Chapter 8 taste of blood

Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, the capital of the large industrial state in the eastern United States, also known as "Keystone", is located at the confluence of the two rivers Delaware and Chulkill at high tide.This was once the site of the first capital of the United States of America. Starting from the Chulkill River is Philadelphia's West Side, and the world-famous University of Pennsylvania is built on the west bank of the river. The University of Pennsylvania was founded in the 18th century and belongs to the Ivy League. The academic atmosphere of this university is very strong. The previous presidents are active in thinking and the research institutes are also very good. The Institute of Architecture that Liang Sicheng studied in is a particularly outstanding one. Place.

The famous French architect Paul P. Cree (1876-1945) presided over the teaching work of the Academy of Architecture there. He entered the Paris School of Fine Arts in 1896 and received the reinforcement of architecture, architectural history and concise and beautiful perspective drawings. train.At this time, Clay made his mark in architecture and mathematics. He later designed the Pan-American Union Building in Washington, the Federal Reserve Building and the Detroit School of Fine Arts. These beautiful buildings have won awards and are a strong proof of his talent. The University of Pennsylvania is adjacent to De Claire University, and it is considered to be the three best colleges in the United States along with Harvard and Stanford.

After Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, Liang Sicheng soon entered the Department of Architecture. Because the Department of Architecture did not admit girls, Lin Huiyin, like American female students, applied to the Department of Fine Arts and took architecture courses.The School of Fine Arts of Penn University has a unique teaching method. The school has a well-equipped studio where students can go in and design their own works at any time. When they were not in class, Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng made an appointment with Chen Zhi, who had come to Penn University a year earlier, to go for a walk outside the school.

To the north of the school gate, not far away is the black ghetto, the slums stretching for miles, the houses of various heights and low levels, scattered in a random manner, the tile-gray walls are smeared with some black and white patterns, piles of garbage, exuding The musty smell soaring into the sky, children are playing beside this garbage dump, and thugs are wandering around the street.They were shocked by the beauty of Lin Huiyin's oriental style. They whistled maliciously, but Lin Huiyin always smiled generously and walked past them. Sometimes they also took a walk to the area of ​​Chestnut Hill, which is full of beautiful mansions, luxuriant with trees and quiet surroundings, which is the residence of the rich.

When they were in a good mood, they rode to the suburbs of Montgomery, Chester, and Gettysburg to see Fort Valley and Brandy Wayne Battlefield, Radnor Hunting Ground, and Longwood Park.Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng were very interested in the covered bridge there, and they always lingered, but Chen Zhi was obsessed with the rolling, peaceful and quiet countryside. Sometimes, they also go to the bazaar, where they can always buy all kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables at the farm stalls. Lin Huiyin likes to eat fried oatmeal buns, but Liang Sicheng likes Lebanese sausage and Swiss cheese. Chen Zhi said that he was not used to eating anything, but he just liked the unique flavor of Smirkes.

When they were in college, American students jokingly referred to those from China as "boxer students". They were very rigid and rigid, with the exception of Lin Huiyin and Chen Zhi.Lin Huiyin is unusually beautiful, smart and lively, speaks fluent English, and is good at building a good relationship with people around her.Chen Zhi often sings in the university chorus club, loves to joke, is humorous and lively, and is also the most popular boy. Liang Sicheng was a serious and diligent student, while Lin Huiyin was full of creative associations, often drawing a sketch first, then revising it many times, or even discarding it.When the deadline for handing in drawings was approaching, Liang Sicheng joined in, and with his accurate and beautiful drawing skills, he turned Lin Huiyin's messy sketches into a clear and neat work.

On January 17, 1926, an American classmate Billings wrote an interview to her hometown "Montana Newspaper", describing Lin Huiyin's student life at Penn University: Sitting in a chair near a window overlooking a campus path, she leaned over a drafting table, her gaunt figure crawling over the huge architectural problem set as it hung with thirty or forty other problem sets. When on the wall of the huge judging room, there will be great rewards.It's not pretentious to say this, because she always gets the highest grades for her assignments or occasionally comes in second.She is unsmiling, humorous and humble.Never talk about your achievements.

