Lingke was located in a remote country, and the building was very simple. Earth wall and grass roof, facing south, with wide steps, there are three rooms: living room in the east, bedroom in the west and study in the middle. Although the hut is a humble room to escape bombing, it is a great event for Li Jieren, who is 48 years old. He said: "A few thatched houses are relatively simple, but for my Li family, it is a first-time thing. Because I have never had my own house since my eighth ancestor settled in Sichuan, and I lost a lot of things, especially books, when I moved home. After I have a house, I can no longer worry about the loss of thousands of China books and accumulated newspapers and magazines that I have bought for decades. " Although the living conditions of Lingke were poor at first, it was a rare quiet treasure found by the writer Li Jieren, so he attached great importance to this residence and used the pen name "Lingle" to express his feelings. From the spring of 1939, when his family moved in, to his death in 1962, Li Jieren lived and created here.
During the 23 years in Lingke, Li Jieren has repeatedly carried out maintenance, modification and expansion of Lingke. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Jieren converted the hut into a two-story building and added an annex. Although the roof is still made of wheat straw, the whole style is a combination of Chinese and western styles: the wide steps of "Ming-Yi-Zhu" form a circle of cloisters outdoors. This is carefully designed by Li Jieren, which shows his high aesthetic taste in architectural art. There was no fence at the water chestnut. Later, a lot of quinoa grew on the edge of the water chestnut weir, so Li Jieren made a fence around quinoa and willow. Willow, peach, bamboo and flowers were planted in the courtyard wall, and a small vegetable garden was opened up, which looked like a rural pastoral scenery.
In 1959, Li Jieren made a major overhaul of the Ling Guo again with the contributions of "The Stagnant Water Loops" and "Before the Storm", replacing the wheat straw on the roof with small blue tiles and the earth wall with brick walls. In view of the rampant thieves in the countryside, the fence has long been unable to stop their "attack", so part of the manuscript fee for "Big Wave" was advanced to repair the fence. In this way, the hedge wall was also changed into a red brick wall, and the pavilion formed a truly independent courtyard, thus laying the basic pattern for the large-scale repair in 1998.
Ling Zi is not only a "paradise" created by Li Jieren, but also a refuge for underground parties and progressives in China. In the 194s, Li Jieren took advantage of the remoteness of Lingke to cover many underground party member and progressives. Hong Zhong lived in Lingke because he escaped the arrest of Kuomintang spies. Zhao Mingyi also escaped in Lingke for quite a while, and didn't leave until he found professional cover in East Sichuan. Chen Xianghe, a famous writer, took refuge in Lingke twice. The first time was in May, 1947, when Chen Xianghe was blacklisted as a spy and proposed to go to Lingke to hide from the limelight, Li Jieren said without thinking, "Welcome, welcome, stay with me, there is no problem with food and shelter ..." The second time was in the late summer of the same year, Chen Xianghe was blacklisted again and was urgently arranged by the underground party to Lingke. Later, for safety reasons, Li Jieren transferred Chen Xianghe to Leshan.
The secret agents have searched the Ling's nest many times, but they have never found a bargain. On one occasion, a group of spies rummaged through the chests in the Ling 'an, making a mess, which annoyed Li Jieren. He picked up the front pendulum of his robe and asked the spy jokingly, "I still have a hip here. Are you still searching?" There is nothing the spy can do.
Li Jieren's bones have always been "hard". In his early years, when he wrote essays, he dared to point his finger at those in power. Unexpectedly, living in Lingke is often blackmailed by the rural warden. One day, when the Kuomintang's Hu Zongnan branch was defeated in Chengdu, Li Jieren was stopped by Bao Chang: "Mr. Li, this is a thousand kilograms of forage for you. Please have a look." Li Jieren took the list and read it. It turned out to be "Jie Li people". Li Jieren immediately sarcastically said, "Bao Chang, I'm from Li Jieren, not Jie Li!" When Bao Chang saw that he had written the wrong word, he immediately paid a smiling face: "Just correct the wrong word!" Li Jieren said, "I was wrong! You sent 1, kilograms last month and another 1, kilograms this month. How can I get so much money? I'm afraid this distribution method will really force me to' rob people'! " Say that finish and roared off.
