In "The World of Man", Zhou Rong is a person who coexists with idealism and romanticism, has a special personality, and never cares about the feelings of others. In fact, from the time she quit for love and left Guizhou to pursue the so-called "love", Zhou Rong's selfishness was doomed.
But she is so lucky, there is a perfect man Cai Xiaoguang always waiting for her to change her mind, even if she never looks back, Cai Xiaoguang's feelings for her have never changed. This is also the most surprising place, marrying someone should marry Cai Xiaoguang, how can Zhou Rong be worthy of Cai Xiaoguang?
In 1969, in a dilapidated neighborhood called Guangzi Tablet in Jichun City, Jiangliao Province, Zhou Zhigang retrieved five family portraits from a photo studio, and he rode his bicycle to his home in the snow.
At this time, the three sons and daughters of the Zhou family were worried about their future. Because the Zhou family is a working family and relatively safe, the eldest son, Zhou Bingyi, moved all the books given to him by his classmates and teachers, a total of sixty-one books.
Zhou Bingyi was about to go to the Construction Corps, and he repeatedly told his younger brother Zhou Bingkun to keep these books and not let people see them. Zhou Bingyi told his brother to study well, bingkun did not even finish junior high school, read too few books. Compared with his brother and sister, this became a thorn in Bingkun's heart and the root of his inferiority.
Bingkun believes that the responsibility of keeping books is great, and her sister Zhou Rong is more suitable than herself. Bingyi already knew that Zhou Rong would also choose to go to the countryside, and Bingkun would definitely not be able to defeat Zhou Rong. Without waiting for Bingkun to find Zhou Rong, Bingyi took out the military coat that his father had given him and gave it to his brother.
Bingkun had been worried about this military coat for a long time, he took the coat, and his heart was happy, but he was a little worried about what to do if his brother didn't have a coat. Zhou Bingyi said that the corps would send it, let him take it well. It can be seen from here that Zhou Bingyi, who is the eldest brother, has nothing to say, is very responsible, and also takes care of his younger brother.
Aunt Qiao walked into the courtyard of the Zhou family, Bingyi heard a noise, quickly covered the box containing the book, Bingkun and Zhou Rong were busy greeting Aunt Qiao who had just entered the house. Aunt Qiao came this time to mobilize the children of the Zhou family to go to the countryside. For a multi-child family like the Zhou family, only one child can stay in the city.
Bingyi wanted to build a corps, but Zhou Rong and Bingkun went to the countryside, but it made her mother Li Suhua feel very embarrassed. Daughter Zhou Rong was born beautifully and was easy to provoke; the younger son Bingkun was too young to make her uneasy.
Zhou Rong and Bingkun were vying to go to the countryside, and the eldest brother Zhou Bingyi could not rest assured that Zhou Rong could not go to the countryside, suggesting that his younger brother Bingkun go to the countryside and Zhou Rong stay at home to accompany his mother.
In Li Suhua's eyes, the palms of his hands and the backs of his hands were all meat, and it was difficult to decide for a while, so he could only wait until Zhou Zhigang returned home to discuss it. When Zhou Zhigang returned home, he took out five family portraits and distributed them one by one for everyone to keep.
Zhou Zhigang knew that two of the three children had to go out, and he was far away, and it was difficult for the family to get together, and he couldn't help but be sad. A family portrait also opened up the different fates of the five members of the Zhou family. Zhou Rong and Bingkun's two children who went to the countryside, Zhou Zhigang decided to let Bingkun go.
Soon it was time for the family to separate, and Zhou Rong, Bingkun and their mother went to the train station to bid farewell to their father and Bingyi. Bingyi's car is earlier, send Bingyi to the car first. Li Suhua and Bingyi were separated, knowing that the child would not come back for at least two years, she took Bingyi's hand, stuffed the money she had saved into Bingyi's hand, and told her to say, "Poor family rich road"
Zhou Bingyi pretended to be separated from his family easily, turned his head but shed tears.
After sending away Bingyi, he immediately had to separate from his father Zhou Zhigang. Zhou Zhigang is going to work as a worker in the third line of the southwest, and this walk is probably several years. His wife, Li Suhua, reluctantly took his hand and just said that she wanted to write a letter, and she could not say a thousand words.
Zhou Rong asked her brother Bingkun to hold herself up and kissed her father Zhou Zhigang twice on the face, one was her own, the other was her mother's, which made her father laugh and say that she was naughty. After bidding farewell to his father and brother back home, Zhou Bingkun entrusted the books left by his eldest brother to Zhou Rong.
My mother wanted to find a rural team for Bingkun, which was closer to the city, so that he could often go home to see. Her mother had just returned home after taking Bingkun to finish her work, but found that Zhou Rong had left a letter and did not resign. Bingkun opened the letter and read it, only to learn that Zhou Rong had gone to the countryside and gone to a far, far away place. Where did Zhou Rong go? In the letter, she said that in three days Cai Xiaoguang would come to the house to tell them.
