Author's brief introduction (see Love Can't Forget)
Zeng Linger, who was born as a fisherman, felt a sense of melting from the first sight of the boys in the class and Zuo Wei, who looks handsome, and began a lifelong love and unrequited love. In the third year of college, Zuo Wei suffered from tuberculosis. For a whole year, she had to attend classes, do homework, take notes, and make up notes and homework for Zuo Wei. At the end of the school year, Zuo Wei successfully passed the exam, but Ceng Wei was as tired as a serious illness. In the mid-1950s, Zuo Wei wrote a big-character poster, which was copied by Zeng Linger with beautiful brushwork. Later, things developed and Zeng Linger was criticized. People asked her to tell who wrote it. Because the signature was ambiguous, Zeng Linger insisted that she wrote it herself, thus protecting Zuo Wei. Lubeihe, then secretary of the Party branch in the class, had to rule that Zeng Linger had become a rightist because he had to complete the amount allocated. Soon, Zeng Linger was assigned to a border town for labor reform. After Zeng Linger was put on the rightist hat, Zuo Wei was very upset. He felt that Zeng Linger was his savior and a reborn parent. He wanted to repay her kindness, so he went to the department to open a letter of introduction for marriage registration. However, from that moment on, he felt that he had made great sacrifices to repay Zeng Linger. He was relieved and his true love disappeared. When Zeng Linger saw the letter of introduction, she shed a bunch of big and heavy tears. It was supposed to be a perfect day, but they were relatively silent. Zeng Linger insisted on asking whether Zuo Wei still loved her, while Zuo Wei avoided talking about this problem that he didn't even have the courage to face directly. In pain and hesitation, she dedicated her son to Zuo Wei, and she completed a woman's life overnight. Then, she calmly and firmly tore up the letter of introduction and told Zuo Wei, "We are married, and you have paid off my debt, so we can break up with peace of mind." She never saw Zuo Wei again. 1958, Zuo Wei married Lubeihe. The couple have lived together for more than 20 years and worked in the same research institute. Lu Beihe is the deputy secretary and deputy director of the Party Committee, while Zuo Wei is a mediocre researcher. In a sense, the Lubei River replaced Zeng Linger and continued to "contribute" to Zuo Wei. Zeng Linger was sent to the frontier and soon found herself pregnant. She was ecstatic about it and felt so rich. She silently prayed to a God she didn't believe in and gave her a son like Zuo Wei. She forgave Zuo Wei's fickle feelings and abandoned all her resentment, leaving only her feelings for him and her broader love than before. People took turns talking to her and asked her to tell her whose child she was with. She shook her head without saying a word except covering her stomach with her hands. She suffered all kinds of contempt, abuse and contempt, and even beatings. At that time, she was a coolie, with only 18 yuan's living expenses a month, and she was often dizzy from hunger. After giving birth to Tao Tao, her amniotic fluid broke, and she endured the pain and climbed to the hospital, where she was abused and looked down upon. Her son Tao Tao was sickly since childhood, which made her helpless in the face of sickly Tao Tao. How many times did she want to write or call Zuo Wei? However, her heart struggled between her love for Zuo Wei and her love for her son, but she finally failed to write her a letter and communicate with her for the last time. Tao Tao matured early and suffered discrimination and abuse without his father alone. The title of Tao Tao's first composition was My Dad. In his composition, he recalled his mother who he had known since childhood, saying that she "did more things than other people's fathers". The Chinese teacher gave her an "excellent" award and made a home visit, which made Zeng Linger and Tao Tao live alone. He brought hope and sustenance to Zeng Linger, and he made Zeng Linger forget his troubles. However, when Tao Tao 15 years old, he drowned while swimming in the pond. Zeng Linger didn't understand for a long time why she had several opportunities to save Tao Tao's father, but she didn't have a chance to save Tao Tao. She blamed herself for being a fisherman's daughter for nothing. For more than 20 years, Zeng Linger not only suffered so many hardships in life, but also persisted in pursuing her career under difficult conditions. She published an article on the operation method of computer multiplication process in a magazine, which won the appreciation of experts in the same field and attracted international attention. The institute is about to hold a preparatory meeting for developing a new ultra-micro electronic computer. Under the strong sponsorship of Lubeihe, I decided to invite Zeng Linger to participate in the work of microcode compilation group. Zeng Linger came to a city that has been away for more than 20 years. On the train, she saw a reading book with a very detailed and concise description of everyone's personality and destiny. She found her date of birth and wrote: "Emerald. Think about love infinitely. " She seemed to have been hit by a bullet and suddenly lowered her head. In the handicraft shop, she remembered that no one had given her an ornament inlaid with her birthstone on her birthday, and she decided to buy herself an ornament inlaid with a rare emerald-emerald. Finally, Zeng Linger chose a ring inlaid with pearls; She bought a pair of thick red dragon and phoenix candles for a newly married couple traveling with her. She walked into the western restaurant where she had dinner with Zuo Wei. When she came to the seaside, she realized that it was not Zuo Wei who aroused her heart and attached to her deeply, but the land where she spent such a wonderful time and the generous dedication of all her innocent hearts. Lubei River and Zeng Linger reunited after more than 20 years respectively. What appeared in front of Lubei River was a mature woman with slim figure and calm manner, which made Lubei River somewhat jealous and envious. Because of the secret mediation of Lubeihe, Zuo Wei was appointed as the general manager of this microcode compilation group. Lubeihe knew that her husband could not bear the title, and he was worried that he would show his true colors in this real job, so he brought his old classmate Zeng Linger, who had made the most outstanding achievements in college and sacrificed most of his life for Zuo Wei, to keep up the show, so as to help Zuo Wei get the only and possibly the last shot. Lu Beihe told Zeng Linger that she would stay after the meeting and be the deputy head of the microcode compilation team. Zeng Linger is quite happy. Doing this job has been her dream for many years. Then when she heard that she was asked to be Zuo Wei's deputy, she couldn't help but be taken aback and felt it was too embarrassing. Lubei and can only sincerely ask Zeng Linger to help Zuo Wei. Once she walked into this "trap" soberly and resolutely, what is different from the past is that she is no longer full of sincerity and love for Zuo Wei, but love for the cause and even the country and people.
