Author: Baihua
This work is not from the 198s but from the 195s.
In p>1954, Bai Hua wrote The Caravan Without Bell, which was a work in which the writer consciously paid attention to the struggle against the frontier defense, taking the frontier defense as the plot line and deeply expressed it. It opened up a new field of the novel against the frontier defense and represented the highest achievement of the novel. It was later adapted and made into a film "Mysterious Traveller", which had a great influence.
The novel describes the struggle against special capture of the enemy in southern Yunnan: Wei Fu and Xiao Wu were instructed by foreign enemy special organizations to transport a batch of special goods. They hid the goods in a barrel of salt and hired Li Ying, an innocent Yi girl, to transport them with her horse. Due to the vigilance of the masses and timely reporting, Feng Tinggui, the platoon leader of border reconnaissance, and Zhu Linsheng, the captain of Miao Village defense team, followed this strange caravan and fought bravely all the way, and finally saw through the enemy's secret and captured the enemy spy alive. The novel is also about the caravan transport with frontier customs, but the caravan here is no longer the caravan of the People's Liberation Army, but replaced by the caravan of the enemy spy with a special mission. The novel focuses on the strangeness and mystery of this caravan of two men and one woman. "The first horse didn't hang the bell, but it also carried ten strange goods-salt is not the goods shipped to the mainland; They took a strange road-it is very difficult to walk along the caravan in this forest path. Like a net, vines are so narrow that they can only walk by rock sheep and experienced hunters. What is even more strange is that they also chose this time. There is no village in front, no horse shop in the back, and there is no spacious place in the village to open (that is, camping), and the night is coming. " Strange people, strange horses, strange goods, strange mountain roads and strange time, the author connected these series of "strange" combinations and put them in a quiet and unpredictable virgin forest, thus rendering a mysterious and unpredictable atmosphere for his works. In this atmosphere, it is always accompanied by temptation and anti-temptation, tracking and anti-tracking, and all kinds of infighting, all of which truly reflect the arduousness and complexity of the border defense struggle. It is this mystery that holds the reader tightly and induces him to keep reading, thus showing the writer's extraordinary aesthetic perspective.
The work breaks through the common plot pattern of general anti-special defense rape novels, and does not deliberately set up the main suspense of plot. Instead, it arranges a psychological suspense for readers according to the needs of the content of the work: What special goods are in the cylinder salt of the eighth horse pack of Wei Fuxiao's five horses? This suspense runs through the whole text from beginning to end, and it also haunts the readers' minds, which makes them want to stop. In the case that Wei Fu and Xiao Wu are enemy agents, the author always keeps this secret from telling, and lets it accompany the readers to the end of the text. Until the last moment, let the secret come to light. "Zhu Linsheng shrugged his shoulders, and a bag of salt fell to the ground. There was a loud noise and the salt fell to pieces. In the middle of the white broken salt, two small black transceivers and four long silent pistol tubes with blue light appeared. " This makes the characters in the book suddenly realize with the readers, so that the readers can fully obtain the aesthetic feelings and reading pleasure of such novels.
In fact, this strange and mysterious caravan was doomed from the very beginning. When it entered the boundless virgin forest, it was actually caught in the ocean of people's war, with the help of Yao aunt Pan and Miao village defense team leader Zhu Linsheng, and with the help of Yi girl, it was only a matter of time before the enemy spy was caught. In the novel, children of all ethnic groups, women, children, old and young go into battle together, which clearly shows the "people's nature" of the novel of eliminating counter-revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries.
No matter the positive characters or the negative characters in the novel, they can't get rid of the facebook mode. Especially the villain, not only looks ugly and evil, but also looks stupid, often showing the fox's tail. In the case of being suspicious of Feng Tinggui and Zhu Lin, they have repeatedly shown unusual concern for the eleventh horse. "Only when he hit the eleventh horse carrying salt, Wei Fu stopped Feng Tinggui and let the horse slowly miss it." "As usual, Wei Fu and Xiao Wu carried the eleventh horse's pack first, and then carried the other packs." In fact, judging from Wei Fu's complicated experience and his ability to find traces of Feng Tinggui's horse riding a saddle, he should be a cunning enemy. However, the author made him make such obvious mistakes in his works. He can only think that the author was deeply influenced by the facebook model and deliberately arranged it to show his contempt for the enemy and to contrast the wisdom and courage of the positive characters. Under the impression that both the positive characters and the negative characters make up their faces with readers, it is Li Ying, the secondary character in the novel, who left a deep impression on people. The author shapes this character according to the true colors of life, and endows her with true colors, original words and deeds and personality characteristics. This allows readers to recall the thrilling and tortuous plot of the novel, and the voice and smile of a Yi girl often emerge in their minds. This is quite a bit of a taste of "deliberately planting flowers without hair, unintentionally planting willows into the shade".
Among similar themes, Caravan Without Bells is obviously superior in art.. Because the author has honed his poetry creation, he can vividly describe the natural scenery and customs of ethnic minorities in southern Yunnan with rich, delicate, bright, fluent and pure language. Moreover, his novel adopts the narrative structure of pure literature and pays attention to the psychological description of characters, which makes the distinction between elegance and vulgarity no longer obvious in this work. It is this artistic paradigm which is mysterious, thrilling and lyrical that makes this novel a masterpiece of public security legal novels in the 195s.