For Hong Yanwu's generation, because they had been baptized by the revolutionary ideas of "how bold a person is, how rich the land is" or "want to compete with God" since they were young, every one of them had a profound understanding of it at that time.
They fully understand the importance of "revolutionary will". Almost everyone regards cultivating their own "revolutionary will" as a "magic weapon" that is invincible and can challenge all difficulties and limits.
As the pioneers of the revolution, the "Big Brother" Soviets also wrote a special pamphlet to discuss how to cultivate "revolutionary will", free people from animal nature, and make people dignified. The title of the book is "The Cultivation of Will"
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This book is very thin, but it was a must-read for most "ambitious" teenagers at that time. Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan also read this book at Chang Xianzhang's home, and together they summarized four points as the most precious
Life motto.
First, will is the ability to achieve goals, the courage to advance toward the goal, and to sacrifice everything in order to achieve the goal.
Second, any emotion has value only when it is transformed into an action that is compatible with it. Sympathy requires an act of sympathy, and resistance requires an act of resistance. Will is the ability to put the wishes of thoughts and emotions into practice.
3. Emphasis on action and light on words. A fool in action is far better than a wise man lying down.
Fourth, you must have tolerance and self-control. You must start and finish your work and never make promises easily, but every promise must be completed.
However, Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan were not finished just by summarizing it. Later, when they went to Yuye's home to learn skills, they even copied down these four items and solemnly posted them in their room in order to make spiritual progress for themselves.
excitation.
As for Mr. Yu, he actually didn't understand much of what they wrote. He only roughly understood that it meant something like "Music must be sung every day, and boxing must be fought every day." In his heart, he couldn't help but feel that
These words were a bit long-winded and trivial, as if they were taking off their pants and farting. But in the final analysis, it was still an inspirational expression. So the old man didn't do anything to interfere at the time. On the contrary, he thought these two young apprentices were quite interesting.
To a certain extent, this incident can be regarded as the most realistic microcosm of the ideological dynamics of teenagers at that time.
At the same time, the more common situation is that due to the all-round publicity and advocacy of the society, there were so many heroic deeds in movies, books, newspapers, and radio that people could not see them. In addition, people back then were closed-minded and emotional.
If you are simple, you are particularly susceptible to being infected by these deeds and characters. Therefore, in fact, the worship and imitation of various heroes and idols in movies and novels are ubiquitous and deeply implanted in the hearts of every teenager.
Take Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan as examples. They are very easily moved. Almost every movie can conquer them. Every time after watching a movie, no matter whether it is domestic or foreign, whether it is a war or not, they are all moved.
It's terrible, I've been immersed in it for a long time.
The same is true when they read a novel. Usually they don't like to talk to anyone during the reading process. After reading the book, they silently reflect on it for a long time before discussing it with each other. They also hate that they have returned to this ordinary world.
.They really hope that they can live in those wonderful worlds in movies or novels.
Then there is no doubt that the heroes who can impress them have become the factors that have the greatest impact on their real lives. And like most of their peers, whenever they have a goal they want to pursue, they will naturally
Think of the heroes you admire in your heart and inspire your "revolutionary will."
At that time, the revolutionary films that Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan watched the most were "Steel Warrior", "Dong Cunrui", "Little Soldier Zhang Ga" and "Cultivation of Brave Spirit from an Early Childhood". The most memorable revolutionary novel was "How Steel Was Tempered".
"Into" and "Red Rock".
"Iron Warrior" made them feel that ragged soldiers are the real heroes, and they will not be considered traitors no matter how hard they get beaten.
"Dong Cunrui" and "Little Soldier Zhang Ga" inspired them. Because Dong Cunrui and Zhang Gazi often quarreled and fought with others, and had many minor problems. In particular, they also practiced wrestling, which undoubtedly made Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan have a crush on them.
A lot of feelings of closeness.
However, "Cultivation of Bravery from an Early Childhood" is a Soviet movie. It tells the story of a revolutionary child who went to search for the Soviet Red Army after his father was executed by the Tsar.
It was these movies that allowed Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan to establish a very "special" aesthetic, that is, only those with dirty faces, strong bodies, wearing rags, not afraid of causing trouble, and always looking evil
Only a true revolutionary warrior is cool, handsome and beautiful enough!
