Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

In Fu Yun'an's hospital, there were twenty or thirty patients coming in the afternoon of the first day, and even more patients came for treatment on the second day, thirty in the morning alone.

This number seems to be very small in modern times, but in this era, it is already very good. After all, seeing a doctor is expensive at this time, and doctors make a lot of money.

For example, Fu Yun'an, if you want to see him now, the consultation fee will be one yuan and two cents. After the diagnosis and treatment, the medicine fee will be calculated separately. As for the operation, it will be even more expensive.

For a doctor like Fu Yun'an, even if he only sees five patients a day, the five patients will pay him nearly six yuan for the consultation fee, and he can earn nearly 180 yuan a month.

His fees are expensive, and his attitude towards patients is very good. When Mu Qiong passed by at noon the next day, he saw Fu Yun'an explaining all kinds of precautions to a foreigner who came to see a doctor who vomited and pulled in great detail, and gave him a prescription medicine.

It also includes a Chinese patent medicine.

This Chinese patent medicine has been sold for many years by the big pharmacy that cooperated with Fu Yunan. It is very suitable for this symptom, but before they were sold as pills and sold in porcelain bottles, now they are put in glass bottles and attached to it. The shelf life is marked on the label, and it looks no different from some western medicines at this time.

Fu Yun'an spent more than an hour diagnosing and treating this patient, and even asked his assistant to help him lie on the hospital bed, drink hot water and take medicine, taking care of him very thoughtfully.

Of course, the patient also paid a lot of money for consultation and medicine - a total of five yuan in total.

In the sand shipyard, many people earn only five yuan a month for carrying sandbags and doing coolies.

"It's really expensive to see a doctor." Mu Qiong said, taking out the meals he brought and putting them on Fu Yun'an's desk.

He came to deliver food to Fu Yun'an.

"If you find someone else, it will be much cheaper." Fu Yun'an said with a smile. The general doctor in their hospital only needs two cents for the consultation fee, which is a fraction of his cost.

In fact, the poor suffer from the same disease, and they can also be cured with a few cents.

Mu Qiong and Fu Yun'an had dinner together, and then they went downstairs. When they went downstairs, they saw someone downstairs installing a telephone.

Mu Qiong had seen a telephone in this era, but had never used it, so he stood by and looked at it——if this telephone is easy to use, the editorial department of the Educational Monthly Magazine can also install one.

Like Mu Qiong, there were many people who were curious about the phone. They all looked at it with great interest, and while they were watching, some people asked questions.

After asking the person who installed the telephone, Mu Qiong learned that the monthly fee for the telephone at this time was ten yuan, and generally he could only answer local calls in Shanghai.

The telephone is hung on the wall. Before using it, you have to shake it by hand for a while to let the phone power on.It does not need to dial a number, just pick up the receiver after shaking it, and directly report the number to the operator on the other end. The number should also say a district name, such as No. 23 in the South District.

Then, the operator at the other end will connect the two phones with a wire so that the two people can talk.

And if the person you are looking for is on the phone with someone else, then you can only wait for him to finish the call before connecting with him.

It is said that when there were few calls in Shanghai, you didn’t even need to report the number. You shook the phone and said to the operator, such as “Ping An Hospital”, and the operator knew where it was and helped you connect.

Of course, during the period of the Republic of China, science and technology developed very fast. In the late period of the Republic of China, no one used such telephones.

The phone was very troublesome to use, and Mu Qiong immediately stopped planning to install the phone.He doesn't need it for the time being, but when Education Monthly develops better and better in the future, you can install one.

It is estimated that in another two years, the monthly fee will be reduced a little.

After the hospital opened, Fu Yun'an was at ease, and Mu Qiong also had a certain understanding of the hospital at that time.

At present, in addition to treating patients who come to the hospital alone, the hospital will also sign contracts with some factories and the like. The factory will pay the hospital a fixed amount of money per month. Come to the hospital for treatment, do not need to pay additional fees.

Of course, if medicines were to be prescribed, the workers would have to pay for them out of their own pockets.

And this can be regarded as the welfare of the factory to the workers.

Fu Yun'an's hospital has only signed such a few factories, so his hospital doesn't have to worry about not making money at all.

When Mu Qiong first learned about this, he wanted to help make connections so that the workers from Huo Ying's factory could come to Fu Yun'an for treatment, but thinking of Huo Ying's recent fights with those Japanese, he gave up.

He was afraid that Huo Ying would hurt Fu Yun'an.

