Chapter 5 5. The Misfortune of Long Yingtai

■It seems that Long Yingtai is a bit unlucky, she stepped on your line.If she only wrote literary criticism, it would be appropriate.She overestimated her capabilities and expanded to discuss the issue of "1949", which happened to be the line that you stepped on step by step. If she ran around and stepped on it, it would be a joke.You grew up watching "1949" from the age of fourteen, but what about Long Yingtai? In "1949", she hadn't put on crotch pants, and she hadn't actually been born yet. □"1949" is an eyewitness to me, a personal experience, a clear focus, and a proof of accumulated documents, but it is not for Long Yingtai. Yes, it's not real enough, and it's easy to make jokes. What's the big deal, I can't even figure out the small details.Things like the Wisteria Cottage in Taipei are not like that at all.

■Long Yingtai's book says: I prefer drinking tea and meeting friends in Wisteria Cottage.In the scent of tea, some people quietly recall the generations of romantic figures gathered here and the history created by these romantic figures, and some people are impassionedly planning the next social reform movement: Wisteria blooms leisurely, it is not in a hurry , it is too aware of the city's life experience. And said: There are fifty-eight Starbucks in Taipei City, and only one Wisteria House in Taipei City.There are 6,600 Starbucks in the world, and there is only one Wisteria House in the world.

She described the Wisteria Cottage as beautiful. □Compared to Starbucks, Wisteria House does have the characteristics of a Chinese teahouse, but it is too beautiful to say that "generations of romantic people have gathered here".Wisteria Cottage is the home of my good friend Zhou Hong in college.Zhou Hong's father is Zhou Dewei, who was the director of the Customs Department of the Ministry of Finance at that time, and his family has a car.Zhou Dewei is a student-official amphibious character, and his German-style writing is profound but obscure.He had invited his teacher Hu Shi to dinner at home, and he was by no means a collection of humanities, let alone Yin Haiguang and liberalism.He has been the director for 19 years. If he is openly liberal, can the officer still do it?Since Zhou Hong is my good friend, I often go to his house, and I am too familiar with Wisteria Cottage.If it is said that "a generation of romantic figures" enters and exits this house, Li Ao should be the only one, but in Li Ao's eyes, how can there be a school-official amphibious figure?After Zhou Dewei was dismissed from office, he invited me to have dinner at home and stand in front of Zhao Yiwu's couplet.The couplet is:

How can there be an article to feel the world Endure the deeds and suffer the common people He said that the first couplet was about him, and the second couplet was about Chiang Kai-shek, and I kept laughing beside him.I thought to myself that this official article is too boring, how can I feel the world?After Zhou Dewei's death, his youngest son, Zhou Yu, even gave me a video copy of his father's memoir, which is candid and brilliant.On Zhou Yu's fiftieth birthday, I invited him to have dinner alone. It was the last time I participated in a friend's wedding or funeral.I also sarcastically said to Zhou Yu: "You could be ambitious to start a career, but the income from the Wisteria Cottage has made you a small rich man. You have missed a talented Zhou Yu." Zhou Yu still calls me "Li Brother", he didn't think it was disobedient.When I was suffering in prison, Zhou Yu cared about me, and his chivalry was touching.In short, the predecessor of Wisteria House was definitely not that great. It is a beautiful myth that Zhou Dewei and Yin Haiguang enlightened liberalism there.At most Zhou Dewei's vision of the Vienna School affected Yin Haiguang, but Zhou Dewei absolutely wasted himself.The story of Wisteria Cottage tells us: Liberals must never be involved in politics, and Zhou Dewei, a politician, has misunderstood Zhou Dewei, a great thinker.Zhou Dewei's eldest son, Zhou Hong, is the most generous friend I have ever had in my life, and I miss him to this day.As for the house of Wisteria Cottage, Long Yingtai said, "The wisteria blooms leisurely, it is not in a hurry, it knows the life experience of this city too well".Of course, it is more aware of its own life experience.Wisteria Cottage knew it, and would snigger at it.

■It seems that Long Yingtai has written a myth at all, she is so unfortunate. □It is not her misfortune, it is our misfortune.