Lu Xun's playmate when he was a teenager not only remains in Lu Xun's memory, but also deeply in the memory of every Chinese.
In addition to the short happy time of his youth, the rest of his life was very miserable, and he had five children in his life, and in the end he could not escape the fate of poverty.
Fortunately, after the founding of New China, the grandson of Yan Tu finally studied hard with his personal efforts, changed the tragic fate of his ancestors who had been poor and destitute for generations, and completed a magnificent transformation.
Lu Xun's childhood playmate Yan Tu
Lu Xun described the image of the hedgehog boy In the article "Hometown", we were deeply impressed because the character was portrayed very vividly, and this character was created based on Lu Xun's childhood friend Zhang Yanshui.
The fate of Yan Tu and Lu Xun should start from Zhang Fuqing, the father of Yan Tu, Zhang Fuqing is a bamboo worker who can make a variety of tools with bamboo, but it is difficult to support his family by relying on this craft alone, so during the New Year's Festival, Zhang Fuqing will go to a large household to work as a short-term worker to make money.
One year coincided with the death of Lu Xun's great-grandmother at the New Year, and that year it was lu Xun's family's turn to carry out sacrifice activities, these things were all gathered together, the Zhou family needed to do a lot of things, and the original servants were not enough.
At this time, Zhang Fuqing, who was working as a helper in the Zhou family, offered to let his son Yan Tu help take care of the instruments used for the sacrifice, and the instruments needed for the sacrifice were very numerous and valuable, and indeed needed a person to take care of it, and the Zhou family agreed to this proposal.
In this way, the teenager Yan Tu came from his home in the countryside to Lu Xun's mansion, and the two teenagers of similar age soon played together.
Yan Tu grew up in the countryside, when he was very young, he began to play in the fields, that is, he would fish in the river and catch birds in the snow, and Lu Xun told Lu Xun a lot about his happy life in the countryside, and Yan Tu would guard the melon field in the moonlight, avoid watermelons being eaten by hedgehogs or hedgehogs, and would pick up shells of various colors on the beach.
The novel world described in The Mouth of The Land earth deeply attracted Lu Xun, who lived in the courtyard of the deep house, and many of the stories told by the land were unheard of by Lu Xun.
Lu Xun often talked to Yan Tu and listened to him tell various interesting things that happened in the countryside, and Lu Xun would sometimes tell Yan Tu about interesting things in his life, and the two teenagers soon established a very deep friendship.
But the two can't be so happy and carefree forever, and with the completion of the sacrifice after the New Year, the leap earth will be taken home by the father, and the two will face a long separation after a short reunion.
The feelings of his youth were very sincere and warm, Lu Xun heard the news that Yan Tu was going to go home and cried all the time, he hoped that Yan Tu could stay, the two still talked and played together as before, and Yan Tu was not willing to leave the Zhou family, not willing to leave the good friends he had made.
Unfortunately, the reality will not change because of the friendship between the two teenagers, Yan Tu needs to go home to help his father earn money to subsidize the family, Lu Xun will continue to study after the New Year, and the two have to be separated.
Later, the two gradually grew up, Lu Xun went to study in other places, and Yan Tu gradually took on the heavy responsibility of taking care of the family, and the two did not see each other again for decades after they separated.
A tragic life of leaping earth
After working in Beijing for a few years, Lu Xun bought a mansion in Beijing, and he was ready to take his family to live in Beijing, so the ancestral house in Shaoxing needed to be sold, and Lu Xun personally went home to deal with these things.
When he returned home this time, Lu Xun finally met his childhood partner Yan Tu, who was still two teenagers when the two parted, and now when they meet again, they have become middle-aged people who have experienced many vicissitudes.
Compared with Lu Xun, the change of the leaping soil was even greater, because he had been engaged in manual labor for many years, his face was covered with wrinkles in the wind and the sun outside, and because the times were not peaceful at that time, the peasant life was more difficult, and the appearance and behavior of the leaping earth were also very timid and cowering.
Lu Xun was very surprised and sympathetic to see such a leap, he could not speak for a while, it was difficult for him to associate the down-and-out peasant in front of him with the teenager who happily shared the interesting things of life in his memory, and finally He Opened his mouth first and called Lu Xun a "master".
These two words have turned into a thick wall, blocking out all the words that Lu Xun originally wanted to say, and those happy memories of the two people's childhoods, the carefree time when the two played together, have become a history that can never be returned.
When Lu Xun sold his property, Lu Xun had also been helping from the side, the two did not have the last words to say, a bleak cloud of sorrow always surrounded the two people, some furniture that could not be taken away, Lu Xun gave it to Lu Tu.
After everything was taken care of, Lu Xun was ready to take his family back to Beijing, and when he left, He Tutu came to say goodbye, and the two still met again after meeting, but after this parting, the two did not see each other again until their deaths.
