Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

After Mu Qiong arrived at the western restaurant this morning, he taught Li Guangming English first, just like the previous few days.

The western restaurant has not yet opened, and the employees are busy in the store, either cleaning or helping to choose dishes, and their eyes fall on Mu Qiong and Li Guangming from time to time, with envy in their eyes.

Mu Qiong has been stared at by such eyes for several days, and he is no longer used to it at first.

Speaking of which, he asked these people a few times if they wanted to study together, but none of them agreed, and they all said that they didn't even know Chinese, and they definitely couldn't learn foreign language.

Mu Qiong was quite helpless about this.

Boss Chen rarely stayed in a western restaurant today.

He has been very busy these days, running outside all day, he lost a lot of weight, but miraculously regained his energy.

He watched Mu Qiong teach Li Guangming with a smile, and after Mu Qiong finished teaching, he said to Mu Qiong: "Xiao Mu, come here."

"Uncle Chen." Mu Qiong greeted Boss Chen with a smile.

"Xiao Mu, you have been working here for a month, and this is your salary." Boss Chen said, and took out two tubes of silver dollars wrapped in paper to Mu Qiong.

"Uncle Chen, that's too much." Mu Qiong had obtained such a tube of silver dollars before, and knew that there were ten silver dollars in one tube, so there were twenty silver dollars in the two tubes.

Boss Chen had promised him a salary increase before, but even so, it wasn't as much as twenty a month.

"The renovation of my restaurant hasn't started yet, so I'm afraid I'll need you to come and have a look in the future, so this money should be regarded as your wages in advance." Boss Chen said.

Before, Mu Qiong helped the restaurant to make upholstery, and it could be done in a few days, but this time even the tables and chairs had to be replaced, so it was not so fast, and then one after another, it took a month to say the least.

"Then thank you, Uncle Chen." Mu Qiong accepted it without being pretentious.

He will be able to get the manuscript fee soon, so he should not be short of money, but with more money in hand, he can be more affluent, and he has confidence in his heart.

As for the decoration of the western restaurant, he had originally planned to come and have a look at it from time to time in the future... He actually has a deep affection for the western restaurant.

"Go upstairs and write something. I'll call you when it's time for lunch." Boss Chen said again.

Mu Qiong didn't refuse, and nodded in agreement.

Although the decoration of the western restaurant has not yet started, he has already drawn the general appearance and told Boss Chen, and all the decorative paintings hanging on the walls have been drawn. This time when we go upstairs, we only need to write own article.

Jiang Zhenguo, the protagonist in his novel, finally won the appreciation of a foreign tutor with his own efforts, and began to study knowledge desperately. It was at this time that he met the heroine.

For the novel "Study Abroad", Mu Qiong has already given [-] words to the newspaper.

Although he didn't get the manuscript fee because it hasn't been published yet, but the contract with the newspaper has been signed, basically it won't be pornographic, and he can take it to other newspapers if it is pornographic.

After Mu Qiong wrote all morning, he had written [-] words.

After revising the [-] words in the afternoon, I can copy them and send them to the newspaper office.Of course, there is no rush, after all, the newspaper already has [-] words of manuscripts.

Guessing that it was almost time, Mu Qiong went downstairs without waiting for Boss Chen to call.

It happened to be lunch time at this time, and there were many customers in the store. Mu Qiong wanted to help, but found that he was not needed at all.

Now the store is not so busy, the kitchen only needs to be watched by the cook and Xiao Wang, there are a little too many people in the waiter outside, and they are all trying their best to express themselves - Mu Qiong saw the water boiling on the coal stove, Just as I was about to take it to the kitchen, someone rushed to finish the job.

He simply went to the kitchen.

Boss Chen was roasting pork belly in the kitchen. He sliced ​​the pork belly into thin slices, brushed it with different seasonings and baked it. After a while, a plate was baked.

Seeing Mu Qiong, he greeted with a smile: "Xiao Mu, come and taste my roasted pork belly."

Mu Qiong agreed, and took a slice with chopsticks to eat.

