The Eye of the Storm

"Director Cao, we are running out of fuel. There is the last rest stop ahead, I'll go refuel." The driver's voice pulled Liang Sizhe back into the car.

"Go," Cao Xiuyuan put down the script in his hand, and took out the cigarette case from his pocket, "Stop for a few minutes, I just got out of the car to smoke a cigarette."

"Okay." The driver replied.

The car stopped at the highway rest stop, Cao Xiuyuan and Zheng Yin got out of the car to smoke, Liang Sizhe also felt stuffy after being in the car for a whole day, so he opened the door to get some air and went to the bathroom.

On the way back, he took a long detour, guessing that Cao Xiuyuan had finished his cigarette, so he walked back to the car to avoid embarrassment face to face.

As expected, there was only a short piece of smoke left in Cao Xiuyuan's hand, and he was listening to what Zheng Yin was saying, his expression couldn't tell what his emotions were.It's just that when he saw Liang Sizhe walking over, that straight-forward scrutiny fell on him again.

Soon, Zheng Yin noticed something strange in Cao Xiuyuan's eyes, and he also saw Liang Sizhe when he turned his head.Originally, Zheng Yin was speaking quickly, but when he realized that Liang Sizhe was approaching, he stopped talking.

It should be talking about things related to yourself.Liang Sizhe guessed.

Cao Xiuyuan pinched his cigarette, and the others sat back in the car.

"How long is it?" Cao Xiuyuan asked.

"About an hour." The driver said as he drove the car.

"Take me to Ahona." After Cao Xiuyuan finished speaking, he turned his face to look at Liang Sizhe, and said the first sentence he had spoken to him since getting in the car, "You follow Zheng Yin in a while, and he will arrange for you Living somewhere, the conditions may not be very good, but the environment will be similar to that in the script, you should get used to it first, experience it, and I will let Zheng Yin inform you when there is news later."

"Okay." Liang Sizhe nodded.

"Then I'll take him to Yinsi Street." Zheng Yin, who was in the front row, turned around and said.

"You decide." Cao Xiuyuan looked down at the script and said casually.

"Take Xiaoye as well, okay?" Zheng Yin asked again.

"Whatever you want." Cao Xiuyuan said, and after a while, he added, "That must be his willingness to go there."

"He doesn't want to go there, so I'll tie him up," Zheng Yin said with a smile, "Just let me go if you're willing."

Cao Xiuyuan also laughed: "You can deal with him if you have a trick."

"I have plenty of recruits," Zheng Yin picked up the phone and waved towards Cao Xiuyuan, "Just wait, I'll give him a call, and he will come with me."

After speaking, he made a call in front of Cao Xiuyuan.A beep sounded, and Zheng Yin pressed the speakerphone.

After a few seconds, it was picked up over there, and a boy's voice came from the phone. He sounded young, with a youthful voice: "Hey, what's the matter, Uncle Yin?"

Hearing the voice from the mobile phone, Cao Xiuyuan also raised his head from the script.

"Where is it?" Zheng Yin pretended to be natural and asked.

"I'm doing my homework at home," the boy said.

"How can you be so good? What homework?"

"Mathematics," the boy responded with ease, and said it sounded like that, "I'm driving the square root, and I'm driving really hard, so I'll hang up if it's okay."

"Hey wait," Zheng Yin quickly got to the point, "Xiao Ye, don't go out yet, wait for me at home, I will take you somewhere later."

"Where are you going?" The boy's voice on the phone sounded uninterested, obviously unwilling to come out with him, "I'm using the root number, don't bother me!"

"Take you to have meat, will you go?" After Zheng Yin finished speaking, he looked at Cao Xiuyuan with a suppressed smile.

"Really?" The other end of the phone visibly regained energy, "Where are you going?"

"You'll know it when you come, it's a good place, so be prepared."

"What a good place? You must be lying to me."

"Really, if you don't believe me, don't blame me for not reminding you to prepare in advance."

"Ah? No...Uncle Yin, well, what do I need to prepare?"

Zheng Yin held back his laughter so hard that he couldn't hold back anymore, he calmed down for a while before speaking again: "Take a bath, tidy up better, clean, by the way, don't bring money, uncle Yin please, save money It's the first time you've been cheated by others."

"Ah? Are you really taking me for sex?!" Zheng Yin said something like that, and the tone on the other end of the phone was a little shocked.

"When did Uncle Yin lie to you?"

"Oh... yes." The boy was dubious.

