Chapter 69 Sister, it is still difficult for my brother to see you...
Chapter 69 Sister, it is still difficult for my brother to see you...
In July, Xu Shen joined the crew, and Li Su also followed the director team to various places to collect folk songs and record some shots. After
running through 6 cities in a row, Li Su led the director team to Wuzhen Film and Television Base, held meetings every day, reviewed the shots, and finally confirmed the storyboard script and shooting plan.
Busy until the end of August, the project came to a small end, and Li Su gave everyone a day off.
She picked up a day's change of clothes, put on her backpack, took her things, and prepared to take a 2-hour high-speed train to see Xu Shen.
When she opened the door, she didn't expect a strange woman to be standing at the door.
Li Su had never seen her, but Li Su knew who she was.
The woman was wearing pajamas and holding a gourd-shaped handbag in her hand. She leaned against the wall, as if she was in a daze, or as if she was in deep thought.
After the door opened, she stood up straight, and seeing Li Su looking straight at her, she also looked at Li Su carefully from top to bottom.
She didn't say anything, as if she was just standing in the wrong place, as if she didn't exist.
Although Li Su didn't understand the situation, she didn't pretend not to see it. She thought about it and called her politely: "Sister."
Sister? Xu Shu was obviously a little surprised. Her eyes flickered. She paused for a while and nodded as a response.
The two were one inside the door and the other outside the door, each
with their own agenda. Li Su had long expected to meet Xu Shu. When she was a freshman, Xu Shu began to appear frequently on major screens as an actor. They
were one in front of and behind the scenes. As long as they were in the same film and television industry, they would meet sooner or later.
Li Su stared at her and saw that Xu Shu's eyes were full of words, and she wanted to say something but stopped. Li Su didn't change her expression and smiled faintly.
"There are too many people outside, please come in first." Li Su shrank behind the door, opened it, and invited Xu Shu in.
Xu Shu paused for a moment, then walked in alone, explaining casually, "I'm filming here, and I live upstairs from you. I heard you were here, so I came to see you."
"Thank you." Li Su closed the door behind Xu Shu, and she followed Xu Shu in.
Xu Shu looked around and saw that Li Su's room was very clean, with almost no personal belongings spread out in the public area.
She glanced at the small tea table, walked to the sofa and sat down. She took out her cell phone from her gourd bag and pressed it, waited for a while, and put the phone back into her bag.
Xu Shu put the gourd bag aside and said in a flat tone, "I know that most of your crew are women, so you are careless, but you must be on guard against others. Don't let anyone talk about work in your room in the future."
"Oh." Li Su was not surprised that she was as transparent as a mirror in front of Xu Shu.
She quickly boiled a pot of hot water, washed Xu Shu's warm cup of tea, and poured a cup.
The air was filled with the fresh fragrance of tea. It was refreshing.
Li Su picked up her own cup and sipped the tea.
She glanced at Xu Shu, and seeing that Xu Shu was also looking at her, she buried her head and kept silent, pretending to be confused. It was not
until she finished the first cup of tea that Xu Shu spoke in a low voice: "You are quite patient."
The tone of voice that could not be praised or criticized made Li Su's eyelashes move. She looked up again and looked at Xu Shu, smiling faintly, like a ball of soft cotton, which could remove the thousands of pounds of hostility of the visitor.
Seeing the faint smile on Li Su's face, elegant and intellectual, like a breeze blowing in the face, it seemed to be there and not there, making people feel a little gentle in their hearts.
Xu Shu's brows wrinkled slightly, and his tone was like sighing, but there was an indescribable sincerity, "Li Su, you are also a very good girl, why do you want to be with Xu Shen? People like him are not worthy of you at all."
The smile on Li Su's mouth faded a little, she flattened the corners of her lips, her eyes were bright, but when she spoke, her tone was not easy to deal with.
"Sister, you confused me. I always thought that we have grown up. Because of the peace now, we will let bygones be bygones for the mistakes we made when we were young... Are you here today to settle old scores?"
