Wake up（234）

 

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After Han Erniang and Chai Jianhua sent away Wang Ji and Chen Xiaoyan, Chai Jianhua said to Han Erniang: "The mother and daughter are both engaged in education, but there is obviously a generation gap in their understanding of education."

Han Erniang told Chai Jianhua: "There is a generation gap between the elderly and children nowadays. In fact, there is also a generation gap with our parents and elders when we were young. The times are different, the experiences are different, and the cognition is different. This is normal."

Chai Jianhua nodded and said "yes".

Chai Jianhua asked again: "We went to visit Wei Zhongzhi, a famous Chinese scholar in Hong Kong. Wei Zhongzhi was a student of my old comrade-in-arms Pan Renshu. Wei Zhongzhi's father also joined the national army. He was injured in an anti-Japanese battle and received Pan Renshu took care of him. Wei Zhongzhi brought Pan Renshu's family to Hong Kong from the inland through his personal connections, and funded him to open a Chinese medicine clinic in Hong Kong. Under Wei Zhongzhi's introduction, Pan Renshu got to know Mai Shu. Listen, Pan Renshu and After Mai Shu got married, she had a daughter named Xiangzhu, who was studying at a medical school in Taiwan. However, I never heard that Pan Renshu and Mai Shu had a daughter. I only knew that Pan Guangfu was their son. what happened?"

Han Erniang smiled: "Maybe I was wrong. Pan Guangfu is indeed the son of Pan Renshu and Mai Shu, and Xiangzhu is Pan Guangfu's daughter."

Chai Jianhua said with a smile: "You are right, the old man is wrong, and I got it wrong."

The old couple were talking and laughing. But Han Erniang quickly stopped smiling.

Under the arrangement of Pan Guangfu, Chai Jianhua officially moved to Hong Kong, and lived with Han Erniang, who had visited him in the Mainland, and lived in Han Erniang's home.

Han Erniang told Chai Jianhua about her parents.

Han Erniang's mother was born in Hong Kong, and then moved to Zhongshan, Guangdong with her grandparents. Grandma's mother is a daughter of a famous family, and grandfather's father is also a former boss. Regarding business, he is mainly engaged in department store business. The two in-laws also visit frequently.

In order to expand overseas business, my grandfather’s father opened a company in Hawaii, because after her wife died, he continued the strings, and his new wife is considered virtuous, but he disagreed with my grandfather’s father to bring his ex-wife’s children to Hawaii, but Agree to subsidize their living expenses every month.

Han Erniang said that her grandfather's five brothers and sisters all stayed in Guangdong. Grandpa is the boss. In order to support the family, he worked as the general manager of a fish shop. In addition to managing finances, he also had to take care of security. My grandfather had obtained a university degree in Hong Kong, where he studied Chinese. But in traditional education, what is mainly accepted is Confucian culture. Because he is strong and strong, he likes to practice martial arts with a group of friends, so he has practiced martial arts. Taking care of safety in the fish shop is actually to protect the interests of the fish shop from fraud and infringement.

Han Erniang said that Guangdong was in chaos at that time, with both warlords fighting and revolutionaries rebelling. For the safety of his son, the grandfather's father mobilized him and his family to go to Shanghai for development. And arranged a very high-end job for my grandfather, as the deputy financial manager of Shanghai Yongan Company, in charge of the finance of the company's entire bottom-level shopping mall.

Grandpa has developed very well in Shanghai, and his younger siblings have also gone to Shanghai, and they all have their own positions in the company.

Grandfather has four children, one girl and three boys. Han Erniang said to Chai Jianhua: My mother is the eldest daughter.

Grandpa often narrates "The Analects" to his three sons. He said that Confucius compiled the six classics and mastered the six arts, which include "ritual", "music", "shooting", "imperial", "book" and "number". The teaching of the six arts covers etiquette, classic culture, logical thinking, music literacy, sports and other aspects.

Grandpa is not only proficient in history books, but also plays the huqin and flute. He usually goes to the nearby People's Park to fight boxing and practice martial arts every early morning. He also often told his three sons about "University", expressing that: the way of university starts from the "Ming Mingde" that manifests the perfect personal virtue, through "Xinmin", that is, through teaching and learning, self-cultivation and others, promoting oneself and others, Turn the people into customs, renew the people, improve the social atmosphere, and take the ultimate goal of "striving for perfection" that requires a lifetime of energy to pursue. He said that the ultimate goal of being a great scholar is not to learn for the sake of knowledge, but to seek goodness in all aspects, with the goal of honing self-cultivation and benefiting society. He also agrees with the academic propositions in "The Doctrine of the Mean" such as "learn eruditely, interrogate, think carefully, discriminate clearly, and practice earnestly". Under the traditional moral and cultural education of grandpa, Han Erniang's three younger brothers all joined the New Fourth Army successively. The eldest son also obtained a diploma from St. John's University before joining the army.

