Jin Yong's early essays

/kloc-in the winter of 0/930, the sky in a small town in the south of the Yangtze River was gray and it seemed to snow, and the north wind whistled softly.

Suddenly, Rinrin's bell rang in the primary school, and a janitor in a blue cotton robe raised the bronze bell in his hand and shook it. In the classroom, twenty or thirty boys and girls packed their schoolbags and ran to the hall to line up.

Four male teachers and a female teacher stepped onto the platform and lined up. Female teacher, in her twenties, smiled and put her hand through her hair. She sat down on a stool in front of an organ on the right side of the podium, opened the lid of the organ, and smiled at her mouth. When the piano sounded, the students opened their throats and sang:

One day is easy, the sun goes down,

The school bell rang and I went home happily.

Goodbye, gentlemen. ...

After singing here, the students bowed to the stage together, and the five teachers on the stage also bowed and smiled in return.

Goodbye, little friend. ...

The students in the first four rows turn around and bow at the same time as the students in the back row. Some children even make faces, and little boys should stick out their tongues. He is in the front row, now facing the patio, making sure that the teacher on the stage can't see his naughty appearance. The children straightened up and the students in the back row began to walk out of the school gate. Everyone walked neatly, in perfect order, out of the school gate to speak loudly:

"Gu Zixiang, come and play football at eight tomorrow morning!" "Very good."

"Wang Wanfen, the bird you promised me will be brought tomorrow!" "ok!"

Wansheng, a male worker, saw Guan Yi at the school gate and shouted, "Guan Yi!" Greet with a smile, take the bag that Yiguan is carrying, and hold his hand with the other hand. Appropriate officer shrink open hand, don't let him pull, quickly ran ahead. Wansheng also stepped up to catch up.

They took a stone road, crossed a stone bridge, turned into a dirt road and arrived in the country. When passing the willow trees by the pond, Wansheng went to pull Xuanguan's hand again, but Guan Yi still wouldn't let him. Wansheng said, "Young Master said that you must hold Guan Yi's hand when you get to the pond." Yi Guan smiled and said, "Dad is afraid that I will fall into the pond? Wansheng, go and catch me a bird and ask for two. "

Wansheng nodded and said, "OK, but not now. The new year is about to pass, and old birds will hatch young birds in spring. "

"Birds also celebrate the New Year? Do they worship Buddha and Bodhisattva in the New Year? "

"Birds don't celebrate the New Year. They sang to the Bodhisattva. When the weather is fine in spring, the birds will not freeze to death when they hatch. "

They walked home. Wansheng sent Guan Yi to see the young lady to show that she was safe and sound. Guan Yi shouted "Mom!" He went back to his room and thought about his eight white porcelain goslings.

"Cloud, cloud! Take the white geese out and line up! "

Yue Yun, the little girl who received him, promised, "Oh!" Open the drawer, carefully take out the porcelain geese one by one and put them on the table. Her yellow face was covered with a gloomy look. As soon as her little finger touched the body of the porcelain goose, she immediately shrank away, as if afraid of hurting the goose.

Yi Guan arranged porcelain geese in two rows, four in each row, facing each other. He sang: "Goodbye, little friend ... Hahahaha!" Pick up a gosling on the right and examine its head and neck carefully. There is a crack in the long head and neck, "Hey!" With a little effort of the left hand, the goose neck broke with a click, and with a bang, the goose head fell on the table. "Moon cloud, moon cloud!" Crying trembling, sad and angry. The little face turns red slowly, and the red extends to the ear, holding the headless porcelain goose's right hand and shaking gently.

"Not me, not me!"

Guan Yun's face turned a little discolored with fear, and his right hand involuntarily stood in front of his face, as if afraid that Yi Guan would hit her. She is the same age as Guan Yi, but she is almost a head shorter, and her hair is yellow and messy. If Guan Yi wants to fight, she dare not speak, and her legs are shaking gently.

Yi Guan felt unspeakable sadness in the underground, and he didn't particularly like these porcelain geese. He just felt that one of the eight geese suddenly broke his head, and his happy life suddenly stepped into a defect. This defect was not caused by himself, but was suddenly hit by an external force from nowhere, destroying a favorite thing. Unable to cope with such a blow, he looked at a row of four goslings on the left, while there were only three goslings on the right, and there was a goose lying next to it. He suddenly fell to the ground and burst into tears.

Yue Yun didn't know what to do. If Guan Yi reached out and hit her on the head, she just silently endured it, afraid to cry, because she accidentally broke the goose head. At that time, she immediately went to find her big sister Ruiying. Ruiying was married by a wealthy family (Yi Guan's mother). She has served this young lady since she was a child. When the young lady got married, her parents gave her to her in-laws as a gift. My son-in-law is in charge of the bank in the town and is often away from home. My young lady is weak and lazy, so Ruiying helps her keep house and take care of the baby (called Miss Young Master in other places). In Jiangnan, if the old man and grandmother are in the hall, the second generation is called young master, wealthy family and young lady; The third generation is an official, managing cooks, long-term workers and maids. Ruiying has a kind heart. Seeing the moon cloud shaking with fear, she told her not to be afraid. She has an idea. She turned the glutinous rice cooked with zongzi into paste, made zongzi glue, and moved the broken goose neck.

