apples more than anything

The wind is so noisy today.

This is what Song Pingguo and Leiqiu thought when they were walking together.

The village is not too big, there are people who grow fruit trees like Leiqiu's parents, some grow cotton and tea - these are what Leiqiu told Song Pingguo, now it is winter, most of the fields are empty Yes, I can't tell what was planted at all.

Song Pingguo tightened her neckline, admiring the refreshing countryside scenery, while Leiqiu kept thinking about how to eat the chicken caught yesterday.

If it was in Song Pingguo's rented house, or in Song Pingguo's house where he lived for a short period of time, what Leiqiu wanted to eat most was roast chicken.Fill the chicken belly with ingredients such as onions and potatoes, sprinkle it with spices and bake it in the oven...it's delicious to think about it.

However, Leiqiu’s hometown does not have the kind of household oven that can roast chicken. There is only a mini oven that Leiqiu bought in the supermarket when he came back last time. It is good for baking bread, biscuits, and steamed buns. Roast chicken Forget it.

According to the rules of Leiqiu's hometown, the "New Year's Eve dinner" is not eaten at night. On New Year's Eve, they eat casual breakfast and lunch, and then start eating the "New Year's Eve dinner" at two or three o'clock in the afternoon.

When Lei Qiu and Song Pingguo returned from the outside, Qiu Yichen was preparing the dishes for the afternoon, Lei Xiaotian was assigned a second job because of his poor performance in the kitchen, and the chicken that Lei Qiu planned along the way , already lying on the plate at the moment.

"It should be deep-fried."

When seeing good ingredients, Song Pingguo showed no less excitement than Leiqiu when he saw delicious food. She happily took out a pot from the cabinet, tied the prepared chicken with string, Put a whole one into the pot, add onion, ginger and garlic and start cooking.

Regarding Song Pingguo's cooking standards, Leiqiu has long been used to not expressing any opinions, only being a spectator and a diner.

After about 10 minutes, Song Pingguo poked a lot of holes in the cooked chicken with a toothpick, and waited for the fat to flow out slowly.

"Take it." She found two small brushes from an unknown corner, "Brush the soy sauce on it, and brush it everywhere."

The thin layer of soy sauce on the chicken skin would be easily wiped off. Song Pingguo brushed the dry part again. After going back and forth several times, she finally called a stop and put the chicken into the heated oil pan.

The iron pan at home is not big enough to deep-fry to every place. Song Pingguo stood by the stove, scooped up a spoonful of hot oil from time to time and poured it on the parts that could not be fried, and occasionally turned it over to continue fry.

"Okay, it's time to cook." When Song Pingguo lowered his head and turned off the fire, Lei Qiu handed over a plate of a suitable size in good time.

This dish is undoubtedly the most popular on today's dining table. It is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, without any extra flavor, only the seasoning of soy sauce and the aroma of the chicken itself. Four people gnawed a chicken clean, leaving only A skeleton.

Because the New Year's Eve dinner is eaten at noon, people here have another activity in the evening, that is, get together to play cards, not gambling money but only looking at winning or losing, some play mahjong and poker, just playing cards can kill most of the time night.

Both Lei Xiaotian and Qiu Yichen took their melon seed teacups and went out to play cards. Lei Qiu and Song Pingguo were the only ones left at home. Both of them had no interest in watching the Spring Festival Gala, nor did they have any interest in staying up late for New Year's Eve.

So after a short discussion, the two people who usually lack sleep agreed to lie on the bed and go to sleep.

Raichu hadn't actually been lacking in sleep for a while.First, I wish I could sleep until the afternoon every day, and then after a few days of regular life of going to bed and getting up early, the hard work of the previous period should be adjusted no matter what.

She just likes such a time that is so peaceful that it is almost stagnant, listening to the sound of Song Pingguo's breathing in her arms slowly becoming longer, and the mind that is full of chaotic thoughts during the day is emptied, and then emptied, while entering the relaxation of not thinking about anything state, while unconsciously falling asleep.

Raichu is a person who will unconsciously respond to the expectations of those around her.Everyone likes Lei Qiu who is simple and straightforward, so she is used to never revealing her thoughts. Any complicated thoughts that need to be entangled only stay in her mind, and there is no channel to vent.

Like this, in every quiet night embracing with his lover, sweeping away all unnecessary things in his mind is one of the things that makes Raichu happiest.

After waking up one morning, Leiqiu couldn't help sharing the moment of happiness he found in life with Song Pingguo. Lying on the pillow, Song Pingguo listened to her with a frown, and slapped her. On her face: "So aren't you just in a daze before going to bed?!"

"...Indeed."

"Oh my God." Song Pingguo turned over, "I can make someone as dull as you realize that you like me, I'm really charming."

Even in winter, fruit farmers can't be idle. If you don't take good care of these fruit trees in winter, they will not give you a good harvest in the coming year.Therefore, even on the morning of the first day of the new year, Lei Xiaotian only slept a little longer than usual, then changed his clothes, put on gloves, and went to the orchard with a shovel on his shoulder.

Lei Qiu heard the sound of his father going out, and tiptoed up from the bed, but was grabbed by the corner of the pajamas by Song Pingguo.

