Zero-sum game

Zhou Xingchuan slowly walked back to the shooting location. Mo Rui was looking for him everywhere. Seeing that he came back in a hurry, he hurried forward and said, "Where did you go?"

"Walking." Zhou Xingchuan answered concisely.

Mo Rui handed him her mobile phone and said, "Sister Jinzhu is looking for you."

At the end, he added, "I didn't sue, she read the rough cut and said she wanted to talk to you."

Zhou Xingchuan took the phone and walked aside.

On the other side of the phone, Jin Zhu didn't directly comment on his performance, but talked about a lot of irrelevant things before turning to the shooting.

In fact, Zhou Xingchuan didn't need her to call to know what she meant, and said bluntly: "I would rather go on extreme survival programs, this kind of life is not suitable for me."

Jin Zhu sighed, "In short, you have to finish filming this season before we talk about it."

When Zhou Xingchuan came back, he saw the noise in the room, so he asked, "What happened?"

Mo Rui looked gossiping, and said: "Don't you know, oh, I don't know about you, Song Tongtong is the most searched on the Internet, because of smoking."

It is not allowed to bring a mobile phone when shooting, Zhou Xingchuan took his own mobile phone, replied to a few friends' messages, and then clicked on Weibo.

This matter fermented quickly, and the topic of Song Tongtong's smoking quickly became a hot topic.

Moreover, this matter was not exposed by some professional paparazzi. Zhou Xingchuan clicked in and took a look, and knew that it should be a video secretly shot by the surrounding villagers during the two days of filming.

Because the background of the picture is the residential building used for shooting, the angle is very strange, it looks like it was taken while hiding on the mountain.

"What did Miss Jin Zhu say?" Mo Rui watched the excitement for a while, then remembered the business just now.

"It's nothing." Zhou Xingchuan answered briefly, and then walked into the room to take a shower and go to bed.

"Tsk." Mo Rui knew that Jin Zhu had always bullied her assistants in every possible way, and was always nice to artists, so she knew that Jin Zhu would not embarrass Zhou Xingchuan too much, but she probably reminded him to some extent.

When I woke up the next day, the matter of Song Tongtong was still fermenting, and even all the black material from the past was found out, such as grabbing resources within the girl group, falling in love during the trainee period, etc., I was picked up again. drop.

But no matter how you respond to this matter, it is wrong, and fortunately, it is not a matter of principle, and it is best to deal with it coldly.

In the afternoon, Zhou Xingchuan saw the big manager of Song Tongtong and his group rushing over. It seemed that they made a special trip to argue with the director team.

Originally, the film crew had explicitly banned Reuters, and they also greeted the surrounding villagers that private filming was not allowed. It is indeed strange that such high-definition black material will still be circulated.

But Zhou Xingchuan didn't care about these things. He only thought about one thing now, which was how to go to the village primary school to find Shen Yan again after the filming ended tomorrow.

Shen Yan didn't even have a mobile phone, and Zhou Xingchuan couldn't reach him either.But if he wants to find Shen Yan now, there is no way, the key is not the distance method, but how to make Shen Yan face up to his relationship with him again.

In the past two years, it's not that Zhou Xingchuan has never tried to find him. He even found Shen Yan's hometown through school materials.

It was then that he learned for the first time that Shen Yan's parents were divorced, and the money he got from "Xiang" was also used to treat his sick mother.

Shen Yan's mother should be about the same age as his mother, but she looks much older. Apart from wrinkles and spots on her face, there is also a kind of fatigue of a patient.

"I don't know where he went. If I knew how his money came from, I would rather die." Shen Yan's mother said lying on the bed, staring at the ceiling of the hospital.

Not long after the operation, she was unable to move on the hospital bed. The remarried man seemed to be a very ordinary middle-aged man, and she sat beside her without speaking.

Zhou Xingchuan wanted to defend Shen Yan, but he heard his mother say, "He is just like his father, soft-boned. His father relies on women for food, and he is even worse."

"If I do such a thing, I will have no face to go back, and I will be stabbed in the spine for the rest of my life."

In a small county town, this kind of thing always spread quickly. Young people can see it on the Internet, and older people spread it by word of mouth. They always have a soft spot for such rumors with various colors.

After Shen Yan's mother's words, Zhou Xingchuan was speechless, and did not find any clues about Shen Yan.

Before leaving, the middle-aged man who had been silent told him that Shen Yan came back once after dropping out of school, but at that time her mother was preparing for the last chemotherapy before the operation, so he didn't go in, but just looked at her for a while through the glass He left, and he didn't know where Shen Yan went.

