A huge spray-painted background has been erected in the newly built cultural square in Xichuan. The background is a black and white photo, in which a little girl’s helpless eyes are filled with tears. The subtitles on the background tell everyone that tomorrow there will be
It was a charity event with the theme of caring for children.
Bai Shuo approached the busy preparation site and saw Li Zhen with his back turned to him, paying attention to the various preparations on and off the stage. From time to time, staff would come to report or ask for instructions from Li Zhen.
"I think the depth of the stage is a little too small. Let them extend it 80 centimeters further forward..."
"You must remember to remind guests to enter the stage from the right side..."
After Li Zhen finished explaining to the staff, Bai Shuo couldn't help but said loudly: "Let the people below do these small things, why bother to be so meticulous..."
Li Zhen turned around sharply and was slightly startled when he saw Bai Shuo behind him, and then showed a bright smile.
"You finally found me..."
Bai Shuo walked in slowly, and the two of them kept staring at each other, as if they couldn't bear to move away for half a second.
"If I don't come to you, are you going to keep avoiding me like this?"
"How is that possible? I said I would come back to give you an explanation..."
"So is there an answer?"
Li Zhen finally looked away, looked at the busy scene and said, "Now is not the time to talk about this. Can we talk about it later?"
"Okay, I won't rush you, I will wait for you no matter what time..."
"Well, you go find a place to wait for me first. I'll go find you when I'm done here..."
Bai Shuo shook his head: "No, just go about your business, I'll just watch you here..."
Li Zhen thought for a moment: "Okay, since you are here, don't just look around, come and help me work!"
With that said, he pulled Bai Shuo towards the stage...
It wasn't until the sky turned slightly dark that everything was finally ready for the event.
Bai Shuo relaxed the muscles in his arms and said, "Okay, I have been working as a coolie for you for a few hours, and I only have to take care of a box lunch. Now should I be rewarded in some way?"
Li Zhen smiled slightly: "How about I invite you to watch a movie?"
"See a movie?"
"Well, it's right over there..."
Following what Li Zhen pointed out, Bai Shuo discovered that there was a large open area about three to four hundred meters away from the square, and now a lot of people were gathering there.
After some research, it turned out that the land was where Shengshi Huazhang Company was going to build Shengshi Cinemas. As the anniversary of the earthquake approached, Shengshi Huazhang Company also took the lead in setting up an open-air cinema in that open space, allowing people to watch movies for free every night.
As early stage publicity for the project.
Li Zhen and Bai Shuo squeezed into the crowd and finally found two seats at the side.
"I never expected that I would watch an outdoor movie in a place like this." Bai Shuo sighed with emotion.
"Don't you think this is quite interesting? Besides, this is an activity of your Shengshi Huazhang Company. As one of the bosses, you should also pay attention to it."
The movie has started, and what is playing today is actually the second part of Xingye's "Westward Journey".
"Well, it is indeed this one." Li Zhen said calmly.
Bai Shuo asked strangely: "Do you know what movie is being shown today?"
Li Zhen shook his head: "When I passed by yesterday, I saw the first part of "Moonlight Treasure Box" was being played. I guess the second part will be played today..."
Um... So that's it. Bai Shuo didn't speak any more and gradually entered the plot of the movie...
Since it was an open-air theater and a comedy, the audience laughed and commented from time to time. But amidst the laughter of others, Bai Shuo found that Li Zhen looked more serious throughout the whole process. Indeed, Li Zhen looked more serious in this film.
Zhen has watched it more than once, and no matter how many laughs there are, she has already become numb.
"How many times have you watched this movie?" Li Zhen suddenly asked Bai Shuo softly.
"I watched it when I was in school. I didn't really understand it at the time, I just knew it was funny. I watched it a few times later, probably no less than three times."
"Do you understand now?"
Bai Shuo didn't expect Li Zhen to continue this issue.
"Um... Of course, this film seems to have lots of laughs, but in fact it is a tragedy. It gives people the feeling of crying while laughing."
"Only this?"
Bai Shuo was stunned: "Well... what do you think?"
Li Zhen didn't answer any more, Bai Shuo didn't ask any more questions after seeing this, and the two of them continued to watch the movie.
When the plot came to the marriage between Supreme Treasure and Bai Jingjing, Li Zhen suddenly seemed a little excited. It wasn't until Bai Jingjing left without saying goodbye that Li Zhen said lightly: "Hey... Tang Monk gave Sun Wukong a chance to be reborn. Five hundred years later, Sun Wukong
His name is Zhizunbao, and he works as a bandit in Wuyue Mountain, which he loves very much. But fate wants him to play Sun Wukong, and Zhizunbao is just a transition."
"What?" Bai Shuo asked in confusion.
"Haha, let me answer your previous question..."
Only then did Bai Shuo realize that it was not that Li Zhen had not answered his question, but that he had been thinking about how to answer it.
"What do you think of Supreme Treasure and Bai Jingjing?" Li Zhen asked again.
