Chapter 15 (eleven)

Let us avoid making mistakes and making troubles, and live in isolation.We work from home on a daily basis and report on our work progress every month.We often use working time to sneak out to play, because our daughter goes home on weekends and the holiday park is full of tourists.There are few tourists in the Songtang on the back mountain of the Summer Palace, so we often go for a walk around the back mountain.The pine trees there are in different poses and with different expressions, we know each and every pine tree. The zoo is also our favorite place.In the spring of 1934, when I was studying at Tsinghua University, Zhong Shu came to the north, and I took him on a tour together.In the quietest corner of the garden, there are several huts, with a pine tree in front of the window and a gulf of water.Zhongshu took a fancy to these huts and wished to make them his home.When I came back more than ten years later, these houses, together with the pine trees and the gulf of water, disappeared.

We admire a pair of red pandas at the zoo.They sit quietly by the window and watch tourists together, unlike other small animals running back and forth in the cage.Bears are very smart. They drink water with their paws, which is similar to the way humans drink.Even smarter are elephants who are smart and don't show themselves.There are two elephants, male and female, separated by half a wall and tied by iron chains.The male elephant just patiently shook its body and head, stood still and moved;The female elephant will use her trunk to take off the iron rings that tie her front feet, and then lean her long trunk against the fence, smiling smugly.The breeder found that it had taken off the iron ring, so he put it on again.It didn't resist, but took it off again after a while, as if it was deliberately teasing the breeder.We admire the two elephants most.Rhino hates tourists and will shoot urine at tourists; the urine is very smelly and shoots far away, tourists have to avoid it.The hippopotamus is the ugliest and refuses to surface for a long time.Peacocks often open their tails in spring.Zhongshu "investigated things to know", and found that the peacock's screen was not to show off its magnificent color screen, but to raise its tail to expose the rear to the peahen.It seems that the most pitiful thing is a big bird that cannot spread its wings in a cage.Giant pandas are obviously the most comfortable, live in the most elegant house, and have the most crowded front door.We don't envy giant pandas.Monkeys are the happiest, but we are not very interested in monkeys.

Watching animals eat is fun.Before the lions are fed meat, they have to separate their cagemates, because lions don't care about the relationship between husband and wife when they see meat.Pigs eat peanuts with their shells on; bears spit out their shells and eat them; monkeys peel them and peel them off.But elephants eat thick intestines, and the breeder feeds the elephants, swallowing large lumps of grain, whole apples, whole radishes, and bananas with their peels.But it feeds itself very delicately; to eat straw, it first picks out a small bundle from a large bundle of straw, beats it clean, and builds it neatly before putting it in the mouth.We can't tell whether the smartest is the nimble monkey or the lumbering elephant.We love elephants.

Sometimes we take Ah Yuan on trips together, but she is weak and not as strong as we walk.Traveling in the mountains or visiting the zoo requires a lot of walking, and it takes a lot of effort to queue up and squeeze back and forth by car.When she reached the height of the Summer Palace and came down from the back mountain, she felt that every step was dangerous and she dared not take a step.I think Zhongshu's trip to the garden was inspired by me; he played with me and developed his foot strength.Ah Yuan doesn't have much physical strength, I don't want to force her. Ah Yuan went home every weekend, and never took the dirty clothes and sheets home for her aunt to wash. She learned to do it herself.The classmates said that she didn't seem to be raising a daughter alone.This kind of well-behaved child will of course be rated as a "three good students", so the teacher asked her to go home and talk to her mother about her feelings.I asked: "Which three are good?" Because she is obviously not in good health.She laughed and said: "The honor is given by the party." Sure enough, her health was not good after all. After three semesters of study, she was suspected of relapse.Fortunately, she was very obedient and followed the doctor's advice and took a year off from school, from the spring of 1953 to the spring of 1954.Zhongshu returned to Peking University from the city at the end of 1954.Ah Yuan leaves school and only stays with his mother.

She searched everywhere in New Peking University (that is, the old Yanjing) for a music room equivalent to Tsinghua's Huilou.She asked the workers in the school, and the answer was "I can't tell".She begged, "You don't have to say it well, just say whatever you want." The workers laughed and simply told her "no".She is disappointed. The Zhongguan Garden is newly built, and it is not green yet.Ah Yuan accompanied me to a nearby orchard and bought five willow trees to plant in front of the gate.Mr. Wind gave us many flowers to plant in the yard.Jiang Entian and his wife sent a screen to separate a small study room from one end of the living room.They also sent a decorative curved screen and several pots of orchids, eaves and crabapple and other flowers and grass.Among Zhongshu's 1954 poems, there are twelve poems "Miscellaneous Songs of Rong'an Shixiu Mu", which are his realistic life after returning home on weekends.This small study is his "Rong'an Room" or "Rong'an Hall".It was at this time that the "Rong'an Museum Daily Notes" published by Business Scan began. "Rong'an Pavilion" sounds grand, but in fact the entire house covers an area of ​​only seventy-five square meters.The "Rong'an Pavilion" separated by the screen is just "easy to be safe".

Ah Yuan often accompanied me to the old Yenching library to borrow books, and then cut books for me.Because many books were bound in the old fashion at that time, the whole large paper was folded and bound, and the pages were not cut; although some books were borrowed, they were often only partially cut. When borrowing books, the card of each book is signed by the borrower, and the library card remains in the library.Ah Yuan has a quick eye and a good memory, and will remember that someone has borrowed a certain book.She found a strange thing.Mr. X didn't finish all the books he borrowed, and his name often appeared on the library card, but he obviously only read a few chapters, and most of the books were not cut.

