After reading Chaozhou Lane-A Woman Eating a Braised Goose, a famous Hong Kong screenwriter Li Bihua, I couldn't be calm for a long time. Because the author's experience and personal level are really limited, I just want to express a little feeling.
The article begins with a TV host interviewing Xie Taizhong, the owner of a famous braised goose shop in Chaozhou Lane. This shopkeeper is a woman, who once ran the ancestral braised goose shop with her husband. Life once had the sweetness of husband and wife, and there were quarrels-the husband had a hobby of practicing, and he had a special practice room on his rooftop, which was never allowed for women to enter, for fear of getting unlucky. Later, her husband cheated, left home and never came back. Women raise their daughters by running stores alone.
On her daughter's wedding day, her mother prepared a small bucket of 47-year-old brine for her as a dowry, but her daughter didn't want it. Mother is earnest: you have to accept it, your father is in it. The daughter understands that the brine is the secret recipe of her own shop, which has cast her father's hard work and condensed her mother's hard work, so she is even more determined not to. Mother is anxious: no! Your father-in-in-chief! At this time, the daughter suddenly realized that the night before her father left home, her mother secretly wiped the knife in her father's practice room with a sanitary towel covered with menstrual blood. My father hacked himself to death while practicing magic because his knife was broken. The mother later sent her daughter to her grandmother's house and slept at home for three days. It turns out that those days, my mother was chopping up my father's body and immersing it in brine ... The story is complicated and not complicated, but it reveals an unspeakable strangeness from beginning to end.
At the beginning, the host called women by their first names, and women corrected them: Mrs. Xie. The host laughed: You are the woman in charge of a famous shop in Chaozhou Lane anyway. The woman still insists that my husband and I are not divorced. From here, I vaguely feel that there is a foreshadowing here. Otherwise, it's just a name. Why do you insist? From here we can see how persistent a woman is in her love for her husband. When the host asked about the secret of delicious food, the woman replied: This secret recipe can't be completely penetrated, and the secret recipe of the shop lies in brine. The article mentioned a sentence "Yes, eternal, just liquid, the older, the more precious." After reading the whole article, we already know that in addition to all kinds of spices, the brine is mainly the blood of a woman's husband … combined with that sentence in the article, it can't help but make people feel creepy.
a woman is dull, and her heart seems to hide a thousand deeds. The calmer the surface, the more insane the heart may be. Men have mistresses in the mainland, and everyone is passing them on. Women have some extraordinary insight into this. By checking a man's home visit card, they find that he often withdraws money from the bank. Like most ordinary men and women in the world, cheating-arguing-arguing endlessly. The man was angered and roared: haven't you registered with me? ! A woman's heart is completely shattered at this moment. She is getting more and more silent, and I seem to foresee the change of a woman's heart in this silence. The warmth of the past is completely gone, leaving only the growing love and hate intertwined. A decidedly incomparable plan gradually takes shape in a woman's silence. Finally, patient for a long time, the woman implemented it. After the man dies as planned, he will be immersed in the brine piece by piece ... < P > This is definitely the end, which draws readers a dark sigh. The man's ending makes us cry, because he cheated and paid the price of his life, which is pitiful; Because of love and hate, women saw men step by step into the trap and finally planned to succeed. The clouds on her surface are light and hidden to the depths, implying too many emotions, which makes people puzzled and calls her disgusting? But because of love, only the dead won't leave, only the dead won't go to the ends of the earth, and no matter how tired he is of this family, he can't escape from the heavy and rich brine tank. Only in this way can she have him forever. Isn't she pathetic? When a person wants to leave, you can't stay anyway. Therefore, she took this extremely extreme way … I knew her persistence to her husband for a long time, but I didn't know that it had reached such a point, morbid persistence.
In this article, my daughter once brought her boyfriend to her shop to eat braised goose. Mother said that before and after the Qingming Festival, geese were the fattest and the gravy was particularly fragrant. My daughter thought she understood: it's probably seasonal. People and animals are always at their best in a certain season. Readers who haven't read the whole article may be deeply impressed, but those who know the ending really know that it's because of Tomb-Sweeping Day and the dead. The woman commemorates her husband who hides the brine tank.
When her daughter got married, the woman gave a small bucket of 47-year-old brine as a dowry, and told her, "Take it and make something for the man to eat-it will support you." At first glance, I thought it was to teach my daughter the secret recipe, so that her daughter could have a skill and be a good wife and mother when she married her husband. Take a closer look at the back sentence "it supports you", and suddenly the meaning comes out. Born as a woman, you have to be cruel. You can't let your husband trample on you.
The combination of love and hate is reflected in women to the extreme. At that moment, the daughter knew that her mother still loved her father deeply, but it was covered up with a sweet, gloomy and fierce hatred.
I have long heard that Li Bihua's essays are usually magnificent and bizarre. Although my mother guessed that she meant her father's blood when she said her daughter was married there, she was still shocked. I wonder if it's worth spending the first half of my life's love and the second half of my life's hate for a cheating man?