Such stars and such moons: Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang's unparalleled love

Chapter 3 Unexpected Reunion: Eyes Looking at the Same Starry Sky (2)
Because of the double blow, his father Yang Yinhang was so sad that he resigned in the autumn of [-] and went south. This time, they returned to their hometown.

After bumps and bumps, Yang Jiang finally saw the mountains and rivers of his hometown.They live in a house in Temple Lane, where a small river flows through the courtyard. Yang Jiang can stand on the small bridge outside his kitchen and look at the passing boats, which is very novel.It's just that her parents are not satisfied with the house here, and they are looking for a new place.

This piece of information created an eight-year-old relationship.The world is big and sometimes small, and fate is really a magical thing.That day, her parents went to see the house and took her there on a whim, and that house happened to be the old house that Qian Zhongshu's family rented.

No one knew whether the two young children rubbed shoulders in the corner of the street, but she didn't see him in the old house.Yang Jiang's family did not move in in the end, because Qian Zhongshu's enthusiastic aunt told Yang Jiang's parents that she had never left the medicine pot since she moved here.Yang Jiang, who was only eight years old, remembered this clearly.

Many years later, she mentioned to Qian Zhongshu the empty gate of the courtyard, the tall white walls, the square windows with hollowed-out flowers, and the two big trees with thick branches and leaves at the gate... I really remember it clearly, Qian Zhong Shu praised her for her good memory.

Maybe this is fate, even if you glance at it, you can't forget it.

Later, the Yang family settled in Shaxiang, and Yang Jiang transferred to Dawangmiao Primary School to study.It was a short period of time, and not long after, my father fell ill. I don't know if it was due to the climate or the current of the river, but many residents who lived in this house suffered from severe typhoid fever.

Because my father only believed in western medicine, they invited a foreign western doctor, took blood and sent it for testing, but the cause of the disease was not found out, but the condition was getting worse day by day.Mother looked at Yang Yinhang who was lying on the bed talking nonsense, and was very anxious, so she invited a famous old Chinese doctor on her own initiative, and the old doctor said it was typhoid fever after the pulse was finished.

My mother begged the Chinese medicine doctor to write a prescription, but the Chinese medicine doctor just shook his head and said that the patient was hopeless.When the mother heard this, she shed tears immediately.Seeing her mother's tears and visiting relatives and friends sighing and shaking her head, Yang Jiang was sad and terrified.

Fortunately, my father's old friend Hua Shifu came.He is a well-known local doctor of traditional Chinese medicine. Seeing his old friend who was full of ghosts and gods on the bed, he felt very distressed.He promised to give it a try. Although the situation was not optimistic, he had no choice but to treat him like a dead horse and prescribed a prescription cautiously.

That night, their family stayed by Yang Yinhang's side nervously.There are always miracles in the world. On the second day, my father opened his eyes and showed a faint smile.Yang Jiang was very happy that her father finally survived.Later, Yang Jiang, who was already in the past, recalled this past event and said sadly: "I often think, if my father can't afford it, if I have relatives who take pity on me and take care of me for a few years, maybe I can be a primary school student." Teacher. Otherwise, I will probably have to be a female worker, and there are many factories in Wuxi."
Father Yang Yinhang recovered from his illness, but this serious illness made the Yang family who were not well off even more difficult.In order to make a living, Yang Yinhang moved his family to Shanghai in the autumn of [-], and became the deputy editor-in-chief of the Shenbao News Agency, and also resumed his old career as a lawyer.

Later, he felt that Shanghai society was too complicated, so he settled in the old Suzhou "Anxutang" in [-], and transferred Yang Jiang to the Zhenhua Girls' High School in Suzhou.This is a boarding school, and she can only go home on weekends. Yang Jiang, who is attached to her warm little home, is reluctant to leave home, but she still lives in the school reluctantly.

When the weekend came, she happily returned home, snuggled up to her parents, and coaxed her youngest sister, Abi, to sleep.This younger sister was born not long ago, she is very pink and cute, and she still looks like her second sister who passed away. She still remembers her mother's sad words that day: "I am a Tong! She knows that I miss her, so she came back again. "
The sensible Yang Jiang will love this youngest sister more because of her mother's heart.Her mother is a kind person who treats servants with kindness, and she has inherited her mother's bodhisattva heart. She is very considerate of her parents, siblings, both in life and in spirit.

In the morning when her father was working at his desk, she would quietly deliver a steaming cup of tea. After the meal, she would deliver peeled apples or peeled chestnuts and pecans. In the afternoon, she would take her younger siblings to other places. Afraid of disturbing my father's lunch break...

