Introduction -
After Lu Yao published his novel "Life" in 1982, it caused a strong response throughout the country, and the urban and rural masses unanimously praised it. The masses at that time had a strong sense of inquiry about Gao Garin's later fate. Lu Yao's "Life" is noted in the last chapter (not the ending), leaving a foreshadowing for the sequel to be written later. Listening to rumors, Lu Yao seems to have also written and tried to write "Life" continuation, according to well-informed sources, Lu Yao's "Life" continued the plot is: Garin returned to the village and became a teacher, and Qiao Zhen's sister Qiao Ling had a love affair, and finally the two came together... This ending, it is said that Lu Yao himself was not satisfied, and finally gave up.
Art often leaves a little mutilated and produces beauty, such as the broken arm of The Western Venus. In the same way, the follow-up story of the protagonist of the novel "Life", Gao Garin, left the reader with reverie after returning to the village, which is also a "broken arm" effect in art. For an artist like Lu Yao, he could not write this sequel, but instead painted a snake.
As far as ordinary people are concerned, under the influence of Chinese strange novels for hundreds of years, if the end of the novel does not sing a song "Unforgettable Tonight", it will really make the masses feel some regrets. For example, people in northern Shaanxi eat eight bowls without drinking a bowl of sour soup "sewing and sewing", which is not perfect. In view of the curiosity mentality of ordinary people, in fact, we may as well design several endings for Garin, as long as it is reasonable, it can also return a novel to a consummation, and can meet the aesthetic habits of the public.
I am a mortal in the city, like to chat with idle people after tea and dinner, read the and urine body article of Pingwa's father and daughter, and suddenly enlightened: The threshold of literature is so low, why can't a lonely family step into it and play, the emperor will xiangning have a kind of call?
Chapter 1
It is said that Gao Garin was carrying the military bag given to him by his second father, when a person walked back to Gaojia Village, the sun had risen half a pole high, and he returned to the familiar village, in the primary school under the broken temple at the mouth of the village, Qiao Ling was leading her students and dolls to do recess exercises, Qiao Ling resembled Qiao Zhen's back, so that Garin's eyes seemed to shake a lot of Qiao Zhen's images, and there was a voiceover voiceover in the sky: Garingo... Garin stood under grandpa Deshun's old apricot tree at the mouth of the village and felt a dizziness, but everything was irretrievable.
In the village, most of the peasants basically went to the fields, and only a few old and weak women were left in the family to make lunch for those who worked in the mountains. Therefore, Garin did not meet many familiar people along the way, and there was less embarrassment. Garin knew in his heart that the biggest embarrassment might come from Qiao Zhen's father, Liu Liben, because when he was a reporter in the county party committee, he had thrown the face of these two able people firmly, and now that he had fallen into power, even if the people of Liu Liben's family had damaged him once, it was reasonable. Regarding Liu Liben's movements, yesterday, a person in the village who was friendly with him came to the county town to do business, and he had already reminded Garin. Garin is a strong man, a strong man is a person who dares to take responsibility, he is ready to bear all kinds of blame and punishment from Liu Liben's family, after all, he has hurt others and their families, and he should face it. Therefore, I still have to stand up and go home. To his surprise, the kind Qiaozhen had resolved a "village entry style" for him early in the morning. What a kind girl!
After dinner that day, Grandpa Deshun came to his house and saw Gao Yude and his face crying and doing some bits and pieces of work underground, while Garin slept on the earth kang. This scene was expected by the old man of Deshun, so the purpose of his trip was to enlighten them.
Gao Yude's two sons were busy letting the old man of Deshun sit on the kang. Garin heard someone coming in the confusion, and woke up, saw that it was Grandpa Deshun, hurriedly beckoned to smoke, and served a plate of fried pumpkin seeds, which is the standard hospitality in the countryside of northern Shaanxi.
The old man of Deshun smoked a large mouthful of Gao Yude's dry smoke with wine, and watched the green smoke twist into a ball on the dim kerosene lamp, and the kiln was oppressive and sad. Only to see Garin's yellow cat come over, snuggled up to the side of the old man of Deshun and licked his paws to play. The soybean-sized light cast several sluggish black shadows on the wall. Only three men could be heard smoking in the cave... This frozen atmosphere aroused the sadness of Yude's wife, and she could not suppress her sobs. The old man of Deshun felt that it was good to speak:
"Garin, what are you crying?" Who in a lifetime has not yet encountered a slope bump? ”
Mother Garin replied, Good my uncle, I can't help myself, I often think that I must have done something bad in the Yang World in my previous life, and in this life I have hindered my Gava into this, how do you say that the hearts of the people in this city are so? How to do things at once, how to live in the future of my baby."
