I was fortunate to meet Mr. Feng Jicai, he is "the legendary rich and handsome".
His personal charisma is something that a junior like me cannot describe in detail.
Or to talk about works, I have read Mr. Feng Jicai's three volumes of "The Strange People in the World" and "Study One World", etc., and I like it very much.
This new book was published, and I read it for the first time.
"The Danube Gorge" consists of 5 short stories, of which the most impressive is the opening story "The Danube Gorge".
In the story, "my" cousin Xiao Ying brought her first boyfriend Jiang Xiaochu to see "me" and wanted to ask "me" to help Jiang Xiaochu go abroad.
Jiang Xiaochu was a dentist and wanted to go abroad. He was the only one who went abroad this time, and his cousin Xiao Ying did not accompany him.
"I" have a very good impression of this young man. Although his profession is a dentist, he is actually more like an artist, no matter his external image or internal character.
Generally speaking, when I see such an opening, I subconsciously tell me that this story should have a tragic ending. The man will betray the woman when he goes abroad, and similar real examples are not uncommon in reality.
There is an example in the surrounding life: a man and a woman fall in love. After the two get married, they live in their parents-in-law's house. After the parents-in-law help the man find a decent job, the man is also very motivated. A firm foothold in the city.
This should have been a story of gratitude and harmony, but in the end, the man abandoned the woman and preached that "I can finally raise my eyebrows"... As a listener and bystander, I have no way of knowing the truest entanglement of this story, but I can't help but sigh and sigh: the human heart is unfathomable after all!
Just like the book "Divorce Litigation" I was reading recently, it is about a man who came out of the countryside. After he "prospered", he faked a divorce with his married wife to buy a house. Abandoned his wife who had been with him all the way and started a new family.
But the wife suffered a lot on the way to "find" him.
After reading it, it is infuriating. When God created this type of people, he probably forgot to install the "conscience" part.
If the folds of real life make us feel cruel and sad, then in "The Danube Gorge", Mr. Feng Jicai's brushstrokes are kind, soft and compassionate, and he did not leave such a tragic ending on paper.
In the story, after "I" helped Jiang Xiaochu go abroad smoothly and arrived in Vienna, this diligent, smart and capable young man became the main force of the company by his own ability in only half a year, and his income rose steadily. Getting into the private car... After reading this, I took a faint breath. According to the general novel writing routine, the more beautiful, smoother, and more wishful the beginning, often foreshadows and brews a great contrast.
Yes, I was mentally prepared that Jiang Xiaochu was about to betray Xiao Ying to face and accept a sad ending.
In fact, I hope that the ending of the story is that Xiao Ying went to Vienna to find Jiang Xiaochu, and the two lived happily together. This is also the real version of Snow White and Prince Charming; I also hope that the ending is that Jiang Xiaochu learned a lot of experience abroad After that, he returned to China to continue his career, and then married Xiao Ying, creating a happy story... However, the truth of life is that things always backfire. When touched, it is like foam, which looks colorful, but breaks when touched.
In the story, just as Jiang Xiaochu was about to fulfill his promise to take Xiao Ying to a concert at the Vienna Golden Hall, an accidental injury occurred suddenly, causing her facial disfigurement and physical disability.
Jiang Xiaochu like this refused to face Xiao Ying again. He thought he was not worthy of having an angelic woman like Xiao Ying, so he chose to escape.
And Xiao Ying didn't know the truth. One night, she wanted to ask Jiang Xiaochu for an explanation. She called Vienna, and there was a lady's voice on the other end of the phone line... At this time, Xiao Ying thought that Jiang Xiaochu had betrayed her, and she was heartbroken. Depressed and hopeless, she finally chose to marry a wealthy businessman in a short period of time.
The story ends here.
A novel is a novel, and its fate rests in the hands of those who write it.
So, sometimes, fiction seems more reliable than life.
The ending of "Danube Gorge" was given by Mr. Feng Jicai. He was actually merciful and unconventional, because if Jiang Xiaochu betrayed Xiao Ying, it would be too vulgar and even a bit bloody.
Now, in such an ending, there is at least one thing that makes people feel a little moved in addition to regret, and that is the existence of love, not the disappearance of it.
The fate of the protagonist is tragic, mixed with a bit of regret, what would happen if Xiao Ying knew the truth?
Will their fates take another look?
But immediately, I want to put away such speculations quickly, because such speculations may touch the torture of people's hearts and human nature.
Just imagine, if Xiao Ying knew the truth, would she never leave Jiang Xiaochu?
After all, he was beyond recognition.
Even if she follows her for love without hesitation, how long, how long, and how long can she stick to it?
In real life, there will be too many unknowns, difficulties and hardships hitting them...
Nietzsche said that there are two things in the world that cannot be looked at directly, one is the sun, and the other is the human heart.
Not challenging human nature is sometimes a kind of supreme compassion.
Xiao Ying, the cousin written by Mr. Feng Jicai, should have a beautiful home if observed through the elongated timeline of life. She later had two children of her own and lived in a stable and faint ordinary happiness. middle.
Perhaps, at the dusk of a certain sunset, looking at her leaning on the railing, she would think of the man who once walked hand in hand, and sighed in a melancholy: If life is only as first seen, what is the autumn wind and sadness.
However, passing by in a hurry, past events follow the wind, only by facing the road ahead and cherishing the people and events of the present are the true courage to face life.
Life is like a mirror, you laugh at it, it will laugh at you... May we all meet good people.
Shang Xiaoyi