"Then I'll hang up." After Zheng Yin finished speaking, he hung up the phone in a hurry. The moment the phone was cut off, a burst of laughter broke out: "Brother Yuan, did you hear that? The little guy usually doesn't have a clue, but he is actually a Where's the chick?"

Cao Xiuyuan also smiled: "What do you talk to him every day." There was no intention of getting angry in his tone.

"This is what I call breaking into the enemy's interior. I will collect all his money later. Just look at it. He can't go anywhere without money. Just stay obediently in Yinsi Street."

Cao Xiuyuan was noncommittal, shook his head and said with a smile: "He has a lot of friends, so your trick may not work."

"Don't worry," Zheng Yin said with a smile, "I still have a plan."

The atmosphere in the car visibly perked up because of the phone call.

Liang Sizhe understood, Zheng Yin wanted to take him to a place to live, and a boy went with him. Judging from their reactions and conversations, it should be the son of Director Cao Xiuyuan.

The off-road vehicle rushed down the highway and drove into the city. The number of vehicles on the road increased significantly.

Liang Sizhe looked at the speeding capital city through the car window. He has been here more than once, and he followed the school's instructor to participate in the violin competition.Returned to Rock City soon after the game and never got around to the city.

Maybe this time I can have a chance to take a good look around.The idea came to his mind.

The driver parked the car in front of a quiet villa area, and Cao Xiuyuan got out of the car.

After the car door was closed, Zheng Yin turned his head and said to the driver: "Let's go, Brother Lei, let's go to Yinsi Street. It's a bit hard to find there. You drive to Anyuan Bridge first, and then I'll show you the way."

After the car went straight all the way to Anyuan Bridge smoothly, Zheng Yin verbally directed the driver to turn the car into a small alley, which was only one or two kilometers away from the nearby main road, but the environment in the alley was very different. It is thousands of miles away from the wide and flat road outside.

The alleys are dilapidated, like abandoned areas forgotten by the city.At first glance, the stains on the concrete pavement are greasy under the sun, and the doorways of small shops on the street are not difficult to see the traces of oily smoke over the years.

There is a big "demolition" character written on the windows and walls of almost every store, which is firmly enclosed by a red circle, just like people who live in this alley and cannot escape this kind of life.

"That's it, Lan Yan." Zheng Yin pointed to a store in front of him through the front windshield, "Brother Lei, stop in front."

After the car drove forward for a short distance, it came to a steady stop. Only then did Liang Sizhe see clearly the "Blue Banquet" that Zheng Yin was talking about - the door was fancy, it should be a KTV, but it looked more like a TV The karaoke hall of the last century was staged, and the cheap golden door and window frames were quite gaudy.

"Get out of the car." Zheng Yin pushed open the car door and walked out, raised his legs and stepped up the steps into the hall.

Liang Sizhe walked around to the back of the car, took off his suitcase, and walked up the steps with one hand.

The entrance hall is narrow and deep, and the light is dim. At first glance, you can only vaguely see the stairs leading up at the end. Since it has not yet reached the official business hours, only the innermost one of the overhead lights is turned on, and the atmosphere is dark and ambiguous.

Zheng Yin was standing at the stairs talking with a middle-aged woman, his voice was not loud, but the woman opposite had a really loud voice.What she said entered Liang Sizhe's ears verbatim.

"Brother Yin, don't worry, what we do here is serious business."

"Director Cao's son is coming too? Then Director Cao, do you want to come to us to pick a few actors?... Hahaha I know, don't worry, I will tell them later, be honest, don't try to provoke Xiao Cao son."

"Choose a newcomer? Who is it?" The woman turned her head to look at Liang Sizhe who was at the door, and raised her chin, "Is that right?" The woman had heavy makeup on her face, and the foundation was piled up on the smile lines at the corners of her eyes. His face was as white as wallpaper in the bright light.

"Yes," Zheng Yin waved to Liang Sizhe, "Xiao Liang, come here."

Liang Sizhe put the suitcase on the ground, pulled out the lever, and dragged it over.

"Oh, Director Cao has such a good eye. This temperament," the woman folded her arms around her chest, looked Liang Sizhe from head to toe, and said, "I still have long hair... I will become a superstar in the future, right? The future actor?"

Zheng Yin coughed lowly, and stretched out his hand to pull the woman aside. Liang Sizhe heard him whisper: "It's not settled yet, so please don't make a fuss about it."

Liang Sizhe was not interested in eavesdropping on their conversations, and rested his fingers on the trolley of the suitcase, looking around the environment casually.

