When he was a child, Runtu's father asked him to call Lu Xun "young master", he agreed on the surface, but still called Lu Xun "Brother Xun" in private.
Seeing you again many years later, Runtu called Lu Xun "master" and asked his son to kowtow to Lu Xun.
Even if Lu Xun's mother said that Runtu could still be called "Brother Xun" as before.
But the earth said,
"When I was a child, I was not sensible, how can I not follow the rules now."
(Lu Xun and Runtu met again after 30 years)
In "Hometown", Lu Xun used such a passage to express his state of mind when he heard the word "master" at that time.
"I seem to have a chill; I knew that there was a sadly thick barrier between us. I can't speak. ”
This old man shows that the beautiful and innocent childhood friendship between Lu Xun and Runtu is gone.
When he saw the leap soil again, Lu Xun looked forward to talking a lot to the other party, talking about the shiny shells, talking about the Ru in the melon field, and talking about the handful of bird feathers......
And all of this disappeared with the sound of the earth.
At that moment, Lu Xun finally realized that there had already been a huge gap between him and Runtu that was difficult to bridge.
Why did the two of them use to be so good, but when they meet again, they are already different? After that, what happened to the leap earth?
When we see each other late, we hate to talk about everything
Lu Xun once described the juvenile leap earth in "Hometown" like this:
"In the deep blue sky hung a full golden moon, and below the sand by the sea, there were endless green watermelons, and in the midst of it was a boy of eleven or twelve, with a silver ring around his neck, and a steel fork in his hand, and stabbed at a horse with all his might, but the man twisted his body and fled from under his crotch."
(The juvenile leap earth depicted in "Hometown" is taken from the illustration in the textbook)
Thanks to Lu Xun's words, an image of a "necklace with a silver ring, carefree" of a young man emerges in the reader's mind.
But when we met again thirty years later, Lu Xun changed, and the leap soil also changed:
"His figure has doubled, and his round purple face, which had turned gray and yellow, has been deeply wrinkled. His eyes, like his father's, were swollen and red. ”
Thirty years, a very long time. Thirty years can turn a high-spirited and windy teenager into a respectful and timid middle-aged man;
Thirty years can make the teenager who read "Zhihu Ye" in the Sanwei Book House become a generation of writers;
Thirty years can make the partners who talked about everything when they were young and hated to see each other late become a "master" and "ignorant" when they meet again, which is embarrassing.
(In the past 30 years, Lu Xun and Runtu have embarked on two completely opposite paths)
In the past 30 years, what has Runtu experienced that will make the relationship between him and Lu Xun unfamiliar like this?
was so unfamiliar that Lu Xun couldn't help but sigh in the book:
"I've been cut off from the intercalary earth to this extent."
But in fact, if you take a closer look at "Hometown", you will find that the gap between Lu Xun and Runtu has been doomed since birth. It's just that they were still young at that time, and the two didn't care about each other's identity gaps.
Lu Xun, formerly known as Zhou Shuren, was born on September 25, 1881 in a family of traditional scholars in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. His grandfather, Zhou Jiefu, was born in Hanlin and served as an official in Beijing.
His father, Zhou Boyi, was influenced by the Westernization Movement and other national salvation movements, and was an open-minded person. His mother, Lu Rui, is also very kind.
Although he was born in a bureaucratic family, Lu Xun was taught by his father to be equal since he was a child, which also indirectly contributed to the youthful friendship between Lu Xun and Runtu.
Runtu, formerly known as Zhang Runshui, was born in 1879 in a rural village in Shangyu County, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province.
Runtu's father is the long-term worker of the Lu Xun family, and the Zhou family holds a sacrificial ceremony in the first month, and when there are not enough people, he will go to help;
And Runtu's mother happened to be Lu Xun's nurse when he was a child, and she was also the nanny of Lu Xun's family.
When he was 14 years old, Runtu followed his father to the Zhou family to help the owner take care of the sacrificial vessels.
Because Runtu and Lu Xun are of the same age, they have lived in the countryside since they were children and know a lot of tricks. So Lu Xun likes to listen to him talk about some new things. The two naturally became good playmates.
