Women's hearts, underwater needles, no, women's heart, sea itself

Author:People's Literature Publishin Time:2022.09.11

In 2007, Pan Xiangli won the Fourth Lu Xun Literature Award with "Bai Shui Green". In 2010, he published a novel "Wearing Lotus" in our agency. For the twelve years, the novelist returned, and Pan Xiangli's new novel "Shanghai Love Ukiyoshi" appeared.

At 7 pm on September 11, 2022, nine guests such as Shi Zhanjun, Pan Kaixiong, Xi Meijuan, Liang Yongan, Zhu Jiejing, He Qing, Pan Xiangli, Zang Yongqing, and Kong Lingyan gathered together to carry out a wonderful dialogue on literature and love.

Pan Xiang Li Lu Xun Literature Prize winner

I would like to select the segment of "Lotus Ginger" in the book to readers

That woman, Ding Wuyong later called her lotus ginger in her heart, not because she loved lotus ginger, because she was a bit like a lotus ginger: pretty, bright and eye -catching, but it was not "sweet", let alone Black, instead, feels from the appearance to the strange unity of washing and turbulent and enchanting, and has a sense of excitement that is easy to cause controversy.

But these two people are rare. The man is excellent, the woman is also excellent, and the man is like a black porcelain dish, holding the tip, pretty, and gorgeous of the lotus ginger, which is particularly eye -catching, and the lotus ginger also contrasts his impermanence and deepness.

Suddenly one day, the black man was gone, and the lotus ginger came alone.

She was sitting alone, and the expression on her face made Ding Wuyong know that the man would not appear today. But her appetite is okay, just like that man, just drink a lot. She drank it by herself and ordered the shochu black fog island. At first Ding Wuyong recommended her to sinely sake to produce feather cherry blossoms. She was going to drink shochu. Ding Wuyong recommended Bai Bo and forging Gao Tan. Essence Every time I drank about half a bottle, the rest existed here. She should have asked her surname, but Ding Wuyong wrote "ginger" in front of her, and he said, "Ginger of lotus ginger." The woman glanced deeply at Ding Wuyong, and seemed to have a sense of confidante in her eyes, and seemed to have resentment and grievances for the first time -it has been so long here, and even her own name cannot be made public.

Every time she finished eating, she walked by herself. Ding Wuyong thought: When the two of them were drinking, did they drive the man's driver, or did they find someone to drive? Now that she is alone, is someone picking it up, or just take a taxi home?

Ding Wuyong's curiosity only stopped. Because in this city, all kinds of encounters and discrete between men and women are produced, not to mention that this kind of woman encounters such men. The more outstanding women are, the more difficult to be willing to be. The more the men are, the more they are scrupled. The flowers are flowing. However, they are all people in this city. They will not have too much move. They are two months short, half a year long, and they are eagerly eager. Maybe one year? Emotional trauma is sentenced to imprisonment, and the sentence period is not long. As soon as the sentence is full, it has passed. It releases itself. The new season of clothes, change the hairstyle, under the sun, the bright, decent, no past city pillar beam It's right.

Ding Wuyong was wrong. One day, this woman appeared, wearing a black suspender dress with no makeup on her face. Su Yan was very beautiful, but she was abruptly painted with flame -like lipsticks, which made Ding Wuyong very unaccustomed. Of course, a woman with a bad mood is normal for this level.

She did not sit on the corner of the usual bar, but sat in the middle of the bar, drank, and said to Ding Wuyong, "I invite you to have a drink."

Ding Wuyong did not talk nonsense, and handed over a cup. She poured him up. Ding Wuyong took a sip, and seemed to say politely: "Is it delicious?" She smiled sorry: "I have forgotten Say, your craft is so good. "

Ding Wuyong said, "Thank you."

She looked at him and suddenly said, "You also have less words."

Ding Wuyong smiled and waited for her to say.

I didn't expect her not to say, but asked in turn: "Why don't you ask, where did he go?"

Ding Wuyong took another sip. He didn't know what to say, because he didn't know if the other party was willing to say, and would he regret it after waking up. If she regrets it, she will not come again. In that case, it will lose a guest who likes lotus ginger and looks like a lotus ginger. If so, he would rather say nothing. Moreover, Ding Wuyong is really not a curious person, because he believes that there is really no new thing in the sun.

But at this moment, there was something in this woman's eyes that made Ding Wuyong suddenly feel that he might be too confident. His hunch was immediately confirmed. She came over and closer to Ding Wuyong, saying "you don't ask because you guessed, right?"

Ding Wuyong can only nod ambiguously.

She said, "Yes, he won't come again."

The messy and sharp light in her eyes made Ding Wuyong confirm that he was too confident. This matter was beyond his imagination.

She said, "Yes, he died."

Speaking of this, the lotus ginger seemed to have exhausted his strength, and sat back at the chair. In this semi -lost control process, she said sadly and sincerely, "He died. I killed him."

Ding Wuyong felt that the whole mouth was stuck in his throat and burned like fire. In this case, he thought he would only hear in the movie, and he would never have any relationship with his own life and his own store. At the beginning, when he saw the lotus ginger and a black came in, he immediately judged their relationship. At the same time, he immediately decided to welcome them for a long time. Who's money is not money anyway? This relationship is always extraordinarily generous in money. Isn't it a benefit for guests? Of course, Ding Wuyong knows that it will be separated for one year and three years long. They will definitely be separated, just like knowing that the Phalaenopsis in the store can be opened for three weeks, and the foreign aquarium is the same as a week. However, Ding Wuyong did not expect that sometimes, when the flowers were thanked, a mine was split in the air, and even the flower bottle shook down, the broken and flowing flow.

