Lesson 3* Remembering Mr. Lu Xun / (Excerpt) Xiao Hong

Lesson 3* Remembering Mr. Lu Xun / (Excerpt) Xiao Hong

Mr. Lu Xun's laughter was clear and joyful from his heart. If someone said something ridiculous, Mr. Lu Xun couldn't even hold the cigarette roll with laughter, and often coughed with laughter.

Mr. Lu Xun walked very lightly, especially as others remember clearly, he just grabbed his hat and snapped it on his head, and at the same time his left leg stretched out, as if desperately walking.

As a guest at Mr. Lu Xun's house, he first came to Hongkou from the French Concession, and it took almost an hour to take the tram, so the number of times he came was relatively small. I remember once talking about the middle of the night, and the tram was not available after twelve, but I don't know what was said that day, and when I talked about a paragraph, I looked at the round clock on the small long table next to it, it was half past eleven, and at eleven forty-five, the tram was gone.

"Anyway, it's twelve o'clock, and the tram is not available, so take a little longer." Mr. Xu advised so.

Mr. Lu Xun seemed to have listened to what he said and aroused illusions, and he held up his ivory cigarette holder in deep thought.

After one o'clock, it was Mr. Xu who sent me (and other friends) out, and it was raining lightly outside, and the lights in the alley were completely extinguished, and Mr. Lu Xun told Mr. Xu to let him go back in a car, and he must tell Mr. Xu to pay.

In the future, I will also live in North Sichuan Road, and I will come to the mainland new village every night after dinner, and there will be almost no interruption on windy days, rainy days, and almost no interruption.

Mr. Lu Xun likes northern rice very much, and he also likes to eat fried things and hard things, even when he is sick later, he does not eat milk. The chicken soup was brought to the side and scooped it with a spoon or two.

One day I made an appointment to make dumplings to eat, which was still living in the French Concession, so I brought foreign sauerkraut and beef ground in a meat grinder, and I stood with Mr. Xu at the square table at the back of the living room and wrapped it. The sea baby boy was making a fuss, and after a while he took it into a round cake, and he said that he had made a boat and sent it to our eyes, and we did not look at him, and turned around and he made another chicken. Mr. Xu and I did not look at him, trying to avoid praising him, and if they did, they were afraid that he would do more vigorously.

It was dark before dusk at the back of the living room, and I felt a slight chill on my back, knowing that there were not enough clothes, but for the sake of busyness, I didn't add clothes. When the dumplings were finished wrapped and saw that the amount was not much, I realized that Mr. Xu had talked too much and missed work. How Mr. Xu left home, how he went to Tianjin to study, and how he became a tutor when he was studying at the Women's Teachers University. The description of her going to the tutor test is very interesting, only one is taken, but after dozens of exams, it is difficult for her to be elected. Expect to make up for the tuition a little, winter is coming, Beiping is cold, that family is far from the school, in addition to the car money every month, if you have a cold and flu, you have to take out the money to buy aspirin yourself, and the monthly salary of ten yuan must run from the west city to the east city...

The dumplings were cooked, and as soon as I went up the stairs, I heard the laughter of Mr. Lu Xun upstairs rushing down the stairs, and it turned out that a few friends were talking lively upstairs. It was a good day to eat.

Later, we made leek zygotes and lotus leaf cakes, and I proposed that Mr. Lu Xun must approve of it, and I didn't do it well, but Lu Xun still held up chopsticks on the table and asked Mr. Xu: "How many more can I eat?" ”

Because Mr. Lu Xun's stomach is not good, he must take one or two pills of "Spleen Self-Beauty" after every meal.

One afternoon, Mr. Lu Xun was proofreading Qu Qiubai's "The Forest of the Sea", and as soon as I entered the bedroom, I turned from the round swivel chair, faced me, and stood up slightly.

"Long time no see, long time no see." He said while nodding to me.

Didn't I just come? How could it have been a long time since I saw it? It was the time I came in the morning, Mr. Zhou forgot, but I also come every day... How have you forgotten everything?

Mr. Zhou turned around and sat on the recliner before laughing to himself, he was joking.