Li Jieren has always been very fond of neatness, and got the nickname of "Jinggong" in middle school. Therefore, in Lingke, cleaning has become a major event, and we can't be careless at all. Every morning, the old nanny Wu sister-in-law gets up and goes up and down; Li Furen also cleans the room first thing in the morning. There are a lot of furniture upstairs and downstairs, but every day, we have to wipe it all with a wet handkerchief, and then we have to wipe it again with old silk, because the diamond is beside the weir pond, and the air is humid, so the furniture will shine only after being wiped with silk. The hardest thing to tidy up is Li Jieren's room. There are too many books, newspapers and magazines. There are books on the top of the bookcase and on the bedside table. There are also paper, ink, stones and letters that have yet to be answered, all of which are neatly placed; There are also small vases with wild flowers and some small things like porcelain figures and dogs on the desk. If you are not careful, you will mess up the study, so Li Furen always does it himself.
Li Jieren's writing is very diligent and hard. After breakfast, he starts to work, and often stays up until late at night. The electricity was turned on in the late 195s, and only a bean-sized vegetable oil lamp accompanied the old writer at night. In the silence of the night, except for the occasional barking of dogs, there was only the sound of turning pages from under the dim oil lamp. Westbank > During the 23 years in Lingke, Li Jieren wrote the novel Dance of Monty, which was directed at the "four big families", wrote China people's basic necessities of life, and said Chengdu, edited and published a collection of short stories, revised stagnant water and big waves, and translated several French novels. Li Jieren has received famous Chinese and foreign writers and scholars such as Ba Jin, Ye Shengtao, Sha Ting, Ai Wu, Wu Feibai, Dai Zhili and Sang Yuan Beowulf in Lingke. He also discussed the development of Sichuan literature and art with leaders and colleagues in the literary and art circles such as Zhang Xiushu, Li Yaqun, Zhang Dongsheng, Duan Keqing and Lin Ruji. In Lingke, Li Jieren was often interviewed by reporters from Wen Wei Po and Chengdu Evening News and visited by publishing houses. On November 12, 1962, Wei Junyi, a writer's publishing house, and other three people invited Li Jieren for a manuscript. Li Jieren talked about his creative plan here: The fourth part of Big Wave was to be released in 1963. "The plan for the next part has been considered to be more specific, and it is ready to write about the dynamics of various intellectuals in the May 4 th era, and it is named" Under the Rapids ". He said, "I plan to write until I am 85." However, God doesn't have eyes. On December 24, a month after this conversation, Li Jieren died unfortunately. His last voice in the world: "My Big Wave still has 3, words!" It has become a masterpiece in the history of literature, and it has also become a permanent regret of Lingke.
In the 196s, another story happened in Lingke, which also shows the silhouette of that era. Li Jieren's daughter, Ms. Li Mei, once recalled the story of Li Jieren catching a thief, which was quite interesting.
It was a difficult period of three years, and each resident's monthly food ration was only 1.5 kilograms (21 Jin). In order to make his family's stomachs more oily, Li Jieren took advantage of living in the countryside to raise a pig, ten chickens, and several rabbits and ducks. In that era when most people in the country were starving, this was a great wealth! So Lingke became the envy place of people, and repeatedly attracted the gentleman on the beam to "get angry" (referring to the idea of stealing). One night in the spring and summer of 1961, before going to bed, Li Jieren went to the toilet. The trees in the yard were swaying and the light was dim. Li Jieren had just entered the toilet, but a black shadow suddenly flashed behind the door. Li Jieren instinctively grabbed the man's skirt, and they immediately twisted into a ball. Li Jieren, who was over 7 years old, felt with his fingers that it was a young man who could completely knock himself over, but somehow, his opponent held him firmly. Li Jieren, who was already panting, was only anxious to shout: "Catch a thief!" The shouts alarmed the family, and Li Furen rushed in first. When he saw the figure twisting to the ground, he grabbed the hand of the man like her husband and kept calling: "Let go, let go!" Li Jieren couldn't help letting go of his hand, and the thief wretched took the opportunity to turn over and slipped away. When he returned to his room, Li Jieren was very sorry that he didn't see the thief's face clearly, so he complained that his wife didn't catch the thief's child but caught one of her own. Li Furen said with great distress, "You are 7 years old and 8 years old, and you still catch a thief. What if he gives you a knife?" The whole family gave a wry smile. The deputy mayor's house was a thief, of course, unusual, so the Chengdu Public Security Bureau specially sent people to take police dogs to investigate, but the case was never solved. Li Jieren didn't care about this, but he took heart for the uninvited guest who escaped: "Why can't that thief win even me?" Probably didn't eat, too hungry! "
It's probably an interesting thing in the history of China literature that the old writer Ling Ke catches thieves.
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