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Perhaps when it comes to Mr. Lu Xun's characters, many people will blurt out the name leap soil.
The young man under the moon was presented alive and flesh and blood in front of everyone's eyes through Lu Xun's article. The image of leap soil is not fiction, and his prototype is from Lu Xun's young son of a long-term worker - Zhang Minshui.
Around 1890, the young Lu Xun met the simple and brave boy Leap Earth, and the two children saw each other as before, and although there was an insurmountable barrier between identities, they still became good playmates.
But no one expected that twenty years later, Leap Earth would have long disappeared and become an ordinary and vicissitudes of middle-aged man. The young playmate became a humble subordinate, which made Lu Xun unable to let go for a long time.
And according to records, Leap Earth had eight children in his life, so, after the separation, what did Leap Earth experience? Where are his descendants today?
Two people with different fates
The Zhou family was originally a large local household, but as Lu Xun's grandfather was involved in a bribery case, he was not only dismissed, but also imprisoned.
This caused a huge blow to everyone in the Zhou family, and his father, who was originally famous, was also gone, but under this twist and turn, all of them were gone.
This man, who was not very talented, suffered such a big blow halfway through his life, and his will was depressed a lot, and not long after, he died before Lu Xun's grandfather in a depressed mood.
In 1893, Lu Xun's great-grandmother was also going to be buried, and under a series of events, the Zhou family had no savings.
Although the Zhou family, which is still noble in the eyes of outsiders, only he knows that the situation of the Zhou family is not optimistic.
Since then, the Zhou family has dismissed many long-term workers, and Leap Earth has no chance to go to the Zhou family to help. Lu Xun's fate has also become bumpy.
In order to escape the war, the Zhou family moved to a remote place, although it was no longer as beautiful as before, but it was still able to make a living.
Under the war, Lu Xun later chose to study in Japan, and this learning experience also awakened Lu Xun's consciousness and began his magnificent life.
Compared with this, the Zhang family under the chaotic times is much more miserable. Min Tuyuan is a child who grew up loved by his family, and although he was sad to be separated from Lu Xun, he also learned a lot of things.
When he was in the Zhou family, he told Brother Xun his story about the countryside, and Brother Xun taught him knowledge that he could not touch, which gave the young leap soil a heart that wanted to study.
Zhang Fuqing originally cherished Leap Earth, although his family was not rich, but he saved money and could afford him to study, so he agreed to Leap Earth's desire to study.
This made Leap Earth ecstatic, he could learn knowledge after reading books, and after learning knowledge, he might be able to be like Brother Xun in the future, and he also wanted to play with Brother Xun.
God made a joke with this optimistic teenager. The brave and vigorous leap earth never expected that his father would suddenly fall ill.
His dream of reading is shattered, but this is not the most important, he can not study, but he can't live without his father!
The young leap earth is shouldering the burden of the family at this moment, he is worried about his father's illness, and he has to insist on treating his father's illness! But he had to accept the harsh reality. Their family can't pay for treatment.
This disease was menacing, the Zhang family had no money to treat the disease, and soon Zhang Fuqing died because of this serious illness. At a young age, he was already busy working, and he was getting further and further away from the life of collecting shells and catching birds.
After that, life was like opening the accelerator button, quickly crossing the teenager and becoming a toiling adult man.
Leap soil was busy farming, busy working to earn money, busy marrying a wife and having children, desperately maintaining a family, he wanted to live well, but hardship did not spare him.
Leap Tulu Xun met again
In 1919, Lu Xun returned to his hometown. Twenty years away from home, standing in a familiar place, looking at familiar scenes but without the mood of youth.
But Lu Xun's heart couldn't let go of the boy he met twenty years ago, and he wanted to see him when he came back this time.
Finally, one afternoon, Lu Xun saw the leap soil that had changed greatly, but even so, he recognized him at a glance.
Lu Xun excitedly shouted out his youthful title, "Brother Leap Tu!" Unexpectedly, what responded to him was a cowardly and cautious "boss" after hesitation.
It was as if a basin of ice water was splashed from the head, making Lu Xun feel cold, and it turned out that he had also changed. Two people who used to talk so freely are now like two strangers.
