? The novel tells the story of a poor farmer born in Anhui who married Alan, the maid of the Huang family. Although Allen is not beautiful and has a plain personality, she is hardworking and gave birth to two sons. Qi Xin, the husband and wife, worked together to usher in a bumper harvest of land. Years of bumper harvests even made Wang Longyou scrimp and save to buy the fertile land of the Huang family whose family business was declining. It happened that before the arrival of wealth, natural disasters came, and Wang Long had to flee to Cheng Nan with his family, begging and pulling carts by the wall for a living. Just when life was mired in mud, the war broke out. Wang lung accidentally snatched money from a big house robbed by thieves and set off for home. He used the unexpected wealth to buy cattle, seeds and plows to revive his home. Wang Long, who had a bumper harvest every year, continued to buy more land and gradually became the richest man in the village. Wang Long, who became rich, began to splurge in restaurants. He also married a wine girl, Lotus, as a concubine when he was in Allen. Allen accepted it on the surface, but secretly competed with the wine girl Lotus. Although he was born in a bad family, he gave birth to two sons. Lotus only coveted Wang lung's money, and another concubine gave Wang lung a death. ...
? Some time before Wang lung died, the two sons wanted to sell the old house and a piece of land around it, but Wang lung didn't agree. There is nothing wrong with the sons. Are very filial. It's just that times are changing. They have no parents' obsession with land, only the capital of goods or transactions. Every generation has its own beliefs, and every era will eventually pass.
Before reading the novel Land, I didn't understand the profound significance of land to me. When I was a child, my mother said that the land should be divided into people, and I also had 8 acres of land. There was no concept before. Land is the foundation of food and clothing. Later, I got married, and it was not as difficult for me to give up the previous 8 mu of land as Wang Long. Nowadays, more and more young people have left the countryside by studying or working in cities, and some young people have never returned to the countryside to farm. Rural land and houses have become the spiritual pillars of the older generation.
I often wonder, what is my spiritual field? Is this the cause we fight for every day? Is it an expectation for children? Is it a fixed asset at home? The answer is unknown. Times are different. We pursue different things, but everyone will have their own "land" to protect. As long as we work hard, that land will blossom happily.