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First of all, we should realize that this is a magical work by Jiang Wen, and everything in the film can be guessed by the audience. So a thousand readers have a thousand Hamlets.

Lao Tang (Jiang Wen) is a playboy who once joined the army and is a war hero. Lao Liang (Huang Qiusheng) is his best friend and colleague. He is also a versatile person and is very popular with girls. At the same time, they fell in love with Tang's wife (Kong Wei), who later married Lao Tang. Lao Liang chased him for three years and got engaged. But in the end, Lao Tang only touched Kong Wei with a letter, and Kong Wei married Lao Tang. Lao Liang was very frustrated and touched the woman's ass through the wedding. This is 1958. At the same time, crazy mom (Zhou Yun) is pregnant with a big belly, and she is pregnant with the son of Lao Tang (Fang Zuming). Old Tang was romantic by nature, cheated his lover and crazy mother under the guise of a war hero's aura, and had sex. At this time, Lao Tang used an alias: Li. Crazy mom is not stupid, knowing that she has been cheated, but she is helpless, so she simply calls him Alesha. In order to get rid of his crazy mother, Lao Tang made up false news about his death, but he still couldn't fool her. She kept saying, "I know, I know." There is a package of letters in Lao Tang's legacy, but it is not for crazy mother, and there are three women's braids. The tragedy of crazy mother began, and it is conceivable how an unmarried mother with an illegitimate child would survive in such an era. She may have thought about suicide, or she may have intentionally thrown off the train after giving birth to her son, but great maternal love stopped her. She stopped the train and ran frantically along the tracks to find her son. She shouted in the direction of the bonfire party of Lao Tang's wedding: "Alisha, don't be afraid, the train stopped on it, and he smiled at dawn."

Crazy Mom and her illegitimate child captain (Fang Zuming), led by a small policeman Li Shu, came all the way to Lao Tang's hometown and lived there for 18 years, expecting to wait for Lao Tang's return one day. But a woman with no birthright, in that depressed era, can only stop others' gossip by playing dumb, or refuse to accept the reality and deliberately live in her own fantasy world. Anyway, crazy mom shouldn't. Her life is very miserable, as you can imagine. She climbs the tree at the head of the village every day, expecting a miracle.

1976, a miracle really happened. One day, the village received a phone call: Lao Tang was sent back. So crazy mom is not crazy anymore. On the day when Lao Tang came back, she dressed neatly and told the monitor that she would never beat him again, climb trees or dig holes again, and told him to meet people at the village entrance. Old Tang did come back, but not alone, with his wife, so the tragic life of crazy mother came to an end-she jumped into the river and committed suicide. Lao Tang didn't see the woman who had been waiting for him 18 years.

After marriage, Lao Tang and his wife separated, and Lao Tang and Lao Liang were assigned to a university as teachers. Lao Liang can play a good guitar and is very popular with girls. He has many suitors, but in such a depressed age, his heart is quiet, because the person he loves married Lao Tang. But when watching movies, I was mistaken for a gangster who touched a woman's ass. I was chased by everyone, broke my leg and lost my dignity. Finally found out the real hooligan. Lao Liang committed suicide when he was exonerated. He didn't commit suicide before, because he didn't want to die in disgrace. But it could have been a homicide. He died at the hands of Dr. Tang and Dr. Lin (Chen Chong) (many places in the film provide the basis for this speculation), because Lao Liang accidentally revealed the adultery of Dr. Tang and Dr. Lin. In fact, Lao Liang and Tang's wife are also likely to have an affair. The guess comes from a shotgun, which belongs to Lao Tang. He should have given it to his wife for safekeeping, but he went to Lao Liang's house. At that time, Lao Tang said, "I seem to have seen this gun in Xinjiang" (the story of Lao Liang and Tang's wife is very similar to the story of "Pearl Shirt" in Feng Menglong's San Yan Er Pai), which also increased the possibility of Lao Liang being killed.

After Lao Liang died, Lao Tang was sent back to his hometown for some reason (probably because his affair with Dr. Lin was exposed), and his wife (Kong Wei) accompanied him back to his hometown. The monitor drove the tractor to pick them up according to his mother's instructions. By the time they returned to the village, the crazy mother had committed suicide by jumping into the river and taking off all her clothes when she committed suicide. Except Li Shu, no one in the village knows that Lao Tang is actually the monitor's father (because he calls crazy mom sister-in-law). Old Tang takes a group of children hunting and playing the trumpet every day, which is enjoyable. Don's wife was left out in the cold. In that era when the spirit was extremely depressed and there was no entertainment, it was easy to have an affair with the monitor. Tang's wife told the monitor that Tang said her belly was like velvet. Adultery was accidentally discovered by Lao Tang. The next day, Lao Tang pointed a shotgun at the monitor and said, "You want to die." The monitor said, "I want to die, but there is one thing I don't understand." What is velvet? " Lao Tang has a principle in doing things: never take advantage of people's danger. In order to let the monitor die clearly, he went to Beijing to look for velvet. In fact, this is also a time to give yourself an interface and think, otherwise he wouldn't have to go so far to find it. I found an old friend (Cui Jian) in Beijing, and Cui Jian helped him analyze that his wife was cheating. The responsibility lies not with the captain or his wife, but with himself. Old Tang figured it out and decided not to buy cashmere anymore, and he didn't want to kill the monitor. But the monitor couldn't go on, so he went out of the village and bought a velvet certificate. Growing so big, he finally understood what velvet looked like. He said to Lao Tang, "But isn't your wife's belly like velvet?" Lao Tang finally did what a man would do to maintain his dignity: shot and killed the monitor. But he didn't know that it was his own son who committed suicide. Yi tui, Lao Tang will also be sentenced to death for intentional homicide.