Wei Lan often couldn't understand the big boy in front of her who was several years younger than herself.
She could always see a lot of aura from Li Mu that was impossible for him at his age. Just like when Li Mu stood on the stage and touched the background wall through the silk cloth, she really couldn't understand that he was in his early twenties. Where did this young man get such a strong sense of historical mission
In the hearts of the older generation, the sorrow of the national suffering during the Anti-Japanese War is naturally filled in the blood and bone marrow. However, for the young people of this era, they have no chance to come into contact with that deep-rooted feeling. Regarding the Anti-Japanese War, their intuitive feelings are mostly superficial, such as blaming Japan as the culprit and applauding the atomic bomb dropped by the United States. Very few young people can, like Li Mu, express their feelings about dozens of people in a photo. Years ago, an unknown peasant woman and her child were devastated.
For many things, it is easy to look at the big picture, but the harder it is to look at the small, just like many young people like to talk about the international situation and the world pattern, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the situation in North Korea, the war in the Middle East and the war on terrorism. He can chat for an hour or two on any topic, but nine out of ten people like this don't know how much a pound of rice costs or how much an egg costs today.
In Wei Lan's eyes, it is too rare for people to be able to focus deeply, pay attention to detail, and look down upon things. This is a skill that she has longed for and been unable to learn after working hard for a long time.
Just like on a night without clouds and fog, anyone can look up at the vast Milky Way. Countless light years may be covered within the visual range, but it is extremely difficult to see it more concretely.
Ordinary people can only see the outline of the moon's craters and huge craters with their eyes wide open. Any other details of celestial bodies are invisible to the naked eye. At this time, only with the help of sufficient astronomical knowledge and professional equipment Only then can you see the details of other celestial bodies.
For those who know nothing about astronomy, if you give them a good enough astronomical telescope, they may not be able to see the rings of Saturn in a year, and they may not be able to find Ganymede in ten years. But those who can endure loneliness, People who can pay attention to the smallest details can discover tiny celestial bodies one after another in the vast starry sky and name them after themselves.
Before meeting Li Mu, Wei Lan felt that only as people grow older, accumulate more knowledge, and improve their experience, can they gradually narrow their unfocused gaze. The reason why she cannot be like those extremely capable people He always looked at Ji Xiao because he was not hot enough, but Li Mu overturned this understanding he had always had.
For some people, it takes decades to get that fire burning, while for some people it seems like they were born with a fire.
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Before the official start of the press conference, the huge press conference was already crowded with media reporters. According to the staff, there were more than 800 media reporters present today. Basically, some well-known media from all over the world came. The entire press conference was as lively as The food market street is average.
An hour before the press conference started, Li Mu met Chennault's daughter and two existing members of the American Flying Tigers in the lounge prepared by the hotel.
During the conversation with them, Li Mu heard extremely shocking oral histories, especially from the two existing Flying Tigers. Although they are both in their eighties or nineties, they are in very good physical condition and have excellent thinking and expression skills. Clearly, they clearly remember many details of their time in the Flying Tigers, and almost every entire process of taking off into the air.
Everyone, including Li Mu, Spielberg and other creative staff, were shocked and moved by the oral histories of these two veterans.
When the two talked about their biggest wish in life, their answers were surprisingly consistent: they both wanted to return to China in their lifetime, return to the place where they had fought, and see the people and things there. In their own words, it was a place they fought tooth and nail to defend. It was a great comfort to them to see that the people there were now living and working in peace and contentment.
One of the old Flying Tigers named Paul Crawford said that when they were in China, they formed a deep comradeship with many Chinese Flying Tigers, but after returning to the United States, many of them gradually lost their friendship. Even many American Flying Tigers have gradually lost contact, so he still has a wish, hoping that Li Mu can help find more existing Flying Tigers in China and the United States.
Li Mu instantly thought of the words "Veterans Never Die". This was a charity initiative launched by someone on the Internet in his previous life. It was intended to find those existing veterans of the Anti-Japanese War and solve some of their life problems. Li Mu was once interested in this charity activity. He was very concerned when he discovered that many veterans, now in their eighties or nineties, did not even have a shelter from the wind and rain. When he discovered that those veterans who had fought for the country were unable to pay hundreds of dollars every month. Even a man in his thirties burst into tears when he didn't even have a dollar for subsistence allowance, and when he heard that some veterans lived in poverty all their lives and even had no money for medical treatment when they were old.
