Jiang You took two cloves of garlic and handed them to Meng Yueyuan, who was pouring noodles into his bowl, and said, "Old Meng, have you been eating so little?" ”

Meng Yuyuan is very tall, with a large skeleton, unkempt hair and beard, sharp eyes, not angry and arrogant, but he eats very little at every meal.

Just like the oily meat noodles in front of him, he only needs half a bowl and then mixes one-third of the toppings.

Meng Yuyuan took the garlic, held one clove of garlic in the palm of his hand, the two joints were thick, and the fingers with no meat pinched the other clove of garlic and bit half of it, sucked a mouthful of noodles, picked up the meat, and put it into Jiang You's bowl, saying: "The measure of more and less depends on whether you think it is enough." ”

Jiang You pursed his lips and asked him curiously, "Why did Meng Shi keep saying that you sent it?" What did you do to hurt God? ”

He got along with Meng Yue Yuan during this time, and felt that Lao Meng was okay.

The relationship between the husband and wife broke down and divorced, and Meng Shi followed his mother, so that he would not send Meng Yueyuan such words every day.

Meng Yuyuan didn't know what it meant, but in combination with the context, he also knew that this meant death, put down his chopsticks, and said, "Why don't you ask him?" ”

"I asked if it was inappropriate...... Jiang You unnaturally pulled the garlic on the table and said, "I finally got him to release me from the blacklist last time I went to see "The Band......"

Meng Yuyuan raised his eyelids, "Something that doesn't make a difference." ”

Jiang You hehehe

After he finished eating noodles, he asked for a bowl of mutton soup, The boss took a small bowl and gave Meng Yueyuan a bowl of clear soup, this person is over half a hundred years old and is still picky eaters, and does not eat coriander.

It is hard for Jiang You to imagine that a person who has lived in the northwest for twenty years does not eat coriander.

"There are more people than you think."

Jiang You took off his hat and scarf and looked at the screening hall where he was sitting on the seventh or eighth floor.

When I watched "Spring River Plumbing" at noon, there were less than forty percent of the seats in the huge screening hall.

You must know that "Spring River Plumbing" is much bigger than "Flowing Summer".

Before the screening of the movie, the main creators came several times, and the opening interaction lasted for about ten minutes.

Gu Xiaogang, the director of "Spring River Plumbing", was born in 1988 and is 31 years old this year, a native of Fuyang, Hangzhou.

This film is Gu Xiaogang's feature-length debut, and it is also the "Volume One" work he plans to create a long-scroll film called "A Thousand Miles of Jiangdong" trilogy.

The film began to write the script in 2016 and was filmed until March 2019, which lasted three years.

Prior to the festival, it received praise at its premiere in France in January, with a very high average score of 4.3 out of 5 given by the French press, and a four-star rating from the Cinémathèque at the time.

At the same time, it is also the closing film of the 72nd Cannes International Film Festival and the 58th Film Critics' Week.

Before that, "Liuxia", except for uploading it to the beep station and then deleting it, it was blank and had no popularity.

Jiang You sat down next to Meng Yueyuan, and said softly, "I heard that the threshold of this film festival is low, and every year, a few up who do film reviews come to brush up on their qualifications, and some of these people are probably fans of Meng Shi, and the other part is fans of those up masters, in fact, I have seen a little bit of this film at the beep station before, and I feel rustic, so I didn't watch it......"

"Here we go."

Meng Yueyuan glanced at him, and Jiang You chose to shut up very interestingly.

After sitting for about ten seconds, I couldn't help but take out my mobile phone and muttered, "How can it be so fast......"

Before the words fell, the lights dimmed and the screen lit up.

It opens with a sturdy back in a vest facing a round dining table.

He took the chopsticks and pulled the fish bones in front of him and the rice grains that fell on the table into the bowl, got up and put the bowl on the stove, unscrewed the faucet above the sink, and directly put his mouth over, after pouring a few sips, he opened the curtain hanging on the door to prevent mosquitoes, made a few grunts and poofs in his mouth, lowered his head and sprayed water on the ground, and then picked up the striped long-sleeved shirt on the laundry table, and wore it as he walked.

The clothes are a little dirty, not that they have not been washed, but that the color has been dulled after being washed and faded.

It was a row of connected buildings, and the man went to the right and opened the door of a half-man-high fence next to it.

This gate is used to keep out chickens, and under the two persimmon trees there is a one-person high chicken house, and next to the chicken house is an old house with a sense of history.

"Eh, what about the pigsty, I remember that there is a pigsty behind the persimmon tree, oh, this is before Wen Tong went, and the pigsty has not been covered yet."

Jiang You often watches Wen Tong's videos, and he is quite familiar with this realm, so he can't help but muttered again.

