Brocade and loophole

I seldom read anything written by Yi Shu, a woman writer. At the beginning of last year, I was lucky enough to read a work written by her called "Brocade" in a magazine that someone accidentally gave me. I was deeply moved and admired the writer's ability to tell stories.

This article entitled "Brocade" is taken from Selected Short Stories of Yi Shu. The editor said that this article was abridged, so I don't know if brocade is the original name.

In this abridged short story, the author tells us the life story of a girl named Lin Shunfang.

It sounds legendary at first glance, but when you think about it carefully, it is inevitable that it is accidental and how similar it is to each of us.

When Shun Fang 16 years old, grandma took her to live. The fortune teller is an ugly middle-aged woman. She asked about her birthday, pulled it on the abacus for a while, and handed over an album that read: 147 pages.

Grandma asked: Is this my granddaughter's life?

Female fortune teller: Yes.

There is a woman in the picture, dressed in a gorgeous brocade robe, standing by the river and staring at the other side, looking a little lonely.

Grandma shunfang was a little surprised and blurted out: my granddaughter's life is very good. Look how luxurious this robe is!

The fortune teller said with a smile, but look, there is a hole in this robe.

Grandma sighed, and sure enough, she found three big holes in that luxurious robe. She seems to suddenly understand one thing: Shun Fang's parents left her alone when she was young. This is the first hole in her life!

Grandma, who is eager for success, asked: What do the other two loopholes represent?

The lady smiled and said, secrets can't be revealed.

Grandma is very disappointed, so it is not convenient to continue to ask questions.

Shun Fang is very open-minded in this respect. "If my grandmother loves me so much, that's all." She thinks that the love her grandmother gave her is the brocade robe in her life.

The fortune teller went on to say that my little sister is so optimistic that life will not be a problem, so she has a brocade robe to wear.

Shun Fang, worried by her grandmother, was successfully admitted to the university.

My grandmother died as soon as I got a job after graduating from college.

She would have collapsed if her boss Emerson hadn't taken extra care of her.

Now, after grandma died, she is the only one left in the world. Her parents don't seem to want to know her all their lives. She needs someone to discuss with her.

Although Emerson, the boss, has a family, he spared no effort to cultivate and promote Shun Fang, and made her willingly commit herself to him.

Shun Fang admitted in her heart that without the help of this much older Englishman, she would have struggled for at least 10 years.

Shun Fang was very sad when Emerson retired. She thought of the hole in the brocade robe, how apt, how lifelike and how vivid it was.

She couldn't help looking for the address again. The fortune teller said after calculating the abacus, 147.

When I opened the thread-bound book, I still saw the picture many years ago: a woman in a brocade robe, staring at the other side.

She couldn't help asking: What does this mean?

Fortune teller: A brocade robe is better than rags.

"What is she looking at?"

"There is always hope in life."

"Will she get everything she wants?"

"You got a lot."

Banxian saw from Shunfang's clothes and face that she was doing well.

Later, Shun Fang got married, and her husband, Shen Peisheng, was a handsome Chinese American.

However, the good times did not last long. Because he was too strong, Shen Peisheng finally filed for divorce. This surprised Shun Fang! I should have filed for divorce. How could it be you? Self-esteem has been greatly hurt.

After breaking up with her, my career is booming, my status is getting higher and higher, and I have made a lot of money.

At this time, a young man named Liang Chaoming walked into Emerson's life as she used to.

Liang Chaoming proposed to start a business, knowing that the project may not necessarily make money, she still agreed to take 30% of the shares.

Shun Fang believes that you can't be too cautious. Too careful. Being a man is boring. Sometimes if you relax and let others use it, people will naturally exchange things, so that they will get what they need and benefit each other. Just like her relationship with Emerson.

You must wait for others to come and make selfless contributions. There is no such thing in the world.

But Shun Fang is also whispering that Liang Chaoming is not the flower on her robe, but the third loophole.

So she went to the fortune teller again. After the door was opened, the furnishings in the house remained the same, but the owner changed.

She was received by a young man. The man told her that the man had retired and the business was given to him, which was equally effective.

When Shun Fang announced her birthday, the phone rang. When the young fortune teller ran to another room to answer the phone, he got up and knocked over a book. Isn't that the thread-bound book that she turned over twice?

Shun Fang opened it and was shocked! It turned out that every page in the book was exactly the same: a woman in a brocade robe stood by the river and stared at the other side. Without exception, there are three holes in the brocade robe.

She let out a long sigh. Before the young fortune teller came back, she opened the door and left.

She finally realized that no one could guide her in the maze, and she had to live on her own.

Otherwise there are definitely more than three holes in the robe!

She immediately told her assistant to cancel her investment in Liang Chaoming, and she finally realized that many loopholes in her life could have been remedied. At this time, it is not important for Liang Chaoming to leave. She will start a new life with her own efforts, and she no longer believes in fate.

Shun Fang's story tells us: people should not be addicted to fortune telling and don't believe in fate too much. You have a good life, your husband will say that you are wearing a gorgeous robe; If your life is bad, your husband will say it's because there are three big holes in your robe.

Think carefully, Shun Fang's experience may also be the experience of many of us; Shun Fang's fate may also be the fate of many of us. The same.

The mistake we often make is that when we achieve some success, we will make subjective attribution and regard it as our own efforts and talents; When we encounter setbacks and failures, we will objectively attribute them, and from time to time regard them as contradictions between people and as loopholes in our robes. ...

As the ancients said, nine times out of ten, life is not satisfactory.

In this sense, no one's life is perfect.

At this point, fortune tellers are smarter than us. She only uses three loopholes to represent the incompleteness of life.

Think about it carefully, the disability of life is not only riddled with holes, but also can be represented by more than three holes.

When we understand this, maybe we won't complain about the injustice of fate, and maybe we can face all kinds of loopholes in life calmly.