Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

The book is called "The Story of Body Changing". The male protagonist who became his own concubine is named Li Xueye, and the concubine who has changed into his body is named Zhao Cui.

Zhao Cui's father is a scholar, although her father did not teach her to read, but because her older brothers and younger brothers all read, she followed suit to read some characters, and admired educated people very much.

Li Xueye is a good friend of Zhao Cui's elder brother. When he came to Zhao Cui's home and got acquainted with the beautiful Zhao Cui, he wrote some letters and poems to Zhao Cui. Zhao Cui was moved by his articles and finally fell in love with him.

And at this time, Zhao Cui knew that Li Xueye already had a wife at home, and even had a concubine.

Zhao Cui was very painful, but because Li Xueye vowed to love her, Zhao Cui finally followed Li Xueye and became one of Li Xueye's concubines.

When the two first got together, they lived in harmony for a while, but then someone gave Li Xueye an actor, and Li Xueye happily took it home...

Zhao Cui quarreled with Li Xueye, but instead of coaxing her like before, Li Xueye happily left her and went to the actor he just brought home...

Zhao Cui is desperate, but she can't stop Li Xueye from liking others.

Later, besides the actor, Li Xueye brought back other women. As time went by, Zhao Cui gradually became a very common concubine in Li Xueye's backyard.

It was at this time that Li Xueye fell in love with a female student.

Li Xueye felt that the girls in his backyard were uneducated, and only the female student understood him best. He fell in love with that female student deeply, and in order to let her marry him, he wanted to hold a wedding with her.

Zhao Cui didn't have a wedding at the beginning.She couldn't stand this, and before Li Xueye "married a wife" again, she quarreled with Li Xueye and even slapped him.

Li Xueye locked up Zhao Cui.

Now, when Li Xueye woke up, he found that he had turned into Zhao Cui. He knocked on the door in the yard, trying to get someone to let him out, but no one paid any attention to him at all. When he heard him say that he was not Zhao Cui, but Li His studies, the servants still thought he was crazy.

On the other side, the desperate Zhao Cui woke up and suddenly found herself lying in a bright red room with a young girl of seventeen or eighteen lying beside her.

She was also taken aback, and quickly got up from the bed, and then found that this room looked very familiar.

When she first became Li Xueye's concubine, she lived in this room, but after Li Xueye got a new man, she had to move out.

Zhao Cui found a mirror, and then found herself transformed into Li Xueye.

She was stunned, put on her clothes and looked for "myself", and then heard "myself" reprimanding the servants through the courtyard gate, asking people to let her out, and saying that she was Li Xueye.

Zhao Cui now has two paths to follow.

One way is to confess to Li Xueye immediately, and after discussing with Li Xueye, the two of them will deal with the current situation together, and find a way to change their bodies back by the way.Because of the special circumstances, she might be able to develop a relationship with Li Xueye by doing so.

The other way is to ignore Li Xueye who has become himself, and enjoy the life that belongs to Li Xueye.

Zhao Cui chose the second path without hesitation.

She has already seen through Li Xueye, and she no longer expects Li Xueye to change his mind. That being the case, why should she listen to Li Xueye when she has become Li Xueye and can live freely?

Zhao Cui loved Li Xueye so much at the beginning.

She copied the love letter Li Xueye wrote to her over and over again, practicing her own handwriting to be similar to Li Xueye's.

Every word and every action of Li Xueye, she imprinted it in her heart and pondered it over and over again.

She still remembered all of Li Xueye's hobbies, and those friends who knew Li Xueye roughly.

Therefore, as long as she is careful, she can play Li Xueye well.

Of course, the most important thing is that no one will believe that she and Li Xueye have exchanged bodies. That being the case, no one will doubt her...

Zhao Cui returned to the new house.

If it was her in the past, seeing her rival in love on the bed in the new house would have made her feel miserable, but now Zhao Cui has no such thoughts.

She knew that this female student who had just married Li Xueye was deceived by Li Xueye just like herself, so she didn't have the slightest malice towards this female student, but rather sympathized with her.

She recalled Li Xueye's appearance when she was in love with Li Xueye, she got along with this female student, and then went to work where Li Xueye worked...

Li Xueye's new wife didn't notice anything unusual at all, but when they arrived at the place where Li Xueye was working... those people looked at him in surprise, and then praised him for his diligence - he just got a beauty, and he came to work the next day !

Zhao Cui started Li Xueye in this way.

Tianxing's stories are all novel and interesting, and this one doesn't give way too much.

After rushing into the bookstore under the name of Tianxing, many people didn't buy books immediately, but started to read them first. As a result, they couldn't stop after reading it.

After the people came in, they found that the new issue of Hope Monthly was sold out, and they couldn't help but said to those who were reading: "Sir, can you give me the book in your hand? I want to buy it."

