Chapter 9: The Great Reunion

After the Zhao family was robbed, Wei Zhuang was probably quick and panicked, and Ah Q was also quick and panicked. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 But four days later, Ah Q was suddenly arrested in the middle of the night and went to the county seat. At that time, it was dark night, a team of soldiers, a team of regiments, a team of policemen, and five detectives quietly arrived at Weizhuang, surrounded the Tugu Temple in the dark, and set up machine guns in front of the door; However, Ah Q does not rush out. There was no movement for many times, and the general became anxious, and after hanging a reward of 20,000, only two members of the group took the risk, crossed the wall and went in, and the inside and outside should be combined, and they rushed in and caught Ah Q out; It wasn't until the machine gun outside the shrine was captured that he was a little sober.

By the time he entered the city, it was already noon, and Ah Q saw that he was being dragged into a broken yamen, turned five or six turns, and pushed him into a hut. As soon as he stumbled, the fence gate, made of whole wood, closed with his heels, and the other three sides were walls, and when he looked closely, there were two more people in the corner.

Although Ah Q was a little apprehensive, he was not very depressed, because the bedroom in his Tugu Temple was not more intelligent than this room. The two also seemed to be countrymen, and gradually got together with him, one said that the old man wanted to chase the rent owed by his grandfather, and the other didn't know why. They asked Ah Q, and Ah Q replied sharply, "Because I want to rebel." ”

He was caught out of the fence again in the second half of the day, and went to the lobby, where sat an old man with a shaved head. Ah Q suspected that he was a monk, but he saw a row of soldiers standing below, and more than a dozen figures in long robes standing on both sides, some of them were shaved like this old man, and some of them had their hair more than a foot long behind their backs like the fake foreign devil, all of them looked at him with a sideways face and angry eyes; He knew that this man must have some origin, and his knee joints immediately relaxed naturally, and he knelt down.

"Stand and speak! Don't kneel! The caftan characters all shouted.

Although Ah Q seemed to understand, he always felt that he couldn't stand, so he squatted down involuntarily, and finally took advantage of the situation to kneel down.

"Slave sex! ......" said the man in the caftan with disdain, but did not call him up.

"Bring it from the truth, so that you don't have to suffer. I already knew that. I can let you go. The bald old man looked at Ah Q's face and said quietly and clearly.

"Move!" The caftan figure also said loudly.

"I was going to ...... Come and vote for ......" Ah Q thought about it nonsense, and then said intermittently.

"So, why don't you come?" The old man asked kindly.

"Fake foreign devils don't allow me!"

"Nonsense! At this moment, it's too late. Where are your comrades now? ”

"What? ……”

"A group of people who robbed the Zhao family that night."

"They didn't call me. They moved out on their own. Ah Q was indignant when he mentioned it.

"Where have you got? Say it and let you go. The old man was even kinder.

"I don't know,...... They didn't come to call me......"

However, the old man made a look, and Ah Q was caught in the fence gate again. The second time he scratched out of the fence gate was the next morning.

It's business as usual in the lobby. There was still a bald old man sitting on it, and Ah Q was still kneeling.

The old man asked kindly, "Do you have anything else to say?" ”

Ah Q thought for a moment, but there were no words, so he replied, "No." ”

So a man in a long robe took a piece of paper and brought a pen to Ah Q, and wanted to stuff the pen in his hand. Ah Q was very surprised at this time, and almost "lost his soul": because his hand was related to the pen, this was the first time. He doesn't know how to take it; But the man pointed to a place and taught him to draw a monogram.

"I ...... I...... I don't know how to read. Ah Q grabbed the pen and said in fear and shame.

"So, cheap you, draw a circle!"

Ah Q was about to draw a circle, but his hand was holding the pen but he was just shaking. So the man laid the paper on the ground for him, and Ah Q fell down, drawing circles with all his might. He was afraid of being laughed at, and he was determined to draw round, but this hateful pen was not only very heavy, but also disobedient, and it was almost closed when it shook and shook just now, but it shrugged outward, and painted like melon seeds.

