B-level director

Chapter 26

The two Americans were taken aback and cursed.

Cheng Tianlu couldn't see the scene inside, but the conversation inside was heard clearly.

Brother Qi came out of the toilet, let out a small cry of surprise, and asked who they were.They did not understand the language, and a female translator was involved.

Brother Qi expressed his disbelief that something happened to the painter, saying that he had a good chat before going to the bathroom.He also said that he was an art dealer and came here to pick up paintings.

After listening to it for a while, Cheng Tianlu couldn't help leaning over to the window to peek.

Brother Qi's expression was restless and impatient, and he was completely involved in the drama.When answering the police's questioning, he would add a few sentences in English that were not pronounced correctly, and his chin raised slightly, making him appear to be self-righteous and rustic.

Cheng Tianlu couldn't help secretly admiring that Brother Qi is worthy of being a director who produces nine films a year, he has created a three-dimensional character in a flash, and his performance is flawless.He wore a cowboy hat and sunglasses, a bumbling attire that matched the man's occupation and personality.Perhaps when making the character of the painter, he took clothing into consideration.

Cheng Tianlu was relieved, Qi Ge'er's composure and adaptability were rare among the people he knew, and he should be able to retreat unscathed.

He looked around.He was in the backyard, among the barren vegetation, there was a dog cage, and a black shell was lying in it.

He tensed up again.This place is not safe, perhaps because there were only two agents, and they panicked when they saw the corpse at first sight. In addition, Brother Qi disrupted the situation, and they hadn't had time to search the whole house.He must leave as soon as possible.

Gritting his teeth, he ran up the high wall made of big rocks all day long.Fortunately, Heibei didn't bark.

He hid himself short among the cherry trees, looked outside the wall, there was no one on the road, and it was very quiet everywhere.Looking inside the wall again, he found that Hei Bei was lying on his side on the ground, and he was already dead.

Cheng Tianlu gasped, jumped off the fence, and walked quickly to the red BMW.

Time passed extremely slowly.He couldn't do anything to distract his anxiety, so he could only focus on the situation in front of him.

No matter how you think about it, they have done a stupid thing.There are too many loopholes, let alone whether there is a camera in Duomi's house, just relying on the fingerprints around, the two bottles of water that have not been drunk, and even the confession of the security guard in the villa area, you can expose yourself.

He secretly smiled wryly. When watching bad movies, he always complained about the illogical behavior of the characters and self-defeating, but when he was in it, he realized how easily a person's reason could be biased by the situation, especially with such a strange person as Qi Geer by his side... …

Brother Qi...

Tianlu didn't dare to think about it.What he should be most worried about now is whether Brother Qi will be arrested by the FBI and escorted to NASA.

Just as he was thinking, Brother Qi walked back slowly, as usual, he couldn't bear to tire himself with two quick steps.

Cheng Tianlu heaved a sigh of relief.

Brother Qi not only came back, but also brought back a volume of huge things, Duomi's paintings.Cheng Tianlu sighed: "You didn't blow up the house, you stole the painting back."

"This is not called stealing. I told the Yankees that I came to collect the paintings and not take them away. It does not conform to the logic of the character's behavior."

This year's FBI is too watery, "Can anyone take away the things at the crime scene?"

"Where is the crime scene? The painter committed suicide." Qi Ge'er said while starting the car.

Cheng Tianlu was stunned, "Suicide?"

"They found the video of his last words. Today the news of the formal investigation in the United States was released. He knew he couldn't escape, so he sent the workers away, poisoned the dog, and then committed suicide by drinking the poison."

"Suicide in front of us!" Cheng Tianlu found it inconceivable, they were still chatting about their hometown before taking the medicine, there was nothing wrong with the atmosphere.

"He should want to commit suicide after we leave, maybe what we said stimulated him. The peacock..."

"Peacock..." Cheng Tianlu repeated the words, his mind was foggy, "What is a peacock?"

"do not know."

Cheng Tianlu looked at Brother Qi's profile.His dark glasses reflected the gray pavement and pale winter sky, and his eyes were hidden.

While waiting for Brother Qi, Cheng Tianlu wondered for a moment whether Brother Qi was responsible for Domi's death.Although Qi Ge'er acted irregularly, he was definitely not insane. After Duomi fell down, Qi Ge'er's behavior was unreasonable.Why is he advocating escape?

However, if you want to say that Brother Qi is the murderer, it is not to doubt Brother Qi, but to doubt your own intelligence.No matter how you think about it, it is impossible for Brother Qi to have a chance to strike.

He suddenly asked Brother Qi: "Are you coming with me just to steal the painting?"

Brother Qi slowed down the car and looked at Cheng Tianlu in a blink of an eye: "What do you mean by that?"

"Literally. You must come with me to see Domi, you have to wear such a big hat to cover your face, and you pretend to be an art dealer... You are so quick-witted, and justifiably took the painting away."

Brother Qi couldn't help laughing, "I can predict someone committing suicide, I can predict the police stepping in, I know that there is a wardrobe in this room, and I know that you will jump out of the window obediently. If I want this ability, I can directly let him Give me the painting as a tribute. Why do you doubt me?"

Cheng Tianlu naturally knew that there were too many coincidences involved, and it was impossible for Brother Qi to plan in advance.I said this to test his reaction.Brother Qi's reaction was natural and calm, without any flaws.

