Yu Hua's "Brothers" tears apart the most authentic human nature for us to see. In those days of suffering and sharing, people can do it more than gold. The time when the spring breeze is proud makes people forget the moment when they treat each other most sincerely, and only remember the hurt that the other party has done to themselves.
Li Guangtou and Song Gang in "Brothers" I prefer to call them halfway brothers. They were half-brothers who had a brief time together, but eventually went on a rupture.
Their encounter stemmed from the remarriage of their parents, Li Guangtou's mother Li Lan married Song Gang's father, Song Fanping. After the deaths of Li Lan and Song Fanping, the two young children became brothers in the same tribulation. They support each other through the hardest days. The tempering of the years makes them think that the love between them is stronger than stone. Yet the appearance of a woman shatters their brotherhood. No matter how deep the brotherhood is, it is not as important as a woman.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > the hard days, and put brotherhood on Song Gang's head</h1>
After Li Lan and Song Fanping married, Li Guangtou and Song Gang became brothers. When the parents were there, they had a short good life, and the two children played together.
After Song Fanping's death, when he buried Song Fanping, Li Lan left Song Gang in his grandfather's house in the countryside. Great love still can't support Li Lan to raise two children alone, she can only abandon Song Gang.
Li Lan said to Song Gang:
Son, you have to take good care of Grandpa, Grandpa is old, he wants you to stay around... Son, mom will come to see you often...
Li Lan, who lost her husband, supported her to go down with underage children, while Song Fanping's father, who lost his son, soothed his soul by his grandson Song Gang.
In the difficult years, they struggled to raise their children to grow up. The two children were forced to separate when they did not understand what separation was. One accompanies the mother, the other guards the grandfather.
Song Gang, who missed Li Guangtou, secretly concealed that his grandfather was carrying five big white rabbit milk candies, and inquired about the road to Liu Zhen along the way. From morning to noon, I finally arrived at Li Bald's house.
Li Baldhead was locked in the room, the window was nailed, and the two men looked at each other through the gap in the window, talking back-to-back across the door panel about their newly learned skills in the days of separation.
It was dark, and Song Gang couldn't find a way back to his grandfather's house and returned to Li Guangtou's house. Song Gang, who had not eaten at noon, was hungry, and he asked Li Guangtou if he could eat a piece of white rabbit milk candy. Li Guangtou agreed, but Song Gang was reluctant to eat, he just smelled the taste and said:
I don't eat it, it's milk candy for you, I just smell it.
After a short reunion, the next day Song Gang's grandfather came to Liu Town to pick up Song Gang. Since then, Song Gang and his grandfather will come to Liu Town to sell vegetables every month, and Song Gang will hold two fresh green vegetables and put them in front of Li Guangtou's house every time. They still think of each other in the hardest days.
On his deathbed, Li Lan entrusted Li Guangtou to Song Gang.
Song Gang, Li Bald head is your brother, you have to take care of him for the rest of your life... Song Gang, I'm not worried about you, I'm worried about Li Guangtou, if this child can take the right path, there will be a big difference in the future; if this child takes a crooked road, I am afraid that he will go to jail... Song Gang, you have to look after Li Guangtou for me, don't let him go down a crooked road; Song Gang, you have to promise me, no matter what bad things Li Guangtou does, you must take care of him.
The last bowl of rice your brothers ate separately, and the last piece of clothing your brothers changed into...
This is Li Lan's entrustment to Song Gang. After Li Lan left, Song Gang's grandfather also passed away. Leaving two teenagers of 15 and 16 to live with each other.
Song Gang is only one year older than Li Guangtou, and in life he takes care of Li Guangtou more. Two people depend on each other and love each other. If it were not for Lin Hong's appearance, they would probably be good brothers for a lifetime.
Song Gang was distressed about his younger brother Li Guangtou, and good things would definitely be left to his younger brother. But the emotional stuff is the hardest to control, two brothers because a woman turns against each other.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="49" > Li Guangtou only wants to test brotherhood and does not love Lin Hong</h1>
Li Guangtou fell in love with Lin Hong first, but Lin Hong did not look up to Li Guangtou, and she looked at the honest Song Gang. In order to be with Song Gang, Lin Hong fought with his life.
