Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

The story Mu Qiong wants to write is related to studying abroad, and it is a romance novel.

In this era, people focus on thinking when writing. After the New Culture Movement, many people feel that love and love are difficult to be elegant.

Because of this, the authors of the "Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School" novels in the Republic of China were often criticized, even though they made a lot of money and their novels were loved by countless people.

Mu Qiong does not comment on this, after all, this era is too special.But he always felt that some novels of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School were actually well written at this time.

Let’s just say that a novel of this period that was made into a TV series in later generations has a lot of feeling when you read it. It can’t let readers understand this era a hundred years later, but also let them see the resistance of many people in the book to feudal ethics. .

This is the kind of essay he intends to write.

Firstly, although this kind of novels will be criticized by others, they can always get a high remuneration, and secondly... it is because he spares his life.

In this era, many literati were persecuted for writing wrong things. Some of them fled to the foreign concessions and fled the country. After all, they were fine, but some of them died just like that.

Of course, most literati are relatively sober, scolding is what they want, but scolding around the bush, don't confront the warlords, otherwise those who have guns in their hands may do something.

Mu Qiong is also very sober, so he plans to write a romance novel.

He had already figured out the outline. At the beginning, he was a male student from an average family. In the last few years of the Qing Dynasty, he passed the Geng subsidy examination and went to study abroad at public expense.

The so-called Gengzi overseas students are students who use Gengzi indemnities to study abroad.

The "Gengzi Indemnity" was originally the indemnity paid by the Qing government to the great powers after the signing of the "Xin Chou Treaty". At that time, according to the agreement, it was necessary to compensate the great powers with 4 million taels of silver. .

And because it was paid in installments, the principal and interest added up to nearly 10 billion taels of silver!

The Qing government was simply unable to repay, and in the end it mortgaged all the tariffs, regular tariffs, and salt taxes, and let the big powers divide them up. It is precisely because of this that Chinese society has completely degraded from a feudal society to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

However, due to the lobbying of some insightful people in the United States, some countries led by the United States agreed to return part of the money, while the Qing government decided to use all the money for education, and the government of the Republic of China later did the same. Decide.

Tsinghua University was established with this money. In addition, there are many people who rely on this money to study abroad, and among these people, there are many famous people in later generations.

The male protagonist in Mu Qiong's book is a Geng student studying abroad. After he went abroad, he encountered all kinds of troubles and discrimination from foreigners. In order to make a living, he had to work several jobs outside.

His life was very difficult, but he never gave up studying, and even used all his spare time to study.

He wants to learn more knowledge and then bring that knowledge back home.

He thought so, and so did the people who went with him. At that time, they were not only studying, they were still studying, and everyone was burning themselves desperately to learn more.

His grades were very good. Gradually, he began to have friends, he began to be appreciated by his tutor, and he also met a beautiful girl.

This girl is from the same country as him, she is not only outstanding in appearance, but also knowledgeable. He fell in love with this girl irresistibly and felt that she loved him. However, just when he was about to confess, this girl disappeared up.

Later, when he returned to China and was entertained by an official, he found that the girl he loved had become the official's concubine.

It turned out that this beautiful girl was the granddaughter of a high-sighted official in the Qing government. She was fortunate to go abroad with the support of her grandfather, but then something happened in the country and she hurried back to the country, but she had to become someone else's concubine for the sake of her family... …

The love in the story is bloody, but although Mu Qiong designed such a relationship, what he mainly wants to write is the life of an overseas student.

In modern times, he has read some materials of international students in this era and the autobiographies of some famous people who have studied abroad in recent years, combined with his understanding of foreign history in this period... Although he has never been abroad, but Consciously, I can write this story well.

And he wrote this in the hope that people who study abroad during this period can think carefully, don't rush out without knowing anything, and hope that everyone can go out and have a look, and then bring something back.

This country needs all kinds of knowledge.

Mu Qiong had already thought about this story, but he didn't rush to write it. First, he didn't have time to write it. Second, he felt that he didn't have enough information.

Although he has read a lot of materials in modern times, he doesn't know as many people as he has personally experienced. What's more, there is no Internet for him to look up materials. When he crossed, he didn't bring the books in his study...

Next time I see Dr. Fu, maybe I can chat with him and ask him what foreign countries are like at this time.

After Mu Qiong returned home that day, he still taught Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu first as usual.

He taught Chinese first, and then took out the arithmetic textbook, and read the words on it to Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu.

Both Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu knew simple arithmetic. After all, they also used it for shopping, so as long as Mu Qiong told them the meaning of the words in the arithmetic book, they could learn this subject by themselves.

Of course, this is mainly because the textbooks for the first grade of elementary school are very simple.

However, no matter how simple the first-grade textbooks were at this time, they were more difficult than modern elementary school textbooks.

In modern times, elementary school is compulsory education, and we must try our best to ensure that every child can understand it, but this era is different.

After about an hour of class, they went to bed and got up early the next morning. Mu Qiong helped them review what they learned yesterday, and then Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu made breakfast together, while he read Newspapers for them.

He didn't tell Mu Changyu and Zhu Wanwan the contents of the newspaper in dialect like he did to Boss Chen and others, but read it directly in Mandarin.

