Chapter 101: Bucket List

The city of Huaibei, which has not sunny, was generously sprinkled with sunshine on Saturday.

The small county town wrapped in the sun has finally warmed up a lot.

At 1:40 in the afternoon, there were already a lot of people standing at the entrance of the movie theater, and when Lin Wanwan and I arrived at the door of the movie theater together, we saw Lao Zhang holding a thick stack of movie tickets and becoming the ticket seller of our class.

Seeing us, Lao Zhang Le handed over the movie ticket: "You can choose the position for a while." ”

"Haole, thank you Lao Zhang!"

I got my ticket, looked down and was stunned.

This is not an ordinary movie ticket!

I exclaimed: "Lao Zhang, this can't be your own design, right?" ”

Lao Zhang's face was proud: "How is it, am I very omnipotent?" ”

The movie ticket is a small boxy white card, with the three words "movie ticket" printed on the top, the date below, and the name of each of us... Such a special movie ticket is very memorable, and Lao Zhang really worked hard.

We couldn't help but give Lao Zhang a thumbs up.

After all the students arrived, we stood neatly in two long columns under the guidance of Lao Zhang. It simply occupies half of this movie theater.

Lao Zhang stood at the front and led us into it one by one.

The lights in the theater were a little dim, and we went in and started to choose our preferred location.

After Lin Wanwan and I sat together, I looked around, and a classmate wanted to sit next to me, so I quickly took a seat: "I'm sorry, there's someone here!" ”

Lin Wanwan glanced at me: "Tsk..."

Seeing the figure of the promise, I quickly stood up and waved.

When he saw me, he walked up to me and sat down next to me: "Good, you will help me take a place." ”

"Hee-hee." I laughed, "Of course! ”

Hu Lai looked at Lin Wanwan sourly beside him: "Then why don't you help me occupy a position!" ”

Lin Wan glanced at him: "There are so many empty spaces here!" ”

Hu Lai dragged to the position next to Lin Wanwan: "Classmate Liu, move it?" ”

Liu glanced at Hu Lai, and then reluctantly gave up his position.

"Are you a dog skin plaster, sticking to me wherever you go?" Lin Wanwan looked at Hu Lai and said.

"Uh-huh." Hulai nodded, "I'm your little tail!" ”

"Ahh I'm going to throw up! Lin Wanwan and I spoke in unison.

Hulay shrugged disapprovingly.

Before the movie started, an ad for brain platinum was playing on the screen in front of it.

"There will be no gifts for the holidays this year, only brain platinum will be accepted for gifts!"

This ad has been a classic for many years...

We sat upright in our seats, talking to each other, and we were a little excited, because we had never seen a movie together as a class.

"Ready? The movie is about to begin. Lao Zhang's voice drowned out our hustle and bustle.

"Smack!"

After the lights in the cinema went out, everyone waited with bated breath and the whole theater was silent.

With the familiar music at the beginning of the movie, I saw four words appear on the screen.

The Bucket List.

At the beginning of the movie, it touches on a topic that we must face but are willing to face, that is, death.

The protagonists of the movie are two old men, one is Carter, a black mechanic, who doesn't talk much, is erudite, and dreams of being a history professor.

The other is the billionaire Edward, a grumpy but very humorous man.

Because of cancer, they were admitted to the same ward.

They witnessed each other's sickness and suffering.

They joked with each other, hurt each other, talked about each other's families, talked about their own thoughts, talked about death, and they went from mutual rejection at the beginning to sympathy for each other later.

Edward stumbled upon a note from Carter recording his unfulfilled wishes, and when the doctor told him that he had six months left, they made their bucket list and embarked on a grand trip of all.

Skydiving, driving a sports car, getting tattoos, looking at pyramids, going to China, having sex and more...

Their wish list is completed one by one, and each item is crossed out.

Eventually, Carter's illness suddenly worsened and he died during surgery at the age of 66.

Edward eventually died at the age of 81.

The ashes of the two men were buried in the Himalayas, and finally the wish list of the two people came to an end.

At the end of the movie, watching the last conversation between the two old men, someone in the theater began to sob.

We can empathize more, probably thinking of the old man, and now I finally understand the meaning of Lao Zhang taking us to watch a movie.

At the end of the movie, everyone fell into deep thought, the lights came on, and everyone was still sitting upright, and no one got up.

Lao Zhang walked slowly to the screen and asked us, "Do you understand?" ”

Seeing that we were silent, Lao Zhang continued: "You are still a group of big children in my heart, although I don't want you to grow up and face some things outside the ivory tower, but unfortunately, those things are something that each of us will experience, sooner or later, no one will be spared." ”

We listened quietly to Lao Zhang, but when I heard him say that he didn't want us to grow up, I burst into tears.

"Come on, let's speak freely and talk about what we think after watching the movie."

After Lao Zhang said this, he stood quietly aside and waited for us to speak.

After waiting for a while, one after another people stood up and spoke.

"I think those two old people are very brave, it's not that they are not afraid of death, but they are brave enough to face it even if they are afraid."

"I like Edward so much, and he kissed his granddaughter at the end was so touching, I was about to cry..."

"yes, I also saw it here, and tears came out..."

Everyone spoke one after another, I don't know who said it, I think the old man, we were silent again.

I think every one of us thinks of the old man.

Lao Zhang waited for us to finish speaking, saw that we all bowed our heads and did not speak, and then said to us: "Look, in fact, death is not as terrible as we think, right?" It's not like we can't do nothing. And I believe that the old man's mentality is also like this, he will spend his old age very happily, we believe in him, and we want to bless him. ”

I have to admit that Lao Zhang used another movie to heal us.

This is what makes Lao Zhang different from other teachers, and this is what I like most about Lao Zhang.

The old man had been away from us for two weeks, and we continued to eat at and from class every day, as if nothing had changed.

We still get first place in our grade in math, and we don't talk about how our class is doing.

The clover at school is getting better and better, and I think there must be a lot of new four-leaf clovers growing in that place.

And I hope the old man can always be fine.