Chapter 45: A Grateful Heart

In addition to "Ambition in My Chest" and "Alive", Meng Wen also prepared a finale song "Grateful Heart", which is also where Meng Wen's confidence lies.

At first, Meng Wen didn't want to hold the start-up ceremony so early, because the start-up ceremony was held, and the official filming had to begin, which is an invisible rule in the film and television industry. According to the older generation, after the start-up ceremony was held, the filming did not start, which was a bad omen.

But because everyone is a novice, even Meng Wen, the director, is a novice, it has only been a few days, and the preparation is not particularly sufficient. If the boot ceremony is held now, you can only find problems while learning while shooting, which may cause some unnecessary waste and spend a lot of money. If the event is postponed, it will give everyone plenty of time to prepare, but they will miss the best publicity stunt of "Thanksgiving".

In the end, Meng Wen still chose to hold a start-up ceremony on November 22, waste some money, if the publicity is good, you can earn it back. I can't bear to let the child trap the wolf......

"Grateful Heart" is the representative work of singer Miss Ouyang Feifei. Ouyang Feifei, a native of Taiwan, China, went to Japan in the 70s of the 20th century for Toshiba Records of Japan to join and develop, and became a singer in Japan. In the 80s, it became popular in Japan, and the Japanese described her as a record seller in the name of Fei Fei Typhoon, and she was respectfully known as an evergreen tree in the Japanese music scene. The record set by the Japanese music scene was not broken by the Korean female singer Boa until 13 years.

Ouyang Feifei's song "Grateful Heart", once it came out, was well-known to the world for its tragic and moving story and profound educational significance. This song has been unfading for 30 years, from elementary school, to junior high school, and high school, "Grateful Heart" can be said to be the most sung song in these primary and secondary schools in addition to the national anthem.

"Grateful Heart" comes from a touching true story. In previous lives, there were many source versions of "Grateful Heart", and there are two versions that are the most widely circulated, one is:

In a remote and impoverished mountain village in Taiwan, there is a middle-aged couple who make a living by picking up rags. On a cold morning, when they stepped out of the house, what they picked up was not garbage but a dying little abandoned baby who had been frozen, although the life of the husband and wife was already poor, but in order to prevent this innocent little life from freezing to death on the street, they still resolutely took the child home and fed it carefully. When the little girl was 6 or 7 years old, her adoptive father died soon after he became ill from overwork.

After the death of her father, the mother and daughter depended on each other, the daughter was very competitive and studied very hard, and she was admitted to a famous art college. When the mother held the girl's college admission letter in her hand, how happy and proud this ordinary mother was for the girl! However, at the same time, she also felt the weight of the letter! For such a financially thin family, the huge amount of college tuition is simply astronomical!

In order to save enough for her daughter's college tuition, her mother carried her daughter behind her back and quietly sold blood to earn money to supplement the family's expenses. The daughter watched her mother get haggard day by day, and for some reason, she felt very sad, so she secretly vowed in her heart that she would repay her mother for her nurturing kindness when she grew up.

As the days passed, the girl studied very hard at school, and she wanted to use her excellent grades to comfort her father in heaven and repay her mother for her hard work. In the dead of night, the girl always misses her lonely mother at home, and she longs to come home during the holidays. In the letter, she expressed her thoughts, but her mother wrote in reply: "Son, my mother misses you very much!" But our family really has no money to spend on your journey home! Let's wait until you graduate and come back! I will send you your tuition and living expenses every semester...... In this way, the girl has not returned home for four years. The day of graduation is finally approaching, and the girl's only wish is to go home to her mother as soon as possible. She wanted to snuggle up in her mother's arms and tell her mother all kinds of interesting things about her study and life in the past few years, and she wanted to describe her college campus carefully to her mother.

Four years passed, and the girl finally completed her studies and got her graduation certificate. She was so eager to see her long-awaited mother right away, and she quickly set out on the journey back home. When I came to the village, I saw the familiar courtyard of my home from a distance, and I was excited. She ran to the courtyard gate and pushed open the courtyard door, and her daughter was stunned by what she saw, but when she saw that the courtyard was silent and desolate, and the grass was everywhere, she opened the rusty door lock and saw that the dilapidated furniture in the room was covered with thick dust. She cried out loudly, "Mom, I'm back!" but she couldn't hear any response!