The two standing by the wall murmured for a while, Zheng Yin's volume returned to normal: "Then I'll go first, go pick up my young master, and come back later." After speaking, he raised his chin at Liang Sizhe, " Xiao Liang, you wait here for a while."

Liang Sizhe responded.

After Zheng Yin left, the woman also entered the back room. Before leaving, she turned her head and said to Liang Sizhe, "You can sit anywhere, don't be restrained." After speaking, she turned into the back room.

The waiters sweeping the floor and cleaning the tables performed their duties, Liang Sizhe was ignored, so he found a chair and sat down.

It was almost evening, and the girls in the karaoke hall came downstairs one after another at this time, with heavy makeup and revealing clothes.Liang Sizhe vaguely guessed the nature of this place, probably not like the "serious business" that the woman just said.He was slightly surprised, the roots of the imperial city, he did not expect there to be such a dirty place.

Girls passing by couldn't help looking back at Liang Sizhe—a boy came into the karaoke bar before business hours, and this boy was really eye-catching, like Tang Sanzang who didn't care about the world suddenly broke into the Pansi Cave, making it impossible to ignore him The presence.

It's just that this "young Tang Sanzang" lowered his head slightly, with a length of long hair tied behind his head, and a few locks of unsociable hair hanging down on his forehead. Even the shadow cast by the bridge of the nose on the side of the face is just right.The temperament of the young man is also very special, some sharp, some decadent, just sitting there staring at one place in a daze, like a frame of a movie that has been carefully intercepted, full of a sense of story that makes people want to explore.

Liang Sizhe actually didn't think about anything, his mind was empty, and he stared at a stain in the corner in a daze.

It had been more than half an hour, and Zheng Yin was too late to come, and he was about to fall asleep waiting.Just when he was falling asleep, a voice suddenly came from the door, boyish, full of surprise and doubt: "Uncle Yin, you really brought me here, is it reliable?"

Liang Sizhe's drowsiness just faded away quickly, he raised his head and looked towards the door.

The sun was setting very low in the west, and the door curtain was lifted high. It was very bright outside, but the room was very dark. Liang Sizhe saw a tall and thin boy standing at the door, looking into the room with his head poking his head.

Zheng Yin drove here by himself this time, locked the car outside, followed up the stairs, and patted the boy on the back of the head lightly: "Run down before the car is stable," then turned to the room, raised He raised his voice, "Xiao Liang, come here."

The boy was standing with the backlight, Liang Sizhe walked in, and only then could he see his face clearly - a pretty boy, with the appearance of a pampered young master.

They are similar in height, and they are all looking at each other at the moment.Liang Sizhe seemed a little careless, but Cao Ye made no secret of the scrutiny in his eyes.

"Xiao Liang, let me introduce you. This is Cao Ye, the only son of director Cao Xiuyuan." Zheng Yin patted Cao Ye on the shoulder.

I can see it, Liang Sizhe thought.Although Cao Ye's appearance does not follow Cao Xiuyuan's, the unadorned look in his eyes when he looks at himself is exactly the same as Cao Xiuyuan's.

"Hello." Liang Sizhe said calmly.

Then he saw a moment of astonishment flash across the face of the boy opposite.

In the next second, the boy turned his head to look at Zheng Yin, and said in a low voice, "Uncle Yin, did you make a mistake?"

Zheng Yin didn't understand: "What?"

Cao Ye turned his face away from Liang Sizhe, leaned closer to Zheng Yin's ear, although his voice was very low, but because the distance was too close, Liang Sizhe could still hear clearly——

"It's pretty good-looking...but he's a man, right?"

Hold.Liang Sizhe almost blurted out a dirty word, but fortunately he held back - no wonder he kept looking at himself just now, feeling that he regarded himself as the one who wanted to fuck him?

Zheng Yin was taken aback for a moment, then understood, and burst out laughing: "Cao Ye, what are you thinking!"

"I'm just not interested in men..." The boy said innocently in the middle, and suddenly responded that it seemed that this was not the case. A flash of embarrassment flashed across his face, he raised his hand and scratched his forehead, looked at Liang Sizhe, "Ah... I made a mistake, didn't I?"

"Otherwise?" Liang Sizhe looked at him expressionlessly.

"I'm sorry buddy..." Cao Ye apologized in embarrassment, then looked at Zheng Yin who couldn't stop laughing, "Uncle Yin, stop laughing, what exactly are you trying to do by tricking me here?"