conditioner will be given to us for nothing?" the proprietress asked again.

"I don't know either." Liang Sizhe said.

"Where is the great director's son?"

"Go out to play."

"Why didn't you go with me?"

"I don't want to go." Liang Sizhe said casually, touched the phone and lowered his head to type on the keyboard. In fact, there was nothing to type, but he just wanted to put on a gesture that he didn't really want to talk.

"The master is here to install the air conditioner." He typed a line of words in the sending box, paused his fingers when he wanted to send, and deleted the words one by one.

Forget it, I should be back in a while.Liang Sizhe thought.

"Did you quarrel?" the proprietress asked again.

"No." Liang Sizhe said, throwing the phone aside.

The proprietress leaned against the door and watched for a while, seeing that Liang Sizhe was not enthusiastic about talking to her, she got up bored and went downstairs.

Liang Sizhe sat by the bed, looked at the busy master by the window, and thought about what the proprietress said just now——yes, what will happen to the air conditioner after they leave this room?They will always leave Lanyan and this Yinsi Street.

Then let's see who leaves first, Liang Sizhe thought in his heart, if he leaves first, then leave the air conditioner here, it is not realistic to remove the air conditioner in front of Cao Ye, besides, after he left, Cao Ye might I still want to continue living here; if Cao Ye left first, then he would find someone to dismantle the air conditioner and sell it second-hand. After all, it would cost as little as 1 yuan, so it counts as much as he can return...

In the evening, Liang Sizhe went downstairs to have dinner by himself, walked around the alley for a few times, and only half an hour had passed by looking at the time. In the past, after walking around with Cao Ye for a few laps, he would go back to wash up, but today's time seems to be going too far slow.

The alleyway is still the same alleyway, even the faces of the diners have not changed a few, and there are even more customers sitting in the open-air stalls tonight than usual, but it just feels a little deserted.

The little white dog on the street corner came over to sniff his shoes, and it also seemed to feel a little deserted.Cao Ye has always called it "Xiaobai", but in fact it is not white, it looks dusty, and it is the kind of coat that can't be called snow white even if it is washed.

Liang Sizhe looked down at it, and after a while squatted down and touched its head. Xiaobai's hair was relatively short and felt a little hard.

Not as good as Cao Ye's hair.Liang Sizhe soon felt a little funny when this thought came to his mind, how could he compare Cao Ye's head with a puppy's head...

After returning to the house, the cold feeling intensified.The air conditioner installed in the afternoon gently blows cold air into the room, and the room temperature is just right. It should be a comfortable night, but it seems a bit boring at this moment.

How have you been the past few nights?Going downstairs to eat, take a walk, tease the dog, drink soda, climb the roof, watch a movie, read a script... nothing more than these things, before Cao Ye moved in, he was in an orderly way, but now he suddenly feels maladjusted ?

Obviously, I have lived alone for more than a year, which is much longer than the time I lived with Cao Ye...

It's so late, Cao Ye shouldn't be coming back tonight, right?What exactly did Zhang Minghan want with Cao Ye?During the audition last time, I didn't see how familiar they were...at least not to the extent that Cao Ye often mentioned it in front of him.

Liang Sizhe took the script by the bedside and flipped through it page by page. A few nights ago, he and Cao Ye would stop to discuss the content of the script after reading a few pages, so that the reading speed was very slow. The old-fashioned bathhouse discussed all night.That night, Cao Ye found a pen and drew his imagined bathhouse in the blank space of the script. The drawing was quite abstract, not like a bathhouse, but more like a prison where prisoners were held in cartoons.

There are also a few rare characters in the script that Cao Ye marked with pinyin, and the strokes look like elementary school students who have just learned to read. Even the tones are marked carefully, and the crooked characters look cute.

After page 40, there is no more Cao Ye's handwriting. Liang Sizhe didn't get distracted by these details, and continued to read back.Maybe it's because I read too many obscure translations of professional books a while ago, but now I read the script again, and I feel that it is quite smooth and easy to read, and I turned half of it backwards in one night.

On the third day, Cao Ye still did not come back.In the morning, my aunt came over and changed the sheets, quilts and pillowcases of the two beds. The two beds were clean and tidy as if no one had ever lived in them.

After taking a bath at night, sitting on the edge of the bed and brushing his hair, Liang Sizhe reached for his phone and called up Cao Ye's phone number. He thought that something happened to the kid, right?Unexpectedly, there was no news for two consecutive days, and no one called.

Thinking of this, he called Cao Ye.

"Beep" sounded, Liang Sizhe put down the towel, and raised his hand to stroke his half-dried hair.

