Autumn garden (from childhood to marriage)

The book that Lanxin College read this week is Autumn Garden.

The author of this book is a grandmother who is over eighty years old. This is her first book, and she has no writing experience before.

This book was printed six times in less than a year after its publication, and won the second place in the category of literature and fiction in China in 22.

Some readers have commented that this book is smaller than you think and heavier than you estimate. After reading it, I finally understand that the writing in the world is sincere and unbreakable.

This book is about the author's own parents, brothers and sisters. The core figure is the author's own mother, Liang Qiufang, the heroine in the novel, Qiu Yuan.

Qiuyuan was born in troubled times, married at the age of seventeen, lost her father in her early years, her husband in her middle years, and her children in her later years. She has tasted all the sufferings in the world.

In this way, after a bumpy life, after suffering humiliation and hardships, Qiuyuan still remains sincere, kind and tenacious to the world.

From today on, let's follow the teacher and read the story of the Qiuyuan family, so as to find out the endless power source of our nation.

Qiuyuan's childhood coincided with the turbulent years on the land of China. The behemoth-like Qing Dynasty had just perished, and at the beginning of the Republic of China, the northern warlords fought and fought, and the common people struggled to survive in troubled times.

Qiuyuan's family is a well-off family in the local area, but it is not well-off, but it can also support a large family.

Qiu Yuan's father, Mr. Liang, is a doctor, who runs a modest Chinese medicine shop. The walls of the shop are covered with plaques sent by patients, and "Hua Tuo is alive" and "wonderful hands rejuvenate" are the best rewards for Mr. Liang's painstaking efforts for many years.

Mr. Liang treats people who come to see a doctor, whether they are rich or poor, equally. In this way, Mr. Liang, his wife, three brothers and sisters in Qiuyuan, and several other guys are all supported by this drugstore.

At that time, the bad habit of women wrapping their feet had not been completely eradicated. Mrs. Liang, Qiuyuan's mother, was deeply rooted in old ideas. Since Qiuyuan was five years old, she had been caught by her mother to wrap her feet.

Qiuyuan cried and refused to agree, but she still couldn't beat her mother. After a terrible pain, Qiuyuan's beautiful and normal feet lost their original shape.

Mr. Liang is an enlightened man. Two years later, he sent Qiuyuan to a new school, and his half-wrapped feet were finally liberated.

under the melee of warlords, the people are in dire straits, and the army haunts the village like bandits, burning, killing and looting, committing all kinds of evils. Many families are afraid that their daughter's honor will be destroyed by soldiers, and they all try their best to marry her.

One day, Mr. Liang heard from a patient that a girl was eager to get married, and he readily promised to betroth her to his eldest son, Qiu Cheng, the eldest brother of Qiuyuan.

after the eldest sister-in-law came in, Qiu Ping, the second brother of Qiuyuan, soon got married.

There are two sisters-in-law at home. After marriage, they should have children to live and work in peace and contentment, and live a happy life.

But God played a big joke on the Qiuyuan family.

One day when Qiuyuan was 12 years old, Mr. Liang came home from the drugstore with two tickets, saying that a person just gave me two tickets for the garden. Go out and play, and Qiuyuan's eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law got two tickets. .....

When Qiuyuan came home at 3: p.m., she walked in front of the drugstore and found something was wrong. The two sisters-in-law sank with the cruise ship ...

Liang's family had a sudden accident, and after the two daughters-in-law were finished, Mr. Liang fell down.

It's chilly in spring. The cold wind in early spring made Mr. Liang catch cold, and within half a month, he was gone.

during Mr. Liang's half month in his sickbed, Qiu Yuan's eldest brother Qiu Cheng came to take care of his father's daily life. After his father's funeral, Qiu Cheng also fell down.

In more than half a month, the young man sent off his wife at his bedside, and then his father, doing three things for nothing every year.

This year is also the end of Qiuyuan's childhood.

Qiu Cheng was ill for three years.

One day, Mr. Liang's friends from his early years came to visit him. After learning what happened to Liang's family, he cried in the drugstore and sighed when he saw that Qiu Cheng, who used to be in high spirits, was tortured by illness.

This friend has the habit of smoking opium, and gave it to Qiu Cheng, saying that it was to refresh Qiu Cheng, but I didn't know that Qiu Cheng had recovered from his illness and was addicted to cigarettes.

Liang's family, which can withstand Qiu Cheng's heavy smoking, can't help it. The Qiu Cheng brothers set up their signboards again. With their father's past reputation and popularity, the pharmacy became active again.

In 1931, the September 18th Incident broke out and Japan invaded the three northeastern provinces.

A lot of people in military uniforms came to the drugstore in Qiuyuan.

Qiu Yuan, who was 17 years old that year, was already a slim girl. She was born white and graceful with a beautiful face.

At a banquet next door, Qiu stood in the crowd watching, unaware that one eye had been staring at him for a long time.

This man is Yang Renshou, a staff officer in the Staff Office. Yang Renshou took a fancy to Qiuyuan and tried his best to know its name and family background.

A few days later, Yang Ren was invited by a matchmaker to propose marriage. Qiuyuan cried bitterly that day and put forward his own request: it is ok to get married, but he should send himself to school first.

Qiuyuan, who longed for knowledge and learning since childhood, actually took this as a condition for becoming a monk.

Fortunately, Yang Renshou is also a reader and readily agreed.

After the change of work, Queen Yang Ren went to Nanjing with Life Insurance.

The newly married couple rented a room. In the autumn garden, they went to school during the day and went to work during the day. In the evening, they came back to the autumn garden to study and practice calligraphy.

Although Ren's salary was discounted at that time due to wartime reasons, their lives were fairly comfortable.

Here they had their first son, Jpua, but it didn't last long. In 1937, the Japanese army captured Nanjing, and a few months later, the Nanjing Massacre broke out.

Qiu Yuan's family fled Nanjing and boarded a ferry bound for Chongqing. When the ferry stopped at Hankou, Ren got tangled up, and he thought of his blind old father.

Renshou's mother died early, and his father was both a father and a mother, bringing him up and sending Renshou to a new school, so he got a decent job now.

My father is blind when he is old, and he is alone in his hometown of Xiangyin, Hunan. If he goes back to see his old father, he will make a decision now.

Ren 'ai looked at Ke's wife and children. If she goes back, can her wife, who was born and raised in the north, adapt to life in rural Hunan?

At this time, Ren Shou didn't know that one of his choices would completely change the fate of the family, and there was no turning back.

He asked God to help him decide. He found a fortune teller on the boat and finally decided to get off the boat.

Renshou walked ahead with a suitcase, and Qiuyuan followed with Jpua.

The cold air flute gradually faded away. Renshou took a deep breath without hesitation, and plunged into Hankou with his wife and children. ......

Life is like this. We make a wrong decision unconsciously, which completely changes the rest of our lives, but often at the moment when we make a decision, we think it is a small decision, without making any analysis of the pros and cons, and sometimes even listen to a fortune teller's words and decide our whole life. In my opinion, I always feel a little pity. I always feel that the road I choose also means the hardships and frustrations they will face in their future world. Are they ready?

what will happen to the Renshou family in the future?

Is Qiuyuan's choice to marry Renshou right?

Is Ren's decision to give up his career and go back to his hometown right?

What new inspiration will their stories give us?

We will continue reading Autumn Garden tomorrow.

thank you for reading and your attention.