Zhou Rong once said to her mother: "A good life is more important than a good year." In Zhou Rong's heart, her life is definitely not like Qiao Chunyan's, just find someone to marry, and the two people will live on it. She longs for a romantic, ideal love, and wants to live a magnificent life.
Three days later, Cai Xiaoguang came to the Zhou family. Bingkun and his mother learned that Zhou Rong had gone to the distant countryside of Guizhou, and that it was to find a poet named Feng Huacheng. When she was still in high school, Zhou Rong went to Beijing to meet Feng Huacheng, and she had an almost obsessive fascination with poets. In that era of lack of spiritual civilization, poetry was the most dazzling romance.
Zhou Rong's so arbitrary nonsense in order to pursue love makes her mother Li Suhua worried and angry, and her father Zhou Zhigang is even more difficult to forgive this daughter. Zhou Rong wrote to her eldest brother Zhou Bingyi, telling her troubles: "In addition to love, what else can I pursue?" ”
Zhou Rong left Guizhou for love, not hesitating to hurt her family, and did not care about the feelings of the suitor Cai Xiaoguang. She only cared about herself, and Zhou Rong in this period was undoubtedly selfish. Her so-called love and ideals are actually just to fill her own spiritual nothingness.
19-year-old Zhou Rong broke with her family for a man who was more than ten years older than herself. If such a love can be cultivated to the fullest, it is a good story. It is a pity that the ideals and love that Zhou Rong pursues are actually illusory. She actually had no love for Feng Huacheng, only blind worship.
Years later, when Zhou Rong found out that Feng Huacheng was cheating, the two went to the step of divorce. She finally began to reflect on whether she had ever loved Feng Huacheng? The answer is no. The 3 years spent together in the countryside of Guizhou were not so much Zhou Rong's fulfillment of love as it was a charity to Feng Huacheng.
Although Feng Huacheng fell to dust, in Zhou Rong's eyes he was still high in the clouds. Feng Huacheng enjoyed the feeling of being infatuated and adored by the little girl, and Zhou Rong came to Guizhou thousands of miles to find him, bringing him a great sense of accomplishment as a man. It was this sense of accomplishment that allowed him to survive the most difficult period.
But when the ideal love enters the real marriage, what is left is only a chicken feather. After Zhou Rong and Feng Huacheng returned to Beijing, far away from the hard life in Guizhou, the contradictions between the two people began to appear. Feng Huacheng is no longer the poet who stands tall, but a student who is useless in real life. Zhou Rong's admiration for him also faded with the passage of time.
Without worship, there is no love.
Perhaps, poets should not get married. When the golden age of poetry passed, Feng Huacheng fell into the clouds, and he ran into walls almost everywhere in reality, and his head broke and bleed. In order to be able to give Zhou Rong's mother and daughter a comfortable life, he let go of the pride of the poet and began to bow to reality. However, this compromise with reality proved that he was useless in Zhou Rong's eyes.
Zhou Rong was admitted to Peking University, where she went all the way to her doctorate and became an associate professor. Her social status came to the top, much higher than that of Feng Huacheng, who had a vain reputation. With the increase of life experience, she is no longer the 19-year-old girl who ran away from home for love. Zhou Rong has been making progress, while Feng Huacheng has stopped where he was, in poetry that has become obsolete.
From the time they returned to Beijing, the contradictions between the two men grew larger and larger, until they were irreconcilable. Feng Hua became a house and did not hesitate to ask for people, but Zhou Rong did not understand: Why did the person she once admired infinitely become what she is today? The idealism in Zhou Rong has not changed.
It is precisely because of Zhou Rong's idealism that Cai Xiaoguang does not abandon her, and it is difficult to give up. If Feng Huacheng was once Zhou Rong's ideal, Zhou Rong was Cai Xiaoguang's ideal. After divorcing Feng Huacheng, Zhou Rong and Cai Xiaoguang continued the frontier and came together. Cai Xiaoguang's shrewdness and sophistication allowed him to have enough material conditions to tolerate Zhou Rong's idealism.
However, in the original novel, after Cai Xiaoguang and Zhou Rong got married, Feng Huacheng took his daughter Feng Yue to France. Zhou Rong desperately chased after France, and left for 12 years. For 12 years, Zhou Rong did not know when she would be able to return, but Cai Xiaoguang had been waiting for her.
Some people say that Feng Huacheng "misunderstood" Zhou Rong's life, but in fact, Zhou Rong also "misunderstood" Cai Xiaoguang's life. But the origin of everything is that Zhou Rong ran away from home for her so-called "love", which not only deeply hurt the feelings of her father and mother, but also laid the groundwork for her later tragic life.