The phone was connected, and the clamoring sound poured in instantly. The person on the other end said "Hello", the voice sounded a little cold and a little arrogant. Liang Sizhe was very sensitive to voice recognition, and immediately recognized that the person was not Cao Ye.

"Where's Cao Ye?" Liang Sizhe asked.

"Who's calling me?" In the noisy music, a vague young voice came over, this time it was Cao Ye, but the voice sounded a little far away, not next to the phone.

"Liang Sizhe." Said the somewhat cold voice, speaking a little slowly, probably reciting the name on the screen.

"Is that the little beauty?" Someone next to him answered, "Yezi, the little beauty called you?"

"Go away, you little beauty!" Cao Ye cursed from a distance, and then shouted, "Chi Mingyao, throw the phone to me."

"Oh, next," said the man with the phone.

Little beauty... Are you talking about yourself?The corner of Liang Sizhe's mouth twitched slightly, it was the first time he heard someone describe himself like this...begging to be beaten, right?

After a while, Cao Ye answered, "Hello, Liang Sizhe?" This time the voice was closer, and the voice was close to the phone, and the noisy surroundings also weakened, probably because Cao Ye found a quiet place to pick up the phone. Telephone.

"What's the situation with the little beauty?" Liang Sizhe asked.

"Ah...my friend is messing around with me, please ignore him."

"The friend who called me on your cell phone last time?"

"Well, he's a pervert. When he sees a good-looking person, he calls him a little beauty. Don't pay attention to him."

"He hasn't seen me either?"

"Oh... I told him that," Cao Ye saw that the blame was about to be blamed on him, and began to act obediently, "Brother Sizhe, I made a mistake."

Liang Sizhe laughed, and didn't intend to argue with him: "The air conditioner is on, when will you come back?"

"I don't know, they won't let me go, is it cool in the room now?"

"It's pretty cool."

"Do you want to come out and play together?"

As soon as Cao Ye finished speaking, Lin Yan yelled at him again from a long distance away: "Ye Zi, don't keep making phone calls secretly, Chi Mingyao said he wants to see what the little beauty looks like!"

"You want to see it yourself," said another voice.

"I want to see it too!" Another unfamiliar voice joined in.

"Get out!" Cao Ye took the phone away and cursed, and when he put the phone back to his ear, Liang Sizhe said through the receiver, "I'm not going, you can play, hang up."

"Oh..." Cao Ye wanted to say something, but Liang Sizhe quickly hung up the phone.

"Fuck, what a beauty, my friend is angry!" Cao Ye put the phone back into his pocket, and rushed towards Lin Yan angrily.

Liang Sizhe was not angry at all, but after the call, he suddenly felt a little bored.

Cao Ye's voice sounded very happy, Liang Sizhe thought that he had to leave suddenly that night because of some urgent business, but it turned out that he was just in a hurry to go out with other friends.It's understandable when you think about it, there are not many friends who can make me happy, but friends who can make Cao Ye happy are probably everywhere in Beijing.

He suddenly realized that Cao Ye was simply a kind-hearted little dude, and that he was able to easily hand over the script to himself that morning was also one of the manifestations of his dude. For Cao Ye, whether to be an actor or not His father Cao Xiuyuan's movies, these are probably insignificant things.

When he is in a good mood, he wants others to be "happy" with him. Even the reason for giving him the script is "I want to spend a few more days with him in Beijing."

However, he was a little more serious, sinking to the bottom of the valley for too long, and accidentally caught a glimpse of a light, thinking that God specially opened a skylight for him, but he didn't know that this light was always there, but it just leaked into his life by accident.

As for myself, I thought it was just a little pastime in the boring life that Cao Ye was forced to stay on Yinsi Street.After leaving Yinsi Street, Cao Ye will probably forget about me in a few days.

Leaning on the head of the bed and thinking for a while, nothing about what was broadcast on TV had entered into his head. It took Liang Sizhe a while to come back to his senses, and then he felt quite idle again.

——Isn’t that what happens between friends?If they agree, they will come and if they don't, they will go, just like those friends of his before, when they stay in the same class, they get closer, and after they separate, they will gradually become unfamiliar, and then new friends will appear around them.People around you come and go, just like the tides come and go, it is nothing more than a normal thing.

Why did I put it on Cao Ye, I would think so much about what I had, and even start to think about what would happen after I left Yinsi Street... Let it be, Liang Sizhe thought very calmly, even parents and the violin can be in his own Life came to an abrupt end, how long can a boy who broke in halfway stay with me?

After making this phone call, Liang Sizhe's life returned to the way it was before living with Cao Ye. He read professional books on scripts and acting in the morning, watched a movie in the afternoon, and went out for a walk in the evening. Sometimes he would think about the script The scene mentioned in the article, I was thinking about how I should act that scene on the rooftop, and occasionally I would read a few lines aloud to myself.

