Speaking of Zhang Daqian , many people know that he is a famous painter and calligrapher in my country and a famous literati and famous both at home and abroad, but few people know an anecdote that happened in his youth.
That happened in 1916. Zhang Daqian, who was only 17 years old at the time, went home with his classmates, but unexpectedly he was tied back by bandits on the way.
The bandits saw Zhang Daqian's identity as a student and asked him to write a letter home for help, but unexpectedly, after Zhang Daqian wrote a letter of help as required by the bandits, the kidnappers immediately changed their minds and asked Zhang Daqian to stay on the mountain and follow them.
It was not until one hundred days later that Zhang Daqian was able to return home, get rid of the fate of falling into a bandit, and become a household name in literature now.
This period of time when he became a bandit's nest is also known as the "Double Hundred" of Zhang Daqian's life as a young man.
What exactly is in Zhang Daqian's letter that actually made the bandit change his mind immediately and insist on keeping him on the mountain? What happened in the 100 days when Zhang Daqian became a "bandit"? How did he escape from the bandit’s nest?
escaped from the wolf's nest and entered the tiger's nest again
1916 Sichuan in May, when it was just lukewarm, there were only a few children walking forward talking and laughing along the way.
In fact, although this road is an official road, in Sichuan, where bandits were endless, almost most people stayed in areas they were familiar with, and few people took the initiative to come out and walked around. Therefore, on the Qingban Road in this mountain, the voices of several children had already spread far away.
"The teacher said that the dry roads were not safe recently. Do you think we should change to the water route?"
One of the slightly timid students looked at the road without any figure in front of them and whispered to the suggestion, but then a rebuttal voice came: "What are you afraid of? There are so many of us, and we don't have a penny. Except for Zhang Laoliu who threw a belt, didn't the bandits I encountered before let us go quickly?"
It turned out that these people were Zhang Daqian and his classmates, and the Zhang Laoliu they mentioned was Zhang Daqian.
A few days ago, their school was just on holiday, and a few students who were walking along the way made an appointment to walk home together.
Before this time, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, they all went home by water, but this time they wanted to seek new challenges, so they decided to go home by dry road.
They walked and stopped all the way, rested at the homes of passing classmates and teachers at night, and continued to rush during the day.
Although he had encountered robbers several times before this, they were penniless and did not suffer too much. Except for Zhang Daqian being snatched a belt at the beginning, they could spend every time safely.
These few times made them completely relax their vigilance, so when they passed by mailing pavilion , even though the locals told them that there were very likely bandits coming to the evening, several teenage children still didn't take it to heart.
Even after the residents of the post pavilion and the church refused their request to stay, they insisted on sleeping under the fence of the church's backyard.
But sometimes I really don’t listen to the old people and suffer losses in front of me. When they were still sleeping, they heard gunshots suddenly coming from afar. Several frightened people quickly followed the villagers to flee.
Just as he ran away, Zhang Daqian felt a burning sensation coming from his head. When he touched it with his hand, he felt a wet feeling.
Looking at the blood stains on his hands, Zhang Daqian was panicked and tripped by the thing under his feet without paying attention. Before he could stand up and continue running forward, he was tied up by the bandits chasing him behind him.
When he finally calmed down, he found that he was tied to many people he didn't know, but his younger brother Zhang Junsu and his classmates were not here.
Zhang Daqian was shocked and looked around quickly without missing any corner.
Just as Zhang Daqian was trying to find it, he suddenly heard someone talking: "What's your name?"
Zhang Daqian, who had just come to his senses, was pushed by the person behind him before he could speak.
"What are you asking about?"
Looking at the vicious bandit leader in front of him, Zhang Daqian suppressed his fear and answered his question. When they asked to write a letter of help to their home, Zhang Daqian mustered up the courage to bargain with them.
But how could Zhang Daqian, who lacks experience, be the opponent of this group of scheming bandits? Just when he successfully pressed the ransom price to 3,000 yuan and handed them the letters he used to word them many times, he was told that he was unacceptable bad news.
