Yuhua fortune telling

After a lapse of eight years, Yu Hua's new novel Wencheng has once again disturbed the readers' hearts. The book is divided into Wen Cheng and Wen Cheng Bu, as the book says-life is the preface of one's own past and others. This book tells the ups and downs of life stories of all kinds of characters in southern towns, and outlines the trauma of the times when warlords fought and bandits ran rampant. The main thread that runs through the theme of this paper is a series of exciting stories triggered by Lin Xiangfu's "Looking for a Wife in a Thousand Miles". In addition to this emotional thread, a series of love-hate entanglements triggered by it explain to readers the complexity of feelings, the impermanence of fate, and the conviction of friendship and faith.

1. Simple idealist-Lin Xiangfu

A man covered with snowflakes, with hair and beard covering his face, has weeping willow humility and field silence. Carrying a huge burden on his back, as if carrying the whole family on his shoulders, holding his young daughter thousands of miles to find a wife, begging for hundreds of dollars for his children, and looking for the elegant place called Wencheng. This is the first impression that Lin Xiangfu left for readers.

Lin Xiangfu was a simple idealist of that era, and Wen Cheng was his lofty ideal. He was born in a well-off family. At the beginning of the book, he described a man in Xixi Town whose property was wandering in ten thousand mu of land. This is a fertile land of 1000 mu, and the tributaries of the river are crawling all over his land like roots. Rice and wheat, corn and sweet potatoes, cotton and rape flowers, reeds and bamboo, as well as grass and trees, come and go on his land like sunrise and sunset all year round. He runs a well-known wood company, which produces countless pieces of wood. ...

However, such a rich man who grew up in good mountains and waters abandoned everything at present and spent his life looking for things that seemed meaningless. What kind of person would do such an unconventional thing? The two plots in the book depict the character's personality characteristics and spiritual pursuit, and a plump character full of friendship and belief emerges from the paper, which makes readers gasp in admiration.

First, when his wife Xiaomei left without saying goodbye and stole the gold bars he had accumulated all his life, she was flustered and disheartened. Facing Xiaomei who came back without any explanation, he said, "You didn't have the heart to steal all the gold bars. You left more than you stole. "

Second, when Xiaomei gave birth to her daughter and left without saying goodbye again, he fulfilled his previous promise: "If you leave without saying goodbye again, I will definitely come to you. I will find you with my child in my arms. Even if I travel all over the world, I will find you. "

For this promise, he spent his whole life. Finding a wife failed, but he was never down and out. With a huge amount of silver tickets, I embarked on the road of finding a wife and stopped at Xixi Town, which I thought was Xiaomei's mouth. I continued to look and wait and made friends again. I still used my skills to create a world in Xixi Town.

Yu Hua did not describe him as a seemingly tragic figure, but gave him rich material and trustworthy friends. Reading is still full of infinite compassion for this character. A person who pursues spiritual perfection, worldly perfection is just icing on the cake for him. If there is no spiritual foundation, all worldly things are just attachment to the world.

Finally, Lin Xiangfu died by the gangster's sword for his own morality. Even the bandits who kill people without blinking an eye are shocked by the smile that won't fail before they die. When Tian Da and his party who received the letter came to take him back to Wanmu as his hometown, Tian Da died of illness on the way here, and never saw Wanmu pawn, which was covered with rice, wheat and corn, and was full of hope forever.

He spent his childhood on big shoulders. Tian Da carried him through villages and fields again and again. Now Hetian University is lying flat together and has embarked on the road to return to its roots.

2. A martyr in the dilemma of love and righteousness-Xiaomei

One day, Lin Xiangfu's family suddenly came to a pair of brothers and sisters who stayed for the night. My brother's name is A Qiang, and my sister's name is Xiaomei. The next day, my sister fell ill, and my brother left her to Lin Xiangfu to take care of her and went by himself. It took them a long time to get married. One day, Xiaomei suddenly left and secretly took away half of the gold bars saved by Lin Xiangfu for generations. Not long after, Xiaomei came back from pregnancy and soon gave birth to a daughter. After giving birth to her daughter, Xiaomei left without saying goodbye again. Since then, Lin Xiangfu has embarked on the road of finding a wife for a lifetime.

