The next day, Ye Ziyu still slept until noon and got up. When his parents went to work, he was too lazy to cook by himself, so he went downstairs to eat a bowl of beef noodles, and when he got home, he fell on the bed and picked up the pages of "Ordinary World" and looked:

In February and March 1975, on an ordinary day, the thin rain with a little snowflake was falling to the earth one after another......

At this beginning, Ye Ziyu was attracted. Hehe, in 1975, his parents had just gotten married, and he had to be born some time later. He read it sentence by sentence and soon became immersed in the plot of the novel.

When Ye Ziyu encounters his favorite book, he always stays up all night. The next morning, he had read hundreds of thousands of words in one sitting. He was so tired that he closed his eyes and slept until the afternoon. When he woke up, he didn't eat, picked up the book, and began to read it a second time, which deeply shocked him. His pulses begin to beat with the story of the Sun brothers, the protagonists of the book. He prefers to read the story of Sun Shaoping, a young man who is restless and isolated in the countryside, step by step out of the mountains, doing small jobs, moving stones, teaching summer camps, until he becomes a coal miner he is proud of. He should have been a young man with a bright future, but the death of his favorite Tian Xiaoxia brought his struggle to an abrupt end.

When Ye Ziyu read Sun Shaoping's first hug with his lover, he himself trembled and was ecstatic; when he read that Tian Xiaoxia was unfortunately killed, he hung his head speechlessly, as if his heart had also turned into ashes; and when Jin Bo sang "In That Distant Place" in a foreign town eight years later, to commemorate his wordless first love, he really felt that the song seemed to linger in his ears, bit by bit, and it was difficult to go away.

After reading it again, Ye Ziyu felt indescribable sadness and melancholy in her heart, why did Tian Xiaoxia die? Why did Sun Shaoping give up? Why did he position his whole life in the coal mine and the family that lost her husband? He could have had a better choice.

When my mother came back from work to cook, he suddenly said, "Let's go buy some white noodles and eat them." ”

The mother looked at her son with some puzzlement and said, "It's not easy to find a white noodle pot now, if you want to buy minced meat." There are quite a lot of vegetable markets downstairs. ”

Ye Ziyu smiled at her mother and said, "Then I'll go buy white-flour steamed buns." But I thought that for the protagonist in the book, this is the "Europe" I yearn for.

At this time, he was eager to talk to his father about the book.

After Ye Chengxuan got off work, the family finished eating, his mother was watching TV in the living room, and the father and son came to Ye Ziyu's room, made two cups of tea, and had a long talk.

Ye Chengxuan said: "Do you want to talk about "Ordinary World"?"

Ye Ziyu nodded. Ye Chengxuan said again: "Then let's talk about your views first." ”

Ye Ziyu said: "I feel sorry for Sun Shaoping. From the current point of view, his achievements are not as good as his elder brother Sun Shao'an, who stayed in the village. He kept changing himself and fought hard through all the hardships. But Tian Xiaoxia's death seems to have frozen his life in the coal mine. I think that he will eventually choose to form a family with the widow of his miner master, and he will be wiped out among the thousands of ordinary miners, and I am really unwilling for him. He stepped out of the farmer's gate, but why did he reject the city? I couldn't figure it out. ”

Ye Chengxuan smiled and said to his son: "You grew up with China's reform and opening up, but you don't have an understanding of the entire society in the eighties. I tested you, you studied politics in junior high school, how do you interpret the composition of social forces in our country?"

Ye Ziyu smiled: "This is not simple, workers and peasant intellectuals. ”

Ye Chengxuan said: "Yes, that's the case, but do you know the level of this?"

Seeing his son shaking his head, he said: "In the seventies and eighties, the social atmosphere was simple and simple, and people's spiritual outlook was positive. But the hierarchy at that time was quite strict. For example, the working class is divided into cadres and the masses. This is a watershed moment. Even in a unit, the files of cadres and the masses are stored separately. The so-called recruitment of workers and cadres is like this, and 'work' and 'work' are two groups with different identities. The gap between the workers and the peasants is even greater. Farmers have always been the most hard-working group in our country and should be respected. However, it must be admitted that there is discrimination against the peasants in society, not against individuals, but against the entire stratum, and the most disadvantaged groups in the cities also have an innate sense of superiority over the peasants. This is because the hukou system forcibly restricts rural hukou to the lowest level of society. Even the peasants themselves look down on themselves and desperately want to change this status quo and be proud to be city dwellers. The only way to change the identity of the peasants is to go to university and jump the 'peasant gate'. As for cities, there are also hierarchies, small towns, county seats, prefecture-level cities, and provincial capitals. In the planned economic system, the supply of goods and urban planning in large cities are definitely stronger than those in small cities, so in large cities, even if he is an unemployed young man who does not learn or know, he will look down on people in small cities with his household registration in big cities, let alone in rural areas. Such a person is proud to be in a big city, but if he is a citizen of the capital, he is afraid that he will be even more proud. This is also known as the "petty citizen mentality". You were born in a big city, so the path you designed for the protagonist of the book is to jump out of the farm and become a city person. Then he became a citizen of a small city to a citizen of a big city, and then he got a job and married a college student's wife. This is a success for the hometown in the countryside, and it is worth it. ”

Hearing his father say this, Ye Ziyu thought about it, he really has this kind of mentality, if it can be described in the book that Sun Shaoping married Tian Xiaoxia and lived in a big city, he was afraid that he would no longer be sad and melancholy. He also thought that when he read the book, he really wanted to see the author describe the scene of Sun Shaoping returning to the small village with his beautiful wife of a female college student, and this wife was also a reporter and the daughter of the secretary of the provincial party committee! If this scene appeared, he seemed to be more satisfied than the protagonist in the book. He admired it, it was really difficult for his father to analyze it so clearly. I heard Ye Chengxuan continue: "I asked you to read this book because I thought you would definitely be able to feel the power of suffering and struggle from the book. A person's life is not all about great wealth and wealth. But no matter what the environment, being able to gain the respect of others is success. You can get along with the migrant workers on the ship this time and get a place for yourself. Being able to get around without being surprised and earn back a day's food money, to be honest, I'm really proud of you. ”

When did his father praise himself? Ye Ziyu couldn't remember, as if he had never been, which made him embarrassed. I only heard my father say again: "The country is deepening reform, and I believe that if it goes on like this, it will completely break down the barriers of household registration and personnel systems." If you don't have the ability and can't make achievements, you won't have anything to be proud of. The unemployed youth of the 80s could still be proud of being urban people, but your generation, if you can't be self-reliant in the future, you will have no capital, and you will be the poorest individual at the bottom of society! These two brothers in the book, no matter who you identify with more, I believe you can understand the power of responsibility and love, and that's enough. ”

Ye Ziyu's heart was excited, and his thoughts were full of thoughts. Ye Chengxuan drank all the tea in the cup, yawned comfortably, got up from the seat, and patted his son on the shoulder: "Okay, let's talk again when we have time, take a bath, and sleep." ”

Ye Ziyu nodded and asked his father to rest first, he wouldn't go to bed so early.

A few days later, he looked for the two novels "Gadfly" and "Love Life", which the protagonist Sun Shaoping liked to read. But after reading it, there was not much shock. Perhaps, he thought, this is the difference between young people of different eras. But since then, Ye Ziyu has reread "Ordinary World" every year. Time and time again, I have a deeper understanding: the value of a man is reflected in his responsibility and love!