Chapter 50
Cao Ye had not come back the next afternoon, and Liang Sizhe lay on the bed for a while at noon. When the knock on the door sounded, he had just developed some sleepiness.
When Liang Sizhe heard the knock on the door, his first reaction was that Cao Ye was back. He sat up from the bed, his hair was not tied, and he got out of the bed and walked to the door with sleepy feeling. He thought he would see Cao Ye standing outside the door. When he opened the door, two vicissitudes of uncles stood at the door - the master who came to install the air conditioner came over.
Liang Sizhe let the two masters in, and the proprietress followed him up, leaned in, leaned against the door frame, and said loudly: "Oh, you need to install an air conditioner!"
Liang Sizhe said "yes".
"What a noble man in Jin... Why didn't Mr. Zheng tell me?"
When doing a show, Liang Sizhe said in a normal tone: "It was Director Cao who found someone to rest."
The boss's wife said with a twitch: "The big director is so busy and he is looking for someone to install the air conditioner. He is very concerned about his son." It was probably the first time he saw Liang Sizhe with loose hair. The boss's wife kept looking at him, "When will you start acting in a movie?"
"I don't know." Liang Sizhe walked to the bed, picked up the hair rope and tied his hair up, sat down and watched the two masters open the cardboard box aside, and moved out the brand new air conditioner that he had been trying to pick for a long time.
"When you move out, will this air conditioner be given to us for free?" the boss asked again.
"I don't know either." Liang Sizhe said.
"Where is the son of the big director?"
“Go out to play.”
"Why didn't you go with me?"
"I don't want to go." Liang Sizhe said casually, touching his phone and typing on the keyboard. In fact, there is nothing to typing, just trying to act like he doesn't want to talk.
"The master is here to install the air conditioner." He entered a line of words in the sending box. When he clicked the key point, his finger paused, and deleted the words one by one.
Forget it, I should be back in a while. Liang Sizhe thought.
"Are you a quarrel?" the boss asked again.
"No." Liang Sizhe said, throwing his phone aside.
The proprietress leaned against the door and looked for a while. Seeing that Liang Sizhe was not enthusiastic about talking to her, she stood up and went downstairs with some boredom.
Liang Sizhe sat by the bed, looking at the busy master by the window, thinking about what the boss lady had just said - yes, what should the air conditioner do after they leave this room? They will always leave Lanyan and leave this Yinsi Street.
Then it depends on who left first. Liang Sizhe planned in his heart that if he left first, he would leave the air conditioner here. It would be unrealistic to dismantle the air conditioner in front of Cao Ye. Besides, Cao Ye might have to continue living here after he left; if Cao Ye left first, he would find someone to remove the air conditioner and sell it for second-hand sales. After all, he spent a small amount of 10,000 yuan. It would be as much as he could get back...
In the evening, Liang Sizhe went downstairs to have dinner and walked around the alley for a few times. After checking, half an hour passed. In the past, he had to go back to wash up after walking around with Cao Ye for a few times, but today it seemed that he was walking very slowly.
The alley is still the same alley, and even the faces of diners have not changed a few. There are even more customers sitting in the open-air stall tonight than usual, but I just feel that it is a bit deserted.
The little white local dog on the corner of the street came over to sniff his shoes, and it seemed to feel a little deserted. Cao Ye kept calling it "Xiaobai", but in fact it was not white. It looked gray, and it was the kind of fur that could not be called snow-white even if it was washed clean.
Liang Sizhe looked down at it, and after a moment, he squatted down and touched its head. Xiaobai's hair was shorter and a little hard to touch.
It was not as good as Cao Ye's hair to touch. This kind of thought appeared in his mind, and Liang Sizhe quickly found it a little funny again. How could he compare Cao Ye's head with that of a puppy...
After returning to the house, the cold feeling became more and more intense. The installed air conditioner in the afternoon gently sent cold air into the house. The room temperature was just right, and it was supposed to be a very comfortable night, but it seemed a bit boring at this moment.
How did I get through the past few nights? Going downstairs for dinner, taking a walk, teasing dogs, drinking soda, climbing the rooftop, watching movies, reading scripts... It's just these things. Before Cao Ye moved in, he was in an orderly manner. Why did he suddenly feel maladapted now?
I have lived alone for more than a year, which is much longer than living with Cao Ye...
It's so late, Cao Ye shouldn't come back tonight, right? What's wrong with Zhang Minghan looking for Cao Ye? When I auditioned last time, I didn't see how familiar they were... at least it didn't reach the level that Cao Ye often mentioned in front of him.
Liang Sizhe took the script at the head of the bed and looked it out page by page. A few nights ago, he and Cao Ye would stop to discuss the content of the script, so the reading speed was very slow. The old-fashioned bathhouse written in the script was discussed all night. That night, Cao Ye also found a pen and drew the bathhouse he imagined in the blank space of the script. The drawing was quite abstract, unlike the bathhouse, but like a prison where prisons were imprisoned in cartoons.
