Red Mansion: Taming the Overlord

Snow is rarely seen in Jiangnan.The climate here is warm and humid. It is very warm for seven or eight months every year, and the remaining months are not too cold. Whether it snows or not depends entirely on God's will.

But Bo Yang remembered that he had seen a heavy snowfall when he was a child.

In the winter of that year, goose-feather-like snow fell continuously, regardless of day or night, and it fell for three full days. He was wearing high rain boots, stepping around in the snow, leaving a string of messy footprints, and then accidentally tripped over, and the whole person lay in the snow in a large font, leaving a clear mark.

At that time, Bo Yang was only about three or four years old, but this scene, as the earliest picture in his memory, was exceptionally clear, and he could still remember it even after many years.

What I don’t remember is that my father built three snowmen in the yard that year, and took a group photo with him standing next to the snowmen.

That photo, together with other family photos, was always carried by Bo Yang's side and kept in a safe place.It seems that in this way, the past time can be brought with me all the time.

In fact, Bo Yang's childhood was really no different from other people's, at least not different from those around him.

Bo Yang grew up by the loom.

He was born in a small village in the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River. The village was built along the river, and every household had looms for their livelihood.There are more than a dozen machines on a large scale, and two or three machines on a small scale.

There are six looms in Bo Yang's house, which is not too high in the village.However, because my father is diligent and honest, he never drinks, brags and gambles like other men in the village on weekdays. Instead, he and the hired workers take turns to take care of the machine and turn it on 24 hours a day, so the income is quite good.

Her mother is famous for her skillful hands. In Bo Yang’s memory, she sat behind the sewing machine almost every day, turning the handwheel with one hand, and stepping on the pedal regularly with her feet. All kinds of fabrics were made by her hands at a dizzying speed. After flying, it turned into a beautiful dress in a short time.

Her movements looked skillful and leisurely, with a kind of beauty that Bo Yang didn't understand at the time, but missed deeply afterwards.It is said that when she was young, she was the most beautiful girl in eight villages, with a demure gentleness all the year round, as if time had slowed down around her.

Sometimes Bo Yang would go to help her, and she would make all kinds of small animal ornaments for him to play with the leftover fabric from the cut clothes.

When he was a child, he was the one who wore the most beautiful and decent clothes among all the friends around him. He was also the one with the most puppet toys. He was the envy of everyone at that time.So Bo Yang has a sharper sense of fashion than others since he was a child, and he pays more attention to the clothes that everyone wears.

With such a family background, Bo Yang took a similar path as a matter of course.His major in college is fashion design, and he also specializes in textile dyeing and other crafts. It can be regarded as inheriting the family business while also developing something.

But this road is far from smooth and beautiful as it seems on the surface.

At the age of 20, Bo Yang was just in his sophomore year when his parents died in an accident.As he was studying in a foreign country, he couldn't take care of the several looms at home, so he had to transfer them to the people in the village at a low price after dealing with his parents' offspring.

Everyone thought that he left the village and went to the city, where he would take root and settle down, and would never come back.But Bo Yang can never forget the loom he has been in contact with since he was a child, because it is not only the livelihood of his family, but also the last thought left to him by his parents.

So after graduating from university, Bo Yang returned to the village to the amazement of everyone and bought back his loom workshop.

But his ambitions don't stop there.

It took nearly ten years. Bo Yang was not afraid of suffering or tiredness. He ran around whenever he was free, used his contacts to promote the woven fabrics, and gradually expanded the scale of the workshop. Finally, he integrated the entire village and established a factory. With a complete industrial chain from textile to garment production, it occupies a place in the garment industry.

After finally completing the set goal, Bo Yang suddenly found that he could not find the meaning of continuing to be busy.

In fact, Bo Yang has always felt that he is a relatively lazy person.If there is a chance, he also hopes that he doesn't have to worry about so many things, as long as he takes care of the present moment.However, he did not have that kind of fate. The premature death of his parents forced him to take care of his own livelihood as an adult while thinking about some deeper and more complicated issues.

When being busy has become a habit, it will be overwhelming if you really have time to relax, not knowing what to do.

"Born to work hard", Bo Yang has heard many friends describe him this way.No one believed that his original ideal was to inherit his own store, just like his mother, stepping on a sewing machine to be an ordinary tailor.

