Volume 1 Universal Feud Chapter 6 The Unyielding Soul
Yang Zhuochao usually likes to read some history books, he thinks that the peasant uprisings in Chinese history are still worthy of recognition, those rebels may not be so kind, they may have their own plans and motives, but they really have no choice .....!
Just like the "Zhu Chongba" at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, that is, the "Zhu Yuanzhang", the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty in the later generations, in the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yellow River flooded, and hundreds of thousands of people along Shandong and Henan became refugees. After the disaster came, Zhu Chongba's father starved to death on the sixth day of the fourth month, the eldest brother starved to death on the ninth day of the first month, and on the twelfth, the eldest son starved to death, and on the twenty-second, his mother starved to death. If this is a diary, it should be one of the most tragic in the world!
Zhu Chongba's wish is actually not too much, he just wants a home, wants his own children, and wants to give his parents who have worked hard all his life, have never bullied others, and are honest in a peaceful old age, at least have something to eat.
Although his home is not big, the family members have a harmonious relationship and rely on each other, although his parents are poor, they still bring surprises to Chongba when they come back from working in the field every day, sometimes it is a small bamboo dragonfly, sometimes it is a pig's head meat that the landlord's family does not eat, this is Zhu Chongba's home, but now there is nothing.
Zhu Chongba's sister has already married, and the third brother went to the door. Except for Zhu Chongba's second brother, there are no other members of this family. Seventeen-year-old Zhu Chongba watched his relatives die one by one, but he couldn't do anything about it. There is no greater pain in the world than this!
His only way to vent was to cry bitterly, but after crying, he still had to face an important problem, to bury his parents, but there was no coffin, no shroud, no cemetery, he could only go to the landlord Liu De, begging Liu De to find a place to bury his father in the share that his father had been a tenant for his life. Liu De rejected him cleanly, the reason is simple, your parents are dead, what does it matter to me, work for me, and I have also given him food.
Zhu Chongba had no choice but to cover the bodies of his relatives with straw mats with his second brother, and then carry them around with the door panels, hoping to find a place to bury his parents. But though the world is big, and there is land everywhere, not a single piece of it belongs to them. Fortunately, some well-wishers saw that they were indeed pitiful, and finally gave them a place to bury their parents. "The soul is long and looking for his parents is gone, and his ambition is depressed and feint", this is the emotional memory of Zhu Yuanzhang who was able to eat a full meal later.
Zhu Chongba didn't understand that his parents had been farming the land all their lives, but they couldn't even put it into the soil after they died. The landlord never farmed the land, but he had no worries about food and clothing. But he couldn't think about it at this time, because he had to eat, he had to live!
In times of desperation, Zhu Chongba prayed to heaven more than once, from the Taoist Taishang Laojun to the Buddhist Buddha, as long as he could know the name, the only content of the prayer was only to hope to live with his parents and have something to eat. But he was disappointed by the results, and his young heart began to grow cold, and he knew that no one could save him but himself!
The flame of vengeance began to burn in his heart! In order to have something to eat, he decided to become a monk. However, fate seems to exercise his will, only more than 50 days after he entered the temple, due to the famine was too severe, all the monks had to go out to make a fate, the so-called fate is to beg for food!
As he walked, he begged for food, walked through the city and villages, went door to door, slept in the mountains, and every time he knocked on a door, it was a test for him, because he was often just white-eyed and sneering, for Zhu Chongba, knocking on that door might mean insult, but if he didn't knock on that door, he would starve to death!
Zhu Chongba has no parents, no home, all he has is a little bit of pitiful self-esteem, but the life of begging makes him lose his last protection. You can't have dignity if you want to beg for food. In many cases, which is more important, the dignity of life or the pressure of survival? Yes, Zhu Chongba, only by losing everything can you understand your own strength and greatness!
He believed that when darkness covered the earth, the great Maitreya Buddha would surely come to earth. In fact, as far as his life experience is concerned, it is difficult to say whether he really believed in Maitreya, and we have reason to believe that the real Maitreya in his heart is himself! But Zhu Chongba's most important gain is that he has changed from a child who can only helplessly watch his parents die, and a handyman who can only hide in the pyre and cry quietly after being bullied, to a warrior who can face all difficulties strongly. A warrior armed to the heart.
