Having experienced all kinds of ravages and beatings in life, after reading "Little Aunt Duohe", Fang even more recognized the true meaning of Xiao Huan's famous words - OK.
Life and marriage are chicken feathers, in real life, who doesn't make it up like this, and come over?
"Little Aunt Duohe" - Yan Geling
"Little Aunt Tatsuru" tells the tragic story of more than ten years after the Japanese orphan Takeuchi Tatsuru was sold to the Zhang family in the northeast as a tool for "passing on the generations".
Compared with the TV series starring Sun Li, I still think the novel is better.
Those simple and vivid words enrich the space of our imagination; the kind of shock, pathos, entanglement, unspeakable pain, the constant cutting in the repression, the emotions that are still chaotic, can only be savored between the lines of the novel.
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"There's more than one wolf smoke."
Renders the gray and dark tone of the entire work.
This was September 1945, in the village of Dailang in Manchukuo, inhabited by ordinary people who had been tricked by the Japanese government into coming to China to reclaim wasteland.
In war, the most bitter thing is the ordinary people.
Japan was defeated, but had no time to properly place its people, so a hellish human tragedy was staged:
For the sake of that little bit of deplorable dignity, in order to be "good Japanese", they chose to commit suicide en masse, thousands of people who failed to commit suicide, fled to the border, and countless mothers ruthlessly tortured and killed their own flesh and bones.
Sixteen-year-old teenage girl Takeuchi Tatsuru, with a strong desire to survive, in the process of following the withdrawal of the large army, watched her mother and younger siblings being killed, but did not dare to stop the pace of escape, or even too late to grieve.
Finally survived to the last stop - when she was dying, she was packed in a sack and sold to the Zhang family for seven oceans.
Takeuchi Tatsuru
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The second child of the Zhang family is named Zhang Jian.
Zhang Jian, a northeastern Hanzi, is introverted and taciturn, has a pair of camel eyes, and is good to his wife Xiaohuan Baxin.
Xiaohuan is straight-talking and fast-talking, and his personality is spicy and smiley, like a pot of fire, wherever he goes, he is lively.
She is also deeply in love with Zhang Jian, Zhang Jian's every move, yawning and picking an eyebrow, loading a pot of cigarettes and chopsticks, all unconsciously touching her gaze.
Once, Xiaohuan went out to meet Japanese soldiers, in order to get rid of the chase, she climbed on a ploughing cow, unexpectedly, the cow ran and threw Xiaohuan down, she miscarried.
At the critical juncture of snatching the life of the child in her belly, when she heard the three words "Bao Da ren" roaring out of the second child's open mouth, she burst into tears, and at that moment, she felt that it was worth giving her life to him.
Unfortunately, the small ring after the miscarriage can no longer have children.
This has also become a heart disease of the Zhang family.
The Zhang family bought Tatsuru, a Japanese woman, naturally to give birth to a child through her belly.
Xiaohuan has a warm personality and a poisonous mouth, but he is still very dignified as a person, although he is reluctant, but for the sake of the damn inheritance of the big thing, he still helps his mother-in-law to persuade Zhang Jian.
She thought to herself: Okay.
What can be done? Can you stop it?
Knowing the righteousness, she knows very well that she cannot cut off the incense of the Zhang family because of her selfishness, since she cannot give birth to children for her own man, if being born in the old society is to take a concubine for the second child, she is also willing, anyway, as long as he has her in his heart.
XiaoHuan and Zhang Jian
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Soon, Tatsuru became pregnant and gave birth to a female baby Harumi, the child was called Xiaohuan "Mom", and Tatsuru, the biological mother "Little Aunt".
This deformed family of two women and a man, in order not to attract people's attention and suspicion, traveled to several places.
Does anyone want to go on like this all the time?
No, they don't want to, but there is no way, who let them be born in such an era, can only passively be wrapped in fate to move forward, make what they think is the best decision.
Little aunt Tatsuru
Later, Duohe gave birth to twin sons Zhang Tie and Zhang Gang, fulfilling the dream of the Zhang family's succession, but this also made Zhang Jian think about how to get rid of Duohe and live a normal life.
How much he wants to live in the sun with his wife and son, instead of tying a crane to a crane— this suspicious tail!
The opportunity finally came.
One day, Zhang Jian took Duohe to the Yangtze River to play, taking advantage of the gap between Duohe's departure and getting rid of this burden.
Unexpectedly, after Xiaohuan knew, he scolded Zhang Jian for lacking virtue and dragged Zhang Jian to look for him everywhere along the Yangtze River.
Does she like Tatsuru?
No, Tatsuru was a Japanese, how could she forget how her child died?
But little Japan is bad, Tatsuru is not bad, helped her give birth to three children, run a family life, for a long time, Tatsuru has completely infiltrated her life, became a part of this family.
Look at the dusty glass windows, the shiny floor that can illuminate the shadows, and the clothes that are ironed properly and properly plated, this home has been fixed by Tatsuru.
How many people have scanned this home with incomprehensible and suspicious eyes, but she doesn't care, anyway, the days are so coincidental, this is suddenly one less person, how she feels uncomfortable, how she is not wrong!