Ah Q was ashamed that he couldn't draw round, but the man didn't care, he had already picked up the pen and paper, and many people caught him in the fence gate for the second time.

He entered the fence a second time, and he was not very upset. He thought that between the world and the world, there were about times to grasp in and out, and sometimes to draw circles on paper, but the circles were not round, but it was a stain on his "line". But after a while, he was relieved, and he thought: Sun Tzu has just drawn a very round circle. So he fell asleep.

However, this night, the old man couldn't sleep: he and the general vomited. The old man advocates the first thing to recover the stolen goods, and the first thing to show the general claim is to the public. The general manager has not taken the old man in his eyes recently, and said, "Punish one and make an example!" You see, I have been a revolutionary party for less than 20 days, and there are more than a dozen robbery cases, and all of them have not been solved, where is my face? After solving the case, you come back to the detour. Not! It's my tube! The old man was embarrassed, but he still insisted, saying that if he did not recover the stolen goods, he immediately resigned from the post of assistant civil affairs. But the general said, "Please!" So the old man didn't sleep that night, but fortunately he didn't quit the next day.

The third time Ah Q grabbed out of the fence gate, it was the morning of tomorrow when the old man couldn't sleep. He arrived in the lobby, and on it sat the usual bald old man; Ah Q also knelt down as usual.

The old man asked kindly, "Do you have anything else to say?" ”

Ah Q thought for a moment, but there were no words, so he replied, "No." ”

Many figures in long shirts and short shirts suddenly dressed him in a white vest of foreign cloth with some black letters on it. Ah Q is very angry: because this is very similar to bringing filial piety, and bringing filial piety is unlucky. However, at the same time, his hands were tied behind his back, and at the same time, he was kept out of the yamen.

Ah Q was lifted into an uncovered car, and several short-clad figures sat with him. The car immediately moved, in front of a group of soldiers and regiments with foreign cannons on their backs, and on both sides were many open-mouthed spectators. But he suddenly realized: Isn't this going to kill the head? He was in a hurry, his eyes were black, and the sound of his ears seemed to be faint. However, he was not completely dazed, sometimes anxious, sometimes calm; Between his meanings, he seemed to feel that in the world of life, he would inevitably be killed sometimes.

He still knew the way, so he was a little surprised: Why don't you go towards the Dharma field? He didn't know that this was a parade in the streets, a demonstration of the public. But even if he knew, he just thought that in the world of life, he would have to parade through the streets to show the public sometimes.

He realized that this was the way to go around to the Dharma field, and this must be a "bang" to kill the head. He looked left and right in a daze, all following the people like horse ants, and inadvertently, he saw a Wu Ma in the crowd on the side of the road. After a long absence, Yi Yuan has been working in the city. Ah Q was suddenly ashamed that he had no ambition: he didn't sing a few words. His thoughts swirled in his mind like a whirlwind: "The Little Lonely Widow Goes to the Grave" is not magnificent, and the "regret should not be ......" in "Dragon and Tiger Fight" is too lacking, or "I will beat you with a steel whip". At the same time, he wanted to raise his hands, only to remember that these two hands were originally tied, so he stopped singing "Holding a Steel Whip".

"After twenty years, it's another ......" Ah Q said half a sentence that he had never said in his busy schedule.

"Good !!" From the crowd, the howling of a jackal sounded out.

The car kept moving forward, Ah Q turned his eyes to look at Wu Ma in the cheers, it seemed that Yi had never seen him, but just looked at the foreign cannons on the backs of the soldiers.

Ah Q then looked at the cheering people.

At this moment, his thoughts swirled in his mind like a whirlwind. Four years ago, he had met a hungry wolf at the foot of the mountain, and he was always near and far from him, wanting to eat his flesh. He was so frightened that he almost died at that time, but fortunately he had a firewood knife in his hand, so he had to rely on this courage and support Weizhuang; But always remember that the wolf's eyes, fierce and cowardly, shining like two ghost fires, seemed to penetrate his flesh from afar. And this time he saw more terrible eyes than he had ever seen before, blunt and sharp, and had not only chewed his words, but also chewed things other than his flesh, and never came near or far from him.