You know, for a child, if he can imitate his favorite movie story, even if it is just a small detail, it will be comfortable, happy and wonderful, as if he has really entered that legendary and heroic world. So once
With this idea in mind, Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan began to deliberately imitate the characters in the movie.
For a long period of time in elementary school, they became fond of wearing tattered clothes, the tattered the better. In order to achieve the effect of gunpowder smoke in the movie, they always deliberately rubbed against the wall, and had to rub a lot of dirt on it.
Especially at the beginning of the movie "Cultivation of Brave Spirit from a Young Age", the scene of a group of children having a random water fight in the pond left a very deep impression on them. So every time it rained heavily, they would run together
Wander around in stagnant water.
At this time, they often reproduce the scenes in the movie in their imagination. They also scream and hit the invisible opponent with their fists. Sometimes they even deliberately lie down in the water, roll around as much as they want, and deliberately let their clothes get wet.
Translucent and covered with mud soup.
In their opinion, there are too many girls in the class who can't bear even a small speck of mud or a small wrinkle on their clothes. They are simply too squeamish. But only people like them are brave and amazing, daring to smear their clothes.
There were large swaths of mud.
Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan are proud of their "good" habit of loving dirty things from the bottom of their hearts, taking dirt as beauty, taking pride in dirt, and taking dirt as revolution. However, this has become a nightmare for the two adults. Especially every time.
It was cloudy and rainy, and their mother felt as if she had a headache. Because when the two of them came back in this kind of weather, it always meant that they would bring back a lot of washing and sewing work.
And gradually, because their "perverted trend" became more and more intense, it eventually became an excuse for them not to cut their nails, wash their feet, or brush their teeth. So not only did the two adults couldn't stand it anymore, but in the entire alley, they
They are notorious for their slovenliness and lack of hygiene.
Girls like Shui Lan, who like to be clean, naturally despise them deeply and treat them as rats and bugs, and avoid them, while those careless boys also stay away from them, completely treating them as two idiots.
If it weren't for the last several parties to attack at the same time, Chen Deyuan repeatedly beat them on the buttocks, Chang Xianzhang threatened them with not telling stories, and the two mothers who couldn't bear it also used harsh methods of not being allowed to eat, and finally forced them to return to normal.
In terms of personal hygiene standards, they may really live their lives like beggars.
It should be said that apart from this incident, there are many more jokes caused by their aesthetic deformity.
When looking in the mirror, they always like to imitate the serious or heroic expressions of heroes, thinking that this is the most courageous expression. Because in their impression, heroes like to keep a straight face, and when they smile, they are not solemn or sacred.
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So they scowled angrily when taking pictures, scowled angrily when they saw girls, and scowled angrily when they met their parents. When they liked someone, they scowled angrily at them. Even their textbooks and notebooks were filled with portraits of revolutionary martyrs with angry faces.
There was absolutely no smile on his face.
As a result, not only did they frighten their respective mothers and Hong Yanwu's little sister Hong Yanru, but they were also unanimously evaluated as "sick" by their neighbors in the east and west courtyards.
In the end, everyone at home and outside the family laughed at them as if they were watching monkeys. Then they felt embarrassed and unbearable, and quickly changed their attitude.
In short, the slightest difference can make a huge difference. Although the heroes in these three movies are admired by Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan, their deliberate and partial imitation is just a copycat effect.
However, this does not affect their enthusiasm for worshiping heroes. In the overall social environment, the shadows of these heroes are still in their minds all day long.
As for the two novels "How the Steel Was Tempered" and "Red Rock", in fact, their personal significance to Hong Yanwu is far more important than those movies that can only be watched for fun.
Because these two novels not only provided him with hero models to worship like in the movies, but also because the protagonists of these two novels can resonate more with his real-life situation. In the days when he was repeatedly bullied, he served as a model for him.
He provided a great moral support.
For example, there is a scene in "How Steel Was Tempered" where Zhu He taught Paul how to box. The old man could knock Paul back with one punch. After Paul learned it, he became invincible. Later, with this skill, he
Knocked the playboy Victor into the river.
