Su Tong is known as the contemporary "male writer who knows the most about women and is best at writing women", especially good at writing short stories, and the novel "Red Pink" is a particularly representative work in his short stories.
In 1995, this work was later adapted into the movie "Red Pink" by Li Shaohong, the only female director among the fifth generation of directors, and actors Wang Zhiwen, Wang Ji and He Saifei participated.
"Red Pink" tells the story of Qiu Yi and Xiao Calyx of the Red House in Cui yun Fang, who were prostitutes such as Qiu Yi and Xiao Calyx in the Red House after the liberation of 1950.
For prostitutes, a group of special products of the old age, the author does not condescend to express his critical ridicule or pitiful sympathy in harsh language or vocabulary.
From the perspective of a bystander, he wrote this tragic story peacefully and delicately with beautiful and concise writing and gentle and objective inclusive understanding.
In his writing, both men and women are nothing more than victims of the alternation of old and new in society in turbulent times.
The three main characters in "Red Pink": Qiu Yi, Xiao Calyx, Lao Pu, two dusty women in the old society, and a prostitute who lingered in the wind and moon place, the story came out at once.
Qiu Yi and Xiao Calyx are both prostitutes in the Xihong Mansion of Cuiyunfang, Qiu Yi has a strong and tenacious personality, and is bold in handling things, while Xiao Cai is cowardly and afraid of things, blindly relying on Qiu Yi without any opinion.
If the distinctive personality of Qiu Yi is a strong and bright red, then the little woman Xiao Calyx is a delicate and soft powder, the two are so different personality differences, resulting in the difference in values of the two people, the attitude to the challenges of life is also very different,
In the Xihong Building, the two people from poor backgrounds have the same sisterhood, but when faced with the choice of survival and emotion later, this sisterhood is vulnerable to the test of complex human nature, and even turns against each other.
Qiu Yi entered the Xihong Mansion at the age of 16 and grew up in a shantytown that emitted the "sour smell of poverty and dirtiness", a poor family with a blind old father and an aunt who did not want to see her.
Xiao Calyx died when he was 16 years old, his mother remarried, and he wanted to earn money to support himself and was afraid of hardship, so he set up a deed of sale and entered the Xihong Building.
At the beginning of the founding of New China, when the Wind and Moon Place was banned and rectified, these wind and dust women were also dragged away by the army with trucks to undergo labor reform, giving them the opportunity to re-enter the new society and support themselves.
However, this transformation encountered resistance from Qiu Yi and Xiao Cai's thoughts and actions.
The bold Qiu Yi jumped out of the car and escaped at the risk of being shot when the car drove to the city gate.
The little calyx was dragged into the labor camp in the ravine to be reformed, weeping over the task of sewing thirty sacks a day, but at the same time having the courage to hang himself.
Qiu Yi runs away because she doesn't believe in any transformation at all, and as she later told Lao Pu, she thinks everything is fake:
"Your kindness to me is false, my pleasing to you is also false, their closure of Cuiyunfang is also false, I don't believe that men will not like to visit the kiln, scatter us and clean the world?"
She did not trust anyone, so when the mother bustard was ignorant of her gold and silver, she threatened to burn the Xihong Mansion to get back her belongings, which also gave her the material basis and courage to live independently in the future.
After leaving the Xihong Building, Qiu Yi, who had nowhere to go, chose her "first choice to rely on" Lao Pu, who was her first guest and occupied a different and important position in her heart.
But Lao Pu was only lusting after his beauty and body, and he let Qiu Yi hide in his house in the name of the newly hired nanny, but Qiu Yi said: "Why do you want to do this, can't you say that you are a newlywed wife?" ”
In the end, he had no choice but to tell his mother that the two were colleagues, but Qiu Yi's style still did not escape Mrs. Pu's sharp eyes.
However, at this time, Qiu Yi had nowhere to go, and the outside was still searching for her, and she could only be left with a dead face in Mrs. Pu's cold words.
"Qiu Yi does not dare to go out casually, and the most important content of idle life is sleep. Sleep alone during the day and sleep with Lao Pu at night. ”
Even at this time, Qiu Yi did not forget Xiao Calyx, and she went to the labor camp to deliver daily necessities and snacks to Xiao Calyx.
Because she still has the accumulated property to rely on, the small calyx who has nothing can only rely on men, but in Qiu Yi's view, men are not reliable.
However, after being chased away by Mrs. Pu's repeated insults, Qiu Yi and Lao Pu completely fell out.
When Lao Pu indifferently took money from his wallet to pay for his prostitutes, she was also completely desperate for this man, "She grabbed the banknote and tore it off, and fell on Lao Pu's face." ”
Qiu Yi said, "Who wants your money, Lao Pu, do I want your money?" You conscienceless thing. "
After leaving Laopu, Qiu Yi, who was determined and determined, did not go home to become the talk of others, but went to the suburban countryside in discouragement and shaved her hair as a nun at the passing Yue'an.
