In the "Rebel" TV series, Gu Shenyan's code name is "Postman", and after he gave this code name and mission to Lin Nansheng, he deliberately exposed himself in order to find a chance for Lin Nansheng to escape, and was shot and killed indiscriminately.
In the novel, he has no code name, but is just an old agent who goes deep behind enemy lines, and later commits suicide by poisoning himself, and the blood blooms a beautiful red flower on his snow-white shirt.
As the sister article of "The Rebel", "The Postman", it is also a representative work of Yu Yu, and has also been made into a TV series, starring Li Youbin, Ding Da and others. But novels and TV series have more sadness and resentment than ever before.
The man in the novel, xu Zhongliang, was originally a college student, but his father Xu Delin died of death, his testicles were broken, his toenails were pulled out of nine, there was a big hole in the back of his head, and his tongue was missing... The death is unbearable, who would hurt a humble postman?
The father was a Christian, very religious, often went to church to worship; he was also a postman, and in addition to delivering letters, he also made many women, so that he had money to support his family and send his son to boarding school... The mother was so resentful of her father's infidelity that she did not shed a single tear, and she wanted to take her son to remarry to protect herself, but the visit of a stranger changed Zhongliang's life.
The man, Lao Pan, was the leader of the underground party, and he gave Zhongliang some money for the next semester's tuition, let him continue his studies, and told him that the Japanese agent who killed his father was a Japanese agent, and he was tortured and killed himself by biting his tongue...
Zhongliang still did not understand his father's identity, and Lao Pan told him: Your father is a postman and a Chinese who does not want to be a slave to the country.
His mother remarried, and Zhongliang did not continue to study, but became a postman like his father, who bought a bicycle with the money given by Lao Pan, and he wanted to find the truth about his father's murder.
Wednesday in the concierge was his father's friend and colleague, but also an underground agent, Xu Delin took Wednesday to the road of revolution, and taught him the skills of agents, Wednesday knew all the secrets of Xu Delin, but could not immediately tell the young Zhongliang, only occasionally let him pass on some letters that did not have the name of the recipient, his father also let him send them before he died, Zhongliang knew that Wednesday and his father were on the same road.
Zhongliang works more and more like his father, but he never touches a woman until he meets Sulina. Ever since he first saw this beautiful woman who was seven years older than himself, Zhongliang couldn't forget her. She is the wife of officer Zhou Chuliang, but her real identity is that of an underground party female agent.
Zhongliang's first woman is called Xiufen, who was brought on Wednesday, ostensibly a village girl, Mu Ne's very much, in fact, is also a member of the anti-Japanese anti-rape team, picking up a gun like Cui Ping in "Lurking", but Zhongliang still likes Su Lina.
After Su Lina completed a task assigned by the organization, she went to Shanghai Paramount to become a popular dancer, and Zhongliang came to her with the task given by Lao Pan, asking her to approach a man named Qin Zhaokang, who was the Liaison Officer for Shanghai Affairs of the Wang puppet government, and exchanged intelligence with the Japanese, or a guest at No. 76 Jisifei Road.
Late one autumn night, Wednesday disappeared, his body was found in the Huangpu River, and Old Pan asked Zhongliang to take over Wednesday's job, code-named "Catfish", and asked him to take a silver cross to father Brown of the church, and Zhongliang finally understood why his father always ran to the church.
And Su Lina also successfully contacted Qin Zhaokang, indirectly obtained some intelligence, and Qin Zhaokang was once her husband's original friend, has long liked her, although her husband's life and death are uncertain, but Su Lina still became Qin Zhaokang's mistress. Zhou Chukang was not killed in battle, but became the chief of staff of the Nationalist Army and fought the little devil in Yungui.
Father Brown, who was captured by the Japanese, committed suicide by jumping off a building. In order to protect the post office, Zhongliang, who lost his job, wanted to join Xiufen's extermination team, although he had never killed a chicken, but he did not want to squat on the street like a dog every day.
Nakara, who makes a living selling cigarettes, meets Sulina again and gives the information she gives to the new bishop of the church, Father Kruger, while Xiufen, who has never been loved by Nakara, is really leaving this time, and she is going to assassinate Japanese intelligence expert Nobuo Nakamura. Xiufen, who successfully completed the task but was shot, bit the poison pill in her mouth and died quietly.
At the same time, Qin Zhaokuan was also shot, and he was actually an undercover agent of the Kuomintang Investigation Section who went deep into the Japanese, he deliberately leaked intelligence to Su Lina, and he really liked her, but he couldn't wait for the day he married her.
