Chapter 19 Miscellaneous Notes

one "Flowing water does not rot", this is a Chinese saying, "Stagnant Pond", this is a term used by foreigners to describe a fixed decadent state.If you stay in one place for a long time, you will naturally have many mildew spots due to your mental habits.What's more, foreign farms are expensive, and there are many people in the narrow alleys. As a poor man, I am mixed among the 3.6 million Shanghai citizens. Not only can I not enjoy the blessings of civilization such as cars, bungalows, dancing, and fine wine, but I can even take a sip. For fresh air, you have to walk more than ten miles.I have long wanted to move house; this time, because of a friend, I occasionally rented a suitable spare house in the east corner of Hangcheng, and I also raised two or three hundred foreign dollars, so it was very easy. The mere private wishes that were not easy to come true were fulfilled cats and dogs.A villain has no big ambitions, and the snail's horn is also in the universe, and it is very stable, so let me thank God first.

The day I moved here was a Tuesday morning with a slight spring rain. In order to keep the correct date, I had to copy a section of my diary below: April 25, 1933 (the first day of the fourth lunar month), Tuesday.In the morning, I got up at five o'clock, and it was raining outside the window. I packed my luggage and rushed to the North Station, my clothes and hats were all wet.He boarded the carriage with his woman, son and a servant, and headed west in the continuous rain.Ye Jingzhengyan, except for white peach blossoms, cauliflowers, and checkerboard flowers, there is only a piece of tender green in the field, which is still light yellow. This time, because he moved to Hangzhou from Shanghai, he has a lot of luggage. He regards Meng Dongye as a little rich. The porters of the proletarians knocked and scraped away a lot.Arriving at Hangzhou City Station at one o'clock in the afternoon, the rain was in full swing, and the clothes and hats that had evaporated in the car were soaked again.

The new house is next to a pile of dirt hills next to the Zhejiang Library. Although it is only three old houses slanting east and west, it is much more spacious than the one-story and one-ground alley houses in Shanghai. Start working on the interior decoration.There are no sofas, no mirror screens, mahogany utensils, mural gauze lamps, none at all.A few board tables and a shelf of old books. When I was in Shanghai, I stuffed them back and forth. I felt that there was no place to stuff them. When I arrived in Hangzhou, I placed them in the three connected low halls, and they looked empty. Like a few grains of corn in the middle of the sea.The last thing to be put on the wall was a plaster round surface given to me by Shanghai Yayun Decoration Design Company.The shaper is Jiangshan Xu Baolan, and the story on the surface is the story of Mary Magdalene in the Bible.It seems that among the furnishings in this dark and spacious hall of mine, the only thing that feels a little angry is this small piece of plaster that looks like snow in the mountains.

two Song Xiang Wanyu, the electric light is here.The lights were dim, so I asked the Queen Mother who moved here first, "Why not use a brighter light ball"?Only then did I realize that although the city is not in Qin Dynasty now, a corner of Hangzhou is by no means a paradise in the world. This kind of donation, that kind of tax, the burden on the residents is even heavier than that of the capital of any other country in the world; In terms of words, every single word has recently added several percent of special donations. "The flames of war are everywhere, where can Confucian scholars escape from Qin?" These are two lines of folk songs written by Qin Yun a few years ago. I thought about it several times in private.If the slander is to be punished, then this trivial note of mine is another confession of my own confession, and I have committed a crime.

It was quiet in the middle of the night, and suddenly there were some mournful sounds of knocking on small bamboo clappers from the alley outside the door.ask what?It is said that hawkers who sell wonton dumplings make a living.In the past, these burdens were few, but now the streets are deserted, and people come to sell them until dawn. The decline of all industries and the depression of the city, is this always a little bit of evidence that the people are struggling to make ends meet? The new house was lonely, and I slept on the bed on the first night, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.Turning on the lamp in the middle of the night, I had no choice but to take out a newly published "Books from Two Places" to read carefully.One critic said that we have no obligation to read the author's private notes.At that time, I admired this statement so much, so when the bookstore came to ask me to publish a collection of short books, I firmly declined, and I also wanted to teach them a diary that I sold for the sake of living without money. I destroyed the edition, thinking that these things should be printed for me after my death; but this time I read the collection of letters by Mr. Lu Xun and Mishush, not only did I completely lose faith in that critic, but also Also in this private diary of the two of them, I can see many dark sides of society that are not easy to see usually.As for Mr. Lu Xun's outrageous and vulgar spirit, Ms. Xu's honest and solemn demeanor, they are still the lingering sounds naturally revealed in long books and short slips. From the perspective of those who are familiar with them, they are of course even more interesting. There is no need to mention the love of others, but I think people who absolutely do not know them can at least get a lot of lessons after reading this book.

