During the Second Civil Revolutionary War, there was a private school in Fengxianggou, Bazhong County, Daba Mountain. There is a teacher surnamed Lou in this private school, who is good at writing pairs, and is a household name, and some of the names are widely circulated.
Most of Mr. Lou's writings speak for the working people and criticize the bureaucracy and landlords. Therefore, the rich people hated him, but the poor people respected him and called him "Mr. Pair". People say that his literary talent and courage are remarkable, and he is the champion in the ravine.
In January 1933, the Fourth Front Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army defeated several divisions of the Kuomintang and marched to Bazhong. A regiment of the Red Army was stationed in Fengxianggou.
In order to welcome the Red Army, the poor people in the ravine asked Mr. Pair to write a couplet thanking the Red Army for their kindness in rescuing the poor.
Mr. Pair happily agreed. He wrote: "The warlords run, the regiment runs, the rich gentry run, run, run, watch the collapse of the People's Party; The workers came, the peasants came, the soldiers came, they came and came together, and they came together to build the Soviets. ”
After Mr. Lou finished writing, he read it to everyone. This couplet truly expresses the hearts of the poor people who want to say but say inaccurately, and they are all happy, and they want to write another pair to Mr. Zi.
Mr. Pair thought for a moment: the motif on the party flag was a sickle and an axe. He is energetic, his pen is strong and powerful, his handwriting is dignified and beautiful, and Lianyun: "The axe splits the new world; The scythe cuts through the old world. ”
At this time, there are more and more people, you hug me and crowd around, and look at the couplet. Everyone beat gongs and drums, blew suona, lifted the two couplets with bamboo poles, lined up in a long line, and happily sent them to the Red Army headquarters.
The commanders and fighters of the Red Army warmly received the villagers and praised the two couplets for their good and wonderful writing, and for writing the common aspirations of the army and the people.
The chisel team, the propaganda team of the Red Army, "split the new world with an axe; The sickle cuts the old Qiankun" couplet, engraved on the stone pillar of the big house where the Political Department of the Red Army lived.
In order to strengthen propaganda and expand its influence, the Red Army Command decided to engrave these two couplets on some rock walls and wall stones of Daba Mountain, so that they could be passed down forever.
Mr. Pair was a straight-hearted and warm-hearted man, and he was of the same heart as the poor people, and resolutely supported the Red Army. Soon he became the secretary of the district Soviet. He has done a lot of good things for the poor.
One day, two people who were said to be "spies" were kidnapped. In the case of no certificate, no evidence, and no confession, he was dragged out and killed. At that time, it was the period when Zhang Guotao and *** were in opposition. This incident made Mr. Zi feel the danger of the left-leaning wrong line.
Later, after an investigation, it turned out that the two men had been killed by mistake. Mr. Pair was very sad about this incident, so he wrote a pair on the wall: "Tiger son and Ma Zi, two spies; Peach kernels and almonds, two net kernels. He condemned Zhang Guotao's erroneous line of killing good people.
Soon, the Red Army marched north to resist the Japanese. On the day of the trek, the poor people in the ravine were in the middle of the road to say goodbye. Mothers send sons, wives send husbands, and join the Red Army. Thousands of instructions were given to defeat Little Japan and save the people of the whole country.
After the Red Army left, Mr. Pair hurriedly worked with the poor people to fill in the pairs of praises of the Communist Party and the Red Army engraved on the stone pillars and wall stones with yellow mud and paste the Spring Festival couplets written on red paper to protect them.
The local tyrants and gentry who escaped came back one after another. When they saw those Spring Festival couplets, they said: "The firecrackers are still the same, and the peach charm is not new"; "Every year is sad, every year is over, and every year is poor"; "Welcoming spring and welcoming spring, spring comes and is equal to spring going; New Year's Eve is not as good as a year".
There is a Fengxianggou man in the inferior gentry, named Feng Ruiyun, who is a vicious pseudo-group leader. He looked at the red paper couplets, and felt that the sub-couplets all pierced his heart, and he knew that only Mr. Pair could write them, and he gritted his teeth with hatred.