During the rainy season, there were few sunny days, and as soon as it cleared one morning, I was very happy, so I went to Mr. Lu Xun's house and ran upstairs still panting. Mr. Lu Xun said:

"Here it comes!" I said, "Here it comes! ”

I gasped and couldn't even drink the tea.

Mr. Lu Xun asked me:

"Is there something going on?"

I said, "It's sunny, the sun is out." ”

Mr. Xu and Mr. Lu Xun both smiled, a brand-new smile for breaking through the melancholy state of mind.

Young people write letters too sloppily, and Mr. Lu Xun hates them deeply.

"It doesn't have to be well-written, but it has to be recognizable, and young people are too busy now... He quickly finished writing things indiscriminately, others read it three times and five times and couldn't understand it, he didn't care how much work it took. Anyway, this effort is not his. This is not very good. ”

But he still read every letter from a young man from a different corner, and when his eyes were not good, he put on his glasses and looked at it, often seeing the deep hours of the night.

Mr. Lu Xun's original manuscript, I used fried fritters at a fried fritters on Ladu Road, and I got one that was the original manuscript of "Dead Souls", and I wrote to Mr. Lu Xun. Mr. Lu Xun did not think it was surprised, but Mr. Xu was very angry.

The proofs of Mr. Lu Xun's books are used to pick the table or do something. Guests were invited to eat at home, and halfway through the meal, Mr. Lu Xun turned around and took the proofs to share with everyone. The guest receives a look in his hand, how can this be? Mr. Lu Xun said:

"Wipe it, take the chicken and eat, the hands are greasy."

Go to the bathroom, there is also proof paper there.

Mr. Xu was busy from morning to evening, accompanying the guests downstairs, while still tying yarn in his hand. Otherwise, while talking, he stood up and plucked the dried leaves from the flowers in the pot with his hands. Every time Mr. Xu sends a guest, he must send it to the door downstairs, open the door for the guest, and then gently close the door and come upstairs.

Guests also go to the street to buy fish or chickens, and when they buy them, they have to go to work in the kitchen.

Mr. Lu Xun wanted to send a letter temporarily, so Mr. Xu had to change his leather shoes and go to the post office or the letterbox next to the mainland new village. On rainy days, Mr. Xu raised his umbrella.

Mr. Xu is busy, Mr. Xu's smile is pleasant, but some of his hair is white.

Go to the movie at night, there is only one car in the car room on Scotta Road, Mr. Lu Xun must not sit, he must let us sit. Mr. Xu, Mrs. Zhou Jianren... Sea baby, Mr. Zhou Jianren's three sons. We got in the car.

Mr. Lu Xun and Mr. Zhou Jianren, and one or two other friends were behind.

After watching the movie, he only called a car, and Mr. Lu Xun must not sit, so Mr. Zhou Jianren's whole family sat and left first.

Mr. Lu Xun walked next to the sea baby, crossed the bridge of Suzhou Creek and went to wait for the tram. After waiting for twenty or thirty minutes before the tram came, Mr. Lu Xun sat on the stone fence by the bridge against the iron railing along the Suzhou River, took out a cigarette, loaded it with a cigarette holder, and smoked leisurely.

The sea baby ran back and forth restlessly, and Mr. Lu Xun beckoned him to sit down side by side with him.

Mr. Lu Xun sat there, like a quiet old man in the countryside.

Mr. Lu Xun's rest, did not listen to the gramophone, did not go out for a walk, did not fall into bed to sleep, Mr. Lu Xun himself said:

"Sitting in a chair and flipping through a book is resting."

Mr. Lu Xun accompanies the guests from two or three o'clock in the afternoon, accompanies until five o'clock, accompanies until six o'clock, if the guests eat at home, they must drink tea together after eating, or they have just finished eating tea and left, or they have not left and come again, so they accompany them again, accompany them until eight o'clock, ten o'clock, and often accompany them until twelve o'clock. From two or three o'clock in the afternoon until twelve o'clock at night, Mr. Lu Xun sat on the rattan recliner and smoked constantly.

