Chapter 34 Section 1: Talented Scholars Walking Out of the Zhuangyuan Mansion

Days passed, and when Lao Jin's vacation was over and he was about to leave Sichuan and return to Kunming, Fu Sinian left Chongqing with his wife and children and came to Lizhuang.The arrival of Mrs. Fu is undoubtedly good news for the Liang family and colleagues of the Institute of History and Philology who are in hardships. This time when Fu Sinian returned to Lizhuang, apart from being worried about the affairs of the Institute of History and Philology, the main reason was that his physical condition was too bad to allow him to act as the director-general of the Academia Sinica again.Fu's body collapsed so quickly, and the removal of the root cause of the original disease and the busy work all day had a lot to do with the sudden death of his mother.

Fu Sinian's father died young, and his family was supported by his elderly grandfather and mother.In the generation of Fu Sinian's grandfather Fu Gan, the No. 1 Scholar's Mansion had already declined. When the brothers separated, Fu Gan, who was indifferent to life, only had a little low-end real estate to live on. embarrassment.If there is urgent need for money, there is no way to get a loan, Fu's mother had to bear with tears and order people to tear down some bricks and tiles from the ruined walls and sell them.Because the house was damaged and there was no money to repair it, whenever the wind and rain came and the roof leaked, Fu's mother had to hold her youngest son Meng Bo in her arms, and put a cloth umbrella on her head to keep out the wind and rain. Life was very difficult.According to local customs, when Fu Sinian, the eldest son, was in middle school at the age of 16, his grandfather and mother decided to carry Ding Zhancui, the daughter of a gentleman Ding Lichen from Liaocheng County, to his home in a sedan chair to worship and marry him.Although the young girl Ding is a little literate and known as the number one beauty in Liaocheng, but because she has lived in a small rural town for a long time, her attitude and lifestyle are very different from Fu Sinian's.As he grew older and systematically accepted an alternative education that was different from traditional Chinese education, Fu Sinian became more and more unhappy with his marriage, and hated the traditional marriage form of "the order of the parents and the words of the matchmaker".He and his daughter-in-law Ding have been separated for a long time, and since they have lost their common interests, it is impossible to talk about their relationship.Fu was filled with grief and indignation because of this, and wanted to get rid of this predicament, but he was like a tiger eating the sky and having nowhere to eat, turning around to no avail, which made him extremely distressed.

When he returned from studying in Europe and re-climbed to the shore of the Far East with an academic "predator" reeking of the fishy smell of the sea, the situation was quite different.Fu Sinian relied on Western learning for self-respect, and no longer cared about the messy "cannibal" ethics that spread like a plague in Chinese society, so he made up his mind to make a clean break with the "daughter-in-law" his mother married.So, in the hot summer of 1934, Fu Sinian wiped his forehead profusely with sweat, gritted his teeth and took out a sum of "youth loss fee", and finally divorced Ding's wife in Jinan.On August 5th of the same year, she married Yu Dawei's younger sister Yu Dacai in Beiping for a hundred years.

Yu Dacai, who was born in a well-known official family, received a new-style education when he was young. He grew up and studied at Hujiang University in Shanghai.Thanks to Yu Dawei, Fu Sinian's classmate studying in Germany, who made a bridge, Fu married Yu Dacai, who was 10 years younger than him. In September 1935, his son Fu Rengui was born. Fu Sinian brought his mother from his hometown of Liaocheng to Peking to live with him.It is said that Mrs. Fu is very filial to her mother. Although she has become a figure in academic circles and political circles, and she is very domineering and does not take anyone seriously, but when her mother loses her temper, she immediately kneels down and lets her scold her. He didn't stand up until the old lady lost her temper and asked him to stand up, either to explain to his mother, or to comfort him with kind words.Because Fu's mother suffers from high blood pressure and avoids eating pork, Yu Dacai, the daughter-in-law, dares not feed her mother-in-law meat in order to take care of her health, but Fu's mother prefers this one, and she likes to eat fatty meat very much, so conflicts are inevitable.Yu Dacai in his later years recalled:

Meng Zhen is extremely filial to his mother, and loves and protects his children and nephews.Mrs. Tai is fat. Because she suffers from high blood pressure, she should not eat fatty meat. I remember that I offended my aunt a few times because I dare not eat fat.He whispered to me: "In the future, you can give your mother a little bit of fat. You must know that for people suffering from high blood pressure, controlling emotions is more important than avoiding food. My mother is old and has no hobbies but love Eating meat, let her eat a little, isn't it better than making her angry? I'm not blaming you, but thinking of my mother, who has gone through so much hardship and brought up my two brothers, I just want to make the old man happy and show filial piety."

