Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

Two days before the sale of the new Hope Monthly, Mu Qiong recruited students again.

In a modern school, there are often thousands of students in a school, and a university is even more remarkable. Because of the large number of students, a university can even drive the development of the surrounding economy.

But at this time, the schools are very small and there are very few students. An elementary school with a few rooms, a few teachers, and hundreds of students is no longer small. In a remote place, one teacher can run an elementary school!

However, Mu Qiong's three schools recruited a lot of students.

Men's Vocational and Technical School finally recruited 1000 students and divided them into 1000 classes. Women's Vocational and Technical School also recruited 600 students. Enlightenment Primary School recruited less, but also recruited [-] students.

The scale of this kind of school can be called huge, and the money is naturally spent like water... Fortunately, with Huo Ying's support, many things can be purchased at low prices, and Mu Qiong can afford it.

For example, school textbooks are very expensive to buy outside, but the publishing house under Huo Ying's own printing is much cheaper. There is also food, which Huo Ying's fleet bought for them from other places , much cheaper than outside.

Of course, Mu Qiong is also trying to save money, such as letting students grow vegetables and potatoes in the school's open space.

The later founding leaders of their country farmed their own land during the revolution, and these children under his hands can naturally do the same.

This can also promote potatoes.

In the rural area of ​​Shanghai, there are very few people growing potatoes at the moment, but in Mu Qiong's view, potatoes are really a very good crop with a high yield.

Even if the good land is reluctant to use it for planting, it is also possible to plant a little in front of the house, and it can be used as a vegetable and a meal. How good is it?

Mu Qiong has high requirements for the students in the school, especially those students in technical schools who are free of tuition. They have to get up at five o'clock in the morning and go to class at six o'clock. I study Chinese for an hour and mathematics for an hour, and then learn technology after I finish my studies. I have to do work in the afternoon, and I have to take ideological education classes in the evening... At the end of the day, there is no free time.

But among these people, very few complained.The few who complained were originally from a good family and their parents loved them very much. For such people, Mu Qiong let them go home directly.

The positioning of his school is very clear, it is used to help those low-level people who need help.

The first batch of students have been in school for almost two months. Although the school food is the same, usually the staple food with some salted fish and vegetables, but because they are full and the food is oily, they are all a little fatter.

After the unblocking of the technical school and the official start of classes, a series of regulations were issued, including holiday arrangements-these two schools have a holiday every two weeks, and each holiday has a day and a half.

I hope that the day when the monthly report goes on sale happens to be a holiday.

Although it was going to be a holiday, the school still took care of the noon meal. After eleven o'clock in the morning, the woman hired by the school to cook came with the meal.

They ate rice, and each person was given a two-finger-wide piece of salted fish, two pieces of braised tofu, and a bowl of soup made with pickled vegetables and Mao Maocai.

The vegetable seedlings that have just sprouted are collectively referred to as Mao Maocai here.When planting, the seeds are generally scattered more, and may not be so uniform, and the vegetable seedlings in some places will be crowded together. At this time, the excess vegetable seedlings need to be pulled out.

Their school evened out the excess vegetable seedlings in the field to make soup.

After the school students got their meals, almost everyone put the salted fish aside, and then ate with soup and dried tofu.

Salted fish is very cheap, but ordinary farmers don’t buy vegetables, they just eat vegetables grown in their own fields. Although the local rivers can catch fish, most people can’t catch fish without tools. Naturally, they can’t eat fish every day. Fish is only eaten during Chinese New Year.

They want to take the salted fish home to eat.

While the students were eating, the teacher came with eggs.

Huo Anni entered her class with ten eggs.

The girls in her class had already eaten their meals clean. The bowl hadn't been washed, but it looked as clean as it had been washed. Seeing her, everyone fell silent.

Huo Anni said: "You have finished half a month of study. In this half month, some people have performed very well and can be rewarded..."

She named ten names, and gave each one an egg.