Back to his hometown, the people and things here made Lu Xun's heart sink for a while. His high expectations were only treated so generously.
But these years of war have made the peaceful life of countless people jumpy, and it is not easy for them to meet again in this life.
Lu Xun couldn't bear to see the memory of Brother Leap Tu living so hard, and proposed to take Leap Earth to live in Beijing. At this time, Lu Xun was already very famous at that time, which was not difficult for him.
This offer was rejected by Leap Earth, he knew that this was still the Xun Ge'er in his memory, but he was no longer the teenager he was back then, he had a mother, a wife and a group of children, what should they do if he left.
Over the years, Leap Earth has had six children, the eldest son is called Zhang Qisheng, he specially brought out to meet Lu Xun, let him respectfully kowtow to the old man to ask for peace, Zhang Qisheng is seventeen years old this year, and his body is quite thin.
Lu Xun saw him like he saw the leap soil of the year, but there was no silver collar around his neck.
He sighed helplessly, led his son Hong'er out, and got acquainted with Uncle Min Tu and Brother Qisheng.
On the day Lu Xun left, Min Tu took his five-year-old daughter A Hua to see off the master this time. Lu Xun entrusted people to leave some belongings to the Zhang family, hoping that they could live better.
No one expected that this parting would never have the opportunity to meet again.
After that, Leap Earth's body could no longer withstand the pain accumulated over the years, and terrible poisonous sores suddenly erupted on him.
Zhang Qisheng looked at his father suffering from poisonous sores day and night, but still had to work in the field, and he couldn't bear it.
He thought about it and boldly asked his father, "Dad, if you don't write a letter to the master, he will definitely help us." Hong'er also played well with me. ”
Leap Earth was silent for a moment and still rejected Zhang Qisheng's proposal. After Leap Earth died of illness, not long after, Lu Xun also died.
The descendants of the Zhang family under New China
In 1934, Leap Earth died, and his eight children continued to survive in the chaos.
At that time, there were no telephones and mobile phones, and it was very difficult to maintain contact over long distances. These eight children were uprooted from their homes during the war, living a difficult life, and then gradually lost contact.
Foreign invasion, warlord chaos, and landlord oppression are three mountains hanging over ordinary people. Someone went missing during the fighting, and it is not known whether it was misfortune or simply disconnected.
The eight children remember their father's desire to study, but they are unable to fulfill it for their father.
Among these eight children, Zhang Qisheng is the eldest, he took on the heavy responsibility of supporting the family after his father's death, and he always remembered that not being able to study was his father's regret in his life.
Although he could not fulfill this wish, he had high hopes for his son, that is, Zhang Gui, the grandson of Leap Earth. Zhang Gui did not waste his painstaking efforts.
At that time, the Qisheng family was still working for the landlord, and Zhang Gui had to work in the field even though he was young. Although the landlords oppressed them, there was also a glimmer of hope for reading.
Zhang Qisheng ignored his face and desperately begged the landlord to give his son Zhang Gui a chance to study, and his plea gave Zhang Gui a two-year study time, and Zhang Gui could read with the landlord's son.
In that era of war, there were not only human disasters, but also unexpected natural disasters. Zhang Qisheng did not have much harvest, and when he could not make ends meet, he suffered a major drought, which made their life more difficult, coupled with his weak health since childhood, and the sorrow and labor of these years also destroyed his body.
Two years later, Kaisheng died of illness, when he was not yet forty years old. He had two sons and a daughter at the time of his death, Zhang Gui was his second son, and the two sons were only in their teens at this time.
Kaisheng's wife was unable to raise three children alone, and in order for the children to survive, she and her young daughter went to the city to find some work as a nanny; Kaisheng's eldest son worked for people at a young age; Zhang Gui was fostered in an uncle's house to help the family herd cattle.
The remaining family of four was scattered in order to survive, and unfortunately, the youngest daughter died within a few years because of lung disease, and fate always repeated.
The arrival of 1949 ushered in a turning point in the fate of the Zhang family, and it was necessary to seize this glimmer of hope in order to turn over and prevent the recurrence of the family tragedy.
