Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were many martial arts bodyguards and the like, and the business was booming. At that time, when people went far to do business, they basically asked the bodyguards to escort them.

Li Hongzhang, a very famous minister in the late Qing Dynasty, had the largest bodyguard bureau in Beijing to send people to protect his house, and he was also the backstage of that bodyguard bureau.

At that time, the people in the Escort basically practiced martial arts. They knew the jargon of the Jianghu, had friendship with everyone, and were very powerful. If some people wanted by the government lived in the Escort after entering the city, the government could not even arrest them.

Not only that, but people at this time respected martial arts very much, and there were many martial arts practitioners, and many martial arts masters appeared.

For example, in Shanghai, there is a well-known martial arts master Huo Yuanjia. He became famous many years ago and opened a martial arts school to teach everyone Mizong Quan. Unfortunately, he passed away within a year.

Besides him, Huang Feihong, Ip Man, etc. also exist in reality, and at the same time, there are many martial arts masters who are not weaker than them in this era.

Mu Qiong has learned about this period of history, and knows that those who practiced martial arts at this time did have certain skills.

Of course, they are definitely not as miraculous as described in martial arts novels. At most, they can run faster than ordinary people, jump higher than ordinary people, have greater strength than ordinary people, and fight harder than ordinary people.

It is precisely because they are not so magical that martial arts will decline when guns and ammunition appear.

As for the Escort Bureau and the like... Ever since ships and trains helped merchants transport goods, the Escort Bureau, which was originally extremely prosperous, has rapidly declined.

This is the early years of the Republic of China, and the Escort Bureau has not yet completely collapsed, but life is already very sad. In a few years, the largest Escort Bureaus in the country will close their doors one after another.

Under such a general trend, the life of many martial arts practitioners is very difficult.

Of course, the top wave of martial arts masters, or those martial arts practitioners from good families, their lives are still very good.The most miserable people today are those who were not born well, maybe they don't even know the words, and they practiced martial arts since they were young and have no other skills to make a living.

Although these people have skills, they can't fight against those with guns in their hands, and they are especially good at eating. It is too difficult to get along well.

When Mu Qiong was at Shouzhugan yesterday, he knew about the origins of Huang Weiwei and Yang Weiwei. He knew that they had serious teachers and their martial arts skills were not bad.

After he crossed over, he had always paid attention to physical exercise because of his poor health in his previous life, but his physical fitness was just like that... Now seeing Guard Yang practicing martial arts, he suddenly had the idea of ​​practicing martial arts.

He is not very good at studying, as long as he has some self-defense skills, besides practicing martial arts... Mu Qiong thought, it is best to buy a gun and bring it back with him.

At this time, guns were not difficult to buy. The worst ones could be bought for fifty or sixty silver dollars, and the better ones could be bought for one hundred silver dollars.

"Teaching people to practice martial arts? Of course it is possible." Huang Huwei said, "Who do you want us to teach, sir?"

Some family martial arts are not taught to outsiders, but Huang Huwei and Yang Huwei have never learned that kind of martial arts, so naturally they don't pay attention to it.

Now hearing Mu Qiong mention it, they immediately expressed that they could teach.

Although Mu Qiong said that they would not fire them after Sheng Chaohui quit opium, but they were a little worried after all, so they were willing to teach an apprentice.

Practicing martial arts does not happen overnight, it may take a few years to teach, and if they can work steadily at Mu Qiong's place for a few years and save a sum of money, they can buy a piece of land and marry a wife.

"I want to ask you to teach me some self-defense skills." Mu Qiong said.

"Mu Qiong, you want to practice martial arts? This is not an easy thing." Sheng Chaohui said, and then he yawned and tears came out at the same time.

He was very personable before, but now his decadent appearance... is really ugly.

"I just want to strengthen my body." Mu Qiong said.In this era of lack of medical care and medicine, it is really important to have a good body!

"Sir, at your age, it's impossible to learn too much, but you can still learn, but it's a bit hard." Huang Weiwei hoped that Mu Qiong could learn from them.

"I'll try." Mu Qiong said.

Huang Huwei cheered up, and immediately explained to Mu Qiong, telling Mu Qiong how to learn, and said that if Mu Qiong wanted to learn, he had better buy some weapons and come back to practice. .

As he spoke, he showed Mu Qiong a demonstration.

Mu Qiong didn't delay, and practiced right away.

This first practice was nothing more than doing all kinds of movements, stretching all the muscles in the body... But for Mu Qiong who usually does little exercise, it was really a bit tossing.

Some actions that required jumping and the like, he basically didn't do it for a long time before he was too tired to do it.

Mu Qiong only thought that his body was not bad before, but now he realizes...his body is actually very poor.

Sheng Chaohui's house is not big, old and dilapidated, but the yard is quite big, and Mu Qiong can move around in the yard.

He tied the hem of his robe around his waist, and practiced for an hour after another. At the end, he couldn't help retching, and his heartbeat was so fast.

Although he didn't use any props, many of the movements he did repeatedly today were anaerobic exercises, which were particularly tiring.

Mu Qiong was sweating profusely, sitting on the ground in the yard very embarrassed, but he was in a good mood.

If he had exercised like this in his previous life, he would definitely have died.

