Chapter 1521 Are the fairy tales we have heard true?
The first reaction of many viewers when seeing "Ghost Town" is that this is the place where ghosts live, including Edward in the movie.
But they soon discovered that was not the case!
Under the lens, this is a main street, lined with shops: Cole's Pharmacy, Talbot's Discount Store, Al's Grocery. Although everything here is old, there are no ghosts. Twenty
Several small town residents ran into the streets and watched Edward approaching. Many people were laughing, and some even shed tears of joy.
Also, what is surprising is that all these people are barefoot.
At this time, a voice came: "Friend!"
A 40-year-old man came out of the seed shop to greet Edward. His attitude was very friendly, but he looked a little drunk.
His name is Biman, which is equivalent to the mayor of the town.
He was holding a binder. Beeman looked at Edward and said with a smile: "Welcome. What's your name?"
Edward replied: "Edward Bloom."
Beaman checked the binder but did not find Edward's name. He flipped through a few more pages and continued to look...
Beeman: “Does ‘Bloom’ mean flower?”
Edward: "Yes."
Beaman exclaimed: "Oh, here! Right here, Edward Bloom. But we didn't expect you to come so early."
Edward was still confused: "You knew I was coming?"
Biman nodded: "I didn't expect it to be so early."
At this time, a woman intervened to help.
She called Mildred: "You must have taken a shortcut here."
Edward: "Yeah, I almost died."
Beaman: "Well, that's how life is. The road is easy, but the road is long!"
Mildred nodded in agreement: "It's very long."
Beeman: "But the important thing is that you are already here."
Biman's daughter Zhen hid behind her father and secretly looked at this handsome stranger.
Edward asked curiously: "What place is this?"
Beaman: "Ghost Town, the best-kept secret in Alabama. You're from Ashton, right? The last person from Ashton was North Winslow."
Edward was surprised: "That poet? How is he?"
Beaman: "He's still here. I'll buy you something to drink and tell you everything later. Hell, let him tell you."
Edward: "No. I have to meet with someone else. I'm already late."
This was not a joke, but somehow everyone laughed.
Beaman: "Son, I told you a long time ago that you are here early."
In fact, the audience who watched this section was very confused and felt a little baffled. Why did they know that Edward was coming?
And what exactly is this place?
The scene changes and Edward comes to Beaman's house.
Edward sat at the long table and picked up the second apple pie. North Winslow, a man about thirty or so, the "poet", was also sitting at the long table. He imagined himself as a cultivated scholar.
A profound artist, even though he never left Alabama.
Beeman: "Is this the best pie you've ever had?"
Edward was convinced: "Absolutely."
Under the table, Jenny secretly untied Edward's shoelaces.
North Winslow: "Everything here is delicious, and even the water is sweet. The weather is neither cold nor hot, nor humid. At night, the breeze blows through the treetops, as if they are playing a symphony for you."
Suddenly, Jenny took off Edward's shoes and ran towards the door holding the shoes.
Edward: "Hey!"
He ran out after her and soon reached the street.
Jenny tied the laces of Edward's shoes together as she ran. When she reached the edge of the town, she threw the shoes up onto the wires! Her throwing technique was impeccable. It seemed that Edward would not be able to take them off.
The onlookers cheered Edward, who was bewildered and bewildered. Women hugged him and men shook hands with him.
Edward was still looking at his shoes, and he looked confused: "Wait! I want my shoes!"
North Winslow Aria: "There is no land softer than Ghost Town."
Mildred: "What a beautiful line!"
Beaman: "He's our poet laureate."
The townspeople continue to congratulate Edward...
Edward's voiceover sounded: "Sometimes you dream of places that seem familiar to you, and there are friends you have never met everywhere."
This narration made many people think deeply.
Or is this Edward's dream?
The movie continues, at dusk, under a tree.
Edward and North Winslow sat together. Fireflies were flying about, thousands of them.