Where else could he go?Where will he go?

Shen Yan disappeared like that, Zhou Xingchuan even tried to go to the police station to file a case, and he would feel nervous when he saw news that an unknown body was found on the Internet.

For a while, he acted as if he had let it go and was living normally, working normally.

Seeing this, a friend introduced him to a friend. It can be seen that it is to let him change his social circle, and maybe he can have new encounters.

But he quickly declined.

If he and Shen Yan got together and parted ways, maybe he could let it go, but the ending was so unclear, the more time passed, the more he would be entangled in it.

It's like being trapped in a net that gets tighter the more you struggle.

He often dreamed of the night of the car accident, the dim street lights, the bleak air, and the long roar of cars piercing the sky.

How did it become like this?Why on earth did it become like this?

Later he finally figured it out, it turned out that it was because Shen Yan didn't seem to love him.

Or like it a little bit, but don't love him.

So he was like a bystander from the beginning to the end, and he was so powerless in the end.

After trying to understand the reason, he told Wu Shuyu.

In the end, Wu Shuyu was not surprised. He said nonchalantly: "How can there be so many lovers in this world? There must be some who love more and some who love less, otherwise they wouldn't have broken up.

Besides, you can be together without love. Some people, as long as they can go to bed and eat together, they can be married for a lifetime. You are too idealistic. "

No, this is not right.

At least Zhou Xingchuan didn't think it was right.

He may be an idealist, but he is absolutely unwilling to choose to spend his life with someone he doesn't love like most people in Wu Shuyu's mouth.

The school bell rang, and Shen Yan stood at the door and watched the last child who left the classroom go to the hillside where he couldn't see his back before reaching out to close the door.

Seeing that the books in the book corner in the corner of the classroom were a bit messy, he went over to tidy them up.

A book with a special cover caught his attention. On the cover was the silhouette of two paper figurines holding hands.The books in the book corner were compiled by the senior children in the class. This is the first time he has seen this book, and it should be a recent donation.

""White Night Journey"..." Shen Yan flipped open the cover of the book, which seemed to be quite new. It seemed that the person who donated it was not very old. This kind of full-word novel is a bit difficult for the children in the class. , so far no one has discovered this treasure.

"It's night, but there is a sun, making the night as bright as day..." He slowly read the sentence on the page he turned to.

He stared at the typeface on the page for a while, then sighed suddenly, and put the book back.

It is said that this season, the weather should gradually become hotter, but Xiaohe Village in the deep mountains is still very cool at night.

At dinner time, he could see the smoke rising from the houses at the foot of the mountain, and the smell of burning firewood drifted along the wind. Shen Yan ate his dinner with the wind - a plate of green vegetables left over at noon.

He sat under the eaves, watching the sun finally disappear over the other side of the mountain, feeling a kind of peaceful pleasure.

In fact, after the car accident, he did not intend to drop out of school.He was not the one directly hit as the co-pilot, so the main injury was a couple of broken legs, the rest was fine.

After his own injury improved, the first thing he did was to visit Zhou Xingchuan, who was injured more seriously than him.But after Shen Yan inquired, he found out that Zhou Xingchuan's parents had taken him to a higher-level private nursing home as early as the first time, and he didn't even know where it was.

The theater tour was withdrawn, and news about him spread more widely on the Internet. During his hospitalization, many magazines and media wanted to interview him, but fortunately, there were medical staff blocking him.

However, his financial situation did not allow him to stay for too long. On the day he was discharged from the hospital, he almost thought he was a star, and many people surrounded him, wanting to interview him.

The name, school major, and residence were all exposed on the Internet. Shen Yan felt like a street mouse hiding in Zhou Xingchuan's apartment for a few days, and then Mo Qiang came to collect the house with the key.

She said that Zhou Xingchuan's parents asked her to come here, and that she could help find another place if needed, but that she would not live in Zhou Xingchuan's house anymore.

She was accompanied by moving company trucks and workers.

Shen Yan refused, saying that he would move out in two days.His things don't even need a moving company at all, they can be pulled away with a suitcase.

He moved to the small hotel where he had stayed for a few nights before, the curtains were still gray-blue, the sheets still felt inexplicably damp, and the mold seemed to be crawling up his ankles.

The boss looked at him several times when he entered the door, and finally decided to let him live as long as he paid the rent, and said, "I'm a small business, so don't do those things."

Shen Yan used the suitcase as a crutch, put it against the corner with his strength, and said, "I won't do it."