Li Zhi followed the waiter surnamed Liu to the "dormitory" of the restaurant.

The dormitory is actually the basement of a residential building two or three hundred meters away from the dining room.

The air in the dormitory was filled with the smell of dampness, mixed with the smell of rotting wood.

Through the dim light, there are three shelf beds in the basement of twenty or thirty square meters.

Xiao Liu asked Li Zhi to go to the innermost shelf bed to sleep, and Li Zhi felt hesitant for the first time when he went down the mountain.

Is it really necessary to live like a mouse in a corner of the city?

Xiao Liu didn't care what Li Zhi thought in his heart, he walked to the second shelf bed after a busy day, and after a while, there was an even snoring sound.

Li Zhi is not tired, he can think more.

Thinking about the choice he had, Li Zhi searched all the corners, but still didn't find any of them!

There is no freedom to stay in Shanghai and make other better choices.

He thought of Director Li he met when he came down from Zhongnan Mountain, and when he saw that girl, he might be able to try it with him.

Li Zhi gave up the struggle and carried the box to the innermost shelf bed.

There was nothing in the lower bunk, and Li Zhi looked at the upper bunk by the faint light, and there was no one there.

So Li Zhi went to the top bunk, and lay on the bed with only wooden planks, thinking to himself, although he saw that although he was cruel, the experience was really cruel.

So, it's always hard for people to empathize.

The next morning, no sunlight shone into the room from the window, but Li Zhi still got up on time.

Because I woke up early and the staff at several other restaurants were still asleep, it was extremely quiet.

A new day has begun, and although the night is too hard, the day is not bad.

Li Zhi went to the restaurant after washing, and the door of the restaurant was facing the Bund Square, and the restaurant was not open, so Li Zhi sat down on a seat in the square.

Leaning on the back of the chair, Li Zhi looked at the slowly rising sun and closed his eyes slightly.

This smell of fireworks from the world really filled his nasal cavity, sniffing carefully, Li Zhi never noticed that someone was approaching.

"Hello, excuse me. ”

Li Zhi was an old man in front of him, his hair was gray, his facial features were soft, and the most striking thing was the backpack he was carrying, a brown leather backpack with a very old sense of age, and besides, there was nothing eye-catching.

Li Zhi opened his eyes and nodded to the old man.

"Hello, is there something wrong?"

The old man smiled slightly, just asked Li Zhi to wait for a while, and was not in a hurry to explain the reason.

Sitting down next to Li Zhi, the old man opened the backpack, there were several simple bound white papers inside, and after the old man reverently took out one, he buckled the brown leather backpack.

Li Zhi looked at the old man's slow movements, and he didn't mean to be in a hurry, after all, he had lived with an old man like Huaihua Daoren for fifty years, and he had enough patience and time.

The old man opened the pure white cover of the white paper, as if looking for something, and after a minute or two, the old man finally found it.

"Look at this, do you think he looks like you?"

The old man handed over the white paper directly, and Li Zhi took it and stared at the page.

On the page of the book is a picture and some text, which shows a young man leaning against a tree by the lake, his eyes closed, and at the end of the lake there is a sun that has just emerged.

The text expresses a teenager who obsessively pursues this wealth and obtains wealth, wealth brings desire, and the boy is also lost because of desire.

Until an accident, the young man's wealth is gone, and he sits alone by the lake near his hometown for the night, and finally realizes it at dawn.

As for what he realized, Li Zhi didn't know, but he guessed that life did not change qualitatively because of wealth, so he would never lose his luster because of the dissipation of wealth.

Li Zhi returned the book to the old man and smiled at him.

"Not like me, but like me, like the world. Isn't life all about gaining and losing? Gain life at birth and lose life when you die. ”

The old man nodded, with emotion.

"You are right, the wheel of history is always crushing back and forth between gain and loss, the big one is the hegemony of the world, the small one is the rise and fall of the family, and the smallest and smallest is the infinite cycle of life and death. ”

Li Zhi was silent, he didn't know history, and he didn't know if the wheels of history would hold him down.

The old man did not lose interest in speaking because of Li Zhi's silence, and he introduced the story in the white paper to Li Zhi.

The young people written in the book are actually the old people themselves, from young to old, from lustful to sober self-knowledge, for forty or fifty years.

The old man later engaged in the art industry, a professional screenwriter, and was the top screenwriter in the country.

His name is Qin Congwen, a big man in the screenwriting industry, and he is the top in the eyes of directors, as long as the book is thrown out, there is definitely the kind that pays money out of his pocket.

Li Zhi listened to Uncle Qin bragging, because it was difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, so Li Zhi also listened.

Seeing that Li Zhi didn't mean to go to the road at all, Uncle Qin finally spoke with a little seriousness.

"Li Zhi, how about you see the film I played for you just now?"

Rao is Li Zhi is psychologically strong, and he was also overwhelmed by Uncle Qin's sudden robbery.

"Uncle Qin, first of all, I am not a professional actor, let alone a leading role, and secondly, I can't leave Shanghai for a while. ”

Qin Congwen's wrinkled face swelled up with a kind smile again.

"It's okay, it's in Shanghai, it's okay if you're not a professional actor, as long as you agree to make this drama. ”

Later, Qin Congwen wrote down Li Zhi's place of work again, and after learning that the restaurant was not far away, the screenwriter of Qin Da suddenly became unhappy, and his face turned pale.

"How can the actor I personally set work in this place, you follow me to my house?!"

Li Zhi hurriedly refused, this drama has not yet declined, how can he go directly to someone's house, this is not good.

Seeing Li Zhi's resolute attitude, although screenwriter Qin felt regretful, he was no longer reluctant.

Li Zhi was curious about why Qin Congwen wanted him to be the protagonist so much, and Qin Congwen said that Li Zhi was like him when he was young.

Qin Congwen pointed to the likeness, Li Zhi didn't understand.

The two chatted for a few more words, and Uncle Qin said that he had something to talk about when he went to Lujiazui, so he left first.

Li Zhiye also started work shortly after the old man left.

The restaurant where I work is a Western restaurant, slightly grade, but not at the luxury level, about the daily consumption level of gold collars, and most of the people who usually come to eat are foreigners.

And Li Zhi's job is to pass dishes, and Director Zhang feels that this is the only thing Li Zhi can do.

"Smack!"

“OMG，What are you do ying？”

In the dining room, the cups and plates were in disarray, and a waitress accidentally knocked over the plate while serving food, and the juice spilled on the white shirt of the foreigner who was dining.

Xiao Liu hurried over to deal with it, but because of his average English level, such an emergency situation was not very clear about the demands of the guests.

Li Zhi hurriedly stepped forward.

“I do apologize for this interruptinon ......”