(The difference in the identities of the two can be seen at a glance from the way they dress)
When Runtu's father learned that Runtu and Lu Xun had become playmates, he was terrified for a while, for fear that Runtu would "not serve him well".
He had asked Runtu many times to call Lu Xun "young master", but at that time, Runtu and Lu Xun were both childlikes, thinking that there was no difference between master and servant between partners.
It can be seen here that Runtu's father felt that he was just a subordinate of the Zhou family from beginning to end, how could his son become a playmate with Young Master Lu Xun?
The various behaviors of Yan Tu playing with Lu Xun have become serving and serving in the eyes of Zhang's father.
The identity gap between the two of them was an unbridgeable mountain, and at that time, few people would think that there was a deep juvenile friendship between Lu Xun and Runtu.
People subjectively believe that the young Lu Xun is looking for a partner for play, while the young Runtu is a playmate for work.
Only by "serving" Lu Xun well, can his father work peacefully in the Zhou family.
But is that really the case?
Looking back at the details of Lu Xun and Runtu getting along in "Hometown", you will find that the truth is not what people generally believe.
At that time, Runtu taught Lu Xun how to catch birds in the snow, and warmly invited Lu Xun to his home to play:
"You go to us in the summer, we can go to the beach to pick up shells, red and green, and you can go to see melons at night, you can come too!"
"Thief?"
"No, if the walker is thirsty, pick a melon in our field and eat it, we don't steal here, we have to take care of badger pigs, hedgehogs, and rugs."
(Runtu explained to Lu Xun the new things he encountered in the countryside)
It can be seen that the young man is not only free and easy by nature, but also has a great sense of justice. He was not imprisoned by secular concepts, and he did not feel inferior because of the identity gap between himself and Lu Xun.
Although Runtu is not as wealthy as Lu Xun's family, it can be seen through Runtu's "necklace with silver ring" that he is also a child who is loved by his father.
Because of his father's work in the Zhou family, he has also lived a carefree life with no worries about food and clothing since he was a child, so there is no leap soil When he was young, he regarded Lu Xun as "the son of his father's boss" to deliberately please.
The two of them had a beautiful, innocent time and were extremely happy and real.
In the same way, Lu Xun will also tell Runtu, who has never studied, a lot of interesting things about him in the school, interesting stories in the book, and the world outside.
But the good days are short-lived, and as soon as the first lunar month passes, Runtu will follow his father back to the countryside.
No matter how young Lu Xun cried, he couldn't stop his playmate from leaving him.
It's just that what Lu Xun didn't know was that in the month he spent with Runtu, he stimulated Runtu's desire for knowledge and the outside world.
Not long after Runtu returned to the countryside, he told Zhang's father that he also wanted to study in the school like Brother Xun.
That was the first change that Runtu made in order to get close to Lu Xun, he wanted to become a person like Brother Xun, who could read, understand reason, and be able to speak into chapters.
But this wish did not come true in the end, although Zhang's father promised Runtu and planned to send him to the school, but before Runtu could be happy, Zhang's father fell ill.
At that time, the Zhou family was also difficult to protect itself, Lu Xun's grandfather Zhou Jiefu was arrested and imprisoned for favoritism and fraud in the imperial examination, and the Zhou family was also in the middle of the family overnight because of Zhou's father's imprisonment.
Later, although the two never met again, they still remembered each other in their hearts and sent each other things from time to time.
After many years of absence, things are wrong
Many years later, when they met again, Lu Xun couldn't hold back the joy in his heart.
He wanted to say a lot about Runtu, about what he had seen and heard outside all these years, that he had not caught a bird or a bird for a long time.
But before he could speak, Runtu bowed his body and spoke:
"Sir, you're back."
(Leap Earth and the eldest son of the water)
At that moment, Lu Xun was stunned. He looked at the wooden, restrained, and vicissitudes of middle-aged man in front of him, and his heart was mixed.
What has leap earth experienced over the years?
can make a high-spirited teenager who was once such a high-spirited become a middle-aged man in front of him with his back bent, his hands nervously rubbed together, and his face vicissitudes.
