The Eye of the Storm

Liang Sizhe finished washing Xiaobai, hung the shower on the wall, and asked Cao Ye, "Have you read the first edition of the film?"

"Not yet." Cao Ye said.

"Watch it together later?" Liang Sizhe took a towel and wiped Xiao Xiaobai's body with a towel, "I have a screening room upstairs."

"Oh, all right."

The buzzing sound of the hair dryer sounded, Liang Sizhe looked up at him: "Your father and Uncle Yin have returned to China, do you know?"

Cao Ye pretended not to hear the noise of the hair dryer: "Huh?"

Liang Sizhe smiled, shook his head, and said nothing more.

Cao Ye had an inexplicable feeling that Liang Sizhe seemed to wait for the hair dryer to be turned on before asking this question, so that both sides had room to give in.

After a while, Liang Sizhe stood up, put away the hair dryer, and then patted Xiaobai on the head: "It's almost there, go there by yourself."

Xiao Xiaobai didn't move, he stuck out his tongue and wagged his tail at him, and leaned towards him with a whimper, his appearance really resembled that of Caesar back then.

Liang Sizhe led it into the drying box, then stood in front of the sofa, raised his arms, took off the splashed T-shirt from his head, threw it aside, picked up another clean one and put it on.

When he took off his clothes, he stretched the well-defined back muscles. Cao Ye inexplicably thought of the words Cao Yuning said - "His figure in Wangchuan is simply my heavenly dish!" Liang Sizhe used to remember He has a good figure, and when he changed his clothes after taking a shower, he could see a layer of tight back muscles covering the bones, which looked quite beautiful when stretched, and I was very envious at the time when I was 15 years old.

What was the filming of "The River of Wangchuan"?All he knew was that it was a film about homosexuality, but he never thought of going to see it. At that time, Wang Chuan was showing abroad, and Lin Yan asked him to go to the premiere together. Cao Ye said nothing, and since that time Then Lin Yan began to make jokes about his homophobia every now and then.

"Let's go upstairs to the screening room." Liang Sizhe changed his clothes and took Cao Ye upstairs.

The living traces on the second floor are more obvious than those on the first floor. The projection room is at the innermost, about the size of two master bedrooms, almost equivalent to a small theater.Like the study downstairs, the projection room has a gray plush carpet, and you have to take off your shoes before entering.

Liang Sizhe went in, first turned on the ventilation system in the room, then went to the window and closed the folding door, and pulled the black shade curtain tightly, all the light was immediately blocked out, not even a trace of light could leak in, the room was suddenly dark down.

The darkness came too suddenly, before his eyes had time to adapt, Cao Ye felt that there was a sudden darkness in front of him, and then he heard Liang Sizhe call his name: "Cao Ye." I don't know if it is because the eyes can't see, and the hearing seems to be more sensitive than usual Some, Cao Ye felt that Liang Sizhe's voice sounded a little heavy, as if it was slightly different from the usual name.

"Huh?" He responded.

"Turn on the wall lamp, the switch is behind you." Liang Sizhe said. .

"Oh, good." Cao Ye didn't turn around, he raised his hand and fumbled for the switch on the wall behind him, but couldn't find it, so he whispered, "Where is it..."

"Behind you," Liang Sizhe said, "haven't found it yet?"

The voice was on the other side of the room just now, but now it was so close to his ears, Cao Ye was almost startled: "Why didn't you make any movement when you walked over..."

He waited for Liang Sizhe's next sentence, but Liang Sizhe didn't answer.

Silence spread, and Cao Ye suddenly felt that the room was uncomfortably quiet.

They could almost hear each other's slight breathing, and then he seemed to hear his own heartbeat, hitting his chest forcefully, and the sound seemed to be getting louder.

This moment of silence allowed his eyes to adapt to the darkness, and he could vaguely see the outline of Liang Sizhe in front of him.

He felt that Liang Sizhe seemed to move a little, turning his head slightly, as if he wanted to get closer to him.

His heart skipped a beat suddenly, he instinctively took a step back, half a step away from the wall, his back hit the wall heavily.The switch is directly behind, and with a soft "snap", the light comes on.

The glaring light from the overhead light made him squint his eyes.

When he opened his eyes and looked over, Liang Sizhe was still standing where he was, and also closed his eyes for a while. Then he raised his eyes to look at him, and said calmly, "You drove wrong." He stepped forward and walked to Cao Ye, raised his hand to close the The switch on one side said, "The ceiling light is too bright." The incandescent ceiling light went out, leaving only a wall lamp attached to the wall, emitting a warm yellow shimmer.

"Oh... I didn't pay attention." Cao Ye raised his hand and rubbed the bridge of his nose.

