Text| Shinoyang
Zhou Yue, formerly known as Feng Yue, is the only daughter of the poet Feng Huacheng and the professor Zhou Rong, and it is said that with her family background and later education level (in the original book, Zhou Yue went to university and graduate school in France), she should have a bright future, at least no worse than her cousin Zhou Cong (Zhou Bingkun's son, with the help of Zhou Bingyi, became a newspaper reporter).
In fact, Zhou Yue and her mother Zhou Rong have been abroad for twelve years, but they have not found a suitable job after returning to China, and in this regard, the gap between her and her mother is too big.
Whether it is in a foreign country or expelled from a university after returning to China, Zhou Rong can quickly adjust her role, re-enter a new job, and be entrusted with important responsibilities in a short period of time, regaining a sense of satisfaction and steadfastness in life.
This is also the fundamental reason why Zhou Rong can reap happiness again and again, and become the happiest person among the three siblings of the Zhou family in her later years: she is never satisfied with the status quo, and she is always challenging herself and improving herself. Although her life is rebellious and selfish, she is an alternative existence of the Zhou family, but the spirit of never admitting defeat in her is worth learning from, especially from all women.
Because only in this way can you always be invincible and become the master of destiny, instead of pinning your personal happiness on others. This is also the point that Mr. Liang Xiaosheng wants to convey to every woman through the character of Zhou Rong.
Compared with Zhou Rong, the "post-70s" Zhou Yue's body, whether it is appearance or IQ, emotional intelligence, has inherited more of the genes of his biological father Feng Huacheng, although since the separation of France, Zhou Yue has forgotten more often that he still has such a father.
Zhou Rong's romance is determined by cells, while Feng Huacheng's romance seems to be in the pen, in the poem, on the paper, but the idea of profit first in everything is in the blood marrow, in every bundle of nervous system, in every set of genes. And all of these genes were passed on to his only daughter, Zhou Yue.
After understanding the "Hutong Princess" Zhou Yue marrying an old man, he understood her sadness and helplessness.
Alley Princess
Why Zhou Yue is called "Hutong Princess" is mainly because her growth experience is very special and the contrast is too big.
When she was young, living with her parents deep in the mountains of Guizhou, her father, Feng Huacheng, was still a "rightist" who had been reformed and was cautious all day long, fearing that he would be caught by others.
Because of love, her mother Zhou Rong bravely followed Feng Huacheng to Guizhou, and with the identity of the child of "the first generation of construction workers in New China", she found an errand as a teacher there, earning 18 yuan a month, plus subsidies from her parents and sister-in-law, so that the family of three could barely survive.
In Zhou Yue's impression, the living environment she faced was extremely embarrassing and difficult, which also made her have a sense of scarcity since she was a child, and this sense of scarcity accompanied her all her life, and it was also the fundamental reason that directly led her to ignore the worldly ridicule, preferring to rebel and leave her relatives and marry a rich old man.
When Zhou Yue was five or six years old, the policy was gradually relaxed, and Feng Huacheng finally took off his "rightist" hat. But he was a political idiot, perhaps suppressed in the mountains of Guizhou for too long, and he was detained at the station when he was visiting the parents of the Zhou family with his wife and daughter, and Zhou Rong had to leave Zhou Yue in the care of his mother and younger brother in order to protect him.
After Zhou's mother learned that her daughter and son-in-law had an accident, she was frightened into a vegetative state by the sudden disaster, and it was the little widow Zheng Juan who was not afraid of the ridicule of the neighbors and entered the miserable Zhou family, which allowed the Zhou family to spend the most difficult years. This also made Bingkun no longer worried, and finally came together with Zheng Juan.
But the Zhou family living in the "light word piece" is just one of the many poor people, and Zhou Yue has no parents around, although her brother-in-law and aunt have given her more love, but plus Zhou's mother who is paralyzed in bed, and the blind bright, unidentified brother Zhou Nan, this family is already in trouble, how can they take into account the fragile and sensitive inner world of a young girl?
Zhou Yue's growth path is lonely, is miserable, material deprivation is not counted, the key is the lack of parental love, so that she always has a sense of panic under the fence, which also makes her learn early on to see the wind and steer, seek benefits and avoid harm.