Long-term difficult life, the best can hone a person's will, there are many people after encountering difficulties, can only complain, get by, and some people although they also have to bow their heads in the face of difficulties, but their hearts have never yielded, they continue to work hard, I believe that they will be able to achieve the final victory. And Zhu Chongba is undoubtedly the latter!
If he was a teenager who didn't know what to do before he came out to beg for food, when he returned to Huangjue Temple after three years of wandering, he was already a person who had the confidence to overcome everything. It's a great transition that many people may never be able to accomplish in their lifetime. The key to transformation is in the heart.
For many of us, the heart is the weakest place, it is particularly vulnerable to injury, the betrayal of love, the loss of family affection, the loss of friendship, will be a heavy blow.
However, for Zhu Chongba, what is there that is unbearable? He has lost everything, and what is more painful than watching his parents die and being powerless, snatching food from dogs and being scolded and despised in order to survive! We have reason to believe that on a certain night of painful thinking, Zhu Chongba turned this most vulnerable place into the source of the most powerful strength.
Yes, even if you have a face that everyone envies, a well-read talent, and an inexhaustible wealth, it cannot prove that you are strong, because the strength of the heart is the real strength!
It was at this point that a letter completely changed his fate. His childhood friend Tang He wrote a letter to him, the content of the letter was that he had become a thousand households of the rebel army, and hoped that Zhu Chongba would also come to join the rebel army and seek wealth and prosperity. He was not mentally prepared to go to the uprising.
However, in the evening, his brother told him that someone had found out about his reading of the rebels' letters and was ready to denounce him. Zhu Chongba was finally forced to a dead end. What follows is painful thinking and choice, and Zhu Chongba has three paths in front of him: first, stay in the temple, second, escape, and third, rebel.
Zhu Chongba couldn't make up his mind, he found a person and asked his opinion, this person's name is Zhou Dexing, Zhou Dexing doesn't seem to have any good ideas, his advice to Zhu Chongba is to calculate a hexagram and see what path is appropriate. The result of the fortune telling is "the code of divination is unlucky, and it will be ferocious", which means that it is unlucky to run away and stay here, and it may be okay to rebel.
Zhu Chongba understood that he had no way out, he just wanted to live honestly, plant two acres of land, and honor his parents, but he couldn't do it. Hiding in the temple just to eat a mouthful, and now that he has been denounced again, he may have to lose his head!
I can't bear it, I don't need to endure it anymore! Then it's the opposite! It's against the damn! This is a real version of forcing Liangshan, and it is also the only choice for the poor peasants in the feudal era. Who doesn't cherish their own lives? Who wants to fight? When they can't survive, those peasants are forced to use their blood and lives to promote the development of feudal society until it ..... its demise!
Because it's their destiny!!
Whenever he reads this, Yang Zhuochao's blood will always boil inadvertently! But in today's society, the country and the people are safe, and it is impossible for him to act with this kind of thinking! The only thing to do is how to support himself first, and then find opportunities to work hard! Everything can only be done by the will of heaven!
Although there is a lyric that says: "Three points are destined, seven points depend on hard work, and love to fight will win".....!
Men can be ugly, but they can't be poor! Poor, sometimes they may not even be tough to speak!
In any case, he learned to write poetry at the age of five, but when he became an adult, he repeatedly failed to learn poetry at the end of the Tang Dynasty.
When autumn comes on September 8, I will kill a hundred flowers when they bloom.
The incense array penetrates Chang'an, and the city is full of golden armor.
Life is easy, life is easy, life is not easy! Life is to be born and live.....!!!
Is there a thing that "fate" must not be changed? Is it true that what is destined by God must be right? No, .....! I am not willing to be just that lowly ant that is trampled on and bullied! I want to fight against fate, I want to become strong, and I want to travel between heaven and earth without restraint and pride!!