So Liang Sizhe just wanted to lean over and turn on the light?How could he have thought that Liang Sizhe was going to turn his head to kiss him at that moment?He also took a step back abruptly, thinking about something... It was a bit embarrassing.

"Film." Liang Sizhe stretched out his hand towards him.

Cao Ye handed him the hard drive in his hand, Liang Sizhe took it, turned around and walked to the table next to him, bowed down and lifted up the laptop screen, the computer screen then lit up, and the screen stayed on the player interface, it should be the last playback content.

But the picture was blurry, off-white, and looked a bit strange. Before Cao Ye could see it clearly, Liang Sizhe closed the interface with his mouse.

The embarrassment just now has not been relieved, Cao Ye asked without words: "What are you looking at?"

"Any movie you can find." Liang Sizhe connected the hard drive to the computer.

"What movie?"

"Forgot, I watched it before joining the group."

"Oh."

Liang Sizhe found out the video file of "The Darkest Choice", dragged it to the player, and turned on the projector.

There are two bean bag lazy sofas against the wall, which are very comfortable to lean on.Just as Cao Ye was about to sit down, he got up again and said, "Do you want to call Xiaobai up?" He said he wanted to go outside, "I'll go downstairs and call him."

"You don't need to go downstairs," Liang Sizhe said, "I'll go." He walked to the door and opened it, leaned out and blew a whistle, and Xiao Xiaobai downstairs immediately responded with a "bark" and ran away after a while went upstairs.

Liang Sizhe has been filming in other places all the year round, especially Cao Xiuyuan's filming takes a very long period of time, one year or two is common, he may not be with Xiao Xiaobai for more than half of the time in the past ten years, Cao Ye is a little surprised Liang Sizhe To be able to cultivate such a tacit understanding with Xiao Xiaobai.

When Xiaobai entered the house, Cao Ye also whistled at it. Xiaobai immediately ran over, stopped in front of Cao Ye, and asked him for his tail. "So cute." Cao Ye rubbed its neck.

The film has already started to play. At the beginning, there is a picture of Qin Nanming in the casino, and the noisy background sounds. From the first cut of the film to the first cut of the reshoot, Cao Ye watched it no less than five times, and even memorized the lines. He didn't look up to watch the movie, he just focused on teasing Xiao Xiaobai.

Liang Sizhe went out to the refrigerator next door to get a box of ice cream, walked over and handed it to Cao Ye: "I knew you would come over this afternoon, so I asked Song Qingyan to buy it."

It was as if he was coaxing himself to be a child. Cao Ye didn't take the ice cream and looked up at him: "You treat me like a child and buy ice cream. I'm not that childish. You can eat it."

"Really?" Liang Sizhe looked at him and smiled, "I sent you home that day, when I was looking for milk, I saw a whole layer of ice cream in your refrigerator, so I thought you liked it, so I guessed wrong?"

Cao Ye was caught off guard by this slap in the face, he stopped and said bluntly, "Those...that's for entertaining friends."

"Oh," Liang Sizhe laughed without exposing him. "That's my guess." He put the ice cream between the two of them, "Here it is, you can eat it if you want."—clearly did not believe what Cao Ye said.

Cao Ye lowered his head and continued to tease Xiao Xiaobai. The title of the film came out, and the four characters with great visual impact hit the audience's eyes straight, and then exploded into broken glass that filled the screen. , glass shards fell all over the floor, and Dao Scar, who was drunk, sat in a corner of the casino, squinting at the young man in the middle of the casino who was throwing a lot of money.

"Who is that person?" He raised his chin in that direction.

As soon as Liang Sizhe's voice came out, Cao Ye stopped teasing the dog and looked up at the screen.Liang Sizhe's face was hidden in the dim light, and when he moved, the light also flowed slowly, caressing the hideous scar on his face.

"That one...is the youngest son of Mr. Qin Zhongxian," the person next to him leaned over and said, "Qin Nanming, the son of Mrs. Sifang."

"How much did you lose tonight?"

"I'll check it out for you." The man said and got up, and Scar lit a cigarette and smoked it. Through the white smoke, he stared at Qin Nanming from a long distance, as if staring at a prey waiting to be caught. .

Cao Ye turned his head and glanced at Liang Sizhe, wanting to know what he looked like when he was watching his film, but he saw Liang Sizhe leaning on the sofa with his eyes closed, not watching the film at all.

"You don't want to watch?" Cao Ye asked.

"I've read the previous edition."

"This version was played by you yourself."

"Well," Liang Sizhe said with his eyes closed, "I seldom watch the films I act in."

The light on the screen reflected on his face, obviously it was also a dim and flowing light, but it looked very different from the Scar he played.

