Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

This matter is indeed not small, not only a fire occurred, but also people died.

Of course, the most important thing is not these, but this fire, which even burned down the factory that produced Xilin!

This news has already been known to the workers in the factory. At this moment, the faces of these workers are all ugly.

They felt sorry for Huo Ying sincerely.

"If we moved faster, wouldn't we be able to put out the fire sooner?"

"We should have saved more water."

"Because I was afraid of the fire, I didn't pour the water where it should be poured. I really shouldn't."

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Most of the workers in Huoying's factory are peasants who have lost their land—the more disaster-stricken a place is, the more landlords take advantage of this opportunity to annex land.

Since ancient times, farmers will not end well if they lose their land. Huo Ying gave these people a job, and it can even be said that they saved their whole family. They are naturally grateful to Huo Ying, and there are even many people at the moment Wipe away the tears.

Seeing all this, Huo Ying felt quite complicated. He was actually using these people to make money for himself, but these people were sincere to him.

Huo Ying suddenly realized why Mu Qiong liked to help others.

Such gratitude is really nice.

Huo Ying immediately called the steward, and asked the steward to appease these people, and then asked the workers involved in the firefighting to pay a large amount of shock fee to each of them.

After making such a decision, Huo Ying said loudly: "Although Xilin is gone, thanks to everyone, my factory did not catch fire! The factory will resume normal operation in the future, so don't worry!"

It's such a time, Huo Ershao still misses us, he is so kind!These workers are more grateful.

Although Huo Ying looked very distressed on the surface, he didn't feel it at all in his heart. After all, he knew very well that his actual loss was not great.

On the contrary, the delegation that came over today, as well as Yue Chaoying and others, were really distressed, and even patrolled the ruins.

And the more they looked, the more they believed that this was the place where Xilin was produced.

Among other things, the well-built pools should be used to hold the culture fluid.

Some people have already taken out their notebooks and pens and began to draw according to them—bringing these things back to their country may allow scientists in their country to quickly study the mass production method of Xilin.

Huo Ying wanted to stop him, but after thinking about it, he gave up. Instead, he put on a show and asked his subordinates to draw these figures in the same way.

After explaining everything to be explained, Huo Ying made an excuse to tidy up his appearance and walked to his residence.

The steward who set the fire quickly followed.

"What happened before?" Huo Ying asked.

"Second Young Master, it's like this..." The man immediately told the whole story.

Huo Yingdao: "It turned out that Mu Qiong came up with the idea! He has so many evil ideas!" He said that his subordinate did not have such abilities...

The man said: "Young Master Mu is quite powerful, if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have been able to find those spies!"

Huo Ying heard the man talk about spies, and immediately asked: "Did you burn all those spies to death?"

"No, I just pushed in the spies sent by other warlords, and I'm still shutting down those Japanese spies." The manager said, the spies sent by other warlords wanted Xilin, and it was no good It was impossible for the interrogator to let go, so he killed the person directly, but those Japanese spies... Thinking of the power of the Japanese spies, he didn't dare to make his own decisions.

"You're very smart! You made a lot of noise in catching spies before, and you can't hide it. These spies have to be handed over..."

"What does Er Shao mean?"

"When the police come, you hand over those spies and blame the Japanese for everything!" Huo Ying said.

The manager responded immediately.

The two had to talk about the increase in the number of people in the fire scene...

Huo Ying said: "Those Japanese spies must have come for Xilin, I guess you didn't catch them all, and the rest ran into the house, but they are also unlucky..."

This is indeed possible, the person in charge nodded repeatedly.

After Huo Ying confessed, he sent him away, and asked someone to fetch water for himself—he wanted to wash his face and change his clothes.

As a result, as soon as the water he asked for was served, someone came in, and the man said: "Second young master, there are people outside asking to see you!"

"Who is it?" Huo Ying asked.

"It's Ke Lao Si." The man said.

Huo Ying, the fourth brother Ke, has an impression, he is a very capable person under his command, and the fourth fourth Ke Ke's greatest ability is that he can recognize people, but he can remember everything he has seen.

Now that Ke Laosi is looking for him, there must be something wrong, Huo Ying immediately called Ke Laosi in.

