Chapter 2 There is still Zhang Leping in the world

However, Ye Qianyu, who painted "Mr. Wang" and "Xiao Chen", is such a good-looking person, and Zhang Leping is such a good-looking person, I can see it.I would say to the kids and classmates on the street: "Test you guys! What do Ye Qianyu and Zhang Leping look like?" I said again: "...don't know! I do! They're prettier than all your dead eggs!" The Anti-Japanese War broke out, and I was in southern Fujian.The school moved to the mountains. The school library has new books, newspapers, magazines, and pictorials arriving constantly. "West Wind", "Knife and Pen", "Cultivation", "Cosmic Wind", "Good Friends", "Human World", "Woodcuts of the Anti-Japanese War", "Popular Woodcuts"... There are so many that I can't remember or finish.

Now that it's the Anti-Japanese War, the crowd is passionate and full of voices every moment. Then the library flooded with prints of comics and woodcuts sent by publicity centers in Shanghai, Wuhan, Hong Kong, and Guangzhou. The large number of cartoonists we admire in our hearts seem to be standing on the front line of the bombardment.Every week, you can see news of their activities and new creations. Mr. Zhu Chenggan, an art teacher at the school, helped us write letters to Mr. Ye Fu and Mr. Jin Fengsun in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province. Each of them paid 80 cents to join the China Woodcut Association.Since then, our art world has expanded, knowing the value of being an art soldier.

In addition to the great Ye Qianyu and Zhang Leping, there is also another big "family" of Chen Yanqiao, Li Hua, Yefu, Luo Qingzhen, and Xinbo. The concept of "Manmu" is the combined name of "manga" and "woodcut". The school has a poster.We feel that we have grown up and can draw cartoons and carve woodcuts by ourselves.Whenever there are parades and rallies, they also know how to magnify and paint those famous cartoons and woodcuts on cloth to decorate the venue or make parade flags and signs. So busy and excited all the time, we lived and grew up slowly for the sake of the war of resistance.

Zhang Leping is different from other cartoonists.It is rare for other cartoonists to see sketching skills, and Zhang Le usually shows a few sketches from time to time.Accurate, vivid, key parts - such as eyes, hands, changes in the "webs" connecting hands and fingers, the rhythm of the whole body twisting, like the whole body echo of a Beijing opera actor.I can not only get the joy of appreciating art from his works, but also follow the guidance of his works to further observe the life around me. Each composition brings a surprise and delight.One of his sketches of "Straw Sandals", I cut it out from the newspaper and pasted it on the notebook, flipped through it, but it turned out to be blurred (pitiful for the newspapers printed on earthen paper back then).

He also drew a set of comic strips of "The Legend of Wang Ba" with traitors as the protagonists, which is simply wonderful and wonderful! The pen and ink are sprinting like bayonets and steel guns. He hates Japanese ghosts, dogs and traitors, and hates them so much! It is really hard to find a substitute for the cruelty of ghosts and the shameless obscenity of dog traitors. He thinks so accurately and vividly, and uses the pen comfortably and flexibly, and always completes it in one go.After reading these four pictures and waiting for the next four, I feel anxious, like waiting for Sunday on the weekend, and I am in a daze waiting for ten and a half months later.

This kind of waiting, this kind of anxiety, and the traces of this urgency can be seen everywhere in my freehand brushwork and brushwork in Chinese painting today.I have benefited a lot.If there is any regret, it's just that I was young and ignorant and didn't understand deeply. At school, I had a classmate Li Shangda who was in high school.This man is from the same hometown as Prime Minister Li Guangdi.He is the idol of several mischievous people in the school.Fat, strong, good tempered, able to fight, rich, and a dutiful son. When the summer vacation came, the students who returned to Nanyang returned to Nanyang, those who returned to Shanghai returned to Shanghai, those who returned to Guangdong returned to Guangdong, and those who returned to all directions returned to all directions. The remaining seven or eight people who could not go home for various reasons stayed in school.Such an empty Confucian temple, as soon as you go out, you will be on the street, with thousands of acres of lychee and longan trees, a blue river, and endless beaches. It's so fun.

Just lack a leader. Of course it was Li Shangda.It's a pity he has to go back too.His home is a hundred and eighty miles away from the city.He often invites ten or twenty high school classmates to walk home.We want to go, but we are not allowed! It is too small, what should we do if we can’t walk halfway? His house is the "Mecca" we imagined. I heard that the house is nice and big, and it doesn't matter if there are fifty or sixty people.Hello mom, I cook for everyone and never cook for my son. I live here for a month or two.Like everyone's mother. Suddenly I heard that he will not go home this summer vacation.

How happy do you think we are? He is fat and ticklish, and we rush up to scratch him, and he screams like hell, agreeing to treat us to this and that. We are his "soldiers", he comes up with naughty ideas, we execute.He can tell unexpected stories, and every sentence is very pleasant. I heard that when the weather clears during the rainy season, his mother will move out one or two hundred big gourds on the stone square with a few acres of land at the gate, untie the belt around the gourd's waist, cut the gourd in half, and shake it open to reveal big banknotes .She hangs these moldy banknotes.

Think about it, we are rich, we know how to fight, we like to be with us junior high school students, and we have a good temper, how can we not accept it? In the evening, lined up on the stone platform in front of the Dacheng Hall, he taught us boxing, kicking, "first way", weightlifting... I think, he is also proud of himself and likes us, otherwise, why are you with us? Not long after school started one year, disasters struck.A teacher of the school had a misunderstanding with the wife of the police chief while watching a play outside. After being beaten, he fled back to school with a bruised nose and a swollen face.Let the students know.Is this okay? Hit our teacher! Go out and trample on the lair of the police station. The chief, section chief... all of them are "inspired" by being unable to get out of bed for a month or two.

Things are getting bigger.The government has its reasons, and schools have their reasons.Fighting is for the school; it is illegal to beat the police and other people.The school’s backstage was hard, and the government had nothing to do with it. It took an action to “save face” and expelled three classmates, one was a classmate sitting at the desk behind me, and two high school students, one of whom was Li Shangda. If the school does this, it can't be justified! The expulsion notice of the three classmates was posted, and then a farewell party was held for them. Li Shangda left quietly, and we didn't know until a few days later.As you can imagine, how embarrassing it is!

Just leave like that! We didn't meet again until fifty years after we left. In the second year after Li Shangda left, I also beat someone up, and my head was bleeding with three cuts.This fight is not for the motherland, not for the school, but for itself 100%; the school's general idea is that "students in the war zone can't go home", "two major demerits and two minor demerits, stay in school for probation". I didn't like reading in the first place, and I was in the library all day long. After leaving countless times, I was as lonely as a seagull in the world. Adding this punishment that only let me stay for one breath, it doesn't make much sense. I am already fifteen or sixteen Year-old, let's go! Just go. ...Where is this Li Shangda? It is impossible for him to study anymore! Which of the famous middle schools with a radius of a thousand miles has he never attended? Then, is there no chance of finding him? Not anymore.This idea is gone! Who else in the world? Zhang Leping!