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Chapter 1518: Are the fairy tales we have heard true?

The first reaction of many viewers when seeing "Ghost Town" is that this is the place where ghosts live, including Edward in the movie.

But they soon discovered that it wasn't!

Under the camera, this is a main street lined with shops: Cole's Pharmacy, Talbot's Bargain Store, Al's Grocery Store. Although everything here is old, there are no ghosts. More than two dozen small town residents ran onto the street and watched Edward approach. Many people were laughing, and some even shed tears of joy.

Also, the surprising thing is that these people are all barefoot.

At this time, a voice came: "Friend!"

A 40-year-old man came out of the seed shop to greet Edward. His attitude was very friendly, but he looked a little drunk.

His name is Biman, which is equivalent to the mayor of the town.

He was holding a binder. Beaman looked at Edward and said with a smile, "Welcome. What's your name?"

Edward replied: "Edward Bloom."

Edward's voice narrated again: "It may be difficult for a person to find a place so alluring in his entire life. My journey has just begun and I have arrived at such a place."

Beaman nodded: "I didn't expect it to be so early."

Edward and Norther Winslow sat together. Fireflies were flying around, thousands of them.

Or is this Edward's dream?

The movie continues, at dusk, under a tree.

North Winslow Aria: "There is no land softer than Ghost Town."

Mildred nodded in agreement: "It's very long." "

He ran after her and soon found himself in the street.

Beaman: "He's still here. I'll buy you something to drink and tell you everything later. Hell, let him tell you."

The townspeople continued to congratulate Edward.

Edward's voiceover sounds: "Sometimes you dream of places that seem familiar, and there are friends you have never met everywhere."

Beaman: "Ghost Town, the best-kept secret in Alabama. You're from Ashton, right? The last person from Ashton was North Winslow."

Beaman: "Well, that's how life is. The road is easy, but the road is long!"

Edward asked curiously: "What place is this?"

Beaman exclaimed: "Oh, here! Right here, Edward Bloom. But we didn't expect you to come so early."

This was not a joke, but somehow everyone laughed.

Beaman: "Son, I told you a long time ago that you are here early."

In fact, the audience was very confused during this section and felt a little baffled. Why did they know that Edward was coming?

Beeman: "But the important thing is that you are here."

Biman's daughter Zhen hid behind her father and secretly looked at the handsome stranger.

Edward was still looking at his shoes, and he looked confused: "Wait! I want my shoes!"

Mildred: "What a beautiful verse!"

Edward was convinced: "Absolutely."

She called Mildred: "You must have taken a shortcut."

Edward was surprised: "That poet? How is he?"

Jenny tied the laces of Edward's shoes together as she ran. Reaching the edge of town, she threw her shoes up onto the wires! The technique of tossing shoes is impeccable. It looked like Edward couldn't get them off.

At this time a woman intervened to help.

Edward: "Yes."

Edward sat at the long table and picked up a second apple pie. North Winslow, a man of about thirty, the "poet," was also sitting at the long table. He imagined himself as a highly cultivated artist, although he had never left Alabama.

Suddenly, Jenny pulled off Edward's shoes and ran towards the door holding the shoes.

Beaman looked in the binder and didn't find Edward's name. He flipped through a few more pages and continued looking.

Beeman: "Does 'Bloom' mean bloom?"

The onlookers cheered Edward, who was bewildered and bewildered. Women hugged him, men shook hands with him.

Edward: "Yeah, almost died."

Edward was still confused: "You knew I was coming?"

And what exactly is this place?

The scene changes and Edward comes to Beaman's house.

Edward: "Hey!"

Norther handed Edward his notebook.

Beeman: "Is this the best pie you've ever had?"

Under the table, Jenny secretly untied Edward's shoelaces.

Beeman: "He's our poet laureate."

Edward: "No. I have to meet someone else. I'm already late."

North Winslow: "Everything here is delicious, even the water is sweet. The weather is neither cold nor hot nor humid. At night, the breeze blows through the treetops, as if they are playing a symphony for you."

This narration made many people think deeply.

North Winslow said with some satisfaction: "I wrote this poem for twelve years."

Edward was in disbelief: "Really?"

Norther Winslow nodded: "Everyone's expectations are high, and I don't want to disappoint my poetry fans."

Edward hesitated, paused for a moment and couldn't help but said: "There are only three lines."

Norther grabbed the notebook.

North Winslow: "So, never show unfinished work to anyone."

Edward asked: "Northern, do you regret not going to Paris?"

North Winslow: "I can't think of a better place to be."

Edward: "You are a poet and you should travel around. Only when you see more can you write good poems."

Norther looked at the notebook and didn't respond.

As night fell, under the light of the full moon, Edward dipped his feet in the river, trying to figure out everything that happened suddenly. The "key to the city" was swinging in front of his chest.

He smiled as he looked at his reflection in the water.

At this moment, in the distance, on the other side of the river, a woman's figure appeared. It's hard to say where she came from, she must have swam under the water. No one can see her face.

The woman stood in the water, her back to Edward. She just squeezed out the water from her blond hair and didn't notice Edward's presence. Edward couldn't breathe. This was the first time he saw such a graceful body of a woman. He didn't dare to move for fear of scaring her away.

Later, he saw a snake.

This should be a water-belly snake, it is swimming towards the woman. There was no time to think, Edward jumped into the water completely out of instinct and swam as hard as he could. He caught the snake just as it was about to attack.

The woman also jumped into the water and disappeared. She is afraid of men coming near her.

Edward shouted: "Don't go, it's okay! I caught it, I caught the snake." The turbulent water gradually calmed down, and Edward looked at the thing he was holding in his hand. It wasn't a snake, it was just a stick. Ordinary branches, nothing dangerous at all.

