Accustomed to being shocked by the king and hiding tears for the hero, but forgetting that each of us returns to the ordinary, to the ordinary world.
This sentence has become a summary of the world, and the person who said this sentence is Lu Yao, who completed the last word of "Ordinary World" and fell.
He was sent by his parents at the age of 7 and abandoned by his first love at the age of 21
Lu Yao's life was tragic, he endured poverty from birth, his family had been farmers for generations, and his parents were illiterate. He was the eldest son, and he had several younger siblings behind him.
The family really can't afford to raise so many children, and decided to pass on the 7-year-old to his uncle who is far away in Yanchuan County.
My uncle's family was also poor, and he often worried that he could not afford to buy a pencil; because of his ragged clothes, he did not dare to play with other children.
In that era of famine, the hunger made him unforgettable. The other children went to play between classes, and he did not dare to stand up because he was about to faint from hunger.
He did not have an official name until he was 7 years old, and the primary school teacher gave him a name full of the atmosphere of the times: Wang Weiguo, which means to defend the family and defend the country.
Years later, Wang Weiguo had a well-known pen name, Lu Yao.
At the age of 7, the family really could not afford to raise it, so his father passed on Lu Yao to Lu Yao's uncle.
At that time, Lu Yao begged his uncle to let him go to school, and lu Yao had never eaten a full meal in the whole elementary school!
In order to get himself out of northern Shaanxi, he could only study hard.
Unexpectedly, Lu Yao became the only student in the school to be admitted to the middle school with excellent results.
It was a famine that year, but the people in the village heard that Lu Yao had been admitted, and they all took out the only bit of grain in their own family to distribute to Lu Yao, and when Lu Yao took one steamed bun from several grandfathers, Lu Yao could no longer help but cry!
In order to let Lu Yao go to school, his adoptive mother, his aunt Li Guiying, put on a basket, carried a wooden stick, and drove 50 miles to the county town to beg along the street.
In 1966, Lu Yao met his first love, a girl named Lin Hong.
At that time, the county military factory was recruiting workers, and Lu Yao won a valuable place. This means that he can go from peasant to worker, an opportunity that many young people dream of. But Lu Yao gave this quota to his beloved girl Lin Hong, who knows, just that year, Lin Hong hated his peasant identity and fell in love with an officer, which Lu Yao lost his career and lost love.
Spitting blood while creating "Ordinary World"
After experiencing repeated pains, Lu Yao immersed himself in writing, and he wanted to do another big thing before the age of 40 - to write a very large book, divided into three volumes, six volumes, a million words, and hundreds of characters appearing.
This book is the "Ordinary World" that has influenced millions of people.
Lu Yao began a three-year long period of arduous and long writing at the Chenjiashan Coal Mine in Tongchuan, a small room temporarily borrowed from the Shaanxi Writers Association, the newly completed Yulin Hotel, and the Ganquan County Guest House. For Lu Yao, who regards creation as a kind of labor and firmly believes that only continuous labor can create new spiritual achievements for mankind, he will never lose the feeling of ordinary laborers.
Finally, the first part of "Ordinary World" came out.
However, most critics were disappointed by the work, believing that it was a great step backwards compared to Life.
Lu Yao, who was full of anticipation, was hit in the head.
The painstakingly created text has not been recognized by the "mainstream", and Lu Yao's loss can be imagined.
He came to the tomb of the writer Liu Qing and knelt down and cried.
Liu Qing's masterpiece "History of Entrepreneurship" is Lu Yao's favorite novel. In the critical condition of illness, Liu Qing created this work with tenacious perseverance until the last moment of consuming her life.
After visiting Liu Qing's tomb, Lu Yao knew that it was time for him to make a choice—a choice between living and taking his life to write "Ordinary World".
In fact, when writing the first part, Lu Yao's health was not optimistic, but in order not to interrupt the writing, he refused to seek medical treatment.
He knew in his heart that only the enthusiasm of first love and the will of religion could make it possible to achieve some kind of business.
"Ordinary World" was completed in 6 years. Lu Yao passed away forever shortly after!
Pan Shiyi watched it seven times in a row, making Pan Shiyi cry 7 times! Spending 100,000 yuan on Lu Yao's tomb, this book has influenced tens of millions of Chinese
Pan Shiyi watched it 7 times in a row, and each time he watched it ended with tears.
"Every night when I look at it, I cry, and every time I feel that this hurdle cannot be overcome, I have to pick it up and read it again, so that every detail is remembered very clearly."
And Pan Shiyi also went to Yan'an, pulled the president of Yan'an University, to see Lu Yao's grave, who knew there, Pan Shiyi was more heartbroken, simple, broken, unlike a writer's grave, a few days later the principal received 100,000 yuan from Pan Shiyi, in order to repair Lu Yao's tomb.
Alibaba founder Ma Yun lost the college entrance examination that year, discouraged and pedaled a tricycle, and later he picked up Lu Yao's "Life", which made his blood boil!
Lu Yao not only changed Ma Yun's life, but also inspired the lives of hundreds of millions of readers.
Jia Zhangke said, "He was talking about the voices of a whole crowd.""
Pan Shiyi said that "every time I read his novels, I shed tears",
Chen Zhongzhong said that "his novels have reached the perfect artistic realm",
Jia Pingwa said, "He is a father who is on the road to chasing his dreams."
Manuscript of The Ordinary World
Although he writes about suffering and struggle, what he gives people is always hope, sublime, exalted, and warm. This casts a poetic glow on his story that is higher than life.
What Lu Yao left behind is not only the "epic poem of the laborer" that has been written with 1.04 million words and painstaking efforts, not only his enthusiasm and strength to pass through suffering with poetic brilliance above life, but also the spiritual echo of generations of Chinese strivers.
Reading Lu Yao is like reading yourself, and reading "Ordinary World" is like completing a redemption of life.
And after we read it, the biggest feeling is that we are inspired, which may be the reason why Lu Yao desperately wants to write this work, and he hopes to leave spiritual food for the majority of people!
Therefore, "Ordinary World" deserves to be everyone's pillow book, and it is even more worthy of being the strongest companion on the road of your struggle.
If you can only read one work in your lifetime, the first choice is "Ordinary World".