After Lu Shan and Zhang Zhuoyuan argued for several days, she finally showed a compromising attitude, agreed to a settlement, and began to help the government clean up the messed up economy of G Province. But she seemed to have not completely calmed down. Although she agreed to a settlement and did help the government, she directly closed down a large number of peripheral enterprises that had been closed before, and packed up all the goods detained at the port and prepared to transport them to Taiwan and pile them up, not intending to continue selling them. It was a bit like a broken jar.
Zhang Zhuoyuan was terrified, fearing that Wolf Spider was still dissatisfied and was brewing revenge on the government, so he hurriedly contacted Lian Jun, wanting him to make the decision. Lian Jun comforted Zhang Zhuoyuan with the inference that "Wolf Spider should be planning to integrate its forces, cut off the damaged branches, and retain its strength as much as possible so as to smoothly form an alliance with Wumen and Qianye", and then hinted that he should pay more attention to Snake Fang recently.
"Snake Fang?" Zhang Zhuoyuan was puzzled when he heard this, and asked, "What happened to Snake Fang? Didn't it withdraw from Province G?"
"It did withdraw from Province G, but turned around and went to Taiwan. My branch members saw the silhouette of Snake Fang's ships near Taiwan." Lian Jun explained, motioning Gua Yi to send the information prepared in advance to the official email, and then continued, "Check your email. I asked my subordinates to track the Snake Fang ships for a few days and found that they often linger on the cargo transportation line of Wolf Spider."
Zhang Zhuoyuan was not stupid. He realized something when he heard about the cargo transportation line. While turning on the computer to check the email sent by Lian Jun, he frowned and said, "Is Snake Fang trying to rob Wolf Spider's goods? Did it ignore the documents I issued before?"
"The document you issued only prohibits malicious competition between organizations. Even if Snake Fang robs Wolf Spider's goods now, it only touches Wolf Spider's property, not the leader's life, so it is not considered a taboo."
Zhang Zhuoyuan was awakened by Lian Jun's words. He swallowed his words that he wanted to curse Snake Fang, quickly opened the email and looked at the content. Seeing that there were only a few ordinary ships in the photo, he was a little suspicious and said, "Is this really Snake Fang's ship? How did you recognize it?"
"We naturally have our own ways." Lian Jun is not the kind of person who knows everything. He simply evaded his question and said, "If Snake Fang really wants to steal the goods, there will definitely be a conflict on this transportation line. You contact Wolf Spider to ask about the departure time of their goods and clear the route in time to prevent other innocent cargo ships from being affected. The current economy of Province G cannot withstand another turmoil."
Zhang Zhuoyuan was stunned when he heard this and asked, "You asked me to pay attention to Snake Fang just because of this?" Aren't you going to stop this?
"What else?" Lian Jun asked, and said calmly, "It's just a batch of goods. Whether it was hijacked or not will not affect Wolf Spider's current strength. Conflicts between violent organizations are common. As long as it does not affect the balance of the four parties, they can do whatever they want. I don't have that much energy to care."
Zhang Zhuoyuan felt a toothache after hearing this, and said with embarrassment: "But they can directly clash near the sea. Our position here..."
"You'll have to ask Snakefang who was preparing to take action. Knowing clearly that the authorities were in a difficult position, they still decided to rob Wolf Spider's goods, and even chose to take action on the transportation line. Does Snakefang really take the authorities seriously? But I can understand Snakefang's action this time. It expanded too fast and the funds could not keep up. If it does not replenish the funds, it will probably collapse from within." Lian Jun said, and his tone was as if he was saying that the weather was very good today, very calm and cold.
Zhang Zhuoyuan was sure that Lian Jun must still be a little angry with the authorities, so he didn't dare to offend him. He tried to speak in a tone of suggestion and negotiation: "In that case, wouldn't it be better to just let it collapse? Maybe we can help Wolf Spider stop Snake Fang from robbing the goods this time..."