If it is a poor child or teenager, then if you provide him with food, clothing, and the opportunity to receive education, he will still have decades to change his destiny;
If you are a poor young man, then if you give him a job opportunity, he will have decades to work hard;
If he is a poor middle-aged or elderly person, providing him with subsistence allowance will at least provide him with some protection in his later years;
But if they are veterans who died generously for this nation during the Anti-Japanese War, but are now suffering from reality, what should be given to them to comfort their old and traumatized hearts and souls
When young people in this country are crazy about stars from all walks of life, will anyone bow to them in front of the veterans, or even salute them
The year the Anti-Japanese War was won was 1945. Fifty-eight years have passed since then. Even those born in 1945 are now 58 years old, not to mention those who died between 1937 and 1945. , who once carried a sword and a gun and fought bravely for this nation to resist foreign enemies.
Even if he picked up a gun and went to war at the age of eighteen, he would still be at least seventy or eighty years old now...
When he thought of this, Li Mu's heart suddenly felt like a knife. He didn't know how many veterans who had participated in the Anti-Japanese War were still alive, but what was certain was that every day from now on, the number of veterans would only decrease, not increase.
One day, all the veterans who participated in the Anti-Japanese War will pass away. At that time, no one can tell others the history of that year, how they shouldered their guns and rushed to the battlefield when they were teenagers; How did they use their flesh and blood to resist the tanks and artillery of the invaders? What kind of death spirit did they use to sacrifice their lives and blood for this nation...
When he thought about the remaining people, they might be lingering in rural shacks, or they might be struggling to survive by picking up bottles and cans abandoned by others next to the garbage dump in the city. Li Mu felt as if a mountain was weighing on his heart, and he couldn't breathe for a long time. Angry.
Li Mu said goodbye to the two veterans and Mr. Chennault's daughter for the time being. He came to the corner of the hotel's fire stairs alone and lit a cigarette.
At this moment, Li Mu felt that he really wanted to do something. Making a movie was just to rectify their names and make their history public. But for those veterans who were suffering in life, such a movie would not be enough to help them. Without any substantial help, if they saw such a movie in a shack or next to a garbage dump, it would surely be a more painful thing for them.
So, Li Mu took out his mobile phone and wanted to make a call in China. He wanted to ask a suitable person to help him travel all over the country to count how many veterans of the Anti-Japanese War had survived to this day and to see how these veterans were doing now. , how many people are struggling and what kind of help they need.
But holding the mobile phone, Li Mu didn't make a call even after using a cigarette.
Too difficult.
There are too few veterans, like black pearls scattered in the ocean. To find them all, this workload is not something that one person can complete. It is necessary to establish a complete system and establish a system that can perfectly operate this system. Hardware platform.
In other words, this is a big project with both software and hardware. If you only develop software, it will be useless if the hardware platform cannot be used. However, if the hardware platform is fine and the software is not scientific and reasonable, then the efficiency of the entire system will become very low.
It is difficult to leave such a thing to anyone unless you take the lead, so in this case, there is no need to call.
Li Mu sighed softly, lit another cigarette with the cigarette butt, then threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stubbed it out with his toes. At this time, a voice suddenly came from behind: "What problem has the omnipotent Li Mu encountered?"
Li Mu turned around subconsciously and saw Wei Lan standing behind him, looking at him with a smile on his face, and said in surprise: "You don't even make a sound when you walk?"
"You didn't hear it, right?" The smile on Wei Lan's face looked like a sister doting on her younger brother, but she also felt a little heartbroken. She reached out and touched Li Mu's face, and said softly: "Did you listen to me?" After the old Flying Tiger member talked about the history, are you feeling a little breathless?"
Li Mu nodded: "It's so stressful."
Wei Lan said with relief: "Actually, you don't need to feel so heavy. You see that they all live so long and are living well now. This is a gratifying thing."
Li Mu sighed deeply and said, "You feel very relieved to see the two of them living well, but what I am thinking about are the existing veterans like them in our country. I don't know how they are doing now, although they are Some veterans are taken care of by the government, and they take good care of them. But as the country is so big, some veterans will definitely be missed. It is possible that an old man begging along the street in the city is a veteran who has carried a gun on the battlefield. Thinking of them , I always feel that I should do something for them.”
Wei Lan looked at Li Mu's solemn expression and couldn't help but step forward to hug him gently, put her face on his shoulder, and said in his ear: "My dear, try not to think too deeply about this kind of thing. It’s too heavy if you think about it deeply. I’m afraid that you will have too much psychological burden because of these heavy histories... "
Li Mu said: "But in front of my eyes, there are always a group of lonely and helpless old people's faces dancing and lingering, lingering..."
(End of chapter)