At 21:00 Beijing time on September 3, a Boeing 777 bound for Los Angeles took off at the capital airport and began a 13-hour flight.

The business class is very quiet, and passengers are watching TV, playing on the computer, talking and resting in their seats. Ye Wei was thinking about things in the chair, from the evening of the 28th to now, his brain was a little empty in retrospect, but this trip was with a clear conscience.

The last two columns in the Los Angeles Times have written travelogues, and tomorrow, Sept. 4, a China travelogue has been written.

Two days ago, he personally wrote an English version of "Let the Baby Come Home" and put it on the English blog, and there were many inaccuracies in the previous translations by the Western media, and he annotated them, not wanting to be misinterpreted and used to create trouble.

It's nothing, he has always been in the left-wing camp, the film and television entertainment industry is generally left-wing, the more Stephen Corbay scolds the president, the more popular it becomes, and there are many circles in an industry, the Scientology gang is there, the "fat girl incident" will not affect the career, and the results of the movie will.

The next step is to set up a charitable foundation, and he pays for it, and the affairs are left to professionals such as lawyers in Salton, and CAA has this kind of service.

In fact, it is not just her own good deeds, Ye Wei learned that Rooney Mara visited the Kibera slum in the southwest of Nairobi as a volunteer a while ago, which is the largest slum in Africa and the second largest in the world. When he dated her, he said that he wanted to go to Kenya to see the crossing of the Mara River, and to visit orphans in the slums. She went first.

In any case, this young lady was also shocked to start a charitable business, and is starting her non-profit organization, which is to build a large orphanage in the slums of Kibera, which is planned to cover an area of 5-10 acres of land to provide housing, food and medical care for the orphans.

Now that it's time to raise money, Looney is preparing to host several charity auctions of memorabilia from the Giants and Steelers, and she invites him to attend and invite him to do it along.

"How about my agency call 'Faces-of-Kibera'?" Rooney asked him.

"What about Aru's face?" he asked.

He and her are a bit at odds, Rooney wants to save Kibera first, he wants to save Eru first, but his philanthropic focus is in China.

In a few days in Beijing, Ye Wei not only recorded programs, but also met with some people, things can be done, but there must be a long way to go.

Before the foundation was established, it had already received a lot of voluntary pledges from donations. There are both China and the United States, and Rooney has to donate money; Angelia Jolie has to donate money and adopt a fat girl, and it's good to have her to join, she has a lot of philanthropic power and experience; Amy texted her if there is anything she can do to help, like being an ambassador for the foundation? Forget it, Emmanu, only my brother is the ambassador.

There are also many enthusiastic people, and "Baby Home" is full of hope and will always help somewhat.

Ye Wei thought for a long time, looked at the beautiful flight attendant who walked by, and his thoughts stopped for a while and then thought about it.

The original travel plan was not completed, and I did not go to the Wolong Panda Base in Chengdu, and the photos of the giant pandas sniffing the lilies were naturally not taken. After the fat girl incident, he was really busy, and the short film "The World is a Lily" could only be made in a simple version.

The more he thought about it, the more he had an indescribable feeling. It's as if he has been in a sweet dream, and when he arrives in Africa, he is half awakened by those shocking shocks, and when he goes to China, he feels completely awakened from a sweet dream. He sees the real world of an idiot who is a horse.

Thousands of thoughts are entangled, and it seems that I have lost the ability to dream.

But there is a new understanding of Shelley's statement that "love and hunger rule the world", in which there is love, one's own hunger, and the hunger of others.

Although he used to be keen on charitable donations, he didn't do much charity activities, and the school's community services were treated with hip-hop. After he was not hungry, he rarely looked at the hunger of others, and this journey inspired him that he should see more and take care of more, otherwise he would not be qualified to speak of the world.

The earth is small, but the world is really big, and there are many things that can be done and have to be done, not just love, not just movies.

Cinema is a kind of telling, questioning, and sharing of feelings, not answers.

Thinking about it, Ye Wei has a sense of certainty, he has really become better and stronger, he gives the children strength, and the children also give him strength, with more dreams and a greater sense of responsibility. He likes it, but ......

