It is said that Lu Yao wrote novels and liked to write backwards, first writing the end and then going back to the beginning.
"Ordinary World" is Lu Yao's representative work, but also the peak work, "Ordinary World" in the creation process, is also "backwards"!
First, the end of "Ordinary World"
Readers who have read this novel know that the novel ends with Sun Shaoping returning to the Daya Bay Coal Mine!
And many readers, after Tian Xiaoxia was swept away by the flood, did not want to read it.
Including me, after reading Xiaoxia's sacrifice for the first time, I angrily threw the novel aside, "Xiaoxia, my Xiaoxia, is this gone?"
Later, I read this novel several times, Xiaoxia's life and death, Lu Yao's feelings have obviously changed a lot, if you integrate yourself into Sun Shaoping's world, when Xiaoxia is still in this world, no matter how far away, Sun Shaoping's struggle history is full of infinite vitality;
When Xiaoxia passed away, Sun Shaoping's life was also darkened, the guiding lights were extinguished, and life began to degenerate into mediocrity.
The novel of more than 1 million words, the death of Tian Xiaoxia, is the end, as for the back, it is only a sequel!
Second, the concept of "Ordinary World"
Under natural disasters and man-made disasters, the most exposed social beings, just like this coronavirus epidemic, from the domestic to the world, there are earth-shaking changes, small to personal cognition, large to the pattern of various countries in the world, this and the other, constantly refreshing people's three views.
"Ordinary World" also began with a natural disaster and man-made disaster.
A once-in-400-year flood inundated a city in southern Shaanxi, and the damage was uncountable. This really big flood that occurred in 1983, Lu Yao's novel, only the "southern city" is used, at the same time, Lu Yao quoted the city's county chronicle:
According to the city's Chronology of Successive Floods, the largest flood in history occurred in the eleventh year of the Ming Dynasty (1583 AD). "The river overflowed, the river was high and the city was overflowing, the whole city was flooded, the office houses were empty, and more than 5,000 people drowned."
If you are interested in friends, you can copy this passage to search for the headlines, you know which city in Shaanxi suffered such a natural and man-made disaster in 1983.
Floods are natural disasters, and the more damage is caused, that is, man-made disasters, why do you say so? Because of the county chronicle cited by Lu Yao, similar incidents occurred 400 years ago, and it is possible to learn from the ancient times and effectively take protective measures to minimize the losses caused by floods.
In fact, this flood has led to two important people: Tian Xiaoxia and Gao Fengge, and the stories behind them have made the ordinary world.
A journalist, or the daughter of a high-ranking official, died in the flood, and the daughter of this high-ranking official fell in love with a miner digger;
A municipal party secretary, the highest governor of the city, ran to his hometown to hold a wedding banquet for his son when the flood came;
The story revolves around these two threads!
Tian Xiaoxia this line
Tian Xiaoxia's father is Tian Fujun, a reformist who appears as a positive character in the novel, and Tian Fujun has an older brother Tian Futang in Shuangshui Village, who is the leader of the village. Shuangshui Village has a small family named Sun Family, the Sun Family has two brothers, the eldest Sun Yuhou, has four children, the second sun Yuting, is Tian Futang's right and left arm.
And the digger that Tian Xiaoxia likes is Sun Shaoping, the second son of Sun Yuhou, and these lines are connected in this way.
Gao Fengge this line
Gao Fengge, there are not many opportunities to appear, and even some careless readers are easy to ignore this character. Gao Fengge, perennially mixed in the official field, in the official field, he is the opponent of Tian Fujun, everywhere against Tian Fujun, and as a "conservative faction" Gao Fengge, also has a strong network, upwards, he has admired his superiors, after the flood in the southern city, Gao Fengge did not immediately step down, because his old leader has been active on it, intercede for him, until a year later, Gao Fengge was swept to the end;
Down, Gao Fengge "one person gets the Tao, and the chicken dog ascends to heaven." In this, Lu Yao highlighted two characters: Hu Yongzhou and Hu Yonghe!
The Hu brothers and Gao Fengge are cousins, which is to put it bluntly, a relationship of kinship.
Hu Yongzhou is a contract foreman, he used Gao Fengge's connections to get engineering projects, thus becoming an upstart, some of Hu Yongzhou's behaviors are very difficult to watch, such as he bullied the rural girl Xiao Cui who cooked, and later this Xiao Cui was saved by Sun Shaoping, but later, Xiao Cui returned to Hu Yongzhou's side and was willing to degenerate!
Sun Shaoping appeared again in the Line of Gao Fengge, is this not a very interesting thing?
If we dig again, look at Hu Yonghe, Hu Yonghe once went to the Daya Bay Coal Mine with Sun Shaoan, and had a brief meeting with Sun Shaoping, and the impression of the first meeting between the two people was:
Hu Yonghe saw Shaoping, a coal digger, and was very disappointed in Shao'an's brother, who was full of praise: How much can you do as a coal digger;
When Sun Shaoping saw Hu Yonghe, he immediately thought of Hu Yongzhou, the contractor, and his first instinct was: Not a good person!
The two are cold-eyed, and Sun Shaoping's mentality is very similar to the mentality of ordinary people we now treat the rich - "hatred of the rich"!
As for how Hu Yonghe intersected with Sun Shao'an, we will discuss it later.
3. The appearance of sentient beings after natural and man-made disasters
When a disaster comes, how does it change your life?
The most direct, that is, that someone is going to disappear from this world, is the most tragic and the most helpless, because death is fair to everyone, because life is dead.
And the most uncomfortable thing is how the living people can get out of the pain and get a new life after the disaster.
