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"Everyone can only walk with you for a while, and sooner or later they will have to separate."
This is the classic line in Jia Zhangke's movie "Mountains and Rivers of the Past", when I first saw it, my heart clucked.
This is too cruel, but in fact, we all know that this is a reality that everyone cannot escape.
Life is long, some people walk and walk, they become "old people".
And some places, with their worries, become "hometowns".
The old people are difficult to find again, and the hometown is not easy to return.
Perhaps, this is the truest background of life.
Time flies, mountains and rivers change, and people around you change.
However, not everything will be destroyed by time.
Whose youth is not confused
Back in 1999, full of hope and passion, everyone opened their arms to welcome the arrival of the new century.
The town of Linfen, Shanxi Province, is bustling with local Spring Festival galas, and the cheerful female teacher Shen Tao will also take the stage to perform a song of umbrella head composed by herself.
The 25-year-old Shen Tao is in the golden age, his face is good, he has a kind of directness and enthusiasm unique to northern girls, and a pair of crescent-bent eyes are always smiling.
This intoxicating smile is loved by miner Liang Zi and coal mine owner Zhang Jinsheng.
Liang Zi and Shen Tao had known each other since childhood, simple and straight, and did not say much, but as soon as they saw her, the tenderness in their eyes was enough to engulf people.
Unfortunately, he was introverted and shy by nature, and he did not express his heart to Shen Tao for a long time, giving others an opportunity to take advantage of it.
Zhang Jinsheng was young, and the coal mining business was very prosperous. Just in time for the golden period of private coal mine development, Zhang Shengsheng made a lot of money and bought a car early.
The big grinning Shen Tao was not as sensitive as the other girls, she did not notice the thoughts of Liang Zi and Zhang Jinsheng, or as usual, she smiled and pulled the two of them together.
As a self-satisfied businessman, how could Zhang Jinsheng endure such a stubborn triangular relationship?
He bought the coal mine where Liangzi was located, took the initiative to find Liangzi, and offered to entrust the mine to him, and did not need to do the "low-end" work of managing the mine lamp.
There is only one condition, don't pestering Shen Tao anymore.
Liang Zi just pulled the corners of his mouth, shined the searchlight on Zhang Jinsheng's face, and said playfully: "Come and let me see what high-end people look like." ”
Liang Zi immediately and decisively left the mine, and the two turned against each other.
But the strong triangle relationship continued awkwardly, Zhang Jinsheng could not stand it any longer, and he finally confessed all this to Shen Tao.
On the afternoon when he learned the truth, Shen Tao stood in his father's grocery store, looking at the people on the street, in a daze for a long time.
Just now, Zhang Jinsheng's urgent and indignant confession moment, she was moved.
But if it is really like he said, does this mean that she is likely to lose her most cherished good friend Liangzi.
Looking at the crowd of people, Shen Tao faintly sensed: Perhaps, some companions will be scattered in the sea of people as they walk.
When he saw his beloved Shen Tao and Zhang Jinsheng embracing each other in the disco, Liang Zi's love, which Liang Zi had thought was within reach, was declared a failure in this instant.
For this relationship, he lost his job, lost his dignity, and lost the fire in his heart.
On the day that Shen Tao put the wedding invitation on his bed, Liang Zi carried a blue canvas bag, locked the door, threw the key angrily to the roof, and left the sad town, leaving only a determined back.
Shen Tao asked him, "When are you coming back?" ”
"Never come back."
Since then, the deceased people have been separated by mountains and rivers, and it is difficult to find the news again.
Mr. Mu Xin once said: "Childhood friends, like childhood clothes, when they grow up, they are not unwilling to wear, they are helpless." ”
Whose youth is not confused, whose youth has not been lost.
Unfortunately, many friendships and many people have not had time to say goodbye and say "cherish", and they have suddenly disappeared into the vast world.
The mountains and rivers are still the same, and the old people are not there
When Zhang Jinsheng and Shen Tao were just together, the two bought a Labrador and happily imagined that it would accompany them for more than ten years.
Fifteen years later, the dog is still with Shen Tao, but zhang Jinsheng is not seen.
They divorced and their only son was awarded to a father who was better off financially.
Zhang Jinsheng also left this hometown of mountains and rivers to go to Shanghai to engage in venture capital, still mixed with the wind and water, and also married a Shanghai wife.
However, Shen Tao did not collapse because of this, and she set up a small oil company to compete in the business field.
Despite the marriage change, those eyes were still full of smiles like a crescent moon, gentle and tough.
She has no intention of finding a good person, but only wants to take care of her career and take care of her elderly father.
More than ten years ago, when Shen Tao told his father that he and Zhang Jinsheng were in a relationship, his father did not answer.
In his heart, the impetuous Zhang Jinsheng is far less than the calm and thoughtful Liangzi, but as a father, he will respect every choice of his daughter.
Now that the child is divorced, the only thing the father can't rest assured of is the daughter's future life, busy asking everywhere to see if there is a suitable remarried candidate.
Unfortunately, before he could fulfill this wish, he died suddenly.
That day, Shen Tao personally drove his father to the high-speed rail station to attend the birthday feast of his old comrades-in-arms, unexpectedly, got off the train, sat in the waiting room and waited for his friend's father, and never woke up again.