After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the air strikes on Nanjing became more and more frequent, and the situation was at stake.Because Fu Sinian was in charge of the relocation of the Academia Sinica, he had no time to take care of his family, let alone accompany the old lady to escape, so he entrusted a subordinate and two nephews to protect his mother's temporary residence in He County, Anhui Province.After the fall of Nanjing, the Fu family came to Chongqing shortly after two nephews came to see him. Fu Sinian was very happy that his family had escaped safely. When his nephew told that his grandmother hadn’t escaped, Fu Sinian was furious and slapped his nephew twice on the spot. , kicked each other twice.Afterwards, they did everything possible to get their mother out of Anhui, which was plagued by wars, and fled to Hankou by land for more than 20 days, and finally arrived in Changsha.At that time, the old lady was more than seventy years old. Fu Sinian always felt apologetic when he talked about his mother's escape. He once said to his colleagues: "Fortunately, my mother was able to go to the rear safely, otherwise how would I face my ancestors?" Later, The Institute of History and Philology moved from Changsha to Kunming. Fu Sinian took his mother to Chongqing and settled her in a safer place under Gele Mountain, where she lived with her younger brother Fu Syan (Meng Bo). Fu Sinian paid all the expenses.

Fu's old mother was obese, and she was exhausted from running away from the war for many years. Once she settled down, she fell ill, sometimes good and sometimes serious.In the spring of 1941, as his son, Fu Sinian fell ill again.The disease was caused by his being overweight and suffering from high blood pressure. He was running around all day, which made his condition worse and he had to be admitted to Chongqing Central Hospital for treatment.When the news of Fu Sinian's illness spread, Hu Shi, who was far away in the United States, wrote a letter expressing his sincere concern: I only found out that you were sick last night because of your airmail on April 30th. I was really worried, because you cannot be ill, and your "public rights" cannot be "deprived" of them!You are the most talented leader who can bear the burden. The country is the least you can afford at this time, so when I read the news about your illness, I am more worried than when I was ill the year before last...Your illness must rest and recuperate. If you can As the Tathagata book says, "absolutely rest within six months", I can guarantee your recovery, but don't worry and get angry, and don't be greedy for fat!You are in good spirits, as I am, and I think you will recover well.

Whether it is a "genius" or a "leader", or a real dragon emperor, as a human being, it is inevitable that he will get sick. God will not take care of Fu Sinian alone.However, Hu Shi's brotherhood gave Fu some spiritual comfort, which gave him more confidence and courage to fight against the disease.A few months later, Fu Sinian was finally discharged from the hospital and returned to his home in the suburbs of Chongqing to recuperate. Unexpectedly, Fu Sinian was discharged from the hospital, but his mother died in the hospital due to a disease caused by gallstones. After the old lady died of illness, Fu Sinian didn't know the illness, and the experts in the hospital couldn't come up with a definite conclusion. For this reason, the two sides quarreled and argued endlessly. Finally, the hospital proposed an autopsy to verify the crux of the disease.Fu Sinian hesitated again and again, and finally agreed to an autopsy, which turned out to be gallstones.From this medical record, it can be seen how backward and bad the medical equipment and medical technology of China's number one hospital at that time were, and how Fu Sinian's mood was mixed with grief, anger and sadness.

