Chapter 45 Sicheng brings back a piece of wreckage

Friends who love Zhimo were caught off guard by the sudden arrival of the disaster.Huiyin can't connect Zhimo with death! He is such a vibrant and talented person.He is at the age of 34! Serious and innocent like a child, who can accept the reality of another world that has fallen into silence? However, reason tells Huiyin that Zhimo is indeed gone and will never return! No news, no news, gone forever, no news, no news... Facing this unpredictable life, Huiyin felt sad. The fragility of life and the unpredictability of the world had struck her strongly when her father died. Early the next morning, Sicheng, Lao Jin, and Xi Ruo went to Qilu University in Jinan to discuss Xu Zhimo's funeral with Shen Congwen, Wen Yiduo, Liang Shiqiu and others.They dissuaded Huiyin who insisted on going together.She has always been weak and pregnant, and they worried that she would not be able to face the tragic scene.

At around nine o'clock in the morning on the 22nd, Liang Sicheng and his party arrived in Jinan.Xu Zhimo's coffin was parked in a small temple called Fuyuan Temple, where they bid farewell to Xu Zhimo's body.Shen Congwen later described the situation in an article: Two workers removed the coffin lid, and Xu Zhimo lay quietly in the coffin. He was wearing a shroud of silk robe and mandarin jacket, black cloud-toed Ruyi birthday shoes, and a red ball silk cap, revealing a The forehead that can't be covered up, and a big hole on the forehead, this is obviously his fatal injury.The eyes are slightly open, he doesn't want to die! The nose is slightly swollen, and it seems to be burning.The front teeth are gone, and the big hole on the forehead seems to be the result of a forward collision.This is Xu Zhimo, who is always angry, and never knows that there is an "enemy".

Liang Sicheng presented a small wreath, which he and Huiyin made overnight. The green iron leaves and white flowers were soaked with Huiyin's tears. When returning to Beijing, Sicheng brought back a wreckage of the crashed plane.Huiyin wrapped the wreckage with a large piece of white silk and kept it at home until her death. On December 7, 1931, half a month after Xu Zhimo was killed, Lin Huiyin's story was published in Beijing's "Morning News Supplement". Lin Huiyin's memories and condolences for Xu Zhimo wrote about Xu Zhimo's unique temperament and charm, his obsession with art and beauty, his tolerance and kindness to friends and all people, and his persistence and ignorance in ideals and beliefs. sincerity.The article highlights Xu Zhimo's temperament of "even if I break my head, I still have to maintain the freedom of my soul." Among the many mourning texts at that time, Lin Huiyin's had extra weight.

At the same time, the colleagues of the "New Moon Society" plan to set up the "Zhimo Prize" to encourage and support the creation of new vernacular poems, because this is Xu Zhimo's unfulfilled wish.Zhimo's relatives and friends began to collect Zhimo's published and unpublished works, and planned to edit "The Complete Works of Xu Zhimo".In the process of collecting materials, Lin Huiyin and Ling Shuhua had conflicts unexpectedly. Ling Shuhua was an influential female writer at that time. In the 1920s, she attracted the attention of the literary world because of her novels such as "The Temple of Flowers".These novels reflect the repressed women's life in the big feudal family, with euphemism and delicate writing style.Later, she married Chen Yuan, editor-in-chief of Modern Review, and emigrated abroad in the 1940s.

The conflict stems from a small box that Xu Zhimo entrusted Ling Shuhua to keep.