But it's not like that.It's just that at the fork in the road of life, by chance, someone or something pushed him to choose another road, and he got to today step by step.

The sky is big and the earth is big, and I am alone, as if I have a lot, but when I dream back at midnight and think about it seriously, I find that I still seem to have nothing.This is the most difficult stage in life. It seems that a road has come to an end, but there is nothing at the end, empty and deserted. I am not sure whether to continue walking, let alone find a way to move forward.

Then he crossed.

Bo Yang felt that perhaps God could not look down on his depression, as if life was meaningless, so he found a new way of life for him.

Facing such a precarious situation, Bo Yang regained his strength.

Sometimes he had to think that maybe his friends were right about him.He really felt something was wrong when he was not busy, and he seemed to be more fulfilled when he had something to do.Even if you start from nothing, it seems interesting to do everything yourself.

Compared with the success in his career, Bo Yang's emotional journey seems a little difficult to describe.

He once had a girlfriend in college.At that time, his parents were still alive, and he was like any ordinary 20-year-old boy. As long as the school curriculum was passable, most of his energy was spent on eating, drinking and having fun, or on beautiful girls.Spend wantonly.

Although his face in modern times is not as stunning as it is now, it is much better in terms of masculinity and masculinity. It didn't take much effort to catch up with a beautiful girl.Bo Yang was deeply influenced by his mother, and he was looking for a girl as gentle as her.

——In fact, the love at that time, when Bo Yang thought of it later, did not have any deep feelings, but was full of agitation caused by excessive hormone secretion.Not to mention how much I like it, what is mixed in my heart is the young boy's eagerness to move when facing the opposite sex, and his pride and sense of responsibility for "she chose me".

Not too serious, but not perfunctory either.

If he could go on like this all the way, maybe he could eventually turn into a steady flow of love and form a family that was no different from other people, but... After all, it didn't.

When he dated the girl for three months, the relationship went from holding hands to kissing lips, and when he was about to break through that step, bad news suddenly came from his family.

Losing his parents, the road ahead is at a loss. Although the considerate girl did not intend to give up on him, Bo Yang seemed to have grown up overnight. "Love" was no longer the main theme of his young life. There are too many things to solve, and I can't and can't give much energy to another person.So they finally drifted away from each other, and in the end they didn't even say they broke up, and they never saw each other again.

After that, Bo Yang seemed to have lost his ability to sense and desire for love, and he hasn't found anyone else for so many years.Many years after graduating from university, when I met my classmates by chance, I thought he was devoted to the girl who was married and had a child, and sighed that people who love deeply in the world will never have a happy ending.Bo Yang didn't have the nerve to tell them, but he actually couldn't even remember the girl's face.

In these years, it is not that no one has pursued Bo Yang.It's just that he didn't know what button he pressed wrongly, and Bo Yang found that besides women, there were also men attracted by him, and there were even quite a few of them.

The most amazing thing is that most of these men who had pursued him turned out to be his good friends in the end.

Thus, Bo Yang became a straight man surrounded by many gays. ——This is what he thinks, he accepts the sexual orientation of his friends, but he really has no interest in it.To be precise, he is neither interested in men nor women.

In the words of a bad friend, this is called love incompetence.

But Bo Yang knew it was not.It's not that he doesn't want to find someone, it's just that the things that appear now are all wrong.

What's wrong?Can't tell.

At his age, he no longer insists on any thumping, but just wants to find someone who can catch his eyes.

Bo Yang has heard of a theory that says what kind of person a person will fall in love with, but it has already been decided long ago.A person grows from a blank slate at birth to an independent person with his own personality, preferences and three views as an adult. Everything he experiences during this period will affect him.And in this process of shaping oneself, the outline of another person who can fit with oneself will actually be formed.

It's just that the outline is vague and hidden, until one day, you meet that person, and then you know that it is him.

Bo Yang often laughed at himself for having such a romantic mind despite his age.But he is a person who would rather lack than abuse, if he doesn't want it, he must be the best.So if you can't find it, you'd rather continue to be single.

At that time, Bo Yang never imagined that one day he would travel to such a magical world, and then meet the person he had never been able to find here.

Perhaps in the dark, everything really has its own destiny.