"Mu Qiong, you don't want your image at all, haha." Sheng Chaohui has been watching from the side, very happy, and then... a drug addict.

He wanted to run out, but Guard Huang and Guard Yang were already on guard. Seeing that he wanted to run, one of the two guarded the door, and the other went up a few steps, hugged him and dragged him back into the house, skillfully He tied him up with a rope and stuffed a towel into his mouth.

Mu Qiong got up from the ground, patted his clothes, and felt that his image was still very good.

In contrast, it was Sheng Chaohui... Sheng Chaohui's appearance of being addicted to drugs was many times more embarrassing than him.

Mu Qiong took a break at Sheng Chaohui's place, washed his face and hands, and left after Sheng Chaohui was well, going to the editorial department of Education Monthly.

After such a toss this morning, when he arrived at the editorial department of Education Monthly, it was already past nine o'clock and almost ten o'clock, and he was still so hungry that he went out to buy two roast chickens and came back, and ate half of them.

As for the remaining one and a half, I took it for lunch.

Mu Qiong was training for the first time, and he was a little overtired, so he didn't write a single word in the morning.

When Qi Xiufen came over to cook at noon, he specifically asked her to cook more, and then he would buy more lean pork or chicken and cook them for them.

After exercising, you need to eat some protein to build muscle. Beef is too expensive to eat. Lean pork and chicken are also possible.

At lunch, Huang Yang and the others ate like everyone else at first, but they ate a little faster and a little more, but after everyone else had finished eating and Mu Qiong said that they could finish the rest, the two of them opened their mouths. Belly, to show others how much they can eat.

The people in the editorial department were dumbfounded.

Sheng Chaohui went back after eating.

He is a very face-saving person. He is afraid of being shamed by drug addiction outside, so he hides at home wholeheartedly.

And Mu Qiong, he went to the orphanage.

During the summer vacation, Mu Changyu stayed at the orphanage every day recently, either reading and studying, or helping with some errands, and today, Fu Huai'an was added to do this.

However, compared to Mu Changyu, Fu Huai'an was a little too active - when Mu Qiong passed by, he was taking his lunch break to teach mathematics to the children in the orphanage.

It is said that he wanted to teach English at first, but was stopped by Zhu Wanwan.It is really unnecessary for the children in these orphanages to learn English without learning Chinese well.

Moreover, unless they are proficient in English, there is actually no need to learn English.Things like English can be forgotten after a while. If you learn half-baked and don’t use it in the end, it’s better not to waste time learning it in the first place.

Of course, which one of them would like to learn in the future, Mu Qiong agreed.

The children in the orphanage eat lunch and take a lunch break for a total of two hours.Those who are young have to sleep, and the older ones don't take a nap, so they take time to help with cleaning or something, but today they are learning mathematics.

When the lunch break is over, the young or stupid among them start pasting envelopes, and the rest of the older ones, regardless of gender, make shoes together.

This is a job that doesn't require much skill. According to Aunt Hong's idea, they should do this first, and then they can learn to make clothes when they have practiced their skills.

"Mr. Mu, why do you let those boys make shoes?" Fu Huai'an was puzzled: "This is a girl's job."

"Have you watched "I'm in a Hundred Years Later"?" Mu Qiong asked.

"I've seen it." Of course Fu Huai'an had seen it.

"Do you agree with equality between men and women?" Mu Qiong asked again.

Fu Huai'an nodded without thinking: "I agree!"

"If you want equality between men and women, you shouldn't have such rules and regulations. We are all human, so why should women do some jobs?" Mu Qiong asked.

"But there are some jobs that only men do..."

"This is also the inequality between men and women." Mu Qiong said.

In fact, Fu Huai'an was quite open-minded, and immediately thought about it.

Mu Qiong didn't tell him more, he went to the office to find Zhu Wanwan.

Zhu Wanwan is keeping accounts.

Ever since Zhu Wanwan helped manage the orphanage, Jin Huailai has been helping Huo Ershao with other things, and Mu Qiong thinks this is good, and she can exercise Zhu Wanwan.

The current expenses of the orphanage are mainly given by Huo Ying, and there are also some charitable donations from various parties. Zhu Wanwan spends this money very carefully and tries not to spend too much.

She also learned from Wei Ting.Wei Ting decided not to spend the school's money to run the school, but instead added money to it himself, and she did the same.Because their family ate at the school, she put most of the living expenses Mu Qiong gave her into the food expenses of the orphanage, which was at least 30 yuan a month.

With so much money, the three of them couldn't finish eating anyway, and it was precisely because of this that Mu Qiong brought Sheng Chaohui and others to eat.

He was embarrassed to use the money that should be given to those orphans, but it was his own money, so it didn't matter.

Zhu Wanwan was very serious about the calculations, Mu Qiong stood by for a while, and waited for Zhu Wanwan to finish the calculations before saying: "Mother, I have something to tell you."

"What's the matter?" Zhu Wanwan asked.

There was no one else in the office, and the doors and windows were all open. When I looked out, I could see the scorching sun.

Mu Qiong said: "Mother, I don't like women."

It was too late yesterday, and Mu Qiong didn't say anything about Zhu Wanwan's sleep.

But this time, he confessed.

And he has already thought of a way to say goodbye to appease Zhu Wanwan.