When Hong Yanwu read this book again, he read this paragraph over and over again three or four times and liked it very much. To be honest, he had longed to learn to fight in order to defend himself, so he realized it even more from this novel.
Will fight for value.
The beautiful girl Tonya fell in love with Paul after she saw him knocking the playboy Victor into the river. Later, on the crowded train, Paul was able to carry Leda in through the window.
, also relies on fists and guns.
This naturally made him decide that learning the tricks of fighting was more important than anything else. While he envied Paul for being able to settle grudges with his fists, he also couldn't help but imagine that in the future he might become the same as this fierce poor boy.
Just as awesome.
In this way, as long as he thinks of Paul, the summer heat is nothing, the cold wind penetrates into the flesh and he doesn't feel cold anymore, even the pain of pressing the legs and stretching the muscles, the soreness and exhaustion of muscle strain
My eyes were flashing with stars and my throat was dry and sore, but everything disappeared.
Paul produced a mysterious power in his body, which made his blood boil all the time. It was like Paul was possessed by him, and he had to hold his chest up, no matter how hard and tiring the practice was, he was not afraid.
This power comes from his expectations and fantasies about the future, which is enough to drive away fatigue and loneliness.
He longs for the future and revenge. Although he cannot be a soldier because of his family background, he believes that he is not a coward. If compared with fists, he will one day be "stronger" than Zhao Huoluo and "fierce" than Jiang Bayi.
, less afraid of death than "Huo Zi" and "Chicken Shit Green".
This is the dream of a black boy who has lost his dignity. He has pinned his future on the day when he becomes a master of art.
He is crueler than others! Stronger than others! He wants all those who have bullied him to kneel at his feet!
After talking about "How Steel Was Tempered", let's talk about "Red Rock". This book means another kind of power to Hong Yanwu. It can help him endure hardships, suppress anger, and endure those things that make people sad.
The unbearable bullying.
Just like Hong Yanwu's unremitting practice every day, the bullying against him in the school never stops. Not only does the daily harassment among students remain the same, but the discrimination against him by the class teacher and the work propaganda team also continues day after day. These people
Still treat him like a mangy dog.
Whenever Hong Yanwu saw the eyes of these people, his eyes would tremble. He hated their beatings and oppression from the bottom of his heart, but he was even more afraid of angering them. So he could only obey and let these people spank, slap, and change their ways.
They kept making fun of him, and his only way to deal with it was to remain silent.
After a long time, he really felt that he could not bear the grievance, and felt that no matter how hard he persisted, he could not persist. At this time, for some reason, he suddenly remembered "Red Rock", as if he was one of the revolutionary martyrs who had been bullied.
, and the school environment also turned into a garbage hole in his imagination.
For example, the stools in the class reminded him of torture instruments. The rusty water pipes in the toilet smelled like iron shackles. Even the iron covers of the sewer reminded him of a dark dungeon.
As for Xu Yunfeng, who was thrown into the pond as if he was dead, Hua Ziliang, who has been pretending to be crazy every day for more than twenty years, and Sister Jiang who had bamboo sticks nailed under her fingernails, these characters suddenly jumped into his mind.
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This also made him suddenly have an idea. He felt that he was really far behind those real martyrs. They didn't even care about being tortured, being put on the tiger bench, and being fed pepper water. He also had "platoon fighting skills"
Protect yourself, why can't you endure such a small humiliation?
So in this way, he felt an invisible force filling his heart, filling his courage, enough to give him the courage to face the fierce "comma" eyes of the class teacher and Jiang Bayi's rough slap,
and Zhao Huolu's extremely filthy insults and ridicules.
Not only that, but as time went by, he actually discovered that this mental hypnosis method had an additional benefit. That was that all the humiliation was like lighting a small bag of explosives in his body, destroying all the power latent in his body.
Often after he endured it, the pent-up anger in his body prompted him to vent his anger on the playground before he could calm down. This meant that he turned his anger into strength and added one more practice session out of thin air every day.
energy.
From then on, he would go to the playground every day to hang out on the parallel bars and do pull-ups. He also spent his spare time on the playground and next to the parallel bars. He gritted his teeth and practiced until his veins popped out and his face turned red.
