Chapter 41: Cross me ([Add more] "Blind Branch"...)

Chapter 41
As soon as he learned that Luo Xiu had come back from the crew, Josie called him and asked him and An Yi to meet in the annex of Qiao's house.
The Qiao’s House is hidden in a green bamboo forest on the outskirts of K city. What you want is the poetic view of the bridge and flowing water. The periphery is specially treated for mosquitoes, and the wind among the bamboo forests is cool in summer, which is indeed a good place to escape the heat.
This annex is not open to the public, and is only used to entertain Qiao's own relatives and friends.
Luo Xiu was the earliest.
An Yi and Jossie met by chance outside the forest. They came in together, and they inevitably mocked each other on the road. The little helper girls in the other restaurant passed by, all secretly pursing their lips while looking back.
Josie heard it and opened the wooden door at the end of the wing, "If you don't come, then my image in their minds must be wise and wise."
"Oh? I didn't see that your Qiao family likes doing charity so much."
"What kind of charity?"
"Looking for a group of bad eyes and brains is not good, so I think you are a wise and wise helper, isn't that just doing charity?"
"..."
The two came in with a fight, and Josie took the lead, and turned into the semi-open wing on the south side.
On the tatami mat covered with bamboo mats, Luo Xiu sat in the corner of the room where he could block half of the sunlight, looking at the book in his hand.
He didn't look up when the two of Josie came in.
Josie sighed and sat down across from him across a quaint wooden table: "Look at this enlightenment, this level of hard work, a widowed Taoist priest, I don't think you can recruit him into your Taoist Temple, if Luo Xiu really enters. , The position of the next observer will probably miss you."
An Yi didn't care, and smiled and sat down: "That would be the best."
"...There is no year-end performance appraisal to be a Taoist priest? Why don't you be so motivated?"
"You want to be motivated, so you spend a lot of time in China. When your dad mentioned joining the company, you turned around and went abroad?"
"You don't understand, I'm a strong desire to survive. If I join his company, his pure-blooded son at the competition level will he be so angry that he wants to kill me?"
"Look at your promise."
"Hello, then your father-in-law, who turned over to be the master, wants to train you to be his successor. Why are you still in that little Taoist temple?"
"Because I am different from him, I still have a little conscience left."
"Tsk, do you have a conscience? Ghost letter."
"..."
When the two met, they turned into two elementary school cockfighting. It was commonplace to tell each other short stories, and Luo Xiu didn't bother to raise his eyelids.
Until there was a temporary truce here, Josie, who was generally deflated, turned his attention back.
He supported his cheekbones with one hand, and the other knocked on the tabletop, lazily asked, "Master Luo, are you still studying? Which book is it today, the "Tao De Jing" or the "South China Jing"?"
Luo Xiu held the notebook lightly together, he raised his head indifferently, and slowly helped his glasses down.
"Neither, an essay."
"Essay?" Josie was stunned. "When did you become interested in this kind of thing?"
"This month, the beginning of the month."
"At the beginning of the month? When were you in that monster crew?"
"Ok."
Luo Xiu didn't mean to talk in depth, but Josie was obviously aroused by curiosity. He got up and walked around the quaint wooden table: "There are too few things that interest you. Let me see?"
""
Luo Xiu, Qiao Xi, and An Yi met by chance since they were young. Because of their subtle similarities and awkward family status, they had been secretly discussed by other people in the circle in the early years.
Later, the three of them became a fixed circle, and their friendship has been the deepest, and their respective families may not be close to them.
So Josie was completely instinctive to get the brown notebook beside Luo Xiu, but he didn't expect that as soon as he touched his hand to pick it up, the other end of the notebook was held down.
Josie was startled for two seconds and looked up.
After dragging the thin light lenses, those dark brown eyes smiled coldly: "It doesn't matter what else, this one won't work."
"..."
Josie withdrew her hand in a daze.
Hearing this sentence, An Yi, who was still on the other end of the wooden table, raised his eyes unexpectedly. His gaze floated between the two of them, and finally landed on the notebook held under Luo Xiu's fingers.
An Yi asked casually: "What essay makes it so mysterious? But Josie doesn't know a few words, so it's fine to read it."
Josie, who was still in a daze, turned her head, expressionless: "Your uncle is illiterate."
An Yi smiled, ignored him, and turned his eyes back to Luo Xiu.
Luo Xiu raised his hand back: "It belongs to someone else, so you can't watch it without permission."
Josie frowned: "Other people's? Didn't you also watch it?"
Luo Xiu's eyes were half drooping, and the corners of his lips lightly twitched, his eyes gleamed slightly: "I am different."
Josie: "..."
