In March last year, Yu Hua, who had stopped writing for 8 years, made a comeback with his new book "Wencheng", which instantly detonated the literary market.
Many readers cheered after reading it: "The Yu Hua who wrote "Alive" is back!”
And Yu Hua's original intention is also to regard this ** as a prequel to "Alive", and use two books to piece together the tragic experience of ordinary people in modern times for a hundred years.
Therefore, the narrative age of "Wencheng" is pushed forward to the end of the 19th century, telling the beautiful story of a northern man who goes south to find a wife.
In the era of war, the lives of the people were like mustard, and the day was precarious.
Someone stepped forward and acted chivalrous;But there are also people who use feelings as a guise and do their best to deceive.
Unfortunately, we are always obsessed with the people who have hurt us, and we are desperate to restore those relationships that are impossible to recover.
Struggling with rotten things and entangled with rotten people is probably the least worthwhile thing in this world.
"Those who cannot shrink their heads shall rest their heads;If you can let go, you have to let go. ”
"Don't entangle" is the fulfillment of life.
Those who can't keep it, let it go
Regarding the love-hate entanglement in the world, the writer Bai Luomei once sighed:
People's affection, if you can be free to put it away, say the beginning is the beginning, say the end is the end, there is no lingering, no entanglement, how good it would be!In this life, there are always regrets, but because of entanglement, how many regrets have become tragedies.
is like Lin Xiangfu in "Wencheng", if it weren't for the death of a wrong person and never looking back, he might have been the rich young master of the Yellow River North, living a stable life under the protection of the family.
He was born in a scholarly family, his father was the only talent in the township, and his mother was the daughter of a man, even if the family fell into the middle of the road, the family still had 400 acres of fertile land, six houses, hundreds of books and a few loyal servants.
He is dignified, knowledgeable and courteous, and treats people modestly, but Wanbao Quanshu lacks a corner, and the "missing corner" in Lin Xiangfu's life is that he can't meet the girl he likes, and the marriage has been delayed until the death of his parents, and there is no settlement.
It wasn't until he was 24 years old that he met the girl he fell in love with at first sight - Shen Xiaomei.
Strangely enough, one night, Xiaomei and her brother Ah Qiang appeared at the door of Lin's house without warning, saying that they were going north to find relatives, passing by here, and hoping to take them in for one night.
The simple-minded Lin Xiangfu agreed, who would have thought that when she was parting the next day, Xiaomei suddenly fell ill, and her brother was relieved to leave her at the Lin family to recuperate.
After that, in the huge mansion, an old-fashioned drama of lonely men and widows was staged.
Lin Xiangfu and Xiaomei, they didn't even have a wedding, so they lived a small life.
It's a pity that Lin Xiangfu thought that the heaven-sent fate was just a well-designed **.
Xiaomei said goodbye after a month and stole the family's gold bars.
Lin Xiangfu waited to no avail, and when he planned to marry another good woman, Xiaomei came back like nothing happened.
She claimed to be pregnant with the flesh and blood of the Lin family, and vowed never to leave again, but the result was that after giving birth to her daughter, she evaporated from the world and disappeared.
Lin Xiangfu was in a trance, he recalled the days with Xiaomei, it was all sweet and warm, he couldn't figure out why Xiaomei left.
He was frantically trying to figure it out, and he searched everywhere regardless of it.
He handed over the 100 acres of fertile land and the ancestral house of the Lin family to the long-term workers, picked up his daughter who was waiting to be fed, led a thin donkey, and rushed into the vast wind and snow.
He didn't know anything about Xiaomei, but he had heard her say that his hometown was a small town in the south of the Yangtze River called "Wencheng".
So, the story of an infatuated man Wencheng looking for a wife began, but this story was not beautiful at all.
It is not an emotional legend for love madness, but a life tragedy in which a person mistakes the catastrophe for fate.
In life, many injuries are one-off, but because of our permission, these injuries are like a saw, pulling back and forth in our hearts.
Looking back, it was no one else who was holding the saw, but it was the self who could afford to let go.
The powerless relationship should be broken, and those who have no fate should be abandoned.
It's a pity that Lin Xiangfu, who has read poetry and books, doesn't understand such a simple truth.
The road that doesn't work, the turn
It was freezing cold, and the road was difficult to walk.
Lin Xiangfu is no longer a decent big proprietor, but a down-and-out man who looks like a beggar.
In order to feed his daughter, he pricked up his ears to listen to the cry of a baby in someone's house, and cheekily knocked on the door, begging the woman to feed his daughter;
In order to take the boat south, he reluctantly abandoned the old donkey that accompanied him, and after thousands of miles, he could only move step by step;
But these years are really not peaceful.
Not to mention the wars and bandits everywhere, even the occasional snowstorms and hailstorms are also the same for the people.
When he walked to the place of Xizhen, Lin Xiangfu really couldn't walk.
Besides, he listened to the accent here, which was very similar to Xiaomei, so he decided to rest here.
Fortunately, on the first day I arrived here, I got acquainted with Chen Yongliang, a chivalrous and courageous fellow countryman, and also met with Gu Yimin, a wealthy businessman.
Chen Yongliang warmly entertained him and invited him to stay at home, but Lin Xiangfu didn't want to trouble others and stubbornly refused.
On this day, the overwhelming snow fell, and the inn that Lin Xiangfu finally found was a private prostitution house, so frightened that he ran back to Chen Yongliang's house overnight.
In this way, Lin Xiangfu settled in the Chen family, the tendon that was looking for Xiaomei was loosened, and his life began to turn in a good direction.