The Sri Lankan is gone, as a filial son, what Fu Sinian can do is to do his best to take care of the funeral.In the face of national crisis, funerals must be kept simple.The cemetery of Fu’s mother was chosen on the top of a small hill next to the office of the Institute of Mathematics of the Academia Sinica near Gele Mountain. Yu Dawei sent personnel from the Ordnance Department to drill a hole in the rock. During the burial, a crane was used to put the coffin into it, and it was made of cement with a thickness of seven or eight inches. There are three prefabricated panels, which are hoisted by a crane to cover the tomb. The whole looks like a bunker used in war, which is extremely strong.For this reason, Fu Sinian wrote to Hu Shi and said: "My mother was buried in a beautiful place in Geleshan, and it was made into a concrete wall, which is very strong." In just a few words, Fu Sinian's pride and relief were revealed.What he didn't expect was that when the "Cultural Revolution" agitated in 1966, this "Cement Cement", where he entrusted his nostalgia, was a den of "landlord witch" and "backstage boss of Chiang's secret agents". The guards and the rebels used explosives to blow up the corpses with the momentum of "destroying the dead and destroying the dead".At this time, it has been 15 years since Fu Sinian passed away on the isolated island of Taiwan.

Fu Sinian buried his old mother. With a double mood of grief and tragedy, he dragged his sick body and insisted on attending the National Political Council meeting held in Chongqing in mid-November. However, he only attended half of the meeting and returned home to continue recuperating due to exhaustion.At this time, Fu Sinian had long since lost interest in the so-called "participating in politics", because his old enemy Kong Xiangxi had spread rumors everywhere a while ago, saying, "I heard that Fu Sinian is dying of illness!" The implication is that he is about to die soon. died.When Fu Sinian heard this, he was furious, and cursed Kong as a traitor and traitor, a bastard, everyone who got it would be punished, etc.This appearance with illness is entirely to fight back against Kong Xiangxi, who is gloating at other people's misfortunes, just as he said in his letter to Hu Shi: "It proves that I am not dead!"

Fu Sinian, who was not dead, was exhausted physically and mentally, and felt more and more unable to continue, so he made up his mind to leave Chongqing, a place of right and wrong, and return to Lizhuang to rest. On December 3, 1941, Fu Sinian, who had resigned from his position as the acting director-general of the Academia Sinica, took the Changfeng ship with his family to Lizhuang. Just as Fu Sinian’s ship was going up the river and was struggling, six aircraft carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy contained more than 400 aircraft, two battleships, two heavy cruisers, destroyers, submarines, oil tankers, etc. , a huge fleet of thirty-three ships, under the command of Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, the commander of the First Air Fleet, and according to the top-secret combat order issued by the Japanese Military Command, in a rather spectacular circular sailing formation. On the rolling waves and thick fog of the Pacific Ocean, they are rushing towards Pearl Harbor in the United States, which is 3,000 nautical miles away from the Japanese mainland. In the early morning of December 7th, western time in the United States, the Japanese fleet had arrived at the Hawaiian Islands and entered its scheduled combat position. At 1:16, on the dark and cold bottom of Wahu Island in the Pacific Ocean, with a slight "click", the fixing belts that bound the five Japanese submersible motherships were quickly disconnected. With the undercurrent and huge waves rolling suddenly, five special ships The submarine mothership, like a wild horse, headed for Pearl Harbor, the base of the US Pacific Fleet in the Hawaiian Islands. At 6:15 a.m. on the 7th, Hawaii time, 183 Japanese planes took off from the decks of six aircraft carriers, formed a formation in the dawn night sky, formed the first round of shock waves, and rushed towards Pearl Harbor like crazy. The Japanese bomber group carried out two rounds of attacks on Pearl Harbor and then quickly evacuated, sinking and damaging more than 40 ships of the US Pacific Fleet, 450 US aircraft, and more than 4,500 US officers and soldiers. The U.S. Pacific Fleet was almost wiped out. On December 8, US time, President Roosevelt wore a dark blue navy cloak, stepped onto the podium of the Capitol, and delivered a speech that shocked the world and was destined to be passed down to future generations.Roosevelt also asked Congress to declare: "From the time of this despicable attack on Sunday, December 7th without cause, there is a state of war between the United States and the Empire of Japan!"