Hometown has a specific memory in the heart of every wanderer, or a low old house at home, or a classic food with the memory of the mother, or a secret base that is often visited by friends, or a special moment in the memory.
Lu Xun, a great writer, also used his pen to write a lot of words related to his hometown, including a hundred grass garden, a sanwei book house, and a heroic teenager who was under the moon.
Lu Xun is the pinnacle writer of Modern and Contemporary Chinese literature, because he is good at portraying human nature, and because he wants to expose the darkness of the old society, his words are always particularly heavy to read.
And his characters, Kong Yiji, Ah Q, Xiang Lin sister-in-law, etc. are all tragic figures living in the low-level society. The only article with a brighter color is "Young Leaping Earth", which has also been selected as a language textbook in the compulsory education stage, because of Lu Xun's wonderful writing, Leaping Earth has also become a well-known literary figure.
However, the life of this Lu Xun's former teenage playmate "LeapIng Earth" in his later years was very miserable, and how did his children and descendants live?
Friendship of Youth
"There is a golden full moon hanging in the deep blue sky, and below the sandy ground by the sea, there are endless turquoise watermelons. In the middle of this was a boy of eleven or twelve, with a silver hoop in his neck and a steel fork in his hand, and stabbed as hard as he could at a horse."
I have to admire Lu Xun's writing, a simple few lines of text, it sets off a heroic teenager. In addition to his writing skills, Lu Xun was able to write such a character, and more was his feelings with Yan Tu at that time.
The prototype of The LeapIng Earth is Zhang Yunshui, because his father Zhang Fuqing was a long-term worker in Lu Xun's family, so he had the opportunity to meet Lu Xun.
Lu Xun was a descendant of the Famous Zhou family, and their origins were essentially different, but when the children were young, these things did not exist.
Lu Xun has been studying in the Sanwei Bookstore since childhood, while Yan Tu has been catching fish, catching birds, climbing trees, climbing walls in the countryside, and knows a lot of novel and interesting things, so the world of Yan Tu is new to Lu Xun.
Although Lu Xun could play with Lu Xun, Lu Xun's family power was beyond his reach, which led to the fact that when the two met again in the future, "there was already a sad thick barrier between them."
Lu Xun was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, the famous Zhou family, formerly known as Zhou Shuren, his grandfather Zhou Fuqing was an official during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, his father also had Xiucai, his mother Lu Rui was the daughter of a man, the Zhou family's family foundation is very thick, and there are countless books, Lu Xun grew up in such an environment.
The starting point of Leap Earth and Lu Xun directly determined that their lives were destined to be different, Lu Xun continued to study after growing up, and later deeply felt the misfortune of the country and the nation, abandoned medicine and literature, and began to use the pen to awaken the numb Chinese.
Because he did not like the original wife Zhu An, who was married by his parents' fate, Lu Xun rarely returned to his hometown, and after marrying Xu Guangping, he had little contact with his old family, and Yan Tu, a former teenage playmate, also lost the news.
The pain of old age
Although he had a good relationship with Lu Xun when he was a teenager, this did not change the fate of The Leap Land. After becoming an adult, Lu Tu and Lu Xun also saw it once, but at this time, the leap soil had been destroyed by life so that it was impossible to see what it looked like half of that year.
"He has doubled in stature; his round purple face, which had previously been turned grayish-yellow, has been added with deep wrinkles"... Not only in appearance, but more importantly, the relationship between the two has also become a worker and a grandfather.
The most terrible place of the old society is here, the fate of a person seems to be doomed from birth, the original two teenagers with no worries, one became a literati with a pen as a knife, and the other is still a poor person struggling in the lower society.
Zhang Yunshui's father relied on the craft of bamboo weaving and a little land in the family, plus working as a long-term worker for others, and was barely able to maintain the family's livelihood.
Zhang Yunshui could not get rid of the fate of his father, and when his father died, he took up the burden of the family, picking up soil, rocking boats, working, in short, doing whatever he could earn.
The 5 children in the family all rely on him to work hard to support, the hardships of life can be imagined, "leaping earth" just quietly endured everything, he did not think of resistance, nor did he know how to resist, the ancestors have been like this for generations.
Life for the rich, is day after day, but life for the poor is able to suffer day by day, in his later years Zhang Yunshui back grew a poisonous sore, because there is no money to heal, and finally the poisonous sore suppuration died, died at the age of 57.
The ancestors of the poor have been continuing their misfortunes for generations, and Zhang Yunshui's eldest son is called Zhang Qisheng, who repeatedly lives the same life as his grandparents and fathers, and he is overworked and sick, and he died early.
A blessing for future generations
Zhang Yunshui's other children are also the epitome of their grandparents, all struggling to live at the bottom of society, and their family's fate seems to be like a cycle destined by heaven.
The only person in the Zhang Yunshui family who changed his fate was Zhang Gui, Zhang Qisheng's son, who was only three years old when Zhang Qisheng died and grew up dependent on his mother.
After Zhang Gui's father died, his mother could only go out to work to earn money, and Zhang Gui was sent to a rich family to work as a long-term worker after he was able to work a little. From Zhang Yunshui, to Zhang Qisheng, to Zhang Gui, the fate of the three generations of grandchildren is almost the same.
Fortunately, Zhang Gui met his nobleman Zhou Haiying after the founding of New China, who was also Lu Xun's son. Zhou Haiying knew that in his father's later years, he had also mentioned Yan Tu as a teenager's playmate, so he was very happy after learning that Zhang Gui was Yan Tu's grandson.
At this time, there was also a vague feeling between Zhou Haiying and Zhang Gui that Lu Xun and Yan Tu, and there were also many common topics between them.
Under the recommendation of Zhou Haiying, the 21-year-old Zhang Gui came to work at the Lu Xun Memorial Hall and changed the fate of himself and his family.
Although Zhang Gui did not read books when he was young, he was diligent and studious and knew the meaning of reading, so he worked and read books while collecting and sorting out the life deeds of Mr. Lu Xun, and later became the deputy director of the Lu Xun Memorial Hall.
Zhang Gui grew up at the bottom, although he changed his fate by relying on Lu Xun's descendants, he knew that life was not easy, so he also taught his children to study well, and most of his children had stable jobs in the city.
Zhang Yunshui, the prototype of the young Yantu, may not have thought that the time he played with Lu Xun when he was young turned out to be an opportunity to change the fate of his descendants.
brief summary:
From the development of the Zhang family and the Zhou family, we can see the cruelty of the old society, the Zhou family has lived a very rich life for generations, and the descendants of the Zhou family are either officials or businessmen; while the descendants of Zhang Yunshui are only infinitely repeating the poor life.
After the founding of New China, Zhang Gui finally ushered in a turning point in his life, and with the help of Lu Xun's son Zhou Hainian, he was able to get rid of the life of his ancestors.
Lu Xun's former teenage playmate Yan Tu's later life was very miserable, and his children's lives were equally difficult, and there was hope for his grandson Zhang Gui.