Chapter 18 4. Instigated rebellion for the founding of New China and failed to return home and became a "bully landlord"...

Sometimes a flash of thought in life is the choice between heaven and hell.I savor Chen Yuepan's life, and I seem to believe more in the words of the philosopher Jin. This is the fate of "Old Landlord" Chen Yuepan! "There are many things in a person's life that may really be predestined." Chen Yuepan suddenly said a fateful point of view, but immediately he denied himself, "Actually, I am the person who doesn't believe in fate, but sometimes When those incomprehensible things can't be turned around afterwards, I have to think about it this way, and thinking about it seems to relieve my heart."

After failing to rebel against Xiong Jiandong, Chen Yuepan returned to his hometown of Chen's house in Heshi town, Changshu.At this time, except for the big house that signified that the owner was once a rich man was still there, the Chen family had actually been reduced to a dilapidated household.After dozens of years of the revolution, Chen Yuepan took over from his father how many farms he still can't remember, only that there are thousands of acres.Later, he never received the full amount of the servant's rent in his hands, so Chen Yuepan himself couldn't figure out how much money his family had.There is an uncle in Chen Yuepan's own family. When Chen Yuepan was teaching and participating in the revolution, the family affairs were all managed by this uncle.At that time, many tenant farmers of the Chen family often did not pay their rent at the end of the year. Chen Yuepan's uncle was very worried. He asked his nephew what to do, and Chen Yuepan yelled: "Is there enough for our Chen family to eat? If it is enough Now, don’t embarrass the tenant farmers, they are all from the village, and it’s not easy for everyone, so as not to hurt the peace and lose money.” He was so extravagant, it gradually seemed to become the habit of the local tenant farmers that the Chen family did not collect rent, so later The New Fourth Army ran out of medicines and food, and when "Guo Jianguang" asked Chen Yuepan for help, he had to sell land again and again.He couldn't figure out how much land Chen Yuepan had sold by himself.In short, since returning to his hometown from Xiong Jiandong, when Chen Yuepan really wanted to "make a living from farming", he took stock of his family property: there were only 490 mu of land left, and a big empty house.

"Yuepan, you have worked with the Communist Party for decades of revolution, and what good have you gained in the end? I have never heard of the Communist Party's socialism and suppression of the rich. You are also a landlord, and you will definitely not get better if you stay. You might as well be with me. Let’s go to Taiwan to make a fortune together.” On the eve of the breakdown of the KMT-CCP ​​peace talks, Wang Chongzhi, a schoolmate from his hometown who used to be the boss of the Kailuan Coal Mine, mobilized him when he saw Chen Yuepan when he returned to his hometown before going to Taiwan.

Chen Yuepan shook her head with a smile and said, "I have scolded Chiang Kai-shek for decades, can I have a good life in Taiwan?" Wang Chongzhi patted his chest and said to his old classmate: "Just don't worry about this. Lao Jiang is a man of fellow countrymen. He has a natural affection for Jiangsu and Zhejiang people. As long as you are willing to listen to him, you will not suffer." Chen Yuepan said: "Since I have been engaged in revolution with the Communist Party for decades, I don't want to give the rest of my life to the Kuomintang. As for making a fortune with the Jiang family dynasty, I think it is better to go home and farm. Thank you old classmates for your kindness."

Wang Chongzhi really made a fortune when he came to Taiwan, and became the director of Chiang Kai-shek's "Social Bureau".But he did not persuade Chen Yuepan to go to Taiwan together.In a few days, Chen Yuepan's first cousin will also move to Taiwan. The cousin of Yuepan's family is none other than the uncle and nephew of Wang Tuchang, a world-renowned scientist and China's "father of the two bombs" mentioned earlier.Wang Tuchang's mother is Chen Yuepan's grand-aunt.Although Chen Yuepan is younger than Wang Tuchang, he is a few years older.When I interviewed him, Wang Tuchang said this himself: "Yue Pan is a good person. We were very close when we were young. Back then, I applied for the school behind my back and wanted to study in Germany. My family strongly opposed it. He ran to us after hearing about it. I am deeply impressed by this.” Chen Yuepan also highly respects “Abo” Wang Tuchang, who is a few years younger than himself, for taking the road of saving the country through science.Now the relative's cousin wants to go to Taiwan to do business, this is the result of the change of the times, Chen Yuepan can't do anything to hinder it.But his heart is very heavy, because he knows that this time, if we say goodbye, we will be apart.This cousin of the Wang family was also an intellectual, and later relying on Chen Yuepan's relationship with Xiong Jiandong in Shanghai, he started to expand his business.Naturally, this cousin very much hoped that Chen Yuepan, who was very "out of time" at this time, would go to Taiwan with him, in order to repay Chen's past kindness.Chen Yuepan once again rejected his cousin's kindness.It's just that this farewell stimulated Chen Yuepan deeply.That day he returned from Shanghai to his hometown in the remote countryside. When he was walking on the village road that he had been familiar with since he was a child, he looked up at the side of the village road and saw the smoke from the kitchen, and he couldn't help but arouse all kinds of emotions in his heart.That night, he wrote a poem:

Chen Yuepan told me that he is now in his forties.In the next nine months, he, a "landlord element" of revolutionary background, became a farmer for the first time, learned to hoe the field, and learned to lead the oxen to plow the field. "The sentence 'Don't care about the world anymore, and die of old age in my hometown', does it mean that I have some regrets about my previous revolutionary career or the meaning of being disillusioned?" I recited Chen Yuepan's poems more than 50 years ago, and I always felt that his mentality was very gloomy at that time.