"I regret it, little kid. Your family doesn't need to redeem you anymore. You can follow me after that!"
It turns out that these bandits are all people who have never been to school. Now, when you see Zhang Daqian's letter is not only written cleanly and beautifully, but also has a literary feeling when you read it, you want to keep him as your master.
After hearing this news, Zhang Daqian immediately rejected his words, but the angry bandits actually threatened Zhang Daqian and his classmates' lives. In a desperate situation, Zhang Daqian had to follow them to the bandits' nest in Longjingkou.
After arriving here, Zhang Daqian realized that there were several nests of bandits who went to the yeting shop. If his younger brother and his classmates did not escape home, they would be likely to be caught by others.
Although Zhang Daqian is nominally a master and has a certain status because of his master's identity, he is not trusted. He is always under strict surveillance and cannot find a suitable opportunity to escape, nor can he find out more information.
But not long after Zhang Daqian arrived at the bandits' den, he encountered officers and soldiers to suppress the bandits, and finally had a chance to escape.
However, sometimes things don’t develop as expected. Just when Zhang Daqian just ran out of Longjingkou while he was taking advantage of the chaos, he was caught by the bandit leader on another mountain.
was forced to go down the mountain, and the bandit den encountered
This time, the bandit leader who kidnapped Zhang Daqian was called Lao Kang, and he also took a fancy to Zhang Daqian's student identity and wanted to leave him on the mountain to be the exclusive black-pen master, responsible for helping him write blackmail letters and manage accounts.
At the beginning, although under Lao Kang's coercion, Zhang Daqian stayed on the mountain and became the master, they never coerced Zhang Daqian to go down the mountain, but they would leave someone to watch him when they went down the mountain to rob him.
But later, they began to hint that Zhang Daqian went down the mountain with them to participate in the robbery. Although Zhang Daqian refused many times, he could not resist their coercion and was forced to go down the mountain.
This time, Lao Kang took them to rob a wealthy family at the foot of the mountain. Originally, Zhang Daqian was only responsible for registering the details of the property they robbed, but the bandits responsible for robbery said that going back empty-handed was a bad omen, and forced Zhang Daqian to choose a "trophy" to bring it back with a gun.
In desperation, Zhang Daqian had to get a copy of "Poetry Hanying", but Zhang Daqian's behavior of selecting books completely annoyed the bandits.
"Did you do it on purpose? Don't you know that 'book' is 'losing'! Get me something more quickly."
So, Zhang Daqian had to take off the four paintings on the wall and bring them back to the mountain with "Poetics Hanying". However, after Zhang Daqian's behavior of selecting books was reported to Lao Kang, although Lao Kang did not blame Zhang Daqian, he no longer brought Zhang Daqian with him and no longer forced him to go down the mountain.
Lao Kang's performance was that Zhang Daqian lost his boss's trust, but for Zhang Daqian who was happy and leisure, it was just a coincidence of , because after that he had a lot of free time.
Whenever you are not busy, Zhang Daqian likes to find a place where no one is disturbed, and read "Poetry Hanying" over and over again, and also tries to imitate the sentences in the book to write some limerick poems.
Once, Zhang Daqian was learning to write poetry in the backyard as usual, and suddenly he heard a weak voice behind him.
"There are people in this bandit's nest that know how to write poetry, but you are almost in a hurry!"
" When Zhang Daqian walked over curiously, he saw an old man with a pale face lying on the ground through the window, with many scars of new and old on his body.
From the old man's words, Zhang Daqian realized that he was caught by bandits not long ago. Because the blackmail letter written to his home had never been heard back, these bandits whipped him twice.
Zhang Daqian, who couldn't bear it, not only often came to see him secretly and gave him some food, but later he also seized the opportunity to plead for him, allowing him to regain some freedom.
At the same time, this old man who once won the award often guides Zhang Daqian in his knowledge and teaches him step by step how to write poetry.