Any natural and man-made disaster is the greatest harm to ordinary people, such as Sun Shaoping of "Ordinary World". Obviously, there is a love of the world, a young man from the countryside, and a high-ranking daughter have love, this love that breaks the worldly door, the love of the two loves, how many good memories have been given to him! Under the Du Pear Tree, that beautiful agreement, as Xiaoxia Xiang disappeared, everything turned into ashes.
This disaster ruined the beautiful love of a rural youth and the colorful life.
Shaoping, who did not have Xiaoxia's love, eventually became mediocre, and the mourning was greater than the death of the heart, and this tragic ending made many readers cry.
Any natural or man-made disaster, someone must carry the pot. Gao Fengge, when the people needed him most, was gone, openly giving his son a wedding, but secretly he was as short-sighted and selfish as Xiang Yu: rich and noble do not return to their hometown, like clothes and brocade night! The bigger an official like Gao Fengge is, the greater the harm to the common people. And when he wanted to carry the pot for this flood, the attitude he adopted was not to "thank the world for his sins", but to throw the pot vigorously, and did not hesitate to use any available relationship, and it took a year for this mediocre official to be swept to the end.
After Gao Feng's office, Lu Yao in the novel, there is such a description, Sun Shaoan came to Huangyuan with Hu Yonghe, Hu Yonghe invited his brother out, the three of them ate together, at the wine table, the Hu brothers scolded Tian Fujun, if it is not Tian Fujun, how can Gao Fengge go down? His Excellency Gao Feng went, the Hu brothers' business was one less patron, it would be difficult to do in the future, the Hu brothers went bankrupt, and the "workers" who followed them would also lose their jobs...
If we focus too much on the 1% of jerks and forget about the 99% of the good people, it is human sadness!
This time coronary pneumonia, Bai Yansong connected Ma Yun, asked Ma Yun, you donate money and materials to the world, sometimes what you get is not gratitude, but questioning, what do you think?
Ma Yun returned: If we pay too much attention to 1% of the bastards and forget the 99% of the good people, it is the sadness of mankind!
Affected by the epidemic, from the theater to withdraw the file, into the second movie "The Big Winner" broadcast on the internet, there is such a line, probably means that as long as it is not a matter involving their own interests, even if it is a bank robbery, for the melon-eating masses, it is happy to see.
A female writer in Wuhan, during the epidemic period, wrote 60 lockdown diaries, from the initial writing of the lockdown of sentient beings, to the final rise to the fight with the "ultra-left", continuous accountability, accountability! The result? His diary was published in the United States, and a relative immigrated to Singapore and became a two-faced person.
The sentient beings under the epidemic, similar two-faced people, can't even count with their fingers, how many public figures, face to face, another set behind, this is exactly the face of the sentient beings after the natural disaster and man-made disaster: good and evil will eventually be rewarded!
Lu Yao was so profound about this, and he also realized it from his own experience. In the social turmoil of the 60th century, Lu Yao became a "star" figure for a while, but then, he was sent back to his hometown and changed from a farmer to a farmer. Like Gaugarin, the protagonist of his famous novel "Life", he went from a farmer to a journalist, then to a joke by history, and then from a journalist to a farmer. In this change, his love also fell into despair.
In reality, Lu Yao's marriage journey: a marriage, three relationships, and finally a lonely departure. Lu Yao's choice of love, poisoned by the novels of ancient talents, he felt that he was so talented, non-Beijing girls do not marry, we in the "ordinary world", it is not difficult to see Sun Shaoping's "small show-off": Tian Xiaoxia appeared in the dirty construction site, Tian Xiaoxia went to the broken cave of Sun Shaoping's family in Shuangshui Village as a guest, Tian Xiaoxia came to the coal mine in Heibu Midwinter... Every time Tian Xiaoxia appeared in such a place, it was like a fairy descending, and this fairy only came to see Sun Shaoping, and this vanity made Sun Shaoping very useful.
Lu Yao's first love affair was a Beijing girl, a poor boy from Shaanxi captured the Beijing girl "Fangxin", which is what a thing worth showing off, however, this love affair died in a cruel reality!
However, Lu Yao was still not dead hearted, and found a Beijing girl, and the two people finally combined, but because of the difference in life concepts, they finally broke up!
Lu Yao reviewed his vanity, and it is said that he also had an extramarital affair, a very ordinary woman, but in the end it was not successful.
In "Ordinary World", we are very envious of Shao'an marrying Xiulian, Xiulian is indeed very good, and has become a virtuous helper for Shao'an's career, but such happiness, Lu Yao is ultimately not very appreciative, with Shao'an's success, Xiulian gradually mediocre, and finally lu Yao sentenced to "death".
Half of a man is a woman, a man succeeds, and if love fails, it is actually lonely! When he was young, Lu Yao pursued this vain love, and finally left alone, countless sleepless nights, was he also lamenting his love misfortune? This became the biggest regret of his life.
In fact, everyone is not perfect, there are advantages and disadvantages, because no one is perfect! Especially for public figures, it is even more difficult to achieve full retreat. We can blame a person for a mistake, or we can be disappointed that a host gives a Chinese child the first lesson of school and his own child runs abroad to teach.
However, when all the truth comes out, although it is no longer so beautiful, but the road of life still has to go down, lose this stage, and then go to other stages, make mistakes, maybe today luckily escaped, but escaped the first day, can you escape the fifteenth?
There is an old Chinese saying, "People are doing, the sky is watching, there are gods three feet off the ground" Good and evil will eventually be rewarded, under the epidemic, just like Buffett's famous saying: Only when the tide recedes, you will know who has been swimming naked.