Chapter 160: The Wanderer Returns Home
This time, Xiao Ran still did not go to the Golden Horse Awards, but Lin Qingxia and Wei Dongling, who were eager to go on stage to win the award, went. At the Golden Horse Awards, "Spy Change" swept thousands of armies and cut off several technical awards. And "Dark Flower" naturally won the Best Director and Best Screenplay, the best picture was won by "Mong Kok Carmen", and the best actor was won by "The Story of Ah Lang".
At this year's Golden Horse Awards, the Phantom won a big victory except for a few awards that were leaked to local Taiwanese films. After the celebration banquet, Xiao Ran accompanied Lin Qingxia and her family to celebrate the Spring Festival.
In March 1989, Lin Qingxia and other crew members went to the mainland to shoot "New Dragon Gate Inn", and Xiao Ran also went with him. He wanted to go and see his biological parents, but last time because of the suddenness of the incident, this plan was delayed, and this time it can't be delayed any longer.
At this time, Sony was ready to extend an olive branch to Coca-Cola. And Coca-Cola also seems keen to sell Colombia to Sony, even as they negotiate hotly.
Xiao Ran returned to his hometown, which is a beautiful small city. What a beautiful place, full of green traces. Spring has already hatched traces of spring on the branches, and it is also a wisp of fresh and pleasant feeling.
Xiao Ran was already vague about the appearance of his hometown at this time, and when he came back this time, he immediately opened up every shadow from childhood happiness in his memory. Not long after entering this small town, Xiao Ran urgently called a stop, and both Sunshine and Monkey stopped the car in amazement.
This Mercedes-Benz is obviously still very eye-catching in such a small city, and many passers-by are looking at this car with wide eyes, wondering which rich man this is. The sun drove away the curious children who came up, while staring curiously at Xiao Ran who was in a daze.
Xiao Ran stood quietly on this small street, hiding his happiness in the next few years in this alley. He walked lightly into this alley, which was definitely not clean, and the monkey and An Yuxuan hurriedly followed.
There is a video hall in this alley, and Xiao Ran stared blankly at the rows of big characters written in chalk on the small blackboard: Hong Kong's popular shootout film "The True Color of Heroes" and "Jianghu Love", and the hilarious comedy "Happy Family". There was also a row of words on it, and Xiao Ran couldn't help but want to go in and take a look.
With a sigh, Xiao Ran finally left here, cherishing his memories for many years here. It's just that many years later, this place was demolished, and the memories flew away with the dust of the demolition. On this day, here, he experienced this taste again, and he was crazy to watch it in the video hall. If you don't enjoy Hong Kong films in the video hall at such a young age, I'm afraid you won't have your current self.
This time, Xiao Ran did not get into the car, but walked slowly on the street. Everything in this small city was so familiar to him that he had thought he had forgotten it. However, now he realized that there are some things that he really can't forget for a lifetime, but he just thinks he has forgotten them.
Look, isn't this the ideal barbershop to get a haircut that you often come to? However, he hated the barber master, who always shaved his hair short, and now he realized how avant-garde this barber was, and actually made the trend more than ten years later.
Isn't this the middle school he attended? He still remembers that there was a food outside the school, it was a very tasty snack, but unfortunately he couldn't remember what it was called. After greeting the three of them to sit down and enjoying a snack here, Xiao Ran walked towards the students who left school at noon with the joy of reliving their memories.
Look, isn't that the guy who once rode on a little girl and was angrily scolded by the female teacher for being a hooligan? Looking at the other one, Xiao Ran recognized that it was his junior high school classmate, because he saw a woman giving birth on TV, and as a result, he asked Xiao Ran in class how a woman gave birth, and was almost thrown out of the window by the female teacher.
Looking at another very thin guy, Xiao Ran also remembered that that guy and the other one were very interesting. They weren't good students at school, and once the teacher asked them to hand in their homework, and they were in a hurry, and the two guys jumped over the stairs twice and broke their hands twice. Now that I think about it, it's really interesting.