There was dead silence in the wing for a few seconds.
Josie suddenly gave a "⺪" and stepped back several steps in horror. Then he pointed to Luo Xiu and asked An Yi: "Have you seen it?"
"What to look at."
"Just the smile he just said, doesn't it look like he was caught by some evildoer? Master, soon, it's time for you to show your magical powers to save people and collect evildoers!"
"..."
An Yi drank his tea, glanced at Luo Xiu through the wafting water vapor, and laughed: "You are wrong."
Josie: "Really?"
An Yi: "Well, it's not that the evildoer got on the body, I think it's more likely that it was hooked by some fairy."
Josie: "..."
Josie: "???"
After regaining his senses, Josie's stunned and gossiping gaze immediately floated to Luo Xiu: "What An Yi said, is it true?"
Luo Xiu didn't raise his eyes, and sneered slightly: "Didn't you always say that An Yi is the sacred stick of the little girl showing off the Taoist law? Are you saying it is true or not?"
"It's different this time...you are really wrong, very wrong."
"where?"
"If we had guessed like this before, you would have no idea whatsoever, whatever we think."
"..."
Luo Xiu didn't speak any more, raising his eyes and looking over.
Josie and him looked at each other for two seconds, and their expressions became serious: "I entered the crew in the mountain, and it took only a month...Old people always said that there was something unclean in the mountain, but I still didn't believe it. It's true."
Luo Xiu looked down and smiled.
Seeing that Luo Xiu was too lazy to argue, Josie turned to An Yi and sighed: "Did you see it?" "What are you looking at."
"You Taoists have the most hope of becoming a good seedling, so what a pity it was folded in the hands of a female fairy in the depths of the mountains? If your master knows that you didn't stop him from entering the group, I think you have to beat you."
"..."
After joking, Josie walked back to Luo Xiu: "How deep is your line, how many years have we seen each other, and the female fairy who can hook you?"
Luo Xiu: "Don't talk nonsense, what a fairy."
Josie: "Now I want to deny that there are photos too late, let me see, I'm really curious about what kind of celestial posture it must be to move you?"
Luo Xiu: "No."
Josie: "?"
Josie pretended to threaten: "Don't force me. I don't like to use privileges. Don't force me to go through the lesbians from the eighteenth to the eighty-eighties in the "You Demon" crew."
An Yi watched the excitement from behind: "There are still in the mountains, so you can't fall down."
Josie: "Yes, together."
Luo Xiu didn't doubt Josie's background and ability, and believed that he could only spend a lot of time to explain how boring his father's other son was to relax his vigilance and want to have fun.
Luo Xiu squinted: "You don't need to check it, you know it too."
Josie: "Huh??"
Josie thought for two seconds and asked in amazement: "You didn't mean Zhuo Yixuan, did you?"
Luo Xiu: "No."
Josie: "Who is that?"
"..."
【You won’t move your heart for the first time, it’s toward me, your blind date, right? 】
[I never win people's love. 】
Luo Xiu's eyes flashed.
He picked up the notebook beside him, opened it casually, and paused in front of the headline on the stick figure little angel.
"Blind branch."
"Who is the blind branch? I don't recognize" Josie's voice stopped abruptly, and then he looked back, "Wait, is the author of the "Five Me" that was criticized for the annual golden song last year?"
"Ok."
Josie was even more puzzled: "But hasn't the outside world been rumored that Zhuo Yixuan is a blind branch?"
"..."
The smile in Luo Xiu's eyes faded, and he even frowned rarely: "She is not."
"Can Zhuo Yixuan acquiesce herself?"
Luo Xiu: "It's just an imposter."
"Oh."
Without waiting for Josie to ask further, Luo Xiu suddenly said, "Zhuo Yixuan is a matter of blind branches. The scope of the rumors is very wide?"
"Of course, especially the start-up hype of "You Demon" before, and it also raised the topic a lot. Now you should know that most of the blind branch people believe that Zhuo Yixuan's [青灯下] is the blind branch. New pen name."
"..."
After Josie finished speaking, he reacted slowly: "Speaking of which, if Zhuo Yixuan is not a blind branch, why doesn't the real blind branch come out to explain? It is too embarrassing to be so accounted for the famous name."
An Yi picked up an orange on the wooden table and smiled lazily while peeling it: "Explain? Who should explain it to."
"Yes, the power of the Zhuo Family, tsk."
Halfway through, Josie pulled the alarm bell in his mind, his smile diminished, and he looked at Luo Xiu seriously: "You just asked me that, didn't you mean it?"
Luo Xiu raised his eyes with a gentle smile.
"Things can not be returned to their original owners, but they cannot be invaded by others."
