468 Tough Holidays
In late March, in New York, the spring is cold, the Hudson River can still see the ice scattered everywhere, the deep cold water exudes a cold atmosphere, in the steel and concrete endless forest spreads through, the breeze blows, all the pedestrians can't help but put up their collars, even so, still can't help but shiver.
Walking in the midst of the surging crowd, Nathan pulled the collar of his trench coat, pushed open the door in front of him, and walked quickly into the warm room, enjoying the staggered drinking orders, chatting and laughing, and dazzling the surging crowd...... In an instant, the stiff muscles relaxed, as if entering an isolated peach blossom paradise, I could not feel the changes of the four seasons, nor could I feel the passage of time, and eternally fixed in the moment of singing and dancing, laughter and laughter.
took off his coat and hung it on the coat rack at the door, looked at the bar, saw Neil at a glance, raised his chin, and said hello, but he didn't expect that Neil was grimacing, constantly squeezing his eyebrows, Nathan was stunned, and when he reacted, he saw the familiar figure, swaggering over, he wanted to turn around and run away, but it was too late, all the retreats were full of people, and it would be extremely difficult to break through in a short time.
"Nathan, where's your boss?" Before the person came to the front, the voice had already come, but at the time of a word, the footsteps followed, and the expression of the eyebrows and eyes made Nathan involuntarily avoid his gaze, and did not dare to look at him head-on, "Don't tell me you don't know, you are his assistant, and his whereabouts will definitely tell you! Three weeks, three full weeks, he can't completely disappear! Even if he is dead, he will send an obituary!"
What do you say...... It's really full of personality.
But Nathan knew that the other party had no malicious intent, just venting his emotions. So, Nathan smiled brightly and greeted politely, "Good afternoon, George." "Trying to keep a smile on my face, trying to prove my innocence.
But this set had no effect at all, the other party waved his hand directly, as if to drive away flies, and said with a face, "Whether it's a vacation, a trip, or a study, he should always have a movement, right? Three weeks, completely disappear from the earth's map? This is ridiculous and outrageous!"
The other party spread his hands and had an expression of "I'll reason with you", but his words always maintained an aggressive momentum, and he had no intention of backing down at all, "I can understand that he doesn't use Facebook, he doesn't use Twitter, I totally understand, but even the assistant doesn't know his location? I'm not a journalist, I'm his album producer! I just want to know when the album will be in production, and I don't even plan to rush him!"
Passing over the other's shoulders, Nathan saw Neil standing at the bar, with a gloating smile without a hint of sympathy. Nathan was helpless.
At this moment, Nathan's place is a pioneer village, and standing in front of him is George Sland.
"Fighting Cancer" was officially completed, and that was three weeks ago. After all the filming was over, Lan Li gave Nathan a vacation, and he packed his bags, did not take a plane or a self-driving car, but chose to stop the hitchhiker on the side of the highway and left Seattle directly.
Before leaving, Lan Li told Nathan that his final destination was Grand Canyon National Park, a freehand climbing destination, and that he wanted to go to that land for himself, experience the essence of extreme sports, and continue to challenge himself. But after that, Nathan didn't hear from Lan Li.
Nathan tried to call Lan Li several times, but each time it was turned off, and he didn't receive a reply.
This is a worrying situation. In the end, Andy Rogers was even more spicy, he seemed to have anticipated such a possibility, so he unhurriedly turned on the global positioning system in Lan Li's mobile phone and determined Lan Li's whereabouts. During this time, Lan Li has been in the Grand Canyon National Park, and seems to be hiking, insisting on moving every day.
But that's all. Neither Nathan nor Andy knew the specifics of Lan Li.
Nathan, meanwhile, returns to New York on his own, and although it's his vacation, he can't completely relax.
On the one hand, he began to learn about the broker's business, which was helpful for his assistant work, he knew that he still had a lot of shortcomings and had to keep improving, and on the other hand, he also tried to learn more about Lan Li's habits, preferences, etc., to help him better handle Lan Li's daily life, and the pioneer village was the best choice.
As an assistant, Nathan is also growing little by little.
Coming to the pioneer village every now and then, Nathan gradually fell in love with the place, and even when he was relaxing, he would come here for a beer and become good friends with Neil Tucson, but at the same time Nathan was on vacation with an uninvited guest, George.
