"So what? Lu Ze, you are in your thirties, can't you discuss anything with me? Have you ever regarded me as a girlfriend? Yesterday you promised me that you were going to start a new life, but what happened? You followed him without saying a word, and when you arrived at the imperial capital airport, the plane took off immediately, and you called me and said that you were leaving?"

"I'm sorry Pei Ling, I didn't do it right, but I don't want you and Mickey to quarrel after I make a decision, so I can only tell you after I get to the imperial capital. ”

"Tell me, tell me, right? Really Lu Ze, I found out...... Maybe I'm not that important to you, I really hate that you disrupt our predetermined life plan without making a sound, if you care about my feelings, you shouldn't leave, at least not today. ”

"I ...... I just want to give it a try, and if the film doesn't do well in a few months, I'll give up completely and go back to Lu Hua to work hard, and this time it's a trip to the UK. ”

"What about the results?"

“......”

Gao Peiling listened to Lu Ze's silence, sneered, reached out to pull back the long hair scattered in front of her forehead, leaned on the bench, turned the water glass, stared at the group photo of the two next to the monitor, and was silent for a long time.

"Maybe we should all calm down and think for a while, and call me after you finish the film, ...... abroad Stay safe. ”

"Toot ......"

The phone was hung up by her, Lu Ze glanced at the screen, threw the phone on the small table in the front seat of the plane, closed his eyes, rubbed his palm on his head, and sighed softly, he did a little too much in this matter.

But he really didn't want to see Gao Peiling and Mickey arguing or fighting in front of him in the wine house, with Gao Peiling's hot temper, it was not impossible, this time his approach was more like a child who ran away from home for fear of causing trouble and being known by his parents.

"What's the matter? The billionaire is angry? Maybe you can't get a rich woman this time, I'm really sorry, but we can become rich ourselves! We don't have to be low-minded, we have to be our own masters, and hold our fate and money in our own hands!"

"Come on, don't brainwash me, you have this trick, I know someone who is engaged in pyramid schemes, and when you pee and mud, you can play this trick on adults, save you, let go, I'll call my mother." ”

Throwing away the arm that was holding his shoulder with some disgust, Lu Ze picked up his mobile phone and called Li Yumei, and after three rings, the phone was connected.

"Hey, Mom, there's something I want to tell you, I'm going to England, I'm leaving now, and a friend asks me to go...... Acting in a play, you can come back in about two or three months, I got a British visa by the way when I went to France before, and now it hasn't expired, so I can go directly, Peiling knows, well, okay, then you and my dad pay attention to your body, I will definitely go back a year ago. ”

Lu Hua's mountains are much cooler than the city, and the sparrows that stayed on the grape trellis cried twice, making the environment more comfortable, Li Yumei hung up the phone, and the sound of the kitchen knife touching the cutting board came out again.

"Where did Osawa go?"

"He said that a friend asked him for a job and wanted to act in a play, and he would be back in two or three months. ”

"Oh. ”

Lu Weiguo still didn't say much, and after being informed, he watched the TV quietly and slowly sipped the tea, but suddenly there was a smile on his face.

......

The words were still a little hurried, because the stewardess asked Lu Ze to turn his mobile phone to airplane mode, after the plane slowly entered the orbit, it accelerated suddenly, and the plane rushed into the sky, Lu Ze's position was just by the window, looking at the clouds that were getting closer and closer to him, closing his eyes and preparing to rest for a while, but Mickey always had no honest time.

"Damn, the economy class is too crowded, my knees hurt so much, "Yin Desolation" ...... Hey, Lu Ze, isn't this the drama you filmed before, it's all released now. ”

"Well, so what?"

"Hmm...... 600 million investment, converted into pounds, 1 to 8.3...... It's nearly 100 million, a big deal, I'll look at the box office on the first day, ho~120 million......! One hundred and eight million! Nine million on the third day, my God, to be honest Lu Ze, I feel like you are leaving this crew...... It's a bit of a loss, if it goes on like this, there should be no problem with hitting three or four hundred million, hey? Why is the box office so high, but there are so many negative reviews?"

"Don't talk about it, I already knew, you look at the magazine date. ”

"June 18th? Nima's magazine two weeks ago? ”

"Two thousand yuan for a ticket, it's good to give you a seat, you are also a ballast stern, don't talk, I didn't sleep well last night, I'll make up for sleep first." ”

Lu Ze didn't want to explain to Mickey why a movie full of scolding would be a box office hit, anyway, Mickey was not a fool, he would figure it out when the time came, and stop talking to Mickey, Lu Ze fell asleep within two minutes of putting on the blindfold, as for how he sleeped, whether he snored or not, he didn't care.

