The Heaven and Earth Are Not Thieves (Third Watch)

  The company's initial investment, including rent, decoration fees, cars for commuting and employees' salaries reserved for one year, took up about 2 million yuan of Ye Sumang's budget.

  The company now has only over 10 million left on its account, which is also the funds used by Ye Sumang for his next shooting.

  One hundred million in funding is neither too little nor too much.

  Ten million yuan is a mediocre investment in domestic films, so many ideas in Ye Sumang's mind are still limited by funds and cannot be expanded.

  "Yè zi, xiǎng shén me?"

  Translation: "Leaf, what are you thinking?"

  Huang Bo had already gone in and out of Ye Su Mang's office three times, but each time he came in, Ye Su Mang was staring at the computer screen. This filled Huang Bo with curiosity and doubt.

  He finally couldn't help but ask when lunch break arrived.

  "I'm worried about how to use this ten million, what kind of movie to shoot." Ye Sumang stared at the screen and sighed, with a look of distress on his face.

  "When you only had 10 million, you could make such a good movie. Now that you have 100 million, why can't you just make whatever you want?" Huang Bo was puzzled by Ye Sumang's worries. Why worry when there's no money, and still look worried when there is?

  "Fools just live simple lives." Glancing at Huang Bo, she found that he still had a confused and ignorant look on his face. Ye Sumang couldn't help but let out a long sigh, and without paying attention to him, she grabbed her coat and walked towards the door.

  "Hey, hey, what's this nonsense about being a fool just living simply? Who are you calling a fool?"

  "I don't want to communicate with fools, it's contagious!"

  "Yè zi, wǒ yào hé nǐ pīn mìng!!!"

  Translation: "Leaves, I'm going to fight you to the death!!!"

  Because Ye Sumang said he wanted to go out for a walk, Huang Bo accompanied him all the way. The two walked and stopped, unknowingly arriving at a long-distance bus station. At this time, the company's location was already very far away. With their stomachs growling with hunger, they could only find a restaurant that looked relatively clean on the side of the road to fill up for a meal.

  Who would have thought that this small restaurant would let Ye Sumang see an interesting thing.

  Ye Sumang and Huang Bo had just entered the restaurant when they found it packed with people, a crowd surrounding something in a circle, with several burly men guarding the entrance, clearly something had happened.

  "Look at you, look at you! I told you to save your money, but no, you had to have cash! You had to carry it with you! And now, it's gone!"

  Out of curiosity, Ye Sumang did not leave the restaurant, but instead looked inside and saw two people surrounded by a crowd. One was an 18 or 19-year-old boy with tears all over his face, while the other was a man in his thirties who was angrily pointing at the boy's head and scolding him.

  "I never thought there would be thieves, when have I ever lost anything in the village? Our village doesn't even have locks on the doors, all these years, and nothing has ever been stolen!" The boy was still crying, but his expression was very stubborn, he cried while refuting the middle-aged man's words.

  "Where's the thief? Where's your money gone?! You... you... you're a good-for-nothing, crying and crying, thinking that crying will bring back the money! Hurry up and find it for me, no one here is allowed to leave until the money is found!" The middle-aged man slapped the little boy on the back of his head again, then grabbed a bystander nearby, wanting to search him.

  "Hey, comrade, if you make another move, I'll call the police! This is an illegal search and seizure!" The person being detained became unhappy, immediately shaking off the middle-aged man's hand, and shouted with a look of discontent.

  The whole crowd also followed suit, and instantly the entire restaurant became a scene of uproar.

  Two men in the crowd and several men blocking the door were also anxious and sweating profusely, just as a police siren sounded, it turned out that the restaurant owner had seen something was wrong and reported to the police early, and the police had arrived.

  With the arrival of the police, the crowd also stopped rioting and lined up neatly. The police then began to inspect each person one by one.

  However, what made Huang Bo depressed was that he had become the focus of police attention, and they searched him thoroughly from head to toe. Did he really look like a bad guy? Why did the little leaf in front of him get asked a few questions and let go without even being searched?

  "This isn't fair, haven't you guys seen the plays I've been in recently?" Huang Bo asked with a look of dissatisfaction to the police who were checking if there was money hidden inside his leather shoes.

  "Are you an actor? Sorry, I've been too busy with work lately, and when I have time, I'll go appreciate your work. And who says actors don't steal things? You'd better be honest." The police officer looked up at Huang Bo in confusion, then replied calmly after realizing he didn't know the man.

  But his answer almost made Huang Bo choke with rage.

  Ye Sumang had already finished checking and was leaning against the wall laughing non-stop.

  This time the movie craze really made Huang Bo popular, and many people on the street asked him for autographs. At his most arrogant moment, Huang Bo even stood with his hands on his hips in front of Ning Hua and said "Who doesn't know you in this world?", then laughed loudly three times to show off his pride.

  But at this moment, his explosive popularity finally suffered a cold reception, and with that silly face of his, it was really too funny.

  As the crowd gradually dispersed, the young man's money was still nowhere to be found. Looking at the boy who still had a stubborn expression on his face, Ye Sumang suddenly became curious and walked up to him, asking: "What makes you think there are no thieves in this world?"