The ten girls with cropped heads were pleasantly surprised.

What they didn't know before was that if they behaved well, they could still get eggs!

Although many families in rural areas can raise chickens, the oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar are all exchanged for eggs, and they have to save money for the boys in the family to marry wives and build houses... Even the boys in the family don’t need to eat an egg. Easy, let alone girls like them.

"Keep working hard, and there will be such a reward next time." Huo Anni handed out ten eggs.

The reward of a few eggs is too little in Huo Anni's opinion!

When Mu Qiong proposed it before, she also said that she could donate money and give the children more rewards. After all, although most of these children are stupid, they really work very hard.

But Muqiong refused, saying that too many rewards were given to the children, which was not conducive to sustainable development.

She can only give a few eggs.

In the end, just a few eggs made her students so happy. The children who didn't get the eggs were all very motivated... Huo Anni was quite emotional.

After eating lunch and sharing things, the school will be on holiday.

There are a few parents who come to pick up the students at the school gate, but the number is very small. Most of the students go home by themselves.

Chen Aniu from the Boys' Vocational Technical School went home by himself, and it cannot be said that he went home by himself...he went back with the villagers.

When walking out of the school, Chen Aniu was a little bit reluctant.

The days at school were the happiest he had ever been.

His father died early due to illness. Before he died, he sold the family land to see a doctor, and his mother remarried with the money from the family. He could only live with his grandparents and uncle's family.

His grandparents didn't like his mother, and they didn't even like him, and his uncle's family didn't like him who lived for free.

He usually doesn't dare to overfill his meals when he is at home. He usually doesn't see some delicious food at home, and even if he does, he can't pick it up to eat.

When eating too much, his uncle would slap him directly, and if there were good dishes at home, his aunt would pierce his hand with chopsticks.

He always wanted to leave that home, thinking that when he was older, he would go to the city to work.

Because of this, when many people in his village were still hesitating about the recruitment of technical schools, he rushed to sign up.

He felt that this was the most correct decision he had ever made.

Thinking of this, Chen Aniu pulled his clothes and walked into his village with his head held high.

As soon as the group of them entered the village, they attracted many villagers to watch.

"Those little kids who went to study are back!"

"Their clothes are really nice!"

"Their hair is growing out."

"These children look like they are from the city!"

……

In such a voice, Chen Aniu raised his head even higher.

He quickly returned to his home.

"You...A Niu?" Chen A Niu's grandmother looked at the energetic young man in front of her in shock.

"Fat..." Chen Aniu's grandfather held the tobacco stick and choked out two words.

And Grandma Chen immediately said: "You read this book very well, so I can rest assured."

Chen Aniu looked at them, his eyes became hot.

Chen Aniu has always been an invisible person in this family. His grandparents, uncles and aunts would ask his cousin what he did that day and whether he was happy, but no one would ask him.

But today, everyone circled around him and asked him about the school.

"Our school is very good. It teaches a lot of things and the food is good."

"Our teacher said that we have to study for three years, and after three years, we can go to work in factories."

"When I enter the factory in the future, I will have a salary."

……

All afternoon, Chen Aniu talked back and forth, while his uncles, aunts and cousins ​​also listened carefully.

For the first time, his aunt even gave him a handful of fried pumpkin seeds.

Chen Aniu held the pumpkin seeds tightly, and then took out an egg from his pocket: "I did well in school, and the teacher gave me an egg."

Chen Aniu's cousins ​​were drooling: "I want to study too!"

"I also need to go!"

……

Seeing this, Chen Aniu's aunt slapped her son on the head: "You are not old enough, what's the use of shouting?"

"Auntie, cut up the egg and share it with your younger siblings." Chen Aniu handed the egg over and stopped his aunt from beating others.

His uncle and aunt were not nice to him, but he could understand them.The family has always been poor, so naturally they are not willing to support him.

Even so, they didn't starve him or drive him away, and he was grateful.

