"Mom, why are you not sleeping?" Yaowa asked his mother sitting under the lamp with sleepy eyes, "I'll replenish the scars on your clothes, so I'll wear them in the future." After hearing his mother's answer, Yaowa slept with peace of mind.
But when I woke up the next morning, my mother was not seen inside and outside the house. Yaowa called her mother loudly, but there was no response.
Yaowa started crying anxiously. When the neighbor said that his mother might have hung herself, Yaowa ran to the forest and searched hard, but she didn't see any trace of her mother. Someone said that my mother jumped into the river, and Yaowa ran to the river to look for her, but she still found nothing.
Mom evaporated from Yaowa's world overnight. What's going on? The matter has to start with what Yaowa remembers.
01 Beg along the road and looking for his mother
936, Yaowa was born in a poor family in Peng County, Sichuan Province. Once, his father unfortunately fell from the mountain and died. The burden of the family's life fell on the shoulders of his thin mother. There are many children in the family. In order to find a way out, some of their elder brothers and sisters were sent away as apprentices, some were sold, and some were sick and died, the family was divided, and in the end, only Yaowa and mother were left to depend on each other.
Earlier, because of his father's death, his mother borrowed money to bury his father. Now the creditor comes to him every few days to force him to pay his debts. The desperate mother thought to herself that the creditor should not make things difficult for the child. So, even though she felt reluctant to leave, she still chose to look for a shortcoming.
Poor young kid, who is only seven or eight years old, becomes a rootless duckweed overnight, lonely and lonely. I could only rely on my neighbors to help me with food without any meals. I was so hungry that I couldn't hold on, so I went to someone else's field to dig radish to eat.
lasted for about half a year. My uncle heard from outside that his mother was not dead and he was a servant on a street in Chengdu with the word "copper".
When the young man found out, he seemed to shine a beam of light from the darkness. He didn't care about fear or thought about anything else. He only had three words in his mind and looked for his mother.
From Pengxian to Chengdu, Yaowa begs all the way to find her mother. She has encountered cold eyes and drives, and has also received help from kind-hearted people. A sister-in-law gave him two cakes and took him a while; and a coachman enthusiastically asked him about his mother's whereabouts. These kind deeds from strangers made Yaowa feel the long-lost warmth.
After some running around, Yaowa found the street in Chengdu with the bronze character. His small figure ran around and asked door to door. From east to west to south, there was no question. Faced with repeated hopes and disappointments, Yaowa cried and looked for it again and again, and then cried again and again.
Finally, he came to the gate of No. 2, Beida Tong Street. The janitor said that there was a man from Pengxian cooking at the mansion and asked Yaowa to wait at the door to see if it was the person he was looking for.
Waiting is the longest torment, and Yaowa is restless and is looking forward to the miracle. After a while, the mother indeed came out of the door with a grocery shopping basket. Yaowa rushed over and hugged her mother's legs tightly, and the mother and the mother burst into tears.
It turned out that when my mother jumped into the river and committed suicide, the master of Zhao's mansion rescued her and took her to cook in Zhao's mansion. Yaowa's appearance made her mother happy and worried. She comforted Yaowa not to cry and took him to beg for his wife to see if she could let Yaowa stay and give him a bowl of rice.
However, one more person means one more mouth. No matter how the mother asks for it, the wife will not agree. It happened that Ms. Zhao came back from school at this time, and her mother asked Yaowa to kneel down to the lady. Yaowa looked at Ms. Zhao, who was two or three years older than her, dressed carefully, full of energy, and was a little scared, so she kept shrinking back to her mother.
Miss Zhao looked at Yaowa's pitiful look and said that her parents kept Yaowa. Yaowa and her mother's heart finally fell into their stomachs when they reached their throats, and the mother finally didn't have to separate.
From then on, Yaowa cleaned, polished leather shoes, and took toiletries at Zhao's house, and worked hard with her mother to serve Miss Zhao's family.
