Wen: I'm Su Yan.

Many years ago, I watched "Raise the Red Lantern" directed by Zhang Yimou. This film was shot in my hometown, a residential building called "Qiao Family Courtyard".

I accidentally saw Su Tong's original "Wives and Concubines in Groups". The story is not too long. It is combined with three other light areas and several comments to form a book. Su Tong talked about wives and concubines in his comments. He said that many readers read this novel and said it was a story between a woman and a woman, and a woman and a man, so he would not continue the following discussion.

Every successful novel tells a story. The story is always about people, the beginning and process of things, some have endings, some have blanks, so that readers can think about the endings themselves. Simply listening to the story, you can say whether the story is good or not without thinking. After reading it, you can simply describe the story in a few words, which proves that it is really a wonderful story.

Only those who read deeply can understand the dark river behind the story. The river flows gracefully through the words, reminding you of a certain sentence, a certain detail, and what something wants to express. Sometimes it will make you understand something, and sometimes it will make you think deeply today.

This description is only what Su Like Tong himself said: the best narrative of language makes readers feel that the language itself is not laid out, but the texture is very good and supple, and it seems that they can feel its wrinkles.

Wives and concubines is actually a story about a group of women and a man. If you count, you will see the number of women, five wives and a maid. It's all about the owner, it's all his accessories.

The first wife is old and faded, escaping loneliness and praying for comfort. It is a clay sculpture that exists like ashes. Her ears are very sensitive. If there is anything, she will answer immediately, which shows that I am alive and my position is irreplaceable.

The second wife is a kind and hypocritical person. She can make friends with anyone and get along face to face. Don't you know that she hides a knife in her smile and stumbles at her feet? She often calculated people behind her back and kept her invincible position by stepping on other people's bodies.

The third wife, a player, looks enchanting and has a hot personality. She dares to love and hate. She is an unscrupulous and arrogant person.

The fourth wife went to school, gained some knowledge and thought she was different. She doesn't like several wives, disdains to associate with them, and even doesn't like inferior geese. Seeing that she dared to flirt with her master secretly, she soon hated it.

Many times in the book, a prop is described, which is a gloomy well, and a woman who has lived in it all her life is unclean. They stretched out their arms in the well, waiting and welcoming. There will always be women coming in, and this deep well will never be satisfied.

What is a well? Well is a kind of desire, people's various desires, the desire for money and material, the desire for spiritual soul, and the desire for physical and psychological desires. Every desire is a deep well, always full of blood, which will be swallowed up and eaten. People don't push, don't squeeze, don't force, jump in one by one, and cook jiaozi on their own initiative.

Does the first lady have no desire to recite Buddhism? She is proud of the dignity of the first family, opens her eyes from time to time and punishes everyone who violates the rules in her heart. She wants to control everyone in the compound except the master.

As we all know, Si Mazhao, the second wife, has no special appearance. No old woman has won the favor of her master. She wants to be picky among a bunch of women and kneel like a dog. She has her desires.

The third wife craves more sensory satisfaction than material enjoyment. What she can't get from the master is to find satisfaction outside. It's just adding fuel to the fire, which is not allowed by ethics. Like all dirty women of the older generation, she was thrown into a deep well.

The fourth wife has a spiritual pursuit, longing for romance and beauty under the moon. She likes a young gentleman who can play the flute and is full of vigor, but he has no intention of running water. That gentleman hates women and can only talk to her.

Once the well of desire is dug deep, nothing can be done. The fourth wife is like a trapped animal, like a bird without wings, and can only stand still in the dry well and look up at the blue sky. Unable to find the outlet, she took the inferior goose as the object of venting.

Wild geese have no desire. She is not satisfied with herself and her fourth wife, but she can only be present. She cursed the fourth mistress and tried to change her living environment by getting close to her master or young master.

Everyone has a well deep in desire, grasping anxiously, trying to hug everything he wants tightly. I have no choice but to come and go. If I come naked, I will go naked and take nothing with me. Only a few people can see through it, put it down, and still run on this road of chasing desire.

The person in front has died on the beach, and the person behind is still coming.

Look, the young fifth wife has entered the door again. She is so pure and flawless.