Chapter 49 The restless soul in the first section

Fu Sinian first went to Nanjing and then transferred to Chongqing. He stopped at the head office of the Academia Sinica for a while, and then went to Lizhuang after fulfilling his responsibility as the "General Director of the Supreme".It is the flood season at this time, the river is soaring, and the waves are turbulent. Looking around, the entire Yangtze River has a mighty power that penetrates the Changhong.Fu Sinian sat on a ship that was so crowded that he could hardly breathe, mixed with men, women, old and children of different identities, moving forward in pain and helplessness.

Since the day of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the scientific researchers and the teachers and students of Tongji University who were dormant in Lizhuang began to move around, eagerly looking forward to getting out of this remote town and the suffocating rolling hills as soon as possible, and returning to Dreaming Soul. Under the bright sunshine and colorful neon lights in the entangled city, relive the old dream that has been lost for too long.In this great dream, the young scholar is undisciplined, unmotivated, and distracted.A few people simply took this opportunity to ask the acting director Dong Zuobin for leave to return to their hometown to visit their relatives, but the news disappeared and they did not return for a long time. Later, they found out that they were dating in their hometown to find a wife, and they were preparing to marry a wife and have children.Seeing that Dong Zuobin was unable to lead the brothers, he sent telegrams and letters to Fu Sinian again and again amidst the urging of his colleagues and family members, asking him to return to Lizhuang as soon as possible, so as to maintain the situation that was about to collapse, and to discuss the plan of demobilization and return to Beijing.

On September 18, 1945, Dong Zuobin wrote to Fu Sinian again, saying: "The pottery and unused books have already started packing, and all work must be stopped for future relocation. When moving, I hope that brother can return to Li and his party." At this time, Fu Sinian was Traveling back and forth between Chongqing, Kunming, Nanjing, and Peiping, most of my energy was devoted to the demobilization of Peking University and dealing with the tide of Southwest Associated University. I had more than enough energy for Li Zhuang's affairs, so I had to rely on Dong Zuobin to try to deal with them.However, Dong Zuobin, who was nested in the mountain depression, knew little about external news and could not make decisions about the specific matters of the relocation, so he could only continuously ask Fu Sinian for advice by telegram and letter.

Fu Sinian was also hesitant about when the Institute of History and Philology would be relocated.In his letter to Dong Zuobin on April 7, 1946, he said, "The problem of demobilization, the prices in Beijing and Shanghai are high, and there is no good way to stay. It is really a dilemma. Things can't be moved, so I rented the Zhang Family Temple at the foot of the mountain and continued For a year, it may be inevitable to share the public and private ratios. There must be someone who presides over Beijing, Chongqing, and Li (the three places). Dong Zuobin replied: "Can the public property of the three institutes be moved to Lizhuang Town (Zhang Family Ancestral Hall) before the end of May? Or will they be moved again on a regular basis? Please instruct." Fu Sinian was still hesitant when he got the call. Uncommitted.

On May 1, 1946, the National Government officially issued the "Decree of Returning the Capital", announcing the "triumphal return to Nanjing" on May 5.When Fu Sinian got the news, he didn't hesitate anymore, and immediately instructed Dong Zuobin to organize personnel to pack and transport the boxes as soon as possible. At the same time, he sent personnel to Chongqing to negotiate with Minsheng Company, and asked the other party to send a special ship to transport the personnel and materials of the Institute of History and Philology.After Dong received the order, he acted immediately. In addition to appointing our assistant Li Xiaoding and others to go to Chongqing to discuss the matter of chartering a ship, he also found a large number of strong young people from Lizhuang Town, and transported them from the residence of Lizhuang Town to the Zhangjia Temple in Lizhuang Town. Oracle bones, books, bronzes and other precious items.The Institute of History and Philosophy has many and valuable items. It took almost two months to transport most of the collection to the Zhang Clan Temple near the Yangtze River Wharf.Boxes of goods piled up together, as huge and spectacular as a hill.

