On December 2, 1949, in a farmhouse named Wang Yukuan in Qingjian County, Shaanxi Province, Wang Yukuan, the head of the family, paced back and forth outside the door, looking in the direction of the bedroom from time to time.
Today is the day when Wang Yukuan's wife gave birth, although Wang Yukuan invited the midwife over early, but because this is his wife's first child, he still can't help but be nervous.
After anxiously waiting outside the door for several hours, the cry of the child finally came from the delivery room, Wang Yukuan was overjoyed, the child was finally born, and Wang Yukuan, who was overjoyed, immediately came to his wife's side, looked at his wife who was sweating, and his heart was full of gratitude.
Wang Yukuan shifted his gaze to the sleeping baby next to his wife, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, because his eldest brother could not have children, the task of passing on the inheritance of the Wang family was pressed on himself, and the birth of the child was also a solution to his own heart.
A few days later, Wang Yukuan found his old father, wanted his father to choose a name for his newborn child, Wang Yukuan's old father pondered bitterly, and it was difficult to hold out the two words "Wei'er", this Wang Wei'er is the later literary circle, wrote the original name of Lu Yao, who wrote the masterpiece "Ordinary World".
Road remote
Lu Yao's parents were farmers facing the loess with their backs to the sky, and the family conditions were not rich, and when he was a child, Lu Yao often lived a life of not eating and not eating.
A few years after Lu Yao was born, Lu Yao's mother added several younger siblings to Lu Yao, and suddenly there were a few more people in the family to eat, and the life that was not rich was even more embarrassing.
In desperation, Lu Yao's father could only pass Lu Yao over to his infertile eldest brother Wang Yude.
Although uncle's family did not have a stomach and stomach, but in order to be able to support Lu Yao to go to school, the day of the uncle's family in the soil was also very difficult, after Lu Yao graduated from primary school, Wang Yude, who had more than enough and lacked strength, finally gave Lu Yao a death order, not allowed to take the middle school exam, and returned home to work as a farmer.
Lu Yao, who loved to read since childhood, was not dead hearted, he secretly ran to the county, took the middle school exam, and among more than 1,000 candidates, Lu Yao was admitted to Yanchuan Middle School with the second place.
In 1966, after graduating from Lu Yao Middle School, after being elected by the masses, he became the vice chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of Yanchuan County and became a prominent figure in Yanchuan County.
The road to boyhood
In that most beautiful day, a Beijing female Zhiqing named Lin Hong walked into Lu Yao's heart.
Lu Yao and Lin Hong's understanding is purely coincidental, at a mass rally, Lu Yao met Lin Hong on the left side of the rostrum for the first time, and the first time they met, Lu Yao was attracted by the petite and cute Lin Hong.
Under the "assist" of the little partner and the fierce attack of Lu Yao, the two quickly established a romantic relationship.
In Lu Yao's heart, he had already determined that Lin Hong was his lifelong "Lin Sister".
However, the good days are always short, in a national recruitment activity, for the sake of his girlfriend's future, Lu Yao gave up his original recruitment indicators to Lin Hong, and the two went their separate ways from then on.
At the beginning, his girlfriend who was far away from time to time also wrote letters to Lu Yao, reported his situation, and also sent his monthly salary to Lu Yao, so that Lu Yao could improve his life.
However, with the passage of time, the frequency of Lin Hong's letters became lower and lower, and from the first January letter to the last year and a half, Lin Hong's letters could not be received.
Although Lu Yao has not dared to admit that his relationship with Lin Hong has gone wrong, a letter from Lin Hong's broken friendship finally cut off Lu Yao's fantasy.
Lu Yao lost love.
When I was young, I was far away
At the same time as he lost his love, Lu Yao received a news that made him even more collapsed, and the leading group of the Yanchuan County Revolutionary Committee decided to dismiss the vice chairman of the Luyao County Revolutionary Committee after discussion, and Lu Yao's career path was over.
Under the double blow of lost love and unemployment, Lu Yao can only return to the small ravine where he was born and raised, and become a private teacher.