Until ten o'clock in the evening, the plane landed at Dubai airport, and they needed to wait at the airport in Dubai for eight hours before connecting flights.

After being woken up by Mickey, the two first went to the smoking room to solve the problem of smoking addiction, and then bought two hot dogs, sat in the most corner of the airport café, and talked about the purpose of Lu Ze's trip to the UK.

"Show me the script. ”

"No problem. ”

Mickey opened his schoolbag and took out the stack of A4 paper, the purely handwritten script looked unusually neat, and the words written in blue ink were neatly arranged, Lu Ze could see that Mickey had some habits of writing with flowers, but all the text did not use flowers, which made it more difficult for the viewer to read, but was written in standard fonts.

This can be seen from this, Mickey's attitude towards the script and even the movie, which makes Lu Ze very recognized, but there is no binding, and he needs to read a page, so he puts this page at the end, which is really a little scattered, but it doesn't matter, because Lu Ze has been attracted by the content in it and has been deeply caught by the text.

It wasn't until an hour and a half later that Lu Ze handed the script back to Mickey, pinched the corners of his eyes, took a sip of the coffee that had cooled, and didn't speak, not that he was pretending to be profound, but relieving the emotions brought up by this script.

According to the standards of the domestic film industry, this script is bold and sharp, in other words, it is impossible to pass the review, because the content expresses an attitude of human nature, and in this regard, people all over the world are the same.

This reminded Lu Ze of another director who wrote and took selfies, that is, Zhuang Yu, who had just entered the palace of marriage.

The two have the same sharp attitude towards the movie, and they are also very hostile to the unhappiness of the world, but the difference between the two is that Zhuang Yu is depicting the sadness of the world, but he is full of compassion, while Mickey is depicting the evil of the world, but he is full of resistance to evil.

Mickey saw that Lu Ze was relieving his emotions, so he didn't bother, stuffed the script into his school bag, picked up the cold hot dog, ate the sausages, bacon and cheese inside, threw the rest of the bread, lettuce, tomatoes, and pickled cucumbers into the trash, and finally drank the coffee and burped before slowly speaking.

"Reading the script so fast, but looking at the way you look, you should have read it carefully, how about it?"

"I've seen the kick cat effect, the suggestion effect, the Mandela effect, and some effects, but I can't remember what they are called, it's a genius idea. ”

"Clever, but it's not an idea, it's something that happened to me, I just wrapped it up in another story and was determined to make it right, so what do you think of it?"

The eyes of the two looked at each other, Mickey showed a mysterious smile, Lu Ze looked at him for a long time, took a sip of coffee, and kept nodding lightly.

"I love it. ”

"Well, let's be honest, in fact, I can't pull investment or anything, the bank doesn't lend me money, and the film company only wants to buy this script, and doesn't let me be the director, so I had to sell another script that I particularly like, and raised 250,000 euros, and I can give you only 50,000 yuan, really only so much. ”

"If I cared about money, I wouldn't be here this time, besides...... I know how much I'm worth now, if I convert the exchange rate, more than 400,000, two or three months, it's already a lot. ”

Even if Lu Ze has gone abroad with him, in fact, Mickey is still worried, after all, he can go back if he can go, in case Lu Ze feels that he has given less, or feels that the script is not satisfied, he can't stop it, if Lu Ze nodded in the wine house and brought him a surprise, then now Lu Ze agrees to bring him definitely touched, and he expressed it equally straightforwardly, got up and hugged Lu Ze.

"Thank you, thank you Lu Ze, I will definitely double it back to you, I promise. ”

"It doesn't matter if you don't pay it back, after all, we all want to fight, as long as you win, in fact, you will give me everything back, I also want to thank you, you can still remember me with this kind of good script, huh...... I'll answer the phone and feed the sea?"

The sea is the first guest to come to the door after Lu Ze's wine house opened, Lu Ze left in a hurry, so he asked the lame man to be taken care of by the sea, anyway, he wrote it, a day of idle urine, I heard Lu Ze say let him take care of the lame, and directly patted his chest to ensure that after Lu Ze came back, the lame man could gain two catties.

But now the sea may be repentant, Lu Ze has walked for more than ten hours and has not come back, it seems to be a little anxious, jumping up and down in the house of the sea, no way, the sea called Lu Ze like this, at this time Lu Ze is apologetic, not only to the sea, but also to the lame, after all, the life span of a cat is actually not long, but he can not give it long-term companionship, which is also a kind of irresponsibility, even if the cripple is only four or five years old now, he can only be regarded as a young and middle-aged man.

