"Orange Red" is a sealed work by writer Qi Jun, and was later put on the screen by director Li Shaohong in the form of a TV series.
The title of "Orange Red" seems to exude a red joy, but in essence, it reveals the sadness of love everywhere, telling one depressing story after another.
The story is set in the late Qing Dynasty, slowly spreading out from the orange grove, and there does not seem to be a single bad person in the novel, but these people come together to create a grand tragedy.
Lu Xun once said in his speech "What Happens After Nala Leaves": "The most painful thing in life is waking up from a dream, but there is no way out." ”
The conclusion of these evil loves reveals all kinds of terrible out-of-control desires, which protect us like a big net and bind us.
The three women in the novel all want to give birth to a child for Mr. Rong, either for love, or for money, or for gratitude.
Some people succeeded in their wishes, but they were reversed by fate and threw a fatal blow.
The eldest lady, Mei Ling: For love, she has paid a lifetime of waiting
Who can imagine that a famous bridesmaid, who has been a widow for 20 years for love, has endured endless and nihilistic emotional destruction.
The eldest wife Mei Ling guarded the orange orchard of Nuoda, and in the loveless and sexless life, for the old man's words: "When the oranges are red, I will come back", she has spent her life.
The eldest wife is not only willing, but also blames herself, because her husband has a reasonable reason: "You have been in the door for so many years, you have not given birth to a son and a half daughter, you must know that there are three filial pieties, and no queen is greater." ”
The eldest lady loves the old man, and how many times she dreams back in the middle of the night is once beautiful. They met in a small way, and the eldest wife was also a famous beauty when she was young, and the two families had business dealings. At that time, Glory Hua was also in love with his wife at first sight.
Later, the Glory Hua family fell in the middle of the road, and the eldest wife still ignored the opposition of her parents and married Rong Yaohua. Not long after the marriage, Glory Hua went out with the dowry of the eldest wife to start a business, and gradually only went home every year when the oranges were red.
The orange that the eldest lady was looking forward to was red, and the old man returned, and this time, it was only Glory Hua who stayed in the study for two days and left.
The eldest lady always thinks that the problem is in herself, because she is 5 years older than Glory, and her face is old; it is because she cannot have children and is disgusted.
She waited like that, thinking that as long as she kept this orangery, the old man would always come back.
But when the second wife in the city, Yan Hong, appeared, the eldest lady was shocked, she was afraid that she would completely lose this man, afraid that when the oranges were red next year, everything would not be the same.
So she found Xiuhe, who was very similar to her youth, and she designed to give Xiuhe to Glory Hua, so as to keep this man by her side. Whether the other person cares about themselves or not, it is good to be able to look at them from a distance.
However, the eldest lady was selfish enough to only regard Xiuhe as a pawn, completely ignored Xiuhe's love feelings, and personally created Xiuhe's tragic life.
Second Wife Yan Hong: In order to live decently, she was abandoned
The second wife of the Rong family, Yu Yanhong, is a famous social flower in the city, who looks beautiful and will socialize, and she is bent on consolidating her position by having a child for Old Master Rong, and finally finds out that Glory Hua only uses him as a tool for passing on the generations, and does not really love her.
In order to conceive a child, Yan Hong, anxious to temporary amenorrhea. But Rong Yaohua still said in front of others: "The most important thing for a woman is not to be beautiful and capable, but to have children." After saying that, he also used his eyes to glance at Yu Yanhong.
In this regard, Yan Hong was very mad. Especially when she learned that the eldest wife had married the third wife Xiuhe to the old man, she was even more afraid that the old man had a new love and snubbed herself, so she wanted to design Xiuhe to take him to the city.
When she saw that Xiuhe's eyebrows were so similar to the eldest wife's when she was young, she was a little flustered, and then learned from Xiuhe's mouth that she was willing to sacrifice herself to repay the eldest wife.
Because Yan Hong saw Rong Yaohua carrying a sachet made by Xiuhe on her body, she saw Rong Yaohua's gentle eyes looking at Xiuhe.
