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On the second day after arriving in Wulong, Lu Ziqi started a busy filming life. Her roles fell behind a lot. Almost every day, she had to shoot until the early hours of the morning before she could rest. Fortunately, they didn't complain, and expressed their understanding of Lu Ziqi's situation. Liu Lian, who was very grateful for this, immediately borrowed the kitchen of the nearby villagers after the foot injury had completely healed, and went to the market to buy a large one. After stacking the dishes, a sumptuous dinner was prepared for all the crew.

On a winter night with a cold wind blowing, everyone gathered in Liu Lian and Qiu Shuyu's room. The director's assistant borrowed two ovens from somewhere. The cold room finally started to warm up a little bit, and it was crowded with people. The room was like a party.

The unsatisfactory shooting progress and the recent bad weather made everyone a little frustrated. As a lubricant, the director's assistant provoked the important task of enlivening the atmosphere. After several rounds of nonsensical and funny performances, everyone finally let go. There was laughter.

Liu Lian made meals at a villager's house and carried them in a box with Assistant A. Two boxes were full of meals. After a while, the aroma of the meals filled the whole room, and everyone sat around In front of a large table, the atmosphere is unprecedentedly harmonious.

In the middle of the meal, Liu Ma, who was far away in Beijing, suddenly called. Liu Lian put on a coat and hurried to the corridor with her mobile phone to answer the call.

"Hey, are you still in Chengdu now?" As soon as the call was connected, Liu's mother asked directly, "Your dad and I will fly back to Chengdu tomorrow. If you can, you can stay in Chengdu for a while. We have been together for a long time. I haven’t seen you before.” For some reason, Liu Lian heard a hint of pleading in Liu Ma’s tone, Liu Ma didn’t know about Liu Lianwei’s foot injury, and Liu Lian only told Liu Ma that she was staying in Chengdu. for almost a month.

Liu Lian's eyes were a little sore, she sniffed and said, "Mom, I understand, you guys come back first, I'm here in Wulong, Chongqing, and I'll go back to Chengdu to see you when I have time."

Liu Ma asked, "Why did you go to Wulong again?"

Liu Lian smiled and said, "Didn't I tell you before? The crew still needs to shoot some scenes in Wulong, and they should stay for more than a month before returning to Beijing."

Liu's mother was silent for a long time, and finally sighed: "I really don't know why you yearn for Beijing so much. Is there a future for development in places far away from home? You are almost 30 years old, and there are children who are about your age in the yard You are already married and have children, you, why can't you settle down...hey..."

Every time Liu Lian and Liu Ma called, they would unknowingly bring up this topic, and urging Liu Lian to give up her job in Beijing and return to Chengdu to settle down in life seemed to be a compulsory course for Liu Ma every time she called Liu Lian. A deep sigh condensed Liu Ma's disappointment many times, which made Liu Lian want to cry.

Liu Lian's silence made Liu Ma's heart soften again, and she said: "Hey, Mom won't force you anymore, you can do whatever you want, just remember to go home and have a look."

Liu Lian's voice choked up unconsciously: "Well, I see."

"When it's cold, you need to protect yourself from the cold. Wear more clothes so you don't catch a cold..." Mama Liu reminded her carefully, "And don't go to bed too late, it's not good for your health. Leave the work you didn't finish the day before until the next day. You can do it again, just don't stay up late..."

"kindness……"

"By the way, the Chinese New Year is only a month away. Are you coming back for the Chinese New Year?" Mama Liu suddenly asked again.

"It should be..." Liu Lian counted the time, and she was not sure if she still had work to do at that time.

"Okay then." Mama Liu's voice was clearly disappointed, she paused, and then said after seeing that Liu Lian didn't intend to continue talking, "Then let's be like this today, your dad is already asleep, I won't let him answer the phone, you can call your dad more in the future when you have time."

"Yes, I will." Liu Lian replied lightly. When Liu Ma was about to hang up the phone, Liu Lian suddenly felt a movement in her heart and subconsciously shouted, "That's right, Mom."

Mama Liu immediately replied, "Hey, what's the matter?"

