Volume II 18: Farewell and Beginning

After not seeing each other for three years, Chen Ruifeng wanted to have a good meal with Chen Xue, but someone recognized him, and the two had to settle lunch in a hurry, and then he directly pulled people into the car - and went home together. Chen Ruifeng talked about his past three years in the car, filming, working, charging, and took on a big feature at the beginning of this year, and his agent Brother Hua asked him to find a trustworthy person to follow him. "So......" Chen Xue seemed to understand his intentions.

"My personal assistant!" Of course, this is only one of his intentions, and the most important thing is to crutch people!!

In the evening, the seedlings are green, the cooking smoke is curling, the frogs begin to croak, the rhubarb of the neighbor next door follows the master with the steps of the 'old dragon clock', the coat on its body has already turned white, and Chen's father and Chen's mother, who are busy with their own one-acre and three-point land, went home early. Chen Ruifeng remembered himself seven years ago, as if time was far away like the previous life, when the eldest brother was still there, the two worked together in the rice field, Xiaoyu helped harvest the rice, Chen's father's waist was not as rickety as it is now, Chen's mother's hair was not white, although the family was poor, everyone was around......

Clouds and mist rise in the mountains in the distance, the afterglow of the sunset on the horizon has not yet dissipated, the nose is the unique fishy smell of the soil, the birds that return late are trying their best to flutter their wings and go home, the fields in the fields are only planted with rice in the gentle terrain, most of the fields that need to spend more energy on the mountainside have been deserted, overgrown with weeds, most of the fields of Chen Ruifeng's family are in the middle of the mountainside, Chen's father and Chen's mother's body has long been unable to bear more physical labor, Chen Xue did not let the second old man plant the year before last.

Time is a knife, which seems to have sharpened everything to the point of losing its original appearance, but it seems to portray some things more profoundly, his feelings for Xiaoyu, and her thoughts about her eldest brother.

There were sacrifices and flowers in the bamboo basket carried by Chen Xue, Chen Ruifeng carried a hoe on one shoulder and a firewood knife in the other, and both of them changed into black clothes and black pants. In three years, the trees and thorns on the mountain grew deeper and denser, and Chen Ruifeng relied on the route in his memory to wield a firewood knife and try to make one easier for Chen Xue to walk. "It's wrong, it's this way." Chen Xue saw that he was deviating from the route and immediately stopped him. "Xiaoyu, how did you get in before?" The miscellaneous trees and thorns in front of him gave him a headache, and the back of his hand had just been cut, and the wound was oozing blood, and the stinging pain was stabbing. Chen Xue put down the bamboo basket, rummaged through the weeds and found a few round green leaves, crushed them and applied them to Chen Ruifeng's wound, asking him to hold them down first and then find them...... Nothing else, just a plastic bag, bandaged. "Go home and re-bandage again." "Xiaoyu, do you remember?" Chen Ruifeng looked at the person in front of him happily, she cut herself seven years ago when she didn't know how to scythe, and it was the herb he went to find to stop the bleeding.

Chen Xue ignored him, lifted the bamboo basket and bent down to demonstrate drilling into the bushes. "I'm all in there." It's just that Chen Ruifeng, who is tall and tall, suffers a little, but fortunately, the grave of the eldest brother is not far away.

"If you have great strength, use a hoe." Chen Xue took the firewood knife, "Remember how to use a hoe." Xiang Chen Ruifeng raised his eyebrows, "Naturally! "Chen Xue cleaned up his grandfather's grave, and Chen Ruifeng cleaned up his grandmother and eldest brother. Half an hour later, both of them were disgraced and out of breath, sitting on the weeds they had cleared out to rest, "Xiaoyu, you have worked hard for the past seven years!" "Every year on the death day of the eldest brother, I am not at home, and I feel extremely depressed when I think about it.

Chen Xue got up and went to arrange the offerings and flowers, wiped the eldest brother's tombstone with a towel, and emptied the place where the paper money was to be burned. "You can talk to your eldest brother." She took out two handfuls of paper money to burn for her grandparents.