Garin said, "Mom, you see you saying these things?" I can't blame others, complain that I didn't do things well."
The old man of Deshun said: "Facing the mile, now, I have lost my teeth and swallowed in my stomach, and I have fallen to myself to climb." He glanced at Garin again, caught a glimpse of Garin's resolute eyes, and thought to himself, this baby has matured a lot after this toss, and her heart is filled with comfort.
He asked Garin, "What are you going to do in the future, to become a private teacher?"
Garin said: "I don't plan to become a private teacher first, as far as my stall is concerned, how can I be a teacher?" Besides, I don't want to go to the Gaoming Building, I will suffer for a while."
The old man of Deshun listened to it and was even more relieved in his heart, he always believed that only when a person suffered greatly when he was young could he have a big exhibition in the future. Gao Yude and his wife were originally gentle people, and they couldn't even resist the current difficulties, and they thought further there, and they could only see torment and silence in them.
The old man of Deshun then said to Garin: "Garin, you are a hard person, listening to your words, my heart is very smooth, your bottom is hard, you can definitely live a different life." He knocked the finished cigarette pot on the stone kang a few times, and then used the iron hook on the cigarette bag to clean the smoke rust. Garin pushed the melon plate to the front of Deshun's grandfather, and the old man of Deshun did not resign, pulled Yude's big pillow against the wall, while sniffing the melon seeds, he said: "Now other places are all done alone, our village Gaominglou can not stand up, in the future, the world will change, private teachers are not big, I heard that there are a large number of teachers in the county who have temporary substitute teaching status can not turn, I have a plan, today with your father we discuss it, we both plant the land, after planting, let your father manage the crops, you and I go three-way to sell sheepskins, In the early years, when I went to the west entrance to run around, I was happy, I didn't make less money for the owner, and now we do it for ourselves, and the heavens can't lose us."
Gao Yude answered at this time: "The doll has not yet survived, and it is better to go out and fall down again than to go out."
Deshun old man smiled and said: "You were afraid of wolves and tigers all your life, everything was not successful, there was me running with Garin, make sure he can't let go of a big errand (a big mistake), if it weren't for the cooperative, the world wouldn't be able to take his high-level building Yangda (proud), I walked in the west in my early years, and the treasurer of the leather goods store in Anbian had promised to accept me as an apprentice." Alas, although I am old now, I am not in my heart, and I still want to go to the world! ”
Garin listened to Grandpa Deshun's words, and the male hormones stimulated a rush of blood to the top of his head, yes, real boys should run around and reflect the value of their lives. He said: "Now, my reputation has stinked, I am afraid that even a mother-in-law can not marry, when the private teacher can not see the way out, in this high family village is unable to climb, it is better to go out and break in, Deshun Grandpa's idea I want to consider."
Gao Yude had no idea in his life, but he understood the skills of the old man of Deshun, and now the key was Garin's attitude, and he understood that no matter how much he said, Garin would not listen to him in major matters. Although his second brother stood on the public door, he was full of the style of the army, and after being tossed by Zhang Kenan's family's complaint, I was afraid that he would no longer take care of Garin's work, so he still insisted on his own attitude of handling things, that is, obedience. So he silently lit a pot of cigarettes and smoked...
And Garin's mother's heart has added new anxieties and contradictions. This is worried that Garin can't bear the suffering of the countryside, the family is so poor that there are three porcelain urns, and with the influence of Garin and Qiaozhen's affairs, who can be willing to come to the women of the good village? Now we have to keep up with the old single stick to run on three sides, isn't this ironclad to hit the single stick? But the prestige of the old man of Deshun in Zhuangzi made her dare not openly oppose it, and the old man of Deshun was not a bare stick because of the second-rate son, and he did not say it.
Rural people have eaten dinner and talked for a while before they hurry to sleep, they are used to thrift and thrift, and they are not willing to boil oil and light lamps and gossip. The next morning, I will arrive at the ground at dawn, and I can't waste a little time. Therefore, the old man of Deshun resigned the Yude family and went back to his own home. Garin sent his Grandpa Deshun to the slope and said, "I will consider Grandpa Deshun's plan." The two said goodbye and spent the night without mentioning anything.
Chapter II
Since Garin returned home, he was no longer as depressed as after the private teachers were dismissed that year, he no longer dared to play the frivolity of a teenager, how many pairs of eyes were staring at him at the moment, including Gao Minglou, Liu Liben, QiaoLing, Samsung, these people, of course, those people in the village who loved to talk about right and wrong, let alone say. He did all kinds of farm work like an authentic old peasant, and he was outwardly idle and step-by-step, but in his heart he could actually suffer, which was not the life he Wanted for Gaugarin. Of course, he was not discriminating against the peasants, and no one had the right to confine him to the land for a young man with ambitions. Garin is playing with the world, and at the same time squeezing away the pain in his heart through the labor of his body, which only Grandpa Deshun can feel.
