In 1938, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin and colleagues of the Construction Society fled to Kunming, and in the winter of 1940, in order to use the library materials of the Institute of History and Language of the Academia Sinica nearby, the Construction Society also left Kunming and entered Sichuan with the Institute of History and Language, and came to Shangba Village, Lizhuang Town, Nanxi County, 60 miles away from Yibin.
Shangba Village is a small village with only dozens of families, Lin Huiyin's family lives in a place called Moon Field, the name is romantic and poetic, but what Lin Huiyin did not expect was that after coming here, both of them fell ill, the family was financially strapped and needed to sell clothes to survive, and they fell into the most difficult period of their lives.
Lin Huiyin's friend Li Jianwu, who is far away in Shanghai, once said in the article "Lin Huiyin":
Lin Huiyin carried bottles of oil and vinegar on the streets of Kunming, and as Lin Changmin's daughter-in-law, Liang Qichao's daughter-in-law, and a talented daughter in the "wife's living room" in Beiping, she actually did the work of a maid.
Li Jianwu felt incredible about the scene of Lin Huiyin personally carrying a bottle to buy oil and vinegar, but Lin Huiyin in the Li Zhuang period was even more than that.
Sichuan's winter was humid and cold, coupled with the arduous boat and car along the way, exhausted, and after arriving in Lizhuang, Lin Hui's lung disease was malignant again and he was bedridden.
And Liang Sicheng's body is no better, because the sequelae left by the car accident in his early years made his old problem of gray matter in the soft tissues of his spine more and more serious, his back became more and more hunched, and his physique and energy declined significantly.
The farmhouse where Lin Huiyin's family lived was a low, dark and damp dwelling, with a canopy on top of two burrows where snakes and rats frequented, and swarms of bed bugs often appeared on the bed.
Lizhuang is far from the civilization of the city, the conditions are difficult, and the draft water has to go to the pond outside the village to fetch water, and he can only light a vegetable oil lamp at night to illuminate.
In the humble house, there was not even a decent bed at home, and the only "soft bed" that could be used for Lin Hui's recuperation was a rickety canvas camp bed.
War, inflation and a primitive way of life turned the Liang family into a poor family, and Liang Sicheng's monthly salary was reduced to nine-tenths as soon as he got it, and most of the remaining money was used to buy medicine for Lin Huiyin.
In terms of diet, they can usually only buy the cheapest roughage, and on the table, they can only see brown rice and chili peppers every day.
Occasionally, a friend sends a small can of milk powder from Chongqing or Kunming, and the whole family is reluctant to move, which is Lin Huiyin's rare high-grade tonic...
And Lin Huiyin's son Liang Congjie is in elementary school in the town, except for the cloth shoes sewn by his grandmother He Xueyuan in winter, he can only wear a pair of straw shoes in the rest of the season, and even step directly on the mud floor with bare feet every day.
There is no formal hospital in the entire Lizhuang, nor any medicines, the only thermometer in the family was broken by his son's hand, and Lin Huiyin could not measure his temperature for most of the year, and only relied on his own feelings to estimate the degree of fever.
In order to make Lin Huiyin's health better, Liang Sicheng personally learned nursing methods, became a nurse, gave her infusions, injections, and sterilized those utensils with a steamer.
Because of the harsh environment and the lack of effective treatment, Lin Hui's condition worsened day by day, she lost weight day by day, her eye sockets were sunken, her face was pale, and in a few months, she changed from a goddess with bright eyes and teeth to a haggard woman.
In order to make ends meet, Liang Sicheng had to send Parker gold pens and watches that had accompanied him for more than 20 years into the pawnshop, and took the money to buy a few grass carp back.
When Liang Sicheng said sadly: "Stew this Parker pen, this gold watch is braised red." Lin Huiyin couldn't say anything except a bitter smile.
Sick, war-plagued, soaring prices, hard life... These "mountains" pressed on the body of the Liang Lin family, which was already bleak enough, but who knew that a deeper desolation would fall on Lin Huiyin.
Lin Huiyin has a younger brother, named Lin Heng, who was born to Lin Huiyin's second wife Cheng Guilin, and after the death of his father Lin Changmin, Lin Huiyin's mother and third brother Lin Heng lived with the Liang family.
Before the 77 Incident, Lin Heng had been admitted to Tsinghua University, and after the Anti-Japanese War, Lin Heng switched from Rong to the Air Force, applied for the Air Force Officer School, and became the tenth cadet of the Air Force Aviation School.
On March 14, 1941, during an air battle in Chengdu, due to the failure of the ground alert system, after the enemy plane had flown over Chengdu, our military rushed to the battle.
The news of Lin Heng's death first reached Chongqing, and Liang Sicheng rushed to Chengdu to cook the aftermath for Lin Heng, and did not return home until a month later.
At this time, Lin Huiyin was lying on the hospital bed, but the news of her brother's sacrifice still could not hide her, perhaps the disaster came too suddenly, in the face of a huge painful blow, but it made people speechless, Lin Huiyin fainted on the spot after learning about it from the mouth of a neighbor.
Lin Huiyin was overwhelmed with grief, and the bad news of losing her brother almost knocked out the seriously ill Lin Huiyin, she couldn't eat for several days, but she knew that life was already difficult, and she could only choose to hide the pain in her heart and summon up the courage to face life again.
Three years later, Lin Hui, because he could barely collect his pain, dragged his sick body and wrote the mourning poem "Crying Third Brother Heng".
