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

Chapter 414 [Mr. Zombie]

"Fluoxetine? Isn't this used to treat nervous depression?"

By the sixth grade, Lu Yongan no longer needed to be picked up by adults, and he had more free time. He didn't have to go home on time. He could stay in school or make plans with his classmates to go out and play.

However, in recent times, such things as playing will probably no longer be seen.

Everyone has to prepare for the entrance examination from primary school to junior high school. The students in the class are all studying and preparing for the examination very actively.

For most students, competition seems to be something that happens after high school.

But in Lu Yongan's school, many children have started competing since elementary school.

Even after school, students will stay in the classroom to do their homework. Similarly, teachers will stay in school until six or seven o'clock before going home to make it convenient for students to ask questions.

Of course, this is voluntary.

The school does not force students to stay and study, but most students will stay in school to study at the request of their parents.

"Mingzi, your mental state should be okay, right?"

As the class monitor, Lu Yongan is quite active at this time and sometimes helps his classmates solve some problems.

However, his footsteps stopped beside a classmate who was taking out a pill and preparing to swallow it. This man was called Liu Ming. He was from Guangdong and liked to speak Cantonese. Everyone in the class called him Mingzai.

"This thing won't make you sleepy." Mingzai replied listlessly, "My mom prescribed it for me. It won't be a problem as long as you take it in moderation."

"To avoid feeling sleepy? For such a lame excuse." Lu Yongan frowned and picked up the medicine bottle. "I suggest you not to take this."

He thought the person was sick or something, but he actually wanted to avoid feeling sleepy.

Shouldn’t you sleep when you’re sleepy?

"I'm not you."

Mingzi shook his head. "You can always get first place in the exam even if you play games every day. I write exams until eleven or twelve every day, but I am still the last in the class."

"My mom said that she spent a lot of money to send me to Beidu to study, not to study in an ordinary junior high school."

"She asked me to set my sights on Haiqu No. 1 Middle School."

When we usually mention No. 1 Middle School, we usually mean a public junior high school.

The Haiqu No. 1 Middle School they mentioned is the best private middle school in the minds of many people in Beidu.

This school not only has a junior high school department, but also a high school department. Students who are admitted from this school are either from 985 or 211 universities. In the future, they will most likely work as lawyers, doctors, judges, etc., which are professions with relatively high status in society.

Lu Yongan paused. His target was also this school.

But this is not realistic.

He knew most of his classmates' grades. With Mingzai's grades, it was impossible for him to get into the No. 1 Middle School in Haiqu.

"If you feel sleepy, go to sleep. Don't eat these." He looked at Mingzi seriously, "Eating these may affect your development."

"I will have more time to study because I have to reduce my sleep time."

Mingzai replied.

“What is the purpose of learning?”

Lu Yongan continued to ask.

“To go to a better university.”

Mingzi continued to reply.

“What do you want to do after going to a good university?”

Lu Yongan asked again.

"If you go to a good university, you can get a good job."

Mingzai answered again.

"Like, what?"

Lu Yongan looked at him, "What kind of job do you want to do?"

"We'll think about that later."

Mingzi was a little annoyed. "First and foremost, I must not disappoint my parents. Okay, monitor, you should leave. You are disturbing my studies."

Lu Yongan looked at him for a long time, then he silently put down the medicine bottle.

……

"You have an exam tomorrow, aren't you nervous?"

Midnight,

When Lu Zhengyi was getting ready to go to bed, he found his son sitting alone on a recliner in the courtyard, looking up at the moon in the sky. "It looks like you've run into some trouble."

"What about Chu Zhi?"

"Are you worried that you won't be able to go to the same school as her?"

He walked forward, struck up a conversation, and guessed at the possibilities.

"It's just a test, nothing to worry about."

Lu Yongan turned his head and looked at his father who was sitting next to him. "Chu Zhi has her own considerations. If she wants to be an actor, she will most likely go to an art school in the future, and I want to go to a school that focuses on scientific exploration. Sooner or later, we will be separated."

He wasn't worried about being separated from the people he knew.

He had thought about things like this as early as first grade.

How can people stay together forever, go to the same school, and work in the same company? It's impossible.

He rarely keeps in touch with the friends he met in kindergarten after entering elementary school.