The vigorous literacy campaign began, and under the education of the intellectual youth in the countryside, Zhang Gui seized the opportunity, because he had some foundation in reading companionship, he learned quickly and seriously.
Not only that, but he found time to study at night school while working.
By chance, Leap Earth's dream of reading came true in Zhang Gui's body, and he walked a different path from his father and grandfather.
In 1954, he heard good news that made him unbelievable.
This year, the Lu Xun Memorial Hall was established under the auspices of the state, and the staff inside found through investigation that the Zhang family had a deep relationship with Mr. Lu Xun.
So they searched deeper and found Zhang Gui, this child turned out to be the grandson of Lu Xun's character Leap Earth! After getting the news, the staff immediately found Leap Earth and warmly invited him to work at the Lu Xun Memorial Hall.
Zhang Gui will always remember the day when he was preparing to herd cattle at home when the village chief led a group to find him, told him that these people were the staff of the Lu Xun Memorial Hall, and invited him to work in the museum.
Zhang Gui felt that he had not read books properly, how could he go to work there. But they said, "It doesn't matter if you can't read, there are few people in the world who have such a deep relationship with Mr. Lu Xun." ”
In the end, Zhang Gui accepted the invitation, it was like a dream.
During the days when he worked here, Zhang Gui diligently did some manual work during the day, he knew that he had no culture, and at night he found time to study cultural knowledge hard.
At the same time, he became more curious about Mr. Lu Xun, he once heard his father say Mr. Lu Xun, and now he knows about Mr. Lu Xun's life and deeds whenever he has the opportunity, and he knows that he can have the current life now because of the friendship between his grandfather and Mr. Lu Xun.
The more Zhang Gui learned, the more he felt that this was a great man.
After decades of life, Zhang Gui also slowly became a cultural person, not only because of his outstanding work ability, he was appointed as the deputy director of the Lu Xun Memorial Museum in 1982, but also published many articles about Mr. Lu Xun.
In addition, his biggest gain was that he met a best friend in life.
At that time, the director of the Lu Xun Memorial Hall was Lu Xun's son Zhou Haibing, who did not know what the identity of this newcomer was, and under the introduction of others, he was very excited to learn that Zhang Gui turned out to be the grandson of leap soil.
The two met late and became good friends. Under the new China, there should be no class between people, regardless of generation or origin, which makes up for the regret between Lu Xun and Leap Earth.
When Zhou Haiying learned that Zhang Gui was going to write a new book, he offered to help him write the foreword, and in his later years, the two even traveled to Japan together. Every once in a while, the two have to chat together and get together.
It is said that in 1976, the fortieth anniversary of Lu Xun's death, on the streets of Japan, the two were more than half a hundred years old, and Zhou Haiying was still Zhang Gui like the young man who entered the memorial hall at all times, never forgetting to take care of him, even if he crossed the road, he had to pull Zhang Gui, like two old children.
And the life of the Zhang family has gradually improved, the children have good jobs, and everything is developing in a good direction.
Zhang Gui's son became a mechanical engineer, and his daughter became a preschool teacher, and her life was much better than before, and Zhang Gui was very satisfied with this.
The fate of their ancestors was changed in Zhang Gui's generation, they were no longer sharecroppers, they did not have to work as child labor, they did not have to face war and drought.
In 1983, Zhang Gui also reached the age of retirement, as a witness of the new China, he cherished his current life immensely, even if he had retired, he still chose to do some explanation work in the Lu Xun Memorial Hall.
The times roll forward, wrapped in the fate of countless people, in the new era, everything has countless possibilities, and the destiny is connected.
If they can see the current situation of future generations, I believe that Lu Xun and Min Turuo will be very happy.
Inequality between people used to be an obstacle to Lu Xun's friendship with Leap Earth, but it was not an obstacle for Zhou Haiying and Zhang Gui in New China. The miserable life is over.
From Zhang Fu to Leap Earth, from the eldest son Qisheng to Zhang Gui, the fate of four generations has quietly changed. What changes them is not only the help of noble people, but also their own persistence, and more importantly, the changes of the times.
The cannibalistic religion of the old society left too many people without a way to live, and destroyed the hope of many people's lives, until after liberation, New China opened up a new path for thousands of people at the bottom.