The parallel bars in Seventy-Eight Middle School were made of iron pipes. The parallel bars would make your hands cold. The ups and downs of the parallel bars always reminded him of the ups and downs of honor and disgrace in life. It seemed that every time he sank deeply,
It is to stand up for the next one. Although there are many ups and downs, at the end of the journey, you still have to stand proudly on the parallel bars, even though you are trembling and tired.
Huh! Practicing Kuai Er can adjust his emotions and help him suppress his evil thoughts and anger! The oppression of those people can only make him stronger!
Yes, it is not a gentleman not to avenge one's vengeance! It's not that he won't avenge him, the time has not yet come!
In this way, the playground became Hong Yanwu's sedative, the cradle of his strength, gave him a bath of resilience, calmed the wail of his soul, and healed his trauma after being isolated and abandoned by the teachers and students of the school.
The repeated lifting movements, accompanied by the falling sweat, restored his damaged will and emotions day by day, and rewarded him with increasingly stronger muscles and body.
In just two years of this, he could already do more than 40 parallel bars at a time, and he could do 80 pull-ups in a row. Even his pectoralis major muscles were getting bigger bit by bit, and he could do them even at a young age.
It's almost three fingers thick, so holding a pen is no problem at all.
It can be said that apart from Chen Liquan, Hong Yanwu has become the person in the school who has the figure closest to "Spartacus". Even the physical education teacher who can do twenty push-ups with one hand is amazed by this and feels inferior to him.
At this time, more positive effects occurred, that is, Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan's superhuman physiques that could not be concealed made them more famous in the school, and almost all the male students in the school gradually got to know them.
And this strong physique itself is an indescribable intimidating force, and it also makes their spirits increasingly confident.
The only difference between the two people is that Hong Yanwu's eyes started to look scary at some point. Although he just looked at them calmly without saying a word, the fierce light in his eyes that could not be restrained would often make him look frightened.
It makes those who stare at him feel guilty.
As a result, the insults he suffered on daily basis were greatly reduced. Many boys stopped provoking him out of instinctive fear, which made his situation unexpectedly better.
"Huo Zi" has graduated from school now. The people who are most afraid of this are of course Zhao Huolu and Jiang Bayi. They are particularly uncomfortable because of Hong Yanwu's gaze, and they seem to instinctively feel some kind of threat. They are actually entangled in this.
The men and horses beat Hong Yanwu severely. They wanted to teach him a lesson and make him beg for mercy to put his mind at ease.
But Hong Yanwu didn't say a word or resist during the whole process. After being beaten, he only looked at them one by one for a while, then dusted them off and turned away. As a result, this abnormal calmness made these people even more frightened. The beating
None of the others dared to appear in front of Hong Yanwu again, and Zhao Huolu and Jiang Bayi did not dare to harass Hong Yanwu again for a whole month.
Later, since nothing happened, the two of them resumed their usual activities, but they did not dare to make trouble as usual. They even took the initiative to talk to Hong Yanwu, hoping to wipe out all the old and new grudges and go their separate ways from now on.
Lu. In response to this, Hong Yanwu just smiled noncommittally and regarded it as an answer.
He really didn't expect that bullying and hatred could actually bring such benefits!
As the saying goes, "Steel cannot produce sparks if it is not struck." Good iron must be tempered. The so-called tempering means being beaten. You must have the ability to endure severe pain! No matter whether the pain comes from the body or the spirit!
Hong Yanwu began to appreciate Gorky's famous saying, "Let the storm come more violently!" He felt that people are often the most powerful when they are in trouble. When people are lonely, their minds are also the strongest!
If those people dare to punish him more harshly, it will only encourage him to hang more parallel bars, do more pull-ups, have thicker chest muscles, stronger arms, and the day of revenge will be closer...
At this point, it is not difficult to understand. The real situation is simply the "hate" that supported Hong Yanwu's martial arts practice, which has been completely concealed under a "revolutionary will" recognized by the public at that time.
Due to this kind of inertial thinking, even Hong Yanwu himself failed to clearly understand the real situation. It is inevitable that there will be situations where Mr. Yu missed the observation early and thought wrong later.