"Naive Old Woman": The scars that the angels were lost to the mother

Sheng can tell the story of Mei with the sharpness wrapped in generosity and kindness. It is to tell the reader that the loss of angels will bring a deep scar to the mother.

■ Wu Mei

Many years ago, after reading Sheng's novel "Human Lion Body", I wrote a comment and posted it to the Internet. The core content was that the novel of Shengye was too sharp. The short review was read by the writer himself: Since I think I wrote sharply, I also wrote such a long comment? I did n’t reply, but my heart rolled in a word: Do you write sharply, do n’t you just want readers to pay attention?

After receiving the 5th issue of "Harvest" literary magazine in 2022, read the catalog, and at a glance, when I saw the mid -novel "Naive Old Woman" published in the current period, I read it to the 20th page of the directory -I read it — Missing the sharpness.

Shortly after the beginning, "Opposite the road, a young girl beckoned to me, it was undoubtedly the name of the landlord May — the name registered on the website. Here is called Mei." Sheng can open the Mingyi, this time tells the story of a young girl named Mei. But why is the novel named "Naive Old Woman"? Only after "I" crossed a road, Sheng could reveal the mystery: "Crossing the road closer to her, only to find that this thin and beautiful girl is a young woman. The eyes are turbid and the hair is scarce, but I still try to get out of it, use a small card to stop, cover the too bare forehead, and create a ray of ghosts. "Especially the last sentence of the citation, I read me and laughed. Sound: See you for so many years with Shengye's novels, and her sharpness is still.

In the first section of the novel, Sheng can have a strong contrast to an old woman in front of a girl from a distance, and it was a strong narrative style of an old woman in front of her. But wait for me to be ready to enter the second quarter, but I found that the years can let Sheng put away the blade, and only use the knife back to gently hit the "I" short -term rental landlord. The color of the apartment in the blue -collar community, the color of the carpet on the stairs, the color dirty color of the fabric sofa in the living room, the stains on the kitchen's milky screen curtains, the ugly kitchen utensils ... Through the author's successive "hitting", the reader seems to have already been in The place where Mei made a particularly bad residence. However, this time I remembered the name of the novel "Naive Old Woman", which corresponds to "naive" with "dirty". Is it a Chinese woman struggling in a foreign country?

Not so. If the writer still shows disdain between words through the "I" sight, when the short -term rental house environment is hidden, then after the "I" replace the dirty bedding prepared by Mei to move in, the prosperous can be again. Write the words and deeds of Meimei in the eyes of "I", and even the back of the knife was accepted. The tone was full of tolerance and doubt:

"No matter what she eats, what impressed me was that she walked towards the body with a tray to the room, as if the things in her hand, and the precious life she had, could never be achieved by others."

"When the bus spit out plum, the dog barked. It did not recognize her, but that Mei was full of luggage. Passing through the road staggering. "

The information transmitted to the reader in the two paragraphs is that the same plum, half noble and half down, and can instantly complete the conversion. If you have read the "Naive Old Woman" in a complete manner, we can also get these details: Mei, which was "spit out" by the bus, just reached a hotel at $ 700 a night to enjoy the swimming pool; at the same time, she will always be forever again Boil the fruit belly with a pot of bean sprouts and tofu, feed your pet dog forever, feed apple vinegar mixing chicken and green beans, and never want to repair the ruined place in the apartment ... Two comparisons, the mystery is getting bigger and bigger: why is Mei willing to spend $ 700 Stay for one night?

The answer was when Mei's body collapsed at the end of the novel. It wasn't until then that I knew that Sheng could put away her iconic and sharp edge to write the reason for "Naive Old Woman", because the novel discussed a topic that requires a generous and kind context: when a mother loses the only one of the only mother, the only mother loses the only one of the only mother. After the child.

This theme is enough to make people feel distressed. She is also stuffed into two mothers who have lost their only children in a small novel, one is plum and the other is "I". Lost the child's family.

Every mother who lost her child has a way to pass the rest of her life. Like Mei's landlord, the Indian couples who live downstairs, although they are extremely dissatisfied with Mei, they have dirty their houses, and they have thought about taking back the house several times. But they eventually dispatched the pain of bereavement in the way of pity. "I", after the 5 -year -old son died of an accident, he simply left London, who had lived with his son, and traveled to the Quartet to eliminate the pain of the cone after the loss of the child. Whether it is the Indian couple or "I", they can in commemorate the rushing angel in a way that people can accept and include.

The apartment rented from the Indian couple has three rooms, one is a plum bedroom, one is used as a short -term rental house, and the door is always closed. When Mei was picked up by the ambulance, "I" could push the door open. I was in a magical and nailed place. I know what it is. Not long ago, I put my son into such a box. "Following Sheng can read here, I guess" I "at that moment at that moment I must be glad that in the less long time when I am interacting with plums, I have been waiting for the grievances that I have been waiting for the lifestyle of Mei, especially when Mei wants to go to a hotel for $ 700 for a night. At that time, "I" urged Mei to take care of her pet dog for her. At this moment, "I" and I understand that Mei is going to the hotel to enjoy the swimming pool! The original happy family collapsed because of her husband's derailment. When the divorce, Mei Fei tried his best to get his son's custody. After getting it, he made every effort to create a living condition as good as before. Essence It is a pity that his thick love has killed his son. This is a reality that Mei refuses to believe in anyway. Therefore, in the days later, the Mei Festival, which almost lost the source of life, was about $ 700 in order to save $ 700. Then bring his son's daily necessities to the hotel for a long time to sit next to the swimming pool. There is no way to let the exotic style one after another helping himself for forgetting the dead son, and there is no way to pour all his love to another child like the landlord and the couple. When Mei can only use her own way Always hanging his son. Do not care about the house rented, and send your own days indiscriminately ... The more unreasonable the state of Mei, the losing the only child's harm to her, the greater the harm to her. The story is to tell the reader through "Naive Old Woman" that the loss of angels will be left to the mother's deep scar.

It is difficult to lose the only child "I" who have lost the only coincidence of Mei, but "Naive Old Woman" is still a sober agent. The right to grow up healthy.

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