"Then what are you worried about?" Lu Zhengyi looked at him. "You didn't look like you were in a daze just now. You looked more like you were thinking about something."

"Do you think I'm naive when I say I'm thinking about world peace?"

Lu Yongan rarely used a respectful title.

The relationship in their family is very harmonious, especially the relationship with their father, which is sometimes more like friends and not so serious.

"World Peace?"

There was no smile on Lu Zhengyi's face. Instead, he thought seriously, "Have you started thinking about this issue now? It seems that you have great ambitions."

"You are always like this. You are completely different from the image of father that my friends in class have heard of."

Lu Yongan replied helplessly, "If it were other parents, they would probably have started to say, 'Why do you have to think so much, kid?' Or, 'What do you have to worry about, kid?'"

When you have no worries about food and clothing, what else is there to worry about?

No need to worry about money, life or work, just go to school, take exams and have fun every day. This is the impression adults have of children.

"There's a guy in my class whose family sells cigarettes."

He looked up at the sky again, and seemed to be talking to himself, "My classmate went to class and went back to tell his father that we should stop doing this business and change careers. He ended up getting scolded."

"His idea is indeed very naive. He thinks this business is harmful to people's health, so he doesn't do it, but he has never considered what life would be like without money."

"Perhaps, if his father really listened to him and stopped doing this business, and the family ran out of money and had a hard life, he would be more eager than anyone else to start the business again."

Lu Zhengyi listened quietly until he stopped, then he spoke, "But maybe even if he has no money, he will still insist."

"Under normal logic, it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. But in reality, it is not necessarily the case."

"People are very complex. Some of their behaviors and thoughts cannot be explained by normal logic."

Lu Yongan asked, "If he insisted, why did he insist? Hard times are not easy. Although I have never worried about anything since I was a child, I know that the life pressure of ordinary families is quite high."

"Hard to say."

Lu Zhengyi pondered, "It may be that he proposed to stop the business for the sake of temporary face. Even if the future is not easy, he has to stick to it for the sake of face." "But it is also possible that he is really a very upright person and does not want to do this business from the bottom of his heart."

"Of course, I'm assuming he persists, but people are not programs. They don't just have two choices: yes or no..."

He had a serious discussion with his son about this issue.

Some children at this age begin to think about some strange questions.

Sometimes it's about life and death, sometimes it's about men and women, family, friendship, love... There are many things that adults who have not studied deeply will always say "pretending to be profound" or "childish..." when they hear the words of those children.

But based on their short memory, the things and principles that children can think of are extremely limited.

Adults who laugh at these ideas are sometimes the childish ones, just like those who look at historical issues without considering the context of the times.

They talked about this topic for a while, and Lu Yongan suddenly asked, "Dad, is it difficult for you to take my words to heart?"

"That's not difficult. Your thoughts and words are actually quite interesting sometimes." Lu Zhengyi laughed, "I can feel that... your growth process is very interesting."

From the naive standpoint given by others, to having a certain degree of thinking, no longer easily shaken by the words of outsiders, and later slowly developing an independent standpoint, thinking firmly from my own perspective.

"What if I say that I don't plan to go to Haiqu No. 1 Middle School, what do you think?" Lu Yongan listened and asked a question about the exam.

Lu Zhengyi was stunned at first, “Don’t you want to read?”

"Yes, but my mother probably won't agree." Lu Yongan replied, "Her plan for me has always been that school. I've been hearing her talk about it since first grade."

"If you don't want to read it, I can go talk to her." Lu Zhengyi looked at him strangely, "But you have to at least tell me the reason. Your decision is quite sudden."

"Although other schools are also fine, I think you should be interested in the robotics club at Haiqu No. 1 Middle School."

At this point, he paused, "I remember that two years ago, their school organized a team to participate in a robot fighting competition abroad, and it seems that they won a championship."

"Of course, it depends on your own choice. After all, what kind of knowledge you want to learn and what kind of school you go to are all your own life."

Lu Yongan was silent.

"Don't you think I'm childish?"

He asked again, "Such a sudden decision, it changes in an instant."

"Okay, if it's you, I can accept it."

Lu Zhengyi looked at his son and said, "Trust needs to be accumulated. From childhood to adulthood, you have never done anything wrong, your grades are excellent, you have a strong sense of time, and you have good self-discipline."

