forget the soul

The exit of the forest was originally by the river in Bamei. Yu Rong and Li Xiao walked along the river for a rest, and they could see the stalls set up by the locals and many tourists hanging out together.Yu Rong said: "There was another incident before."

He glanced at the tourists who were carrying backpacks or traveling lightly, and said: "A backpacker committed suicide by jumping into the river here. He killed his mother in Dali and walked all the way here. It is said that he picked up the stones all the way, and I saw him picking up stones...here..."

Yu Rongtun spit and looked at the calm river: "We, I, him, Lin Wangyue, we came in in a boat, and he got off the boat to pick up stones. I heard that the stones in his backpack just matched his It's strange that it weighs as much as a person."

Yu Rong laughed abruptly: "Then I'm the only one left alive!"

His tone was self-deprecating.

Li Xiao said, "It sounds like you can make a documentary about him." He added, "Is the boatman still alive?"

Yu Rong laughed loudly: "That's right! The boatman!" He looked at Li Xiao and raised his eyebrows, "If you want to make a documentary, you have to shoot it for Lin Wangyue first!"

Li Xiao said: "Do you have this plan?"

"you have not?"

Li Xiao shook his head, Yu Rong thought for a while, nodded, and said repeatedly: "I understand, I understand." After a pause, he asked: "In case Sheng Ge finds you and wants to shoot, would you like it?"

Li Xiao smiled, looked at him, and said, "Maybe I will consider it."

Yu Rong raised his hands and smiled: "I won't be angry if you say that, really, he's much more famous than me," he shrugged and spread his hands, "and he has a famous father who can check him in."

Li Xiao looked at him, still smiling, Yu Rong winked, made a bunch of strange faces, and asked him: "Can I interview you once a year? You are usually in London, right? Or we can make an appointment, and you are in Where can I find you."

"It's all right." Li Xiao said.

Yu Rong lowered his hand, and after walking a few steps, he spoke again: "Actually, if others want to pat him, no matter how much they pat him, they can't be stopped."

Li Xiao nodded: "At most, a lawyer's letter will be sent."

Yu Rong lowered his head and muttered in a low voice: "Some people may be very happy..."

Li Xiao was silent, Yu Rong scratched his hair, shook his head, and said to himself: "Don't talk about him, don't talk about him."

He really never mentioned Lin Wangyue again.When they got to the pier and got on the trestle, Yu Rong and Li Xiao confirmed: "Then... shall we leave?"

He could vaguely see the hillside where Granny Bai lived, and he could also vaguely see the mysterious primeval forest where cows, horses, deer, and rabbits often lived, but no living people strayed into it.

Li Xiao nodded and said, "Let's go."

They found a boatman and boarded a willow-leaf boat. The boatman smoked dry tobacco, his voice became hoarse, and he said that he would wait until the boat was full before leaving.They just sat one behind the other, waiting.

Yu Rong's cell phone was turned on, he opened WeChat, ignored the many red dots representing unread messages, typed, and sent a message to Jennifer: You are such a mysterious woman.Can I solve the mystery of you?Do I need to untie it?

I do not know……

Yu Rong had a headache, squeezed the center of his eyebrows, and jumped back to read those unread messages.Teacher Guan is very concerned about his current situation, brother Hao is very concerned about the cooperation status between him and Lin Wangyue, Lewis is back in Shanghai, looking for him to catch up with the past, drinking heavily, he was doing photography for an Italian TV series in Xinjiang, and was almost driven crazy by the director .Yu Rong replied one by one:

Thank you, Mr. Guan, I'm fine, I can go back to Shanghai the day after tomorrow, let's get together again, or should I go to Tianxi to find you?

Thank you Brother Hao, let's have dinner together later!

He asked Lewis, why don't you help me resist the camera?My camera was half done and ran away.

After replying, he put down his mobile phone and looked towards the shore. At this moment, a young backpacker ran into his field of vision with a bulging mountaineering bag on his back. He waved his hands while running, shouting: " Etc., etc!"

The backpacker jumped on the boat, put down the backpack, the boat swayed from side to side, he barely stabilized the bottom plate, raised his head, and showed everyone an embarrassed smile.

His eyes were bright, and he showed a dimple when he smiled. He shook hands with the boatman, Yu Rong, and Li Xiao, and said out of breath, "I'm sorry! I'm going to go to the van in Guangnan, but I overslept." , Alas, alas, thank you for waiting for me!"

His palms are warm, and his every move is full of vitality.

Yu Rong put the backpack beside his feet and said, "It's okay, you can sit down and rest, we were waiting for more people to fill up before leaving."

The boatman said, "Let's go."

The backpacker looked around: "Ah, isn't there still room here?"

The boatman said, "You are in a hurry."

The backpacker was even more embarrassed, and his ears turned red: "That's so bad! Oh, I..."

Yu Rong comforted him: "It's okay, it's okay, they don't pay by the head, they are paid by the scenic spot." He also asked the boatman, "Am I right?"

The boatman smiled, stood up straight, held the long bamboo wormwood with both hands, and pushed back hard, the boat slid away from the pier.The sound of bamboo wormwood cutting through the water spread across the river.

The backpacker sat next to Yu Rong and called his family.He spoke with a northern accent, crisp and clear, one mouth for one mother, one mouth for one father, and after reporting his safety, he said: "Wait to go to Guangnan, yes, I will contact you when I arrive in Dali!"

Yu Rong quietly looked at the backpacker's hiking bag. The backpack looked heavy and bloated.Yu Rong turned around and spoke to Li Xiao in a low voice: "Tell me, what if this is also someone who is thinking about committing suicide?"

Li Xiao smiled, did not answer, did not speak, turned his head to admire the scenery along the coast.

