Yu Hua's seventh day: people without money have their own sorrows, and those with money are cremated and go to VIP.

After reading the whole book, I am puzzled. Why does mother always keep some depressing books in the bookcase? I can doubt my life by reading them.

Teacher Yu Hua's book is a combination of exaggerated negative realism and romantic writing techniques. In short, it is what a man named Yang Fei saw within seven days after his death. These people and things are what he saw and experienced with his own eyes. In these seven days, he listened to his client after his death again. (first person)

Let's look at the original text and feel the tone of the original text:

We seem to have reached the end of the night. She stood quietly and said to me:

"Here we are."

I was surprised to see a world where water is flowing, grass is everywhere, trees are flourishing, branches are covered with fruits with stones, leaves are like hearts, and when they shake, they are also the rhythm of heartbeat. I saw many people, many people with only bones left, and some people with bodies, walking around there.

I asked her, "What is this place?"

She said, "This is not a happy ending."

Me: Why is this name so beautiful?

Teacher Yu Hua's book is very negative. After reading it, I have a very big feeling that rich people are not good things, and those who have no money are struggling to breathe under the money, which makes people feel moved and helpless.

But when I put down the book, I found that such an idea was actually extreme. We must admit that under the concept of money, interests do corrode people's hearts, but we can't deny the kindness of most strangers or the value of the struggle of the people at the bottom of society. Teacher Yu Hua's description and brushwork are first-class, which directly leads to a sharp contrast between the beauty of utopia after death and the viciousness of human beings before death, which makes people feel seriously suffocated.

(The following interpretation revolves around factors such as "money" and is only a personal view. Finally, I suggest you read Mr. Yu Hua's original work ~)

First of all, this book tells several stories about money.

(1) Li Qing

There are several key figures in the book. The first one is my wife Li Qing.

Li Qing is a very beautiful girl with excellent beauty and diplomatic skills. She is an excellent employee of the public relations department and attends many occasions with the big boss. And many people in the company like her, but she declined because she always wanted to find an honest and down-to-earth person.

Because of her blatant refusal, a colleague resigned because of embarrassment, and even refused to come up to clean up the follow-up. Everyone taunted him, wanted to see a joke and didn't help him. Only "I" can't bear to help him pack up and send it down.

So "I" got Li Qing's favor. Later, she took the initiative to chase after me, and finally they got married.

But it didn't last long. Li Qing is an ambitious man. He met an equally ambitious man in an affair. They shared the same interests and soon fell in love. The man divorced her, and Li Qing finally divorced "me".

"I" met Li Qing, and she committed suicide the day after her death, because her house was searched, and the man got rich and contracted sexually transmitted diseases, and ran away after the accident.

We met again, and then we seemed to fall in love again. Also the next day, she went to the luxurious cemetery prepared by her friend, and "I" continued to wander.

The role of Li Qing suffocated me for the first time. In Li Qing's eyes, money is more important than the warmth and kindness she once saw, so she left me without hesitation and said to the poor me when she left: I still love you. "I" looked at each other and said, I love you forever.

Maybe it's just a way for me to express my feelings in Mr. Yu Hua's mind, but I just want to drop the book after reading it. Because this unequal love from the beginning is completely in the hands of Li Qing, is this the legendary senior green tea gold digger? When the protagonist returns to love you forever, I really want to tell him that you are actually a self-moving senior spare tire.

I read the story from the beginning and repeatedly confirmed that Li Qing's initial idea was to find a kind, loyal and reliable man, but later the story went in the opposite direction.

Original text:

I said with inferiority, "I am really a bargain."

"No," she said, "you are kind, loyal and reliable."

Her love affair with the city leader's son is just a rumor. She has only seen three films, and the first one is very arrogant. ...

She has a noble heart. In fact, she turned them down, not that they dumped her.

If Li Qing is really an ambitious, determined and arrogant woman who will leave me in the future, she will never marry me.

(2) Liu Mei and Wu Chao

This couple is really, really distressing.

Both of them work in hair salons and have little money. Liu Mei wanted to get the money as soon as possible and offered to be a waitress like other sisters, but Wu Chao refused.

The two had no food and had to go out to beg. Wu Chao couldn't let go of his pride, so Liu Mei went begging. Finally, he found a rich man and gave them two loaves of bread after humiliating them.

After returning home, they borrowed hot water from their neighbors to eat bread. Liu Mei asked Wu Chao to have a drink first, for fear that he would choke.

Wu Chao will resign because Liu Mei was jealous and was scolded for fighting with a girl in a hair salon. ), Liu Mei is willing to reflect on himself and let Wu Chao go back to work.

Finally, Wu Chao went back for a while and bought an iPhone4S for Liu Mei before he left. As a result, Liu Mei found that it was a fake version, and thought that Wu Chao had lied to her and was going to commit suicide by jumping off a building. )。

It was hopeless at last, and my foot slipped off.

Wu Chao came back and heard that his girlfriend had passed away, so he sold his kidney to buy her a cemetery. Liu Mei's front foot was cremated, and Wu Chao's back foot came down. They didn't meet for the last time.

I really have a lot of questions about this story.

