Every young girl has a dream of a prince charming in her heart, in which the handsome prince rides a white horse and wears a dress to marry himself, and since then the two have lived a happy life in a beautiful palace.
But the reality is that he is the son of a farmer, uneducated, and when he opens his mouth, he is a typo; his eating posture is vulgar, and he smacks his mouth. This is Anjie's husband, Jiang Defu, a naval officer.
Obviously, this completely shattered Anjie's fantasy of Prince Charming, and Since Anjie was so beautiful and elegant, cultured, and emotional, she would never have imagined that the rest of her life would be with the son of a farmer.
This has also become an eternal pain in Anjie's heart, and this heartache is a compromise with reality, but also the result of the joint efforts of relatives.
An Zhi was born in a capitalist family, although his father swept all the property and fled before liberation, the An family brothers and sisters did not get inheritance, but the brother married the daughter of the landlord, and the sister was engaged to a person who was also born in a capitalist family, the bourgeois component is still there, which has also become a hard wound for the An family brothers and sisters, and the family always suffers from white eyes and lives a very humiliating life.
Suddenly someone introduced the object to his sister Anjie, the other party is still an officer, this brother and sister are simply overjoyed, if Anjie can marry an officer, he will definitely have no worries about food and clothing, and live a happy life; at the same time, having a revolutionary comrade as a brother-in-law is equivalent to finding a patron for the family, which is really a good thing to kill two birds with one stone.
But on the day of an angelic date between Anjie and Jiang Defu, there was a mistake, Jiang Defu actually took a bus to sit at the station, and Wasje found that there was a lot of dirt hidden in the nail slits, obviously looking like a countryman, and he also had a pole pen in his jacket pocket, pretending to be a cultural person, and when he heard him talk, he found that he could not read a few big characters.
When Anjie returned home, he expressed his dissatisfaction with Jiang Defu to his sister, but Jiang Defu took a look at Anjie, ignored her indifference, and pursued Anjie with a thick face.
At this time, Jiang Defu and Anjie's brothers and sisters became a heart, and they kept cheering Jiang Defu up, giving him strength and courage, and always speaking for Jiang Defu in front of Anjie.
Although Anjie believes that Jiang Defu is not the ideal lover in her heart, she likes to be handsome and cultured. However, because Jiang Defu had the support of the An family brothers and sisters, he surrounded Anjie completely, and Anjie's lone army became a collapsed army, and he could only compromise and throw himself into Jiang Defu's arms.
Although Anjie was wronged and married at the beginning, she was satisfied with her superior living conditions as an officer's wife after marriage. Therefore, when Jiang Defu was appointed to take up a post in the border fortress, Anjie did not want to change the current state of life and did not go with him.
However, her husband has been absent for a long time, the family lacks a pillar, and Anjie and several children also feel physically and mentally exhausted. Distressed by her brothers and sisters, she once again persuaded her to drag her children and daughters to find a husband and go to the border to live.
Therefore, Anjie's residence, from the beautiful big house of her mother's family, to the Japanese barracks of the naval base, and then to the remote and desolate island, the gap in her heart can be imagined.
Not only that, but every day to pull the bellows to cook rice, there is no running water, you have to go outside to pick up well water, more importantly, in addition to taking care of children at home, taking care of housework, there is no other activity.
At this time, Anjie can no longer wear beautiful skirts and high heels to shop and drink coffee, and what is more worrying is that the original Qingdao household registration has been cancelled, and she does not even have a way to retreat.
Living on the island, all her skills were useless, only to give birth to children, and she gave birth to seven in this life. Every day I cook rice and wash myself, and I have run out of patience to deal with the children's chores.
A beautiful and talented woman is disdainful of people who only pay attention to her beauty, but rather want people to admire her talent and interesting soul, and Anjie is no exception.
And the life of an ordinary housewife makes Anjie's talent have no stage to show, so her big and bright eyes always cross the top of the child's head and land in a place of nothingness.
For Anjie, the petty bourgeoisie, she aspires to a life of self-actualization and spiritual independence. And this wish is born with the birth of children one by one, so that she can only bury her unwillingness in her heart. The only thing she could do was to dress herself young, with delicate skin, barely keeping her true colors, and there was really nothing to show herself.
In the end, Anjie, a talented and beautiful woman, lived a very depressed life, but she was powerless to change, and could only compromise again.
When the eldest son, Jiang Weiguo, brought his girlfriend back for the first time, Anjie was not ready to become a mother-in-law, and his face was confused. The original book describes Anjie's expression like this:
She didn't seem to even smile at the curly girl, she really wanted to laugh, she just pulled the muscles of the corners of her mouth upwards, and the effect of the laughter made us insignificant people get a knot. ”
Anjie accepted her dissatisfied husband, and also accepted the reality that she was old and wanted to be a mother-in-law. She even happily began the journey of mother-in-law and mother-in-law, because in the process of finding a daughter-in-law and a son-in-law for her children, she deeply felt a sense of accomplishment, did it as a job, and enjoyed it.
But there are also times when there is resistance, such as the second son Guoning, who refuses to accept the blind date arranged by Anjie, and as a result, Anjie loosens his hand, lets the son take advantage of the loophole, and brings back a girl who has no sample and no rules, and does not meet the standards of Anjie's daughter-in-law, and Makes Anjie angry and toothache.
Anjie suffered a loss in his son's marriage, and turned around and threw himself into the marriage of his daughter Ya qiong to find a sense of accomplishment.
Soon Anjie took a fancy to the political director of the regiment from the countryside at a report meeting, young and promising, very into Anjie's legal eyes, and her joy was beyond expectation, just like the expression of her brother and sister when she saw Jiang Defu, it can be said that the mother-in-law looked at her son-in-law, and the more she looked at it, the more satisfied she became.
But for this officer who didn't even speak Mandarin well, Ya Qiong couldn't pay attention to it, because she fell in love with Wang Haiyang of the family next door, an unemployed young man.
How can this be compared with the political director of the regiment, Anjie wants to beat the Mandarin duck, and the result directly causes Ya qiong to swallow sleeping pills to find short-sightedness. At this time, the military and civilians of the whole island knew that the political commissar's Qianjin attempted suicide, but he lost his husband's face.
This incident seriously dampened Anjie's enthusiasm, and in just a few days she was no longer as beautiful as before, as described in the book:
The short hair that had been in order for decades was now more scattered than any rural military family member. It turned out that the energetic eyes seemed to have scattered the light overnight, and there was a little taste of old eyes.
This lesson completely hit Anjie's enthusiasm, and her enthusiasm for the marriage of her children disappeared, leaving her helplessness and helplessness.
If it is said that anjie's fluttering eyes when taking care of the children at that time are still a glimmer of hope for life, it is a longing, and Anjie's frustration in the marriage of her children is a complete disillusionment of her remaining hope for life, it is more mournful than heart death, and it also makes Anjie grow old in an instant!
Looking at Anjie's marriage and living conditions, although she married an officer, although it was a compromise on reality, she had a rich material life, which made her comfortable for a lifetime, and she was extremely lucky. But no matter how superior the material conditions are, they cannot make up for the spiritual emptiness, and it is the nowhere to place the soul, which makes her feel depressed.
This also tells us that even if a woman's marriage is not happy, women cannot give up on themselves, but must have their own independent career, not only to obtain economic income, but also to obtain spiritual pleasure, otherwise, even the most beautiful flowers are easy to zero.