However, Xiao Ran didn't see himself, he didn't see Xiao Ran when he was a child. When he came to his home, Xiao Ran thought that he had forgotten about the third aunt and sixth uncle, as well as the grandfather Yao next door who coughed all day long, and the Aunt Ye who quarreled like a wolf dog looking for prey on the street every day. Of course, this is also indispensable to the kind of candy that often comes for a penny to tempt Xiao Xiaoran to call his uncle.
Now that I've seen my parents, they still look quite young and spirited. The mother who looked at these uninvited guests inexplicably asked with a puzzled face, "Who are you looking for?" ”
The local dialect here is something An Yuxuan can't understand at all, but the monkey can barely understand a little. Xiao Ran resisted the urge to speak his hometown, because he knew very well that with his identity and status, he should never know how to say what was here.
Therefore, he could only reply in Mandarin: "Are you Yan Wenfang?" I'm here to find Xiao Jianguo! ”
The name Jianguo is very old-fashioned, Xiao Ran once thought so. However, now he doesn't have such thoughts at all, he looks at his young and quite beautiful mother, and he really wants to hug and vent his emotions. But he knows better that this kind of etiquette is definitely not suitable for the mainland, but he is afraid that his father will punch him hard.
They went into the house, which was the kind of small house allocated by the political axe, and it was not much better than public housing. Dad was sitting at the dinner table and asked, "Who is it?" When he looked up, he saw four very fashionable men (that was the word at the time) and looking very rich, all dressed in their clothes, looking at the house.
"Are you Xiao Jianguo? My name is Xiao Ran, and I'm here to send you something! When Xiao Ran saw his father, he couldn't help but think of what he would look like in his last years twenty years, and he was suddenly excited and almost cried out.
"Sending something?" Xiao Jianguo was very confused, but politely, he still invited Xiao Ran and them to sit down: "Sit down first and talk slowly, you haven't eaten yet!" ”
Although the almost unbounced spring of the sofa made An Yuxuan frown, Xiao Ran realized how comfortable it was to sit on this sofa, and he knew that this was home. Sunshine shook his head and said, "We've eaten, thank you!" ”
After the old mother also came to sit down, Xiao Ran suppressed her excited emotions and said slowly: "Mr. Xiao, do you have a brother?" ”
Xiao Ran has an uncle, in his memory, this uncle is a very strange person, busy running around all day long, and often carrying some strange things. It wasn't until he grew up that Xiao Ran knew that the uncle was reselling gold and antiques or something at that time, but the uncle had never achieved anything.
The uncle was very good to Xiao Ran, and often hugged him and looked at the big tree downstairs to tell some stories, such as the story of the Three Kingdoms and the story of Xue Rengui's anti-Tang Dynasty. Although Xiao Ran didn't remember these stories at all, he still remembered the beautiful scene: a tall, bearded middle-aged man sitting on a chair with a child in his arms, looking at the leaves fluttering in the wind downstairs and telling the stories that had fascinated Xiao Ran.
Xiao Ran even thought that it was probably because of these stories that Uncle had instilled in him in his early years that he was interested in these legendary things. That's why I was caught and punished in class for reading Jin Yong's novels, so in the eyes of the teacher, I changed from a good student to a bad student who skipped class to watch the video.
It's a pity that Xiao Ran remembered that after the uncle came here once in the second half of last year, he mysteriously said that he was going abroad, and there was no news since then. Until Xiao Ran left that era in 2005, there was no news of the uncle, and his life and death were unknown. Everyone thought he was out there a long time ago, or that he was dead in 1988.
This is also the reason why Xiao Ran chose to come at this time, he can push some unexplainable things to the uncle. Although this seems too calculating, Xiao Ran knows better that this is a very helpless thing, and only by dealing with it in this way can he not arouse suspicion, at least it can be much smaller.