There was a girl in the front row, who glared back at him, and he closed his mouth in mockery.

The camera follows the sturdy back all the way to the hall of the old mansion.

There is a pile of gray tiles in the hall.

The middle-aged man walked through the hall without stopping, crossed the threshold almost ten centimeters high, passed a large mahogany bed, walked past the old-fashioned firewood stove, opened the back door, and shouted to the bamboo forest behind: "Liu Xia, Liu Xia!" ”

"What, what, what."

There were three voices in the bamboo forest.

"Come here, I have something to tell you."

Three little boys ran out of the bamboo forest.

The leader is a Liu Xia wearing yellow short sleeves, camouflage shorts, and a safety buckle worn with a red rope around his neck, thin and black, with hair like a hedgehog.

This is a long shot that has been following the sturdy back, explaining the time, place, and people, and the pile of tiles also explains what to do next.

But this dialogue and what happened did not happen together, but the product of Lu Chengkang's editing.

Because when Chen Zhufeng asked Liu Xia to come over to help, he was unloading the old tiles on the roof with Meng Shi, and the camera was in Xiao Jue's hand.

After Lu Chengkang got the materials taken by Meng Shi, he cut out the picture where Meng Shi appeared, completely downplaying his existence.

This is also why Meng Shiming knew that writing the names of Lu Chengkang and Lu Duancun as screenwriters and editors owed them a great favor, and it was also the reason why he still insisted on it when he was criticized and questioned.

Lu Duancun once said that Meng Shi wrote their names on them, and they did not object, but if there were no good works in the future, he should be prepared to bear the backlash.

Imagine Chen Kaige's "Farewell My Concubine", there is no trace of his father Chen Huaihao in the whole film, but as his works fail to reach that height, there are now consequences of constant doubts.

Meng Shi gave Mai Zi "Blue Lotus", and what Mai Zi has now inherited is just a bit of what Meng Shi has endured.

Maizi didn't come out of Meng Shi's shadow, at least he still had money, Meng Shi's "Wukong" hit the streets, and he couldn't have anything left.

On the screen, the little hedgehog-headed boy stalks his neck and says, "I'm not going to help." ”

Chen Zhufeng smiled: "You help me, I'll call your dad and ask him to pick you up and take you to the city." ”

"Really!" Liu Xia said excitedly.

And Meng Yueyuan, who was sitting in the dim screening hall, felt that his vision was blurred and his thoughts were in a trance.

He watched as the back walked through the alley, step by step in the familiar and unfamiliar house, calling out a child he didn't know.

In a trance, the back of the person leaning against the door and shouting Liu Xia became a sister, shouting: "Uh-hmm, hmm-far away......"

Carry him on his back and cut the hogweed in the field.

That's right, what about the pigsty, the two pigs that put the whole family laughing every year.

Jiang You noticed his strangeness, turned his head and asked, "Old Meng, old Meng, what's wrong with you?" ”

Meng Yuyuan's lips trembled a little, shook his head, and opened his eyes to look at the screen.

More than 90 minutes passed quickly.

Liu Jiangong came back from the city and picked up Liu Xia.

Before parting, Liu Xia carefully advised: "Grandma, remember to bring your mobile phone with you every day, I will call you every day." ”

Still not at ease, he ran back to his grandmother, took his mobile phone to teach his grandmother, which key to call, which key to answer the phone, and the mobile phone to charge every day.

He said it very carefully, carefully to the point of being a little verbose.

After all the explanation, he said, "Grandma, I'm leaving."

He went with his father.

Grandma watched the bus disappear around the bend and went back alone, her back gradually disappearing into the mottled summer afterglow and the music now called "Liu Xia's Summer".

When the credits were raised, the screening room was quiet, with only a few more emotional people sobbing slightly.

Even Jiang You, who has never experienced rural life and has a building at home to collect rent, was also infected by the atmosphere and felt that his heart was blocked.

It wasn't until Gu Xiaogang, who was sitting in the first row, got up and applauded that there was a round of applause in the screening room.

The subtitles are not long, and they are over quickly, and there was originally a narration read by Lu Duancun himself, but then he read it again and felt that it was a little redundant, and it was deleted in this version.

After a short period of subtitles, the lights come on.

Yang Yi, who operated "Flowing Summer" with one hand, took the microphone and walked to the screen.

She folded her hands, bowed to the audience, and said: "After almost half a year, "Flowing Summer" met the audience on the big screen for the first time, thank you for your recognition, love and tolerance of the film. ”

"Liuxia" is a dialect movie, the people in it speak Qingshui dialect, and there is very little Mandarin in the whole film, which is basically the meaningless chatter of Liu Xia and Meng Yuyu, who doesn't know much because he lives in Suzhou with his parents, which can be ignored.

