Chapter five hundred and forty-one thousand arrows pierce the heart
After Xiao Douding accidentally discovered the two novels "Two Donkeys" and "Latent" last year, He Xin began to order some monthly, bimonthly, and quarterly domestic mainstream fiction magazines, such as "Beijing Literature", "Harvest", "Contemporary"
”, “People’s Literature”, etc.
He Xin had been a person who loved to read in his previous life, but he had never been interested in books such as "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "Gone with the Wind", "Love in the Time of Cholera" and other books that are standard for literary youth, and he couldn't read them. He didn't know.
Why does he always have an instinctive rejection of foreign novels?
But he disdained street stall literature like Xuemili, so "Story Club" became his favorite. The stories were short and concise, and he could enrich his spiritual world without spending too much time.
After his rebirth, especially in the literary and art circles, he is not as averse to foreign novels as he was in his previous life. He also studied "The Garden of Forking Paths" in depth just to show off. But to be honest, he still prefers local literature.
Works, just like domestic films, no matter how bad they are, he still prefers domestic films to Hollywood blockbusters.
Of course, in his eyes, today's "Story Club" is not of high quality, so mainstream novel magazines have become his spiritual food for entertainment.
But another important reason is that many classic movies come from literary works, and novellas are often the most suitable to be adapted into movies. He wanted to see if he could find works that impressed him in his memory through these mainstream novel magazines.
After all, many novels had their names changed after they were adapted into movies. He was not sure whether the original novel of "The Sound of the Wind" was called "The Sound of the Wind", or if it had some other name.
Compared with sixth-generation directors who are accustomed to self-creation, fifth-generation directors tend to prefer the adaptation of literary works. Although He Xin has made many films by sixth-generation directors, in his heart, he actually prefers the fifth-generation
Director's work.
how to say?
He is a relatively old-fashioned person. When he first started reading online articles in his previous life, he liked to read online articles with realistic themes from the beginning, and was not very interested in rebirth and cheating articles. Later, when there was really nothing to read, he slowly accepted rebirth articles.
, but has always rejected the particularly popular novels about immortals, fantasy, and even urban supernatural beings, because he feels that they are unreliable.
This extends to his understanding of movies. He always feels that a good movie must have its own literary quality, even if it is a commercial movie. For example, the investment of up to 40 million US dollars was recently speculated, directed by Chen Kexin and directed by Li
Lien, Liu Dehua, and Kim Sung-wu co-starred in the Chinese-language blockbuster "Horse"; Pants' transformational work, the war blockbuster "Assembly". The former was adapted from the late Qing Dynasty novel "The Case of Horse", and the latter was adapted from Yang Jinyuan's novel "The Lawsuit"
adaptation.
He has always scorned the so-called big IP plus traffic in later generations.
This time he promised his girlfriend that he would help her find a big-screen work that was suitable for her and would shine. He had no idea at the moment, so he could only look through these novels and magazines, just like Xiao Douding helped him find "The Story of Two Donkeys" before.
It's the same as this novel. Let's see if we can find a suitable work.
Most of the novels in these mainstream fiction magazines are short stories and novellas, and long novels are published in the form of serials. Some are exciting, and some are boring. Fortunately, they are not long, so even if they are boring, you can endure it.
But he is not very interested in long novels. After all, serialization is only updated once a month, two months, or even a quarter, which is too tedious. Even if he finds it interesting, the previous content may be outdated after a month or two.
I just forgot about it, and it feels like it’s a bit confusing if I read it again.
In more than a week, I finished reading "Harvest", "Contemporary", and "People's Literature", and only half of the book "Beijing Literature" was left.
After finishing work that day, He Xin took a hot shower as usual, went to bed early and nestled in the warm quilt. Then he picked up the "Beijing Literature" that he had not finished reading and continued to finish the book that he had not finished yesterday.
That novella, maybe because I drank a cup of coffee after dinner, I was in good spirits. I couldn't fall asleep for a while, so I continued to read it.
"Thousands of arrows pierce the heart!"
He silently recited the name of the novel at the end, and then flipped through it. There were about thirty pages, a total of nineteen chapters, and it was estimated to be a novella of about fifty thousand words.
"Li Baoli was standing at the window of her new house, and suddenly she saw the ripples of the river in the distance. Li Baoli was startled, and she shouted: 'Xiao Jing, come and see!'
Wan Xiaojing, who was accompanying her to look at the house, rushed over. Li Baoli pointed to the yellow water in the distance and said, 'Have you seen the Yangtze River?'..."
Just after reading the beginning, He Xin couldn't help but smile knowingly, guessing that it was another story that happened in Chongqing. Last year, "Curiosity Killed the Cat" and "Stone" were filmed in Chongqing, which made him full of interest in that 3D city.
Got a good impression.
Maybe he didn't realize that there might be Jiang Qinqin in his subconscious.
But when I looked down, I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. It was not Chongqing but Wuhan.
Fortunately, he is still relatively unfamiliar with Wuhan, and the general concepts are still knowledge gained from books, such as Wuhan is a city of heroes, Wuchang Shouyi, the bloody battle of Tingsi Bridge, the Battle of Wuhan, etc.; and the thoroughfares of nine provinces, the city of a thousand lakes, etc.
