"Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" is a classic novel created by Yu Hua in 1995, which tells the story of Xu Sanguan who survived the difficulties in his life by selling blood.
Yu Hua's creation of "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" originated from a story of a bloody head told to him by his father, a surgeon.
This bloody head, smoking a cigarette, wearing a dirty white coat, methodically acted as a blood seller and a liaison officer for the hospital.
When the hospital blood bank is sufficient, he uses the inequality of supply and demand to cultivate the respect of the blood sellers for him, so that the blood sellers often give him gifts.
The blood bank ischemia, he also took advantage of the different prices of blood sold in various places, organized the blood sellers to go to more expensive hospitals collectively, this capable blood head impressed Yu Hua, and came up with the idea of writing a novel about selling blood, and there was also "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood".
In "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood", Yu Hua did not write the blood head as the protagonist, the protagonist is the blood seller Xu Sanguan.
Xu Sanguan is an ordinary ordinary person, he is struggling for life, and he is going farther and farther on the road of selling blood. Xu Sanguan is like a friend and family around us, and everyone in this novel has distinct characteristics.
01
Xu Sanguan's "leper-style" courtship
Xu Sanguan is a cocoon worker in the silk factory in the city, he heard the fourth uncle say that people with strong bones go to sell blood, sell blood once to earn 35 yuan, work in the top ground for half a year, and the blood is the same as well water, there will not be much water, and there are still so many fights every day.
In order to prove that he was in good health, Xu Sanguan began to sell blood for the first time in his life.
Xu Sanguan took the 35 yuan from the blood sale and began to carefully calculate how to spend the money.
In his view, the factory earns sweat money, and selling blood earns blood money, which cannot be spent casually. What do you do with this money? Give Grandpa flowers, Grandpa is confused, can not spend, to the fourth uncle to spend his own reluctance, so he decided to find a daughter-in-law for himself.
He has two suitable candidates, one is Yu Fenfang, a female worker in the silk factory, and the other is Xu Yulan, a "fried fritter Xishi". One night, Xu Sanguan met Xu Yulan, whose face was red with lanterns, at the entrance of the theater, and he decided to invite Xu Yulan to eat buns.
Xu Sanguan invited Xu Yulan to eat for eight cents and three cents, xiaolong buns with two cents and four cents, wontons with nine points, plums with one dime, sugar with two cents and three cents, and watermelon with seven cents.
Xu Sanguan said to Xu Yulan while calculating the account, "You ate eight cents and three cents from me, when will you marry me?" ”
Their conversations are particularly amusing. Xu Sanguan said that I will be good to you, and you can eat so much every day in the future.
Xu Yulan said, "If I married you, I wouldn't have eaten like this, and after I married you, I would have eaten my own, and I was reluctant to..."
Xu Yulan's work was not done, and Xu Sanguan went to the door to find Xu Yulan and her father. Although Xu Yulan's father had already drunk with Xu Yulan's current object, He Xiaoyong, many times, he was still persuaded by Xu Sanguan.
Xu Sanguan said, "You see that You are a daughter of Xu Yulan, and if she marries He Xiaoyong's child, she will have the surname He, and your Xu family will be extinct." If you marry me Xu Sanguan and give birth to children with the surname Xu, I will be like an upside-down door, and your family will not be extinct. ”
Xu Yulan's father listened to it, my Xu family could not be desperate, and with a wave of his hand agreed to Xu Sanguan's courtship.
Although it was Xu Sanguan who snatched love with a horizontal knife and snatched Xu Yulan from He Xiaoyong's hands, He Xiaoyong was not a responsible person.
Xu Yulan asked He Xiaoyong to return the eight cents to Xu Sanguan for her, and He Xiaoyong said, "We are not married, why should I pay you the bills?" ”
No matter what to say, Xu Sanguan used his spirit of a leper and the money from selling blood to marry Xu Yulan as he wished, and the Xu family also had Xu Yile, Xu Erle, and Xu Sanle, three people who passed on the lineage.
02
Xu Sanguan's "playful" pursuit of equality
Xu Yile grew more and more like He Xiaoyong, neighbors said that Xu Yile was He Xiaoyong's son, which made Xu Sanguan very hurt, among the three sons, his favorite is Xu Yile, but this is not his species.
"I don't do anything, I want to enjoy"
When Xu Sanguan knew that He Xiaoyong and Xu Yulan had a close contact, he felt even more unfair, and he began to play a trick in pursuit of equality.
