Xu Xilin (1873-1907) was a native of Shanyin, Zhejiang. He is a modern Chinese democratic revolutionary.
Xu Xilin was born in a famous family, and in 1903, he took the township examination and was on the deputy list, which was deeply appreciated by the governor of Anhui Province, and served as the director of the Anhui Patrol Police Department and the supervisor of the Patrol Police Academy. Xu Xilin has a bright future, but he secretly joined the Guangfuhui to make a revolution and planned with Qiu Jin to launch the Anhui and Zhejiang uprisings. On July 6, 1907, Xu Xilin learned that the uprising plan was leaked, and took advantage of Enming's attendance at the graduation ceremony of the Patrol Police Academy.
Four hours later, the uprising was suppressed and Xu Xilin was captured. In the courtroom, the interrogator asked: "Enming treats you well, why did you assassinate him?" Xu Xilin replied: "Treat me with kindness and selfishness; I will kill Enfu, and the prince of the world will also. ”
Enming's guards hated Xu Xilin deeply, hammered his **, dug out his heart and liver and fried it.
On July 14, Xu Xilin and the party Qiu Jin were in Shanyin**. Shanyin County ordered Li Zhongyue to cherish Qiu Jin's talent and wanted to show mercy to his subordinates, but because of the urging of his boss, he had to "correct the law" of Qiu Jin. Two months later, Lee Jong-yue hanged himself with guilt for failing to save Qiu Jin.
Sparrow Ridge is the commanding height of our place, and as soon as you look up from a radius of a few miles, you can see the Wind Whispering Tower, and the pirates want to burn us to death, which alarms the birds of Sparrow Ridge, and even more alarms the people around Sparrow Ridge.
Although my father is a rebel wanted by the government, because of his righteousness, he is very popular, and people rushed to fight the fire from all sides when they saw Fengyulou**, and the fishermen who had already gone into the water to prepare to go out to sea to fish also hurriedly docked their boats and ran to Sparrow Ridge.
When people ran close to Fengyulou, the typhoon came, and the rainstorm came.
People hold on to the trees so that they don't get blown away by the wind.
The fire in Fengyulou was immediately extinguished by heavy rain.
In the villages near and far, the houses that were not very sturdy collapsed one after another.
In Deep Bay, the sea seemed to be about to flip over, and all the boats, whether fishing boats or foreign ships, were overturned, sunk to the bottom of the sea, or smashed to pieces on the reef.
The people holding the big trees on Sparrow Ridge were terrified.
People who live by the sea experience several typhoons every year, but rarely encounter such a sudden and violent one. This is the posture of heaven to collect people.
Two hours later, the wind and rain stopped.
A rainbow appeared in the sky above Sparrow Ridge, enveloping the Wind Whispering Tower.
Rainbows appear in clear weather after rain, which is a common natural phenomenon. But on the morning of September 18, 1906, the rainbow that appeared in Sparrow Ridge was regarded as a sacred auspicious light.
The pirates set fire to the Fengyu Building, provoked **, the wind and rain were great, saved the Fengyu Building, and drowned the pirates.
The legend is getting more and more magical, all the people who went to Fengyulou to put out the fire, their houses collapsed, and their fishing boats capsized. Because of the good intentions to save the wind and the building, they escaped, the Sparrow Ridge was blown by the wind and broke countless trees, the people who went to fight the fire, but no one was injured, although one by one was drenched by the heavy rain, but they did not sneeze.
Grandma Zhao, who believes in Jesus, has always been a laughing stock in the eyes of everyone. On that day, when Fengyulou was saved, Grandma Zhao knelt in the courtyard, stretched out her hand to the sky, and thanked Jesus loudly, the fishermen who saw the big boat and small boat capsize in Deep Bay also knelt down, and then other villagers who witnessed the miracle also knelt down. This typhoon came strangely, and people are more willing to believe that the typhoon was caused by Grandma Zhao's prayers.
The year 1907 marked the 100th anniversary of Morrison, the pioneer of the first religion, to enter China.
Grandma Zhao didn't know when she was born, when she was four or five years old or six or seven years old, her father took her to Guangzhou to ask for food, she was embarrassed to speak, and her father said, "If you don't open your mouth, I'll throw you away", and then, she really left her and left.
At that time, there were too many girls who were discarded, people pretended not to see them, Grandma Zhao sat on the road crying, and no one came forward to ask her why she was crying. Occasionally, a well-wisher put down a cake and half a bowl of soup in front of Grandma Zhao, turned around and left, just afraid that he would be hugged by his leg and couldn't leave.
Grandma Zhao sat on the road for three days and did not wait for her father to come back.
Then, a foreign devil with yellow hair and blue eyes came to Grandma Zhao. He was Morrison.
Grandma Zhao heard that foreign devils eat children, but at that time, she was not afraid of being eaten, and when Morrison asked her if she would like to go with him, she quickly took his hand.
Morrison brought Grandma Chiu to Macau and fostered her at the Ying Wa College he founded.
Soon after, Morrison died of illness, and after 27 years of preaching in China, only 10 people were baptized. The Grandma Zhao he picked up on the road would not blossom until many years later.
When Grandma Zhao grew up, she married Joseph Moses, a groom from Pastor John.
Zhao Moses is not tall, handsome or rich, but he loves Jesus and his wife, Grandma Zhao feels very happy, and she just wants to live with him for a long time, but she didn't expect that Grandma Zhao was not happy for a few years, and the church where Pastor John was located was destroyed by the people, and Zhao Moses refused to tell where Pastor John was hiding and was beaten to death with a stick.
