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Our Shiny Days
Episode 21
Does One Become a Pure Idiot
after Growing up
Speak.
Anyu, I haven't contacted Yina.
Go on trying.
Hasn't there any change about the film?
No, there hasn't.
What's going on online?
There is indeed
a stir online.
Anyu, don't read the comments first.
Some netizens send wishes
and some stop following you.
I see.
Though I haven't contacted Yina,
if she leaked the news,
you shouldn't keep silent all the time.
What if she becomes impatient?
Let Jiayi deal with it.
Is there something else?
Anyu, there is something.
-I don't know whether I should tell you or not. -Just say.
After telling you, I am afraid…
Maybe I shouldn't tell you.
Even if I am running,
I still can kick you.
I, I'll tell you.
Anyu,
when we just moved to your housing estate,
I usually contacted the intermediary company.
You wanted to buy a house in that housing estate,
so I mentioned it with the intermediary company
and asked them to tell me if there was a proper house.
An intermediary contacted me this morning.
He told me 4-1-1-D
would be sold
and asked me whether I wanted to buy.
After hearing that, I was shocked.
Isn't 4-1-1-D
the home of Miss Chen?
Isn't our brother at her house?
I know.
I say I know.
Well, Anyu, then I'll leave.
After you finish, I'll come to pick you up.
I can't wait for some disappointment
and long stories.
I don't want to go home.
I just want to escape to anywhere far.
Then I can put it down
and go back to where it started.
Is it far?
Do you bring your luggage?
Do you fall in love with me?
Will you stay?
Is it complicated?
Is it far?
Are you disappointed?
Do you struggle?
Do you wander?
Do you put it down?
Mr. Wang,
it seems Li You has begun to cry
after waking up this morning and looking into the mirror.
He goes on crying after going to Li Sa's dorm.
We really don't know what happened to him
I see.
Everyone, go out. OK?
Sa.
Li You,
can you finish?
Mr. Wang, after getting up this morning,
I find I have a moustache.
Mr. Wang, I…
I have a moustache.
I'm alive.
I have a moustache.
Sa always
wanted to have a moustache.
Li You,
let me ask you.
Did I hit you
a lot just now?
If one is alive,
he can wear a moustache, hair and nails, right?
But when you feel painful and helpless
at the time of waving goodbye,
it also shows you're alive.
Li You,
since you have a moustache,
then I'll treat you as an adult.
I want to tell you, an adult,
to wake up.
If Li Sa were here today,
he would even want to tell you
persistence doesn't necessarily let you win
but persistence means you can live.
Remember this card.
Is it this one?
Sa, your cactus nearly has no thrones.
I just grow it to pick my teeth.
Dreg.
I feel someone coming in.
Go and have a look. Quickly.
Quickly.
There is no one, Sa.
OK.
Then help me turn off the light by the way.
Dreg,
look at the moon for me more often in the future.
Why?
I, I
may need to go to bed early and get up late
and have little time to stay awake in the future.
Don't say such strange words.
Such days in which
you have the time to look at the moon
and aren't afraid to fail to see the sun the second day are good.
Feel what Li Sa
didn't feel
carefully.
Catch the baton
of his life
and go on living,
OK?
Chen Jing, wait.
Let me tell you something.
The residential area opposite to our piano room
was demolished during the summer vacation.
An old woman came
the second day after the summer vacation
when I finished checking the piano room and was ready to leave.
She said she'd leave these books to you.
Chen Jing, to read the letter here is just like being face-to-face.
You've added so much fun to my elderly life
when I stay with you in these six months.
Thank you so much.
I'll give these books to you.
You, a young girl, may not believe
these books have brought me much support in my later years.
When reading them, I can imagine
how the beautiful music flows in Europe,
how the light boat on the Mekong River turns,
how the African beasts live in nature
and how the icebergs
of the South Pole and the North Pole stand as before.
The world is vast,
but I've only got imagination.
I entered the song and dance theatre when I was a teenager.
My working place was only 100 meters from my home.
I lived in the family area after I got married.
The distance of my commuting to and from work was just 1,000 meters.
Then in most of my life, I went out in the morning and went home in the evening.
In my later years, my husband died and the old house was demolished.
My children suggested that I should move to a nursing home
which is only 3 kilometers from here.
