Entertainment: My knife has made the whole world sad

After reading Alive, Zhang Dehua's emotions could not calm down for a long time.

Because he is well-informed and has witnessed the rapid development of Xiazhou in recent decades, he is not in the mood to break down. He just sighs that this Alive really reflects the past fifty or sixty years of Xiazhou's development. Disasters, poverty, and environmental difficulties all happened to Fugui.

Obviously, the old thief must have this idea.

Throughout the novel, it can be said that God has taken away many things from Fugui, but the only thing that cannot be taken away is Fugui's will to live.

No sensationalism.

It's not intentional.

But this book is so cruel.

Zhang Dehua looked at this book and felt a little dazed for a moment.

This book is a painful one. Although there are occasional moments of warmth and relaxation, most of the time, an extremely numb and tragic emotion fills the entire book.

This book spares no effort to show how fate can destroy people's lives!

And Fugui is the protagonist of this destroyed life.

…

Different from Zhang Dehua's feelings, as a young man, Liu Lei only felt that his whole strength was drained after reading this book.

Liu Lei grew up in a favorable environment. When he was a child, Liu Lei's grandparents always told Liu Lei not to waste food or save all kinds of old items. Even some empty bottles outside, Liu Lei's grandparents would pick it up.

Whenever he saw his grandparents picking up empty bottles, Liu Lei would frown and come forward to argue, saying that times have changed and the family does not lack the money.

After all, in this era, even if a classmate goes out for a dinner, it may cost hundreds of dollars. A few decades ago, a few dozen dollars was a person's monthly salary.

In the past, when his grandparents talked to Liu Lei about the past, Liu Lei would always say that times are developing, but the novel Alive truly vividly displays the current situation of the past few decades in front of readers.

In the evening, grandpa went out to play chess, and Liu Lei talked about the past time with grandma again.

Grandma held Liu Lei's hand and slowly recalled:

At that time, every family was poor, so I went to Jiangbei to beg for food, going door to door.

You all don't know that there were many people begging for food at that time. Unlike now, people would starve to death at that time.

The men in the family went to study, and I went to beg for food. All I wore were rags. The apples I ate during the New Year and festivals were half-rotten apples from the street. I dug out the rotten parts and ate them again. .”

Liu Lei kept silent. He had never listened so carefully before.

He remembered that last time, half of the apples at home were rotten and grandma still wanted to eat them. Liu Lei got very angry and argued with grandma.

After all, a half-broken apple must not be eaten according to current opinions. There will definitely be bacteria and metabolites, and even microorganisms will start to multiply. Even the good parts will not be spared.

The mold in it can cause mutations in human cells and cause cancer.

In this day and age, apples, rice candy, and potatoes are all unpopular things.

The price of apples in fruit stores is extremely cheap.

But according to grandma, when they were young, apples were a good thing. They couldn't afford to eat whole apples, they could only eat half-rotten apples.

Later, when I came here to beg for food, I met your grandfather.

Your grandfather was working in a factory at that time. He only got 48 yuan a month. He was allocated a house and lived there. His life was very hard...

There are no air conditioners nowadays. It's hot in the summer, so I'll fan your father and your aunt, and keep fanning...

That's it, your father and your aunt can't fall asleep until late at night.

It's even harder in the winter.

Grandma saw her grandson listening so carefully to the past stories, and the memories kept flooding back for a while, and she recalled with a smile.

No air conditioning, no heater.

In that era, things like electrical appliances were unthinkable.

Nowadays, many people often shout that they will die without air conditioning in summer, but this is how the older generation came to live.

Life is very tight, and even tofu, cigarettes and cloth have to be paid for by receipt.

There is no need to go into details in winter. Children from poor families can only wear shabby cotton-padded jackets and sanitary robes to keep out the cold. They can wear cotton-padded shoes with dry soles on their feet, which is a good match.

Winter is far more sad than summer.

Grandma held Liu Lei's hand and talked for half an hour.

But in the past half hour, Liu Lei found that grandma's cheeks were always filled with a smile.

Even though the days were difficult in the past, it was so difficult that people today can hardly even imagine it.

Grandma was not alone in this situation. From her words, in their previous village, there were many people begging for food every day. Liu Lei had never experienced this, but he could still imagine the scene in his mind.

grandmother……

Why.

Why were you able to persevere even though the past was so difficult?

At this moment, many feelings suddenly arose in Liu Lei's heart. Liu Lei could not say that he could fully understand the emotions in the story Alive, but he had already partially understood them.

People like Fugui are not an exception.

On the land of Xiazhou, there are thousands of lucky people, and they all live a difficult life until this beautiful era.

persist in?

People have to live.

Grandma's words seemed to be the truth.

There has to be something to look forward to. I used to hope that your uncle and grandpa would be able to make a difference. The family was all around your uncle and grandpa. But your uncle and grandpa didn't learn well and ended up working as a squatter for several years.

It can be said that the generation of grandparents favored sons over daughters.

At that time, the concept was like this, and no one thought it was wrong.

It can be said that in the entire family, Liu Lei himself prefers girls to boys.

But grandma still wants to have a grandson, and still wants to add a son to the family to continue the family line.

A person's ideas are subtle, and they cannot be changed even after decades of thinking.

Simply discussing right and wrong does not actually mean much. Times are changing, and concepts are also changing.

Grandma looked at Liu Lei and said with a gentle smile:

My life is getting better now, so I'm looking forward to saving two more bucks, finding a wife for you in the future, and being able to see my great-grandson, which is my biggest wish in this life.

Why do we still have to live when life is so hard?

Why is it that after experiencing so much suffering, grandma can still smile when she recalls the past?

…

People live for life itself, not for anything other than living.

This sentence is the point that the author wants to express throughout the book.

Throughout Alive, what the old thief expresses is very simple. To live is to simply want to live.

He did not stand on the moral high ground to give guidance, but simply described Fugui's life. This kind of life will be well known to millions of Xiazhou movie fans in Alive, but if it is thrown into all living beings, there will be no trace of it. trace.

Because this was the fate of many people in that era.

There is no good or evil, no right or wrong, no trace, just like it has never existed, submerged in the torrent of history throughout the years.

At this moment, Liu Lei felt that his grandma was very similar to Fugui in Alive, except that grandma did not live as miserable a life as Fugui, but experienced many unique pains of that era.

Liu Lei couldn't understand it originally, but the appearance of Alive suddenly made Liu Lei realize something.

This book allows Liu Lei and Fugui to share joys and sorrows. When good luck favors Fugui, Liu Lei will smile happily, and when Fugui is hit by bad luck, Liu Lei will feel sad.

Tragedies always come one after another, making it impossible to breathe.

This was the era of the past.

…