In fact, Xiaomei lives in Xixi Town, and her so-called brother A Qiang is actually her original husband as a child bride. A Qiang ran away from home for her, and when she was full of hope that they could live a happy life, A Qiang told her that she didn't have enough money to make a living. She comforted A Qiang that she could make a living by weaving, but A Qiang, who was used to living a free life, chickened out and thought of a shortcut to find a so-called uncle's livelihood in Beijing.

As a woman of that era, even if she was hardworking and kind, she had to obey her husband's orders. Although the journey was thrilling and bumpy, she never left her company. A Qiang is her husband and for the man who left her parents. She is sincerely grateful.

On the way to Beijing, she gradually realized that the so-called "uncle" was just an ethereal dream. When they were down and out, they met Lin Xiangfu. While waiting for A Qiang to pick her up, she gradually fell in love with this man with good character and gave up hope for A Qiang's return, so she married Lin Xiangfu. However, her inner struggle always makes her feel uneasy about her husband. When she imagined that A Qiang had suffered misfortune from the description of the next population, she finally made up her mind to steal half of Lin Xiangfu's gold bars and seek support for A Qiang. When she decided to leave with A Qiang, the child in her belly tortured her conscience again, so she ventured back to Lin Xiangfu, and she wanted to leave his child to him.

She thought that returning the child to Lin Xiangfu was an explanation to him. As everyone knows, when she made this decision, a bigger tragedy had already laid the groundwork for the three of them.

Xiaomei said, "This time the wait will be very long." A Qiang said, "No matter how long, I will wait for you." Xiaomei said, "If anything happens to me, I will die there." A Qiang said, "I will wait until I die in Dingchuan." They looked at each other with tears in their eyes and then smiled with tears.

When she returned to Lin Xiangfu, Lin Xiangfu happily married her in the way of being married by the Ming media. After giving birth to a child, the fetters of the child and Lin Xiangfu's love made her even more reluctant to leave this home. She even hoped that A Qiang would stop waiting for her, so that she could go back without hesitation. But when A Qiang appeared behind her, the life of this woman full of helplessness and guilt was doomed.

Back in Xixi Town, A Qiang and Xiaomei fell into the past. The morning they came is not their morning, and the dusk they left is not their dusk. Their life seems to be as closed as a darning shop.

It snowed heavily that year, and Lin Xiangfu found Xixi Town with her daughter in her arms. Xiaomei and A Qiang were condemned by their conscience and avoided them. Xiaomei was tortured by thoughts and guilt, suffering day and night. On that day, people in the town knelt in front of the temple to pray. Xiaomei and A Qiang knelt in the snow with everyone to relieve their inner guilt. Lin Xiangfu was not far from Xiaomei at that time, but he didn't see her. This time, passing by turned into a farewell. No matter what A Qiang called, Xiaomei refused to get up, chanting, "I will give you a daughter in the afterlife, and I will give you five sons in the afterlife ... If I don't deserve to be your woman in the afterlife, I will be a cow and a horse for you. If you farm, I will be a cow and plow for you; If you are a coachman, I am a carriage, and you whip me. "

At this time, Xiaomei saw her daughter. Her daughter opened her mouth and smiled at her. She has two white spots in her mouth, and her front teeth have come out. Xiaomei shed tears, and these two lines of tears are the last heat on her body.

There are still six bodies left in the open space in front of the city god pavilion, which are temporarily unclaimed and seem lonely. Lin Xiangfu, standing in the flying snowflake, didn't know that Xiaomei and A Qiang were among the six dead in the distance. Snowflakes flying all over the sky blurred his eyes, and he didn't see Xiaomei's drooping face in the distance. At that time, Xiaomei's eyes were still open, but she was out of sight.

Xiaomei was buried in the grave. She experienced the demise of the Qing Dynasty and the early establishment of the Republic of China. After her death, she avoided the scuffle between warlords and bandits, which brought untold sufferings to the people. Xiaomei sleeps here, day after day, year after year, but Lin Xiangfu has never set foot here. Lin Xiangfu came to Xishan many times. He hugged Lin Baijia, then pulled Lin Baijia with his hand, then Lin Baijia was in front and he was behind. Father and daughter climbed up the western hills together, but he has never been to this secluded place. Lin Xiangfu was welcomed here after 17 years' sleep in Xiaomei.

