Everyone has a Hanyangmen Garden in his heart.

Wen/Bao Xiaomu

Go home in ten years,

I miss my family every day,

Every family is waiting for me every day,

I can go home one day.

Lotus root soup and lotus seeds are stewed together.

Always leave me a big bowl,

After dinner, in the garden,

Waiting for her grandson.

-Feng Xiang? Hanyangmen garden

20 16, a 52-year-old folk singer Feng Xiang wrote a folk song "Hanyangmen Garden" in Wuhan dialect. At a thoughtless age, "Uncle Xiang" cried countless people with his old guitar, and music once again crossed the times and culture and pointed directly at people's hearts. "Every family" means "grandma" in Wuhan dialect. In our ever-changing land, many things become as fast as turning pages, but many people are still brought up by their grandmothers, and more people are engraved with the marks of these two old people in their initial growth. They are the eternal memories of our childhood. This memory is labeled with them, which contains everything about us at that time, the clouds in our hometown, our childhood partners, our childhood dreams, and our feelings as adults ... Some people say that we get lonelier as we grow up, but obviously there are countless red dots flashing in our circle of friends. Some people say that the more mature we are, the stronger we are, but when we are alone, we even burst into tears when listening to a song. How many people feel lost in the guitar sound of Uncle Xiang?

There is a small town called Yunbian. There is an old woman named Wang Yingying. The old lady lives alone with a boy named Liu. Liu's mother left home when he was two years old. Liu's father has long run away. Grandma and grandson live together in a small shop. Flowers bloom and fall in front of the court, and the sky is full of clouds. In the blink of an eye, it's a year .. This is Zhang Jiajia's "There's a Little Shop by the Cloud". In a small town in the south of the Yangtze River where the sky is high and the clouds are light, Liu Shisan, who calls himself grandma "Wang Yingying", is desperately growing up. In his little book, he wrote his own "great ideal". He wants to be admitted to Tsinghua Peking University, and he wants to make a breakthrough in big cities. In the daily battle of wits between grandparents and grandchildren, one is getting old and the other is drifting away. Yes, as Zhang Jiajia said, this book is written to the mountains and seas in everyone's heart, to those who left us, to those who accompanied us, and to grandma who lives in her hometown.

Therefore, the portrayal of grandma Wang Yingying is undoubtedly the top priority of the book, because Zhang Jiajia not only poured his personal emotional experience into the old man, but also took the old man as a symbol, pointing to the softness left by our grandparents. Grandma Wang Yingying's image is full of subversion. At first, grandma appeared, but did not hear her voice first. When Liu Shisan was quite literate and sighed with emotion, "I feel someone is thinking about us", grandma said, "What's the use? You are a bastard if you don't give money", just like a bucket of ice water flowing eastward. This is Wang Yingying's character, quite direct, realistic, sharp and tough. The setting of this pair of grandmothers and grandsons is not as gentle as ordinary family novels. Zhang Jiajia's approach is just the opposite. Living alone with Liu, they are like a pair of close friends, always bickering and fighting, which makes people laugh.

Liu XIII, who has never seen his parents since childhood, is precocious and sensitive, creating a petty bourgeoisie atmosphere, while Wang Yingying, who supports a family alone, is strong and capable, creating a tough guy temperament in Liangshan. In the Jiangnan town called Yunbian, the heroic grandmother of the north, running around with a broom, was full of tenderness and care for everything. Grandma had a sad past when she was young and a sad past when she was middle-aged. Her bumpy life happened to be nurtured in the foggy south of the Yangtze River, and her love was buried in my heart forever.

In those days between Wang Yingying and Liu Shisan, there was some flavor of Gu Long's happy hero. There seems to be an inseparable connection between teasing and indecency. In the fourth grade, Liu hid in a tree to avoid her grandmother chasing her with a kitchen knife. She said, "Wang Yingying, I'm telling you, you must respect my dream" and vowed to "take leaving Wang Yingying as the goal of life". But who would have thought that penniless Serina Liu was admitted to a third-rate university. When he leaves town, he will carve "Cheap in Wang Yingying" on the door panel of the canteen with a knife, and secretly put 500 yuan under grandma's pillow at night. "As soon as he walked out of the yard, his nose was sour and he thought that Wang Yingying would live for 10,000 years." And the tough old lady who has always been unkind to her grandson and always chases her grandson will stay up all night until her grandson goes out. "The old lady was smoking, and the light blue sky was getting brighter, so she stayed for a long time, wiped away her tears and began to cook a person's lunch."

