Zhang Ran looked back and saw that it was Huang Lei and Sun Li, who were striding towards this side with their luggage.

Huang Lei patted Zhang Ran on the shoulder, and scolded with a smile: "Okay, you stinky boy, don't say that you don't know that we are on the plane, you didn't come to say hello, do you say you owe it to clean up!"

Bai Yunfei, who was not far away, looked back and saw this scene, he was a little surprised, Zhang Ran knew Huang Lei, it seemed that he was quite familiar, wasn't he a middle school teacher?

"You live in a two-person world, how can I disturb you!" Zhang Ran scratched his head embarrassedly, looked at Sun Li and said, "Sister Sun Li, let's meet again!"

Sun Li knew that Zhang Ran was studying in Los Angeles, so she asked, "Zhang Ran, what are you doing in Los Angeles?

Zhang Ran sighed in his heart, they were all divided, what else to see, it was better to miss each other. However, he didn't show his inner emotions, and said with a smile: "No, I'm going to direct a movie every once in a while, it's a science fiction film, and I want to make a few special effects shots, and I'll come over to buy software for special effects." ”

Huang Lei was stunned, in the domestic film market, who would dare to invest money in making science fiction films, stared at Zhang Ran's eyes, and asked: "You kid didn't say that because he was afraid that we would arrest you as a tour guide, right?"

Zhang Ran heard Huang Lei say this, smiled and waved his hand: "How can it, it doesn't take much time to buy software, and there is no problem at all for you to be a tour guide, but you have to invite me to dinner!"

Huang Lei was originally joking, but he was happy when he heard Zhang Ran say this: "It's really fake, I didn't force you!"

Sun Li smiled and said, "We just don't have a tour guide, and now it's free!"

Huang Lei is a good person, he eats well in the circle, and he has more free time, so it is not a matter to take them around. Zhang Ran nodded and said, "No problem, but I made an appointment with my friends, I have to go to their place today, and I will come to you tomorrow and take you to play." Which hotel are you going to stay in? I'll come to you when the time comes!"

"Undecided, we're going to find one at random, do you have any recommendations?"

Zhang Ran wrote the address of a hotel for the two, made an appointment for the next day, waved at the two, and then dragged his trolley suitcase, smiling and walking towards Neil Blomkamp, who was holding the sign.

Neil smiled and stepped forward to give Zhang Ran a hug: "Robin, I heard that you are ready to make a movie?"

When Zhang Ran arrived in the United States, foreigners called him by a strange name, so he planned to give himself an English name. He liked the movie "Robin Hood", so he named it Robin, and later learned that British men are called Robindo, and there are fewer men called Robin in the United States, most of them are women, which made him quite depressed.

"It's just a TV movie!" Zhang Ran said with a smile.

"TV movies are also good, if you can broadcast them on TV stations, investors can see your work, and they will have a judgment on your ability. Let's go, I'll show you my new car!" Neil was a little envious, he didn't have a chance to make a TV movie yet! He took a picture, and then walked towards the exit of the airport together.

To tell the truth, he is against Zhang Ran's return to China, China is too backward, is there a movie there? He firmly believes that Zhang Ran has no future when he goes back, but he didn't expect that Zhang Ran got the opportunity to direct in just a few months, which is really incredible.

Neil's new car is a Chevrolet Corvette, white, with beautiful lines, like a girl's waist. Zhang Ran remembered that Neil's original car was a red Chevrolet, and it was said that Americans had a Chevrolet in their hearts, but he didn't expect Neil, a South African, to also have a soft spot for Chevrolet.

Zhang Ran put the luggage in the trunk, sat on it, patted the chair and said, "This car is so beautiful, you have made a fortune recently?"

Neil said proudly: "I took an advertisement for Toyota, and the remuneration was used to buy a car!"

Zhang Ran was immediately happy: "Buy a Chevrolet with the salary given by Toyota, Toyota's people will be angry if they know it, right?"

Hahaha――

Amid laughter, Neil drove out of the airport and toward the city.

The car stopped in front of a small two-story building on the outskirts of Los Angeles, and the house was a bit old, decades old. However, Zhang Ran is familiar with this house, and he used to live here.

Opening the door, a beautiful blonde walks over with a smile, it is Neil's girlfriend Lisa. She looked at Zhang Ran and gave him a warm hug with a smile: "Robin, I'm so happy to see you!"

"Lisa, long time no see!" Zhang Ran patted Lisa on the back and let go of his hand with a smile.

"I'll take you to the room, it's the one you used to live in, it's already packed!" Lisa glanced at Zhang Ran's suitcase and enthusiastically led Zhang Ran to the house.

Following Lisa to the room on the second floor, Zhang Ran found that the furnishings of the room had not changed at all, exactly the same as when he first lived. Standing in the room, a strange sense of familiarity surged into Zhang Ran's heart: "Thank you, Lisa!"

Zhang Ran put down his luggage, went downstairs with Lisa, and sat in the living room and chatted with the two of them.

