The small cinema in the town of Yaokou is filled with the distinctive smell of mold, tobacco and toilet cleaner, which is somewhat choking.

The screening hall has been turned into a warehouse, with seats grouped into the front half of the hall, and hundreds of packs of tobacco leaves stacked in the back half, at least 30,000 kilograms.

The corridor outside is covered with movie posters, most of which are painted by the theater itself, and it has not completely gotten rid of the Russian pop style, "Armageddon: The Battle of Liaoshen" occupies half of the wall, starring Gu Yue, scolding Fang Xuan.

It is worth noting that "The Great Satan", with official stills, Ge Wei is still very young, and Xu Fan, who has just debuted, is peerless, and he is really beautiful.

Su Changqing walked out of the movie theater browsing the posters, stood on the steps in a daze, and finally sat in the shade of the stairs and lit a cigarette and took a deep breath.

It seems that this little white stick has finally quit after six years, and he has only learned it for a few days today.

"It is said that learning to smoke, but sucking this is as simple as sucking milk for babies, do you still need to learn?"

Of course, you don't need to learn to suck, it is said that addiction to smoking is the sequelae of the unsatisfied desire of the lips during lactation, and the cigarette holder is the pacifier of adults.

In this way, smoking still has some positive significance, at least to avoid the possibility that some people may become childish hooligans.

"Speaking of lactation......"

Su Changqing looked at the white smoke spit out, and remembered the science and education film "Scientific Production and Breastfeeding" directed independently three years later, in order to shoot professionally, he studied a lot of maternal and child knowledge very seriously, and then collected materials from the obstetrics and gynecology department of Union Hospital for two months, and he can be regarded as an expert in breastfeeding.

Later, he made a propaganda film "Eternal Fire" for the abolition of burials, and the two together seemed to discuss the issues of life and death, but unfortunately they were both documentaries dedicated to rural science and education, and they had nothing to do with philosophy, and could not hide the superficiality and vulgarity of his six-year directorial career.

These memories of more than 20 years ago have long since dissipated like smoke, and it is unlikely to be remembered again without special touch, so that he was a little distracted, and only shook his head for a while: "I almost forgot that I used to be a director, and this resume was erased by me like a stain." ”

He took another hard puff of his cigarette: "Fate can always catch people off guard, who would have thought that these old things would suddenly become the future that has not yet happened?"

If there really is a map in life, it seems that only the reborn can see it all, and the process of lighting the map is usually blind, not to mention that most people forget to look back and take a serious look.

Su Changqing is very sober and transparent now, as if he is standing high in the center of the map of life, taking in his past and future, because he has been reborn.

Twenty-eight years later, one afternoon, while just taking a nap in his office, he dreamed of someone sticking to the window of a skyscraper and chanting over and over again: "Life will not meet...... Life is not ...... to see each other"

The voice is hoarse and loud, and the artistic conception is desolate and sad, as if death is calling.

Suddenly, the fire shone on his soul, and he was so shocked that he was sweating, and he woke up suddenly.

Then I heard someone on the street outside shouting with a small loudspeaker and a broken gong: "Recycle old household appliances...... Recycling old appliances ......"

The sunlight shines through the cracks of the worn curtains, like an arrow shooting at the wall, which is a bit of a bygone time.

Under him is a hard bed, and several faded red words are printed on the top of the mosquito net: Langkou Town People's Government Guest House.

Su Changqing was stunned for a while, and he still had some impressions of the guest house in Yaokou Town, as if he lived here for the first time after graduating from college, and it is said that this dilapidated small building was handed down from the early years of the Republic of China.

The low, humble room had two plank beds and the other empty.

At the head of the bed there was a Shanghai brand watch, and a black leatherette bag containing a few changes of clothes pants, a fountain pen, an address book, and half a bag of biscuits.

There is also a folder, which is the filming storyboard plan of the science and education film "Flue-cured Tobacco Cultivation and Baking".

He looked through it in a panic, and within two minutes he realized that he had been reborn on July 28, 1992, at half past five in the evening.

"I only reported to work at the Shanghai Science and Education Studio on June 30, 92, so today is the 29th day of graduating from college and joining the work?"

He clearly remembers that a week after he reported for duty, he was sent to Yaokou Town, Jiahe City, and temporarily joined the on-site filming of the film crew of "Flue-cured Tobacco Cultivation and Baking", and worked as an assistant to Director Liu Yan, who lived in this guest house at that time.

"There is such a thing as rebirth, and someone in my dream shouted that I would not see each other in life, but I did. ”

Su Changqing sat on the bed in a daze, like a high school junior who had to repeat his studies.

It's understandable to have mixed feelings, and although Rebirth has the opportunity to live longer, it also loses everything it has.

"I have worked hard for more than 20 years...... It's simply that the game is not saved, and the equipment that I finally called is suddenly written off!"

There is also a woman who is lost, although he is an unmarried, but it does not mean that there are no women around him.

"Damn!"

However, he was not shocked and regretted for a long time, and it is not impossible for repeat students to get worse and worse in the exam, and it is not impossible for them to complain too much to prevent intestinal breakage, and they should take a long-term view, so they have to act quickly to enter the situation.

