Buy back "Beauty Out of the Bath" Zhang Baotong 2016.11.30

A friend read my novella "Painting the Soul" and told me a story about Ding Shaoguang giving the "Beauty Out of the Bath" to his daughter Yumei as an engagement gift, but her daughter sold the painting. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoDing Shaoguang happened to see this painting when he visited the art exhibition, and bought the painting back at a high price and gave it back to his daughter.

However, in my "Painting Soul", Yujuan and her daughter Yumei's lives ended tragically, and this story completely subverted the tragic ending in "Painting Soul", which made me feel very uncomfortable. But he told me that the love story of Ding Shaoguang and Yujuan was widely circulated in the Xishuang version, and there were various versions, and the story and ending of each version were different. Because this friend is a leader of the Xishuangban Tourism Bureau, and he is more familiar and aware of what is going on there than I do, so I decided to rewrite the ending of Ding Shaoguang and Yujuan's story in the way he narrates, but the content of the story also includes their daughter Yumei.

In the ending of "Painted Soul", I wrote it like this. As soon as the Cultural Revolution ended, Ding Shaoguang flew back to Yunnan and drove straight to Xishuangbanna, where he finally returned in the evening. However, the familiar bamboo building in his dreams and memories no longer existed, and what he saw was a burned ruin, and several carbonized black pillars stood sadly towards the sky, as if asking the sky about the incomprehensible changes. Between the large burned ruins and broken walls, there were wild grasses and wild trees that were as tall as a human being. Ding Shaoguang was shocked by the sight in front of him, because it made him feel an unimaginable and terrible consequence.

The village chief took him to a bamboo building deep in the bamboo forest, and when he entered it, it was dark and empty, as if no one had ever lived there. In the corner of the bamboo building, in a place so dim that people can't see clearly, there is a tattered futon with a person lying on it. Ding Shaoguang took a closer look and saw that it was an old woman with gray hair, blindness, a dull expression, and tattered clothes.

The old village chief shouted to the woman, "Yujuan, who do you see coming?"

But the woman's eyes moved, but she couldn't see.

Ding Shaoguang didn't believe that this was Yujuan, he walked up to the person, squatted down, supported her with his hand, and called, "Yujuan, Yujuan, I'm Shaoguang, I'm your lover Ding Shaoguang." ”

Hearing his call, Yujuan seemed a little excited, she burst into tears, but she couldn't see anything, so she kept touching Ding Shaoguang's face with both hands, touching his body, and when she touched the jade Guanyin she gave him when she went abroad on his neck, she grabbed it hard, and then fell into Ding Shaoguang's arms, and left in a fit of rage.

Ding Shaoguang was stunned by this sudden everything and didn't know what to do. The old village chief told him that it was not easy for Yujuan to survive to this day, and the two met. It turned out that not long after Ding Shaoguang went to the United States, Yujuan gave birth to the crystallization of love with Ding Shaoguang, a lovely daughter, a family of three generations, and lived a very happy life, but after the Cultural Revolution began, Yujuan was repeatedly criticized for her lover's overseas relationship, and her parents both died. After knowing what happened to Yujuan, Ding Shaoguang was like a thousand arrows piercing his heart, kneeling beside Yujuan, and he couldn't afford it for a long time.

Later, when cleaning up Yujuan's relics, Ding Shaoguang found that the "Beauty Bathing Picture" painted for her back then was still neatly placed under the pillow and kept intact.

Since my friend said that Yujuan's love ending was not like this, and he was so familiar with the Xishuang version, I retold the story he told me.

Shaoguang returned from the United States that day and rushed to Xishuangbanna in a hurry. When he arrived at the familiar bamboo building in his dreams and memories, he was greeted by a pair of unfamiliar eyes.

A Dai man in his early thirties looked at him with a puzzled look and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

He said, "I'm looking for Yujuan, isn't this Yujuan's house?" Originally, he wanted to say that this was my home, but he didn't say so.

The man said, "It's Yujuan's house." ”

Ding Shaoguang asked, "Then who are you?"

The man said, "Of course I'm Yujuan's man." ”

Hearing this, Ding Shaoguang thundered like five thunderbolts, and he almost fainted to the ground. He calmed down for a while, picked up his backpack, and turned to leave the bamboo building that no longer belonged to him.

He went to the team he had sent in the past to find the rock dragon. He is already the production team leader. Yanlong told him that the year after he left, Yujuan gave birth to a girl. The whole family was happy, and life was good. Three years later, Grandma and Mom and Dad saw that he was not coming back, and wrote him a few letters, but they didn't hear back from him, and they heard others say that he had found a woman in the United States, so Yujuan's aunt and father asked Yujuan to find a man again. However, Yujuan resolutely refused. After another three years, there was still no news of him, and at this time, some people said that he would not return in the United States because his parents had gone to Taiwan, and if he returned, he would be criticized and imprisoned. At this time, Yujuan's age was already old. Coincidentally, Yujuan's aunt suddenly fell ill and could no longer work in the fields, and Abba was not in good health, and at this time Yujuan was already working in the commune supply and marketing cooperative, and the child Yumei was already six years old. Therefore, the house needs to be taken care of. There was no way, Yujuan had to listen to her parents and find an older man to take care of her parents and children at home. The man worked in Yujuan's house for three years, and the two got married half a year ago.

Yanlong sighed and said, "You came back too late, if you could come back half a year earlier, it wouldn't be like this." ”

After having lunch at Yanlong's house, Ding Shaoguang went to the commune supply and marketing cooperatives in Menghan Town. Entering the supply and marketing cooperative, Ding Shaoguang walked to the sales counter and asked a Dai saleswoman about 30 years old, "Excuse me, is Yujuan here?"

The saleswoman saw Ding Shaoguang wearing a neat black suit, and his hair was neat and tidy, and he looked like he had returned from abroad. She screamed in surprise, then ran towards the end of the counter with her hands over her face, ran out of the counter, and exited the room.

Another saleswoman next to him walked up to him and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Ding Shaoguang asked, "Is she Yujuan?"

The saleswoman said, "Yes." ”

Ding Shaoguang said, "I am her lover. I want to see her. ”

The saleswoman said, "You are the painter Ding Shaoguang who went to the United States?"

Ding Shaoguang said, "Yes, I just came back from the United States. ”

The saleswoman said, "You go to the big tree behind the supply and marketing cooperative's house to find her." I often saw her sitting under that tree and weeping. ”

Ding Shaoguang walked out of the supply and marketing cooperative, and went around from a small road to the back of the house of the supply and marketing cooperative, and the back of the supply and marketing cooperative's house was just opposite the big tree when Yujuan used to drive the yellow stewed chicken. There, they used to talk and laugh together, eating fragrant chicken with taste, and it was their encounter that made their love and marriage successful.

At present, the big tree is still the same, but under the big tree is no longer the beautiful girl of the Dai nationality who is dressed very brightly, but a young peasant woman who is dressed very ordinarily sits alone. She covered her face with her hands, as if she were crying with grief.

Ding Shaoguang walked in front of her, squatted down, and said to her in a very guilty and indebted tone, "Yujuan, I'm sorry, I came back too late." However, I can't help it. I've been getting my visa for a long time, and as soon as I got it, I rushed back. ”

Yujuan didn't reply, just covered her face tightly and cried. She was crying for herself, for her fate. She couldn't figure out why God was tormenting her like this. (To be continued.) )