my bamboo horse rider

Tang Jin held the phone in one hand, piled up the pillows with the other, and thought for a while: "I don't know, you can choose."

Qin Beichen chose a movie, and shared the members of the video website with Tang Jin to log in together. The two clicked on the movie at the same time, tried three times, and finally succeeded in synchronizing the audio and video.

""The Flames of Blue", 2003," Tang Jin on the other end of the phone read out the title, "It's such an early movie. Thank you for finding it."

"I've seen it before."

Qin Beichen cast the movie on the TV, put the tablet aside, sat down on the carpet against the sofa, and held the phone in his hand.

The black neck of the Bose bluetooth headset wrapped around his fair neck, and one earphone was plugged into his ear. Tang Jin’s voice was softer than usual when he just woke up, and it sounded sticky in his ears. He hummed lightly and responded to Tang Jin.

On the screen, the opening subtitles are hidden, and the background music plays.

[A hand appeared on the screen, slightly curled up, as if trying to hold something, or searching in the air.

The camera pans down, and the owner of that hand can be seen, a teenager in a Japanese school uniform, lying in an aquarium without water.

The teenager sat up, stepped out of the aquarium, stepped on the bed next to the aquarium, put on his shoes, carried his schoolbag, put on his watch, and turned off one by one in this very individual room converted from a garage. With all the lights on, the picture is plunged into total darkness. 】

"I like this room." Tang Jin whispered at the other end, "It can store a lot of tools. For bicycle repairers, you can just open the door and ride your bicycle. I also want to live in the garage."

Qin Beichen didn't have any thoughts, but he hummed to show that he heard it.

[The boy opened the rolling door, and the bright morning light outside the door quickly rolled up, lighting up the whole screen, then the rolling door was pulled down by the boy, the screen went dark again, the title of the film appeared on the screen, and when the screen was lit again, the boy was riding a cross country The car was speeding on the highway, rushing to the school. 】

"It's a campus movie?" Tang Jin guessed. As soon as he asked, he saw the late boy buying a bottle of bourbon in a black bag from a classmate, claiming to be a regular customer.

Qin Beichen replied: "Probably, it should be classified as a crime movie."

Tang Jin in the earphone smiled, and asked softly, "When did you watch it, and how did you think of watching this kind of tragedy?"

"Ten years old," Qin Beichen said, and smiled, "Someone recommended this movie in the post of 'watching a movie that will make you feel better'. I didn't understand the sinister heart at that time, so I watched it according to the recommendation. gone."

When Tang Jin heard this, his mood changed for the better. It turns out that Qin Qin, who is omnipotent and omniscient in his family, also had a Xiaobai period.

"Wow, you will also be cheated one day! Then, how do you feel after watching it?"

"Yes, it's pretty."

This answer is less interesting.

Tang Jin groaned twice and continued watching the movie.

The protagonist of this movie is a boy named Kushimori Shuuichi.

He lives with his mother and younger sister, likes to draw, is very smart, and has a vague affection for Kiko, a classmate.

Such a boy, facing the tape recorder, planned to kill his stepfather.

The stepfather who was divorced but still stayed at home was an alcoholic and violent bad man, a shadow that threatened the safety of everyone in the family.Xiuyi was very dissatisfied with her mother's attitude of not resolutely kicking out her stepfather, so she took the initiative to seek help from a lawyer, but her mother seemed unwilling to talk to a lawyer. Xiuyi suspected that her mother still wanted to get back with someone like her stepfather, but when her mother heard this The expression on his face as if he was stabbed when he spoke, proved that this was not the case.

Tang Jin didn't speak any more, just watched quietly.

The family drama is mixed with what happened at school and the part-time convenience store. Xiuyi and her friends trampled on Kiko's watercolor in the fight, and Kiko asked her to accompany her to buy it on the rest day.After the scene of working part-time in a convenience store, the scene that appears is the boy and Noriko visiting the aquarium.

Tang Jin laughed dazedly: "What about buying watercolors? It's just a date."

"Ah."

Qin Beichen responded, and then asked, "Sleepy? Are you going to sleep?"

There was a sound of rubbing against the pillow in the earphones, probably Tang Jin was shaking his head: "Keep watching."

"it is good."

[In order to be able to protect his mother and sister in time, Xiuyi has developed a habit of always paying attention to the sounds upstairs. Any unusual noise will alert him, and he will immediately listen to it, for fear that his stepfather is hurting his mother or sister. 】

"It's so realistic." Tang Jin's voice sounded like he was about to fall asleep in a minute, very, very softly.

Qin Beichen's voice became softer: "Indeed."

【When he heard his stepfather harassing his sister, Xiuyi couldn't bear it any longer. At that moment, he forgot about his criminal plan and rushed upstairs with a baseball bat in his hand. He yelled at his stepfather, intending to rush up and attack him.But the younger sister ran over and hugged her brother's waist, begging him not to be impulsive. 】

Qin Beichen suddenly noticed that the breathing in the earphones became steady and long, so he paused the movie.

"Candy?"

Tang Jin fell asleep.

The movie only played for less than half an hour.

Qin Beichen couldn't turn off the video on Tang Jin's side, so he could only mute the TV on his side.

The movie continued silently, and familiar plots were staged one by one.

In order to protect his mother and sister, Xiuyi calmly implemented the plan and killed his stepfather with drugs and excessive current.

The cruel thing is that Xiuyi only learned after committing the crime that her stepfather was suffering from cancer, and his life was not long.However, the water is hard to recover.Xiuyi, who could have a bright future, even killed the gangster friend who blackmailed him in order to cover up the evidence.