The children advised me to leave without much luggage
and throw away or sell the articles in my home.
I exclaim with admiration
when holding these magazines again.
In my life,
I've actually covered such a short distance.
Chen Jing,
I don't send you these books
because I don't need them
but because I want you to keep them for me.
In my later years,
I deeply feel the boundlessness of the world,
which makes me scary inevitably.
But only bravery
and time
can fight with the boundlessness.
Even if we can't reach the distance,
we still don't give up.
I'd like to share this sentence with you.
Your friend, Chen Yucui.
Director,
I have to tell you.
Zhao Yimo of the Guzheng major played with her cell phone,
so I took away her cell phone.
If her parents called you and asked…
Well done.
OK, I just want to tell you about it.
I don't bother you then.
Miss Chen,
wait.
Here is a notice from the superiors.
Read it as well.
How did you sleep last night?
Not well.
The same to you?
Were you afraid Li Sa would come back?
I was afraid I didn't wake up when he came back.
In that case, he would come back in vain.
Without his alarm clock which sounded every minute,
I didn't expect we still could get up in time.
Sa,
please.
Turn off your alarm clock.
Get up. Get up.
You woke up all the people in the building.
I beg you. I beg you.
Give me one more minute.
Just one minute.
I'll go to practice playing the musical instruments.
It's good to be a robot.
Let's not stay in the dorm.
Let's, let's go and do something.
Go running.
OK.
Dreg, do you feel better?
Are you going to music appreciation class later?
Then help me ask for a leave.
I can't understand those theories,
so I'd better read some light readings in the dorm.
If our teacher asks why I don't come, you can answer I have a fever
and I will give the leave permit to him next class.
Dreg,
since you go to class,
why don't you have a shave?
Just wear it.
I don't want to shave.
OK. OK.
You have a dispirited style.
There is always no vacant place on the washing table,
which is as busy as an online famous shop.
Who puts it in the bathing room?
When peeing,
he can use it to contain his urine and check whether the urine is clear.
Senior, you have high life taste.
I can't find my brushing cup.
But I think
my behavior should be spread to the country.
Why?
In the early morning,
we have a new day.
Isn't it worth celebrating?
But drinking early in the morning may cause delay in study.
It's proper
to brush teeth with the champagne glass.
Sa,
were you stimulated in your dream?
No, I was not.
I am actually energetic.
I am keeping
alive and kicking.
Please fill up the glass and raise it.
The glass of good wine is intoxicating.
There are few such chances in our precious life.
How precious the present happiness is.
Don't waste the happy time.
Everyone, let's drink to love.
Youth is like a bird
which won't fly back after flying away.
Look, the sparkling champagne in the glass
is like the love in our hearts.
Ziyuan,
do you have a razor?
Yes.
Let me use it, OK?
OK.
Are you anxious?
I,
I want to go to class.
I'll lend it to you later.
Can you talk somewhere else?
Let me use a tap.
In the twinkling of an eye, he has a girlfriend.
In the twinkling of an eye, he has a kid.
In the twinkling of an eye, he is going to get married.
The family of three has a happy life.
Who are we actually in his mind?
Even if our time is worthless…
Why isn't our time worthless?
If we could sell our time,
Li Sa would
like to buy it at any cost.
Everyone,
Li Sa, horn player
in our band,
passed away.
I'm very sad, too.
But now
I need you
to be concentrated.
It's less than a month before the concert
aiming to universalize music in kids on October 1.
We're going to perform
Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 at the concert.
Well, chief of each music department, send the scores.
Dean,
is that settled?
Is there no room to retrieve it?
Let's go for
the department meeting.
After that,
class teachers should try to pacify students
studying folk music in your classes.
Miss Chen,
how are you doing lately?
I'm fine.
Hello, I'm at work.
I'll call you later.
Please don't call me
during my working hours.
Thanks.
Do you want to change the house?
Yes.
I want to live in a smaller one.
Are you going to sell the present one?
Can I help you?
There are the professionals.
I've entrusted an intermediary.
Miss Chen,
there are so many tricky things
to deal with at school recently.
If you want to talk to someone,
I'll always be free.
Thank you very much.
I'm very moved,
but I can't always
complain to you.
Friends are
the icing on the cake.
