Several young girls barefoot, carrying skirts, laughing and chasing waves. It must be the first time to know the sea, a seagull and two shells. They also find it novel and interesting. Strange rocks can't escape their curious eyes, so you listen to their comments; The reef is as hard as iron. How did this happen? Is it natural, chiseled with a chisel, or something else?
"It was bitten by the waves," a happy voice came from behind. The speaker is an elderly fisherman. He stepped down from the fishing boat that just disturbed the shore, took off his butter cloth pants and hung leisurely on the reef.
A girl laughed when she heard this: "Waves have no teeth, but they can still bite people." ? Why doesn't it hurt to spill it on me? How interesting it is to bite me. "
The old fisherman said slowly, "I should cry if I bit you." On the other hand, the waves are small, and countless waves gather together to unite and be patient. This is the way they bite and bite. Even if they bite for hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of years, they can make it look different. Girls, can you believe it? "
It's wonderful, including how deep the world is. I can't help looking at the old fisherman. The old fisherman is tall and strong with a gray beard. Look at his eyebrows, as clear and deep as the autumn sky. After that, the old fisherman returned to the boat early without waiting for the girls to say a word, talking and laughing loudly, and began to clean up the fresh fish covered in rotten silver.
I asked a fisherman nearby who the old man was. The fisherman smiled and said, "Ask him, that's our old Mount Tai. Old people have this temperament. He has never raised a daughter in his life, preferring to treat people as sons-in-law. Call him Lao Taishan if you don't believe me. Instead of being angry, he touched Hu Zile. But we call him Lao Taishan for other reasons. People have traveled all over the country since childhood, and they have learned a lot. If the production team is in trouble, it is necessary to ask him for advice. Over time, the elderly will become Mount Tai that everyone relies on. "
After several days, the weather changed and it was raining, so I couldn't go out. It was sunny, and later, I came back from a walk by the sea in the fiery red sun. I saw a wheelbarrow parked in front of the apple tree in the courtyard of the sanatorium, and a man leaned over the grindstone to sharpen scissors. That figure is a little familiar. When I walked to the front, I saw that it was Mount Tai.
I greeted him and said, "Old man, didn't you go fishing in the sea?"
Lao Taishan looked at me and said with a smile, "Hey, comrade, the weather is not good. The team won't let us go to sea and told us to rest. "
I said, "At your age, you should have more rest."
Lao Taishan listened and said, "Why should I rest more when people don't rest?" I'm not paralyzed or blind. Asking me to sit idle is tantamount to scolding me. Well, don't let us go to sea, we obey; Stay at home, these hands must obey me. I can weave fishing nets, sharpen hooks and take care of the fruit trees of the production team. Otherwise, I'll push the car out for a walk and help people sharpen their knives, drill holes and sharpen their eyes. Anyway, I will try my best to do my job well, and I must do my part. "
"It seems that you are sixty?"
"Ha ha! Sixty? Don't think about the good time in my life-this age. " Lao Taishan said and picked up three fingers of his right hand.
I can't help wondering, "Are you seventy? I don't know. The bones are still quite tough. "
Lao Taishan said, "Hey, what do you mean by tough? In the first four years of autumn harvest, I was able to plant one or two kilos of millet continuously. Not now. My arm is hurt by rheumatism, and I can't lift it. I can still do this kind of work by sharpening my knife and cutting it down. It wasn't my arm that dragged me down. The year before last, I must ask to draw the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. "
"You know a lot of skills."
"Bitter people, running around since childhood, nothing can be done. I have done a lot of business and experienced strange things. To tell you the truth, thirty years ago, I was very anxious. " Speaking of this, Lao Taishan dipped the scissors into the pitcher and continued to grind. He said slowly, "Beidaihe at that time was different from today. In dog days, almost all foreigners with blue eyes come to have a rest. Once, a foreigner took a fancy to my donkey. When it comes to my donkey, it's one in a million: it's black all over, with no hair, and all four hooves are white. There is a special thing here, that is, running through the snow on all fours, which even excellent horses can't catch up with. The foreigner wants to rent my donkey to play in Dongshan. I want five yuan, which is too expensive for him. You are too expensive, and I still think you are fat. As fat as a big white bear, don't run over my donkey. With that, the big white bear promised me the price, rode around on a donkey for a long time, and happily paid the foot money. Unexpectedly, a few days later, people from the police station came to tell me that someone accused me of being a red beard and robbed me of five dollars. "
Old Taishan said a little short of breath, breathed a sigh of relief, ground his scissors and said, "I'm angry." My donkey, your fart, love to ride or not. How can you falsely accuse others of having a red beard? When I arrived at the police station, the big white bear was relaxed and looked at me with joy. Guess what he said? You said: Your donkey is so fast. I will hire another person to travel to Qinhuangdao, but I can't find you anywhere. I will sue you. As soon as I told you that this was not the case, I grabbed Red Beard. "
I can't help saying, "Look how smart he is!"
