Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Meeting
“…… The first time I saw them was on a very ordinary California afternoon, drizzling and hazy, hazy and hazyWWwlā I ran into the canopy of the bus stop, and he (An Yuxi) was standing next to me, alone, quietly looking out at the sky where the breeze blew the rain curtain...... His surroundings seem to be surrounded by a quiet atmosphere at all times, so rich that it seems to be walking in the forest after the rain, every breath, what he smells is the leaves are washed away from the dust, and the soil washes away the fragrance of **......"
"Now that I think about it, they must have met for the first time that day, and I had the privilege of seeing it with my own eyes and documenting it. Many times in the future, I will look at this photograph I took with my own hands, recalling that ordinary rainy afternoon, and my eyes were filled with the clouds that cracked in the distance, and the rays of sunlight that leaked through the gaps in the clouds like a ladder. ”
"The land of California is vast and majestic, stretching out to the end of the horizon, there are vast mountains and rivers. The sky is gray with the bleak skylight, only the rays of sunlight, which come from out of the sky, cast the changing shadows of the clouds on the earth, it makes the yellow earth reflect the brilliant golden light, the trees sway like emerald green, it dispels the coldness of the heaven and the earth, and returns the light. ”
"I'm so sure it's an inquiry from heaven! God let it witness it, and let me witness it, so when I press the shutter and circle that qiē into the lens, I know it. ”
“…… I recorded history!"
- From the acceptance speech of Isa Laures, who won the Pulitzer Prize for photojournalism in 2011 for the classic photo of Ann and Steve Jobs meeting for the first time in front of Apple.
Some people say that there are three apples in human history, the first one seduced Eve, the second one woke up Newton, and the third one, right here!
Cupertino, a small city adjacent to the western coast of the San Francisco Bay Area and close to Mountain View, is where Apple is located, and it is a mecca for countless apple fans!
This is also where Ahn Yuxi and Jobs first met.
This time, though, they changed places.
Located in an antique courtyard house in San Francisco's Chinatown, there are two big characters on the courtyard of the book, "Medical Hall".
On both sides of the dark gate, there is a pair of couplets that have been whitened by the wind, rain and sun, but it can be vaguely seen that it is a couplet made of red rice paper, with the book "Farewell to the old year in the frost of the grass, and celebrate the New Year in the spring flowers".
Its calligraphy is peaceful and natural, the gesture is euphemistic and subtle, beautiful and beautiful, and it can be vaguely seen that it is born from the "Wang Body" of Wang Youjun.
We often use Cao Zhi's "Luo Shen Fu": "Soaring like a frightening Hong, graceful like a dragon, Rongyao autumn chrysanthemum, Huamao spring pine." It seems to be like a light cloud covering the moon, and fluttering like the snow of the wind. A sentence to praise the beauty of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy.
Walking into the courtyard, it is a typical classical garden, such a courtyard with a classical temperament, in the place where hundreds of thousands of overseas Chinese live, there are only a few, and basically in the hands of the most powerful local Chinese community, the Red Flower Society.
The architect uses a unique gardening technique, in a limited space, through the guò stacked mountains and rivers, planting flowers and trees, configuring garden buildings, and using a large number of plaques, couplets, calligraphy and painting, carvings, steles, furniture furnishings and various ornaments to reflect the ancient philosophical concepts, cultural consciousness and aesthetic taste, so as to form a poetic and picturesque literati freehand landscape garden, in which rockeries and strange stones, pavilions and flowing water, all kinds of strange flowers and trees are all over, so that people have a kind of "do not go out of the city and get the pleasure of the landscape, live in the city and get the fun of forest springs".
There are also many young people in white short coats coming and going, a busy scene.
The medical hall here is one of the most prestigious in the global Chinese community, and there is an endless stream of people seeking medical treatment every day.
It's full of memories of Ahn Yu's childhood.
"Uncle Shi!"
"Uncle Shi!" someone came up to greet him, although An Yuxi was not often here, but his deeds were widely spread here, there were still people who knew him, and some people were older than him, but they were still a little younger in terms of generation, such as Li Runcheng before, he was a disciple of the senior brother, and An Yuxi was a small hair.
Under the leadership of a nephew who is about the same age as himself, he came to a room in the east wing of the backyard, where An Yuxi saw the faith of the Apple believers - Sect Master Qiao.
This old man, who was diagnosed by the hospital with no more than five years to live, is suffering from illness. It was An Yuxi's father who introduced him here.
Jobs, who believes in Taoism, was sitting cross-legged at this time, soaking in the medicine bucket, and his glasses were taken off, revealing his deeply sunken eye sockets, and the exposed part was still inserted with needles.
An Yuxi didn't bother them, although the senior brother had already reached the realm of not being moved by foreign objects when he applied the needle.
"I'm sorry, Ann, let you see me like this!" After administering the needle, I opened my eyes and saw An Yuxi, Jobs's voice was very rarely weak.
"Ann, I brought you a gift, but I can't give it to you right now!" said Jobs, though weak, still smiling.
"Jobs, I can't wait!" Of course, An Yuxi knows what Jobs is talking about, of course, it is the final version of the iPhone that Apple is about to release, and what he is holding in his hand is still the beta 1.9 version, that is, the beta version.
In his previous life, he was not an Apple fan, but he was familiar with Jobs's deeds, which is mainly the influence of Apple's mobile phone, which is too great, as the world's first smartphone in the true sense, Apple has brought mankind into the era of intelligence. For mobile phone terminals, it is tantamount to a revolution, the digital keyboard pioneered by Iphone, the trend of large-screen mobile terminals, will tear the tradition to pieces in a devastating situation, countless current giants have fallen, becoming the bones under the Apple throne, and new giants have been born, fighting fiercely in the wave of smart phones.
The Iphone project, which was promoted by An Yuxi, was jointly completed by Tianheng Technology and the Apple team to develop the Iphone.
I believe everyone can understand this feeling, he is used to having a mobile phone, swiping the circle of friends and Weibo, thinking about what it is like to go out without a mobile phone, it is like losing his soul, and he can't do anything, for the above reasons, he finally used the world's first smartphone in advance!Iphone1.
It was because of this opportunity that the two met and became friends, and now their relationship is even closer.
The reason why An Yuxi left his movie and returned to the United States was to attend Jobs's Apple conference and witness this miraculous moment, this historic moment!
At the same time, he also brought a gift to Jobs.
This gift is a video saved in his current mobile phone, and An Yuxi believes that this video is played on an iPhone and has a special meaning.
"Senior brother, I'm back!" greeted Jobs. An Yuxi finally turned to his senior brother, who was looking at him with a smile.
"It's good to come back! Mr. Jobs still needs to rest, so go and find Master after you say hello!" the senior brother patted him on the shoulder.
"Yes!" An Yuxi nodded.