1.1910-1930: childhood
There is a land of plenty in southern Jiangsu, called Wuxi. It is famous for striking while the iron is hot, grinding bean curd and clay dolls.
1910165438+at the end of October, autumn is getting deeper and deeper, and occasionally the wind blows. Qianjia Sanfang, a well-known local family, gave birth to a baby boy, who is also Qianjia's grandson. According to the "geomantic omen on the grave" of the Qian family for many years, the longhouse is often of no interest, so he gave his uncle an heir when he was born, and his uncle named him yang xian, whose word is Zhe Liang. I grabbed a book when I was one year old, so I changed my name to Zhongshu.
His grandfather is an old scholar with old ideas. He never liked his eldest son very much, so he didn't like him very much. Grandmother died when he was one year old.
My mother is taciturn and cautious, and my father was stupid when he was young. He was beaten all the time, and suddenly one day he was beaten and suddenly came to his senses. As an adult, he always looks serious, but his wife often complains about his stupidity, and his arrogance follows his father.
When he was four years old, his uncle began to teach him to read. He followed his mother-like uncle and was very happy. I was inseparable from him all day, going to the teahouse and listening to books together.
At the age of six, he entered Qin's primary school. He fell ill less than half a year after he went to school. His uncle couldn't bear to let him go to school any more and began to teach him to read in person, but only in the afternoon.
Every morning when my uncle goes to the teahouse for tea, he buys him a big shortcake for a copper coin, and then rents him a novel from a small bookstore for two copper coins. At home, he only swallowed some serious novels such as The Journey to the West and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The books rented from the bookstall are novels such as Tang Shuo, Biography of Qi Huangong and Elvis Presley, which are not elegant and are hidden at home.
He ate shortbread and absorbed in reading until his uncle told him to go home. After returning home, he danced and told his two younger brothers the novel he had just finished reading.
In order to let him exercise, uncle hung a ball of cotton from a height with a rope and taught him to play "cotton boxing" and practice soft skills. Uncle loves to drink two mouthfuls of wine, and he doesn't have much money in his hand. He can only buy some cheap cooked food as an appetizer, and coax him into saying that the sauce of pig tongue is dragon liver and phoenix marrow, and ham is tiger meat. As an adult, he also coaxed his wife.
In the autumn when he was eleven, his uncle died, which was the first sad thing in his life. After that, he began to say something indecent or arrogant. His father changed his words into silence, hoping that he would talk less, but this obviously didn't play a binding role.
His middle school is an American missionary school, and he needs to wear leather shoes, but he can't tell the right from the left. When I went to physical education class, I shouted slogans in my mouth and my feet were still swinging from side to side. Collared sweaters are often upside down.
During the winter vacation, my father taught in Tsinghua University, and read novels world, Red Rose and other publications at home all day. After his father came home, he was ordered to write an article. He wrote this article in plain language and vulgar words. That day, his family was enjoying the cool in the yard, and he was beaten in the hall alone, sobbing. From then on, he began to study hard.
1930, 20 years old, college entrance examination. He only got 15 in math, but his Chinese was excellent and he got full marks in English, so he was admitted to Tsinghua.
2. 1930- 1938: from one to three
In college, without his father's control, he read Chinese and western books all day. He never takes notes in class, only brings a random book unrelated to the course, and reads his own book when attending class, but the exam is always the first, and his notebook is full of masterpieces. His deskmate surnamed Xu fell in love with a girl who kept glancing at her in class. To this end, he made a "Yan Xu Change Map", which was circulated in the class for a while.
After four years in college, he didn't like activities, and he was immersed in the vast sea of books all day. Vulgar books also make him laugh. He loves reading philosophy, aesthetics, poetry and even a big dictionary that he can't carry. He never takes notes in class, but he takes notes carefully when reading casual books.
1932, he met Jiang Yang who held hands with him all his life. One is the son of a noble family, the other is a noble family, and love is like oxygen. 1935, a talented person and a talented woman formally got married. Soon after, they boarded a ship together and went to England for further study.
Only after marriage did his wife really realize that he was clumsy, could not tie a bow, and could only grasp chopsticks. When I first arrived in Oxford, I took the bus and got off unsteadily. I knocked out half my front teeth.