"It can be stopped, but it's not necessary." Lian Jun replied, explaining, "If Snake Fang continues to expand so smoothly, then in order to prevent its strength from expanding too quickly, it is okay to suppress it appropriately, but it is too much effort to let it collapse directly. It's not too difficult for Snake Fang to find a way to absorb funds for such a large organization. We can stop it this time, but what about next time? It's unrealistic to keep staring at it. Now is a critical moment, and we'd better not distract our attention too much."
Zhang Zhuoyuan pondered and asked, "Then just let it go?"
"As long as it doesn't try to bite the other three organizations and break the current balance of power, it's fine to leave it alone. The four of them will definitely form an alliance in the end. The more they clash now, the lower the trust between them will be after the alliance, and the more favorable the situation will be for us. The leaders of Wolf Spider, Meridian Gate, and Qianye are all cautious and shrewd people. Their alliance needs a dictator like Snake Fang leader Yuan Peng. It is not a good thing for enemies to be too united. Snake Fang will be in trouble. This rat shit is very necessary."
Lian Jun finished explaining, and then concluded: "In short, the Snake Fang organization needs more attention, don't let it develop too smoothly, but don't worry too much, as long as it doesn't touch the other three, let it do whatever it wants."
Zhang Zhuoyuan was enlightened by what he heard, and he admired Lian Jun very much. He quickly agreed and said, "You are still far-sighted. I won't care about the Snake Fang robbing the wolf spider's goods this time. I will have people clear the route."
"Well, thank you for your hard work." Lian Jun hung up the phone and looked at the tablet with the video call on it. He said to Lu Shan, "That's it. If Snake Fang only robbed the goods and didn't touch the treasure island, then you should bite it back hard and use this as a handle to delay its opportunity to form an alliance with Wumen and Qianye. If Snake Fang touches your interests in the treasure island, then you should report it directly to the authorities and they will help you out. Sanhe Guawu will also take the opportunity to help you get revenge."
It was the first time that Lu Shan saw Lian Jun and Zhang Zhuoyuan talking alone. Lian Jun fooled Zhang Zhuoyuan with a few words and forcibly led Zhang Zhuoyuan to change the topic from "Is Wolf Spider secretly doing something again, should we be on guard?" to "The Snake Fang organization is a rat shit, we must keep a close eye on it, and we can't let it harm the other three." She felt her scalp tingling.
This guy is a monster, it's great that she is not his enemy.
"No, no problem, then can my goods be shipped out?" Her voice was inexplicably dry.
"Let's go. It's been delayed for so long, Sheya should be unable to wait any longer. Remember to tell Wumen and Qianye about Sheya's movements. Their leader will know what to do."
Lu Shan quickly agreed, hung up the phone first, and wiped the cold sweat from her head.
Lian Jun's handsome human skin couldn't possibly contain some alien creatures...
...
In the study, Shi Jin saw that Lian Jun had finished chatting, so he hurriedly took a few approved documents and walked them over to Lian Jun, saying a little nervously, "I've done it, take a look."
Lian Jun's cold expression quickly melted away, and he took the documents and flipped through them. His mouth curled up slowly, and he praised, "Not bad, you have remembered everything Mr. Feng taught you very well." Shi Jin
breathed a sigh of relief and asked happily, "Then can I help you share some of the work?"
Lian Jun changed the subject and asked, "What do you want to eat for dinner?"
Shi Jin's expression suddenly fell, and he asked, "Is it not possible?"
"Learning needs to be gradual, take your time." Lian Jun comforted her, tilted his head to look through the window at the beach outside, and asked, "Will your third brother come to dinner today?"
Hearing this, Shi Jin also glanced at the beach outside the window, and the smile on his face faded a little. He replied, "Probably not. The lead actor had some scenes stuck yesterday, and the crew's progress was delayed a little. He has to help there." "Unhappy?" Lian Jun asked.
Shi Jin retracted his gaze, looked at Lian Jun, sat opposite him and leaned on the desk, shaking his head and said, "It's not that I'm unhappy, I just feel that I can't concentrate on doing anything." Lian Jun
tapped the table with his finger, slid out of the desk, stopped beside him, put his arm around his waist, and leaned over to kiss him. Shi Jin
blinked, closed his eyes, and let him kiss him obediently.