[Kiko came to visit out of worry, but Xiuyi was irritable because of inner fear, which seemed to scare her away.But Kiko didn't leave, their eyes met through the glass of the aquarium, the beauty that they could no longer have, silently, made Xiuyi shed tears.

They go out together and take a walk on the seawall.

Xiuyi: "What do you like?"

Ji Zi: "Yes, whatever you like is fine, write down everything you think of."

Noriko: "Write it all out, and the mood will become unbelievably peaceful."]

Qin Beichen recalled that after watching a movie, his ten-year-old self held a pen, opened the book and turned to a blank page, and did not write a word for a long time.

He doesn't like toys.

Of course, the food has a preferred taste, but it is not to the extent that I like it.

He is sure that he will read better books, use better computers, and see better movies in the future.

He doesn't have much emotion, and it's hard to feel nostalgia for things.

What about people?

Don't like my mother.Only like the mother's father.Grandparents, uncles, aunts, and elder brothers who don't see each other often.A stupid monkey who always sticks to himself with a smile.

He moved the pen, and as soon as he wrote a point on the paper, his face burned.

As soon as the nib is turned, that point changes from a stroke of a Chinese character to a stroke of a letter.

In the end, only one word was written on the paper.

Candy

When I came back to my senses, the movie on the screen had come to an end.

[Finally, Xiuyi bid farewell to Kiko and left the studio.

He is riding on a dirt bike, riding on the road like at the beginning of the movie.

A truck appears in the shot.

Xiuyi's eyes seemed to have made up his mind, he turned the front of the car, and the off-road vehicle drove towards the path of the truck.

The picture went black, and when it turned on again, it was Ji Zi in the studio. She was not crying, but was enduring.

At the same time, the narration sounded, it was Xiuyi's voice. 】

Tang Jin didn't want to sleep, he wanted to watch the movie with Qin Beichen, but the drowsiness was out of his control, covering him like a gentle place where he could escape everything.

The scene he saw while half asleep and half awake made him feel vaguely familiar, as if he had hugged someone's waist to prevent that person from making mistakes in order to protect himself.

When he was about to fall asleep, he still grasped the key words and thought, yes, to protect Qin Qin.

The movie screen quickly disappeared, replaced by memories that I did not know how many times I recalled.

On the first day when they arrived in a strange country, the enthusiasm of the receptionist temporarily suppressed the uneasiness in the hearts of the two children. At night, the receptionist instructed them to lie on the bamboo mat on the balcony to cool off, facing the night sky full of stars. Feeling the past, Tang Jin looked at it, and the uneasiness in his heart surged again.

Unfamiliar adults chatted and laughed not far away, even if they were friendly, they were still complete strangers.

Tang Jin couldn't understand why his mother sent them to a strange place for summer vacation, he suspected that they had been abandoned, and began to fear that no one would pick them up.

"I want to go home," Tang Jin said to Qin Qin in a low voice, wanting the little bamboo horse's comfort.

But Qin Qin didn't speak.

He turned his head and saw that Qin Qin, who seemed to be omnipotent and omniscient forever, was gritting his teeth, crying silently, and his whole body was shaking.

At that moment, Tang Jin swore in his heart that he would never let Qin Qin be so sad.He wants to protect Qin Qin.

He cheered up at that moment, held Qin Qin's hand tightly, and said loudly: "Tomorrow, let's go out to play together. It must be fun here. It will be fun."

The adults not far away laughed, echoed his words, introduced the games played by the children to them, and said that they would introduce their friends to them.Tang Jin resoundingly agreed one by one, showing a very confident look.

Then Qin Beichen wiped away his tears secretly, and said coldly: "You are not allowed to go out to play in the morning, you have to do your summer homework seriously."

When Tang Jin woke up, what he saw was a picture of a boy riding an off-road vehicle.

He rubbed the pillow, picked up the phone that was left beside the pillow, and asked, "How long have I been asleep?"

Qin Beichen on the other end of the phone replied: "Only an hour. Go on to sleep."

At this time, Tang Jin looked at the screen. The scene he saw just now has passed away. Only the girl in the studio is on the screen, and the narration is the voice of a boy.

["Things I like: off-road vehicles. The world seen while riding on an off-road vehicle. The dishes cooked by my mother. The angry face of my sister. The poor painting of the gate. The jokes of Jichuan. The sketches of Kiko. The dog who talks in sleep. Bo Ben Whiskey Haber 101. Faye Wong singing Mandarin songs. Zidane's ball control. Kusturica's movies. Tom Waits' singing. Bacon that is baked crispy. Donuts without holes. Can't eat it Shaved ice that causes headaches. Colorful pandas. Bottomless pockets. Sea turtles laying eggs. Quiet cicadas. Painless needles. Bristles from old toothbrushes. Green lights that never turn red. Little shortcuts that no one knows. An exam that never comes.”]

Tang Jin's eyes lit up: "Is that method the same as this movie?"

He asked endlessly, but Qin Beichen understood: "Yes."

Tang Jin chuckled.

The movie is over, and the credits are scrolling on the screen.

"Go to sleep," Qin Beichen urged him, "it will be dawn."

Tang Jin was indeed still sleepy, so he agreed with a hum, and suddenly thought of asking before hanging up the phone: "How did he end up?"

Another endless question.

After a moment of silence, Qin Beichen answered with a few words: "He left on a bicycle."

I really like bicycles.

I also like cycling.

Tang Jin thought so dazedly, let go of the phone, and fell asleep.