"I traveled all over Europe with my father. During the trip, I had the dream of studying architecture for the first time. Modern Western classical architecture inspired me and filled me with the desire to bring some back to my country. We need a way that can make Good architectural theory of how buildings are immortalized for hundreds of years. "Then I went to secondary school in England. British girls don't start out as friendly like American girls. Their heritage seems to make them unnaturally reserved." "What do you think of American girls—those little teals?"

The answer is a slight smile.A pair of beautifully colored, light dimples showed on her cheeks.The thin eyebrows are raised to her cloud temples, which are combed strictly according to the style of female college students. "At first my aunts and aunts refused to let me come to America. They were afraid of those little wild ducks, and they were afraid that I would be influenced by them and become like them. I have to admit that I thought they were stupid at first, but Later when you look under the surface, you will find that they are the best couples in the world. In China, a girl's value depends entirely on her family. Here, there is a democratic spirit that I like. "

The Museum of the University of Pennsylvania is small in scale, but it has a good reputation and is very close to the Department of Architecture. When there are no classes, Lin Huiyin drags Liang Sicheng to the museum. The museum houses precious cultural relics from various countries around the world. Lin Huiyin also discovered that two of the six steeds in the Mausoleum of Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, "Sa Lu Zi" and "Fist Hair", were actually placed here. The Six Horses were originally the mounts used by Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty in the various campaigns in which the Tang Dynasty was established. 1.7 meters, about 2 meters wide on the rectangular limestone.The name of the horse is engraved on the upper right corner of each limestone, indicating that this horse was ridden by Li Shimin when he fought against whom, and Li Shimin's comments are also engraved.These stone carvings all existed in Zhaoling, when the imperialists invaded our country, these two steeds were stolen to the Museum of Philadelphia University in the United States.The names of the four horses that Lin Huiyin had seen in Zhaoling were: "Qingzhao", "Shifachi", "Telepiu", and "Baihowu".She was once amazed at the delicacy and grandeur of this work of art. The stone horses were running or standing, lifelike, as if seeing their long manes fluttering in the thousands of miles of dust, as if hearing them tearing through the glaciers in Guanshan. The long neighing.She didn't expect that two of them would travel across the ocean alone, lost in a foreign country, and meet her here.

