It tells the story of a family named Wangjiazhuang in northern Jiangsu in 1970s, mainly about the different fates of three sisters, namely, Corn, Yu Xiu and Yuyang. From the novel, we can see the indifference of human nature and the narrow living state in a specific era, and we can experience the sadness of the world in the gentle and delicate narrative. After reading this book, I will never forget it.
Wang, the village party secretary of Wangjiazhuang, finally gave birth to a son after giving birth to seven daughters. His wife, Shi Guifang, seems to have completed her final mission and has no mood to rest. The eldest daughter, corn, helps to take care of her like her mother's little sister. She existed like an eagle and soon became the head of the family, taking care of her younger brothers and sisters.
At that time, the village party secretary had the right to cover the sky, which was the supreme symbol. As a village party secretary, Wang has slept with all the women in the village.
Corn often takes Hachi Wang Hongbing to his father's lover and demonstrates with her eyes to express her silent resistance. In her heart, she felt that these women were with her father for power, and she despised them.
Corn is dignified and sensible, and also a beautiful and capable girl. The villagers fawned on their family, and she enjoyed all the respect. It's just that all this ceased to exist after the fall of his father.
The king indulged in lust and lust. After sleeping with military families, things got serious. He was investigated and dismissed. He learned painting skills and left home.
His romantic debts soon benefited his daughters Yu Xiu and Sui Yu. When watching movies in the village, no one left a good seat in the middle for his family. Yu Xiu and Sui Yu secretly ran to the movies with their sister corn on their backs. Two sisters were sitting in the corner when suddenly their mouths were covered. Several men gang raped them. They are retaliating against the king for cuckolding himself.
After corn knew all this, she understood the importance of rights. At this time, she pinned her last hope on her fiance Peng Guoliang, hoping that he could make the family prosperous again.
Peng Guoliang, a pilot flying outside, soon learned the news of her father's downfall, and his sisters were gang-raped. He returned all the letters from corn and dissolved his marriage.
In despair, corn said to his father who went back to his hometown to visit his home, tell me a person, no matter what, as long as he has the right.
Corn is a person who loves rights. Rights can bring her satisfaction, and rights can shelter her family and make them rally.
In this state of mind, she soon married a man older than her father, Guo Jiaxing, director of the county development and reform commission, whose wife died of a terminal illness.
At that time, she jumped out of the dragon gate, either studying, getting married or being a soldier. Corn has her own abacus. After marriage, she tried to please her husband and stepdaughter and got a position in the supply and marketing cooperative through her husband.
02
The third is the most beautiful of the sisters and the favorite daughter of her father Wang. She loves dressing up, flirting and coquetry, just like a fairy. With the fall of her father, she was gang-raped again, and fate pushed her into the dark abyss.
She can't stay in Wangjiazhuang any longer. The villagers laughed at her, and even her own sister called her a prostitute. How many people fucked her? All the children were singing.
Yu Xiu defected to her sister with backbone. Soon, Yu Xiu found that her sister's corn was not as proud as it used to be in her new home. She was careful and helpful everywhere.
Yu Xiu is very clever. She saw that her sister was afraid of Guo Jiaxing's daughter Jojo. She tried to please Jojo and asked her to help her stay in their home and never wanted to go back to the Wangjiazhuang again.
Corn repeatedly begged Guo Jiaxing to find a food job for Yu Xiu. She just wants to show the Wangs how beautiful their sisters are now. Who dares to despise their homes and who wants to step on our heads? ...
It's just that Yu Xiu is too much like his father, and he fell in love with Guo Zuo who didn't go home to visit relatives in Daiwa. They flirted with each other. Guo Zuo is the son of Guo Jiaxing and the stepson of Corn. This is simply incestuous love!
Seeing this, Corn decided to break them up and took the initiative to tell Guo Zuo that his sister had been fucked by seven or eight men in the spring. Guo Zuo felt incredible, but he looked very gentle, had evil thoughts, and raped Yu Xiu in the afternoon before he left. He thinks that it is selfish and ugly of human nature for so many people to sleep together anyway.
Soon after, Yu Xiu became pregnant with Guo Zuo's child. She struggled with pain. She tried to kill herself by the river several times, but she still didn't have the courage. In her nervousness, her stomach is getting bigger every day. She wore loose clothes with a belt. Fortunately, it was winter, and she succeeded in deceiving her sister.
Until the last time I washed the corn wool, I was panting, and my physical strength was too much. This was exposed. Corn went to the doctor for induced labor, but missed the opportunity. Yu Xiu gave birth to a son and was immediately sent away by the corn.
Corn, which has always been strong and steady, always collapses. She slapped Yu Xiu in the face and cried, You are a disgrace. ...
03
Old Seven Jade Miao, who was plain and plain since childhood, is the person with the least sense of existence in the family.
Yuyang won honor for her family, but because of inferiority and cowardice, she was not happy in the normal school she attended.
It was a special era, even a little thing could be criticized on the above-mentioned line, and students and teachers in normal schools seemed to be guarded objects.
Wei Xiangdong of the school guard asked Yu Yang to help report people with bad love style.
Wei Xiangdong likes to check the students' whereabouts with a flashlight. "Carefully scout the bushes around the playground, behind the stands of the playground, the studio, the piano room, the grove on the left side of the experimental building, the canteen and the pond."
He observed whether they were in love. "As soon as it was confirmed, Wei Xiangdong's flashlight lit up. A beam of light, as bright as a searchlight, was very powerful in the middle of the night. Like a nail, it nailed the suspicious thing to the ground at once."
Wei Xiangdong "checked her pregnancy" and molested her in the name of organization, science, leadership and teacher. She dared not resist. Faced with such authority, Yu Yang willingly accepted the "inspection" to prove his innocence. Wei Xiangdong, on the other hand, regained his lost "male ability" because of "investigation", and Yu Yang became his plaything and pawn.
Gao Honghai, Yuyang's secret crush, is a poet. They have met many times in the library. Yuyang once saw him urinating in the corner at night, so he went to Wei Xiangdong to report the informant. Finally, Gao Honghai was driven crazy and heartbreaking. Isn't Yu Yang himself a deranged person with no ego? It was a terrible time of chaos and confusion, and it was the secret pain of our nation.
Everyone seems to have problems, and everyone seems to have no problems. Everyone seems to have hatred in his heart, and he doesn't know what to hate, and he doesn't know where the control of fate comes from.
Corn, Yuxiu and Yumiao represent three women with different personalities. They are all tragic figures in the patriarchal society, unable to grasp their own destiny in the torrent of the times, and their spiritual souls have been extremely distorted.
Fortunately, we were born in today's era, with many free choices, and the status of women has been comprehensively improved. Grateful!