Chapter 59: Short Story: The Guitar (2)
"Do you like to do something? I love playing the guitar the most, and my dream is to become a maestro and travel around the world. ”
"Someone you like? Mom, dad and brother, of course! ”
"I'm not God, I can't decide the fate of my loved ones, but I can decide my own fate."
"You have to live well."
This is a short family story of the micro-science fiction type.
The setting is the same as "Change", the protagonists are still a pair of brothers and sisters.
The rhythm of the whole story is very tight, basically a line to the end, there is almost no daily life, and it belongs to the writing of a very traditional royal short story.
At the beginning of the story, my sister is going to attend the school's theatrical evening and play the guitar at the party.
The night before, my sister was rehearsing in my brother's room, listening to my sister's playing, and my brother smiled and said you have to come on.
However, the next night, the school reported the death of her sister - while her sister was playing, the chandelier on the stage fell and hit her sister's head right in the head, killing her on the spot.
After the funeral, the older brother came to his sister's room and stroked her belongings, the ochre-colored little guitar.
Thinking back to the past years, every night in his sister's room, there would be a melodious guitar sound, and he couldn't help but be grief-stricken.
At this time, my sister's voice came from behind me.
The elder brother looked back in surprise, unable to believe his eyes.
Looking at the time again, it turned out that the night before he returned to school to play, he was in his sister's room at this time, listening to his sister's rehearsal.
Although he didn't know what was going on, his brother was happy and determined to save his sister's life.
The next day, he went to his sister's school, communicated with the school authorities, asked them to inspect the stage facilities, and came to the site in person to confirm the safety issues.
After doing all this, my brother went home with peace of mind.
However, in the evening, the news of my sister's death still came from the school.
This time, my sister was walking on the stone steps of the school after the party and accidentally rolled down and hit her head.
After the funeral, the older brother came to his sister's room again, stroked his sister's guitar, and remembered the past of the two.
At this time, my sister's voice came from behind me.
My sister came back to life again.
Now my brother understood that as long as he touched his sister's guitar after the incident, he could go back to the night before playing.
The older brother decides to save his sister's life no matter what.
The next day, my brother came to the scene in person and escorted my sister home from school.
However, this time, the younger sister still did not escape the fate of death - on the way home, suddenly a truck sped out and took her sister's life.
After the funeral, the older brother stroked his sister's guitar again and returned to the night before the incident.
This time, the elder brother not only escorted his sister all the way, but bypassed that road on the way home, and the two returned home safely.
However, late that night, a thief came to the house, and the thief stabbed his sister to death with a dagger, and this time even his mother and father were implicated and seriously injured.
My brother was back the night before the performance......
In this way, my brother tried to save his sister's life again and again.
However, the situation got worse and worse every time, and even later, my sister encountered terrorists on the subway, and the entire subway station died in the explosion.
The older brother finally understands that he may never be able to save his sister's life.
Not only will it not be able to save, but it will implicate more innocent people.
My brother went back to the night before the performance.
Looking at his sister's serious appearance when she threw herself into playing, he couldn't help but ask, "Is there anything else you like to do?" ”
The desperate brother has given up on the idea of saving his sister, and only wants to meet his sister's request as much as possible on the last day of her life.
"Do you like to do something?"
My sister thought for a moment, then replied with a smile.
"I love playing the guitar the most, and my dream is to become a music guru and travel around the world."
The elder brother asked again, "Do you have anyone else you like?" ”
"Someone you like? Mom, dad and brother, of course! ”
Looking at his sister's innocent and lovely smile, my brother made up his mind in his heart.
The next night, news came from the school that my sister had been hit in the head by a chandelier while she was playing.
It seems that things are still moving in the same direction.
Seeing this, readers may frown slightly, because as I said before, the story is very compact, and the whole article is a scene-based description, and I am very impressed when I read it in one breath, and I can see a very clear backbone of the story, which is the plot of the elder brother saving his sister through various methods.
Such a story, if it goes to this kind of ending, will definitely be applauded.
However...... Is that really the case?
As the creator of the story, of course Su Li will not write a story that does not meet expectations, and the novel must have a reversal, otherwise it will not touch the reader.
The story ends here, and it will soon come to an end.
After the news of his sister's death came, Su Li would use a montage to write again-
While the family is receiving their bad luck, the news of a well-known guitar artist coming to parade is on TV.
Playing the guitar is my sister's favorite thing to do.
My sister's funeral took place as scheduled.
At the funeral, my sister appeared in a black outfit.
Hey, isn't my sister dead?
The answer was soon revealed.
Su Li uses a flashback technique here.
It turned out that before the performance was held, the elder brother came backstage, knocked the elated sister unconscious, put on her clothes, and performed in her place.
"I'm not God, I can't decide the fate of others, but I can decide my own fate."
The elder brother muttered to himself and resolutely went on stage.
He tried his best to imitate his sister's demeanor, and because the two were twins and looked very similar, he could easily replace his sister's identity and not be seen by others.
Therefore, everyone in the world thinks that it is my sister who performs on stage.
So, the chandelier fell and killed my brother.
"You have to live well."
This is the end of the story.
Throughout the morning, Su Li was unprecedented, and did not listen carefully to the teacher's class, but secretly spent all his energy on creation.
Because, the inspiration for this story comes from reality - that's right, the prototype is Su Li and Su Qingqing.
The novel is essentially an interweaving of reality and fantasy, and he turns this fantasy into enthusiasm and puts it into the whole story.
He fantasized that the elder brother in the text was himself, and the younger sister in the text was Su Qingqing.
He fantasized that one day, if something like this happened to his sister, he would step up and throw himself into the action to save her again and again.
He fantasized about whether he would have the courage to die in place of his sister at the end of the story.
The fate of others may be predestined by God, those who should fail will still fail, those who should die will still die, and no one can interfere with the fate of others.
However, if you are surrounded by important people who encounter something that is "destined by God......
Can you make the decision to substitute your own fate for the fate of someone else you value?