Chapter 180 sad

In September 1931, shortly after the start of Peking University, the September 18th Incident happened.Hu Shi wrote in his diary: "We spent nine months creating a new Peking University. The school will start on September 14th, and five days later there will be a September 18 bomb! The Japanese are really heinous!" After Hu Shi became the president of Peking University, he was very ambitious. He said, "Since I have been the president of Peking University, I hope to do it for ten or eight years in order to make some achievements. Otherwise, I will be sorry for Peking University and myself." Make Peking University a university with international status."

On December 17, 1948, which was the 50th anniversary of the founding of Peking University and Hu Shi’s 57th birthday, at the commemorative meeting of Peking University in the “Academia Sinica” in Nanjing, Hu Shi delivered a speech: “I never dreamed that I would meet you here today, I am a deserter who abandoned my job, and I have no face to speak here." The words reached the point of pain, and wept bitterly, and the venue was desolate. On December 15, 1948, Hu Shi hurriedly dragged his wife to board the special plane of the Kuomintang, and could not take away more than 100 wooden boxes of books that had already been bundled. Even the youngest son had no time to inform him. The manuscript of "Shui Jing Zhu" and the 16 chapters of "Jiaxu Benzhi Yanzhai Re-evaluation of Stones" which are regarded as life.Before leaving, I left a note saying: "Although I am far away, I will never forget Peking University."

Ji Xianlin wrote in his reminiscence article: I heard that after he (Hu Shi) left Peiping, he sent a special plane from Nanjing to pick up some old friends by name, and he personally waited for him at Nanjing Airport.After the plane returned, the cabin door opened, and he hoped to meet his old friend.However, all but one or two of the people he wanted to pick up did not come out of the cabin.It's said—it's just said that he cried a lot at that time, and the feeling in his heart may be really inexplicable to outsiders. In January 1949, Chiang Kai-shek asked Hu Shi to go to the United States, and then hired Hu Shi as a "counselor of the presidential palace", but Hu Shi only cared about the post of president of Peking University. He wrote to Wu Zhongxin, secretary general of the presidential palace, saying:

"According to the 'University Organization Law', the president of a national university is not allowed to concurrently serve as a paid post. Now I am still the president of the National Peking University. Due to the current situation, I cannot resign at this time. So please, sir, resign from the Presidential Palace on my behalf. Name and salary. I also ask my husband to take back the letter of appointment on my behalf, and I beg him not to publish this matter, so as to avoid unnecessary speculation and rumors in the press. Tomorrow night, I will go to Shanghai for a short stay with President Mei in the same car. I am here to say goodbye. I am afraid we will not be able to see each other. Therefore, I am sending this letter to Mr., begging him to remember my sincerity and to dismiss this matter for me. Thank you very much! "

At this time, Hu Shi was still performing his duties as the president of Peking University. On March 9, 1949, Jiao Zengyu, a student of Peking University School of Medicine, fled from Beiping to Shanghai, and was detained as soon as he landed. Jiao saw an announcement published by Mei Yiqi in the newspaper in prison, and knew that Hu Shi had a public announcement the next day. After giving a speech, he called Mei, and it happened that Hu Shi was also at Mei Yiqi's place. After answering the phone, he immediately called Jiang Jingguo, and Jiao was released within 30 minutes.Jiao went to see Hu Shi, reported the change of hands in Beiping and his escape, and asked for help.Hu Appropriate wrote him a certificate in his own hand.With this paper certificate, Jiao Cai traveled across the ocean and entered a medical school in Canada.In Zhu Kezhen's diary, Hua Lijin, a second-year law student at Peking University, took Hu Shi's letter and wanted to borrow it at Zhejiang University.

In the spring of 1957, after undergoing major gastric ulcer surgery in New York, he made a will in English, imagining that "after the recovery of the mainland, when Peking University becomes a free university", 102 boxes of books he left in Peking were donated to Peking University.He already felt at this moment that it was impossible to return to the mainland of the motherland in this life. Li Ao claimed to have received support from Hu Shi when he was in difficulty, and praised Hu Shi all his life.During his visit to Peking University during his "2005 Mainland Cultural Journey", Li Ao donated money to Peking University in hopes of erecting a bronze statue of Hu Shi.

Hu Sidu made it clear that he would not fly south with his parents, but would stay with his relatives temporarily and decide what to do after seeing the development of the situation.Hu Shi had no choice but to comply with the wishes of his son, whom he called "Little San".Unexpectedly, we never saw each other again.Until Hu Shi's death, he did not know that Hu Sidu, the junior who stayed in the mainland and later claimed to have severed his father-son relationship with him, had committed suicide in 1957 during a political movement.In his later years, Hu Shi actually left a small inheritance for his youngest son in his will.