Chapter 100 Jin Yuelin rewrites "Theory of Knowledge"

Because of his eyesight, Lao Jin always wears a sun hat even indoors, with his back to the light, and leans over a small round table to concentrate on writing.He was rewriting his Theory of Knowledge. He was writing this book when he went to Lizhuang a few years ago, and the manuscript was almost completed after returning to Kunming.An air raid siren sounded, and he took the manuscript and ran to the mountains north of Kunming to hide from the air raid.Putting the manuscript on the ground, he sat on the manuscript. The air raid lasted for a long time, and when the alarm was lifted, it was already dark. He was hungry and sleepy, so he stood up, but forgot the manuscript on the ground.When he remembered it and went back to look for it, the manuscript was gone.Years of painstaking efforts were ruined! It is impossible to fully remember a book of 600,000 to 700,000 words, so he had to start from scratch.

During the most difficult years in the later period of the Anti-Japanese War, he almost kept writing this book.At the Southwest Associated University, Jin Yuelin's rewriting of "On Knowledge" has always been a good story. Lin Huiyin was with her friends. In the beautiful season of Kunming, her body showed signs of improvement little by little. Huiyin leaned quietly by the window and read a book. There was a thick layer of dark clouds in the sky, and suddenly it began to rain. The rain fell quickly, accompanied by rumbling thunder. In the thunderstorm in May, there was the smell of Artemisia annua and fermented soil.Huiyin felt a little cold, but she was reluctant to leave the window. She was moved by all this: "Kunming is always so beautiful, no matter it is sunny or rainy. The scenery outside my window is particularly moving before and after thunder. In the rain, there is a scene in the room. An indescribably romantic atmosphere—the sky and the earth suddenly darken together, and you are alone in a deserted house with a large silent garden outside. This is something that a person will never forget in his life."

During this period, Sicheng and his colleagues were busy packing the books, various pictures, drawings, materials, manuscripts and tools of the Construction Society, preparing to leave here as soon as the traffic returned to normal. Finally looking forward to the news of returning to the north, Huiyin returned to Chongqing and lived with his family in the guest house of Academia Sinica, waiting to return to Beijing.Waiting with them are dozens of families from Southwest Associated University and various research institutes. In the past 8 years, they have aged a lot, and they have also become a lot tougher.Especially the wives of the professors, each of them seemed to be a good housekeeper.

They still need to wait for a period of time in Chongqing, because there are too many institutions, officials and their families eager to return home after the war. During this period, in Kunming, Chongqing, and many cities in the interior, intellectuals were filled with a strong sense of disillusionment and frustration.The Kuomintang officials plundered money after the war, which accelerated the corruption of the regime. The unstoppable inflation and continuous poverty made the common people and intellectuals see no hope. In Kunming, students and staff of the Southwest Associated University took to the streets to protest against the KMT government's suppression of the democracy movement.A large number of military police and special agents were dispatched, resulting in the "December 1" tragedy that killed four people and injured more than 20 others.After the tragedy, students went on strike for more than a month, and all parts of the country expressed solidarity.Since then, student movements have erupted one after another in the Kuomintang-controlled areas, forming a prairie fire.In particular, Mr. Wen Yiduo was assassinated by secret agents on the streets of Kunming, which aroused the national anti-dictatorship and struggle for democracy movement to a climax.

The ubiquitous desperation, poverty, and backwardness, as well as the ubiquitous corruption, incompetence, and chaos made the intellectuals who had always adhered to the liberal stand begin to deny and betray the Kuomintang regime.