Perhaps, this is our true feelings. That's not an idol drama, nor is it the scream in Qiong Yao's drama. Family is just trivial in countless ordinary days, tripped by each other's eyes, but the most important and soft place in their hearts has long been occupied by each other silently. This style also continued to Liu XIII's love. If hometown and grandmother are symbols, and Hanyangmen Garden refers to everything before we went out for a long trip at the age of 18, then it naturally covers the seeds of our love and the bitterness of our first love. There is a canteen by the cloud has the charm of a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, but in terms of characters and stories, it has the flavor of a stubborn Beijing-style novel, which is a romantic freehand brushwork in humor and a cold reality revealed in absurdity.

Here, Zhang Jiajia completed a "youthful" love mapping with two female characters. Cheng Shuang is the one who pays attention to narrative and positive description, while peony is more symbolic and symbolic. Zhang Jiajia is really good at writing about youth. He wrote about Liu Thirteen, a primary school student, who was young and ignorant, and met Cheng Shuang who came to school to "experience life" during the summer vacation. Cheng Shuang said in the words of Teacher Luo: "My niece, the top three in a key primary school, scared you to death". So, Cheng Shuang from a big city walked into the life of Liu XIII, and Zhang Jiajia opened our memories with Wang Shuo's style in "Clouds in Jiangnan Town":

Cheng Shuang walked into the classroom, "looking at a group of terrapin classmates happily", "Hello, my name is Cheng Shuang", and her voice "snapped, like a watermelon with a frozen fruit, crisp and cool, dripping from everyone's ears", "Liu's tender heart tugged, and she felt nervous for the first time in her life", and her deskmate Niu Datian wiped her saliva and shouted: "Zhao ... Angie Chiu. I married her and she is Qianlong! "

Yes, when we first realize the difference between men and women, and the beauty or handsomeness of each other, there will always be someone we secretly love for the first time, that is, we will remember the seeds of love for life. However, the story of Cheng Shuang and Liu is more like an interpretation of the ideal of love. Cheng Shuang is a beautiful girl who is terminally ill. She finally conquered Liu with her tomboy character, but she couldn't change her life. When riding a bicycle carrying Cheng Shuang on a dirt road in a small town, Liu learned the truth. The most romantic sentence in "There is a canteen by the cloud" came to mind, not the rolling world of mortals of adults, but the first time two primary school students were discussing life and death:

Liu didn't answer because his back was wet. In such a hot summer, the teenager's back was burned by the girl's sadness, which ran through his heart. The wind of countless seasons passes through this passage, and a firefly dances in the wind, flickering.

Liu stopped the car and cried.

Cheng Shuang also cried and said, "Why are you crying?"

Liu Thirteen said, "I'm afraid of death!"

Cheng Shuang cried and said, "I'm afraid, too!"

Liu sobbed, "I want to treat you to a very good meal!" " "

Cheng Shuang wiped her tears: "You are a good man. If I can survive, I will be your girlfriend. "

When you, my love, ride a bamboo horse, run in circles and throw your childhood. We live in an alley in Qingkan. We are all young and happy. The heartbeat that makes us most absent is actually buried in the loess of growth, and only the relationship between men and women is left in the life after that. This is vividly reflected in the love story between Liu XIII and Peony. Accurately speaking, this is Liu XIII's first love, but it is not necessarily love. In this story, Liu XIII is placed in the cruelty of reality. In college, Liu Shisan and Peony were lovers. Liu XIII is considerate of peony, but peony is always perfunctory and indifferent to him. Finally, Peony moved to Nanjing alone. When it comes to first love, many people always talk about the ups and downs of first love, and also talk about not knowing love at all. In fact, more often than not, we begin to understand the inner complexity of people at the time of first love. The bridge where Liu and Peony separated at the station should be said to be a standard bridge with abandoned spare tires, which makes people sad:

Liu XIII retracted his hand and took a backpack: "Then settle in Nanjing, send me the address and I will send it to you."

Peony said, "We'll see."

