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My grandfather, Lu Shengbai

author:Old crows close people

Grandpa's voice was very loud, his voice was very loud and full of confidence, so we were all scared, especially my father. I clearly remember that when my grandfather lectured, my father and uncles were standing and listening. I remember that my father smoked in front of my grandfather, and my father was also fifty years old, and once, when my grandfather smoked himself, he also gave his father a cigarette, and I felt very strange, how did my grandfather give my father a cigarette? Only now did I understand that Grandpa also felt that his father was older and could smoke in front of his father with his father's permission.

Grandpa beat me once, in the courtyard of Yao Jiachuan's hometown, for some reason, I was too naughty, Grandpa finally got angry, only slapped my ass twice, very short, very heavy, very painful, but I remembered it once, and I didn't dare to provoke Grandpa to be angry again. Grandpa's two slaps are heavier than my father's and mother's slaps, but the number is small, the memory is deep, and it is indeed a long-lasting two slaps, which I will remember for a lifetime.

Grandpa's greatest credit was the construction of the North Canal. When I was a child, I passed by the broom ditch aqueduct, and the adults said that this was the North Canal, which your grandfather presided over; passing by the east side of Sunjiazhuang, it was also said that it was the North Canal; to the big aqueduct under the Red Terrace, and also said that it was the North Canal, I was surprised, the North Canal was not on the North Canal, how did it run so far away. Later, when I grew up, I realized how difficult it was to build an artesian channel in that era. When I was a child, I introduced myself to others, saying that the surname of Lu, Lu, Lu with more household words, Lu Junyi's Lu, Yao Jiachuan's Lu, and Lu Ma's Lu were not clearly introduced, and it was said that it was the grandson of the governor of Lu County, everyone knew it, and there was no need to explain more. The people in my hometown all know that the governor of Lu County, they all know that the governor of Lu County has built the Beiyuan Canal, everyone knows that everyone in his hometown Xiaoxi Township, and in Daxi Township on the other side of Jishi Mountain, people also know that when I worked in the tax bureau, I went to Guanjiachuan, Liugou, Shiyuan and other underground townships, and the old people all knew grandpa, and when they heard that I was the grandson of the governor of Lu County, they asked me to drink two more drinks. And when I went home, I told my grandfather that grandpa was also very clear about these places, which village had a big tree in the middle, and which village's road was how to go, and grandpa was very clear. It turned out that when grandpa was the county magistrate, he had walked to these remote villages, and the people of these villages also remembered the county magistrate.

I remember when I was going to beijing to go to school, my grandfather specially asked Cui Guohu, who is engaged in photography at the State Water and Power Bureau, to take a photo with my grandfather, I still felt that I did not think so, one was that we all had a blind camera, you can take pictures yourself, why should I ask others, more trouble; the second is that I am going to the station to take a train, why rush to take photos, and there will be more time in the future. It wasn't until after Grandpa's death that I understood Grandpa's mood at that time, and Grandpa was afraid that I would go to Beijing to study and never see him again, so he hurried to find someone to take a photo with my eldest grandson. In his later years, Grandpa specially asked his friend Bai Wande to write "Zhu Zi Family Training", and there was also a painting of "Tang Taizong Asked Xu Jingzong", and then left one for each of us, all of which have a very deep meaning, but he did not say it explicitly, let us think for ourselves, to understand by ourselves, this is the greatness of Grandpa.

Seventeen years have passed away, and my grandfather died at home on March 12, 1999 (the 25th day of the first lunar month, Arbor Day, and the anniversary of Sun Yat-sen's death) at the back of the East Campus. Grandpa's birthday is the twentieth day of the fifth lunar month in 1916, and today is the real 100th anniversary, so we published Grandpa's anthology and went to our hometown to commemorate it.

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