Life without Cao Ye would be much more boring, but it can be regarded as a return to normal, there is no interesting thing, and there is no opportunity to laugh.Maybe "losing" has become too common in his life. He has lost parents, hobbies, future... No matter how important things are, he has always known calmly in his subconscious mind that he will lose them too soon. For my friend Cao Ye, it’s no big deal to lose everything. Life must go on, whether you want it or not.

When he woke up in the morning of the fourth day, Cao Ye still hadn't come back. Liang Sizhe thought that when he came back next time, Zheng Yin or Cao Xiuyuan would drag him back again.

He began to adapt to this kind of living alone again, and even came up with an idea - it's not bad to live alone like this, always living with Cao Ye, it's very happy to be happy, but people stay in this environment for a long time In the future, it will really gradually weaken. Whether it is returning to Yancheng or staying in Beijing, I am afraid that I will not have the courage to face the wreckage and unknown danger alone.

Liang Sizhe didn't charge his phone anymore. Apart from harassing advertisements, he only answered calls from Cao Ye and Cao Xiuyuan in the past month. The former was called by Cao Ye's friend as a prank half a month ago. Other than that, it was his birthday. Received some congratulatory text messages that day.

Thinking about it, no one would come looking for him. After lunch, Liang Sizhe put his exhausted mobile phone on the table to charge, and he found a movie to watch. The movie was picked by Cao Ye in that screening hall last time. Xie Junhao's "Thirteen Langs of the South China Sea", he remembered that Cao Ye said that Uncle Yin liked this movie very much when he picked it.

Although he didn't have much affection for Zheng Yin, he felt that there should be nothing wrong with Zheng Yin's favorite movies.

Liang Sizhe put the CD into the projector, leaned against the head of the bed and started watching the movie.The film is a story about a down-and-out screenwriter. When Shisan and Tang Disheng reunited, he was engrossed in watching it when he suddenly heard his name being called from downstairs: "Liang Sizhe!"

The obscure atmosphere created by the literary and artistic films disappeared immediately, and the voice was clear and bright, like a handful of ice rain splitting through a sweltering summer, and it was Cao Ye.

……came back?Liang Sizhe got out of the emotional immersion, put the remote control aside and got out of bed. While wearing slippers, he yelled again from downstairs, louder than last time: "Liang Sizhe!"

When he walked to the window, he called out again, this time the voice was drawn out: "Liang—Si—Zhe!"

What's the rush... Liang Sizhe thought, but his mood seemed to get better for no reason.

Walking to the window, he raised his hand to open the window, and leaned out to look downstairs. Cao Ye was sitting in a black car with the window open, and he was sticking his head out to look at their room upstairs.

"What's your name Hun'er?" Liang Sizhe asked with his arms lying on the window sill, leaning over and looking out of the window.

"Aren't you sleeping?" Cao Ye said, a husky's head squeezed out from the same car window, and looked upstairs with him, "Why do you turn off your phone?"

"No, I'm watching a movie, and my phone is out of battery..." The two furry heads were very funny together, and this scene made Liang Sizhe laugh, "Did you bring the dog?"

"Well," Cao Ye pushed open the car door, got off the station and waved to him on the ground, "I specially brought it here from my grandfather's house, come down quickly, I have something nice for you to see."

"What?" Liang Sizhe asked.

"You'll know when you get off—" Cao Ye walked around to the back of the car to open the trunk.

Liang Sizhe straightened up, closed the window, went to the door and changed his shoes, then opened the door and walked out quickly, thumped down a few flights of stairs, walked to the corner where there were only one flight of stairs left, and got out of the car At this time, Cao Ye also stepped on the stairs at the door and strode to the threshold.

It was the hottest time at noon, when the door was pushed open, the sunlight that was originally blocked behind the door suddenly poured on the ground. Cao Ye was wearing a white T-shirt and gray plaid shorts, standing in the light of the door, his hair was short A little bit, as if it had been trimmed not long ago, and it looked extraordinarily crisp.

Liang Sizhe was very familiar with the piece of violin case protruding from the ribs on his back——Cao Ye came over with the violin on his back.

The husky he was holding by his left hand barked at Liang Sizhe. The tall boy stood with the half-human tall dog, and at first glance he really looked a little majestic.

Standing at the door, he seemed to have been painted with a layer of gold by the warm afternoon sun, and Lan Yan's lifeless and bleak first-floor hall seemed to be illuminated instantly.

It was quite lively, Liang Sizhe stood at the corner of the stairs and looked at him, thinking that it would be better to be more lively.