Lu Ze asked the sea to listen to the phone to the lame man, and comforted the lame man on the phone, as if he understood, after calling a few times, he took the initiative to go back to the cat cage to sleep, which also made Lu Ze make up his mind to go home as soon as possible after filming in the best possible situation, there are still many people waiting for him at home.

Hanging up the phone, Lu Ze asked Mickey to take out the script again, and the two began to discuss the storyboard of the script and the modification of the storyline, and chatted until six o'clock the next morning in Dubai.

On the route to the UK, the state of the two was completely opposite to when they flew to Dubai, Mickey began to fall asleep, while Lu Ze has been studying the script, after systematic squeezing training, in just a dozen hours, Lu Ze has mastered the character of the protagonist.

Because the ticket to Liverpool has been sold out, the two flew to London first, and it was more than four o'clock in the afternoon when they got off the plane, and the two had dinner in London.

To be honest, this thing Lu Ze felt ...... It's not very delicious, mainly because the dough of the fried fish is too thick, and there is an indescribable taste, but Lu Ze has eaten a lot of fries, not that the fries are particularly delicious, just because Lu Ze likes to eat potatoes.

After dinner, we took the most common means of transport in the UK, the train, and after a three-hour drive, finally arrived in Liverpool at 8pm.

The initial impression of the city may be that when I first got out of the train station, a white horse ridden by a policewoman came out and almost smashed the poop on Lu Ze's feet, and the originally heroic policewoman dismounted to shovel in a somewhat funny way.

"It feels so good to be home~ Let's go, I'll take you to a place where you can go to a fun place. ”

Mickey grabbed Lu Ze's arm and rushed forward, but when Lu Ze heard that he was going to play, he immediately frowned and stopped.

"I think the main purpose now is to prepare the crew, I came to the UK with you, not for tourism. ”

"Of course I know, but this is the first day you came! You don't want to work like a robot and work all the time, I went to Huaxia, how did you entertain me, then you come to Liverpool, how I will entertain you, believe me, the last time before the filming, let's go!"

Hearing Mickey say this, Lu Ze had no choice but to keep up with him, passing by several bars along the way, many young people dressed fashionably, standing at the door of the bar to line up to check their ID cards, but unfortunately the end of the two was not any of these bars, and finally after twenty minutes, Mickey took Lu Ze to stop, stood at the door of a bar called Lionheart, and made a gesture to Lu Ze.

Entering the tavern, there was the smell of alcohol and noisy noise, but Lu Ze also breathed a sigh of relief, compared to the nightclub where electronic music is banging non-stop, this kind of English-style old bar with a rugby night game on the TV is more popular with middle-aged people like Lu Ze.

"Hey, Mickey, your new boyfriend?"

"I'm not a pervert who likes to wear leather panties, right? James? Hey! Elena! You're pretty again. ”

It seems that Mickey is still a celebrity here, and there are many guests who greet him and joke about him, and occasionally there are drunkards who drink a lot and open a map cannon, and they are also immediately scolded back by Mickey, explaining what it means to have sharp teeth.

Lu Ze's focus is on the overall environment of the bar, which is similar to the English bar in the movie, the wooden structure looks retro, but the walls are full of photos, even if Lu Ze doesn't pay much attention to football now, he also recognizes many Liverpool celebrities and the team's historical players.

"Mickey, why have you been there for the past two days?

After finding a vacant seat and sitting down, a girl dressed in a waiter costume walked over, looking like a typical Western beauty, with a hot body, blonde hair and blue eyes, chewing gum and talking and laughing with Mickey, Lu Ze already knew her name from the time he entered the door.

"I just came back from Huaxia and kidnapped a friend. ”

"Is it fun in Huaxia, how is the scenery?"

"I don't know, I've only been in Huaxia for two days, and I've drunk too much, let me introduce, Yelena, the daughter of the bar owner, this is Lu Ze, you can call him loser, of course, I also changed my name, I'm also called loser, two losers...... That's it.

This kind of self-deprecating joke Lu Ze didn't mind, he just waved his hand at Yelena, but the girl shook Mickey's shoulder, trying to comfort Mickey, after all, everyone knows what Mickey's situation is, but Lu Ze always feels that this girl has something to do with Mickey.

"Don't talk about that, what to drink?"