Love is not a slave to time, nor is it a slave to hunger, it is not a slave to anything and everything. Love is love, and independence is there.

Does she like this better Ye Wei?

A face with thick eyebrows appeared in front of him, Ye Wei couldn't help but smile, I don't know what mood it is, it's been more than half a month since that rainy night, is she okay?

When I got back to Los Angeles, I went to find her.

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At 17:00 local time in Los Angeles on Sunday, September 3, a Boeing 777 from Beijing landed smoothly at Los Angeles International Airport.

According to the news of the return date learned from Ye Wei's blog, the paparazzi who had been staying at the airport for a long time entered a state of battle, and sure enough, Ye Wei appeared in the terminal with the passengers soon after. More than a dozen paparazzi walked up one after another, pressing the camera shutter and laughing: "VIY, welcome back!", "Well done!", "Your pictures are really good!"

Ye Wei was dressed in a gray long-sleeved T-shirt and jeans, dragging two large suitcases, carrying a canvas travel backpack, and walked calmly.

"Only, look over here!"

Jeff Fleet is an expert at shooting VIY, and many street photos and gossip photos are from his camera, and he was also given the middle finger up, which was Ye Wei and Lindsay Ellinson on a date.

It is said that Africa can change a person, but I haven't seen it for a while, and Friet also has the feeling that "VIY has changed" that is hotly discussed in the media, just like people like Bob Dylan, Sean Penn, James Dean, and John Lennon when they were young, this kind of strange mixture of mature and profound wisdom, literature, anger, rebellion, and Zen quietness is basically not found among young people today.

It's not that around 18-21 years old, like the Jonathan brothers who have become popular recently, 21-24 years old, 24-30 years old is difficult to see, 25-year-old Joseph Gordon Levitt is not good, it's not that type, 27-year-old Heath Ledger is close but not good.

Now these young men who grew up in the new century lack a mature conflict with the times, society, and the world, and they are too comfortable and have too little talent.

Fleet has long photographed that kind of conflict from Ye Wei, and today it is even clearer, this 18-year-old genius prodigal son is like a cultural idol who came out of the old era.

"VIY, what do you say?", "Talk about those polar bears?", "Talk about your charity?" the paparazzi said.

Ye Wei didn't say anything, and walked directly past them.

The dog team continued to follow the outside of the terminal until Ye Wei got into an RV that came to pick him up, which was another car that VIY had.

......

When he returned to Brentwood's home, it was already past six o'clock, the RV stopped in the driveway outside the lawn in the front yard, Ye Wei had just gotten out of the car, Toto was the first to pounce on him excitedly, and Duoduo almost at the same time, laughed happily and shouted: "Brother, have you gone to climb the Great Wall? Brother! What delicious food did you buy back?"

"Hahaha! Of course there is!" Ye Weiyi picked up Duoduo and lifted it high, she was healthy, lively and happy, innocent, it was really good.

His parents were looking at him with a smile, and his father suddenly praised: "Son, you really make me proud." Mom nodded, her face full of relief, for a woman who became a full-time housewife within a few years after graduating from college, the child is her life.

Ye Wei said that he didn't lie when he learned "A Thousand Words" at the age of 2, he was devastated by his mother's education when he was a child, and his mother had a "super baby" plan that combined Chinese and Western. He always felt that this led to his later rebellious mentality, and after Duoduo was born, it was better.

No, Xiaozi seems to have really grown, and my mother must be happy.

The whole family worked together to carry the luggage and laughed all the way to the living room of the house. Duoduo excitedly circled around the two suitcases, expecting some gifts, apparently she traveled to China and received the same treatment as he did when he was a child, as if she had arrived in the ideal country in the hearts of the Beat faction.

"Gift time!" Dad cheered, and opened the gift box with Duoduo, and Toto joined in the fun.

The smiling mother finally spoke: "However, my mother is very proud." He shrugged, "I didn't do much. Mom laughed again and said, "It's a lot at your age." Mom doesn't have to worry about you anymore. ”

"I don't believe it. Ye Wei smiled when he heard this, "I will be verbosed by you for the rest of my life, you are a mother." ”

"Then I'll take care of you, charity has to be done, but don't delay your youth. But my mother said, "Youth is only once, what you have to do is enjoy it." Your father and I have suffered a lot just so that you and Duoduo can live more easily and don't be so tired. ”

Ye Wei couldn't help but look at his mother with amusement, "Mom, you're so funny, you asked me not to play when I played, and you let me play again when I stopped playing, like this since I was a child!"

