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At the end of 2020, a movie was on fire, called "Send You a Little Red Flower". On the first day of release, the box office broke 300 million, and on the 5th day, the box office broke 800 million, refreshing the domestic film record.
The film tells the story of two anti-cancer families, active life, and long-distance travel against the light, allowing us to face and think about the ultimate problem that every ordinary person will face - imagining that death may come at any time, and the only thing we have to do is love and cherish.
In those days, the circle of friends was brushed by it: "In 2021, reward yourself with a small red flower", "2021, may we be treated gently by life"...
After a traumatic 2020, we too much need some calm and sharp warmth to remind us:
How difficult the world is, how dangerous life is, we are doomed to be lonely, but also destined to be tenacious.
In ordinary life, as long as we are alive, as long as there is love, there is no despair in life.
"Send You a Little Red Flower" in the 2021 New Year's Eve period is based on the short story "Little Red Flower" in Han Jinyu's novel "Mountain Flowers vs. Sea Trees".
In addition, there are five equally wonderful short stories of "Flame in the Ashes", "Cold Spring", "Orchid Grass", "Evergreen Forest", and "Pushing the Iceman".
If you also like "Send You a Little Red Flower", I believe you will also like "Mountain Flower to Sea Tree".
01
Little Red Flower - award to you who work hard to live
"Little Red Flower" is the first part of "Mountain Flowers and Sea Trees". Slightly different from the movie.
The novel is about two eighteen-year-old boys, Wei Yihang, and Niu Xiaobing and a sister Fang Yuan'er in his early thirties, as well as many cancer patients, who meet in Pingshui, a cancer hospital.
They are all cancer patients, each suffering from severe physical pain and mental humiliation, as well as the joys and sorrows of their different family lives.
Sister Liao was tortured by liver cancer to describe the withering, and the mother-in-law forced the two to divorce, and even the children were not allowed to see;
Old Yan Tou has been suffering from athlete's foot for a lifetime, but in the end he has amputated his legs and can only live in a wheelchair;
Fang Yuan'er's body was always floating with the fragrance of grass leaves, but his thin waist had to hang a dung bag every day: "I worry every minute that the bag is full, leaking, and exploding, afraid that there is a smell on the body, I can't smell it, only others can smell it." ”
Cancer cells tear at the fragile body and try to extinguish the will to live. But they encouraged each other at the patient support meeting to live their lives.
Together, they discussed not how to cure the disease, but how to use the limited time to let life burn freely.
Fang Yuan'er made a fake intention in a fiery manner, changing colors and styles to decorate the monotonous ward life, sometimes transforming into a gorgeous red-haired girl, and sometimes a cute girl with a double twist braid.
Old Yan Tou said, "We just want to be a spirit, not for ourselves, but for the people around us." ”
On the road of anti-cancer, few people are survivors. Most of them eventually fought against the ferocious disease and withered away inexorably and rapidly. Bright as Fang Yuan'er, he eventually left this world.
Wei Yihang and Niu Xiaobing, with Fang Yuan'er's wishes before his death, finally arrived at the Dachaidan Salt Lake in Qinghai after many hardships.
"Little Red Flower" is short, and life is also very short. Death can come at any time.
The only thing we can do is to live like Fang Yuan'er, Wei Yihang, and Niu Xiaobing, cherish the people and things around us, and try to live every minute.
02
Flame in ashes
The story in "Ashes in Flames" tells the story of Tao Na living in the sick Tao Xinping family to take care of her from the perspective of three women, Li Xiaofen, her sister Tao Xinping, and her sister Tao Na.
The whole story is based on whether Li Xiaofen's father Li Zhenghai and his mother Tao Xinping's sister Tao Na have a "private affair" as the core.
Tao Xinping's family is a "model family" in the eyes of outsiders: Tao Xinping is sick in bed, her husband Li Zhenghai does not abandon it, her sister Tao Na sends charcoal in the snow, and her daughter Li Xiaofen is considerate and meticulous. A family of four in the same boat has received praise from the neighbors.
But what about the interior of the model family?
Couples whose feelings have long been broken, mothers and daughters who have a grudge against each other, sisters who are jealous of each other, they love each other and resent each other, support each other and hurt each other.
No one has broken the tranquility of the family, and no one has lost his morality, but he is secretly thinking in his heart.
The family is so hard at home to maintain the decency of life.
In the eyes of outsiders, their family is a model family of suffering and suffering. In fact, Li Zhenghai and Tao Xinping have long been looking at each other and torturing each other.
In addition to taking care of his bedridden wife, Li Zhenghai also had to work hard to earn money to support a lot of family expenses, running east and west to take care of business while saddleing up his wife and daughter. Back at home, I still have to face my wife's cold face.
Tao Xinping also had many grievances and unwillingness in his heart. Her husband, Li Zhenghai, disappeared for two years over a debt dispute, only to suddenly appear after she fell ill. Always self-reliant, she was trapped in bed by illness and "endured" the care of others. She put all her resentment and resentment, which had nowhere to vent, in her husband's name.
