Maybe Xiao Man is the only one among us who really knows Liu Feng's kindness.
A person who has never been treated well can best recognize kindness and cherish kindness the most.
- "Fanghua"
Writer Yan Geling told a "good man" Liu Feng in the novel "Fanghua", who always silently contributed his good to the world, but did not get the good ending that he deserved. Whether it is career or feelings, the "good man" Liu Feng is a very bad story.
"Little Girl Fishing" is also a story about a good woman Xiaoyu, the difference is that Xiaoyu's goodness has been rewarded, she not only changed a "rogue" old man, but also woke up by this "rogue" old man.
Yan Geling's early novella "Little Girl Fishing" was made by director Zhang Aijia into the movie of the same name "Little Girl Fishing", which tells the story of Chinese living in the United States for green cards and fake marriages with locals. The young girl Xiaoyu also recognized the scumbag from a humble person who was inferior in her feelings, opened the road to awakening, had her own thoughts, and truly became herself.
01, "Scumbag" Jiang Wei's "True Face of Lushan"
He once won the national breaststroke championship, and when he met Xiaoyu, his muscles were still beautiful field chicken, and he was preparing to go abroad.
In that era of suicide and murder in order to leave the Congress, Jiang Wei was able to go abroad, making his image tall again.
It can be said that at that time, Jiang Wei satisfied all the girls' fantasies about their boyfriends, and was also a very ideal son-in-law in the hearts of the mother-in-law.
But the author has already shown in the novel that Jiang Wei is a scumbag.
After Xiaoyu and Jiang Wei fell in love for the first time, Jiang Wei's bastard was presented like this:
"Who did you go back to bed with?"
At that time, Jiang Wei and Xiaoyu had known each other for less than 2 weeks, and Jiang Wei asked the first sentence after the relationship.
How ridiculous!
They all ate the grapes and asked if the grapes were clean!
When it was learned that the first man of Xiaoyu was a dying patient, Xiaoyu slept with him for pity, and it was even more "tight from the end of his hair to his toes", the novel did not directly describe Jiang Wei's reaction, but used Jiang Wei's body expression to highlight Jiang Wei's mind and contempt.
In fact, it also laid the groundwork for Xiaoyu's emotional experience later, at this time Jiang Wei already felt that Xiaoyu was a very casual and unworthy woman, and Jiang Wei, who had a virgin complex, looked down on Xiaoyu in his bones.
How serious is the virgin complex of Chinese men? In the once popular TV series "Ode to Joy", Qiu Yingying, played by Yang Zi, was dumped by her boyfriend because she was not a virgin, and almost did not get married. This is evident from this.
At the beginning, it was doomed, she and Jiang Weiben were not the same people at all.
At this time, if Xiaoyu could wake up in time, maybe she wouldn't have to go through the fake marriage that would make her ashamed for a lifetime?
However, Xiaoyu still accepted Jiang Wei's invitation to go abroad, although it had been half a year since they had a relationship, and they did not have any contact during this period.
In this case, Xiaoyu even accepted it? Is it environmentally dictated?
But he did not know that Jiang Wei had already regarded Xiaoyu as a pawn instead of his wife, and had long been premeditated, but simple Xiaoyu was unaware of it, and fell into the trap of the other party's beautiful plan step by step.
02, under the guise of "love name" but only for "identity"
Xiaoyu calmly took the various documents sent to her by Jiang Wei to go abroad and went abroad through "eight thousand miles of clouds and moons".
After living with Jiang Wei, they worked all day to go to school on weekends, but as long as they stayed with Jiang Wei, their chat was always around "identity" (that is, green card), and it seemed that they had no common topic except "identity" and lust.
Soon after, Jiang Wei "married" Xiaoyu to a "rogue" old man, just for "identity".
What is this "rogue" old man like?
"Just him? Old Italian with a rotten belly like a terraced field? ”
This is the 67-year-old "rogue" old man with whom the 22-year-old Xiaoyu wants to fake marriage.
Anyone with a sense of shame and morality would not do this, but Xiaoyu was persuaded by Jiang Wei to accept, "The old man is not lame or blind, even if it is fair", and has lived under the same roof for nearly 1 year (because after 1 year they are allowed to divorce).
Is this love?
Wake up!
Would a person who genuinely loves and plans for his future wife be willing to let her do this?
On the night of Xiaoyu and the old man's marriage (nominally married, but actually did not live together), Jiang Wei felt that Xiaoyu was dirty by the old man because of his male self-esteem, and wiped her lips with toilet paper instead of eating paper (Xiaoyu and the old man had a symbolic kiss at the wedding ceremony).
On the one hand, he hopes to use Xiaoyu's fake marriage to exchange for his "identity", and on the other hand, he hopes that Xiaoyu belongs only to him, how contradictory is this?
But did he treat the little fisherman like a man?
03, the sincerity of the "rogue" old man
"The old man was poor and anxious, and he had never sold art on the street, and Rita forced him, and he didn't go. He sells himself."
The author Yan Geling used such a sentence to describe the old man after his appearance.
However, such an old man who would rather be poor and die than sell art on the street, in order to save money for buying a monthly train ticket for Xiaoyu, actually began to sell art on the street, this old scoundrel in the eyes of everyone was like a father who was really distressed about Xiaoyu who walked and worked every day.
