人生的后半场(5)

他恨父亲，因为父亲对他来说与其说是一个信赖可靠、和蔼可亲的长辈倒不如说是一个灌输知识的机器和压迫人的独裁暴君，他童年掌握大量知识的代价是被剥夺了身处其中的乐趣，在随后的漫长岁月中，他隐姓埋名并写了一大堆书，尽管其中没有任何一本被广泛出版，也没人知道他在默默无闻中究竟创作了多少作品，写作和平凡的生活带给他快乐，当他成年后，是自由给了他喘息的余地，然而这种日子并没有维持多久。1944年的一个夏日，他被发现因为中风而昏迷不醒，自此以后再也没有清醒过来，就这样一颗流星从天际划过，留给世人无限的遗憾。
Lin Jiawen (Lin for short) was born into an intellectual family in 1998. His mother is a primary school teacher and his father holds a post in a law college. There had a fashion to read and tell history and his family members was watching Lecture Room when Lin was at primary school. He not only joined their company, but buried himself in monographs such as History as a Mirror and The Spring and Autumn Annals. As time goes by, he became increasingly knowledgeable and his skills became more and more mature. He had already had the ability to probe into ethnic history and go through first-hand literature of history of Song when he was in junior middle school. In the meantime, he learnt Tangut, philology, bibliography and knowledge concerning academic norms on his own, and communicated and discussed history with predecessors on social media. Although he impressed everyone as a boy wet behind the ears and was nothing but a middle school student, he was already the author of two monographs: When Taoists rule China: The Political Practice of Taoist Thinking and The Rapid Rise of Han Empire, a book of 300,000 words reinterpreted the reigns of Emperors Wen and Jing from the perspective of Taoist politics and Sadness and Happiness to the world: Fan Zhong Yan and Qingli Reforms, A book to which Li Yumin, the giant of history of Song, made an exception to preface and praised him as "the youngest author with academic research ability after liberation". The two influential monographs made Lin a new star of the realm of history of Song. He was also hailed as "a genius of historical research".