Xu Sanguan said to Xu Yulan:
I'm not doing anything now, I'm going to enjoy it as soon as I get home. Do you know what enjoyment is? That's it, lying on a rattan bed, two legs on a stool. Do you know why I want to enjoy it?
It was to punish you, you made the mistake of life, you slept with me and that wang bastard He Xiaoyong on your back, and slept out of a happy time, so I was angry again. You still want me to buy rice? You dream about it.
Xu Sanguan felt that he had suffered a loss, so he refused to work and returned home to enjoy, as a punishment for Xu Yulan, but also as compensation for the son he had raised for He Xiaoyong for 9 years, which was the equality he sought.
"Erle and Sanle, when you grow up, you will go to He Xiaoyong to avenge"
Xu Yile smashed the head of Fang Blacksmith's son, Xu Sanguan had no money to lose, he asked Xu Yulan and Xu Yile to go to He Xiaoyong for money, which made a lot of noise, but did not want to return a penny.
Xu Sanguan had already thought about selling blood, but he felt that it was too cheap for He Xiaoyong.
He had raised a son for He Xiaoyong for nine years, and he also had to pay off the debt for He Xiaoyong's son, and his chest seemed to be blocked.
So he told Erle and Sanle to let them remember that He Xiaoyong had harmed their family like this, and when they grew up, they would go to He Xiaoyong to avenge them. With the assurance of Erle sanle, Xu Sanguan was satisfied to sell blood. This was the second time he had sold blood.
Xu Sanguan once again exchanged his own equality in a senseless way, I sold blood to pay off your son's debts, and you waited for my son to avenge you later.
"One person once, is equal"
Lin Fenfang, a female worker in the silk factory, was injured, Xu Sanguan went to her house to see her, and the two of them talked about their youth, and they fell asleep together.
The more Xu Sanguan thought about it, the more he felt that Lin Fenfang was good, so he decided to sell blood again and buy some pork and soybeans for Lin Fenfang to supplement his body. As a result, because there were too many things to buy, lin Fenfang's husband found out, and Xu Yulan also knew.
This time Xu Sanguan was caught in the handle, his previous "enjoyment" was canceled, and he began to do the housework of cattle and horses.
His inner desire for equality inspired him, and he began to fight back against Xu Yulan. "You and He Xiaoyong are once, and me and Lin Fenfang are also once; you and He Xiaoyong have made a piece of music, and Lin Fengfang and I have made four musics?" No. You and I have made life mistakes, but your mistakes are worse than mine. ”
Xu Sanguan has always been pursuing equality, and for the sake of equality, he has found a chip for exchange for many things he has done for himself.
He asked Erle Sanle to remember He Xiaoyong's vendetta in exchange for selling blood to save Xu Yile.
Xu Sanguan is a fool, Xu Sanguan is playing with lai, but what Xu Sanguan does is what he thinks is right, and the so-called pursuit of equality is just the psychological comfort he gives himself.
03
Absurd actions, can not hide the truth
Yu Hua's novels always can't hide from that special period, and the day of not having enough to eat has come, and Xu Sanguanjia is not spared.
Even if Xu Yulan was careful and saved two tanks of rice, the family of 5 still drank corn porridge for 57 days in a row. In order to let the whole family eat a good meal, Xu Sanguan sold blood for the fourth time.
To Xu Yile: The money from selling blood can only be spent for my son
Xu Sanguan wants to take the whole family to eat noodles, but not Yile, and he does not want to give the money from his blood sale to other people's sons to spend.
Ichiraku only got a piece of sweet potato, and he also wanted to eat noodles. He went to find He Xiaoyong and asked He Xiaoyong to take him to eat noodles, but was scolded by He Xiaoyong. Ichiraku wandered the streets and didn't come home until the evening.
Xu Sanguan was anxious in his heart, went out to look for Yile, and after finding it, he scolded, "You little cub, little bastard, little bastard... I raised you for eleven years, and in the end I was the stepfather, that bastard He Xiaoyong didn't pay a penny, but it was your father..."
Xu Sanguan scolded Xu Yile while walking to the restaurant to take Yile to eat noodles, probably at this moment, he had already determined in his heart that Xu Yile was Xu Sanguan's son, and the money from selling blood Xu Yile could also be spent.
In fact, Xu Yile was the son who sold the most blood for him.
To his own son, Xu Sanguan only sold blood once to invite the production captain of Erle to dinner.
Yile was 7 times, smashing the head of the blacksmith's son to sell it once; going up the mountain to the countryside was weak, Xu Sanguan sold it again; Yile got hepatitis and went to Shanghai for hospitalization, Xu Sanguan sold blood 5 times all the way to pay for hospitalization, saving Yile's life.