Isn't life also like a platform?
The young man scrambled to board the next car and continued to gallop forward, while the elderly had unconsciously reached the last stop.
Losing a father in middle age is an unbearable pain. From then on, life has only a way back, no place to come.
Shen Tao fell into an unprecedented despair, thinking that the arrival of his son would be able to comfort himself a little. Unexpectedly, it only brought more profound loneliness and helplessness.
Seven-year-old Zhang Zhile flew back from Shanghai alone to attend his grandfather's funeral, wearing a custom school uniform from an international primary school, an expensive yellow silk scarf with a neckline, and the delicacy from head to toe was incompatible with this simple land.
Mother and son have not been seen for many years, and they are very strange.
When Shen Tao let the child call "Mom", he called out "Mommy" softly. Later, Shen Tao learned that his son usually called "that woman" affectionately.
In front of grandpa's spiritual hall, the child had no impression of the old man, and there was no sorrow at all.
It wasn't until his mother pressed his shoulder and yelled for him to kneel that he prostrated his head reluctantly.
Shen Tao looked at his son in front of him, both distressed and helpless.
She wants her children to stay by her side and raise them, but international primary schools, equestrians, yachts, Australian villas and study abroad arrangements are all superior conditions that she cannot provide.
But after all, it is a flesh and blood relative, the companionship of just a few days, to enjoy the mother's bag of wheat ear dumplings, feel the temperature of the mother's palm.
On the train back to Shanghai, he began to share with his mother the school and place where he was going to study.
Shen Tao looked at the child who was about to go abroad with a loving face and handed over the key to the door to him.
She said, "Your home, you can come back at any time." ”
Little Joy clutched the key tightly in the middle of the night.
He may not understand his mother's reluctance and expectations, but he really feels it - this is the "taste" of mother: peace of mind, warmth, harbor.
Shen Tao could have flown her son back to Shanghai, but the slower the train, the longer she could accompany him.
When you can accompany, you must accompany without reservation.
The mountains and rivers are still the same, and the old people are not there.
Things change, rapidly and calmly, and behind each ordinary face is a soul that clenches its teeth.
We will eventually learn to endure and say goodbye.
As the line in Spirited Away:
Life is a train to the grave, there will be many stops on the road, it is difficult for someone to accompany you from beginning to end. When your companion is about to get off the bus, you should be grateful even if you don't give up, and then wave goodbye.
Not everything will be destroyed by time
Life is like a pencil in a child's hand, it seems to be long enough, and it is too short to be usable.
Time flies, and the speed is so fast that it is often unbearable to sigh.
However, not everything will be destroyed by time.
For example, a sincere friendship of youth.
On the day Liang Zi left, Shen Tao climbed up to the roof and took the key, which he kept treasured.
She believed that one day its owner would use it to open the lock and push the door.
This is fifteen years.
Liang Zi returned, next to him stood his gentle wife, holding the young child in her arms. After leaving the town, he traveled around and eventually settled in Hebei and became a family.
A happy life seems to have just begun, but due to years of working underground and poor work and rest, LiangZi has suffered from cancer, and time is running out.
Shen Tao, who learned of this, immediately came to visit, returned the key to its owner, and left a large amount of money for Liang Zi to treat his illness urgently.
At the most youthful age, the friendship that you have is the most precious wealth in life.
Even if they have been separated, there may still be a chance to reconcile in the long years. Looking back, the sincerity of my youth is still in place.
The affection that flows in the blood, even if the heavens are different, will not be destroyed by time.
After immigrating to Australia at the age of 7, Zhang Zhile never saw his mother again. 11 years on, he has even forgotten his native language.
Whenever the teacher at the Chinese school asked him his mother's name, he always said he didn't remember.
In fact, the string of keys to the house, he always hung around his neck.
He remembered that his mother's name was "Tao", a Tao that never stopped beating the coast with full vitality.
In 2025, Shen Tao is more than 50 years old, and his life has passed most of the time, and there is only one dog accompanying him.
Of course, it is no longer the one it used to be.
I have seen countless winds, frosts, rain and snow, but there is still a faint smile in Shen Tao's eyes. Now this smile is no longer bright and moving, but there is a calm and relieved calm.
On a snowy winter day, Shen Tao calmly walked to a wasteland, behind which was the landmark of the town, an ancient tower that had stood for hundreds of years.
At the beginning, Shen Tao carefully took the electronic dance steps he had danced in 1999, and soon, he gradually entered a better state. She was content to throw herself into it, cheerful, free, trance-like, and as graceful as it had been then.
Let the flakes of snow sprinkle on the white hair, let the years invade, she is still the lively and smiling girl.
The tenacity of an ordinary person is also indestructible by time.
As Mr. Shen Congwen wrote in Border City: "What are you afraid of? Everything that is going to come will come, don't be afraid. ”
People live in the world, everyone has their own difficulties, will have to face life and separation, face death.
This short life, we will eventually lose.
You might as well be bold, love someone, climb a mountain, chase a dream.
Mountains and rivers are still the mountains and rivers in memory; the old man, let us say goodbye with tears and smiles.
Before reaching the last platform, we just have to look at our feet and keep going.
Encourage with the King.
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