Baby's Night Walk (9)
The director didn't get the publicity he wanted, and he even lost money because he hired someone to play the ghost, which gave the agency an excuse to demand compensation.
It didn't have to come to this, but Yu Shu was trapped in the stuffy RV with no air circulation and developed severe symptoms of heatstroke. Jiang Yu was furious and contacted Feng Meng and his boss to ask for an explanation.
The director was in the wrong. If it were revealed that a director carried γ-hydroxybutyric acid with him to knock out crew members, his career would be shattered.
He was sent to the hospital in time, as he almost developed heat stroke. After emergency treatment and a night's rest, his condition is much better.
"Do you want to lie here or go back to the hotel?" Jiang Yu fed the last mouthful of porridge to Yu Shu.
Yu Shu raised his eyelids, his lips faded and felt a little fragile: "No need to lie down, let's go back to work."
He could have eaten breakfast on his own, but Jiang Yu insisted on taking care of him, so he gave in. He was quite surprised by how attentive Jiang Yu was, blowing the porridge to the right temperature, warming the water, and peeling the oranges, even paying attention to the white veins.
Yu Shu laughed at him, "Why be so particular? Why not just tear off the thin membrane of the orange peel?" Jiang Yu seemed like a different person. He tapped his forehead with his index finger and said that oranges can easily cause indigestion and heatstroke.
Even when wiping his mouth, Jiang Yu had to use a wet tissue first and then a dry tissue. He was so delicate that doctors and nurses who didn't know would think he had a serious illness.
When Jiang Yu was taking care of people, his expression was completely different from his usual expressionless and frugal manner.
"If you go back, it will be a work-related injury." Jiang Yu touched Yu Shu's forehead again out of concern.
Yu Shu laughed and slapped Jiang Yu's hand away: "I have heatstroke, not a fever." He took his temperature just before drinking the porridge, and there was nothing wrong. Besides, he ate healthily, kept exercising, and his physical condition was still good. He was not as weak as Jiang Yu said.
He tried to get up, but Jiang Yu held his shoulders and pushed him back into the bed.
"Even if you have money, you don't have to pay me back like that. I'm really fine." Yu Shu said helplessly.
Jiang Yu sat on the sofa diagonally opposite the bed: "With Liu Xu and Li Qingyan's help, it's okay."
It's normal for Liu Xu to take charge, but why did Li Qingyan get involved? Raising a ghost is not as serious as the serial murder case in No. 6 Middle School, which requires the intervention of Bureau 749.
Yu Shu's eyes were fixed on Jiang Yu, but his composure had not yet fully recovered. He lacked momentum and looked more and more like a kitten staring at a person.
"Old residential complex, surrogacy den." Jiang Yu said bluntly.
Yu Shu's expression froze. He had always thought that the ghost babies went to the old neighborhood because their ashes were placed there, but he didn't expect the truth to be so absurd.
As for Li Qingyan, Jiang Yu probably considered that they were few in number and lacked a strong enough backing; rashly exposing him would likely lead to retaliation. But Li Qingyan was different; he was from Bureau 749. His involvement in this matter, and using him to spread the word, would give him considerable credibility and power.
Yu Shu said, "So we can just be lazy openly?"
"Wait for news." Jiang Yu lowered his head and concentrated on fiddling with his phone.
Jiang Yu kept in touch with Li Qingyan and kept an eye on the current filming situation.
Just as Jiang Yu guessed, as long as they were in the Beijing Boys Group, no accidents would occur. It was obvious that Wu Yihan was on guard, but without sufficient evidence, he could not confront him directly.
Yu Shu felt much better after resting for half a day. He didn't like staying in the hospital and strongly requested to be discharged.
Jiang Yu had no choice but to take Yu Shu back to the set.
"You're back so soon, why don't you take a rest for a while?" Li Qingyan asked with concern.
Yu Shu and Li Qingyan were not very familiar with each other. They occasionally chatted on WeChat, but strictly speaking, it was Li Qingyan who sent him messages, sometimes good morning and good night, and sometimes forwarding some funny videos.
He was not interested and basically just laughed it off, thinking that Li Qingyan would realize it was boring and stop sending him meaningless messages, but Li Qingyan did not change at all.
Just today, when he woke up and looked at his phone, there were several greetings in the chat box, such as "How are you recovering?" and "I can help bring you anything you want to eat." Yu Shu didn't know how to respond. After thinking for a long time, he said honestly: "I have Jiang Yu here, so I won't bother you."
"It's okay, I'm in good physical condition." Yu Shu smiled and said, "Thank you for your help. You've worked hard. Jiang Yu and I are here. You and Liu Xu can go and rest for a while."
Li Qingyan patted Liu Xu's shoulder and said, "You only slept for a short while this morning. Go back and rest. I'm fine and not tired."
He just wanted to stay.
Yu Shu didn't organize anything either. If Li Qingyan was willing to use his own time to help, then that was up to him. It would be a good thing to have more people.
In the afternoon, there was a set of shots of camping and fishing. The guests were required to squat by the lake with fishing rods in hand, but the essence of this outdoor variety show is heart-to-heart talk, and they chatted while fishing.
The fish in the lake seemed to have lost their hearing system and become deaf. A group of people were chatting on the shore and were still being caught.
Yu Shu hissed, "Looking at it makes me want to fish."
Li Qingyan chuckled and said, "They were just released a few minutes before you arrived. The director team has been starving those fish for several days."
"Is that so?" Yu Shu replied casually.
Jiang Yu said nothing, staring quietly at Wu Yihan's fishing rod that was bent into a semicircle, as if he was about to catch an incredibly big fish.
The photographer cleverly scanned the reactions of the other artists and finally gave Wu Yihan a long close-up.
"Oh, such a small one."
