After reading "Alive", Andy Zhang's emotions could not be calmed down for a long time.

Because he is well-informed and has seen the rapid development of Xiazhou in recent decades, he did not have the mood to break the defense, he just sighed that this "Alive" really happened to Fugui in the past fifty or sixty years of disasters, poverty, and environmental difficulties in Xiazhou.

Obviously, the old thief must have had this in mind.

In the whole part, it can be said that God has taken a lot of things away from Fugui's side, but the only thing that can't be taken away is Fugui's will to live.

"No sensationalism."

"It wasn't intentional."

"But it's so cruel, this book."

Zhang Dehua looked at the book and was in a trance for a while.

This book is painful, although there are occasional moments of warmth and relaxation, but most of the time, a tragic mood that is numb to the extreme, fills the whole book.

This book goes out of its way to show how fate destroys people's lives!

And Fugui is the protagonist of this destroyed life.

……

is different from Andy Cheung's feelings, Liu Lei, as a young man, only felt that his whole strength had been drained when he finished reading this book.

Liu Lei grew up in a privileged environment, since he was a child, Liu Lei's grandparents have always told Liu Lei not to waste food, or the habit of saving all kinds of old items, and even some empty bottles outside, Liu Lei's grandparents will pick them up.

Whenever he saw his grandparents picking up empty bottles, Liu Lei would frown, and stepped forward to theorize, saying that the times are different, and there is no shortage of money at home.

After all, in this era, even if classmates go out for dinner, it may cost hundreds of dollars, and a few decades ago, dozens of yuan was a person's monthly salary.

In the past, when grandparents were talking to Liu Lei about the past, Liu Lei would say that the times are developing, but "Alive" really shows the current situation of the past few decades vividly in front of readers.

In the evening, when his grandfather went out to play chess, Liu Lei talked to his grandmother about the past again.

Grandma held Liu Lei's hand and slowly recalled:

"At that time, all the families were poor, so I went to Jiangbei to ask for food, and I asked for it from door to door."

"You don't know that there were a lot of people who asked for food at that time, unlike now, when they didn't starve to death, they really had to starve to death at that time."

"The men in the family go to study, and I go to ask for food, and I wear some rags, and the apples I eat for the New Year and festivals are the kind of apples that are half rotten on the street, and I dig up the rotten places, and then eat them."

Liu Lei kept silent, he had never listened so carefully.

He remembered that the last time, the apples at home were half rotten and his grandmother still wanted to eat them, so Liu Lei was very angry and argued with his grandmother.

After all, half of the broken apples are definitely inedible according to the current view, and there will be bacteria, metabolites, and even microorganisms that will start to multiply, and even the good parts will not be spared.

The mold in it can cause mutations in human cells, which can cause cancer.

In this day and age, apples, rice candy, and potatoes are all undesirable things.

The price of apples in the fruit store is so cheap that it couldn't be cheaper.

But according to my grandmother, when they were young, apples were good things, and they couldn't afford to eat whole apples, only half-rotten apples.

"Later, when I came here to ask for food, I ran into your grandfather."

"Your grandfather was working in the factory at the time, and he got 48 yuan a month, divided a house, and lived like this, and lived a hard life......

"How can there be any air conditioner now, it's hot in summer, I'll fan my father and your aunt, and I will ......fan it all the time."

"That's it, your father and your aunt won't fall asleep until the second half of the night."

"Winter is even harder."

Grandma saw her grandson listening to the stories of the past so carefully, and for a while the memories kept flooding up, and she recalled with a smile.

No air conditioning, no heaters.

At that time, there was such a thing as electrical appliances, and I couldn't think of it.

Nowadays, many people shout at every turn in the summer that they are going to die without air conditioning, but the older generation is like this.

Life is quite tight, and even tofu, cigarettes, and cloth have to rely on bills.

In winter, there is no need to go into too much detail, the children of poor families can only wear that kind of torn cotton jacket and that kind of sanitary clothes to keep out the cold, and they can wear cotton shoes with dry soles on their feet, which is a high match.

Winter is far more difficult than summer.

Grandma held Liu Lei's hand, and it took half an hour to talk.

But in the past half an hour, Liu Lei found that his grandmother's cheeks had been full of smiles.

Even if the past days were difficult, the hardships are unimaginable to people now.

Grandma's situation is not an exception, just from grandma's mouth, in the village where they used to be, there were many people who went to ask for food every day, Liu Lei had not experienced it, but he could still imagine the scene in his mind.

"Grandma'......"

"Hey."

"Why did you still persevere after the past was so bitter?"

At this moment, Liu Lei's heart suddenly gave rise to a lot of feelings, the emotions in the story of "Alive", Liu Lei can't say that he can fully understand it, but he has already had a part of it.

People like Fugui are not alone.

In the land of Xiazhou, there are thousands of blessings, and they are all living with great difficulty, and they have lived until this beautiful era.

"Persistence?"

"People have to live."

Grandma's words seem to be the truth.

"There must be a hope, I used to hope that your uncle and grandfather would be able to make a difference, and the family revolved around your uncle and grandfather, but your uncle and grandfather didn't study well, and then they squatted for a few years."

It can be said that the era of grandparents is a patriarchal generation.

In those days, ideas were like that, and no one thought it was wrong.

It can be said that in the whole family, Liu Lei himself likes girls more than boys.

But grandma still wants to hold her grandson, and she still wants to add a boy to the family to pass on the lineage.

A person's concept is imperceptible, and the concept of decades cannot be changed at all until now.

In fact, the significance of discussing right and wrong alone is not very great, the times are changing, and the concepts are also changing.

Grandma looked at Liu Lei and smiled softly:

"Now that my life is good, I look forward to saving two more dollars, getting you a wife in the future, and seeing my great-grandson is my biggest wish in my life."

Why is life so hard and still alive?

Why is it that after going through so many hardships, when talking about the past, grandma can still smile when she recalls the past?

……

"Man lives for the sake of being alive, and not for anything other than being alive."

This sentence is the point that the author wants to convey throughout the book.

In the whole "Alive", the old thief expresses something very simple, to be alive is to simply want to live.

did not stand on the moral high ground to point out the maze, and simply described Fugui's life, such a life will be well-known to tens of millions of Xiazhou fans in "Alive", but it can be thrown into the crowd, but there is no trace of existence.

Because this was the fate of many people at that time.

There is no good or evil, no right or wrong, no trace, as if it never existed, drowning in the torrent of history throughout the years.

At this moment, Liu Lei felt that his grandmother was very similar to Fugui in "Alive", but her grandmother did not have such a miserable life as Fugui, but she had experienced a lot of pain unique to that era.

The original Liu Lei couldn't understand it, but the appearance of this "Alive" suddenly made Liu Lei realize something.

This book allows Liu Lei and Fugui to share weal and woe, when good luck favors Fugui, Liu Lei will smile happily, and when Fugui suffers a bad luck blow, Liu Lei will be sad again.

Tragedy always follows one after another, and there is no respite.

This is the old days.

……

(End of chapter)