Chapter 95 intimate

Wen Yiduo entered Tsinghua University three years earlier than Liang Shiqiu. However, Wen Yiduo failed English in the first grade and was repeated for a year. He was repeated for another year because of participating in a student movement. He finally graduated only one year earlier than Liang Shiqiu. In 1920, Liang Shiqiu and his classmates founded the "Fiction Research Society", and Wen Yiduo also joined the society.From then on, Liang Shiqiu and Wen Yiduo became acquainted and became the closest friends. Liang Shiqiu and Wen Yiduo have the same attitude towards new poetry.They believe that poetry must have "the art of poetry, the imagination of poetry, and the emotion of poetry", and they would rather have a little more aristocratic spirit than advocate a "civilian style".They admired and admired Guo Moruo's works, but criticized Hu Shi's "Experimental Collection", Kang Baiqing's "Cao'er", and Yu Pingbo's "Winter Night".The two wrote two long articles, "Comments on "Cao'er"" and "Comments on "Winter Night", which were sponsored by Liang Shiqiu's father for 100 yuan. .

Wen Yiduo admired Liang Shiqiu, and he compared Liang to the modern Li Shangyin and British Keats.He once said: "Shiqiu! My only bright hope is to retreat to the Tang and Song Dynasties. Living next to you, cutting candles by the west window, drinking papers - we will imagine ourselves as Li Du, for For Han Meng, for Yuan Bai, for Pi Lu, for Su Huang, there is nothing wrong with it. Only in this way, maybe I can barely survive this life. My friend! I have made a contract with you now, can you allow it?" When Wen Yiduo went abroad to study, Liang Shiqiu was not very keen on studying abroad. Firstly, he was already in love with Cheng Jishu at that time; secondly, he was a little afraid of life in a completely unfamiliar foreign land.When Wen Wei was studying abroad, he discussed with Liang whether they would be hit and killed by a car if they went to a car kingdom like the United States.After arriving in the United States, the first sentence Wen Yiduo wrote to Liang Shiqiu was: "I have not been hit by a car yet!" Then he persuaded Liang to go abroad to broaden his horizons.

A year later, Liang Shiqiu also came to the United States.As soon as he arrived at the University of Colorado, he sent a letter to Wen Yiduo at the University of Chicago, enclosing 12 pictures of local natural scenery in Colorado, and wrote a sentence on the back of one of them: "Look at this How is this place better than Chicago?" His intention was just to tease Wen, because he knew Wen didn't have a good time in Chicago.Unexpectedly, a few days later, Wen appeared in front of Liang with a large suitcase and told him that he had transferred from Chicago to Key Springs University.Thus, the two began a close classmate life again.They each rented a room in the home of a typesetting worker in a local newspaper, stayed together day and night, discussed literature together, and truly realized Wen Yiduo's long-cherished wish of "cutting candles at the west window and drinking papers".

After that, the two moved to the school dormitory to save money.At first, they only dared to use alcohol stoves to make coffee or tea, and to eat bread to satisfy their hunger.Later, my courage gradually grew, and I started to use an alcohol stove to scramble eggs, cabbage, and Mushu meat.Wen Yiduo succeeded in the first experiment, and he shouted: "It's not easy to eat this every day in a foreign country!" But sometimes there will be minor problems.Once, Wen accidentally knocked over the alcohol stove, burned her hair and eyebrows, burned her hands, and almost set fire to the curtains.Another time, they were found cooking dumplings, so the administrator came to intervene.But when they asked the administrator to eat one, the administrator said it was delicious, and from then on they were allowed to cook something, but the movement should not be too loud.

When Wen Yiduo participated in the New York Art Exhibition, because he was short of a landscape painting, he planned to go up the mountain to sketch.Liang Shiqiu, who had just learned to drive for only three days, rented a car and volunteered to drive him.The two drove towards Manitou Park, going higher and higher, but they took the wrong road and walked into a dead end road with a cliff at the end.Liang had no choice but to back up. There were deep mountain streams on both sides of the road. When Liang was reversing the car, his hands trembled. When he didn't pay attention, the car went out of a rut and slipped diagonally into the mountain stream.The two could only hear the whistling wind in their ears, the car was out of control, Wen Yiduo screamed in fright.Fortunately, the car was caught between two pine trees, and the slide stopped.They hurried up the hill, and with the help of a Spaniard, they pulled the car onto the road.But after this tossing, Liang Shiqiu didn't dare to drive boldly anymore, and Wen Yiduo lost interest in painting, and the two returned home listlessly.