With a blank look on her face, she ran to her neighbor's uncle's house and asked where her mother was. Uncle endured his grief and told the girl the truth. It turned out that the girl's mother died of illness two years ago. Due to overwork and frequent blood sales, my mother's health deteriorated day by day, and she was later admitted to the hospital. During her mother's hospitalization, she missed her lovely daughter very much and wanted to see her daughter again, but she was afraid that her child's studies would be delayed.

On the hospital bed, the mother endured the torture of illness and wrote one letter after another to her daughter day and night, until the date of these letters was scheduled until the end of her daughter's four-year study. In order to save enough for her daughter's 4 years of living and study, when she was dying, her mother reached an agreement with the hospital to sell all the organs of her body to the hospital after her death. The mother gave the money from the sale of organs and a thick stack of peace letters to the neighbor's uncle, and entrusted him to send them to her daughter regularly.

The daughter knelt in front of her mother's grave, tears raining down. The mother who called her for a thousand years, the mother who raised her with hard work, the mother who once depended on each other. Now she is left alone in this world, how to face the future life, how to face the bumpy road of life ahead,

In front of her mother's grave, the girl wrote this poem "Grateful Heart": I come from chance, like a piece of dust, who sees my vulnerability, where I come from, where my love returns, who calls me in the next moment. Although the world is wide, this road is difficult to walk, I have seen all the ups and downs in this world, how much love I still have, how many tears I still have, let the sky know that I don't admit defeat. Grateful heart, thank you for accompanying me all my life, let me have the courage to be myself, grateful heart, thank fate, flowers bloom and fall, I will still cherish.

Later, when a local composer heard this touching story, he composed a beautiful music for this song, and soon the song was sung all over Taiwan and Hong Kong, and spread all over the inland of the motherland.

The second version can also be said to be the sign language version of "Grateful Hearts".

There was a little girl who was born with aphasia, and her father died when she was very young. She and her mother depend on each other. Mom goes out to work early every day and comes back late. Every sunset, the little girl began to stand at the door of the house, looking expectantly at the road in front of the door, waiting for her mother to come home. When her mother comes back, it is the happiest time of her day, because she has to bring her a piece of rice cake home every day. In their poor home, a small piece of rice cake is supremely delicious.

One day, it was raining heavily, and it was already past dinner time, but my mother had not returned. The little girl stood at the door of the house and looked at it, but she couldn't wait for her mother. It was getting darker and darker, and it was raining heavier and heavier, and the little girl decided to follow her mother's way back every day to find her mother by herself. She walked and walked and walked for a long time, and finally saw her mother lying on the ground on the side of the road. She shook her mother's body vigorously, but her mother didn't answer her. She thought her mother was too tired and fell asleep. He put his mother's head on his lap and wanted her to sleep comfortably. But then she found that her mother's eyes were not closed! The little girl suddenly understood: Mother may have died! She was frightened, and took her mother's hand and shook it vigorously, only to find that her mother was still holding a piece of rice cake tightly in her hand...... She cried desperately, but she couldn't make a sound......

The rain kept falling, and the little girl didn't know how long she cried. She knew that her mother would never wake up again, and now she was the only one left. Why didn't Mom's eyes close? Was it because she didn't worry about her? She suddenly understood what she had to do. So I wiped away my tears and decided to tell my mother in my own words that she would definitely live well and let her mother go with peace of mind......

The little girl was doing this song "Grateful Heart" in sign language over and over again in the rain, tears mixed with the rain, and slid down her small but strong face... "Grateful heart, thank you for being with me all my life and giving me the courage to be myself...... Grateful heart, grateful fate, flowers bloom and fall, I will cherish the same......" She just stood in the rain and kept doing it until her mother's eyes finally closed......

Meng Wen finally chose the first version as his promotional story, and the second version was more suitable for sign language propaganda, because the time was too tight and there was no time to rehearse, so he could only wait for later.

On November 20th, Meng Wen published the song "Grateful Heart" in the form of a poem on his crooked dog social network. As a gift for the upcoming Thanksgiving. And this poem also attracted the attention of many netizens with its simple but touching words.

The next day, Meng Wen published the first version of the story he had prepared on his crooked dog social network, because of the foreshadowing the day before, such a touching little story of more than 1,000 words instantly attracted the attention of countless people. In just a few hours, there were more than 10,000 comments under the article, and it attracted countless retweets......

In the evening, Meng Wen and everyone had a dinner. When I returned home, I sent another message, saying that I had compiled "Grateful Heart" into a song and dedicated it to my parents all over the world on the occasion of Thanksgiving tomorrow......

After Meng Wen finished sending it, he washed and went to sleep, just waiting for tomorrow......