Later, Zhou Rong was admitted to Peking University, and Feng Huacheng returned to Beijing after being rehabilitated and became a famous poet again, and at this time, Zhou Yue had already lived in a two-story small western-style building of Jin Yueji (Zhou Bingyi's mother-in-law), living with Zhou Bingyi and Hao Dongmei, her uncle and aunt.
In the original work, letting Zhou Yue move over was requested by Jin Yueji on her own initiative, and she had her own considerations.
Jin Yueji has never been willing to have any dealings with Guangzi's in-laws, but she knows that it is not appropriate to do so, so she chooses a compromise solution, that is, to let Bingyi's niece, Zhou Rong's daughter Zhou Yue, move over.
Here's what she said to Bingyi:
I have an idea, let Yue Yue live here. There is also a room upstairs that is idle, and idle is idle. Yue Yue lived here and could go to a good middle school nearby. Listening to Dongmei say that she is quite lively, there is a lively girl here, and the atmosphere will be more vivid. She is here, I also have a little friend, liberate you, so that Dongmei will not always complain, okay?
For this proposal of his in-laws, Zhou Zhigang was very supportive, and also eased some of his anger towards Jin Yueji. Living in a good environment is conducive to the physical and mental growth of the next generation, and Zhou Zhigang understands this very well.
Zhou Zhigang also had another layer of consideration, he didn't want Yue Yue's personality to be like her mother Zhou Rong in the future, he wanted Dongmei's indifference and calmness to affect Zhou Yue, but from the later results, it was obvious that Zhou Yue did not realize this expectation of his grandfather.
She even lost her mother's never-say-die spirit, and the impact of the huge difference in circumstances on her was chaotic and subversive.
After leaving her grandfather's house and becoming a part of her aunt's house, Yue Yue has her own room, no longer sleeping on the kang but sleeping in a single bed, with her own bookshelf, wardrobe and chest, and can drink a glass of hot milk and eat an egg every morning. If she likes, she can also take a hot bath every night.
She lay on the small bed and imagined the youth her aunt had spent in that small building, and she felt very comfortable. As Jin Yueji expected, an old man and a young man quickly and naturally established an intimate relationship.
Zhou Yue has an unrealistic sense of trance, she feels like she has walked into another world, and this world seems to belong to her, she calls Jin Yueji "Grandma Jin", saying that she is Jin Buxian's mother-in-law.
Even Dongmei, who has always been calm, couldn't help but say to Bingyi, how come I didn't find Yue Yue so sweet before, how did she become so coaxing as soon as she lived here.
The explanation given by Bingyi is very direct: once the life of kittens and dogs is improved, they will instinctively please their owners.
Yueyue's stay made everyone feel good. The relationship between the Zhou family and Jin Yueji has eased, Bingyi does not have to deliberately take time to accompany his mother-in-law, Zhou Rong is even more relieved to hand over her daughter to such a powerful family, everyone thinks that Yue Yue can grow into a big show, but is this really the case?
If it is irresponsible for Zhou Rong to hand over her daughter to her parents, then letting Zhou Yue live in the dream of a "princess" is the beginning of all mistakes.
The "scourge" of the Zhou family
The name of the Zhou family's "scourge" was scolded by Zhou Bingkun after he was short of breath.
It is not without a little truth that he says this. The drastic changes in Zhou Bingkun's life were directly caused by Zhou Yue and Zhou Nan breaking through the "brother-sister" relationship.
After Zhou Zhigang died, Bingkun's family of four moved back to the old house of Guangzi Film, at that time Zhou Nan had grown into a handsome boy, and Zhou Yue was dressed up by Jin Yueji like a delicate rich flower in the world.
Of course, Zhou Yue's changes will bring stimulation to Zhou Nan, and Xiao Zhou Cong is more blunt, he said: "I really want to live in a house like Sister Yueyue, brother, I don't want to live with those little citizens that our father said anymore, and you have long been unwilling, right?" ”
By the time Luo Shibin approached Zhou Nan with material temptation, he was simply powerless as a teenager.
