Truth in Absurdity

Huang Keting, like a skillful craftsman, uses his unique ingenuity to temper, beat and exaggerate the materials captured from life, and finally becomes a beautiful short story presented to readers. As an editor, it is strange that I will come into contact with all kinds of short story manuscripts. But when I saw Huang Keting's short stories, I felt my eyes lit up, which really made me feel different. Somehow, such a memory appeared in my mind. I was only a teenager that year. Grandma and I went to Shanghai. My grandmother took me to a place called Paramount, and there were four mirrors at the door. Stand in front of the mirror, my god! How did I become like that! Big head and small body, small head and big body, slender hemp stalk, short and fat wax gourd, which is really funny. I almost rolled over with laughter. This is the feeling when reading Huang Keting's short stories. It's like walking into a mirror paradise-humorous language and absurd plot, which makes people laugh.

But looking closely at the fine works, we find that behind the absurdity is incomparable truth, even more real than truth. Huang Keting's works can be roughly divided into two categories: realism and science fiction. But no matter what kind of works, they all reveal his thoughts and worries about the real society and the future society, as well as his sympathy for the sufferings of the little people at the bottom.

"Eggs Running on the Road" is a seemingly ordinary traffic accident. Through his clever setting of two eggs running on the road, it shows the fragility and perishable life and appeals to everyone to cherish each other. Teachers who have trained many outstanding talents in visiting teachers have given up the city and would rather go back to herding sheep, writing about the sadness of brain drain. "Bowing" from "I" look down on short farmers to feeling tall, aims to wake up the world, and don't forget that it is our parents who dig in the dirt and raise our so-called modern people and city people. The whole article "I can't lose a pen" seems to revolve around money, but it aims to express that the truest friendship has nothing to do with money. The article Zhang Man with Insomnia ends like this: "Zhang Man shook his head and said,' I can't sleep at night because I heard the tap water dripping from my neighbor's house …'" Did Zhang Canren really hear the dripping from his neighbor's house? Of course not. What does it actually mean? It means that everyone is stealing water in this way. Stealing water is certainly not good, but it is good to save even a drop of water for these people at the bottom who are struggling in the city. Stealing water is not because of greed, but because of the helplessness of hard life, which makes people sad to read.

Huang Keting's works are also full of bitter satire on some unhealthy phenomena today. He used superb writing skills to expose criticism without expression, just like a humorous master telling a cold joke, which made the audience laugh. Although the dragon chair is short, it reveals the phenomenon of money worship and money supremacy in today's society. "Don't be too happy" is about social phenomena that make people lost and at a loss, such as less human feelings and mercenary. "It's hard not to lie" describes the rapid changes in rural urbanization, which is mixed with the author's worries. The "grandpa" in "One Thousand Pieces of Meat" starved himself to death in order to prove the efficacy of divination, which is really ridiculous and sad. At first glance, the novel tells lies at the end, but in fact, it reveals the feelings of the lower class that advocate honesty and stick to traditional virtues. The landlord pig of 1973 tells the story of his father buying pigs. Because the buyer is the landlord, his father didn't buy it and replaced it with another one. The story seems ridiculous now, but it was true at that time. It's all about ingredients, and I was accidentally labeled. How can I not be silent?

Huang Keting's science fiction is a bright spot in his novels. I can't help but be impressed by his fantastic ideas, and I also have a question in my heart-how did he conceive these topics in the field of science? Fortunately, I met the real version of Huang Keting in Jiangxi Pen Club. Of course, I won't miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to interview him. Oh, I want to be interesting. This big reporter who often interviews others would not expect to be interviewed by a "water" reporter like me.