Although Liang Sicheng majored in architecture, he is well-trained in music and painting.The University of Pennsylvania requires students to design their own works. His first work was to make an antique bronze mirror for Lin Huiyin.It was made of a modern round glass mirror embedded in an antique bronze mirror.In the middle of the bronze mirror are engraved two reliefs of flying apsaras from the Yungang Grottoes. The outer periphery of the flying apsaras is a circle of curly grass patterns. The wreath and flying apsaras form a perfect circular pattern. Self-engraved and cast as a metaphor for its crystal clearness. Lin Huiyin exclaimed in amazement: "This fake antique can be a real one!" Liang Sicheng said: "After it is finished, I will ask the professor of the Department of Fine Arts who studies the history of oriental art to identify the age of this mirror. He does not understand Chinese, so he turned it over and looked at it for a long time. He said that he had never seen such a thick bronze mirror. , Judging from the pattern, it seems to be from the Northern Wei Dynasty, but the text on it doesn't look like it. Finally, I told the professor that this is my craft. The professor laughed and said Hey! mischievousimp! (naughty bag)" Lin Huiyin also leaned forward and backward with laughter. Less than a month after entering the school, Mrs. Li died of illness. Because they had just entered the school and everything was not yet ready, Liang Qichao repeatedly called Sicheng not to let Sicheng go back to China for the funeral, but let Siyong go back alone. Liang Sicheng was distraught, so Lin Huiyin held a small sacrifice with him on the hillside behind the campus. Liang Sicheng burned the sacrificial oration he wrote to his mother. up, in the direction of home. Lin Huiyin has not received a letter from home for a long time. She began to feel uneasy, urging Sicheng to win her trust every day, but every time Sicheng came back empty-handed, it always made her feel disappointed and panicked.Not long after Mrs. Li's death, Sicheng received a letter from his father, saying that Uncle Lin was going to serve as the shogunate in the Guo Songling Department of Fengjun.Lin Huiyin also worried about his father all the time. Worrying news keeps coming from across the ocean.There was news in the newspaper that: Guo Songling convened a meeting of the generals in Luanzhou, revolted against the army, sent a telegram to Zhang Zuolin to go to the field, and sent troops out of the customs. There is also news that Guo Jun failed in Xinmintun, southwest of Shenyang, and Guo's entire army was wiped out. Lin Huiyin, who was so worried, finally looked forward to the letter from home, which was written by Liang Qichao to Sicheng: I still have the hope that he can escape from the chaos.In case this hope does not come true, I have some words for you. First, you have to be very calm, and don't hurt your body because of too much stimulation.Because for the past year, I have never been worried about your body. It was not until my sister wrote to you after you arrived in Atuli that I didn't think I had anything to worry about.Now it's time to hang up again, don't make your old father who is thousands of miles away worry about you, this is the first level.Huiyin suffers so badly, the only companion, the only comfort, is only you.You have to calm down yourself to comfort her, this is the second layer. Second, it seems that this kind of news cannot be concealed from Huiyin.In case of misfortune, if the news is true, I can't use other words to persuade her, but you can tell her my words: she knows about my relationship with Uncle Lin, and Uncle Lin's daughter is my daughter, not to mention more With the relationship between the two of you.From now on, I will treat her the same as Si Zhuang. In the midst of no consolation, I would like her to accept my 120% sympathy and get through her current plight.She must muster up her courage, give full play to her talent, complete her knowledge, work together with you in the future, and make some contributions to the Chinese art world. Only then can she be worthy of being a good boy of Uncle Lin.You have to use all your strength to explain her these words. After reading this letter, Lin Huiyin still had that heavy stone in her heart. No one knew her father better than her. His father is cheerful and informal, but he is a rigorous person full of political enthusiasm.He was deeply influenced by his grandfather.His grandfather, Lin Xiaoxun, served as the magistrate of Haining, Zhejiang Province in his early years. During his tenure, he founded Qiushi Academy, Yangzheng Shushu School, and Sericulture Vocational School to cultivate talents and became a pioneer of the New Culture Movement in the late Qing Dynasty.His father studied at Waseda University in Japan in 1906, majoring in politics and law. He soon returned to China and graduated from Hangzhou Dongwen School. In Huiyin's childhood memories, her father often took her to visit the tomb of Li Gang, a patriotic general in the Southern Song Dynasty, at the southern foot of Dajia Mountain. The first poem his father taught her to recite was Wen Tianxiang's "Crossing the Lingding Ocean": "No one has died since ancient times. Keep your loyal heart to reflect the history." When she was in middle school in the UK, her father told her about his political aspirations, but he had already withdrawn from politics by then.He talked about the