Reading Notes 047 Tell me a joke —— Liu Zhenyun's One-Day Sanqiu.

"Brother, what are you unhappy about? Say it and make everyone happy! "

After reading this book by Liu Zhenyun, I suddenly remembered this joke. The more delicious this joke is, the more interesting it is. The true and false of that kind of friendship, the beauty and ugliness of human nature, the true and false of interpersonal relationship and so on. Everything seems to be contained in this joke.

What would it be like to write a novel in this style of jokes?

That's Liu Zhenyun's latest novel A Day in Sanqiu.

This novel was written by his sixth uncle. Sixth Uncle played Black Boy in Jinxian Henan Opera Troupe. Besides playing black boy, he also paints landscapes.

Later, everyone bought a TV set, no one went to the theatre, the troupe was dissolved, and Uncle Liu went to the cotton mill as a mechanic. After work, I amuse myself by painting at home. Since you are entertaining yourself, think about painting yourself. The paintings are mainly about people and things in my hometown of Yanjin. In fact, they are not. The characters and environment are distorted and exaggerated, crossing life and death, ghosts and gods; Some paintings are very realistic, and the human feelings in daily life are varied and unremarkable.

Aunt Liu scolds him every day for doing nothing, and people around him don't understand his paintings, but I like them very much.

Later, when I heard that my sixth uncle had passed away, I went to visit his home and asked about his paintings. My sixth aunt said it was all burned!

"Why, why?" "What, what?"

A month later, "I" made up my mind to connect my uncle's different pictures with words and write a novel.

The novel begins with Hua Ernian. Hua Ernian is not alone, but a mountain at Yanjin Ferry. Not only mountains, but also ghosts. This ghost looks for jokes in the dream of playing the golden man every day. You can't tell jokes. She let you drink a bowl of hot soup behind your back. You just picked up Hua Ernian and she crushed you to death! Actually, you're dead, too. The cause of death was myocardial infarction.

If your jokes can make Hua Ernian laugh, Hua Ernian will take out a red persimmon for you to eat. When you wake up, you are still you.

Therefore, most people who play gold are humorous, and they can sleep quietly by telling a few jokes.

Starting from an illusory myth, the following are the stories of two generations: "Chen Changjie and Cherry" and "Chen Mingliang and Ma Xiaomeng".

Chen Changjie, Li Yansheng and Cherry are famous actors of Yanjin Henan Opera Troupe. They are well-known in the local area because of a "Legend of the White Snake". The development of the times ruined Henan Opera and the lives of these three people. The three people faded their aura, and marriage and employment returned to the world from the celestial world. After returning to the world, there is no shortage of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar tea. In the play, "Fahai" Chen Changjie and "White Snake" cherry became attached to each other in life, but they were full of contradictions. Later, something happened to Cherie, and Chen Changjie left his hometown, Yanjin and Wuhan with him and Cherie's children.

Cherry was hanged to get rid of herself. She was originally a lonely ghost, but she met a bully among the ghosts. Not free, Cherie remembered "Xu Xian" Li Yansheng and asked him to "take" himself to Wuhan to find his son. Chen Changjie left Yanjin to start a new life in Wuhan to seek liberation, while Li Yansheng came to Wuhan to seek liberation, because he was forced to "carry" someone. In this way, the story of a generation, like fate, originated in Yanjin and was liberated in Wuhan. But are they really free?

? As the children of Chen Changjie and Cherie, the story of Chen Mingliang's first generation is bound to have an important impact on his life. I followed Chen Changjie to the bright future of Wuhan, huddled in the dormitory, and lived numbly with the reorganized family, but I didn't belong to it after all. Wuhan is the land of liberation of the previous generation, not the place where Guangming belongs, so there is such a thing that Guangming begged all the way for two months before returning to Yanjin. Grandparents have passed away, and Brett, who stayed in Yanjin, lost his family. In order to brighten up her life, Chen Changjie had to foster Liangliang in the home of her good friend Li Yansheng, secretly sending her living expenses without telling her daughter-in-law, and "adopt her son in the cloud" remotely. Later, for various reasons, Chen Changjie took care of her son. Guangming can only drop out of school early and rush to the society, work as an apprentice in a pig's trotters shop, and embark on a lonely and difficult road. After hard work, achievements, family affairs, hometown affairs, etc., Sanqiu seems to be a lifetime away.

The cold reality of the world and the warmth of human feelings, and the magic and absurd humor of a bright future are layered in this "One Day in Sanqiu". In the story, many people are afraid of being a joke in others' mouths, so they try to live, but there is always a moment when they become a joke.

Liu Zhenyun, with the story of two generations, dropped his sixth uncle's painting on the ground and took root.

Liu Zhenyun's novel is thought-provoking, which seems to be a joke on everything in the world, but in fact it is a criticism of the false and ugly relationship between people and a reflection on people's loneliness and helplessness.