A person who was obviously very gentle suddenly became sharp. Xu Shu picked a fresh look at Li Su. She raised the corners of her lips sarcastically and asked Li Su: "Are you angry when I say he is? He doesn't dare to be angry with me, but you feel sorry for him."
This sentence touched the bottom line of Li Su's tolerance.
Her eyes gradually became colder, and her words became more and more harsh: "So, if he is not angry with you, can you not care and hurt his heart again and again? Sister, you are already 28 years old, please don't torture an innocent person in the posture of a victim."
"Innocent?" Xu Shu raised his eyebrows in surprise, and asked emphatically: "Is he innocent? A mistress who destroyed other people's families, took great pains to create a product that violates public order and morality..."
"Xu Shu!" Li Su called Xu Shu by name and interrupted him in a cold tone.
He slammed the cup hard and put it back on the table. Li Su said each word with a resounding voice: "Who do you hate? You know it very well in your heart."
"Why don't you face the crux of the problem? Is it difficult to admit that it was Uncle Xu's fault? Admit that he shouldn't have cheated, admit that he shouldn't have been absent from his father's position, admit that he never returned to the family, and admit that what you lost was never taken away by Xu Shen. Isn't it possible?"
Li Su's series of rhetorical questions caught Xu Shu off guard. Her body froze stiffly,
and she stood there like a sculpture. Li Su's eyes were still fixed on Xu Shu, as if he wanted to see a few holes in her.
Maybe, in fact, Xu Shu didn't hurt Li Su directly, but Li Su still had a hidden resentment towards Xu Shu.
Li Su thought of the year on campus when she saw Xu Shen being stopped by Xu Qie for bullying, and when she ran to find the teacher, the sweat dripping from her forehead pierced her eyes saltily, and when the teacher told her not to meddle in other people's business, the cold air conditioner in the room blew on her sweaty body, making her shiver.
Li Su exposed her, "You must be envious, to find that Xu Shen has actually found happiness. He didn't live in the gutter, waiting for your occasional charity, and spend his life in a muddle. You tried so hard to ruin him, but he still stood up. You can't push him down."
Ha. Xu Shu sneered.
She picked up her teacup and took a sip, then found that the tea was cold and the aftertaste was too bitter, so she poured the cold tea away.
She looked at Li Su again, waiting with her hands folded.
Li Su glanced at him indifferently, maybe Xu Shu wanted to suppress her, or maybe it was also a step to ease the tension between them.
Reason is reason, courtesy is courtesy, Li Su breathed a sigh of relief, and calmed down to pour Xu Shu a cup of hot tea.
The water trickled into the teacup, and Li Su regained some of his rationality.
"Sister, we cannot choose our parents. You and Xu Shen are both unable to choose our parents. Instead of being bound by the right and wrong of the previous generation, it is better to step out. After all, preventing Xu Shen from being happy will not make you happy. If you spend your life seeking revenge, it will be bitter and hateful. You can also have a good taste if you change your path."
Li Su's words were from the bottom of her heart, with sincere advice.
Xu Shu felt a trace of warmth in her heart, and she took a sip of the new tea. The warm and sweet taste lingered on her tongue.
Xu Shu glanced at Li Su lightly, and asked her curiously: "Weren't you still tense just now? Why did you soften again?"
Li Su also picked up the teacup, letting the hot air linger around her nose. She smiled strangely and said jokingly, "Maybe I suddenly remembered: If Uncle Xu stays in bed for a long time in the future, we have to sit together and discuss when to remove the ventilator."
With a calm expression, she looked at Xu Shu calmly and peacefully, with a different kind of calmness.
"Hahaha." Xu Shu couldn't help laughing, looking a little hideous, with a hint of hatred.
But when she glanced at Li Su still looking at her, Xu Shu restrained her smile and said casually, "I thought you wanted to say: It's mainly because you two are going to get the marriage certificate, and it's a happy ending, suitable for making dumplings."
