Chapter 22 twenty two

Juemin wrote to Juehui, who lives in Shanghai, saying: "Junshe has been formally established. You may not expect that I will join. But I am different now. I used to hold a little bit of the old system and the old people. I hope, and I still have a little nostalgia. Now I understand that it was a big mistake. If I don't correct this mistake, then I have no other way to go but to perish with this family. You remember: Your second brother is indeed different from before..." A piece of iron stone can be ground into a needle.A person's temperament can also be tempered into steel.Ah, my analogy is wrong.What I mean is: Patience has a limit, and a steady and gentle person like me can also become a brave and fierce person (don't laugh at me, people in my family have almost regarded me as a radical since my third uncle. Since my fourth aunt They nicknamed me after a fight with me).

"Yes, I'm a radical now. In our family you are the first radical, and I'm the second. I'm going to do a lot of things to annoy them, and I'm going to create a third radical...." II Sister is hopeful.She has ambition.I cannot allow her to be an unnecessary victim in vain.Jean and I are going to help her.We have to force the elder brother to help her too.She is willing to follow the plan you proposed.It is hard to say whether it can be done or not.But I am determined.I will not disappoint you. ""Our new job is about to begin.I will tell you about many novel experiences in the future.We're going to rehearse "Night is Young", we're going to reprint the brochure, we're going to give lectures, and many other things... You can tell your friends over there... "One more thing. You want me to give your regards Huang Ma, I have told her what you said. She is very happy. She cares about you. She said, you are promising, and you are going well. She is still the same old temper, whining, always saying that she is not used to living in muddy water, I want to go home. But if we keep her, she won't go away. This kind-hearted old man..." "Also, your letter reproached me for not telling you about the fact that we distributed leaflets in the streets on May Day this year. To be honest, I have never had such an experience. I was very excited and a little nervous. But I did a good job, and we all did a good job. The draft of the flyer was drafted by Ji Shun. Hui Ru and I took care of the printing. Huiru and I took 5,000 leaflets from the printing office to the weekly newspaper office the night before. Several of us agreed on how to distribute the leaflets. We divided the participants into several teams and agreed to gather in the office after the distribution was over. People reported the process of distributing the leaflets. We were afraid that something might happen on the road, so we sent a few more empty-handed people to patrol each section. If there is any accident in a certain section, the patrollers will quickly inform the person in charge of the other section, and then try to Notify the teams and the left-behind people in the club. There is also our friend at the back gate of the commercial field who is on guard. If there is an accident in the club, that friend will tell us. We are all very excited after this decision. Huiru and I are responsible Distributing leaflets around the North Gate. I had two classes at school that morning. Huiru and I went to the weekly newspaper office. I put the books used for the class in the office. I borrowed my elder brother’s purse that day. Come, put the leaflets in the leather bag, and I took another bunch in my hand. Huiru and I set out from the club, and we split into two roads when we reached the north gate. The area I was in charge of was not far from our mansion. With a leather bag in one hand and a bunch of leaflets in the other, I walked up and down the dozen or so streets and alleys. When I saw a person who seemed to know how to read, I passed a leaflet over. Some looked at me in surprise. At a glance, they stretched out their hands to take it and buried their heads in thinking. Some shook their heads and walked past in a big way. There were also a few people who liked to ask: What is this? I smiled and said to him: Take a look, it is very beneficial. He may think that This is some kind of emergency remedy. Once I was walking on the street. I had just distributed a large number of leaflets, and there was still some left in my purse. I suddenly felt a soldier chasing after me. I was a little anxious. But I am inconvenient I ran away, so I had to pretend to be at ease and continue walking. The soldier caught up. He was still very young. He said to me very politely: "Give me one. I gave it to him. He happily took it away. I Unexpectedly, he was happy to see such things. Another time I met my third uncle’s bearer, Lao Zhou. He saw me walking around and didn’t know what I was doing. Fortunately, he was illiterate, so he couldn’t see the flyers either. Otherwise, when he goes home and speaks out, our elders will hear it, and he will cause trouble to the eldest brother. But I am not afraid, any third uncle, fourth uncle, fifth uncle or fourth aunt, fifth aunt will treat me as a person. They can't even think about it. They don't even think about their own affairs.If you can't manage them well, you still have to manage me.Fifth Uncle blatantly took Xi'er into his house as his concubine; recently, someone said that Fourth Uncle had something to do with Nanny Yang who brought up her seventh younger sister, so Nanny Yang was very proud of her favor and was very dignified.They do shameful things.The third uncle is very serious on the surface, and his Taoist air makes people look angry and funny.His law firm has been busy again recently.Two days ago, he dragged his fourth uncle into the office to help him.He doesn't spend much time at home every day, and he doesn't necessarily know all the big and small things at home.In fact, even if he knew, there was no way to solve it, so he could only pretend to be deaf and dumb.He turned a blind eye to the shameless actions of the fourth and fifth uncles.I did all the right things, but he just wanted to interfere with me. Seeing that I was not afraid of him, he lost his temper with his elder brother.Only the eldest brother can bear this. "" The words are going too far.I should describe the matter of leaflets.I made an agreement with Huiru to meet next to the silo in front of our mansion after the leaflets were distributed.He also came shortly after I got there.His hands are empty.He said he went off very well.The two of us walked to the back door of the commercial field together.Jingshi stood there, nodding to us with a smile.We knew that nothing happened, so we went upstairs to the agency in peace.Cunren and the others were all there, only Chen Chi and Wang Yong hadn't arrived yet.But soon they came in with Jingshi.There were a total of fifteen of us, squeezed into the club.Tea and refreshments are ready.Everyone ate happily.Each happily narrates their own experiences.We sang again: beautiful freedom, world star.