"In this case, I think if you make such a decision, you should have some considerations of your own."

"But if you were a naughty kid who often got into trouble and seemed unreliable, I think I would interfere with your decision."

A child who wants to learn painting today, play basketball tomorrow, and practice calligraphy the day after tomorrow, changing things every day, who can't stick to anything for long, and who often gets into trouble.

If he said now that he wanted to change his choice of major on the spot, no matter how open-minded Lu Zhengyi was, he would not agree.

When children do not have a particularly complete worldview, they are easily influenced by external factors. As a parent, he should naturally provide guidance and education.

On the contrary, if the child has a strong sense of restraint since childhood and is not easily influenced by the outside world, then... Lu Zhengyi is still willing to provide a certain degree of freedom.

Lu Yongan stared at his father blankly for a while, then laughed, "Actually, I was joking."

"..."

Lu Zhengyi was already thinking about how to convince his wife.

Now hearing his son say that he was joking, he felt helpless.

"So what are you worried about?"

He asked helplessly, "World peace?"

"Yeah, world peace."

Lu Yongan replied in a daze, "I have been thinking about why Superman's ultimate goal is to return to a peaceful life, and why the ultimate goal of those who travel through time is to go home."

"But now I think I understand why Superman wants to live a peaceful life and people who travel through time want to go home."

"In the final analysis, saving the world may be a hobby at first, but if you save too many people and shoulder too much responsibility, it becomes like work. Just like studying makes you tired, working also makes you tired. Doing things you like replenishes yourself, while doing things you don't like consumes yourself."

His words were confusing, but as a father, Lu Zhengyi could understand what he meant.

"But figuring it out is one thing, and being able to do it is another."

Lu Zhengyi looked at his son with a hint of meaning.

……

Lu Yongan successfully continued his studies.

Zhang Xueming has been obsessed with work and neglected her health.

For her, work is more important than health.

I work overtime day and night, often live in the company, and fly every few days to travel around the world.

Sometimes I have to receive intravenous drips during the day and catch a plane to attend meetings at night.

Even the infusion can be given directly on the plane.

But sometimes in front of Lu Zhengyi, Zhang Xueming would act like her health was more important than work.

She would worry about getting old, about not being able to live long, about...

Very contradictory.

It’s like a person who claims to stay healthy but still stays up late playing with his phone every night.

After the release of the film "Orphan", some changes began to take place in the Meilimao crew.

Some people, including Kim Sun-mi and Liu Mingzhi, left the Meilimao crew, or rather, left Bai Wei and joined Li Chuanxin's arms.

Bai Wei spent nearly two years shooting the film "Orphan", but there was nothing outstanding about it.

Yes, the response to this film is still average.

The box office data fell again, and people were not so impressed with the movies produced by Mei Limao.

Under such circumstances, other voices began to emerge within the crew.

Lu Zhengyi didn't know what Bai Wei had done in the past two years.

But judging from the fact that everyone went their separate ways after the end of this film, he must have done some wrong things under great pressure, things that were not conducive to unity.

On the contrary, Li Chuanxin has made new breakthroughs in his track. He no longer focuses on the outside world, but begins to enter the domestic market.

With his new film - 'Mr. Zombie.'

This movie is not horror in the traditional sense, it even adds a lot of comedy elements.

In addition, this film has many more "confrontational" elements, such as Taoist culture such as Maoshan Taoist priests, talismans, and summoning gods.

These familiar cultures make it possible for the film to attract new audiences even though it is not that scary or thrilling.

Some viewers with low psychological endurance.

If the films shot by Lu Zhengyi and others in the past had an age requirement of 18 years old, and people with heart disease, cardiovascular disease, etc. were not allowed to buy tickets.

Then Li Chuanxin's choice of this film lowered this level.

The age requirement for the movie Mr. Vampire is only twelve years old, so even children can buy tickets and watch the movie.

Lu Zhengyi has raised the upper limit of horror and thriller, while Li Chuanxin is trying to lower it and in the process make people feel that this type of film is boring.

And his attempt was successful.

Li Chuanxin's fans have long been accustomed to his instability.

This kind of "horror film" with a lot of comedy elements has brought new experiences to many people. At least some people who were originally timid and dared not watch it at all can now join in the atmosphere.

(End of this chapter)