Ruiying heard Yi Guan's cry and rushed to comfort him. She sang a children's song: "When an official is a good official, the goose seller is dishonest ..." Yi Guan asked Sister Ruiying why the goose seller is dishonest. "

Ruiying lied: "The goose seller who sold us these eight geese in the street yesterday was a prick. One of the eight geese has a broken head and neck. He lied to us, moved with religion and pretended that all eight geese were fine. " She sang again: "It is proper to be an official and be a good official, but a goose seller is dishonest ..." Jiangnan people are generally polite and don't swear. They call porcelain vendors "goose sellers". Goose's head and neck are so easily broken, it may really be cracked, but Ruiying only said that he was "dishonest" and gently scolded him. There was a smile on Yue Yun's little face, which made him greatly relieved.

Yi Guan's heart was relieved and he found the cause of the disaster, which was no longer a puzzling and sudden blow. He was relieved to know that it was the stranger's "dishonesty", not the relatives around him who expected to bully him. Take a novel that I didn't finish reading yesterday and put it by the bed. This is a novel written by Mr. Ba Jin. His brother bought it from Shanghai. I don't know whether it is spring, autumn or autumn spring. It is said that a foreign boy and a little girl in a circus have become good friends, and there is a little juvenile romance. It's a pity that they didn't play together for long, so they were forcibly pulled away by adults and stopped playing together. Yi Guan saw it, and felt a heavy sadness in his heart, with a sweet sadness, a bit like a pot of daffodils with rain stones on the table, with a sweet fragrance, a little lonely and sad. Narcissus hasn't withered yet, but it will soon.

Ruiying saw tears on Guan Yi's face, thinking that he was still sad about the broken neck of the porcelain goose, patted him on the back and whispered, "Guan Yi should be a good official ..."

Yue Yun moved a copper stove near Guan Yi to keep him warm. Appropriate officer saw Yue Yun's yellow face in the hazy, again remind of the mother said when YueYungang came:

"People are upright and don't cross their hands. They just have nothing to eat in the countryside, and they are poor, yellow and thin. They are almost ten years old, and they are still so short ... "The mother, Quan Sister-in-law, said," Young mistress, we are miserable. We have no food to eat. There is not enough food at home, so her father and brother always eat first. When a person is full, he has the strength to live in the fields. I ... I don't give birth to milk when I eat less, and the baby will starve to death if it doesn't give birth, so ... So Xueyun often doesn't have enough to eat. On a hot day, when the rice is not cut, there is no rice in the rice jar, and Xueyun doesn't eat for a day ... "Guan Yi's mother sighed and said," This is really a sin ... "Guan Yi squinted at Xueyun and said," Xueyun refuses to eat, being naughty. " Appropriate officer sometimes unhappy, refused to eat, expressed dissatisfaction, the longest time, because his mother made him a slipper embroidered with butterflies, butterfly wings only embroidered a sideline, unlike my uncle's slippers, butterfly wings embroidered in different colors on the ground, much better, and later mother Yang Jing's sister embroidered two pieces of Tian butterfly uppers, appropriate officer just smiled happily. When he refuses to eat, his mother and Ruiying often call him "naughty". He thought Xueyun didn't eat and made the little boy make trouble like him.

Xueyun is the original name. When her father took her home for the first time, her father said, "Xueyun's name sounds like that. It's Grandpa Yue's son. If you don't offend, it's better to change to Yue Yun. " Her father hurriedly smile apologetically said:

"Good, good, young master has changed well, and we country people are not sensible." In that small town, the sound of the word "Xue" is almost the same as that of the word "Yue". Grandpa Yue Feiyue died in Hangzhou, not far from the town. Grandpa Yue is very respected and worshipped by local people. Since then, Xueyun has been changed to Yue Yun.

In Jiangnan area, before liberation, poor farmers often sold or mortgaged their daughters to landlords or rich families as maids.

Little girls are usually eleven or twelve years old, so it is easy to do some housework. There are also eight or nine years old. Selling is selling, more than one hundred and two hundred pieces of silver, depending on the age of the little girl, whether she is born or not, whether she is smart or not, and whether her hands and feet are flexible or not; The bet is eighty or ninety dollars or sixty or seventy dollars of silver. Usually parents will get the neckline after ten years, but the gambling money will be returned. It is equivalent to borrowing a sum of money from the host family and paying it back ten years later without paying interest. The little girl is a collateral and works in her master's house. The host family provides food and clothing, and there is no salary. Although it is a mortgage, poor farmers usually have no money to redeem it when it expires. Whether it's for sale or mortgage, when a little girl reaches the age of eighteen or twenty, the host family will often decide to marry her to the town or marry another uncle, and collect as much as she can. If you buy it, almost like a slave, the owner of the little girl is irresponsible.

