I make a thriller, it's God chasing and feeding

Chapter 396 [Accident]

For a long time afterwards, Lu Zhengyi continued to live a repetitive life.

Like many people, time has become regular, but also fixed.

Get up early every day to run and prepare breakfast.

After that, he sometimes plays with the children, sometimes goes shopping for groceries, and sometimes even takes his wife to work.

At noon, it is time to prepare lunch.

Compared to other chores at home, cooking is definitely the most time-consuming. I have to think about what to eat first, then ask my family for their opinions. In addition to bargaining and selecting groceries when buying them, it takes time to prepare the ingredients when I get home.

No, it’s not that cooking is difficult, but rather that preparing to cook is difficult.

This simple cooking is actually the simplest step.

After that, life in the afternoons and evenings became more casual. Sometimes Lu Zhengyi took the children out for a bike ride or to a nearby park. Sometimes his wife got off work early, and the family went out for dinner.

The days go by very quickly.

Winter comes in the blink of an eye, and another half year has passed.

In the past six months, several horror films have emerged.

But probably due to reasons like the production being too crude, the plots being unoriginal, not realistic enough... they were quickly taken off the shelves in various theaters.

One of the movies was even pulled directly from all cinemas after only a few days of release.

Because the data is falsified.

With Lu Zhengyi's works in the past, people's requirements for films of this kind are naturally extremely high.

If you want to take over this market, you also need to see whether you have the ability.

Everyone was in a hurry, eager to eat the meat and drink the soup.

But there is no point in being anxious. If you can't produce something good, even if you make a movie as soon as possible, promote it with great fanfare, and spend a lot of money on data, word of mouth, and good reviews on the first day of its release.

But it’s not so easy to get the data. On the first day, we collected tens of thousands of positive reviews and attracted hundreds of thousands of viewers.

The audience thought it was not good and gave more than 100,000 negative reviews.

In addition to deleting and controlling comments, more positive reviews are needed to stabilize the rhythm. With this increase and decrease, the money for promotion will flow out like water.

Which crew or investor can afford such consumption?

Unless you watch it from the beginning to the end, once you stop, the data will drop sharply as if you fell off a cliff. Regardless of the audience, the platform will definitely be held accountable.

As a result of this pursuit, the bill splitting process according to the contract is no longer necessary and all the money is gone.

Some platforms are even happy to watch these people commit fraud, just waiting for them to pile up money, and then catch them red-handed and take away all the money.

They have bad character, so don't blame me for the sting operation.

At least that’s what these platforms think.

As for Li Chuanxin and Bai Wei, although there were messages from time to time, and they asked Lu Zhengyi for his opinions on the filming online through WeChat messages, there was no news at all about the progress of the filming, the completion of the filming, and the release date.

For half a year, there was still no news about the progress of the shooting.

Obviously, they are all working meticulously on Lu Zhengyi's first work after his retirement.

They all hope to have a good start.

As for Lu Zhengyi's own life.

An An is two and a half years old, and it’s time to consider sending him to school.

As for the question of whether to go to a public kindergarten or a private kindergarten, Lu Zhengyi and Zhang Xueming had a rare disagreement.

Lu Zhengyi thinks it is better to go to a public school, where the teaching and diet are unified, and children can learn while playing and play while learning. The management may not be that strict, but the children will always be happy.

After all, at this age, basic learning is one thing, but it would be more appropriate to make more friends, expand one's personality, and make children less introverted.

But Zhang Xueming thinks private schools are better.

Not to mention, private schools are superior to public schools in education. In addition to basic social cognition learning, they also teach some courses that are only learned in elementary school, as well as piano, singing, dancing, English... and some extracurricular courses.

In terms of diet, more attention will be paid to nutritional balance, and there will even be school buses to pick up and drop off students, and there will also be a better environment for naps.

Some even have after-school care programs, where children can go to school on weekdays and be taken home on weekends, just like in closed schools such as elementary and junior high schools.

Especially now, due to some strategic reasons, Tang State has higher and higher requirements for private kindergartens. Not only the children need to be evaluated, but even the teachers have to be evaluated regularly.

Of course, the fees will be higher.

However, this issue does not pose any pressure to them.

"Competition, I need to cultivate my children's competitiveness."

In the study, Zhang Xueming looked at Lu Zhengyi and held a small family meeting on this issue. "The kindergarten I chose has an internal assessment and elimination mechanism. The smart children who do more can get more rewards and praise."

"For children who grow up in this environment, it will become an instinct to compete with others, which will make their lives better."

"Rather than saying it's too slow."

She paused and said, "I know you are not an ordinary person. You are a cultivator, and your realm is different from that of everyone else."