Lao Taishan said: "The clever is yet to come. Listen. It's easy to save trouble, no need to argue. As soon as I opened my mouth, he gave me fifteen yuan to ride a donkey. He was holding a thorn and smoking a donkey. I told him to slow down, but he praised my donkey for taking a few steps and promised to pay more in the future. A round trip to Qinhuangdao, all day, my tired donkey was wet all over, and sweat dripped down my hair-do you think it hurts? "
I interjected: "Did you add the foot money?"
Old Taishan straightened up and spat hard, saying, "Shit! He didn't even give me a penny, saying that you blackmailed me for five dollars last time, including this. If you make trouble again, I'll take you to the police station. Red beard! Red beard! Call me red beard. "
I asked angrily, "Where is this rascal from?"
Lao Taishan said: "Needless to say, you can guess. Listening to the radio the other day, an American plane sneaked into our house again. Thirty years ago, I personally suffered their losses, and this account has never been settled. If I go back to fifty years ago, I will be very strong, and today I-"
A woman poked her head out of the window of the retreat and asked, "Are the scissors sharpened?"
Lao Taishan replied, "All right." Just try the scissors blade with your thumb and say to me with a loud smile, "Look how fast I sharpen the scissors. To make a big quilt, you can cut it. "
The western sky was covered with a golden sunset glow, which reflected the face of Lao Taishan. The old man put the grindstone away, put it on the wheelbarrow, said goodbye to me, pushed the wheelbarrow for a few steps, stopped again, bent down and pinched a wild chrysanthemum from the roadside, inserted it in the wheelbarrow, and then pushed the wheelbarrow away slowly, all the way into the fiery glow. He left, but what he said to several girls at the seaside came back to my heart. I feel that the old Mount Tai is like a small spray, which has gathered into countless waves, forming a big wave of this era. It has changed the old country and is tirelessly shaping the people's country.
Lao Taishan surnamed Ren. Asked what his name was, he smiled and said, "Shan Ye people shouldn't leave their names." I cann't believe you didn't tell me
(Selected from Selected Essays of Yang Shuo People's Literature Publishing House 1978)
Yang Shuo (19 13- 1968) is a native of Penglai, Shandong. War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression began to take part in the revolution and literary creation shortly after, and wrote many essays and novels. He has published essays such as Sunrise in Asia, Haicheng, First Branch of the East Wind, Fountain of Life, Fu on Camellia, Selected Prose of Yang Shuo, etc. , short stories "China people's footsteps", "flags", "selected short stories of Yang Shuo", novels "three thousand miles of rivers and mountains" and "washing horses" (I). Yang Shuo has made great contributions to the development of contemporary prose. His prose, written in the early days of the People's Republic of China, is mainly documentary and narrative, which is close to the writing of reportage. Since then, the author consciously draws lessons from some artistic features and expression techniques of poetry, combines the narrative scenery of prose with the creation of artistic conception, and holds the view of "writing like poetry" The poetic writing of this kind of prose had a wide influence on the prose creation at that time and later.
"Snow Wave" tells the story of "Old Mount Tai" through "I" and describes an idealized hero. The theme of prose also has a bright color in the 1960s. With the blue sea, white waves and flaming sunset as the background, the work depicts the beautiful image of Laotaishan people who are old-hearted, diligent in serving everyone and devoted themselves to socialist construction, and places the author's continuous affection and affectionate praise on thousands of ordinary workers in Qian Qian, Qian Qian.
The narrative in the works is not documentary, but romantic, which is deliberately organized for a specific artistic effect. The opening part depicts and renders the spectacular scene of flying snow. In the face of a group of innocent and happy girls' questions, Lao Taishan made a surprising statement and made a philosophical narrative. At the same time, the image of Mount Tai is good, "just like the high altitude in autumn". The narrative about Lao Taishan and the times he represents is always optimistic and poetic. The natural scenery such as snow and waves described in prose has become a symbol of ordinary workers and the times. Through the description of the beautiful scenery of Mount Tai and Beidaihe, the whole article shows rich philosophical thoughts by using the methods of borrowing scenery to express emotion and supporting things to express emotion.
Snow waves present a clear, simple and exquisite structure. Simple storyline and concise description of natural scenery are arranged in series with "I" knowing Lao Taishan and "I" deepening my understanding of Lao Taishan as clues. The content is profound and comprehensive, and the winding path is secluded. The style of writing is fresh and beautiful, paying attention to the tempering of language and the accuracy of words and sentences. Even the dialogue between characters has the characteristics of "poeticization".
However, the characters and events expressed in Snow Foam from the deliberate pursuit of poetry are too idealistic, and the language is also suspected of being carved.