岁月悠悠——吕维松传记(1)


      题记:个体的经历和故事,整合起来就是一段生动鲜活的民族历史    

                           我的幼年和青年时代

 
   1926年10月7日,阴历9月12日,我出生在 中国上海。

     父亲吕子卿,浙江省定海县人。定海为舟山群岛的中心城市,当地居民多从事捕鱼业,多数人到近海或远洋海轮上当水手,干得好的,有的人会升为大副或船长。

    母亲朱秀卿是浙江省宁波市人。听母亲说,父亲早年从舟山来到上海从事商业,后逐步转至房地产业。父亲智力和精力过人,他根据当年上海发展的势头,先在上海闸北区和虹口区陆续盖了一些砖瓦结构的平房。后又在定海陶家弄盖了九套两层楼房。随资本的积累,父亲又在上海霞飞路(现准海西路)盖了自已住的一栋花园洋房和一座高层饭店。

      父亲先后结过两次婚,大妈(父亲的前妻我称大妈)病故后,父亲和我生母结婚。大妈生二子二女:儿子吕建康和吕建成,女儿呂桂娣和呂桂宝。母亲生二女六子,两个女儿幼年时患麻症夭折。

       六个儿子分别为吕建明,1922年生,排行第三。吕建德,1924年生,排行第四。吕维松,1926年生,排行第五。吕维梅,1927年生,排行第六。吕维柏,1928年生,排行第七。吕维雪,1929年生 排行第八。

         

                       吕家兄弟八十年代在香港照的照片。自左向右吕维松、吕维雪、吕维梅、吕维柏、吕建成、吕建明。照片中唯独少了四哥吕建德,因为他是军人,当时不能去香港。

                    

                        动荡的年代

        二十世纪三十年代,国际、国内局势都不太平。国际社会资本主义社会爆发了新的经济危机,帝国主义国家之间的尖锐矛盾日益激烈化,他们准备通过战争的手段重新瓜分世界。新崛起的德意日三国,疯狂对外扩张。日本帝国主义于1931年发动九一八事变强占了我东三省后,又发动了全面的侵华战争。1932年日本帝国主义在上海发动128事变,日军炮轰闸北。32日,日军占据了整个闸北,进军附近乡镇。我家原住闸北区,为躲避战火,父亲率全家回到定海避难。当时我仅四岁,但依稀仍能记得发生的几件事情。

     在全家逃难乘汽车去码头时,上车在关车门时,我不慎将右手大姆指夹在车门缝内。我痛得一声叫喊,右手大姆指指甲下出现瘀血。后来这个姆指甲逐渐脱落更新了。

     后来我们乘海轮去定海,靠岸下船时得换乘小驳船才能登岸。因风急浪大,从海轮下到小驳船相当危险。

     到定海后住在陶家弄自己家里。那时,我感到这栋两层楼的房子很宽敞。它平时空着,由一位老翁照管,他既慈详又热心,我们称他老爸。我学写字时,他会帮我削铅笔。

     我在定海期间,父亲曾按排我到小学借读。由于自已玩心太重,对学了些什么,未留下一点印象。但放学后到校后面一座小山玩,沙山不高,一面是沙坡,从山顶坐着往下滑,刺激但不危险。

     一位基督敎徒阿姨,曾带我去教堂做礼拜。教堂内唱圣诗和牧师讲道时的粛穆气氛使我很受感动。

      不久,因上海局势己平静下来,全家在定海住了不到两个月,就返回了上海。

 

                家中遭遇重大不幸

   

     父亲在上海经营房地产时,还在闸北地区办了一个工厂,生产宝塔牌铁钉和木螺丝。他每天乘汽车去工厂上班,司机名叫大龙。

     一天父亲离家后不久,大龙开车回了家,他匆匆跑进屋告诉母亲,父亲在去工厂路上被几个强盗拦截,企图绑架父亲。父亲在反抗中被强盗开枪击中前额,当倒地死亡。

      大龙说:父亲在强盗截住车时,对強盗的企图极为不满,举起手杖打他们。被强盗连开数枪打死。有一颗子弹从前额打进,穿过头颅,从头顶穿出。另一颗子弹将手杖手柄上打穿一个孔。第三颗子弹从大龙脸右侧打进,从喉部后背穿出,幸未伤及生命。

