Time has developed to today (2015), and the old people in Huwanggou Village who are over 80 years old still vaguely remember the Chu family, which was once a big family in Huwanggou.

The famous Chu family changed later, and it also left a profound allusion in people's memory, which is divided into big families and small families......

The Chu family has a total of three brothers, who fled from Shandong in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, and there is a certain degree of chance and inevitability that they can settle in Huwanggou. The first to come over was the eldest brother Chu Zhennan, and later after he had Houshan Manor, he took over his parents, younger brothers and sisters and others. It was also when his life was in full swing, and the latter estates were also available, but he died young in the first year of Manchukuo (he was killed by Japanese spies in Jiapichuan Manor).

The Chu family's property is not small, there are four manors in a Huwanggou west to Qingyang Mountain, including the Houshan Villa on the back slope of Huwanggouli, the Wanghu Village located in Bangou, the Sanjiedi Manor located in Goukou, the Qingyangshan Manor on the south side of Qingyang Mountain directly opposite the Goukou, and the Jiapichuan Manor in Jiapichuan in Weichang County, all of which were left to his two younger brothers and three sons.

Chu Zhennan went from asking for food to be left by the wealthy Wang Li to be a cattle herder, to becoming a large landowner with many estates and properties, all because he took the risk to negotiate a rent dispute with the prince of Gongsang Norbu in the Karaqin Banner (Nanwei) for the people of Huwanggou and other places.

The first land he acquired was given to him by the landlords Liang Ping, Mi Sicong and Guo Yanqing in Huwanggou, who fulfilled their promises. After the death of the eldest brother Chu Zhennan, his second brother Chu Jin Sanzhi and his wealth were more disciplined, and he still managed the Sanjiedi Manor; The third brother, Chu Zhenjia, is a big man, a white-faced scholar, with a good-looking beard, and he has also learned the pioneering ideas of his eldest brother, so he has been managing Jiapichuan Manor.

His three sons, Chu Qiu, Chu Lun, and Chu Wansan, mainly managed the Houshan Manor. Wanghu Manor is temporarily managed by the second uncle Chu Jinsan, and he assigns him to work there for regular and monthly workers.

These estates were originally managed by the elder brother and his family in turn.

But Chu Zhennan's three sons all have a big addiction to smoking, and Chu Qiu loves to go under the stage to hold Kunjiaoer, Chu Lun is the most diligent in big smoke, Chu Wansan loves to play with women the most, whose woman lets him keep an eye on it, he must get it......

When his father Chu Zhennan was alive, this brother finally had to do these nonsense things secretly, but once he was gone, they became even more unscrupulous. The second uncle Chu Jinsan and the third uncle Chu Zhenjia turned out to be embarrassed to talk about the bad deeds of this nephew, and they were embarrassed to talk about the eldest brother's face.

can go from the eldest brother, this brother, compared to the race to sell the things in the sale. Chu Qiu stole some cotton from the West Wing, Chu Lun went to sell a few buckets of wheat from the kiln, and Chu Wansan would not show weakness, he would go to the Wanghu Manor below to catch a sheep and sell it......

Chu Jinsan and Chu Zhenjia saw that it couldn't work, so they went to Houshanzhuang to find the mother of the three nephews, their eldest sister-in-law, Chu Zhang, who was known as the eldest wife, and proposed to split the family. Although the family business is large, it is also a good share. Chu Zhenjia got a share of the Jiapichuan Manor and all the land there; Chu Jinsan got the three sections of the manor and all the nearby fields; Thinking of the face of the eldest sister-in-law, the three nephews got a share of Houshan Manor and Wanghuzhuang and all the nearby fields. Most of the houses in Qingyang Villa have fallen into disrepair, and they are temporarily managed by Chu Zhenhu, a cousin of the family. That's what everyone is.

After dividing everyone, the eldest brother's land, business, and six livestock are still prosperous, and they are still making money day by day, while the little brother's land is decreasing day by day. The brothers all have women, and the women have several maids and mothers-in-law, and as soon as the women participate, things can be even more troublesome.

So the division was put on the table again, and the eldest lady saw that the family also scored. She followed her second son Chu Lun, the reason is that her second daughter-in-law Sun Xiuzhen is knowledgeable and reasonable, a typical good wife and mother, when she was a daughter, she not only learned a good hand of needlework, but also knew a lot of writing and ink, and she could also do kung fu, and she would fly around immediately, not inferior to men......