In the final analysis, there is a dilemma between love and righteousness. In the next life, I hope you will never have a chance to be a sensible and clever person, always naive and always happy.

3. Defender of Morality-Chen Yongliang

We will know many people in our life, but some people are completely different from others who pass by or meet briefly. They remind us at the corner of fate, enlighten us, lead us and become the most grateful people in our life.

Chen Yongliang and Lin Xiangfu are undoubtedly two people who appreciate each other.

Lin Xiangfu met Chen Yongliang on his way to find a wife, and they became good friends. Lin Xiangfu spent the rest of his life in the Chen family, and his daughter was also raised in the Chen family. Two good friends who share weal and woe have experienced natural and man-made disasters, started businesses, and fought in the melee between warlords and bandits, but they never gave up and supported each other. When the robber kidnapped Lin Xiangfu's daughter, the Chen family did not hesitate to let her son take her place, so the kidnapper cut off an ear. In the face of bandits' violence, Lin Xiangfu always stood in the forefront, guarding this unrelated home with his own strength.

When Chen Yongliang's son fell in love with Lin Xiangfu's daughter, the upright man chose another place to keep Lin Baijia's reputation. At that time, the bandits were fighting, but he went to a dangerous place with his family.

When the ferocious gangster Zhang kidnapped Gu Yimin, the mayor of Xixi Town, he was helpless and led his family to rescue him. When the red-eyed gangster bloodbath Qijia village, he calmly guided everyone to bury the dead villagers; But when he faced Lin Xiangfu's body, he couldn't help bursting out with tears.

After drying his tears, he pulled out a sharp knife inserted in the root of Lin Xiangfu's left ear. He looked at the bloody sharp knife and said to Lin Xiangfu, "I want to return this sharp knife to Zhang Xuyi."

There is a limit to people's sadness. After the sponge is filled with water, even if the sea water flows through it, it can't absorb another tear.

Chen Yongliang, shouldering the mission of revenge, grabbed a knife and gun, formed a team and went into the Jianghu.

On the way to the war, Zhang Bing fled in defeat, and was reduced to the streets to make a living by fortune telling. When Chen Yongliang saw him again, he remembered Lin Xiangfu's death. After careful memory and confirmation, the sharp knife was pulled out from the root of Lin Xiangfu's left ear. So he stepped forward, put his hand on Zhang Yi's left ear and whispered, "This is your sharp knife." So a clap of the palm of the right hand, the handle from Zhang Yi left ear root half inserted.

He walked over to meet the people who had gathered around carefully, walked through them calmly, walked to the dock, jumped on the bamboo boat waiting for him, and roared off on the wide water.

The article no longer explains where he went. He came from the street and disappeared in the rivers and lakes. A weak scholar grabbed a weapon comparable to bandits, guarding not only life but also morality.

Conclusion: If you love someone, you must share the fate with the person you love.

Nietzsche said that people who suffer have no right to be pessimistic. If a suffering person is pessimistic, he will lose the courage to face the reality and the strength to fight against suffering. In this way, he will be more painful.

The characters in the text are all dragged by each other's love, silently enduring their own suffering and heading for a complicated ending in life. If Lin Xiangfu didn't meet Xiaomei; If Xiaomei doesn't insist on finding A Qiang; If A Qiang hadn't waited so hard; If Lin Xiangfu is not so persistent in looking for it; If you don't meet Chen Yongliang on the road; If Chen Yongliang hadn't left this town, ...

Life experience is random and doomed, but it is more the result of will command. It is precisely because these bloody and soulful people dare to share their fate with their loved ones for the love of their hearts that they tell us this thrilling story.

The flash of human nature does not necessarily bring a happy ending. The end of life is like reading, reading and reading at dusk, and the light fades unconsciously; It was not until he stopped to have a rest that he suddenly found that the day had passed and it was already dark. He couldn't see anything clearly when he looked down at the book, and the pages were no longer meaningful.

The words you read all the way are like handfuls of mountain knives. Every time you pick them up and wave them, you can open up a new wilderness in your heart, thus making room for planting more crops. In autumn, your mind can be busy harvesting ideas in the vast land. Thought, perhaps the last thing in the world that can be distributed fairly, is stationed in everyone's heart, regardless of rank, and cannot be traded with wealth, thus avoiding plunder.

And most of our personalities are hidden in this book.