Emerald Appreciation is regarded by critics as another novel that transcends personal feelings such as narrowness, lingering and cynicism after Jason's Love Can't Forget and Ark. Not only did she wander and struggle, but she also had the spiritual strength of "thinking endlessly about love" and set sail for higher goals in life with full self-confidence and unremitting struggle. The new significance of jadeite lies in that it makes Zeng Linger embark on the road that Yu Zhong and Liang Qian have never taken, and constitutes a continuous whole life, from "self" to "self", thus sublimating love and rising to a higher realm of life. In this sense, it is a brand-new character image in Zhang Jie's works. Zeng Linger is the embodiment of the sea. Just like the sea, although she swallowed a lot of dirty things-abuse, abandonment, insult, indifference and death, the sea is always flowing. Exercise itself is the best purifying agent. It always "spits out all unclean things", so it can put down the heavy historical burden and continue to love and pursue it. After creating a series of "fatherly" men, Zhang Jie suddenly "paired" the excellent Zeng Linger with a charming but empty and incompetent Zuo Hui, which fully demonstrated women's new understanding and evaluation of men. Contrary to the stalwart "man" image in Jason's previous works, Zuo Wei not only can't bear the responsibility that men should bear-he has never done any obligation to Zeng Linger's mother and son; He is just a husband in the form of Lubei River. Just like asking Zeng Linger for "love", I keep asking Lubei River for benefits. At every moment of life, Zuo Wei depends on the support and even arrangement of women: in college, Zeng Linger relied on her own intelligence and devoted herself to helping complete various scientific undertakings, but she was saved from extinction because of Zeng Linger's sacrifice; After marriage, he had to help all kinds of scheming and mediation of Lubeihe to "develop" family life and career calmly. Until the end of the novel, he entered the golden stage of his academic career with Lu Beihe's good intentions and Zeng Linger's selfless dedication-shouldering the title of a microcode compilation team leader. The novel revolves around Zeng Linger, Zuo Wei and Lubeihe. These three characters all have their own unique personalities. According to their own personality logic, they present themselves in a specific era environment and play various roles in thought-provoking stories. The writer described Zeng Linger, an intellectual woman with distinctive personality, and showed her complex, beautiful and lofty inner world with enthusiastic brushwork. Her love for Zuo Wei is pure, selfless and full of self-sacrifice. In her view, love is the combination of two crystal-transparent hearts, and the relationship between the opposite sex "can only be a kind of unrequited pay", just like the eyes can't tolerate sand, and there can be no personal interests. The novel reveals Zeng Linger's heart, symbolizing "infinite love" like the gem "Emerald", and the evolution and sublimation of this love, which is so real and moving. Perhaps, Zeng Linger's beautiful and lofty image is somewhat idealized. There is an article in the critics that the author values color over ink, hoping to show that Zeng Linger is a female scholar image with "ontological value" and passionate feelings, regardless of secular prejudice. However, due to the lack of internal logical connection, life foundation and personality development, people are left with awkward, deformed and even a little abnormal feelings. Zeng Linger seems to have extraordinary functions of self-purification and self-improvement. After making selfless sacrifices for the people she loved, she lost these loves one by one and was treated inhumanely. She not only has no complaints about it, but also loves it more widely. In fact, without the powerful driving force of combining internal and external factors, it is impossible for characters to rise in evil, realize the sublimation of love and purify themselves. But the novel's performance in this respect is poor. Therefore, the sublimation of this kind of love, like a pavilion floating in the air, is out of reach and lacks convincing basis and real life feelings. This is a weak and vague friendship. The novel does not adopt the traditional writing method, but follows the order of life, beginning and ending. Instead, I chose a few days before and after Zeng Linger invited me back to meet her, and made an artistic summary of her decades of life. At the same time, I used her favorite techniques such as staggered time and space and stream of consciousness to show the complicated and changeable mental journey of the characters.