Yu Hua's "Seventh Day": The warmth of the world and the cruelty and helplessness of reality

When I read Yu Hua's book, I don't know how my eyes were moist, I think it was the kindness of human nature and the selfless dedication of fatherly love.

When Yang Fei was born on the train, a wrench saved his life, and the 21-year-old wrench was the cradle and haven of Yang Fei's life, and Yang Fei's adoptive father who was not related by blood than his biological father.

This father also wanted to talk about love and find a girlfriend, and it was difficult to meet someone who could entrust each other with life, but when talking about marriage, because of Yang Fei's existence, the girl did not marry the wrench in the end, which was the only heartwarming love experience in Yang Fei's adoptive father's life.

Caring for a toddler to adulthood is the dedication and pride of every mother's great maternal love, and when a young wrench raises a picked up child alone to grow up, this heavy fatherly love is even more precious.

One day, the adoptive father saw the search notice for Yang Fei's biological mother, who was studying in his second year of college. The adoptive father thought of the flesh and blood reunion of course, but never worried about losing the only son who had been raised by years of hard work, and the brilliance of human nature was vividly interpreted in a wrench!

The scene of the tears of the flesh and blood reunion and the selfless love of the adoptive father did not know how many people were touched, and everyone would weep for this human affection!

Yang Fei went to the northern city where his parents lived with better conditions with the support of his adoptive father, and although his parents and sisters-in-law and brother-in-law who lived under the same roof loved Yang Fei very much, the chicken and garlic skin that every family had always made a chicken and dog jump from time to time, so Yang Fei returned to his adoptive father's side again.

Yang Fei, who found a job, gradually settled down after a few years, and his precious character like his adoptive father was favored by the beautiful female colleagues who could not be sought by everyone, and Yang Fei got married, although he knew that there were many people who flocked to the beauty of his wife.

Haruki Murakami said: I have always thought that people grow old slowly, but in fact, they are not, people become old in an instant. Yang Fei's life seems to fall apart in an instant, his wife runs away with others for her career, although they say that they love you the most when they are separated; his adoptive father ran out of money due to cancer, in order not to drag Yang Fei away from home and run away alone...

The endless tragedies in the human world were staged one after another in the place where Yang Fei accidentally died and walked with his body and soul for 7 days. Just as Pythagoras said two thousand five hundred years ago, the body is nothing more than a place for the soul to temporarily rest on earth.

Those tragedies repeat themselves again and again: poisoned food, forced demolition, petitioning, kidney sales, violent law enforcement, concealment of major accidents, unspoken rules, unable to afford to die...

Yang Fei and his adoptive father, as well as many people who can't afford to die, have no place to rest their souls because they can't afford to buy a cemetery, and these undead also have a place to go after death, and its place name is: Death has no place to bury!