, hot dry noodles, Jingwu duck neck, nine-headed bird in the sky, on the ground... uh, something like that.
Originally, when he saw the title of the novel "Ten Thousand Arrows Pierce the Heart", he thought it was a tragic love story. Ten thousand arrows pierce the heart, which is like thousands of arrows gathering in the heart, describing the extreme pain.
It turned out that was not the case. It started out as gossip between parents and women.
The few novels I have read before are, how should I say, a bit highbrow. It is rare to encounter a very down-to-earth subject matter, just like if you are used to eating lobster and geoduck, it is rare to have a dish of shiitake mushrooms and cabbage. It is light and refreshing, and it is a great change of taste.
OK.
He Xin looked in unknowingly...
Li Baoli is a native of Wuhan, oh, a city dweller from Wuhan.
She is young and beautiful, has low education, is vulgar and mean. Her husband is called Ma Xuewu, a country boy, educated, and works as a factory director in a state-owned enterprise. An uneducated city girl, and an educated country boy, this combination will make him happy in his previous life.
It is also quite common in small counties where we live.
Li Baoli's life wish is very real: to have a separate water pipe, separate kitchen and toilet at home. Thanks to her husband, her dream of a house has come true, and it has an elevator facing the Yangtze River.
Her father said that this was a pattern of thousands of arrows piercing the heart, which was a taboo in Feng Shui. Seeing this, He Xin suddenly realized that the name of the novel came from this.
The so-called "thousands of arrows piercing the heart" was called "piercing the heart" in his hometown in his previous life, which means that the door is facing the window, so the feng shui is completely destroyed, and the residents inside are destined to "point their backs".
She didn't care, just thinking that the hard days were over, but she didn't know that she had reached the highest point in her life, and then she fell hard all the way.
On the day of moving to a new house, Ma Xuewu suddenly filed for divorce without any reason. This man had been silent for more than ten years, enduring the other party's ridicule and viciousness, which bit by bit the self-esteem of the educated youth.
Of course Li Baoli disagreed, and she later discovered that her husband was having an affair and was a typist in the factory. One day, she followed her husband and his lover to a hotel. She was too blunt and could not think of any good solutions.
Alarm selected.
Ma Xuewu was caught as a prostitute and was fired from his job. Without leaving a word to his wife, he jumped into the river and committed suicide. From then on, his parents-in-law regarded Li Baoli as an enemy, and his son stopped talking to her.
Li Baoli had to become a female bearer in order to support her family and send her son to college.
In Wuhan, people who pick goods are called shoulder poles. Due to the prosperity of wharf culture, this place has been a distribution center for goods from all over the world since ancient times. At its peak in the 1980s and 1990s, there were nearly 100,000 shoulder poles gathered on Hanzheng Street.
Li Baoli regards herself as the family's breadwinner. She wears out a pair of sneakers in one month. When she returns home, she has to please her parents-in-law because they are educated and can help her son with his homework.
She gradually became silent, thinking that it would be easy to support her son until he graduated from high school. However, she did not expect that the cost of college doubled, forcing her to sell blood many times.
Everyone said that no matter what, your son would be able to enjoy a happy life after he graduates from college. As a result, his son suddenly exploded. He always hated her and hated her for causing his father's death.
Finally, the son wanted to sell the house, buy a new one, and force his mother to move out.
Li Baoli was just like Ma Xuewu, who didn't leave a word, just carried all her belongings and stayed in the cheap hotel where the pole poles stayed.
She thought that life was her own, and whether she had children and grandchildren or was alone, she had to finish it by herself.
In the past, when He Xin read novels, he would always turn a few pages, pause for a while, smoke a cigarette, drink tea, or go to the toilet, but today's "A Thousand Arrows Pierce the Heart", he read it to the end in one breath.
When it was over, he leaned weakly against the head of the bed, unable to catch his breath for a long time.
It is indeed very down-to-earth, with simple words and a return to nature. It is taken from life and close to life, just like the stories that happened around you in the previous life, and you can even find the shadow of your own life in the previous life.
At the same time, the novel touches on several core issues in the family: getting along with husband and wife, relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, children's education, etc. However, in the end, no answers are given to these questions, which makes people panic.
He sympathized with Li Baoli and believed that fate was unfair to her, but how could her final outcome not be her own fault?
Very contradictory and frustrating.
But this woman Li Baoli gradually became clearer, more prominent, and more eye-catching in his mind.
This Li Baoli has no taste for life and is far from being educated. She is rough-and-tumble, loud and aggressive, has a hot temper, bosses around in front of her husband, has little plans, and is ordinary.
And mediocre. But at the same time, she is also warm-hearted, sharp-tongued, strong-willed, able to endure humiliation, filial and caring for her family, able to swallow tears, and optimistic.
Have the courage to take responsibility for life...
Suddenly, he sat up suddenly, without even looking at the time, picked up his cell phone and dialed his girlfriend's number.
The phone rang for a long time, and he, who was usually unhurried, felt a rare sense of urgency and anxiety, until his girlfriend's confused "Hello..." came from the other end.
He couldn't wait to say: "Tomorrow, go find a copy of "Beijing Literature" published this month. There is a novella called "Thousands of Arrows Pierce the Heart" in it. You must read it carefully!"