When driving on the dirt road in the countryside, every time I stomped, the 28th phoenix bar under me made a squeaking sound. On both sides of the road were small ditches thirty centimeters wide. In December, the water in the ditches had dried up. Looking along the ditches, there were endless rice fields. The rice had been collected and the straw was burned last month, so only the bare soil was left in the field, which appeared blue and black under the moonlight.

The wind in December was already a bit bit biting. Du An put out one hand and pressed the velvet cap on his head down, covering his eyebrows, breathed in his hand, and slowly kicked his feet.

The factory was not far from my brother-in-law's house, and I arrived after riding for another three or four minutes.

My brother-in-law's house is in the second room in the third row at the east end of Xiaohe Village. When passing by the door of the house next to the outside, you can see a black car parked in the courtyard of this house.

Do you have any relatives who can afford to drive a car in the Sanfat family?

Du An thought so and glanced at the room of this family: the lights were on in the living room, but there was no one.

Maybe he was lying on the stove and talking.

Du An pushed the car through the courtyard of the Sanfatzi's house, came to the courtyard of the brother-in-law's house, and pushed the bicycle under the corridor. He was about to step down his feet, but his sister Du Ping had already walked out.

"Why is it so late today?"

"work overtime."

Duane replied casually, step on his feet.

"Save the food for you, on the stovetop. Also, you have friends coming to find you."

"friend?"

Duane was stunned.

Any friends he has come to find him? He can't think of it.

Walking into the house, he saw the friend.

Du An admitted that when he saw Shu Yu sitting in the living room of his brother-in-law's house, he was a little dazed. A series of things in the past few months rushed through his mind like the last fast shot replay of "Saw". Finally, he calmed down and smiled at Shu Yu, "Why are you here?"

My brother-in-law's family is not much richer than before. I can't afford the sofa, so I put a square table in the living room, and there was still a corner missing. Now Shu Yu is sitting on one side of the square table, and his brother-in-law Duan Zhijie sits on the other side. He looks very restrained - can he not be restrained? At first glance, this little girl is a person from a big city, dressed beautifully and beautifully, but she still drives a sedan, and is not from the same world as them.

Seeing Duan coming back, Duan Zhijie finally breathed a sigh of relief and said quickly: "Xiao An, please greet your friend, I'll go and heat up the food for you." Then he got into the kitchen.

"It's really hard to find here. I almost asked all your classmates in college before finding them."

What are the classmates in college? He can’t contact many of his classmates now, and it’s a skill to find Shu Yu.

Du An nodded, "Let's go upstairs and talk." Then he took Shu Yu upstairs - some things he didn't want his sister to know about, so as not to worry again, anyway, everything has passed.

Go up to the second floor through the cement staircase, turn right, push open a door, go in, press the switch beside the door, and there is a single room. There is a bed, a chair, a table, and a wardrobe in the room, and nothing else is gone.

"sit."

Duan first closed the window, then sat on the bed consciously, looking at Shu Yu sitting on the chair.

I haven't seen him for almost a month, and Shu Yu hasn't changed much: she still wore that big black frame, her hair was still tied up behind her head, and she used a chopstick to penetrate her sideways, and she still habitually liked to wear a women's suit.

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 there, he sold the house to the villagers to treat my dad." Du An said lightly, and suddenly smiled, "You have changed. You used to be talking directly, but now you are still beat around the bush."

Shu Yu ticked the table with her left hand twice, "People will change." Then she changed the subject, "I left Rising, opened a company by myself, and planned to make a movie." After that, her eyes stared at Duane.

Duane smiled bitterly and said, "My reputation is so bad. Are you still going to find me?"

More than a month ago, the fake certificate incident that Duan had worried about finally broke out. A series of celebrity artists led by the Central Academy of Drama and the Beijing Film Academy criticized Duan and shouted the slogan "Get out of the entertainment industry."

Now his reputation in the entertainment industry is so bad that it can't be more stink--there is no choice but to find a director with such courage after a hundred years. It made Du Ansheng catch up and become the first one. He shot the first bird and didn't step on him.

Shu Yu shook her head, "Famousness doesn't matter, what matters is your ability."

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

The impact of the fake evidence incident is not only reflected in Du An, but also in the film "Saw": first, when the Douban score reached a peak of 7.6 points, it was pulled to 5.1; secondly, a large number of professionals targeting the emergence of film reviews, and attacking every technical and logical defect in "Saw" and exaggerating it, as if "Saw" was regarded as the largest bad movie in history. Under the influence of these film reviews, Du An also won the title of "King of Bad Movies" out of thin air; finally, the impact on the box office of "Saw" is the only favorable impact.

Under the media offensive, many viewers who had never watched this film entered the cinema. In the third week of the mass screening, the box office rebounded sharply on Monday, winning 48 million yuan again. In that period when the movie was not popular, the weekly box office champion was won for the third time, replicating the miracle of "Hero"'s box office champion for three consecutive weeks.

Shu Yu said: "When they are happy, you are the next 'Zhang Yimou'. When they are unhappy, you are the 'King of Bad Movies'. There is no reason to talk to these people, as long as I know you have the ability, it's enough."

Duane didn't speak.

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

Hearing Shu Yu's words, Du An's eyes were dazed. The scene of that night seemed to appear in front of him, and the woman's voice seemed to ring in her ears.

"Duan, you bastard! Go and fight them! You can shoot "Saw", you can make "Saw" from being unable to be released to 2,100 theaters at the same time, you can break the record of first-rate horror films, why can't you defeat them again!"