Their breaths intertwined, and their breaths exchanged. It was a soothing kiss. After the kiss, Lian Jun smiled and rubbed Shi Jin's rosy lips, saying, "You really don't have the energy. If it was normal times, you would have come over if I kissed you like this." Shi Jin
retorted, "Not every time... well."
Lian Jun kissed him again, his hand soothingly along his back, then moved down a little, lifted the hem of his clothes, and gently touched inside.
His lips were released, and his breathing became free again. Soft kisses moved from his cheeks to his ears, and then his earlobe was gently bitten. No matter how listless Shi Jin was, he was aroused at this moment, and reached out to hug Lian Jun and touch his belt.
Knock knock knock.
There was a sudden knock on the study door.
Lian Jun and Shi Jin paused at the same time, and looked at each other, one with regret in his eyes, and the other hadn't reacted yet.
"Wait until the evening." Lian Jun kissed Shi Jin's lips again, helped him to tidy up his upturned clothes and messy hair, and then tidied himself, and then called him to come in.
Gua Liu had already roughly understood what was going on inside when he didn't hear an immediate response after knocking on the door. When he was regretting and hesitating whether to leave first, Lian Jun's voice came out, very calm and calm.
Did he misunderstand?
Gua Liu was a little embarrassed. He put aside his thoughts and opened the door to go in. He saw Shi Jin sitting at the desk, looking through documents, and Lian Jun sitting next to him. The two looked like they were just in class. He immediately cursed himself for his impure thoughts and reported in a steady voice, "Mr. Rong is here."
Rong Zhouzhong is here? Shi
Jin turned his head to look at the door.
"Go ahead, he should be here for dinner." Lian Jun took the documents from his hand and said soothingly, "I'll come to see you after I finish my work... Don't think too much, I'm always here." Shi Jin
looked at his gentle and reliable appearance and couldn't help but stretch out his arms to hug him.
...
Rong Zhouzhong wore a simple black T-shirt today, and didn't wear glasses. Although his hair was still brown and curly because of the filming requirements, it was a little messy, and his temperament finally leaned towards his nature.
"Have you finished filming?" Shi Jin took the initiative to greet him and sat opposite him.
Rong Zhouzhong saw him coming, sat up a little straighter, and replied: "No, there is another night scene tonight, and my scene will be finished after filming." Shi
Jin immediately understood his purpose and asked: "Tonight?"
"If you want." Rong Zhouzhong answered, looking at him all the time, his eyes were rare and calm, and his expression was rare and calm and serious. Shi Jin
couldn't describe his feelings at this moment. He felt a little confused, a little wanted to escape, and a little wanted to just stand up and beat Rong Zhouzhong up to prevent him from showing such an expression that was not in line with his personality.
"Then let's do it tonight. There is a video room on the second floor that can be used normally. I have prepared the movie and we can start watching it anytime. Do you want to have a midnight snack? I'll ask the kitchen lady to prepare some."
Rong Zhouzhong replied, "Then let's have a cake."
Cake.
The memories were briefly connected, and both of them knew what this movie represented. They looked at each other, but they could not see the real emotions in each other's eyes. It was as if everyone suddenly put on a mask called politeness. Knowing that there would be bloody injuries ahead, they had to maintain the last illusion of peace.
Rong Zhouzhong suddenly avoided Shi Jin's sight, stood up and walked away, with big steps and a fast speed.
Shi Jin did not try to stop him. He listened to his footsteps as he left until the sound gradually faded away. Then he turned his head to the direction of the balcony and found Rong Zhouzhong walking on the long bridge, gradually going away. He watched him leave quietly.
...
After dinner, Shi Jin sat on the edge of the long bridge, looking in the direction of the crew, watching them filming with his clairvoyance.
