Author | Lin Zixuan
Source | Franklin Reading Club (ID: Franklin ReadingClub)
Anchor | Fan Deng Reading · Yang Gun Gun
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Meet · Meet your unknown self in the book.
Good evening to all book lovers, welcome to the reading column "Encounter" produced by Fan Deng Reading.
Today, I would like to share with you the novel interpreted by Teacher Fan Deng- "Life Sea Sea".
This book is a long masterpiece by Teacher Mai Jia, who is known as the "father of espionage literature".
Life is like the sea, there are always cold and tyrannical waters, and there are gentle and warm ocean currents.
Someone on the Internet asked: How to evaluate the Mai family's "Life Sea Sea"?
There is a high praise is Mo Yan's comment:
"The fascinating thing about this novel is that it writes characters who didn't exist as friends who exist around us."
The winner of the Mao Dun Literature Award, Mai Jia, lasted 8 years and completed the magnificent masterpiece "Life Sea".
He said at the end of the pen: "What I want to write about is the luck born in despair, the morality that stands out in hardship. ”
When I first read "The Sea of Life", I couldn't help but feel sad that the heroes of an era were maliciously wrapped up and poured into the sea of suffering.
After reading "Life Sea and Sea" again, I found that the fate of each character is hidden in the pattern of their life in the world.
Everyone has a "sea of life" in their hearts.
Seeing those human entanglements, you will find that jealousy and hatred, treachery, and the calamities of life... The untold ugliness arises from a person's narrow mind.
The smaller the pattern, the less good it is for others
The story takes place in a remote village where a "strange man" lives.
He never did farm work, read the newspaper and sniffed melon seeds at home every day, but his life was more comfortable than anyone's family.
He does not marry or marry, and raises a pair of black and white cats as babies, and the children in the village are far less nutritious than cats.
The people in the village respectfully called him colonel in front of the people, and called him a eunuch behind his back.
"I heard that he was a colonel in the Kuomintang army, and everyone secretly sprang up to scold him as a traitor."
"I heard that he was castrated, and the children clapped their hands behind his back and sang and insulted him as a 'eunuch.'"
The little blind man has a father and no wife, fights and provokes in the village all day, and does many evil deeds in school, and his father is a blind man, who goes around cheating and cheating to make a living, and the father and son who are disliked by people are full of hunger and cold eyes.
When the special period came, the village ordered the arrest of people to fight, and the little blind man aimed at the opportunity and rushed to the front to tie up the colonel, and for a moment he was mighty.
Feeling not relieved enough, he dragged the colonel around as a pig and a dog, and when he saw that the colonel did not give in, he openly abused the lynching and beat him to the point of being covered in blood.
The feeling of stepping on someone else's feet made him feel very cool, and desire made him even more crazy.
At nightfall, seeing that the Colonel was no longer moving, he approached him quietly and pulled down the Colonel's pants with force by the glimmer of light.
He thought that he could finally prove to the villagers that the colonel was a eunuch and had the courage to establish himself in this great village, but he did not know that this dirty lust was about to ruin his life.
The next day, when the little blind man was found again, he had already collapsed in a pool of blood, his tongue cut, his tendons picked, and his life crippled.
It was not so much the desire for fame and fortune that obscured his eyes, but rather that ignorance and narrow-mindedness poisoned him.
What he didn't know was that this "eunuch" who was said to be a "eunuch" was actually a hero who had made great achievements in battle, a healer who saved people from water and fire.
This hero once stole military intelligence and became a female devil's favorite, and his stomach was engraved with a line, which became his eternal shame.
Of course, the foolish little blind man will not seek the truth, because jealousy has already corrupted him to the point of exhaustion.
There is a crab law in psychology: in a basket full of crabs, the crabs can easily escape, but no matter which one wants to climb out, it will be pulled down by other crabs.
The smaller the pattern, the less good it is for others.
Since I'm not having a good time, others are delusional about being better off than me.
If you look around, how many people are like little blind people?
If the melons planted by others are sweeter than their own, they must go forward and destroy the roots;
Others are young and beautiful, just say it must be plastic surgery;
Others earn more than themselves, saying that it must be illegal gains.
Russell famously said:
"Because of jealousy, people do not draw pleasure from what they have, but constantly draw pain from what others have."
The greatest evil of human nature is to see others as good.
The narrower the pattern, the less virtuous it is
The little blind man who was punished by the colonel not only did not repent in the slightest, but also wantonly overdrawn his evil.
Seeing the Colonel running away, he wrote rumors about the Colonel with his feet in a grudge, which made the village rumors menacing.
The "my" father, who had a deep friendship with the colonel, suddenly became the spearhead, and the unbearable dirty words flooded "my" home like a torrent for a time.
