The most virtuous wife, the most talented woman: the biography of Yang Jiang

Chapter 25 Rain in the Heart·The Lost Family (3)
He entrusted this final task to his wife of more than 60 years, Yang Jiang.This is the most reassuring "friend" in his life, with her around, he can rest assured of everything.

According to Yang Jiang's last request, everything related to the funeral should be kept simple.In the hospital, Yang Jiang changed Qian Zhongshu into his favorite clothes and luggage, several of which were made by her.Before Yang Jiang wanted to donate these old clothes, he was blocked by Qian Zhongshu. He said that these clothes were "threads in the hands of a loving mother" and he couldn't throw them away because he couldn't bear them.

For Qian Zhongshu’s farewell ceremony at the hospital, some people who heard the news paid homage here. There were very few people, and there were no flowers and elegiac couplets in the room. It was just Qian Zhongshu who was "well-dressed" lying there quietly.Qian Zhongshu was wearing a black woolen coat, a dark blue beret, and a gray scarf. Like the way he used to dress up before, he was so quiet that he seemed to be asleep. He was only accompanied by white sheets and green pines and cypresses. There is also a flower basket made by Yang Jiang herself, which contains purple forget-me-nots and roses representing pure love...

In the end, only his family members were the ones who saw him off, as well as close relatives and friends who came after hearing the news. Everything was carried out according to his last instructions, and he was sent to the crematorium in Babaoshan.Before cremation, Yang Jiang lifted the white cloth covering his face for the last time, looked at his face carefully, took off his glasses quietly, and watched him enter the cremation room. This was the last time they separated. Farewell, never again" still rings in my ears!

Everyone was afraid that she would be too sad, so they advised her to leave and take a rest. She refused to leave, and just stood there. At this last stop, she also wanted to guard him. Like every major event in the past 63 years, she You must guard him.

In the end his ashes were scattered nearby, and everything went as he had entrusted.Someone told Yang Jiang that the funeral could be more grand, but Yang Jiang still insisted on doing so.She also politely declined the flowers and elegiac couplets sent by everyone, as well as other expressions.

After finishing everything, the exhausted Yang Jiang returned to the residence, and now there is one last thing Qian Zhongshu arranged to do: live well!She and Qian Zhongshu stayed together for 63 years, and used her life to tell what is called a pure marriage.

Yang Jiang only wished to live one year longer than Qian Zhongshu, so that she could take good care of him until the end, and she also complied with the saying "husband first, wife second", her wish came true, Also ask for nothing more.Yang Jiang said that she was Qian Zhongshu's tail, and the two respected and loved each other for a lifetime. Qian Zhongshu admired her very much, and said that Yang Jiang was better than herself in terms of translation.

When Qian Zhongshu was hospitalized, someone brought Qian Zhongshu's collection of poems "Huaiju Poems" and asked them to sign them. Only when they arrived did they know that Qian Zhongshu had been hospitalized for more than half a year, and the time for recovery was still far away.However, Yang Jiang signed and sealed Qian Zhongshu on behalf of Qian Zhongshu, and wrote Qian Zhongshu's name in front of her name. She also said with a smile while stamping: "The husband comes first, and the wife comes after."
During the time when Qian Zhongshu passed away, a friend came to visit Yang Jiang.After entering the door, he hadn't spoken yet, and seeing Yang Jiang sitting there alone, alone, the friend who came couldn't stop crying.Yang Jiang hurriedly took her hand, comforted her and said, "You are four years younger than Qian Yuan, right? Silly boy, I have survived, and you are still so sad? You don't understand, if I walk between my daughter and Zhong Shu Think about it before, can Qian Yuan and Zhong Shu bear it? So, this is not a bad thing, if you think about it in depth, isn’t it a good thing to let me bear the burden of pain?"
An 88-year-old old man has just experienced the pain of parting from life and death, and comforted those who grieved for her. She has been so strong all her life, and people have to respect her.She guards her lover and daughter with her great love, guarding the home in her heart.

In the days that followed, Yang Jiang appeared less in the public eye, and only read quietly at home. Many people wanted to visit her, but she rejected them all.She loves reading and regards it as a kind of spiritual enjoyment.

The world in the book has always been what she and Qian Zhongshu longed for. Everywhere they went before, the library was their favorite.She loves to read, and reading can take her to "drop in".There is a door behind every book, as long as you open the book, you can easily understand the story behind the door.

Yang Jiang wrote an essay titled "Invisibility Cloak", in which she mentioned that the magic weapon that the couple wanted most was "Invisibility Cloak", so that they could "hidden in the city", avoid the noisy world, and concentrate on Reading her favorite book, she also likes a poem by the British poet Rand: "I don't argue with anyone, and I don't disdain to compete with anyone; I love nature, followed by art; I warm my hands with the fire of life; fire Withered, I'm ready to go too!"
She likes the "invisible" life, not being disturbed by others, thinking and reading freely, this is her and Qian Zhongshu's lifelong wish.Low-key, wise, and calm are her keywords. She is very pleased that she is "willing to be a zero", starting from the lowest point, and every step is progress.And forbearance is for freedom, and to demand freedom, one must first learn forbearance.