"Well, I want to ask you a question." The night wind blew on Liu Lian's cheeks, and Liu Lian pulled her coat and took a deep breath. After a long time, she organized her words and asked carefully, "I have a woman My friend accidentally fell in love with a woman, and now she wants to live like this with that woman for the rest of her life, do you think her parents will agree?" After that, Liu Lian was afraid that Liu Ma would think too much, so she added, "Mom, tell me directly. I can answer, I just ask your generation's thoughts on her behalf."

There was no sound from the other end of the phone for a long time.

"Mom? Are you still there?" Liu Lian glanced at the phone strangely. She was indeed still on the phone. How could there be no voice suddenly.

Just as she was thinking about it, Mama Liu sighed through the receiver: "Is it gay? Be good, my mother will tell you clearly that it has nothing to do with our generation. As long as you are a mother, you absolutely don't want your children Going astray, if I were your friend's mother, I would never agree, I would rather not recognize that daughter."

Liu Ma's tone of voice was so resolute that at this moment Liu Lian even thought that Liu Ma was giving her a warning. After a moment of daze, Liu Lian hung up the phone hastily as if fleeing.

In the following time, Liu Lian couldn't calm down, and told her intuitively that Mama Liu seemed to know something, but after thinking about it carefully, she felt wrong. How could Mama Liu know that she was gay?It should be said that Mama Liu has no way to understand.

It wasn't until after ten o'clock in the evening that the people gathered in Liu Lian and Qiu Shuyu's room gradually left after eating and drinking, leaving a few staff members to help Liu Lian and the others clean up the rest of the accident scene.

Lu Ziqi also voluntarily stayed to help. She wandered around the room a few times wearing plastic gloves, facing the greasy dishes and unsightly leftovers, and finally frowned and couldn't do it. Throwing the gloves on the sofa, Lu Ziqi walked to Liu Lian who was cleaning up the dishes: "How's your foot? If it's inconvenient, don't do it."

"It's all healed and it's okay." Liu Lian said while tidying up the dishes, "And this is hands-on, not feet-handling. If you can help a little, please help."

"..." Hearing this, Lu Ziqi quietly moved to the front of the sofa and quietly put on the plastic gloves. Although he was not doing anything, he had to at least put on a show.

"Just now I saw that your complexion was not very good after answering the phone call. Did something happen?" Lu Ziqi said again, "If you need help, just let me know. I will definitely help you if I can."

"It's nothing, it's just a small matter at home." Liu Lian tidied up the dishes and put them in a box to take them to the villagers' homes for washing. When she turned around, she suddenly realized that there seemed to be something wrong with Lu Ziqi tonight. But she is not so enthusiastic.

Liu Lian's gaze suddenly became suspicious: "Why are you a little different tonight?"

"Hahahaha, what's the difference? Don't think too much." Lu Ziqi laughed a few times and then changed the subject.

After the few staff and assistant AB who stayed to help left, Lu Ziqi called Liu Lian out of the corridor, and finally revealed her ultimate goal.

"I want to go to Chengdu the day after tomorrow."

"What? No way!" Liu Lian refused without even thinking about it, and said to Lu Ziqi very seriously, "To be honest, I know you have an aunt who lives in Chengdu, and I guess you might as well go to Chengdu. Because of your aunt, but this is your private matter after all, how can you use your time at work to solve personal problems? We have been delayed for nearly a month, and asking for leave will definitely make everyone angry. "

Lu Ziqi said, "I'm only going for three days, and I'll definitely be back in three days."

Liu Lian still insisted on her own opinion: "I said no, you absolutely must listen to me on this point, and you can't delay your work because of impulsiveness."

Lu Ziqi stared at Liu Lian intently, her face became more and more cold, from the initial kind smile gradually turned into a cold snort: "You can't do it if you say no? You don't even think about who caused the delay for that month. .”

Liu Lian's face turned pale when she was stabbed sharply, and her aura instantly weakened: "Zi Qi, since I am your manager, I shouldn't indulge you..."

"It is precisely because you are my manager that I came here to ask for your opinion in advance." Impatient Lu Ziqi interrupted Liu Lian directly, "Old Liu, don't take my respect for you as a feather to order me, Even for the sake of taking care of you for a month last month, can't you even do this little request?"