Edward's voice narrated again: "It may be difficult for a person to find such an alluring place in his entire life. My journey has just begun, and I have arrived at such a place."
Norther handed his notebook to Edward.
North Winslow said quite proudly: "It took me twelve years to write this poem."
Edward was in disbelief: "Really?"
North Winslow nodded: "Everyone's expectations are very high, and I don't want to disappoint my poetry fans."
Edward hesitated, paused for a moment and couldn't help but said: "There are only three lines."
Norther grabbed the notebook.
North Winslow: "So, never show unfinished work to anyone."
Edward asked: "Northern, do you regret not going to Paris?"
North Winslow: "I can't think of a better place to be."
Edward: "You are a poet, you should travel around. Only when you see more can you write good poems."
Norther looked at the notebook and made no response.
As night fell, under the light of the full moon, Edward dipped his feet in the river, trying to figure out everything that happened suddenly. The "key to the city" was swinging in his chest.
Looking at his reflection in the water, he smiled.
At this moment, in the distance, on the other side of the river, a woman's figure appeared. It was hard to tell where she came from. She must have swam under the water. No one could see her face.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The woman stood in the water, with her back to Edward. She only squeezed out the water from her blond hair, unaware of Edward's presence. Edward couldn't breathe, it was him
It was the first time he saw such a graceful body of a woman. He didn't dare to move for fear of scaring her away.
Later, he saw a snake.
This should be a water-bellied snake, which was swimming towards the woman. There was no time to think about it, Edward jumped into the water completely out of instinct and swam desperately. At the moment when the snake was about to attack, he caught it.
The woman also jumped into the water and disappeared. She was afraid that the man would approach her.
Edward shouted: "Don't go, it's okay! I caught it, I caught the snake."
The turbulent water surface gradually calmed down, and Edward looked at the thing he was holding. Where was the snake? It was just an ordinary branch, not dangerous at all.
Edward looked around, but unfortunately she was nowhere to be found. He didn't even see the woman's face.
Edward continued: "Wait! I'm sorry. Hello?"
Edward waited, hoping that she would surface again, but his hope was in vain. He stood alone in the water, wondering what trick his eyes were doing, and he mistook the branches for snakes.
At this moment, a childish voice sounded: "There are leeches in the water!"
Edward looked towards the shore and saw that it was Jenny.
Edward asked her: "Did you see that woman?"
Jenny asked him: "What does she look like?"
Edward wanted to answer: "Well, she... um..."
It's a pity that he didn't see her appearance clearly at all, so naturally he couldn't answer this question.
But Jenny seemed to know: “Are you naked?”
Edward was a little embarrassed, but he still nodded: "Yes."
Jenny laughed: "That's not a woman, it's a fish. No one can catch her."
Edward didn't want to think about the strange things that happened today, and he was ready to wade ashore.
Jenny continued: "Different people look at that fish differently. My dad said that when he was a child, it looked like the bear dog he used to raise came back to life."
Edward climbed ashore, soaking wet all over. He rolled up his trousers and found three translucent water frogs clinging to his skin.
Edward went a little crazy: "Damn it."
On the way back to the town, Edward and Jenny started chatting.
Jenny asked him: "How old are you?"
Edward replied: "18 years old."
Jenny smiled and said innocently: "I am 8 years old. In other words, I am 18 years old and you are 28 years old. When I am 28 years old, you are only 38 years old."
Edward didn't know why Jenny said this, so he said cautiously: "Your arithmetic is pretty good."
Jenny said: "When I am 38 years old, you will be 48 years old. The age gap is nothing at all."
When Edward heard this, he was eager to end the topic. He quickly said: "But it's much worse now, huh?"
When Edward and Jenny approached the main street, they found that the middle of the street was filled with lanterns and streamers. A small stage was set up at one end of the road, and a violinist was playing.
