Wang Anyi's "Anonymity" is a novel that seems to me to be a little different.
First of all, the language, concise and concise, not sculpted, natural throughout, between sentences is rarely seen "because... So "Although... But words like ", which have their own techniques for dealing with causal, inflective, and progressive relationships, are not lost and are obviously elegant. Like a woman who does not apply powder, clear water out of the hibiscus, natural to carve, beauty in the simple.
The latter is the content, not just the narrative, there are many auxiliary contents outside the main body. It is like a teacher teaching, completing teaching tasks, supplemented by knowledge outside the classroom, extending from multiple angles; it is like a towering tree, with branches growing next to the trunk and flourishing. At first glance, it seems that he is concerned about the left and right, but in fact, he is serving the main body, and there is the effect of green leaves with red flowers.
Hearing is false, seeing is believing. Anonymous is worth reading.
The story begins with a bizarre disappearance.
He and his wife Yang Yingying have been promoted to senior grandparents due to the arrival of their grandson.
It seems that he can't stand the loneliness of retirement, relying on friends of friends, he found an errand in Baby Trade Logistics Co., Ltd., doing work such as signing receipts, similar to secretarial. The company is located in a residential building, only one road away from the kindergarten where the grandson is located, the salary is not high, but it has the same benefits, and it is convenient to pick up and drop off the grandson.
This afternoon, Yang Yingying sat on the sofa as usual and waited for him and his grandson to come home, but the left waited and the right did not wait, and when the doorbell rang, the door opened, and it was the grandfather and the grandson's class teacher.
He had always only come back early, not late, and this time he actually broke the routine. In Yang Yingying, things became strange.
It is indeed different. At about three o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, he was shoved into the back compartment by a pair of powerful hands, and the debt collection company mistakenly thought he was Wu Baobao and kidnapped him.
When the real body is verified and it is found that this "Wu Baby" is not the other "Wu Baby", the black-faced person returns the person and hands it over to the yellow-faced person (hemp monk) for disposal.
"Where it comes from, where it goes." Everyone on the tao knows that this "where" is not another "where".
The yellow-faced man turned him over to the mute, who brought him, and it was the mute who brought him there. It was just that the mute did not follow the meaning of "where to come, where to go", taking him to the place where he should go, but took him along the winding road to the wild mountain forest and released him into the depths of the mountain.
There was no danger, in the end saved his life. There is hope in life, there is unexpected gains, not to zero.
His survival leads to the people associated with him and some of the past events that have been lost in the torrent of time, witnessing the changes of the times. These people and things, apart from the differences that are visible to the naked eye, have too many similarities.
The mountains do not turn and the water turns, and another chapter begins
Change, let him jump out of the comfort zone he has always been, meet people outside the circle, as many people as there are, as many stories.
First it bids him farewell to the conformist life, and pushes him into another kind of life.
The hometown of the mute, if it can also be called the hometown, is like a rag hanging on the mountain wall, with a population of only seven or eight households, called "vine roots".
The mute lived with Grandpa since he was a child, because he was picked up, there was no household registration, at first he could not get any grain, and then he did not have a share of the mute in the mountains and forests and fields, and grew up little by little in the half-hungry and half-full, and from time to time he had to be slapped by grandpa. But freedom, in addition to helping Grandpa work, can drill into the mountains at any time.
When he was fourteen years old, his grandfather died, and the mute lived with the old woman, who provided him with food and clothing, and he farmed for the old woman to take care of the mountains and forests. Just not free, a moment away, the old woman pulled up her throat and shouted everywhere.
Xu is not used to it, one day, the mute burrowed into the mountain and never returned. Fuji has since fallen behind, stuck in the depths of memory, long ago but the impression is clear, touching the scene is raw.
In the town of Wuzhi, the mute was associated with the hemp monk because of malaria, and because he could not speak, he could keep secrets, and soon became the right and left hands of the hemp monk, following the hemp monk to open up the territory, develop his career, and go to a wider place. The sea is home, it is free, and it is in line with the mute's free nature.
The hemp monk who has the grace of knowing the mute is home in Qinglian.
The time when the monk was born coincided with the great prosperity of the Qinglian bowl kiln, and there were many porters from the four fields and eight townships on the street, which showed the prosperity of the bowl kiln industry.