"..."
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After returning from the remote mountainous area of ​​M City, Gu Nian took a shower at home, pulled the blackout curtains after washing out, mute the phone, fell into the bed, and slept dimly all day.
She didn't wake up in the gloomy darkness until noon the next day.
After sleeping and waking up, everything is fine, and the lack of sleep for a month is made up. I wash my face immediately with cold water, and the only problem is...
The stomach is playing an empty game.
Gu Nian came out of the bedroom, no one in the living room. When Jiang Xiaoqing and Qin Yuanyuan came back yesterday afternoon, they said that they would go shopping today and feel the fragrance of the city, so Gu Nian was not surprised.
She opened the refrigerator, pulled out eggs, thin ham, chives and instant noodles from her own grid, and took them to the kitchen.
The water boiled, the noodles were put in the pan, the ham was sliced, the green onion was finely chopped, and the noodles were poured onto the noodles. An egg was knocked on the side of the pan.
When the noodles were ready and out of the pan, Gu Nian was finally able to comfort her stomach that was starting to hurt from hunger.
Lie in front of the cooking table, frowning in thought while eating Gu Nian.
Hungry and stomach pain are so uncomfortable. Her baby Goose was gastric lavage when she was very young. How terrible are the sequelae left by that?
No, she has to ask her mother in two days. It seems that there is an old Chinese doctor at home, who has been taking care of her body well...
Gu Nian was thinking, the front door of the house was opened. Jiang Xiaoqing and Qin Yuanyuan came in with big bags and small bags while talking.
"...She is shameless!"
Gu Nian bit her face awkwardly and raised her head at this head-on sentence.
Jiang Xiaoqing's righteous indignation became a bit relieved after turning back to see Gu Nian, "Are we sleeping beauty finally awake?"
Gu Nian replied vaguely, biting off the noodles in his mouth, "Are you out shopping?"
Jiang Xiaoqing: "Well, the ones at home are either broken or expired, and snacks and the like are empty, so we went to buy something cool!"
Gu Nian nodded, remembering something, and pointed to the bowl of instant noodles in his hand: "Do you have instant noodles? I will give you two servings?"
"Don't, how can I bother you?" Jiang Xiaoqing put down the big bags.
Qin Yuanyuan also echoed: "We are still saying this morning that you are exhausted this month, and you must not disturb you."
"It's okay, it's all right."
When the two gathered together the things they bought, and returned to the living room, Gu Nian also packed away her own dishes and asked casually, "What were you talking about when you came in, Xiaoqing seemed very upset?"
"Oh yes! I haven't told you about this yet!" Jiang Xiaoqing rushed in angrily, "I told you that Zhuo Yixuan is shameless!"
Hearing this name, Gu Nian had a meal, "What's wrong?"
"Isn't "You Demon" finished, and today the crew officially posted a Weibo to celebrate the event, and also posted an interview with Zhuo Yixuan. She brazenly said that every character in the script was her painstaking effort! And what else did she say? , I want to rely on this work to tear off the past labels that everyone puts on her. I hope everyone will remember the brand-new her now? I babble!"
Jiang Xiaoqing blushed with anger and started rolling up her sleeves
"What kind of label does she have, huh? Isn't it just about blind branches? She has to shamelessly, not herself, and now she still wants to step on the shoulders of blind branches to let others see her brand new? Brand new Big! Is that her script? Ahhhhh, I'm going to be mad at this shameless woman!"
Gu Nian left God.
Qin Yuanyuan smiled helplessly and came up to persuade: "Okay, don't be angry. After seeing this on the road, you are all angry all the way."
Jiang Xiaoqing hugged the pillow on the sofa and tore and vented: "I don't want to be angry, but I can't do it! I can't do it! I hope that the blind branch will appear immediately. It is best to crush her with the brightest kind, crush her! Beat her up! s face!"
"..."
Qin Yuanyuan smiled bitterly, unable to look at Gu Nian.
Gu Nian returned to his senses and smiled: "You think too simple."
"Huh?!" Jiang Xiaoqing turned back immediately.
Gu Nian walked over, "How can you be sure that the blind branches will shine brightly?"
"I……"
"According to the current situation, the most reasonable inference should be that she is already unknown and a passerby."
"Impossible!" Jiang Xiaoqing denied without even thinking about it, "With the talent of blind branches, as long as she is willing, then she can definitely become famous!"
Gu Nian laughed and said softly, "Success and fame? How can it be that simple."
Jiang Xiaoqing didn't say a word, but she was obviously uncomfortable or agree with her expression.
