●Jiang Chung
The newly released novel "Red Carpet" is the Nth tome of Meng Xiangyong, the standard-bearer of Chinese educated youth literature, after "Hanging Garden", "The Landlord's Daughter", "Big Girl" and so on. A senior writer who debuted early and won a lot of money, Meng Xiangyong has been active in the literary world for decades, and has been in charge of the young writers class of the Lu Xun Academy of Literature and the young writers class of Peking University as a class teacher, compiled teaching materials, and taught classes. A "Red Carpet", the author's narrative is eloquent, suspense, balls splashing jade, scenes blending, vivid and vivid, all kinds of characters have a distinctive personality that is about to come out, obviously, his excellent pen skills have reached the realm of familiarity, a new volume of books that make people read interestingly, good books!
What is the main purpose of a "Red Carpet"? The benevolent see the benevolent, the wise see the wise, and the hundred people understand. With the help of the title of the late writer Zhang Jie's short story "Love, It Can't Be Forgotten", Meng Xiangyong's novel "Red Carpet" left a deep impression on people as "The trek of love is not easy". Although the title of the book has conveyed a clear message of the "happy reunion" or "small reunion" wishful ending, the author is not cliché in writing about mundane things, and the path to the ending is a period of unpredictable and unpredictable road that cannot be reached by oneself and involuntarily. The helplessness of digging coal at the bottom of the eighteen-story hell and begging for a livelihood on the tip of the knife once constituted a "symphony of fate" for a generation of intellectuals who were born at an untimely time. The highlight of this novel is not so much the "circle" in red and color, but the "road" sprinkled with sweatdrops, tears and blood droplets that bends left and right. The pen skill "on the road" is not only Meng Xiangyong's unswerving pursuit at present, but also the hard work of his brainchild in a novel. There is no doubt that "Red Carpet" has a high difficulty coefficient, the author does not lack the extraordinary determination of "a real warrior, dare to look directly at the bleak life", and dedicates the reader to the empathy text of pain and pleasure, sorrow and joy, thinking and understanding when reading, which has both literary morality, literary courage, literary quality, and literary skills, which can be described as commendable.
Kong Xuecheng and Qin Shuyan, Xie Changshun and Wu Guirong, Lin Jinsuo and Yu Erhong, Sui Chengshi and Zhuang Xiaoyan, four pairs of "lovers eventually become dependents" of "old companions", between people, between families, between people and families and society, between people and families and the times, there is one and the other, there is this, there is this, the structural contradictions with a strong historical background and the social drama cast and ups and downs as a result, through the "unprecedented" and unstoppable, even absurd and unreasonable "mistakes", "mistakes", "mistakes" and "mistakes" As witnesses, witnesses and witnesses present, the author does not need to chase the wind and shadow to find the traces, but only to convert the "pain of the skin" that has been taught into artistic reproduction, to show a period of experience and discernment, so that a character jumps on the paper, of course, these are particularly tests the author to control the complex, delete the complicated, to extract the essence, to keep the false and the true, to turn the virtual into reality, In a sense, this masterpiece dedicated by the author is enough to stand out among many publications, it has a unique way to tell the rings and fate, plotting the grass snake gray line, writing as if it were light, and coldly humorously ridiculing and ridiculing the clay wood sculptures that will eventually peel off the color and collapse, casually whipping into it, describing the commonplace joys and sorrows as a sad scenery of wind and snow, or like a seven-colored rainbow washed away by an arc of thunderstorms, pleasing to the eyes, nourishing the heart, pleasant, pleasant, and rewarding a thousand strings of sad tears with a drop of joy, and a gorgeous bloom of a negative pole to set off the survivors who laugh at the end, in order to see the artistic charm of Zhiwei to stir the heartstrings of readers and arouse resonance.