Han Erniang said to Chai Jianhua: Grandpa didn't ask my mother to study scriptures and martial arts, but asked her to learn how to be a female celebrity and be a good wife and mother.

Han Erniang said that my mother learned the cutting, sewing, weaving and embroidery in female red, and she could also make shoes. The popular cheongsam at that time was also made by myself. Perhaps because of the influence of her grandfather and three younger brothers who practiced literature and martial arts, she fell in love with the boy at the entrance of the alley. He is the king of children, can act in dramas, sing Beijing opera, and can fight. He is always the Ying family. He is the second child in the family, but he is the one with the most decision-making power among the three brothers.

But my grandfather objected to my mother's association with this boy, on the grounds that the boy's father was just a small owner of a paper-making shop, and he had nothing but feudal superstition and funeral etiquette.

The boy wasn't really the kind of guy Grandpa said he was. He performed modern dramas, and played the role of Zilu in Confucius dramas. His favorite song is "Man Jianghong" by Yue Fei.

In order to get his grandfather to accept him, the boy came to the door himself. He told his grandfather that with the help of his eldest son, he had secretly signed up for the New Fourth Army. He will take his younger brother to Yancheng tomorrow.

What the boy said surprised my grandfather. That day, his grandfather let him stay at home, and he accepted his daughter's marriage with the boy.

Han Erniang said, this boy is my father. My mother arranged some luggage for him overnight, including clothes and pants presented by my grandfather. Grandpa also specially gave him a copy of "Zhou Li", and told him to read "Zhou Li Da Sima" in the volume carefully when he has time.

Speaking of this, Erniang Han burst into tears: I never thought that my father participated in the War of Liberation, served as an artilleryman and a tank soldier, and served as the principal of a middle school after liberation. Unexpectedly, during the anti-rightist movement, he was labeled as a rightist and sent to Baimaoling Farm to be reeducated through labor. After being released from the labor camp, he stayed in the Hefei Brick Kiln Factory as a porter. During the Cultural Revolution, he joined the rebel team with some colleagues who had retired or were expelled from the military for political reasons. As a result, he was wrongly killed as a member of the counter-revolutionary restoration group during the suppression of the May 16 incident in Hefei. Although it was rehabilitated decades ago, there is no dead body.

Han Erniang said painfully: My husband was also included in the 5.16 counter-revolutionary restoration group and was beaten to death during the Cultural Revolution.

Han Erniang has been living alone since then, not caring about world affairs.

Chai Jianhua took a tissue from the table, and he wiped Han Erniang's teary eyes. He didn't have a word of comfort. What words could comfort a broken heart?

Han Erniang said that she was a rural female teacher at the time. But I no longer have hope in life.

In the early days of reform and opening up, she was found by her young best friend Mai Shu, who was teaching at a university in Hong Kong at that time. Through various relationships, Mai Shu helped her move to Hong Kong and arranged for her to work as an administrator in the university library.

Han Erniang said to Chai Jianhua:

Mai Shu's husband is Pan Renshu. Chai Jianhua is your old comrade-in-arms, and he also joined the national army when the Kuomintang was arresting young men. When working in the mainland, he served as the principal of a middle school, and was later labeled as an anti-communist rightist and a KMT spy. His experience was also tragic.

Han Erniang said: "Chai Jianhua's son Pan Guangfu is a relatively well-known novelist and film and television screenwriter in the Mainland and Hong Kong. He has written some novels and novels. Some of his works have won literary awards in the mainland. Some film and television dramas that Pan Guangfu served as the screenwriter, It was also all the rage. But I don’t like to read his works, and some people say that he is China’s pink. In fact, his novels are far inferior to "Red Rock", "Lin Haixueyuan" and "Sunny Sky."

Han Erniang stood up, made a cup of Hong Kong tea for Chai Jianhua, and said, "Pan Guangfu's life is far from being as beautiful as what outsiders see. His life is not as tasteful as Hong Kong tea. In fact, it is very bitter."

Han Erniang told Chai Jianhua: Pan Guangfu's mother, Mai Shu, was born in a red family. Mai Shu's father, Mai Changhong, was a veteran cadre of the Red Army. Later, he moved to a local area and worked as the secretary of the party committee of a state-owned enterprise. During the Cultural Revolution, he was hit hard. Mai Shu was also criticized. Later, they were all rehabilitated. During the reform period, the couple went to Hong Kong together to do business.

When Mai Changhong and Mai Shu were persecuted during the Cultural Revolution, Pan Guangfu was traumatized as a child and became a son of a bitch. In order to draw a line with his father, he and his father Pan Renshu did not speak for 17 years.

Pan Guangfu divorced and remarried, and had two sons and one daughter with his two wives.

Pan Guangfu and his father Pan Renshu, as well as his and his eldest son Mai En's life past, are tear-jerked and heart-wrenching...

Chai Jianhua was silent.