The meaning of reading a hundred times is self-evident. If Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu want to learn Chinese well, they must listen more and read more. Now they can't read much because they can't read much, so they just listen first.

And so much reading can also make him more accustomed to the language habits of people at this time.

"Boy from the Mu family, why do you read the newspaper every day?" Aunt Zhao asked as she poured rice into the pot and added water.

When Mu Qiong read it at first, she thought it was very strange, but when Mu Qiong read it every day, she got used to it. Now that she is free, she just asked a question by the way.

"I just practice Chinese." Mu Qiong smiled.

"Well, it's good to practice! Oh, I wanted my child to study hard, but unfortunately he can't read!" Aunt Zhao said.

"He's pretty good now." Mu Qiong said, Aunt Zhao's son is working as an apprentice for others. Although he doesn't have much income, he can learn a lot. He will have a skill in the future, so he won't live too badly .

"That's right, he's pretty good. Anyway, I don't need to support him, and I don't ask for money." Aunt Zhao said, "If there is a booth like Yao's... Tsk tsk!"

These days Mu Qiong leaves early and returns late, so she doesn't know much about the Yao family's affairs, but she has heard some gossip.

The Yao family has fallen, but Mrs. Yao's eldest son is still studying.

Mrs. Yao is very proud of her son, and thinks that the Yao family will be able to prosper with his son, but Aunt Zhao looks down on Mrs. Yao's son, thinking that he has graduated from elementary school, and he doesn't go to work to force his mother to help him study. .

By the way, in elementary schools at this time, the first, second, and third grades are called junior primary schools, and the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades are called high primary schools. Many children born in ordinary families only study in junior primary schools, and not many can graduate from primary schools. .

Because everyone is generally late in school, and they are generally fifteen or sixteen years old after graduating from elementary school, so they can look for a job.

Mu Qiong never participated in such topics.

He only listened to Aunt Zhao's one-sided opinion, so he didn't want to judge others randomly... What's more, he also felt that reading was useful.

Mu Qiong continued to read the newspaper.

What he was reading today was a novel from the Dazhong newspaper. Mu Changyu could understand it, so she listened carefully, but she didn't delay cooking.

In Shanghai, many people eat Paofan for breakfast, and so does theirs.

When Zhu Wanwan cooks rice at night, she cooks a little more, and saves some of it as an extra meal at night, and cooks the other part in water in the morning, and it turns into porridge.

Today I ate pao rice again, served with steamed pickles and dried pickled radish.

Mu Qiong thinks that pickled food is delicious, especially with meals, especially the pickles that they often eat at home can buy a large bag of pickles, which is especially delicious with a sour taste.

But always eating pickled food is not good for your health... When he gets rich in the future, he must exchange all kinds of vegetables and fresh meat!

Mu Qiong ate a big bowl of rice with pickles and hurried out.

He went out earlier than usual today. After arriving in the concession, he didn't rush to the western restaurant, but went to the bookstore.

The bookstore sells pens, and these pens are all imported from abroad.

At this time, the country did not even have its own fountain pens, and not many people used fountain pens. Of course, after the New Culture Movement, fountain pens became popular.

Imported fountain pens are expensive, and the cheapest ones cost a silver dollar, but Mu Qiong gritted his teeth and bought one, and then bought a bottle of ink, some paper, and a few notebooks.

In this way, the reward of two silver dollars that Boss Chen gave him yesterday has already been used up.

Reading is really expensive...

Mu Qiong took these things and walked to the western restaurant. On the way, he saw several clinics. One of the clinics was very lively, full of people who came to see the doctor, and there were even people selling food inside.

This is quite powerful... Mu Qiong was thinking about this when he saw Dr. Fu coming out of a nearby clinic.

There was another skinny man in his early twenties who was wearing a long gown and followed Dr. Fu: "Doctor Fu, please give me some more medicine."

"The last time, really is the last time."

"Give me some!"

He begged incessantly, and begged for a while to no avail, and then suddenly threatened with a cold face: "My surname is Fu, if you don't give me medicine, be careful, I'll find someone to beat you to death!"

Dr. Fu still ignored him and just walked forward. The man was in a hurry, so he reached out to grab Dr. Fu.

"Doctor Fu!" Mu Qiong was looking for Dr. Fu for something, and immediately ran over when he saw this scene, and slapped the hand of the person who was trying to pull Dr. Fu's clothes.

Dr. Fu turned his head and was surprised to see Mu Qiong: "Is it you? Haven't gone to work yet?"

"Well," Mu Qiong nodded, noticing that Dr. Fu's eyes fell on the paper he was holding in his arms, he was a little embarrassed: "It's still early, so I'll buy something first."

"It's a good thing to think about studying." Dr. Fu Xiaoxiao turned his head to look at the young man with a slender face and said in a good-tempered manner: "I gave you opium to harm you. You are still young, and you still have dozens of years left." The new year is about to pass, discuss it with your family, follow the method I said, and give up opium!"

Mu Qiong had guessed it before, but now he finally confirmed it - this person who is stalking Dr. Fu is a drug addict.