Liu Aiguo is a very common name.
He is a movie projectionist.
Back then, watching movies was not like it is now.
Especially in the countryside, almost all cinemas are open-air.
A curtain is pulled up on the stage and a movie is shown in the open air.
Li Yi remembered that it was because he arrived late and the movie had finished.
He just cried and made trouble and still wanted to watch.
So his grandfather, who loved him very much, went to find Liu Aiguo.
That is Grandpa Liu. Grandpa Liu played a movie alone for Li Yi, who was still a kid at the time.
The two got to know each other because of this.
Why did Grandpa Liu keep the antique movie projector to himself?
Li Yi knew that it was because at that time, Li Yi thought it would be cool to have a movie projector. He could just project whatever movie he wanted to watch.
Although at that time, Li Yi's family conditions were actually very good. He was usually on Hong Kong Island, so it was no problem for him to go to the cinema to watch movies.
But this was the first time for this kind of open-air screening, this kind of screening of a movie for him alone.
Later, whenever he had free time, Li Yi ran to Grandpa Liu and asked him to play a movie for him.
One old and one young, they became familiar with each other.
Li Yi had always been envious of having such a movie projector. Later, Grandpa Liu said with a smile that if he still wanted it after he stopped showing movies, he would give him the movie projector.
Li Yi was very excited at that time.
Later, when he left there and returned to Hong Kong Island, Li Yi couldn't help crying.
It's just that children have great forgetfulness. This matter was quickly forgotten by Li Yi after he left.
Later, his grandparents moved, and Li Yi never saw Grandpa Liu again.
But Li Yi didn't expect that Grandpa Liu would still remember it.
...
It was Mu Qing who accompanied Li Yi when he revisited his old place. The two of them came together. The small village where his grandparents lived back then had already changed a lot.
It was difficult for Li Yi to find too many things that overlapped with his childhood memories.
However, the stage where movies were screened outdoors is still there, but it has been renovated and looks like a new one. It is no longer what it used to be. But come to think of it, movies are screened outdoors very rarely, right?
Li Yi was actually very vague about Grandpa Liu, but he was still very sad when he thought that Grandpa Liu was gone.
Even though Grandpa Liu and his son said that the old man was very peaceful when he went there, he still felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.
When he got the old movie projector he had longed for when he got it, and a box of movie films, Li Yi felt a little like a dream.
"Have you ever seen this kind of open-air movie when you were a child?" Li Yi asked Mu Qing.
Mu Qing shook her head and said, "No! I have heard from my grandparents, but I have never experienced it myself."
"That night, shall I put on a show here?" Li Yi asked with a smile.
"Okay!" Mu Qing was a little excited.
Li Yi contacted the village, and naturally the village had no objections.
So Li Yi started to arrange it.
At night.
Here and there, some villagers brought chairs to watch a movie.
Li Yi smiled and said to Mu Qing: "When I came here when I was a child, there were many people here every time a movie was shown."
"And many children don't actually come to watch movies, because every time when a movie is shown, when there are more people, there will always be people coming here to set up stalls and sell some snacks."
"Also, every time a movie is shown, there are usually two movies in a row. At that time, because I came too late and the movies were all finished, I was very unhappy and cried and clamored to watch the movie. Later, my grandfather took me Follow me to find Grandpa Liu..."
Li Yi was tinkering with the projector and adjusting the angle while talking to Mu Qing.
This movie projector was obviously well maintained by Grandpa Liu. Li Yi chose an early movie. Well, in fact, the film movies here are all relatively early. Gu Yong
In fact, what movie you watch is not the key, the key is this feeling.
When the picture appeared on the movie screen, Li Yi was stunned because the golden finger was triggered again.
This time the movie is a movie related to movies!
"Li Yi?" Mu Qing's voice came, interrupting Li Yi's "watching" of the movie.
"What are you thinking about?" Mu Qing asked.
"Thinking about the next movie. Suddenly I got a little inspiration." Li Yi said with a smile.
"Oh? Is it related to it?" Mu Qing pointed to the old projector and asked.
"Yeah!" Li Yi nodded.
"About what?" Mu Qing asked curiously.
"Precious memories of childhood." Li Yi pondered for a moment and said.
"Stop talking about me, what about you? How is the filming of the movie going? Will coming with me delay the progress of your movie?" Li Yi asked.
Mu Qing shook her head and said, "No, the crew has temporarily stopped working."
"Huh? What's wrong?" Li Yi asked with concern.
He only knew that Mu Qing was filming a romance film that was more literary and artistic. Mu Qing didn't say what it was about, and he didn't ask much.
"No, I just have to shoot the rest in winter when it snows." Mu Qing said with a smile.
Li Yi nodded, each director has a different style.
Some directors can spend several months or even a year or two working on a scene.
Li Yi is not very particular about this aspect. For example, on rainy days, some directors may deliberately wait until it actually rains before shooting, but some directors just use sprinklers.
For example, when it snows, Mu Qing wants to wait until it snows before shooting. However, when Li Yi was filming "The Story of Hachiko", he directly used a snow sprinkler to make artificial snow.
"Do you need my help?" Li Yi asked.
Mu Qing shook her head and said, "It's not necessary at the moment. I'll tell you when the need arises. Well, when the time comes, I'll ask you to wave the flag and I won't be polite to you."
Suddenly, Li Yi felt his face wet and couldn't help but wipe it.
God is not good at it.
Seeing the villagers who came to cheer and leave with their chairs one by one, Li Yi could only shake his head and smile bitterly.
However, he has gained a lot tonight.
In fact, when the villagers came to watch the movie, they didn't really watch the movie, they just came to join in the fun.
No one came to set up a stall to sell snacks, not even the children.
Li Yi could only close the stall.
This can be regarded as the fulfillment of a small childhood dream.
At night, Li Yi and Mu Qing stayed at an uncle's house in the village.
Early the next morning, Li Yi and Mu Qing were woken up by a burst of noise.
When the two came out to see it, they couldn't laugh or cry.
It turned out to be a rabbit raised by my uncle's family. The naughty child let it out to play. However, the rabbit ran away. The naughty child became anxious and chased the rabbit with a stick.
I didn't catch the rabbit, but it was all over the place.
In the end, the adult caught the rabbit.
Naturally, the naughty kid needs a good beating. However, what makes Li Yi and Mu Qing dumbfounded is that the naughty kid cries not because of the beating.
It was because his mother said she was going to stew the rabbit, and then the naughty child burst into tears.
However, it is obvious that the uncle and the naughty child's mother still love the naughty child very much. Li Yi and the others still did not eat the rabbit at noon.
"Really, the rabbit is so cute, why don't you eat the rabbit? It's really a naughty child!" Li Yi complained in a wicked way.
However, I didn't expect that this complaint would bring up another memory.