Li Su shrugged without comment.
Although she had never confronted Xu Shu head-on, just by listening to her words, Li Su could feel that Xu Shu was a self-righteous person in morality.
She felt that she had only hurt her younger brother Xu Shen, and that was a grievance. She felt that Li Su was innocent, so Xu Shu never used Li Ying's death to provoke the relationship between the two from beginning to end. Even the reason for persuading Li Su to leave was that Xu Shen was not worthy of her.
Just repaying justice with justice, Xu Shu was not even a bad person in the traditional sense.
However, it was because she thought she had done nothing wrong that she hurt Xu Shen for more than 20 years.
Li Su emphasized: "Sister, Xu Shen is no longer the child who would be bullied by you obediently. Even if he is, I will not agree."
After drinking the tea, Li Su put down the teacup, glanced at Xu Shu, and said solemnly: "Of course, if you can let go of the past and get along with us, my children will call you aunt in the future."
Xu Shu's eyebrows moved, as if she was a little confused about this sudden identity.
Xu Shu suddenly confessed: "In fact, all the resources in my hands were given to me by Xu Shen. Three years ago, he suddenly came to me and wanted to help me. At that time, I was still wondering. We have been incompatible for so many years. He is afraid that I hate me so much that he doesn't have time to help me."
Li Su really didn't know about this. She frowned and looked at Xu Shu in confusion, but did not respond easily.
Xu Shu's eyes were fixed on Li Su, and his tone was mysterious and hard to guess: "Later I found out that he was with you again."
Li Su silently repeated Xu Shu's behavior after he came in.
Li Su's tone was not very enthusiastic, nor was it very distant, but very sure. She said: "He still doesn't know you very well. You won't bully me."
Xu Shu frowned, looked at Li Su with a strange expression, and poked her with words. "You think wrong. Li Su, you should think about why you can climb up in this circle completely. It's very difficult, very difficult."
A few words have exhausted all her energy. Xu Shu slowly got up, she picked up the gourd bag beside her, and said something incoherently: "Li Su, it's actually quite difficult to see you."
Thinking of the way Xu Shen strictly guarded Li Su behind him, Xu Shu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. When they were
young, they quarreled so fiercely and beat each other so hard that she really wanted Xu Shen to die.
But when she grew up, it was Xu Shen who lost the room card her father had given her. It was he who pulled her out of that dark hell. It was really ironic.
It was not that she wished Xu Shen well. Maybe she was a little envious. Seeing Xu Shen standing in front of her in an indestructible manner, while she was still following her father's arrangements.
Xu Shu looked at Li Su. She had actually wanted to see Li Su for a long time.
She wanted to know what kind of girl had changed Xu Shen.
What kind of girl had turned the gloomy corners of Xu Shen's mouth into a faint arc.
Xu Shu looked at Li Su again, picked up the phone in her bag, looked at the "brother" on the screen, and hung up heavily.
Throwing the phone back into the bag, Xu Shu chuckled, took out a notebook from her bag and put it on the table, saying lightly: "Goodbye."
Xu Shu turned and left. Li Su looked at the door that was closed again. She picked up the notebook on the table and opened it.
There were many people in the circle in it, most of whom she knew and had met.
But when she saw clearly what they had done and what the crime was...
gathering for molestation, rape, sexual assault on minors... Li Su flipped through several pages in a row, only to feel relieved and scared.
What surprised her even more was that she saw Xu Shu's name frequently in the notebook, from when she was 14 years old to when she was 24 years old.
Li Su gradually realized the importance of this booklet. This is Xu Shu's book of shame, and it is also a warning left by Xu Shu for her.
Xu Shu is here to repay Xu Shen's debt.
Li Su realized it belatedly, and only then did she understand the hatred in Xu Shu's eyes when he heard Uncle Xu.
She looked up and saw Xu Shu's teacup on the table.
The story is over, and now people have left and the tea has cooled.