Huang Keting is very frank. He spoke into my wireless microphone, with a strong Zhejiang-flavored Kan Kan Mandarin. He said that his major in college was physics. After graduation, I taught physics in Yiwu rural high school 15 years. Because of this seemingly unrelated process to traditional literature, he has wealth that ordinary liberal arts students do not have. He also said that today, mobile phones, computers, cars, airplanes ... are closely related to ordinary people, and the charm of science is deeply rooted in people's hearts. As a high school physics teacher, he can't help thinking about the future trend of science and technology, what the future development of science and technology will bring to mankind, and what the power of science and technology will change mankind in the future. I thought too much about these future questions and found them interesting, so I couldn't help writing them. It is very difficult to write a paper about future problems, which requires strict argumentation and enough realistic evidence collection! Future problems, written as novels, are not limited by many rules and regulations, and can fly freely in their own spiritual world.

Indeed, as he said, his sci-fi material basically comes from his thinking about the future world and future life. He described the story of "both true and illusory" with the Red Chamber Castle as the scene. Skynet and Surprise show the writers' good wishes to benefit a beautiful and harmonious world with the power of science and technology. Graduation Appraisal analyzes the root of "self-immorality"; "Copying Memory" wrote the tragedy of abusing science; "After Overcoming Rejection" wrote the confusion and anxiety about the proliferation of cosmetics industry; "Wonderful virus" means that anything bad has its irresistible temptation; Testimony satirizes a kind of people who want to expand their money and lose their dignity.

For the embarrassment that there are so many short story writers today, but their works are difficult to produce new ideas and excellent works, Huang Keting chose another way to subvert the conventional writing techniques. Like a skillful craftsman, he used his unique ingenuity to temper, beat, exaggerate and deform the materials captured from life, and finally presented them to readers with exquisite short stories.

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Slowness of insomnia

□ Huang Keting

Zhang Man is the posthumous son of Aunt Zhang.

Aunt Zhang raised Zhang Man with great pains.

Zhang Man has been considerate of his mother since he was sensible. At the age of twenty-five, Zhang Man graduated from University. With the help of good people, Zhang Man was assigned to work in W City. After Zhang Man received his salary for the first time, he sent half of the money to his mother who lived in the countryside.

Mother was very excited when she received the money order. She took the money order and ran all over the village, letting people everywhere "recognize" the words written on the money order.

13 years later, when Zhang Man was "renovating the house" in the city, he bought a two-bedroom apartment. Although it is a cheap house, it is sleepy and slow enough.

Although Zhang Man is an "overage youth", there is still no "elephant" that is correct. When he is alone in the dark, he often thinks of his mother.

On that day, Zhang Man finally brought his mother to the city.

Somehow, within a week, Zhang Man found that her mother was always tired and she lost a lot of weight. Zhang Man asked his mother if she was ill. Mother faltered that she was not ill, but she couldn't sleep at night.

Zhang Man wanted to accompany her mother to the hospital, but her mother refused to go, saying that she might be acclimatized and would be fine in a few days.

However, Aunt Zhang's "illness" is getting worse and worse. When she wanted to "forcibly" send her mother to the hospital, Aunt Zhang said: "The root of the disease" is only known to me, and it is useless to go to the hospital. Zhang Man almost panicked and suspected that his mother had an incurable disease.

Aunt Zhang saw her son in a hurry and finally said to her son, "Mom knows that you have a hard life in the city and everything costs money. After you bought this house, your stepmother knew that you still owed money to others. Niang actually not sick, just listening to the sound of tap water dripping at night can't sleep ... "

It turned out that Zhang Man deliberately turned the faucet to the dripping position, but the water meter did not move. In this way, a large bucket of water can be stored every day and night.

Zhang was relieved after hearing this, and said to his mother, "Why didn't you say this little thing earlier? I just turn off the tap at night! "

Sure enough, Aunt Zhang slept soundly. Aunt Zhang's spirit gradually recovered.

However, careful Aunt Zhang found that her son's spirit was getting worse and worse. Aunt Zhang asked her son if he had any difficulties.

Zhang Man said nothing happened.

Mom said, can't you sleep well at night if you can't hear the sound of tap water dripping?

Zhang shook his head slowly and said, "I can't sleep at night when I hear the tap water dripping from my neighbor's house ..."

"... the dripping sound of the neighbor's house ... can you hear it? "Aunt zhang haven't good for a long time.