"That's the case...... Xiao Ran said the white lie he made up without thinking: "Your brother Xiao Jianmin helped me, and then he went because of an accident." So, if I want to repay him, I can only give you some help! ”
Xiao Jianguo and Yan Wenfang were stunned, Xiao Jianmin had no news for nearly a year, and they were worried. Unexpectedly, Xiao Ran actually brought the news of death, and Xiao Jianguo's eyes immediately turned red. Xiao Ran sighed lightly on the side, only by saying this can I dispel my parents' worries all along.
glanced at An Yuxuan, who was very restless, and An Yuxuan took out a large bag of money in his bag and handed it to the couple. Xiao Ran's nose was sour, and she wanted to cry out to be comfortable. But he had to suppress this emotion: "You can take this money!" ”
Xiao Jianguo looked up at Xiao Ran in amazement, and then looked at the money on the table, afraid that it would be more than 10,000 yuan, which scared him so much that he trembled all over, and refused again and again: "This is not good, I can't accept this money!" ”
Xiao Ran smiled slightly, he knew that his father would say this. So he was prepared: "Your brother helped me, and I owe him a favor." What is this money, I think they all want you to live a little better! ”
Xiao Ran didn't plan to let his parents leave here, because he knew very well that he didn't belong to this world anymore. It's not a big problem to look at it like this one, but if you come often, it will definitely arouse suspicion, they are not from the same world, and it is difficult to come together.
On top of that, his parents are stubborn and nostalgic for this place. Even when Xiao Ran left that era, his parents were still in this small town, which can be seen. Xiao Ran only gave 20,000 yuan, he knew that many families were broken because of money, and if he was unwilling to let his parents crack, this number had to be grasped to this extent.
After several more persuasions, Xiao Jianguo finally accepted the money. Xiao Ran beckoned to An Yuxuan, An Yuxuan took out a camera, Xiao Ran reluctantly smiled: "Why don't we take a picture and go out to take a picture." ”
went downstairs and came to the big tree in the yard, An Yuxuan looked at the three people standing together over there and shouted a few times, and then there was a click. Xiao Ran knew that the only thing he could maintain and attach to that relationship was this photo.
Just after the photo was taken, a little ghost in his early teens jumped into the yard and still had a lot of dust on his body. When this little ghost saw Xiao Jianguo and Yan Wenfang, he shouted happily: "Mom and Dad, why are you here?" I'm starving! ”
Xiao Ran looked at this little ghost in disbelief, this was not Xiao Ran when he was young at all, at most he was only slightly similar in appearance. Shocked, Xiao Ran suddenly remembered, could it be that because of his own variable, the real self does not exist in this world at all?
Sure enough, Xiao Jianguo patted the little ghost's head and introduced to Xiao Ran: "Xiao Ran, this is my son, his name is Xiao An." Xiao An, call uncle! ”
When Xiao An called Xiao Ran uncle, Xiao Ran's heart was shocked. Nothing has changed in the world, but the only thing that has changed automatically is this one. Xiao Jianguo no longer has Xiao Ran's son, but another son named Xiao An.
took a business card from An Yuxuan and handed it to Xiao Jianguo, Xiao Ran said quietly: "Mr. Xiao, if you have anything in the future, you can call me here." I forgot to tell you that I was in Hong Kong! ”
That's the end of it, and let's put an end to the whole thing! Xiao Ran said to himself secretly, now he and his parents are two worlds, maybe there is an intersection, but it is absolutely impossible to parallel. The only outcome can only be this......
Moreover, he didn't want to disturb his parents' lives, so he thought he was going out to travel by himself. It's like at the beginning, I haven't been home for a few years. It's just that this trip is a little special, it's a lifetime ......
Yan Wenfang looked at the figures that got into the car from a distance, but it was as if she only saw one of them, and a tear involuntarily flowed from the corner of her eye. After wiping it, she suddenly felt extremely strange: "Jianguo, I think this young man seems to know us, and I always feel as if I also know him, and I have a deep relationship!" ”
Xiao Jianguo's gaze never left Xiao Ran, until the car disappeared, he muttered to himself: "I feel the same way......"
;