Garin not only learned from his father and Grandpa Deshun in the mountains to run crops, but like all the hobbyists in the countryside, he put the pig pen, chicken nest, and toilet in the house square and square, disinfected with white ash, all kinds of agricultural tools were neatly arranged, the red wickers where grain were placed were hoarded with new mud, the mill road was newly paved with stone slabs, and a stone bed was propped under the old du pear tree under the root of the courtyard wall, which could be cooled in the summer at noon. Of course, Garin's ability is not only reflected in the housekeeping. Economic plans were also made, thanks to his newspaper reading. No, Garin took the time to go to the county livestock station to introduce a new breed of sow of "Neijiang pig". As long as the pigs are properly fed, they can be released in ten months. This is a practical first step towards improving their family's economic situation. Of course, the follow-up plan has long been there, but their brigade accounting here has not yet been disbanded. Gao Minglou can only stand for a while out of self-interest, in the second half of the commune has been changed to the township government, all he has done is to use the mantis arm as a car, the torrent of the times can destroy and crush everything!
Garin's fierceness simply stunned the mighty man Gao Minglou, and he also thought that Gao Garin would not be able to get up this time, at least he would pitifully beg him to apply for the qualification of a private teacher, and as a result, people did not come to him at all, and renovated a rotten yard, what does this mean? This is an aura, another manifesto!
Gao Minglou thought about going and wanted to take the initiative, because several of his children's brains were all paste, judging from reality, the strength faction in the village in the future would definitely be Gao Garin. A few days ago, I heard that his eldest daughter-in-law Qiao Ying was going to humiliate Gao Garin at the mouth of the village, he didn't know at the time, and afterwards he approved Qiao Ying: "Don't dare to do this kind of stupid thing again, Garin will go outside the door, if you stay in the village, no one is an opponent, for this kind of person, we don't dare to tie a small whistle on the ass - cut off our own back road!" "Alas! Qiao Ying and his mushy brain did not dare to resist in front of his face, and behind his wife he actually muttered: "We don't eat him, don't drink him, my father is a branch book, or are you afraid of him a poor boy Gao Garin?" Gao Minglou yelled at his wife, "You told those two pigs that Gao Jialin is a crouching dragon, and you are all shoe worms!" People who write manuscripts to the secretary of the county party committee and don't change a word, you devils who can't read a liter of big characters, then the capital and people who come are calling for it? ”。
When Gao Minglou's branch secretary was on the shore of Gao Yude's house, what he saw surprised him even more than the rumors! This was the third time he had ascended the door of Gao Yude's house, completely devoid of the previous shabby and dilapidated appearance. The clean and orderly yard is not only the style of rural hobby people, but also contains a thriving atmosphere! The mighty man could not help but be a little proud of his shrewdness, and he felt that his visit was by no means a whisper to Garin, and that it would prove worthwhile in the future.
Before the others entered the courtyard, they greeted Gao Yude.
"Brother Yude, is Brother Yude here?"
Gao Yude was mixing food for the pigs at home, he heard that it seemed that Gao Minglou branch secretary was calling him outside, he was shocked, this person had nothing to do but climb the Three Treasures Hall, especially they Garin entered the secret door, ordinary people hid for ten miles and eight miles, he should naturally not pay attention to them, his sudden arrival today, must have been added to Garin's punishment. Thinking of this, Gao Yude's legs sifted up the coarse chaff and stood there stupidly, forgetting to promise Gao Minglou's branch secretary.
Gao Minglou entered the yard, saw pigs and sheep in the pen, chickens and rabbits into the cage, the yard was clean, there was no animal feces, leaning against the window of the side kiln, a newly planted vine spat out new leaves of goose yellow. I saw Yude standing in the doorway like a stupid chicken, holding a wooden spoon in his hand.
He smiled and whispered, "Brother Yude, you stand like a porcelain monkey, don't you welcome me?" ”
Yu De looked at Gao Minglou Branch Secretary was whispering softly, the smile on his face was not the kind of skin smile that did not smile, there was a calculation hidden below, and the nervous look was instantly soothed. He hurriedly let the MingLou Branch Secretary into the kiln, and at the same time shouted to his wife in another kiln: "Garin her mother, Gao Zhishu has come, take out the box of large front door cigarettes in the small box."
"Oh," Mother Garin agreed, in fact, she had the same reaction as her wife. Garin's fall together turned them into birds of prey.
Gao Minglou hurriedly pushed back: "Don't smoke the big front door, I will love to eat your wine-burning Huizhou bubble dry smoke, that smoke comes strong, comes hard."