Feng Ruiyun found Mr. Pair. Mr. Pair asked him what he had to say. Feng Ruiyun said: "The couplet you wrote, for example, "Firecrackers..." I just don't understand. "You're saying I misspelled the ancient couplet? "No! I would like to ask you what you meant by writing this couplet! ”
What's this, my original intention is to say, in previous years, I always wrote firecrackers to remove the old, and the peach charm was updated", but the actual situation has not been removed, and it has not been updated at all. It's better to write "The firecrackers are still the same, and the peach charm is not new", but it's more practical, what do you say? ”
So, you can write some "sad", "a year is not as good as a year"... Isn't this clearly the same as Communist Party propaganda? Mr. Pair said, "It's not the same at all. "You have to be clear! How is it different? Feng Tuan always raised his eyebrows angrily.
Mr. Pair said with a smile: "What is written in the couplet is to promote the Communist Party, then there have been people who have propagandized the Communist Party in Chinese history for a long time, and there is no *** propaganda of the Communist Party." Feng Tuan said: "What evidence do you have?" ”
I have a book to testify to. Han Yu in the Tang Dynasty wrote a "Sending the Poor Article", and wrote "poor", and Du Fu has a poem, Zhumen wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road", which also promoted poverty, can you say that Han Yu and Du Fu are communists? ”
Mr. Feng Tuan stammered: "This... This is at first glance a camel, thinking that the horse has a swollen back... Mr. Pair is not only talented in literature, but also outstanding in eloquence, which makes Mr. Feng Tuan very embarrassed.
Mr. Feng Tuan originally wanted to grab Mr. Pair's pigtails and send him to prison. I don't want to talk about the past to Mr. Zi, which makes him, the leading figure in the local area, ugly. The more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became, and he became angry.
On this day, Fengxianggou Private School is about to start. Feng Tuan was always there to point fingers, and suddenly he had an idea, thinking left and right, to make a difficult problem and make a whole pair of Mr. Zi, and show evil anger. He called for someone to call Mr. Pair.
After a while, Mr. Pair came and asked respectfully, "Master Tuan, what do you command?" "The private school will start tomorrow, and I will write a pair. If everybody says your pair is well written, there is a reward; If someone says it's bad, yes! I want you to not get off the stage!
This private school happens to be located in the courtyard of Feng Ruiyun Zhuang. Mr. Pair looked and saw that there was a six-eyed pigsty downstairs with seven pigs fed. There are two teachers in the private school: one is one-eyed, known as "Mr. One-eyed", and the other is Mr. Pair himself. He immediately had an idea to ridicule Mr. Feng Tuan.
Feng Ruiyun had already asked someone to grind a full inkstone inkstone. Mr. Pair picked up the pen and dipped it in a full stroke, and suddenly threw the pen, and the ink splashed on Feng Tuanzong's clothes. The head of the regiment exclaimed: "Why did you throw the pen? Well! Ink splashed all over me! ”
Mr. Pair said: "You said that you will be rewarded after writing, how much is the reward?" Settled. "How much do you want?" Talk about a price. "Don't say a word of gold, ten silver dollars a word!" When Feng Ruiyun heard this, he couldn't help but fiddle with the iron abacus in his heart, and suddenly became black-hearted. Mr. Pair said again: "You show the silver dollar, I can write!" "Good.
Yes! The crowd testified. Feng Tuan always agreed very generously. He estimated that Mr. Pair must be a pair who wrote praises to the Communist Party and the Red Army, not only did not give him a copper coin, but he could also use the excuse to arrest him and send him to prison!
Mr. Pair picked up the pen again. The people standing around, you hug me and squeeze, vying to see Mr. Pair write couplets. I saw that the upper link was: "One school, two gentlemen, three eyes, read four books, and understand all five classics." The next link is: "Six livestock houses, seven pigs, gossip heads, feeding for nine years, more than ten catties." ”
Well written! Well written! The poor applauded. Feng Ruiyun stared at the people around him, trying to find someone who said that he couldn't write well. But the people deliberately turned against him, shouting one after another: "Very good! It's so good! ”
Feng Ruiyun's hope was disappointed, and he had to pay Mr. Pair three hundred and twenty silver dollars according to the word ten silver dollars. Mr. Pair took the money and asked, "Mr. Tuan, don't you think it's a pity to buy a pair of pairs with so many silver dollars?" "Feng Ruiyun is like a dumb person who eats Coptis chinensis, and he can't say what he is suffering from.
Catching chickens can't make a handful of rice, Feng Tuan is always unwilling. He coerced the maid to come out and ask her to say that she was not writing well the next time he wrote a couplet. The maid had no choice but to agree on the surface, but she had other plans in her heart.