After accidentally learning that Nathan is Lan Li's assistant, George begins to pester Nathan, asking about Lan Li's itinerary and whereabouts.
At first, Nathan was patient and told him everything he knew, but gradually things started to get tricky.
For the past three weeks, George had been waiting in the pioneer village every day, and at first Nathan didn't want to think that George was coming to besiege him, but he soon found out that this was the way it was—more accurately, not for Nathan, but for the Blue Rite.
Every time he saw him, George would fiercely surround him, not even giving him breathing space, and resorted to all kinds of means, such as tenderness, coercion, temptation, guidance, and pleading, hoping to force Lan Li's whereabouts.
Nathan was really helpless, he had already told everything he knew, but George still didn't believe it, and always thought that he was hiding something. This made Nathan miserable, and he only felt that his body was hollowed out.
So...... Nathan burst into tears.
"George, what would you do if I told you that Lan Li is in New York right now?" Nathan's unexpected answer made George stunned, and he didn't know how to respond for a while, and after a pause, George asked, "Are you serious? Lan Li is in New York now?"
Nathan's expression didn't make a difference, he just continued, "I mean, if he's here, then what are you going to do?"
George choked. Lan Li is a guy who doesn't eat oil and salt, even if he learned that Lan Li was in New York, even if he used his mobile phone to contact Lan Li, even if he surrounded Lan Li in the pioneer village, he still had no way to force Lan Li to make an album, he agreed at the beginning, according to Lan Li's schedule, so he was in a hurry alone, it was useless.
This is a frustrating and irrefutable fact.
Extremely depressed inside, but not on the surface, George still said strongly, "I'm going to ask him if he has been working on it lately? Has the previous repertoire been sorted out? Is there a portfolio where I can listen to the master tape or something? You know, making an album is not such a simple thing, just choosing the songs, it takes a long time." ”
Nathan didn't argue again, just smiled and nodded, looking happy to be taught.
George couldn't help but speak.
Nathan, when he first met, was simple and honest, and seemed to be a submissive idiot, but now he has become so cunning that he has completed the transition between offense and defense in a quiet manner, and almost took him into the ditch. Sure enough, Lan Li was surrounded by a group of foxes, those who were close to Zhu were red and those who were close to ink were black, and Nathan had also learned badly.
Looking at Nathan's smile, George's eyes widened, and he said sharply, "Lan Li is just a guy who doesn't do his job, he doesn't do his work, and he wanders around. Those celebrities obediently go to the island when they are on vacation, bask in the sun, swim, and spread scandals; but Lan Li insists on wandering around and doing some dangerous things, what if he gets injured? What if it affects the next work in the recording studio? I just say, today's young people are too unreliable! What YOLO, what experience excitement, what enjoyment of life, no sense of responsibility at all!"
Nathan muttered, "Isn't Lan Li's essential work an actor?"
"What are you talking about!" George's eyebrows were upside down, and his whole person was in a state of fried hair.
Nathan waved his hand again and again, and said with a smile, "I said that vacations are all about working more seriously after that, aren't they?"
Knowing that what Nathan just said was not this, George did not continue to pursue it, nodded in agreement, and then put his arm around Nathan's shoulder, put on a friendly smile, and said gently, "During the filming of this movie, Lan Li didn't create any tracks? Are you sure?"
In the face of such an intimate and enthusiastic George, Nathan cried in his heart, and he knew that George would not end so easily. The grind of this holiday is obviously far from over.
Nathan is undergoing his own trials in the pioneer village, and Lanli is receiving his own in the Grand Canyon National Park.
The scorching sun was in the sky, and the field of vision was empty, without any trees or mountains, and the scorching sun was sprinkled unscrupulously, and a wave of heat was pouring out of the air, as if it were enough to evaporate all the water vapor; the wind was gusting, and the grass was overgrown on the wide plain, and the air currents were piling up bigger and more fierce, and the sound of the hunting wind was like thunder, sharp as a blade, cutting every inch of the earth.
It's hard to imagine a place where you can experience extreme heat and extreme cold at the same time, and it's overwhelming.
Lan Li only felt that his throat had begun to smoke, but his body was slightly hot, and the sharp cold penetrated down the pores, everywhere, and the contradiction between external heat and internal cold continued to consume his physical strength and energy, and the whole person seemed to be walking on the tip of a knife.