Yang Jiang is old and her body is not as good as before, but she still insists on living and continuing to work in her own way.She wanted to sort out and publish Qian Zhongshu's many unfinished manuscripts and notes during his lifetime, so she could continue to be his assistant.

Yang Jiang once said, "Zhong Shu escaped, and I want to escape too", but "I can't escape at all. I have to stay in the world to clean up the scene and do my due responsibilities." She still has a lot of things to deal with, and time is short. Nervous, she was afraid that she would not be able to finish.

Qian Zhongshu had a lot of manuscripts, which were scattered in drawers, cabinets, boxes, sacks, and desks, and followed them to many places.Many people called and wanted to publish Qian Zhongshu's work, but Qian Zhongshu insisted on reviewing it himself.

Now that Qian Zhongshu is gone, Yang Jiang has taken over this job. She claims to be the "Director of the Qian Office".Some of these manuscripts have been broken due to the ups and downs, so she pieced them together little by little, glued them together, bound them, and re-examined them.

Thanks to the "Director Qian Ban", more excellent works of Qian Zhongshu can be published, otherwise it will be a great loss to the literary world.Although these manuscripts were not confirmed by Qian Zhongshu himself before publication, Yang Jiang was reluctant to "abandon" them like this, so he decided to publish them as materials.

The handwriting of many manuscripts has been blurred. Yang Jiang relied on his own understanding of Qian Zhongshu to restore them bit by bit. Because there are too many, Yang Jiang often suffers from insomnia for a while. Zhong Shu.

The huge number is no longer enough to describe the number of his manuscripts. After Yang Jiang's later collation, there are 170 volumes of foreign language notes, with a total of 3 pages; more than 23 pages of Chinese notes; There are as many as forty volumes in total, and the energy she put into it can be imagined.

The foreign language notes cover English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Latin and other languages. Most of them are handwritten, recording the thoughts and thoughts of the pages and lines of a book.Yang Jiang didn't know much about German and Italian, and Dr. Mo Zhiyijia helped her a lot as the German translator of "Fortress Besieged". She was also one of the first foreign scholars to translate "Guan Zhui Bian".Qian Zhongshu's Chinese notes are mixed with his diary. When recording what happened every day, he also recorded what books he read, what opinions he had that day, because many manuscripts have been fragmented due to the cleaning up in the previous special period.

And "Ri Zha" is pure reading experience, most of which are written in Chinese, with foreign languages ​​interspersed.Some people say that Qian Zhongshu has a super memory and can never forget, but only Yang Jiang knows that Qian Zhongshu is good at reading and can read.He takes notes very carefully, and he reads good books more than once, sometimes three or four times.

Finally, when "Qian Zhongshu Manuscript Collection" was published, Yang Jiang personally wrote the title of the book as a commemoration according to the previous agreement between the two.

The publishing house also attaches great importance to this book, hoping to restore the manuscript of Mr. Qian Zhongshu to the greatest extent, introduced the most advanced scanner, and assigned a special person to take charge of this matter.It took a total of two years before and after. The staff scanned each article and divided it into small areas, and then used technical means to remove stains in each area, and then adjusted the clarity to achieve the best results possible.

The project of publishing this set of manuscripts cost 300 million yuan in [-], which is a large amount of money, but it is all worth it. This rare material has been preserved for human history and has become a precious cultural heritage. It also made Yang Jiang settle the biggest thing in his heart.

"Qian Zhongshu Collection" collects all of Qian Zhongshu's works, and the whole book is arranged horizontally in traditional Chinese. For the comment, Yang Jiang also devoted a lot of effort.

"Qian Zhongshu once said to me 60 years ago: He has little ambition, but he hopes to devote his whole life to learning. In the past 60 years, he has written a few books. This collection collects his main works. Based on his own "I don't have much ambition", and "Qian Zhongshu Collection" can only be a meager contribution. I hope that his lifelong humility and hard work will be respected." Yang Jiang said.

The most peaceful moment in life is when you come to the edge of life, and you can look back on the past in peace.Many things turned into gigantic monsters when they happened, seemingly invincible and hopeless, but when looking back, they were just a joke, which was conveyed in a few words like a cloud and breeze; It was a great blessing, but in the end, it was just a foreshadowing of suffering.This is the meaning of life that can only be fully understood after going through the vicissitudes of life.

As a family member who stays behind in the world, Yang Jiang quietly completes every remaining thing, and the complicated stories in the world have all faded away.The vicissitudes of a hundred years are just a few shallow lines on the forehead, the white hair on the head, and the indifference from the inside out. The words left only prove that she and they have been here!
(End of this chapter)