The novel tells about the working life of a group of craftsmen from rural areas in the city, and depicts the ups and downs of the working life of such vulnerable groups.
Sanheshang inherited the ancestral carpenter craft and married a beautiful daughter-in-law with her unique skills. With the changes of the times, his craft is no longer popular in the countryside, his daughter-in-law has also changed, and his marriage has also changed. In a rage, he took up his luggage and came to this strange city, where he took two young apprentices for a craft meal. Young apprentices Qiu Zi and Heican were supposed to be studying at school, but because of the poverty of their families, they had to shoulder the hope and burden of family adults, travel around the rivers and lakes with their masters, suffer the cold of the world, feel the warmth of human feelings, and survive, take root and grow on the stage of this society. In this city, like carpenters all over the country, they eat cold meals, live in shacks, wait for work on the road in the cold wind and rain, catch up when they find business, and compete to lower prices to make a living. They all dream of making money by panning for gold, silently selling their cheap labor, gritting their teeth and enduring the hardships brought by life, and stubbornly persisting in the unique personality and dignity of rural people.
Qiu Zi, the hero, is a child with great personality. His father lost more than 1000 yuan in raising sheep, and heavy debts weighed down at home like a mountain. After coming out with the master, with his own spirituality, he quickly mastered the carpenter's craft and even surpassed the master. Finally, he became an apprentice and supported the portal independently with the praise of the master. He dares to love and hate, and is compassionate: when he meets Wei Zi with a disabled leg, he takes the initiative to help him and helps him to the end for free; When you meet a customer who doesn't treat yourself as a person, you will have ulterior motives and put fat meat into the mezzanine of someone else's cabinet, "making him stink, I don't know where it came from"; The helpless duck is his good friend, and the little carpenter who has been beaten for several days without work has also been helped by him. Qiu Zi is still a very independent child. Being in the same shack, the blame could not resist the temptation of gambling and finally fell into it. It was Akiko who saved him from the fire pit and went back to the right path. He looked at the cold eyes and kindness of the master, kept it in mind, dared to make faces with the master, and finally let the master yield. When he got foreign coins, he went to a knowledgeable professor to help him identify them and let himself know the authenticity as soon as possible. As the three monks said, "A good horse has a little temper." Of course, there are many shortcomings of immature children in his life: fighting, spending more than 200 yuan on lottery tickets, cutting ropes on other people's apple cars and so on. These shortcomings are showing a vivid and full life.
Although the object of the novel is children, I never forget it after reading it, and the charm can be seen. I think the most valuable thing about novels is that they are rooted in social reality and read as if they were there. The protagonist of the novel lives in a materialistic and money-oriented urban society. The word "money" is deeply rooted in everyone's heart and only binds everyone. They cry for money, laugh for money, share for money and meet for money. Even Qiu Zi's bed wetting is closely related to poverty. It is in this adult atmosphere that Qiu Zi and Heican are growing up and composing a holy and beautiful life movement.
Goats don't eat paradise grass? At the end of the novel, the author tells us the origin of this story: Ziming's family made a fortune by raising sheep, which led the whole village to raise sheep. As a result, there were more sheep and less grass, so I followed my father to raise them in other places, but in the face of fresh paradise grass, I refused to eat them. One of them died heroically, so the whole family was burdened with heavy economic debts. "Paradise Grass", what a beautiful name! I'm afraid the author's original intention is to set off the heroic and noble goat and witness the growth of the characters. Qiu Zi got a big job with the help of a kind person. Without knowing the details, the householder put the deposit of 1500 yuan into her pocket, which became a great temptation. On the one hand, the family is in urgent need of money, on the other hand, it is keeping its promise. What choices will the hero face? In the end, Akiko finally chose justice, and a sound personality was finally formed in contradictions. What's the difference between this money choice and "paradise grass"?
After a long aftertaste, I found that Cao Wenxuan's novels are always mixed with the bitterness of life in the atmosphere of perfection, beauty and truth, and readers will eventually chew a sweet taste in the bitterness of life. I think this is probably why countless young readers and even us adults are fascinated and fascinated!