The film and television city starts from the courtyard

When Li Bala heard what Li Er said, she couldn't help but nodded and said, "Yes, I also want to eat such delicious meals often."

Suddenly, he thought of something, looked at Li Er, and said, "Little Ear, why don't you live here too? There are two rooms here anyway, and it's not far from your school, so it's more convenient to live here."

Li Er blushed and glanced at Zhao Shucheng, then said hesitantly, "Isn't this bad?"

Zhao Shucheng smiled and said, "You don't have to look at me, just make your own decision. I have no objection to you moving in. But it's not possible for me to cook every day. After all, sometimes I need to go to class and have lunch at school."

“It’s enough to eat it occasionally.”

Li Bala looked at Li Er and said, "Little Ear, what do you say?"

"Let me think about it. I'm worried that my parents will arrest me if they find out."

"Then just don't let them know. They can't see you calling anyway."

Li Er said, "But my cousin often video chats with me. He will definitely notice that I am not in the dormitory. Wouldn't he be exposed then?"

Zhao Shucheng smiled and said, "This problem is not difficult to solve. Your cousin usually video chats with you at night, and in your dormitory. You can take a photo later, and I'll have someone draw a curtain and stick it on the wall. Then you can't tell if you're video chatting there."

Li Er said hesitantly: "Will this work?"

"Of course it works. It's just that the technology is not up to par right now. Otherwise, we could just switch the background on the camera and it wouldn't be noticeable that there's anything wrong."

Li Er was skeptical, but she also wanted to spend more time with Zhao Shucheng, so after hesitating for a moment, she readily agreed.

Although Li Er moved in with Li Bala, she and Zhao Shucheng did nothing during their cohabitation. Li Er was very shy and conservative, and would not easily give herself up. Even if she liked Zhao Shucheng, she would not easily take the last step.

Zhao Shucheng naturally wouldn't be in a hurry, after all, good things come late. Besides, he already had Li Bala, and Li Er was already the meat in his bowl.

That day, Li Er hurried to the library and said to Lin Lin, "Sorry, I'm late."

Lin Lin smiled and said, "Are you dating your boyfriend again?"

"Oh, no, I have an exam tomorrow and I don't have time to review, so I went to ask the teacher for the questions."

Lin Lin said: "You don't have to run so fast."

“Even though I’m a volunteer, it’s not good to be late.”

"By the way, I brought you a cake. You are too thin. You need to eat more. This way you will have a rosy complexion and look healthier."

"Thank you!"

Lin Lin suddenly thought of something and said, "By the way, there's a girl who quit the cake shop where I work. I think our boss is a pretty good person. Do you want to work for us?"

Li Er hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay!"

She actually didn't have a financial crisis, but seeing that Zhao Shucheng and Li Bala each had their own things to do, and that she spent her days studying and dating Zhao Shucheng, she felt particularly useless, so she wanted to try working part-time to gain experience for her own creation.

Of course, she will not give up writing. Her novel is still being serialized and she can earn some money.

The two of them went to sort out the books together. Lin Lin said, "It's already snowing in our hometown at this time."

Li Er said: "The most famous thing about our hometown is the sea, the boundless sea. I have a good friend, Li Bala, and we used to go to the beach when we had nothing to do."

Lin Lin said, "You are talking about the girl who came to see you off when school started, right?"

"Yes, that's her."

Lin Lin asked curiously: "Did she get into college, too?"

Li Er nodded and said, "She is enrolled in a night university, the same university as Xu Yi."

Lin Lin hesitated for a moment and asked, "Li Er, I'd like to ask, your current boyfriend should be Xu Yi, right?"

"Yup!"

Lin Lin asked hesitantly, "Li Er, isn't he Li Bala's boyfriend? I remember that at the beginning of the school year, your good friend was very close to him."

Li Er didn't know how to explain to Lin Lin the current relationship between the three of them, and fell silent for a while.

Lin Lin seemed to understand, smiled and said: "Everyone has the right to pursue happiness, as long as you are happy."

"Do you think I'm particularly shameless?"

"No, no one can say whether love is right or wrong. Besides, you haven't hurt anyone else, as long as you have a clear conscience, that's all."

