Remembering Father (18) - Dad is my "legs" 1

Written on 2020-12-6

Recently, the hit movie "One Minute" tells the story of a movie about open-air movies in the seventies. I only read the introduction, and I still have to go to the cinema to feel it.

In my hometown, throughout the eighties, big plays and open-air movies were the best rewards that the government paid for to the peasants, and there was no other entertainment, and I was under the impression that there was a movie every quarter, and the frequency of big plays was even lower, about once or twice a year.

Our family went upstairs, about five years younger than my mother, Sister Chunlian (because she did not have a brother, so her parents recruited her a son-in-law from Anhui Province) and my mother liked to watch movies the most, at that time the communication was backward, usually my grandfather's family got the news that there was a movie screening, so I asked someone to give a message to my mother. Because there is no elderly in the family, my parents had to drag the family to take us to the movie together, to be honest, basically I have not seen a complete movie, because I love to sleep, I used to go to bed early and get up early, so generally until the end of the movie, my father woke me up The movie is over, it is time to go home, I only rub my sleepy eyes, Faltering, being held by my father, one foot deep and one foot shallow to go home. So I only remember the movie titles of that time, such as "Tianxian With Cowherd Weaver Girl" and "Liangshan Bozhu Yingtai", and I don't remember any plot or content at all.

At that time, we usually put open-air movies on the playground of the complete primary school of our Xinhua Brigade, and whenever my mother learned of the news of the movie, she was particularly excited, as if a grand festival was coming, usually finished work early, hummed a small song to go home to do housework, rushed to the movie before dark, and remembered that we had not been late once, so I did not know what the title of the movie was, of course, even if I watched the beginning, I may not know the words, and I guess I don't know what the movie is. But whenever on the way home after watching the movie, the adults, especially my mother and Sister Chunlian, talked about the storyline endlessly, seriously reviewed, and discussed it warmly, and I seemed to hear some of the movie content to a greater or lesser extent.

At that time, the film was divided into two parts, the film needed to be changed in the middle, when the projectionist adjusted the camera, there would be a beam of white light on the white screen about 10 meters in front of the screen (very similar to our current projector), some naughty children put their hands in the light to do a variety of shapes such as puppies, birds, rabbits and other shapes on the screen, while other children whistled "cheering", a lively scene, everyone seems to have forgotten the hard work of the day.

On the night of a month's loss, as if our whole family went to the movie, usually Grandpa stayed with my sister, but that night my sister had to go home with us, helplessly My father carried my sister, my mother carried my brother, I could only walk alone (My father could not lead me), just left my grandfather's house not far away, when I passed a steep slope next to the Three Emperors Hall (here is now in front of my brother's house), it was all mud dirt roads, and when my parents went downhill, they all trotted all the way, because it was night, I couldn't keep up with my father's pace, and when I was in a hurry, A toe, Falling on the small stone in the creek ditch on the slope, Dad quickly turned back to lead me up, but I sat in the stream and couldn't get up, my right foot could not stand, Dad realized that I might fall to my feet, and quickly persuaded my sister to send my sister to My grandfather's house and carry me home.

Since then, whenever I watch a movie at night, my father carried me home, and my father became my legs.