Chapter 326 Li Wen's Touching Story

The story of "A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die" is actually very simple, and it can be summed up in one sentence.

"A story about a man who wants to die but never succeeds."

When all the guests and audiences were seated in the movie palace, there was no speech from the main creators. The lights dimmed, the big screen lit up, and the movie began to play.

Venice is so neat and tidy.

All the audience focused their eyes and attention on the big screen.

Li Xuejian, who wore old-age makeup and dyed his hair all white, appeared on the screen with a slightly hunched back.

His name is Li Wen.

Li Wen, 60, has a strange temper, a single-minded mind, and is extremely stubborn. He looks like an old man who is not easy to get along with.

The company where he worked diligently for 43 years found a reason to fire him, and there was no need for him to perform his duties.

He was a loner, moving between the community and the cemetery according to a fixed schedule every day.

In the community, he lives alone, without a wife or children.

Every day he would patrol the community regularly, check the locks of the warehouse doors, stop cars from entering the streets, drive away the cats and dogs running around, and scold people and things that don't follow the rules.

Many old residents living in this community say behind his back that he is old-fashioned, has a weird temper, and is not a good neighbor.

To be honest, the image of the male protagonist drawn at the beginning is really unpleasant.

Sarcastic, irritable, stubborn, old-fashioned, and very serious. As long as you violate the rules he adheres to, you will be prepared to hear his scolding.

Only when Li Wen went to the cemetery to see his wife, there was a slight feeling that this guy also had a gentle side.

Then, the plot began to turn.

This old man with a weird personality planned to hang himself on a beam on a sunny morning.

He wore a white shirt and a blue suit with a striped tie, suit pants and leather shoes, trimmed his beard and tidied his personal image, and prepared to leave this world decently.

He tied the rope to the beam, stepped on the chair, and put his head into the loop. Just when the audience frowned, a horn sounded, interrupting his suicide.

A new neighbor moved in next door. The neighbor's reverse parking skills were too poor. Faced with the new neighbor's request, he had to help, which finally affected his mood to continue suicide.

After helping his neighbor, Li Wen went home and collapsed on the sofa, and memories began to occupy his mind.

It turned out that Li Wen was also a handsome man with a good personality when he was young. The loss of his mother at a young age did not defeat him. Living with his father made him have a strong interest in cars and trains.

After hard work, he successfully obtained the qualification to work in the train industry.

It seems that everything is good, but why did he become like this?

The perspective returned to reality. After the first suicide failed, Li Wen did not give up the idea of ​​suicide and was still preparing for suicide.

However, the second suicide, he was dressed neatly in a suit and tie, but the daughter of the new neighbor came to deliver food and was forced to stop. He did not have the tradition of wasting food.

The third time, he used the earth's gravity to add resistance to the rope, but the rope broke.

The fourth time, he wanted to use car exhaust to absorb carbon emissions himself, but his neighbor fell and had to drive to the hospital.

The fifth time, he lay on the track, but a man suddenly fell on the track before him because of a sudden illness. When he rescued the man, the train also stopped by emergency brakes.

In every failed suicide attempt of Li Wen, many memories are inserted.

It turns out that although he lost his mother at a young age, he learned to treat everyone honestly and kindly under the demonstration and education of his father.

However, when he was sixteen, he lost his father.

Li Wen inherited a shabby bicycle, a broken house, a deformed watch and his father's job.

He worked honestly and conscientiously, but was falsely accused of stealing a wallet and lost his job, but a kind person arranged for him to work as a night bus cleaner.

Everyone wants to live with dignity, and dignity is different for different people.

For Li Wen, dignity is to be a person who sticks to principles and can support himself.

Li Wen is very principled and does not know how to adapt. He strictly managed garbage classification earlier than the people of Shanghai. He could not ignore anything that violated what he considered "common sense" in the slightest. He was either black or white.

In two years, he was cheated when buying insurance, his house was burned down because he was saving people, everything went wrong, and he even took the wrong bus.

But he lost something in one place, but he gained something in another. He met Xiaoya, his first love, his beloved, and everything he had.

Xiaoya's world is colorful, which is all the colors of Li Wen's world.

Before her, he had no life.

He was taciturn, rough and straightforward, black and white, and obsessed with technology.

She was lively and generous, beautiful and generous, full of joy for life, and loved literature and art.

No one understood why Xiaoya, a junior high school teacher, would accept Li Wen, a railway worker.

But Xiaoya understood that if someone is willing to take a reverse train for several hours every day just to accompany you, that is probably true love.

Loving her unconditionally is indeed his principle of life.

Li Wen and Xiao Ya had their first date. They had agreed to have dinner together, but Li Wen arrived a little late.

"Why did you have to eat at home before coming out?" she asked.

He looked at her with a sincere look in his eyes: "Because then you can order as much as you want."

