Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

Mu Qiong is not in good health. He didn't even eat fried food very much before, and he didn't even drink alcohol.

And he has no interest in wine, and he doesn't like the smell.

"Our store's business is very good today, it's worth celebrating, come! Everyone, drink some!" Boss Chen stood up, took the pot of rice wine and poured it for others.

"I don't know how to drink..." Mu Qiong said hastily, his body is still developing, drinking is not good!

"This is rice wine, it doesn't matter if you drink it, you won't get drunk." Boss Chen said, poured a bowl for Mu Qiong, and then poured another bowl for each of the others.

This rice wine was warmed on the stove, it was still hot, the wine was not very clear, but it looked clean.

Mu Qiong took a sip and felt that the wine was slightly sweet, but it had a strange smell... well, it can't be called a strange taste, but he didn't like it.

"Xiao Mu, how does this wine taste?" Boss Chen asked.

"It's not good." Mu Qiong told the truth.

"Sure enough, I'm still a child, but I don't think the wine tastes good..." Boss Chen glanced at Mu Qiong, picked up his own bowl, took a sip of the wine, and then showed an expression of enjoyment.

At first glance, Boss Chen is someone who likes to drink. As for the others...

The cook was also happy to drink: "Their rice wine tastes good, but if you want to drink, rice wine tastes the best."

Xiao Wang didn't speak, but ate meat and drank alcohol.

And the two new helpers... One of them had a good chat with the cook and thought the rice wine was delicious. As for Li Guangming, like Mu Qiong, he had never drank much before, but he drank very seriously. Try to fit in.

That is to say, the aunt who helped wash the dishes and vegetables in the kitchen didn't touch the wine in the bowl much, and just ate with vegetables, and took a bite to look at Boss Chen.

Wine is a precious thing these days, it's not good to waste it... Mu Qiong drank the rice wine in the bowl in one gulp.

"Xiao Mu is happy enough, we want to be like the Taihu brothers in the Dazhong newspaper, drink in big bowls and eat meat in big pieces." Boss Chen was very excited and wanted to pour wine for Mu Qiong again.

"Boss, I'm going to serve rice." Mu Qiong ran away with the bowl in hand.

Ordering in this restaurant goes to the back kitchen, as does serving food.

There are several earthen stoves built in the kitchen, all with large iron pots, and rice is being cooked in one of the iron pots. Mu Qiong filled a bowl full, and after going out, he picked up a piece of boiled chicken, dipped it in soy sauce, and ate it. Then I tried other dishes.

He ate very seriously, but the others were eating and talking about the novels that Mu Qiong had told them these days. Even the aunt who was in charge of washing the dishes listened very carefully while eating meat.

After eating a bowl of rice, Mu Qiong went to serve another bowl silently.

At the same time, I also feel that...it is very reliable for me to make money by writing novels.

Mu Qiong ate three bowls of rice with the vegetables, feeling his stomach full of satisfaction, but Boss Chen and the others were drinking while eating the vegetables... They were very good, and finally drank all the wine in the copper jug.

At this time, there was nothing left on the table.

Mu Qiong didn't finish the dish, he was very restrained, he only ate one-sixth of each dish, and they finished the dish with the wine themselves.

By this time, Boss Chen was already blushing from alcohol, and he even got into an argument with the cook because of a character in the novel.

The two were spitting all over the place, but Xiao Wang remembered the meal, went to fill a bowl of rice, then poured the soup with dried plums and vegetables into the bowl, mixed it and ate it.

Seeing this, Li Guangming and the others hurried to serve the meal.

When Boss Chen and the cook came back to their senses, there was no soup left on the table.

"Oh, the food is gone... I won't eat today." The cook patted his stomach and said, he drank the most from the pot of wine before, and now his stomach is already full.

The cook was quite open-minded. Boss Chen stared at the dishes for a while, and suddenly said, "You people are so heartless that you don't even know how to save some food for me."

Mu Qiong was taken aback for a moment, and the others were also taken aback by Boss Chen's sudden words.

Then, they saw Boss Chen choked up suddenly: "This man has no conscience!"

Normally, Boss Chen would never say such a thing. Mu Qiong thought that he was probably drunk...and he was right, because right after, Boss Chen wiped his eyes: "His mother He died early, I worked so hard to bring him up, send him to school, feed him what I can't bear to eat, and give him what I can't bear to wear, he is fine, he will run outside when he grows up, and never come back!"

"Let me tell you, if you have a child, you must not let your child go to study abroad. No, don't let him read. Once he reads, he will look down on you!"

"It's so far away, and it will take several months to travel by boat. I'm afraid he won't even know I'm dead!"

"I gave birth to a son and went out, as if I had given birth to nothing."

"I'm just such a son..."