After the martyrdom of Zhao Moses, Grandma Zhao threw herself on her only son Zhao Shouren, but the son did not succeed and became a thief, and was finally bitten into rabies by the dog of Fengyulou and died.
Grandma Zhao has become a joke in the mouths of everyone, what is good about believing in Jesus, your husband is dead, your son is also dead, and your grandson has become an executioner who will go to hell.
My father and mother also felt that Grandma Zhao's beliefs were similar to superstition.
Grandma Zhao is not in a hurry, she reads the Bible and prays and sings hymns every day, and if someone is willing to listen to her, she will talk about how those who believe in Jesus are not afraid of hardship or death.
It wasn't until the typhoon that caused the Bingwu Typhoon that people began to take a serious look at the Jesus that Grandma Zhao believed in.
Grandma Zhao, who has always been despised by others, was suddenly revered like a god.
My mother is a person from the palace, she has seen the old lady Cixi's disgust with foreigners and foreign goods, and she has also seen the disasters caused by the Eight-Nation Alliance in Beijing, and she has no good impression of foreign religions.
On the day when the pirates set fire to Fengyulou, my mother hugged me and Huaijin and wept, but I saw Grandma Zhao just kneeling on the ground calmly and praying calmly.
When we were saved in the storm, my mother and Grandma Zhao hugged our heads and cried.
A few days later, the American pastor Paul Zhong came to Fengyulou, and my mother was baptized and converted.
Fengyulou is a spacious house, and after my mother became a believer, villagers from nearby villages often came to gather.
People who don't believe in the Lord, when they encounter trouble, also come to Fengyulou and ask Grandma Zhao to pray, in their eyes, Grandma Zhao is a person who can communicate with God. Grandma Zhao's prayers are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and they can always make the help-seekers cry, and they are also very effective, for example, the lost cow came back by itself, and the disease that could not be cured was not cured.
Coming and going, Fengyulou became more and more popular, Grandma Zhao asked Huaijin to make a cross and erect it on the roof, and Fengyulou turned out to be a small church.
Those who believe in Jesus are soft-hearted and will always help the poor when they encounter them. Every Sunday, believers come to Fengyulou to gather, and it also attracts beggars from the surrounding area, who come to my courtyard early and say "hallelujah" to every believer who comes to the service, and get a small dollar or two.
The day of the Mid-Autumn Festival happens to be the Lord's Day. During the New Year's holidays, people are very generous, and beggars come very often.
After the party and lunch, Grandma Zhao always felt that something was wrong, and after thinking about it, she remembered that Liu Siye, an old beggar who came every Sunday, didn't see anyone today.
Liu Siye is about the same age as Grandma Zhao, in his seventies, no children and no daughters, Grandma Zhao takes pity on him, every time he comes to Fengyulou, he has to give him a bowl of rice, or leave him to eat. He didn't come today, Grandma Zhao felt strange, was he sick?
After eating. Grandma Zhao loaded half a bag of rice and moon cakes, put Huaijin on her back, and said, "Let's go, let's go see Fourth Master Liu." ”
Liu Siye lives in You'an Village, which is five or six miles away from Fengyulou, and Grandma Zhao is old, so she walked for two or three hours to arrive.
Liu Siye was flushed, sitting on the edge of the bed drinking wine and eating pig's head meat, and when he saw Grandma Zhao coming into the house, he was taken aback, a piece of pig's head meat was stuffed in his mouth, and he couldn't swallow it, and he didn't vomit it.
Grandma Zhao asked Huaijin to put down the rice and moon cakes, and said, "Fourth master, it's a holiday today, seeing that you didn't come to my house today, I thought something happened to you, come and see, I'm relieved that you're okay." ”
Liu Siye swallowed the pig's head meat "Goodong", choked, and slapped his chest a few times before he made a "thank you".
Liu Siye asked Grandma Zhao to sit, Grandma Zhao looked around, but she didn't see the stool, her eyes were red at the moment, and she said, "Huaijin, you can make a few stools another day and send them to the fourth master." ”
Liu Siye said: "I'm sorry, I'm so embarrassed." ”
When Grandma Zhao and Huaijin returned to Fengyulou from Right Bank Village, the moon came out.
Last night, my father, who was on the run, came back for the Mid-Autumn Festival. During the day, I was afraid that people would see me, so my father never came down upstairs and told me a story for a day.
It was dark, and my father went downstairs. The family sat in the moonlit courtyard eating and chatting.
Suddenly, Liu Siye stumbled and ran.
Grandma Zhao got up to greet Fourth Master Liu and asked, "Fourth Master, why are you here, is there something urgent?" ”
Liu Siye gasped, pointed at my father, and said, "You, run, I'm going to catch you." ”
When my father heard this, he grabbed a piece of Mid-Autumn mooncake that he hadn't had time to eat, jumped over the courtyard wall, and ran into the lychee forest.
My mother said, "Thank you for the news, how do you know that the arrester is coming soon?" ”
Liu Siye still couldn't stop panting, and said: "In the morning, I came to Fengyulou, saw him, smoking upstairs, I knew that he was a chaotic party, so I turned around and went to the yamen to report, they said, come to arrest people at night, ......."Grandma Zhao, be kind to me, give me back, send rice and moon cakes ......I feel like I'm not ...... peopleHe came and reported ......”
Liu Siye was about to fall as he spoke, but Huaijin hurriedly helped him up and sat on the chair vacated by his father.
Liu Siye picked up his father's unfinished wine, looked up and said, "Good wine." ”
After drinking, Liu Siye tilted his neck and slipped off the chair.
In the morning, Liu Siye betrayed my father. At night, in order to save my father, Liu Siye ran himself to death.
Then I came to catch my father's catch, and saw Liu Siye die in Fengyulou, inexplicably.
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