Wen 丨 flowers want to burn
"Zhuo Yun's appearance has a gentle beauty, even the slight wrinkles and slightly sagging skin can not be hidden, between the hands and feet, there is a kind of norms for everyone." Through Song Lian's eyes, the reader has a concrete understanding of the second wife Zhuo Yun for the first time. Zhuo Yun is different from the third wife Mei Shan's stubbornness and the coldness of the eldest wife, she is like a big girl, smiling and polite, the first side makes Song Lian lose her guard, and open her mouth to call out to her sister.
She is the most inconsistent character in this deep mansion compound, with the most contradictory two sides of human nature, smiling with a knife, and shooting fiercely without mercy.
She was a crystal orchid that was raised by sucking up decomposing corpses, and the bloodier the environment, the more vigorous she grew
In the afterword to "Flocks of Wives and Concubines," Su Tong said of why he wrote the novel: "Many readers interpret it as a story of women in the old times, or a story of polygamy, but if it were only like this, I would never be satisfied with this novel." ”
So what if it was understood as a story of pain and fear?
I think everything seems to make sense for the demise of Song Lian, for the deceit in this deep mansion compound, and for the suffocating Chen Mansion up and down. What made these women hang and kill each other, in addition to Chen Zuoqian's absurd strength, in fact, Zhuo Yun was the source of all this pain and fear. The weak prey eventually turned into a dragon in this decaying mansion.
1. The day after Song Lian married into the Chen family, the whole person floated above the sadness and sorrow. This mood can be understood as fear and confusion about the future. She is just a young girl who is not yet 19 years old, and before the bankruptcy of the family, she is also the pearl of her father's favor, even if she has the character and plans, she has only lived in this obscure world for 19 years. How could she distinguish the ugliness of human nature in nineteen years, she would be superficially confused when she first saw Zhuo Yun, and she still did not understand the truth that people knew faces and did not know their hearts.
Song Lian knew that she wanted to be someone's little wife and compete for favors, but she didn't know where the life of the deep mansion compound was leading. So, she came to the Yongdao alone, and saw that the dry well with the barren grass was suddenly a chill, and this kind of confusion made Song Lian wonder.
However, Zhuo Yun magnified her frustration into fear.
It was Zhuo Yun who deliberately told Song Lian that many female relatives of the Chen family had lost their lives in the well, and turned this strange mansion into a man-eating monster in an instant.
"Zhuo Yun just cried out, you went to the dead man's well?" Don't go there, it's obscure. No wonder your face is not good, there were three people who died in that well, all of them were relatives of the previous generation, all of them were women. ”
Such a horror rendering dropped a seed in Song Lian's psychology, and in the future, in various battles and bloody fights, it gradually sprouted, and a little bit of branches and vines scratched her spirit, and she could always think of the dry well, until she witnessed Mei Shan's falling well, mental breakdown, and finally went crazy.
2. The wisteria and dry well that run through the book are the source of the ghostly sensen of the house, and Mei Shan died there.
Mei Shan is a casual person, and she is not afraid of heaven. Zhuo Yun couldn't use his spirit to hit her, so he had to wait for a suitable opportunity to let Mei Shan expose herself.
Mei Shan is a drama, making a scene and turning her face ruthlessly. Song Lian and Chen Zuoqian talked about Mei Shan in bed, which is nothing more than that men want more women when they have money, and women like Mei Shan also love to marry rich people. Old Master Chen knew in his heart that no one in the women in this mansion loved him, but the picture was only that little money.
Zhuo Yun was also clear.
But Mei Shan is not a disobedient Lord, she will find her own pleasure. Zhuo Yun lurked, waiting for Mei Shan to be lonely, and finally, she caught Mei Shan and the doctor in bed in a hotel. The old man punished Mei Shan, and Zhuo Yun triumphantly sniffed the melon seeds, enjoying her victory.
Zhuo Yun's tragedy lies in thinking through others, but not thinking through himself
This sentence is Song Lian's feelings, she said that women think through this kind of thing to others, but only can not think through themselves. Zhuo Yun's organs did not even think about what they were fighting for in the end.
Chen Zuoqian was "devastated", and Song Lian and Mei Shan often talked about "serving the bed" in a secretive way, and the two sides smiled at each other. They were wondering how Zhuo Yun served the old master.
Song Lian fell out of favor because Chen Zuoqian was incompetent, and Song Lian refused to use another way to relieve him like a dog.
Mei Shan fell out of favor because she never hid her desires and did not bother to please a dry old man.
These two popular little wives suddenly lost their schedule, and Chen Zuoqian naturally went to Zhuo Yun's room. Zhuo Yun's biggest advantage is that she can cater to Chen Zuoqian without a bottom line, she is the ideal little wife in The heart of Old Master Chen - a woman should never want to ride on a man's head.
Zhuo Yun showed enough humility in front of Chen Zuoqian's male power, and such a low posture was exchanged for the favor of Old Master Chen who retreated to the second place.
But what could she get from such pampering?
For desire? One year is more than half a hundred, one is loose and crumbling, this is the real abuse.
For love? One likes the new and hates the old, one is full of calculations, and one heart is filled with ugliness and can no longer accommodate other feelings.
For money? The film version deliberately made contradictions prominent, such as lighting a lantern can be favored, you can have the right to order priority, you can get all kinds of preferential treatment of hammer feet, and there is no such appendage in the original work. Zhuo Yun could have kept the two children to live their lives quietly, even if they didn't fight, with her harmony, Old Master Chen wouldn't be too bad.
She has a pair of children, if there is ambition and resentment, it is completely possible to raise children well, so that they know that Dali will stand out in the future, but Zhuo Yun's heart is hanging on the calculation, from all kinds of signs that Zhuo Yun's children are not well educated.
When Song Lian saw Yiyun's two brothers and sisters, the child blurted out very impolitely: "She is also a little wife." It can be seen that the child's three views under the influence of the mother have been assimilated.
She fought back and forth, and maybe she didn't even know what she was fighting for.
Without Song Lian and Mei Shan, in the spring of the following year, Chen Zuoqian married the fifth wife, Wenzhu.
Zhuo Yun's days began again and again.
In fact, all her tragedies come from her fearful heart. She should be quite pampered when she was young, and she could not last long, seeing Mei Shan and Song Lian entering the door one after another, one victory over one beautiful, one better than the other young, she began to realize that human aging has become like a dead vine in the courtyard, seeing new shoots flourishing, but she can't do anything about the passing of this age.
Fear of the passage of time, fear of the demise of youth, fear of the moment she once had is like quicksand between her fingers, trying her best, nothing...
This is also why Zhuo Yun couldn't wait to find Song Lian to cut a student's head after Chen Zuoqian stayed overnight. She wanted to show off that she wasn't bad, and she wanted to convince herself that she was still young and had to fight.
She has also been gentle and beautiful, and she is willing to wither away.....
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