"But our An An is just an ordinary person. He is different from you. He may not be able to become a cultivator in the future. You said yourself whether he has that luck or not. It depends on God's will."

"In this case, I have to consider the social situation and think about him. At least now, as a child, he does not have enough judgment. As parents, we should help him make the right choice."

Zhang Xueming's tone was firm.

Competitiveness is really important in today's era. If you don't compete, you will be eliminated.

Involution is a word, and lying flat is also a word. Those who say they want to lie flat are secretly more involution than anyone else.

In school, there are people who say they didn’t do well in the exam but are actually among the top three in terms of performance.

In the office, there are people who say that they don't care about this job, but secretly make dinner plans with their leaders, maintain good relationships with them, and compete for promotion.

Apart from that, let alone those who do business at work and take exams after get off work.

I don't know when people got used to reporting bad news instead of good news, "Alas, I didn't make much", "It's getting harder and harder", "I want to lie down..."

Everyone is afraid that others will know that they are doing well, and will come to borrow money, become jealous, and hate the rich.

But some people really think that most people are just lying down.

There are 56 people in a work group. Except for the leader, 50 of them say they want to lie down. Should I lie down? Of course I should follow the crowd.

As time went by, everyone got a raise, found a side job, switched to another company for a higher salary, or got promoted, but what about me? I was really lying on the ground, with a salary even lower than that of a new employee.

Those who are too insensitive really need someone to remind them so that they can truly realize when they, as veterans with five or ten years of work experience, are not as good as newcomers who have just passed their internship period.

This kind of thing is common in every company. They are all those who have been eliminated in the fierce competition.

But they themselves don't know that they have been eliminated.

But is there any solution? Yes, follow the involution.

Or they may be content with the status quo and accept the reality that as old employees, their salary and benefits are not as good as those of new employees, and they are manipulated by the company.

Although Lu Yongan had a large family and a great fortune, he was not so miserable.

But possessing a treasure will also bring him other troubles. When a person's wealth is far greater than his ability, the wealth will eventually flow back to the market.

Lu Yongan is not a practitioner, so Zhang Xueming has to consider him from a "secular" perspective.

"perhaps……"

Lu Zhengyi considered his words carefully, but stopped talking when the words came to his lips. "Then let's do as you say. Let's let An An go to a private school."

But he couldn't say anything firm.

Regarding this question, in fact, he had already talked to someone in his early years. Who was it? Liang Meijuan, Taoist Master Guanshan, or Zhang Yu?

He only remembered the content but forgot who he talked to.

The general meaning is that when children grow up, they may not necessarily understand your past "goodness".

Lu Zhengyi himself wants his child to have a happy childhood, which is for his own good.

Zhang Xueming wants her child to develop a competitive mentality early, become better, and not be eliminated by others in the future. This is also for his own good. But in the future, it is unknown which one the child will be more willing to accept.

Some children who grew up with a "happy" childhood, however, because they do not have any outstanding abilities, blame their parents and teachers in their hearts for not treating them strictly when they were young and allowing them to have fun, which makes it difficult for them to survive in society today.

But there are also some children who attended cram schools every day and received elite education when they were young, but when they grew up they blamed their parents' arrangements because they could not make up for the deficiencies in their childhood.

Neither choice is necessarily right.

Therefore, Lu Zhengyi often mentioned that education is also a question without an answer.

Zhang Xueming seemed a little surprised that he listened to her rebuttal so easily.

In the past, I could never win an argument with him.

No, it should be said that the choices he made were always more correct, so much so that I had no way of refutation and was always convinced.

But did I convince him this time?

“But full-time care is not necessary, and closed-door care is not necessary either.”

Then, Lu Zhengyi made some more suggestions, "It's not like we don't have anyone at home. I'm a freeloader, and my mother is still here. There's no need for him to go to school full-time."

"I was thinking that you could do something you like."

Zhang Xueming explained, "I'm going to work, so someone has to take care of this house, but it's not necessary for you to stay at home all the time."

"An An goes to a closed kindergarten. There are teachers to take care of her. She goes to school for five days and rests for two days. It's like she's going to elementary school early."

"It just so happens that during these five days you can go and watch other people filming and be a producer or something."

The job of a director is to keep an eye on the crew at all times.

Given Lu Zhengyi's personality, he would definitely not be willing to come back halfway.

If you want to do something, do it seriously.

Then don’t be a director, be a producer.

As a producer, Lu Zhengyi can go to the site to supervise the work and give suggestions when he is free, without having to keep an eye on it all the time.

"Need not."

Lu Zhengyi held her hand helplessly and said, "What I want now is to experience the feeling of picking up and dropping off children."

