There is a line in the movie "Undefeated in the East", "Some people have grievances, there are grievances, there are rivers and lakes, and people are rivers and lakes." "It sounds cool, but I don't feel how the rivers and lakes in the movie are similar to the real world, and it wasn't until I read the book "Talking about Rivers and Lakes" that I really believed that there were rivers and lakes everywhere.

The author of this book, Lian Kuoru, said that the daughter of the book is Lian Liru, and many people may be more familiar with her.

The book was written in the thirties, serialized in newspapers, and there is a white description of the real rivers and lakes at that time, although there are many books about the rivers and lakes, but most of them come from hearsay, and there are very few books written by Xiang Lian Kuoru who have personally experienced and written them himself, so they are very valuable.

In general, this book is very boring, with a lot of jargon, and if it is not for the interest in exploring the truth, it is difficult to read it, and even if you read it, you may glance at ten lines and forget it later.

I've almost forgotten about it, but the impression from first glance is still vivid, especially some of the interesting details.

The Changchun Association is an organization of the old rivers and lakes, only the old rivers and lakes can participate, people from all walks of life support each other and help each other here, but there are many rules, and if they violate it slightly, they will be shamed by experts.

For example, if a temple fair is to be held in a certain place, he is responsible for discussing major and minor matters with the local gentry, and then inviting powerful artists to make the temple fair lively and lively, and can solve problems without accidents.

There are a lot of rivers and lakes, and it is not easy to hold a successful temple fair, storytelling, fortune-telling, and other literary styles and martial arts styles such as dancing knives and sticks must be available, and the proportions are appropriate, and they do not interfere with each other, for example, books and plasters can not be next to each other, all are loud voices, there is always one side pressing one side, and business cannot be done.

Which line is next to which line, how far apart, and which piece each occupies, there are doorways among them, and those who don't know how to do it can't do it.

This description solves a doubt in my mind.

There is a story in "Water Margin", the sick insect Xue Yong went to Jieyang Town to sell plasters with guns and sticks, and no one gave money to the onlookers, originally he didn't understand the rules, and he didn't go to visit Mu Hong and Mu Chun brothers first when he arrived in the town, not only did he not get money, but he didn't even have a place to eat in a hotel.

The Mu brothers are bullies, but they also have a set of rules, the reputation of the rivers and lakes depends on word of mouth, if they blindly compete with each other, the performers will not dare to come, and the brothers will have no money to make.

If you don't look at the means, it is Xue Yong who does not understand the rules and should be punished in this story.

Xue Yong didn't go to meet the local Jianghu characters in advance It's still a trivial matter, the key is that he chose a lively place to perform, which is likely to block other people's financial routes, for example, there is a hexagram stall next to it, and he shouted at him and lured the guests away, and the fortune teller couldn't do business.

If the fortune teller had paid homage to the Mu brothers and had paid a share, they would have to solve the problem with them, and of course the two would have to punish the newcomers who did not know how to do it and protect the old man who obeyed the rules.

In the eyes of outsiders, it was Xue Yong who was bullied, but in the eyes of the old Jianghu, Xue Yong took the blame for himself.

Of course, outsiders are the majority, everyone likes the story of the raptor crossing the river and defeating the local bullies, and I am the same, even after a little understanding of the rivers and lakes, I still fantasize about the freedom of the rivers and lakes.

Therefore, it is not easy for the rivers and lakes, so there are so many people who are frustrated everywhere, so there is a saying that "people are rivers and lakes".

Even if it is as simple as a school, new students often make the mistake of Xue Yong: accidentally sit in someone's fixed position, pick up the stubble when someone is talking at an inopportune time, and then get into trouble.

Interestingly, the school is also like the rivers and lakes, the classmates who are inadvertently offended by the transfer student may never express their dissatisfaction, and it is always other seemingly unrelated "bad students" who clean him up.

The bad students, like the Muhammad brothers, unconsciously uphold some unwritten rules in the image of evil people.

The unit is more similar to the rivers and lakes, every employee is an "artist", divided into all walks of life, with a relatively fixed territory, and it is easy for others to enter, especially newcomers are not allowed to get involved.

If the newcomer wants to quickly integrate into the unit, he has to "worship the dock" like the old Jianghu.

The person who controls the rules is not necessarily the leader, but more likely a small clerk who is not to tell you how to work, but to point out the "position" of the newcomer.

Most people do these things unconsciously, and they don't feel embarrassed at all, but they will always make more or less mistakes, and a small number of people consciously reflect and begin to summarize a set of rules, which is the so-called old rivers and lakes.

There are old rivers and lakes everywhere, they may seem useless, but they can always save the day, and even become the most important communication bridge between leaders and employees.

Xue Yong, the sick worm, is a loser, even if he doesn't know each other later, he is just a foil.

He is also a character who can gain sympathy, and in the face of an unfamiliar environment, we will all have Xue Yong's confusion: Why can't I get the appreciation I deserve for my ability?

It is extremely easy to judge right and wrong from the position of a certain party, but if you distance yourself a little and stand from a more objective perspective, right and wrong will become ambiguous: if one party gains, there will be a loss, and in order to win together, there must be rules, and there must be executors if there are rules.

When the rules are not written, there are rivers and lakes.

There is a story in "Jianghu Cong Talk": a certain thief is a righteous Jianghu man, who needs silver two times temporarily, so he borrows money from a rich family, and the intermediary is the rich family's nursing home, and the nursing home is also a Jianghu person, so he is willing to vouch for the thief, of course the rich man disagrees, and the nursing home has to resign. Next, the rich family's home was frequently burglarized, and the police couldn't stop it, so in the end, there was no choice but to ask back to the nursing home, make peace from it, and spend a lot of money.

From the perspective of any of them, they can write a passionate and generous plot: the thief is a thief, the rich is the unkind, and the nursing home is a person who understands the current affairs and stresses righteousness; the thief is the wicked, the rich is the victim, and the nursing home helps to abuse.

Lian Kuoru himself is a Jianghu person, so he has no criticism of the rules of the rivers and lakes, and he is disgusted by those who do not understand the rules and do not abide by the rules.

But even in his time, the rivers and lakes of entertainers were in decline, and the reason was simple: the more explicit regulations, the more declining the rivers and lakes, and the more unspoken rules, the more prosperous the rivers and lakes.

The rivers and lakes have shifted, and it has always been able to thrive in a shady environment.

"Jianghu Cong Talk" is worth watching, I plan to read it again, even if it is hastily flipped through, just for curiosity.;