  "My home is in the deep mountains, in my village, there are people on the mountain path who pick up cow dung, without bringing a dung basket, they just picked up a stone chip, drew a circle around the cow dung, and after a few days, when they went to pick it up, the cow dung was still there. I thought to myself, these city people aren't more cultured than us country folk, are they? In my village, we don't lose things, so in this big city with so many cultured people, how can things get lost?"

  The boy's words left Ye Sumang speechless, he suddenly didn't know whether to break the young man's fantasy or continue to maintain the dream of a world without thieves in his heart.

  Looking at the boy's pure eyes, Jesus smiled somewhat unnaturally.

  "Leaf, leaf..." Huang Bo had also finished checking and saw Ye Su Mang chatting with the little boy about something, so he couldn't help but softly call out to him.

  "Have they all been checked?" Ye Sumang patted the little boy's head, turned around and took Huang Bo to a secluded corner before asking him.

  "We've checked everything, nothing's missing. The thief must have grabbed the bag and run off early, how could he still be around to watch the show?" Huang Bo replied.

  Ye Su Mang glanced at the little boy in the distance, then looked at the middle-aged man on the other side who was anxiously asking the police officer questions, and leaned into Huang Bo's ear, whispering a few words.

  "Are you sure?" Huang Bo's eyes widened in surprise, looking at Ye Su Meng with an incredulous expression.

  "Just do as I say, go and come back quickly." Ye Sumang patted Huang Bo's shoulder, ignoring his expression, and turned to walk towards the middle-aged man.

  "Hello, may I ask what is your relationship with that little boy?"

  "Huh? That kid was given to me by his parents to take care of. But I didn't expect that the first time I brought this kid out to work, we'd run into such a terrible situation."

  A middle-aged man looked embarrassed and depressed, apparently the little boy's loss of money also made him feel uncomfortable, feeling that he had failed to live up to the trust placed in him by the child's parents.

  Ye Su Meng asked a few more questions, and the middle-aged man, seeing Ye Su Meng's curiosity, also told him everything like pouring out his heart. In the end, the middle-aged man seemed to have made up his mind, gritted his teeth, and took out a passbook from his canvas bag.

  "Alas, let's get a few fellow workers to chip in some money and help support this kid. At least we can't let him work for half a year for nothing."

  Yeshu Mang shook his head when he heard Zhuang Han's words.

  "This child lost five thousand yuan, I'll take responsibility, but don't tell him it's lost, just tell him it was packed wrong and put it in your bag." Just then, Ye Sumang saw Huang Bo rushing over outside the door, so he stated his purpose.

  "What, what did you say? Did I hear that wrong?" The middle-aged man stared with wide eyes in surprise, and even the police officer next to him looked at Ye Sumang in disbelief. After all, five thousand yuan was a huge sum of money for ordinary people these days.

  "You didn't hear wrong!" Ye Sumang took over a thick envelope handed over by Huang Bo and handed it to the middle-aged man, saying: "Do what I said, this money is for that child."

  "This won't do, I don't want your money, we can earn our own!" The middle-aged man looked at the thick envelope in his hand as if it had been set on fire and hastily stuffed it back into Ye Sumang's hand.

  "Listen, you guys didn't earn this money easily. This money isn't taken in vain either. Today's matter gave me an inspiration, and the value of this inspiration is very high, so high that you can't imagine it. Consider these five thousand yuan as a small reward!"

  Ye Sumeng finished speaking and stuffed the money into the big man's hand, then turned around and left the small restaurant with Huang Bo.

  The middle-aged man looked at Ye Su Mang's back with tears in his eyes, feeling the 5,000 yuan in his palm heavy and warm. He had a thousand words of gratitude to express, but couldn't say them out loud.

  "Brother, you're in luck. You've met a rich good person." The police officer who had just finished handling the matter also patted the middle-aged man's shoulder and praised him with a sigh of emotion.

  "Ah... Ah..." He nodded heavily, wiping away the tears on his face. Thinking of what Ye Su Mang had said earlier, he forced himself to put on an excited expression and shouted at the little boy squatting in the corner: "Kid, I found the money! Look at my memory, I forgot that I was afraid you'd lose it, so I put your money in my bag!"

  "What? Uncle, I told you there was no thief!" The boy immediately turned sorrow into joy upon hearing that the money had been found, and his entire face was filled with a bright smile like sunshine...

  At this time, Ye Sumang and Huang Bo had already taken a taxi and were on their way back to the company.

  "Yehzi, I just don't get it. Why did you take out 5,000 yuan for that kid yourself? Just because he's simple-minded? Is he stupid?" Huang Bo was completely baffled and couldn't understand why Yeh Sumang had done this.

  "Neck, perhaps one day with the growth of time, he will understand the dangers of the world. But for now, I just want to help him complete that 'thief in the world' dream!" Ye Sumang stared blankly out the window, a burst of inspiration swirling in his mind, he couldn't wait to write it out, film it, and broadcast it.

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