As for Jiang Wei, he can obviously smoke less, go to nightclubs a few times, and go to restaurants with his friends a few times, so as to save Xiaoyu's car money. But he didn't do it, never thought about it, and wouldn't do it at all.
We don't know what the old man has experienced for more than 60 years, but he has only spent half a year with Xiaoyu, and he has been affected by the kind and simple Xiaoyu and becomes more like a person.
In order to avoid the inspection of the immigration bureau, Xiaoyu had to move to live with the old man, just as the old man's house had 2 bedrooms, Xiaoyu and Jiang Wei's residence was very noisy because of the shared apartment, which affected Xiaoyu's study, and the old man's house seemed to be just sending charcoal in the snow.
Xiaoyu loves to be clean, and every time he goes out, he secretly takes the old man's kitchen garbage out and throws it away, and every time he finishes using the bathroom, he always scrubs the washbasin and washbasin and the dresser and mirror that are dirty every day.
However, when living with Jiang Wei, whenever Xiaoyu wanted to clean up, he was choked back by Jiang Wei's words: "They paid you to clean?" "Are you mine mine or public?" ”。
Xiaoyu did not want to think so much, because he did not want to make trouble and because of poor old man, the old man raised the rent 3 times, and every time he repaired the roof, opened the sewers, and killed cockroaches, Xiaoyu had to pay half of the cost. Xiaoyu didn't let Jiang Wei know, because he couldn't solve the problem after he knew it, he would only make trouble, and if he won't win the trouble, he wouldn't care, and he wouldn't pay for Xiaoyu.
And it was in these six months of getting along that the originally depraved old man actually began to live seriously.
The biggest change is to go out and sell art, which is an old "scoundrel" who would rather die poor and sell himself than sell art!
Because Xiaoyu met his unreasonable demand for money every time, he preferred to walk to work without taking the car.
In the same face of difficulties and sufferings, Xiaoyu always wronged himself, while the old man was always disturbing others, breaking the jar and breaking the persimmon.
Under the subtle influence of Xiaoyu, the old man was actually ashamed, and he even felt ashamed!
Suffering never knows borders, and the pursuit of goodness and a better life in the depths of human nature knows no borders. Just like this foreign old man who has fallen all his life, but when he is dying, he begins to live seriously like a human being, and begins to treat himself as a human being.
Even Rita admired the small fishing.
Rita is a sexual partner and life confidant who lives with the old man, but every day she lives like the end of the world.
Reita described her relationship with the old man this way:
"Beasts and beasts don't need to get married, they don't deserve to get married, just breed together!" Strangely, with people, the beast becomes like a man; when a man is born together, man becomes a beast. “
I think these words are the finishing touch to this novel.
The old man was a beast, so why wasn't Jiang Wei a beast? Only small fishermen are people.
Because the old man who was a beast saw the little fisherman who really had vitality, he also became a human being.
Xiao Yu and Jiang Wei, on the other hand, started a cattle business.
The author really admires the sharpness of the author Yan Geling!
It is precisely under the contrast and background of the "rogue" old man that Jiang Wei's scumbag image is really hammered!
Through contact with the old man, Xiaoyu, who has been living under the patriarchal system and has some three-from-four virtue thoughts, has also begun his own path of resistance and awakening.
In the past, Xiaoyu would never refuse any unreasonable demands, orders and actions of Jiang Wei, and she was always the first to compromise, and she could bear it: "Otherwise, both of them will cry, who will coax it?" "When a man says such a cruel word, his heart must hurt even more fiercely."
But when he saw the old man selling his art in the wind and rain, and the money he had earned from his own strength was blown away by the wind, Xiaoyu began to resist, and despite Jiang Wei's resistance, he immediately ran to help the old man pick it up one by one, and accompanied the old man soaked wet.
At the end, the 1-year deadline has arrived, Xiaoyu obeys his conscience to take care of the old man who has suffered a stroke, and the author Yan Geling gives an open ending for the reader to imagine.
But from Xiaoyu's 2 rejections, it can be seen that Xiaoyu has begun to wake up, originally she did not have the special happiness and superiority of others when she went abroad, but was limited by that environment.
epilogue
"A person who never is treated well can best recognize kindness and cherish kindness the most."
Many years later, Ms. Yan Geling gave the answer to "Girl Fishing" in "Fanghua".
Xiaoyu's kindness has never been cherished by Jiang Wei, and has been ruthlessly and cruelly trampled by Jiang Wei again and again.
And the 67-year-old "rogue" old man, because he has never been treated warmly and kindly, even the scumbag Jiang Wei is a "rogue, rogue" shouting and belittling.
So he can see the good of Xiaoyu, and such a good woman as Xiaoyu is worthy of being cherished and loved.
It is said that good love will make people a better self, rather than any reason to bend and give in step by step.
The ancients also said that "those who are close to Zhu are red and close to ink are black".
Whether in the novel or the movie, Xiaoyu finally has her own thoughts, and she is awakened by this "rogue" old man.
(The pictures in this article are from the Internet and the movie "Girl Fishing", invaded and deleted)