When we are confused, our first instinct is often to go home.

Duane did the same.

"Xujiaxiang has arrived, please get off the bus from the back door in turn, don't be crowded, the next stop, persuade the industry to ......"

With the bus driver smiling and shouting "Come on, make a better movie, fight for us Nanyang", Duane got off the bus.

Walking on the rather noisy Dongwu South Road, there are pedestrians on the side of the street from time to time to cast their eye-catching eyes -- thanks to the media, the number of people who know him in Nanyang City is now increasing dramatically.

"The pride of Nanyang City!"

This is the headline that has been overwhelmingly promoted by the Nanyang media recently.

There is no way, although Nanyang City is the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties and has a profound cultural heritage, but there are obvious shortcomings in modern films, and the whole Nanyang can't find a director and actor who is a little famous in China.

This is a director who has completed a box office miracle of 130 million at a cost of 200,000 yuan, this is a rising star who has completely knocked down director Er Dongsheng from the front, this is the focus of the country at this stage, and the 22-year-old age is full of expectations for him, and the most important thing is that he is from Nanyang - what, you said that Duan's hometown Lishui County is about to enter Anhui Province? Not to mention fast forward to Anhui Province, even if you enter Anhui Province, it is also Nanyang!

Nanyang people have been aggrieved in film and television for more than 20 years, and finally caught a genius, just like Pan Jinlian met Ximenqing, eager to praise him to the sky, and even some newspapers shouted the slogan "The next Zhang Yi", and the most popular news program in Nanyang City, "Nanyang Zero Distance", also spent a full ten minutes a few days ago to analyze Duane and "Chainsaw", which makes Duane now even more angry, and this part of Nanyang is simply red and purple.

"Come on. ”

Passers-by encouraged him like this, and Duane responded with a smile.

There was also a bold flower girl who came up and said with a smile: "Director Du, you are quite handsome, much more handsome than on TV!"

Duane continued to respond with a smile and a "thank you".

It took Duane ten minutes longer than usual to complete this short stretch of road, and finally turned right and entered the dark alley.

It was as if he had entered a time tunnel.

There is still a dim street lamp in the alley more than ten meters apart, and with the faint light, you can see that most of the buildings still maintain their old appearance; most of the houses still have a table of eight immortals in the wooden door that most people open, and there are New Year's pictures pasted behind the table, and on the portrait of the head of state posted by Grandma Gu's house, the head of state still has a smile on his face; the old people are still sitting at the table of eight immortals, and the old god is smoking a hookah on the ground; if you are not careful, the child who suddenly comes out of the corner will still startle you, and then run away like the wind, disappearing into the alley that turns left and right。

Time here seems to be frozen by an invisible hand, and the disturbance of the outside world cannot enter in the slightest. Here, no one will say "come on" to him, no one will say "fight for us Nanyang", no one will say "you are so handsome" to him.

Duane, who had already been smiling, finally relaxed at this time, took off his disguised smile, and looked tired.

After detouring for a long time, there were no more street lights, so he walked to the door of Aunt Shen's house familiarly, took out the key, opened the door, and entered.

Aunt Shen was still sitting in her old position, wearing a sweater - she seemed to have a sweater that could never be finished - and Song Zhen was still sitting on a small bench, hunched on the coffee table and writing her homework.

Shen Huifang was stunned when she saw Du An come in, looked up at the wall clock on the wall and asked, "Why is it so early today?"

Du ane walked to the sofa and sat down, rubbed his face vigorously, and let out a long breath, "A reporter went to the counter to block me, which affected the business, so the supervisor asked me to resign, let me leave work early today, and go through the resignation procedures tomorrow." ”

It was only when he got back here that he finally relaxed completely.

The kind-hearted Aunt Shen, who always looks at Song Zhen who is not pleasing to her eyes, has a small living room and a low house, this is the world he is familiar with.

Shen Huifang was stunned for a moment, then thought of something and nodded slowly.

"Yes, you're like this now, and it's not appropriate to work over there anymore. ”

Duane sensed something sensitively, and his feet shrunk back into a little uncomfortable.

