Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

"Can you tell me?" Fu Yun'an asked when Mu Qiong mentioned the novel he was about to write.

Mu Qiong smiled: "I just want to discuss it with you! It will involve some medical knowledge. If I make a mistake, I hope Dr. Fu can correct me!"

"Okay." Fu Yunan laughed.

The dilapidated temple is really quite dilapidated. If it weren't for this, there would be good houses here, and it would be impossible for the villagers not to come and live here.

Although it was already dark, Mu Qiong and Fu Yun'an didn't want to sleep yet, so they wrapped themselves in quilts and sat on the bed made of straw to chat.

When Mu Qiong was preparing to write the novel "seeking a doctor", the background was set in Shanghai. After all, he knew Shanghai better at that time, but when he came out, he changed the background and content of the article. up.

Right now, he chatted with Fu Yun'an about his novel.

And Fu Yun'an also gave some opinions.

Mu Qiong suddenly discovered that Fu Yun'an had not been back to China for long, and he knew a lot of things in this era in China, and he also knew the living conditions of the rural people very well.

Fu Yun'an even provided several cases for him to write in the book.

After such a chat... Some of Mu Qiong's thoughts changed again.

The wind was strong and cold at night, and they poured in through the cracks in the broken door, mixing up the heat in the room.

"I'll hang the sheets on the door." Mu Qiong said upon seeing this.

The walls of this house are made of mud, and there are no holes at all. Although the roof is broken, the wind will not blow down. Now the main source of air leakage is the door.

Mu Qiong opened the door, wrapped the entire door with his own bed sheet, and then closed the door. In this way, the gap on the door was blocked by the bed sheet, and the air system by the door was also blocked by the bed sheet. The situation in the house was much better. .

He finally finished tossing around, and when he turned around, he saw Fu Yun'an was wiping the patient's forehead with alcohol.

They brought a lot of medicines, including antipyretic and analgesic medicines.

Those medicines that can be eaten have been given to this patient before, and now they can only reduce the temperature physically.

Seeing this, Mu Qiong poured a bowl of water from the thermos bottle in their room, dissolved sugar and a little salt, made a bowl of salted sugar water, and slowly fed it to the patient.

It is reasonable for patients to receive infusions to replenish water in this situation, but they do not have this condition.

While chatting and taking care of the patients, the time passed so silently. Dr. Fu took out his timekeeping watch and put it aside, which showed that it was twelve o'clock in the evening.

"Doctor Fu, you still have a free clinic tomorrow, go to sleep first, I'll just watch him." Mu Qiong suggested that they can't chat all the time and stay awake.

Fu Yun'an was a little hesitant, but after thinking about it, he still said, "Okay, if his condition changes, just wake me up."

Mu Qiong agreed.

Fu Yunan fell asleep, and Mu Qiong wrapped himself in his quilt, and began to write a draft in his notebook by candlelight.

This night, the patient has been running a fever, but the condition is not too bad.

At around five o'clock in the morning, there were some noises outside the door. At this time, people are used to going to bed early and getting up early.

Even Dr. Fu, who was sleeping in his clothes, got up from the straw pile.

"Doctor Fu, don't you want to continue to sleep for a while?" Mu Qiong asked.

"I'm used to getting up at this point, and I can't fall asleep." Fu Yun'an smiled, stood up and checked the patient's condition.

Mu Qiong yawned and was about to go out to use the bathroom.

As a result, as soon as he opened the door, he saw the patient's wife standing outside the door holding a child.

Seeing him coming out, the woman hugged the child in her arms, and asked with anxiety and expectation: "He...is he okay?"

"It's fine for now."

"Can I go and have a look?" the woman asked cautiously again.

"Yes, but don't touch the patient casually." Mu Qiong said.

"I will definitely not touch him." The woman nodded repeatedly, and went in with the child in her arms.

In the courtyard of the ruined temple, Zheng Weixin and Sun Yiyao were washing up. When they saw Mu Qiong coming out, they both greeted each other. Zheng Weixin also said: "Yesterday we really froze to death. The two of us slept together in our arms. It was still cold Shaking... We are going to buy a quilt, do you want to buy it?"

"No need." Mu Qiong said: "But if you can buy chickens, you'd better buy two more."

"That's for sure." Zheng Weixin said, and sneezed.

They really froze last night...

