Driving on the dirt road in the countryside, every time I kicked, the Phoenix brand 28 bars under me made a squeaky sound. On both sides of the road are small ditches thirty centimeters wide, and the water in the ditches has dried up by the time of December. Looking down the ditch, there is an endless field of rice paddies, the rice has long been harvested, and the straw has been burned last month, so that the fields are only bare soil, which takes on a blue-black color in the moonlight.

The December wind was already biting, and Duane pressed down the velvet hat on his head with one free hand, covering his eyebrows, and let out a sigh of relief on his hand, pedaling slowly.

The factory was not far from my brother-in-law's house, and it took another three or four minutes to get there.

My brother-in-law's house is in the second room of the third row at the east end of Xiaohe Village, and when I pass by the door of the house outside, I can see a black car parked in the courtyard of this family.

Three fat people's family still have relatives who can afford to drive?

Thinking so, Duane glanced into the family's room: the living room was lit up, but it was empty.

I guess I'm talking on the stove.

Du An pushed the car through the courtyard of the three fat man's house, came to the courtyard of his brother-in-law's house, pushed the bicycle under the porch, and was about to step on the foot support, when his sister Du Ping had already walked out.

"Why is it so late today?"

"Overtime. ”

Duane replied casually, stepping on his feet.

"I'll keep the meal for you, on the stove. Also, you have friends coming to you. ”

"Friends?"

Duane was stunned.

What friends would he have coming to him? He couldn't think of it.

Walking into the house, he saw the friend.

Duane admits that he was in a trance when he saw Shu Yu sitting in the living room of his brother-in-law's house drinking tea with a small porcelain bowl in his hand, and the series of events of the past few months had passed through his mind like a fast-paced replay at the end of "Chainsaw." In the end, he settled down and smiled at Shu Yu, "Why are you here?"

My brother-in-law's family is not much richer than before, and the sofa is unaffordable, so a square table is placed in the living room, and the table is missing a corner. Now Shu Yu is sitting on one side of the square table, and his brother-in-law Duan Zhijie is sitting on the other side, looking very restrained -- can you not be restrained? This little girl looks like a person from a big city, well-dressed and beautiful, and she still comes in a car, and she is not from the same world as them at all.

Seeing that Du An's return, Duan Zhijie finally breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said, "Xiao An, you can greet your friend, and I'll go and heat up the food for you." With that, he went into the kitchen.

"You're really hard to find here, I almost asked all your college classmates to find it. ”

His classmates in college? He can't contact a few of his classmates now, and Shu Yu can find them, which is also a skill.

Duane nodded, "Let's go upstairs and talk." With that, he took Shuyu upstairs - there were some things he didn't want his sister to know, lest she worry again, and the matter was over anyway.

Go up the cement staircase to the second floor, turn right, push open a door, enter, press the switch next to the door, and it is a single room. There was a bed, a chair, a table, a wardrobe, and nothing else.

"Sit. ”

Duane went to close the window first, then consciously sat on the bed and looked at Shu Yu who was sitting on the chair.

I haven't seen Shu Yu for almost a month, and Shu Yu hasn't changed much: she still wears that big black frame, her hair is still coiled up at the back of her head, and she still likes to wear a women's suit habitually.

After the two looked at each other for a while, Shu Yu took the lead and asked, "Why do you live in your sister's house?"

"When my dad was still alive, he sold the house to the villagers in order to treat my dad. Duane said lightly, and suddenly smiled, "You've changed, you used to talk about things directly, and now you're going to beat around the bush." ”

Shu Yu tapped twice on the table with his left hand, "People are all changeable." Then the conversation changed, "I left Rising and started my own company, planning to make a movie." After saying that, his eyes stared straight at Duane.

Duane smiled bitterly and said, "My reputation is stinky, and you are still going to look for me?"

More than a month ago, the forgery incident that Du ane had feared finally broke out, and a series of star artists led by the Chinese opera department and the Nortel department bombarded Du An, shouting the slogan "Fraudsters get out of the entertainment industry".

Now his reputation in the entertainment industry can't stink anymore - no way, I can't find a director with such courage in a hundred years, so I let Du Ansheng catch up and become the first, the gun shoots the first bird, who doesn't step on him?

