59. The beginning of the artist's path (seeking to follow)

The environment in Zhushikou is still so dilapidated, and it seems that there has been no change at all after a few months.

Chen Li'an returned to the courtyard with his bag on his back, and walked around the courtyard without looking at anyone, feeling a little strange in his heart.

It's really strange that the retired uncles are not here today.

Chen Li'an didn't care so much, after cleaning his house, he looked at the wall calendar that hadn't changed pages for a long time, and Zhou Xun's little face, and suddenly remembered a photo he took of Zhou Xun in the ancient town.

The beautiful scenery in the sunset is much better than the photo on the calendar.

Go back and wash that one out and make a wall calendar, as for the other photos, you can't wash them, just put away the film yourself.

Chen Li'an found the film he took in Tongli Water Town, sorted it out, put away Zhou Xun and Gong Li's film separately, and prepared to take other landscape photos to wash out.

I don't know if Ma Xiaoqing is not at home during this time, and it is inconvenient to borrow a darkroom.

After packing up his things, Chen Li'an lay on the bed and began to be in a daze, he had to go to Nortel to report tomorrow, even if he was named, he had to meet with the teacher.

Or tomorrow... Forget it, it's the day after tomorrow...

The school is the most annoying, Chen Li'an pretended not to see that the day after tomorrow was Saturday on the wall calendar, so that he could find an excuse not to go the day after tomorrow.

In the evening, Chen Li'an fell asleep in a daze, and heard the uncles and aunts in the yard chatting, and his voice was loud as if he had grabbed an egg.

Chen Li'an yawned and pushed the door out, and saw several uncles and aunts worrying that they were sick and wanted to buy health products.

"The doctor said I had low blood sugar, what is that blood sugar, will it be serious?"

"The doctor said that my liver is not good, and my body is full of toxins, why am I poisoned."

"Eat leftovers, the doctor said that eating leftovers will cause poisoning!"

"What kind of Sanjin oral liquid is not good, it's a bit expensive."

"I feel okay, didn't the advertisement say that there is a disease and no disease and no health care."

Chen Li'an knew what was going on after listening to it for a while, the health care products industry seemed to be making great efforts, and Sanzhu's sales seemed to have exceeded one billion this year.

The routine of pretending to be a doctor to treat the elderly and then taking the opportunity to sell health care products may seem mentally retarded in later generations, but now it is really popular.

That advertising slogan is quite capable of blowing, and it almost shouts that it will cure all diseases, well... This sentence seems to be shouted as well.

However, Chen Li'an knows that the past two years have been the last glory of the health care products industry, and the advertising law is about to be introduced, and these fake health care products will be cracked down.

Chen Li'an looked at the worried and anxious uncle and aunt, walked over and reminded: "That doctor is fake, just to trick you into buying health products, don't be fooled." ”

"Xiao Chenzi, is it really fake? Doctors are liars? Uncle Li was stunned for a moment, pulled Chen Li'an's arm and asked.

Chen Li'an nodded and said, "Really, if you really suspect that you are not in good health, wouldn't it be good to go to the hospital for a check-up, wouldn't it save you money than buying health care products?" ”

Uncle Li was stunned for a moment, and felt that what he said made some sense, and it didn't cost much to register an account.

Chen Li'an looked at the several uncles and aunts who were thinking, and there were some indescribable feelings in his heart, he wanted to have a good body at such an age, but his thinking was backward and easy to be deceived.

Health care products set off industry myths in the 90s and created super high sales, but this is all based on the pension money of these old people.

It is really sad of the times, Chen Li'an looked at the wrinkled faces in front of him, full of worry and confusion, turned around and went back to the room and took out his camera to take a photo.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, the old people who have also come to the second half of their lives, their cloudy eyes reveal the fear of death and the desire for health.

The progress of the times has abandoned these old people who were once in the sunset, but the black-hearted merchants still have to squeeze the last penny out of their pockets.

Such a picture brought a strong impact to Chen Li'an, it seems that everyone has never cared about these people who are going to the afterglow of life, even if the health care product industry collapsed later, everyone just clapped their hands and celebrated, but forgot these old people who had been hurt and deceived.

"Uncle Li, where is that doctor?" Chen Li'an couldn't help but ask while holding the camera.