In the evening, the three of them sat in the living room drinking as before. Neil and Lisa can be considered to be able to drink, but they can't compare with Zhang Ran at all, and in the end, Zhang Ran sent Neil and the two of them back to the room.

Although he took the plane for more than ten hours, Zhang Ran did not feel tired. When he returned to his room, he pushed open the door and went out onto the balcony, where he could see the city lights at night.

Somehow, the memories in my head are like mountain spring water, gurgling out. He used to live here with his girlfriend, and at night he used to sit on the balcony, snuggle together, and look forward to the future. It's just that now, things are wrong.

The night wind blew on his body, Zhang Ran felt a little cold, and he suddenly thought about Nortel's single dormitory, after all, it was his home. He turned back to his room, took a shower, turned off the light, and lay down on the bed, staring at the blurred ceiling.

In the previous life, his girlfriend was going abroad, and the two broke up, and in this life, he returned to China and broke up with his girlfriend, which is like the reincarnation of fate.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Zhang Ran drove to the agreed café and found Huang Lei and them. The car belonged to Neil, he bought a new car, the old car had not been sold, Zhang Ran needed a car when he went out, so he temporarily requisitioned it.

After a brief chat, Huang Lei asked, "Zhang Ran, I heard that the scenery of your school is good, why don't you take us to your school first?"

Zhang Ran glanced at the dresses of the two, shook his head with a smile and said: "The scenery of the school is really good, but forget it today, you will be booed if you wear this!"

Huang Lei looked at his and Sun Li's clothes, they were all red T-shirts, jeans, baseball caps, and there was no place to go out, and then looked at the pedestrians outside the window, many people were wearing them like this, and asked puzzledly: "What's wrong with our body, don't we all wear it like this?"

Zhang Ran said with a smile: "It's the time of the city war, wearing red clothes in our school, you will be booed all the way, you definitely don't want this kind of treatment, right?"

Huang Lei was even more strange: "Why? Also, what are you talking about in the same city war, it sounds quite interesting?"

Zhang Ran explained: "Yes, there are two particularly famous schools in Los Angeles, one is the University of California, Los Angeles, abbreviated as ucLa; One is the University of Southern California, or USC for short. The two schools are very close to each other, have a lot of supporters, and both have a particularly strong rugby team. Rugby is the most popular game in the United States, and it's especially popular. That's why the football games between Los Angeles and USC are known as the Los Angeles Championships, City Battles, and Los Angeles Battles. At our school, the week leading up to the race is called USC Week and in USC it's Conquest Week.

In the week leading up to the competition, both schools host a number of morale-boosting activities on their respective campuses, including parades, campfires, parade performances and concerts. In addition to this, there are some warm-up games. For example, the film schools of both schools are very strong, and every year at this time of year, there is a film skills competition. USC's traditional color is dark red, and if you wear red to our school now, you will definitely be considered USC people and you will be booed all the time. ”

Huang Lei and Sun Li glanced at each other and laughed: "Sounds interesting."

"Americans really know how to play!"

"It's a lot of fun, every year on the Friday before the competition, both schools have a big event with some famous bands and talk show hosts, and the theme of our school's evening is uscsuck. The most ** event will burn the huge USC mascot Trojan, watching the Trojan live forever in the flames, thousands of students will surround it and shout uscsuck, the scene is particularly spectacular!" Speaking of this, there was a smile on the corner of Zhang Ran's mouth, he had participated in these activities before, and therefore became a public enemy of USC, and he and Neil met at the event.

Sun Li covered his mouth and smiled very ladylikely: "It's really funny!"

Huang Lei also hung his appetite, and nodded again and again: "Then let's go tomorrow to see, where to go today, or you give advice." You are half a landlord, we will all listen to your arrangement!"

"Let's go to the Avenue of Fame, you must go to the Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, otherwise Los Angeles will be in vain, let's go!" Zhang Ran walked out of the coffee shop with Huang Lei and Sun Li and got on Neil's red Chevrolet

After the car started, Zhang Ran said with a smile: "Los Angeles is the paradise of movies, and it is also the hell of movies, countless people come here with dreams every day, and countless people leave with frustration every day." Take a taxi at random, and as long as the driver knows that you are a director, he may pull out a resume for you. ”

Not long after, Zhang Ran drove to the back street of the Avenue of Stars, found a parking lot and parked the car. The parking lot here is managed, unlike the Avenue of Stars, which uses meters, saving the trouble of tinkering.

Climb the Hollywood Heights staircase to the end, and look ahead, a huge white English "Hollywood" is clearly visible on a verdant mountain, which is Hollywood Hill. The scenes he has seen countless times in the movie are right in front of him, and Huang Lei can't help but feel a sense of anticipation in his heart.

(Thank you for the reward of "not too drunk, the troubled times are lovely, and the Trojan horse is flowing" for rewarding, asking for collection, asking for recommendation!)