Back in 1903, Runtu's father died of illness when Runtu was 24 years old. As the eldest son in the family, Runtu took on the expenses of the entire family at a young age.
Over the years, Runtu has inherited many of the skills that a farmer should have from his father. Whether it is farming, fishing and catching birds, he is still familiar with it.
Since then, Runtu has never had the easy time of his childhood, he is busy all day long, and then all year round.
However, the more industrious the land, the poorer it became.
In 1919, when Runtu and Lu Xun met again, Runtu was already the father of 6 children, and he was very difficult to support a large family with a meager income.
The "master" he blurted out was not only a reminder of Lu Xun's blank time between the two of them in the past thirty years.
It is still Runtu's euphemistic request for help to Lu Xun, hoping that Lu Xun can help them in his childhood friendship.
Don't look at Runtu has never read a book, but more than 30 years of social experience tells Runtu that the status gap between him and Lu Xun can never be changed, and he dare not guarantee whether Lu Xun still remembers himself.
He didn't dare to be tempted, so he could only cautiously retreat to the identity of his subordinates to seek a way to get along with Lu Xun.
Therefore, the voice of the master of the leap soil not only contains university questions, but also indirectly reflects that the exploitation and oppression of the people at the bottom by the evil old society is endless.
But even if Runtu is so smart and has insight into human nature, Lu Xun also gave him a lot of money when he parted from Runtu, but it still can't withstand natural and man-made disasters.
(The vicissitudes of life have long been bent over by the burden of life)
Within a few years, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province suffered a major drought, and Runtu had to sell the only six acres of fertile land in his family.
From that moment on, he was no longer a farmer, and could only be called a tenant farmer.
Soon after, due to the illness caused by overwork, a poisonous sore grew on the back of the leap soil.
In September 1936, Runtu died of illness, and when he was dying, he kept chattering that he remembered to bring some souvenirs to Mr. Zhou, he was a good person.
At the same time, Lu Xun, who was far away in Shanghai, was also terminally ill, and soon after, he also went away with the leap soil.
According to Zhou Haiying, in the last period of his life, Lu Xun always hoped to return to his hometown and visit the leap soil, but unfortunately it was not realized in the end.
Runtu and Lu Xun both remembered each other at the end of their lives, which is enough to prove that the friendship between the two has never been extinguished.
The friendship between the two continues in another way
Runtu raised 6 children in his life, but in the troubled times, the children could only live a life of exile.
His eldest son, Shui Sheng, inherited the skills of Runtu, but at the age of 38, he contracted cholera and died.
When the People's Republic of China was founded, Shuisheng's eldest son, Zhang Gui, who was also the grandson of Runtu, was only 16 years old, and he enjoyed the opportunity to study that his grandfather and father had never had.
Zhang Gui cherished it very much, he worked during the day and studied hard at night, and finally became the first college student in the Zhang family.
In 1954, Zhang Gui was valued by the organization and was arranged to work in the Lu Xun Memorial Hall, and finally became the deputy director.
At that time, Zhang Gui was very puzzled, he was just a poor student who was just a fledgling, how could he take on such an important job?
"I'm afraid I can't find a person in the whole of China who is more related to Lu Xun than you."
It was also here that Zhang Gui met Zhou Haiying, he knew that his father had played with Zhou Haiying when he was a child, and he also knew that his grandfather and Lu Xun were playmates when they were teenagers.
That's why I came here to work.
Zhou Haiying was very shocked and very emotional. Even though the two are of different generations, Zhang Gui will not call Zhou Haiying "master" like his grandfather.
Because in New China, the identities of the two are already equal, they can be friends and confidants, but they are no longer the relationship between the master and the subordinate.
In the end, the two became good friends regardless of their seniority.
The dream of reading that Runtu had failed to realize in his life was realized in Zhang Gui's children and grandchildren, and many years later, Zhang Gui also proudly preached to his grandfather:
"Our Zhang family, now we can finally have a happy childhood again......"
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[Text: Jiang Chen]
[Editor|Chang Gung]
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