Chen Ruifeng walked over, asked for a pillar of incense, took out paper money and lit it, one after another, the fire shone on his face, and his eyes were full of solemnity. "Big brother, I'm back, I have a lot to say to you...... 'The tombstone is engraved with the words 'The Tomb of Ruiwen, the son of the Chen family' and the year of birth and death, and his name is engraved behind Xiaoyu's name, he knows that this is what the eldest brother wants, because she is his lover. 'I made a movie the year before last, called "Killing the Way", I played a fool, the director liked me very much, and it was screened in cinemas across the country last year and sold a lot of money. At the beginning of the year, I took on another drama, which is a costume drama, wearing robes, like in Jin Yong's martial arts novels, the kind that flies around in the sky and fights, there are forty or fifty episodes long, and it takes more than half a year to shoot, and I will take more scenes in the future...... ' He stared at the tombstone and stopped, took a deep breath, and said the next thing to his eldest brother for the first time.

So...... I want Xiaoyu to help me, she is the only person I can trust, and she is also ...... Someone I like. He was separated from Xiaoyu for seven years, during which he thought one thing clearly, he wanted to be accompanied by her every seven years in the future. I missed her every day of the seven years I've been away from home...... Big brother, don't scold me, if you don't leave, I'll rot this heart in my stomach, but...... Xiaoyu will be left to me to take care of, I will definitely do your trust (eldest brother gave Chen Ruifeng a dream). ’

Chen's father and Chen's mother looked at the photo album specially prepared by Chen Ruifeng, most of them were photos from the filming of "Killing Path", and the others were photos from school, class, and rehearsals, Chen Xue stood by and watched very seriously. Chen Ruifeng took out a bank card from his wallet and put it in front of Chen's father and Chen's mother.

"There are fifty thousand dollars in the card. It's not a lot, wait for the son to get the second salary and then transfer more, father, mother, you two old people take good care of yourself at home, take care of your body, and your son can go all out to fight for his career outside, and strive to take you to the provincial capital next year for the elderly. Dad Chen saw a firm will in his eyes, "Has Xiaoyu decided?" Chen's father asked Chen Xue, now he regards her as his daughter, and it has been because of her that this family has not been dispersed in the past few years. Hearing that she was going to go to the big city with her youngest son, she was very reluctant, and she also left, leaving him and his wife in the house. "I'm still thinking about it." Chen Ruifeng asked her with his eyes, didn't he refuse in the afternoon?

"Mom and Dad, I'll talk to Chen Ruifeng alone."

"Good! You make your own decisions about this matter, and your mother and I will listen to you. ”

The round moon hung in the sky, and the silver light shone down to illuminate the road ahead, and it was past nine o'clock in the evening. Chen Ruifeng followed Chen Xue out, he knew that this was the way to the back mountain, the place he loved to go to before, and the eldest brother was still alive at that time......

Chen Xue sat down on the swing, which she made this year, and the swing that the eldest brother installed also fell apart with his departure. "Seven years ago, I asked you why you didn't apply to a university in Beijing, but you scored more than 600 points in the exam but chose a normal film major, why? Do you remember how you answered? Chen Xue often regretted not fulfilling his eldest brother's wishes, and if he had talked more about his heart and understood his thoughts more at that time, it might have been a different result now.

Chen Ruifeng sat down on the stone table beside her, "Of course I haven't forgotten." "And now?" "What?"

"Are you just an actor for the money?" Chen Xue supported the ground with one foot, and slowly swayed with the help of her own strength, and a few ginkgo biloba leaves fell with it, and Chen Ruifeng picked it up. There is a high probability that the chance of coming back in the future is getting less and less, so pick up a few more pieces!

"On the day of the completion of "Killing Path", Director Xie said to me that I am very talented, and there is a kind of 'pain' in me that is very attractive, although I laugh at everyone, but I am very distant from everyone...... Director Xie told me not to give up being an actor. ”

"So what?" "It's a great sense of accomplishment to turn a work from words into a video and to play out the characters written by the author. "Killing Road" was filmed for more than half a year, and I lost more than 20 pounds...... When I was shooting, I really wanted to run away. However, when I went to the cinema last year to see the finished product, it felt amazing...... I don't think I chose to be an actor just because I had a lot of money. ”

"Of course, mainly because of the money."