Jiang Jiao also ushered in a transformation in his life, and his father found him a more professional agent.

The agent had a very bad first impression of her, but since he had already accepted money from Jiang Jiao's father, he could only take the money to do the job.

The first thing he had to do was to package Jiang Jiao in all aspects, starting with her name, changing her name to Jiang Yaxi. Then he asked Jiang Jiao to change her style, from the way she spoke to her emotional intelligence, from her clothes to her professional ability, and so on, all from scratch.

Several months passed in a flash.

Schools have begun to have winter vacations one after another.

Zhao Shucheng saw Li Er chatting with Li Bala and asked, "Li Er, do you want to go home?"

"What else?" Li Er asked with some confusion.

"Stay a few more days. It's a good opportunity to have fun in Shanghai during the holidays. I've been staying near the school before, so I can go somewhere else this time. I'll be free when I go home during the holidays anyway."

Li Er hesitated for a moment and said, "But I told my parents about my vacation."

She actually wanted to stay in Shanghai for a few more days and travel around with Zhao Shucheng and the others.

After all, college is different from high school. There is no such thing as winter vacation homework, so after returning home, there is a high probability that you will be idle and have nothing to do, either watching TV at home or going out to meet with classmates.

"It's okay. Just tell the truth to your parents and play in Shanghai with Bala for a few days before going back." Li Er nervously called her parents to explain the situation. She was also worried that her parents would not agree. Unexpectedly, her parents agreed readily. They just asked her to be careful and go home early to celebrate the New Year after having enough fun.

"Great, my parents agree. So where are we going to play tomorrow?"

Seeing Li Er's happy expression, Li Bala felt like her daughter had grown up. She smiled and said, "Of course you listen to me. The first stop is the Bund, and then..."

Zhao Shucheng was watching the two little girls making travel plans with a smile, and was also thinking about what gifts to give to Li Er and Li Bala when the time comes.

After all, they are with him, not like other people whose boyfriends belong only to him, which is a bit aggrieved, and he can't pretend to know nothing. So he plans to give each of them a set of jewelry, and then give them gifts to their parents and grandmothers when they go home to show filial piety.

The next day.

Zhao Shucheng drove the car, took Li Er and Li Bala, and started visiting various scenic spots in the Magic City according to their plan.

Jiang Jiao had finally managed to gain a few days of rest, wanting to give Zhao Shucheng a surprise, but she didn't expect that when she arrived at the gate of the community where Zhao Shucheng rented an apartment, she saw Li Bala and Li Er, who were happily returning with Zhao Shucheng carrying large and small bags.

After some time of training as an agent, Li Bala is no longer the fiery girl she used to be, so she did not rush up to question Zhao Shucheng or get entangled with Li Bala Li Er. Instead, she chose to leave directly.

She went straight to her agent and asked her to give her extra training, hoping to package herself as soon as possible and then become successful. Then, whether she was pursuing Zhao Shucheng or making Zhao Shucheng regret not choosing her, it would be much easier.

Zhao Shucheng didn't know that Jiang Jiao had been there. After playing with Li Bala and Li Er for a few days, Li Er had no choice but to go home because of his parents' urging.

Originally, Li Bala wanted to stay here and spend the New Year with Zhao Shucheng, but she received a call from her cousin Asi and learned that her grandmother missed her a lot during this period. Although she didn't say it out loud, she looked out the door every day and sometimes even stayed in her room for a long time.

Li Bala could only say sorry to Zhao Shucheng, and then chose to go back to Dongshan with Li Bala.

When Zhao Shucheng knew that they were all going back, he didn't say anything. He just gave them the gifts and sent them to the station.

Zhao Shucheng drove back to the community and was about to go home when he was blocked by a black man who suddenly appeared.

"Xu Yi, do you have time to have a drink with me?"

When Zhao Shucheng saw the black man in front of him, he felt that the black man had lost his former high spirits and was more or less an acquaintance, so he agreed.

Zhao Shucheng asked the black man to get in the car and then drove to a barbecue restaurant.

After the black man got off the car, he looked at it and said, "This car is beautiful. It must have cost a lot of money, right?"