Chen Aniu's aunt immediately beamed with joy, and after a while, she brought out eggs cut into several pieces, and gave Chen Aniu the biggest one.

Chen A Niu's eyes were red again.

That night, Chen Aniu's aunt took the initiative to add food and vegetables to Chen Aniu.

Before, Chen Aniu had to eat and drink every day, but because she was too young to do much work, she naturally didn't like Chen Aniu, but now Chen Aniu only comes back two or three days a month, and she can still get paid in the future. Her attitude towards Chen A Niu naturally changed.

Chen Aniu thanked him politely, and took out the salted fish that he had hidden at noon, and gave it to his cousin.

Chen Aniu's aunt was even happier: "Aniu has really changed a lot now, he is very stylish, like a city person!" After speaking, she asked her son and daughter to learn more.

Seeing this, Chen Aniu realized more deeply that what the teacher told them, that they could change their own destiny, was true.

He wants to change his own destiny, he wants his children to become real city dwellers!

Almost all the children were warmly welcomed by their families.

There are also some girls whose parents were not very willing to let them go to school, but their parents' views have changed.

A girl in Huo Anni's class, her parents are not willing to let her go to study, but when she came home this time, her parents saw that she was dark and thin, and she became whiter and fatter, so they felt that studying was not bad. .

After knowing that she will go to work in the future, she can get four or five yuan a month, and she never mentions that she is not allowed to go to school.

Four or five yuan a month, 50 yuan a year!Married to get a bride price, who is willing to give so much?It's better to let her stay at home and work for a few more years!

Even if they want to get married in the future... Their daughter can earn so much a year, so it's easy to get married!

When the students in Muqiong School talked and ate with their families, more and more people read the article "Secret Agent".

At this time, far away in Beijing, some people want to support the restoration of the little emperor, while in Shanghai, some people of insight are uniting to oppose it. In addition, there are many miscellaneous things happening.

And these people, in their spare time, also saw "Spy".

"With this organization, if we have one..."

"We should form such a spy organization!"

"This will help us get a lot done!"

……

When these people saw "Secret Agent", they talked a lot, and even more humanely said: "If Mr. Tianxing is willing to help us, we will definitely be even more powerful!"

The others nodded one after another, but unfortunately, after nodding, everyone was helpless—no one knew who Tian Xing was.

At this time, Mr. Qi, Wei Ting's teacher, who was invited by these people, said: "Fortunately, this person has extremely high political and cultural accomplishments. He should have been abroad and his background is not simple. If it is possible, we should follow him. Get in touch."

"We all want to see him." One person said.

"Although Tianxing is mysterious, the Huo family should know about him. Huo Ying will hold a banquet tomorrow..."

These people looked at each other in blank dismay, and then someone asked how to attend the banquet, and someone said that they had received invitations at home.

They all looked forward to the banquet.

the next day.

Some of the students of Muqiong School are still at home with their families, but some of them stayed at home for half a day and then went back to school today.

During the holidays, the school doesn't care about the students' food, so they help with the work and then eat.

Mu Qiong went to school today. He planned to build an enamel factory on the open space of the school, that is, an enamel factory, and let the students work in the factory to make money. As a result, as soon as he went, he saw some students in the school put on took out their old clothes and is helping to build a house.

Seeing their high spirits, Mu Qiong thought about building some other factories in the school.

Now their country really lacks everything.

Of course, some factories cannot be built.After the end of the First World War, the big powers would dump some goods to their countries in order to make money, so that many of their local factories directly closed down...

Mu Qiong condoled these "child laborers" who took the initiative to work overtime, and saw Huo Anni coming with two female teachers: "Principal Mu, do you want to go back with me?"

"Okay." Mu Qiong agreed, he is going to attend the banquet hosted by Huo Ying tonight, so he should go back early.

"Let's go!" Huo Anni said.

A car came to pick up Huo Anni. Huo Anni and two female teachers squeezed into the back seat, while Mu Qiong sat in the passenger seat, and then the car drove them home——Huo Anni has been living At Fu Yun'an's place, go the same way as Mu Qiong.

