Talking about Qin and saying that Han (435) was simple and innocent in his youth, and the old man was poor and poor, but what was the status quo of his grandson and Lu Xun's descendants? Bond
A golden full moon hangs in the deep blue sky, and the sandy ground by the sea below is planted with endless turquoise watermelons. In the middle of this was a boy of eleven or twelve, with a silver ring on his neck, touching a steel fork in his hand, and stabbing as hard as he could at a horse. Naru twisted his body and fled from his crotch.
Lu Xun used a few words to describe the best partner of his youth, Runtu, very vividly. The fortune teller said that the five elements of the "eight characters" of Runtu were short of water, so his father named him "Zhang Yun Shui" and the milk name was "A Shui". Rural people are very particular about taking names, and "moist soil" means that the soil has been infiltrated by water for a long time.
The Zhang family and the Zhou family already had a very familiar friendship in Lu Xun's great-grandfather generation, and when he was a teenager, Lu Xun's ancestors left 40 to 50 acres of land to rent to those landless farmers for farming, and there was a large mansion including the "Hundred Grass Garden". Lu Xun's grandfather Zhou Jiefu was an official in Beijing, and his family was very well-off, so the Zhou family was very respected.
Runtu's family lives in Dupu Village near the sea in Shaoxing, the family also has five or six acres of sand, his father is named Zhang Fuqing, in addition to farming, using the "bamboo craftsman" craft handed down from his ancestors to help others weave grass mat bamboo baskets and other tools to subsidize the family, so although the Zhang family's life is not considered to be rich and noble, at least at that time it was able to maintain the family diligently and frugally.
The wealthier families in the Shaoxing area of Zhejiang Province in the old society would more or less ask workers to work. Generally, those who work for others throughout the year are called long workers, those who occasionally temporarily work for others are called short-term workers, and those who help others work all month during the busy agricultural period are called busy months. Zhang Fuqing is a good craftsman, often working in the Zhou family, and gradually became a busy monthly worker of the Zhou family.
In the Spring Festival of 1893, Lu Xun's great-grandmother died, and the Zhou family happened to encounter the "Great Sacrifice" that could only be rotated once in thirty years, so the sacrifice activities of this Spring Festival were very solemn, and there were many sacrifices, so the Zhou family asked Zhang Fuqing to come and help. Because there were too many things, Zhang Fuqing proposed that his son Runtu come to help see the sacrifices.
Lu Xun and Runtu met at this time, when Runtu was 12 years old, two or three years older than Lu Xun, so Runtu called Lu Xun "Great A-Guan", and Lu Xun called him "Brother Ashui", and the two people soon became good friends who talked about everything, and this kind of friendship relationship without nobility and inferiority was rare in the old feudal society.
Although the young Runtu was born in the countryside and his family was not very wealthy, Lu Xun could see that his father was very fond of this son. In order not to let The Land suffer from disasters, he also asked for a "silver lock" around his neck in front of the gods, praying for his disease to eliminate the disaster. The young runtu was rosy in the care of his father, healthy and strong.
The innocence and willfulness of the young Runtu let Lu Xun understand the incomparably broad vision of the countryside, and he told Lu Xun that he could catch birds after snowfall, collect shells on the seashore, fish after low tide, fork in the sand with watermelons and other new things. And these are all things that cannot be heard in the boring "Sanwei Bookstore".
When Lu Xun heard that Runtu often had to go to the sandy field by the sea at night to see the watermelon field, he thought that there was a thief stealing melons. But Runtu told him that the passers-by were thirsty, and picked a melon to eat, which was not stealing, he was going to guard against the wild animals such as the monkeys who came out in the middle of the night to steal food. Runtu was young, but simple and kind, and knew right from wrong, which made Lu Xun look at him with admiration.