Yesterday, the lead actor finally found his feeling after being stuck in the filming for an entire afternoon. Today, the crew will move to the ship to film the lead actor's growth, and then he will be chased from the ship to the sea by the enemy. When he falls into the sea, he remembers the death of his teacher in the sea, and breaks through his inner demons when he is on the verge of death.
This scene is very important, and it is the key to the protagonist's psychological transformation. Rong Zhouzhong has to appear again as the inner demon and the protagonist's hallucination, and talk to the protagonist on the endless sea. In order to make this conversation more impactful, the director required Rong Zhouzhong to remain soaked throughout the whole process, with half of his body soaked in water, and talk to the protagonist floating on the sea in a "water ghost" posture as if standing in the water.
Before filming this scene that was destined to be very tormenting, Rong Zhouzhong also needed to work with the protagonist to get rid of the inner demons of the protagonist before the evening light disappeared, while his clothes and hair were still wet, and to shoot the scene where the teacher played by Rong Zhouzhong got rid of the "water ghost" appearance and restored his usual gentle appearance and gradually disappeared.
This scene was filmed on the beach, and it was the scene where the lead actor woke up after getting rid of his inner demons and found himself washed onto the beach and rescued by the waves.
Shi Jin watched Rong Zhouzhong bathed in the warm light of the evening, tenderly waved goodbye to the crying lead actor, turned around and slowly walked into the end of the light, and suddenly remembered the scene of the original owner and Rong Zhouzhong blowing out the candles together at the birthday party that year.
At that time, Shi Xingrui was standing on the other side of the table, personally holding a camera to record the original owner's birthday. The original owner forced Rong Zhouzhong to join him, and ordered another cake for Rong Zhouzhong on the pretext of celebrating Rong Zhouzhong's winning the Best Actor Award, and blew candles with him.
Two cakes, two people, each blew out their own candles, and stood together to receive blessings from their family. The scene looked like they were celebrating their birthdays at the same time. Their common father stood across the table, smiling lovingly, and his figure briefly overlapped with the millions of ordinary fathers in the world who love their children.
The original owner smiled after blowing out the candles, and turned his head to look at his most dazzling third brother. He thought his third brother would be happy too, but he saw that under the smoke that rose after the candles were extinguished, his third brother's eyelids were half-closed, and his beautiful peach blossom eyes were full of sadness, gray, as if there was no light at all.
It was just a very short moment. When the smoke cleared, the third brother smiled happily, leaned over to hug him, and said thank you and happy birthday.
It seemed that from that day on, the third brother slowly became the current Rong Zhouzhong. It was as if he had stripped away the most sensitive and tender part of himself, and became the petty and vengeful person he is now, who said, "If you make me unhappy, I must be even more unhappy than you."
"Actor is indeed the most suitable career for him." Shi Jin said, looking at Rong Zhouzhong who was about to board the ship to shoot the last killing scene in the distance, and his voice was almost inaudible, "It's great that he can be an actor."
If there was no actor as a shield, and no movie world where he could freely express his emotions, Rong Zhouzhong would probably become the second Li Jiuzheng, no, maybe the second Shi Wei Chong, but definitely not the current Rong Zhouzhong.
The more he read through those memories, the more he understood that the harm was always mutual. Intentional harm is harm, and unintentional harm is also harm. They are both victims and perpetrators, and no one is right.
The sound of the ship setting sail came, and Shi Jin came to his senses, only to find that all the crew members had boarded the ship and set sail to shoot the scene where the leading actor fell into the sea and broke his inner demons.
He instinctively looked towards the deck of the ship, trying to find the familiar figure, but he didn't have to look for it, because the person was standing very conspicuously in a position on the deck that could be seen at a glance, holding up a pair of binoculars and looking straight at this side. Shi Jin
was caught peeking, and he was startled in his heart. He quickly lowered his head and retracted his gaze, and then realized that he was now looking at that side with the buff of the clairvoyance. On the surface, it looked like he was simply looking at the scenery, but in fact, there was no need to avoid it.
I was careless.
He was a little stiff, wanting to look up but not daring to, so he simply raised his hands and rubbed his eyes, pretending to be tired of looking at the scenery, and stood up and walked towards the villa.