Along the way, Huo Anni chatted with the two female teachers.One of these two is Gu Shipei, and the other is a newly recruited baby-faced female teacher.

Not to mention that Gu Shipei was a famous lady in Shanghai before she was married, she is also very knowledgeable. Huo Anni first came into contact with her because she sympathized with her, but gradually became friends with her.

As for the other girl, that girl is Tang Suting, who moved from Beijing. She has a good personality, but her family is in a difficult situation. Huo Anni always helps her and gradually gets closer to her.

At this moment, Huo Anni was talking about the banquet tonight: "Tonight's banquet held by my second brother, many people will go, and there will be a lot of delicious food..."

After listening to a few casual words, Mu Qiong knew that Huo Anni must have invited these two girls to the banquet.

Sure enough, the girl from Beijing asked about the banquet, and Huo Anni explained everything.

Mu Qiong didn't intervene in their conversation, just thinking about the content behind "The Secret Service" in his mind.

It took a lot of brainpower to write this, he wrote it a bit slowly, but he just wanted to write it out quickly...

The car soon arrived at their residence.

Recently, Mu Qiong seldom went back to his previous room. He has always lived in Fu Yunan's place, and put his clothes in Fu Yunan's place. After entering the house, he went directly upstairs.

Huo Anni lived on the other side of the house, and she also took her two friends upstairs - Fu Yun'an's house didn't look big from the outside, but inside it was different, and there were two stairs.

"Annie, Principal Mu lives with you?" Tang Suting asked in surprise.

"No, our two families are next to each other." Huo Anni said, unwilling to say more.

Seeing that she didn't want to talk, Tang Suting stopped asking.

The banquet tonight was held by Huo Ying to celebrate the sale of cheongsam. Of course, Mu Qiong felt that he held such a banquet mainly to promote his own products.

As far as he knew, although Huo Ying made a lot of money from finished cheongsams of average quality, the ones that made Huo Ying the most were high-end custom cheongsams and... bras.

For the former, Huo Ying sent the news directly to the big family in Shanghai, and then there were a large number of customers. As for the latter... When the customers came to sell it, wouldn't they just sell it?

These days, it is still not acceptable to sell bras openly, and you will be scolded to death, but in private... women who put on their breasts will always find a substitute after they don't wrap their breasts or wear a small vest, and bellybands... where? Is it useful to have a bra?

In a very short period of time, bras have become popular, and people want to buy a bra for 20 yuan and [-] yuan...

Of course, this has nothing to do with Mu Qiong.

He can buy cosmetics and other things for Zhu Wanwan, but he can't buy such things...Zhu Wanwan can scold him to death.

After Mu Qiong went upstairs, he changed into a finely crafted robe.

He usually doesn't dress very well, but he still needs to be careful when going to a banquet. Mu Qiong combed his hair again, and then put on his watch.

He was about to go downstairs when he saw Huo Ying coming too.

"Your clothes look good." Seeing Mu Qiong, Huo Ying immediately said, "But you still look better in a suit. Next time you come to my place, I'll ask my tailor to make some for you."

"No need." Mu Qiong said, "I can't wear a suit a few times a year."

"It's okay to prepare a few pieces." Huo Ying said, he felt that his sister-in-law was a bit rough, and it was fine to exercise every day to build muscles, but not to dress up... If this continues, is this still a sister-in-law?

"Then make one, don't need to do more, maybe I can still grow." Mu Qiong said.He has grown a lot in the past two years, and maybe he can be even taller.

Huo Ying, who was already a little shorter than Mu Qiong: "..."

When Huo Anni went downstairs with her two friends, she saw Huo Ying talking to Mu Qiong.

"Annie, the last two... are your friends?" Huo Ying's eyes swept over the two behind Huo Anni.

"Yes, Second Brother!" Huo Anni introduced her friend to Huo Ying, and said, "Second Brother, why are you here?"