The livelihood of the He monk's family is the side business derived from the bowl kiln- printing New Year paintings, and the long-abandoned impressions in the family come in handy with the prosperity of the bowl kiln.
Prosperity ends sometimes. With the widespread application of electricity, electric kilns should be born from time to time, and production has been improved, but homogenization has made sales decline all the way. The New Year paintings of the He monks are also obsolete and unpopular due to the impact of the tide of the times.
People have moved out one after another, and the deserted Qinglian is now a corner of the underwater world. In that area of water, not only people go to empty villages and other aquatic creatures, but also carry the history of hastily passing away.
Out of Qinglian, Ma monk stayed at his aunt's house, because he was a reservoir immigrant, he was not less discriminated against and alienated by his classmates, although there was a teacher who was a patron, when the teacher's internship ended and left from the school, Ma monk fell into a situation of being excluded and helpless.
Finally, one day, the monk automatically ended his boarding career and went elsewhere to find his parents. However, the parents have long since divorced and formed their own families, and no matter which side they are on, the hemp monk is obviously superfluous.
Therefore, a car took the monk to five feet, and then he bought the territory, incorporated the whole of five feet under his command, and expanded the territory to a wider area, and he was entrusted by the debt collection company to kidnap Wu Baobao, but he made a mistake and tied up the wrong person.
As mentioned earlier, he was released by a mute. The release site is located deep in the mountains and is called "Forest Cave".
The forest cave, as the name suggests, is a very deep and extremely cramped place, embedded in a deep village.
During the reign of the Hongwu Emperor, ancestors came to this place, split the mountain and cut wood, and pulled out a hole in the heavens and the earth. This wild mountain forest has been pyrotechnic and multiplied for generations, and by the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the man and the silly brother were born at two o'clock, the forest cave was an agricultural tribe.
Of course, two o'clock was not stupid at first, and at the age of six an illness permanently stopped the shape and mind of the two o'clock at the age of six.
As the saying goes, to get rich, build roads first. The winding road was built at the same time as the collapse of the isolated forest caves.
In fact, when he was eleven years old, when the men went to the town to attend primary school, the forest caves had already shown signs of disintegration, the markets in the forest caves were becoming increasingly deserted, and the markets in the town were becoming more and more lively, and most of these crowded people came from the forest caves.
By the time the men graduated from primary school early and went to middle school, the collections of "two" and "seven" in the forest caves were all gone, which was also a symptom of population migration.
Later, lin caves only left the Taoist family (the man and the father of the second point) and the oldest grandfather's family. The Taoist family was the last to leave the forest cave, their parents died one after another, and at two o'clock, the man who returned with the soldiers walked out of the forest cave and made a home in the wild bones.
His residence was the old house of the man and the two points left in the forest cave. The shelves of the houses he marked as Rooms One, Two, Three, Three, Five and Four were the only remnants of the Cave.
He broke the spectacle lenses on the ground unexpectedly caused a fire, causing it to burn, and the forest cave became a complete past, and there was no trace of it in the world, only to trace it from memory.
The novel is arranged in this way as if to say that the farewell should be decided, do not drag the mud and water, in the end to look forward, it is difficult to go long, and there is a kind of freedom in it.
The fire caused him to walk out of the mountain pass, stop at Chaipi for a short time, and then be sent to Jiuzhang by the man and the second point, and then transferred from the nursing home to the Xinyuan Welfare Home with the "Little Pioneer".
At the welfare home, he met Pengfei.
Pengfei also comes from a mountain pass, and the size of the village is comparable to that of the forest cave. Because of the marriage of close relatives, half of the people in the village are ordinary people, and half of them are white people with albinism, with blurred vision and no sun exposure.
If there is no accident, Pengfei will be like other children, when he was young, he would pick grass, pick goji berries, weave pu bao when he grew up, carry pu bao, and deal with people outside the mountains and do business. Yi Pengfei's intelligence and generationality may not be able to become the lord of a village. If so, you will never be able to walk out of the mountain pass.
However, accidents always come unexpectedly. Through the paper on the pickle jar, Peng Fei recognized many words, which seemed to have magic powers, giving him a desire to expand his horizons.