To Muqiong, grilled pork belly tastes better than tonkatsu, and he said so.

"I also think it tastes good!" Boss Chen said: "After listening to your words, I realized that there are so many seasonings that can be used now. I thought, we can also make more pork cutlets in our shop There are two flavors... put some chili powder in the grilled pork chops, it must be delicious."

"It can be like this." Mu Qiong said with a smile. Most locals in Shanghai don't eat spicy food at this time, and the hot sauce sold here is not spicy at all, but the taste of spicy is actually easy to be accepted by people.

Boss Chen chatted with Mu Qiong for a few words, and then said: "Xiao Mu, eat something first, and then go out to replace Lao Zhang and let him eat."

Shopkeeper Zhang is currently in the store, and he is only responsible for collecting money, and Mu Qiong is also capable of this job.After he ate in the kitchen, he went out to replace shopkeeper Zhang and let shopkeeper Zhang go to the kitchen to eat.

Coincidentally, just as Mu Qiong occupied the counter for a while and collected some money, he saw Dr. Fu coming in.

Dr. Fu saw Mu Qiong standing in front of the counter and smiled: "Are you the shopkeeper?"

"No, the shopkeeper has gone to eat." Mu Qiong said, "Doctor Fu, what do you want?"

"A fried pork cutlet." Dr. Fu said.

"Doctor Fu, now the soup we serve with fried pork chops includes fish and eggs, and minced meat and mushrooms, which one do you like?" Mu Qiong asked again.

"Then give me a bowl of fish." Dr. Fu said.

Mu Qiong answered with a smile, and called out to the kitchen, and soon someone came out with what Dr. Fu asked for.

Mu Qiong continued to greet the guests, but after a while, he ran into another person he knew, the boy who always took the tram with him.

These days, Mu Qiong no longer leaves early and returns late, so he spends less time riding the tram with this young man, but we know each other after all. When Mu Qiong saw him, he smiled and greeted him.

The boy turned his head away and ignored Mu Qiong.

He came with three teenagers who were about the same size as him, and one of them said, "Yao Hong, hurry up and order!"

"We want tonkatsu each," said another.

"I heard that this restaurant has a new hamburger, so let's have a hamburger per person."

The young man named Yao Hong's expression changed slightly, and he asked Mu Qiong, "How much are three pork cutlets and four hamburgers?"

"Two pieces of fried pork chops, one piece of hamburger, a total of ten pieces of Xiaoyang." Mu Qiong said.

Only then did Yao Hong's expression soften a little, and he took out a silver dollar to Mu Qiong: "Then give me three fried pork cutlets and four hamburgers."

According to government regulations, one yuan is equal to ten cents, but because of the low silver content of silver coins, everyone generally agrees that one yuan is equal to twelve cents. Take the silver dollar you gave to Boss Chen.

He doesn't know how to distinguish the authenticity of silver dollars, so it's best to show Boss Chen the silver dollars after receiving them, especially this kind of old Yingyang.

"Yao Hong, don't you eat fried pork cutlet?" Someone asked.

"I'm not hungry today, I can't eat any more. And the fried pork cutlet in the burger is no different from the fried pork cutlet in the set meal." Yao Hong said.

"That's right." The three teenagers nodded and didn't delve into it.

Their stuff came up quickly.

Teenagers at this age had the best appetite, but judging by their attire, these three should be students from a nearby middle school, and the students' appetites were obviously not as good as those of the workers.

Two of the three teenagers who wanted both were full after eating the hamburger and the soup and vegetables that came with the tonkatsu set meal. I ate a few breads, but left the stir-fried vegetables.

Boss Chen has already finished his meal. He likes such guests the most. He looks at these young people with kind eyes.

Mu Qiong was a little emotional.

His sister can be ecstatic even to eat a bite of meat, what about these teenagers?A meal can cost ten cents.

The three teenagers left some stir-fried dishes, which were put away by the waiter as extras after they left, and Mu Qiong went to the attic again. In the afternoon, he corrected the [-] words he wrote, and then copied them. Five thousand of them.