"Actually, my son is quite good. When he was studying in a church school, the foreigners in the school praised him."

"His foreign language is better than Xiao Mu's."

"Why can't he be like Xiao Mu, obediently staying in the concession..."

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Boss Chen kept talking, scolding his son for being heartless, and saying how good his son was.

His skin was already dark, but it became very, very red after drinking alcohol, and he looked a little strange at the moment.

In fact, besides Boss Chen, the cooks Xiao Wang and Li Guangming were also drunk, but they were not very drunk, and they were still sober.

"He's drunk, alas!" said the cook.

As soon as he finished speaking, Boss Chen got down on the ground.

Seeing this, Mu Qiong was a little helpless: "Where is Boss Chen's house? Are we going to send him back?"

"His home is not far from here, Xiao Mu, do me a favor and send him back with me," the cook said.

Mu Qiong did not refuse.

The shop closed very early today. Although it took a long time to eat this meal, it was only around [-]:[-] pm. He had time to send Boss Chen back first, and then catch the car.

Boss Chen was completely unconscious and couldn't walk by himself at all. The cook went up to help him, but he also staggered...

Mu Qiong, who really wants to help Boss Chen with the cook: "..."

Although he has gained some weight these days, it is impossible for people to gain weight in a short period of time. He is actually still a thin bamboo pole, estimated to be only eighty or ninety catties. Boss Chen is different, at least he weighs 160 catties.

He alone... really can't help Boss Chen.

The cook smiled awkwardly, and called Xiao Wang and Mu Qiong to support Boss Chen together.

The cook staggered ahead, Mu Qiong and Xiao Wang supported Boss Chen and followed behind, the three walked in from an alley, and finally arrived at the place where Boss Chen lived.

Mu Qiong was worried that he would not be able to enter Boss Chen's house, when the cook came forward and knocked on the door, and then an old man came to open the door, and the old man in a mandarin jacket asked in Cantonese: "What's wrong?"

"This is Boss Chen's second uncle. He has no children and lives with Boss Chen." The cook explained, "He doesn't speak Shanghainese."

The old man can't speak Shanghai dialect, and he can't understand it very well, but when he smells the alcohol on Boss Chen's body, he knows what's going on: "He's drunk! Send him to the back!"

Boss Chen's house is not as big as Yao's house. Of course, his house should be more valuable, after all, this house is located in the foreign concession.

Entering through the gate, there is a big room with an Eight Immortals table. It should be a place for eating. If you go further in, you can see the kitchen and a small yard with a size of only six or seven square meters.

Perhaps it cannot be said that it is a yard, it is just a patio for lighting, and behind the patio, there are two rooms on the left and right, and each room has two floors.

Boss Chen lives on the second floor.

The stairs going upstairs are made of wood, narrow and steep. It took Mu Qiong and Xiao Wang a lot of effort to get Boss Chen upstairs.

The floor on the second floor is also made of wood, giving people a feeling of not being very solid... Mu Qiong felt that such an old house was a bit unreliable, but Xiao Wang was full of envy: "Boss Chen's house is really grand, the house is really big, and it is still passable." Power on!"

Mu Qiong felt that this house was not bad after being told so, it had everything it should have, and it was still a villa.

Mu Qiong looked around, and as soon as he looked... he found that there was a large bookshelf in Boss Chen's room, with many books on it.

He was taken aback for a moment, but soon realized that these should be the books of Boss Chen's son.

Although Boss Chen complained a lot about his son, he obviously valued his son very much. If not, he would not have bought so many books for his son and sent him to study abroad.

After putting Boss Chen on the bed, Boss Chen's second uncle took over the job of taking care of Boss Chen, and Mu Qiong and the others took advantage of the opportunity to leave.

Coming out of Boss Chen's house, Mu Qiong ran for a while until he reached the tram stop. While running, he had to hold the two silver dollars in his pocket tightly.

If he didn't do this, the silver dollars would make a knocking sound in his pocket, and if he met someone with bad intentions, he might be robbed.

Before the last tram came, the boy who always took the tram with him was already there, eating roasted sweet potatoes under the dim street lights of the tram station.

Mu Qiong can't actually see what he is eating, but the taste of roasted sweet potatoes is really delicious...

Fortunately, he has no shortage of food these days, and he ate a good dinner today, so Sui feels delicious, but not greedy.

In fact, even if he was hungry, he would not sell roasted sweet potatoes... Sweet potatoes are very cheap, and you can buy a lot of them for a copper dollar, but when you buy roasted sweet potatoes in the concession, you can only buy one for a copper dollar.

People who don't have spare money will not buy these at all.

Mu Qiong held the two silver dollars in his pocket, thinking about buying a pen tomorrow and writing something.

He has already figured out what to write for his first story.