Xu Sanguan often scolded Yang Yile for being too bad to raise a son for others, but in his heart, Xu Yile was his son.
To the enemy He Xiaoyong: the "curse" of kindness
He Xiaoyong's car accident was imminent, and Xu Sanguan could not hide his happiness in his heart.
He believed that He Xiaoyong's car accident was punished by God, "If you do evil things, if you don't correct them immediately, you will be punished by God like He Xiaoyong." God punishes people, but he is not ruthless at all, and he punishes people to death. ”
Some great immortals said that if they wanted He Xiaoyong to live, they would have to let He Xiaoyong's son go to the roof and cry and call Back He Xiaoyong's soul.
Xu Sanguan spoke harshly to Xu Yulan on his front feet, "You want Yile to shout back the soul of that bastard and step on my corpse first." As long as I am alive, He Xiaoyong's soul will not want to come back. On the back foot, he told Yile that he must have a conscience to be a man, he Xiaoyong is a person, and if he is a person, he must save his life.
So there was a very funny scene, Yile stood on the roof, while shouting to the sky, "Daddy, don't go, you come back", while saying to Xu Sanguan's father, "Daddy, you come up and pick me up."
Xu Sanguan's values are simple, and he certainly can't love He Xiaoyong, but people's lives are at stake, even if this way of calling souls is ridiculous to us, in the era of "illness and chaos", at least it can give some comfort to the family.
Kindness is also contagious. Xu Yile did not call He Xiaoyong's soul back, but Xu Sanguan's kindness touched He Xiaoyong's wife.
When Xu Yile was going to be hospitalized for hepatitis, He Xiaoyong's wife gave Xu Sanguan all the only 17 yuan she had in her family, including pocket money for her 2 daughters.
To Xu Yulan: Tenderness mixed in with noise
Xu Yulan and Xu Sanguan, a couple who rarely talk sweetly and talk, are also noisy, xu Yulan is better at sitting on the ground and screaming for the sky. But when it came to a time of crisis, Xu Sanguan showed rare tenderness towards Xu Yulan.
Because of her relationship with He Xiaoyong, Xu Yulan was criticized for having problems with her life style, so she went to the streets to accept criticism.
Xu Sanguan asked Yile Erle Sanle to bring food to Xu Yulan, the three children did not go, Xu Sanguan personally went out, and when he met the caretaker, he said, "Don't give her vegetables to eat, only let her eat white rice."
When the rice was delivered to Xu Yulan, he quietly told Xu Yulan that there was braised pork hidden under the rice, and the children did not know it.
Xu Yulan was also deeply moved by this disaster, she said, "I suffered so much outside, back home only you are good to me, my feet are swollen, you pour hot water to burn my feet; I came back late, you are afraid that the food is cold, so you are baked in the bed; I am standing on the street, and it is you who delivers food and water." Xu Sanguan, as long as you are good to me, I will not be afraid of anything..."
What a good man, usually there is no right shape, and he can stand up to a piece of the sky when things happen.
Yu Hua said that "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" is a book that pursues equality.
The equality that Xu Sanguan pursues is not the human rights in the mouth of a politician, the equality he pursues is not suffering from widowhood but suffering from inequality, everyone is hungry, then they are starving together, and I can also find a way to get through the difficulties.
He doesn't care if life is good or bad, but he can't tolerate him being different from others.
The process of pursuing equality is the heroic road of self-improvement, and Xu Sanguan is a hero of the leper. The process of pursuing equality is also a process of mutual giving and mutual fulfillment.
Unilateral payment cannot last, and only equal payment can be exchanged for equal respect.
Just like Xu Sanguan and Xu Yile, blood relations are no longer so important, you raise me small, I raise you old, is it not biological?
There are also Xu Sanguan and Xu Yulan, two people who have fought and quarreled for a lifetime, Xu Yulan Province has eaten frugally and used to manage the family, dismantled gloves and knitted sweaters, saved two cylinders of rice, Xu Sanguan sold blood to let his family eat enough, and gave Xu Yulan braised meat to the criticized fighters, and the feelings were sublimated in equal pay.
In the end, the 60-year-old Xu Sanguan wanted to eat pork liver, so he went to sell blood but the hospital did not accept it, and he was insulted by the blood, And Xu Sanguan cried.
Xu Yulan, like a child, domineeringly pulled Xu Sanguan to the hotel, "Let's eat fried pork liver, go drink yellow wine, we now have money..."