Fortunately, the rhythm of the film is smooth and tranquil, and reading the subtitles does not affect the viewing effect very much.

The host next to him smiled at Yang Yi: "Thank you also to Professor Yang Yi for his dedication to this film, giving us the opportunity to see it on the big screen." ”

Yang Yi nodded and said: "I know that some of the audience at the scene came to meet with Meng Shi, Duancun, and Cheng Kang, I'm sorry that Director Lu is preparing a new film in France, and Meng Shi is also filming a new movie "Wukong", so he couldn't be there." ”

"We don't want to see Meng Shi, we just want him to update "Westbound" quickly! Please tell him, dare to delay, I will blow his head with one punch on behalf of Bai Jingjing!"

Someone below shouted loudly.

Suddenly, there was a sad atmosphere, as if it was broken by his punch.

Yang Yi said with a smile: "I will tell him, but report the ID of the beep station first, so that I can say that so-and-so asked me to convey it." ”

After discussing the ideology of traditional culture with Meng Shi Lianmai live broadcast, Yang Yi also opened an account at the beep station to share some of his class content.

Over time, I have also heard the legend that "Meng Rentu" blacked people out if they disagreed, and there were "three thousand corpses" lying on the blacklist.

"Forget it."

The person who shouted was stunned for seconds.

The creators of each movie didn't have much time to share, and the host opened his mouth to pull the topic back and said:

"I heard that this film was originally transmitted directly to the beep station, but later you watched it, contacted Director Meng, and sent it to the exhibition after reproduction.

On the list of creators, you are a text editor, if I understand correctly, it is you who translated and produced the subtitles, please forgive me for using the word translation, I really don't understand this dialect at all.

Can you share with us the process of the birth of "Flowing Summer"? ”

Yang Yi began to operate the dragon mark for "Liuxia", participated in the film festival, and then sold it to the movie channel for screening, the main purpose is naturally because of the national project "Language Protection Project" where she is now located, and to contribute to the follow-up evaluation of the title of full professor.

But of course the same cannot be said.

"When Duancun gave me the finished film shot by Meng Shi and asked me to help with the subtitles, I was immediately moved by this indescribable simplicity, and I told him that it would be a pity if this kind of pure film could not be released."

Yang Yi Zhengse said: "The name of this documentary film is "Liuxia", and the protagonist Liu Xia is a left-behind child, but this movie is not the usual perspective of left-behind children.

Because he doesn't have the sorrow of left-behind children that people think.

The lack of parents and the love of grandma are enough to make up for it.

The little protagonist Liu Xia's days in the countryside were shown by the camera as smart and childlike and beautiful, he has a lot of friends, although he often breaks up, but he can also reconcile in a blink of an eye.

Playing marbles, dipping dragonflies, playing water drifting, baking sweet potatoes, swimming in the wilderness.

Liu Xia's childhood shown in Meng Shi's lens is also his childhood, and it is also the childhood of a generation.

Although compared to the city, it is disconnected.

There are no new toys, electronic gadgets, computer games, and short videos for city children, but everything in nature can become his game.

Those happiness that only belong to the countryside are too familiar to the post-80s generation, who are now middle-aged.

It's just that the people who have these memories have long since left the village, and what remains in the village are fewer and fewer children and more and more old people.

In this documentary film, what really distresses people are not the children who are called left-behind children, but the elderly who are becoming more and more powerless.

Young people are pouring into cities, the old countryside is unable to provide more modern education and resources, and the desolation of the countryside cannot be stopped.

The old people who stayed in the countryside and their native voices walked together towards the silent demise.

People demand the speed of development of the times, so that the times cannot provide enough time for these old people to adapt and catch up.

Liu Xia's grandmother uses an old-fashioned mobile phone, but she never answers the call button.

I also think of my parents, when the mobile phone was replaced by a smartphone, they had a long attitude of refusal, swiping their fingers stiffly across the screen, pressing to a certain point on the screen, either too hard, or not in the right place.

It's really not that easy to ask the old people to keep up with the times.

At the end of the movie, Grandma Liu Xia bids farewell to her children and grandchildren and walks on the way home, with the harvested rice fields on both sides and the sunset in the west on the opposite side.

I can imagine that after the camera was turned off, she went home alone, opened the door alone, cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks after her children and grandchildren had eaten, and grew old alone.

All she has left to do is say goodbye to the times......"

Meng Yue didn't listen to her words, but just whispered, "It's time for me to say goodbye to the times." ”

Jiang You patted him on the shoulder with the courage and said, "A generation will eventually grow old, there are always people who are young, there are not many people you know in Lao Meng's film, you should also go and see it, and you are only in your early fifties, not old." ”

Meng Yue was far from silent.