The suspense novel "Undercurrents: The Strange Case of nine rivers" is different from any previous one, and before reading the third chapter, I always thought that each one except the main characters was an independent individual, with its own characters, temporal causes, developments, climaxes, and endings. But from the fourth chapter onwards, I realized that this is a complete story, and the first three chapters are just branches under the big framework.
Through one case after another, the author explores the real driving force under the undercurrent.
"Undercurrents: The Strange Case of the Nine Rivers" is another suspense work by the post-90s writer Hunting Yiyang. Jiuhe is the general term for many tributaries of the lower reaches of the Yellow River in ancient times. In ancient times, the ancient Yellow River spread out in a northeast direction near Mengjin County in northern Henan, and the Tufa River, taishi river, Majie river, Fupu river, Husu river, Jian river, Qiu river, Hookpan River, and Qijin River nine rivers, and finally merged into one in the Tianjin Dagang area into the sea.
The story takes place in the late Qing Dynasty and early Min Dynasty, Tianjin Wei is located in the lower reaches of the Jiuhe River, because of its special geographical location, the three religions and nine streams and other forces gathered here. Tragedies and murders have also intensified under the competition of various forces. Returned to China Bai Fumei Qianjin and the city well small, from the first case to cooperate, a Western thinking and an Oriental concept, in the matter of detective, the two people constantly clashed, but also slowly attracted to each other, through one case after another, the two people finally found the undercurrent that stirred Tianjin Wei. #天津头条 #
In the era when that person ate people, some people's love and righteousness were heavy, and some people's love and righteousness were worth "ten thousand gold".
When the red-headed jade red silk fell in love with a poor student, ransomed him, married him as a wife, and bore him a child. But he was a revolutionary, persecuted, hunted down, forced into exile, and the two separated. Even so, it did not shake their love, and she waited obsessively for him to return. However, wanwan did not expect that she was deceived by her friends, her children were kidnapped and sold to death by the "friends", and she was also designed to marry a powerful man as a concubine, and she committed suicide in the river in a heartbroken mood.
After returning to China, the revolutionary party sold its soul to avenge its wife, and although the revenge had been repaid, people could never come back.
At the end of the story, the poor student who has avenged the revenge sits alone on the bow of the boat, drinking the wine he once drank with his lover, listening to the music played by his lover before he died, and is buried in the fire.
This is probably a microcosm of the love of the Republic of China era, and how many idiot men and women have not had a perfect ending in the end.
Compared with the feelings of men and women, the love of brotherhood and brotherhood can also be "heavy", the difference is that one is to the left and the other is to the right.
Cai Zhenyi, Cui Sanhai, and Zheng Qingtong were three people who married brothers in front of the Guandi Temple, and they supported each other in life and death, and helped each other in tribulations. In the end, he killed himself because of three boxes of gold and silver jewelry.
The big boss behind the scenes, who was the most common poor man of that era, was killed by his father, his sister was humiliated to death, and he was separated from his only brother in the famine years, and he grew up in anger and rising desire, becoming a big hand under the undercurrent. He planned one murder after another, burying one body after another, but this did not dissipate the hatred in his heart, but grew day by day, until it was necessary to blow up the entire Tianjin Wei to calm down.
Born in that era of famine, when people eat people, hatred and desire were inevitable products, but it has to be said that blood relatives have always been the most stable and reliable relationship. Even in the end, Liu Ye, who is inhuman, has his own weaknesses.
Just as no piece of seawater would surge for no reason, under the premise of Mencius's inherent goodness of human nature, no deterioration was unprovoked.