Chapter 542 Kind Gu Lu
Chapter 542 Kind Gu Lu
It is currently 1:30 p.m., which means that To Live has been on sale for half a day. There is no complete statistics on how many copies have been sold.
The first batch of wronged people... oh no, readers, have just come out.
“Hahahaha, so happy, so healing, it completely cured my desire to give up, I recommend everyone to watch this. Okay, the rooftop is a bit sunny, I’m going to go downstairs to cool down.”
"#ǎ#×Ⅱ... Is this what you mean by motivating us college students? If it's because I secretly ate hot pot, barbecue, crayfish, and KFC during my diet period, please let the scale punish me instead of asking me to read this book."
"To Live is a book that makes you understand that living is the greatest pain, but also the greatest strength. I have to read some online articles to calm my mood."
"I don't like it. Kugen's death was too deliberate. I said I don't like it first, not because it's too sad, but I don't like deliberate tragedies. The young send off the old, the old send off the young, the old send off the old is Fugui's life. There is no need for the old to send off the young (grandson Kugen) in the ending."
and many more.
The reaction of the first batch of readers was a bit too strong and too true, so Li Guyuan felt it was a bit exaggerated.
For example, this netizen named Qianpingzhizhi said, "Kugeng died of eating too much beans. This child was not greedy, but my family was too poor. Every child in the village lived better than Kugeng, and even beans were hard for Kugeng to eat. I was so old and confused that I cooked so many beans for Kugeng. I am old and stupid, and I killed Kugeng... Damn, can you be more exaggerated? Damn, the end is coming soon, and you still want Fugui to bear the crime of killing his own relatives? Give me your life, old thief! I'm a doctor, and this Kugeng died of a typical disease. The book says that he had a fever and dizziness, and his lips were blue and purple. Besides, Kugeng was so sensible, just like his mother Fengxia, and he would leave all the good things to his grandfather. How could he die of eating too much? Listen to me, Fugui, you didn't kill your grandson!!"
"It's an exaggeration. In fact, in that era, the era of the Great Famine, as far as I know, the possibility of death from overeating or starving was very high. I am more inclined to believe that he died of starvation because that was Fugui's fate." Li Guyuan thought so in his heart, but he would not express his opinions on the Internet. His daily habit is to find netizens who agree with his views and then like them.
Strictly speaking, what Li Guyuan saw and thought were passionate remarks were actually very controlled.
Because - remember the TikTok event?
The readers of Tik Tok shared it, it was really exciting!
For example, a video received more than 50,000 likes within two hours of being posted. The person who posted it was a girl, who seemed to be holding back her bad intentions and tried hard to recommend something like "Highly recommended, you will regret it for the rest of your life if you don't read this book", and "Compared to other works written in this era, the biggest advantage of "Alive" is that you never have to worry about the protagonist's life safety, even if he goes to the battlefield!"...
But when I recommended it, I probably thought of the plot of the novel, and my eyes were filled with tears. I praised it while trying to hold back my tears, feeling as if I had calculated everything but couldn't understand the plot.
The way she tried to hold back her tears made people laugh. It was similar to the female anchor who ate black garlic and said it was delicious while wanting to vomit. Both made people laugh.
In today's Internet age, there are so many ways to become famous.
Most users posted videos to condemn the incident, and some even posted that their books were wet and that they were honest in their hearts, and begged Gu Lu to let him go.
As for Tik Tok, there is definitely another group of people, the marginal bloggers! For example... I don’t recommend marginal bloggers, so as not to be malnourished.
They were holding "To Live". The male was reading and showing his chest, while the female put the book on her lap. How should I put it? To Live is really popular, because its popularity has attracted some anchors.
The first group of people who read the book were not just readers, there must have been people in the industry as well. After all, although Gu Lu did not win any literary awards in China, his popularity was not low at all.
Ten years ago, Yu Xinyao was the top literary critic in China. Ten years later, Yu Xinyao is still the top literary critic, but he speaks less frequently.
However, Yu Xinyao was the first to share his reading experience of "To Live". [I am very happy to see Gu Lu seriously writing a long and serious literature. The short stories he published in People's Literature can show his literary skills.
The tone of Gu Lu's writing this time was fair and kind. ……］
Sometimes, reading the comments of literary critics makes one feel helpless. Seeing this, many people wanted to hold down Yu Xinyao's head and force him to read the content of the book carefully.
But Yu Xinyao felt that his evaluation was reasonable.
It is easy to understand the fairness because the writing style is very cold and does not deliberately exaggerate the tragic scenes.
Just like Daqing's death, there is no description of what the body looked like, it only writes that Fugui carried Daqing's body on his back and felt the wetness of Daqing's face against his neck.
This alone can make readers think, was it painful for Daqing to be drained of blood? Was he crying out of fear before he died? Or was he crying because he missed his father...
No wonder many writers pursue a cold writing style, because only when it is cold enough can the description be objective enough and can it arouse more associations in readers.
Why does the story begin with a collector of country folk songs meeting Fugui and listening to him tell his story?
Folk songs are small tunes that have been passed down among the people for decades or even hundreds of years, connecting the past and the present. From this perspective, Fugui's identity is revealed as "a tool that connects the times."
So Fugui's fate must be a tool to show the times. What times? Civil war, the Three Antis and Five Antis, the Great Leap Forward, and Wen Ge.
What do these times have in common? A speck of dust is a mountain. So Fugui's life is destined like a mythical tragedy, and it cannot be disobeyed.
From the perspective of the bystander "Folk Song Collector", he is constantly tormented by the environment, because Fugui represents the life faced by ordinary people in these disastrous times.
In every era, the loved ones that Fugui lost were also the inevitable harm brought about by the times.
"Young people love to wander, middle-aged people want to dig for treasures, and old people become monks." The collector left humming these words. The writer Gu Lu could have written Fugui to death, and many readers even thought that it was normal for Fugui to die.
But this is Gu Lu's kind side, and this is also the encouragement he gave to college students. He gave the tool man Fugui the most precious thing - the will to live.
It was also the only thing that had not been taken away from Gu Lu from beginning to end.
Life is as narrow as a palm and as wide as the earth.
To live is the most powerful word in the Chinese context. ]
According to Yu Xinyao, it seems to be true. Fugui finally adopted an old cow to keep him company, and he never lost hope of life until his death.
But... this isn't right.
This assessment sparked wider discussion.
(End of this chapter)