Because of his good literary skills, Lu Yao was soon seconded to the county party committee communication group, where Lu Yao met his second "Lin sister" in his life, also from Beijing.
With the help of his friend Jogaya, Lu Yao and Linda quickly caught up in the line of love, and the two were officially married in 1978.
However, life after marriage is far less beautiful than Lu Yao imagined.
Lu Yao and Linda
Lu Yao is a typical literary fanatic, from noon every day, until midnight, Lu Yao is working on the desk, for the family, for the children, for his wife, but lack of enough care, eating and dressing, children going to school, need Linda to do it herself.
Lu Yao's wife Linda is a high-ranking cadre, her parents are overseas Chinese returnees, in her concept, the ideal husband should be a man who pays something to the family, not a "saint" who does not hear anything outside the window, for Lu Yao's practice of "throwing his hands to the treasurer", Linda simply can't stand it, so the two argue continuously.
After years of discordant family life, Lu Yao and Linda's marriage finally went wrong, and after Lu Yao wrote the second part of "Ordinary World", Linda officially filed for divorce from Lu Yao.
However, for the sake of his daughter, Lu Yao has been reluctant to sign the divorce agreement, until before his death, Lu Yao, who had been lying in bed for a long time, signed the agreement.
Lu Yao and Linda
The misfortune of Lu Yao's marriage is to a large extent his own responsibility.
Lu Yao was born in the countryside of northern Shaanxi, has always been adhering to the lofty ideal of jumping out of the farm and changing his destiny, in his concept of marriage and love, the most ideal marriage object is from Beijing to the countryside Zhiqing.
Although Lu Yao's friends have doubts about Lu Yao's concept of marriage and love, believing that "locals are more reliable, know the roots, and pick and pick", Lu Yao scoffs at his friends' doubts.
"If there is a local girl who can provide me with college, and I can't go to college, have I been living in this rural area?"
In a sense, Lu Yao and Linda's marriage is utilitarian.
After Lu Yao and Linda established a romantic relationship, the living expenses needed for Lu Yao to go to Yan'an University were all "sponsored" by Linda, and without Linda's efforts, there would be no success of Lu Yao later.
But Lu Yao may never have thought that the love he "designed" was finally "designed" by himself.
Lu Yao and Linda
Art comes from life and is higher than life, in the male protagonist sun Shaoping of "Ordinary World", we can also find the shadow of Lu Yao's failed love.
Sun Shaoping and Hao Hongmei, one born in a poor peasant family, one born in a landlord's family, because of the same poverty, the two felt sorry for each other, staged a school love that did not understand, but unfortunately, this "love" is not long, "poor love and love rich" Hao Hongmei finally abandoned Sun Shaoping, chose a better family condition to take care of the people, which is so similar to Lu Yao's first love girlfriend Lin Hong's bridge section.
The love between Sun Shaoping and Tian Xiaoxia is even more regrettable, when Tian Xiaoxia desperately wants to be with Sun Shaoping, heaven has made the biggest joke for Sun Shaoping, a sudden flood took away this young life, leaving Sun Shaoping with only tears of great remorse.
Similar to the love tragedy of Sun Shaoping and Tian Xiaoxia, the union of Lu Yao and Linda, a high-ranking cadre, is not happy, and it is precisely because of the unhappiness of his marriage that he cannot be sure whether the union of Sun Shaoping and Tian Xiaoxia will be happy, perhaps, Lu Yao believes that having a vigorous love is enough for Sun Shaoping and Tian Xiaoxia.
Stills of Sun Shaoping and Tian Xiaoxia
"Ordinary World" is the result of Lu Yao's painstaking efforts for 6 years, and in 1991, this novel won the third Mao Dun Literature Award, which is a rare masterpiece since the founding of New China.
For this work, I don't think I need to dwell on it too much here, because it is so famous.
In the author's reading years, I also played a flashlight, read the book in the bed, and when I read that Tian Xiaoxia was swept away by the flood to save the children who fell into the water, she also silently wept.
Such a masterpiece, whether it is bought for their own children, or their own reading is a very good choice, interested in the small partner, do not hesitate, hurry up.