Fight my blood and sacrifice for it. To overthrow the system of inequality, remember the good day of May 1st... "It seemed like we were having a holiday. Jean came, too, but she was too late, and we were almost done eating. I came out of the club with her, and I walked her home. I told her my experience along the way." , she was also very happy. This is of course only the beginning.I hope there are many more exciting things to come. ""That's all I can tell you. ..." In a letter two weeks later, Juemin told Juehui again: "Our affairs are going well.Our first book reprint, Bliss, is about to be published.We have slightly deleted and revised this novel describing the future society, and added some new opinions. This was written by Jishun after everyone discussed it.We have already received letters from friends in Hankou, Guangzhou, Anqing, Nanjing, Beijing, etc., and have written detailed replies.Recently, I met a friend who just came back from France. His name is He Ruojun. He is tall and just over 30 years old.He understands Esperanto.We all want to learn from him.

"The acting thing is also very good now. A little money has been raised, and we plan to raise donations in the future. We are about to start rehearsals, with Cun Ren as the director." "Everyone wants me to participate. But I have never been on stage. The last time I played "Treasure Island" at school did not become a reality. I was afraid that I would not be able to act well, so I only agreed to play an unimportant role such as a banker, a doctor, a college student, etc. Chen Chi acted as An'e, and Wang Yong acted as It's up to Ma Xia to act as Sophia. Wang Yong often plays female roles, so it's not a problem as he has acted once or twice before. Chen Chi always played male roles before. This time he played Anne, you should practice harder; but he himself said that he liked Anne so much that he would play her. He even said that he would play a live Anne for us. We didn't believe it. But we hope He can act well. Because this performance has a lot to do with the development of our weekly newspaper. We will start rehearsing next week...." Another week later, Juemin wrote in his letter: ""Elysium" has been completed. Published. We are all very happy. I am sending you two packs today. If you need, you can send more in the future. Today we have sent a total of more than 100 copies, and corresponded in Beijing, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Hankou and Anqing We have them from all of our friends. We wrapped them ourselves and took them to the post office to send them. We advertised them in the newspapers. We thought that a thousand books would be half-sold and half-delivered soon. Yes. This is the first type of publication published by Junshe. We plan to reprint other books in the future. I hope you can collect more books of this kind in Shanghai and send them. It must be very convenient for you to collect them there. It is just a worn-out booklet We also treat it like a treasure. The day before yesterday I came home from school and accidentally bought a small book at a second-hand book stand called "The Great Russian Wave". It was a publication before the Republic of China. It was translated in classical Chinese and the translator signed it independently. The book is full of stories about the Russian Revolutionary Party members. Reading it really makes people excited. I showed the book to Cunren and the others. They couldn’t bear to put it down and said they wanted to make a copy. This book is not Do you know if you have seen it? If you want to see it, I can send it to you." ""Young Night" has decided to perform during the summer vacation. It is only more than a month away from now. So we should hurry up and rehearse the lines. Practice every other night at Cunren's or Huiru's house. I decided to play the role of banker. This role is not very important, but it is easy to play. In the past two days, I often heard all kinds of strange voices in the club. Everyone is reciting words Jingshi pretends to be the police chief. He always pretends to be stroking his beard, and says confidently: "Don't be busy, don't be busy,...take your time, or scold angrily: This bastard can't do that." Ru said with a sullen face, "The blood of many people is a drop by drop. The most interesting thing is that Shu Xian, who plays the role of the gatekeeper Sang Yong, and Wang Yong, who plays the role of the maid Ma Xia, often make fun of them. Shu Xian asked foolishly." Dao: If there is no Alexander No. 1, where did the No. 2 and No. 3 come from? Wang Yong replied with a sharp smile: Your words are very good. Later he said coquettishly: What if I don't let you go? Made us all laugh. Rehearsal at Cun Jen's house tonightI'm going to watch the first scene..." A few days later, Juemin wrote to Juehui again: "You asked Qin why she hasn't written to you recently.She is too busy recently, she has just finished her graduation exam.She said that there will be a letter for you in a few days.You ask her about her plans after graduation.She doesn't have any firm plans yet.Foreign colleges do not open the female ban, so she has no other schools to study.She didn't think of going to study, but there are still some difficulties. We mean that after I graduate, the two of us will go to Shanghai or Beijing together.We can also do a little bit here.So we were in no rush to leave.It doesn't matter if you wait a year.Qin is very free after graduation.She promised to come to our house often in the future to help the second sister learn various subjects.This is very beneficial to the second sister.We decided to wait for the second sister's affairs to be settled before leaving here.Otherwise, once we leave, there will be nothing to do about the second sister.I said that I must not make my second sister an unnecessary victim.Recently, I showed her old magazines such as "New Youth" and "New Wave", in order to slowly instill the idea of ​​resistance into her mind. "Tonight we are rehearsing the second act of "Night is Young" at Huiru's house.

