What did Chen Yi's grandfather do after he was dismissed from his post and returned to China, which made young Chen Yi very angry with him.

As I mentioned in my last article, during the Revolution of 1911, Chen Yi and his brother Chen cut their pigtails in Chengdu, because they joined in the fun. Chen Yi's father, Chen Changli, was afraid that the two brothers would get into trouble, so he sent them to his grandfather's house in Sanjianshan.

That was the first year of the Republic of China, that is, 19 12 years. At that time, Chen Yi's grandfather Huang was a junior official in Lichuan, Hubei. So my grandmother and mother agreed to let Chen Yi and Chen Mengqian go to the teacher's hall of Chen Yutang in Qinghai Temple.

From Sanjianshan to Qinghai Temple, it's a long way to cross mountains and mountains and cross rivers. The two brothers brought their own vegetables and rice, lodged in the rich man's house and often stayed in Qinghai Temple.

Not far from Qinghai Temple, there is a post road leading to Chengdu, and tourists come and go in an endless stream.

Sometimes travelers will miss the night and go to Qinghai Temple for lodging. Travelers come from all over the world and bring a lot of news. Chen Yi is very interested in these news, even more concerned than his favorite Tang poems.

When the traveler was telling the news, there was this clever child in the crowd who didn't want to listen, which made Teacher Chen Yutang pay special attention to him.

Although Chen Yutang was an old scholar, he was a "new school" figure at that time. His teaching is very strict, requiring students to recite ancient prose, learn poetry with rhyme and meter, and carefully correct students' homework. Chen Yi wrote the most poems and paintings, often with double circles, and was praised by him as "incisive as a theory and polished as a mill" and "willing to work hard and make great progress."

Chen Yi himself later said: He wrote poems from Sanjianshan, where he laid the foundation.

On the other hand, Mr. Chen Yutang is still worried about the country and the people and is eager for reform. The Theory of Evolution translated by Yan Fu, The Book of Great Harmony by Kang Youwei, and even Zou Rong's Revolutionary Army, which was secretly popular in Sichuan at that time, were enthusiastically read and discussed. He sympathized with "Kangliang Reform", "Road Protection Movement" and "Xinhai Revolution". In China, he was the first to cut off his braid.

Because of Grandpa Huang's face, Chen Yi ate at the same table with the teacher. Sometimes when they talk about national affairs, they are not only interested, but also quick-thinking and clear-cut in love and hate. Chen Yi is not only second to none in poetry, but also can take the initiative to report new news and ask the teacher for advice. Chen Yutang loves him more.

Sometimes when a glib traveler comes, Chen Yi will encourage the traveler to sit behind the lecture desk and tell everyone about it, and Chen Yutang will generally readily agree.

One day, a group of guests from Chengdu heard two big news: the seven-year-old emperor Xuan Tong abdicated and handed over all power to the Republic of China; The interim President Sun Yat-sen ceded the president to Yuan Shikai, and the interim government moved from Nanjing to Beijing.

The students immediately had a heated discussion. The royalists, those who supported Yuan and those who protected Sun all blushed. In fact, no one knows much about it.

Chen Yi was also puzzled. He knew too little. When I asked the travelers again, I heard that Pu Dianjun, Luo Lun and Deng Xiaoke, the elite road guards in Chengdu, were mostly officials of Yuan Shikai. Chen Yi really couldn't understand why Sun Yat-sen wanted to be president. He's just depressed.

Sun Yat-sen and Yuan Shikai are very different in Chen Yi's mind. At that time, Zou Rong, Xu Xilin and Qiu Jin, the heroes most admired by Sichuan teenagers, were all revolutionary parties led by Sun Yat-sen; The road protection movement in Sichuan and the Revolution of 1911 in Wuchang were also initiated by Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary party. Even Peng, a Sichuanese who forced Puyi to abdicate, was Sun Yat-sen's party member.

Although I heard the name of Sun Yat-sen not long ago, in his mind, he is a great revolutionary. Who is Yuan Shikai? Everyone said that he was a red man under Empress Dowager Cixi and a big official of the Qing Dynasty. This revolution is to overthrow the Qing Dynasty. Why did you ask the high officials of the Qing Dynasty to be big presidents? !