Shu Yu shook his head, "Reputation is not important, what matters is your ability." ”

Duane smiled bitterly again: "I'm the king of bad movies, I'm still capable." ”

The impact of the false testimony incident is not only reflected in Duane, but also in the film "Chainsaw": first of all, "Chainsaw" was forcefully pulled to 5.1 when Douban's score reached the peak of 7.6 points; The title of "King of Bad Movies", and finally the impact on the box office of "Saw Horror", which is also the only beneficial one.

Under the offensive of the media, many audiences who had not seen this film walked into the cinema, and in the third week of large-scale screening, the box office had already shown a significant decline on Monday, and it rebounded violently, winning 48 million box office again, and winning the weekly box office champion for the third time in that period when there was no blockbuster release, replicating the miracle of "Hero" as the box office champion for three consecutive weeks.

Shu Yu said: "When they are happy, you are the next 'Zhang Yimou', and when they are unhappy, you are the 'king of bad movies', there is nothing to talk about with these people, as long as I know that you are capable." ”

Duane didn't speak.

Shu Yu was silent for a while, then suddenly stood up, walked up to Du An, and looked at him condescendingly, "Do you remember what I told you that night?"

Hearing Shu Yu's words, Du An's eyes were in a trance, and the scene of that night seemed to appear in front of his eyes, and the woman's voice seemed to sound in his ears.

"Duane, you bastard! You go fight them! You can make "Chainsaw", you can make "Chainsaw" go from not being able to show "Chainsaw" to 2,100 theaters at the same time, you can break the record of being the number one horror film, why can't you beat them again!"

"Bastard! you bastard! coward!"

He remembered that Shu Yu's voice at that time could faintly hear a little crying.

It's an illusion, how can this woman cry?

Shu Yu continued: "I still keep what I thought I had - you have the power to change a qiē, even in that situation!"

Du An's memory that he was embattled at that time, and in the end he could only accept the conditions of Rising Film and Television, and gave up the box office dividends and all the copyrights of "Chainsaw" in exchange for his own freedom, and Rising also changed his ambiguous attitude after he signed a series of complicated transfer contracts, and issued an official statement, declaring that they signed the film production contract knowing that Du An was not a graduate of Chinese opera, so the crime of fraud is not established, and it is impossible to even prosecute, this film is just a normal transaction.

Then Duane rolled out of the entertainment industry and returned to his sister's house in the countryside.

Everyone benefited, everyone was happy, and the ending was happy.

"You think too highly of me," Duane finally spoke, after a long silence, "that situation is beyond its reach, and I can't think of anything more about it." ”

"It's not that you can't think of a way, you don't want to think of a way, because you're afraid!

Duane stood up abruptly and glared at Shu Yu angrily, his face almost pressed together, his noses only five centimeters apart.

"What am I afraid of?!"

"How do I know what you're afraid of! I want to know what you're afraid of!"

The two glared at each other, and there was a knock at the door.

Du Ping knocked on the door and came in without permission, still holding a big bowl of rice in his hand, with a stack of green vegetables and five slices of fat with skin on it. She laughed, walked over, put the bowl on the table, pulled the two apart, and then glared at Duane, "If you have something to say, don't quarrel!" But in her heart, she complained about Shu Yulai: she knows this younger brother best, since he was fifteen years old, he has always had a good temper, never blushing with people, let alone quarreling, and the limited few times are too much for others, but Duane still won't quarrel - he will choose to do it directly.

Now the two of them can quarrel, she can hear it downstairs, it must be that this girl has done something too out of the ordinary to really provoke her brother, but this girl is a guest, it's hard to say anything.

The two calmed down for a while, and when Du Ping left, Shu Yu said, "Think about it yourself." After speaking, he turned around and left, but stopped the moment he opened the door, turned his back to Du An, and stood still for a while before he said slowly: "At that time, they said that you were 'the next Zhang Yi', but I don't think so." ”

"Cinema is another world connected to the real world, in which the director makes us cry, the director makes us laugh, the director makes us angry, the director makes us afraid, and the director manipulates our emotions. I knew when "Saw Horror" was done, you were born to eat this bowl of rice, and you are a natural director, because you can manipulate our love at will. Therefore, if you really want to add a name, it should not be 'the next Zhang Yimou' - you should be the king of this movie world. ”

"King of the World. ”

"Don't you like to watch movies, why do you say 'we'!"