The eyes seemed to be united, already biting his soul there.

"Help,......

However, Ah Q did not say. His eyes were already black, his ears buzzed, and he felt that his whole body was bursting away like dust.

As for the impact at that time, the biggest thing was the old man, because he finally did not recover the stolen goods, and his whole family was crying. followed by Zhao Mansion, Fei Texiu was braided by the bad revolutionary party because he went to the city to report to the official, and he spent 20,000 rewards, so the whole family also cried. Since that day, they have gradually developed the smell of old age.

As for public opinion, there is no objection in Weizhuang, and naturally they all say that Ah Q is bad, and being shot is evidence of his badness: if he is not bad, why should he be shot? But the public opinion in the city is not good, and most of them are not satisfied, thinking that shooting is not as good as killing the head; And what a ridiculous death row prisoner that swam the streets for so long, and didn't sing a word: they went with him for nothing.

□ note

(1) This article was originally published in the Beijing Morning Post Supplement, and was published weekly or every other week from December 4, 1921 to February 12, 1922, under the signature of Ba Ren. In 1925, the author wrote a short preface to the Russian translation of the novel, which was later included in the Extra-Collection; In 1926, he wrote an article entitled "The Causes of Ah Q's True Biography", which was included in the "Continuation of the Huagai Collection", which can be referred to.

(2) "Liyan": one of the so-called "three immortals" in ancient China. In the twenty-fourth year of Xianggong's "Zuo Biography", the words of Lu Guo's uncle Sun Bao: "There is virtue in the Tai, followed by meritorious service, followed by speech, although it has not been abandoned for a long time, this is immortal." ”

(3) "If the name is not right, the word is not good": see the Analects. Sub-Road.

(4) Internal biography: a kind of fictional biography. On March 3, 1931, the author said in his proofreading to the Japanese translator of "The True Story of Ah Q", Yamagami Masei: "In the past, Taoist priests wrote about immortals with the title of 'inner biography'. ”

(5) "Official History": Historical books written or recognized by the government in the feudal era. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, it was stipulated that from the "Historical Records" to the "History of the Ming Dynasty", the 24 historical books of the past dynasties were "official histories". The "biography" part of the "official history" is generally the biography of famous people.

(6) Xuanfu National History Museum Establishment "Ben Biography": In the old days, important figures or so-called celebrities who were loyal to the ruling class were praised by the government after their deaths, so that at the end of the text, there are often words "Xuanfu National History Museum Libiography". The names of the institutions that compiled historical books in the past dynasties were different, and the Qing Dynasty called the National History Museum. After the Xinhai Revolution, the Beiyang warlords and the Kuomintang government used this name.

(7) Dickens (1812-1870): Dickens, an English novelist. He is the author of "David. Copperfield", A Tale of Two Cities, etc. "The Biography of Botu" was originally called "Lautnay. Swallow, by the British novelist Conan. Doyle (1859-1930). Lu Xun wrote to Wei Suyuan on August 8, 1926: "The Biography of Bo Tu is a translation of Rodney Stone, but C. Doyle does. In "The True Story of Ah Q", it is said that it was made by Die, but I misremembered. ”

(8) The words used in "leading the flow of pulp sellers": refers to the vernacular. On March 3, 1931, the author said in his proofreading to Masayoshi Yamagami in Japan: "'Guiding cars to sell pulp', that is, pulling carts to sell tofu pulp, refers to the father of Cai Yuanpei. At that time, Cai Yuanpei, who was the president of Peking University, was also one of the advocates of the vernacular, so he was also the target of attack. ”

(9) Novelists who do not belong to the three religions and nine streams: the three religions, referring to Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism; Nine streams, that is, nine families. Hanshu. In the "Art and Literature Chronicles", the ancient Zhuzi is divided into ten schools: Confucianism, Taoism, Yin and Yang, Legalism, Celebrity, Moism, Zonghengjia, Miscellaneous, Peasant, and Novelist, and says: "There are ten schools of Zhuzi, and there are only nine of them." "The flow of novelists is covered by barnyard officials. The gossip of the streets, the creation of hearsay. …… It is also a gentleman. ”

(10) "The True Story of Calligraphy": A book about calligraphy, written by Feng Wu in the Qing Dynasty, in ten volumes. The word "orthodox" here means "to teach correctly."