Grandpa, who took his face as the root of his life, collapsed on the bed and lost half his life.
It was not until the news of the colonel's arrest proved the innocence of "my" father that Grandpa regained his spirit.
But I never expected that Grandpa's friends would suddenly come to the door to scold Grandpa, and Grandpa, who had always been strong, had become dumb.
Everyone understood that the discovery of the Colonel's hiding place was all due to his grandfather's denunciation, and he hid his father in the drum and secretly followed him, completely disregarding the kindness of the Colonel and his father.
On the other hand, the colonel was tortured day and day in prison.
On the day the commune pronounced his guilt, he was already tortured to the point of no form.
Even more disheartening, the villains who maliciously speculated on the Colonel's belly rushed up and rushed to take off his pants to see it.
The spectators in the audience looked straight ahead, hoping to pull off the pants with their eyes.
Just then, the dying colonel roared, and he broke through the restraints on his body like a tiger, and laughed again in the breathless crowd.
The Colonel was mad, and Grandpa was sick again.
Those villagers who had been favored by the colonel began a fierce revenge on "my" family, someone threw bricks and tiles at the door at any time, the livestock in the family were not seen from time to time, "I" was attacked on the way to school, and everyone spoke harshly to each other...
Grandpa eventually passed away under the condemnation of the world, in order to put an end to a false rumor.
Grandpa did not hesitate to take advantage of a little face, treacherous, and in the end he gained more than he lost.
In reality, there is no shortage of such selfish people, just like Ms. Du in Jinan, Shandong.
Ms. Du begged her neighbor, Ms. Zhang, to help pick up the child, and Ms. Zhang agreed to take her daughter to kindergarten, considering that she usually took her daughter to kindergarten.
The good thing happened for more than two years, until an accident came.
Once on the way home, Ms. Du's child accidentally fell out of the electric car, causing bruises.
Ms. Zhang, who was too unwilling to go, took 2,000 yuan to visit the hospital, but unexpectedly, the ungrateful Ms. Du turned around and took her to court, demanding that she compensate all the costs.
Selfishness is so great that it can be repeated?
Ms. Du, who has a narrow vision, only has interests in her heart and only money in her eyes, and she does not know that the "kindness of Ms. Zhang" that she has lost cannot be bought back no matter how much gold she has.
Selfishness is indeed a human instinct, but don't forget, if you lose your conscience, you will no longer have the confidence to stand on society.
The narrower the pattern, the less virtuous it is.
The pattern is different, there is no need to compete
A human catastrophe has torn the home of "me" in the book apart ever since.
In order to escape revenge, "I" was forced to flee to the end of the world and drift to a foreign country.
Because I was young and did not know the local dialect, the "I" who had no way to make a living had to starve and freeze every day, like a rat in the gutter, living a meticulous life.
And "my" family has since changed the trajectory of life and moved towards sadness.
As soon as I thought of the little blind man, "I" gritted my teeth in hatred and was so angry that I wanted to draw a knife and kill someone.
After entering middle age, age and suffering have gradually made "me" feel compassion.
"I" slowly understood that people should learn to let go, and letting go is a kind of kindness that spares others, and it is also the wisdom that spares themselves.
When "I" returned home and saw the little blind man's half-crazy and half-mad appearance, "I" finally chose sympathy and received him.
Tolerance is a kind of heart, but also a pattern.
Cao Dewang, a famous entrepreneur, has also had the experience of not counting the previous suspicions.
He once mentioned in an interview that he went out of his hometown and was bullied and beaten out by villagers.
After the success of the business, he insisted on investing 500,000 yuan a year in his hometown to build ancestral halls, roads, and nursing homes, and also supported the people who beat him that year.
The evil villagers came to apologize with guilt, and Cao Dewang faintly replied: "I am very grateful to you, without you I would not run out, still there like you." ”
People with big patterns, when they encounter rotten people and bad things, do not get entangled.
Forrest Gump once said:
"Life is a process of constant elimination, slowly knowing what is important and what is not important."
The pattern is different, there is no need to compete.
Different levels, no need to go hand in hand.
Write at the end
A thousand people have a thousand lives in the sea, and there are bottomless valleys in them, and there are also turbulent sufferings.
The Mai family said: "A truly great person, no matter what he has experienced, can still sink his heart." ”
The choice of tolerance is not to show a broad mind, but to be at ease in the heart.
Choosing to be good is not to reap honorary titles, but to be comfortable.
Remember:
"Flying with the phoenix, it will be a handsome bird; walking with the tiger and wolf, it will be a beast."
Click "Watching", your pattern, determine your ending.
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Column Director | Come slowly
Typography | Zheng to the north
Music | Yiruma - Love Hurts