First of all, I'm really touched. There are indeed many young couples who help each other step by step at the bottom of society. They have paid a lot of things, both psychologically and physically, and they are struggling to survive.

But! We can't deny that every step of their efforts is valuable, and no one will despise his life so much. In the original text, Liu Mei and Wu Chao seem to live hopelessly, so in my eyes, they are not common "little people" in society, but individuals with these characteristics.

The true image of "little people" in our society should be diversified. They must be a group of people with strong psychological endurance, because the environment in which they were born is destined to be more difficult than others. They should also be part of the people with the strongest desire for survival, which is innate, so how can there be such a plot as jealous of their girlfriends, being scolded, resigning and jumping off buildings casually?

I come from a small country, a small city, and I feel sorry for them. Although there are few people who can make a lot of money in this world, there are still many people who earn a little money to live. This book was written in 2 1 century, but I seem to see the tragedy of love life in the 1970s and 1980s.

(3) My father Yang Jinbiao and others.

Why did I take the image of my father under the title of a story related to money? It is because this role is so perfect that his concept stands on the opposite side of the concept of money.

Yang Jinbiao picked up the protagonist Yang Fei on the train and took the protagonist as his own son. He abandoned Yang Fei once in order to get married, but he still got the protagonist back with tears in his eyes.

He worked hard all his life and sent Yang Fei to school without getting married, but when he knew that the family conditions of Yang Fei's biological mother were better, he did not hesitate to push Yang Fei back.

I'm sick and don't want to talk about it. The last examination was cancer. Because of his guilt, he left Yang Fei to visit the place where he abandoned Yang Fei by train, but Yang Fei mistakenly thought that his father was unwilling to drag himself away.

This role also gives me a great sense of suffocation. Why did such a hard-working, kind and upright individual finally get cancer and leave the place he has been guarding and his son who has loved all his life? What happened to Yang Fei and Yang Fei was so dark.

This role and my adoptive mother Yue are the two roles that confuse me the most. Yue-was revenged and killed for exposing the hospital's disorderly handling of abandoned babies in the river, and finally the matter disappeared in the hospital's ambiguity?

I want to say that the place where we live is a society ruled by law. It's not a baby's body floating in the river, but 27 bodies. The dead Li was not an ordinary person, but a whistleblower. In "Ten Years' Unannounced Visits", the author followed many illegal groups, all of which could help the police break through in one fell swoop, not to mention hospitals in full view.

It was not until this time that I understood what Mr. Yu Hua wrote. When the teacher writes, everything is malicious, but in the real world, although some things will be hidden, there will be good people running around for it, instead of everyone acting like strangers.

Good and evil are also dialectical.

Second, the image of "stranger" in the original text

Strangers in the original text don't write much, but they are probably malicious pictures. But our world is not like this. In the real world, goodwill is the majority.

(A) schadenfreude type

Li Qing publicly rejected a colleague's carefully prepared proposal. My colleague was embarrassed and resigned the next day. Colleagues came back to get his things, and no one wanted to help, so they wanted him to come up and clean up his jokes himself.

Original text:

Cheers and applause were out of place and gradually subsided. The courtiers on their knees looked at us awkwardly. He didn't know whether to continue kneeling or get up and leave quickly. I heard some strange laughter. Several women covered their mouths and laughed. Several men looked at each other and laughed. They walked into the elevator. After the elevator door closed, there was a burst of laughter inside, and the laughter fell with the elevator. There was a cough in the falling laughter.

He didn't come to work the next day, and the company laughed loudly, all courting. ...

In the afternoon, he resigned and went downstairs to call a familiar colleague. My colleague answered the phone and said, "I'm very busy."

After a burst of laughter, another colleague received his phone call. The man said loudly, "I'm busy." Come up by yourself. "

Put the phone down and didn't say it was him. Laughter broke out again.

Me:? It's too exaggerated. It's too dark. What caused such great malice?

No, this kind of thing will happen unless you have a particularly bad reputation and do something out of line. Because normal companies are not allowed to discuss personal privacy first, everyone has something to do and has no time to discuss it; Second, normal people know that it is difficult to preserve our sanity, and things are unpredictable. Even if we want to laugh or gloat, we will occasionally talk about it in our hearts or with others.

Human malice is mostly hidden, but in the heart, especially China. Besides, in fact, most people are very kind. Most of us should feel sorry for what happened to our colleagues.

(2) Indifferent eating melon type

When Liu Mei wanted to jump off a building, she said in her QQ space that she wanted to commit suicide. Her nickname is Sister Mouse.

Original text:

..... and then announced that he didn't want to live, announced the time and place of his suicide. The time is noon the next day, and the place is set on the bridge first. She planned to commit suicide by jumping into the river. Some netizens advised her not to jump into the river, saying that it is winter, the river is freezing cold, and she should find a warm place to commit suicide, saying that suicide should be kind to herself. She asked netizens how to commit suicide warmly. The netizen suggested that she buy two bottles of sleeping pills, swallow them in one breath, wrap herself in a quilt and dream of her death. Other netizens said it was nonsense. The hospital will only give her a dozen sleeping pills at a time. If she wants to save two bottles, the suicide time will be delayed for at least half a year. She said she wouldn't postpone suicide. She decided to put on a down jacket and jump off a building to commit suicide. The location is set at the top of the residential building opposite the exit of her underground residence. After she mentioned this community, two netizens who lived there begged her not to die in front of their house, saying it would bring them bad luck. One of them suggested that she try to climb to the top of the city government building and jump down, saying it would be very powerful. Other netizens said it was impossible. There are armed police guards at the entrance of the city government, and she will be detained as a petitioner. She finally chose Pengfei Building. ...