Even if Lao Pu came to persuade her to go back, Qiu Yi, who had already seen through all this, resolutely refused.
Lao Pu also promised qiu yi to go back with him a moment ago: If you want to get married, we will get married, and I will rely on you as much as you want.
But the thought of his head caught in the crack of the door of the Playing Moon Temple begging Qiu Yi made him sweep the floor, and when he turned his head, he secretly decided to cut off the love thread with Qiu Yi:
"Lao Pu thought that there were many plump flower-like women in the world, so why bother thinking about Qiu Yi every day, Qiu Yi was just a prostitute in Cuiyunfang."
How cool the reality is!
Therefore, after being expelled from the nunnery, Qiu Yi had to return to her home in the shantytown, but she prevented her cousin from getting married and had no place at home.
In the end, she had to compromise with reality and marry herself to Feng Laowu, a small man with a chicken breast and a hunchback, and lived an ordinary and ordinary life.
In the labor camp, Xiao Calyx also had no choice but to die in the labor camp to the last adaptation, but her thoughts could never be reformed.
So, when the female cadre at the end of the labor reform period asked her whether she wanted to be a worker or a saleswoman, she said she did not know which factory would go to which factory had the lightest work.
This made the female cadre sigh: People like you are not well transformed in their thinking, and they are good and lazy to do, so go pick up glass bottles.
And the glass bottle processing factory is called a prostitute workshop by many people, when there is a dispute between the small calyx and the female factory of the hemp face, the female factory director said, "I am a hemp face, it is harmful to the old society, I have no money to cure the ceiling, your face is beautiful, but you are a small bz goods, you are dirty underneath the maggots, what face do you have to talk about others?" ”
The little calyx, who was discriminated against and insulted and beaten, did not know how to resist at all, but only shouted to the female worker who persuaded me: "Let her beat me to death, I don't want to live anyway." ”
In this year, the luxurious life of the young master of Laopu was also smashed, the property was confiscated by the government, and the huge deposits of his ancestors were frozen by the bank, and he was only a worker in the power company.
In this way, a prostitute who did not want to support herself and a worker who did not want to be a worker came together.
At this time, Xiao Calyx desperately wanted to live the old life of eating Western food and dancing, and was unwilling to go to see the nun Qiuyi who had given her warmth.
Xiao Calyx, who did not want to work, still chose to rely on the life of a man, before she relied on Qiu Yi, now she betrayed Qiu Yi, who had taken care of her, and turned around and married Lao Pu, who had seen a different situation.
When XiaoCai and Lao Pu were about to forget Qiu Yi, Qiu Yi gave an umbrella to them at their wedding.
Xiao Calyx thinks that she and Lao Pu are already husband and wife, and Qiu Yi should not blame her, even if it is useless to blame her, because "men are sometimes like stagecoaches, women have to go to the car, and those who get on the car have to rush first." ”
Whether it is friendship or love, Qiu Yi is wrong after all!
However, after marriage, Xiao Calyx was more delicious and lazy, and coveted the expectation of vanity to live the original luxurious life, at this time Lao Pu wanted to cry and could not cry, so he named his son Sad husband.
Her various demands forced Lao Pu to take the risk of embezzling huge amounts of public funds, so that the two of them had a last luxurious and comfortable week.
Lao Pu was sentenced to death, and before he died, he left a sentence for Xiao Calyx: "When the sad husband grows up, don't let him mix in the pile of women, men like me have no good end." "
These three people are people in the old society who do not want to accept reform, Qiu Yi would rather be a nun in the old society than a worker, Lao Pu has not changed the habits of the rich family in the old society when he is a worker, and Xiao Calyx has never changed and has always chosen to rely on others.
The money in Qiu Yi's hand can actually allow her to live independently, but she still chooses to marry and live a dull life by relying on a man.
Even after encountering the betrayal of friendship and love and even affection, she still adopted their children regardless of their previous suspicions after Lao Pu was shot and Xiao Calyx remarried.
On the other hand, Lao Pu and Xiao Calyx have long distorted human nature in the torrent of alternating old and new in society.
One who went to death in order to satisfy the short-lived enjoyment and vanity, one who could not stand the days without a man, left his son after a year of widowhood, and quickly fled with the black strong northerner who bought the glass bottle.
However, if you just see the vulnerable girlfriend love from this story, it will inevitably seem shallow.
When the new era came, these people did not face up to their own desires, blindly chose to escape, and did not integrate into the torrent of historical upheavals, resulting in a huge gap between psychology and reality and not being satisfied.
If they really accept the transformation from the heart and go with the flow, then relying on their own hands and working hard to work and live, it is inevitable that they will not be able to open a new life and usher in new hopes.
I privately think that at the end of the novel, Feng Xinhua, whose original name is Tragic Husband, represents some kind of hope.
So when he asked what the scented round box was, Qiu Yi told him, "This is a rouge box, and little boys can't play with it." ”
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