After two weeks, I finally finished reading Bai Xianyong's "Taipei People", and a feeling could not be suppressed, almost rushing out, that is, the protagonist of his pen, all of them were sad, and all of them were poor people.
Since he is a fallen man at the end of the world, how can he lament that it is difficult to meet himself.
In the novel "Lonely Love Flower", the singer Yunfang, after several turns in Taiwan, still returned to her old business and became the manager of Mayflower.
In her life, she met two girls: Wubao and Juanjuan.
Wubao was known when she was in yunfang continent, she was born in a desolate life, she did not know who her parents' surname was, and she was sold to Wanchun Lou at the age of 14. Her thin stunted body made Yun Fang feel pity.
However, Yunfang couldn't save the life of the Five Treasures, because Yunfang couldn't control her own destiny.
She wanted to have a home with Wubao, but this wish was not fulfilled until Wubao died.
So, when she met Juanjuan, who was equally bleak, in Mayflower, she once again had a feeling of pity.
Wubao and Juanjuan, they have a lot of similarities, for example, when they sang "Lonely Love Flower", their faces invariably showed a desolate look, Xu is the feeling of their own life, they are all resigned, the most said is: Sister, this is all fate.
At this moment, Wu bao and Juan Juan merged into one in Yun Fang's eyes. God let her meet Juanjuan, which is compensation for the loss of the Five Treasures.
In Yunfang's heart, she really wanted to protect Juanjuan, and she was not willing to let this beautiful girl follow in the footsteps of the Five Treasures.
However, her ability is limited, she cannot avoid the fate of Juanjuan's reception, and she cannot avoid being bullied. The only thing she could do was take Juanjuan home and look at her herself, thinking that nothing would happen.
But the one who should come will always come, and after a drunken drink, when he is abused by the prostitute Ke Laoxiong, he suddenly breaks out and kills people.
This killing, she herself is crazy, Juanjuan has endured too much in this life, her mother is crazy and does not recognize people, and her biological father violated her, making her belly bigger.
When it comes to Mayflower, she is still being bullied everywhere, she is not crazy, what else can she do?
Only by forgetting everything can you live. Only to live. The happiness that belonged to her would never come.
In the eyes of those men, those helpless girls who sold themselves did not seem to be human beings, but just an animal, who could be killed at will.
Even if you encounter unfairness and are bullied, you don't dare to suffer silently. Even Yun Fang acquiesced to this.
In a dirty place, you don't deserve a happy and beautiful life.
Juanjuan and Wubao, one crazy and one dead, resisted in an extreme way. They are at the bottom of society, living without dignity and despair, knowing that they are innocent, but always taking all their sins over.
Bai Xianyong's preciousness is here, there are the luck and misfortune of the little people in his eyes, and he is really concerned about the fate of the little people.
He had seen the old King Xie Tang Qianyan and had a prominent origin, but he had a deep sympathy for the toiling people. He understood their heartache and pain.
In this novel, from the perspective of the boss lady, Mr. Lu, a character who is not worldly, inevitably complies with the world in the end.
Mr. Lu deserves sympathy, he came from a rich family, his ancestors once served as a Daotai in Hunan Province, and the Lu Mansion was also the most respectable mansion in the local area, but when the Kuomintang withdrew from Taiwan, he did not get what I could not get, and would rather destroy it than take the next term cheaply, and a fire was reduced to ashes.
Mr. Lu, who came to Taiwan, lived a life of teaching, was kind to people on weekdays, and was polite. Among the diners who packed so many meals, the hostess looked up to him. His upbringing and gentle disposition made the lady boss willing to open a small stove for him.
The lady boss was impressed by his character and also moved her mind to make him and his niece Xiuhua a lalang match. Mr. Lu flatly refused because he had a heart to belong, even if he could not be with the girl in his heart, he did not want to fail her. In Mr. Lu's heart, he was bitterly in love with this Luo girl, and this Luo girl must also miss herself very much.
But the last hope was dashed, and the money saved for more than ten years was also cheated away by his cousin.
Since then, he has started to break cans and break cans, with a washer named Ah Chun, cooking for others, washing clothes, and serving her. But this Ah Chun did not have the slightest feminine tenderness, and in the eyes of everyone, this woman was rude and unworthy of her.
But in the end, he was also betrayed by Ah Chun, not only that, he was also beaten by Ah Chun, and the woman who made the mistake not only did not repent, but also beat people.
This blow made him completely lose the desire to live, and he chose death. Old Man Li is like this, qin Qianzi is like this. Old Man Li's long-term lonely life made him have the idea of dying a hundred times, and Qin Qianzi could not accept that he had a group of wives and concubines before, and now he did not even have a woman, and could only satisfy that little pitiful physiological desire by constantly harassing and harassing women.
Standing in their time, substituted for their psychology, it is not difficult to understand why they are reluctant to live.
The loss after possession is the most uncomfortable, and this huge gap alone can be borne by few people.
The novel "Dream of Visiting the Garden" borrows from the folklore du Liniang and Li Mengmei's lingering love story. In folklore, Du Liniang fell in love with not a person, she and Liu Mengmei in a dream to talk about a love, this feeling is naturally unspeakable.
A boudoir lady, infatuated with a strange man, does not make people laugh out of their teeth when they pass it out.
Mrs. Qian, there is a past in her heart that cannot be disclosed, she has loved someone who should not be loved, she married a good man, spoiled her, and is willing to satisfy her materially. The man gave her a show, but he couldn't give her the happiness of being a woman. Because their age difference is too big,
Later, she had an intimate relationship with Deputy Zheng, and just after she plucked up the courage to indulge her feelings, she discovered the private affair between Deputy Zheng and her sister.
She was originally a well-known Kunqu artist, and under the double stimulation of her sister and Deputy Zheng, she actually dumbed her voice.
At this gathering of sisters, in addition to the death of her husband, which led to a plummeting decline in her position in the circle, what was even more difficult for her to accept was the blatant flirtation between Cheng Adjutant and Jiang Biyue, which once again plunged her into that sad memory. Not surprisingly, her voice went dumb again.
I think she's supposedly the body's defense mechanism at work, so that she can better protect herself from worse outcomes.
The dream of visiting the garden is the double wandering of the body and the mind, stirring up the pool of spring water in the heart. When the private affair between Deputy Zheng and his sister-in-law was exposed, her heart was already dead.
Therefore, the glory of the Kunqu Empress, do not stop, from now on can not be on the stage, there is no point.
People always forget what they have, and the mind thinks of what they can't get, can't explain themselves, and over time, they become demons in their hearts.
And Deputy Zheng and Yue Yuehong were Mrs. Qian's demons, so much so that seeing the blatant flirtation between Staff Officer Cheng and Jiang Biyue, they once again fell into the demon.
If she couldn't see through it, maybe Deputy Zheng and Yue Yuehong were the pain she couldn't touch in her life. Her throat would never recover.
Looking at Bai Xianyong's "Taipei People" encyclopedia, fourteen novels, fourteen protagonists, each full of blood and tears, full of wind and frost, they have either fallen, or struggled to survive in the cracks, or changed their original intentions, became secular, and catered to the world.
But in general, this is a tragedy, they sing and you and I appear on the stage of their own lives.
In a way, they belong to the same fallen people, but they lament that they are difficult to meet.