Mr. Chen Yuepan dismissed my words after listening to me, and said: "Wrong, wrong. It would not be objective to say that I didn't feel sentimental at all at the time. But since then, I have indeed vowed to 'not care about worldly affairs' and "from now on, I will die of old age in my hometown". Because after decades of ups and downs, I realized that I might not be able to turn the tide in the revolution and the times, so I simply saved that thought and honestly relied on my own hands. Self-reliant. This is not to be angry. I have loved reading ancient poems since I was a child, especially the pastoral life described by Tao Yuanming. But I think Tao Yuanming is not a pure Leong school. I can say that he has more layers of rightness than him. The emotions of the fields and the land. Because I have lived in the water town of Jiangnan since I was a child, I think the plants and trees here are too quiet, beautiful and suitable for me. Therefore, when the big things can’t be done, I can’t realize my personal ideals. After the great success in the novel, my heart suddenly returned to the original idyllic ideal state. Therefore, I feel that I am a little less intellectual than Tao Yuanming, and I have a little more love for the soil. Closeness. Rather than being close to the soil, it is better to say my indelible nostalgia for my hometown. Tao Yuanming does not bend his waist for five buckets of rice, so what if I give him five stones of rice? Maybe the situation will be different. But I It's different. When I decided to spend the rest of my life with the soil, I was extremely open-minded and natural, and I never made it difficult for myself. Otherwise, what I experienced in the next 50 years, especially the inhuman experience of being an "old landlord" after liberation, I can't stand it anymore, I don't know how many times I have died. Think about it, isn't it like this?"

I just nod.Because I can only believe the words of such a strange old man, I asked myself: "If I have been through the misfortune of decades like him, can I survive like him? Survive so optimistically and freely? Still survive like this Prolong life? I think I can’t do it, I don’t think I can’t do it alone, but most people can’t do it.” This is the charm of Chen Yuepan's life.This is the unusualness of a small person. All living beings have different destinies, and some things are incomparable.Perhaps no second person could be found with the same fate as Chen Yuepan. The hat of a "landlord" caused the unjust injustice suffered by the revolutionary heroes of the year beyond anyone's imagination.And what chilled Chen Yuepan the most was not being rated as a landlord during the land reform, it was precisely the bitter coldness of the world that he felt during the process.

Before New China was founded, because Chen Yuepan himself had already received the education and influence of communism, when he started to take over the family property, he began to tidy up the rented fields left by the previous tenants. Therefore, in a short period of time, he sold most of the land that should be sold, and gave away those that should be given to the poor neighbors. In the end, only a hundred or so acres of land remained. Live and farm as yourself to stay under the name.After liberation, the land reform movement was launched across the country. The first thing was to divide the land into divisions.When it was Chen Yuepan's turn, the land reform cadres didn't know how to implement the policy, because according to the policy, his land at that time was probably enough for a rich peasant.But everyone knows that the Chen family is a wealthy family in the past, and those landlords who the government plans to classify as landlords put pressure on the land reform team, and even said that you want to classify us as landlords, so Chen Yuepan should be the first. A person who is a landowner.If he missed the mark, it proves that your Communist Party has a partial view, because Chen Yuepan has done things for your Communist Party.If that's the case, since your Communist Party can not follow the policy on the issue of Chen Yuepan, why should we insist on implementing your policy?

At that time, the leader of the district committee in charge of Chen Yuepan's area was fainting at the student surnamed Zhong whom Chen had taught in the past.So Zhong came to Chen Yuepan and said, "Everyone is staring at you, it's hard to handle, let's make another contribution to the revolutionary cause." Chen Yuepan's thinking was too simple. She thought that being a landlord is labor farming, and not being a landlord is labor farming, isn't it all the same!What about contributing or not?Comment, just comment, who made me an enlightened landlord with a good reputation!

In this way, with the pure wish of "contributing to the revolutionary cause twice", Chen Yuepan was "gloriously" classified as a landlord class.At that time, he didn't care about the interests of this "landlord" status in his fate for the rest of his life, and what he knew was that the Communist Party knew me anyway, and besides, my own students were working as cadres in the place where I was in charge. Come out and say, my "landlord" is naturally different from other landlords. However, Chen Yuepan was completely wrong.In the eyes of the proletariat, all landlords classified as exploiting classes are equally guilty. A "bully landlord" hat made this intellectual who made special contributions to the new Chinese revolution suffer a humiliating life...