A month later, Duohe, who was black, thin and dirty and had gone through hardships, finally returned to the Zhang family. The moment he saw Zhang Jian, Duo He hated this man who made her unable to see her own flesh and blood, and beat him up. Xiao Huan pitied Tatsuru and began to feel sorry for his man again.
Later, after learning of Duohe's death, Zhang Jian suddenly had a love and obsession with Duohe, and the pair of people who lived under the same roof and spent eight or nine years together for generations actually began to fall in love and began to avoid Xiaohuan to secretly date.
It wasn't until the day he was discovered two years later that Xiaohuan understood that the man had changed, soul and body, and that he had betrayed her completely.
However, the small ring that knew the general body, or the big horn thick-skinned to help him round the field, which also made the second child Zhang Jianjian self-conscious, no longer dare to be close to Duohe.
For so long, only I was alone in the dark, saying that I was not sad? How can it be?!
But the strong and stoic Xiaohuan knows that this home is supported by everyone, and whichever one goes away will collapse, no matter what, she tries her best to maintain it, thinking: Hey, make it up, look at the children's sake.
04
When Zhang Jian's enthusiasm suddenly disappeared, Duohe's two suitors, XiaoShi and Xiao Peng, surfaced at the same time, Xiao Peng was deeply obsessed with Duohe and wanted to marry Duohe, but he already had a wife and children in his hometown; Xiaoshi, bent on possessing Duohe, wanted to eat her tofu.
For the sake of The Crane's affair, Xiao Huan also broke his heart. She invited the two suitors to dinner, woke up to Xiao Peng, who already had a family, and indirectly knocked Xiao Shi.
On the surface, Xiaohuan solved the problem perfectly, but she knew that the matter was far from over, she couldn't feel Zhang Jian's thoughts, her heart was too chaotic, when she didn't control her emotions for a while, when she threw the troublesome black child out of the window, zhang Gang, the second child who loved the dog, immediately turned her face to her, Xiaohuan's brain immediately lit up, and at the same time, it was clear that this son was not hers after all, her face turned sallow, and an irrepressible sadness surged into her heart.
Soon Zhang Jian had another big incident. He drove a crane at night, and the steel suddenly fell and smashed on Xiao Shi, who happened to pass by, and Xiao Shi died on the spot, and Zhang Jian was also locked up.
With the kids
Her heavens, all of a sudden, collapsed!
Then the daughter Chunmei had mental problems, the eldest child Zhang Tie rebelled, and the second child Zhang Gang often ran into trouble... Without dependence, without the economic pillar, Xiaohuan began to set up a sewing stall, carrying a basket to "hunt", trying his best to maintain the family's life, and becoming the dependence of the whole family: OK, life will continue.
Every day, she sighed "ok", smiled "made up", complained about "make it up", and the days passed like this.
Unlike the perfection of many cranes, Xiaohuan makes up for it here, repairs there, keeps its eyes open and closed, lives badly, but it can also make up for the fact that it is not too bad to live, and it has been mixed for a month in the blink of an eye, a summer in the blink of an eye, and then a blink of an eye, mixed until autumn.
The small ring that made up with the laughter and anger of life was a little scary, and even the Tadatsuru, who was bent on killing himself, was infected and followed suit.
After a long time, Tatsuru found that "ok" turned out not to be uncomfortable at all, on the contrary, it was very comfortable.
Later, Chunmei's illness recovered, Zhang Jian was released, Duohe took the eldest child Zhang Tie back to Japan, the second child Zhang Gang went to the southwest, married his daughter-in-law and gave birth to a child, accompanied by Xiao Huan, only the black son who wagged his tail.
05
Although Tatsuru is the protagonist of the story, Xiaohuan has become another dazzling existence.
This raw and bold, grinning northeastern woman, the tribulations in life have struck one by one, how many chickens fly and dogs jump on the day, she is completely undaunted, spicy and enthusiastic, always steaming, full of vitality, wind and fire, infecting the people around her, and more profoundly affecting many cranes.
Her "make it up" philosophy of life has unavoidable helplessness and compromise, but it contains contempt and freedom from life.
Nine times out of ten people whose lives are not satisfactory, if they want to be born forever to the sun, how much love is needed to do the bottom line? How much nurturing of goodwill is needed?
Yes, it is the love and kindness buried deep in her heart that makes her shine with a unique human brilliance.
She loves her second child, and for this love, she accepts Tatsuru; she loves her children, treats her three children as her own, and really loves them, which is a great maternal love that transcends races.
She is kind, although she hates the Japanese, but when she learns about Tatsuru's tragic life, she feels sorry for her and cares about her; although Tatsuru's appearance makes her life deformed, anger and unwillingness have filled her heart several times, she has moved bad thoughts, but she can't always struggle with her own heart, kindness is her background.
She is tolerant and tolerant, with the inner qiankun of big things and small things, not entangled or screwed.
She is straightforward and fast-talking, is a good quarrel, through quarrelling, she will be the inner anxiety and anger, all released, not only liberated herself, but also arguing that others do not bother with her, can not help but say that she is a talent.
On the other hand, who can live as freely as XiaoHuan?
- Hey, make it up!