From midnight to dawn, after reading the "Books from Two Places", I felt more and more excited. After six o'clock, I went downstairs to wash my hands, changed my clothes, and stepped out of the door. I plan to go to see the morning scene in the east corner of Hangzhou to understand it. three The rain that came at night had stopped completely, but the Magadham-like gravel road was still covered with mud, and there was still a layer of bright gray clouds floating in the sky.There are few pedestrians on the road, and from a long distance, only the back of a rickshaw that is being dragged forward can be seen.Turning out of the narrow alley to the East Street, the shops on both sides are only half open, and even the farmers picking vegetables and catching up with the morning market along the street are like rubber toys that have not been inflated.Looking around, one sees depression after depression, decline after decline. China's rural areas are indeed bankrupt, but a small city like Hangzhou, which has no industrial production institutions and no guarantee of peace, is not trembling at the threat of bankruptcy. ?In the present situation in China, the property owners of the farms and small cities are generally concentrated in the big cities.Under the imperialist protection of the metropolis, the new capitalists who have become subpopulations, or the minority who have become appendages of warlords and bureaucrats, have finally found a way out.Their goods and wealth will accumulate more and more, and at the same time, for the compatriots they sacrificed, of course, the accumulation will be multiplied at an accelerated rate.The result became such a formula: the property owners in the countryside are concentrated in the small cities, and the property owners in the small cities are concentrated in the big cities. We have to go backwards from the big cities to the small cities and return to the countryside to be poor.Tossing and turning, not at all happy, this situation has continued for 20 or 30 years, and the state of society in five or ten years will naturally be known. What is the crux of society?Where is the only way out?Don't you all understand?What is the use of shouting about resistance against Japan?

I was pacing and thinking on the street alone, but unknowingly, my footsteps reversed, and after a few turns, I actually moved my own body to a road near the university.Looking ahead, there is another pile of dirt hills.At the foot of the mountain are flat dirt roads and shallow pools.I used to come here when I was a child.More than twenty years ago, I had a relative who was an officer in Baoguo Temple, and an older brother who was a student in the Army Primary School.Now that we have returned to the neighborhood where we live, let’s go up the mountain to have a look at it. Fortunately, we haven’t slept all night, and our mind is still a little confused. It’s not a good medicine to climb up and look around.

The weather gradually became brighter, and in the southeast half corner, some blue sky and a trace of daylight had already appeared.Although the earth mountain is not high, the view is not bad.The mountains on the lake surround the area in the northwest, and the north is the space, and the north is the green hills outside the lake.Far to the east, what can be seen are Linping Mountain, Gaoting Mountain, Huanghechu and other peaks.Going further to the northeast, it is about the shadow of Chaoshan Mountain on Tangqi. Although it is not far away, it may take half a day to walk.After looking around the mountain for a week, from far to near, and using a lot of observation methods to calculate, I finally understood the geography of the vicinity.It turns out that my new apartment is in the north of the Military Uniform Bureau, and the earth hills on three sides are connected to the city wall at a distance, surrounding the outside of the Military Uniform Bureau.No wonder today at dawn, I heard a blast of trumpets, no wonder when I walked out of the new apartment, I saw a guard soldier standing upright with a gun.

"Very good! Very good!..." I was thinking in my heart, "There are books in the front, and arsenal in the back. The way of civil and military affairs is here!" Although I am thinking of such self-indulgence in my heart, it is a kind of decline. It felt like a kind of sadness that I could no longer get involved in the metropolis gradually melted into my whole body.