She is a sensible and careful child, and her father sees everything she does.One day, he stopped her who was about to leave and said, "Actually, I like to be accompanied by someone, but just don't make any noise." So she quietly read a book by her father's side, and even added coal to the stove in winter. sound.

She likes books, this quiet girl finds inner peace in books.Once, her father asked her like this: "Ah Ji, I won't let you read for three days, how are you doing?"
She answered honestly, "It's not easy."
The father then asked, "Why don't you read books for a week?"
"A week's worth of life," she said, opening her mouth.

Her father smiled and nodded, "Me too."
It's just that this little girl who loves reading also has naughty moments.During a winter vacation, while his father was taking a lunch break, Yang Jiang and his younger siblings gathered around the stove in the study and secretly baked rice cakes.Just accidentally, the rice cake fell into the stove, and the sound of ping-pong-pong rang non-stop for a moment.Seeing that they had caused trouble, they all ran out in a hurry.

After a while, they sneaked back again and looked around the door. Seeing their father sitting and working with ease, they quietly came in to look for rice cakes.And their father, while suppressing a smile, pretended not to see their trick with a tiger face.

Look, when she was young, she was such a well-behaved, sensible and innocent little girl, how could she not be liked?

Legend cannot be copied
The scene changed, and I still wanted to say something.After watching Yang Jiang's cuteness and beauty, let's focus the camera on Qian Zhongshu, who is just showing his talents, to see how this talented Wuxi scholar became famous in Tsinghua University.

In the summer of [-], he and his cousin Zhong Han graduated from high school.The two applied for Tsinghua University, the top university in the country. Qian Zhongshu chose foreign literature, while Qian Zhonghan majored in science and engineering. The two brothers, one literary and one military, have a lot of courage to be arrogant.

In a blink of an eye it was the entrance examination, the examination papers were handed out, Chinese and English, Qian Zhongshu flicked his pen, and the words were flying freely, and after handing in the papers, he still felt unsatisfied.When it came to mathematics, he looked at the piles of Arabic symbols on the questions, and felt that he was in a cloud of clouds and fog, unable to find a way out, so he had to answer hastily and hand in the paper.

On the day when the list was released, he met with his cousin to watch the list, and the two of them were impressively listed, and Qian Zhonghan ranked second in terms of total scores.As for Qian Zhongshu, both Chinese and English are No.1, and only [-] points in Mathematics.Later, Yang Jiang teased Qian Zhongshu that "with [-] points in mathematics, he was admitted to Tsinghua University".

In fact, according to Tsinghua University's admissions regulations, as long as candidates fail in one subject, they will not be admitted. Qian Zhongshu's extremely bad math scores can only be blocked outside the high wall.But because of the No. 1 in Chinese and English, his total score was ranked several times. The teacher in charge did not dare to make decisions, so he reported his situation to Luo Jialun, the then president of Tsinghua University.

And Luo Jialun loves talents very much. When he saw Qian Zhongshu's Chinese and English scores, he was full of admiration and made an exception to admit him.Since then, Luo Jialun has also paid close attention to Qian Zhongshu and praised his talent and poems a lot.

Because of this incident, before Qian Zhongshu entered the gate of Tsinghua University, he was already famous all over the campus.And his cousin Qian Zhonghan was also admitted to Shanghai Jiaotong University. In order to show that he is different from his cousin, he chose Shanghai Jiaotong University.So far, the two brotherly brothers and the two inseparable partners have bid farewell to each other, embarked on the two paths of arts and science respectively, and each will achieve their own extraordinary achievements in the future.

In Tsinghua University, where "a group of talented people come together, young and old come together", it can be said that there are so many professors and a lot of students.When Qian Zhongshu entered school, there were Yang Zhensheng, dean of literature, Wang Wenxian, director of the Department of Foreign Languages, Ye Gongchao, Wen Yuanning, Wu Mi and other famous scholars, as well as foreign scholars such as Pu Laisheng, Rui Qiaci and Wen De.

What Qian Zhongshu likes the most is the library with a large collection of books. At that time, his biggest wish was to sweep the library of Tsinghua University.Traveling thousands of miles and reading thousands of books, he reads old and new Chinese and Western books all day long. A classmate named Xu Zhende once commented: "Brother Zhong Shu, a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu, has not been in class for a long time in his freshman year, and he is well-known throughout the school. They are all excellent, and read a lot of books. The student number is [-]. During Yu's four years at school, the library borrowed as many books as Brother Qian. I am afraid that he is not as diligent in studying outside the classroom. "
No matter in class or after class, he only focused on reading extracurricular books, never listened to the class seriously, and never took notes.But his test scores are among the best, with two academic years of "top grades", and one academic year with record-breaking super grades.

