Chapter 18: The Grace of Dripping Water

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Li Mu couldn't help but be a little stunned when he saw the caller ID on the lock screen.

He had the impression that this person would not call him at random if there was nothing important. Even he couldn't confirm whether the other party had kept his number.

After hesitating for a few seconds, he solemnly pressed the answer button, walked to the balcony and closed the door.

"Sister?"

After a while, Li Mu heard the voice of Qingyue on the phone and said, "Li Mu, is it convenient for you to listen now?"

The woman on the other side of the phone seemed to be running away from something, her voice was deliberately lowered, and there was a bit of anxiety in her voice that was difficult to hide. Sensing that the situation was wrong, Li Mu asked with some surprise.

"Convenient, you are ...... What's wrong?"

"Hmm...... I have something I want you to help me with. The woman asked tentatively in an uncertain tone: "There is a play, can you save it temporarily?"

"Saving the scene? Acting?"

These two words popped up in his mind, and Li Mu's heart suddenly sank, he was really afraid of something.

Since the breakup, although he no longer avoids information in the film and television industry, that's all, and it is difficult for him to even be forced to interact with those actors, let alone take the initiative to get involved in everything in the entertainment industry.

Although Wang Gang once politely said that Li Mu has this congenital condition, he knows nothing about acting and has not yet completely untied the knot, and now he is suddenly asked to act, which is basically equivalent to pouring a basin of dog blood on a person who faints blood, which is simply a fantasy!

You don't want me to live, my sister......

But he couldn't refuse!

Because, the person who was called my sister on the phone once did not hesitate to lend a helping hand when he was at his most depressed.

In the winter of two years ago, Li Mu, who had just come down the mountain, had only a few "great heads" left on his body in addition to the forged admission certificate as a transfer student who retook the college entrance examination, and encountered the most rampant deception group in Sijiu City at that time, using begging as a cover.

At that time, he was a fledgling, and he did not recover much of the memory of his previous life, and his mind was completely no different from that of a teenager.

Penniless, the world is hot and cold. Li Mu didn't have any familiar people in Sijiu City, he couldn't even find the gate of his school, and almost no one was willing to really help him, and he had been reduced to a field where he spent the night under the overpass.

In that winter, when the first snow had not disappeared and the cold wind was blowing, the young man curled up in the bridge hole, speechless to ask the sky and the earth, and with the indifferent pedestrians, it looked particularly desolate.

If she hadn't happened to come to the bridge cave to look for the lost notes, she wouldn't have found Li Mu.

Because there are so many beggars and homeless people in Kyoto that people have automatically ignored their existence, and Li Mu is not the only one in the bridge, but he is completely different, he is so down-and-out that after he has been ruthlessly deceived and when he is hungry, he can still rely on his pure and good nature to help others selflessly.

Therefore, when Li Mu of Luotuo held the notebook stained with snow in the palm of her hand, carefully cleaned up the sludge on it, and handed it back to her, she felt the clear heart under the clear eyes of the young man.

Almost subconsciously, she sent an invitation to the teenager to "Please let me help you".

At that time, Li Mu, while sighing in his heart that "there are still many good people", accepted the other party's kindness with a little twist and gratitude. So, everything that followed happened naturally.

She took Li Mu back to her residence, a meal and a night, and a comfortable hot bath, which was the only help she could provide as she was not very wealthy at that time. Li Mu thus regained his usual spirit, and the two successfully found a borrowed school, she refused the teenager's intention to return her, but at the insistence of the other party, she left her phone number, but did not take it to heart.

Helping others, in her eyes, is a gesture, and there is no need to treat it with utilitarianism.

After she turned around, Li Mu looked at her departing back, and silently remembered this sister who had selflessly helped him in his heart.

When the two contacted again, it was after Li Mu was admitted to college.

Li Mu, who had been studying hard for half a year, got into the public phone booth with a nervous mood and called her. She put the earpiece to her ear, and listened to the young man's excited voice without saying a word, recounting the student experience and past in the past few months, from sleeping in class to being lazy in cultivation, from work-study to practicing martial arts, she felt that he was like an open-hearted child, but the smile on her lips became thicker and thicker, and she was sincerely happy for him, and an emotion called relief filled her heart,

On the eve of entering school, in order to celebrate his title on the gold list, she invited Li Mu to visit the set where she was filming, which was the first time they met in the real sense.

During the two-day trip, she saw Li Muchunliang's character and superb martial arts with her own eyes, and always told this boy not to lose his original self and never forget his original intention.

It was also in this short period of time that Li Mu recalled his memories of the entertainment industry for the first time. Therefore, without the other party taking the initiative to mention it, he learned the name of this girl who was regarded as his sister, Yang Rong.

At that time, Yang Rong was not a dedicated and desperate Sanniang in the future, nor was he turned into a thousand-year-old female partner by Yu's mother. Although she has appeared in many costume dramas, she still has relatively few resources and is unwilling to follow the underlying rules, so she can only fight for second- and third-tier roles on the small screen.

But for herself, it is enough to be able to interpret each role with her heart.