Then I heard Ke Lao Si say: "Second young master! Among the corpses dragged out of the fire, the one that was not burned is Gao Shengxi!"

Huo Ying: "..."

Huo Ying immediately asked Ke Laosi to ruin Gao Shengxi's face, and then felt a little helpless.

Gao Shengxi has been lurking in Shanghai for a long time, Jiang Fengming, a local snake, can't do anything about him, but he didn't expect to be burned to death like this now...

It's really funny.

Huo Ying wrung out the towel and wiped his face, then changed into thick clothes before going out.

The people in the patrol room are always the last to come if they have something to do, but today they came very quickly. When Huo Ying went out, Jiang Fengming had already brought people to check the scene.

At the same time, the people under Huo Ying also came out with the captured Japanese spies, saying that they were captured before the fire, but after the fire broke out, everyone was busy fighting the fire, so they forgot about them... …

This night, many people in Huo Ying's factory stayed up all night.

Of course, Mu Qiong and others were not included.

After the people from the patrol room came, Mu Qiong advised Yue Chaoying to go to rest early, after all, Yue Chaoying was not in good health.

Yue Chaoying was very concerned about Xilin. When Mu Qiong first persuaded him, he was worried that he would disagree, but he was wrong...Yue Chaoying did not object at all: "Then I will go home." Xilin is gone. , he was really uncomfortable, but the matter was already like this, the fact had already been done, so he didn't worry about it anymore.

"Teacher, it's getting late. Why don't you take a rest here when you go home?" Mu Qiong said.

Yue Chaoying said: "Everyone here is busy, so don't bother them."

"Mr. Yue, don't bother, there is a guest room here, and you can live directly." Fu Yun'an came in from the outside and said with a smile.

It is impossible for him not to know that such a big thing happened here, so he came here in a hurry.

Fu Yun'an said so, but Yue Chaoying didn't refuse, after all, going home in the middle of the night was indeed very frustrating, even dangerous.

Seeing that Yue Chaoying agreed, Fu Yun'an immediately arranged for Yue Chaoying to live, and also asked him to serve food.

"We didn't finish eating before, just reheat it for us." Yue Chaoying said immediately after hearing the words.

Fu Yun'an smiled and agreed, but apart from the meat dishes, several vegetarian dishes were re-fried.

After they ate together, Fu Yun'an sent Yue Chaoying and Han Zhen to the guest room, and then went to his room with Mu Qiong.

This afternoon, people from the British and French delegation came to Huo Ying so suddenly that Huo Ying didn't have time to tell the people below to inform him, and because the people under Huo Ying didn't know the people in the delegation, and they didn't think of asking Tell him, so he didn't come in a hurry until there was a fire here.

Fortunately nothing happened.

Of course, there are still many things to deal with in the future...

Fu Yun'an asked Mu Qiong to stay and rest, but he left.

Mu Qiong knew that he couldn't get involved in this matter, so he didn't think too much about it, and just took a copy of "Spring and Autumn" from the shelf to read.

Recently, he has been recharging himself.

In modern times, he read "Guwen Guanzhi" at most, and he didn't read books like "Spring and Autumn". On the one hand, he couldn't understand it, and on the other hand, he was not interested.

But after coming to this era, he started to read these books, and he also read some other history books.

Looking at it, Mu Qiong realized that his former self did not study too much.

If nothing else, just talk about history... In modern times, when he read some historical stories in vernacular Chinese, some of them were actually wrong.

At least traitors and loyal ministers, the evaluation of later generations may not be correct.

Moreover, the more you read history books, the more you will find that it is not easy to govern a country, and such things as doing bad things with good intentions will appear in history from time to time.

And in this era, there are many people who do bad things with good intentions, so he should be a warning.

After Mu Qiong read the book for a while, Fu Yun'an came back with a very relaxed expression.

"Are you okay?" Mu Qiong asked.

Fu Yun'an nodded, and said with a smile, "It's all right." The Japanese spies caught by them were genuine. People in Britain and France now firmly believe that it was the Japanese who set the fire.