Cheng Tianlu doesn't make movies and write stories. When he sees a person, he doesn't just think about the "behavioral logic" that Brother Qi said.In reality, the logical roots of human behavior are very complex. To figure out why a person does something, one must thoroughly understand everything about him.And that's simply not possible.Many people can't even explain their own logic, let alone bystanders.

Looking at a person, in addition to rational analysis, intuition may be more reliable.Brother Qi is clearly hiding something.

Cheng Tianlu: "You're not that stupid. We were innocent. Even if we were found by the FBI in the closet, we barely said it was because they broke into the door. We were afraid so we hid and called the police. They didn't do anything. Now you take the painting away , is deliberate stealing, committing crimes out of trouble—there is such a big loophole in the script, didn’t the big director discover it?”

Brother Qi lazily said: "I really didn't find out, I just made a bad movie. It's normal for the script to have loopholes. The play has been acted, so you can't just NG. I said I was going to get the painting, so I took the painting back. I didn’t expect the editor-in-chief to have so many ideas.”

Cheng Tianlu was not sure how true or false what Brother Qi said.His acting skills are very good, without any trace, he knows when to act and when to leave blank.

Brother Qi was once again shrouded in mist.

Originally, Cheng Tianlu had decided to let go of Brother Qi and stop asking him anything, but now looking at Brother Qi, he couldn't turn his eyes away...

He wants to know everything about Brother Qi, and wants to catch him!He didn't know whether it was because curiosity fascinated him, or on the contrary, because he had already had the urge to get closer, which made him ask Qi Ge'er for the bottom line.

Either way, he feels dead.

He said, "Give me your alien detector."

Brother Qi took out the phone from his pocket and handed it to Cheng Tianlu. "What are you doing?"

"Help you take care of it," Cheng Tianlu said with a smile, "You throw it under the sofa when you are unhappy, how pitiful."

"Don't think it's too heavy?"

"No, I don't even dislike you, how can I dislike it."

Brother Qi couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth.The tight string in his heart was relaxed because of this sentence.Taking away the painting under the nose of the FBI, and dealing with Cheng Tianlu, he didn't know what to do. It was really lucky to get away with it.

The air in the carriage suddenly became lighter, and both of them looked at the scenery outside the window without speaking.

When the car turned into the garbage forest in front of the studio, Brother Qi said, "I really didn't want to steal the painting. But I stole it, so I'll give it to you."

"Damn, you still want me to help you hide the stolen goods."

Brother Qi said with a smile: "I didn't plan to steal the painting at first, but when I saw the painting, I remembered that your house is too clean, which is just right for this one, so I took the risk of shooting to get the painting back, do you believe it?"

"Do not believe."

"Hey, it's true. I have taken into account the size, and this one is just right for your house. I'll hang it at your house in a while."

Cheng Tianlu was taken aback, did Brother Qi steal the painting for him?This is really a fantasy, but it sounds so comfortable that he decides to shield his reason and believe for a while to make himself happy.

Huh, that's not right, Brother Qi didn't focus on the first half of the sentence, Tianlu was surprised: "Are you coming to my house again?!"

"Well, I'll sleep at your place tonight."

"Thank you for the notice," Cheng Tianlu lamented, "When you rub the sofa at someone's house, don't you have to ask the owner's opinion first, don't make up your own mind every time?"

Brother Qi is as good as he is, and immediately softened his tone: "Please, take me in for a few days, my house is no longer suitable for human habitation. Don't you dislike me?"

These words were more or less coquettish, Cheng Tianlu couldn't hold back, a smile appeared on his face.He still dislikes Brother Qi wanting to live in his house, and is not used to having another person at home, but he decides to block his reason again, and writes another inner os for himself: Brother Qi, under the persecution of his sister, must Live in dire straits, friends, then help him.

That night, they each worked until late at night before returning to their apartment on Chengtian Road.

Brother Qi didn't just talk about it, he carefully marked it with a pencil on the white wall, and planned to hang the picture on the next day.He even made a wooden frame on set, and put the canvas on the frame and fixed it.The size is really suitable, without the oppressive feeling of large format.

Cheng Tianlu realized one more thing. Brother Qi could fool the FBI because he is very skilled in handling paintings. He looks like someone who has been in contact with canvases for a long time, not as clumsy as the FBI when dealing with artworks.

"It turns out that the director is not only good at drawing manga, but also good at oil painting."

"I learned it when I was a teenager. I was expelled from school and no one would accept me. My mother threw me in a studio to learn painting."

"Why did you drop out?"

"The grades are so poor that it's holding the whole school back," Qi Geer turned to look at Cheng Tianlu, "in the words of my head teacher, I'm not only holding back the whole school, but with my own strength, I can drag the intelligence of young people across the country to the top. below the world level,"

"It's so lethal." Cheng Tianlu helped Brother Qi set up the painting in the corner, "Your homeroom teacher is really mean."

"It's not easy for her to be angry with me."

Cheng Tianlu thought to himself, Brother Qi must have had a rough adolescence, and now he is calm about everything, probably because he has experienced almost all the setbacks he should have experienced.He had the urge to ask more, but when facing Brother Qi, his heart softened, and he didn't want to expose his scars.