Chapter 48: Making a Movie?

  Chen Chufan didn't want to perform at school's art show, of course, he had his own considerations.

  Because he doesn't want to draw too much attention to himself now, he knows that he has suddenly become a genius, although it may be a bit shameless to say so. However, whether it's his achievements in music or his ability to memorize things at a glance, it seems to prove this point. Of course, if it were just that, Chen Chufan wouldn't mind making a small splash at the school's anniversary gala.

  But now he has an even more unusual place. His body suddenly became immune to swords and guns, making him a suspect of being a monster. This discovery made him somewhat terrified, although he had already understood the principle of letting go, but he still did not want to reveal this secret. He didn't want to be seen as a monster and become disconnected from the world, he was very satisfied with his current life and didn't want to change anything.

  So he needs to disguise himself and keep a low profile. If someone becomes famous, the possibility of his secrets being exposed will greatly increase, which Chen Chufan is still very aware of.

  But in the face of the girl's soft and pitiful pleading, he couldn't hold on for even a minute, which made Chen Chufan feel somewhat regretful. However, thinking about Han Xiaoxi's radiant smile, Chen Chufan could only comfort himself by thinking that compared to the girl's smile, his own performance was nothing. Besides, hadn't he just had an epiphany? What was meant to come would come anyway, so why worry about it? Forget it.

  So Chen Chufan stopped worrying about this matter and started discussing with Han Xiaoxi what kind of program to arrange.

  "This is something you have to think about yourself, I don't have any opinions for reference, I just want to see what kind of program you can come up with!" said Han Xiaoxi.

  Sweet moments are always short-lived, and the two returned to the girls' dormitory building, just like they had gone through another cycle. A night of happy moments, from beginning to end. Of course, there were changes. For example, Chen Chufan bravely expressed his love today, for example, he agreed to the girl's request.

  "Time flies so fast!" Han Xiaoxi sighed with a tinge of melancholy.

  "You wouldn't think so in a class on Chinese music history!" Chen Chufan added.

  The teacher of the Chinese Music History course in the Music Department is a middle-aged man who is very strict and, to use Han Xiaoxi's words, "a super boring uncle with no musical cells at all". He basically just reads from the textbook during class, and his Mandarin has a strong Hunan accent, making it sound like plastic Mandarin, which makes people feel drowsy. So every time he teaches, Han Xiaoxi feels like she is counting down the days.

  "By the way, every day we date is like this wandering around in school, don't you think it's boring! Don't you want me to take you out to play?" Chen Chufan suddenly asked under a tree outside the girls' dormitory.

  Actually, Chen Chufan had been puzzled for a long time. Every day, the two of them would meet up and just wander around school aimlessly. Han Xiaoxiao seemed to never complain about anything, nor did she ever ask Chen Chufan to take her out of campus to have some fun, sing songs or watch movies.

  "Aren't you short of money? Why waste your living expenses going out?" Han Xiao Xi said without thinking, with a completely matter-of-fact expression.

  Chen Chufan was speechless, moved by the girl who usually acted carelessly but now showed such thoughtfulness. He found that he still hadn't fully understood the little girl in front of him. Although she seemed careless and sloppy at times, she actually had delicate thoughts and considered his feelings so much. And as her boyfriend, he felt a bit incompetent.

  It was Han Xiaoxi who saw Chen Chufan suddenly calm down, thinking that she had touched the boy's sensitive nerves, and couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive. She didn't want to ruin today's perfect mood, so she lowered her head and muttered: "Aren't you angry, little temper?"

  Chen Chufan was not angry at all. The various unexpected events that happened to him, while bringing trouble to Chen Chufan, also made him unusually confident. With his current skills, he wouldn't care about what girls say. To put it bluntly, even if he went to the streets now to perform and smash a big stone on his chest, he could still make a living.

  But the girl's tone of grievance brought him back to his senses, and he hastily explained: "What are you thinking? Am I such a petty person? I just feel that it's not right for us to have been together for a month and yet I haven't even taken you to see a movie!"

  "It's okay! As long as we can be together every day, I'm happy enough!" Han Xiao Xi smiled sweetly, indicating that she didn't mind these things.

  "That won't do, you're my girlfriend, I can't take you out for a stroll every day, what if one day you get bored with this life and kick me away? Where would I go to find another good partner like you?! So I've decided to find a part-time job to earn some money and prepare for our future together." Chen Chufan said his plan.