(11) "The Bamboo Silk of the Writing": The words of "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period. Zhongchun Ji": "It is written on bamboo silk and passed on to future generations." "Bamboo, bamboo slips; Silk, silk. In ancient China, before the invention of papermaking, it was used to write words.

(12) Maocai: that is, Xiucai. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, because of the name of Liu Xiu, the emperor of Guangwu, he changed Xiucai to Maocai; Later, it was sometimes used as another name for Xiucai.

(13) Chen Duxiu ran the "New Youth" to advocate foreign characters: refers to the discussion of Qian Xuan and others in the magazine "New Youth" around 1918 on the abolition of Chinese characters and the use of romanized pinyin. On March 3, 1931, the author said in his proofreading to Yamagami Justice: "It is Qian Xuantong who advocates the use of the Roman alphabet. ”

(14) "Hundred Family Names of the County": "Hundred Family Names" is one of the literacy textbooks used in the previous school and compiled by the early Song Dynasty. For ease of recitation, the surname is interspersed into four rhymes. The "Hundred Family Names of Counties" is annotated with the name of the county (the name of the ancient local area) on each surname, indicating that a certain surname of the wang family once lived in a certain place in ancient times, such as "Tianshui" for Zhao and "Pengcheng" for Qian.

(15) Hu Shizhi (1891-1962): Hu Shi, a native of Jixi, Anhui Province, a comprador bourgeois literati and politician. In his July 1920 work "The Examination of the Water Margin", he claimed that he "has a historical fetish and a research fetish".

(16) "Lines": originally refers to the text that describes the lineage, place of origin, birth and death, and deeds of the deceased in the feudal era, and is generally written by his family. This refers to experience in general.

(17) Tugu Temple: that is, the land temple. Tugu refers to the god of the land and the god of grains.

(18) "Wentong": also known as "Tongsheng", refers to a person who has studied in the imperial examination era and has not yet been admitted to Xiucai.

(19) Champion: In the imperial examination era, the first Jinshi in the Emperor's Palace was called Zhuangyuan.

(20) Betting on cards: a kind of gambling. The person who is the main person in the gambling game is called "pile family"; The following "Qinglong", "Tianmen", "Piercing Hall" and so on are all terms for betting on the card, referring to the position of the bet; "Four hundred" and "one hundred and fifty" are the amount of money to bet.

(1) "Saiong lost his horse and knew that he was not blessed": according to "Huainanzi. Human Training": "Those who are close to the plug have good sorcerers, and the horses die for no reason, and everyone hangs them." His father said, "Why can't this be a blessing?" After living for a few months, his horse returned with Hu Jun, and everyone congratulated him. His father said, "Why can't this be a disaster?" The family is rich and good, and his son is good at riding, and he falls and breaks his hips, and everyone hangs him. His father said, "Why can't this be a blessing?" After living for a year, Hu people entered the plug, Ding Zhuang controlled the strings and fought, and the people on the plug died nineteen, which was only because of lameness, and the father and son protected each other. Therefore, the blessing is a curse, and the disaster is a blessing, which is extremely unfathomable and unfathomable. ”

(2) Saishen: that is, the race to welcome the gods, a superstitious custom in the old days. Greet the gods out of the temple with drum music and ceremonial guards and acrobatics, and travel around the streets and alleys to reward the gods and pray for blessings.

(3) "Little Lonely Widow Goes to the Grave": A popular local drama in Shaoxing at that time.