"Sleep for a while..."

"Go on to sleep, I'm going to help my dad."

Song Pingguo grabbed her mobile phone by the bed and glanced at the time and today's temperature.

"Raichu, sometimes your image is really too tall, which makes me a little ashamed."

"Okay, you lie down and sleep, and continue to admire my tall image in your dreams!" Raichu quickly put on his coat, "I'm leaving!"

The countryside is colder than the cities.Every time she comes back for the New Year, Raichu has to deepen her understanding of this sentence.She couldn't wait to do some physical work to warm up her body.

"Actually, I really like this kind of work." Raichu pressed the shovel down vigorously, and couldn't help raising a hand to his mouth to breathe hot air, "As long as you work hard, you will definitely be rewarded. "

"It sounds like you haven't got any rewards for your recent efforts?" Lei Xiaotian took off the leather gloves on his hands and threw them to Lei Qiu, then took out a pair of cloth gloves from his pocket and put them on himself, "The problem is, as long as you are willing to do this job, Work hard, anyone can do it, but in the end, you still have to eat according to the eyes of God. If the harvest is good, you will be full, and if the harvest is not good, you will be hungry. If there is a choice, who would like to do this.”

"If there is a choice, what are you going to do, old man?"

"I'm going to be a singer, and then act in a movie. If nothing else, I'm sure he's more popular than you."

After digging a ditch beside the tree, Lei Xiaotian ordered Lei Qiu to put all the fallen leaves on the ground into the ditch, then fill it with soil, and then walked to the edge of another tree by himself, and continued the process. process.

The two of them worked in the orchard for most of the morning, and they returned home with the cold air around noon, waiting for Qiu Yichen and Song Pingguo to bring the hot meals to the table.

"Ah!" Lei Qiu exaggeratedly stretched his waist in front of the table, "It feels like a family!"

Song Pingguo, who was cooking in front of the stove, blushed, helped her head scarf, and was about to turn her head to give her a look, but saw Qiu Yichen walked over first, and stuffed a sliced ​​apple into Leiqiu's mouth: " Talk as if you are not the biological child of me and your father, if you talk nonsense, I won't give you food."

Maternal love is great.Song Pingguo thought as she pushed the dishes onto the plate.If I had just stuffed a whole apple into her mouth.

But... Song Pingguo actually felt from the bottom of her heart that she really felt like a family.

As a chef, what she comes into contact with the most every day is rice, oil and salt. Most of the time, cooking makes her feel not the warmth of home, but the busyness and tension of work.

But when she was cooking in the kitchen at home, Raichu was always eagerly waiting by the dining room table, sneaking into the kitchen from time to time to ask for a bite, always shouting coquettishly how hungry he was. Can Little Apple hurry up...

This feeling is not contradictory to the feeling of wanting to pick up an apple and stuff it directly into her mouth. Song Pingguo often has these two feelings at the same time.

On the morning of the third day of the Lunar New Year, Lei Qiu received a call from Gong Xiaoye.

This time Gong Xiao didn't bring up the issue of weight loss again, but straight to the point and told her when the filming would start, so that she would remember to come back from her hometown.

"The filming will start as soon as the Spring Festival holiday is over? Okay, no problem, I will rush back early, anyway, it will only be an afternoon." Leiqiu stood at the door, flipping through the calendar hanging on the wall, "I said Why do you keep playing with this set, can you give me the script once and let me study it before starting filming?"

Gong Xiao also didn't take Lei Qiu's accusation seriously: "Didn't the old man give you the script in advance if he still sang? Then you performed well in the filming of Swallowing Heaven and Earth, and the script didn't affect your acting skills at all!"

... Leiqiu realized for the first time that he actually signed a contract with such an unreliable rich second generation, and now there is still time to break the contract.

"Lei Qiu, let me ask you a serious question." Gong Xiao also seemed a little nervous, "Are you afraid of the dark?"

This question really stunned Raichu.

Logically speaking, she is not afraid. When there are no street lights in the village, she dares to go out alone to deliver things to neighbors. Walking at night is a part of her daily life, unless it is so dark that she can’t even see the road clearly. Otherwise, she wouldn't even think about whether she was afraid of the dark.

But after that incident, Raichu deeply realized that human beings' fear of darkness is deeply buried deep in their genes and cannot be shaken off in a lifetime.

Raichu is relatively courageous, daring to walk in the dark, but if her vision is deprived and she sinks into the darkness where she cannot see any light, she will realize that she is actually still afraid of the dark.

At first she thought it was nothing, because she was still standing in a familiar environment, she knew what was on the left and what was on the right, she knew how to walk from the living room to the toilet, she knew where the microwave oven was in the kitchen, and the location of the whole house. She knows the complete structure well, so she is not afraid-just like a person may not be able to memorize the letters on the keyboard in order, but the memory of the body allows him to complete the action of touch typing without knowing it.

Just give the person a keyboard that is too different in size from the one he is used to, or a letter order that is simply out of order, and he can no longer do this.

On the second day of living blindfolded, Raichu felt helpless as soon as he woke up.Relying on her familiarity with her own residence, she managed to find the bathroom to wash up, and then began to consider whether to go out.