Zhao Shucheng waved his hand and said, "It's just a commuter car worth hundreds of thousands of yuan."

The black man said with emotion: "I really envy you. I can't even drive yet, but you already use a car worth hundreds of thousands of dollars as a means of transportation."

After they sat down and ordered food and beer, Zhao Shucheng asked, "Why did you think of drinking with me?"

The black man said, "Nothing, I just want to go home and I may not come here again."

Zhao Shucheng was actually not surprised by the black man's choice. After all, not everyone can adapt to such a life. Especially for black people, being able to persist for more than a year was actually beyond Zhao Shucheng's expectations.

After all, Hei Ren was once a powerful figure in Dongshan, but now he is just an ordinary worker in Shanghai. He can even only do some ordinary jobs because of his academic qualifications. Naturally, there is a big gap.

Now, the heroic spirit that he once had as the eldest, second oldest, or third oldest man in the world no longer exists in his eyes. Instead, there is only loneliness and vicissitudes of life.

"What about after you go back? Have you decided what to do?"

"I haven't thought about it yet, but it's better than here. Here I can only be a security guard or a waiter. There's no place for me to make a name for myself. But Dongshan won't do that."

Zhao Shucheng felt that the blacks were still thinking too simply. After all, times are always changing. In the past, education was not important, and people from humble backgrounds could also succeed. But in today's society, opportunities for people to succeed are becoming fewer and fewer, and education is becoming more and more important.

As the saying goes, heroes are made by the times. Big bosses who get up early can seize opportunities, and elementary school graduates can also become big bosses. But now those easy opportunities have long been divided up by others, and it is not easy to get in without education and connections.

Just like the seafood market in Dongshan, which is controlled by Boss Zhou alone, even if the blacks seize the opportunity to succeed once, they will face Boss Zhou's revenge and suppression and have to leave the place.

Maybe when live streaming becomes popular among the public, black people can take the opportunity to make a difference, but if they don’t have the ability to learn and can’t properly purify their fans, there won’t be much development.

"Good luck to you then."

The black man nodded and said, "Thank you!"

Zhao Shucheng asked curiously: "Do you still like it?"

The black man looked at Zhao Shucheng and said, "What if he likes her? What if he doesn't like her? He's already with you, and for you, he's willing to serve you with other women, but I've never entered her heart, so I should have given up long ago."

"I can accept that she doesn't love me, and I can also accept that she has someone else in her heart, but when I saw that Li Bala would go to such lengths for you, I knew that there was no hope for me at all."

Zhao Shucheng nodded and said, "It's better to give up early. In fact, if you don't focus on Li Bala, you will find that there are other options, and they are not bad at all."

The black man nodded and said, "Yes, if I had known this earlier, I might not have wasted so much time here."

The black man soon got drunk, and Zhao Shucheng had no choice but to send him back.

When I saw the black people's rental house, I found that the basement was dirty and messy, and there was a bad smell. It shows how bad the living environment here is.

After Zhao Shucheng let the black man open the door and let him in, he settled him down. Thinking back to when the black man wanted to pay the bill just now but couldn't come up with any money, he realized that he had actually reached the end of his rope.

Thinking that the two of them were fellow villagers after all, Zhao Shucheng left his cell phone number and some money to the black man and then left.

After the black man sobered up, he saw the contact information and money left by Zhao Shucheng. Although he wanted to return them to Zhao Shucheng, he hesitated for a moment and still kept them.

After Li Bala and Li Er returned to Dongshan, they did not break off contact with Zhao Shucheng. However, the two of them went back together this time, and Li Bala also went to night school, so Li Er's parents were not opposed to Li Bala coming to see Li Er. They often went out together and called Zhao Shucheng together.

Zhao Shucheng also learned from them about the recent situation of some classmates and some changes in Dongshan.

Yuta and his classmates who went to college outside came back from winter vacation one after another, and had dinner together. Of course, Zhang Yang also participated in it. However, compared with the focus of the crowd, Zhang Yang has now become a foil, often sitting alone in a daze.

Zhang Yang has not had a good time over the past year. Since he is in a junior college, he has to work to earn his living expenses and tuition fees, so he looks older than other students. (End of this chapter)