The encounters of the characters in "Red Carpet" have twists and turns, and the emotional temperature of the narrative also has a difference between cold and warm, and the author of the language and the cold realm often leaves a surging incomprehension and suspense. Why? As long as we have traveled through those unbearable and eventful years, who can avoid the reversal of fate, and the backfire of the opposite. Isn't it? Greeting the morning sun but falling into dusk by mistake, full of expectations but having to sweep away the ashes of disillusionment, shouting slogans hungrily, cheering for the poor and white, what kind of bitter cold has not been experienced? What kind of embarrassment has not been experienced? The funny characters who passively appeared in the funny era, and the drama after scene was tearful and frightened. In the grand narrative of "breaking the four olds" and "establishing the four new", the "thoughts", "cultures", "customs" and "habits" at the social level have all become nondescript and hideous, and the life of revolutionizing culture, people's lives, human nature, morality, common sense, inferior arm-in-hand, evil and evil shoulders, the legal order has disappeared, the "eight immortals crossing the sea" who show their magical powers, the "ruthless ones are kings" who use their own means, and the "survival of the fittest" who seek a way out Thousands of teenagers were swept away by the trend, cancelled their school status, expelled from the city, and threw themselves into the wilderness, and when they looked back at the turbulent youth, a series of fatalistic related words with black humor characteristics emerged: innocent, delayed, defeated, sunk, and destroyed. Those who go against the current to save themselves, those who forge ahead, those who succeed and those who escape and those who get lucky to save themselves are only a few and exceptions. Looking at the sorrow everywhere, the stunned things are human and wrong, the frightened human face and beast heart, even if it is a room together, a courtyard in and out, the neighborhood is like strangers, fortified with each other, everyone is in danger, arrogant and arrogant to celebrate, good and sorrowful. In the sound of the "selfless" trumpet, there are traps of mutual calculation everywhere, the crisis of hidden arrows shooting at the back is lurking from time to time, the son makes Lao Tzu's rebellion, the daughter digs the mother's pit, the wife eats inside and outside, the husband steals chickens and dogs, the main contradictions, the secondary contradictions, the internal contradictions, and the external contradictions, how to find a protective shield in the corner of Gou An in the face of countless wounded spears in the morning and twilight? Such an absurd and grim reality, if anyone has ever seen or heard of it, they will have a good understanding of "Red Carpet" The background of the era is no longer unfamiliar, and many characters are no longer alienated, quite a bit of déjà vu, sympathy and sympathy at first sight, and they can better understand the source of the evil of their children's greed for money and arbitrage and their parents' court. In this way, the author's cold writing, the writer also writes about the world, and the surface is also inside, and the bones are also into the heart, with the expressiveness and appeal of the thorough interpretation of the candle shining on the world and the power of the back of the paper, those who want to say and rest, and the frustration of wanting to speak and stop, attract readers to read line after line with reminiscence, tracking, and questioning, and can get a reasonable logical answer to everything that is contrary to common sense.
Goodness will never be extinguished, and hope will always exist among the people, which is undoubtedly one simple story and objective fact after another that the author sincerely tells to his readers. The four pairs of "old companions" depicted in "Red Carpet" almost all have an extraordinary origin of stumbling, misunderstandings, grievances and tribulations are like ghosts possessing them, entangled, lingering, and unable to drive away. Among them, Sui Chengshi and Zhuang Xiaoyan are the third, fourth, or third and fourth parties who broke the peaceful years of Kong Xuecheng and Qin Shuyan. Kong Xuecheng and Qin Shuyan's self-promotion and people's tolerance and tolerance compared to oneself moved to release a gentle and noble personality, which not only resolved the embarrassing dilemma of Sui Chengshi and Zhuang Xiaoyan, but also benefited and benefited them, and made them wordless paving and selfless support for them to change their minds and embark on the road of self-reform. Kong Xuecheng and Qin Shuyan are the author's two characters who write the most and the most intense, they survived the sorrow of crying without tears and the desperate situation of desperation, and were dominated by impermanence to go their separate ways, and fell into the family swamp of the same bed and different dreams, they kept the bottom line of "I would rather be burdened by others, not by me", even if money is lost, family affection is lost, and never lose the selflessness, fearlessness, and regret of "sacrificing oneself to feed the tiger", and even don't care about letting go of anyone who is hostile to the fulfillment of the negative heart and self-defeating, on the surface they have self-harm, The stupidity of self-harm actually reflects a great realm that can not be encountered, a noble personality that cannot be humiliated, and the great wisdom that never withstands and can become a great self-reliant, regardless of turbidity. Xie Changshun and Wu Guirong, Lin Jinsuo and Yu Erhong, two couples who have to rely on their own backbone, have always held out a petal of sincerity, a pair of warm intestines to deal with people, the good do not lose, the benevolent are invincible, they suddenly looked back after the sorrow, only to be pleasantly surprised to find that the smiling face beside the shining body is the most true and the most precious, with this day, the dark clouds of the years are immediately inlaid with gold edges by the sun, and all the fatigue and fatigue paid in the past have been doubled.
Meng Xiangyong is rich in narrative talent, he is good at telling stories with low volume, never strong words and reasoning, his philosophy of life has turned into a touching plot in the story, subtle details and chivalrous blood fever and altruistic warmth, his works are the book of words, but also the book of words, only the experience is saturated, the knowledge of the big and the small, the deep perception of the era of the experience and the people who have known people, in order to create a "god and form" of the hand-me-down, so that the "two into one" narrative is reasonable, see through, write well. In this sense, the author has successfully created a group of dusty, frosty people who have passed by, truly restored the old scenes of oblivion, reproduced the typical fortunes of a group of atypical characters, and solemnly and competently acted as the spokesperson of an era and the successor of a generation of educated youth.