Writer Chi Zijian said:"Those who love literature have a light in the dark. ”
My life is lit by this light. I often wonder if more lives were lit up by literature!
Well, let me accompany you to read literature!
Today, it's the first to accompany the readingPeriod, I will accompany you to readContemporary female writer Liang Hong's documentary literature "China in Liangzhuang".and continue with you and meThis literature is read together.
In the last issue, we read Liang Hong's Liang Zhuang;In this issue, we continue to read her Liangzhuang people.
Returning to his hometown, in addition to the desolation and decay, Liang Hong also stopped his eyes on the child for a long time, and issued a deafening call:"Save the kids!”
She saw,Shaking on the paths, in the fields, and under the eaves, there are only frail old people and immature childrenand young people are leaving for a living.
Soon after returning to the village, she encountered an earth-shattering case. Just turned eighteenA young man from the Wang family, brutally killed and ** an octogenarian old lady in the village, and was sentenced to death.
He was in the classroom at the time of his arrest. From the time the case was reported to the time he was arrested, for nearly two years, he continued to study and live every day as usual, as if the atrocities had never happened.
What is surprising is that this ruthless abuser is a "good baby" in the eyes of everyone, and he is also an "outlier" among left-behind children, quiet, sensible, and with excellent grades.
After many understandings, Liang Hong roughly weaves his extremely short and depressed life: his parents have been working outside for a long time, his brother has been living with his grandmother since he was a child, and then he was fostered in his aunt's house, and he has lived completely alone since junior high school.
Liang Hong also noticed that the people in the village scolded the young man for being morally corrupt and cruel. This is indeed an indisputable fact, but no one asks why he behaves so abnormally, let alone mention the impact of the lack of parents, the lack of love, and the loneliness of his life.
Indeed, in the countryside, who is not like this?Who will take these influences to heart?Even if they take it to heart, how much can they do?
From the mouth of some old people,Liang Hong had a general understanding of the current situation of the children.
As a rule, the child is thrown to the elderly as soon as it is weaned. The old man has to farm and bring babies, and some have several babies at the same time. They often only care about their children's food, drink, and Lazar, and there is no way to talk about education.
Most of the children are addicted to watching TV, playing mobile phones, playing games, and they don't have much to read.
In addition, accidents have also become an unspeakable pain for the elderly. Every year, three or two children die in the village, most of whom drown in the river.
All this made Liang Hong feel sad. What makes her even more sad is that what was once a primary school has now become a pig farm.
In the early 80s, Liangzhuang built a primary school with the strength of the whole village, and the learning style was very prosperous, and every family was not ambiguous about going to school for their children.
But now,Schools have disappeared, and the "uselessness of reading" theory is rampant。The children are looking forward to turning 15 years old and going out to work with their parents and fleeing the countryside.
In Liang Hong's view, it is not only the school itself that has disappeared, but also the cultural atmosphere that Liang Zhuang once had.
With all this, how could Liang Hong suppress his call to save the child?
This is a scar that the times will never heal on these children!
And how are the people who have left their hometowns to succeed them?
Liang Hong continued to tell us.
Her brotherPerseveranceHe has been away from his hometown for many years, went out to work before graduating from high school, went to Xinjiang, Shaanxi, and Beijing, worked as a construction worker, worked as a sofa leather, went out of a small stall, poured a train ticket, entered a shelter, and was sold into a black-hearted brick factory.
In order to beg for food, Yizhi endured the hardships of life. Now, he has returned to his hometown and opened a clinic in the town, and his business is tepid, barely making ends meet.
Juxiu, used to be a literary youth, with ideals, opinions, wanted to go to university, wanted to become a cultural person. But she didn't get into high school for two years, so she walked out of school and stepped into society.
But the ideal is still there, in order to get rid of the fate of being a hawker like her parents, she dreams of becoming a designer and runs a tailor shop hard, but she has never been able to make money.
Later, she married her husband, who was also a literary youth, and her ideal was fulfilled, but there was never bread.
In order to earn bread, she traveled from south to north, sold oranges, opened a brick factory, worked as a labor broker, and lived a difficult life. Today, she makes a living by running a mahjong parlor.
Speaking of her husband's talent being useless in the face of reality, she even resented the ideal, "The worst thing in the world is the ideal, it's not that I want to maintain this ideal, can I live so badly?."”
ChunmeiThe story is even more lamentable, at a young age, he committed suicide and died.
She married to Liangzhuang, and her husband is a rare loving couple in the village. It's just that she has to suffer from longing for a long time.
In order to make a living, her husband went to Shanxi to dig coal, and rarely came back three or twice a year. He also doesn't use a mobile phone, and the two often only get in touch once in ten days and a half months.
During the Chinese New Year, my husband did not come back, saying that he would stay in the mine to earn overtime wages. When it came to the wheat harvest, the husband hadn't come back yet, and there was no **. I went to two letters, and there was no reply.
Chunmei's heart is not steady, and it doesn't take long for her to talk all day long, and her temperament has changed greatly. One day, I had an argument with my mother-in-law, and she was so angry that she devised a pesticide and died.
People in the village said that she was too stupid, she thought that men were crazy, and she lost her life, why is this so painful?What's more, which rural man is not like this, does not go out, what does the family eat?If everyone is like Chunmei, will everyone still live?
Life is really like this, who doesn't have to take care of the family's mouth first?However, a life is gone, in the face of life, is the love of husband and wife really insignificant?This is Liang Hong's question.
She is also keenly observing,A hidden "homecoming tide" is gradually forming in the village.
Many people who have left their hometowns have come back one after another to build new houses, although "people go to empty buildings", but sooner or later, they will come back.
This is the fate of generations of Liangzhuang people, born in Liangzhuang and died in Liangzhuang.
Liang Hong also perceived,There are people in the village who are alive but have long been forgotten.
I'm in my early fortiesQingli, has been crazy for more than ten years, and the knife never leaves his body all day long. All along, he was the target of bullying in the village, looked down upon, and had little contact with the villagers.
Later, his wife ran away with his son, leaving him alone, and his life was sloppy and hard. The villagers gradually forgot about his existence.
KunshengThe family built a shed in the cemetery to live, and lived a life of isolation.
Kun, the head of the family, grew hair and beard, as if he hadn't evolved yet. After years of living in isolation, he has lost even the most basic ability to express and communicate.
The wife is a little confused and stupid, and her daughter has never been to school. The family relied on Kunsheng to grow some food for a living.
When Kunsheng was mentioned, the people in the village didn't have anything good to say, saying that he had a bad character and drank alcohol. Liang Hong lamented, "People like Kunsheng have been excluded from the normal moral system and survival system.
There are still someTramps, wandering all year round, and reappearing in the village every once in a while, as if just to come back and tell everyone that they are still alive.
No one knows where they live or what they live on. No one knew when they would go or when they would return.
These people made Liang Hong feel a strong sadness and pain.
However, she is also keenly perceptive"The pain of the countryside and the sorrow of the countryside always contain warmth and tenacity at the same time, so there is also a faint flash of hope for eternal existence. ”
I think this may be what hometown looks like in each of our minds, with pain and sorrow, but still warmth and hope.
China in Liangzhuang", we finished reading.
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