After Sulina and the doctors and nurses left, he quietly tore his wounds and committed suicide, reminding us of Zuo Qiuming in "Rebels", who did not want to be tortured by the enemy and would rather shed their last drop of blood for the revolution.
On the cargo ship leaving Shanghai, Su Lina told Zhongliang about her origins, her parents died in Yuan Shikai's prison, and two days before her graduation ceremony at St. Mary's Public College, Su Lina, who had just turned twenty-one, accepted Lao Pan's task to contact and plot against Zhou Chukang. But she really had a heart for him.
Thinking of her two men, Sulina's heart is very sad, she has gone to them for the sake of the task, will there be a little true love in the true and false? Zhongliang went to visit sulina, who was ill, and took her back to the place where her mother remarried, and he became Sulina's third man.
The Japanese surrendered, the Nationalists and the Communists went to war again, and on the eve of the People's Liberation Army's siege of the city, Sulina disappeared. After the injured Zhongliang was rescued by the People's Liberation Army, he became a postman in new China, and Zhongliang, who changed into a new uniform, accidentally found Su Lina, but the scars on her body stunned him.
It turned out that Qin Zhaokuan's friend Chen Taili had captured her, and when Chen Taishun sent Su Lina away according to Qin Zhaokuan's will, he grabbed Su Lina at the door of the rice line, and Su Lina, who had tasted all the torture devices but could not open her mouth, was sentenced to death, but Chen Taisheng remembered Qin Zhaokuan's instructions or let her have a way to live.
Su Lina, who was rescued by the People's Liberation Army, did not get the trust she deserved, although the wounds on her body were healed, but because of Lao Pan's sacrifice, no one could prove that she was the identity of the intelligence officer "Cuckoo", and she was interrogated incessantly, and finally only the conclusion of the Paramount Dancer, the traitor of Wang Pseudo-Han and the mistress of the Central Unification Agent was finally determined.
Zhongliang was upset for Su Lina, a weak woman, in order to organize the tasks assigned, paid so much price, not to mention praise and admiration, there was not even a trace of affirmation and trust, so he used various ways to appeal for him, and even wrote a letter to Mayor Chen Yi, but all fell into the sea.
The Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau also only found evidence that he was the son of the martyr Xu Delin, but could not prove that he was a "catfish", and Su Lina's identity still could not be verified, which made Zhongliang sad and indignant.
After the first national festival in New China, Zhou Chukang came to Su Lina and looked at her first husband, who could only hear her own heartbeat quietly. Two months later, Zhou Chukang became the first deputy commander of the volunteer army to die on the Korean battlefield.
Twenty years later, Sulina wrapped her shaved head in a scarf and committed suicide by jumping into the river one late night. After another ten years, Zhongliang retired from the post office, he took Su Lina's ashes back to his mother's hometown for burial, every time he arrived at Qingming, he would write a long letter to his wife and burn it to her, and in the light of the fire he could always see Su Lina's lazy and indifferent face...
The male protagonist of the novel, Zhongliang, has grown from a teenager to an intelligence officer, but has always existed as a "postman", from personal hatred to national hatred, the transformation process of Zhongliang's thought also shows the growth and change of a generation of young people from ignorance to awakening and striving.
And as the heroine of Su Lina is the biggest tragic role, this woman born for the task, different men love but numb, experienced in hundreds of battles, full of holes but no one trusts, and finally can not bear the humiliation and die, making people sad and indignant.
8 This is reminiscent of the colonel in Mecca's "Life Sea", which tells the tragic fate of the agent, and the shame of a lifetime cannot be shaken off.
The text of the novel seems to be calm, but in fact it makes people feel excited, that kind of repressed pain and helplessness, full of words and lines, invisible enemies, invisible dangers are even more chilling, there are not too many battles with the enemy, but in our minds there is an infinite imagination space.
The TV series has some changes to the original work, Xiufen died to save Zhongliang, Xu Zhongliang became a party member with the help of Lao Pan, and bid farewell to Su Lina, who was rescued, to carry out a new mission... It seems that the ending is not particularly tragic.
Agents, different appearances, different identities, different tasks, different endings and fates, some can be wise to protect themselves, some heroic sacrifices, some anonymous, and some hateful.
They are all the bravest warriors for the sake of faith; they are all unyielding warriors for the sake of victory. Salute to these heroes, they are the most beautiful stars in the annals of new China!