Du Yin shouted, but Shu Yu had already opened the door and left, with the clatter of going downstairs, and then with the start of the car engine, it gradually moved away, and finally left.

"I'm having a neurotic ...... again"

Duane muttered to himself and got up to get his meal, but his hand stopped at the side of the rice bowl.

There is a piece of paper next to the bowl with an address written on it.

Duane's hand only paused, and then continued to reach out and take the rice bowl.

When I sent the bowl down after eating, my sister was washing the dishes. As soon as Duane put the dishes and chopsticks into the basin, he was about to walk away, but he stopped just taking a step, and asked in a ghostly manner: "Sister, what am I afraid of?"

Du Ping smiled and said while washing the dishes: "There are too many things you are afraid of." ”

"When you were young, you were afraid of the dark, and you always had to sleep with me, and when you grew up a little, you were afraid that no one would play with you, so when you were free, you would find people to play everywhere in the village. By the way, do you remember Huijuan?"

Duane nodded.

"Huijuan is married, and she talked to me on the day she got married, saying why don't you come. Think about it, yes, the two of you were so good when you were kids, you always played with dirt together, you were the father, she was the mother, haha. ”

Duane was a little embarrassed to hear about his troubles when he was a child.

"I still remember one time, the daughter of the three fat people said that they wanted to play together, and Huijuan said okay, you were not happy, and you kicked the bowls, the house, and everything you made with the dirt at that time, and made the two little dolls cry, like a child. Ha, what do I say, you were a kid back then......"

Du Ping babbled, but Du An was like being struck by lightning.

He seemed to have entered a time tunnel, and all the things buried in the depths of his memory were remembered: the third fat daughter was very beautiful when she was a child, the most beautiful in the village, and he always wanted to play with this little girl, but he didn't dare to go over and say to her, "I want to play with you", he only dared to think all day long about how nice it would be if he could play with her. So he played with Huijuan, played with other people, but didn't play with her. Finally, one day, she came over and said she wanted to play with him, but he was scared. He kicked the mud bowl, kicked the dirt house, turned and ran away, and fled back to his home.

To this day, he still hasn't grown up, he's still doing the same thing, he's still just a kid.

He finally understood what he was afraid of.

"I want to grow up. ”

Duane said softly.

Du Ping was stunned for a moment, and then became happy, "You have grown up." ”

Du An shook his head, he knew that Du Ping didn't understand, but he didn't explain, but stepped forward and hugged Du Ping gently.

"Sister, thank you, but I should be growing up. ”

He whispered.

Du Ping only went to junior high school and stopped reading, and she couldn't understand her brother's words, but her sister and brother were connected, and she could probably feel her brother's mood now. So although the two of them were still hugging at such a big age, she was a little embarrassed, but she didn't push Duane away, but reached out and patted Duane gently behind him.

……

Shu Yu got out of the taxi and stepped into a street.

It's an old street, and it's dangerous to have a road wider than a car. Originally, there were still shops here, but with the development of the city and the concentration of commerce, there were fewer and fewer shops, and now, they are basically private houses.

Shu Yu also rented a private house here.

It's eleven o'clock, and most of the residents on both sides of the old street have entered their dreams, and there are almost no lights leaking out of the windows of the whole street, and only a street lamp is only a dozen meters away, barely illuminating the street.

Shu Yu walked and walked, his pace slowing slowly, and finally stopped completely.

Five meters in front of her rented house, there is a street lamp next to the door of the house, and in the dim light, a man squatted in front of her house, next to him was a dark green suitcase.

The man heard the voice, looked up, and looked over.

"Where's your car?"

Shu Yu didn't answer, just looked at him silently for a long time before he spoke: "Why are you here?" ”

The voice is a little hoarse.

The man slowly stood up, the streetlights shining above his head, hiding his face in the darkness.

"I want to be the king of the world. ”

Shu Yu's eyes suddenly blurred, and his voice became even more hoarse and asked, "That's just what I said, what if they don't admit it?"

The man smiled, his eyes determined.

"Then ...... Hit until they admit it. ”