Chapter 104 The First Day
The background reflected in the main line of the story of two men competing for this married woman is the invasion of European and American material civilization into the interior of the Shudu Plain. The mutual agitation and growth and decline of forces, the retreat of our own feudal forces in front of the colonial forces.
One kind of darkness replaced another kind of darkness. The stagnant water is still the stagnant water, it just made a little wave.
In the story, Li Jieren did not show any sympathy for any tragic characters. If he had sympathy, it was for the entire era. The struggle and surrender of the little characters in the face of fate were described by him in line drawings. It leaves readers with a lot of thinking space.
But Zhou Zhi couldn't tell his friends like this, because they were still establishing their three views, so he specifically mentioned a detail in the novel.
That is, my mother and second sister originally had to cook the meals for ancestor worship, but the second sister wanted to be lazy and let this woman named Sister Deng Yao help. My mother hesitated and said, "It's for ancestor worship..."
Sister Deng Yao grabbed the spatula and said with a smile, "Madam, you are too serious, I am clean!"
Just one small detail reflects a lot of things. The protagonist of this novel has a subjective background in advance.
After the story was told, there was some silence in the team.
Zhou Zhi knew that the three views of his friends had been washed away, because until now, the people they knew were protective and caring towards them, but their minds were not yet fully mature.
The world in their hearts is pure and beautiful. They have never seen the darkness and distortion of society and human nature shown in "Dead Water".
Jiang Shuyi hesitated for a long time: "Zhou Zhi, can such a person become the protagonist of a novel?"
Zhou Zhi said: "Shu Yi, your question is very strange. Such a protagonist, Kong Yiji, Luo Tuo Xiangzi, you can accept these, why can't you accept it if it's Sister Deng Yao, the protagonist called Sister Cai in the main story line?"
"Actually, I know? The reason is, because she is a woman, so everyone hopes that the female character will be portrayed, even if her fate is tragic, but she also hopes that her soul will be pure."
"This novel does not do this. What’s valuable. At the end of the story, when the heroine succumbs to her fate, there are both subjective reasons and objective reasons, and it doesn’t help you decide which one is more important.”
"Judging from the context of the story, the heroine is very disgusted with the colonial forces. However, from the protest between the heroine and her parents at the end of the story, the author does not emphasize this point. Instead, it deepens our understanding of the heroine's choice motivation. ”
“Just because of this little suspicion, everyone feels uncomfortable, so we can know from everyone’s reaction that this society is not tolerating the imperfection of men and the imperfection of women. The difference in degree.”
“That’s good, I’ve already gained a little bit.”
Although Feng Xueshan is a love supremacist, she has read a lot of heart-abusing books and is well-informed. On the contrary, he wakes up the fastest: "So I woke up early I have said that Elbow’s thoughts are complex, let’s see!”
Wei Fei is a rational man, a straight man with a natural immunity to these things: “It’s just that I don’t even bother to read such complicated things. ! ”
"Hey! What I mean is that a good book never gets tired of being read a thousand times. If you read the same work at different ages, different levels of knowledge, and at different times, you will have different insights and gains."
After saying that, he also laughed: "But Xueshan and Qian's attitude is Yes, what I just said is enough for Shu Yi and Xin Yi to take back to deal with their parents. Don’t forget what is the main mission of our trip?”
“Have fun!” Followed Yan. With Xiao's announcement, the team immediately threw everything they had just heard out of the window.
It happened to be time to set up camp at noon. The careful arrangement was to drive every morning, cook at two in the afternoon, play around after eating, and gather and chat by the campfire in the evening, and do it again the next day. repeat.
The road is along the road to the forest farm. The road is built along a valley. This beautiful valley is the tour route of this trip.
The streams in the mountains are very clear. Zhou Zhiyang and Mu Ruyun and Feng Xueshan are mainly responsible for cooking and preparing food. Fang Wenyu and Yan Xiao are responsible for pulling the tarpaulin, and the rest of the friends collect firewood.
Zhou Zhi reminds everyone to go together. Although it is unlikely that you will encounter wild boars and black bears on this road, snakes often appear, so you must be careful when collecting firewood.
By the time Zhou Zhi and Yang He finished setting up the stove and hauling some firewood, Feng Xueshan and Mu Ruyun had already brought back the rice.
There were no fresh vegetables, only sauerkraut, so Feng Xueshan simply cooked rice with sauerkraut, sausage, luncheon meat, and then opened two cans and poured them in to add more oil and water.
Not long after, Wei Fei ran back with two dead branches: "There is a pond down there, and I saw fish!"
Zhou Zhi scolded: "What do you call collecting firewood? Are you preparing chopsticks for yourself? Why don't you be lazy to death!"
"There are really fish, who cares!"
"Big or small?" Zhou Zhi is also full of energy this week.
“The ones I saw were long and thin, and they were grouped together on the water.”
“That’s Baitiao. Although this fish is easy to catch, it is afraid of people and requires a long pole.”< br>
"There are bamboo forests everywhere, are you afraid that you won't be able to grow poles?"
"Let's go!"
