When I was 10 years old, I read "Old Things in Seongnam" for the first time, and I firmly believed that growing up was a parting.
And now that I read "The Old Story of Seongnam", I actually don't want to believe it—
In fact, to grow up is to tear up yesterday's self and become the person we least want to be...
People often say: Shanghai is Zhang Ailing's, Beijing is Lin Haiyin's.
In Taiwan's literary circles, Lin Haiyin is known as a "grandmother-level figure". Her book "Old Things in Seongnam" is a good display of the people, things and scenery in the south of Beijing in the 1920s and 1930s.
In fact, Lin Haiyin was 40 years old when she wrote this book, and this book is not just "Yingzi's" memories of childhood.
Moreover, several women represented by Xiuzhen, Aunt Lan, Mama Song, and Ying Zi's mother did not want to be mentioned, which made people sad about the past...
The third chapter of the book, Aunt Lan, is perhaps the last thing the author wants to write into the book, and this chapter exposes the faces of the men of that era to the fullest.
1. The reason why Hideko likes Aunt Lan is heartbreaking - her mother is pregnant every year, and she has a big belly every year
In this book, Aunt Lan is steaming and fragrant as soon as she appears- Aunt Lan who comes out of my bathhouse, dressed in a foreign linen coat, with her hair folded, is always smiling and squinting.
This image is in stark contrast to Hideko's mother:
Eiko's mother had a total of 7 children in the 11 years with Eiko's father, including 5 girls and 2 boys, that is, the average time every year and a half, the mother had to have one child.
Because Aunt Lan is very idle, she will tie me a beautiful twist bun, take "I" to the theater, eat a small winter vegetable bun, and she also likes children.
It was very comfortable to sit in a foreign car with Aunt Lan, and she put her arms around me and said, "Lean in, lean in." "Unlike My Mother, the skirt of the black silk is filled with a big belly every year." Riding in a foreign car with my mother, her big belly pushed me up badly, and she said bluntly: "Don't squeeze me!" "Now Mom has a big belly and is going to have a sixth child."
This Aunt Lan is really like the ideal mother in the child's mind, while Hideko's mother does not have too much good temper with the child because she has children and takes care of the housework.
Of course, Hideko likes such an Aunt Lan living in her own home, so there is such a dialogue:
"If your parents are willing, I will live with your family for the rest of my life, let me worship your mother as a sister, and ask her if she is willing?" Aunt Lan said with a smile.
"Mom is willing?" I actually asked.
"Willing—yes!" Mom's voice seemed to have been soaked in vinegar, how could it be so sour.
This conversation may be unintentional by the questioner, or intentional by the listener; perhaps both women are deliberate.
2. Drinking the flower wine of the whole street, drinking from dark to dawn, the reason for liking Aunt Lan is actually very simple
Lin Haiyin's father is a good father, concerned about the growth of his children, and more concerned about his children's learning.
Hideko, who beat her because she didn't want to go to school, and hideko, who was still crying at the academy, has been touched by the flower jacket sent by her father because of the rain.
The characters created in this book are vivid and realistic, take Hideko's father:
He was not a god, he was a man, he was a man, he ate human fireworks, he ate beauty— especially in that era.
Aunt Lan was also a bitter person, she was sold by her mother at the age of three, brought to Beijing from Suzhou at the age of fourteen, happy at the age of sixteen, and given shi da a concubine at the age of twenty, and was expelled from the shi family by the Shi family.
Aunt Lan is also the most beautiful woman in the whole book.
Aunt Lan's round and flat face, a neat row of white teeth, I like the gold-encrusted teeth on her left side the most, when she laughs, the left corner of the mouth is tilted upwards, the gold teeth are very suitably exposed, and there is a dimple in the mouth, swirling with laughter.
Aunt Lan's life made her father sympathize with her and wanted to protect her, and Aunt Lan's beauty and personality made her father particularly happy.
Dad once went to the market to buy Aunt Lan her favorite egg-blue silk.
However, that time, Dad and Aunt Lan were lying on the bed, smoking a big cigarette face to face, but it deeply stung Xiao Yingzi.
Aunt Lan is very good at burning cigarettes, and her techniques are particularly skilled, when she handed the smoking gun to her father:
In the spraying clouds and mist, Aunt Lan's hand was caught by her father, who said:
"You are a cinnabar hand, but blessed are you!"