Yang Rong, an elegant and proud girl from southern Yunnan like a white peacock, sacrificed the best years of her life to the loneliness that was rarely cared about on the road of no return, not sinking, but the difficult transformation before the butterfly spread its wings, just for the moment when it broke out of the cocoon.

Perhaps, if it weren't for the warmth of that human nature, they would be like two straight lines parallel to each other, and there would be no intersection, and Li Mu could only give up his self-esteem as a martial artist and become dust, instead of intertwining the past life and this life like now, and reliving a different life.

As the saying goes, "it's easy to put icing on the cake, but it's hard to send charcoal in the snow", there are people in the world who can help someone who has no intersection before when you are in trouble, which is undoubtedly a lifelong kindness that Li Mu was taught by the master of Sanguan Qizheng since he was a child.

The grace of dripping water is reciprocated by springs.

Now he has the opportunity to repay his kindness, but this way is contrary to the concept he adheres to, and he faces what he tries to avoid.

It's really... The world is impermanent......

………

"Sister, I don't know how to act. ”

The emotion that suddenly came to his heart made Li Mu smile bitterly, although he had already convinced himself in his heart to face it, but he had never learned acting at all, let alone the role, even if he really went to run a trick or something, he could play it badly.

"It's not acting, it's ....... Yang Rong didn't feel good in his heart, and said embarrassedly, "It's a martial arts stand-in." ”

"I was filming a costume drama, and everything was going well, but I didn't expect an accident to happen during the filming. Explaining his intentions, Yang Rong's tone was already a little flustered, and a trace of crying could be faintly heard: "The ceiling light of the studio fell down just now, and the teacher who played with me was injured in order to push me away......!

"Ah, sister, are you alright?"

"I'm fine......"

"Where's the teacher?"

"He was rubbed against his waist by the overhead light, and the doctor said it hurt the soft tissues. It seems that because there is a familiar person to talk to, Yang Rong's anxious mood has gradually calmed down, but he still has a worry that is difficult to hide, "The literary drama can barely continue, and the martial arts drama is not good at all, but there are still several scenes that have not been filmed." ”

"Didn't they find a stand-in?" Li Mu recalled several costume dramas filmed by Yang Rong this year, combined with what she said, under the comparison between the two sides, she locked the position of the other party almost instantly: "It stands to reason that in Huairou, there are a lot of idle martial artists to make a living." ”

"Don't mention it, just after the accident, the crew searched for the nearby Wuti. In a hurry, Yang Rong didn't care to pay attention to how Li Mu knew where she was filming, she paced back and forth uneasily: "It's strange to say, either the figure is not in place or the time is not enough, there is no suitable one at all!"

"It started because of me, and I can't stay out of it. Over there, Yang Rong seemed to stop, solemnly with a little embarrassment, "No, I thought that you had been learning martial arts since childhood, so I called me......"

"Hmm......" Li Mu understood the ins and outs of the whole thing, and pouted directly, "In other words, you want me to temporarily carry a bag and be a stand-in?"

"Yes, yes, your kung fu is so good, it's definitely very easy!" Li Mu didn't refuse, Yang Rong looked a little excited, and finally remembered that he didn't agree, so he hurriedly said cautiously: "If you still have concerns, I will apply for a contract with the crew......"

"I see. Li Mu directly interrupted her last words, and said categorically: "Sister, you send me the address, and I will go over immediately." ”

"Really?!" Yang Rong, who was already about to give up, heard Li Mu's promise so refreshingly, and his mood instantly turned cloudy: "Okay, I'll report to the crew now, you wait for my text message." ”

"Be careful, the safety hazard is still there, don't have any more accidents!"

"Hmm. ”

Hearing this clearer and brighter voice as always, Li Mu hung up the phone, and her smile that exuded warmth like a spring breeze could not help but float in her mind, and all kinds of complex emotions gradually converged into a deep entanglement on Jun's face.

Within a few days, his insistence on ideas was broken one after another, it was true that he didn't want to enter the film and television industry, but he understood that there were some things that he couldn't hide, such as Enyi, such as friends......

As long as Liu Ye is still there, as long as Yang Rong is still there, Li Mu is destined to be inseparable from this circle. Ask yourself, can he sit and watch these two people drift with the crowd in the entertainment industry, and finally lose their hearts, or be oblivious to everyone?

He couldn't do it, his mind didn't allow him to sit on the sidelines. The entertainment circle has long trapped Liu Ye and Yang Rong, and what he can do now is to not let himself jump in while dragging them.

Li Mu raised his eyes and looked out the window at the bright sunlight and dappled shadows of the trees.

He agreed to Yang Rong so readily just now, not just to repay the kindness, because he could hear Yang Rong's anxiety and understand how much she blamed herself for this incident. In addition to her personality, maybe the crew also put pressure on her.

Li Mu would never let her bear this pressure, no matter where she came from.

Once upon a time, it was she who reminded her of the black-and-white and colorful entertainment industry in her previous life, and now it is she again, who has allowed herself to stand on the edge of this huge circle, just one step away from stepping into this bottomless abyss, should it be said that it is providence?

"This debt of affection is not so easy to owe it......"

After a silent sigh, he sneered as if he were self-deprecating, and all that was left was helplessness in his eyes and his tired heart.