(4) Taigao: According to the ancient rituals, it originally referred to the three animals of cattle, sheep and pigs, but later the cow was called Taigao.

(5) The emperor has stopped the examination: in the 31st year of Guangxu (1905), the Qing government ordered the abolition of the imperial examination from the Bingwu Branch.

(6) Mourning stick: In the old days, when sending funerals to parents, the son had to hold a "filial piety stick" to express his grief. Ah Q was disgusted with fake foreign devils, so he cursed his cane as a "mourning stick".

(7) "Unfilial piety has three non-queens": see Mencius. Leaving Lou. According to Zhao Qi of the Han Dynasty: "There are three things about unfilial piety in Yu Li, which is said to be a Yi Qu obedient, trapped in relatives and unjust, and unfilial; The family is poor and old, not for Lu Shi, and the second is not filial; Don't marry and have no children, never worship ancestors, and don't be filial. Among the three, no one is the greatest. ”

(8) "Ruo Ao's ghost is discouraged": The fourth year of Xuangong in "Zuo Chuan": Chu ordered Yin Ziliang's (Ruo Ao's) son Yue Jiao to look vicious, Ziliang's brother Ziwen thought that Yue Jiao would cause the disaster of extermination when he grew up, and asked Ziliang to kill him. Ziliang did not comply. When Ziwen was dying, he said: "The ghost still begs for food, if the ghost of the Ao clan is not discouraged." This means that if there are no descendants to feed the Ao clan in the future, the ghosts will starve. And, the ending particle.

(9) "Can't accept it at ease": "Shangshu. Bi Life": "Although you can rest assured, it is difficult to be idle. "Rest assured, the heart is unrestrained.

(10) Daji: The concubine of King Yin. The following Bao Xi is the concubine of King Zhou You. In the "Historical Records", there is a record of Shang dying because of Daji and Zhou declining due to praise. Diao Chan is a courtesan of Wang Yun's family in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and there is a story in the book about Lu Bu killing Dong Zhuo in order to fight for her. The author here is satirizing the view that the cause of the destruction of the country and the family in history is attributed to women.

(1) "The great defense of men and women": refers to the strict boundaries between men and women stipulated by feudal etiquette, such as "men live outside, women live inside" ("Book of Rites. "Men and women do not kiss" (Mencius. Lilou"), and so on.

(2) "Punish the heart": still "punish the will". Book of the Later Han Dynasty. Huo [Yanxu] Biography": "The righteousness of "Spring and Autumn" has been determined in the original situation, and the forgiveness is punished. "Condemning the heart and condemning the intention refers to subjectively inferring the intentions of others without asking what the actual situation is.

(3) "Standing": Uttering the Analects. For the government: "Thirty and standing". Originally, Confucius said that he was thirty years old and had some academic independence, and later it was often used as a pronoun for thirty years old.

(4) Little Don: that is, Xiaotong. The author writes in "And Jieting Essays. In the letter to the editor of the "Drama" Weekly, he said: "His name is 'Xiaotong', and he is the same as Ah Q. ”

(5) "I will beat you with a steel whip!" This sentence and the following sentence "regret should not be, drunk and mistakenly beheaded Brother Zheng Xian" are all lyrics in the local opera "Dragon and Tiger Fight" in Shaoxing at that time. This play is the story of the battle between Song Taizu, Zhao Kuangyin and Hu Yanzan. Brother Zheng Xian, referring to Zheng Ziming, a fierce general under Zhao Kuangyin.

(6) "Shibei three-day bento is impressive": from the "Three Kingdoms. Wu Shu. The Biography of Lü Meng" Pei Songzhi's note: "If you don't say goodbye for three days, you will be more impressed." "Impressive, the meaning of wiping the eyes.

(7) Thirty-two bamboo tiles: a kind of gambling equipment. That is, ivory cards or dominoes, made of ivory or animal bones, and the simple ones are made of bamboo. The "sesame sauce" below refers to the sparrow card, commonly known as mahjong, which is also a kind of gambling equipment. Ah Q mistook "mahjong" as "sesame sauce".