When Yan Tu returned home, facing his five children and his wife, the family of seven only relied on a few acres of land to maintain food and clothing, and there were few people and few people, and the life of the Yan Tu family was already very tense.
At that time, it was also in a turbulent era, and the money spent in the war was more looted from the peasants, so the life of the Yantu family was even poorer, and in order to support their families, yantu could only work odd jobs while farming the land to make money.
But bad luck seems to often patronize those who are suffering, and one year there was a drought, and the crops were not harvested, and the family without grain had to sell their only fields and rent other people's land, while the land of the earth found several odd jobs to support the family.
After half a lifetime of hard work, he became ill with abscesses on his back but had no money to treat them, and finally died at the age of 57, unloading the burden on his shoulders and ending his miserable life.
Future generations achieve a magnificent turn of fate
After his death, he left five children, and Zhang Qisheng, the eldest son of Yan tu, also appeared in Lu Xun's articles, and the child of Yan Tu in the book" was created based on Zhang Qisheng.
When he grew up, Zhang Qisheng took up the burden of the family because he was the eldest son in the family, and his life was not much different from his father's leaping earth.
Although Zhang Qisheng worked day and night and worked hard to support his family, but at that time, China's poverty and weakness and years of war, it was impossible for peasants to change their lives by virtue of their labor, and later Zhang Qisheng unfortunately contracted the plague while working and died at the age of 36.
There is not much historical record of the lives of the other children of Yan Tu, but we can imagine that the Yan Tu family and their children represent the most typical peasant image in Chinese society, who struggled to survive in that era of poverty, and the biggest problem they had to face every day was food and clothing.
Because the turmoil brought about by years of war and the high taxes became a heavy burden on the people at that time, on the shoulders of every peasant, and human life at that time became a worthless thing like grass and mustard.
The eldest son, Zhang Qigui, left two sons before his death, and when his father died, the younger son, Zhang Gui, had just turned three years old, and the tragic fate of the Yantu family for generations was also transformed in Zhang Gui's body.
Because of his poor family, when he was a child, Zhang Gui went to the mountains to dig wild vegetables and stomachs, and would also go to the landlord's rich peasant family to work for short-term work to obtain grain, and the hard life of his childhood cultivated Zhang Gui's perseverance, at that time, he was very envious of his peers who could go to school, but he suffered from no opportunity.
Fortunately, the turning point in Zhang Gui's life soon came, and in 1949, the founding of New China, countless poor peasants were liberated, and Zhang Gui also got the opportunity to receive education.
He entered school later than others, and the acceptance and understanding of new knowledge was slow, so he redoubled his efforts to study, because his family was poor, he worked during the day to earn money and studied at night.
Although life is very bitter, but there are gains and progress every day, such a life still makes Zhang Gui very happy, and it is with this persistence and perseverance that Zhang Gui changed his fate, and also changed the fate of the Zhang family's generation of poverty.
After the end of the school's study life, The hard-working Zhang Gui was assigned to work in the Lu Xun Memorial Hall, Zhang Gui re-continued the fate of Lu Xun and the Yantu family, and many people who came to visit the Lu Xun Memorial Hall would come to talk enthusiastically after learning about Zhang Gui's relationship with Lu Xun.
In order to better complete his current work, Zhang Gui signed up for night school to study more systematically and deeply, and at the same time he also read a lot of Mr. Lu Xun's articles and read the historical materials of the time.
When reading the article, Zhang Gui also wrote a lot of reading insights and experiences very seriously, and with the reading of years and months, the reading notes also wrote hundreds of thousands of words.
With the continuous deepening of reading, Zhang Gui also tried to write his own articles, because the early knowledge accumulation was very solid, so the articles he wrote were logical and rigorous, detailed, and very readable.
Rich historical knowledge makes Zhang Gui's work in the memorial hall like a tiger, the published articles have also won the recognition of industry insiders and the praise of readers, and Zhang Gui, who is serious and responsible for his work, has been promoted to deputy director of the Lu Xun Memorial Hall, and has also become a role model for many people when working.
Zhang Gui and Lu Xun's son Zhou Haiying met because of work reasons, and the two became very good friends at first sight, and they often corresponded to tell about the recent situation of their lives, and in their free time, they would often meet together.
Lu Xun and Yan Tu eventually changed from friends to masters and servants because of their living environment and class status.
Today's Zhang Gui and Zhou Haiying met decades later, and they became friends of equal status and closeness, which was not only due to the changes in the historical environment at that time, but also inseparable from Zhang Gui's efforts and persistence.
After Zhang Gui became a family, he and his wife raised a pair of children, and the children have already grown up to have their own work and life, compared with Zhang Gui's fathers and grandparents, Zhang Gui's life today can be said to be very happy.
Starting from the Zhang Gui generation, the Zhang family can be said to have completed the gorgeous turn of fate, and every ordinary ordinary person can get the happy life they want through their own hard work.