Seeing that Huo Ying was about to let go, the factory that produced Xilin was suddenly blown up and the workers were burned to death... Although Huo Ying might still have the production method of Xilin in his hands, Huo Ying insisted that there was nothing. They can't help it either.

People in Britain and France are very angry, but at this moment, they are still fighting, and none of them want to fight.

At this time, they will not do anything to China, nor will they do anything to the Japanese.

These people only returned disappointed, but Japan needs to be on guard.

"In a few days, my second brother will be 'attacked' by the Japanese, and then he will go back to Shanxi for safety." Fu Yun'an said: "In the future, Xilin produced in Shanxi will be sold privately."

Before, because they did not dare to confront Britain and France, when they sold Xilin to Britain and France, the price was actually not high.

But in the future, if they sell it secretly in private, they can set a high price.

Seeing that Fu Yun'an was happy, Mu Qiong kissed him, feeling better, and then asked: "Yun'an, the war in the West will probably end soon, and the distribution of benefits will be carried out at that time... If you take Xilin out at that time , may be able to win some benefits for this country."

Britain, France, and the United States, sooner or later these countries will be able to research cilin, and cilin will be worthless by then, so it is better to make good use of cilin before then.

"Then take it out." Fu Yun'an said, "I've thought about this before." He once asked Mu Qiong if he could take out Xilin in exchange for something, and he had similar considerations at that time.

Of course, when he did this, he didn't have the great thought of serving the country and the people, he just wanted a good reputation.

He and Mu Qiong have decided to be together, and the two of them will live a lifetime. In a short time, this matter must be concealed, but after a long time, people will always find out...

He didn't want them to be infamous in future history books.

Mu Qiong looked at Fu Yun'an and laughed, then threw him down directly.

Fu Yun'an: "..." It's very late today, and he's quite tired, so he doesn't want it!

His little lover is good in every way, except for one thing - she has too much physical strength.

He thought he was in good health, but he still couldn't keep up.

In the next few days, Mu Qiong didn't pay attention to Huo Ying's affairs, he was busy with Yue Chaoying's going abroad.

Yue Chaoying sold his house for an extremely high price.

When Mu Qiong helped to deal with these matters, he realized that buying a house these days is really not an easy task, not only there are many procedures, but also a lot of taxes to pay.

Not only that, at this time people in Shanghai bought a house and didn't sell it!

Many people moved away due to years of turmoil in Beijing, and some former aristocrats fell down and had to sell their houses in the end. Therefore, many people can buy houses in Beijing, but in Shanghai, few people sell houses. It will be bought by powerful people immediately, and then these rich and powerful will not sell it. The rent is really not low these days, and it is still rising every year. Everyone keeps the house to collect rent.

No wonder that during the period of the Republic of China, many well-known literati could only rent houses to live in Shanghai, and even some people could not rent a good house and had to rent pavilions.

It was so easy for him to buy a house before, and it really all depended on Fu Yun'an... Mu Qiong touched his nose, and sent Yue Chaoying and Han Zhen to the ship ten days after the fire broke out.

At this time, there are several ways to go to Europe. The fastest way is to go to Russia to take the railway, but Russia is in chaos at the moment, and no one will do it, so the only choice is to take a long-term boat.

Yue Chaoying's team became mighty after Huo Ying packed a lot of people, and this undoubtedly reassured Mu Qiong a lot.

Another thing that made Mu Qiong feel relieved was that the two representatives of Britain and France who came to negotiate with Huo Ying and wanted to get the production method of Xilin from Huo Ying, took the same ride with Yue Chaoying. A boat goes back.

These two people also brought a lot of people with them. In the end, there were many bodyguards on board, and Yue Chaoying was safer.

Not long after Mu Qiong sent Yue Chaoying away, something happened in Shanghai - Huo Ying was attacked!

Huo Ying was attacked, and his subordinates revealed that it was done by the Japanese... In addition, it has been spread before that the Japanese snatched Xilin and burned Huo Ying's factory that produced Xilin... …

People in Shanghai hated the Japanese even more for a while.

As for Huo Ying, he took this opportunity to leave Shanghai in a hurry with his mother on the grounds that he was worried that something might happen to him.