After copying, his hands were numb.

He didn't have dinner in the store today. After putting his manuscript into the cloth bag that Zhu Wanwan sewed for him, he left with the cloth bag on his back and returned home early.

On the way home, he also spent three copper dollars to buy three meat buns to put in his arms.

The meat buns in his arms were warm, and besides that, there were two tubes of heavy silver dollars. Mu Qiong was in a good mood.

But his good mood completely disappeared when he returned to the place he rented.

There was still a distance away from the Yao family's courtyard, when he heard Zhu Wanwan's voice: "I didn't steal this money, it was given to me by my son!"

"Your son went out to work for a total of one month, and your family spends so much money, how can you save so much money?" A voice Mu Qiong had never heard said: "You didn't steal this money, and where did you get it?" here?"

Although he only heard a few words, Mu Qiong already understood the current situation, his face darkened, he pushed open the door of Yao's house and walked in.

A lot of people gathered in the yard of Yao's house, and some things in their house were piled up in a disorganized manner. As for Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu, they were standing in the middle of the yard at the moment, their faces flushed and they looked angry. .

"We didn't steal the money, so don't spit on people!" Mu Changyu had just finished saying the idiom Mu Qiong taught her yesterday, when he heard the door open, turned his head, and saw Mu Qiong in the afterglow of the setting sun.

"Brother!" Mu Changyu, who had puffed out his chest and tucked in his stomach before, clenched his fists as if he was about to go up and fight someone desperately, suddenly choked up his sobs.

"What's going on?" Mu Qiong looked at the person standing opposite Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu.

There were quite a lot of people there, and almost all the people who had gossiped about him before were there, and the one standing at the front was a wrinkled old lady with drooping eyelids and few teeth in her mouth: "You are Zhu Wanwan's son, right? It seems that you are not a good person, you don’t know what you are doing when you leave early and return late every day... You are not allowed to live in my house anymore, get out immediately."

"Why? We have paid the rent for this month... And, you give us back our money!" Mu Changyu said, looking at Mu Qiong again, and cried out with a "wow": "Brother, They framed us for stealing money and took our money away."

"Changyu, speak slowly." Mu Qiong looked at Mu Changyu.

"What kind of accusation? I lost my money. It wasn't you who stole it, but who stole it?" said the toothless old lady.

"That's right, I saw this little girl go to Mrs. Yao's house." Aunt Tian who borrowed oil before said gloatingly.

Others also chimed in.

Aunt Zhao helped Zhu Wanwan and said, "Old lady Yao, maybe you put the money somewhere else and forgot... Do you want to look for it again?"

"Where is my money, how can I not know?" Mrs. Yao glared at Aunt Zhao.

A few days ago, after Zhu Wanwan gave Aunt Zhao a hamburger, Aunt Zhao became affectionate with the Mu family again, but she didn't dare to offend the landlord. Now that Mrs. Yao was angry, she stopped talking.

Although Yao's house is so-so, it is cheap, so she doesn't want to move away.

Mu Qiong didn't care about these people at all, and only listened to Mu Changyu's explanation, only then did he know that it was the landlord, Mrs. Yao, who lost two yuan and couldn't find it no matter what, and then suspected that she went to their house.

As for the reason... Before they moved here, there had never been any loss of money, and their family has been very loose recently, buying this and that.

Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu went out to buy vegetables together this afternoon, and when they came back from shopping, Mrs. Yao had already opened their door and searched their house.

All the things they bought these days were moved to the yard, and Mrs. Yao found five yuan from Zhu Wanwan's box.

Mu Qiong took home a silver dollar on the first day of work, and Zhu Wanwan used it as her own jade pendant. At that time, their family bought some things. Later, after Mu Qiong got ten silver dollars as a reward, Zhu Wanwan kept some of them untouched. in case for need.

The result is this money, which has now been searched out and has become evidence of their theft.

Mu Qiong wanted to move out a long time ago, but because he had no money and couldn't find a suitable place for a while, he didn't move, but he couldn't think of it at all, just because he didn't move out earlier, this kind of thing happened to him.