On October 8, 1993, in front of a house on an island far from people in New Zealand, a woman lying on the ground covered in blood was moaning in pain. Not far away, on a tree, hung the body of a man.
The two men and women died one after another, the man named Gu Cheng, the woman named Xie Ye, they were a husband and wife.
One cannot help but ask, why did such a tragedy happen?
01 station encounter, love is scheduled here
On a train from Shanghai to Beijing in the summer of 1979, gu cheng, 23, met Xie Ye, 21.
The sensitive and affectionate poet wrote this sentence: I drew everyone around you, but I did not draw you. I think you’re so bright that I can’t keep my eyes off you.
Gu Cheng is affectionate and earnest look in the eyes, let Xie Ye cannot not pay attention to this young man before.
Xie Ye is lively, cheerful, she knew the awkward personality of a little eccentric boy, to have a crush on themselves.
Then, two strange young people, unconsciously chat the day. When he arrived at the station, Gu cheng tore a page from the notebook he was carrying and hastily wrote down his address.
With boyish recklessness, he thrust the paper into Xie Ye’s hand. A flush rose in Xie ye’s face and her heart pounded.
When xie returned home, she told her parents about the encounter, and her parents said, “Why does this man sound like a liar?”
Xie Ye said with a smile: “That I see him after all is not cheater!”
At that time, the Internet was far from produced, even the telephone is very few, Xie Ye so holding the note, looking at the address, along the Streets of Beijing from door to door, found gu Cheng’s home address.
She stood in the doorway, holding her breath, and rapped softly at the door.
The door was opened by Gu’s mother, who was not surprised by Xie’s arrival. Because after the son returns home, already recited Xie Ye countless times.
Then, sleepy eyes gu Cheng walked to the door, he saw Xie Ye eyes flashed light.
Afterwards, Xie Ye wrote in his heart:
You come out as if still awake, with the black pen straight in your pocket. You ought not to talk philosophy to me, for the ink on your clothes makes you laugh, and I should like to remind you that it is your custom, when I discover that other pockets have plenty of ink of the same colour.
In this way, the two fall in love.
Xie Ye acquiesced in the interference of a third party
Gu cheng was born in Beijing in 1956 to the famous poet Gu Gong.
Growing up in a family of poetry and books, Gu Cheng showed his amazing writing talent from an early age. At the age of 17, he published his works in newspapers and magazines such as “Beijing literature and Art”, “Shandong Literature and Art” and “Youth Literature and Art”.
Xie Ye, who is two years younger than Gucheng, is a literature lover, writing prose as well as poetry. She did not think of on the train, met Gu Cheng, and can fall in love with this “poetry prince”.
Little did she think that the man she loved so much that she was exhausted would one day send her to the grave.
two people on the paper after a period of time, plus gucheng play scoundrel type in xie doorway to eat and sleep for several days, finally forced Xie Ye’s parents agreed to them together. Soon after, the two married and became husband and wife.
After marriage, Gucheng ushered in the life of the last peak of creation.
In 1986, Gu cheng went on an appointment to attend a poetry meeting. At the poetry meeting, he was assailed by an old critic.
Xie Ye always cherishes the talent of Gu Cheng, she cannot bear others to say her husband so.
So she stood up and said in great anger, “You can say you don’t like it, you can say you don’t understand it, you can even say you hate it! But you have no right to insult your character!”
After saying this, Xie ye cried, and then left the meeting, crying with her, and a woman named Ying Er.
Ying son, who is also?
Born Li Ying and later renamed Maggie, she is seven years younger than Gu Cheng and has always presented herself as “simple and lovely” in her school days.
In 1986, at the age of 23, Li met gu Cheng, a poet, and Liu Zhanqiu, deputy chief editor of The Poetry Journal in Changping. In the future, she will have trouble with the two men.
As a girl, Li Ying described every time she saw Gu Cheng: “It was like a pilgrimage into a temple, and my spiritual world was covered by his aura.”
That year, Gu cheng 30 years old, and his wife Xie Ye has been married for 3 years. Knowing that Gu Cheng is a married man, Li Ying still falls in love with gu Cheng regardless and regardless.
Two women who loved Gu Cheng cried for gu Cheng together at the poetry meeting. Gu Cheng did not know what the old critic was scolding, he only knew that there were two women crying for him, so his heart felt happy and excited.
In 1987, Gucheng was invited to visit Europe and The United States for cultural exchanges and lectures. One year later, he went to New Zealand and was employed as a researcher in the Department of Asian Languages at the University of Auckland. On this side, Li Ying and Liu Zhanqiu are making eye contact.
In January 1989, Gu resigned from the University of Auckland to concentrate on growing vegetables, raising chickens, painting and writing on the island of New Zealand.
After quitting his job, Gu Cheng did not forget Li Ying for a moment. Far away from the people of the rapids island, he is the establishment of the “ideal kingdom” xanadu.
On July 5, 1990, Xie Ye invited Li Ying to Go to Rapids Island, New Zealand. Li Ying thought that going abroad was better than staying at home, so she waved goodbye to Liu Zhanqiu and went to New Zealand.
In this way, the torrent island, staged the abnormal love of three people. Li Ying and Gu Cheng, two people say each other is bosom friend, even two people are in front of Xie Ye, repeat the picture of those extremely sad.
Li Ying said: “Gu Cheng said every word I can understand, I can understand his dream space, he is the same to me.”
Gu Cheng side also say: “Ying son, you are born with me be exactly the same, Xie Ye is different, she is I make.”
But is there really pure love among three people in this world?