Before leaving, Huo Ying persuaded Fu Yunan to leave together, but Fu Yunan refused.

Here in Shanghai, it's better to have someone watching.

Huo Ying took Fan Zhenzhu away, which made Fu Yun'an a lot easier, and he even happily started preparing for the New Year.

Mu Qiong felt that there was something wrong with him being idle: "Yun'an, have you nothing to do recently?"

Fu Yun'an said: "I have trained some manpower for myself." It is impossible for him to do everything by himself. In fact, he has already started to train manpower.

It's just that it's not easy to do and it takes a lot of time, so he just finished it recently.

Seeing him like this, Mu Qiong was a little envious.

In fact, he has also trained people to take over the work in his hands. Now the monthly education magazine of the orphanage school does not need him to read, but if he wants to write novels, he can't take it easy...

Fortunately, he has finished writing "The Story of Changing Sons", and as for "The Secret Agent", he is already finishing it.

The story of "Change of Sons" is actually a history of the rise and fall of a wealthy family.

In the back of the story, the two children who were swapped out finally returned to their respective families, but the rich family who once made a fortune from weaving and dyeing cloth, but because a large amount of cheap foreign cloth was dumped into their country, the shop had problems and eventually went bankrupt.

The two young people who were once misplaced finally parted ways. Everyone in the story has their own end.

Mu Qiong wrote this story mainly for education, and he wrote all the different influences of old and new education in it.

For example, people who study in new schools and those who have been studying in private schools have completely different performances.

In addition, there are also things written in it, such as parents treating their children as personal property.

After watching it, some people began to reflect on their own education for their children, but some people just watched the excitement, and they were entangled that the male protagonist was not married...

Mu Qiong finished writing "The Story of Changing Sons" ahead of time, and it will take some time until it is published, but the book "Secret Agents" is different.

After Mu Qiong finished writing this book, Fu Yun'an immediately added an issue to Hope Monthly, and then published it directly.

The ending of the book "Secret Agent" is that Japan occupied Shandong.

And Gao Shengxi, when he reported to people in his own country, said that this is just the beginning.

This issue of Hope Monthly is selling better than the previous ones!

Before, many people borrowed other people's books to read, but now that the ending is out, they have to buy a copy.

"This is just the beginning... Mr. Tianxing's meaning..." Someone gasped.

"I also feel that this is just the beginning. Aren't those Japanese rampant in Shanghai now?"

"What they want may not be limited to Shandong."

"Japan is really ambitious!"

There was a lot of discussion among the people, and their opinions on the Japanese became even greater. Even those who thought that the Japanese were no different from the Manchus, and that it would be nice for them to occupy China, became dissatisfied with the Japanese.

This situation is also known to the Japanese side.

But right now, they don't care about that.

Japan has been trying to contact Goldman Sachs.

People in Britain and France felt that it was the Japanese who set fire to Huo Ying's factory, and so did the Japanese side.

The Japanese people in Shanghai were very happy when they first got the news, and felt that Gao Shengxi was really amazing!

But as time went by, they couldn't get in touch with Gao Shengxi, so they became a little anxious.

Not to mention people from Britain and France, they also began to be rude to them, and even made them have to send troops to Europe.

The Japanese side was busy negotiating with Britain and France, and was busy looking for Gao Shengxi, so they didn't have time to pay attention to this luck for a while.

There are many things that make people angry when they come out for the first time, but people don’t feel it the second time and the third time. The Japanese side is a bit like this now.

First "Contagion" and then "Spy", they calmed down.

Even if these Chinese people realize something, what does it matter?They don't care about this country at all!

Japan has been unable to find Gao Shengxi. Some people suspect that Gao Shengxi absconded after getting the things, but some people suspect that Gao Shengxi may have been killed!

A traitor appeared in their team. First, Gao Shengxi's identity was leaked, then Yue Hongwei and others had an accident, and now Gao Shengxi is also missing...

It must have been done by a mole in their ranks!

These people are more careful to find the traitor.

At this time, the time has already entered 18 years, and Mu Qiong also ushered in another birthday of his own.

The last birthday was met with a thrilling ambush, this time Mu Qiong didn't bother, and just spent it at home.