At school, his biggest headache is ancient philology and book ordering. There is a demonstration in the textbook, but he didn't fold it correctly. He complained angrily to his wife that the textbook was too outrageous. In fact, the demonstration in the book is a mirror image, but he folded it backwards. He translated the whole article without looking at the topic in the ancient Chinese book exam, but he failed the exam and had to retake it.
1937 In May, my daughter was born. The newborn baby's skin was red and wrinkled, but he looked at it again and again and proudly said, "This is my daughter, I like it." Later, I named my daughter Ayuan.
During his hospitalization, his wife lived alone and visited the delivery room every day. She often says with a bitter face, "I did something bad." He knocked over the ink bottle and dyed the tablecloth of the landlord's house. His wife comforted him that he was out of the way and she would fix it. As a result, the desk lamp was smashed the next day, and the door shaft was broken the next day. ......
After the Oxford essay exam, if he was granted Amnesty, he felt that it was not worth losing a lot of time for a degree. He read a lot of unnecessary books and had to give up the books he wanted to read, thinking that "a bachelor of arts is ignorance of literature." From then on, I stopped studying for any degree and only studied according to my own curriculum.
3. 1938- 1950: Running.
1938, he took his wife and children on the boat to return home. He first went to the National Southwest Associated University to teach for a year, and then went to Lantian as the head of the English department at his father's behest.
In the summer vacation of 194 1, he had a dark face, long hair, wore a summer gown and brought a foreign orange home. Oranges are specially brought for my daughter, and since then, my daughter has a naughty playmate. On a hot day, when his daughter was asleep, he drew a big face on her belly. I often play with a bunch of children and try to coax them into saying uncivilized things.
He once said to his wife seriously, "If we have another child, it may be better than Ayuan, so we will like that child. How can I be worthy of A Yuan? "
After liberation, they kept a cat. He said that kittens are sensitive, spiritual and special. A cat fights with other cats in the middle of the night. He specially prepares a long pole and puts it at the door. No matter how cold it is, as long as he hears the cat meow, he immediately gets out of bed, picks up a bamboo pole and helps the cat fight. One of the fights with his cat was the "focus of love" of the Lin family. His wife is worried that it will hurt her feelings. She quoted his prose "Cat" and said, "Beat the dog to see the face of the owner, and beat the person to see the face of the housewife." He replied, "Theories are always formulated by people who don't practice." The wife was speechless.
4. 1950- death: colorful clouds are easy to disperse.
1950 transferred to Mao Xuan Translation Committee. He obeys the leader meekly, does not take the lead, and is ready to help others. I just want to steal time to read his books after doing his work well. However, in the winter of 195 1, the "three evils" movement was launched, and the students still asked him to go back to school and take a bath in the middle basin (referring to criticism and self-criticism).
1955 was seconded to annotate Song Ci. He was wronged that the foreign literature he had been studying was not China's classical literature. But I put up with it. In two years, he read all the Song Ci without an assistant, and with a little help from his wife, he finished the annotation by himself.
It was this annotation of Song Ci that made him a rightist and was sent to Changli to pound dung and eat moldy sweet potatoes and corn. After three months of renovation, he became very caring for his family and brought a lot of soap and candied fruit from Changli, which could not be bought in Beijing.
1972 in early spring, his wife accidentally put out the coal stove the night before. The next day, he got up to cook as usual, and breakfast was ready. He took it into the house and ate it with his wife. He suddenly asked in surprise, "Who lit the fire for you?" Then he said proudly, "I can strike matches!" " "He was 62 years old that year and struck a match for the first time in his life.
Family members often say to their wives, "In your family, Zhong Shu is the smallest and A Yuan is the largest." My daughter often says, "My father and I are buddies and two urchins of my mother. My father is not worthy to be my brother, he can only be my brother. "
After Fortress Besieged was adapted into a TV series, he suddenly became a celebrity and received many letters. Write back first thing in the morning.
When his wife asked him if he wanted to write another novel, he replied, "He may still be interested, but his talent is decreasing year by year. It is impossible to write, only resentment; If there are any conditions you can't write, you will regret it. There is still room for deceiving yourself in resentment. Regret is the so-called' it's time to face reality' in the Spanish you learned, and it tastes bad. I would rather hate than regret. "
"Good things in the world are not forced, colorful clouds are easy to disperse, and glass is fragile." /kloc-0 died at the end of 1998 at the age of 88.