Teacher Chen Yutang couldn't answer with a sullen face.

Another thing called Chen Yi holding her breath-Chen Yi's grandfather Huang came back from Lichuan. (As written in the last article, Chen Yi's grandfather paid a small official to make an investigation, and Chen Yi followed him for two years. Later, Chen Yi returned to Chen Jia because he couldn't stand the darkness of officialdom. )

Huang was dismissed and returned to his hometown. This is, of course, the result of the "Republic of China" not recognizing "donating classes" to buy officials.

But in Chen Yi's view, the revolution seems to have little effect on my grandfather except the loss of "kowtowing officials". He still brought back boxes of silver, still a domineering countryman.

He also went further, spending money to buy many girls in the countryside and sell them to Hubei, or to give them to the gentry and nouveau riche he made. This kind of criminal behavior was sheltered by people and naturally passed unimpeded. However, among the local people, the notoriety of "human trafficking" is well known and criticized.

Even in Qinghai Temple, Chen Yi and Chen suddenly became the objects of ridicule, making them feel ashamed and resentful. This resentment is directed at my grandfather.

As a grandfather, Huang is not too bad. He doesn't mind his daughter and two and a half grandchildren sitting at home for dinner. But when it comes to the country, he will scold Chen Yi and them, and those words make Chen Yi and them sick.

Grandpa came back, and the life of Grandma Sanjianshan was unbearable for Chen Yi. He misses the new school and the big railway bridge in Chengdu more and more. How comfortable he is to walk on the bank of Jinjiang after school and watch the steamboats and wooden sailboats coming and going! Although I went home to eat sweet potatoes, porridge and Caicai melons, I was much happier than my grandfather's family.

So the two brothers began to pester their mother to return to Chengdu. Not long after, the family in Chengdu sent a message that they could take the child back, so the mother got the consent of her grandparents and the mother and son were ready to go back to Chengdu.

Before leaving Sanjianshan, Chen Yi and Meng Xi visited Mr. Chen Yutang. The teacher couldn't bear to part with two favorite students, so he invited them to have dinner at the same table for the last time and stayed in Qinghai Temple for the last time.

Three teachers and students talked a lot that night. Of course, I mainly listen to the teacher. They talk about learning, poetry and prose, people's suffering and lifestyle. What they talked about most was the Revolution of 1911, when everyone was very concerned.

The teacher told the two students about the rise and fall of China in the past decades. Speaking of the student army in Chengdu, the teacher choked and the students wept. It was a student army composed entirely of primary and middle school students of the same age as Chen Yi, who directly participated in the battle against the Qing army in Chengdu, with more than 500 people, almost all of whom died heroically. But Yuan Shikai became president. What has the revolution changed?

Chen Yi told me about his grandfather. Chen Yi's dissatisfaction with the Revolution of 1911 was first felt by his grandfather.

Teacher Chen Yutang's view on this matter is very clear. He said that the villagers scolded Grandpa Chen Yi for speaking like that. It was the revolution that made everyone shine at the moment and emboldened them, which was impossible before the revolution. Although Meng Qian and Chen Yi suffered together, they should be happy about it, because the revolution is not useless!

The teacher's words seemed to suddenly open Chen Yi's heart, and he felt much relieved.

Thirty years later, for this vigorous revolution, Chen Yi recalled:

Chen Yi said goodbye to Teacher Chen Yutang this time and never saw him again. Nearly ten years later, when Chen Yi returned from studying in France and visited this unforgettable teacher again, Chen Yutang had passed away. Chen Yi missed Qinghai Temple and remembered Teacher Chen, and his sad thoughts were condensed into a touching poem:

Shortly after Chen Yi and his mother returned to Chengdu, grandma died, even suffered a big loss and spent all her money, making it difficult to maintain a big family. At the same time, the political situation in Sichuan and even the whole country is constantly turbulent, and the war is more difficult. The climax of the old democratic revolution passed away in a hurry, and China was still a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society. Waiting for Rola Chen, a teenager, is a career of studying hard to find a way out from a poor family.