It's also good to have something to eat with the family.

Of course, in order to be more lively, Mu Qiong still invited some friends, such as Wei Ting, Sheng Chaohui, Fang Tianjian, and even Gu Shipei.

In her previous life, the divorce between Gu Shipei and Yue Hongwei was praised in later generations, but in this era, she was criticized and even called a slut and whore to her face. Even her parents were not willing to accept it. forgive her.

But today, things are very different.

After Yue Hongwei's accident, Yue Chaoying visited Gu Shipei's parents in person and told the whole story.

Knowing Yue Hongwei's true identity, Gu Shipei's parents felt sorry for their daughter. Even if they disapproved of Gu Shipei's teaching outside, they didn't stop her because they felt that Gu Shipei was too pitiful.

At the same time, because Yue Hongwei was shot, Gu Shipei didn't need to get a divorce, and he was single again. Yue Chaoying also gave her her dowry and all of Yue Hongwei's property!

In the original history, Gu Shipei left the household for divorce and could not return to her mother's house. Life was miserable, but now... Gu Shipei suddenly became a rich woman.

Mu Qiong was worried that she would be dazzled by love and find a married man, but after chatting with her, she realized that she was worrying too much.

Gu Shipei is rich and has a job, and he still has friends like Huo Anni, and he has read his books. Now his eyes are very high, and ordinary men must not look up to him.

That's pretty good too...

That night, the guests were divided into two tables, one for men and one for women.

The meals at the two tables were very rich, and there were some more exotic dishes - Mu Qiong asked Huo Ying to make some Russian dishes for the Russian couple who gave him and Fu Yun'an.

They made barbecue, and made an improved version of borscht with tomatoes... Of course, there is no translated name for borscht at the moment, and Fu Yunan directly calls this soup tomato soup.

Because it's sweet and sour, he quite likes it.

It's winter, and tomatoes are not easy to handle. In fact, they only ate them once before, and this is the second time.

Everyone ate and chatted, feeling sorry for Xilin.

Sheng Chaohui even said: "Before I learned that Xilin can cure syphilis, some of my friends spent all day sleeping in willows. I didn't expect that Xilin is gone now...they are cultivating themselves at home these days."

"It's better not to make friends with you!" Wei Ting said sternly.

Sheng Chaohui: "..." I should have known I would not have said this!

"Look at you, you are not young anymore, you hang out all day and you don't get married..." Wei Ting said again.

After Sheng Chaohui was tormented by Sheng's father, he was determined not to touch opium, but he was still a bit foolish. His personality was such that he couldn't change it.

"Mu Qiong is not married, and the third young master is not married either!" Wei Ting talked Sheng Chaohui for a long time, and couldn't help crying.

"They don't get married because they are busy with their careers, can they be the same as you?" Wei Ting said without thinking.

Sheng Chaohui: "..." In fact, he is also busy with his career... Now he is in charge of the monthly education magazine!

"And Mu Qiong, who doesn't smoke or drink, likes girls the most. As long as he nods, there will be a lot of girls waiting for him to choose!" Wei Ting said again, Mu Qiong's current conditions are really very good , of course, he is not very old, and he is not in a hurry to get married.

Sheng Chaohui had to admit this, and was a little depressed.

"Let me tell you, men still want to get married. Once they get married, it's settled..." Wei Ting probably drank some wine and got a little drunk, but he started talking about marriage endlessly.

Sheng Chaohui really wanted to say that you weren't married either, but thinking of Wei Ting's death of three wives, he still didn't say anything.

As for Fu Yun'an...he didn't want to hear these words at all, until Mu Qiong sneaked into his ear and said, "I'm actually married."

He was immediately happy, but also a little depressed.

The matter between him and Mu Qiong cannot be known.

Fu Yun'an was worried that the matter between himself and Mu Qiong should not be known to others, but he didn't expect that the next day, Mu Qiong would have an affair with another man and it would be published in the newspaper together.

That person is Huo Ying.

The newspaper swears that Mu Qiong and Huo Ying are having an affair.

Fu Yun'an: "..." Why didn't you mention him?