The fish caught was very thin, about the length of an adult man's palm.
"How can a creature of this size bend the fishing rod? It's so strange."
"Forget it, it's a good thing Yihan didn't become an air force soldier, just put him in the bucket."
"Well, seeing that you all have three or four, I almost thought I would get nothing. It would be great if I could get anything." Wu Yihan continued.
However, as soon as the little fish was put into the bucket half filled with water, it started flapping its wings violently, knocking the bucket over in a few seconds and splashing water all over Wu Yihan.
Wu Yihan happened to be wearing a thin white T-shirt that was transparent when wet, revealing her abs and nipples. Her gray sweatpants further emphasized the bulk of her midriff. The cameraman, preoccupied with capturing the most explosive moment, didn't notice the fish taking advantage of the moment to bite Wu Yihan's ankle while she was bouncing and flopping.
Wu Yihan shook his legs violently in pain, but the fish seemed to have teeth and stuck to him tightly, so he couldn't get rid of it. It had to be his teammates who helped pull it off.
The director sensed something was wrong, interrupted filming, and asked Jiang Yu for help.
When Jiang Yu took action, the little fish became quiet and stopped flapping its tail.
He took a quick look and saw that the fish's eyes were bloodshot, but there was no external injury or bleeding. The fish's belly was swollen and he could feel a long, hard object about three or four centimeters long.
Jiang Yu threw the fish back into the lake and said in an unquestionable tone, "It's okay, it's just an aggressive little fish of unknown origin."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and continued filming, except Wu Yihan, who had a complicated expression.
That fish was not a red-eyed trout, but it had eaten human flesh, so its two eyeballs were blood red. The long cylindrical object in the fish's stomach was most likely a human finger that had not been digested yet.
Although no one knows where the finger came from, the fish is definitely related to the mother and child ghosts raised by Wu Yihan.
It's time finally.
In the early stages of raising a little ghost, you either use candy or objects to satisfy it, but the little ghost's appetite will become bigger and bigger. The reason why the members of the boy group had accidents one after another was that Wu Yihan used his teammates' bodies to satisfy the little ghost.
The mother and child ghosts who were sent away came back for some reason. The depression they felt during the recent period and these days had made them unable to care about anything else and attacked Wu Yihan directly.
Yu Shu saw Jiang Yu coming back and asked, "Are you okay?"
"Piranha." Jiang Yu opened his mouth without hesitation.
He didn't tell the truth because, firstly, he was worried that walls had ears, not to mention that this was an open filming area; secondly, he was afraid that the mother and son ghosts would stop attacking him after he told the truth.
At that time, Wu Yihan might ask them for help because his own safety is threatened, or he might look for someone to take the blame. As long as we wait and see, we will be able to see the whole picture.
"Why did you release the invasive alien species back? You should have told the professionals."
Yu Shu believed whatever Jiang Yu said.
"Then I'll jump in and catch it back?" Jiang Yu raised his eyebrows and smiled.
"You all talk about piranhas, what if you jump in and get bitten?"
They treated Li Qingyan as invisible air and chatted among themselves.
Li Qingyan wanted to interrupt but was too embarrassed to do so, so he could only watch from the side.
"Nonsense, red-eye trout." Jiang Yu made up a more reasonable species to dissuade Yu Shu from calling the Ministry of Natural Resources.
Yu Shu glared and said, "You're not telling the truth." He was also a failure. Jiang Yu had teased him so many times, and he always fell for it. He had read so many feng shui and fortune-telling books that he had become a bit obsessed. He even suspected that Jiang Yu was unlucky for him.
Until the end of dinner, there were no other accidents during the filming, but the director was still cautious and used the excuse that everyone was tired after filming for several days in a row, so they would not record tonight to relax.
There was no room for Li Qingyan in the villa, so he had to go back and come back tomorrow.
"I can't sleep." Yu Shu buried his body in the soft bedding, staring at the ceiling in a daze.
Jiang Yu pulled out a tablet and handed it over: "Then you can read some literature."
Yu Shu was at a loss for words. The last time he read any literature was during Yu Ding'an's funeral. He had been busy with a lot of things back in Guangzhou, and now that he was free, he didn't have the energy to think about it.
"The more I read, the more excited I become." Yu Shu took the tablet, opened the video software with ease, and found a newly released movie.
Jiang Yu handed over some warm water and reached out to check Yu Shu's temperature.
Yu Shu laughed and scolded, "I'm fine, stop touching my head to check my temperature. If there's anything wrong, I'll definitely tell you. I won't be polite to you if I can get the money for the work-related injury."
Jiang Yu lowered his eyes and happened to meet the loose collar of Yu Shu's pajamas. The half-covered white and delicate chest muscles filled his vision. He raised his eyelids and saw Yu Shu's eyebrows naturally relaxed and defenseless.
"If I don't keep a close eye on you, it will be troublesome if something happens again." Jiang Yu said bluntly.
"You're quite responsible." Yu Shu smiled, rolled over to make some space, and patted the soft bed. "This movie has a high rating. Let's watch it together."
Two grown men lay side by side on the double bed watching a movie. Yu Shu liked to guess the plot while watching the movie, but he always guessed wrong. Jiang Yu was very quiet and didn't say a word, but he would give Yu Shu the water and snacks on the bedside table.
Neither of them thought there was anything wrong with it, and they even enjoyed it.
The director walked in without knocking, disturbing their harmonious interaction, and the panic on his face froze for a moment.
Yu Shu frowned: "What's wrong? What's the matter?" He hated people who had no sense of boundaries. It made him uncomfortable when people came in without knocking. He felt like his privacy was being invaded.
"Wu Yihan jumped into the lake. Even after being rescued, he still won't wake up." The director gasped for breath.
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