Why don't you go to the side to buy a book?The people reading with the book were dissatisfied, and then found...there was no book next to it!

He quickly put away the book in his hand: "I want to buy this book myself!"

The people who were reading with books paid without hesitation, and then left quickly, fearing that someone would stare at the books in their hands and try to snatch them from them.

The people who didn't buy the books were extremely depressed, but at this time, the bookstore owner took out more...

I didn't expect you to be such a bookstore owner!

Everyone paid for the book one after another, and then hurried home to read it.

And after reading it... Everyone scratched their heads and wanted to read the following content.

"Hahahahaha! This story is so funny!"

"Tianxing has so many ideas!"

"Li Xueye is really unlucky! He kept yelling and was treated as a lunatic!"

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People who just read the story are very happy to watch it.

As for those who like to decipher the profound meaning from the article... But now they can't help shaking their heads and sighing.

This article is actually quite ironic.

Among other things, the fact that Zhao Cui can perfectly play Li Xueye is embarrassing enough.

Of course, after seeing this, some people secretly sighed and learned a lesson from it, but there were also some people who saw it... became angry from embarrassment.

Although Song Mingli has been attacking Mu Qiong in the newspapers recently, he has never said anything bad about Tianxing.

Back then when Tianxing "smeared" the Japanese in "Contagion", which provoked the anger of the Japanese and was supported by Huo Ershao, no one dared to speak ill of Tianxing.

Nowadays, Japan's reputation in the country is quite bad. If you speak ill of Tianxing, if you are a little careless, you will be regarded as a lackey of the Japanese. Song Mingli is unwilling to do this.

He has always admired Tianxing in words.

That being the case, when Tianxing's new novel came out, he naturally wanted to buy it and read it.

In the end... what Tianxing wrote here!

Song Mingli felt a sense of familiarity when he read "The Story of Changing Body".

His own actions are somewhat similar to Li Xueye in "The Story of Changing Your Body"...

Song Mingli was furious when he read it, wishing he could tear up the book.

It just happened to be like this, and a good friend of his even praised Tianxing: "Mr. Tianxing's novel is really novel! Li Xueye in this is really self-inflicted..."

Song Mingli: "..."

Song Mingli didn't like to refute.

If he retorts too much... If someone finds out that his actions are exactly the same as Li Xueye's, what should he do?

Song Mingli finally silently swallowed all the words back into his stomach.

I even had to boast a few words against my will.

Fu Yun'an used to attach great importance to Tianxing. When Tianxing's articles were published in the Hope Monthly, he would always ask the Hope Monthly to print more.

Now that he knew that Tian Xing was Mu Qiong, he paid more attention to it, and even directly ordered the Hope Monthly to print [-] copies of this issue.

For modern magazines, selling [-] copies is nothing, but in this period, if a magazine can sell [-] copies, it is probably the well-deserved number one in the country.

During the period of the Republic of China, there were magazines that sold 10,000+ copies a month, but that was in the middle of the Republic of China. Now... if the sales volume reached [-], it would become the top ten magazines in Shanghai!

When Zhou Nianxiang, who was in charge of the Hope Monthly Newsletter, heard Fu Yunan's request at the beginning, he even suspected that he had heard it wrong. However...Fu Yunan followed closely and emphasized it again. A Hundred Years Later" was printed as a book, and more "Contagion" was printed.

Zhou Nianxiang was very puzzled when he heard this.

Fu Yun'an said: "Don't worry, it won't fail to sell, I will let people transport these books to sell elsewhere."

At this time, magazines and so on, why is the sales volume not high?Is it because of inconvenient transportation?

The two magazines Hope Monthly and Education Monthly were sold to Hangzhou, Suzhou, Nanjing, Beijing and other places because of their profits.

Since it cannot be bought, naturally there will be no sales.

Whether it's books or magazines, if they can be shipped to more places, they will definitely sell a lot more. As for why no one does this... No one else, it's because the shipping fee is too expensive.

Shipping some magazines all the way to sell may not be worth the price... If you have the time, it's better to ship those novelties from Shanghai to sell.

Among other things, if the button shoes produced in Huo Ying's factory were sold elsewhere, they would be much more profitable than selling books.

Sell ​​newspapers and magazines far away, let alone make money, and maybe lose money, but now... Fu Yun'an plans to spend money to transport Tianxing's books and Mu Qiong's books to cities all over the country.

Doing so will allow more people to know about Lou Yuyu and Tianxing, which is good for Mu Qiong.

As long as Mu Qiong's reputation is big enough, if others want to trouble him in the future, they have to weigh themselves first!

Even his father would not dare to do things that provoke public outrage.

So, early in the morning, when the literati in Shanghai were scrambling to buy Hope Monthly, some people under Huo Ying left Shanghai with boxes of books.