The girl in charge has a slightly better position. Although the host family often beats and scolds her and sometimes makes her starve, she has something to discuss with her parents. If she is unfortunately ill and dies, it will often lead to major disputes, and the host family will inevitably have to pay a sum of money.

Yue Yun is a chess piece, and her parents love her and don't want to sell it. Guan Yi's mother said that she was yellow, thin and ugly, and it was not worth buying.

Yi Guan in his sleep seems to be the foreign child in the book, holding the hand of the circus girl, and they are running happily by the lake. The little girl is like a moon cloud, and she smiles beautifully. He seldom hears Yue Yun laugh, and even when he laughs, his voice has never been so soft and pleasant. They saw many white geese in the lake and white feathers floating on the green lake. These white geese slowly lined up in two rows, facing each other across the willows, stretching their heads and necks as if they were saluting. Yi Guan made a ghost eyelid and sang, "Goodbye, gentlemen! Goodbye, little friend ... "He suddenly smelled a sweet smell, the smell of baked sugar rice cakes. He opened his eyes and saw a plate in front of Yue Yun. He smiled and said, "Let's have a sugar rice cake."

The China New Year is coming, and the Guan Yi family has cooked a lot of sugar and rice cakes. Sugar and honey are mixed in the sugar rice cake, and osmanthus is added. There are roses, red and green melon seeds and walnuts on the cake surface.

Yue Yun uncovered the furnace cover, covered it with copper wire mesh, and cut the sugar rice cake into strips for baking. When the rice cake is hot, the bubbles in the cake swell up like small flowers in bud.

I took the chopsticks, ate one, raised another, and said to Yue Yun, "Yue Yun, reach out!" "Yueyun stretched out his right hand and took a bamboo ruler in his left hand and handed it to Yiguan, with tears in his eyes. Yi Guan said, "I won't hit you! ""Put a hot baked sugar rice cake in Yue Yun's outstretched right hand. Yue Yun got a fright and let out a cry.

Yi Guan said, "Eat slowly while it's hot!" Yue Yun timidly looked at tzu chi crown. Seeing his encouraging eyes, she incredibly put the rice cake to her mouth, and a rice cake filled her mouth. She chewed slowly and secretly looked at the door behind her for fear of being seen. Yi Guan said, "Is it delicious? There is food. " Yue Yun swallowed the rice cake hard, and his face was full of happiness and satisfaction.

She has never eaten sugar rice cakes, even a few pieces of sugar in her life. The baked sugar rice cake that was given to officials before smelled sweet. I only swallowed secretly, but I didn't dare to hear or see them.

A few days later, the whole sister-in-law came to visit her daughter with her little son, who was a few months old. Ruiying kept her for dinner and wrapped two pieces of meat for her to take back to her husband and son. Yue Yun hugged her little brother and sent her mother out to the well site. Yue Yun loathe to give up her mother, pulling her sister-in-law's apron, and suddenly began to cry. Yiguan followed them, holding a drum for the children to play with. He heard the whole sister-in-law ask her daughter, "Be good, don't cry. Are you all right here?" Moon cloud nodded. The whole sister-in-law asked again, "Did the young master and the young mistress scold you?" Yue Yun shook his head and sobbed, "Mom, I want to go home with you." The whole sister-in-law said, "Don't cry, dear, you have given it to someone else. Dad took the young master's money and bought food for everyone, so he wouldn't pay any more. You can't go home. " Yue Yun nodded slowly, still sobbing and said, "Mom, I want to go home with you. There is no rice at home, so I will not eat it in the future. " I sleep at my parents' feet. "The whole sister-in-law hugged her daughter and gently stroked her hair lovingly, saying," Don't cry, dear, I'll call my father to see you tomorrow. " YueYun nodded, still holding her mother. The whole sister-in-law asked again, "Dear Bao, should an official hit you and scold you?" Yue Yun shook his head hard and said loudly, "I should get an official's sugar rice cake!" " ! ""there is some pride in the tone.

Yi Guan is puzzled: "What's the big deal about eating sugar rice cakes? I eat it every day. " He ran up to him, drummed the drums and said, "Yue Yun, this is for my brother."

Yue Yun took it and gave it to her brother. She reluctantly watched her mother holding her brother and finally walked away slowly. After a few steps, the whole sister-in-law looked back at her daughter.

Later, Guan Yi grew up and read more novels by Mr. Ba Jin. He didn't fall in love with the maid Ming-feng like Chueh-hui in Home, because he thought Yue Yun was ugly or not, but he understood the teaching in Mr. Ba Jin's book that he should treat people equally and be gentle and kind. He will never hit the moon cloud, scold the moon cloud, and sometimes tell her stories in novels. His storytelling skills are so good that all his classmates like him. Yue Yun doesn't appreciate it at all and usually doesn't believe it. "Monkeys can only climb trees, how can they fly to the sky and do somersaults? Monkeys can't talk or hit people with sticks. " "The pig is too stupid to even take a rake. Nail rakes are used to rake the ground, not to hit people. " Yi Guan thought, "You are so stupid." Since then, I have lost interest in telling her stories.