"Then you just said to watch together?"

"Is this not watching with you?" Liang Sizhe opened his eyes and looked at him.

Cao Ye moved away the gaze that fell on his face, and continued to look at the screen, "Watch together" and "Watch with you"... At first it sounds like the same thing, but Liang Sizhe has this kind of feeling that makes him wonder How to answer the phone.

Probably because other people's scenes have been watched many times, so only when Liang Sizhe appeared, Cao Ye could calm down and watch for a while, and was always distracted at other times.

It was unbelievable, but this was the first time he watched Liang Sizhe's movie.In the film circle, he may be the only one.

After watching it, I realized why Liang Sizhe has been sought after by the industry to his current status. Even if it is a supplementary filming, the scenes involving him are not at all abrupt. Subtle difference and specialness - this inconspicuous subtlety is the "grainy and delicate" in Zeng Ran's mouth, also called texture.

How could someone say "Liang Sizhe is nothing without Cao Xiuyuan"?Cao Ye thought that this film might let them see that Cao Xiuyuan has indeed made Liang Sizhe, but Liang Sizhe without Cao Xiuyuan is still Liang Sizhe.

Cao Ye took the box of ice cream that Liang Sizhe put on the carpet, and opened the lid. The edges of the ice cream melted a little, and a small piece could be easily scooped out with a spoon.

He glanced at Liang Sizhe, Liang Sizhe seemed to be asleep and didn't pay attention to his movements.

Cao Ye put the scoop of ice cream he dug out into his mouth, and had to admit that he really liked ice cream, especially the box Liang Sizhe brought over was his favorite brand and flavor.Many of my habits and preferences changed when I was young, but probably because I was afraid of heat all the time since I was a child, this somewhat childish preference has always been retained.

Leaning on the sofa and eating ice cream with a fluffy little white nestled next to him, Cao Ye felt that this seemed more comfortable than a small cinema.

After the film was released, the police dispatched, and they searched through surveillance street by street, looking for traces of the missing Qin Nanming.

Cao Ye looked at the monitoring screen on the screen, and the video interface that appeared on the screen when Liang Sizhe just turned on the computer flashed in his mind.

The gray-and-white picture, and the angle of view from above, was slightly blurred. At that moment, he only felt that the picture was a bit strange, but now that he thought about it again, he suddenly understood where the strangeness was - the picture was not like an old black-and-white film, but like It is the monitoring screen.

But, why would Liang Sizhe watch the surveillance screen at home?Could it be the anti-tracking monitoring at the door of the house?

If the surveillance at the door of the house didn't just admit it, why did they lie and say it was a "random movie"?What's more, the surveillance screen didn't seem like the one in front of Liang Sizhe's house. Cao Ye thought about it, and there seemed to be a closed elevator door on the screen.

Cao Ye's curiosity was fully aroused when he thought of Liang Sizhe watching the surveillance screen at home and telling a lie.

Even though he has reconciled with Liang Sizhe now, he still feels that there are many mysteries hidden in Liang Sizhe.

Thinking about it again, what Liang Sizhe said just now seems to have loopholes - if it is a film I watched before joining the group, it is normal to forget the title of the film. After all, it has been more than a month, but even the title of the film has been forgotten. Is it a "random film"?

After speculating, Cao Ye felt a little bored. Maybe Liang Sizhe was just watching adult movies at home. After all, there are some romantic action movies with dramas, and he really likes to engage in plots such as elevator py... Thinking about it like this, Cao Ye wondered Laughing, let’s go back and forth, actor Liang Sizhe was watching an adult movie at home, was broken by a friend, closed the interface in a hurry, and found an excuse to prevaricate, this causal relationship seems to make sense.

Just as Cao Ye was thinking about it, Liang Sizhe's cell phone vibrated, and he glanced at it, his eyes froze - the message was sent by Zheng Yin: "Sizhe, do you have time at eight o'clock in the evening?"

Tonight at [-] o'clock... Do you want to ask Liang Sizhe to go out and talk about film appointments?Cao Ye thought as he stared at the screen of the phone that quickly went dark.

If Liang Sizhe's cell phone is thrown out now, he shouldn't be able to see the message from Zheng Yin, right?This thought appeared in Cao Ye's mind, and then he felt a little absurd, thinking that after so many years, he still didn't give up the idea of ​​pulling Liang Sizhe into the same camp.He laughed at himself, then ate a mouthful of ice cream, raised his eyes and continued watching the film.

The film reached its climax, the scene of Scar racing with the police, and the fighting scene shot by Liang Sizhe on a rainy night that night. Although no special effects were added, the whole process was thrilling enough. It looks fierce and beautiful.

