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"We Three" was written by Mr. Yang Jiang at the age of 92. The writing style is concise but also slightly heavy. The book recalls their family of three (husband Qian Zhongshu) , daughter Qian Yuan) a warm and plain, painful and happy past life. Although his daughter and husband passed away one after another, Mr. Yang Jiang also said in a special way: "I miss the three of us alone."
The first part is very short, mainly because the author made a story about being abandoned by her husband. In the dream, she was alone and didn't know where to go. Although this was just a dream, it was more like a true portrayal of her subsequent life circumstances.
The second part tells the story of a family of three getting together and losing each other on the "Ancient Post Road".
When I first read this part, I was full of doubts. Why did Qian Zhongshu suddenly live on the ship, but Yang Jiang and her daughter came to the inn from home, and went to the ship to see Qian Zhongshu regularly every day. Later, through in-depth understanding of their family, I suddenly realized. It turns out that everything was a dream weaved by the author. Qian Zhongshu was admitted to the hospital because of physical illness, and his daughter was also being treated in the hospital for spinal problems. The home no longer felt like home, so the author called it an "inn". When faced with the illness and death of his loved ones, the author never explained the situation directly, which seemed confusing, but allowed readers to experience it clearly and truly.
The third part is more about the true memories of their past lives. The timeline mainly covers the whole process from 1935, when the couple went to study in the UK and gave birth to their beloved daughter in Oxford, to the death of the daughter and her husband in 1998. The content includes many trivial family matters. Although ordinary, it shows the story. A simple and warm family of scholars.
In the clip of studying in the UK, we can see that the couple has learned a lot and is going well in their studies. They have also made many excellent friends in life. Although their lives are not rich, they are also very "petty bourgeois". ".
With the birth of their beloved daughter, the family becomes even more joyful and inseparable. My daughter Yuanyuan has been smart, lively and cute since she was a child, and has been deeply loved by the elders in the family. In the description of many short stories about her daughter, I can see more of the author's deep love for her daughter as a mother.
In this way, this part intermittently records every detail of the family's 63-year life, and the ordinary also reveals the extraordinary pursuit of life by intellectuals.
I want to say that the author is strong, but at the same time she has not come out of the pain. She is unwilling, unable, and dare not recall those heartbreaking years, using words Illusive dreams filter out all kinds of details, and face the fear and uneasiness of death in dreams.
Yang Jiang said in the book: "The three of us are very simple. We have nothing to do with the world and have no fight with others. We just want to get together, stay together, and do what we can. "Even such an ordinary dream has turned into an illusion under the cruel light of reality.
Ordinary happiness is actually the most extraordinary, so please cherish everyone around you who you love and love you.