But Miss Zhao never treats Yaowa as a servant, she treats Yaowa as a younger brother. Yaowa peeled fruit for her, but she only ate half of it, and left the other half for Yaowa to eat.They also chat, play, and hide cats together.
When Ms. Zhao was doing her homework, Yaowa lay down next to her and looked. Miss Zhao asked him if he wanted to learn to write, and Yaowa said she wanted to. So Ms. Zhao began to teach Yaowa to read. Seeing that Yaowa was studying very seriously, she went to persuade her parents and asked Yaowa to go to school with her.
On Sunday, Ms. Zhao took Yaowa to the movie. Yaowa asked, "What is a movie?" Miss Zhao said, "You will know when you go and see it." The feeling of watching the movie for the first time shocked Yaowa. It turned out that there are such magical and beautiful things in the world. When he was young, he was deeply attracted by the charm of the movie.
02 Calm life has stirred again
This period of time in Zhao Mansion was the happiest day for Yaowa. After working, Yaowa learned a lot of knowledge and watched a lot of movies, which greatly broadened his horizons. At that time, he was ignorant and did not realize what impact this experience would have on the direction of his life.
Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long. The mother accidentally offended the people in the mansion. The mother and son were driven out of the Zhao mansion. When Miss Zhao returned home from school, the youngest woman and her son were no longer there. None of them expected that this separation would transcend life and death, spanning half a century.
The youngest woman and his son returned to Peng County, which was liberated earlier than Chengdu. Yaowa was born into a poor peasant family and was recommended to Pengxian No. 1 Middle School by the Poor Peasants Association. Yaowa knows that this opportunity is hard-won. He is diligent and studious, and with the foundation of studying in the Zhao family for several years, Yaowa is ranked first in the exam every semester.
Later, Yaowa joined the army and became a navy. When he went home to visit his relatives, his mother told him to go and see Miss Zhao, saying that if Miss Zhao had no Miss Zhao, there would be no Yaowa now. Yaowa also thought about Miss Zhao in her heart. After hearing his mother's words, he immediately went to Beida Tong Street.
I didn’t expect that everything has changed. The Zhao Mansion in the past has become a large slum, and the Zhao family has long stopped living here. Yaowa began to write letters everywhere to inquire about Miss Zhao's whereabouts, but there was no news. Yaowa returned to the army with a heart full of loss and regret.
One day, Yaowa accompanied a naval cadre to the film academy in the city for an exam. The teacher looked at Yaowa standing next to him and asked him if he would take the exam. Yaowa said he would not take the exam. The teacher asked if you don’t like movies? Yaowa said I like it very much.
The teacher asked again, "How do you like movies?" Yaowa replied, "Every time I watch a movie, I will write down my understanding and perception of the movie, and write down the things I think are good and bad."
It turns out that every time Miss Zhao teaches him a piece of knowledge, she will ask Yaowa to write them down. For example, after watching a movie, you have to write it down. Although it is just a few simple sentences, it helped Yaowa develop a good habit of recording. He has saved up several thick movie records just by watching it.
The teacher likes the honest Yaoyao in front of him a little, so he asked him to take the exam together. Yaoyao thought about it for a moment and agreed.
The test question given by the teacher at that time was to improvise a sketch. Yaowa hurriedly asked others what a sketch is? The people next to him didn't know either. When it was his turn to take the exam, the teacher gave him a bowl, which was limited to three minutes to make up a story about the bowl, but he was not allowed to speak or explain.
Yaowa was holding a bowl, thinking about the bowl, and I don’t know where to start. When I was anxious, I suddenly had an inspiration, remembering something that had happened in the Zhao Mansion before.
One day, the master and his wife smoked cigarettes on the bed, and the wife wanted to eat oil tea . My mother bought oil tea from outside and handed it to Yaowa and said: Hot, be careful.
Yaow carefully walked in with the bowl. The wife who was smoking big cigarettes got up lazily to pick up the bowl. Yaowa thought the wife had held it, so she let go. Unexpectedly, the bowl fell to the ground with a slap, and the splash of oil tea made the wife hot.
