In October 1993, the news that the romantic poet Gu Cheng murdered his wife shocked the entire literary world.
Gu Cheng is undoubtedly talented in poetry. The pursuit of a poetic fairy tale world also led to Gu Cheng's poetic and tragic ending in life.
In 1979, Gu Cheng met Xie Ye on the train. Just like in many romance novels, the hero falls in love with the heroine at first sight. Gu Cheng wrote in a letter to Xie Ye: I can’t remember how we started talking. I only remember that you answered in clear Beijing dialect. Your eyes were big and beautiful, and they were as deep as a dreamy school of fish. There is a kind of metallic brilliance on the lines and corners of my mouth. I don’t know what to say, so I read poems to you, talk about movies, and talk about distant childhood things... The train is walking, entering the morning, the sun is on the Haihe River The brightness rises, and I seem to wake up. I stand, knowing that I am losing you at this moment, and that in a while you will become an illusion of eternal life. You are still laughing, and I am angry with you. I know that there is a you alive and growing in the world who is more real than me. I took out a piece of paper and wrote down my address. When the train arrived, you slowly packed your luggage and walked to both sides. I gave you my address and got off the train.
The beautiful, smart and sociable Xie Ye is undoubtedly attracted to Gu Cheng. After Gu Cheng gave Xie Ye his address, Gu Cheng did not expect that this beautiful girl would really come to Beijing from Shanghai to find him. When Gu Cheng went to see Xie Ye off, Xie Ye knew that this was not the end, but the beginning between them.
The love between Gu Cheng and Xie Ye was not smooth sailing. Xie Ye's family did not agree with Gu Cheng and thought Gu Cheng was a lunatic. In order to pursue Xie Ye, Gu Cheng bought a large cardboard box and placed it in front of Xie Ye's house, and lived in the box at night. In the end, Xie Ye's family couldn't resist Gu Cheng's "stalking" and had no choice but to agree to their relationship.
After four years of long-distance relationship, on August 8, 1983, the two walked into the Civil Affairs Bureau and became a legal couple.
Gu Cheng is a poor kid in life, he can't even buy a train ticket. In "Poetry·Several Judgments Before and After 1985", the poet Yang Ke vividly described the scene when Gu Cheng participated in the Lijiang Poetry Conference: "At that time, there was a pen conference, and no one in their twenties could bring a wife, but Gu Cheng I take Xie Ye with me every time because he can’t even figure out how to buy a train ticket. Gu Cheng was separated from his daily life. There was karaoke and so on in the evening of the meeting. He couldn't bear it and just wanted to get under the table. It seemed that he could only run into the forest and listen to the sounds such as the chirping of birds and the falling leaves. Sounds, the sound of ants crawling across the ground. When Gu Cheng spoke, he would turn his eyes upward to look at the rooftop instead of the venue. He said that the sounds of people walking on the street are like water plants and men are like minerals. He uses this language to talk about poetry. "
Gu Cheng relies on Xie Ye for everything. Even what he wears every day, he listens to Xie Ye. As Gu Cheng said: "Xie Ye is like the air and the earth to me. " And Xie Ye was deeply obsessed with Gu Cheng's talent. Even at the poetry meeting, Xie Ye had to write down everything Gu Cheng said in a notebook. For Xie Ye, every word Gu Cheng said was valuable. But every couple can't live without the word "money". They live on royalties, but the poet's royalties are the least. Shu Ting mentioned in "Shu Ting Recalls Gu Cheng" that. Once when they were abroad, Gu Cheng, Xie Ye and Shu Ting went shopping together. Xie Ye saw a gadget made in China and felt homesick. In addition, the price of this small toy was less than two dollars, so he wanted to buy it back for his son. Playing with fungus. Gu Cheng didn't agree and just sat on the ground like a child. Xie Ye burst into tears and quickly said that she bought it for the little fungus. /p>
In 1988, Gu Cheng and Xie Ye settled on an isolated island in New Zealand and began to live a secluded life. The house on Waiheke Island was built by Gu Cheng himself. There was no running water, and Gu Cheng was on the roof. A reservoir was built. Not long after, Gu Cheng and Xie Ye's son Funu was born. But the birth of the child did not bring joy to the family. Gu Cheng's world was a fairy tale world, his world. Not allowing other men to exist, he believed that his son had destroyed his fairy tale castle. In desperation, Xie Ye could only foster the child with a Maori chief.
In 1986, Li Ying met Xie Ye. , Xie Ye told a lot about Gu Cheng, and Li Ying followed suit. On the eve of Gu Cheng and Xie Ye's departure abroad, Li Ying expressed her love to Gu Cheng in front of Xie Ye in the evening. Waiheke Island, and then lived with Gu Cheng and Xie Ye for a year and a half. Gu Cheng said to Li Ying: "We were born the same, and Xie Ye was transformed by me. "Xie Ye had great endurance and endured Gu Cheng dating another woman at the same time.
Gu Cheng had a dream like Jia Baoyu. He once said that in his fairy tale castle, there should be at least ten people. The two girls became the kings of their daughter's country. Gu Cheng was quite proud of the fact that his wife and lover lived together peacefully. However, Li Ying and Xie Ye, who were involved, were not as peaceful as they seemed on the surface. The other side of "the fairy tale poet" couldn't stand Gu Cheng's paranoia, and ran away with an old foreign man while Xie Ye and Gu Cheng were out.
And Xie Ye couldn't stand Gu Cheng. She wanted to be with her son.
Some time before the family tragedy occurred, Gu Cheng "wrote about the children every day", expressed his feelings for the children to Xie Ye, and wanted to save the marriage that was about to be broken.
Xie Ye had made up his mind to leave and decided not to forgive Gu Cheng. On the morning before Xie Ye was leaving, they had an argument in the apartment. During the argument, Gu Cheng accidentally injured Xie Ye and Xie Ye fell to the ground. After Gu Cheng desperately called his sister, he chose to hang himself. This time, Gu Cheng, who had committed suicide many times in the past and was saved by Xie Ye, no one came to save him anymore...
Gu Cheng's mistake The problem is that he only loves abstract human beings and does not love specific people. He only requires the people around him to serve him, but he is selfish and does not want to give others the slightest love. A genius is also a madman.
If Gu Cheng had not met Xie Ye at that time, if the two had not spoken at that time, perhaps, there would not have been such a tragedy? Perhaps, they might still be alive now?