A classmate named Rao Yuwei said: "He is proficient in Chinese and English, and he is also proficient in philosophy and psychology. Irrelevant idle books, while listening to lectures, while reading my own books, but always take the first place in the exam."
In addition, he also mentioned one of Qian Zhongshu's "eccentricities"──"I like to draw good sentences with a black and thick pencil when reading books, and add his comments next to the books. The lines and comments in the collection of Tsinghua University Most of them come from the handwriting of this gentleman."
In fact, apart from this so-called eccentric habit, he also puts a lot of effort into reading and taking notes. Whether it is the bookshelf or the desk in the dormitory, stacks of notebooks full of words written in his thoughts can be seen everywhere, some even piled up to a foot. how high.

He likes to read, has amazing memory and comprehension, no matter how difficult the book is, he can comprehend it effortlessly.What's more, he can apply the knowledge he has learned extensively when he is talking about it. He can get any poems from the Yellow Valley or famous quotes from ancient Roman writers at his fingertips, and he can even find the source immediately.

In addition, he also encourages others to read, and can write constructive bibliographies for others without thinking, and can list the advantages and disadvantages of the content of the book in detail.Once, Wu Zuxiang asked him to recommend three banned books in English. Without saying a word, he immediately wrote more than 40 books. The titles, authors, and brief introductions of the books were listed in detail.

There has been a saying since ancient times: "If you read ten thousand volumes, you can write like a god." Qian Zhongshu's articles are written very quickly, but he always surprises everyone with his words.Zheng Chaozong, a classmate, said: "I have seen with my own eyes that he writes brilliant and witty letters in front of others; Nice article."
While in school, he often published articles in magazines and newspapers such as Tsinghua Weekly, Xinyue Monthly, Xuewen Weekly and Ta Kung Pao, mainly book reviews and essays, in both Chinese and English.His articles are well-reasoned, well-quoted, full of profound knowledge and outstanding talent, and give people a refreshing feeling. Even Professor Zhang Shenfu, who has appreciated and promoted Zhou Enlai and Zhu De in the political circle, also praised him in "Ta Kung Pao" and said: " Mr. Qian Mocun is Tsinghua's most special genius; it can be said that among all Chinese people, no one can catch up with him in talent and academic ability. Because Mocun's talent and strength are absolutely rare."
The students who can be admitted to Tsinghua University are either outstanding young talents or well-known talents. Of course, their strengths should not be underestimated.Qian Zhongshu had 30 students in his class. Although there were three fewer students when he graduated, all 27 students became famous scholars—dramaist Cao Yu, novelist Wu Zuxiang, book critic Changfeng, translator Shi Pu...

Standing among the cranes, Qian Zhongshu is still outstanding, and has been unanimously appreciated by famous professors such as Ye Gongchao, Wen Yuanning, and Wu Mi.This kind of honor is only for him.Professor Wu Mi even sighed: "Talents have been rare since ancient times, and outstanding and outstanding talents are especially hard to come by. Today's talents in literature and history, Mr. Chen Yinke should be promoted among the older generation, and Qian Zhongshu should be promoted among the younger generation. .They are all dragons among men, and the rest are just like you and me, but nothing more."
Because of Professor Wu Mi's "dragon among men", Qian Zhongshu got the nickname "Dragon of Tsinghua University", his classmate Cao Yu got the word "tiger", and Yan Yuheng got the word "dog". Tsinghua University's Department of Foreign Languages ​​"Three Heroes", and he ranks first among the "Three Heroes".And he is also one of the so-called "three talents" of Tsinghua University, the other two are in the history department.

In October [-], Professor Wen Yuanning wanted to invite him to teach Chinese language and literature at the University of London, England.At that time, he was just a student who had just entered his junior year. Such a recommendation could be said to be unprecedented and a great honor.He sent a letter to his father to ask for advice. Mr. Qian couldn't help but be overjoyed when he read it, but he was afraid that his son would be too proud and too sharp, so he warned him "don't be complacent", and Qian Zhongshu also dismissed it. The idea of ​​going to London to teach.

For so many years, his father knew Zhong Shu well, and he was afraid that his son's madness would ruin his future.In Tsinghua University, he is the best among the best, and even the professors look at him differently, and some even regard him as the professor's "consultant".It's just that he is full of knowledge, but also has an arrogance, and dares to argue with authority. There are very few professors of literature and history at Tsinghua University who have not been ridiculed and criticized by him.

(End of this chapter)