Yang He also wanted to go, but he didn't forget to report to Feng Xueshan: "Sister Shan , I want to see it too, okay?”
In fact, Feng Xueshan is several months younger than Yang He, but after the battle in the kitchen of Zhou Zhi’s house, Feng Xueshan has already established a great reputation in Yang He’s heart. Obliterated image.
Feng Xueshan also said boldly: "It's still Yang Heguai, let's go, it doesn't look like elbow."
While Yang He was chasing Zhou Zhi and Wei Fei, he was thinking - I seem to have heard this somewhere.
I dug some earthworms under the rotten plantains beside a ditch. Zhou Zhi took out the Swiss steel straight knife that he extorted from cousin An Ran and cut off a few bamboo poles, then came to a pool under the stream. As expected, there was a group of white stripes circling in the pool, and when they saw someone approaching, they disappeared in a blink of an eye.
“That’s what happened just now. They dodge as soon as people get close. Can we still catch them?”
“Don’t make any noise for a while and they will come back, but no. It’s easy to get the hook... You have to stand apart from each other. I will set up the line..."
In this way, the three people started fishing.
After a while, a stone suddenly flew over from nowhere and fell into the water with a plop.
This time it was a waste of time, Zhou Zhi roared angrily: "Salt Rat, you are not the only one to blame!"
He Yongmei and Yan Xiao came over, and He Yongmei said while checking the situation: " Xueshan asked you to go back to eat, yo, you are good at flying Awesome! I’ve caught so many fish!”
Zhou Zhi reached out to Wei Fei with his bamboo pole and said, “Yongmei, you didn’t investigate in advance. The fish he caught were me and the monk.” The ones I caught were the ones he caught.”
Because the rod is long and the line is short, it is inconvenient for one person to get the fish after landing it, so Zhou Zhi asked three people to stand like this and pick each other's hooks to get the fish.
Wei Fei threw down the pole and started to fetch the fish. He smiled and said, "It's not my fault. The main reason is that fetching the fish wasted time."
The three of them were all confused after catching the fish. Throwing it directly to the grass behind, Zhou Zhi took off the thread and wrapped it back on the thread board. Yang He took out a few pieces of horsetail grass to pick up the fish and pierce the gills, and string them into three strings.
Back at the camp, everyone is back. Ye Xin, Jiang Shuyi, and Zhang Xinyi also brought back several kinds of flowers, including wild lilies, prickly pears, and rhododendrons.
Twenty or thirty small fishes are not enough for each person to share, so they can only make sacrifices. Feng Xueshan is not happy and does not want to do it. She is too lazy to clean up the cutting board and knives, and wastes precious oil.
However, this did not bother the wild boars, and they were too lazy to tidy up, so they took off their scales and tied them with twigs, then placed them next to the remaining charcoal fire and let them roast.
The stewed rice with pickled cabbage, sausage and luncheon meat was very fragrant. Jiang Shuyi ate it and praised her: "Xueshan, you are so capable."
Feng Xueshan and Jiang Shuyi sat together, holding hands. Li also held a lunch box: "Shu Yi, have you ever eaten the food cooked by Zhou Zhi?"
Jiang Shuyi shook her head.
Feng Xueshan smiled: "Then let him have the next meal, he is not bad either."
"Let's go swimming after dinner. The pool where we just threw stones is good."
"A fishing pool!" Zhou Zhi emphasized angrily.
"What should girls do?" Mu Ruyun realized a very serious problem. He didn't bring swimming trunks.
"Girls can take pictures and tread water." Zhou Zhi said: "Commander, did you bring the harmonica? We can also sing later."
"I did, but it's a alto harmonica. , the female voice is higher and the male voice is lower, I’m afraid it won’t match the tune.”
"Then let's listen to you." Zhang Xinyi said: "I didn't know Wenyu that you could play this."
"Then eat quickly. The sun is shining at noon, which is perfect for swimming, otherwise the water in the mountains will get cold in a while. "
"Why don't we live closer to the stream?" Yan Xiao asked.
"That won't work." Mu Ruyun said: "There are robbers in the mountains, so you must live above the water line."
"By the way, do you girls dare to touch crabs? ? There are a lot of crabs in this stream. ”
"Can we catch him too?" Several girls were curious.
"Ye Xin is very good. Let her teach you how to touch crabs when the time comes."
"Whoever wants to learn photography can also learn photography." Zhou Zhi suggested.
But no one responded, Feng Xueshan said: "We don't need the one you gave us yesterday, we use that point-and-shoot camera."
This time Zhou Zhi brought two cameras, one is Full manual, Seagull, and an automatic film machine called a point-and-shoot camera, Minolta's AF-C.
Girls seem to be only interested in leaving their own images, but not at all interested in how to leave images of themselves.
It was about three o'clock in the afternoon after dinner, and the sun was just right, so everyone went to play in the pool again.
The girls were not far from the boys and were moving up and down the water pool.
Because Mu Ruyun did not bring any underwear, she had no choice but to join the ranks of girls, and also acted as a photographer.
Soon the girls' screams came from the stream below the pool, as they began to try to catch crabs.
(End of this chapter)