I play the role of a banker, and I don't have many lines, which are easy to remember.I don't think I did a bad job.When I sighed and said: This wretched money is tiring people, I was really excited, as if I was really a banker, watching others sacrifice, but I can only do small things.After I negotiated the plan with Gregor, I hurriedly withdrew, and I was never seen again.I stayed there and watched them rehearse.Later, it was time for the aunt to appear, and the aunt was also played by Jing Shi.You must still remember him. He is thirty-seven years old, older than us, and has a lot of interest in doing things.He was very enthusiastic about this play, and he played two roles by himself.He dressed up as the old woman who cleaned the room, and walked stooped, pretending to be like that.Finally, there is a scene between Huaxili and An'e.

Huiru and Chen Chi acted carefully.Huiru is very calm, and implies full of enthusiasm, indeed like a hero.Chen Chi has gone through a lot of hard practice, and his grades are also very good.He did it very delicately, when he tenderly stroked Huiru's head and called my beloved Chier intimately, it should have been a funny sight since he was still in his school uniform.But we all held back our laughter, our attention was attracted by the touching plot and realistic acting.We have such two protagonists, I believe our play will be a success.The day after tomorrow is the third act.The content of the third act has been slightly changed.We couldn't find that many female characters, so we cut the script a little bit.

Later, Juemin wrote to Juehui to report about acting: "Yesterday was Sunday, and we held a costume rehearsal for "The Youngest Night" at Huiru's home. We all worked hard all day, and finally finished the three-act play. Everyone I feel very satisfied. Huiru's sister is also very happy, and often asks the maid to bring water and cigarettes, and prepares a lot of snacks for us. Huiru and the others have just moved to a relative's house. There is a The large parlour, and several cottages, were very convenient for us. We all dressed up. The western clothes worn by the male characters were borrowed from everyone traveling around, but we also made two or three sets of western clothes that were not made of good materials.The heroines all wore Chinese clothes, some of which were custom-made according to the actor's figure, and some of them were old clothes, used in acting in the past, Wang Yonghe and Huanru both had one or two.I seldom appear on the stage, but more often when I watch plays, and I also do a little miscellaneous work.Jean also came, and she only saw the second act and left. (Writing this, I remembered that she once wrote you a long letter after the exam, which also said that we had a lively gathering for a few days after she graduated to celebrate her graduation. Her letter described it in detail , I won’t write another one. Have you received her letter yet?) Qin praised Chen Chi’s makeup and performance very much.She said that he was able to express the gentleness of women and An'e's reserved enthusiasm.When he and Huiru who played Huaxili performed the tragedy of the conflict between love and duty in the second act, and in the third act he wiped his tears and shouted forward.move forward.We all held our breath and watched quietly.We forget that we are watching a play.We seem to be participating in the struggle for freedom.Chen Chi and Hui Ru's acting was indeed very good, even we were moved.I believe that our acting will be a great success this time.