"A bottle of black label, by the way, take two ounce glasses, and two more glasses of Ale beer, and when we finish drinking, we will have two more beers until one of the two of us lies down, Lu Ze, what do you order?"

"I drink whatever you order. ”

The girl understood, and after leaving for a while, she returned with drinks and snacks, and after setting them on the table, she greeted the other guests with a smile.

Mickey unscrewed the whiskey at this moment, poured two ounce glasses, and then threw the ounce glasses directly into the beer, exploded a thick layer of foam, handed Lu Ze a cigarette, lit it and raised the wine glass.

"Cheers!"

Perhaps because this way of drinking is easy to get started, or maybe because of the time difference, as soon as the second drink was over, the two of them were a little drunk, blending into the bar environment, shouting at the rugby players who were colliding on TV, until the third glass was just raised, and a pair of arms were on Mickey's shoulders.

"Mickey, how are you my friend, I didn't see you in a few days, I thought you were in prison again, is the prison meal still to your liking?"

Not to mention Mickey, even Lu Ze's face changed instantly, you must know that being in prison is a scar that Mickey can't mention, and this person keeps sprinkling salt on Mickey's wounds, which proves that he ...... Not friends.

"What did you say?"

Flicked the cigarette ash, Lu Ze stared at this drunkard wearing a wrinkled suit with an unkind face, blushing like an ass, he didn't mind having a fight with this grandson, anyway, he would definitely be able to fight, if he really didn't work, he would call people, and he had a bunch of them in his head when he fought ruthlessly.

"I don't have anything to do with you outsiders, you know? I've never been racist, but I hate self-righteous outsiders, I don't care if you're Asian or Chinese-American, this is Liverpool. ”

Just didn't wait for Lu Ze to stand up, he was pressed down by Mickey, shook his head at Lu Ze, and asked Lu Ze to sit back in his position, and at this time, Yelena also came over in a hurry.

"You'd better not make trouble at my house, if you drink, drink honestly, if you don't, then get out of here Dave, I hate you. ”

This man has a grudge against Mickey, but in the tavern, he doesn't dare to argue with Yelena, after all, eighty percent of the people sitting in the tavern are old customers, and ninety percent of these old customers have grown up watching Yelena, if he doesn't want to be beaten out of his brains, he has to be honest and obedient.

"Okay, then I'll have a Chivas Regal with a slice of lime. ”

The drunkard had obviously drunk too much, but not so much that he was unconscious, waved his hand, and honestly found an empty seat to sit down, and Elena smiled at Mickey before turning away.

"Who is he?"

"One of my former neighbors, the company went bankrupt, lived on alcohol, his wife divorced and took away the children, he borrowed money from me when the relief money was spent, I didn't lend it to him, he hated me, no one likes him here, but after all, he is from Liverpool, you can't do anything with him, otherwise people here won't welcome you, unless ......"

Mickey shook his head, and after clinking glasses with Lu Ze, he beckoned to Yelena again, and ran over again and again, which made the girl obviously a little unhappy, even if it was a little interesting to Mickey, he didn't want to be so appealing.

"What are you doing, are you helping me lose weight?"

"No, I have something to ask you, do you want to make a movie?"

This question obviously startled Elena, she opened her mouth, couldn't speak for a long time, just kept shaking her head, and finally smoothed out this breath, and answered a little stammeringly.

"Who doesn't like it? But I have a few pounds and a few taels, and I know that this kind of joke is not interesting, so don't be funny. ”

"No, what I'm saying is true, my new movie, although it is a small budget, is not playing you, female number one, do you want to make it?"

"Can I really?"

"Don't talk nonsense, do you want to?"

"Of course!"

Lu Ze was naturally surprised by Mickey's ridiculous decision, but Yelena was in front of him after all, and he couldn't object in front of her, so he could only take a sip of beer silently, while Mickey was smiling, holding the table with both hands, stretching out his neck to look at Lu Ze.

"Do you know what I meant by what I just said?"

"What do you mean?"

"You're an outsider, you can't beat him, unless, the Liverpudlians themselves beat ......"

As soon as the words fell, Mickey got up instantly, walked towards Dave, snatched the wine glass from Dave's hand, and slammed it on his skull, the wall of the whiskey glass was very thick, this time it was not smashed, Mickey threw the wine glass aside, obviously, he was afraid that if he continued to smash it, he would cause an accident, so he could only kick Dave down, ride on his waist, and punch and punch in the face.

The surrounding customers watched the excitement and began to cheer under the influence of alcohol, until the bar owner came out of the bar, more than two meters tall and his huge body threw Mickey aside like a chick.