Su Changqing immediately got up, first spent a moment in the mirror admiring his young face, modestly scored nine, and then came out for a spin, the more he shopped, the more complicated his mood became, and finally sat on the stairs of the movie theater.

The evening sun was still blazing, the trees were chirping like crazy, and a dozen tanned tobacco farmers in the courtyard were sorting out their tobacco leaves, roughly divided into dozens of piles, waiting in line for grading and buying.

The cinema no longer exists, the building was rented by the tobacco company a few months ago, and the office of the Yaokou Tobacco Station is now located, acquired and stored.

The entire 90s film market was like dead, a small town really couldn't afford a movie theater, and the video hall was the mainstream.

On the opposite side of the courtyard wall, there is a line of big letters: Xinfei advertising is good, not as good as Xinfei refrigerator!

This brand of refrigerator is obviously not good enough, and it seems to have been acquired after more than ten years of bankruptcy.

"I used to really think that life was like this, and my calm heart refused to have another wave......"

I don't know where Li Zongsheng's "Ghost Lost Heart" came, the sound quality is not very stable, and the three-purpose machine of the cassette sounds like it is lingering.

Su Changqing liked this song very much, and always thought it was a work after the 21st century, but he didn't expect it to be available so early.

This is the theme song in Huang Rihua's "The Last Emperor and Sun", and it should indeed be in the early nineties. ”

majored in directing in four years of college, Su Changqing once had a good understanding of the film and television drama market, and if he hadn't changed careers later, he wouldn't have remembered it wrong.

Memories are like an old oil lamp, getting brighter and brighter, and even the state of mind of the year is slowly coming back, but he is still a little confused, not sure what to do next.

Rebirth can make up for regrets, Su Changqing didn't want to chase the girl he missed, he didn't need to hunt with his rich life experience, and he didn't have a slut who wanted to beat him but didn't have a chance to do it, waiting to be slapped in the face by him.

Looking back on the life of the generation, the biggest regret is that I didn't understand the world and offended people when I was in college, and as a result, I was assigned to a science and education studio after graduation, and basically lost the opportunity for artistic creation.

This changed the trajectory of his life, and after six years in the science and education factory, he only made two documentaries, and finally left the film and television industry, and then tried many professions and read all kinds of things in the world.

Do you follow the same path as before, or do you live a different life?

This is basically not a problem, rather than wasting six years in a science and education studio, it is better to change course as soon as possible.

Some tobacco farmers came to the yard one after another, and a few truckloads of cigarettes were unloaded, and they almost occupied the site.

At half past six, the lighting master also came, and beckoned to Su Changqing from afar: "Assistant Su, you came earlier than me." ”

Su Changqing forgot what his surname was, threw away the cigarette butt with a smile, and went over to help set up lamps and lay lines in the yard.

There are few people in the film crew, and his assistant is a handyman, so he has to do everything.

Don't look at just making a scientific and educational documentary about flue-cured tobacco, but the production cycle is very long, and the film crew started up when they were floating seedlings in February.

Su Changqing entered the group late, the cultivation and picking stages of tobacco leaves have been filmed, and a few days ago, he went out day and night to shoot the process of roasting tobacco leaves in the new oven, and today he started shooting and buying.

Tobacco procurement usually does not work overtime, and the lack of light is not conducive to the rating, but director Liu Yan said that the night battle is easy to create a hot atmosphere, and it can highlight the spirit of tobacco people to serve tobacco farmers wholeheartedly.

Of course, the leaders of the tobacco station liked this tune, and for this reason, they specially gathered some more tobacco farmers.

When the cable was pulled and energized, and the test camera light emitted the first light, Su Changqing's eyes suddenly moistened a little.

I have loved movies since I was a child, and if I ever had a dream, it must be to be a director, wearing a soft-brimmed hat of Akira Kurosawa, wearing a Coppola-style vest, holding the director's tube in one hand and holding the camera in the other.

"It's a pity that the dream was shattered. ”

Some of the pain is buried too deeply, and I forget it, and behind the freedom is often embarrassment.

But then again, the scientific breastfeeding and fashionable cremation filmed back then were also quite shocking, and some of the shots could be watched as Ivy movies and horror movies.

In the eighth-level and eighth-level director class of the Film Academy, Su Changqing is definitely the most talented, but he also has a flawed personality like many geniuses.

The sunset and the lights complement each other, illuminating a vertical tobacco leaf like a golden wave.

Su Changqing took out a cigarette but didn't light it, looked at the camera light for a long time, and finally took out half a pack of Ashima from his pocket and threw it to a nearby tobacco farmer wearing a blue vest: "Take it and smoke it, I'll quit." ”

The tobacco farmer smiled in surprise, with the simplicity that still remains in this era: "Why don't you have the last one?"

"Then another one. ”

Su Changqing and the tobacco farmer faced each other, and snorted a cigarette towards the bloody remnant sun.

"My time has never come, and the road ahead is vast, and everything can be expected. ”

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