In that poor era, eating out was a luxury, and he just hoped that Xiaoya would eat well on their first date.

During the meal, he nervously confessed to her that when they met on the train, he was mistaken for a soldier, but it was wrong. He was not a soldier, but just a train worker.

"So what?" Xiaoya held her chin with both hands and smiled brightly: "It makes no difference to me whether I am a soldier or a train worker."

They fell in love.

He was eccentric and lonely, and she was warm and sunny. She healed his lonely heart.

They worked diligently and respected each other. They worked hard to make money to buy a new house. Xiaoya was pregnant. Everything was stable and good. Then on their honeymoon, a drunk bus driver ruined their happiness.

Xiaoya could only spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair and was destined not to be a mother.

When life mocked him again and again, Li Wen never gave in.

He continued to love Xiaoya deeply, always supporting his wife's dream, creating all conveniences for Xiaoya's beloved job. His wife wanted to continue to be a teacher, so he paved a wheelchair path for her. They healed and supported each other.

However, fate is beyond our control. Half a year ago, Xiaoya left the world before Li Wen because of cancer.

Li Wen looked back on their lives. Their lives were ordinary, but the marks of the years left on him by the people he loved, the warmth and healing colors that he could not abandon.

"It's a mess when you're not at home."

"If I hurry, maybe we can meet today."

"I miss you so much."

In front of Xiaoya's grave, Li Wen said sensational words in a tone that was as plain as asking what to eat today.

When the people we love deeply and the jobs we are used to leave us, we will probably want to leave this cruel world and run to the deceased lover like Li Wen, a stubborn old man.

However, Li Wen, who is looking for a way to die every day, is interrupted by various trivial things every time.

He taught his neighbors how to reverse, helped them fix radiators, adopted stray kittens, took in homeless young men, and fought off the real estate developers who wanted to demolish the community with his neighbors, saving his friends from the suffering of being forced to go to a nursing home...

The stray cats in the community who were bullied need to be taken care of, and the friends who once shared the same hatred but later parted ways in the community cannot be sent to a nursing home, and his wife can't fix the heater.

The carefree, newly moved Northeast woman Li Yan next door has the consciousness of treating herself as Li Wen's daughter, regardless of whether he agrees or not.

Then, her two children naturally became Li Wen's granddaughters.

Being called grandpa, you have a heart concern, you have lost the right to commit suicide, and you have to buy a new mobile phone for them.

After his wife passed away, his world was completely dark, and suicide might be the best choice.

Until the neighbor who moved next door brought Li Wen new concerns.

"No one can bear everything alone, no one, including you!"

After Li Wen attempted suicide again and was discovered by the Northeast woman next door, they had a serious talk.

"Never give up, is that what you said?" She gave Li Wen the words he used to teach his children back to him.

"But what about you? You sit there and feel sorry for yourself because of your wife's death."

"Because you are in trouble, you blame others for being idiots."

"You are the one who loves to give up the most."

"Just because you think everyone can survive without help."

"But do you know?"

"No one can bear everything alone, no one, but this is life."

Li Wen seems to have become a different person recently. He has begun to have various interactions with people around him. I have never seen him so excited.

The new neighbors and even other people and small animals in the community are not perfect, timid, clumsy, stubborn, and speak unpleasantly. Li Wen is really worried that if he is not there, this community may be finished.

Although Li Wen still has a bad face when facing others' requests for help, and even complains in his heart, he always lends a hand.

Everyone knows that he is just a kind old man with a hard mouth and a soft heart.

Unconsciously, the neighbors can't live without Li Wen, and Li Wen can't live without his neighbors. The most important thing is that Li Wen finally found the meaning of life. He felt that he was needed and loved by someone.

Of course, he always cursed these people for their incompetence, but when he was alone in the small cemetery, he would occasionally say vaguely, "It might be good to do something during the day."

Soon it was winter again, a cold November morning.

Li Yan, a woman from the Northeast next door, woke up as usual, looked out the bedroom window, and then looked at the clock.

It was a quarter past eight, but the snow at the door of Li Wen's house opposite the window had not been shoveled yet, which did not fit Li Wen's old-fashioned lifestyle.

The camera turned, and Li Wen lay on the bed with his hands on his chest. He looked like he was just sleeping soundly. I have never seen him so peaceful. The cat lay beside him, with its head carefully placed in his palm.

Li Yan's eldest daughter pulled her sleeve in confusion: "Why hasn't grandpa woken up yet?"

Li Yan did not answer, but leaned down and whispered in Li Wen's ear: "Say hello to Xiaoya's mother for me, thank her for lending you to me."

People will inevitably get hurt, but I hope there will always be love to heal you.

The film ends here.

The black screen at the end of the film lights up with scrolling subtitles.

After a short silence.

Inside the movie palace, applause roared. (End of this chapter)