Fu Yun'an's hospital was doing very well, and another day later, "The Wandering Story" was published in the Dazhong newspaper.

"Wandering Notes" is the longest novel written by Mu Qiong after time travel.

In modern times, the serialized novels are longer, and readers get impatient, so they may read other novels, but at this time, because there are few books, the number of readers basically will not decrease, and will only increase during the serialization period. more and more.

Therefore, for novelists at this time, sometimes a novel will be serialized in newspapers for several years.

A wonderful book in the period of the Republic of China that Mu Qiong once read, "The Legend of the Swordsman in Shu Mountain" is particularly powerful.This book, which led the trend of martial arts and celestial beings, has 400 million words in its main story alone, and there are many, many rumors. The author began serializing it in newspapers in 1932 and continued to write it until 1948. Because of the number of words Too many, the bookstore didn't even need silver dollars to calculate the manuscript fee with him, and gave him gold bars directly.

And the author can do this because he has written a lot, became famous, and more and more people read it.

The same is true of his "Wandering Notes". More people read the serialized newspaper than those who followed his previous two articles.

Now that "The Vagabond" is over, countless people feel sad.

"Obviously you can continue to write, why don't you write?"

"I can write that Doudou grows up, and I still want to see Doudou get married and have children."

"I also want to see Doudou get married and have children."

……

People talk about it.

Of course, some people think it’s just right to write here: “Doudou has a happy ending, and it’s just right to end here.”

"After half a year of wandering with Doudou, my heart can finally settle down."

"In today's society, there is too much helplessness. If Doudou grows up, he will definitely encounter it. I don't want to see the optimistic Doudou change, so just stop here."

……

At Zhendan University, many students bought Dazhong Daily to read the novel written by Mu Qiong. After reading the final chapter, a student said: "It would be great if there was an orphanage as written in the book, so that those orphans can have a way out."

People around him nodded.

Zheng Weixin happened to hear this when he passed by, and said with a smile: "There is such an orphanage in the first place, don't you know?"

"Is there?" The classmate asked curiously.

"Of course there is." Zheng Weixin said: "The orphanage was opened by Huo Ershao. When the newspaper reported Huo Ershao's factory, he also mentioned it."

"I saw it in the newspaper at the time, but I thought it was just talk." The student said: "Since there is such an orphanage, why only report on the factory and not publicize the orphanage?"

"The publicity is so good that many people will deliberately throw their children away." Zheng Weixin said: "It's not like this has never happened before."

Those people were taken aback when they heard this.

Zheng Weixin added: "Now there are more than 100 children in the orphanage. I even organized my classmates to donate things to them...the children there are all living well."

"Second Young Master Huo is really kind. What do those children need? We can also donate something to them!" These students said one after another.

Zheng Weixin said: "What the children in the orphanage need most is all kinds of warm clothes. They don't want fancy clothes, they can't wear them. It's best to give them the old cotton jackets and trousers you don't want. In addition, the clothes you don't want They also want old books, paper and pens.”

"They still need pens and paper?" These students were surprised. Ordinary people are illiterate. Do the children in these orphanages still study?

"The director of the orphanage will teach these children to read and write." Zheng Weixin said, he often goes to Ping An Hospital, and he also went to Ping An Orphanage on the way.

"I didn't expect there to be such a place...can you take us to see it?" a student asked, and other students also showed yearning.

This is of course possible. Zheng Weixin took some people and walked to the Ping An Orphanage.

This kind of thing happens in many places.

The Ping An Orphanage has never advertised in newspapers, and it doesn't even hang a signboard. It is very low-key, but there are still many people who know the existence of this orphanage.

At least, those reporters who have come to interview, and the people in the patrol room, all know about it.

Now that "Wandering" is over, after seeing Doudou entering the orphanage, many people are curious about the orphanage. Those who know the existence of the orphanage brought some curious people to the orphanage.

At noon that day, many people came to the orphanage, including Zheng Weixin and his classmates, and several reporters brought some rich women over.

This morning, the children's task was to make cotton shoes. They had done a lot, and by noon they had overfulfilled the task, and then they took their own bowls to serve their meals.

Children over the age of four all serve their own meals, and when they are finished, they line up obediently and let the staff of the orphanage serve them.

Their bowls are very large, the big bowls that ordinary people use to hold soup, and some children are very small, which makes people worry that they will not work.

But in fact, everyone hugged tightly.

The dishes were stir-fried vegetables with oil residue, and tofu and pork liver soup. Each person had a spoonful of each. When Zheng Weixin and the others came, the children were feasting.