Chapter 60: Cruel, but Beautiful
There is only one photo inside.
A woman, crushed under the tires by a heavy truck, dragged with deep, red blood all the way out of the frame.
The woman's body is blurred with flesh and blood, just looking at the tragic situation of the photo, she knows that she will definitely not be able to save her, her beautiful eyes look effortlessly at a certain point outside the camera, with unwillingness and longing, lined with shocking bloodstains under her, which is heartbreaking. Lu Shifeng was shocked by the photo, and he remembered that his sister was also taken two years ago, and such a near-death photo was taken, which recorded the deepest despair and pain of human beings. And the woman in the photo in front of her, the sadness in her eyes was even deeper than that of his sister.
He couldn't bear to look at it anymore after just one glance, turned his head, and asked Su Xingyu with his eyes.
Su Xingyu took a deep breath and said with some difficulty: "This is my mother, my biological mother, Mu Yun." When I was five years old, she was in a car accident and I watched her get swept under the tires of the big truck and dragged long distances before ......."
Her voice choked and she pressed her finger to the corner of her eye.
"What is this picture?" Lu Shifeng asked.
"I filmed it." Su Xingyu was quiet before he continued in a low voice, "I didn't want to show you, because my mother is my dearest person in this world...... Even if she's dead. She didn't want to show this bloody past in front of someone who wasn't very close, and let a man who had hurt her deeply judge her. However, today, when he stood up to protect her from being bullied, she suddenly felt that maybe they should try to communicate again, he ...... It's not for nothing.
She stroked the old photo little by little with her pale and slender fingers, the yellowed corners curled slightly, and were flattened little by little under her delicate caressing: "After the car stopped, I rushed over and cried and begged her not to die, she looked at me weakly, moved her fingers to touch me, but she couldn't exert any strength at all. I grabbed her hand and called Mommy......
Probably back to the light, she actually made a little noise. She told me that she had a cell phone in her pocket and asked me to take a picture of her at that time. She said that she loved me, and there were too many things to say to me, so I would look at the photos when I thought about her in the future, and those words that I didn't have time to say were in the photos. ”
Su Xingyu's low voice echoed in the quiet air.
Lu Shifeng frowned slightly, he couldn't imagine that this miserable death photo actually came from like this. He didn't understand: "How could anyone leave such a horrible picture to their children?" ”
"Is it scary?" Su Xingyu's eyes were slightly red, and his voice was low and slow, "It's terrifying." But there is a kind of love that will not be erased - Lu Shifeng, even at such a terrible time, even at the end of her life, her eyes always say that she still loves the world and me. No matter how great the pain was, the light in her eyes never extinguished. ”
Lu Shifeng was silent, he didn't expect Su Xingyu to say such a thing.
All he saw was a horrific picture, and what she saw was the endless tenderness and longing in the eyes of the dying woman.
He took the yellowed photograph from her hand, looked at it carefully, and indeed, although half of the woman's body was almost crushed into mud by the truck, her eyes were so gentle that no amount of pain could cover the light.
Is this a mother's love?
"This photo has accompanied me through many difficult days and nights." Su Xingyu spoke again, "Whenever I am bullied, I think of my mother...... I still love my mother in such a desperate and painful situation, and I have the courage to face the world again. I love her and I love photography, and I want to pass on that glimmer of light for her. ”
Lu Shifeng seemed to understand something: "So the photo of Shi Yin before she died is not the first time you have taken a near-death person?" ”
Su Xingyu nodded and looked into his eyes: "Lu Shifeng, my mother left a photo for me before she died, so I think there may be many people who hope to see the last side of their relatives." Even if that side is miserable, there must be something to say in their eyes, to tell the living not to despair of the world. ”
Lu Shifeng was silent again.
Even if he closes his eyes, he can recall the photo of his sister before she died, so vivid, every detail is clear. In the eyes of her sister, there is also a desire for life, even at the last moment, she still loves the world, maybe she is saying, although the world is very dangerous and terrifying, but, it is still nostalgic......
"Lu Shifeng," Su Xingyu's voice was very soft, "Believe me, I didn't take a picture of your sister out of malice. At that time, I had no idea that she was your sister, and more likely, she was just an ordinary person, an insignificant girl from an ordinary working family or even a smaller family. Her family will not have the ability to investigate the cause of death and seek justice like you, and under the cover of various public opinions, they may not even know how their loved one died, so this photo will become the only truth. They're going to need this picture. ”
He whispered, "No, I don't need to. ”
Lu Shiyin's scene before he died was like a thorn in his heart, and when he touched it slightly, it hurt a lot.
Su Xingyu looked straight at him with a pair of clear eyes: "If this photo is placed in front of you and you choose to look at it or not, will you really choose not to look at it?" ”
Lu Shifeng pursed his lips, he died outside of his relatives, but he was not at the scene, if there was a photo, how could he not look at it?
I'm afraid that every loved one will make the same choice as him.
Su Xingyu smiled bitterly: "Look, no one can resist this last farewell." ”
Lu Shifeng looked at her for a long time, and his originally cold and hard expression gradually softened: "So, you didn't take this photo out of cold blood?" ”
She shook her head.
He still looked at her: "Isn't it because sensational photos bring fame and fortune?" ”
She shook her head again, feeling incredulous: "Lu Shifeng, why do you think so?" Don't forget whose daughter I am - Mu Yun. My mom is the only Chinese woman who has ever won the World Photography Association Lifetime Achievement Award, and as long as I report her name, it will be effortless to get the attention of the world, and I can use it to put photos in a vest on the Internet? ”
Lu Shifeng was slightly stunned, only then did he realize that he was blinded by hatred, and he had ignored this problem all along. Indeed, the late famous photographer Mu Yun's only beloved daughter, this identity alone can make her receive much more attention than now.
He finally listened to her.
"So, Lu Shifeng," she looked up at him pleadingly, "let me go photographing, okay?" ”