Song Yanqiu was among these people.

Song Yanqiu no longer needs to run with others, he can already be on his own, now, he brought a lot of products produced by Huo Ying's factory, as well as books by Tianxing and Lou Yuyu, and prepared to go to Hunan.

At the beginning, they were only responsible for purchasing raw materials for Huo Ershao's factory, but now that Huo Ershao's factory is producing more and more products, they are responsible for selling things.

According to Huo Ershao... Since selling their own products can make money, why don't they make money for themselves and make money for others?

They should sell it themselves!

Song Yanqiu felt that their Second Young Master was right!

This money must be the most comfortable to earn by yourself!

It's just selling books by the way, which he feels is not easy to operate.

It’s fine if the book is heavy, if it’s too expensive, maybe no one will want it…

No, it doesn't mean that no one will want it if it sells too expensive. If you publicize it well, this book will definitely make money!

Song Yanqiu touched the glass bottle of Xilin in his pocket, thinking about how to sell books.

Huo Ershao valued him so much, he must not disappoint Huo Ershao's expectations!

When Song Yanqiu and others left Shanghai with Hope Monthly, Mu Qiong was sorting out his manuscripts in the editorial department of Education Monthly.

For the book "Body Changing", he published [-] to [-] words a month. As for "Metamorphosis", it is now published in Dazhong Daily every other day, with [-] words each time.

And now he has developed a habit of writing at least [-] words a day... In this way, he doesn't have to rush to write a manuscript, and even has time to do something else.

For example, using Zhu Shi'an's pen name to swear at people, or translating something he thinks is worth translating.

And what he is sorting out now is the manuscript of the encyclopedia that he has translated and sorted out since last year.

The encyclopedia is a complete set, and there are so many. Although Mu Qiong has translated it carefully and asked others to help translate some, he has not translated it completely. He only sorted out a part of it, and then compiled some by himself. .

Some of these have been published in educational monthly magazines, but most of them have not been published. Now, Mu Qiong plans to publish them.

As for this book, he decided to sell it at a low price just like "Essays in English".

There are many drawings attached to this book. According to Mu Qiong's idea, the first page should be a map of the world, and then write words like Asia, Europe and Africa on it. Turn to the second page, and you can introduce that the earth is round , and then write about the rotation and revolution of the earth in detail, and attach relevant pictures.

Such a picture, you need to find someone to draw it for yourself, and I don't know if the editors in their editorial department can draw it.

Mu Qiong was thinking about finding someone to draw a picture for himself, when he heard the wooden stairs of the Education Monthly being trampled on.

The footsteps of the people coming were brisk...Mu Qiong didn't close the door, turned his head, and saw a girl in a dress and leather shoes coming up, and behind her was an editor downstairs.

Who is this person if not Huo Anni?

Sheng Chaohui has been working in the Education Monthly recently. He can't sit still. After hearing the voice, he had already run out of his office. Seeing Huo Anni now, he was stunned.

Fu Yun'an's mother was a great beauty in the village when she was young. Fu Yun'an was like his mother, so she was good-looking, and Huo Anni, she was also like her mother.

Forget it, she is also very good at dressing up, good at dressing, and has a good temperament... Although Sheng Chaohui has seen many beauties, he has rarely seen Huo Anni like this: "You... hello, can you find me?" who?"

As Sheng Chaohui asked, he tidied up his satin robe that was wrinkled when he sat on the floor.

His father has been saying recently that he wants to introduce someone to him. Could it be this?

Thinking of this, Sheng Chaohui's eyes lit up when he looked at Huo Anni.

However, Huo Anni glanced at him and frowned dissatisfiedly.

Huo Anni has not been in Shanghai for a long time, but she has already been pursued by several young men from Shanghai, and now she doesn't like this kind of man very much.

"Annie, why are you here?" Mu Qiong asked.

Because of Fu Yun'an, Mu Qiong already regarded Huo Anni as his younger sister, so he just called Huo Anni by her name right now.

"Brother Mu, I'm bored, so I came to your place to have a look." Huo Anni said.

And the editor who came with Huo Anni poked her head out from behind Huo Anni at this time: "Editor Mu, so this lady is really your friend!"

After Huo Anni came, she only said that she was looking for Mu Qiong, but she didn't say who she was, which made them a little worried, so they followed up specially, because they were afraid that this lady didn't know Mu Qiong, and she was just here to see Lou Yuyu of.

Mu Qiong never saw those female students who came to him, they were afraid that Mu Qiong would be unhappy.

"This is Miss Huo, the one who has become famous recently." Mu Qiong introduced Huo Anni.

The famous Miss Huo recently?Isn't that the younger sister of Huo Ershao and Huo Sanshao, Miss Huo's family?The newspapers in Shanghai these days have been staring at Miss Huo all day long, reporting on Miss Huo's whereabouts in the newspapers every day. Although they don't know Miss Huo, they have all heard of her.

