Chapter 468: The Runaway Little Sister
Because it was the Spring Festival, the Qingshui County cinema was almost full, and most of the people were young people and students who came in groups to have fun.
Anyone who has watched a movie in the 1980s knows that if the audience in the cinema is mainly composed of small groups of a dozen people who know each other, the viewing environment will definitely be buzzing and not very good.
This is indeed the case. When the movie just started, the buzzing sound of idle chatter made Li Ye feel a little uncomfortable, but soon no one spoke.
Because "The Garland under the Mountain" looks like a war film, but it is filled with a lot of plots about human nature. The wonderful plot and excellent performances of the actors quickly aroused psychological resonance among ordinary audiences.
"Why didn't Deputy Company Commander Jin approve even a third-class merit?"
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"There is no violation of discipline. I agreed to cutting sugarcane on the battlefield."
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"I want to report it to XX, to the capital."
Looking at Zhao Mengsheng on the screen, who was suppressing his resentment because his deputy company commander was suppressed from receiving merit awards, Li Ye couldn't help but sigh that good literary works will never be buried.
When filming "Homesick Soldier" and "Spring Comes and Goes", Li Ye did not specify that Lao Xie must be the director. It was the Shanghai Film Studio that decided that Lao Xie was the most suitable director.
Due to Li Ye's interference, the filming unit of "The Garland under the Mountain" was changed from Shanghai Film Studio to August 1st Film Studio.
But although Li Ye disrupted the trajectory of history, this movie somehow corrected it back to its original path. It is a very classic, very beautiful and very bold film.
The original author wrote the novel boldly, and the director also made the movie boldly.
The leading actor is still a handsome actor named Tang, because he is originally an actor from the Bayi Film Studio, and with his performance in this movie, he successfully got rid of the label of a pretty boy.
Especially in the part after the war, he performed very well, his behavior, words and lines all touched the hearts of the audience.
However, Li Ye believes that the best and most touching parts of the entire drama are the supporting roles.
Little BJ, Commander Lei, Deputy Company Commander Jin's family, Liang Sanxi's mother and wife
When the movie showed the old mother and family of the company commander Liang Sanxi selling the big fat pig to pay off their debts, even Li Ye, who had written novels and was familiar with all kinds of sensational techniques, couldn't help but feel a lump in his throat and discomfort in his eyes.
In this age where "debts are paid off when one dies", after receiving the death notice, the family of a martyr sold the fat pig immediately and traveled thousands of miles with the money to pay off the martyr's debt. What kind of moral quality does this show?
The problem is that this plot is based on a real prototype.
It is said that when the original author was communicating with the filming crew, he strongly requested that this section should not be deleted, even if it was criticized for mistreating the martyrs.
This is also what Li Ye admires the most. The original author did reflect some negative things in his work, but what he wanted to show most was the "greatness of ordinary people" rather than smearing the darkness of human nature.
And the greatness of this ordinary person really infected all the audience.
When the film ended, many of the audience members around Li Ye had wet eyes, and his two little sisters had red noses from crying, and they didn't even bother to eat the roasted melon seeds in their hands.
The little girl wiped her tears and said: "Why did they let little BJ die? Why did so many adults let him, the youngest one, fight against the bunker?"
Sister Li Ying wiped her nose and said, "You are the youngest and you don't want to build a bunker? You are the youngest in the family and you are not used to doing any work."
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After the movie was over, everyone crowded into the aisle and slowly walked out, discussing the various things that had happened in the movie.
Among middle school students of the same age as Li Juan and Li Ying, the character that was discussed the most was Little BJ.
They are too close in age, it’s so heartbreaking.
"Brother, did you say that the medal that little BJ received was a first-class merit?"
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Li Ye was silent for a moment, then whispered, "In principle, wounded soldiers are eligible for third-class merit, disabled soldiers are eligible for second-class merit, and dead soldiers are eligible for first-class merit. However, as family members, we never want our loved ones to receive first-class merit."
In Li Ye's previous life, he happened to pass by a small town on the border of Yunnan Province around the Qingming Festival. As a result, when he checked into the hotel at night, there was not a single empty bed in the dozens of hotels in the county town, as all the guests were there to mourn the martyrs.
After a little asking, I found out that most of those who came to sweep the tombs were the fathers and mothers of the martyrs, and most of their sons were very young when they died.
So even though Li Ye passed by in a hurry and did not see the rows of tombstones on the hillside, he knew that there were countless children like little BJ buried in the high mountains around the county.
Following the crowded crowd, the three siblings finally left the cinema, and the entrance of the cinema was already crowded with audiences waiting to enter the next show.
"Brother, there's a place selling candied haws. Two strings for 1 cent. They're so sweet. Wait for me, I'll go buy some for you."
Ever since Li Ye asked Li Ying to learn to be sweet-talking that day, the little girl listened to him. However, she only spoke sweet-talking to Li Ye, because being sweet-talking to others was useless and might even result in a loss.
