This is a collection of Liu Wenhua's short stories. Chapters such as "Just Lovers", "If We Flash Back to Love" and "A Dog in the Distance" are all classic novels reflecting married life. It is recommended for everyone to read. .
Highlights:
That year, our family married a daughter-in-law and left her behind. It was my brother who married his wife, and I was the one who left her.
That year, I loved to meditate when I had nothing to do. In the evening, everyone would go to the wheat field under the moonlight to express my boredom. Facing the boundless moonlight, I try to interpret the relationship and meaning of life, marriage or love. Later, I became confused, and those messy thoughts covered my young head like the jagged ears of wheat around me, giving me a splitting headache that was unbearable. I can't deal with those problems. I can only touch the clusters of wheat leaves and count the passing time, the past and the stars...
——Excerpted from "Just Lovers and Teenagers" on page 001.
The two sat down to eat pomegranates under the bright moonlight. A pushed up his glasses and said: Look at the moon. Umbrella said it was better than fifteen. After saying that, he covered his mouth with his hand, turned his face and smiled stupidly. A Yi went to pull her face and said, why are you laughing? Pretty, right? When the umbrella was pulled into his arms, he was so ashamed that he simply said coquettishly, "You are too bad compared to the moon, you always make people gossip."
Actually, Umbrella is not keen on literature, but is just interested in literature. The book she often reads is "Appreciation of Famous Mathematics Problems in the World", which is simply a heavenly book for Ayi. But this is also what fascinates A Yi, because from the perspective of complementarity, it is more ideal than both of them. Seeing A Yi chasing after him, Umbrella avoided him and hurriedly took him home. The parents of the protective umbrella naturally looked down upon A Yi, so they just said a few polite words and took care of other things. When I came out at night, the umbrella was very silent. A Yi asked her what was wrong, and she said vaguely, I was wondering how our family would accept you. Hajime said it was bad, the love was overshadowed before it even started. Umbrella looked up at the sky and said, what do you think? Aben had already backed down, but he still insisted on not putting down his umbrella and encouraged himself, saying, I thought this was between us. Umbrella said that was wrong.
The moon hangs high in the sky, and the bright water flows like water, everywhere and impossible to catch. Ah Yi spread his palms, and the moonlight filled his hands. He clenched his fists, and there was nothing in his hands. A Yi was puzzled by this strange phenomenon and wondered if everything was like moonlight that was within reach and far away in the horizon. Umbrella was nestled in his arms, but he still didn't feel "finished" and was afraid that she would run away and disappear at any time. He put her down, let her lie flat, leaned in her ear, and whispered: "Umbrella, umbrella, can we be husband and wife tonight?" I didn't understand umbrellas at first, but then I understood them and almost didn't scare them away. The reason why I didn't run away was because she was amused by the ambiguous and warm verb meaning of the word "couple". She twisted around and said lightly, this is too fast. Who do we know? A Yi said again, let's flash back.
——Excerpted from Liu Wenhua's short story collection "Just Lovers and Teenagers", "If We Flash Back to Love", pages 113 ~ 114.
Because of a delicious meal and hope for life, the wife's interest lasted until late at night. That night, she crawled up to me for the first time and said softly, Do you feel that you are a little different today?
I said I felt it. Big brother really has me in his heart.
My wife said very convincingly, what else do you have in mind?
What am I talking about?
Silly, my wife is rarely embarrassed, but she said shyly, I put that piece of shit in your bowl.
I think this is the wife. She can be as careful as she needs to be. On the surface, her eldest brother and sister-in-law seemed so close, but behind the scenes they were touching her man. It is said that that dog can strengthen yang and nourish kidneys. I really felt the strong male power. I turned over excitedly and rode her up. We had hearty lovemaking for a long time, and in our relationship we found that we were still so young and loved the world so much. We feel that the moonlight tonight is as lovely as the water, and the stars and wind outside the window are very warm. Under the pressure of life, we have ignored this required course for couples for too long. At least with my wife, she never lets me go to bed or fertilize and water the fields. Because those three kids were cooked in one go, she no longer needed me as a crop grower. Over time, I have become accustomed to a lazy life of doing nothing.
Faced with a contract that no longer works, we all automatically give up our responsibilities and obligations to make and be contracted. Today, we are learning from the alternation of the old and the new, from which we know that the parents of three children have just discovered a little about couples spending the night together, and that in addition to giving birth to children, there is more joy in labor itself. We are so happy that this happiness keeps us awake all night.
Just when I felt confused, I heard a faint knock on the door. I thought it was an illusion. I rolled over, trying to get lost again, but the knocking on the door continued. I listened to it again, so I left my wife in my arms, rubbed my eyes and opened the door...
——Excerpted from pages 084-085 of "Couple Boy" A dog from afar.