Today, Huan Xi dismantled Mr. Shen Congwen's "Border City", and everyone has a border city in their hearts, which is a beautiful and sad existence. In an impetuous society, it can be regarded as the habitat of the soul. Let's walk into this beautiful and clear and natural border city together, in a beautiful, simple edge town living in a special family, the old boatman who lives by ferry and his granddaughter Cuicui, the two are kind and simple, the old boatman has been ferrying for the people in the small city for 50 years, he is very enthusiastic about the villagers, and he also loves his granddaughter, but the second half of his life is living for Cuicui, and his only goal in life is to make Cuicui happy.
Cuicui, the granddaughter of the old boatman, looks pure and sweet, and cannot be squared, and because she grows up between the mountains and rivers of Chatong, there is a touch of agility in her temperament. There is a boat chief in Cha Tong City, named Shunshun, who is a generous and generous person who likes to make friends, and he has two sons. The eldest is called Tianbao, the second is called Wu Sheng, the two sons are educated and edified by their father's jianghu style, rowing in the waves, wrestling and tempering, they have grown into smart and handsome teenagers in the rivers and lakes.
At the grand event of the Dragon Boat Race in the Dragon Boat Festival, Grandpa took Cuicui to the Tea City, and Cuicui also met Cuizui, so she also buried a hazy girlish feeling in her heart, and Cuicui also had a good feeling for Cuicui. The love between Cuicui and Wu Fei has no mountain alliance and sea oath There is no frightening act, some are just the supernatural simplicity, pure love and subtle beauty nurtured by the primitive countryside. In that era, even pure and fierce love could not be like a flame, seeing the wind can burn incomparably hot, all they can do is wait, but unfortunately fate likes to tease people.
Another year's Dragon Boat Festival arrived, Cuicui and grandpa went to the city to watch the rowing boat, at this time they met the eldest son of the boat chief, Tianbao, Tianbao fell in love with Cuicui, a pure girl at first sight, and often chatted with Cuicui's grandfather, euphemistically expressing his intentions to his old man.
Tianbao said, "Old Uncle, the true sign of your family's Cuicui is like a Guanyin." In two years, if I had free time to stay at Cha Tong to take care of things, I wouldn't have to fly around like an old duck. At that time, I must have come to the west every night to sing for Cuicui." In the next good, the brothers liked their granddaughter at the same time, which made Grandpa feel bad. Grandpa was an enlightened man, and he did not prescribe this marriage for Cuicui. Grandpa said that this matter had to be decided by Cuicui herself. Ignorant and naïve Cuicui, at the same time won the love of Tianbao and The two brothers, it was a good thing, the misfortune was relied on, the blessing was blessed, in order not to hurt the friendship between the brothers, the brothers decided to make the words clear, the brothers did not follow the local customs to duel to win or lose, but adopted a fair and romantic way of singing mountain songs to express their feelings, let Cuicui make a choice from it, so he sang a good love song, and every night he would sing love songs on the high slope of the creek on the other side of Cuicui's house.
When Grandpa heard the song, he thought that Tianbao was showing love to Cuicui, and he couldn't wait to report to Tianbao from inside, saying that things were promising, but unexpectedly this song was sung by the old man. Later, Tianbao learned that Cuicui, because of the love song sent by The Love Song moved, sadly, he left the tea pass, and finally passed through the Qinglang Beach with the cargo ship, because the marriage was not completed, the chest was very depressed, accidentally fell into the water and drowned, the merciless lake water, swallowed Tianbao, leaving only the mourning on the shore shaking to watch. At this time, His passion for Cuicui also gradually faded with the death of his brother. After Tianbao's accident, His heart was full of resentment towards Grandpa Cuicui, but his love for Cuicui could not be relinquished.
Because of Tianbao's departure, Grandpa could only wait to entrust Cuicui to Dou, which further aroused The guilt of Cuicui to his brother and made him annoyed, this complicated feeling made Tianbao choose to avoid his hometown far away, and chose to run away from home, because of Tianbao's death, the ship's general manager Shunshun was not willing to marry Cuicui into the door again, and also began to become cold to Grandpa. The coldness of the father and son, the suffering of the granddaughter and the tragic death of the daughter were all combined, and fate seemed to give the grandfather the last blow. Finally he was finally powerless to resist.
On a rainy night, the white tower behind the house collapsed, grandpa also died on this night with uneasy guilt, leaving Cuicui alone and waiting for the return of his sweetheart, after grandpa died, the gap between the shipmaster Shunshun and his grandfather also disappeared, and the father of the ship finally agreed to Cuicui to be his daughter-in-law, but at this time, Cuicui had already left home and did not know where to go, just when the young man who was happy to be looking forward to Cuicui's love could return to her. Shen Conglao came to a "pen" very cunningly, in the words of Mr. Shen Lao's last sentence written in "Border City", "This person may never come back, maybe he will come back tomorrow", which can't help but make Joy think of Yu Hua's novel "Wencheng" that he read before, but Yu Hua did not leave an open ending, but made a detailed explanation of the ending, I personally still prefer Mr. Shen Lao's pen, this ending with a kind of desolate sorrow, concern and expectation of feelings, Making the reader anxious and inexplicably sad, Grandpa is slightly irrational in his feelings for Cuicui and Tianbao and Wu, which also lays the tragic nature of this entanglement.
At first, he tried his best to give Tianbao an idea, but he also thought that it would be good for him, but all of this was because of his love for Cuicui, but was this just Grandpa's fault? No, for Cuicui, because there has never been maternal love, as a woman's involvement in the world is not deep, simple and lonely Cuicui is overwhelmed in the face of intense love, again and again implicitly, buried, evaded and shirked, if she can be brave enough to express her heart and position on The Gift, perhaps what awaits her will be the happiness of Willow Dark Flower Ming, for the Gift, he is not brave enough when he pursues love. As the one who should have taken the initiative, he always looked ahead and worried too much.
He obviously knew that Cuicui's favorite person was himself, but he repeatedly humbled this feeling, and it could be said that Tianbao's death and his indecisiveness were inseparable. For Tianbao, knowing that Cuicui did not like himself, he still gambled and left, because he did not calmly bury his life, and also let Grandpa and Yu send a lifetime to live in the shadow of self-blame.
The story of this book is not complicated, but it is pure and flawless, and the naïve Huaichun girl was fallen in love with two brothers at the same time at the beginning of her love, but the two brothers were unfortunately killed, one was far away from her hometown, and since then the infatuated girl has been waiting bitterly by the stream, but Cuicui's waiting is far away.
If you put your energy and hope on waiting in your life. It was undoubtedly like a life sentence, less painful than Ling Chi's execution but more ruthless blowing, which should have been a green love story. In Shen Congwen's pen, it has become a gray tragedy. Maybe this ending also gives people who are immersed in fantasies a head-scratch. Although the folk customs of the small city in western Hunan are simple, although Cuicui is simple and beautiful like a painting, but the reality will eventually be imperfect and regretful, maybe this is the real life!!!