I didn't expect their editor-in-chief Mu to be so powerful that Miss Huo could take the initiative to come to him!The editor who followed upstairs gave Mu Qiong an admiring look, and went downstairs.

Sheng Chaohui's face was full of disappointment.

Sheng Chaohui knew that Mu Qiong had a very good relationship with Fu Yun'an, but he didn't expect his relationship with Miss Huo to be so good...

With Mu Qiongzhuyu in front, he will definitely not be able to get into Miss Mu's eyes.

After all, Mu Qiong is better-looking than him, better educated than him, and younger than him... The only thing he can surpass Mu Qiong may be that he has a little money at home.

But he is only the youngest son in the family, and he won't get much money if he wants to share it in the future, but Mu Qiong will earn more and more.

Sheng Chaohui said hello, and returned to his office in frustration.

Mu Qiong poured a glass of water for Huo Anni: "I should be bored here too."

"No! You should have the content behind "Metamorphosis" here, right? Can you show me?" Huo Anni looked at Mu Qiong expectantly.

Huo Anni has been doing nothing lately.

The ladies in Shanghai like to go shopping and all kinds of new things, but Huo Anni has lived in Europe and the United States, and new things in Shanghai are not rare to her at all.

She felt bored after playing for a few days. After reading the Hope Monthly and Dazhong newspapers delivered by the servant this morning, she couldn't wait to read the following content.

In fact, she wants to know what happened after "The Story of Changing Your Body", but it is said that even her third brother doesn't know who Tianxing is. "The manuscript behind it is over.

Mu Qiong directly took out his manuscript and showed it to Huo Anni.

Huo Anni held the manuscript and read it with gusto.

At this time, most people read books word by word, carefully, and Huo Anni read very slowly, but even so, after reading for more than an hour, she finished reading Mu Qiong's manuscript. .

After reading it, Huo Anni became bored again. At this time, she noticed the manuscript that Mu Qiong was sorting out: "What is this?"

"I'm going to compile an encyclopedia." Mu Qiong said, suddenly thought of something: "By the way, can you draw?" Most of the literati at this time are multi-talented, Wei Ting can draw, Huo Anni maybe Also learned?

"Yes, but I don't know how to draw ink painting, and my level is average." Huo Anni said: "I'm studying architecture, and I need to draw blueprints."

Mu Qiong really didn't know that Huo Anni was studying architecture. Of course, it's good to learn this: "Can you help me draw pictures?"

"What are you going to draw?" Hoanne asked.

Mu Qiong immediately talked to her, and took out the English version of the encyclopedia so that Huo Anni could draw according to the pictures on it.

The things to be drawn are all very simple, and Huo Anni said directly: "There is no problem with these, I can draw them for you casually, but I don't have any tools at hand now, so I can only draw them when I go back."

"Tools?" Mu Qiong asked.

"Compasses, rulers, etc. The sun is much bigger than the earth. If you want to draw a big picture, the earth should be smaller, and the moon should be smaller." Huo Anni said.

In fact, Mu Qiong didn't ask Huo Anni to draw accurately, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it might be better to draw like this, so he thanked her immediately.

"If you want to thank you, why not introduce me to some books. I have nothing to do recently, so I just want to read some books." Huo Anni said.

"I have a lot of books here. If you want to read them, you can find them yourself." Mu Qiong pointed to the bookshelf next to him.

On his bookshelf, there are many novels that he thinks are worth reading, including the newly printed "I'm in a Hundred Years Later" and "Contagion".

Huo Anni hadn't read these two books, but after reading "The Changing Story" this morning, she already remembered the name Tianxing.

She didn't even think about it, so she took "I'm in a Hundred Years Later" and watched it, and after watching it, she was fascinated.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Mu Qiong packed up his things and called Huo Anni again: "Annie, it's time to have dinner."

"Oh..." Huo Anni responded, but she was reluctant to put down the book in her hand.

"Let's see later." Mu Qiong said.

"I'm reading as I walk." Huo Anni said, "This book is really beautiful!"

"It's really good." Mu Qiong laughed.

"How can you just say it's good! Brother Mu, I think you can learn from him and write some novels like this!" Huo Anni looked at Mu Qiong seriously.Although Mu Qiong's novels are good-looking, they are not as novel as Tianxing's, and books like "Seeking a Doctor" make people uncomfortable, but she actually doesn't like them.

Mu Qiong: "..."

The author has something to say:

A few years later, Song Mingli learned that Zhu Shi'an was also Mu Qiong's pen name, and he vomited three liters of blood.

Not long after, he learned that Tianxing was also Mu Qiong's pen name, and he vomited three liters of blood again.