Read Yu Hua 1300 words of "Alive".
He is a rich boy from a well-known family, but because of gambling and going to a brothel, he lost more than 0/00 mu of land left by his ancestors and moved out of the big house where his ancestors lived. His father was seriously ill because of his son's disappointing performance, and finally fell from the dung jar at the entrance of the village and died. Since then, he has changed from a rich young master to a tenant who wants to rent land from others; He began to repent, and he wanted to support his family with his own hands.
His mother was old, too, and finally became very ill. His wife took some silver coins and asked him to go to the city for a doctor. But the doctor didn't succeed, but was forced to pull the gun by a small company commander of the Kuomintang and became an artillery who didn't know if he could see the sun tomorrow.
The life of the artillery is very hard. They have to compete for food. Fortunately, knowing two friends, life will not be too boring.
Their battery never fights, and people die in batches every day. Finally, he and another friend Chunsheng were liberated all over the country. He got the travelling expenses from the person in charge of the producer and embarked on a journey home.
He went home. He has been thinking about this little toilet for two years. He saw that he missed his daughter, son and wife day and night. That night, he couldn't sleep at night. Holding his wife in his arms, he looked at the stars at the door and thought all night: I'm back.
The miserable life began.
His mother died more than two months after he left, and now he has to support two children with his wife. But his son Xu Youqing wanted to study after all, and food at home became a problem. His daughter Xu had a high fever when she was a child, leaving a sequela. From then on, she became deaf-mute, otherwise no one would come to propose at marriageable age. Therefore, he and his wife discussed giving their daughter away.
Although his wife didn't give up, she was forced by life to send her daughter to work in an old couple. His daughter came back secretly, but when he sent her back to the city, he suddenly felt sorry for her: her daughter was very sensible and he didn't want to give it away. So he carried his daughter home. That night, he told his wife, "Even if the whole family starved to death, Xia Feng would not be sent back."
Their family lived a hard life on a small income. Although poor, he never abandoned the warmest side of human nature.
However, bad news followed. His wife suffered from rickets, which was incurable at that time. Gradually, she became unable to work and walk, and finally she could not hold a needle steadily. His wife thinks she will leave her family first. But what I didn't expect was that their son was only 10 years old and died at an early age.
The wife of the county magistrate in their village is in urgent need of blood transfusion because of massive bleeding during childbirth. But no one's blood type matches. It happened that his son had the same blood type, so the doctor began to draw blood. At present, minors are not allowed to donate blood and the amount of blood donation is limited. However, doctors at that time were extremely irresponsible and had no morality at all. Once the blood is pumped up, it can't stop. His poor son Xu Youqing was sucked dry and died.
After his son was buried, he was afraid to tell his wife. But in the end, his wife found out and cried her eyes out. Time is the best medicine for heart disease, and gradually, thinking of their son is just sad. They began to worry about how to find a good husband's family and marry their daughter. Finally, with the help of the villagers, his daughter Xia Feng married a good husband. Although the daughter is deaf and dumb, the son-in-law still loves her very much. Soon, his daughter became pregnant.
This skill is a happy event, but it seems to be a funeral when they arrive at their home. When his daughter gave birth, she died forever because of massive bleeding.
The daughter gave birth to a boy. His wife looked at her grandson piteously. He lost his mother at birth, so she named the baby boy "Bitter Root".
It's really "white hair sends black hair". His wife thought she was going to die, but she saw both her children die in front of her. Soon after, she died, too.
Since his daughter died, his son-in-law has taken bitter root as his own life. His son-in-law is a porter, and he has to carry a bitter root every day when he goes to work. Well, when Kugan could talk, walk and play by himself, Kugan's father left him to die: his son-in-law was crushed to death by two cement slabs, and the whole person was crushed into a pool of meat sauce!
He assumed the responsibility of raising his little grandson.
Bitter roots grow up day by day, gradually understand, and will help grandpa do some farm work. This naturally makes him very happy. But this day is not satisfactory. Coogan had a high fever and didn't know it. Only when he had a bad fever did he know that his grandson was ill. At that time, the family was too poor to buy medicine. I heard that ginger soup can cure colds and high fever, so he went to get a bowl of ginger soup. But some people thought it was too bitter and spicy, so they borrowed some sugar from the villagers. It was supposed to be returned, but others knew about his family and felt sorry for him, so they asked him to forget it.
Grandson naturally feels much better after drinking ginger soup. He felt guilty for not knowing that his grandson was ill. So I cooked beans all night, put them on the table, and put some salt on them. His poor grandson was crushed to death because of such a bowl of beans!
Since then, such a poor family has broken down, and only he is still alive in the whole family.
So he bought an old cow that should have been slaughtered as a companion. "Two old deathlessly" lead an ordinary life. ...
If someone encounters such a life treatment, they must be unwilling to look back. But the old man is still so meticulous with the author, as if living such a life.
Not to mention this, many people cry "I can't live" when they encounter a little setback in life, not to mention the difficulty that the elderly encounter: they bury their relatives. But the old man survived and lived a full and happy life. So all the difficulties we encounter can be solved, and we can't be timid snails.
Presumably this is the life that the author Yu Hua wants to tell us. Such as the title-"alive".
You know, to live is to create life.