Ah Yuan has nothing to do, so he just reads the book on my case.I absolutely let her go.She loves playing the piano, and is obsessed with the music room in Huilou of Tsinghua University, but there is no music room in Yanjing.I later bought a piano for her, but she had no time to play the piano after returning to school.She had to study at that time, and read a lot of English novels, biographies, letter collections, etc., so after she changed to Russian, she did not forget English. In the spring of 1954, Ah Yuan returned to school.She took a year off from school, which was equivalent to staying a grade.Her original first level was to learn English as a foreign language; the next level was to learn Russian as a foreign language from the first year of junior high school.Ah Yuan owed four and a half years of Russian.I didn't realize this was a hassle at first.

There is a Belarusian professor at Tsinghua, whose Chinese name is Ge Bangfu, and the departments are adjusted to belong to New Peking University.Four months before Ah Yuan started school, I hired his wife to teach Ah Yuan Russian.Ah Yuan goes to her home for classes every day.Mrs. Ge loved this student so much that everyone praised her, and Ah Yuan and her family became good friends.I have kept the article "My Russian Teacher" written by her in English.The article was revised by Zhongshu, and the draft was not found.But what is recorded is the truth, very vivid. Qian Yuan returned to school, and managed to catch up with Russian smoothly; not only did he catch up, he was probably also the top student in the class.She is still a "three good students". "Three good students" will become members of the Communist Youth League if they can't run away.Once Ah Yuan went home, he was so distressed that he burst into tears again.She said: "They always ask me to join the group, and I always say that I am not qualified enough, let me fight for it slowly; now they all say that I am qualified, what should I say?" No more kisses at home, the house is full of 'sugar-coated cannonballs'."

I comforted her and said, "You won't lose touch with your family. Mom won't 'pull you down' either." Ah Yuan soon became a member of the troupe, and her relationship with her family has not changed at all. She graduated from middle school in the autumn of 1955 and was admitted to the Russian Department of Beijing Normal University.Her wish is to "be a vanguard of teachers".I follow my father's example: do not interfere with what the child decides for himself.Qian Yuan stayed at the school as a teacher after graduation.She has been a pioneer in the teaching team all her life.

Although Zhongshu's work in the Mao Zedong Translation Committee came to an end at the end of 1954, the work was not over yet.From the beginning of 1958 to 1963, he was a member of the selection group for the English-to-Mao translation, and Adler was the co-finalist of the draft.Since 1964, he has been a member of the English translation team of Chairman Mao's poems. The "Cultural Revolution" interrupted the work, and the work continued in 1974 until the translation of Chairman Mao's poems was completed.The translation work for so many years is a collective work under the leadership of the central government.The group is very small, with only two or three people in the finalization group and five people in the poetry translation group.Zhong Shu is also responsible for the research work in the institute, for example, he participated in the "Annotations of Tang Poems" in the classical group.

Qian Yuan's summer vacation after he was admitted to university.In the summer of 1956, Zhong Shu went to Wuchang to visit relatives.My parents-in-law live in the school dormitory.Zhongshu took "family leave" several times during the summer vacation to visit his parents.This time he brought Ah Yuan along. It was a hot day, and Wuhan was a high-temperature area. When the two came back, they were dark and thin.Darkness is caused by the sun, and thinness has its own reasons.Zhongshu is used to my dishes, which are bland; my mother-in-law's dishes are too salty for him, so he is half hungry and half full.Daddy sleeps day and night.He occasionally got something out of studying in the middle of the night, so he woke up Jianru and taught him his experience.One owed food, the other lacked sleep, and both lost weight. At this time, my father no longer asked Zhongshu to "Yangzhi" (Yangzhi's younger brother lived in Burma with his family).His favorite is "daughter-in-law Jianru". Zhong Shu is already a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties.Father is pitiful and mother is lonely, and the two seldom talk to each other.He often referred to himself as "the stubborn thorn".I asked Zhongshu what he meant.Zhongshu said that he was stubborn towards his wife.I think he probably means sorry.Calling himself "拉晶" is also the old man's love and affection for his old wife, right? Zhongshu Ah Yuan returned to Beijing, and brought me a bronze pig amulet engraved with gold characters that my father gave me, because my zodiac sign is the same as that of my father.I was as narrow-minded as Lin Daiyu, and asked if it was just for me or for others.They said, just give it to me alone.I'm so baby.This was during the summer vacation of 1956. Between January and February of 1957, Zhongshu was worried about his father's illness, so he caught cold and went to Wuchang again.He has five poems "Going to E Daozhong".The fifth song has the sentences "faintly crushing thunder in the sky" and "crying doves suddenly silence the rain in the future".These five poems were written on the eve of "early spring weather".In June of this year, the "Anti-Rightist" campaign was launched, but he failed to ask for leave to visit relatives again. At that time, Zhongshu's third younger brother had returned to China, and my father-in-law ordered him to send my mother-in-law back to Wuxi, because she was unconscious.My father-in-law passed away in Wuhan in November of this year, and my mother-in-law passed away in Wuxi the following year; my father-in-law's coffin was transported back to Wuxi and buried in Meishan together.