Mom patted him on the shoulder without saying anything, and went to open the gift together.

"Duoduo, you are so beautiful. "The father put on a string of Kenyan colorful beads on his precious daughter, and the flowers danced with their hands.

"It's called the Marseille Beads. Ye Wei said with a smile, and introduced them to a lot of gifts, so he walked upstairs with his backpack, "Relatives, I'll go back to the room first, I have something to hurry." ”

The three people in the gift carnival said, "Go, go." Toto followed him.

Coming to the bedroom on the second floor, Ye Wei used a desktop computer to copy a DVD of the short film "The World is a Lily", although it was different from the script at the beginning, but it was not bad to be simple. Poetry is not good, gifts are not good, singing is not good, excuses are not good, as a filmmaker, this is the housekeeping skill at the bottom of the box, I hope Bojia can laugh.

He took his phone and sent a text message to Lily: "Hey, are you home? I've come back from a trip and have a gift for you." ”

There is a terrible fact, this is the first time in more than two months to text her, and I don't know if she was blacklisted.

Looking at the screen of his mobile phone, Ye Wei felt that his heart was tight, stuffy, sour, and painful...... I didn't feel the same as before, as if I hadn't been on that journey.

After a long time, the phone suddenly rang with a wonderful ding-dong, and Lily replied! He quickly opened it to check, and it was really! I saw a text message saying, "Thank you." ”

Thank you? What do you mean, can I find you? Ye Wei was puzzled for a moment, and then shouted with joy: "This is it!" I am embarrassed to say that I am a master of picking up girls, of course I can! A girl hesitates to have a chance, she doesn't say "NO" is equal to "YES", and you are not on the blacklist!

I said, good people have good rewards, haha! She likes me.

Just as her heart was as comfortably active as dry grass watered, a new text message came to her phone: "I'm not home." Don't go to my house, be careful of the paparazzi, just go to the north corner of your house and give the gift to my nanny, thank you. Don't get me wrong. ”

Don't get me wrong? Don't get me wrong, "I'm not accepting you, it's just etiquette," or don't get me wrong, "I'm not rejecting you, I'm just going to do it now"?

The former is more likely. Ye Wei frowned, she didn't ask me where to find her, nor did she explain, no matter where she was at home or where, she didn't want to see me. So...... She didn't hate me as much as she used to, and maybe had a good impression that "he helped some of the kids", but she didn't like me like to get back together.

No matter, when she receives this gift, the scoundrel rascal confesses again, she will give an answer.

Ye Wei put the copied DVD into a brown paper sleeve, wrote "To-Lily" and "V" with a black marker, and walked out of the room with it.

The sky was still bright, there were no paparazzi, he walked to the north corner of the street, waited for a while, and handed the gift to Madeleine, who was driving there, without asking about Lily's current condition, and let Madeleine go with a few words of greeting.

"It's been delivered, and you must take it apart today. Ye Wei sent a text message to Lily.

"Thank you. After a while, she replied again.

All right. Ye Wei walked away, walked on the clean street, looked at the large high-end residences on both sides, and some people had children playing on the lawn in the front yard, and there were bursts of laughter, such a beautiful community was too emotional.

When it comes to the old place of Sunset Boulevard, nothing changes.

A thought arose, and he walked to a street bush, and on August 14 he found the message plane still there, untouched.

Now I can't see who picked it up in the bushes? Is it her?

Ye Wei's heart jumped a little, but as soon as he looked carefully, his heart suddenly sank, and he saw that the paper airplane had fallen into the depths of the bushes. He picked it up and looked at it, as if it hadn't been opened, because it was almost rotting into a small ball of paper when it was watered and wet.

He silently and gently dismantled the paper airplane, and there was no added text on either side of the paper, and the words he wrote were blurred, and the original appearance could not be seen clearly.