The new term begins.
Please bring your mind back to study.
I'll inform you of two things.
One,
on October 1,
there'll be a concert aiming to universalize music in kids organized by the Ministry of Education.
I hope that the school band of Western music
will seize this opportunity
to win honor for the school.
Here is the other one.
The dean's head is getting bald.
Will he also apply sunscreen to
where is bald on his head in summer?
We have stuck to the development
of folk music and Western music.
However,
in the current environment,
there are fewer and fewer applicants for folk music.
For several consecutive years,
the teaching of folk music in our school
has been in a state of short of students
and imbalance between teachers and students,
so the superior departments decided
after discussion to suspend
the enrollment of folk music performance major
of Zhongxia Conservatory of Music next year.
We made the decision
out of our responsibility to students.
How can they suspend it easily?
Is there really no one learning folk music?
No way.
How should we get jobs when we graduate?
I want to be a teacher.
I hope that the students who are still
studying folk music at school
cherish your opportunities now.
We can do nothing to the number of applicants,
but you can still be
new forces of folk music performance
when you graduate.
Well.
They're going to eliminate folk music.
How cruel it is!
Didn't you find it?
There are fewer and fewer junior students
in our school
learning folk music.
You suspend the enrollment as few people learn it,
but what you do will make fewer people learn it.
This is a drop-dead halt, right?
Student,
sit down first.
Maybe 3 to 5 years later,
no kids will learn folk music.
Even the school can't deal with
the problem of low popularity
and no publicity of folk music.
Student, sit down, OK?
Well, I'll sign up for
the concert aiming to universalize music in kids this term.
I'll engage in the publicity.
The concert is only for band,
not for individual performance.
Sit down.
I have
my own band.
Will you allow my band to join it?
You have a band?
Where are the band members?
Here.
You're not a band,
but a stage group, at most.
It's ridiculous.
How funny it is!
What's wrong?
Well.
Sit down!
Report. Director, we have had a band.
Director,
can we go to take part in the performance now?
Be quiet.
If you want to take part in the performance, you must do it on behalf of our school.
The symphony orchestra has never stopped the training,
but is the band you form casually
capable of taking part in it?
If there will be a problem, who can be responsible for it?
I can't allow you
to ruin the collective honor casually.
Dismiss!
After all,
the band will stand for our school.
You shouldn't hinder us.
Shut up.
We have tolerated you for so many years.
Don't interfere in
our business.
You're so impolite, bumpkins.
Wait.
We're bumpkins?
Spectacled guy,
is your epityphlon inflamed ("fa yan" in Chinese)?
Why are you so talkative ("fa yan" in Chinese)?
Folk music is left by our ancestors.
A group of madmen.
Maybe they will have a fight.
I must go to inform the director.
Just wait and see here.
Maybe they will give us a surprise.
Now that you like folk music so much,
the last graduates…
They have something in their mind,
so they should give vent to it.
If something really happens, I'll be responsible for it.
Our schoolmate of Western music just passed away.
Do you know?
How can you
find faults now?
Can you shut up?
Let me teach you how to play musical instruments personally!
Come on! Come on!
Who is the best friend
of Li Sa?
Who is the best friend of Li Sa,
who majored in horn
of Zhongxia Conservatory of Music?
Me.
Li You,
who majors in national percussion music
of Zhongxia Conservatory of Music.
I'm his best friend.
He regarded me as quite an important friend,
so he is also my important friend.
When we played together,
is the thing that
one of us learnt Western music,
while the other one
learns folk music important?
Now my Sa is dead,
but what are you,
who are still alive doing?
Forget it. Let's calm down.
If we have a fight in the hall,
we will absolutely be disciplined.
Yeah.
We will have a bright future.
You're unqualified to hinder us.
Let's go.
Chen Jing,
do you want to stand on the bigger stage?
You too?
If so, just realize it.
Everyone,
now that you look down upon folk music,
and we can't always have a fight,
do you dare
compete with us with your musical instruments?
How dare you compete with us with musical instruments?
Anyone among us
can defeat all of you.
Your breath stinks. How long haven't you brushed your teeth?
You will ask for an insult.
Don't draw conclusion before competing with us.
OK,
let's have a competition.
By then you must admit defeat.