     出事后歹徒们逃逸,大龙才得以驾车回来报告。母亲听到这个消息如雷轰顶,顿时大哭起来。那时我正在弄堂口坐在小板凳上乘涼,听到爸爸被害,同全家兄弟们一起放声大哭。那时,我年纪尚小,还不懂事,只是随着家人一起哭,并不清楚在那个年代,一位带着六个幼小的孩子的年轻的母亲瞬间失去丈夫是一种什么样的情景,那一定是天都要塌了下来的感觉。

     父亲遗体运回家后安置在二楼一张他常坐的躺椅上。我走近细看,只见他双眼紧闭,神色安详,但前额的弹孔和头顶的血迹仍能看得很清楚。这个景,我终生难忘。

       家里为父亲举行了隆重的出殡仪式:用竹、木、纸扎制了住房、家具、汽车等统统烧掉。出殡仪式之后将父亲的遗体运回定海,筑墓立碑留作记念。

 

           幼儿园的生活

   

     父亲去世后,母亲将家从上海远郊区搬到上海沪西位于愚园路上的愚园坊。大哥和二哥己先于我们住在这里。大哥二哥开的洗染店正位于愚园坊的对面。我则进了幼儿园住宿。

     幼儿院的卧室是一间大房间,屋里约有二十多个带护拦的木床。臥室同厨房相邻,中间有一块带磨砂大玻璃窗的砖垟隔开。每天清晨,黑影在窗后幌动。他们在厨房里忙着准备早歺。可是这些幌动的黑影却使我联想到鬼影,心中感到又紧张又害怕。

     在一年的幼儿园生活中,发生过一件事我一直记忆犹新。一天早晨,老师将孩子们集合在一起,高声问道:今天有人将厕所的马桶打翻了,屎尿淌了一地,是谁闯了祸,快举起手来!但没有孩子响应,当时老师很尴尬。

     不知出于什么原因,我举起了手说:是我弄翻的。老师见有孩子承认了,松了口气,很是高兴地说:你能承认错误很好,下次要小心。这事就这样算啦。其实,我当时也不知道究竞是那一个孩子干的。我这样做,可能是出于想为老师解除尴尬的局面,也是属于一种童心的善意吧。

 

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        Events of the distant past--The Biogaphy of Lu Wei Song.        

        Topic of these records:Comformity of experiences and stories of an individual person would be a bright colored history of a Nation.

             
        My childhood and my youth

      I was born in Shanghai China on October seventh in 1926.

      My father Lu zi qing, was born in the city Ding Hai.It is the central city of Zhou Shan islands.Many residents are working as sailors on sea boats or steamboats.Some of them could promote to the position of captain when they work hard.My mother Zhu xiu qing was born in the city Ning Po.We heard from her that my father was a merchant in his earlier years.Later he transferred to the business of house building.He is a person with enormous energy, according to his judgement about the development of Shanghai, invested to build several single-storey houses in Zhapei and Hong Kou districts in eairlier years。Later he invested to build nine houses with two storeies in the district of Dao Jia Long in Dinghai.With the accumulation of capital, he invested to build a villa with grassland in the district of Xiafai road as our home,and also a hotel with multi-storeies.

    He had married twice, his first marriage had two sons:My elder brothers:Lu jian-kang and Second son:Lu jian-cheng.Two daughters, elder sister Lu gui-di and younger sister Lu qui-pao.My mother had born eight children:six boys and two girls.They are my third elder brother Lu jian-ming, my fourth elder brother Lu jian-de.I am the fifth one: Lu wei song, sixth brother Lu wei mei,seventh brother Lu wei bai and our youngest brother Lu wei xue.Two daughters  died with a kind of serious sickness hives.

 
            
          Turbulent Years、

     In the thirties of the twentieth century, the international and domestic situations were not peaceful. Japanese imperialism had launch a war in China on September eighteenth.As the government of Kuoming tang stick to the policy of not fighting against the Japanese military forces, it encouraged the aggressive ambitions of Japanese invaders who had already occupied the three provinces in the north-eastern area of China.In 1932 on January 28th Japanese imperialism started again their invasion in Shanghai, bombarded and occupied the whole district of Zha Bbi and those neighboring villages.

   In order to avoid the military fighting, my father brought all of our family members to our native city Ding hai.Although I was only four years old, I still remember several circumstances in that period.      