So, Feng Ruiyun called someone to call the pair to the house first, and said, "Please Mr. write a couplet for the kitchen door of my house." "Yes. What are the conditions? "If the people in my kitchen say that the right writing is good, they will count, and what the outsiders say doesn't count!" ”
Mr. Pair remembered that there are two kinds of syntax breaks in an ancient couplet, which can be read as sarcastic or scolding, or as a praise for auspiciousness. Why don't you write this ancient couplet and give it to this inferior gentleman, scold him, and make him unable to grasp his braids. So he replied, "Yes! ”
Feng Tuan was always happy on his brows, poisonous in his heart, thinking that this time, don't blame me for being ruthless to Mr. Zi. He quietly told the maid again and again, asked his wife to come forward to help, and ordered that outsiders should not be allowed into the house. Everything was ready to stop, and he urged Mr. Pair: "The pen and ink are ready, write quickly!"
Mr. Pair Zi calmly wrote: "Raising a pig's head like a rat only dies, and boiling the wine jar is good for vinegar and jar sour." "Mr. Feng Tuan is a martial artist, looking at the pair and looking at the past, pulling up and down, always unable to break the sentence, and his face was red with embarrassment.
At this time, Mr. One-Eyed, who happened to be in a private school, passed by the door, and Feng Tuan always seemed to be saved, and hurriedly invited him into the house to recite the pair. Mr. One-Eyed casually read: "Raising a pig's head is like a mouse, and it only dies; Boiling wine jars are good for vinegar, and the jars are sour. ”
As soon as the words fell, Mr. Feng Tuan was already angry, and scolded him: "I want to be auspicious, but you curse me... His wife also yelled. Mr. Pair said calmly: "I didn't curse you." ”
You haven't cursed me yet, you... Feng Ruiyun twisted Mr. Pair, and his wife ran out of the door screaming to scold the street. After a while, all the neighbors gathered around, not knowing what was going on.
Mr. Pair said calmly: "A gentleman doesn't move his mouth, he must convince people with reason." Where did I curse you with this pair I wrote? "Hey! The black letters written on the red paper, do you dare not admit it? Feng Ruiyun said, asking the neighbors to comment on it.
I write a pair, and I admit it at all times. It's just that someone else mispronounced this pair. "Didn't you read it clearly? You argue! "What I'm writing doesn't mean by someone else. Mr. Pair pushed the group president: "Let me read it myself." ”
Mr. Zizi read word by word: "Raising pig's head elephant, is it good?" The crowd shouted, "Okay! "The rat just dies, okay?" "Yes! "It's good to cook wine in a vat, okay?" "Yes! "Is it good to make vinegar jar sour?" "Yes! ”
Is this pair good? The neighbors said in unison, "Good! Good! Good! Mr. Pair asked, "Master Tuan, did you curse you?" This pair is very auspicious. Feng Ruiyun was stunned, alas! Why, the meaning changed all of a sudden.
His wife can't deny that the pair is well written, and they are unlucky. The maid stood by and was secretly happy. Mr. One-Eyed felt that he had read it correctly, and that the monsters were so stupid that they really couldn't pay attention to the mystery of the pair. The head of the regiment was bored again, and obediently paid ten silver dollars per word.
Feng Tuan always collapsed in his chair and sighed loudly. He had heard the story of Kong Ming Sanqi Zhou Lang, and he was very troubled. He is not dead in black heart, and he does not shed tears when he sees the coffin. At this time, his wife sent a bowl of ginseng soup, he pushed it away with one palm, and with a snap, the soup bowl fell to the ground and shattered.
Seeing this, the neighbors surrounded Mr. Pair, who was majestic and eloquent, and left the Feng family happily.
Later, Mr. Feng Tuan, who was angry and had poor donkey skills, arrested Mr. Pair on suspicion of "a different party". In less than a month, he bribed the yamen again, fabricated the crime of "escaping from prison", and killed Mr. Pair.
In 1949, the Red Army, the Chinese People's Liberation Army, liberated Bazhong. In the large courtyard where the former Political Department of the Red Army lived, the poor people held a meeting to celebrate the victory. The pair carved into the stone pillar, "The axe splits the new world, the sickle cuts the old", has been affixed with gold and sparkles.
The people of Fengxianggou and Sixiang all rushed to participate in the celebration. When people saw the shiny golden pair and the colorful pairs sticking around, it was as if they saw Mr. Pair also come and celebrate the liberation with everyone.
Today, this pair of stone carvings of "the axe splits the new world, and the sickle cuts the old world" is displayed in the "Military Museum of the Chinese Revolution" in Beijing, which will shine forever and will last forever!