When marriage becomes a besieged city, responsibility exceeds love, reason is more than emotion, face is heavier than inside, and couples who are bound together by morality are really happy? How much of the world's praise of sharing weal and woe is there, and how much of the unknown helplessness and bitterness are there?
The absence of the paternity in the marriage relationship directly affects the direction of the parent-child relationship.
Tao Xinping and Li Xiaofen, the mother and daughter, most of the time, are just silent and relative.
During the period when her husband went out to hide debts, Tao Xinping used his own strength to support the family, and at the same time accumulated countless grievances and anger towards her husband.
Li Xiaofen, who has been close to her father since childhood, knows that her mother is trying to make herself an ally, but she is reluctant. So she didn't say good things to her father or help her mother pull a bias, except for obedient study, most of the time, she was silent.
There is no love between mother and daughter, but it is getting bigger and bigger in the estrangement and silence.
And brotherhood? Faced with a growing desire and more calculations, brotherhood was finally polluted.
Tao Na lived in her sister's house when she was in danger, and wholeheartedly took care of Tao Xinping for six years, which made the family come back to life.
But as the family gradually returned to the right track, Tao Na and her brother-in-law gradually fell in love, because the moral pressure stopped, so the desire prompted her to have a secret desire to take her place after her sister's death:
She was just waiting for something that would happen sooner or later, just a queue, and the rule was that she should wait outside the one-meter line, and she was waiting outside the one-meter line. That's all.
But I didn't want to, because of my secret careful thinking, but let my sister Tao Xinping inspire the will to live: she was a husband and wife in one day.
The embers in the ashes always have a moment of extinguishing.
Human beings can truly love each other only if they have no intentions for each other.
03
Evergreen Forest
Some people say that this society is a society where the intergenerational gap is unprecedented, and the home is no longer a "safe haven".
It seems that the original family is naturally about to be examined and criticized.
However, even if, like Tao Xinping in "Flame in Ashes", the family is full of diaphragms and contradictions, but no matter how many estrangements and contradictions, there is still a love and warmth that we often ignore.
"Immortal Forest" is like this.
The old sawdust and his wife Guiqing lived in a broken house for a lifetime, the building was dark, not to mention, even to the toilet, bathing had to go to the public toilet in the corridor to solve.
The eggs were received for free at the people's pharmacy, and the frozen sticks were bought for ten yuan a big pocket, and even the sofas at home were eliminated by Gui Qing's nephew's family.
But even so, the old couple living on the edge of the bottom still can't let go of their daughter who is not living a very smooth life:
Usually, even a fish sent by an old neighbor is reluctant to eat, but when the daughter returns to her mother's house, she will serve a table of meat dishes;
The old man who had to break a penny into two halves gritted his teeth and paid his daughter thirty thousand yuan to do business;
Carefully calculate the money cut down by penny, and use it to pay social security to her daughter;
Even, the old sawdust signed an organ donation agreement, just to receive the bonus, so that his daughter can change to a new electric car...
But the daughter was unmoved, she only remembered the humiliation of being ridiculed by her classmates as a child for "living in a matchbox". Complaining to parents everywhere.
The incompetent father in the eyes of the daughter did not give up loving her because of his daughter's incomprehension.
Instead, he blamed all the misfortunes that his daughter encountered in his own name and did his best to make up for it until the end of his life.
The forest of eternal life where the father was buried is a symbol of the endless love.
Love does not die.
Parental love, even more so.
Even if life is difficult, we still have to love seriously and hard.
04
epilogue
In "Mountain Flowers to Sea Trees", as well as "Spring Cold", "Orchid Grass", "Pushing Iceman", their stories are like you and me, in this society, as an ordinary ordinary person, living a difficult life.
Fang Yuan'er lifted his clothes to reveal the bag of dung hanging from his thin waist;
Tao Xinping drew a picture of wanting to talk and rest on the book;
Zhang Huineng drying towels on the street;
Hong Zheng drove a cleaning car to listen to "Orchid Grass" and found his self-identity;
The old sawdust chanted the benefits of organ donation, not knowing whether to comfort his family or himself;
The Iceman that Isaac pushed away turned into a field of water, and his home was dispersed early.
Finally, borrow the lyrics of "Send You a Little Red Flower" to mourn the deceased lyrics author Mr. Zhao Yingjun.
At the same time, encourage those who still need to continue to live strongly:
Send you a small red flower
Open your newly grown branches yesterday
Reward you for having courage
Take the initiative to come and talk to me
Ice water that doesn't wear the sky
What a spirit
What a miserable day
You have overcome it
Cover your new scars today
Reward you on a rainy day
Also willing to send me home
What a snowstorm in Colorado
What a rainstorm in the Himalayas
As long as you believe me
Close your eyes and you'll be there
Open in the end of the world where cattle and sheep are everywhere
Reward you wherever you go
You won't forget me
A beach as white as snow
The calm water of the lake
Those real apparitions
It's my concern for you
The deepest sediment that opens up in your heart
Reward you to feel the struggle of each fate
Who squandered time?
Whose bitter extravagance?
This is not a problem
Nor does it require your answer
Author: Su Yun, a member of the Intensive Reading Association. Use time to exchange talents, the harder you work, the luckier you are, don't forget your original intention, you have to be consistent.
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