I found it ridiculous after reading it. In my cognition, normal netizens will tell you, little sister, don't commit suicide. The world is particularly beautiful and worth fighting for.

Even if someone is so malicious, it must be a small number of poor people who have no family education and morality and no hope of living.

(3) the theory that the rich are guilty

All the rich people in the book, including the bit part, are not good people.

The first kind is a man who remarried in Li Qing, went out to marry a young lady, concealed his sexually transmitted disease, and finally ran away. This is totally inconsistent with the ambitious young people that Kan Kan talked about at the beginning, because they are rich.

Second, Wu Chao and Liu Mei went out begging, and everyone ignored them. They stood at the gate of the hotel, waiting for someone to pack their bags. The original text said that everyone does not pack, because rich people disdain to pack. They asked someone for bread, but everyone refused until they met a rich businessman on the phone. The rich businessman told Liu Mei that he wanted her to abandon a poor boy like Wu Chao and follow him, and said that Liu Mei's beauty was intangible assets, and he looked like a rogue.

Finally, the humiliated couple got two steamed buns.

The third is the police who use torture to extract confessions and hospitals that ignore human life.

In short, there are no good people.

Third, after death, the beauty of utopia contrasts strongly.

After I died, I met all the people who had suffered before, and they were reborn in the end of the road.

This is also what I find extremely funny. The two enemies became not only friends, but also good friends. One even asked the other to be cremated without waiting for him, and the other said, "We haven't finished playing chess yet."

Me:?

I won't say how good it is. I'll give you a taste of the original text. This is the scene where everyone wishes Liu Mei (Sister Mouse) before she is cremated.

Original text:

Old bones said: "People over there know how close they are. There is no difference." . When you are there, you should be purified by your relatives. We are all her relatives here and everyone should be purified. People over there use bowls to clean themselves, and our hands together are the bowls here. "

The old skeleton walked with wet leaves in his left hand and his right hand wiping his eyes, as if wiping away the tears of farewell to his loved ones. Others, like him, folded their hands, filled the river with leaves and walked to Sister Mouse, where they sprinkled clean water with their hands. They followed this old skeleton towards the distant, just like a narrow path. Some left hands carry leaves, some right hands carry leaves, and the leaves drop the last drop of water in the breeze.

……

Sister mouse, covered with grass and wild flowers, heard nightingale-like singing hovering around, and she unconsciously hummed the baby's songs. Sister Mouse became the lead singer. She sang a line, the baby sang along, she sang another line, and the baby sang along. The lead singer and chorus are one after another, as if rehearsed in advance, and the songs of Sister Mouse and the babies are one after another.

Here's another passage that moved me very much:

Liu Mei will be cremated. She's going to her grave. She said, "I was walking in the street over there and they looked back at me." When you get here, you look back at me. "

When she was wearing a pullover, someone changed her another pair of trousers, which were very big and were changed into skirts by people here. Everyone said, "Your mourning clothes are dragging on the ground, like a wedding dress."

Me: Shh-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo.

This shows how miserable the world is after death and how beautiful Utopia is.

Fourth, feelings

After reading the book, I feel I have to write down these feelings and share them immediately, because it's so uncomfortable.

Undeniably, Mr. Yu Hua's book does write a lot of people's voices: no money is bitter. But it also describes many, many little people, who are ordinary members of society and struggle constantly until they miss the world.

But there are many places in the book, and I feel that the world I see is not like this. There is indeed a lot of suffering in the world, but there are also many true feelings, many setbacks, but also many opportunities.

The world is dialectical. I forgot high school politics, but I always believed this sentence of Marx. Because the facts are true, there are advantages and disadvantages, good and bad. We should live in the world in the ups and downs of dialectical good and evil, and make favorable choices that suit us, instead of struggling or enjoying unilaterally forever and making unilateral choices.

Furthermore, on the one hand, we should resist the corrosion of the concept of money, but we should also understand that under the proper concept of money, people's general quality is getting higher and higher. When you are in pain, fear and helplessness, not more people will laugh at you, but more people will become capable of helping you.

Only when you are full of hope for the world first will you know that Utopia is not as beautiful as you think. The premise of learning to laugh is to learn to adapt to falling and crying.

Shi Tiesheng has a saying:

"I often think that ugly women make beautiful women. I often think that fools lead to wisdom. I often think that cowards set off heroes. I often think that all beings humanize the Buddha. "

Utopia does not exist, so we should resist malice, refuse nausea and curse malice, and at the same time understand the value of its existence, which can help us live a more sober and rational life.

(Personal opinion only)