The second sons, Chu Lun and Sun Xiuzhen, gave birth to five daughters and two boys, plus Changhu, monthly labor, and a large family, and moved to Wanghuzhuang below, and the manor belonged to them, and part of the land and property belonged to them. This is the small family.

The year was late February 1933......

…… The eldest son, Chu Qinian, was thirteen...... The third girl, Chu Rong (my mother), is six years old...... They were all full of playful age, and dimly saw that in the dense elm forest on the mountain behind, there were a few deer lifting their necks to eat the leaves; The river loop in front of it was still a yard of black earth, with elm poplar trees rising from the sky, and a small river flowed down from the ditch, quietly flowing through the trees, and flowing westward. There are a few green aquatic plants growing here and there in the river......

Chu Rong already knew that the days were getting worse, their father Chu Lun, was no different from before the separation, and he didn't care about the affairs of the days at all, and he sold almost all the land, mules, horses, cattle, sheep and poultry that were assigned to them before the New Year. The family property was originally large, but gradually there were some thin land, two old horses, and a large yard where many houses were in disrepair......

One day, Xiuzhen instructed Chang Huo to bring the yellow gelding with a good saddle, she got on the horse with her legs, and someone stepped forward to pull Chu Qi over, and sent him on the horse from behind. It turned out that her mother Xiuzhen wanted to go back to her mother's house to hide from the army......

As soon as the two of them really left, in addition to a few permanent workers, monthly workers and short-term workers, there were only grandma and the second sister Chu Lian, the second brother Chu Zhang, the third sister Chu Rong, the fourth sister Chu Feng, and the fifth sister Chu Xia. The eldest sister Chu He, her grandfather got married before he died...... Xiuzhen couldn't care so much, avoiding the life-and-death matter of the military disaster, so she had to bring her eldest son first......

Under the gaze of the children, grandmother and Changhuo Yuegong, Xiuzhen and her eldest son Chu Qi beat their horses and ran out of the ditch, and the yellow gelding ran as fast as it was back then. All the people looked west in amazement as the figures of the two of them on horseback became smaller and smaller, and they didn't know what it was like to feel in their hearts. At this time, Chu Lun didn't know who he was going to swallow the clouds and spit out the fog, in the words of his grandmother, he didn't know where to die...... At this time, he did not know that there was a military disaster, and if he did, he would hide in the potato kiln.

At that time, the wealthier families in the Okawa area were packing up their things and preparing to flee to the ravine where they had relatives in the distance. She and her eldest son Chu Qi were not embarrassed to alarm the second uncle Chu Jinsan's family, so they went out of Huwanggou. To the south of Huwanggoukou is Yulinzichuan, to the north is the small town of Jinshengtai, the owner of the National University, and to the west is Qingyang Mountain, which is connected to the mountain on the west side of Yulinzichuan.

Although Qingyang Mountain is said to be a mother, she only cares about her own self-reliance, and she can't care about anyone's life or death, so they had to beat their horses and run north for two miles to Jinshengtai. There are also people who have fled, and there are also people who have watched and watched. Jin Shengtai's big proprietor, Guo Bailing, is taking his men and a large group of subordinates to deliver porridge and meals to the troops going east on the side of the big road in the north of Jin Shengtai's small city.

Xiuzhen looked at it, what kind of owner there is, what kind of subordinate there is, a few young guys, their mouths are sweeter than the mouths of big owners, and they persuaded: "Military master, military master, eat more...... The military master brought this with him...... Hey, that military master, it's never too late to drink some water and leave......"

The two of them looked a little bloody on horseback, and their hearts moved, this is not a military disaster......

And none of the soldiers in that group of soldiers who walked away at a rapid pace were like the soldiers who had passed before, bullying men and women, and robbing things when they saw them. Xiuzhen asked Chu to inquire about the passing army, which was going to Chifeng to fight the little Japanese devils...... There are also bold people talking on the side of the road, calling them the Southern Army. The soldiers of the Southern Army were all wearing thin gray and blue military uniforms, and although they were very cold, they walked very quickly, and their steps were sonorous and powerful......

Chu Rong finally saw their mother Xiuzhen and eldest brother Chu Qi with her six-year-old eyes, and ran back again...

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