Chapter 422 Mai Mai's Ambition
Looking at Meng Bai and Qin Lan in the room with ambiguous postures, Zhao Jinmai's originally overflowing smile disappeared, replaced by confusion, panic and complex helplessness.
Because of the final exams, she joined the crew relatively late and only came to Bangkok last week.
She thought she could see Meng Bai, but she didn't expect that he was still in China, which made the little girl feel a little disappointed.
Fortunately, she was not without acquaintances in the crew. One was Chen Zhixi, whom she had met several times when filming "The Wandering Earth". The
other was Qin Lan. When filming the web drama "Psychological Crime", the two played "mother and daughter". Although they haven't seen each other for several years, they occasionally keep in touch. In addition, the two are both from Shenyang, so they have a good relationship.
Zhao Jinmai was resting on the other side of the crew just now, and suddenly heard the staff say "Mr. Meng is here". In this crew, there is only one person who can be called "Mr. Meng", so she asked around happily, and when she learned that Meng Bai was with Qin Lan, she rushed over directly.
When she got to the door, she wanted to knock on it, but the door of the lounge was not closed tightly, and it bounced open by itself when she touched it.
Then, Zhao Jinmai found that "Brother Meng Bai" was getting together with her "mother" in an ambiguous manner.
In an instant, she felt as if something in her mind was broken, and she was stunned on the spot.
The sudden appearance of Zhao Jinmai also scared Meng Bai and Qin Lan, but both of them were mature players with long experience and calmed down in an instant.
First, they separated for a distance without leaving a trace, and then Meng Bai looked at the stunned little girl at the door: "Hello, Mai Mai, is there something you want to talk to me about?"
"Ah... Meng, hello, Brother Meng Bai."
Zhao Jinmai responded subconsciously, and then reacted and waved her hand and said: "No, it's okay, I just heard that you were here, so I came to say hello. I didn't mean it, I thought the door was closed and wanted to knock on it, but it opened by itself... Well, you guys are busy, I'll leave first."
She explained a few words in a panic, and some of her words were inconsistent. Finally, she felt that it would be more awkward to continue staying here, so she said something and then ran away with her hands and feet together.
"See what I said." Qin Lan rolled her eyes at Meng Bai, "I told you that this was inappropriate for the crew. Mai Mai
must have seen it." Meng Bai didn't care: "It's okay, Mai Mai is just a little girl."
"Haha, come on. She's a high school student, not an elementary school student. If she really didn't understand anything, she wouldn't have run away so embarrassedly just now."
Meng Bai thought about it and felt that it seemed to make sense, but it was still not a big problem.
"It doesn't matter whether she understands or not. She won't tell anyone anyway. I'll just make up a reason and explain it to her and we'll get away with it."
Qin Lan nodded in agreement: "Well, I believe this. Our President Meng is really good at deceiving young girls."
"Slander! You are slandering me without clothes!" Meng Bai said righteously: "It seems that Sister Qin Lan has a deep misunderstanding of me. Wait, I must prove this matter after we return to the hotel after filming tonight."
"Hehe, who's afraid of who, wait for you!"
...
Although it was a bit embarrassing to be caught by the little sister who always admired him, it was just embarrassing, and Meng Bai didn't take it to heart.
But what made him a little uncomfortable was that Zhao Jinmai kept avoiding him all afternoon on the set.
If she just stayed away, it would be fine, but the key point was that this little girl stared at Meng Bai every now and then, with a complicated look and a bit of strange meaning, which made him feel uneasy.
After being stared at for an afternoon, Meng Bai finally couldn't stand it. While the crew was taking a break, he found Zhao Jinmai.
"Maimai!"
Zhao Jinmai, who was called, looked over and saw Meng Bai sitting on the steps in the backyard of the villa on the set, waving at her.
She hesitated for a moment, but still walked over, and then sat down obediently at the other party's signal.
"Here!"
Meng Bai stretched out his hand and handed over a can of ice cola with water droplets.
"Thank you, brother Meng Bai."
Seeing her take it, Meng Bai smiled, then opened his can and raised his head to take a big sip.
"Well--"
After drinking it in one gulp, Meng Bai let out a long breath, his face full of comfort: "Sure enough, the first sip of ice cola in summer is the eternal god!"
Bangkok in June has entered the rainy season, and the weather is hot and stuffy. Especially now it is still evening, the sun is hanging obliquely in the sky radiating energy, and the ground is accumulating heat for a day.