"Bastard! You bastard! Coward! Coward!"

He remembered that Shu Yu could hear a little crying sound at that time.

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

Shu Yu continued, "I still keep my original idea yet--you have the ability to change everything, even in that case!"

Du An remembered that he was already surrounded by enemies and finally could only accept the conditions of Rising Film and Television, and gave up the box office dividends and all copyrights of "Saw" in exchange for his own freedom. After he signed a series of complex transfer contracts, Rising changed his previous ambiguous attitude and issued a formal statement, claiming that they signed the filming contract when they knew that Du An was graduating from the Central Academy of Drama, so the crime of fraud was not established, and it was impossible to even file a public prosecution. This film was just a normal transaction.

Then Du An got out of the entertainment industry and returned to his sister's house in the countryside.

Everyone gained benefits, everyone was happy, and the ended happily.

"You look down on me too highly," Duane finally spoke after a long silence. "That situation is no solution, and I can't think of any solution."

"You are not thinking of a solution, you don't want to think of a solution, because you are afraid! You are a coward who dares not face yourself and just wants to escape!"

Duan stood up suddenly, glared at Shu Yu's angrily, his face almost stuck together, and the spacing between his nose was only five centimeters.

"What am I afraid of?!"

"How do I know what you are afraid of! I also want to know what you are afraid of!"

The two glared at each other and the door rang.

Du Ping knocked on the door and opened the door without authorization. She was holding a large bowl of rice with a stack of vegetables and five slices of fat and fat on it. She smiled and walked over, put the bowl on the table, pulled the two away, and then glared at Du An, "Speak well if you have something to do, don't quarrel!" But she complained to Shu Yulai: She knew her younger brother best. She has always had a good temper since she was fifteen years old. She never blushed with others, let alone quarrel. The limited number of times was because others were too much, but Du An still wouldn't quarrel - he would choose to do it directly.

Now the two of them can actually quarrel, and she can hear it downstairs. It must be that this girl did something too extraordinary and really made her brother angry, but this girl is a guest, so it's hard to say anything.

The two calmed down for a while, and when Du Ping left, Shu Yu said, "You think about it yourself." After that, he turned around and left, but stopped the moment he opened the door, and stood quietly for a while before slowly saying, "At that time, they said you were the 'next Zhang Yi', but I don't think it was."

"Movies are another world connected to the real world. In this world, the director makes us cry, the director makes us laugh, the director makes us angry, the director makes us frighten, and the director manipulates our emotions. When "Saw" was done, I knew that you were born to be a survivor. You are a natural director because you can control our emotions at will. So, if you really want to add a name to you, it shouldn't be the 'next Zhang Yi' - you should be the king of this movie world."

"The King of the World."

"Don't you like watching movies? Why do you say 'we'!"

Du An shouted, but Shu Yu had already opened the door and left. With the sound of going downstairs and then as the car engine started, it gradually faded away and finally left.

"I'm crazy again..."

Du An murmured to himself, getting up to get the meal, but his hands stopped by the rice bowl.

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

Duan's hand just paused for a moment, then continued to stretch out and took his job.

When I was delivering the bowls after dinner, my sister was washing the dishes. Duan put the bowls and chopsticks into the basin and was about to walk away. He just took a step but stopped and asked in a strange way: "Sister, what am I afraid of?"

Du Ping smiled and said while washing dishes: "You are afraid of too many things."

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

Duane nodded.

"Huijuan is married, just the wine she held this autumn. She talked to me on the day of her wedding, saying why don't you come? Think about it, you two were so good when you were kids, you always play with the soil together, you are your father and she is your mother, haha."

Duan felt a little embarrassed to hear the embarrassing things he had when he was a child.

"I still remember one time, the daughter of the three fat boys said she wanted to play together. Huijuan said yes, you were not happy. She even kicked the bowls, houses, etc. you made both little babies cry, just like a child. Ha, what do you think? You were a child at that time..."

Du Ping said in a nagging manner, but Du An felt as if he was struck by lightning.

He seemed to have entered the time tunnel, and all the things buried deep in his memory were remembered: the three fat daughter was very beautiful when she was a child, and she was the most beautiful in the village. He always wanted to play with this little girl, but he didn't dare to go over and say "I want to play with you" to her, and he only dared to think all day long that it would be great if he could play with her. So he played with Huijuan and others, but he just 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 mud house, turned around and ran away, and ran back home.

Until now, he has not grown up and is still doing the same thing, he is still just a child.

He finally understood what he was afraid of.

“I want to grow up.”

Duane said softly.

Du Ping was stunned and then laughed, "You have grown up."

Du An shook his head. He knew Du Ping couldn't understand, but he didn't explain. Instead, he took a step forward and gently hugged Du Ping.

"Sister, thank you, but I should have grown up."

He whispered.

Du Ping stopped studying only when she went to junior high school and couldn't understand her younger brother's words, but she could probably feel her younger brother's feelings now. So although she was so old, she was still hugging her two people, but she felt a little embarrassed, but instead pushed Du An away, she reached out and patted her gently behind Du An.

...

Shu Yu got off the taxi and walked into a street.

This is an old street, and it is dangerous to have a car that passes wide by the road. There were originally stores here, but with the development of the city and the concentration of commercial services, there were fewer and fewer stores. Now, it is basically homes.

Shu Yu also rented a private house here.

It is eleven o'clock now, and most of the residents on both sides of the old street have entered their dreams. Almost no light leaks out from the windows of the whole street. Only a street light is left with a dozen meters away, which is barely illuminated the street.
To be continued...