And Li Guangtou, when Song Gang told Li Guangtou that Lin Hong liked himself. Li Guangtou first strenuously denied that Lin Hong could not like Song Gang, an orphan. Song Gang is a poor boy, and Lin Hong has no reason to like him, unlike himself as a factory manager. When he learned that Song Gang also liked Lin Hong, Li Guangtou said:
I tell you, you can't like Lin Hong.
Lin Hong is mine, how can you like Lin Hong? You are my brother, others can compete with me for Lin Hong, you can't compete with me.
Song Gang, we are brothers who depend on each other, you obviously know that I like Lin Hong, why do you want to like her? You're incest!
Li Guangtou lobbied in various ways to kidnap Song Gang with brotherhood and prevent Song Gang and Lin Hong from being together. What Li Guangtou did not want to admit was that Lin Hong did not like him from beginning to end, let alone said that she wanted to be with him. It was he who pestered people with wishful thinking.
Song Gang felt pain because he hurt Lin Hong again and again, he chose to commit suicide, Li Bald asked him angrily whether it was worth it to commit suicide for a woman?
Song Gang asked Li What he would do if he changed his bald head to him. Li Bald shouted:
I'll kill you. The brothers were slaughtered in the same way.
This sentence made Song Gang make up his mind to be with Lin Hong. After the two people were together, Li Guangtou and Song Gang completely broke up, and Li Guangtou hated Song Gang. The brotherhood of the two men stopped in front of a woman.
Song Gang and Lin Hong had a short sweet time. The burden of life allows their love to slowly dissipate. Lin Hong began to dislike Song Gang for making less money. At that time, Li Guangtou could be said to be rich and oily.
Lin Hong asked Song Gang to beg Li Guangtou to give him a mouthful of rice, and Song Gang could not open his mouth. And Li Guangtou had long forgotten that he had a brother who was in suffering, and he only remembered Song Gang, who robbed his woman of not something.
After becoming rich, Li Guangtou came to Song Gang and asked Song Gang to help him do things, but he only came once. Li Guangtou's feelings for Song Gang have always been less serious than the children's affection. He could ignore Song Gang, but when Song Gang went out to work, he found his sister-in-law's door and climbed into his sister-in-law's bed.
At that time, Li Guangtou forgot the days when he and Song Gang were dependent on each other, and forgot that this was called incest. He just wanted to conquer a woman he hadn't taken since he was young.
The rich Li Bald head has all kinds of women, but he only wants to conquer the Lin Hong who doesn't look up to him. What brotherhood is bullshit for Li Bald.
In the end, Song Gang committed suicide, was Li Baldhead sad? Sad, but that's about it. Li Guangtou had a thousand and ten thousand opportunities to improve his relationship with Song Gang. But he wasn't willing to do it. He felt ashamed, felt that the good brother had betrayed himself and robbed his own woman.
The robbery that was once was Li Guangtou's imagination, because Lin Hong's eyes had never been Li Guangtou. Later, Li Bald's robbery was the real incest, the real sorry for his big brother.
There are very few brothers who can be with the rich, and What Li Guangtou cares about is not how Song Gang is living, the young people are dependent on each other, and lin Hong's time to amaze him is not enough.
The brotherhood of Li Guangtou and Song Gang was consumed when competing for women. What Li Guangtou wanted was to follow him all the time and let his eldest brother Song Gang. When Song Gang no longer let him, he no longer recognized Song Gang as a brother.
After becoming rich, Li Guangtou was worried about the ungotten Lin Hong, not Song Gang, who was thinking about himself everywhere during that difficult period.
This is human nature, you are good to me a thousand times, I have not remembered once, I think it should be. But when you once treated me badly, I remembered your badness for the rest of my life and broke with you. This is the saddest part of human nature.
When people are rich, what they can remember is no longer the enjoyment of poverty, but how much the other party has done to apologize for themselves when they are down. Once rich, half-life love is in vain.