Coincidentally, at this time, Yu Yanhong found out that she was pregnant. She took Xiuhe to the city in a commanding manner, giving her a lot of embarrassment and teasing, but Rong Yaohua took the third wife Xiuhe to Shanghai when she was pregnant.
Yan Hong knew that she had lost, and she had lost very thoroughly.
In fact, Yan Hongben did not love Rong Yaohua so much, she was born poor, but she did not want to live that kind of hard day with today and no tomorrow, so she was willing to have children for Rong Yaohua.
When Rong Yaohua knew that she could not have children, she swept Yu Yanhong, who was pregnant with a child, directly out of the house, did not give anything, and let her live on the street.
Yu Yanhong stole Old Master Rong's medical certificate from the doctor's safe and trudged into the countryside with a big belly, as a threat, asking for money.
In this regard, Yu Yanhong's lover Wu Dawei did not agree. This once cowardly man wants to fly away with Yu Yanhong for the sake of his children. But Yu Yanhong could not live without money, nor was she willing.
Old Master Rong took care of face, and Yu Yanhong successfully asked for money, but the boat was tired, and the child who was about to be born in the pot unfortunately died.
Yu Yanhong also once loved Old Master Rong, because after all, it was the person she would entrust for life. However, Old Master Rong had no scruples and gave all his love to Xiuhe in front of her.
For money, Yu Yanhong lost her youth, lost her children, and lost her only lover who loved her.
Third Wife Xiuhe: In order to repay the favor, I lost myself and hated to leave
Xiuhe is a person who is passively involved in this dispute.
Her love begins with the man who hangs the kite with her, but ends with him.
No matter how Xiuhe struggled, it seemed that she could not get rid of the arrangement of fate, and could only be at the mercy of the wind like the kite she flew.
Xiuhe fell in love with the sixth uncle Yaohui when he had not yet been selected to enter the orangery, and Yaohui also loved this beautiful and agile girl.
But as a tenant, she doesn't have many options. In order to repay the favor, she willingly acted as a pawn of the eldest wife, and won the heart of this man who could be her father's generation for the eldest wife.
In Yu Yanhong's eyes, Rong Yaohua was in love with Xiuhe. But in fact, this infertile man loves himself the most, and the matter of passing on the generations.
There is a detail in the novel that Yung Yaohua has seen a picture of Xiuhe before he has seen her. One detail in the photo made him find that there was a difference between Xiuhe and his sixth brother Yaohui.
Obviously, he knew that the person Xiuhe loved was not himself, but he had to take this woman for himself, even if it was his own brother who was perfected, it would not work.
In the gradual contact, Rong Yaohua found that this Xiuhe, who was trembling in the face of himself, could read and write, but also play chess, and his heart gradually became a little surprised.
But when Rong Yaohua found out that Xiuhe was pregnant with a child like Yanhong, who did not belong to him, he brought Xiuhe from the city back to the countryside.
Ren Xiuhe was in Rong Province, and he was not allowed to go to the hospital for three days and three nights, and he was not allowed to ask a doctor. Until Xiuhe used his own blood to dye the bedroom red and broke out of breath.
Xiuhe's life is tragic, and perhaps only by leaving can she be completely relieved. Xiuhe had two men in her life, one waiting for her to give birth and die. One was having a grand wedding with another woman when she was having a difficult childbirth.
Since then, Xiuhe's fate as a pawn has drawn a sad end.
Yan Hong is pregnant, Xiuhe is also pregnant, at this time learned that he has no fertility Rong Yaohua, only to know that the eldest wife is the one who loves him the most and is the only one who is loyal to him.
Rong Yaohua was unusual, took the initiative to be close to the eldest wife, and also put the boxes and clothes placed in the study in the eldest wife's room.
They held hands and walked in the orange grove, and Rong Yaohua had always been angry that the eldest wife could not pass on her own lineage, and now she understood that it was her own mistake and felt ashamed.
But this guilt, I don't know if I can compensate the eldest wife for her life in the orangery, whether I can compensate the child in Yan Hong's belly, and compensate Xiuhe's love and life.
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