Zhao Jinmai felt the coolness of the can of cola in her hand, and opened it like Meng Bai, and then took a big sip. In an instant, a refreshing feeling bloomed from the inside out in her body, and she couldn't help but burp.
"Burp--ah!"
The little girl quickly covered her mouth, her cheeks flushed against the setting sun.
After all, she was a girl, and burping in front of Meng Bai made her feel ashamed.
"Haha, no need to be so reserved." Meng Bai said with a smile, "If you don't burp after drinking Coke, it goes against the spirit of Coke."
As he said that, he took another big sip and then burped.
Zhao Jinmai was amused by him and laughed subconsciously, forgetting the depressed mood of the whole afternoon.
"Why did you keep staring at me in the afternoon?" Meng Bai asked.
"Ah? Really, is there?"
"I'm not blind."
"Hehe..." Zhao Jinmai smiled embarrassedly.
"Because of what happened this morning?"
Zhao Jinmai waved her hands unconsciously and nodded: "Yes..."
After that, she secretly glanced at Meng Bai and asked cautiously: "Brother Meng Bai, aren't you in love with Sister Qinqin?"
"Who told you?"
"Need I tell you!" Zhao Jinmai widened her eyes, "I saw it when we were filming the movie "Psychological Crime" before."
"You are young, but you know a lot." Meng Bai did not deny it, "Yes."
"Then you were like that this morning with Sister Qin Lan...just like that..."
Zhao Jinmai made a hugging gesture, looking a little excited.
Meng Bai smacked his lips: "Uh - if I say that Sister Qin Lan and I are good friends, and this is a greeting between good friends who haven't seen each other for a long time, do you believe it?" "
..."
Zhao Jinmai looked at him speechlessly: "Brother, I am seventeen years old this year, not seven years old, do you think I believe it?"
After that, she muttered softly: "I haven't seen you and me for a long time, and I haven't seen you so close."
"So our Maimai is jealous!"
Meng Bai deliberately sighed, put the Coke in his hand aside, then turned sideways and opened his arms: "Come on, I'll make up for it for you now."
"Eh - I don't want it!"
Zhao Jinmai pouted and said with pretended disgust, but his body sat there motionless.
Meng Bai was just pretending, it was impossible for him to really hug her. Seeing this, he smiled and withdrew his hand.
"Then Brother Meng Bai, are you and Sister Qin Lan also in love?"
"No. Didn't I say it, it's just a greeting between good friends."
"You lied to me!"
"I really didn't lie to you." Meng Bai said: "When you grow up, you will know that the relationship between adults is very complicated, and it can't be summarized by a simple pronoun."
Zhao Jinmai remained silent for a long time before he said in a muffled voice: "Brother Meng Bai is really a scumbag!"
"Yeah, it's true." Meng Bai nodded in agreement.
Zhao Jinmai was stunned: "You, don't you want to refute it?"
"What to refute?" Meng Bai spread his hands, "Your summary is very correct."
"But, you, I..."
Meng Bai admitted it, but the little girl herself was entangled.
In fact, now that the Internet and short videos are well developed, students are exposed to much more information than children in the past, and they are more mature. Zhao Jinmai grew up in the crew since she was a child, and she has been exposed to many things and people. Her mind is more mature than her peers.
She has seen and heard of scumbags and sea kings, and she is not completely ignorant of these.
Including Meng Bai, when she usually searches for news about him on the Internet, she has also seen a lot of gossip, some of which can be matched with what she knows, indicating that these news are not groundless.
But Zhao Jinmai has never taken these to heart. Because in her heart, "Brother Meng Bai" has always been a brother full of admiration.
In fact, it is normal to think about it. At the age of sixteen or seventeen, it is the time when love begins. People of the same age are still a bunch of little brats, and the crew members are all uncles. Even if there are good-looking male actors who have worked with her, they will be squeezed out immediately when they are put together with Meng Bai.
How could she not have a good impression of a handsome, good-natured, and very, very rich older brother?
For Zhao Jinmai, Meng Bai, whom she has known for so many years, is like the neighboring brother who grew up with the heroine in those girl comics and novels she reads, and she has a strong girlish heart.
It's a pity that this "brother" has a girlfriend, and he really treats her like an ordinary sister with whom she has a good relationship. This makes her a little disappointed, but she comforts herself that even if she only has such a "brother", it's not bad.
