We have all heard an old saying: "The white-headed man sends the black-headed man", the old family can only see off the younger generation of the family, but they are still alive, which is the misfortune of the family. We often say, "Don't compare your life, or you'll be unhappy." But in fact, through other people's lives, in contrast, we can also know that we are living happily, and compared with Xu Fugui's life, our life is indeed happy.
Xu Fugui is the protagonist of "Alive", when he was young, he was romantic, addicted to gambling, lost his family business, and killed his father. After that, Fugui wanted to be a man by nature, plant his own fields, and raise a good family, but fate made people, and buried his son, daughter, wife, and son-in-law with his own hands, and finally even his only grandson lost his life. Fugui is a person who loves to cry, but when he cried to the end, there were no tears. In the end, Fugui and an old cow depended on each other for their lives, and lived for the sake of living.
Next, let me follow Yu Hua's simple words and review Fugui's life.
01 When he was young, Fugui was addicted to gambling and lost his family business
Fugui, surnamed Xu, was born in a landlord family, with 100 acres of fertile land, not worried about food, no worries about clothing, and lived by collecting rent. Fugui had a good life, and married the daughter (Jiazhen) of the boss of the rice shop in the city as his wife, which can be described as a good match, and soon after getting married, they had a daughter: Fengxia.
Rich people have four vices: eating, drinking, prostitution, and gambling, and there are many blessings. At the beginning, Fugui just liked prostitution, and the taste was unique, and the average young master liked to find beautiful and thin ones. Fugui's favorite thing to find is fat and round, which is what he himself said: "I like to look for fat ones because I feel like lying on it like a boat, dangling and swaying old and comfortable."
But finding a prostitute is like peeing, and when you're done, there's no fun. So Fugui turned the fun to gambling. Because of the tension brought by gambling, Fugui has an indescribable comfort.
Later, in the gambling game that night, Fugui never won again, but his heart was red, and the last one was a big gamble, just such a game, giving the other family a "little trick", and forcibly losing the family business of several generations of ancestors. Houses and fertile fields have all become someone else's property.
After losing the family business, Fugui knew that he had become a veritable loser, but when people lived, life still had to go on, but he didn't expect that he had just sold his family business and paid off his gambling debts. The old father swallowed his last breath in the place where he usually "conveniently".
Later, Fugui buried his father with his own hands, and this was the day when he was young.
02 Fugui watched the people around him leave one by one, and buried them one by one
There is an old Chinese saying that goes: "Eat a trench and grow a wisdom", after Fugui lost the family business and died of anger to his old father, he finally lived a hard life.
After the old father left, his mother's health deteriorated day by day, and Fugui thought to himself: "Find a doctor for the old mother to see her condition." Who knew that as soon as he ran away and came back again, it would be another reincarnation. At that time, there was a civil war, and the two parties were inseparable.
And Fugui, when he went into the city to look for a doctor, he was arrested by the Kuomintang company commander to work as a coolie pulling cannons, and this trip was three years. Fugui, who originally thought that he would die in the trenches, was rescued by the Communist Party, and returned to his "hometown" with entanglement.
At the moment of arriving home, I got two bad news: one was the death of my old mother. Just when Fugui was arrested to be a strong man, the old mother was too sad and passed away.
The son wants to be filial and does not treat his relatives" is the current Fugui, and this is also Fugui's regret for his parents' life.
Another bad news is that her daughter Fengxia also became deaf and dumb when she had a high fever. Whenever he saw this sensible and lovely daughter, Fugui felt guilty for a while, why didn't he take good care of Feng Xia.
But in retrospect, Fugui is still glad for a while, when there was no *** land reform, he was not arrested and shot, he was alive, his own family, Jiazhen, Fengxia, Youqing (the youngest son) can still be together, and they can still live together, which is already the greatest satisfaction.
After Fugui returned home, he thought that this was his little life, although it was hard, but the two children, growing up day by day, Jiazhen was also by his side, Fengxia, Jiazhen, and himself went to the field, and there was a celebration to feed the sheep, and the days will definitely get better and better.
But God just can't get used to seeing Fugui's comfortable days. And in a school activity, he took away Youqing's life.
Since Youqing was born, he has not had a good life, he has not eaten well, he has not dressed well, if Fengxia has lived a good life for a few years, then Youqing has lived a hard life since he was born. On weekdays, Youqing's favorite is the two sheep raised by his family, but since the land reform and the change to eat a big pot of rice, the sheep in the family will be handed over to the public family, and he will go to the village commune every day to pick up the sheep.
For the family, Youqing has always done his best and done what he could. No one thought that Youqing was killed by an unscrupulous doctor during a school blood transfusion activity.
Fugui's child's death is helpless and powerless, after all, the culprit of this matter is Chunsheng, who lived and died together that year, that is, the current county magistrate Liu. Fugui could only cry the tears in his eyes again and again.
As Fugui's old mother said: "I have dried all my tears."
Youqing's death was a medical accident, and Fugui buried his son's body on the ground at home, with his mother and father, so that they could take care of each other.
After Youqing left, Fugui's small family was left with three people, Jiazhen, Fengxia, and himself. The days passed year by year, and Feng Xia grew up more and more, and she also had the idea of getting married, but Feng Xia was a deaf and dumb person, and ordinary people didn't look down on her at all.
Thanks to the captain's blessing, he found a son-in-law for the Fugui family: Erxi, Erxi is a porter in the city, who is silent, reliable and down-to-earth. On the first day he saw Fengxia, he fell in love with Fengxia.
Feng Xia is considered to have found the right person, Erxi greeted Feng Xia with the most stylish ceremony, and the day she walked was the happiest day in Feng Xia's life, and it was also the most beautiful day.
After Fengxia entered the city, she often visited the second elder in the village, and Erxi was also a dedicated son-in-law. Soon, Fugui ushered in the news of his grandson. But the grandson came to the world, but the day the grandson came, it was the day Feng Xia left, because Feng Xia died of dystocia.
Fugui and Erxi buried Fengxia with their own hands, right next to Youqing, so that they could have a care, and as soon as their grandson was born, they had no mother, so Fugui gave his grandson a name called Kugen.
Jiazhen has no concern for Fengxia's death, her children are very good to Jiazhen, a few years of "no strength" disease, has tortured Jiazhen to the point of not being shaped, when Fugui helps her, she often feels that she is helping a pair of bones, not a person, Fugui's life, the greatest luck, is to marry such a wife as Jiazhen, gentle and virtuous, never contradict Fugui. When Jiazhen left, it was calm and clean.
Because Jiazhen said: "I can have such a good pair of children in my life, and now that they are gone, I will have no worries, and I will be relieved if you help me bury them." ”
Yu Hua's "Alive" is a classic that must be read in lifeIt tells you that man lives for the sake of being alive, not for anything other than being alive.
At each stage, the goal and direction of life are different, so the blessing of old age is in silence and lonelinessBe in the company of old cows.
A person of this age lives for the sake of living, he does not have to live for himself, nor does he have to live for his family, but for the sake of living.
Even after going through life and death, and encountering many unimaginable hardships for ordinary people, Fugui never gave up his life. Instead, I chose to live well, with a calm attitude, and live every day of my life in a down-to-earth manner.
It turns out that "Alive" is the best luck and the greatest courage.
Life should not stop pursuing a challenge, life is difficult, Fugui is a portrayal of ordinary life, every blow, he has survived strongly, when hovering on the edge of pain, it is better to hold on, he has been happy, has been happy, enough.
I have read the book "Alive" many times, and every time I have a deep understanding and am deeply touched.
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