In the 60s of the last century, there was a string player in the Yanjin County Yu Opera Troupe, who loved to tell jokes, and was known as the sixth uncle.
The sixth uncle is a strange person, strange is strange, and he paints strange paintings with a lot of work.
In his writings, there are people who are laughed to death with their mouths wide open, banshees who eat jokes and ask for their lives, Yama imps who must compare their babes, and cows, horses, and beasts who scold each other.
The sixth uncle conceived a story for each painting, and except for his neighbor Xiao Liu, everyone else thought he was a madman.
Later, the sixth uncle died, and the sixth aunt burned the painting, which almost didn't make Xiao Liu feel distressed to death.
For the sixth uncle, for these excellent stories, Xiao Liu wrote the sixth uncle's paintings into a book**.
And this is the famous writer Liu Zhenyun's "One Day and Three Autumns".
Since its publication in 2021, this book can be described as "soft to win awards", with a Douban score approaching 85。
Gold medal screenwriter Song Fangjin compared ** to a pot of good wine, which is sweet in the mouth. And Liu Zhenyun condensed it into ten words:
"How many things in the world, in two or three jokes. ”
In this life, we are played by fate and teased by human feelings, some people live as jokes, and some people cry in jokes.
The farce of life is full of persecution and embarrassment
To tell this story, we have to start with the famous play "The Legend of the White Snake" of the Yu Opera Troupe.
There are three characters in this scene, namely White Snake Cherry, Xu Xian, Li Yansheng, and Fahai Chen Changjie.
On stage, White Snake and Xu Xian En'en**, but off the stage, she was hopelessly fascinated by Fahai's jokes.
Chen Changjie said that the sea of Fa is jealous of goblins and falling in love, and the white snake is just greedy for the joy of fish and water, which is not a good thing.
Cherry smiled "delicately", and soon after she married Fahai with a certificate, leaving Xu Xian to marry Hu Xiaofeng, a female worker with five big and three thick.
It's a pity that "The Legend of the White Snake" didn't last long before the troupe was disbanded, and the three leading actors could only go to machinery factories and cotton mills as workers.
The glory of the past has vanished, and the "horns" on the stage have been relegated to the mortal world, and they are overstretched and disgraced.
Husband and wife quarrel, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law fight, and the days do not stop for a day.
The most dramatic thing is that one day four years later, Cherry actually hanged herself because of a handful of leeks and Chen Changjie's temper.
After that, Chen Changjie went to Wuhan and became a wrenchman. Only a year later, he got married and invited Li Yansheng to the wedding with great fanfare.
As an "iron buddy", Li Yansheng wanted to go, but Hu Xiaofeng questioned him: "Who pays for the money, who pays the round-trip fare, I am dizzy all day long and have no money to see a doctor, but it is obvious that you care about other people's wives." ”
Li Yansheng wanted to get angry, but after thinking about it, it would cost him two months' salary to go to Wuhan, so forget it.
The others couldn't stop wailing, but they immediately sent a letter to Chen Changjie, lying that they couldn't go because they had broken their feet.
For the sake of realism, he also pretended to be lame for a few days.
In fact, the neighbors didn't have time to watch him perform at all, and they were all busy staging their own burlesques.
Wu Dazui of the sheep soup restaurant does not like to kill, and every time before slaughtering the sheep, he has been fighting with the lambs for a long time, but after drinking and sudden death, everyone muttered that he was too ruthless and owed a blood debt;
Guo Baochen, who swept the streets, was so poor that he was ding, but he firmly believed that he was the descendant of the prime minister, and he kept a calm face every day, sweeping the streets as solemn as the previous dynasty;
There is also a fortune teller blind Lao Dong, in order to make a living, he pops up a sentence every once in a while: "The people walking on this street are not people, they are stand-ins for pigs, dogs, cows and sheep." ”
Looking at them, Li Yansheng remembered a lyric in "The Legend of the White Snake": "What is it, what is it?".What to do, what to do!”
yes, what can I do about this troublesome day?Why does fate always treat us as walnut plates?
When we watch these people make jokes, can't we laugh ourselves?
In order to win a single performance, pretend to be stupid and pretend to be a clown;For the sake of profit, put down your body and make a big noise;For the sake of face, slap a swollen face and become fat.
If it weren't for the sake of living in the world, who would want to be made fun of;If it weren't for powerlessness, who would want to live against their will.
Life is not as happy as "The Legend of the White Snake", life is a ball of oil paint, painting us into a big flower face beyond recognition.
You think the feelings are deep
It's just a joke to others
After Li Yansheng refused to attend the wedding, he fell seriously ill.
He was so sick that the hospital couldn't find out the problem, but it was Dong who burned incense and danced and saw the clues.
He mysteriously said that it was the ghost of Cherry who was haunting her.
Cherry was thrown into a mass grave after her death, and the soul planned to go to Chen Changjie to settle accounts, so she pestered Li Yansheng and forced him to take her.
In order to save his life, Li Yansheng began to borrow money from his daughter-in-law and prepared to go to Wuhan.
However, money has always been a litmus test of feelings.
Don't talk about money, it's all good brothers;As soon as you borrow money, everyone turns their faces and doesn't recognize anyone.
It has to be said that Guo Baochen, who swept the streets, was righteous and gave Li Yansheng a "good idea".
He asked Li Yansheng to borrow 100 yuan from him first, and he used the money to gamble, and if he won the bet, he would be rich.
As a result, Guo Baochen lost a lot, and Li Yansheng had to borrow loan sharks to make up for the travel expenses.