Bai Shuo was stunned for a moment, feeling that there was something wrong in Li Zhen's words, but he still answered according to the plot: "It's very good, but it's a pity that Zixia is the favorite..."
"Yeah..." Li Zhen sighed softly and said: "The Supreme Treasure in reality may indeed love Bai Jingjing. When the time went back 500 years ago, the Supreme Treasure still thought that he still loved Bai Jingjing, but he found Bai Jingjing after all the hardships.
Later, he discovered that Zixia is his true love..."
Bai Shuo thought carefully about Li Zhen's words and did not interrupt.
At this time, the film comes to the scene where the Supreme Treasure is about to put on the tight hoop and transform back into Sun Wukong.
I saw Zhizunbao picking up the tight hoop, recalling every bit of the past, and uttered the classic line: "There was once a sincere love in front of me, but I didn't cherish it. I waited until I lost it.
I regret so much that the most painful thing in the world is this. If God can give me a chance to do it again, I will say three words to that person, "I love you". If I have to add this love to
The deadline, I hope is ten thousand years!"
"Some people think this is the most classic line in the whole play, what do you think?" Li Zhen asked again.
Bai Shuo thought for a while: "That's probably it. Many people can recite this line by heart..."
Li Zhen shook her head: "But what moved me the most and touched me the most was what Bai Jingjing said to the Supreme Treasure."
"What words?"
Li Zhen stopped looking at the screen, turned her head and looked directly at Bai Shuo and said: "I think the most touching thing is what Bai Jingjing said to Zhizunbao, after these 500 years, it's not me you come back to find.
But she..."
Bai Shuo frowned slightly: "What do you want to say?"
Li Zhen's eyes suddenly flashed with something crystal clear: "Actually, I also want to tell you that in the 14 years you have experienced again, it is not me you come back to find..."
Bai Shuo was anxious: "Nonsense, even if you think of yourself as Bai Jingjing, who is Zixia?"
Li Zhen shook her head: "For you, Zixia may not be a person, she is just a representative, representing something that you should strive to pursue."
Bai Shuo fell silent and continued to talk without saying anything.
Li Zhen sighed again and said: "Fate loves to joke with people. You thought you were just the Supreme Treasure, but fate has quietly turned you into Sun Wukong and given you a glorious mission..."
"Bai Shuo, I am very grateful for the time you spent with me. I still love you. Unfortunately, you are not the Bai Shuo who needs my care, and I am not the Li Zhen who can take care of Yu Fei with you...
"
Seeing the tears in Li Zhen's eyes, Bai Shuo suddenly understood Li Zhen's thoughts. Maybe what Li Zhen said was right. He had indeed brought back the emotion in his memory to more than ten years ago today.
.I thought that nothing had changed, but I didn’t know that everything was no longer what it was in my memory.
Just as Zhizunbao returned to 500 years ago with his feelings for Bai Jingjing, but he didn't know that Bai Jingjing 500 years ago was not the same person 500 years later, and the self he returned to 500 years ago was no longer just Zhizunbao, but
It is Sun Wukong who is carrying a more important mission...
Until Zhizunbao dug out his heart and saw a drop of tear left by Zixia. After all, he had traveled across the sea, five hundred years and five hundred years, and returned to the same place after going in a big circle. People cannot defeat fate, and
However, human dignity was affirmed in the struggle. At this moment, he truly understood that "life is so joyful, and death is so painful." Only then did he have the profound enlightenment to resolutely escort Tang Monk to obtain scriptures.
With his own personal experience, Bai Shuo suddenly felt that at this moment he fully understood the film "Westward Journey", or that he understood his own heart.
"Maybe you are right, but...but I need time to think about how we will get along in the future..." After a long time, Bai Shuo said in a daze.
"Me too."
Bai Shuo said again: "No matter what, I love you..."
"Me too." Li Zhen replied briefly and simply.
Although the two said they loved each other, they both knew that these were not sweet words to express love.
At this time, the film also came to an end, and Lu Guanting's emotional voice performed the ending song "The Love of a Lifetime" mesmerizingly:
The past is gone and it will never come back again
Red fallen leaves are buried in the dust
The beginning and the end are always the same
You are floating in the sky beyond the white clouds
The sea of suffering stirs up love and hate
It's hard to escape fate in this world
Blind date is inaccessible
Or I should believe it's fate
…
Listening to the familiar tune and lyrics, Li Zhen suddenly burst into tears and smiled, looking at Bai Shuo with undried tears and laughing stupidly.
Bai Shuo looked at Li Zhen who was smiling silly, and he also laughed silly.
At this time, the surrounding audience was still immersed in the comedy atmosphere of the film, discussing the classic scenes, and bursts of laughter could be heard from time to time, which seemed to reflect the giggles of Bai Shuo and Li Zhen.
Suddenly, the two of them hugged each other in unison, hugging each other tightly, reluctant to let go for a long time. It seemed that if they let go again, it would be the next life.