There are a few rare characters on the script that were marked with pinyin by Cao Ye, and they are like primary school students who have just learned to read. Even the tones are marked very seriously. The crooked characters look quite cute.
After 40 pages, there was no more Cao Ye's handwriting. Liang Sizhe no longer distracted from these details and continued to look back. Perhaps because he had read too many obscure translation versions of professional books a while ago, he read the script again and found that it was quite fluent and easy to read. He turned back halfway through the night.
Cao Ye still didn't come back on the third day. In the morning, the aunt came over to change the sheets, sheets and pillowcases of the two beds. The bed was so clean that no one had lived in it.
After taking a shower at night, he sat by the bed and rubbed his hair. Liang Sizhe touched his cell phone and called out Cao Ye's phone number. He thought nothing would have happened to this kid, right? He had never heard from him for two consecutive days, and no one called him.
Thinking of this, he called Cao Ye.
"Beep" sounded, Liang Sizhe put down the towel and raised his hand to grab the half-dry hair.
The phone was connected, and the clamoring sound came in instantly. The person on the other end "feeded" it, and the sound sounded a little cold and a little arrogant. Liang Sizhe was very sensitive to the identification of the sound and immediately realized that the other party was not Cao Ye.
"Where is Cao Ye?" Liang Sizhe asked.
"Who called me?" A vague young man's voice came from the noisy music. This time it was Cao Ye, but the sound sounded a bit far away and was not on the side of the phone.
"Liang Sizhe." said the slightly cold voice, his speech was a bit slow, and he should be pronunciating the name on the screen.
"Is it that little beauty?" someone next to him answered, "Yezi, little beauty is calling you?"
"Get out of here, you little beauty!" Cao Ye cursed a little far away, and then shouted, "Chi Mingyao, throw the phone to me."
"Oh, then." said the man holding the phone.
Little Beauty... Are you talking about yourself? Liang Sizhe's mouth twitched slightly. This was the first time he heard someone describe him like this... he asked for a beating, right?
After a while, Cao Ye answered: "Hey, Liang Sizhe?" This time the voice was approaching. As soon as he heard it, he said with his cell phone. The noise around him became weaker. Perhaps Cao Ye found a quiet place to answer the phone.
"What's the situation with the little beauty?" Liang Sizhe asked.
"Ah...my friend is messing with me, don't pay attention to him."
"The friend who called me on your phone last time?"
"Well, he is a lewd man. When he sees a beautiful person, he will call him a little beauty. Don't pay attention to him."
"He hasn't seen me before?"
"Oh... I told him," Cao Ye saw that the pot was about to be put on him, and began to act like a good person, "I was wrong with Brother Sizhe."
Liang Sizhe laughed, not planning to argue with him: "The air conditioner is ready, when will you come back?"
"I don't know, they won't let me go, is the room cooler now?"
“It’s quite cool.”
"Do you want to come out and play together?"
As soon as Cao Ye finished speaking, Lin Yan shouted to him from a distance: "Yezi, don't call yourself secretly. Chi Mingyao said he wanted to see what the little beauty looks like!"
"You want to see it yourself." Another voice said.
"I want to see it too!" Another strange voice added.
"Get out!" Cao Ye took away his phone and cursed. When he put the phone back in his ear, Liang Sizhe said in the receiver, "I won't go anymore, you can play, you're dead."
"Oh..." Cao Ye wanted to say something, but Liang Sizhe quickly hung up the phone.
"Fuck, what a little beauty, my friend is angry!" Cao Ye put his phone back into his pocket and rushed towards Lin Yan angrily.
Liang Sizhe couldn't be angry, but after the phone call, he suddenly felt a little bored.
Cao Ye's voice sounded quite happy. Liang Sizhe thought he suddenly left that night because of something urgent. It turned out that he was just rushing to go out with other friends. It is understandable to think about it. There are not many friends who can make him happy, but friends who can make Cao Ye happy are probably everywhere in Beijing.
He suddenly realized that Cao Ye was a kind-hearted playboy. He was able to give up the script to himself that morning and was one of the manifestations of his playboy. For Cao Ye, whether to be an actor or whether to act in a movie with his father Cao Xiuyuan is probably insignificant.
When he was in a good mood, he wanted others to be "happy" with him. Even the reason for giving him the script was "I wanted to accompany him to play in Beijing for a few more days."
But I was a little serious and was sinking in the bottom of the valley for too long. I accidentally saw a ray of light, and I thought that God had deliberately opened a skylight for him, but I didn't know that the light was always there, but it just accidentally leaked into his life.
As for me, I think it was just a little entertainment in my bored life. After leaving Yinsi Street, I would probably be forgotten by Cao Ye in a few days.
I leaned against the head of the bed and thought for a while, but I didn't get into my mind any content on TV. After a while, Liang Sizhe came to his senses and then felt that he was quite idle.
——Isn’t this the case between friends? If they are in harmony, they will go. Just like those of his friends before, they are closer when they are in the same class, and they will gradually become unfamiliar after they are separated, and then new friends will appear around them. People around them are like tides, which are all very common things.