He finally went to Wuhan, met Chen Changjie, and got rid of cherries, but he didn't want to get into more trouble.
After Chen Changjie remarried, his son Mingliang became a burden, and he said that he would let Li Yansheng raise his son and promised to give him living expenses every month.
In this way, Mingming, who had just turned 6 years old, returned to Yanjin and became Li Yansheng's righteous son.
10 years have passed in a blink of an eye, who would have thought that just before the bright college entrance examination, Chen Changjie suddenly cut off his living expenses, on the grounds that his daughter-in-law was strict.
And Li Yansheng and his wife are not wronged, especially Hu Xiaofeng, who scolds Huai all day long, and has no good face.
In desperation, 16-year-old Mingliang could only give up his studies and go to the lo-mei shop as an apprentice, ruining his good future in vain.
People's hearts are as thin as paper, and even the cherry that turned into a powerful ghost sighed: "Human affection is so thin, I really didn't expect it." ”
Husband and wife are one, and they fly separately when disaster comes;The blood of father and son is thicker than water, and talking about interests is like a stranger.
And the good brother who drinks all day long is even more critical to drop the chain and not fall into the well, even if he values love and righteousness.
You think that love is stronger than gold, but in the end, you find that feelings are the least valuable;You think that love is as deep as the sea, but when something happens, no one can be relied on.
The high mountains and stones are wide and there is little gold and silver, and the people in the world are dense and gentlemen.
Many times, talking about feelings is the biggest joke in the world.
The world is thin, and people are evil.
The human heart is the least tested.
A true warrior
Dare to face the teasing of fate
After Mingliang dropped out of school, life was miserable.
His father doesn't hurt him, he doesn't love him, he eats and lives in the store, doing the dirtiest and most tiring work, and this work is a full decade.
finally learned to be an apprentice, and after starting a family, he didn't think that he would become the "laughing stock" of the whole city overnight.
It turned out that his daughter-in-law Ma Xiaomeng had been a young lady in Beijing before marrying him, and this matter was suddenly shaken out by Ma Xiaomeng's best friend.
The reason is very simple, her best friend came to borrow money and Ma Xiaomeng didn't give it, so her best friend sent the small card that Ma Xiaomeng recruited prostitutes door to door.
This can push the brightness to the forefront, and people don't even have the patience to talk behind their backs, and they can't wait to "care" in person.
Some people say that he is stupid, and he was deceived by a broken shoe;Someone is not worth it for him, for fear that he will forget the tragic past.
Yanjin couldn't stay any longer, so Mingliang had to take his daughter-in-law away and live by his craft.
He didn't mention the old things, he did business in a down-to-earth manner, and the business became bigger and bigger, and more than ten years later, he opened five pig's trotter shops in Xi'an and became a well-known big boss.
But the nature of doing "stupid things" has not changed at all.
When I was a child, in order to mourn my grandmother who passed away, Mingliang wandered for two months before arriving home, and I was so hungry that I couldn't stand up straight, and I cried for three days with my grandmother's door frame
Now, his biological father Chen Changjie is seriously ill and has no money for treatment, and his stepmother's family is a little embarrassed, so he gave 200,000 yuan
Knowing that his adoptive father Li Yansheng was suffering from osteomyelitis, he returned to the sad place to visit.
The world always treats him as a fool, but he doesn't want to live as a joke with the crowd, but instead becomes a warrior who faces the jokes of fate.
The bright story, like a sharp sword, cuts through the curtain of farce and allows us to see:
No matter how unfair the world is, there are always some people who do not lose their good nature;No matter how fate jokes, there will always be people who refuse to take the meme.
Many times, if you joke with life, you get by, and you hurt others and yourself, and the result can only be to live yourself as a real joke.
Don't laugh at others for being stupid, it's because others don't want to bother with you;Don't laugh at other people's idiots, that's a morality you don't understand.
Fate is indeed full of jokes, and human nature cannot be overestimated, but no matter how noisy the world is, there is no shortage of sober and brave people.
They don't want to act with everyone, they just want to be a clear stream and wash away all the turbidity and filth.
Such a person looks ridiculous, but in fact it is a good medicine for foolishness.
In Yanjin, there is also a myth and legend of "Hua Erniang".
She is a big mountain, but because she loves to listen to jokes, she often turns into a handsome girl and delves into the dreams of living people, forcing people to tell jokes.
If you talk well, reward a sweet persimmon, if you don't talk about it, Hua Erniang will become a mountain and crush you.
In the painting of the sixth uncle, whether it is the hanging cherry, the sudden death of Wu Dazui, or other people who have passed away, they are all crushed to death by Hua Erniang.
They live like a joke, but their hearts are full of sadness and helplessness, and there is no happiness at all.
The sixth uncle said that these people were crushed to death by jokes.
In fact, they are not crushed to death by a helpless and desperate life.
The fate of impermanence is the mountain of Hua Erniang;The unpredictable human heart is also like a strange fickleness.
At the end of "One Day and Three Autumns", Liu Zhenyun wrote:
This is a book of laughter, but also a book of crying, and in the final analysis, it is a book of blood.
Life is very absurd, fate often plays tricks on people, and people never play cards according to routines.
But there are always people who, even if they suffer a big loss, will not lose their conscience;Even if you become the stupidest person, you refuse to be shrewd and calculating.
On the stage of life, you have the final say on which "role" you want to play.
I hope that after reading this book, we can face the life of crying and laughing, and we can also strengthen our original intention to play our own play.
Encourage your friends.
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