Lu Xun grew up in the city, but he longed for Runtu's unrestrained life in the countryside, and he learned a lot of knowledge from Runtu that he could not see in books. Therefore, in just one month of getting along, the first impression of health, diligence, kindness and simplicity left by the young Runtu to Lu Xun was indelible until his life.
The sacrifice month is over, Runtu wants to go back to the countryside with his father, Lu Xun is reluctant to let him go and cry, and Runtu also hides in the kitchen and cries and refuses to go out, which shows how thick the friendship they have formed in a short period of time is.
After Runtu returned to the countryside, he asked his father to bring Lu Xun a bag of shells and a few beautiful bird feathers, and Lu Xun also gave Runtu something back once or twice. But until the end of their teenage years, although they thought of each other, they never saw each other again.
Lu Xun then went to Nanjing to study, and after his studies, he worked in the Ministry of Education in Beijing. Runtu also married a wife in the countryside and gave birth to five children, and the pressure of life suddenly increased. Soon after, Runtu's father died, and he had to take up the burden of the family's life alone, and in order to make a living, he worked like a gyroscope.
On December 14, 1919, Lu Xun returned to Shaoxing, and he asked people to tell Runtu that when he returned this time, he must meet his partner in youth, Runtu, who had been separated for 26 years. Therefore, Runtu took his eldest son Zhang Qisheng to visit his childhood friend Lu Xun. Zhang Qisheng is the prototype of Lu Xun's "aquatic life", the father of Zhang Gui, who was still young at that time.
At this time, the moist soil was about 40 years old, and his dark and thin face was engraved with the marks of hard life, and in order to facilitate the work, he shaved his head; the medium man, whose once thick shoulders were slightly leaning forward, and his back was slightly rickety; he wore a pair of torn straw shoes on his feet, an old felt hat on his head, and a blue-black cardigan made of native cloth.
This middle-aged man who spoke a lot with Lu Xun in his youth looked dull and even a little restrained at this time, and called Lu Xun "Old Master". Zhang Qisheng told Lu Xun that his father did not like to talk much at home, and he only knew how to pick soil, shake boats, and do farm work all day long, and his hands and feet never stopped, and he was a diligent and honest cropper.
This was the second time Lu Xun and Runtu had met, and when he saw his former partner who had nothing to talk about with great anticipation, the once spirited teenager Runtu had long been tortured by the years into silence, even a little strange. Lu Xun knows very well that it is not the relentless changes of the years that have created estrangement from each other, but the helplessness of facing the real life of being overwhelmed.
After Lu Xun returned to Beijing, the political situation was turbulent, and Lu Xun's hometown in Shaoxing gradually declined, and workers could no longer be invited to work. Although there are several acres of sand in Runtu's family, there is not much left after the harvested grain has paid the tax, and several children scream every day that they can't eat enough. So even though I get up early and work in the dark every day, I can't feed my family at all.
In 1934, it was a year of drought, there was no harvest in the field, and the loan sharks, the wheel of collecting donations turned over the door, and the moist soil forced by life had no other choice but to sell the land, first pay back the usury owed before, make up all kinds of donations, and completely became a peasant who had lost his land, and like most peasants in the countryside, his life was even more difficult.
In his later years, Runtu could only hold on to his tired shell, humbly renting the land of the rich, his sons doing odd jobs everywhere, and his daughter-in-law also went out to help others as nannies. However, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, the life of the family has not been improved, and the life of the Runtu family is unfortunate, which is the epitome of the suffering of the old society.
Due to malnutrition and lack of normal recuperation, the fifty-year-old runway accumulated fatigue and fell on the bed, and he had a bad sore on his back, but the family had no money to treat it, and the wound had been getting worse and worse. At this time, Runtu did not ask for help from his adolescent partner Lu Xun, and in the unbearable pain, he helplessly left this world.