...
Shi Jin stayed in the house for half an hour, and estimated that the crew had already started filming, so he went out of the villa again, found a position with a good view on the balcony, and continued to peek at Daye - although he didn't know why he suddenly became so obsessed with peeking at Rong Zhouzhong filming.
It was completely dark, and Shi Jin asked Xiao Si to add a night vision buff to him, then took out the snacks that Rong Zhouzhong had sent him before, and ate while watching.
Rong Zhouzhong had already entered the water, and was lying on a lifeboat board to give the leading actor a lecture, looking very serious. The staff were busy setting up around the two of them, and the director was checking the safety equipment for Rong Zhouzhong to use.
After about ten minutes, the preparations were finally completed, and the leading actor floated on the water face up, with a numb look of no desire to live. Rong Zhouzhong was half-hanging in the water by tools, slowly adjusting his body posture. Although there were staff wearing diving suits hiding underwater to help him stabilize his body balance, it was still very difficult to pose as if nothing had happened and standing steadily in the water.
Fortunately, the weather tonight was very good, the moon was very round, and the light that fell was cold and natural, which was in line with the mood of the plot. There was no wind, and the sea was very calm, which did not hinder the filming.
Finally, after another ten minutes, the filming officially started.
Shi Jin sat too far away. He could only see the screen but not hear the sound. And because of his position, he could only see Rong Zhouzhong's profile. But that was enough. What he wanted now was just to see Rong Zhouzhong. It didn't matter whether he could see him clearly or not. The
"inner demon" in the play sometimes comforted and encouraged the leading actor, sometimes questioned him coldly, sometimes wanted to save the students from the water, and sometimes wanted to drag the students into hell together. Shi Jin outside the play looked at Rong Zhouzhong who seemed to have become a different person. His posture slowly changed from sitting to leaning, from leaning to paralyzed, and finally he simply moved the rattan table over and lay on it.
After an unknown amount of time, Shi Jin had eaten his fill of snacks, but Rong Zhouzhong's scene had not been finished yet.
During the short break, Rong Zhouzhong sat on the lifeboat for rest, wearing a blanket, frowning and scolding the lead actor, who was sitting on another boat, listening with his head down in frustration.
The filming didn't seem to be going well.
Shi Jin thought so, watching Rong Zhouzhong frowning and talking in anger, and slowly closed his eyes - has anyone told Rong Zhouzhong that he is actually scary when he is really angry, scarier than Shi Wei Chong and Fei Yu Jing.
He is really fierce.
...
Lian Jun opened the French window, slid his wheelchair to Shi Jin's side, and covered him with a blanket.
Gua Liu stood behind him worriedly and asked, "Master Jun, do you want to carry Master Shi inside?"
"No need." Lian Jun answered, carefully tucked in the blanket for Shi Jin, touched Shi Jin's face which looked worried even when he was asleep, and said, "This is between him and Rong Zhouzhong. He said he wanted to wait for Rong Zhouzhong to finish filming before watching a movie together, so let him wait."
"But he will get sick if he does this." Gua Liu was still very worried and even wanted to sigh.
Everyone could see that Shi Jin was abnormal during this period, but they didn't know how to comfort him. All the changes started after Rong Zhouzhong came over. Shi Jin's abnormality must be related to Rong Zhouzhong, but considering the complicated family environment of the Shi family, everyone was reluctant to ask.
"Mr. Shi seems to have become a different person recently. He is always in a daze and sits on the long bridge for a whole day..." Gua Liu said, and when he saw Lian Jun looking at Shi Jin, he shut up silently.
Everyone can see it, how could Mr. Jun care so much about Shi Jin and not see it.
"...I'll ask someone to bring two screens to block the wind." He changed his words and turned around to do it.
Lian Jun watched him leave, then retracted his gaze to look at Shi Jin, touched Shi Jin's face, leaned over to hug him, put his face next to his face, and rubbed it gently.
"Come on, cheer up." He whispered with a sigh, "Don't forget that I'm always here."
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