The whole town was celebrating Edward Bloom as its new resident. Before Edward could protest, two women grabbed him by the arms and pulled him in for a dance. Everyone from the farmer to the baker's wife was celebrating.
Wanting to dance with Edward, he felt like a small stick in a whirlpool, spinning around constantly.
Jenny grabbed his hands and spun them around wildly.
Beaman grabbed his daughter and danced with her. Then Mildred stepped in to dance with Edward.
Everyone laughed loudly, almost drowning out the music.
Mildred smiled: "Jenny thinks you are a lovely person, we all think so."
Edward couldn't hear what they were saying at all: "What?"
Mildred shouted: "I said you were a lovely person!"
Edward's dance stopped. He walked to Beaman, and Jenny was sitting on her father's shoulders.
Edward said: "I have to go, I'll set off tonight."
Beeman didn't understand: "Why?"
Edward said seriously: "Everything a man wants to get is available in this town. And if I die here, I will consider it a blessing. But at the moment, I don't plan to stay somewhere for a long time."
Beaman shook his head: "No one leaves here."
Jenny: "How can I walk without shoes?"
Edward: "I think my feet will hurt a lot."
After saying this, Edward left. Everyone stopped dancing. They felt it was incredible, and some people shook their heads.
Poor Edward Bloom must be crazy.
Beeman shouted after Edward: "You won't find a better place than here!"
Jenny ran to Edward: "Promise me you will come back."
Edward: "I promise, I will definitely come back on the day I should come back."
Edward walked on, for he had no shoes, and it was so terrible that Edward walked barefoot through the thorns, and he could hardly stand it.
Then things got worse and worse.
The trees ahead were moving, and at first it looked as if the wind was blowing their branches, but when he heard the creaking and crackling of the wood, he became convinced that they were trying to block Edward's path.
Snake-like roots shot out from the ground and wrapped around his ankles. Edward jumped up and grabbed the branches. He swung over like a swing and rolled on the ground. Now, all the trees moved to block him, and in the flash of lightning
In the electric light, they stood like towers.
Edward's voiceover sounded: "Getting out of Ghost Town is as difficult as going there, but I am destined to go there. After all, no one can escape the fate of death."
As he was hiding under the branches, the branches caught his key chain and he was almost strangled. But the chain finally broke and the silver key fell into the soil and disappeared.
Edward crawled forward, trying to find an exit, but the trees surrounded him. Their sharp branches bent down, trying to crush him to death.
He screamed desperately into the dark night until he couldn't breathe.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Edward's voiceover sounded: "Later I realized that this was not the end of my life."
Ed said loudly and calmly: "This is not how I died."
There was a flash of lightning. Suddenly, the trees retreated and returned to their original positions. Edward lay barefoot in the muddy puddle, laughing in the rain.
Edward finally walked out of here and stepped onto the asphalt road with his bare feet.
A deep voice: "Friend!"
Edward turned around and saw Karl on his right, walking down the wide road.
Karl asked in surprise and confusion: "Where are your shoes?"
Edward looked down at his bloody feet and said, "They walk in front of me."
After saying this, the two men began to walk onto a wider road.
This story is obviously untrue, but this time it made many people think deeply. Edward's story is obviously just like what his son said, and you can tell it is false as soon as you hear it.
But are they really fake? We have heard so many fairy tales and believed them to be true when we were children. Why do we like to question them when we grow up?
Those experiences seemed fake, but for some reason, everyone couldn't help but think about what they were at this moment.
When the camera changed again, just when everyone was curious about what kind of journey Edward would have with the giant card man, they returned to reality and the present.
Inside the dining room of Edward and Sandra's home.
Edward and Will, father and son, sat opposite each other at the two ends of the table, with Sandra and Josephine sitting in the middle. Although there was only a small plate of food in front of Edward, he didn't eat it. It was obvious that his illness still affected him, even if he just walked down the stairs.
It exhausted him, but he decided to maintain the old tradition of family dinners.