Song Zhen was still writing his homework, and he never raised his head from beginning to end.

After Shen Huifang slapped her sweater for a while, she suddenly asked, "Your movie...... Read the newspaper and say, you've made more than 100 million?"

"130 million,"

Du An's pause after spitting out this number, and then said: "I can't make so much money, the theater chain has to take half of it, and I have to pay taxes, and the cost of making zuò is all paid by the company, so I can only get dividends, which is about 2.7 million." ”

This number is still an astronomical number for this difficult family, so Shen Huifang was still stunned for a while before saying, "So much...... while absentmindedly wearing a sweater.

Duane tensed.

He suddenly felt very uncomfortable, and after this digital exit, it seemed that a deep chasm had been drawn between him and the family.

He now looks like a needle is pricking under his ass.

"I'll go back to my room first. ”

Duane rushed into his room as if he were fleeing, and closed the door tightly.

He stood in front of the door for a long time, only to hear the sound of TV outside, Shen Huifang and Song Zhen did not speak-he remembered that in the past, Aunt Shen and Song Zhen would not care about him at all, they could say whatever they wanted, and they didn't worry about whether he would hear anything at all.

In the end, Duane gave up.

He reached out and pressed the switch on the side of the door, and the 25-watt incandescent lamp lit up, tilting the dim light as much as he could, and dyeing his face a warm yellow.

Duane slowly walked over to the mirror and looked at the man in the mirror.

This "pride of Nanyang City" and "the next Zhang Yimou" wore a red bean shirt, a pair of Joeone's casual trousers, and Adi Wang's sneakers on his feet - these were all bought when he knew that his dividend would exceed one million - plus the face that was praised as "handsome", no matter how you look at it, he is a pure city person.

Duane was very uncomfortable.

So he walked to the corner, opened his dark green suitcase, took out a gray plaid shirt and fat trousers, and changed them. Then he took out the pair of double-star galoshes that had been glued with 502 from under the bed, took off King Adi, and put on the double-star. Finally he walked over to the mirror and looked at the migrant worker inside.

Two months ago, he seemed to be back.

Duane felt that the young man in the mirror looked very pleasant, so he grinned, walked over to the table and sat down, took the "unbearable lightness of life" that he had seen half of yesterday, turned to the bookmark page, and looked again.

But after only five minutes, he couldn't stand it anymore.

The living room was still silent, except for the sound of the TV.

Duane slammed the book, took a long breath, stood up, walked to the door, turned off the light, opened the door, and walked out.

"I'm out. ”

Dropping a sentence, he didn't look at Shen Huifang sitting on the sofa, and walked directly to the door, opened the door and walked out.

Walking through that time tunnel and back on Dongwu South Road, Duane walked forward.

He didn't know where he was going, he just wanted to walk around.

I don't know how long he walked, but when he finally got tired of walking and stopped, he saw a familiar building.

Lumière International Studios.

This is where the box office miracle of "Saw" began, and where he first saw his own movie in the cinema.

The ghost sent the gods to the ground, and Duane walked in.

It's eight o'clock, it's the golden field, and the hall is the most crowded of the day, and the seats are almost full.

When Duane appeared, several people stood up, looking like they wanted to come up and say hello but didn't dare to.

The strange appearance of these people attracted the attention of the bystanders, and then they followed their gaze and saw Duane, and these people also stood up.

The knock-on effect was created, people stood up in piles and in the end, almost no one sat in their seats, everyone stood and watched.

Duan has been known by more and more people in Nanyang City, not to mention these movie audiences, occasionally one or two people who don't know Duan ask a friend, and immediately know that the guy at the entrance of the hall who is dressed like a migrant worker is actually the hottest person in Nanyang City recently, and at the same time sighs why people can be directors and they can only watch movies - you can see it from the clothes, okay? Look at what people are wearing, how avant-garde, how artistic!

Some boldly rushed over to take a photo with him, and Duane agreed, so more and more people rushed over to take a group photo, and some asked for autographs. Because there were too many people, the scene would be uncontrollable if it was a mess, so the theater owner who happened to be present rushed out from behind the counter and took the security guard to direct everyone to line up, so the crowd formed a long queue.

