Chapter 1 Xu Zilong's Past and Present Life
Just entering the dog days, it is the hottest time of the year in the capital.
The sun seems to be stationary overhead, with no trace of a slight movement to the west. Every minute and every second is torment, steaming and baking people like bread, charred on the outside and tender on the inside. The gas disappeared, and it shrunk into a ball.
The willow trees on the side of the road screamed irritably, and thousands of willow branches hung listlessly, not moving.
If your eyes are scorched by the sun, you will hallucinate that you will see a river overflowing the road, and the few pedestrians on the street will feel like they are walking through the river.
Every trace of air permeated a scorching depression and irritability.
"I'm fine, but the food at school is not good, there are fish, meat and eggs...... The classmates are also very good...... Of course, there is competition, and this is the best film school in Asia, but don't worry, you don't know your son and me? The popularity is very good, haha......"
Xu Zilong stood in a public phone booth facing the street, holding the microphone in his hand, and leaned into the shadow of the phone booth as he spoke, avoiding the scorching sun.
He spoke in a relaxed tone, but the expression on his face was a little forceful and cheerful.
"Director Xie Jin came to our school a few days ago...... That's right, it's the director who filmed "Peony Town...... I was invited to give a class to the students of our directing department, and I chatted with him a few times, and Director Xie praised me...... Summer vacation? I'm afraid not, the school curriculum is too tight, and there are a lot of internship opportunities in the summer, why don't you wait until the Chinese New Year to go home? That's okay, you and Dad pay attention to your body, the phone bill is too expensive, I'll hang up first......"
Putting down the phone, I took out the money from my pocket to pay the phone bill, thought about it, and bought another box of Zhongnanhai.
After counting, there were more than seventy dollars left in his pocket, and this was all his current property......
Pulling the old duffel bag at his feet, Xu Zilong sat on it, lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth, and took a deep breath.
The pale blue smoke, the steaming water vapor on the road, the gate of the film school not far away, and the few pedestrians and vehicles on the road all together create a blurry and distorted picture.
Xu Zilong felt a heavy confusion and surrounded himself......
It's like a dream.
He couldn't understand that a moment ago, he was still fighting with a group of thugs who came to the crew to make trouble, and he was slapped with a brick on the back of the head without paying attention, how could he go back in time twenty years ago in a blink of an eye?
Xu Zilong has read a lot of online novels, but this kind of "rebirth method" has no technical content, at least a thunderstorm......
From the age of forty to the age of twenty, the drastic changes made Xu Zilong a little unacceptable for a while.
Most importantly, I am not the same person I was 20 years ago. Twenty years ago, I was still in Hengdian like a rat at this time, "channeling the group" from crew to crew, doing everything from scene notes and chores, just to beg for a bowl of rice.
But now, I actually became a student at the film school, of course, a student who had just been expelled from school......
Is it "rebirth" or "crossing"?
The two different memories in my mind were entangled, and for a while, either the east wind overwhelmed the west wind, or the west wind overwhelmed the east wind, and it became a mess......
Xu Zilong hammered his head, wanting to take a good look at the messy memories, especially the memories that belong to the current "identity".
Xu Zilong, 20 years old, is a person from a ravine in Northeast China.
He is 1.8 meters tall, weighs 15 meters, has clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and has sound limbs.
Now a sophomore at the Beijing Film Academy, I was just expelled from school an hour ago for fighting......
Both parents are at home, and there are no brothers and sisters, so there is only one seedling.
The faces of my parents came to mind, and I became more and more messy to the east......
's father is still my father, it's still called Xu Fu, and my mother is still my mother, and it's still called Li Qin......
Do you feel that there is a speech problem?
Not at all!
Because except for his parents, whose names match, other people and things have changed!
It's 2002 now, but this 2002 is not the same as the 2002 that Xiangdong experienced......
For example, I originally had an older sister, but now I am gone, and I have become an only child.
Another example is the famous director Xie Jin, who definitely didn't deliberately misspell a word in his name because of the existence of the river crab god, he was called Xie Jin, not Xie Jin, and the famous movie he made was not "Furong Town", but "Peony Town......
Carefully search the memories in your mind, there is no "Heroes", there is no "Titanic", there is no "Avatar", there is no "Grandmaster", there is no "Star Wars......
There is no "Shanghai Tang", there is no "Mansion Gate", there is no "Flower Thousand Bone", there is no "Fairy Sword......
There is no "Nervous", there is no "Little Apple", there is no "Ode to Joy", and there is no "Fox Calling......
At that time, Yuan Datou didn't know if he was possessed by his predecessors, but he did not restore the emperor, but ruled the army with an iron fist, overturned Sun Cannon, and swept away all warlords to unify the country in one fell swoop......
Therefore, there is no "True Colors of Heroes", "Wong Fei Hung", "A Chinese Ghost Story", and no Hong Kong movies that once swept Asia against Hollywood......
The current leader is not ******, nor Hu Dada, nor Jiang Dada......
Although this world is too different from the time and space he originally lived in, the inertia of history is extremely strong, and there are still too many plausible things to be found.
For example, his parents have not changed, for example, many celebrities still exist, but the trajectory of their lives is slightly different.
For another example, I was a poor single dog in my last life, and I am still a ...... in this life
Xu Zilong pulled his hair hard, what the hell is this world? It's so messy......
Xu Zilong felt that even if he threw himself into the primitive society, it would not be more difficult to accept than now.
The only thing I am glad about is that although I have a different memory, I am still myself.
Because the gangsters went to the crew to smash and blackmail, an assistant director of his own stepped forward and was not afraid in the face of the underworld forces, but he was slapped with a brick in the back of the head.
Because the female classmate was deceived out of the location, she was almost raped by the black-hearted producer, and she took action and seriously injured the obscene guy, who expected that the guy had a strong background, and he was expelled from the school.
No matter in the past or present life, Xu Zilong is still Xu Zilong, or that innocent and non-kitsch literary and artistic youth!
Of course, bad luck is the same......
Although I don't understand whether it is "rebirth" or "crossing", let alone the cause and effect of this qiē, Xu Zilong is optimistic and knows his fate, and if he comes, he will be safe.
So even if he was expelled from school, he would lie to comfort his mother and not tell them the truth.
The mother of the child is worried, and she is already worried, so why let them worry about it again?
A man should be the pillar of the family!
But......
Xu Zilong touched the money in his pocket, and couldn't help but feel a heroic shortness of breath.
A penny is hard to beat a hero!
It's not easy to live in the capital, just a little money, and after leaving the school, how can you live?
Xu Zilong smoked one cigarette after another, very depressed.
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The fiery sun lazily moved a little to the west, but the heat spilled on the earth did not feel the slightest reduction, and even the slow-flowing wind was hot.
Even in the shadow of the phone booth, Xu Zilong still felt like he had taken a sauna, sweating all over, and his T-shirt was sticky to his body, which was extremely uncomfortable.
Throwing the cigarette butt on the ground and stepping on it, Xu Zilong decided to find a bathhouse to take a good bath, and he was about to die of discomfort.
Then in the next moment, Xu Zilong, who was squatting on the travel bag, found that four legs appeared in front of him......
The same slender and straight, the same round and delicate, the same flesh and light, the same moving......
The difference is that two pairs of delicate little feet, one with lilac nail polish, are wearing black high-heeled sandals, and two thin straps are tied around the rounded ankles. The other pair was clean and clean, with jade toenails, and wore a pair of white flat sandals.
But it is the same full of charm and reverie.
Xu Zilong barely suppressed his quietly accelerated heartbeat, and lamented his incompetence in his heart: Buddies didn't have a habit of "love for feet" before......