After that, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin received news about the swollen water in Tianjin, and a batch of precious materials that could not be brought to the rear of the China Construction Society were all drowned in this sudden swollen water, which made Liang Sicheng and Lin Hui cry and be heartbroken.
But despite setbacks and tribulations one after another, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin were not discouraged by the ups and downs of fate.
Despite the harsh environment, Lin Huiyin still maintains an optimistic and cheerful personality, she always cleans up the two simple houses in order, the glass bottles on the windowsill are often inserted with flowers from the field, and the cozy huts also attract the villagers of Shangba Village.
Lin Huiyin is naturally talkative, funny and humorous, some young girls and daughters-in-law, what whispering is always willing to tell her, whose daughter-in-law is married, whose daughter-in-law gives birth to a doll, will send her a few red eggs, gradually, Lin Huiyin likes this small river village deep in the bamboo forest.
Lin Huiyin often reads to children, teaches children to draw, make various toys, etc., although his life is bitter, but his heart is rich.
In 1941, when the summer vacation came, Jin Yuelin crossed the mountains to visit Lin Huiyin in Lizhuang, at this time Jin Yuelin was a professor at Southwest United University, and the children liked Jin Yuelin very much when they saw him, and affectionately called him "Jin Dad".
Seeing Lin Huiyin, who was tormented by illness, getting thinner and weaker, Jin Yuelin couldn't help but feel distressed, in order to replenish Lin Huiyin's body, he took part of his meager salary and went to the town to buy chickens to raise, looking forward to the chickens growing up and laying eggs every day, and every school holiday, he traveled a long distance from Kunming to Lizhuang to visit Lin Huiyin and his wife.
In mid-November 1942, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin's good friend Fei Zhengqing came to visit them in Lizhuang, and Fei Zhengqing and his wife had repeatedly invited Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin to the United States for medical treatment and to engage in well-paid and well-paid work, but they were both rejected by Lin Huiyin, who once replied: "Our motherland is in a disaster, we cannot leave her, we will die on the land of the motherland." ”
Lin Huiyin has her belief that she will continue to build the cause of the society and insist on staying in the motherland.
When a person has faith, he can endure any kind of suffering.
Lin Huiyin undertook the needlework at home, endured the pain every day to sew and mend clothes for the child, and Liang Sicheng learned to cook, steam steamed buns, stir-fry, pickle vegetables, etc.
Under such humble conditions as Li Zhuang, they decided to use the remaining materials on hand to write a "History of Chinese Architecture", while writing instructions in English and drawing a "Pictorial History of Chinese Architecture".
This is the long-cherished wish of Liang Lin and the two.
The difficulty of writing such a magnum opus can be imagined, at that time, Liang Sicheng was so tormented by the pain of cervical poliosis that she could not lift her head, and she often put a small vase on the drawing board to support her chin and bury her head in writing.
Due to his serious illness, Lin Huiyin could only lean on the bed half-leaning on the quilt, flipping through history books and foreign magazines, and revising and polishing Liang Sicheng's manuscripts.
Who would have thought that when Lin Huiyin, Chinese New Year's Eve six-year-old, accompanied her husband Liang Sicheng to this remote and desolate town, he languished in a hospital bed in a burrow for five years.
For countless dark nights, Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng dragged their seriously ill bodies, staying up late to revise, revise, and tidy, they were not writing books with time, but with life.
The huge workload has seriously overdrawn Liang Sicheng's health, he weighs only 47 kilograms, but he still works until midnight every day, and after writing 110,000 words of Chinese architectural history, he has long been overdrawn, but the ambition and energy still flashing in his eyes still deeply touches the people around him.
One day in 1945, there was a siren in the distance, was there another air raid? Liang Sicheng, Lin Huiyin and others are very sensitive to this sound, if it is not an air strike, is it a signal of victory in the War of Resistance?
Soon, the news of victory really came, and this news ignited Li Zhuang like a raging fire, and Japan surrendered! The war of resistance was won! The war is over!
In order to reunite with Lin Huiyin and celebrate the victory of the War of Resistance together, with the full help of Fairbank and his wife, Lin Huiyin was sent to Chongqing.
After leaving Lizhuang and coming to Chongqing, Lin Huiyin felt like she had been reborn, but the reality was that after so many years of hard work, her body had long been exhausted, and after coming to Chongqing, she fell asleep groggily in bed almost day and night, and woke up groggily.
Seeing Lin Huiyin getting weaker day by day, the anxious Fairbank couple found their friend, a famous American thoracic surgeon came to examine Lin Huiyin, and to everyone's sadness, Lin Huiyin had a very serious infection in both lungs and kidneys on one side.
In August 1946, Lin Huiyin and others finally took a chartered flight from Southwest United University, and with the painstakingly written manuscript "History of Chinese Architecture" and the materials of their trekking through mountains and rivers, they left Lizhuang on the bank of the Yangtze River and returned to Beiping, where they had been away for nine years.
Before leaving Chongqing, the doctor once told Lin Huiyin with great regret that she only had five years left in her life, Lin Huiyin had already seen it through, in order not to make the people who cared about her sad, she chose silence, none of them mentioned her illness, just wanted to spend the rest of the time happily with her.
Fortunately, Lin Huiyin miraculously lived for another ten years until his death on April 1, 1955, as if it was a trick of fate, Lin Huiyin such a woman with lofty aspirations, but she had a weak body, but asked her to carry constant pain, although her life died young was as short as fireworks, but also as brilliant and brilliant as fireworks.