Li Ye would never let his sister go to buy it, so he immediately said, "I'll go buy it! You guys just stand here and don't move!"
"Oh, we won't move. Brother, please choose carefully when you buy it. There are big ones and small ones. If you don't choose, he will give you the small one."
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Li Ye smiled and went over to buy a bunch of candied haws for fifty cents, intending to take them back to let his family have a taste. Even though his grandmother was old and not very greedy, who didn't like to taste something sweet?
However, when Li Ye came back after buying the candied haws, he saw a middle-aged man with a little boy standing in front of his two sisters.
"Xiaojuan, Xiaoying, you two are here to watch a movie again!"
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Li Ye looked at the middle-aged man in front of him and thought carefully. He should have never seen him before.
But the tone of this person's voice was very strange, not at all polite, and what did he mean by "coming to the movies again?"
Is it your business?
Li Ye was about to ask who the other person was, but Li Juan took Li Ying's hand, turned around and walked to the right.
Li Ye's eyes narrowed, because the two sisters looked like they were "hiding."
"Where are you two going?"
The middle-aged man stretched out his hand to stop Li Juan and Li Ying with some embarrassment, but suddenly he felt someone grabbing the back collar of his cotton-padded jacket and pulling it back violently, which made his throat feel uncomfortable.
Li Ye grabbed the middle-aged man, twisted his head, and asked coldly: "Who are you? What do you want to do?"
The middle-aged man turned around and saw that Li Ye was a young man. He immediately said angrily: "Hey, what are you doing? What are you doing, kid?"
"Zizi" is a dirty word used by Dongshan people to insult others. Generally, when adults scold minors or young adults, they habitually call them "zizi".
But Li Ye didn't care whether it was a habit or not. It was inconvenient to hold the candied haws in his right hand, so he grabbed the opponent's collar with his left hand, stretched out his right leg to grab the opponent's calf, and tripped and pulled him.
“Plop~”
The middle-aged man fell heavily to the ground, and then Li Ye stepped on his knee, making it impossible for him to get up.
"Wow~, why did you hit my dad? Why did you hit my dad?"
The little boy who followed the middle-aged man started crying and grabbed Li Ye's trouser legs and beat him.
"Get out of the way~, get out of the way~"
"You hit my dad, I'll fight you~"
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Li Ye frowned, things were a bit tricky.
The little boy in front of him weighed only fifty or sixty kilograms. Li Ye could kick him ten meters away with one kick, but he didn't dare to lift his foot.
Poor Li Ye, the well-known fool in Qingshui County, a street fighter who could beat ten people, was unable to fight back when faced with a beating from a weak little boy.
But just as the little boy grabbed Li Ye's legs and rubbed his snot and tears onto his pants, the little sister Li Ying rushed over and kicked the little boy.
"Fuck you~"
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Although Li Ying occasionally quarreled with her sister and even fought with her, she seldom cursed at her because cursing could easily lead to a more violent attack from the other party.
At such a young age, she knows how to seek benefits and avoid harm. Just think about what she has experienced in the past few years.
But today she not only hit people, but also cursed them, and it was obvious that she was extremely angry.
The middle-aged man's next words made Li Ye angry as well.
"What are you doing? Why are you hitting your brother? How can you be so cruel, you bastard? He's your brother."
"Come on, come on, hit me, beat your dad to death, beat your own dad to death"
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Li Ye finally knew who the middle-aged man in front of him was.
Han Chunmei’s ex-husband, Bi Hongwei.
Li Ye had only heard of this man but had never seen him. After all, he had driven Han Chunmei and her daughter out of the house many years before Han Chunmei married Li Kaijian.
However, the people around did not know that Bi Hongwei had kicked Han Chunmei and her daughter out of the house. After hearing what Bi Hongwei said, they said all kinds of things.
"Oh my, the daughter hit her own father, shouldn't God strike her down?"
"Do they look alike to you? Look at the cotton-padded jacket the father is wearing, and then look at the fur that the little girl is wearing. Do they look like a family?"
"But why didn't those two little girls fight back? How could they not fight back for something like this? If someone said it was your father, would you not fight back?"
"Bah, you dare? I'll knock all his teeth out."
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The chattering and rumors from the people around him seemed to give Bi Hongwei, who was lying on the ground, a shot of adrenaline, making him even more erect, and he arched his back provocatively towards the little sister Li Ying.
"Xiaojuan, Xiaoying, come and help me hold the candied haws. I'm leaving."
Li Ye handed the candied haws to his sister and asked them to hold it. Then he let go of the middle-aged man under his feet, glanced at him coldly, and thought about leaving without stepping on this pile of stinky dog shit.
But Bi Hongwei became excited and lay on the ground, shouting things like "Come and trample your father to death".
Li Ye couldn't bear it anymore and turned around to step on him again.
But the little sister Li Ying got ahead of Li Ye, jumped over and stepped hard on Bi Hongwei.
(End of this chapter)
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