——Reading Alai's novella "Three Cordyceps"

Edging

The breath of this spring actually emanated from "Three Cordyceps" first, fluffy, soft and wet.

Encountering a novel that looks good, smells good, sounds good, and is a little "delicious" is a refreshing sensory treat. As if he was looking for Cordyceps, he was lying on the thin snow, smelling the fragrance of the frozen soil, and tilted his head slightly, and there was a gelatinous brown grass bud hidden at the edge of the corner of his clothes, and his fingers touched it lightly and quickly retracted, for fear of hurting this lovely sprout. In the early spring, seeing Ah Lai's "Three Cordyceps", this is how I feel, giving up the rhythm of "seeing it for pleasure" in the past, only reading a little bit every day, reading it carefully and tasting it slowly, carefully, after reading, it seems to be contaminated with the fragrance of grass, and I also have some thoughts.

Sanji, a smart and sensible Tibetan primary school student, skipped school, and he secretly ran to the field where the snow melted and started the great plan in his heart - digging Cordyceps! For the livelihood of the family! Sanchi's cordyceps journey began when he stumbled sideways and spotted a gel-like sprout of grass after a heavy fall. The novel captures the novelty and vividness of the natural world with the eyes and voice of children, and also tells the mundane normalcy of adults. On the first day of skipping school, Sanji dug up fifteen cordyceps, and he planned to use the money from six cordyceps to treat his grandmother, and then use six to add clothes to his sister, leaving three for himself. Since then, Sanji has racked his brains for the use of these three cordyceps, he wants to buy cool gloves for his cousin in prison, he wants to give Mr. Dobujie shaving foam, and he fantasizes about giving Mr. Namu reorouge shampoo. But no matter how three Cordyceps are distributed, Sanji loves so many people after all, the poor little guy is sad.

The arrival of the researcher changed the fate of the three Cordyceps at once. Under the researcher's deliberate "difficulty", poor Sanji had to exchange his three Cordyceps for a beautiful box specially made for Cordyceps by his father. The researcher loved Sanchi, and when Sanji was in despair, the researcher promised to give him a set of encyclopedias, and from then on, Sanchi, who was chasing Cordyceps, began to pursue this set of encyclopedias. The researcher did not give the book directly to Sanchi, but to the school, and the principal became an obstacle to Sanchi's reading. When Sanji was desperately chasing this set of books, the three cordyceps had a new place: one was drunk by the secretary, and the secretary chewed out the earthy smell; A passing driver's hand was sold to an elderly man who was dying to make soup, and the deification of the function failed to save the old man's life; Another one went to the airport and flew to the capital, continuing to circulate in the adult world, doing more "big" things.

Under the clear tone, the novel examines the world with a child's mind, which hides a heavier meaning. The coming and going of the three cordyceps is the main line of the novel. It is a bridge, which integrates the magical gifts of nature with the pure nature of children, and pulls the adult perspective and the larger world outside the village, but in the end, this natural beauty is still a society controlled by adults, and the treasure that should be the unity of nature and man is inevitably the waste of the world. It is also a balance, on the one hand, it bears the fate of children, and on the other hand, it is the complexity of the adult world. However, the writer Ah Lai still knows that the world is vast and the goodwill is boundless, and at the end of the novel, he gives new hope: when the lama persuaded Sanji to follow him to leave the dirt and practice, Xiao Sanji still chose the encyclopedia, chose the school, and chose the solid exploration and desire for the unknown world, and Cordyceps is just a grain of rice in the encyclopedia.

In addition, what makes people think is that the same life, whether it is simply loved by children or deified by adults, if Cordyceps, which is so "important" in the human world, opens its eyes in the spring when everything wakes up and sees human beings behaving like this, will they cry or laugh?

(The author is a science teacher at the primary school affiliated to Chinese People's University)