Liu Lian said, "But how does the director explain it?"

Lu Ziqi thought for a while and said, "I will explain to the director in person. This time, there was indeed an accident and I needed to come over. You also know that although I, Lu Ziqi, have a bad temper, I have never been a person who is not easy to absent from work. .”

Liu Lian still hesitated: "But..."

"What's so good about it?" Lu Ziqi became a little annoyed when he saw that it hadn't worked for a long time, and even his voice rose a lot in an instant, "I've already said that I will personally tell Director Huang that I don't need you to come forward. The consequences are all borne by me alone, why do you have any hesitation? Oh yes, the month of rest after your fall is not a waste of time, but it is a waste of time for me to go to solve this problem in three days?"

Liu Lian bit her lip and listened to Lu Ziqi's words of scolding without saying a word. After a long time, she said in a low voice, "You can decide your own affairs. I can't control you so much."

The moment he turned around, tears of grievance fell down all at once.

Liu Lian quickly walked into the room in three steps at a time. Qiu Shuyu was still taking a shower in the bathroom and did not come out. Just as Liu Lian was about to close the door with tears all over her face, a hand quickly reached out and grabbed Liu Lian's arm, and dragged Liu Lian easily. out.

Lu Ziqi was so strong that there was no room for Liu Lian to resist. It wasn't until Lu Ziqi stopped that Liu Lian shook off Lu Ziqi's hand and turned her face to prevent the other party from seeing her tears. Liu Lian tried her best to calm down her trembling voice. He said coldly, "What else do you want to say?"

Lu Ziqi said in a hoarse voice with a little reproach: "How old are you, why are you crying?"

Liu Lian's tears, which had finally been suppressed, collapsed in an instant after hearing these words, and her thoughts kept flying and retreating... Lu Ziqi's previous bullying and ordering of her seemed to be vivid, even Lu Ziqi's words when he refused her The cold tone and the faint expression with some sympathy seemed to emerge in front of his eyes.

"It's none of your business whether I cry or not!" Liu Lian didn't dare to cry too loudly, she could only cover her mouth with her hands and tears fell like beads with broken threads.After becoming Lu Ziqi's manager, although Liu Lian couldn't guarantee that she would be [-]% perfect, at least she treated her wholeheartedly and treated her like an ancestor. Selective ignore.

I have to admit that Lu Ziqi's words just now really hurt Liu Lian's heart. It feels like a handicraft made after so many years of hard work was thrown into the trash can lightly by others. It was also the same feeling at the time, her kindness was trampled on by Lu Ziqi at will on the grounds that she had no self-knowledge.

Liu Lian felt greatly insulted.

How could Lu Ziqi, who is usually used to saying these things to assistants and former managers, understand Liu Lian's mood? If it's serious, those people also have smiling faces and won't show their true inner feelings. This Liu Lian is too unreasonable to play her cards.

"Hey, old Liu, don't cry, it's so ugly to cry." Lu Ziqi didn't have a tissue on him, so he could only use his hands to wipe Liu Lian's face indiscriminately to wipe away the tears.

Liu Lian choked up a few times and said: "You always hate me, I do this for your own good, but you treat your kindness as a donkey's heart and lungs. I have brought artists for several years, and you are the most fierce one."

"Okay, okay, okay, I won't be cruel to you in the future, okay? I just can't control my temper sometimes..." Lu Ziqi really didn't know what to do with Liu Lian's tears. He patted his forehead and finally could only raise his hands in surrender, " In this way, I apologize to you for what I just said, but please forgive me, I have some business to go to Chengdu, so I will ask for three days off."

Liu Lian cried so aggrieved that she started to hiccup while crying, Lu Ziqi helplessly patted her on the back to help her calm down.

After she calmed down a little, Liu Lian said, "Then you go and tell Director Huang yourself."

"OK, I will tell him personally." Lu Ziqi said.

The next day the sky finally cleared up, and the warm sun was already hanging in the sky at eight o'clock in the morning. Lu Ziqi's filming arrangement started at ten o'clock in the morning and continued until six o'clock in the afternoon. It is Lu Ziqi's personal role.

