A widower's entertainment

Chapter 95 [Wonderful Things in the World] (Please subscribe)

Decheng, Chunfeng Lane.

The sunshine in the yard is just right, and children's laughter can be heard from time to time. As for the main room, it is very quiet. Near the window, the sun shines in through the window, and falls on the grid paper on the table, where the lines of words are advancing at a constant speed one after another. , like a team marching on the road of life, but occasionally they pause, as if thinking about whether to go left or right next.

Sometimes, don't be anxious, stop and think carefully about how to write next and which way to go.

Lin Youcheng lowered his head and slowly wrote a new story on the grid paper——

"...On May 1984, 5, I went to the Shanghai Stock Exchange. This is my last will and testament. I don't have much left, no property, no money. I will leave this world the way I came to it." , alone, and returned empty-handed. All I have is my story, and I will write it all down while my memory still exists..."

"My name is Lynch, and I was born in a special era."

"Someone told me that the night I was born commemorated the first anniversary of the May Fourth Movement..."

……

I have been writing manuscripts and bowing my head at my desk for a long time, so it is naturally easier for me to get sore.

Lin Youcheng stopped writing, stretched his neck, stood up and stretched his body again. He glanced at Jiang Xiulian who was taking soles with Xie Chunxia in the yard, and then glanced at Lin Zhaoman and Lin Zhaohuan who were running around the yard. They were all very happy.

Lin Youcheng smiled and went out to the yard to exercise.

Although Lin Zhaoman was still young, he was obviously very sensible and did not come to pester Lin Youcheng when Lin Youcheng was working. But now that he saw Lin Youcheng coming out to play in the yard, he ran up to look for Lin Youcheng.

"Dad, when will I grow up?"

"Do you want to grow up?"

Lin Youcheng was surprised when he heard Lin Zhaoman's words. He knelt down, looked at Lin Zhaoman and asked, "Why do you want to grow up?"

Lin Zhaoman said with a smile: "I want to grow up and go to school soon. When I grow up, I can go to school with my sister and the others."

"Going to school? Don't be in a hurry."

When Lin Youcheng heard Lin Zhaoman say that he wanted to grow up and go to school soon, he couldn't help laughing and said with a smile: "Don't think about it, you will grow up."

From Lin Youcheng's point of view, it seems that children grow up very quickly, as it is almost a year now without even realizing it.

In a while, Lin Zhaoman will be five years old, Lin Zhaohuan is already three years old, and Lin Zhaole in the house is about to be one year old.

Sometimes in this life people are actually very fast.

Lin Youcheng felt something, and turned back to the table, ready to continue writing.

Looking at the manuscript in front of him, the novel "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" he is currently writing can be regarded as a novella. It is a novel adapted from the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". It tells the story of someone who was born in his seventies. Lin Qi, who looks like an old man, gradually becomes younger as the years go by, and finally returns to his baby form, and dies in the arms of his old lover Jiang Xi.

Obviously, Lin Youcheng naturally needs to adapt this story into a story suitable for this paradoxical parallel time and space.

For this reason, Lin Youcheng wrote very slowly.

In Lin Youcheng's writing, this story is more like a memoir. The owner of the memoir is a man named Lynch.

In 1920, on the night to commemorate the first anniversary of the May th Movement, a baby boy named Lin Qi was born in the home of a wealthy family named Lin in Shanghai.

But as soon as he was born, little Lynch seemed to be different. His mother died in childbirth, and his father, who was born into a wealthy family, cruelly abandoned the newborn baby at the door of the Salesian Home. When the director of the Salesian Home found little Lynch, he was also frightened. Young, because that young baby was actually born as an old man with white hair and wrinkles on his face.

Fortunately, the kind-hearted dean did not dislike the abandoned baby. She took Lynch in and took good care of her. As the little old man Lin Qi grew up, he met Jiang Xi, a little girl from a wealthy family who came to the Salesian Hospital for relief. Her cuteness and innocence completely conquered the heart of the little old man Lin Qi. And Lin Qi's equally sincere and clear heart also left a deep impression on Xiao Jiangxi...

In this way, Lynch grew up year after year in the Salesian Home, or he became younger, because the difference was that Lynch's biological clock seemed to run backwards. Others grew older as they lived, while he grew older. But the older I live, the younger I get.

Later, the Anti-Japanese War became more and more fierce. In the turbulent situation, Lynch, like many Chinese, participated in the war, resisted foreign aggression, and fought to the death with the Japanese invaders. Amidst the hail of bullets, he met various characters and witnessed the true story of life. Tragedy, but also experiencing the greatest glory of human nature.

