Chapter 295 Chapter 296 [Traveling through "Youth"]
The reason why Xiang Nan wanted to take on this task was because he had checked that Liu Feng and He Xiaoping were characters from the movie "Youth".
??This movie tells the story of the Tianfu Military Region Art Troupe in the 1970s.
The protagonist Liu Feng is a saint like a living thunder beacon. He is kind-hearted, skillful, hard-working, willing to help others, and does not care about gains and losses.
Just because he fell in love with someone he shouldn''t have loved, he was punished and was assigned to the art troupe. Later, catching up with the war, he lost his hand on the battlefield.
After changing his career, his life was not good either. He lost his job, his wife ran away, and even the city management officials bullied him. Finally, he died of a terminal illness. It can be said that good people are not rewarded.
He Xiaoping is the heroine. Her fate was also tragic. Her biological father was sent down, and her mother took her to remarry. Her stepfather did not like her, and her younger brothers and sisters also bullied her, which made her develop an extremely low self-esteem character and lack the ability to communicate and interact with others. As a result, she was ostracized and bullied in the art troupe.
After Liu Feng was expelled from the art troupe, she deliberately slacked off her work because of her sympathy for Liu Feng, and was even sent to a field hospital. After the war started, she was responsible for rescuing the wounded and saw too many tragic scenes.
Later, he became a highly praised hero for taking care of the wounded with all his heart. The contrast was so great that it led to schizophrenia. Although he recovered later, his best years were also gone.
In the end, she lived her unfortunate life with Liu Feng, who was also a fallen person in the world.
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After watching this movie, Xiang Nan felt a little sad.
Liu Feng and He Xiaoping are really miserable. They did nothing wrong, but fate was so unfair to them.
Comparatively, in the movie, Hao Shuwen seduces the boyfriend of a comrade; Lin Dingding, the green tea spirit, seduces propaganda officers and military doctors, and even accuses Liu Feng of molesting her...all have questionable moral character.
??However, Hao Shuwen finally became a rich woman, and Lin Dingding successfully married overseas... It can be said that there are no corpses in the gold belt of murder and arson, and in repairing bridges and roads.
?The reason why Xiang Nan took on this task was that on the one hand he wanted to rectify the injustices of Liu Feng and He Xiaoping and change their tragic fate; on the other hand, he inherited the singing, dancing and acting skills from Fang Yifan, which could be used in the art troupe.
Although there is war in the world of "Youth", with artillery fire and bullets flying everywhere, it looks very dangerous. But if you stay in the art troupe, you are unlikely to encounter danger.
Compared with other tasks, the difficulty of this task is still relatively low.
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In order to complete Liu Feng''s task, Xiang Nan also carefully considered the countermeasures, and even found the original novel "Youth" for reference.
?After research, he found that the reason why Liu Feng had a rough fate and was slandered by Lin Dingding was just an inducement. The reason is that Liu Feng has no ability.
??Although Liu Feng is a warm-hearted, hard-working and helpful person, he only does small things. For example, sweeping the floor, helping in the kitchen, chasing pigs, etc.
?If he doesn’t do these things, others will rush to do them. After all, it was the trend to imitate Lei Feng at that time, and everyone in the art troupe was motivated and wanted to perform.
According to the original book, “A group of young and strong young people can only help the cooking team to feed pigs, shred potatoes, sweep the yard more times, mop the corridors more times, and flush the manholes more times. But after all, there are few latrines and many people. Hundreds of people have to imitate Lei Feng’s performance. How many latrines and yards will it take?”
It can be seen that Liu Feng is not indispensable. For example, he went to Yanjing twice to give reports, received commendations, and was later transferred to the logging team. But when he left, the work of the team continued as usual, and no one felt inconvenienced.
And if you really want to gain a foothold in the art troupe, you must have a certain skill. For example, Dolma is the best dancer and is the top performer in the art troupe. No one dares to look down on her. Another example is Xiao Suizi. She has the best writing skills and can write and draw. She was even specially assigned to make documentaries. Such a backbone is not easily bullied.
And Liu Feng can only do somersaults. When he was a child, he learned boy kung fu from the Bangzi Theater Company in the county. As for other singing and dancing, his performance is average, and he doesn''t know how to play instruments, so he is a marginal figure in the art troupe.
?Although he worked very hard to contribute to everyone, enduring hardship first and enjoying happiness second, everyone did not take him seriously and even made fun of him for pretending.
?Lin Dingding can kiss the propaganda officer and have an affair with the military doctor, but if he hugs her, she will yell and think that she has been defiled. The reason was actually that he thought Liu Feng was incompetent.
On the contrary, if he is a pillar in the art troupe. The art troupe can''t function without him, so he won''t be bullied. On the contrary, Lin Dingding would even chase him backwards.
??Moreover, if he has the ability and can make money after changing his job, it will also give him and Xiaoping a stable life. It’s not like he is already terminally ill in his forties.
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It is not difficult for Xiang Nan to inherit Fang Yifan’s singing, dancing and acting skills and become the mainstay of the art troupe.
?However, in order to make himself more outstanding, he still checked out the movies, music, scripts, novels, etc. from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, and prepared to be an all-round and excellent entertainment worker.
?In addition, he also checked the political and economic information of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, so that he had a clear idea of ??the future development path.
Subsequently, Xiang Nan officially took over Liu Feng''s task.
At that moment, the light door appeared out of thin air again. Xiang Nan stepped into the light door, followed by a wave of dizziness.
"My name is Liu Feng. I come from a poor county in Qilu. I was born as a field soldier. I studied art in the Bangzi Theater Troupe since I was a child. Because I was good at somersaults, I was transferred to the art troupe. My father is a carpenter, and I am good at carpentry.
I am warm-hearted and willing to help others. Everyone calls me Living Lei Feng and recommends me to be the representative of the military region. I will go to Yanjing to participate in the military model meeting of learning from Lei Feng.
I am now on my way back to the art troupe, and the leader of the troupe asked me to bring back a female soldier—He Xiaoping..."
When Xiang Nan opened his eyes, he saw that he was standing on the street.
?The scene in front of him made him slightly stunned.
There are no high-rise buildings on the street, and the tallest building is only four or five floors, which is completely unlike Tianfu, a big city in the future.
Big slogans are written on all the buildings and large banners are hung, such as "Long live the invincible Chinese people!", "Unite to strive for greater victory!", "Grasp the revolution, promote production, prepare for war and prepare for famine for the people!" Wait, it is particularly marked by the times, which makes Xiang Nan, a post-80s generation, find it quite novel.
“Comrade Liu, where are we going?” a timid voice asked.
Xiang Nan looked around and saw a little girl with twin ponytails and braids beside him.
She is about sixteen or seventeen years old, her eyes look like crescent moons when she smiles, and she has a simplicity and innocence that is rare among modern people.
(End of this chapter)