Even Li Qin, she has a lot more good feelings in her heart. When she was filming "Psychological Crime" before, she sometimes felt a strange sense of substitution when she saw the close relationship between the two.
Of course, Zhao Jinmai has never told anyone about these girlish thoughts. Even Zhao's mother, who had been accompanying her everywhere, felt that her daughter might have some affection for Meng Bai, but she didn't care too much.
Which girl doesn't have spring in her heart? It will be fine when she grows up.
So in the depths of her heart where no one disturbed her, some surging emotions were nurtured like the beginning of spring.
Until today, she caught the ambiguity between Meng Bai and Qin Lan, and her heart collapsed instantly. The rumors that had been ignored before resurfaced in her mind, and she suddenly realized that her "brother Meng Bai" was actually a normal man.
If it was another ordinary man, then after this emotional collapse, it might have disenchanted people. But the problem is that what attracted Zhao Jinmai the most was the excellence of Meng Bai. Even though he has become a "scumbag" now, there is still no change.
This made her feel a little uncomfortable, so she would observe Meng Bai from time to time in the afternoon, hoping to find more things in him that she couldn't stand.
However, what made her not know whether to be happy or disappointed was that she didn't find it.
On the contrary, watching him seriously discussing the script with Chen Sicheng, chatting about the character images with Xiao Yang and other leading actors, and making the originally chaotic crew orderly with his casual instructions, it seemed more attractive.
When Meng Bai called her over just now, she thought he wanted her not to tell anyone about what happened in the morning. Unexpectedly, he first made her happy, and then simply admitted that he was a scumbag.
Scumbags are bad guys, honesty is a good person, so what is an honest scumbag?
Zhao Jinmai touched the Coke on her hand, which was still a little overloaded. Her little head was running wildly with these information that was a bit overloaded for her now.
Seeing that she was silent for a long time, Meng Bai glanced at her and said, "What are you thinking about?"
"Nothing." Zhao Jinmai replied, and suddenly said, "It turns out that Brother Meng Bai is also a man..."
Meng Bai: o((âīšâ))? ? ?
"No, what do you mean I am also a man?" Meng Bai had a black question mark expression on his face, "So I used to be your sister!"
"No, no, that's not what I meant."
Zhao Jinmai realized that his words seemed ambiguous, and hurriedly waved his hands and said, "I mean, it turns out that Brother Meng Bai is just like other men, and he has bad points."
"Ha, you said that, I don't know whether I should be happy or funny." Meng Bai smiled and said, "Believe me, Mai Mai, there is no perfect person in this world."
"Including you?"
"Of course."
Meng Bai drank the Coke in his hand, then flattened the can and threw a three-point long shot into the trash can in the distance. Unfortunately, the accuracy was a little off, and it hit the edge and fell out.
"Look, you've discovered another weakness of mine."
Meng Bai stood up and looked at Zhao Jinmai: "Well, you'll have a lot of time to experience the complicated world of adults in the future. As for now, don't think too much about it, kid. Film well and go to school well. The future is still long. Don't waste today's sunshine and iced Coke for the future."
After saying that, he smiled at the little girl in front of him, then walked towards the trash can. He bent down, picked up the Coke can and threw it into the bucket, then walked away leisurely towards the sunset.
Zhao Jinmai looked at Meng Bai's back, feeling confused.
The scene she saw in the morning, the news she browsed online, what Meng Bai said just now, what she had seen and heard over the years, and the girl's mood... all intertwined together like a mess.
She put the can of Coke in her hand on her face, and the coolness through her cheeks calmed her down.
"...Don't waste today's sunshine and iced Coke for the future."
Zhao Jinmai repeated it again, and then suddenly smiled, as if she had put down a heavy burden.
"I was almost fooled by Brother Meng Bai again!" The little girl stared at the direction where the other party left and complained.
After going around in such a big circle, I almost forgot what it was about in the first place. Anyway, I won't tell others about this matter, what's the point of entanglement for a long time.
Zhao Jinmai put down the distracting thoughts in her heart and returned to her previous mood.
It's not that there is no change at all. In her heart, Meng Bai is no longer the perfect incarnation that she admired before, but a closer "flowery brother".
But then again, after the distance in the heart is shortened, why does it feel more caring.
Almost subconsciously, Zhao Jinmai had a desire in his heart that he couldn't believe but couldn't suppress -
since Brother Meng Bai had so many girlfriends, why couldn't he have one more?
(End of this chapter)
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