When he knew that he actually had a biological father who was the boss alive, and could completely change his fate, let him live in a good neighborhood and a good house, and live like Zhou Yue in the future, he couldn't help but be attracted by that kind of life.
I always think that if Zhou Yue and Zhou Nan live together and do not bring him a material impact, Zhou Nan will have another attitude towards Luo Shibin.
Such a mental matter, Zhou Nan can only share with Zhou Yue, who has also changed the status quo because of one person, and Zhou Yue, who has tasted the sweetness brought by the change of fate, of course, is also very supportive of Zhou Nan to recognize Luo Shibin, a rich father.
Two "tribulation confidants" with the same secret came together.
A pair of boys and girls ignored it, making the wealthy Luo Shibin very excited, he said that he wanted to be a family with Zhou Rong, and the Zhou family became a family, Zhou Bingkun heard this and moved to kill, and finally Luo Shibin died, and Zhou Bingkun was imprisoned for twelve years.
Zhou Nan went abroad because of his repentance and swore that if Bingkun was not released from prison, he would not return to China.
But when Bingkun was released from prison and waited for this son who was not his own, but was better than his own son, to return, Zhou Nan died heroically to save his mentor.
People's fate is like this, often a small fluctuation, bringing a full loss.
When Bingkun learned that Zhou Yue and Zhou Nan were in love, he said to Zhou Rong like this:
I think Yue Yue has changed, not as cute as when she was a child, more and more like you. Since living on the side of my brother and sister-in-law, I also added a stinky problem, thinking that she really became a little princess of a high-class family, a kind of mortal ignorance, really annoying!
After Zhou Nan went to the United States, Zhou Yue also went to France with his father Feng Huacheng, and after Zhou Rong found her, he wandered with her in France for twelve years.
It seems that Zhou Bingkun said that Zhou Yue was a "scourge", and he really did not wronged her.
"Leprechaun"
The title of 'little goblin' was a shameful Zhou Rong after Zhou Yue "intervened" in other people's families and was sued by a man's wife to the Women's Federation, and he scolded without choosing a word.
After Zhou Rong and Zhou Yue returned to China, just catching up with the huge employment pressure in China, Zhou Rong had strong adaptability, found a private school, and became a mathematics teacher.
Zhou Yue is unwilling to give in, she studied business management in France, which makes her face a dilemma when looking for a job - the management of state-owned enterprises are state cadres, and it will not fall to her, a returnee girl, not to mention the set of management knowledge taught in Western universities is often incompatible with China's national conditions.
As for private enterprises, there is another set of roads in this province and city, each with its own high tricks, and outsiders do not bother.
Zhou Rong persuaded her to lower her requirements, but Zhou Yue said: "I am in charge of my affairs, so I won't bother you." I promise, absolutely in half a year, I will not spend you a penny more. “
Zhou Rong said to his family in frustration: "With a daughter who collects debts in this life, the immortals are helpless!" “
After Zhou Rong and Feng Huacheng divorced, they came together seamlessly with Cai Xiaoguang, and all this Zhou Yue was kept in the dark.
The sixteen and seventeen-year-old girl has always been abandoned by her parents, although Zhou Rong and her lived together in France for twelve years, but the gap between mother and daughter has always existed, Zhou Yue has never been willing to open her heart to her mother, and Zhou Rong has never really entered her daughter's heart.
For Zhou Rong, she has Cai Xiaoguang, who loves her, and has a decent career in teaching and educating people, she ignored her daughter's psychological changes, did not intervene and comfort in advance, which also directly pushed her daughter into the arms of another person.
Since Zhou Nan's death, Zhou Yue's first love is still in the past, and she has always wanted to try her best to get rid of the shadow in her heart.
Without a job, she began to frequently contact the classmates she knew at Jin Yueji's residence, she had a foreign diploma, and she was the goddaughter of an old cadre, although Jin Yueji had been dead for many years, but the afterglow of that aura was still there.
Most of the old classmates were extraordinary, and some had already become upstarts in the officialdom, and when they learned that she was still single, they were all surprised and acted as matchmakers for her.
Zhou Yue wanted to introduce herself to work through them, but these friends thought that she had an uncle who was a high-ranking official, and her stepfather was also a celebrity, so how could she worry about work?