You may not believe it when you say it, but just after Lin Xiangfu entered the door, a rare tornado blew in Xizhen.
For a while, it was dark, the evil wind shouted, if Lin Xiangfu was one step late, he and his daughter might die in Huangquan.
It was a change of mind that saved him, and it also fulfilled him in the future.
After the tornado, many houses were destroyed, and people hired carpenters everywhere, and coincidentally, Lin Xiangfu and Chen Yongliang both learned carpentry as children.
As soon as the two of them discussed, they simply opened a carpentry club, and as soon as it opened, the business was very good.
And the Lin and Chen families are also like a family, especially Lin Xiangfu's daughter, who has lived a good life under the care of Chen Yongliang's daughter-in-law.
A few years later, Lin Xiangfu built a new house and bought thousands of acres of fertile land.
The life of the wrong payment has been turned back on the right track;If you can't go on, you can turn a corner and you'll be on the road.
It turns out that it backfires and gets what you want, only in a thought.
As the saying goes, the situation changes with the heart, the mind changes, and the time passes;As soon as the thought turned, the willows and flowers brightened.
On the road of life, everyone has a time when they walk into a dead end.
Don't hit the south wall and turn back, turn around in time, and choose a new path, which is a wise move.
What you can't ask for, let go
Time flies, and Lin Xiangfu has been in Xizhen for more than ten years.
He raised his daughter**, his business was booming, he was like a brother to Chen Yongliang, and he also became a teacher for the younger generations.
Sometimes he thinks that even if he can't find Xiaomei, it's not bad to live like this for the rest of his life.
It's a pity that in the era of war, heaven and earth are unkind to all things as dogs, no matter how great Lin Xiangfu's ability is, he can't bear a grain of sand falling by the times.
At that time, in Xizhen, there were bandits for a while, and warlords for a while, whether they were officials or bandits, the result was the same, and the common people suffered.
When the warlord came, he expropriated and robbed the people's daughters, and Lin Xiangfu hurriedly let his daughter get engaged to the children of a rich family in order to protect his daughter;But he escaped the warlords, but he couldn't escape the bandits.
The bandits took a fancy to Lin Fuxiang, kidnapped his daughter, and asked for 500 oceans when they opened their mouths.
At the moment of crisis, Chen Yongliang's family stepped forward and let the eldest son Chen Yaowu exchange for the daughter of the Lin family.
It's a pity that after some rescue, Yaowu went home, but one of his ears was cut off by the bandits, and he seemed to have changed in a trance.
Lin Xiangfu hated, but what could he do in the face of the tough soldiers and bandits?
To fight hard is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg;to compromise, but can't get over this level in my heart;What can be done is nothing more than soldiers to block and take care of the present.
Many times, if you can't do something, you have to give it upIf you can't ask for your life, you can only let go.
Soon after, there was another murderous bandit in Xizhen, known as Zhang Yiaxe, who could cut off half of the head of a living person with an axe.
In order to protect themselves, the people of Xizhen formed a self-defense force under the leadership of the wealthy businessman Gu Yimin, and Lin Xiangfu also participated in it.
The melee with the bandits was extremely tragic, and Zhang Yiaxe, who had lost his troops, was furious, and took advantage of the chaos to kidnap Gu Yimin, leaving the Self-Defense Forces leaderless.
After Gu Yimin was kidnapped, Lin Xiangfu became the backbone of everyone, he decided to replace him with ***, and personally went to negotiate with Zhang Yiaxe.
At this point, the most dramatic scene of the book appears.
The night before Lin Xiangfu saw Zhang Yiaxe, Chen Yongliang rescued Gu Yimin, but he didn't have time to inform Lin. In the end, Zhang Yiaxe, who was enraged, hacked Lin Xiangfu to death.
Lin Xiangfu, who had been in the wind and rain for half his life, died suddenly like this, but his story is not over.
Lin Xiangfu seems to have expected that he would scatter all the wealth of the family in advance and give away thousands of hectares of fertile land.
He arranged for his daughter to go to Shanghai to study, moved Chen Yongliang's family to a safer countryside, and wrote letters to several old friends.
He also secretly looked for Xiaomei, but the eight girls named Xiaomei were not the people he was looking for.
At this moment, Lin Xiangfu may understand:
You can't control the times, you can't change fate, just let all regrets and anger go away with the wind, and do what you should do.
A person and his life's pursuit, a city and that turbulent era are all accompanied by Lin Xiangfu's epiphany, and the wind and clouds are scattered.
Only by letting go can we be ourselves;Only by being yourself can you truly live.
What is Relief?
Mr. Feng Zikai said: "Don't mess with your heart, don't be trapped in love;."Don't be afraid of the future, don't think of the past. ”
Teacher Luo Xiang said: "Be cautious about things that can be controlled;Be optimistic about the uncontrollable. ”
People need to taste life and death, love and hate, and ups and downs before they can be counted as having gone through this world.
Begins with life, ends at death, between life and death, up and down, some are in love but can't, ask but be dissatisfied?
The destined can't be hidden, the destined can't come, instead of chasing and lingering, it's better to let go and find another way.
Don't dwell on it, it's better to get out of it than to be wiped out;Look at the open and stop the loss in time is better than pouring it out.
In the final analysis, "Wencheng" is not about the miss of two people, but the reconciliation of one person.
I hope that after reading this story, you can also feel a little bit of life, adapt to fate, live up to what you meet, and don't talk about debts.
Encourage your friends.
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