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"The whole play did not say a word of bitterness, but it was bitter to the sky; the whole play did not say a word of love, but it was love to the bone marrow." This is a review written by many people after watching the movie " Hidden into the dust and smoke ". This movie was filmed in our hometown, and the characters in the play all speak our hometown dialect, which sounds very friendly.
The male protagonist, the male protagonist, is an honest but principled bachelor, who gave his brother a free job for most of his life, and he had nothing except the donkey; the female protagonist, Cao Guiying, has a lame urinary incontinence, has no ability to work or have fertility, and lives in a shack, which has become a burden for his brother and sister-in-law. Later, through introduction, two people on the marginal side of society formed a new home.
They have each other in their hearts, but they have never said the word "love" in their mouths, but interpreted "love" through practical actions. In the cold winter, before dawn, I went out to the city to pull furniture for my nephew, and I had not come back until the evening. Guiying couldn't rest assured, so she held a cup of hot water in her arms and watched the entrance of the village. I couldn't wait any longer. The water in the can was cold. She limped home to change the hot water...
When I walked to the entrance of the village, I blamed her for guarding her in the cold weather. But when he drank the hot water that Guiying handed him, he must be sweet inside. Similarly, after he put on the newly bought coat for Guiying, Guiying's heart was also sweet inside. True love needs to be conveyed. Many times, what conveys this love is not the coffee from a high-end Western restaurant, but a cup of hot water in ordinary places.
There is such a couple. The boy lives in the north of the city, and the girl lives in the south of the city with his brother and sister-in-law. One night, the girl caught a cold and wanted to drink some hot water. The kettle was in my brother's room, but my brother went to work evening and the door was locked. So she sent a WeChat message to the boy, saying that the cold was very uncomfortable and she wanted to take medicine but there was no hot water. The boy replied to the message and said he would wait for a moment. After getting out of bed, he found his own cup and then poured a cup of hot water. He was worried that the water would become cold on the way to his girlfriend's house, so he put the cup into cotton gloves and put a box of cold medicine into his pocket.
After going downstairs, he took a taxi to his girlfriend's house. She was moved when he handed the hot water and cold medicine to his girlfriend, and then hugged him tightly in his arms... Although they finally broke up for various reasons, on that cold night, the cup of hot water brought from the north of the city ten kilometers away accurately witnessed the sincere love between them.
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The movie "Invisible in the Dust and Smoke" was filmed in our hometown. Some viewers said that rural life in the northwest region is still so difficult. In fact, this is just a microcosm of people on the marginal side of society. In today's rural areas, living conditions have improved greatly. It is still not easy to find people like "Horse with Tie" in the countryside. However, if time can be reversed, for example, in 20 years, there are still many people like "Horse with Tie".
20 years ago, I was in high school. There was a family in our village, with three brothers and two sisters (married). The eldest son has his own home and lives with his son and daughter-in-law. The second son lives with his wife in the old house. There is a sheep pen in the yard and a small house next to the sheep pen. The third son, who has been bachelor, lives in it. There are more than 30 sheep in the family, and the third child’s job is to herd sheep regardless of wind or rain. These sheep are all the assets of the second child. The third child works for him and has no salary, but the second husband and wife are responsible for his food, clothing, housing and transportation.
The third brother speaks a little stutters, and he also has to help the second brother work during the busy farming season. When he was 39 years old, he was introduced to a new home with a woman suffering from polio in the neighboring village. His new home was built with the help of the eldest and second brothers and villagers. After the separation, the second child divided the second child into three parts, six sheep, one donkey, and three acres of land. Compared to Ma You Tie Wu's ruthless brother in "Hidden into the Dust", the eldest and second brother are considered conscientious.
The third brother and his wife, who are inconvenient in their legs and feet, are often busy in the fields. In addition to the work in the field, he also had to take time to herd sheep and dig medicinal materials. Our hometown is full of ravines, and there are many medicinal materials such as Bupleurum . They grow on the edge of the cliff. The third brother is like a goat, with agility. Those Bupleurum growing on the edge of the cliff can be dug back by him.
When the third brother grazed the sheep, there was a kettle hanging around his neck. The pot was filled with the "public water" burned by his wife - a handful of wheat was fried, and then sprinkled into the boiling water that had just been boiled, and it became the wheat-scented public water. Once, the third brother went to herd sheep after finishing the work in the field. He forgot to take the kettle, and in the end his wife limped to find him with the kettle. The scene was very similar to Cao Guiying who was waiting for Ma Youtie to go home at the entrance of the village in "Hidden into the Dust".
In "Hidden into the Dust and Smoke", Guiying fell into a turbulent canal while delivering food to Youtien. When Youtien arrived at the canal, Guiying had no breathing. He was so disheartened that he paid off all his debts, and then let the donkey go and took medicine to commit suicide. The third brother in my hometown was unable to accompany my wife for the rest of her life. Once, he fell down while digging medicinal materials on the edge of a cliff, and when the villagers found him, they no longer breathed. His wife became mentally ill not long after. Two years later, she died of illness...
This was 20 years ago. Now my hometown has undergone earth-shaking changes. People with good conditions have all had two-story western-style buildings, and the second is also brick and tile houses. Many families have bought private cars. There are very few villagers raising sheep, no one will sheep be sheep, and no one will dig medicinal materials on the edge of the cliff, because medicinal materials have been planted on a large scale...
My hometown has become rich, but deep in my memory, there are still the third sheep sheep, and it cannot be removed for a long time.