According to what Zhang Daqian later said, the period when he wrote poetry was the period when he was locked up on the mountain, and this old man gave him great help.
took self-protection and finally got free
During these days when he was with Lao Kang, Zhang Daqian also followed many other bandits' nests, but he never thought that he would see his old classmate Fan Tianyou in another bandit's nest.
Both of them met again were very excited, especially when Zhang Daqian saw that Fan Tianyou's hands had been tied for too long and had some blood blocked, his eyes immediately turned red and wanted to help Fan Tianyou untie the rope.
Who knows that Zhang Daqian just put his hand on the rope when he heard Fan Tianyou shouting to him not touch the rope.
"This is a rope specially tied to prevent me from escaping. You must not untie it. If he finds out, neither of us will be able to escape."
Seeing Fan Tianyou crying when she was frightened, Zhang Daqian couldn't help crying, but he still tried hard to comfort Fan Tianyou and he would find a way to save him.
But how could Zhang Daqian, who couldn't escape, have the ability to rescue Fan Tianyou alone?
After careful thinking, Zhang Daqian still found Lao Kang and asked him to help him find Juzi to talk about his relationship, hoping to put Fan Tianyou back home.
Fortunately, although Zhang Daqian was unwilling to go down the mountain with them, his performance on weekdays was quite consistent with Lao Kang's wishes. So under Zhang Daqian's hard work, Lao Kang finally agreed to help him persuade him.
But even though Lao Kang came forward, he greedily jumped out of the way and ransomed a lot of money before agreeing to Fang Fan Tianyou to go down the mountain.
But in that war-torn era, it was already costing all the savings of an ordinary family to just go to school, and it was impossible to have money to pay this sky-high ransom.
At this time, Zhang Daqian took the initiative to stand up and use his life to guarantee Fan Tianyou, asking him to go down the mountain to raise money.
Before leaving, Zhang Daqian also told the worried Fan Tianyou, "I wrote a letter to my family and asked them to help you raise money. You don't have to worry about me. I am protected by Boss Kang, and I have to wait for you to bring someone to save me back. You can go down the mountain with peace of mind first, just rush back on time."
Although Zhang Daqian successfully comforted Fan Tianyou, his life was not easy afterwards, because the person who jumped the ball often scared him with a sharpened knife.
Once, he put the knife on his neck and gestured, and said deliberately: "Did you say that the knife is faster in two days, or the pistol is faster!"
In the midst of these daily worries, Zhang Daqian has been counting the days.
Although Zhang Daqian repeatedly told himself not to be afraid, Fan Tianyou would come back on time, facing the threat from time to time, he was only seventeen years old and panicked.
But what he didn't expect was that on the tenth day's agreed date, before Fan Tianyou came back, Lao Kang took them to transfer again, and shortly after they left, the old nest where they jumped was surrounded and suppressed by the officers and soldiers who rushed over.
At this time, Zhang Daqian realized that all this was Lao Kang's arrangement and the letter of vote he submitted to the government.
However, although Lao Kang accepted the invitation, he did not disband his subordinates, nor did he intend to let Zhang Daqian go home, but still kept him by his side.
Until then, Lao Kang's team was wiped out again by the officers and soldiers who had gone back on their word. After Lao Kang was killed in battle, Zhang Daqian was arrested as an accomplice.
Later, Zhang Daqian was finally rescued by his family who rushed over after hearing the news.
It turned out that Fan Tianyou did deliver the letter to Zhang Daqian's home as soon as possible after he went down the mountain. However, because there was no chaos everywhere at that time, it was so delayed on the road. When Zhang Daqian's fourth brother arrived, Lao Kang had already taken him to transfer, and the old nest where he jumped was already empty.
After several turnovers, it was only after Zhang Daqian was found in Yongchuan County , and then bailed Zhang Daqian through connections. At this time, it was exactly 100 days since Zhang Daqian was arrested.
After returning home, Zhang Daqian immediately returned to school after a short rest and continued his study journey. However, he kept the book "Poetry Hanying" by him and took it out from time to time to read it.