Liu thirteen is still unwilling: "well, I'll charge you the phone bill, 300 yuan." Don't worry about traffic, just video with me ... "

"When I go to Nanjing, I must change my new number."

"The micro-signal doesn't have to be changed."

"Bundled, it is more convenient to change. In fact, the mobile phone card ... has been bought by my friend, and I will write the number to you. "

After the story, I watched Liu anxiously for a long time. I dialed the number that made him miss day and night for the first time and found that it was an empty number ... and the smooth connection of the story was more cruel than the later story. When I came to see Liu again, Cheng Shuang and Liu's only friend, Brother Zhi, accompanied him to Xiaonan's school by taking a taxi for 160 kilometers overnight. On that rainy morning, Liu Shisan saw an innocent girl, a peony who was "cold" to herself, returning to the dormitory with a flat head that had already taken part in the work ... In the confrontation, the flat head arrogantly laughed at Liu Shisan: "Are you kidding? What kind of boyfriend are you? I have known her since she was a freshman. She sleeps with me every night. What are you? "

In fact, if we jump out of the story of Liu XIII and Peony itself, we will find that There is a canteen by the cloud has led the plot from this so-called first love to the depths of reality. Grandma Wang Yingying's Yunbian Town began to be deliberately blurred in the middle of the book, while Liu Thirteen's yearning for the cement forest from childhood began to show ferocious-people can't live in childhood forever, people always have to grow up, and there will always be realistic gaps and injuries. And this kind of estrangement and injury is more than love. When my mother left, I left a message to Liu Shisan, asking him to study hard, take an examination of Tsinghua Peking University and live happily in a big city. Liu Shisan listed his goals in his little book from an early age. Although he is naughty and studies hard, the reality is that Niu Datian plays truant and drops out of school, and there is no room for learning. As a result, he didn't get into a key high school. Liu XIII previewed and reviewed, worked hard and was not admitted to high school. " Later, "after scoring in the college entrance examination, Liu XIII understood the most important truth in life: it turns out that many things in the world can't be done without planning and perseverance."

On the way to the university, Liu opened the yellowed notebook. In fact, since junior high school, he has gradually felt that the plan on his notebook is getting harder and harder, and the tick representing completion has gradually disappeared. In addition to taking care of peony in college, Liu Thirteen spent all his time studying hard, but finally, with the help of his teacher, he barely got his degree certificate through repeated make-up exams. When Liu XIII was on the last make-up exam paper before graduation, he wrote in block letters: "Come on! I will pass the exam smoothly! I'll get a job! Have a future! " I believe that many people will have a sour nose when they see this, and they can't help but think of Stephen Chow shouting "Work hard!" Facing the sea in king of comedy. Fight! "The bridge part. Many people may even hurt their lives, thinking of being crowded in the bus and subway like sardines every day, running around for their lives.

"There is a canteen by the cloud" has thus completely got rid of the softness and crispness of youth literature and further surpassed the vanity and melodrama of workplace literature. According to the theoretical logic of countless chicken soup and dry goods, the reason why Liu XIII failed was nothing more than two reasons, either not working hard enough or going in the wrong direction. Liu Shisan has always adhered to this logic. Even at the critical moment when he was besieged by the quasi-"young and dangerous", he thought, "Ask yourself, have you tried your best?" Try your best and you will have no regrets. It is such an "aspiring young man", Liu, who ran into a wall all the way to find a job after graduation and finally managed to squeeze into an insurance company to sell insurance. As a result, he encountered endless suffering, business failed, and his colleagues arbitrarily squeezed out and teased him. Flat head, sleeping with peony every night since freshman year, and even becoming the manager of the company ... Zhang Jiajia shouldn't have thought of making him talented and inspiring him.

It is in this sense that Zhang Jiajia's "There is a canteen by the cloud" seems a bit risky. This book writes about hometown, relatives, first playmates, later friends, ignorance without guessing, bitterness of first love failure, lofty childhood dreams and helplessness of annual reality ... If we look at the text from the perspective of literary criticism, we will find that the key to the success or failure of this kind of text creation lies in the words "truth" and "emotion". Writing it is like Hanyangmen Garden. It listens to thunder in a quiet place and points directly at people's hearts. Accidentally, it becomes a cliche, and the characters and themes of the whole novel will be destroyed by the plot. However, we see that Zhang Jiajia, who left Your World for five years, is back. This young writer, who has experienced many controversies and twists and turns, finally chose to return to 99% of his life when he entered the age of no doubt.

