The novel "Border City" is Shen Congwen's description of the characteristic scenery and humanistic history of the Xiangxi region in the 1930s, which moves the human scene and the people write alive, and everything seems to jump on the paper, bringing endless aftertaste. It is like a good tea, slightly bitter when first introduced, but the aftertaste is a little sweet, and finally the bitter taste fills the mouth.
When we say that their love should first understand the background story of the three people, each person's background story is different, the character's personality is also different, and finally it will produce different results.
01, Cuicui
Cuicui was born in the small mountain town of Cha Tong, of course, her mother and father met in this place, perhaps their ancestors lived in this small mountain town.
There is a small stream on the edge of the town of ChaTong, and Cuicui lives under a small white tower on the edge of the creek. There are only Cuicui and Grandpa, and a yellow dog, no neighbors, only their own family living here.
Cuicui's grandfather was a ferry on the creek, because the public financial resources are limited, can not build bridges, in order to facilitate the people who come and go, there is a boat family to manage the ferry, Cuicui's grandfather's job is to manage the ferry, ferry people across the river.
Cuicui's mother is the only daughter of the old boatman, but she has Cuicui because of her ambiguity with the soldiers. The two can't get married, the soldier wants to elope, but he doesn't want to violate the responsibility of the soldier, and Cuicui's mother is reluctant to be lonely father.
The soldier finally took poison and left, Cuicui's mother was reluctant to give birth to the child in her belly, in shame and pity, and finally ate a lot of cold water and followed the soldier, leaving only this orphan.
Cuicui grew up in this green mountain and water, her skin became black, a pair of eyes were clear as crystal, nature nurtured and educated her, innocent and lively, people were also well-behaved, never worried, not moving.
02, Tianbao and Send
The name of the palm water pier is Shunshun, who lived in the camp in the former Qing Dynasty, and during the Xinhai Revolution, he was a commander in the army forty-nine standards, returned to his hometown because of the pain of his feet, bought a six-pulp white wooden boat, and begged a small widow within two years.
A few years later, there were four boats, a wife, and two sons. These two sons were Tenbo and Goto.
When Shun Shun was fifty years old, the original deacon who was in charge of the water dock died, and Shun Shun was both sensible, upright and peaceful, and did not love money, so he became a senior man on the water dock, using the customary rules to eliminate all kinds of things on the water.
His two sons, the eldest of whom were eighteen years old and the youngest sixteen, could swim water and travel long distances. What young people in the city can do, they can do well and be good.
Tianbao's temperament is like his father's, open-minded and informal. He is close to his mother, does not like to talk, and is intelligent and emotional.
03. Acquaintance
On a dragon boating night on the fifth day of May, Cuicui waited alone on the shore for his grandfather, but his grandfather was hindered by his duties, and because the two people who helped him were drunk and drunk, they could not come to pick up Cuicui.
When Cuicui waited, she sent her to catch ducks in the water, and then sent to invite Cuicui to their house to wait for her grandfather, but Cuicui did not go to their house because of the previous misunderstanding.
The guy who sent the family got a message from Grandpa Cuicui and came to look for Cuicui, and then Cuicui learned that the person who had misunderstood before was the second old man. Cui Cui still remembered in her heart the words of the second elder who said to be careful of the big fish eating her.
Two years later, in the Mid-Autumn Festival, Cuicui did not forget the Dragon Boat Festival, the two did not see the second elder this time, but saw the elder, but also saw Shunshun. Because the old boatman praised the fat duck twice, Shun Shun asked the elder to give the duck to Cuicui, and knowing the day of the two, he was very poor, and sent a lot of sharp-horned rice dumplings.
04, love
Because of the duck delivery, the grandfather praised Shunshun, and then asked Cuicui through this: "Cuicui, if the eldest elder wants you to be a daughter-in-law and invite someone to be a matchmaker, do you agree or not?" Cuicui was annoyed, and the topic ended.
Which girl is not pregnant with spring, as she grows up day by day, Cuicui's heart has also left traces of love. Grandfather is also because of Cuicui's mother's affairs, and his heart is still worried about Cuicui's marriage.
Tianbao likes Cuicui, and when he meets the old boatman, he tells the old boatman what he thinks, and he wants to be not busy for two more years and come to the creek to sing for Cuicui. I also want Cuicui to be a good daughter-in-law who takes care of the housework.
When the second elder sent the wine gourd to the old boatman, he invited Cuicui to play, and when Cuicui went, the second elder had already gone down the river.
Then someone gave the old man a matchmaker, and then the old boatman solemnly replied: "There are rules for playing chess, the car is the car road, the horse is the road, and each has its own way of moving." If the eldest elder is on the road, he should be the master of the big old man, and he has invited a matchmaker to come and talk to me in a serious way. If you take the road, you should make your own decisions, stand on the high cliff opposite the creek at the ferry, and sing for Cuicui for three years and six months. It's all up to Cuicui herself. ”
Cuicui's heart still remembered what the second elder said, at this time, she heard others say that the second elder liked her, and also heard that others were marrying a brand new mill, and the second elder did not want to become the owner of the mill.
The second elder caught the duck and sent it to Cuicui's house, and then the three of them went upstairs.
Shunshun of the palm water pier asked the matchmaker to talk to the old man, and the old boatman asked Cuicui what he meant, and Cuicui did not know how to answer. After some time, the old boatman noticed that Cuicui seemed to like the second old.
Tianbao and Yu send the two brothers to know that both people like Cuicui, and then the two brothers compete fairly, the boss walks to the car without results, and the two decide to sing. Because the eldest elder took the car, he asked the second elder to sing first.
Cuicui heard the song in the dream, felt soft and entangled, followed the sound and flew everywhere, flew to the creek cliff half waist to pick a large handful of tiger ear grass, but did not know who to hand over.
The old boatman thought it was a song sung by the old man, and when he met the old man, he praised it, and the old man listened to the old boatman's praise and left. Finally the sailor told the old boatman that it was the second old man who sang last night.
The old boatman went back and asked Cuicui how the owner of the song sang for her for three years and six months, so that Cuicui understood that singing must understand people's hearts.
05. The ending
Elder Tianbao sat down on the water boat Citan and had an accident, fell into the whirlpool under the beach and drowned, and the second elder rushed over early in the morning.
The second elder walked six hundred miles out of the North River, looking for the body of the brother along the river. When the old boatman talked to the second elder, he was misunderstood by the second elder.
The old boatman repeatedly inquired about the meaning of the second elder for Cuicui, and also asked the meaning of the general manager of shunshun. The old boatman also knew the news that the second old man had gone to the peach orchard.
In the end, Cuicui's grandfather died on the night of the thunderstorm, with the care for Cuicui's marriage and the nostalgia for his daughter.
Yang Mabing told Cuicui the story of the old boatman, and also told the story of his father, and Cuicui also understood everything and cried all night.
Winter has arrived, the collapsed white tower has been repaired, and the person who sang for Cuicui in his sleep has not yet returned, maybe never, maybe tomorrow!
06, Beijing has something to say
Of course, the scenery of Xiangxi is extremely beautiful, and the people here are also true, good, and beautiful.
Cuicui's love, the love of Tianbao and Wu Bao, seems to be a beautiful encounter, but in the end it is a performance with no beginning and no end, as if it has just ended.
What is left in the end is something unforgettable in the heart, maybe love, maybe family affection, maybe life.
Simple words, simple people, paradise-like beauty, in the end, all turn into the beginning and end of love, and end with the end of love.
I think, this is life!
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