Music requires the power of understanding.
OK?
How will we compete with you?
Those who play the same parts have a competition.
Treble VS treble.
Bass VS bass.
Baritone VS baritone.
What's the tune?
It'll be determined through coin tossing.
The one who makes the coin face up can choose the tune first.
Then we will keep up with the pace,
and the party who fails to keep up with it will lose.
How will we punish the loser?
If you lose,
you must make a living as performers on the platform bridge,
and we will broadcast it live.
Do you dare?
Of course we will admit defeat for bet,
but if you lose, will you also do so?
Well,
we won't absolutely lose.
It's a deal.
Just deal with all our grievances in this way.
By then you can't flinch.
Even if you're the best friend of Li Sa,
I must make you realize
how superior the musical instrument he learnt is.
I'll also prove to you
how sharp-sighted Li Sa who played with me,
a Tanggu player was.
Miss Chen,
do you have any principle that only you know
as a teacher?
I have one,
but I only tell you today.
An author once said a sentence.
Its general meaning is,
when you go up the mountain,
don't laugh at those who go down the mountain that
they are dog-tired.
Let me interpret this sentence in another way boldly.
Adults would better
not to laugh at those who go up the mountain
for yearning for the scenery on the mountain top
when going down the mountain.
Just let them go to enjoy the scenery
on the mountain top alone.
This is my principle as a teacher.
Now that they can deal with things by virtue of their imagination,
let's stop interfering in it with our experience.
What you think?
As a teacher,
my biggest benefit is that
I don't need to go down the mountain first
but can act as a tour guide for these teenagers who want to climb up the mountain.
Miss Chen,
I know clearly
what happened to you in your recent life.
Some security guards in my company
are working for Feng Anyu.
Recently, he has higher security requirements
for traveling.
That's why I know it.
Look at the students.
They are brave
and just want to change
something impossible.
But what will happen
in the process of striving for it?
What they can get in it
may be far beyond our imagination.
Miss Chen,
you regard me as a friend.
In this case,
I hope you're happy every day.
Some things are destined to be fairy tales,
but all heroines in fairy tales are
as brave as kids.
Miss Chen,
we don't grow up to become
pure idiots.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
I have entrusted you with the house
and paid the agency fees
to avoid bringing myself troubles.
Will the buyer coming soon buy it?
I just got off work
and don't want to waste my energy
on such a thing.
Miss Chen,
the buyer really wants to buy it.
He only wants to see you.
What he buys is the house.
It has nothing to do with who I am.
We agreed to meet at 6:30 p.m.,
but it is 6:33 p.m.
I can choose not to sell it.
Miss Chen, calm down.
He is just late for 3 minutes.
Besides, not all watches are accurate.
Miss Chen,
I can understand why the buyer wants to see you.
To tell the truth,
I worked in big cities for years,
but I escaped a few months ago,
because it was really difficult
and unpromising.
So I went back to grow bananas in my hometown.
However,
after growing bananas for 2 months,
I couldn't bear it.
I came back and started all over again.
Do you want to know
why I came back?
No, actually.
I don't like such big cities
with so many people
and high housing prices.
However, only in big cities
can two strangers
or some strangers
sit together,
communicate
and get to know each other face to face,
even if we just say hello.
It will only happen in big cities.
It was quiet in the banana garden. Life in it
was relaxing and easy,
but it didn't work,
as no one talked with me.
Bro, will you
leave us alone?
Mr. Feng, I'm sorry I can't.
I'm responsible for connection as the agency.
If you make a deal in private,
you don't need me.
If you can sell the house,
how much commission will you get?
Mr. Feng,
it's not about money.
We trust each other,
so do not keep any secret from me.
This is an advance.
If Miss Chen agrees to sell me the house,
you'll get the commission you should.
If she disagrees,
you'll still keep the money.
Now close the door
and leave us alone, OK?
No problem. I'll go now
and close the door.
Call me
if you need my help.
Miss Chen, this is what I think is
the most amazing thing in big cities.
There are unlimited possibilities between us.
Why didn't you answer my phone calls?
No need.
Even a murderer has a chance
to make a statement
to tell what he thinks.
However, I have no such chance.
I can probably guess what you're going to say,
so there's no need to listen to it.
The baby...
It's not yours.