Chapter 4 Grandpa
Walking into the house where the eldest grandfather lived before his death, Ren Feng felt a little in a trance. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Grandpa is my father's uncle and grandpa's eldest brother. Ren Feng didn't have much impression of his grandparents, because they died relatively early, he didn't see his grandfather at all, and he was too young to remember when his grandmother died. Grandpa's generation grew up with two brothers, the eldest grandfather never married in his life, and the grandfather was also an old man, so he gave birth to a father. When Ren Feng was young, he followed his grandfather when his parents went out to do farm work.
Many of the stories of the grandfather are still after his death, and he listened to his parents and others in bits and pieces, and the grandfather in his impression is gradually fuller in these stories.
I have the impression that the grandfather's legs and feet are inconvenient, and when he walks on one leg, he is always straight, dragging and rubbing forward as if he does not belong to this body. Later, I heard that when my grandfather was young, the country was being invaded by foreign enemies, and he joined the anti-Japanese war team, and experienced large and small battles, until he was shot in the knee later, his kneecap was broken, and he couldn't keep up with the troops in the transfer. Later, he was rescued by a passing villager, and secretly recuperated from his trauma, but he was disabled. The grandfather felt that such a body would become a burden to his comrades-in-arms, so he hid all the way, returned to his hometown gloomily, and lived an ordinary life incognito.
The eldest grandfather had studied private school, and he was a cultural person in this village, and he was invited to preside over the red and white ceremonies in the village, and everyone called him "Mr. Yi'an". "Yi'an" is his word, and his name is not often mentioned, and Ren Feng was not until his grandfather died and saw his name in his tombstone: Ren Xianyun. The name is not very obscure and full of sourness, but it is a very straightforward and dusty name. The second half of the grandfather's life is basically worthy of this name, but the era in which he lived, this experience was full of bitterness and no fairy charm.
The house where the grandfather lives is very simple, the outside is a small kitchen, and the grandfather has always insisted on taking care of himself, occasionally such as the New Year's holiday, when someone has a birthday, he will eat with Ren Feng's family; Inside is the bedroom, with a bed, a table, a chair, a box and a cabinet, and you can see the past at a glance. In fact, Ren Feng has to come here almost every year to clean up, and what is inside has long been imprinted in his mind, and it is clear and clear.
There was nothing left on the bed, and the simple hardwood bed was empty.
On the table was a pen holder, on which were placed three brushes, one large one for writing couplets, which was already a little bald, one for writing various posters, and a small one for copying and writing credits, and the two pens had been condensed together. When Ren Feng was only 6 years old, his grandfather taught him to write calligraphy and aim at the standard Yan characters. It's a pity that Ren Feng is monkey butt can't sit still at all, and he can't write a few words.
Ren Feng's current level of calligraphy is still like this, which is much better than modern people who don't write calligraphy, but according to the standards of the grandfather, he has not yet started. Ren Feng sometimes thinks that if he practices carefully according to his grandfather's teachings and reaches the standards of his old man, maybe he can become a calligrapher now. It's a pity that this can only be imagined, and the grandfather will never teach him to write while knocking on his chestnut while teaching him to write.
I don't know what kind of wood the chair is still strong. Back then, little Ren Feng sat on this chair to learn to write, Ren Feng wiped it clean, sat on it, and felt very safe and quiet.
The color of the old-fashioned red lacquered wooden cabinet has long been mottled, and there is basically nothing in it, and the main thing left is a knife, which was the weapon of the grandfather to kill the enemy, and some small tools, such as cutting paper and pasting and tying flowers.
What was really left for Ren Feng to tidy up was the wooden box that was placed on the top of the cabinet, and it was heavy when he took it down. Wipe the dust off the outside, open the flip cover, and there are books and letters inside, and most of them are handwritten copies, Ren Feng knows that those are all copied by the grandfather himself. Some of them were still used by Ren Feng to teach him to read and write when he was a child, such as "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names", "Thousand Character Text", "Sound and Law Enlightenment" and so on. There are also some classics that are now beginning to be lifted again, and there are some subsets of scriptures, except that they are manuscripts. There are also some correspondence exchanges, looking at the envelope should be the original grandfather's comrades-in-arms, it seems that the grandfather has not completely broken away from the organization, but why he did not enjoy the post-war heroic treatment, and there is no care at the government level, which is puzzling. What was really special was a special paper-bound booklet with a much thicker page in the middle than the original book - that was the grandfather's commentary. The name of the book is very weird, called "Kowloon Transformed People", an inexplicable name, very nonsensical, just like the name of a random web novel on the Internet. Ren Feng was very surprised, and couldn't help but think that grandpa wouldn't be a modern person who traveled back, right? If so, it's a bit too much of a joke. …,
Ren Feng opened this strange book, and at first glance, he knew that it was a boxing book, and the content in it was the set of boxing taught by his grandfather. It seems that this punch is called Jiulong Huaren Boxing, Ren Feng originally thought that this fist had something to do with Tai Chi, it seems to be a misunderstanding, this name really doesn't match Tai Chi. Turning to the back, in addition to the pictures and notes, there is a not short text at the end, which is a relatively difficult classical Chinese, which is not quite the same as ordinary classical Chinese, and it is a bit difficult to understand. What Ren Feng can roughly understand is that this book is not complete, there are other parts, and there is a special sign to find each part.
Looking at the grandfather's annotation, it is not the analysis of the original demolition moves imagined by Ren Feng, but the method and experience of practicing boxing. When I was a child, my grandfather had time to teach Ren Feng to practice the boxing routines, but he didn't have time to talk about more profound things. Later, he had a tower of his own without blind practice, his movements were proficient and smooth, his body was not bad, and his reaction speed, flexibility, and coordination were quite good among ordinary people, of course, they could not be compared with professional athletes. But seeing the analysis of this punch and that punch on the Internet TV, Ren Feng has no idea of the punch he practiced, and he didn't know what role this punch was going to play. But looking at the annotations of the grandfather, I didn't expect him to spend so much effort to write much more annotations than the book itself, and he didn't talk about how to see the tricks at all.
The first point that the grandfather said was, in today's words, to concentrate. Concentration and distraction are the most basic requirements for practicing boxing, otherwise no matter how much you practice, it will be a showcase. No wonder the grandfather wants to teach Ren Feng to write, and he is so strict with Xiao Ren Feng and often sighs. Concentration does not mean that practicing boxing to a state of selflessness, like crazy like a demon, but that each action has a specific image momentum, as if giving these movements a soul. Practicing to the depths of the essence can make people who don't know anything about boxing feel this momentum directly, as if people have entered an illusion created by a boxer.
In general, a lot of what is said in the commentary is to teach people how to control their emotions, control their thoughts, so that they can control their behavior, realize their potential, and exert incredible power.
Ren Feng flipped through the book, and felt a shock from the depths of his heart, a feeling that he had never felt before, as if he had returned to the shore from drowning, and the strong depression was suddenly released. He used to be always confused, not knowing what to do, not knowing how to change his fate. He longs to get ahead, to be recognized and respected by others, but he doesn't know how to achieve it. He doesn't know how to reflect on himself, he doesn't know what to do to be at ease, and he doesn't regret doing things. And this book gave him a way to tell him how to control himself and improve himself.
He put all the books away and put them in the box, and moved them all back to his room. Other tables, chairs, and bed cabinets were also moved to the home to come in handy. He realized that he might be a different person in the future.