It is often inconvenient to enter the mountains. The traffic here is blocked, and there are basically no hotels and restaurants. The crew can only discuss with the nearby villagers and give them a sum of cash to prepare the meals for the whole crew for more than a month. The villager from the village quickly agreed to come down and collected the money, but when the food was delivered to everyone, anyone with a discerning eye could see that there was a lack of catties and taels in the food.

At first this situation was not too serious, and everyone just turned a blind eye to it, but later on, the portions of the meals became less and less, and the fried meat was almost all fatty meat, so the director finally decided to Talk to that villager yourself.

Lu Ziqi was wearing a light blue floral dress and trousers, a pair of black cloth shoes on her feet, and her long black hair was tied into two braids. She was wearing a heavy coat and sat shivering on a chair with her shoulders hunched. Under the sunlight, Lu Ziqi's lips were still purple with cold.

The temperature difference between day and night in the mountains is huge, the temperature during the day is similar to that of the city, but it is very cold at night, people like Lu Ziqi who sleep restlessly at night and like to kick the quilt are inevitably caught in the trap.

Liu Lian went to the rest shed and poured a cup of hot water for Lu Ziqi. Lu Ziqi sat on the stool behind Cao Zhiru and sneezed. , Cao Zhiru's face suddenly burst into a smile, and she reached out to take the cup in Liu Lian's hand... But Liu Lian didn't even look at her, and walked towards Lu Ziqi without squinting.

Lu Ziqi sneezed loudly, sniffed and took the cup: "Thank you."

"You're welcome." Liu Lian sat down beside Lu Ziqi.

Cao Zhiru's outstretched hand in front of her was empty, she maintained that awkward posture for a long time, then moved her fingers and retracted her hand in embarrassment, pretending to be smoothing her hair.

After a while, Tao Le's cold snort came: "Pretentious. Zhiru, I'll get you a glass of water."

Cao Zhiru's voice was gentle: "Okay, thank you."

Liu Lian didn't change her face when she heard the words, pretending not to hear.It was Lu Ziqi who stared at the back of Tao Le's head unhappily and wanted to get angry, but finally she endured it, made a face at Tao Le's figure, and then said to Liu Lian with her lips: What kind of virtue is this fat woman.

Two hours later, the director, who had negotiated with several staff members and villagers' homes, finally returned triumphantly, but his face was as black as coal. He walked up to the camera and waved his hands, shouting: "OK, rest It's over, keep shooting."

Everyone was stunned, with unwilling expressions on their faces, but they didn't dare to say anything, so they could only quickly touch up their makeup and get their clothes on and continue filming.

"It's already twelve o'clock, don't you still have dinner?" Assistant A couldn't help crying, "You don't have to work so hard for a scene—"

Qiu Shuyu glared at Assistant A: "No one will treat you as dumb if you don't speak."

Assistant A curled his lips and made a gesture of zipping his mouth.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the filming was still going on. Everyone was starving and lacking energy, but the gloomy face of the director made everyone dare not say a word.

After Lu Ziqi took off her coat, she was so cold that she almost jumped up, rubbed her arms and kept shivering. When she got to the camera, she could only endure the cold and knelt under a big tree, digging the soil with her hands emotionally. Her hands were covered with mud. After being scratched by a sharp stone, blood was soaked, but she seemed to be unconscious and digging like crazy.

As the cold wind blew past, Lu Ziqi's face turned red from the cold, and she gasped for breath and kept moving.

The depressing 10 minutes passed slowly, and a small black wooden box came into Lu Ziqi's eyes.

The lighting engineer slowly moved the white light panel, and the cameraman carried the camera and slowly stepped back to take a long shot. After the shot was switched, another camera pushed the camera along the track to take a close-up of the face.

The whistling wind sounded like a woman's low moan, Lu Ziqi opened the small wooden box with trembling hands, the next moment she suddenly burst into tears holding the small wooden box.

"Ka—" the director said, "Yes."

The author has something to say: I'm sorry, I came back late for dinner, this time I updated more than 5000 words~~ I will strive for more than five or six thousand words in future updates~

For the sake of the author's hard work, let's spread flowers~

PS: I will post a 5000-word anti-theft chapter later, the piracy network is too rampant, I have to guard against it, and I will change it back early tomorrow.