Gu Nian sat on the sofa next to her with a soft voice, "Take our circle as an example. How many people write scripts and stories day and night, and finally finish them, begging others to take a look at the door, but they are rejected Outside the door, even bad words met each other, at first he was complacent, but finally it was difficult to make ends meet?"
"..."
"How many people, even with the infamy for plagiarism, can still gain fame and fortune, and the scenery is boundless?" Gu Nian patted Jiang Xiaoqing, who bowed his head, and laughed, "It is very difficult to become famous, and countless people see the precedent of success. When you want to take that'shortcut', it is even more difficult to adhere to principles and adhere to the bottom line."
"..."
Jiang Xiaoqing struggled for a long time and looked up unwillingly: "I know what you said, so I hope the blind branch can stand up."
"stand out?"
"Yes, she is different from us. She has her strength and confidence. We can't do it, but she can. If she is so radiant and she can crush those discordant villains, then we will not be so angry and powerless. Up."
""
Gu Nian was stunned, and the hand that had not been put down froze on Jiang Xiaoqing's shoulder.
Jiang Xiaoqing didn't notice it, she lowered her head dejectedly: "But I know you are right, this circle is not right, it should be said that this world always seems to be pessimistic, the evil ones become famous, the good ones are unknown... I am a layman. Ah, I also want to be famous and advantageous. When we regard Blind Branch as an idol, we not only like what she writes, but also recognize her as a role model. So whenever this happens, I can’t help but think, I’m just an ordinary person, if Even people like Blind Branch can't do it, so do the things I insist on make sense?"
There was a long silence in the living room.
Jiang Xiaoqing suddenly reacted, raised her head quickly, and waved her hand with an awkward smile: "Oh, I'm talking about something weird, I was shocked by Zhuo Yixuan's shamelessness today, so I couldn't help it."
"Sorry."
"?"
Jiang Xiaoqing turned her head in astonishment: "Gu Nian you, why are you suddenly apologizing to me?"
"...It's nothing, I just think I underestimated you before. I forgot that when a name becomes a symbol, it itself is given responsibility and meaning."
"Huh?" Jiang Xiaoqing became more and more confused as she listened, "Why can't I understand what you are talking about? You despise me? Why?"
Gu Nian raised his head, smiled again, and stretched out his hand to rub Jiang Xiaoqing's short hair: "That's right, I thought you were just a silly sweet, but I didn't expect you to think about it so much, I'm sorry."
"...?"
Jiang Xiaoqing turned to the other side blankly and asked Qin Yuanyuan: "Is she in Yin and Yang?"
Qin Yuanyuan looked at her sympathetically: "To the extent that it is straightforward, it is no longer considered to be yin and yang, but to mock you brightly."
Jiang Xiaoqing: "!!!"
When Jiang Xiaoqing turned back to find Gu Nian to settle the accounts, Gu Nian had already got up and returned to the room as quickly as possible.
Jiang Xiaoqing straightened out the tousled hair, and sprinted to catch up with an angry and funny sprint: "Gu Nian, you have an indicator to ridicule me every day, right? Wouldn't I be able to sleep in bed at night without sarcasm? Don't run! "
"boom."
The door closed dangerously and dangerously. Jiang Xiaoqing was locked outside the bedroom door, only to hear the girl's successful laugh from inside.
When the noise was finally over, Jiang Xiaoqing outside the door gave up and quieted down. Leaning against the door, the smile on Gu Nian's face slowly faded.
She deceived herself and others.
She told herself that escaping was shameful but useful. She huddled in her own shell and kept convincing herself that your choice was right, but those people were wrong.
But she only told herself.
The principle is not a shell, she should not be allowed to hide underneath to escape reality, but also to comfort herself: it's too dark outside, and she doesn't want to go out because she doesn't want to get along with her.
The principle is a flag, she should hold it, should be upright, let everyone see her standing under the flag, should speak for it.
Being poor cares themselves, being wealthy cares the world. This is true, but it should not be used in principle.
Because the principle is not "poor."
If those who have principles are taking care of themselves, only then will they become the world of those without principles.
Gu Nian was silent for a long time, walked over to the bed, and picked up the phone on the table. There is a verified account named [Blind Branch] in the phone that she has not logged in for 2 years. Gu Nian froze his fingers to restart, authenticate, and log in.
In that strange and familiar interface, her pupils trembled uncontrollably.
But she still clicked, typing every word.
Two minutes later.
Suddenly an update reminder pops up under the blank account that has countless fans but has been in grass for two years.
[I fell under the cliff two years ago, and then uphold the spirit of "lie down wherever I fell", I lie down now. 】
[Now I want to climb up again. 】
[When I stand on the top of the mountain, I want to stand up and tell you my real name. 】
[Are you willing to listen. 】