As soon as the guest left, it was already the second half of the night, and it was already time to sleep, but Mr. Lu Xun was about to start work.

Before work, he closed his eyes a little, lit a cigarette, and lay on the edge of the bed, this cigarette was not finished, Mr. Xu almost fell asleep in the bed. (Why does Mr. Xu sleep so fast?) Because the next morning at six or seven o'clock to manage the housework. The sea baby fell asleep with the nanny on the third floor.

The whole building fell silent, and there was no sound outside the window, so Mr. Lu Xun stood up, sat down at the desk, and began to write articles under the green lamp. When Mr. Xu said that the rooster was crowing, Mr. Lu Xun was still sitting, and the car on the street beeped, but Mr. Lu Xun was still sitting.

Sometimes Mr. Xu woke up and looked at the glass window of Bai Sasa's, the lights did not seem to be very bright, and Mr. Lu Xun's back was not as dark as it was at night.

Mr. Lu Xun's back was gray-black, and he was still sitting there.

Everyone got up, and Mr. Lu Xun went to sleep.

The sea baby came down from the third floor, carrying a school bag, and the nanny sent him to the school, passing by Mr. Lu Xun's door, and the nanny always ordered him to say:

"Go lighter, walk lighter."

As soon as Mr. Lu Xun fell asleep, the sun rose up, and the sun shone on the people in the courtyard, bright and bright, shining on the oleanders in Mr. Lu Xun's garden, bright and bright.

Mr. Lu Xun's desk was neatly organized, the written articles were pressed under the book, and the brush stood on the back of a small porcelain-burning turtle.

A pair of slippers stopped under the bed, and Mr. Lu Xun fell asleep on the pillow.

The dish called from the Fujian restaurant has a bowl of meatballs made of fish.

As soon as the sea baby ate it, he said that it was not fresh, Mr. Xu did not believe it, and no one else believed it. Because some of the balls are fresh and some are not, others eat them in their mouths without changing their taste.

Mr. Xu gave the sea baby another one, and when the sea baby ate it, it was not good, and he shouted again. No one else paid attention, and Mr. Lu Xun took the sea baby dish to taste, and it was really not fresh. Mr. Lu Xun said:

"He said that it is not new, there must be his reason, and it is not right to erase it without examining it."

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Later, when I remembered this incident, I talked to Mr. Xu in private, and Mr. Xu said: "Mr. Zhou's behavior is really something we can't learn." Even a little thing. ”

Mr. Lu Xun wrapped a paper package neatly, often put the book to be sent, Mr. Lu Xun took Mr. Xu's hand and wrapped himself, Mr. Xu originally wrapped how well, and Mr. Lu Xun had to do it himself.

Mr. Lu Xun wrapped the book and tied it with a thin rope, the bag was square, not even a corner was allowed to be crooked or flat, and then took scissors and cut the rope end of the bundle neatly.

It's that the paper on which this book is wrapped is not new, it is all left behind from shopping on the street. Mr. Xu came back from the street, opened the things he bought, folded the brown paper wrapped in the things, and casually rolled up the small string. If there is a pimple on the small string, untie it casually. Be ready to use it whenever you want.

"Mr. Lu Xun will have to rest," Dr. Sudo said. But Mr. Lu Xun not only did not rest from then on, but also thought more in his mind, and everything he had to do seemed to be done immediately, proofing the "Sea Above the Forest", printing the painting of Kollwitz, translating the lower part of "Dead Souls", just right, these all started together, and also calculated the thirty-year collection (that is, Lu Xun's complete works).

Mr. Lu Xun felt that his health was not good, and he had no time to pay attention to his body, so he had to do more and do it quickly. At that time, everyone did not understand the meaning, and they all thought that Mr. Lu Xun did not take a break, and later read Mr. Lu Xun's article "Death".

Mr. Lu Xun knows that his health is not done, there are no more years of work, it does not matter if he dies, as long as he leaves more for mankind, Mr. Lu Xun is like this.

Soon German and Japanese dictionaries were laid out on the desk, and Gogol's "Dead Souls" began to be translated again.