establishment of the "Republic Construction Seminar" with Tang Hualong and Zhang Jiasen in Shanghai, and later formed the Democratic Party; he talked about organizing the "Constitutional Research Association" with Liang Qichao, and he was always beaming, as if he had returned to the era of the all-powerful.He was just talking about his five-month tenure as attorney general in Duan Qirui's government, but he was filled with emotion, and he seemed to feel dissatisfied. He regretted that his political ambitions could not be realized.He once said to Huiyin: "Dad, this potential dragon, will fly into the air one day sooner or later, just need a chance to meet the wind and clouds." Lin Huiyin knew that according to his father's character, he always spared no effort for the things he had decided, let alone his own life. The few telegrams sent to China finally got an answer.That was heartbreaking news.Liang Qichao said in the letter: On the morning of the second day of junior high school, I was desperate to continue the power supply.Last night, those who escaped from the disaster went to Beijing to report the situation, hoping that all hope was lost, and it has been published today.I don't need to report the details of the disaster, but I only report two sentences: (1) He died from a stray bullet, and he should die without great pain. (2) The remains have been burned and cannot be transported back. ... Huiyin's mother, apart from her own grief, is most worried about Huiyin's sudden death.I told her that I have already sent you a long letter.Huiyin is a good boy, so forgive me for believing what I say.I asked her if she had anything else she wanted me to tell Whein?She said: "No, I only hope that Huiyin will live in peace and take care of her own health. There is no need to go back to China at this time." I have already said what I said in the first two letters, and I have nothing else to say now, as long as you seriously comfort me . Lin Huiyin passed out after reading only the first few lines.For several days, she was in a trance, and her father's shadow always flashed in front of her eyes, as if she saw the two birch trees in the house in Xuechi Hutong trembling in the cold wind. Soon, Lin Huiyin also received a letter and a newspaper from his uncle Lin Tianmin.She learned the details of her father's death from newspapers such as "Beijing News", "Yishi Bao", "Ta Kung Pao", and "Shengjing Times". Father was invited by General Guo Songling to participate in the anti-Feng war. At that time, Guo Songling issued a declaration to the whole country: oppose the civil war and advocate peace; ask Zhang Zuolin to step down and punish Yang Yuting, the culprit of the civil war; transform the Northeast and recreate a new situation in the three provinces.This policy has a distinct nature of national democratic revolution, and has been warmly welcomed by the Chinese Communist Party, the leftists of the Kuomintang, all progressive groups, and people from all walks of life. For a time, Beijing, Tianjin, and all over the country gathered and issued telegrams to support Guo Jun's actions. Guo Bu sent more than ten trains to Shanhaiguan. After leaving the customs, they quickly defeated the various units of the Liaoxi Fengjun.At this time, Japan openly intervened by force, and Guo Jun was blocked for a time. On December 21, Guo Songling held an emergency military meeting in Xinmin on both sides of the Liaohe River, and decided to launch a general attack on Zhang Zuolin's "rebel army" that night.After more than two hours of fierce fighting, they pushed into the command center of Zhangbu. Later, due to the counterattack of Zhang Zuolin's army and the appearance of traitors in Guo's department, the situation took a turn for the worse, and Guo's army was defeated. Guo Songling saw that the whole line was defeated, so he announced that he led a group to break through the encirclement. Together with his wife Han Shuxiu, the shogunate Rao Hanxiang, Lin Changmin and the guards, they fled towards Jinzhou in a carriage. The cavalry caught up, and Guo Songling led the guards into the village, relying on the cottages to resist. More than half of the guards were killed and injured, and Lin Changmin was killed by a stray bullet.Guo Songling and his wife hid in the vegetable cellar of a private house, and were found and taken to Laoda Town, Liaozhong County. On the 25th, they were taken to a place five miles away from Laoda Town and shot dead. Lin Huiyin put down the newspaper in his hand, weeping uncontrollably. Liang Sicheng accompanied her every day. When Huiyin couldn't eat, he went to the school restaurant to cook chicken soup and feed her spoonful by spoonful. Lin Huiyin was concerned about her elderly and sick mother and her younger brothers. She knew that her father did not have much savings after his death, and the family's livelihood would not be maintained.She insisted on going back to China, but Liang Qi over-frequency sent letters to stop her, saying that there were many disasters in Fujian, the traffic was blocked, and there would be accidents. In addition, Huiyin had been completely knocked down by the sudden bad news, and she no longer had the strength to stand up. For the first time in her life she tasted her own blood, which flowed from her heart.She felt that from this day on, fate had tightly strangled her throat. Pushing open the window, the sky is still full of flames. She felt the coldness of the flame.