"Come to pick you up!" Huo Ying said, "Annie, the second brother has a new batch of good fabrics, do you want to make new clothes?"

"Yes!" Huo Anni said without thinking.

"I'll have someone measure your size tomorrow." Huo Ying said, and then looked at Fu Huai'an who had been standing beside him, especially non-existent: "Little Huai'an...do you want new clothes?"

"I want it!" Fu Huai'an didn't hesitate.

Huo Ying said: "You are still young, you are still studying, dress casually, or don't do it."

Fu Huai'an: "..."

Huo Anni gave Fu Huai'an a sympathetic look, while Gu Shipei looked at Huo Ying in surprise.

Before Fu Yun'an and Fu Huai'an's identities were not exposed, there were rumors that Huo Ying killed his father's youngest son. Later, when Fu Huai'an's identity was known, everyone knew that it was a rumor.

Later, Huo Ying's publishing house published Fu Huai'an's book, and helped him sell it all over the country... Everyone felt that Huo Ying was a good brother.

I didn't expect this good brother to be like this in private.

"Hui'an is young and growing up, the clothes are a bit short, let's make some for him," Mu Qiong said.Fu Huai'an grew up rapidly in the past two years, and his clothes suddenly became short. The clothes his mother sent all the way from Shanxi were all short. He really lacked clothes.

Ever since he was with Fu Yun'an, Mu Qiong took care of Fu Huai'an more, so he had to worry about it.

Huo Ying still gave face to Mu Qiong, his sister-in-law: "All right...then let someone measure him too."

Fu Huai'an was very happy to see Huo Ying like this, and immediately said to Mu Qiong: "Thank you, Teacher Mu!"

"Thank you brother." Mu Qiong said.

Fu Huai'an pursed his lips and said nothing, and said to Mu Qiong: "Mr. Mu, I have my new manuscript there, please help me to read it!"

"Okay." Mu Qiong agreed.

Fu Huai'an said again: "Mr. Mu, have you read Mr. Tianxing's new novel? Although it's only the beginning, it's really well written! I want to write a novel like this too!"

"You can try." Mu Qiong said.

It was still early, and the two went to Fu Huai'an's room together.

Fu Huai'an's room was quite messy, especially the desk. There were a lot of miscellaneous books on it, as well as various pens, toys, snacks, and even a mirror.

He dug out some manuscript paper from it, and handed it to Mu Qiong.

Mu Qiong took the manuscript paper, and said: "Although your second brother likes to trouble you, he still treats you as his own. Don't get angry with him." According to the information he got from later generations, Fu Huai'an learned badly later. Yes, these days, Mu Qiong pays attention to his mental health.

Fortunately, Fu Huai'an has a cheerful personality, not a bad nature, and he can listen to what he says.

"I know." Fu Huai'an said: "Mr. Mu, I think my second brother is the kind of arrogant you mentioned."

Mu Qiong: "..." He told Fu Huai'an before that he should pay attention to character setting when writing a novel, but Fu Huai'an remembered it pretty well, even remembering the proud and arrogant words he mentioned...

However, Fu Huai'an might have misunderstood Huo Ying.

Whether it's Huo Ying or Fu Yun'an, their good tempers are aimed at their family members, outside... In the eyes of some people, Huo Ershao is murderous without blinking an eye.

But it's good for Fu Huai'an to think so: "You are right, he will never harm you."

"That's it!" Fu Huai'an said, he was afraid of Huo Ying at first because his mother was always worried that Huo Ying would harm him, so he couldn't help worrying.

But now after reading a lot of books and meeting a lot of people, he is no longer afraid.

Now I even think his second brother is pretty good...

If it weren't for his second brother, how could his books be sold all over the country?He is quite a famous literati now!

And as a famous person, he shouldn't haggle over every detail with his brother!

Mu Qiong didn't know Fu Huai'an's thoughts, but read Fu Huai'an's new book seriously.

