Chapter 14 Postscript Hugh wash red, wash more red in water

At 22:00 on November 7, 2007, I happened to mark the last full stop. With 44 chapters in the whole book and an epilogue, the 600,000-word "Tian Xing Jian·Genesis" came to an end.Thinking back to when I typed my first word six years ago, I never thought that I would embark on a long march that spanned six years and totaled more than 1.5 million words. six years.This is a time that feels long when looking forward, but short when looking back.The written words can be reread verbatim, and six years are lost forever at the snap of the fingers.Thinking about it again, I found it difficult to express my admiration for this story.The name Chu Xiuhong is still a name I scribbled on a blank notebook when I was learning to write martial arts when I was a teenager.At that time, I was reading poems of Han and Wei Dynasties, and I read one of them "Xiu Washing Red": "Stop washing red, washing more red in water. New red is cut into clothes, and old red is turned into inside. There is no fixed time for turning yellow to green, the world's affairs Repeat what you know." As soon as I read this sad little song from more than a thousand years ago, it was nailed deep in my mind like a needle.Many times afterwards, I seemed to always hear a woman who had passed away whispering this sad song in my ear: "Don't wash the red, wash the red in the water..."

This is the origin of the three characters "Chu Xiuhong".In the martial arts novel conceived at that time with Chu Xiuhong as the protagonist, he also ended in tragedy.It’s just that Chu Xiuhong in martial arts failed to make it to the end of the play in the end, but the name was revived at my fingertips after many years. Such vitality is also impressive.In the past six years, I watched him being driven into the flames of war by my fingers again and again, constantly gaining and losing, and gradually lost the innocence of the original conception, a little more vicissitudes, and finally came to the end.He doesn't have any lofty ideals, and he will evade and go with the flow when faced with too heavy a choice, and he doesn't have the guts to always stick to the correct position.Generally speaking, he is not a hero that often appears in popular stories, and he is not even a hero, but just a small person who was pushed to the fore by chance, just like you and me.The only thing that makes sense is his persistence.Regardless of success or failure, he can always stand up, grit his teeth and persevere.

As a popular story for after-dinner entertainment, in the end, such a character was written, and too many things that should not appear in popular stories were branded on him. From this aspect, it should be a failure.It's just that I hope Chu Xiuhong can live longer than me.This character accompanied me from adolescence through youth, and then into middle age.I hope that one day when I die, people who read my disgraceful things will say that in a certain year and a certain month, someone wrote a character named Chu Xiuhong, and that would be enough.On the journey of life, he is not an excellent guide, but he will be a good companion.

In this way, it is enough.Like friends who have read this story, thank you for your patience.Regardless of praise or criticism, without your support along the way, I don't think I would be able to complete such a long journey. thank you all.