The tragedy of Rapids Island
Gucheng’s talent is universally recognized. However, he is just a boy growing up without the identity of a poet. It can even be said that Gu Cheng is a selfish male chauvinist baby.
Xie Ye gave birth to their love child, but soon because Gu Cheng does not like boys, so Xie Ye reluctantly, foster the child to New Zealand in a foreigner’s family.
We can not imagine, Xie Ye is how with painful mood, just born before the flesh and blood to others, but, can be sure that Xie Ye respect and love Gu Cheng.
She loved this brilliant man, but little did she know that her husband, who wrote beautiful poems, would one day become a devil with a butcher’s knife.
Gu Cheng is very happy about Li Ying’s arrival. One is the wife who loves him deeply, the other is the lover who opens the door of his soul. Gu cheng thinks that the world of these three people is the kingdom in his fairy tale, and he is the only man in this kingdom.
But the reality is harsh.
Li Ying gradually discovered that the “prince of poetry” in her mind was actually a huge baby without the ability to take care of herself.
The harsh environment and living on the dole had made her gradually feel tired and rejected of this three-person pattern. But the scariest part is facing rain or shine’s erratic, grumpy gu cheng.
Finally, in the days when Gu Cheng and Xie Ye were not at home, Li Ying eloped with an old man who taught English on the island.
After Gu Cheng knows this matter, very sad.
Xie Ye at this time, encourage Gu Cheng to write down everything related to Li Ying. In this way, Gu cheng and Xie Ye collaborated on the book yinger. It is said that there are a lot of descriptions of Gu Cheng and Ying ‘er’s private life in the book.
Finish writing this book, gu Cheng after knowing after feeling ground discovers, Xie Ye is the person that waits for beside him all the time. He said he wanted to start over with Xie Ye.
But xie said, “It’s too late.”
Xie Ye gave what he could to Gu Cheng. She is tired of love, love without self, she is a woman after all.
In gu Cheng regards Li Ying as bosom friend, when two people are very much in love, Xie Ye also fell in love with the overseas student of a Germany.
Compared with Gu’s “big baby”, selfish and capricious, the overseas students are more considerate and gentle. Xie Ye felt the feeling of being loved and protected in the body of the overseas students.
She did not want to be with this childish man, Gu Cheng. She could not love, her body and soul had been hollowed out.
From childhood to adulthood, Gu Cheng is very proud of himself. He came from a family of poets, he was young and famous, and he was always surrounded by girls who adored her.
The betrayal of Li Ying and the departure of Xie Ye left Gu Cheng shocked, desperate and furious.
He once said, “His dream was to create a paradise on earth, a kingdom of women on earth, and he was the only man in that kingdom.”
Gucheng believed that both Red rose and White Rose loved him and they got along just like sisters, taking care of each other and giving and giving.
But, he does not know the surface of harmony, in fact, the undercurrent surging. Finally, the day of the outbreak came.
04 From the poet to the devil
Gu Cheng saw xie Ye in the eye indifferent and unfeeling, he is incredible, once this woman what all be willing to do for him!
Ying son for fame and fortune, betrayed himself, now, Xie Ye also abandoned him.
His whole body was shaking.
‘Are you really going to leave me? Gu Cheng asks a way almost with imploring tone.
“We can’t go back.”
Gu Cheng’s forehead was buzzing. He raised his eyes and saw a cold light flickering in the room. He rushed to the past, picked up the light of the axe, like a madman rushed to the front of Xie Ye.
‘You mustn’t leave me!
Xie Ye eyes cold and fear, but gu cheng crazy move, more firm her determination to leave. Gu Cheng shouted and waved the axe in his hand.
Time seemed to stop at that moment.
Such as Gucheng calm down, he saw the xie Ye lying in a pool of blood. He cried and went to his desk in a trance to write his will.
“Mom: Today I have a terrible, Ye want to go with others, I can not get agaric. Mom, I can’t stand it. I’m sorry. I wanted to go back to Beijing, but I couldn’t. After I die, there will be some money to send home, live well, gu Xiang will go back, don’t save money.
Mom, I can’t help it. Ye lied to me. They lied to me and said I was bad. Mom, be fine. I’ll be glad if you make it. Father to state (to help) old mother, all when I am still in the distance. Mom, good, for my last miss.”
After writing the note, he made a final phone call to his sister to say goodbye.
“Elder sister, I gave Xie Ye dozen, you come over to save her.”
Finish saying that, Gu Cheng hung up the phone, turned around to pick up a thick rope, toward the end of their own life of the tree.
In the poetry, Gu Cheng, as an important representative of the misty poetry school in China, is called the contemporary poet of “spiritualism romanticism”.
Among them, “The dark night gave me black eyes, but I used it to look for light” in Generation has become a classic line of New Chinese poetry.
But such a person, but also sad and hateful.
Sadly, he lived in his own world the whole time; He is untouchable. He is selfish, self-righteous and extremely conceited. He is more hateful, to accompany his wife who loves him deeply, waved the butcher’s knife.
Finally, can not bear the lover’s betrayal and leave, choose to destroy each other, destroy themselves.
So, who killed Gu Cheng? After all, it was him.
From beginning to end, he just wanted to be a poet, but he neglected his role as a lover, husband, son, father and so on.
From this point of view, Gucheng’s personality is not sound, which is also the most important reason for his later tragedy.
Therefore, talent is indeed a dazzling halo, but a healthy character and personality can enable a person to make appropriate and rational choices on the road of growth, even in the midst of difficulties.
Gu Cheng is in this battlefield without smoke of gunpowder, Gu Cheng lost life, Xie Ye lost life, Li Ying lost personality, everything belongs to calm…
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