"Mitch, you're about to kill him, this is my territory, you can't make trouble here, Elena, call the police, let the police deal with it, but before that, you have to compensate me for my losses. ”

"No one can shame my friend!

Mickey was drunk, and he didn't seem to have enough of it, after all, he was the actor of the "Jackie Chan Adventures" fandom, and he got up and rushed over the next moment he was thrown out, but he couldn't break out of the bar owner's arm thicker than Mickey's thighs.

"Enough Mickey! a hundred pounds, and get out. ”

"But he scolded my friend!"

"But he's not my friend. ”

seemed to realize that there was a boss, and he couldn't continue to beat Dave, Lu Ze also hurried over to grab Mickey, took out a hundred pounds and prepared to leave, at this time he turned off the fire, gasped violently, sat aside, and rinsed the blood and wounds on his hands with beer, but the boss didn't plan to let Mickey and Lu Ze stay in the bar anymore.

", go home and wake up your mind, wait for the police to come to the door, Yelena, and see how Dave is. ”

"You'd better not drive me away, I'm serious Depp, your daughter is the heroine of my movie, and you're going to kick your daughter's director out?"

Hearing the news, Depp first looked at Yelena, and after getting affirmation, he looked Mickey up and down, of course he knew that Mickey was a very powerful director, it is not an exaggeration to say that the whole of Europe knew that Liverpool had a ghost director, but now Mickey's situation is also clear, and he is skeptical about whether Mickey can still make movies.

"You can still make movies, and who's going to invest in addicts?"

"First of all, I didn't suck D, never! Also, although my new film investment is not large, it does set up a project, do you want to check my bank account with me? If you have never respected me. ”

The difference in size between the two is huge, but Mickey is not timid to look at Depp at all, until Depp sees that he does have confidence, then he nodded, grabbed Dave's collar like a dead dog, threw him on the side of the road, and then returned to the bar and beckoned to Mickey.

"You and your friends come and sit at the bar, I think...... We need to talk about, first of all, who is the male lead?"

"My friend is. ”

"Asian?"

"What? Look down on Asians?"

"Of course not, just curious. ”

"Best Newcomer at the China Golden Rooster Awards, Best Actor at the Golden Rooster Awards twice, Best Actor at the Xiangjiang Awards, Best Actor at the Wanwan Golden Horse Awards, and Best Actor nominated at Cannes, are you so arrogant that you look down on the winners of the four trophies at Asia's top film festivals? ”

A series of titles did smash all the spectators in the bar, including Depp, the Golden Rooster Award and the Golden Horse Award may not be well-known in Europe, but as the Xiangjiang of Oriental Hollywood, the name of the Academy Awards is still widely known, and the Cannes Film Festival nomination for Best Actor can easily prove that this man who is unrecognizable by everyone's face blind is really powerful.

"Yes, but I don't want my daughter to have explicit footage on screen. ”

"If the kiss scene is also explicit. ”

"What about the script, I'll take a look. ”

"I'm sorry, I won't take it out until I sign the contract. ”

"I've never heard of such a rule. ”

"Because that's my rule. ”

"Why?"

"I'm Mitch Fernand Taylor. ”

"And have your friends seen it?"

"Yes. ”

Mickey didn't hide the fact that Lu Ze had read the script, which made Depp a little angry, why can the male protagonist watch it, but the female protagonist can't watch it? Just because Lu Ze is a few actors, and his daughter is just the daughter of a bar owner? Just because his daughter works as a waitress in a bar?

"Why?"

"Because he's my best friend. ”

"You're a couple?"

"He's not GAY, and I'm not either, it's just that he saved my life, and I, right now, are saving his life. ”

How can you give back this life, that life, you two fight Contra? Maybe any filmmaker who knows both of them, or movie lovers can understand the meaning of this passage, but these English rough guys in the bar who only know how to drink, watch games, vomit, and go home to make children obviously don't understand.

Mickey took a beer of his own hands, smothered in one gulp, burped vigorously, and lifted his head at Yelena.

"It's not early, we're going back to rest, if you're willing to shoot, then contact me after ten o'clock tomorrow morning, don't fight before ten o'clock, I can't get up, good night everyone." ”

patted Lu Ze on the shoulder, and took Lu Ze to prepare to leave, the two just walked to the door, but Depp stopped the two again, and when the two turned around, they saw Depp waving his hands helplessly.

"What about the name? at least the name can be known, right?"

“《Effect》。 ”

"What does 'Effect' mean?"

"Secrecy, my rule. ”

“......”