Why did it happen to Cao Ye? I thought so much about it, and even started to think about what happened after leaving Yinsi Street... Let it go, Liang Sizhe thought very calmly that even his parents and the violin could come to an abrupt end in his life. How long can a boy who broke in half the way stay with him?
After making this call, Liang Sizhe's life returned to his previous life with Cao Ye. He read professional books related to scripts and performances in the morning, watched a movie in the afternoon, and went out for a walk in the evening. Sometimes he would think about the scene mentioned in the script, think about how he should act that scene on the rooftop, and occasionally recite a few lines to himself.
Life without Cao Ye is much boring, but it is also considered a return to normal. There is no interesting thing, and there is no opportunity to laugh. Perhaps "loss" is too common in his life. He has lost any important things. So he subconsciously always knew calmly that he would lose Cao Ye as a friend in the future. All losses are no big deal. Life always has to continue, regardless of whether you are willing or not.
I woke up the fourth morning, but Cao Ye still didn't come back. Liang Sizhe wanted to wait for him to come back next time, maybe he was pulled back by Zheng Yin or Cao Xiuyuan again.
He began to adapt to this kind of life alone again, and even had an idea that it would be fine to live alone like this. He always lived with Cao Ye, and was very happy, but if people stayed in this environment for a long time, they would really gradually become weak. In the future, whether they were returning to Yancheng or staying in Beijing, they would probably not have the courage to face the wreckage and unknown dangers alone.
Liang Sizhe did not charge again when his phone ran out of power. In the past month, he only took calls from Cao Ye and Cao Xiuyuan, who were called by Cao Ye’s friend half a month ago. In addition, he received some blessing text messages on his birthday.
I think no one would look for him. After lunch at noon, Liang Sizhe put his exhausted phone on the desk to charge, and found a movie to watch. The movie was last picked by Cao Ye in that screening hall, Xie Junhao's "Shisanlang of the South China Sea". He remembered that when he selected this movie, Cao Ye said that Uncle Yin especially liked this movie.
Although he doesn't have much affection for Zheng Yin, he thinks that the movies Zheng Yin likes should be wrong.
Liang Sizhe put the CD in the projector and leaned against the bedside to watch the movie. The film is a story about a miserable screenwriter. When he was broadcasting the a cappella when he was watching the reunion of Shisan and Tang Disheng, he was so stunning that he suddenly heard his name downstairs seemingly calling out: "Liang Sizhe!"
The obscure atmosphere created by the art film suddenly disappeared, and the sound was clear and bright, like a handful of ice rain splitting a sultry summer. It sounded like Cao Ye.
...Are you back? Liang Sizhe pulled out of his immersive mood, put the remote control aside and got out of the bed. When he was wearing slippers, he shouted again downstairs, which was a little louder than last time: "Liang Sizhe!"
He shouted again when he walked to the window, and this time the voice was long: "Liang—Si—Zhe!"
What's the rush... Liang Sizhe thought to himself, but his mood seemed to be getting better for no reason.
Walking to the window, he raised his hand to open the window, poked out his body and looked downstairs. Cao Ye was sitting in a black car with the window open. He was poking his head out and looking at their room upstairs.
"What's your name?" Liang Sizhe lay on the windowsill with both arms, leaned down and leaned out of the window and looked at him and asked.
"Are you not sleeping?" Cao Ye said, a Husky's head squeezed out of the same car window and looked upstairs with him, "How do you turn off your phone?"
"No, I'm watching a movie, my phone is out of battery..." It's fun to put two furry heads together. This scene made Liang Sizhe laugh, "Did you bring the dog here?"
"Well," Cao Ye pushed open the car door, got out of the car and stood on the ground and waved to him, "I brought it over from my grandfather's house. Come down quickly and have something good for you."
"What?" Liang Sizhe asked.
"You will know when you get off-" Cao Ye walked around the back of the car and drove the trunk.
Liang Sizhe stood up straight, closed the window, walked to the door and changed his shoes, then opened the door and walked out quickly, and went down several floors of stairs, and walked to the corner of the stairs that were still a little short. Cao Ye, who was getting off the car, also stepped on the stairs at the door and strided to the threshold.
It was the hottest time at noon, and as soon as the door was pushed open, the sunlight that was originally blocking the door suddenly poured over the ground. Cao Ye was wearing a white T-shirt and gray plaid shorts, standing in the bright spot at the door. His hair was a little shorter, as if he had just trimmed it not long ago, and it looked particularly refreshing.
The piece of piano case that came out of the edge of the back was very familiar to Liang Sizhe - Cao Ye carries the violin over.
The husky holding his left hand screamed at Liang Sizhe with a "wang" and the tall boy stood with a half-human-high dog. At first glance, he looked a bit majestic.
He stood at the door, as if he was traced by the warm afternoon sunlight, and Lan Yan's lifeless and dull first-floor foyer seemed to be illuminated transparently in an instant.
It was quite lively. Liang Sizhe stood at the corner of the stairs and looked at him. This kind of thought appeared in his mind. It would be better to be lively.
Chapter completed!