Although Lizhuang is remote and closed, in terms of traffic conditions, compared with Kunming, it is more suitable for foreigners to return and evacuate.Teachers and students in Kunming, such as the Southwest Associated University, have to climb many high mountains before they can return to the flat area north of the Yangtze River.The "downriver people" in Lizhuang can take a boat directly from the wharf at the door of their house, and go down the Yangtze River, the god-given thoroughfare, unimpeded all the way to Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing, and Shanghai.Of course, this kind of convenience is only limited to the ordinary years. The situation is very different at the critical moment when all walks of life in the country are rushing to demobilize and return after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.As Fei Weimei, who was working in Chongqing at the time, said: "The government controls all ships and planes. In order to avoid confusion, the relocation of each department and institution is numbered in sequence. Of course, the senior officials accompanying the capital and the outbreak of wartime The households used vehicles of unknown origin to reach the east bank in advance, but the extremely poor Lizhuang wartime refugees did not have this opportunity. They had to rely on the government to send them back, and they could only wait slowly in the astonishing inflation ” Liang Sicheng said in his letter to Fei Weimei: China Construction Society and the Central Museum are going together, but these two institutions are ranked No. 47 together, and it is said: “No. 1 is the Central Museum University, we don’t know when to leave. Before the war ended, we thought we could throw away all the junk and fly away, but we knew it would take a long time.” The previous journey to exile was full of hardships And pain, the unexpected way back is also full of anxiety and uneasiness. Such a situation can only make these "downriver people" who do research and have no power and power look up to the sky and sigh.

After three days and three nights of violent turbulence, the ship Fu Sinian was on finally reached Lizhuang.Before the passenger ship docked, a group of young and strong people of mixed sexes gathered at the pier from a distance, carrying goods to several ships.Intuitively, Fu Sinian knew that this was a call from Tongji University, which had already arrived first, and was about to leave for the east. After getting off the boat, passing through the fields outside Lizhuang Town, and crossing more than 500 steps, Fu Sinian, who was sweating profusely, finally landed on Chestnut Au, the headquarters of the Institute of History and Philology.Seeing Fu's arrival, Dong Zuobin breathed a sigh of relief, and said bluntly that the Institute of History and Philology is already in disarray, especially when the family members see that Tongji University has moved eastward one after another, people have gone to the temple, and the whole Lizhuang is getting worse and worse. The silence was unbearable, so he was restless, and came to ask about the date of demobilization and return to Beijing every three days.Affected by it, the young people couldn't sit still anymore, and there was a lot of discussion. I don't know who inquired about the gossip, saying that Fu Sinian might succeed Zhu Jiahua as the Minister of Education, and that he would no longer care about the Institute of History and Philology. Colleagues also began to panic. There is a feeling of loneliness when the rabbit dies, and the monkeys are scattered when the tree falls.Young scholars and students of the Institute of Liberal Arts at Peking University, apart from daily daydreams of being demobilized and returning to the east, have no intention of doing any learning or research.If you don't try to appease them quickly, a group of men, women and children are bored in this gourd-like mountain, and I'm afraid something will happen sooner or later.After hearing this, Fu Sinian knew that since the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he had been running back and forth between Chongqing-Peking-Kunming-Nanjing, and he was doing very well on the surface, and he was in the limelight in the media, so gossip inevitably spread. Come, until the colleagues of the Institute of History and Philology believe it is true, and it makes people panic.He smiled wryly, and said "Oops, it's all my fault", and he made a plan. He found a piece of white paper in Dong Zuobin's studio on the spot, splashed ink on it, and wrote on it, "It is rumored that Meng Zhen is going to be an official. Leaving the office and not being an official" were hung on the side of the gate of the archway in person to engrave the aspirations, which can be regarded as a silent explanation to the colleagues of the Institute of History and Philology.

Subsequently, Fu Sinian and Dong Zuobin discussed the specific plan and disposal measures for demobilization.That night, a meeting of colleagues from the Institute of History and Philology was held. In addition to confessing to his face that he would not leave everyone behind to become an official in Nanjing, he also made it clear that no matter how difficult the situation might be, he must do things like October at the latest, before the dry season of the Yangtze River. As mentioned in the "Bible Old Testament", Moses took everyone out of Egypt and returned to the "beautiful and wide land flowing with milk and honey". joy and happiness.

Fu's words made everyone feel as if they suddenly saw the bright lights in the distance in the mist in the middle of the night. A week later, Fu Sinian received a telegram from Zhu Jiahua, ordering him to go to Nanjing to attend an emergency meeting of the government. Fu had to leave Lizhuang again.Unexpectedly, this is his last day in Lizhuang. In the years to come, the mountains and rivers of Lizhuang can only be seen in dreams.