So, six-year-old Peng Fei, dressed in black, stepped out of the house, walked through the shallow path, stepped on a flat road, and was sent to a welfare home by a well-meaning person, and his hometown has never been able to go back.
From his own name, it can be seen that Pengfei has lofty ambitions, taught himself university courses, and prepared for civil service examinations in order to spread his wings and fly high. Albinism is a defect that also gives Pengfei the determination to change.
The mute, the monk, the man, and the two points, Pengfei, the people he met outside the old circle, were all similar to him, and when the original life was unsustainable or reached a saturated state due to change, it collapsed violently, and then it was followed by a new life, a new circle, and a new life.
God closes a door for you, and at the same time he opens a window for you. The way out is not nothing, change is the norm.
Yang Yingying and her daughter searched for someone fruitlessly many times, so they naturally accepted the reality and accepted the sudden change, "Why can't it be them?" ”
When the monk handed over the territory of the province to Dunmu, he said, "The mountains do not turn and the waters turn, but another chapter begins."
This sentence is like the eye of the novel, summarizing and penetrating the hearts of the characters, guiding them to choose, to break through, and the irreversibility of time is covered. At the end of the world, there will be a gone. So, after he got in touch with his family, the author ended his chance to return home by falling into the water.
Time goes by, bravely say goodbye to the past, and live well.
What can't go back is time, and what can't go away is emotion
Time is merciless, but people have feelings.
Time teaches people to say goodbye to the past, so that people can keep up with the pace of life, follow the same trend, and not fall behind, rather than being as ruthless as time and being a marionette of time.
Dumb, two-point, Pengfei, these people who follow the pace of time, have not been assimilated by the ruthlessness of time, and their human touch is still the same, which is manifested in the compassion they have developed for him.
The mute is the right and left hand of the hemp monk, and releasing him is obviously contrary to the original meaning of "left and right hand". Not only that, but in order to survive in the wild mountain forest, as soon as the mute found his foothold, he cleared the thatch around him, collected as much food as possible for him, and taught him to grow wild wheat. After doing what he could, the mute quietly left, going to the civilized world outside the mountain pass, to the side of the monk. Later, after two points, the mute drove him to bring him food and clothing.
Later, when the monk Learned of this, he had no intention of reproaching him, saying only that "one life does not die twice", and the past did not advise, the wind was light, and he let go of the man and the mute.
Xu is a mute whose love touched the monk Ma, who has always seen the head and the end of the dragon, and he actually took the initiative to meet with Dunmu and gave up the territory of the province, which was the meaning of washing his hands in the golden basin. Since then, another chapter has been written and the world has become home.
Erzhu Yuan was herding cattle in the mountains, and when he saw people coming out of the forest cave, he followed the direction of the smoke and returned to the old house and found him.
Before returning to the wild bones, he gave him wheat cakes, water cups, military blankets, autumn clothes and pants, and cotton socks at two o'clock to keep him warm and hungry. At two o'clock, he would look at the sky, and the snow was coming, and he helped him stuff the windows and door slits with thatch to let him get through the snow.
The fire was extinguished, and the man and the second point rushed to the forest cave, when he was gone, the man originally wanted to return to the wild bone the next day, but the second point was extremely stubborn, and he had to find him. Later, they found him in Chaipi, and there was a follow-up to send him to the Jiuzhang police station.
In the Xinyuan Welfare Home, Peng Fei saw the glasses he was wearing, a piece of myopia, a flat light, a very obstructive, immediately pulled him to the optical shop with glasses, and then took him to the barber shop for a haircut. During the operation of accompanying "Xiao Xianxin" to Shanghai, Pengfei commissioned volunteers to inquire about the missing people and help him go home.
In Jiuzhang, he called Tunmu a nobleman. Indeed, dunmu helped "Little Pioneer" to apply for a charitable aid program, so that he could transfer from the Jiuzhang nursing home to a regular county-level welfare home, so as to get the opportunity to go to Shanghai for surgery.
Dumb, two-point and Pengfei, those who give him a way to live and selflessly assist, are not nobles, and compassion makes them his nobles.
In summary, "Anonymous" tells us that while following the waves in the whirlpool of time, do not forget the human touch.
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