  "That means we can't be together tonight!" Han Xiao Xi pouted again, looking adorable.

  "It's not necessarily, this isn't even the beginning of finding trouble! If we really find it, maybe we can arrange a good time, at least we won't have to run there every night!" Chen Chufan comforted.

  "So what are you planning to do? Be a pianist? I heard from SiSi that you learn music scores at an incredible speed." Han Xiaoxi asked with sparkling eyes.

  "It's very likely!" Chen Chufan replied with his mouth, but in his heart, he thought that relying on his own indestructible body, even if he went to join the circus, he should still have a way to make money.

  "You go ahead and work hard, I'll wait for you to make some money and then take me out to have fun!" Han Xiao Xi nodded her head in encouragement.

  As he watched Han Xiaoxi's figure disappear before his eyes, Chen Chufan did not immediately return to the dormitory. He felt that he had a lot of things to consider. For example, having promised Han Xiaoxi to prepare a program, he had to rush to think about it, and since he was ready to take on a part-time job to make money, he needed some ideas. However, with Yang Ergou's presence in the dormitory, it was not a good place to consider problems. Although the dormitory was about to close, Chen Chufan was not afraid! In his opinion, with his current skills, sneaking into the dormitory would be easy.

  So he went alone to the south of the lake, and on his way, he was still reviewing his insincerity towards Han Xiaoxi today.

  Of course, the insincerity here is not that Chen Chufan had an affair or something, but rather that he made his reasons for wanting to make money sound too noble. In fact, the idea of wanting to make money was entirely because Han Xiaohui told him tonight that temples also charge entrance fees, and they are not cheap.

  Although Chen Chufan had accepted the fact that he was no longer an ordinary person, he felt that in order to avoid being discovered and taken to a research institute to be studied as a freak, some preparations still needed to be made.

  According to Chen Chufan's understanding, since the Buddha said to let go of oneself, then if one listens to the Buddha and lets go, the Buddha should take on the corresponding responsibility. Since Buddhism has the concept of "diamond", if one can establish some connection with Buddhism, even if one's strange behavior is discovered by others, it may be possible to use religion as an excuse to gloss over it. In short, there's no harm in chatting with the monks in the temple, and nothing bad will come of it.

  So Chen Chufan very sincerely asked Han Xiaoxi if there were any famous Buddhist holy sites near W City, in other words, temples with monks. What made Chen Chufan extremely happy was that W City indeed had a thousand-year-old temple called Guiyuan Temple, and it was said that there were some venerable old monks living inside Guiyuan Temple.

  What made Chen Chufan feel even more embarrassed was that to enter the temple, he had to buy a ticket, which wasn't cheap. According to Han Xiaoxi, one ticket cost as much as 30 yuan. If he wanted to get close to Buddha, going once or twice wouldn't be enough, but if he went many times, his wallet would probably be cleaner than his face after washing it every day. This made Chen Chufan sigh at the importance of money - even Buddha couldn't escape worldly desires!

  So Chen Chufan felt that making money was a subject that had to be put on the agenda, and he had to take it seriously. If he could make money himself, he would also be able to help his family reduce their burden, wouldn't he?

  As he walked along the way, thinking as he went, Chen Chufan arrived at the south lake shore again, it was almost 11 o'clock in the evening, and the dormitory was about to turn off the lights. The couples who came here for a date had all dispersed, and the entire south lake shore looked much cleaner, suitable for thinking about some heart affairs.

  Of course, assuming nothing else gets in the way.

  Chen Chufan felt that his ears had become much more sensitive, and now he could even hear the low scolding voice of a man and the suppressed sobbing voice of a girl with a hint of fear from the thicket by the small road over fifty meters away. Logically, in this South Lake shore where frogs were croaking loudly, and he was so far away, these sounds should have been completely covered up by the croaking and shouldn't have reached his ears at all?

  But things turned out to be just the opposite, Chen Chufan could even hear the man's low scolding clearly.

  "Hurry up and take off your clothes, you're wasting my time with your dawdling!"

  Listening to the tone and content, it seems that what's happening in the woods right now isn't a pleasant thing between two consenting parties. Especially the girl's suppressed crying sounds, which suggests that I've stumbled upon some melodramatic scene that only appears in TV dramas. But this is school, does he dare to use force here without fearing being beaten into a pulp by the school guards, those young and vigorous guys who can't find anything to do every day?

  Or is this really for filming a movie?