Uncle Li came back to his senses, looked at Chen Li'an and said, "Just turn left at the entrance of the alley, two intersections, aren't you going to fight?" ”

Uncle Li recalled Chen Li'an's past experience and suspected that Chen Li'an wanted to go over and expose the liar.

"No, don't worry." Chen Li'an said a word and went out with the camera.

What's the use of exposing a liar, there are more fake doctors all over the country, what can Chen Li'an do, he can only record all this with his own camera, hoping to be able to exhibit and alert more people.

Old people are old-fashioned, but young people should be able to be sensible.

In the next few days, Chen Li'an went out with his camera every day, taking a large number of photos in the streets and alleys of the capital and in the villages around the city, and at various health care product sales points.

At the beginning, Chen Li'an's mood was quite excited, and he felt that he was doing the right thing, but at the end of the shooting, he was speechless, just silently holding the camera and recording all this.

The gloomy sky seemed to be brewing a blizzard, and the cold wind blew on Chen Li'an's face, as if it was blocking him from moving forward.

Dragging his tired body, Chen Li'an came downstairs to Ma Xiaoqing's house with a large size of photo paper.

Looking up at the unlit window, Chen Li'an's footsteps paused, and he still walked into the dim apartment corridor.

Chen Li'an stood at the door of Ma Xiaoqing's house and knocked on the door, but got no response, and was about to turn around and leave, when Ma Xiaoqing's voice came from behind.

"Chen Li'an? You're back? Ma Xiaoqing looked at Chen Li'an, who was quite decadent, with some surprise.

Seeing that good-looking face become so depressed, Ma Xiaoqing couldn't help but take Chen Li'an's hand and asked, "What's wrong with you?" Is something wrong? ”

Chen Li'an squeezed out a smile, shook his head and said, "It's okay, I want to borrow your darkroom to use it." ”

"Okay, but what's wrong with you?" Ma Xiaoqing looked at Chen Li'an with some distress.

"It's really fine, just lend me the darkroom."

Chen Li'an's tone was very urgent, and Ma Xiaoqing didn't talk nonsense, and directly opened the door and pulled Chen Li'an in.

After entering, Chen Li'an went into the dark room, and Ma Xiaoqing was going to follow up, but was locked out.

Looking at the closed door, Ma Xiaoqing opened her mouth, but still didn't push the door in, but just sat in the living room with some worry and waited for Chen Li'an.

The clock in the living room was ticking, and Ma Xiaoqing had been sitting on the sofa looking at the door of the darkroom, waiting for Chen Li'an to come out.

I don't know how long it has been, Ma Xiaoqing fell asleep on the sofa, and when she woke up again, it was already white, and the sun shone on the snow very brightly.

Looking at the extra blanket on her body, Ma Xiaoqing got up and came to the dark room, which was already empty.

Ma Xiaoqing's heart was empty, and she was very worried about Chen Li'an's state, but she didn't know how to contact Chen Li'an.

When she saw Chen Li'an's news again, it was in the newspaper two days later.

Emerging photographer Chen Li'an's solo photography exhibition "Sunset Afterglow - Forgotten and Deceived People" will be held at the National Art Museum of China!

Chen Li'an looked at the prepared exhibition in front of him, and his hesitation reached its peak, and he was worried that his work would not play any role.

But I was still very grateful, turned to look at Gong Li and said, "Sister, thank you for helping me." ”

Gong Li looked at the huge photos in the exhibition hall, the shocking pictures on them, and the old faces with all kinds of eyes, which simply made her scalp tingle.

"Li'an, you... You don't have to thank me, I'm just asking someone to do something, if it weren't for your good work, people wouldn't agree. ”

Gong Li didn't know what to say, when she was in the Fengyue crew, she always regarded Chen Li'an as a very attractive man, some talented and some... was lustful, but this time he was surprised by the power conveyed in Chen Li'an's photos.

It seems that Chen Li'an is a born artist... All the romance and cynicism in him seemed to be ignored by Gong Li at this moment.

Yang Lizhou, the director of the art museum, stopped for a long time in front of each of Chen Li'an's photos.

After reading all the works, he came to Chen Li'an and couldn't help but sigh: "Your works will leave a strong mark in the history of Chinese photography, and it is really hard to imagine that you are new to photography." ”

Gong Li looked at the silent Chen Li'an, and felt that this would be the starting point of Chen Li'an's path as an artist, a brilliant and unstoppable starting point!