Probably woken up by the piercing police siren in the background, Liang Sizhe moved aside, sat up straighter, and woke up.

He watched the movie for a while, then took the phone, Cao Ye caught a glimpse of him typing on the screen from the corner of his eye, he should be replying a message to Zheng Yin.

In the remaining 10 minutes of the climax scene, Liang Sizhe spent most of the time looking up at the film, bowing his head to reply to a message from time to time.

The subtitles began to roll at the end of the film, and Liang Sizhe's message hadn't finished yet, Cao Ye stood up with the carpet on his shoulders and said, "It's over, I'm going back."

"Leave now?" Liang Sizhe looked up at him, then put the phone on the carpet and stood up.

"Well, the company still has things to deal with." Cao Ye bent down and touched Xiao Xiaobai who was still sleeping, then got up and left the room.

"What project will Luo Meng start?" Liang Sizhe asked when he went downstairs.

"Business secrets, do you want to inquire about the news?" Cao Ye turned his face to look at him.

"Yeah, let's see if there are any suitable movies."

"I heard that big directors like Song Kai, Fan Zequn, and Yue Keqi are all interested in asking you out. How could you be short of acting?"

"The film of a great director may not be suitable, so Lin Min will be rejected by you?"

"Not all of them are suitable, but it's impossible for all of them to be inappropriate... To take a step back, if all of them are inappropriate," Cao Ye went down the stairs, stopped, and turned to face Liang Sizhe, "Cao Xiuyuan's film always Will it fit?"

They looked at each other for a moment, and Cao Ye thought that he still couldn't hold back the words. After so many years, he was still brooding over that matter. He just minded that Liang Sizhe didn't stand with him back then.

Liang Sizhe stared at him for a while, and then said, "Cao Ye, you came here last night, didn't you come here specially to find me to send the film?"

Cao Ye turned his face away and didn't respond.

"I think you've come twice, so you should tell your real purpose, otherwise you'd like to come a few more times, right? I don't mind if you come here often... It's just that the "Try One More Word" When are you going to delay starting?"

Hearing that Cao Ye looked at him suddenly——Liang Sizhe already knew the real purpose of his visit last night?

"I'm curious how I know?" Liang Sizhe smiled. "The time you came was just when your father was photographed leaving the terminal by the media. I can still guess the causal connection. As for the film Well... I asked Cheng Duan."

"Okay, now that you know," Cao Ye thought, thinking it's time to say it. Five years ago, Cao Ye had nothing. At that time, it was wise for Liang Sizhe not to go with him, but now he has Luo. Meng, formed a reliable team, chose a solid script, why can't he compete with Cao Xiuyuan again?

"Then I won't hide it anymore. I came here last night and really wanted to invite you to star in "Try One More Word". Don't rush to give me an answer. I'll tell you the reason why I invited you first."

"Okay," Liang Sizhe looked at him, "tell me."

"You know the role of A Peng after reading the script. He is an underground boxer and the father of a seven-year-old boy. I think this role is very suitable for you, because he is very layered and will have a very special chemical reaction with you. Also, I have watched your fighting scenes, and I think you should have such a movie that highlights fighting scenes.

"The director of this film is also very reliable. Du Zhui, you should have heard of it. He has not made many films but is very inspirational. He won the best new director award last year. I worked with him once. He knows exactly what he wants. What is it about? You are very capable in budget control and scene scheduling. Since you like Zeng Ran, I think Du Zhui will also think it is good for you.

"Of course, Cao Xiuyuan's films shouldn't be too bad. Is he a genius director? You guys have worked together very well. But I remember you mentioned it in the car on the day of the wrap-up banquet. In fact, you also care about what others say." Without Cao Xiuyuan, Liang Sizhe can't go far at all', Liang Sizhe, you come to act in Luo Meng's film, and I will prove to everyone with you that without Cao Xiuyuan, you are still Liang Sizhe, and you can still stand at the awards ceremony and win the best actor award .”

"Don't rush to agree." Seeing that Liang Sizhe seemed to be about to speak, Cao Ye interrupted him, "That will only make me feel that you have to agree to this film out of pity for me five years ago. I can't find a more suitable person to play for the time being, but this is different from "The Darkest Choice". There are many good actors fighting for this role. I just think no one is more suitable than you. I hope you watch it carefully The script, of course, you can also compare the script Cao Xiuyuan gave you, and then give me an answer, so that it will be fair to both of us."

He said a lot in one breath, and after he finished speaking, even he was shocked to find reasons from so many angles without a draft.While he was saying these words, Liang Sizhe had been listening patiently, without interrupting him at all.

"Okay," Liang Sizhe waited for him to finish, looked at him and said, "Give me the script, and I'll give you an answer after reading it."