Duane smiled and posed for a photo like a machine, smiling and signing autographs, and each audience member would say something like "come on" and "we'll definitely support your next movie" before leaving satisfied.

"Director Du, do you remember me?"

An unusual word caught Duane's attention.

He looked at the man in front of him carefully, and it wasn't until the man put his arms around a girl that he remembered who this person was.

"It's you. ”

The two people in front of him were the young couple who laughed at Xu Ruyan on the night of the premiere of "Chainsaw", and he still remembered that the young man said to him after the movie screening, "Keep up the good work, I'm optimistic about you" and something like that.

Seeing that Duane answered, the young man immediately excitedly said to the people around him, "How is it, how is it! I'll just say I know him!"

Then, the young man pretended to be an acquaintance and looked behind Du An, and asked familiarly, "Director Du, why didn't you see that girl?"

Duane said: "She went to work today. ”

The young man suddenly asked very gossipy, "Is she really your girlfriend?"

Duane paused for a second, then nodded, "Yes." ”

The young man stopped talking, and after a while, he held back a sentence: "Director Du, you are a ...... Sure enough, he is an artist, and his vision is indeed extraordinary. ”

Duane smiled and didn't speak, when he suddenly heard a hurried female voice from outside the hall, "Hurry up!" and then there was a commotion behind him, and after a while, he knew how the commotion came about.

A female reporter took the microphone very lightly and parted the crowd of onlookers at the entrance of the hall, rushed to his side, followed by a photographer with a video camera, and everyone knew each other to get out of the way.

The female reporter first panted for several breaths, then stroked her chest, held the microphone and said, "Whew...... Du Dao, Hu ...... I'm Bai Jie, a reporter from Shanghai Comprehensive Channel, and I rushed from Shanghai to Nanyang overnight today just to ask you a question, can you cooperate with me to answer this question?"

A reporter came from Shanghai overnight just to ask a question?

Du Ane was stunned, then looked into the eyes of the female reporter, and suddenly his hair stood on end.

It is his talent to observe words and colors, and he can easily distinguish the various emotions in the actors' performances, so at this moment he can also distinguish the meaning in the eyes of female reporters - excited, cruel, and fierce.

There is a murderous aura.

The female reporter named Bai Jie was experienced at first glance, and she didn't wait for Du An's answer at all, so she said directly to herself: "Today evening, I applied for an urgent publication of an extra issue, claiming that you had made a false certificate to pretend to be a graduate of the Chinese Opera Directing Department, and it was because of this that you were able to successfully persuade Ruixing Film and Television to invest in you, who was still unknown at the time." In addition, the declaration also posted the fake certificate you made at that time, and found the maker of the fake certificate, do you have anything to say about it?"

Bai Jie said, I don't know where to take out a newspaper, and at the top is a big headline - "Cutting-edge director Duane is involved in fraud!".

Below is a photo, you can see that there is a document in the picture, and below is the detailed text of the article.

Duane subconsciously touched his pocket, and then remembered that he didn't know where to throw his certificate for a long time!

Female reporter Bai Jie made persistent efforts, the light in her eyes was even stronger, like she had just beaten three catties of chicken blood, and without waiting for everyone to react, she continued to ask: "If the crime of fraud is established, the amount of 200,000 yuan has reached a particularly huge amount, according to the law, you are likely to be sentenced to more than ten years in prison or even life imprisonment, in this case, you will not be able to make movies, do you have anything to say to those fans and friends who are looking forward to your next film?"

Wow!

Everyone finally reacted, and the crowd seemed to have been thrown into a bombshell, and it boiled instantly.

"How is that possible?!" "Scam?" "I just said this guy doesn't look like a good person!" "Life sentence? It's not so scary, is it?" "Don't! I'm waiting for the sequel!" "Hurry up and call to break the news, maybe you will have time to get the bonus!" ......

Listening to the chaotic voices and looking at the female reporter in front of him, Duane suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

He finally returned to the human world.