From the moment she walked out of the house, she fell into complete darkness, and she realized that this fear is not only because of the brightness of the light, but also because human eyes cannot see clearly in the dark, after being deprived of vision , I finally felt the insignificance of myself as an ordinary mammal in the world.

Raichu felt that the most important thing to perform well was a sense of security, and the darkness could completely isolate her from the world and deprive her of all sense of security.

Of course, Lei Qiu rarely thought about Gong Xiaoye's question so complicatedly, but this time she knew from Gong Xiaoye's tone on the phone that she had to face it seriously.

"Afraid of the dark."

"Then..." Gong Xiao also made a hissing inhalation sound, as if he was very embarrassed, "how should I put it, I don't know whether it is better to be afraid of the dark or not to be afraid of the dark... well... the main reason is that I haven't Think about how to make this movie, and don't want to let the director play freely..."

Lei Qiu interrupted Gong Xiaoye's self-talk: "Then tell me, what kind of movie is this, why is it so troublesome?"

"No, I have to stick to the last moment and keep the mystery, so that it will be enough surprise when I say it..."

"How can there be someone like you?"

Lei Qiu wanted to speak again, but saw Song Pingguo beside him beckoning her to pass the microphone over.Song Pingguo took the phone with a smile, and gently comforted Gong Xiaoye: "Gong Xiaoye, do you still want to eat delicious food?"

"Think! Think!" Gong Xiao also woke up from his own world in a jerk, "Give Lei Qiu the phone number, and I promise to tell her everything—or turn on the speakerphone?"

Song Pingguo put the phone on the table, pressed the speakerphone, Gong Xiao also cleared his throat, and asked the two of them solemnly: "Do you know "Buried Alive?"

Many movie lovers may know the great name of this movie. There is only one simple scene in the whole movie. The hero is buried alive in a coffin, trying to use the tools around him to survive and get in touch with the outside world...

Relating to Gong Xiaoye's attitude and the question she asked before, Lei Qiu probably realized what kind of movie Gong Xiao also wanted to make.

"Of course, we can't shoot like a burial alive. The plot I conceived in advance is like this. There are only two main characters, one is the director and the other is the actor..."

In Gong Xiaoye's conception, the crew transformed a basement of a residential house to shoot a horror film. When shooting one of the scenes, the director asked the actors to stay alone in the basement, and the camera would shoot in the dark.

Of course, the actor agreed to such an unreasonable request, but when she finished the performance and wanted to push the door out, she found that the door was locked.

In the ending of "Buried Alive", the hero who is struggling on the verge of death hears that the FBI has found him, and waits expectantly, but is told that the FBI has found another person, and he will be buried alive under the sand Died painfully in the coffin.

In the "Basement", which was also conceived by Gong Xiao, the heroine tried every means to escape from the locked basement, but found that the door was not a civilized society of human beings, but a wilderness. She opened the door representing hope. The door, but what is faced is the despair that cannot be broken.

Just when she was about to give up escaping, the director and other members of the crew suddenly appeared, took her to a safe place, and told her that this was actually a plan they had arranged. Acting skills, it is obvious that the real scene of her surviving in despair is more touching.

The heroine was naturally outraged at first, but under the persuasion of the director, she agreed to use the footage captured by the camera in the basement in the movie-in fact, almost the entire movie will be completed with these shots, Because the actors and directors in "The Basement" are going to shoot a movie that is roughly similar to "The Basement" itself, with only one person acting in a one-man show in the basement.

This is a nested story. To sum it up, actors should act as actors.

At the end of the story, the movie was well-received and well-received, and won international awards. The famous and wealthy heroine, the director and other members of the crew shook hands and made peace, and everyone lived a happy life together.

Except for the background scene at the beginning, the whole film is almost a one-man show of the protagonist, and the protagonist is always in a dark basement-this movie basically provides a stage for the protagonist to show off his skills.

Song Pingguo's impression after listening to the outline of the story was: "The ending of this movie is really unimaginable, isn't the heroine too hearty?"

"Oh, wouldn't it be nice to have a happy ending, so that everyone can be happy!"

... Can this be considered a happy ending?Song Pingguo began to doubt her taste as an audience.

Raichu's thoughts were: "Huh? Then what are you worrying about? If I'm afraid of the dark, then of course I can act realistically. If I'm not afraid of the dark, I'm calm in the dark environment, so of course I can act... I I'm really worried about one issue, you won't collude with the director to really lock me in, will you?"

"How could it be? Then you can't tear me alive after you come out. Even if you don't tear your little apple, you will tear it."

After hanging up the phone, Lei Qiu stood there blankly holding the phone, as if he was struggling with something.

"What's the matter, I'm really worried that Gong Xiao will lock you in too?"

"No, I was thinking, according to Mr. Gong, the heroine should be an actor with terrible acting skills?" Lei Qiu thought seriously, "Little Apple, tell me, a person with good acting skills can perform well." A bad person, or a person with bad acting skills can play a bad acting person well?"

"Stop thinking about this kind of question, please banish it from your mind when you sleep tonight, philosopher Raichu."