   All of us went to the wharf by automobile.I entered into the car and sat at the right side in the rear chair.When  I close the rear door by my left hand、I didn’t noticed that my right hand hadn’t drawn away from the hinge of this door,its thumb was squeezed.I shouted with pain。I found this thumb was wounded,there were extravasated blood under its nail.This nail fall off later.    

    We went to Ding hai by steamship.When we arrived the harbor of Ding hai we had to transfer to a small boat for landing.As the boat is small, it swung up and down heavily by the ocean reef.It’s quite a dangerous landing process.  

We lived in our own houses in Dao jia long.Every building is of two stories。In my memory,they are quite large.Ussually each of them was
               
    My father sent me to study in a primary school,as I was ardent in playing,I hadn’t any impression about what I had learned.But I was enthusiastic in climbing a hill when the class was over.As it is a small sand hill, I was glad to slide downward from its top to the ground.It was quite exciting and not dangerous. 

   I remembered that a Christian aunt once brought me to a Church.I was quite moved in hearing the singing of holy poems and the solemn atmosphere when the pastor semonized. 

   We stayed in Dinghai less than two months as the situation in Shanghai had calmed,all of our family members return to Shanghai.

 

 
           My father also managed a factory in Zhabei district of Shanghai when he engaged in the business of real estate.The factory produced iron nails and screws with trade mark PAGODA.He went to the factory everyday by a car driven by his chauffeur Da long.   

        One day,soon after my father left home to his factory,chauffeur Da long returned with car.He ran into the house and told my mother what had happened:My father was blocked on the road by several bandits,they intended to kidnap him.When my father resisted, these bandits fired their pistol,a bullet shot through his head,he fell down and died.       

          Afterward Da long said more clearly:Father was very angry when he found these bandits intended to kidnap him. He raised his stick to strike them.These bandits shot several times:one of the bullets shot through the stick and another shot through my father’s head,from his forehead and flied out from the top of my father’s head.The third bullet shot through the right side of Da long’s cheek and got out from the backward of his throat.Fortunately it hadn’t been fatal.It affected his speaking a little.  

         These bandits ran away and escaped。Da long was possible to drive and returned home。When my mother heard these, she felt as been stricken by thunder and cried grievously with her children instantly.  

        
     Father’s body was brought home and placed sitting on a reclining chair where he sat usually.I moved close to him and look carefully.My father’s eyes were closed, his expression was with calmness.But the bullet hole on his forehead and the red bloodstain on the top of his head could be seen clearly which I couldn’t forget throughout my whole life.  

         Our family  held a grand and solemn ceremony for my father.Carpenters built samples of our house,furniture,and car with bamboo,wood and paper,then burned them which means they had been sent to my father.After the ceremony, mother arranged to send the body of my father to his native land Dinghai,built a grave with tombstone for our souvenir.  

   My life in the kindergarten.When we returned to Shanghai,mother moved our home from the suburban district of Shanghai to  Yu yuan lane, which located at Yu yuan road in the western district of Shanghai.My two elder brothers had lived there earlier than us.They managed a washing shop in the opposite side of this road.When our home had settled there, my mother sent me to a kindergarten and I became a boarder.   
 
    The bedroom of the kindergarten was a large room.There were more than twenty beds in this room.All of them were wooden bed with guard.Next to the bedroom was the kitchen,it was separated by a brick wall with large sanded glass plates.When I was awaken every morning I could see several dark shadows moving to and fro.That’s the shadow of workers,they are busy in preparing our breakfast.But I was overcome with fear by these black and moving shadows,it made me  thinking that they were ghosts.     
 
   I had a reminiscence of what had happened one day when I was living in the

   kindergarten.It happened in a certain morning.The teacher gathered all of the boarding children and asked us with loud voice:“I find in the water closet a commode has been tumbled,urine and soil flow on the ground.I want to know,who had done it!Raise your hand please!”But no one responsed.I found the teacher was quite embarrassed.  

     I didn’t know what caused me to raise my hand and said:“It’s my fault!”It released the teacher when she found the naughty child.She was glad and said:“It’s fine that you admit your mistake,be careful in the future.”Actually I didn’t know who had done it,I admited that I did the mistake ,might be that I wished to release the embarrassment of the teacher, and it might be caused by a certain childish kindness.