(8) Three hundred big money and ninety-two strings: that is, "three hundred big money, with ninety-two texts as one hundred" (see "The Continuation of the Huagai Collection: The Causes of Ah Q's True Biography"). In the old days, the copper coins used in our country had square holes, which could be strung together with ropes, and every thousand pieces (or one hundred pieces of each "dangten" big coin) was a string, which was called a hanging, but in fact it was often insufficient.

(9) "Court Training": "Analects. Ji's "contains: Confucius "tasted independence, and the carp (i.e., the son of Kongqiu) tended to pass through the court", and Confucius asked him to learn "poetry" and "etiquette". Later, it was common to call my father's teachings "court training" or "court training."

(10) "Si is not enough to be afraid": see the Analects. Zihan.

(1.) September 14, the third year of Xuantong: This day is November 4, 1911, the twenty-fifth day after the Wuchang Uprising of the Xinhai Revolution. According to the third volume of "The Chinese Revolution" (edited and printed by the Shanghai Free Society in 1911), it is recorded that on September 14, Hangzhou was occupied by the people's army, and Shaoxing was declared to be liberated on the same day.

(2.) Wearing the plain of Emperor Chongzheng: Chongzheng, the character in the work is a false name for Chongzhen. Chongzhen is the era name of Ming Sizong (Zhu Youzhen). The Ming Dynasty died in the Qing Dynasty, and later some peasant uprising troops often used the slogan of "opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty" to oppose the Qing Dynasty rule, so until the end of the Qing Dynasty, some people thought that the revolutionary army uprising was to avenge Emperor Chongzhen.

(3.) Ning-style bed: a more elaborate bed made in Ningbo, Zhejiang.

(4.) "Xian and Restoration": For the language, see Shangshu. Yin Zheng": "The old is dirty, salty and new. The original intention was to give all those who were affected by the evil habit a chance to abandon the old and make a new one. This refers to the phenomenon of compromise between the revolutionaries and the opposition forces during the Xinhai Revolution, and the landlords and bureaucrats took advantage of this speculation.

(5.) Xuande furnace: Xuande period of Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty (1426-1435) made a relatively valuable small copper incense burner, the bottom of the furnace has the words "Xuande year of the Ming Dynasty".

(6.) General Commander: The lowest military attache of the Qing Dynasty.

(7.) "Yellow umbrella grid": a form of writing letters. Such a letter shows respect to the other party.

(8.) The top of the persimmon oil party: The persimmon oil party is a homonym for the "liberal party", and the author wrote in the sequel to the canopy set. The Causes of Ah Q's True Story says: "The 'Persimmon Oil Party'...... It was originally the 'Liberal Party', but the countrymen couldn't understand it, so it became the 'Persimmon Oil Party' that they could understand. "The top is a hat bead on the top of the hat of an official in the Qing Dynasty that indicates the official rank. Here are the Weizhuang people who liken the Liberal Party's badge to the "top" of officials.

(9.) Hanlin: The name of the emperor's literary attendant since the Tang Dynasty. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, those who were elected to serve in the Hanlin Academy were commonly known as Hanlin, and were responsible for compiling national history and drafting documents, which was a civilian official rank with a high reputation.

(10.) Liu Haixian: refers to the Liu Hai Toad in the Five Generations. According to legend, he cultivated in Zhongnan Mountain and became an immortal. Popular folk portraits of him are generally draped with long hair and short hair on his forehead.

(11.) Brother Hong: Probably refers to Li Yuanhong. He was originally the assistant commander of the 21st Mixed Association of the Qing Dynasty New Army (equivalent to the later brigade commander), and in 1911, during the Wuchang Uprising, he was pulled out to serve as the governor of the Hubei army of the revolutionary army. He did not participate in the planning of the Wuchang Uprising.

(12.) Xihuang: refers to the Fuxi clan. Legend is the emperor of our country in ancient times. His time has been described in the past as peaceful and prosperous. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. (To be continued.) )