(20) In the end, I chose to be an actor
If it were changed to today, with Cao Yunxiao's appearance and various additional skills, as long as someone is willing to praise him, he will definitely quickly become popular all over the country with his strength, which is definitely much stronger than that vase-like traffic Xiaosheng. But we didn't know anything about the profession of "actor" at that time, and we didn't have the concept of "little actor" at all, and Cao's father always directly assigned tasks to Cao Yunxiao, and never asked his opinion, so when we heard Cao's father's words, we were all at a loss, and we didn't know what the situation was at all.
Seeing that we had been staring at him, Cao's father coughed awkwardly, and then explained to us:
"I've discussed it with your mother, and both of us think it's a good path, but after all, it will delay your studies, so we want to ask you what you mean."
After Dad Cao finished speaking, even people like me, who were extremely slow to react, probably understood the hidden meaning behind his words. I suddenly felt a little chill in my back, and I couldn't help swallowing my saliva, and then quietly pulled Fu Chengwen and Cao Yunxiao's pants.
Cao Yunxiao and Fu Chengwen's bodies were a little stiff, and they were pulled by me several times, but there was no reaction. I didn't have a big opinion, but as soon as the two of them were like this, I couldn't sit still, so I pulled their pants more often. In the end, even Cao's father saw that a few of us were abnormal, and in desperation, he took a deep breath and said to me:
"If you're full, go back first, we still have work to do, so we won't keep you. Remember to do your homework when you go back, and don't delay your homework. ”
When the three of us heard Cao's father's words, it was as if we had been pardoned, and we almost ran out of the private room. After that, we didn't delay and rushed back to my house without stopping.
No one spoke along the way, and when we arrived at my house, the three of us spread out on the bed, still unable to believe what Cao's father said just now. Especially me, when I think that Cao Yunxiao may appear on TV in the future, I feel full of incredibleness, as if I am dreaming. So after I was paralyzed in bed for a long time, I turned my head to Cao Yunxiao and asked him very seriously:
"I said Cao Yunxiao, you give a reaction, what do you think?"
"What can I think, he's already shown so obvious, what else can I think. Anyway, no matter how they choose, they have face, so what's the point of choosing whether I choose or not. The two of them hesitated before throwing the question to me, pretending as if they had given me some freedom, what should I choose? If I could really choose, that would be a miracle. ”
Cao Yunxiao sat up and curled up in the corner, with some resentment, some anger, and some helplessness in his tone. After listening to this, Fu Chengwen and I sat up silently, wanting to say something to comfort him. But after thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't open my mouth.
Even if Cao Yunxiao doesn't say it, using my understanding of these situations in their family, I can also analyze Cao Yunxiao's situation from Cao's father's practice today. But to be clear, I don't have Cao Yunxiao's experience, so I still can't fully understand Cao Yunxiao's mood at the moment, so I can't give him any advice. All I know is that I've managed to take him as my friend, and if he leaves, I'll ...... I feel sick just thinking about it.
But even he doesn't have the right to choose, where do I have the right to let him go or let him stay?
This feeling of powerlessness made me a little irritable, and I wanted to get up and get a bottle of Coke to calm myself down, but as soon as I got up, I was pressed down by Fu Chengwen on the side.
"If you really have to choose, go be an actor. Anyway, your grades are not bad, even if you are admitted to high school now, it is no problem for you, and you are not afraid of delays. And what if things get a little better when you get back? Even if you come back like this, you can be regarded as experiencing a life that ordinary people have not lived, better than living like this all the time. ”
This is the first time that Fu Chengwen has given his opinion clearly and seriously on a matter, and although I can't accept the choice he gave, I have to admit that every word he said is reasonable, so that I can't find a reason to refute it at all. I raised my head and looked at him with a kind of despair in my eyes, but he didn't look at me, just looked at Cao Yunxiao with a deep gaze.
For a long time, the three of us kept moving like this, and none of us moved. It wasn't until the setting sun left the last ray of light outside the window that Cao Yunxiao said "um" to Fu Chengwen very lightly and lightly.
After that, neither of us spoke again, and the two of them did not stay any longer, and left my house together.
After sending them away, I rejected my mother's attempt to enlighten me, went back to my room with my head down, locked the door by the way, and then I fell headlong on the bed without turning on the light, and covered myself completely with the quilt.
I didn't sleep all night, and the next morning, Fu Chengwen and I both went to school with black circles like two national treasures.
Cao Yunxiao did not show up unexpectedly, and in the morning, almost everyone in the class came over and asked where the three of us Cao Yunxiao went. Cheng Zexin didn't know anything about this, and could only explain to them very sincerely that she didn't know, and Fu Chengwen and I couldn't be clearer, but like Cheng Zexin, we shook our heads and said "I don't know" to everyone who came to ask us.
During the afternoon self-study, the head teacher brought Uncle Jia to help Cao Yunxiao pack up his things, and at the same time announced to everyone that Cao Yunxiao was leaving temporarily. Although I had known this fact for a long time, I still felt like crying when these things came out of the mouth of the head teacher. I didn't even dare to look back at Cheng Zexin's reaction, I was afraid that as soon as I turned around, she would ask me why I didn't tell her about this matter in advance, and why I hid it from her together with Cao Yunxiao.
I really can't afford this kind of torture, this is even more cruel torture to me than Ling Chi.
Just when I was so uncomfortable that I could barely control my tears, Uncle Jia had already packed up all Cao Yunxiao's books in the whispered discussions of his classmates. Before he left, he whispered a few words to the head teacher, and then walked up to Fu Chengwen and me, asking the two of us to help get something. Fu Chengwen and I knew that Uncle Jia had something to say to us, so we didn't ask too much, so we followed Uncle Jia out of the classroom with the permission of the teacher.
When we arrived at the school gate, Uncle Jia asked the two of us to wait for him in the same place for a while, and then after he put Cao Yunxiao's things back in the car, he took three more bags out of the trunk. He first handed me a large bag of snacks, smiled and told me that this was Cao Yunxiao afraid that I would not prepare snacks for me after he left, so he prepared it for me in advance, and then he handed me and Fu Chengwen a gift bag with very exquisite packaging, saying that this was a gift left by Cao Yunxiao for the two of us, and asked us to open it when we went home.