Edward looked around, but unfortunately she was nowhere to be found. He didn't even see the woman's face.

Edward continued: "Wait! I'm sorry. Hello?"

Edward waited, hoping that she would resurface, but his hopes were in vain. He stood alone in the water, wondering what trick his eyes were doing, mistaking the branches for snakes.

At this moment, a childish voice sounded: "There are leeches in the water!"

Edward looked towards the shore and saw that it was Jenny.

Edward asked her: "Did you see that woman?"

Jenny asked him: "What does she look like?"

Edward wanted to answer: "Well, she... um..."

It's a pity that he didn't see her appearance clearly at all, so naturally he couldn't answer this question.

But Jenny seemed to know: “Are you naked?”

Edward was a little embarrassed, but he still nodded: "Yes."

Jenny smiled: "That's not a woman, it's a fish. No one can catch her."

Edward didn't want to think about the strange things that happened today, and he was ready to wade ashore.

Jenny continued: "Different people look at that fish differently. My dad said that when he was a child, he looked at it like the bear dog he used to raise coming back from the dead."

Edward climbed ashore, soaking wet. He rolled up his trouser legs and found three translucent water frogs clinging to his skin.

Edward was a little crazy: "Damn it."

On the way back to town, Edward and Jenny chatted.

Jenny asked him: "How old are you?"

Edward replied: "18 years old."

Jenny smiled and said innocently: "I am 8 years old. In other words, I am 18 years old and you are 28 years old. When I was 28 years old, you were only 38 years old."

Edward didn't know why Jenny said this, so he said cautiously: "Your arithmetic is pretty good."

Jenny said: "When I am 38 years old, you will be 48 years old. The age gap is nothing at all."

When Edward heard this, he was immediately eager to end this topic. He quickly said: "But it's much worse now, huh?"

When Edward and Jenny approached the main street, they found that the middle of the street was filled with lanterns and streamers. A small stage was set up at one end of the road, and a violinist was playing.

The whole town celebrates the arrival of Edward Bloom as the town's new resident. Before Edward could protest, two women grabbed him by the arms and pulled him over to dance. Everyone from the farmer to the baker's wife wanted to dance with Edward, who felt like a stick in a whirlpool, spinning around and around.

Jenny grabbed both of his hands and spun them around wildly.

Biman grabbed his daughter and danced with her. Then Mildred stepped in to dance with Edward.

Everyone laughed loudly, almost drowning out the music.

Mildred smiled: "Jenny thinks you are a lovely person, we all think so."

Edward couldn't hear what they said at all: "What?"

Mildred shouted: "I said you were a lovely person!"

Edward's dance stopped. He walked up to Beaman, where Jenny was sitting on her father's shoulders.

Edward said: "I have to go, I'll set off tonight."

Beeman didn't understand: "Why?"

Edward said seriously: "Everything a man could want is available in this town. And if I end my life here, I will consider it a blessing. But at the moment, I don't plan to stay somewhere for a long time."

Beaman shook his head: "No one leaves here."

Jenny: “How can I walk without shoes?”

Edward: "I think my feet will hurt."

After saying this, Edward left. Everyone stopped dancing and felt it was incredible. Some people shook their heads.

Poor Edward Bloom must be crazy.

Beeman shouted after Edward: "You won't find a better place than here!"

Jenny ran to Edward: "Promise me you will come back."

Edward: "I promise, I will come back on the day I should come back."

Edward walked on, for there were no shoes, and it was so terrible that Edward walked barefoot through the thorns, and he could hardly stand it.

Then things got worse.

The trees ahead were moving, and at first it looked like the wind was blowing their branches, but when he heard the creaking and crackling of the wood, he was sure they were trying to block Edward's path.

Snake-like roots shot out from the ground and wrapped around his ankles. Edward jumped up and grabbed the branch. He swung over like a swing, rolled on the ground, and now all the trees moved to block him, standing like towers in the flashes of lightning.

Edward's voiceover sounded: "Getting out of Ghost Town is as difficult as getting there, but I am destined to go there. After all, no one can escape the fate of death."

As he ducked under a branch, it caught his keychain and he was nearly strangled. But the chain finally broke, and the silver key fell into the dirt and disappeared.

Edward crawled forward, trying to find an exit, but unfortunately the trees surrounded him. Their sharp branches bent down, trying to crush him to death.

He screamed desperately into the night until he couldn't breathe.

Edward's voiceover reads: "Then I realized that this was not the end of my life."

Ed said loudly and calmly, "That's not how I died."

A bolt of lightning exploded. Suddenly, the trees retreated and returned to their original positions. Edward lay barefoot in a muddy puddle, laughing in the rain.

Edward finally walked out of here and stepped onto the asphalt road with his bare feet.

A deep voice: "Friend!"

Edward turned and saw Carl to his right, coming down the wide road.

Karl asked in surprise and confusion: "Where are your shoes?"

Edward looked down at his bloody feet and said, "They go before me."

After saying this, the two men began to walk onto a wider road.

This story was obviously untrue, but this time it made many people think deeply. Edward's story was obviously just like what his son said, and you knew it was false as soon as you heard it.

But is it really fake? We have heard so many fairy tales and believed them to be true when we were children. Why do we like to question them when we grow up?

Those experiences seem fake, but for some reason, everyone can't help but think about it at this moment, what is it?

When the camera changed again, just when everyone was curious about what kind of journey Edward would have with the giant card man, they returned to reality and the present.

Inside the dining room of Edward and Sandra's home.

Edward and Will, father and son, sat at opposite ends of the table, with Sandra and Josephine in the middle. Although there was only a small plate of food in front of Edward, he didn't eat it. It was obvious that his condition was still taking its toll on him, and even walking down the stairs left him exhausted, but he decided to keep up the old routine of family dinners.

(End of this chapter)