Chapter 87 Read "Selected Essays of Elegant House"

People's Daily Publishing House will soon publish "Selected Essays of Elegant House".I saw it first, flipping through the selected sketches one after another, and remembered a lot of past events. Liang Shiqiu and Wu Jingchao were classmates of my husband Wu Wenzao when he was studying at Tsinghua University.Yashe is a small house jointly bought by Wu Jingchao, his wife and Liang Shiqiu.This simple earthen house is built on the mountainside of Beibei, Chongqing, and there are seventy or eighty earth steps to go up. Jing Chao thinks that there is no house number, and it is inconvenient to post.Shiqiu proposed to set up a small wooden sign at the foot of the mountain, named "Yashe" after Jingchao's wife Yeya.

At that time, Liu Yingshi, a classmate of Tsinghua University, was running a publication called "Weekly Review" and asked everyone to write articles.I used to write several articles under the pseudonym of "Men", but due to illness or busy work, I did not submit the manuscripts for each issue, but Shiqiu wrote for each issue until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War! At that time, our family lived in Geleshan, dozens of miles away from Beibei. By chance, we hitchhiked with a friend to pass each other.I still remember when we went to Beibei a lot.We all love hanging out with old friends.Wen Zao has always been clumsy and clumsy, and Jing Chao also laughs a lot. Only Liang Shiqiu is talking and laughing, and the enthusiastic Ye Ya is also clapping and laughing beside him, leaning forward and backward.After all, we were still young at that time, and although we were in chaos, we could still enjoy ourselves while suffering.We dispersed after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.We went to Japan, Jingchao and his wife were in Nanjing, and Shiqiu finally went to Taiwan. "Selected Works of Yashe" mentioned: "During the ten years of turmoil, Jing Chao and Ye Yajun were tortured and died of cancer... Looking back on the past, I feel sad."

Now, Wen Zao also passed away in 1985. I am in Beijing, and Shi Qiu is still in Taiwan. After reading this "Selected Essays of Elegant House", I have mixed feelings.Now that the world is peaceful, today's Beijing is not as old as Beiping in "Selected Works of Elegant House"!How I hope that Shiqiu can come back to see not only the new, beautiful and majestic Beijing, but also the really "old" "old friends". Now, come back and talk about this "Selected Works of Elegant House".Shiqiu can not only speak eloquently, but also write or translate articles with a thousand words, especially the essays, which are even more familiar, harmonious and not vulgar."Guest" in the book: "It's quiet when there are no guests, and it's noisy when there are guests"; Do not seek externally, and you will always get what you ask for... This is the same meaning as what I usually say, "When people have nothing to ask for, their hearts will be at peace".There is also "Forgetfulness": "People often forget people's names when they are old, and what is more serious is that some people forget who they are." The last sentence is what I often apologize to guests, and the next sentence reminds me of the story of my old friend Mr. Jin Yuelin , can't help laughing.Morning of May 5, 1987