(1) Wine
Two days of weekends, except for the non-stop rush, except for the occasional document to see, the rest of the free time is drunk and dreamy, eating, drinking, chatting, eating, drinking, sleeping... My husband is happier, Dazhou has always been a place that will make him drunk, drunk when drinking, drunk when not drunk, not sober.
In the service area on the way back, I saw a friend in the circle of friends posting a post telling his troubles, so where to hide his "blood-filled resurrection wine"? After reading it, I smiled and didn't leave a message, because I thought about it very hard, but I still didn't figure out where the wine was hidden so that it wouldn't be discovered by the children.
When I got home, I put down my bag and started cleaning, and two hours later, I sat down and began to turn "Distant Sunflower Land".
If the two days in Dazhou are a luxurious feast for the whole Han Dynasty, full of wine, full of meat, noisy, and passionate, then I know that Li Juan's book must be like a porridge dish, just suitable for nourishing the stomach after overeating, and the computer plays the song recommended by her daughter "Ancient Mountain Autumn", silently reading.
Soon, I read Li Juan's mother's wine store. Under the bed.
Li Juan said: Every day at dinner, her old man would take a few sips of wine to relieve his fatigue. It was the happiest time she had after a hard day's work.
It can be seen that sometimes, the function of wine is the same as that of books, which can be pleasant and can relieve fatigue.
(ii) Distant sunflower fields
"Distant Sunflower Land" mainly describes the life of Li Juan's family in the vast highlands on the south bank of the Ulungu River to cultivate sunflower fields.
Li Juan's mother was in the second year of planting sunflower fields, and suffered a rare drought year.
Because of the dry years, disputes arising from water grabbing arise one after another; because of the dry years, the barren Gobi Desert is drier and almost no grass, and the herbivorous wild animals in the desert approach villages and people on the banks of the Ulungu River to steal crops.
"As soon as the sunflower seedlings grew ten centimeters tall, they were attacked by the goose-throated antelope, and almost overnight, ninety acres of land were nibbled clean.
My mother had no choice but to buy seeds and replant them.
The weather was warm, it had just rained, the soil moisture was good, and the second stubble of seedlings soon emerged.
However, when the ground was just green, overnight, it was eaten away again.
She gritted her teeth and replanted a third time.
Not long after, the third stubble seed repeated the fate of the first two stubbles.
......
Still, my mom sowed the seeds a fourth time. ”
Over and over again, over and over again. The fourth seed sprouted and looked extremely vigorous, and the goose-throated antelope finally did not come back.
"It's possible to put in an effort a little bit better than to give up altogether."
This is the true portrayal of Li Juan's family's life in the Gobi Desert.
That distant sunflower field, in the barren and dry Gobi Desert, under the ravages of natural disasters, after experiencing wind and rain, sheep and insects, can still thrive. Just like Li Juan and her family, in a difficult and difficult environment, they still do not give up their efforts, do not give up hope, bear hardships and stand hard work, fight wits and courage with life, and stubbornly stand on the Gobi Desert, between heaven and earth.
This is a powerful force that people revere, the strength of our hands is too weak to change the world, so let us, with the power of our hands, strive to maintain the life of the individual. The poor must also be able to be alone, and the vitality of hard work can be gathered into a magnificent scenery between heaven and earth.
Not many Han Chinese in the interior can survive on the Gobi Desert.
And Li Juan's mother did it. She wandered and ran on the Gobi Desert, trying to open shops, farming, breeding, the first is forced by life, the second needs to have a tenacious, resolute character and hard work and not afraid of hardship.
In addition to these, Li Juan's mother also has many advantages unique to working people.
Hide the toil and sorrow of living in the world in your heart, and quietly accept the suffering of the gift of fate.
Take the hard life lightly, and treat it as idle.
Never give up hope in despair.
Good at finding fun in the desolate life, so that the chaotic life is occasionally filled with warmth and romance.
"On the seventh day, my mother came home from her work in the fields and magically pulled out a bouquet of wildflowers from her arms."
The best part of Li Juan's mother's personality deeply affected Li Juan, no matter how hopeless life was, no matter how discouraged and desperate she was, Li Juan never gave up her efforts. Eventually, like that sunflower field, the dazzling gold shines in the sun, golden light, bright.
After reading several books about Li Juan's mother, I only know a scale and a half claw: born in Sichuan, the major of study is agriculture, and he worked as a technician in the corps. Occasionally, a thought would come to mind, wanting to learn more about Li Juan's mother's past and present lives. If Li Juan is willing to write, then we will see, if Li Juan is not willing to say, we respect her silence.
(3) Confident Li Juan
From "Nine Pieces of Snow" to "Distant Sunflower Land", I saw Li Juan grow from a slightly confused and depressed girl to a mature and confident woman.
Li Juan said: "The only strength I have is enough to cover up cowardice, and my greatest strength is to continue to live quietly among my family." ”
The same is true of her words, quietly describing the unbearable hardships and bitterness of ordinary people, and occasionally expressing a few words of inextricable wandering in shadow and insinuation.
In this "Distant Sunflower Land", the mature Li Juan no longer escapes from metaphors, she is finally willing to open her heart, let the words cut through thorns, show the inner pain, and boldly and unabashedly describe the desolation and bitterness in life.
"I'm always restless, anxious and noisy."
"And at this moment, the home at this moment is full of messes, and the hardships and embarrassments of this moment will never occupy this moment."
"Scrawled to plant, sloppy to pass through this place, scrawled in accordance with the pace of the world, do not dare to fall a step, but do not know what lies ahead." Not as sober as an alcoholic. ”
One of the signs of a person's maturity and self-confidence is to face it calmly and speak freely of the bitterness and sorrow that we once refused or dared not show. Because he or she knows that these have become the past, or will eventually become the past, he or she has a firm enough heart and a strong enough strength to get out of the predicament of life, and the god of destiny will always take care of everyone in the world.
Li Juan said in the afterword: "And my text has avoided too much. I think it's because those are not worth mentioning. But it is clear in my heart that it is obviously because of my own cowardice and vanity. ”
When a person becomes confident and firm, he dares to look directly at the fragility of the heart, he must also be able to see the light ahead, can see the blossoming of flowers in the distance, can calmly face the pain of failure, and enthusiastically rush to a brilliant tomorrow.
Like a golden sunflower, full of passion and courage, leaving the shadow behind, facing the sun, chasing ideals.
Such a Li Juan is even more beloved by us.