Fu Huai'an didn't like to study when he was a child, but he didn't miss reading idle books and listening to dramas. In the past two years, he read more books. Not to mention the connotation of the novels he wrote, the plots of the stories are really good.

After reading the manuscript, Mu Qiong said, "Your current novel needs to be finished and revised before it can be read by others, but in a year or two, you should be able to serialize your own novel in newspapers. "

He felt that Fu Huai'an had the talent to earn money by writing novels and buying gold bars for manuscripts in Beijing every day in restaurants, if he could persevere.

Fu Huai'an was very happy, he suddenly said: "Mr. Mu, I don't want to go to college anymore."

"Why?" Mu Qiong asked.

"I don't like reading!" Fu Huai'an said confidently.Since he was a child, he has never liked reading.

Although in the past year, with the idea of ​​going to study abroad and not being inferior to his older brothers, he has worked hard to study, but he doesn't really like it. In contrast, he still likes to read and write novels.

"You don't like reading, so you don't have to. You have more choices than others, but if you don't read, what do you want to do in the future?" Mu Qiong asked.

"Write novels!" Fu Huai'an said without hesitation, "I can still be a teacher and teach children Chinese." These days, graduating from middle school is considered a high degree of education, and being a teacher is quite easy.

Mu Qiong thought for a while, and said: "It's not a problem, but your current Chinese level is actually not high... If you don't want to continue studying, you can find a Chinese teacher." At this time, many very famous literati were recruiting students Yes, and will teach them carefully. Finding such a teacher will definitely learn more than going to school.

"Mr. Mu, you accept me as a student!" Fu Huai'an said.

"I'm not good enough, how can I accept students? I still want to find a teacher myself!" Mu Qiong laughed. Although he is good at writing novels, he still has many shortcomings, and he even doesn't know some traditional characters... He has been reading all the time, and he also thought about finding a teacher for himself.

While the two were talking, Huo Ying's voice sounded from downstairs: "Are you alright?"

Huo Ying was getting impatient, Mu Qiong folded the manuscript in his hand, and said: "I will give you the revisions of this manuscript in a few days, let's go down first."

Fu Huai'an nodded immediately.

When the two went downstairs, Huo Anni and her two friends had already got into the car, Huo Ying took Fu Huai'an and Mu Qiong into another car, and drove Fu Huai'an to the passenger seat by the way, while he and Mu Qiong We sat together in the backseat and chatted about the ready-to-wear business.

"The ready-made garment business is very promising. Just send this cheongsam to other cities, and you can make a lot of money. The biggest problem now is that there are too few sewing machines." Mu Qiong said.

"Now the production of sewing machines has increased, and we can produce three sets a day, but there are too few female workers who know how to use sewing machines." Huo Ying said, the female workers in his factory are basically the family members of those male workers, but now there are not enough.

"You can come to our school to recruit female workers." Mu Qiong said.

"That's right... I can go directly to Annie to build a factory." Huo Ying thought about helping his sister.

Among other things, his sister's female students must have jobs!

The two discussed it like this.

In the car behind, Tang Suting beside Huo Anni was feeling overwhelmed.

Then Mu Qiong really has a close relationship with Huo Ying, Mu Qiong not only lives in Huo's house, Huo Ying also listens to him very much!

In addition, the relationship between Huo Ying and Fu Huai'an is not as good as it is said outside.

Tang Suting is one of the senior spies trained by Gao Shengxi. This time, she has many tasks to approach Huo Anni.

When she was gearing up for a fight, Gao Shengxi was struggling.

Huo Ying's banquet is about to begin, and his identity may have been exposed... Should he go or not?

The author has something to say:

During this period of the article, Zhang Xun supported the restoration of Puyi, the abolished emperor of the Qing Dynasty, etc., and then Mr. Sun, who was in Shanghai at that time, organized a law-protection movement... There were really many things at that time, but the Republic of China could not write about politics, and it was all empty ←←.