Wen Yiduo was very interested in the works of the Spanish painter Velasquez, so he also learned his style. The characters in his paintings are almost all hideous and hideous.Once, he drew a half-length portrait of Liang Shiqiu, with thick brush strokes, the corners of the mouth curled up like a ladle, the green hair standing upright like a rooster's tail, and the background is red. It sounds scary.After the painting was finished, Wen Yiduo was very satisfied, but after Liang Shiqiu brought it back to China, the children of the Liang family looked scared and threw it away. When I was at the University of Colorado, an American student published a poem in a weekly newspaper, saying that the faces of Chinese people are like monsters like sphinxes.Although this poem did not mean to insult the Chinese, Liang and Wen still felt angry. Liang wrote "An Answer from a Chinese Man", and Wen wrote "An Answer from Another Chinese Man", which were published in the school magazine at the same time.As a result, the two became very popular and became news figures on campus for a while.

In 1924, the two left the University of Colorado, Liang Shiqiu was going to Harvard University for graduate studies, and Wen Yiduo went to New York to continue studying painting.When parting, Wen gave Liang his beloved Poems of Horsman and Yeats, and Liang gave back an enamel incense burner made by Beijing Lao Yang Tianli and a large bag of sandalwood.Because Wen likes the realm of "burning incense and sitting silently" the most, he often recites Lu You's "If you want to know how to ascend in the daytime, you can do it by burning incense and listening to the rain". In the summer of 1930, Wen Yiduo and Liang Shiqiu accepted the invitation of Yang Zhensheng, the president of Qingdao University, to teach at Qingdao University.There are many mountain roads in Qingdao, and both of them bought a delicate walking stick.Every day, Wen Yiduo went to school to go to work, passing by the door of Liang's house, and greeted him lightly, and Liang came out in response.The two wore long robes, each with a stick, and walked along the rugged path, as if there was no one else around.

Liang Shiqiu is very fond of Qingdao with its beautiful mountains and rivers, but Wen Yiduo often laments that Qingdao has "no culture".The two visited Laoshan Mountain together, and sighed: "Although the scenery is beautiful, it can't make you think about the past." Liang pointed to the rocks and retorted: "That is the work created by nature thousands of years ago. Shouldn't it be a 'historical site'?" The principal, Yang Zhensheng, was from Shandong, with a bold personality and a good drinker. He often drank and had fun with Wen Yiduo, Liang Shiqiu, Zhao Taimo, Chen Jichao, Liu Kangfu, Deng Zhongcun, and Fang Lingru in school.Seven drunkards and one female historian are jokingly known as the "Eight Immortals in Wine".Liang Shiqiu recalled that they had "a small banquet every three days, and a large banquet every five days...the flower carvings of 30 catties per altar were moved to the front of the banquet, and when they were exhausted, they entered the banquet at dusk and began to leave late at night....We used to call ourselves 'the wine is pressed In the area of ​​Jiaoji, punching the two capitals of the north and the south'. Mr. Hu Shizhi once passed by Qingdao and saw us fighting and drinking. He was so frightened that he put on a ring engraved with the word "Quitting Alcohol" and asked for exemption from fighting. He laughed a lot. Said: 'Don't forget that Shandong is one of the birthplaces of the Boxers.'”

When the "September 18th" Incident broke out, students from Qingdao University and students from various schools in the north went south to Nanjing to petition, demanding that the Kuomintang government quickly send troops to resist Japan.After the incident, Wen Yiduo proposed to expel several leading students at the school affairs meeting, but was protested by the students, and the principal Yang Zhensheng resigned.Wen was also attacked by students, and slogans such as "Expel the ignorant Wen Yiduo" were often posted on campus.Once, Wen Yiduo and Liang Shiqiu saw a rabbit and a tortoise drawn on the blackboard, with "Wen Yiduo and Liang Shiqiu" written next to them.Wen asked seriously: "Which one is me?" Liang replied with a wry smile: "It's up to you to choose!"

After Wen Yiduo was killed, Liang Shiqiu ran around looking for the real culprit.He was very disappointed with the Kuomintang and never said a word in the Senate.He always kept Wen Yiduo's letters with him, even when he came to Taiwan, he carefully collected them.