This is the best collection of short stories I have read this year. Among them, lovers and teenagers, if we flash back to love, a dog in the distance and other chapters are classic novels reflecting married life. Absolutely affordable, the best, I recommend you to have a look.
Highlights:
That year, our family married a daughter-in-law and left a daughter-in-law. My brother married my daughter-in-law, and I left my daughter-in-law.
That year, I loved to meditate when I had nothing to do. In the evening, everyone will go to the wheat field in the moonlight to bask in my bored worries. Facing the boundless moonlight, I try to interpret the relationship and significance of life, marriage or love. Later, I was confused, and those messy thoughts covered my teenager's head like the uneven ears of wheat around me, which made me have a splitting headache and unbearable. I can't cope with those problems. I can only touch clusters of wheat leaves and count the fleeting time, past and stars. ...
-Excerpted from 00 1 page "Just Couples and Teenagers".
They sat down to eat pomegranate, and the moonlight was bright. Ah pushed his glasses and said, Look at the moon. Umbrella says it's better than fifteen. Say that finish, he put his hand over his mouth and turned his face to giggle. Ah Yi went to pull her face and said, What are you laughing at? Isn't it beautiful? The umbrella was pulled into his arms, and he was ashamed. He simply spoiled and said that you are too bad compared with the moon, and people are always gossiping.
In fact, umbrellas are not keen on literature, but are only interested in literature. The book that she often reads is Appreciation of World Famous Mathematical Problems, which is a gobbledygook for Ayi. But this is also the place that fascinates Ah Yi, because it is more ideal than both of them in terms of complementarity. Seeing Ah Yi chasing after him, the umbrella avoided him and took him home in a hurry. The parents of the umbrella naturally disdained Ah Yi, so they made a few polite remarks and took care of other things. When I came out at night, the umbrella was silent a lot. Ah Yi asked her what happened, and she said vaguely, I was wondering how our family would accept you. As soon as Ah said it was broken, love was cast a shadow before it started. The umbrella looked up at the sky and said, what do you think? Ben has backed out, but he still insists on not putting down his umbrella, cheering himself up and saying, I thought this was between us. The umbrella said it was wrong.
The moon is high in the sky, and the bright water is flowing like water, which is everywhere and can't be caught. As soon as Ah opened his palm, the moonlight filled his hand. He clenched his fist and there was nothing in his hand. Ah Yi is puzzled by this wonderful phenomenon and wants to know if everything is like the moonlight at your fingertips. The umbrella nestled in his arms, but he still didn't feel "finished", fearing that she would run away from into thin air at any time. He put her down, let her lie flat, leaned over her ear and whispered, "Umbrella, umbrella, shall we be husband and wife tonight?" I didn't understand umbrellas at first, but when I did, I almost didn't scare away. I didn't run because she was amused by the ambiguous and warm verb meaning of the word "husband and wife". She twisted her body and said simply, this is too fast. Who do we know? Ah yi said again, then let's flash back.
-Excerpted from Liu Wenhua's collection of short stories "Just Couples and Teenagers" and "If We Flashback to Love", page113 ~114.
Because of a delicious meal and hope for life, his wife's interest lasted until late at night. That night, she climbed up to me for the first time and said softly, do you feel that you are a little different today?
I said I felt it. Big brother really has me in his heart.
My wife said convincingly, what else do you think?
What am I talking about?
Silly, my wife is rarely embarrassed, but she said shyly, people, people put that dog thing in your bowl.
I think this is the wife. She is as narrow-minded as she needs to be. On the surface, her eldest brother and sister-in-law are so close, but behind her back, she still touches her own man. It is said that the dog can strengthen yang and tonify kidney. I really felt the strong male strength. I turned over excitedly and rode her up. We had a long and hearty sex, and found that we were still so young and liked the world so much in love. We think the moonlight is as lovely as water tonight, and the stars and wind outside the window are warm. Under the pressure of life, we have neglected this compulsory course for couples for too long. At least for my wife, she never let me go to bed or fertilize and water the Abel Tamata. Because those three children were cooked at one go, she no longer needs me as a crop grower. Over time, I have become accustomed to the lazy life of doing nothing. In the face of a contract that no longer works, we all automatically give up the responsibilities and obligations of contracting and being contracted. Now, we are learning from the alternation of the old and the new, from which we know that the parents of three children have just discovered something about the same night between husband and wife, and know that there is more joy in labor itself besides having children. We are so happy, and this happiness torments us all night.
Just when I was confused, I heard a faint knock at the door. I thought it was an illusion. I turned over and tried to get confused again, but the knock on the door continued. I listened to it again, so I left my wife in my arms and rubbed my eyes to open the door. ...
-From "Lover Boys", page 084-085, a dog from far away.