When Yaowa thought of this scene, she imagined that she was holding a bowl of oil tea in her hand, pretending to cross the threshold, and slowly handing the bowl to the teacher. When the teacher was about to catch it, he let go and the bowl broke.
Yaowa was very scared and knelt in front of the teacher with a pounce. His tears in horror but at a loss deeply moved the judges. Finally, the teacher said that among all the sketches that day, Yaowa's performance was the best.
03 Meet again, the past has been rushed
, so my wife was admitted to the film academy and later became an excellent director. From participating in the filming of films such as "Little Soldier Zhang Ga", "The Story of the Storm", and later dominated many excellent dramas such as "The Mysterious Buddha", "Han of the White", etc., it set a precedent for the Chinese Kung Fu martial arts films and made great contributions to the Chinese film cause.
This young man is the famous Zhang Huaxun director. He has been grateful for his for years. He said that if Miss Zhao had not taken him in and laid some cultural foundation for teaching him to read and read, he would not have gone to middle school and joined the army; if Miss Zhao had not taken him to watch movies to broaden his horizons and teach him to develop good habits of recording, he would not have had his career in making movies later.
In many films directed by Zhang Huaxun, they are full of deep chivalrous feelings, and the kind and loving Miss Zhao is the heroine in Director Zhang’s heart. After work, Director Zhang was also looking for his benefactor, Ms. Zhao. His mother still missed her until her death and told him to find Ms. Zhao.
failed to find Miss Zhao before her mother died. It was not only a regret of her mother, but also a regret of Director Zhang. But time flies and the world changes, from black hair to white hair, where is the footprint of Miss Zhao?
By chance, director Zhang Huaxun learned that CCTV had a search program that had helped many people find their long-lost old friends, so Director Zhang asked the program team to help him find Ms. Zhao.
At the program, as the door of hope slowly opened, the 81-year-old Director Zhang stared at the door tightly, his lips trembling uncontrollably. Seeing the 83-year-old Miss Zhao walking towards her step by step with the help of the staff, the silver-haired Director Zhang burst into tears.
He held Miss Zhao's arm and staggered down, and said while kneeling, "Miss, I have worked so hard to find you!" Miss Zhao, who was crying, also staggered down and knelt down. Director Zhang was excited and murmured, "Miss, you are still the same. My mother has always missed you very much, and I miss you very much."
Two elderly people finally met again after 71 years. The scene of them kneeling and hugging each other and crying each other moved the audience.
It turns out that Miss Zhao is the only daughter of the family. Yaowa's arrival gave her a playmate. In addition, Zhang's mother took care of her meticulously, and she felt that Yaowa and her son were her relatives.
Not long after they separated, the Zhao family moved, and then Miss Zhao went to work in Tibet and did not return to Sichuan until she retired.
"The Mysterious Buddha" directed by Director Zhang was a sensation and hit a box office of over 100 million in an era when the ticket price was only 25 cents. Miss Zhao also went to see this movie at that time, but she didn't know that the director was Yaowa from that year, and she didn't expect that Yaowa had been working hard to find her for so many years.
After they reunited, they went to visit Director Zhang's mother's grave together. Director Zhang said with a relaxed look: "Mom, I found the lady. Your wish is fulfilled. Let's see you."
Miss Zhao bowed deeply and choked and said, "Mom Zhang is the best to me. Sorry, I'm late."
written at the end
The story of director Zhang Huaxun and Miss Zhao is deeply touching. The deepest concern in the world is this. No matter how time changes, no matter how things change, the heart of "finding you" is still the same as before, without any sway.
Ms. Zhao's kind act that year opened the door to a new world for Yaowa. But Yaowa is always grateful and persistent in searching, so she has the possibility of reunion.
is as Hugo said: "A kind heart is the sun." Perhaps a sincere sentence or action can bring hope and strength to others in the mud.
and working hard to become a better self is the best reward for those who have helped themselves. Kindness, hard work and gratitude are always the main tones of our lives.
Author: Yuanfang
Reviewer: Red tiles and green wall
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Editing: Flowers blooming season
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