Yu Rong turned back, frowned, crossed his hands (fingers), and looked at the backpacker. After several times, the backpacker finally hung up the phone and began to look at the scenery. He was curious about everything he saw. It is admiration.He smelled of fresh, laundry soap.

After hesitating again and again, Yu Rong accosted the backpacker and asked him, "Are you traveling alone?"

"That's right." The backpacker looked at him, then at Li Xiao, "You guys came here as a team?"

Yu Rong said, "We're here to collect materials."

"Collect material? Are you from a TV station?"

"I'm making a documentary myself," Yu Rong said.

"Wow, are you the director?"

"No." Yu Rong said, "I'm a student."

"The director department?"

Yu Rong smiled, put his hands together, and said in a tone: "Students of the University of Life."

The backpacker laughed, and Yu Rong asked him, "Are you a college student?"

The backpacker made a climbing motion: "I graduated this year and now I am climbing mountains full-time."

"Climbing?"

"My dad is a mountain climber and has been to Mount Everest." The backpacker said, showing a shy smile, "I...I'm still far away."

Yu Rong asked him: "Is this your first time in Bamei?"

"Yeah, I'm traveling around Yunnan! I'm going to Dali from Guangnan."

"Go to Erhai Lake?"

"Yes, have you been there?"

Yu Rong nodded, and a fog came over. After the fog cleared, suddenly in front of them was not the idyllic scenery with criss-crossed fields, but green and handsome mountains, rippling blue water, and some lonely stones covered with green clothes scattered in the river.Not far away, a dark cave awaited them.

Yu Rong straightened his back, opened his eyes wide, and said in astonishment: "We didn't go out from this cave last time."

On the last trip, they hurried in and out the same way.This is another way.This is a water area he has never experienced, a cave he has never seen.Yu Rong looked at the boatman. At some point, the boatman put on a black coir raincoat and a black bamboo hat.He is like a crow.

Yu Rong suddenly relaxed completely. He leaned against the side of the boat, stretched his legs, and sat more comfortably.He said: "My hometown is Suzhou. Did you know that in September and October, sweet-scented osmanthus blooms, and the city is full of sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance."

The young backpacker looked at him seriously, listened carefully, and said, "I haven't been to Suzhou yet."

Yu Rong smiled: "The mountains in Suzhou are probably small slopes to you."

The backpacker smiled, opened the backpack, grabbed a lot of bread, potato chips, and sausage, and asked Yu Rong and Li Xiao, "Have you had breakfast? Do you want some?"

Li Xiao asked for a piece of bread, Yu Rong ate potato chips, also ate hawthorn cakes, flower cakes, backpackers ate biscuits and drank soy milk.

Yu Rong wiped the corners of his mouth and said, "There is also a pomelo tree, which grows by the side of the road. There are grapefruits as big as the size of a child's head, and it just grows by the side of the road..."

"What if you fall and hit someone?" the backpacker asked.

"Yes, what if you hit someone?" Yu Rong also asked.

The two laughed.

The water and the wind pushed them forward, and they were about to enter the cave, and there were colorful lights in the cave.The boatman punted with his back to them.Yu Rong suddenly wanted to call the boatman.But he didn't shout out, he looked back at Li Xiao, Li Xiao was looking at his phone with his head down, eating bread.

Yu Rong turned back.He cried out silently in his heart.

The boat swam into the cave, and the cave was very bright, filled with highly saturated colored light. There were four of them in this boat, and four pieces of luggage. The shadows cast on the cave wall far exceeded the number of people and their luggage, and they were chaotic. It looks like a mess from a distance, but when you get close, there are several corners. When a person is very close to the wall, the reflection of a person is suddenly sifted into many paths, like petals one after another, surrounding With a dot and a flower center, it becomes a flower.The flower will still spin, float away, scatter, and combine with other flowers to form new flowers, continue to spin, continue to float, and continue to act on its own.

Passing by a bright yellow light, the backpacker asked, "Is the silk in Suzhou famous?"

"Yes, yes, yes." Yu Rong replied.

"Where is the best place to make a cheongsam?" A pink light flashed across the backpacker's face, and a small flower made of many shadows rolled behind him.

"Cheongsam?" Yu Rong was stopped by the question, he sat down and said in a low voice, "Well...I have to think about it."

He has to think about it.

--over--

forget the soul

postscript

There is a saying: People want to reach a consensus with themselves, there will be some stories about the process of this harmony, and many stories about people's self-exploration, self-discovery, and finally found the answer.I've written stories like this myself.But "Forget the Soul" is not such a story about the process of reaching a solution and finding the answer.There are two protagonists in the story, one is Yu Rong, as mentioned in the author's words in an update before, he is a hypocritical, contrived, and sometimes a bit sluggish person, he is really far away from perfection, Such a person, in fact, has already found his own answer at the beginning of the chapter. He knows very well what kind of person he is, but as the story progresses, he becomes more and more confused about the answer, just like the answer he gave to his mother. When making a documentary, the more he filmed, the more he couldn't figure out what kind of person his mother was. Is her hometown really in Bamei?Are her poems, her stories really her poems, her stories?

"Sorrowful Spring" and "Sorrowful Autumn" describe that life is a repetitive daily life. The life described here is one mask on top of another, one puzzle after another, people are always troubled by many questions, the answer may be is never found.Not everything has an answer, either.What may bother most readers is the death of Lin Wangyue, another protagonist of the story. He appeared very suddenly and then left in a very sudden, even abrupt way.I write this entirely because in my immature understanding, most of the time, death is so sudden.

When it was serialized, a comment asked why such a mournful story was written.Maybe my personal understanding is different. I think this story is quite positive, and I love life...

I can't think of anything else to say for a while, so that's it, I hope you like this story, see you in the next story. :)