What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
On November 10, 1932, through the recommendation of Feng Xuefeng, then the propaganda director of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Mr. Lu Xun met with Chen Geng to talk.
The reason was that Chen Geng had told several stories of the battle on the revolutionary front for the comrades of the Central Propaganda Department, and had compiled materials for Mr. Lu Xun, who was very interested in reading it and met to talk.
According to records, this was the only time Chen Geng had seen Lu Xun, and the only one among the great generals of the Republic who had seen Lu Xun. What was even more miraculous was that the person Lu Xun did not know was Chen Geng.
Chen Geng should tell a story about Lu Xun, and both of them are very interested
At the bottom of North Sichuan Road, No. 9 Xincun, Mainland, Chen Geng should tell a story about Lu Xun.
Because he had spoken once, Chen Geng had a better idea when he spoke again. Lu Xun interjected a question or two from time to time. When Chen Geng talked about the Red Army defeating the strong enemy with inferior equipment, he learned the appearance of the Red Army soldiers shouting loudly and described the scene of throwing themselves into killing the enemy, and the people who talked and listened to it were excited. Lu Xun smiled happily and asked, "Is this so?" Then he nodded and said, "First of all!" "
Lu Xun's immersion also infected Chen Geng. He also depicted the scene of the Commander of the Red Army sitting in the field with the peasants smoking yellow cigarettes and chatting about the family, and talking about how an old lady with small feet covered the wounded... Lu Xun laughed so hard that the cigarette almost fell off and coughed. He pressed the cigarette in the mouth of the ivory cigarette tighter with his hand and said, "Write a novella, yes." How do you live? "
"We all live in our fellow countrymen's homes. Most of the houses there have windows on all sides..." "Oh, the air must be very circulating, it's a step forward." They have paid attention to the sanitary conditions of their dwellings, unlike us, which are also very dark during the day..."
During the exchange, they encountered a "dog" and the two ignored it
With Lu Xun's gaze, everyone looked sideways out the window. Feng Xuefeng was shocked and said, "Sir, there seems to be a 'dog' in the alley!" Chen Geng stopped talking, subconsciously touched the waist of the usual gun, and asked uneasily: "Did I bring it?" Lu Xun waved his hand: "This kind of "dog" is often found. I've moved home three times and they always follow me, leave it alone. What is the terrain of the Eyu-Anhui area, you say? "
"That's right." Chen Geng wanted to speak, and then touched his pocket, took out a pen, and Xu Guangping handed over a piece of paper in time, "There is a mountain here, and there are two rivers..." Chen Geng said while painting.
Lu Xun got up from his recliner. The sketch sketched by Chen Geng trembled slightly in his hand, as if he had caused some illusion by listening to what he had said, and he was peacefully holding up an ivory cigarette butt in contemplation. It took a long time before he said: "If you want to write, you can only write like "Iron Flow", there is an atmosphere of war, and the faces of the characters can only be blurred." "
Later, people also found from the relics of Mr. Lu Xun that General Chen Geng had drawn a map of the red army's combat situation.
The two were still unsatisfied, and Mr. Lu Xun asked Chen Geng to meet again
It was not yet dusk, and the lights were about to be turned on in the living room. Lu Xun was still unsatisfied, and he kept the guests to eat. The dishes are very rich, there are fish, there is meat, all in large bowls, there are seven or eight bowls. Lu Xun personally opened a long-preserved bottle of three-star axe brandy.
Lu Xun was very interested, drank two or three glasses of wine, his face was slightly red, and his emotions seemed to be more enthusiastic, and he easily said sarcastic words. He glanced at the dishes on the table and said, "I am living such a petty-bourgeois life, but I do not think it is interesting." Every time I think about living such a life, I feel a little breathless. "
Chen Geng squeezed a salty pepper into his rice bowl and chewed it in one bite.
Lu Xun noticed this detail and said: "At the end of my childhood, my family was already very poor, lacking clothes to wear, and in order to keep out the cold, I ate peppers one by one. And this way you can eat less, peppers are irritating to the stomach and will make you feel full. Don't pretend to be full here, I'll talk to you later. "I'll definitely come." Chen Geng took another bite of the pepper. Lu Xun pointed out the window: "You can come by yourself." Next time, remember the word 'tea' at the door, which is number 9 next to 'tea'. "
Lu Xun repeatedly wanted to write down the content of Chen Geng's story, but unfortunately it did not materialize
Later, Lu Xun indicated to Feng Xuefeng several times that he wanted to write something like "Iron Flow" and solemnly hid those materials. Unfortunately, Lu Xun's idea has never been realized.
According to Feng Xuefeng's analysis: "He finally did not write, obviously because he was not familiar with the actual situation of the Red Army and its battles. It was difficult for him to create the sense of realism that his creation needed. "That's how things are put on hold.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, a gentleman named Zhang Jialin interviewed the founding general Chen Geng on lu xun and wrote "A Meeting between General Chen Geng and Mr. Lu Xun", which was published in the magazine "New Observation" in 1956.
Of course, the matter of Chen Geng meeting Lu Xun is also recorded in Lu Xun's diary, which was on November 10, 1932, and it was written: "Wang Jun, the manager of Heyichang Coal, came to sell charcoal. "
At that time, Chen Geng assumed the pseudonym "Wang Yong" and was the "manager of the Heyichang Coal", with the purpose of "peddling charcoal" through Lu Xun.
Feng Xuefeng
As for how many times Chen Geng would have met Lu Xun, there were different theories. Most people thought it was twice, and some people thought it was once, and said that the only meeting was accompanied by Zhu Jing and me, and Feng Xuefeng was not present. And Feng Xuefeng recalled in 1951 that it was also once. Chen Geng also said in an interview in 1956: "He originally asked me to go again, and I promised to go again, but unfortunately I was arrested soon after, and I have never seen Mr. Lu Xun again." "