Yude said, "You don't have a cigarette pot, so you take a piece of paper and eat it for fear of choking."
Ming Lou said, "Your cigarette smells fragrant, and it doesn't smoke well."
After giving Gao Minglou Zhishu a big front door, Old Han Yude asked Zhishu, "Gao Zhishu, how come you have time to come to me today?" ”。
Ming Lou said: "I came to see Garin, the doll has gone through this great difficulty, how to teach the card (plan) in the future?" Garin is not at home? ”。
Yude replied, "He hasn't spoken much since he was reduced, and we haven't dared to ask." Today I gave Uncle Deshun a haircut." Yude did not know the purpose of Ming Lou's trip, and did not dare to tell Ming Lou of Garin's thoughts. The old man had also learned well, but his face was slightly flushed because he had lied.
Ming Lou said, "I came today to ask Garin for advice. A private primary school teacher at Madian Elementary School stopped teaching, and I wanted to call Garin on top, and my eldest daughter-in-law came back and said that Qiao Zhenyang had sued her."
When Yude heard Qiaozhen's name, his face was red, his sideburns were oozing with fine sweat, and his mouth murmured: "It's all Garin's bad, Qiaozhen is a good doll." Yude's wife heard this and cried loudly.
Ming Lou saw that the scene was out of control, and he was also flustered for a while. I had to pick up and get up and say goodbye. As he was leaving the door, he said to Yude, "Let Garin talk back to me." Yude agreed.
After Gao Garin returned home, his parents translated the words of Secretary Ming Lou to Garin. Garin didn't say a word, didn't eat any food, and went to sleep with his head covered. He recalled the words that Grandpa Deshun once said to him: "Qiao Zhen is a piece of gold!" ”
Garin fell asleep in a trance, and in his dream he seemed to hear a woman singing: Who doesn't have that conscience magpie to pluck Oh...
As soon as the autumn harvest stopped this year, the township government working group went down to the villages to help the production teams to go it alone. The agricultural cooperatives were finally separated. The Garin family and Grandpa Deshun's family were given a key cow, and they simply put the land together to breed, so that there were three laborers, one catching the gang, one taking the dung, one biting the seed, nothing was wrong, and Garin's mother's master cooked at home to feed the animals. With their own land, the old man of Xide Deshun and the old man of Yude couldn't hold his mouth with a smile, and although Garin had a stomach full of articles and was unwilling, he did not dare to violate the natural creation again, and honestly lurked in the cold winter of life!
In order to freeze the grass that had grown to the root, Garin and the three of them had to turn the wheat field deep before the frost. When the day turned back, a letter from Garin was placed on the kangtou, and Garin recognized it as Huang Yaping's letter as soon as he looked at the familiar font. He was somewhat disgusted by Huang Yaping's letter, as the starting factor of this emotional storm, Huang Yaping's willfulness to love led to a change in the fate of several people, which was too costly! Now that he has a new plan for life and his inner world has just calmed down, what is this woman doing? No! I must not read this letter. But he also thought about it, he was a seven-foot boy, why was he afraid of a letter from afar, which clearly proved his cowardice. Thinking of this, he still opened the letter, which read:
Dear Garin,
Allow me to call you this again, although the end of love is difficult to harvest, but let me just forget an unforgettable true love, it is really impossible for me. I know that because of my selfishness and willfulness toward love, everyone involved in this storm has been hurt. Ethically I am the one being judged, but from the point of view of love, I do not want to bear too much criticism and condemnation for this, because love is not a public good and charity. Some people say that love is a poison, I would rather drink it, who can control it? I love me to be happy, why can't I fight for my own happiness? Of course, we are ultimately people of society, accepting the verdict of life because of secular oppression. In the vicious smile of a group represented by Zhang Kenan's mother, we fled into the wilderness, and the escape was so tragic! But I won't let this man-eating tiger succeed, even though Knan is a good man, how can I face a devilish in-law? So I had to leave this sad place with my parents alone. Before I leave, I feel compelled to write you a letter. I heard that the kind Qiaozhen has become a woman, coupled with the double blow of losing your job, I am worried that you will be depressed, so I write to you, hoping that you will regain your strength and live a life to show these people. Now that the country is gradually opening up, there will be more opportunities in the future, but you must reserve enough energy, including intellectual, social, life... Only with these energies can you have super anti-pressure ability, and once the opportunity comes, you will be sharp and stand out. Hopefully, when we meet again years later, I see a full-fledged eagle.
That's it
Song Ann! Love your Ping
Gaugarin read the letter and burst into tears... He immediately decided to wait for the wheat field to be turned over, and then he and Grandpa Deshun went to the three sides to sell sheepskins and break into the world!
(To be continued)