Two years later, Lu Xun, who worked in Beijing, also stayed up late at night by lighting lamps for a long time and writing books criticizing this cannibalistic society, and his health deteriorated, and he followed the moist soil. Although they were all infected and died, Runtu had no money to treat the disease, and Lu Xun was unwilling to be healed, and they were full of helplessness for the world. But when Lu Xun was dying, he was still shouting for a new life.
A few years later, Runtu's eldest son, Zhang Qisheng, also died of an illness due to overwhelmed life, and his grandson Zhang Gui, who was only 3 years old, had to be fostered in his uncle's house. Zhang Gui helped people herd cattle and cultivate land since childhood. Later, he also became a long-term worker in other people's families, Zhang Gui's infancy, and even a teenager who was not as good as his grandfather Runtu, and this society was becoming more and more decayed.
If there is no change in society, perhaps Zhang Gui will be like his grandfather Runtu and father Zhang Qisheng, prematurely repeating the fate of his ancestors, and being tortured by life and overwhelmed.
In 1949, the founding of New China, earth-shaking changes occurred in society, decay and decline were finally overthrown, the people turned over as masters, Zhang Gui also regained his own land, no longer had to submit to the rich, swallowed his anger, and life finally began to get better.
In 1953, the fate of this farmer who made a living by farming once again took a shocking turn. In order to commemorate Mr. Lu Xun, the local government of Shaoxing specially established a memorial hall in Lu Xun's hometown. Zhang Gui, as a witness to the direct relationship between Lu Xun and Runtu, was invited to work at the memorial hall.
Zhang Gui has been a farmer since childhood, and he can't read a few big characters, so after he came to the Lu Xun Memorial Hall, he worked hard during the day and studied Lu Xun's works diligently at night with the help of comrades. Zhang Gui's day and night efforts were once again rewarded, and he was appointed deputy director of the Lu Xun Memorial Hall.
Therefore, in the Lu Xun Memorial Hall in the 1950s and 1960s, we often see an energetic young man who introduces Lu Xun and his cultural works to the people who come to visit in the way of personal memories, which always resonates with people. Moreover, zhang Gui later established friendly relations with Zhou Haiying, the son of Lu Xun.
Zhou Hainian was Lu Xun's only son, and his generation was older than Zhang Gui, in fact, Zhou Haiying was not a few years older than Zhang Gui, but they got along very well, just like the young Runtu and Lu Xun. Zhou Haiying also took Zhang Gui to Japan with him on the 40th anniversary of Lu Xun's death, and Zhang Gui's children also had a very good friendship with Zhou Haiying's children.
In the work of Lu Xun Memorial Hall, Zhang Gui gradually changed from a cultivator who could not read big characters to a cultural person, he not only wrote a good hand, but also wrote hundreds of thousands of words of Lu Xun research materials, providing more reference for future generations to study Lu Xun.
Zhang Gui has a pair of sons and daughters, and they have also changed their fate due to the influence of Lu Xun's culture.
Zhang Gui's son Zhang Zhou was originally only a high Chinese, was assigned to work in a textile factory in Shaoxing, he read many lu xun's works, understood the "sadness without culture", he chose to study at the TV University, learn business management, and later became the manager of the securities trading department of Shaoxing Trust and Investment Company.
Zhang Gui's daughter also studied hard under the influence of Lu Xun's literature and became a respected people's teacher.
The young Runtu is simple and innocent, the old Runtu is poor, lu xun was not able to help his childhood partner when he was alive, but the descendants of runtu formed an indissoluble relationship with Lu Xun. They have changed from authentic croppers to respected intellectuals, which shows the great influence of Lu Xun's literature.
After Zhang Gui retired from the Lu Xun Memorial Hall in his later years, he still did not stop studying Lu Xun's literature, and he often returned to the memorial hall to read Lu Xun's collection of essays and explain Lu Xun's stories to tourists. He spent his life guarding the Lu Xun Memorial Hall, in fact, it was also to continue the unfinished fate of Grandpa Runtu and Lu Xun.
2021-4-9