Perhaps many people will say, can such "mourning" for Liu XIII represent "99% truth"? Of course, this is just an analogy, but at least from the perspective of our ordinary people's daily life, most people's work and life can not be achieved by making a few montage shots of overtime inspiration. That sentence is very good: "There are no easy words in adult life." Are there any young talents who can be worth hundreds of millions in their early twenties? There must be, and there is more than one. But where are more people? They are all around us. They go out early and come back late every day. In the cubicle, they are overwhelmed by the unreasonable demands of customers, exhausted by the intrigue of colleagues, and full of grievances because of the arrogance of leaders, but for the sake of a slightly better life for their wives, children and the elderly, they can only endure everything ... among these people, including you and me.

Du Kang is the only one who can solve the problem. Now, maybe this can only be a patent for Japanese and Korean men in the workplace. We are grateful to get off work on time. It is king to squeeze the bus and subway quickly. There is still a lot of work waiting for us at home. However, when we are alone in a daze on the balcony, or sitting on the small stone pier downstairs, we gradually get used to Wan Li's leisure and full of thoughts. Liu Shisan is not a loser, he is just an ordinary person, just like us in the mirror. We are kind but weak. We are ambitious, but green. We may not be top students since childhood, but we must be good children. We listen to our teachers at school and our parents at home. Our neighbors always praise us for being polite, and our friends also say we are reliable. But just like Liu XIII, we "heard a lot of truth, but we still can't live a good life." Actually, we are Liu Shisan, who was played by Brother Zhi in the bar:

I have a friend named Liu.

His life is very boring.

Liu XIII's grades are not good,

Love is buried.

Liu works hard,

What are you eating? It doesn't smell very good.

……

It is not Zhang Jiajia's extraordinary writing talent, or even his realism about true love and workplace, but Liu XIII's return to his hometown. Under the double blow of unemployment and lovelorn love, Liu Shisan was discovered by his grandmother who was drinking rice wine in his hometown. Seventy-year-old grandmother dragged her terminally ill body for half a year, and even dragged her scarred grandson around the city. She just drove that broken tractor in the grocery store all night ... or the familiar town, or the hometown that everyone thought was "unproductive" There are no flowers in big cities, no passion for innovation and entrepreneurship, no

What is friendship? But even if Niu Datian, who became the "small town Niu Haonan", bared his teeth, in the deepest part of his heart, he still carried bits and pieces of his childhood. Even if there are twists and turns in the middle and festivals, we can still brag and fart together in the end, but this has nothing to do with "meeting and laughing." But even in the bar in the cement forest, even though his dream is still far away and life is still difficult, he still misses Liu in the distance, writing songs and singing for his brothers.

What is love for Cheng Shuang? Even though I knew that I was dying, I secretly came to the town from Singapore and became one with my grandmother, so that countless grandmothers loved her from the heart. But one day someone will cry and say to you, "but what will you do if I leave?" Who brought you food? " Who will help you find the information? You are so useless, you swear, you swear to me that you have a good meal ... Yes, you are bad, you are vulgar and useless, damn it, how can I like you, but I just like you, since I was a child. "

What is kinship? It's Wang Yingying. He has a sharp mouth and a cruel heart. This tough old man always lifts the quilt, drags Liu Qu to have breakfast, and always runs around town with a broom to kill his grandson. It's the old man who wiped his sweat while moving boxes in the Yunbian canteen, waiting for his grandson to come home for a year. It was grandma who drove a broken tractor to a strange city in the middle of the night. She hugged her drunken and crying grandson and coaxed her like a child: "Don't cry, grandma is coming."

"Don't cry, don't cry, grandma is coming."

Such an ordinary sentence, even without any rhetoric, makes our eyes blurred at once and has long been lost in the ocean of information. Everyone has a Hanyangmen Garden in his heart, which is our hometown and relatives who are drifting away, and it is the cloud-side canteen that we never forget. We learned many ways to make ourselves strong, made many masks to hide ourselves, wore armor for a long time, and gradually forgot that we also have the right to cry. In fact, this is because the person who loves us the most has left. We have grown up, graduated, worked and become parents. No one can touch our heads and say, "Don't cry, grandma is coming."