Friends began to instill ideas in Zhou Yue - as long as her husband is right, is the work problem still a problem? It is better to do well than to marry well, this once controversial truth is almost the belief of many of Zhou Yue's friends.
Zhou Yue's sadness for Zhou Nan gradually dissipated, so she hung Nan Nan's cemetery alone once to eliminate the obstacles in her heart.
Zhou Yue's "third-party intervention" turmoil affected her uncle, and the old man's wife was not an idle person, and he constantly wrote to provincial and municipal newspapers, saying that Zhou Yue had lived with Bingyi for two years, and that her two years were by no means a life that ordinary girls could live, and these factors would definitely affect the formation of her later outlook on life.
In fact, people are right, Zhou Yue is too afraid to return to the life of the light word film, and misses the pride under the protection of Jin Yueji, so she chose a shortcut she thought to go.
Zhou Rong was even more faceless, and she felt that it was better to kill her simply.
Zhou Rong is too incompetent as a mother, she never reflects on herself, and when her daughter embarrasses her, the first thing that comes to mind is to break off relations with her daughter.
I really look down on such a mother, and in my opinion, no matter what wrong things their children do, parents have an unshirkable responsibility, even if there is a major story in their life - or an accident, then we cannot give up on him and humiliate him. Who made him our sons and daughters?
At this point, Zhou Bingyi is very open-minded, and when Zhou Rong apologized to Bingyi and called Zhou Yue a "little goblin", Bingyi said this:
When you talked about Zhou Yue just now, you used insulting flowers, which is not right. What is a relative, that is, both a glory, but also a loss, sharing troubles ...
Relatives are a natural relationship, even if a relative really does something wrong, or even breaks the law, as long as he confesses his sins and shows repentance, his relatives should not be disliked. The relationship of heavenly destiny is a supernormal relationship, a relationship that never dislikes and shares pressure.
In the end, this troublemaker of the Zhou family was re-accepted by everyone after constantly trying to apologize and reconcile with his family. Bingyi said to his younger siblings: "From now on, I hope that every Chinese New Year's Eve will gather with me, and no one will be less, including Zhou Yue." “
Write at the end
Cai Xiaoguang's evaluation of Zhou Yue was still relatively objective, and he said to Zhou Rong: "Zhou Yue has shown the rare wisdom in you and Bingyi and Bingkun, she knows strategy, and over time, her desire to obtain our understanding has been achieved." In my opinion, you and your eldest brother are abnormal manifestations of your Zhou family's IQ in the dormant period, and Zhou Yue and Zhou Cong represent the advent of the active period. “
Zhou Yue is indeed higher than Zhou Rong in terms of emotional intelligence, in fact, she should be regarded as a good child who knows how to get it.
She always remembered that her aunt and uncle were kind to herself, and gave her a lot of care when she was young, so even during her work-study years in France, she had to convert the money she earned into RMB and transfer it to her uncle and aunt to avoid their embarrassment.
After the old man divorced, Zhou Yue became his wife, and under her initiative, opened a logistics company. She always took care of those old neighborhoods with light letters, recruited them all into logistics companies as workers, and overtook her uncle's old friends to be small leaders.
In essence, Zhou Yue is a person with feelings and righteousness, love and hate, and she inherits this tradition of the Zhou family.
As for her marrying an older man, after all, most of our lives are by no means something that can be changed by personal power, nor can it be influenced by personal wishes. It must be recognized that when we make important choices, the factors of the country, society and the times are particularly important. The times are developing like this, and many times we are caught off guard.
At the end of "The World", although there are many uneasy feelings, such as Bingyi who retired and his wife died of stomach cancer in their peaceful old age; For example, Zhou Cong eventually married a girl that Bingkun did not want to be his wife. But in the end, the times are still progressing, and people's lives are also undergoing earth-shaking changes.
People's knowledge, education, opportunities, power, will change their destiny to varying degrees, but the most important factor is the development and change of the times, the transformation of the times has subverted the life that many people are accustomed to, giving them the possibility of embarking on different life paths.
The long river of history rolls down, and our destiny is just a drop in the ocean, try our best to be a good person, a good person with feelings and righteousness, and the merit will be complete!