It is the first time Chen Chi has changed to play a female role, and he will have such a result (he is better than anyone else.), which is unexpected to all of us.After the rehearsal was over, we all complimented him, saying that he did a good job An'e. He was very proud.But I always feel that it is unreasonable for a man to play a female role.I believe that if Qin were to play An'e, she would be much better than Chen Chi.But in our current environment, it is impossible for men and women to perform together, and even if it were possible, it would be inconvenient for Qin to play together.From this point of view, I think our society is progressing too slowly.

"When this script is performed, it will definitely move many people. I will try to invite my second sister to the play, and I will also invite my elder brother to watch it. My elder brother doesn't approve of my acting, but he won't say anything after seeing it." , let alone tell third uncle, because if he does this, he will only cause trouble for himself..." Juemin also told Juehui about Juexin: "Brother is always frowning and sighing all day long. Recently He seemed to be going insane. Not long after the fourth aunt’s quarrel, one night after the third watch and the lights were turned off, he suddenly ran into his sedan chair in the hall and sat up. He didn’t say a word. After sitting on the ground for a long time, I broke the glass on the car curtain with a stick. Mom asked me to persuade him. But he just shook his head and said to me: "Second brother, I don't want to live anymore. I want to die. I'm dead." Everyone will be happy. I spent a lot of time talking to persuade him. He slowly got out of the sedan chair and went back to the room dejectedly. I persuaded him for a while before he was willing to sleep peacefully. He never did such a thing again. But I was always worried that he would do it.” Last night after midnight, I was about to go to bed when my elder brother came to my room suddenly.I saw his sad face and asked him what was the matter.He said he was very anxious about the field.He told me that the countryside is not peaceful this year, and the garrison collects grain and taxes at every turn, and has even collected grain taxes more than ten years later.In addition, it has been raining a lot since April, and some places in Waizhou County have been flooded.In Xinfan, Pengxian, Xindu, Pixian, Wenjiang, etc., there are rumors that land, real estate, and population have been washed away by water, and Xinfan and other counties are the worst.It is said that the affected land is 10,000 to 20,000 mu, with a population of more than 1,000.A few days ago, Liu Sheng was sent to Wenjiang to check whether our property was flooded, but he has not returned yet.Tenants from Pi County came yesterday to report that the fields on the steaming tents were flooded.So he is anxious.Most of the fields in our house are in the Wenjiang and Xinfan areas. If half of them were flooded, it would be bad.

I advised him not to worry about this kind of thing, and wait for Liu Sheng to come back for the time being.Anyway, the family property is not very small, even if most of the fields are submerged, we will not go bankrupt.Later, he also felt that what I said made sense, so he was no longer as pessimistic as before, and he promised to go to bed early.But I woke up in the middle of the night and heard him coughing softly.I asked him today, only to find out that he didn't fall asleep until three o'clock last night.Such a thing should not be worth worrying about.He cares about everything.The steaming tent is shared by each house, and it is only used for sacrifices and tomb sweeping.If you don't have money, you can waste less.As for the properties of each house, in addition to the fields, there are houses and companies in the provincial capital, bank stocks, and so on.Our family does not rely exclusively on land, so why bother to be so anxious.Uncle San earns a lot of money every month as a lawyer.Now fourth uncle is helping out in his office and earning a little income.Only the fifth uncle and the first wife spend money like water, but there is no need for the elder brother to worry about it.It can be seen that the rich really have no choice, even the eldest brother.If he continues like this, I am very worried about his health. ...Actually, I think that if our family really had the opportunity to go bankrupt, and we lived by our own labor instead of being parasites who lived on land and house rents, we might live a happier life than we are now Competing, framing, and fighting each other.To be honest, I am tired of living the life of this feudal big family...