Chapter 47 Going back is for the past!

It was the first time for Hu Shizhi to come back to China after studying in the United States. As soon as he arrived in his hometown, his mother said to him: "The bamboo you planted has grown into a forest now. You can go to the vegetable garden." Hu Shi said: "Mom, I have never planted it before. Bamboo, how can I grow bamboo in the vegetable garden?" Mother said, "Go and see." Hu Shi went into the vegetable garden and saw that it was covered with moss bamboo, and there must be thousands of them.His mother later told him that when he was twelve or thirteen years old, one evening, an Uncle Chunfu from the Fang family walked by carrying a large bundle of bamboo with a stick. He saw Hu Shi standing by the roadside, handing over a A piece of bamboo was given to him, saying it was for making him a pipe.Hu Shi took the bamboo and said to his mother: "Uncle Chunfu will make me a pipe, and I don't know how to smoke, so just plant it in the flower bed." After more than ten years, the bamboo grew very fast in the flower bed. , flourished, the flower bed was too small, my mother asked someone to move it to the vegetable garden, it really flourished in the vegetable garden, and it developed into other people's gardens, even Hu Shi couldn't remember or recognize it. !

If the country is not broken, the hometown is the hometown. You can go back at any time to pursue your old dreams and find an unexpected surprise.After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the homeless Chinese experienced the joy of returning home together, recognizing the tears and laughter of their relatives among the ruined buildings: the mountains and rivers are safe, and there is finally a basis for the joys and sorrows of the future.After the drastic changes in 1949, the Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait became almost strangers, the villages did not become villages, and the country did not become a country.Hu Songping recalled the scene of retreating from Chongqing in the autumn of 1949. He said that he flew from Guangzhou to Chongqing on October 11. Soon, the dangerous areas such as You, Xiu, Guizhou and Peng fell one after another, followed by Central Airlines and China Airlines. The company has undergone changes, and Chongqing's external traffic has been completely cut off.The streets of Chongqing are full of vehicles carrying things back and forth all day long, and the situation is becoming more and more tense every day.The heads of various departments in the head office of Academia Sinica went to Taiwan, and Zhu Jiahua, the president, asked him to take care of the head office affairs. Finally, under extremely difficult circumstances, they got a plane from the civil aviation team, which could fly directly to Hong Kong.The charter flight is jointly approved by the Executive Yuan, the Ministry of National Defense and the Special Investigation Office; the identity of the passengers on the flight must also be reviewed by these three agencies, and each person's photo must be stamped with a stamp of approval.That night, they were stamping in a room above the Zengjiayan Executive Yuan, when the light suddenly went out, and he used matches one by one to illuminate the person who stamped the seal.On the day of departure, martial law was enforced at 6:00 p.m. in Chongqing. The general affairs staff paid a high price to hire a dilapidated large truck.Their convoy pasted the "exclusive pass" and meandered along the mountain road, stopping several times to be questioned by the army and check the pass. It was already four o'clock in the morning when they drove to Baishiyi Airport the next day.Everyone waited at the airport until five o'clock in the afternoon, and finally waited for a plane from the civil aviation team. However, because the plane rushed to transport government personnel, they did not fly to Hong Kong. They were sent to Chengdu first.From that afternoon, Baishiyi Airport began to dismantle the radio station equipment and lay mines at the same time, preparing to destroy the airport. "My family of eight evacuated safely in this thrilling storm." Hu Songping said.

In fact, as early as the winter of 1948, the situation had reversed, and the situation in Beiping was getting tighter. Liang Shiqiu was invited by Chen Kezhong to retire to teach at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. "Huai Guo Meng Yi" said that after half a year in Pingshan Hall in Guangzhou, they "began to have a sense of wandering life experience"; monk Fafang occasionally gave them a "Diamond Sutra Speech · Attached Heart Sutra Speech", and the couple actually read it a lot. If there is something in common, I feel that "when a person is in a state of desperation, it is easy to contemplate and meditate, and to get out of the dusty world and touch the cause of this great event." Gregor von Rezzori used a quite The Zen-like Russian word "Skushno" is used as the title of the first chapter. It is said that this word is difficult to translate, and its meaning is heavier than "emptiness", which describes a trance without a dead heart.On the eve of the change of hands in the mainland, intellectuals more or less fell into such a state of mind, forgetting what they had and being at a loss; the government sent two planes to Beiping to pick up some academics who went south, and there were actually a lot of empty seats on the plane." The vast majority of academics are not ignorant of the current situation, thinking that changes in the political situation will not affect education, and no one wants to repeat the suffering of displacement during the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War.”Liang Shiqiu and his wife teach in Pingshan Church.After reading the scriptures, I still can't forget my feelings. I often go to the back of the school auditorium to watch the blooming kapoks. , enjoy it for a long time." When I first arrived in Taiwan, "although the shadow of February 28 still appeared in my heart", it was "a piece of clean land" after all, and "with Ji Shu with me, of course I can get along!"

Fast forward more than 30 years, the two sides of the strait are full of doubts, and the north and south of the river are locked in deep mist; there is no home: ink cartridges in rainy days, incense burners in the wind, long alleys in the sound of selling flowers, stone bridges in the wind and snow, willows by the river In the cold moon above, there are only old yellowed photos left, condensed into a dream.Chinese people are almost paranoid about nostalgia; the most unbearable is not the three months of the war, but the news of the hometown that the family letters dare not tell.George Orwell returned to England in 1938 after he chose Spain after the catastrophe, but he felt that Britain was still the same as his old England: wild flowers on both sides of the railway tracks, grasslands where cows and horses rest, clear streams with weeping willows, villages Delphiniums in front of the house; then there are old London streets, posters of cricket matches and palace weddings, passers-by wearing bowler hats, pigeons in Trafalgar Square, red public Cars, policemen in blue uniforms--all asleep in this dreamland of England, it is suspected that only the deafening blast of cannon could wake it up!However, what the Chinese look forward to is not the sound of cannons, but the sound of footsteps returning home.Now, Wenshan Ruanshui slowly woke up from the nightmare, the city remains the same, the bright moon is still the same, when the swallows come, they are concerned about the old dusk and deep courtyard, not the new sky with the sun and the moon changed. "one traveled to discover the past: Is the vegetable garden really full of thousands of bamboos?