After the Anti-Japanese War, Lynch returned to Shanghai. At this time, Lin Qi had gotten rid of his old appearance as a child and gradually grew into a middle-aged man. As if destined, he reunited with his childhood dream lover Jiang Xi in Shanghai. However, Jiang Xi already had another lover at this time, and Lin Qi had to leave sadly. A few years later, they met again at the Salesian Home. After a mature relationship, the two finally spent several happy and beautiful years together, with their age and appearance completely matching. Just when everyone is suffering from the aging brought by time, Lynch is going backwards as if he has regained his youth. They had a daughter, but Lynch was destined to stay young and eventually become a child. He felt that he could not accompany his child to grow up, so he chose to leave.

A few years later, Lin Qi went overseas, wandering around in different countries and seeing a bigger world... When he came back again, he found that Jiang Xi was married to a widower. Seeing that they got along well, Lin Qi felt reassured and a little sad at the same time. . As he gets older, his body gets smaller and smaller, and he suffers from "childhood Alzheimer's disease."

Workers at the Shanghai Orphanage found Jiang Xi through Lin Qi's diary. By this time Lynch had forgotten everything and was becoming more and more like a child. In this way, Jiang Xi visited him every day, even though Lin Qi had forgotten Jiang Xi and many, many things.

Jiang Xi took Lin Qi over to take care of him, and he became smaller and smaller, turning into a swaddling baby.

Finally, in Jiang Xi's arms, Lin Qi slowly closed his eyes...

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Lin Youcheng is not worried at all that this story will be rejected by "People's Literature". You must know that in this spring of literature, the fantasy "The Green Haired Water Monster" written by Wang Xiaobo, in which the heroine turns into a water monster after death, can be rejected by the magazine. published, even if it is not "People's Literature".

In Lin Youcheng's view, his article "Wonderful Things in the World" is very suitable for "People's Literature" because it is a life story named Lin Qi in the real world.

Although the story is bizarre, it is extremely true.

That's right, the whole story is as real as someone who actually lived a reverse life.

A person's life will go through birth, old age, illness and death, and he will slowly move from a newborn baby to an old age. However, Lynch is just the opposite. He was an old man when he was born, and slowly became younger and younger, and finally returned to the form of a baby.

The key point is that from Lin Youcheng's point of view, this story is very touching. It is a fantasy reality story full of romance, a freak who was born with the appearance of a white-haired old man, a century-long epic of personal growth, and a story that spans time. In love, Lynch, who is sailing against the long river of time, experiences the joy of life and the pain of death from opposite levels.

It can even be said that this is a life epic that focuses on the most beautiful chapter of life and is also about life, death and love.

Time cannot be turned back, and the past cannot be repeated. Everyone in the world is a passer-by, either in someone else's life, or a lonely passer-by in the entire world.

Just like an elderly dwarf who works in a Salesian home, because they are all aliens, he takes great care of Lin Qi and even said something to Lynch that aliens like them are destined to live alone for a lifetime. Remember, The scary thing is not loneliness but the fear of loneliness.

The ignorant Lynch just remembered this sentence. It would take decades before he truly understood the meaning of this sentence. At that time, he would experience the ups and downs of life and realize what loneliness is.

Although Lin Youcheng grew from a young man to a middle-aged widower, he knew very clearly that no one would get younger and younger. Even though the unfortunate and fantastic Lin Qi in the story looked younger day by day on the outside, in fact he was already old on the inside. , is dying, and will eventually grow old and forget everything.

This story is about love, but it is not just about love. It is really about everything on the road of life. The story is there because this story is a real life in the world.

Lin Youcheng feels that the story "Wonderful Things in the World" will attract a lot of attention in the literary world, maybe it will be enthusiastic, maybe it will be questioned.

For some reason, Lin Youcheng felt that those things didn't seem important.

At this time, he looked at the manuscript he was writing, and he was just thinking, if everyone really had a choice, whether to choose to live forward or backward.

From birth, opening your eyes in a nursing home, feeling better day by day, until you get kicked out for being too healthy, then starting to work, then being young enough to enjoy retirement and having sex, then becoming a child , play carefree and without any responsibilities on your shoulders.

Lin Youcheng looked at Lin Zhaole, the sleeping baby in the cradle.

Finally, as a baby, until—

death.

Obviously, no matter whether life is going forward or in reverse, no matter how fantastic life is, the starting point and end point of life will remain the same after all.

Lin Youcheng shook his head and stopped thinking about it. He looked at the story "Wonderful Things in the World" in front of him again and continued to write——

"This baby has a bald head like all newborns, but its face is covered with wrinkles and a pair of lifeless eyes, like an octogenarian. In fact, if you didn't know it was a baby, you would really think of it as a baby. A wrinkled, old man with sad eyes..."

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