"When I was a kid, I lived in the school dormitory. Every time after school, I would stand in the corridor with other boarding students and watch the day students being picked up."

"How should I put it? Maybe it wasn't there at that time. I can't be the one who gets picked up, but at least I can be the one who picks others up."

His words came from his heart, but he also wanted to convince his wife.

The wife often feels that she owes herself because she wanted to go out to work, so she gave up her career and returned home to take care of the children.

In addition, the private comments of people in the company occasionally deepened her thoughts.

But there was no other way. They had agreed at the beginning that they could not just focus on work, and it would be best not to hire a nanny and accompany the child's growth themselves.

So in addition to work, she would occasionally find ways to satisfy her hobbies and do what she wanted to do instead of being bound by her family.

But that was once my hobby, and family is no longer a burden to me.

Perhaps in the future, he will pick up his hobby of filming again, but for now, Lu Zhengyi hopes to take good care of his wife and children.

The two talked about some random things, work, life, other people...

They all chatted, and as they chatted, their voices became quieter and quieter, and then they fell asleep.

After deciding what kind of kindergarten your child wants to attend, it’s time to choose a kindergarten.

This part was not that difficult. Zhang Xueming and Lu Zhengyi integrated their opinions and came up with several results at once.

All that was left was for the three of them to find time to go and see the scene together.

Originally, Lu Zhengyi planned to make a decision as soon as possible, he didn't like to procrastinate.

But a phone call from Liu Baoning broke this arrangement.

"Something happened to Teacher Li. I have to go over there."

After Lu Zhengyi put down his phone, he sent a message to Zhang Xueming, then booked a flight ticket and went there overnight.

Although some things were made very clear at the beginning.

But after all, he has known the child for so many years and he has watched the child grow up. It is reasonable for him to be present.

In addition to Lu Zhengyi, other people in the Mei Limao crew also received the news to a greater or lesser extent.

Except for those who don't know Li Zhenxi and have not had much contact with her, everyone else is ready to be there.

At least, give her a ride.

Lu Zhengyi arrived in Sichuan late at night. When he came to the funeral home where Li Zhenxi was, there were already quite a few people there.

Her husband, her parents-in-law, her parents, and some people from the Mei Limao crew whom Lu Zhengyi knew were all standing there.

And what about Liu Baoning?
She squatted against the wall, buried her head in her knees, and no one knew what she was thinking.

As if she heard footsteps, she raised her head when Lu Zhengyi walked over. Her dull eyes seemed to brighten up under the light from above.

"It was a falling object from high altitude."

She said softly, "There has always been a dark aura around my mother, just like Deputy Director Zhang, but I am thinking about my mother's health and I think it must be an accident."

"I insisted that she stay at home, but after a few months, she couldn't stand it anymore. How could a person in her 40s stay at home all the time? She stayed at home for half a year."

"I was afraid of a car accident, so I didn't let her go out on the street. Even if she went out on the street, she had to pay attention to the road. I was afraid of a fire, I was afraid of electric shock, I was afraid..."

She talked a lot, about how she tried to stop it and what she was thinking.

"Ugh……"

As she spoke, she sighed, but did not cry, "I can't help it. I really can't help it."

"A potted plant fell from the sky, and with a clang, the person was gone."

"The one who lost the things was a repeat offender. I don't know whether it was his mother's fate that changed him and made him go to jail, or whether it was his mother's fate and his fate that were supposed to be like this."

She just felt powerless.

“Birth, aging, illness and death are the normal state of human beings.”

Lu Zhengyi also squatted down and looked at her calmly, "Some people are healthy all their lives, but die early, while some people are weak and sickly since childhood, but they live to be centenarians."

"Don't think about the future, just think about the present."

"Your eyes allow you to see something close to foreknowledge, but when there is no way to change it, you can only adapt to it."

Under the dim light, people in the distance looked over here but did not come closer.

A burly man was squatting by the wall.

Opposite him, a thin girl was squatting against the wall.

The girl kept staring at the person in front of her, her black eyes looking directly at the person opposite.

After a while, Liu Baoning spoke again and asked softly, "When I get used to it, will I become like you?"

"Ok?"

Her voice was very faint, but Lu Zhengyi could hear it clearly.

But as he was thinking and about to answer something, he heard footsteps in the distance.

"Um, Director Lu."

A middle-aged man with some gray hair came over nervously and looked at Lu Zhengyi, "If you want to burn incense, you can go in now."

He is Liu Baoning's father and Li Zhenxi's husband.

"Ning, Ningning, let's go in too."

As he spoke, he looked at Liu Baoning again, his tone also somewhat nervous, even... a little fearful.

(End of this chapter)