What is the real ending of Lu Xun's Runing Earth?

192 1 year Shaoxing, 1 year, it's freezing and snowing. Luxun, a great writer, returned to his hometown after 20 years' absence. He thinks his hometown is still as beautiful as it was then. Unexpectedly, things have changed. Lu Xun, who was extremely sad, wrote a famous novel "Hometown". Later, this novel was selected as a Chinese textbook for primary schools and named "Young Runtu".

When Lu Xun returned to his hometown, he couldn't help sighing about the changes of his childhood friend and playmate, especially after seeing Lu Xun and respectfully calling him a "master". It's a pity that my childhood sweetheart was changed from a lively and intelligent young man to an insensitive middle-aged man by life, and his exuberant vitality was stifled by life.

Perhaps many people think that the leap soil in the novel is actually a fictional character of Lu Xun. After all, Lu Xun hardly mentioned the leap soil again. Lu Xun did not write the ending of moistening the soil in the novel. In fact, the character Runtu is not a fiction of Lu Xun, but a real person, a living person. So what kind of person is Runtu in real life? What was his final outcome?

Zhang, a descendant of Hehe, lives in Daoxu Town (now Shangyu County, Zhejiang Province), 60 miles outside Shaoxing. Formerly known as Zhang Yun-shui, it was nicknamed "Ah Shui" because of the lack of water in the five elements. Shaoxing dialect "Run" is homophone with "Yun", so it was renamed "Runtu". Zhang's life experience is not much different from that described in the novel. He and Mr. Lu Xun were childhood playmates, and he also helped Mr. Lu Xun's family with his father since childhood.

1934 drought, crop failure, debt collectors come to the door to force debts. In desperation, Runtu had to sell 6 mu of land for a living. In order to make a living, poor Runtu can only work everywhere. In his fifties, due to overwork, he had a serious sore on his back, but he had no money to treat it, so he had to watch it deteriorate and finally died at the age of 57.

However, the connection between Zhang Lu and Zhang Lu was not interrupted by the death of Runtu. Runtu has five sons, the eldest of whom is named Zhang Gui. He has a good relationship with Zhou Haiying, the son of Lu Xun, and has become an expert in Lu Xun's literature and deputy director of Lu Xun Memorial Hall. Lu Xun certainly didn't think that in the future, Runtu's grandson would become his son's good friend.