In Liu Zhenyun's "One Sentence Top 10,000 Sentences", the relationship between Lao Yang and Lao Ma has become a microcosm of local interpersonal relationships. Lao Yang regarded Lao Ma as a wise man and often sought advice from him, but Lao Ma only catered to him on the surface and did not really interact, but he always provided Lao Yang with a solution that he thought was good. This delicate relationship shows the local people's worship of wisdom and insight, as well as the complex entanglements behind the superficial harmony.
The reason why Lao Yang trusts Lao Ma is because he thinks that Lao Ma has foresight and ideas, and is one of the smart people that Majiazhuang is known for.
In the vernacular society, wisdom and insight are highly valued. Whenever Lao Yang encounters confusion, he will seek Lao Ma's help, hoping to find the answer from it, and over time he will regard Lao Ma as a good friend. In the local society, people often befriend people on the surface for various reasons, but they may not be sincere in their hearts. Lao Ma may give Lao Yang some advice out of sympathy or for the sake of face. These suggestions may solve the problem temporarily, but they cannot touch the real confusion in Lao Yang's heart.
The subtlety of this relationship lies in the impure motives of both parties. Lao Yang's trust is based on the worship of wisdom and insight, while Lao Ma's pandering is based on superficial politeness. This relationship hides deep causal entanglements.
The relationship between Lao Yang and Lao Ma was revealed by Lao Ma at the birthday banquet where the blacksmith did not really celebrate his mother's birthday. And the revelation of Lao Ma's idea of giving Lao Yang Lao Yang's two sons to go to a new school was also the fuse for Yang Baishun to run away from home. And Lao Duan, who set up a stall on the same street back then, came to "visit" Lao Yang when he was paralyzed, also to retaliate against Lao Duan's "hot face sticking to Lao Yang's cold ass". And Lao Yang was also paralyzed and had to curry favor with the people who came to visit him, especially his eldest son Yang Baiye. Because there is a request for others, it is necessary to lower your posture. It is all kinds of complex and delicate interpersonal relationships that make the vernacular society full of unspeakable causal entanglements and profound human explorations.
Through this work, Liu Zhenyun successfully shows the subtle relationships and causal entanglements between people in the countryside. He shows us the true face of human relations in the vernacular society, which is both helpful and enlightening, but also confused and lost. This kind of real and profound depiction makes "One Sentence Top 10,000 Sentences" an excellent work that can arouse readers' resonance and thinking.