Aunt Lan threw her father's hand with her other hand, withdrew her hand, and smiled at her father:
"Don't mess around! Didn't see the child? ”
Dad may have really forgotten that I was in the house, and he turned his head sideways and smiled at me unnaturally:
Dad's face! I fought a cold war and somehow immediately thought of mom.
Dad was intoxicated by the smoke, intoxicated by aunt Lan's beauty and leisurely life.
Dad's move had clearly informed Aunt Lan that it would be a blessing to stay here, because he was the head of the family.
In that era, concubinage was not only not illegal, but also a kind of show off and flaunting for the rich, and a means of increasing the family population.
Nevertheless, in a girl's mind, there is only one woman around her father, and that is her own mother!
The mother who was cooking with a big belly did not know what had happened, and heard Hideko's call to her, and impatiently scolded Hideko.
With mixed feelings, The aggrieved Ying Zi can only use crying to vent.
The more they told me to eat, the more sad I became; the more they said I didn't understand, the more I cried.
3. A girl goes farther and farther on the way to save her father...
As the saying goes, "A daughter is a mother's intimate little cotton jacket." In fact, the daughter is the mother's best comfort, the best alliance partner.
Xiao Yingzi is matching Uncle Dexian and Aunt Lan, and anyway, the mother of these two people does not like it, that is, the "enemy" of "me".
The four-eyed dog in Aunt Lan's eyes was glorified by Ying Zi as a learned person.
Uncle De was overjoyed to hear this. Yes, for the cultural person, you appreciate him, praise him, this is the best praise.
Aunt Lan was also blindly made up by Xiao Yingzi as a classmate like Uncle Dexian.
It seems that everyone really cares most about themselves in other people's populations.
Uncle Dexian's address to Aunt Lan is more interesting— Mies Yellow.
From Aunt Lan to Miss Huang, not only is it called Yang Qi, but also makes Aunt Lan's whole person refreshed, to the later Qi Er short hair, which may be the author's empowerment of women in the old society to yearn for freedom.
The meeting place between Uncle Dexian and Aunt Lan ranged from the watermelon lantern meeting to the later Sanbeizi Garden, they went farther and farther, and Xiao Yingzi was also drifting away...
When Uncle Dexian and Aunt Lan were ready to leave, my mother was of course very happy and satisfied what "I" had always wanted.
"What did you say you were going to buy that day?"
"A pair of rolling iron hoops, a pair of leather shoes, and now I want to add a whole year's Book of Children's World." I said without hesitation.
The word "child" in "Children's World" pulls the reader and Hideko back again, she is just a child.
On the day Aunt Lan left, her father touched her chest, just like her mother felt some sympathy for her father every time she got angry, and everyone grew up in contradictions and grew strong.
Maybe Eiko really doesn't like that lying and fickle self.....
4. Girls in real life are far less fortunate than Hideko, and their salvation is usually exchanged for "hopeless"
(1) A little girl in kindergarten told her mother: When my father picked me up, he chatted with whose mother, and added WeChat.
The little age really my heart.
(2) A girl's father and mother divorced, and soon she had a new mother, and when his father picked her up and returned her to the original home, the girl was very resistant and shouted:
"No one is allowed to sleep in my mother's bed!"
As a result, the "grumpy" dad almost didn't strangle the girl.
Later, the girl no longer contacted her father.
(3) There is also a girl who is in middle school, her parents have long been divorced, afraid of affecting her studies, and has not told her.
One day the girl suddenly said to her mother, "Do you want evidence?" You can win! While Dad was sleeping, I ripped off his phone card and put it in my phone....."
epilogue:
Girls who are naturally sensitive are really distressing, whether the father is loyal or not, whether he loves the mother, is what they care about very much.
It is often said that to love children, let's start with the mother who loves her children! This makes perfect sense.
Happy families are all the same, and unhappy families have their own misfortunes. I really don't want this misfortune to be triggered by Dad.
Every child is the best gift given to us by God, and when children reminisce about their childhood memories, the hope home will always be a quiet and warm and softest place.
Just like "Seongnam Old Things" will sparkle every time it is mentioned.....
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