Ding Wuyong felt that he should go to the police, but he did not grasp that he would do that. He doesn't like this tangling, he can only want that woman not to come again. In that way, Ding Wuyong didn't have to tangle.

But the lotus ginger continues, similar to the original interval, just once a week. She still sat on the corner of the bar, always drinking her Black Mist island, and she couldn't drink it. If she had no more bottle, the vegetables were handed over to Ding Wuyong. Ding Wuyong will still arrange a proper three or four dishes according to her preferences and seasonal. Come to dinner and drink, but come to write those words. After writing, throw the phone next to the phone, and then continue to eat and drink without any slowness. Sometimes you take a look at the door, continue to eat and drink, and after eating and drinking. Once I walked to the door, I looked back, as if the people behind them didn't keep up.

Where will anyone behind you? It's gone long ago. At that moment, Ding Wuyong felt that behind her, it was a large empty void, and the emptiness was so empty that even the entire store and everyone in the store did not exist.

After that, she didn't talk to Ding Wuyong anymore, and it seemed that she didn't remember what she had said. Ding Wuyong suspected that she was the kind of person who forgot everything when she was drunk. Otherwise, how dare she continue to appear here, and it's so troublesome? Is it waiting for Ding Wuyong to report to the case, so that she caught her? Ding Wuyong also hoped that it was her drunk nonsense. The man was still living well. This woman just said that the export was bad.

But what about that man? Ding Wuyong is more and more unbelievable that he lives well.

Huang Meitian, one day, the lotus ginger just started eating, the rain was growing, and it was not like the slow feet rain that was usually Huang Meiyu's usual. That battle. Ding Wuyong knows that this kind of weather is particularly easy to get drunk, which may be too humid, which is not conducive to the evaporation of alcohol. Sure enough, the lotus ginger was drinking, flushing, one hand with half a face, and his eyes were blurred.

Ding Wuyong made an exception: "It's almost, don't drink anymore. How do you go back in this weather?"

"How do I go back? I can't go back. I am not home, no one is waiting for me to go back, how do I go back? Where can I go back?"

She cried.

The wine is steaming, the water vapor is filled, and the whole store is full of a woman's cry. The crying sound is terrible. Although it is very loud, it is very depressed. It is like a rural woman in an old age. It is like a five or six -year -old child who is trapped in the sewer who is struggling and desperately completed with the last energy.

Ding Wuyong was cold in his heart: That man, I'm afraid he was really dead. Do you want to call the police?

When I got home at night, I saw Yu Qing inserting flowers under the light, and the washed hair was half wet on the shoulder. He moved in his heart and said to her, "How about a little bit of marriage?" Unexpected, Ding Wuyong said, "It seems that it is better to get married, what do you say?"

Yu Qing said, "Do you want to marry me?"

Ding Wuyong said, "Yes."

"Let me think about it." Yu Qing said.

Ding Wuyong said, "You have to consider."

"Someone proposes, and then think about it. This is the treatment. I always have to enjoy it." Yu Qing finished and laughed. Ding Wuyong also laughed.

Seeing her smile, Ding Wuyong had an indescribable feeling, as if he was relieved, as if he had passed a test that was originally worried about, and found that he had overestimated the difficulty of the exam. How big? Isn't it just a marriage? It is so scary, which is what.

The next day, the lotus ginger appeared again. It was only 5 pm, and the store was still preparing.

She said, "Boss, don't eat today, I'm here to pay back your money."

Last night, she was really drunk. After she got on the bathroom, Ding Wuyong called her car with a taxi software for her. She used the big umbrella in the shop to get her in the car. No one cares about the checkout.

"The next time you come, by the way, you are here." Ding Wuyong said sincerely. Some people know that they will not depend on the account for a lifetime. Lotus ginger is such a person. In fact, the man with a dark and tired eyes in his eyes is also this kind of person, but he does not know why he owes this woman.

The lotus ginger's face has no difference. If you have a careful search, you can see that the eyelids are slightly swollen, and the face is not as good as usual. In addition, it is still a attention, dressed in dresses, decent behaviors, and being well -behaved. Modern girl with a smooth operation. There are many senior business buildings in Shanghai's gold and even diamonds, and the aura of these modern girls is convinced that they have the ability to knock on any of the doors in it. The room has a place to let her freely.

Their makeup is subtle, her skin is fair, her facial features, beautiful outlines, and their expressions are capable. On their faces, you can't see dark circles, fine wrinkles and spots. I can't see the traces of crying, anger, discouraged, and soul, those in their hearts, like hiding in the deep sea. Woman's heart, underwater needle? The person who said this still underestimates the woman. Women's hearts are the sea itself.

"I'm going to go to the country for a while, and I will not come in the next few months, so I will come today."

Ding Wuyong immediately thought: Great!

He has no need to see this woman since then. If she is really a business trip and leaves for a while, she may want to open because of changing the environment. In short, she should not come to this sad land again. If she escaped, she also helped Ding Wuyong's busyness. Then, she had no relationship with Ding Wuyong, and Ding Wuyong didn't need to tangled anymore.

Selected from "Shanghai Love Ukiyoshi", Publication Published in September 2022, People's Literature Publishing House

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