Sure enough, Zheng Weixin and Sun Yiyao bought two more chickens and brought back a new quilt with a red quilt.

At this time, many families, that is, when their sons are getting married and their daughters are getting married, they will make quilts for the new couple, and it is very likely that the two newcomers will cover their entire lives with the quilts they made when they got married. Most of the quilts are made into red quilts.

Two big men are going to cover the red quilt together tonight. This picture is also quite beautiful.

In the morning, Lin Shoufu made white rice again, steamed pickles, did not know where to get a pack of old soybeans, put some oil and salt in the pot and fried them directly... People with bad teeth can't do this at all Eat it, but it tastes really delicious.

After breakfast, someone finally came to see the doctor.

"You are all rich people, you won't lie to us, will you?"

"Is it really free to see a doctor? Let me tell you first, I have no money."

"I have a large pimple on my back, it's very itchy, can you help us look at it?"

……

Probably because they bought a lot of things in the village yesterday and this morning, the people in the village are more friendly and trust them.

Some of them came to see the doctor, and some just came to see the excitement. Regardless of whether they came to see the doctor or the excitement, they all went to see the patient who had the operation yesterday.

There were many people coming and going in the temple, and it was noisy. Mu Qiong couldn't sleep, so he didn't sleep. He just rested in the patient's room and wrote something by the way.

Then he saw the patient's wife, watching every villager who came to see the patient warily, not letting them get close to the patient.

Mu Qiong told this woman not to touch her husband before, just because she was worried that she would mess with the wound and cause her husband to get infected. Unexpectedly, she obeyed the doctor's order, not only did she not even touch the corner of her husband's clothes, but also did not allow others to approach .

When these people came, they would gossip with the woman, and Mu Qiong also asked a few questions, but they pieced together the situation of this family.

The patient lying on the bed was surnamed Zhou, and he was the third child at birth, so he was called Zhou Laosan.

Zhou Laosan's father was a very nice man and had a few acres of land. Originally, Zhou's family lived well, but unfortunately Zhou Laosan was only seven or eight years old, and his father suddenly fell ill and died.

Then Zhou Laosan's mother, that is, Mrs. Zhou, was a little... according to the dialect here, she was crazy, and I didn't know where I heard some words, thinking that my husband would die because he offended the gods , So I eat fast and chant Buddha all day long.

In the countryside, there are many people who believe in Buddhism. The old people will chant scriptures in their free time, and they can even earn a few copper coins by chanting scriptures. An old lady who can chant scriptures comes to the house to chant scriptures.

Give each person two copper dollars, and then take care of a fast meal, and these old ladies can diligently recite scriptures for you for a whole day, which is very cost-effective.

In this way, the younger generations in the family support it. In fact, people these days basically believe in these things about gods and ghosts, and they may also believe in Buddhism and Taoism.

It's just that the old lady this week has gotten worse.

About ten years ago, a master who could pinch and count came to them.

Foreign monks like to recite scriptures, everyone thinks it is new, and they don’t look for local blind people for weddings and so on.

At first glance, there was nothing wrong with this master, but later... Mrs. Zhou and some other people, for some reason, became more and more convinced of the master, saying that the master came from the gods in the sky. ability.

In the beginning, they just brought their own vegetables and eggs to cook for the master, and then they started giving the master their family money, even willing to lose everything for the master.

For example, Mrs. Zhou.

She didn't know what the master said, but she gave all the money her eldest son and second son earned from working as long-term laborers for several years to the master. The master builds a house.

Her eldest son was furious when he found out. He ran out and never came back. He didn't know where he went. As for her second son, he was desperately clamoring to separate the family and had already been separated.

The old lady Zhou did not hold back, and even intensified.

The chickens at home have laid eggs, and my family will definitely not eat them, so I must send them to the master.

When the newly planted rice comes down, it must be sent to the master.

If you have money, you should give it to the master, let the master help you atone for your sins, and have a good pregnancy in the next life.

In the end, the Zhou family's property was tossed about by her.

When Zhou Laosan was young, his mother always told him that he actually believed in that master, but later he couldn’t eat enough, so he didn’t believe it. .

In the end, he only cared about his own life, didn't pay much attention to his wife, and even picked up a woman who fled from the country as his wife.

But Mrs. Zhou was crying and fussing, but she could always get something from her second son and third son, and she could always try to get some good food from the two sons' homes and send it out.

This time, Zhou Laosan was injured. After she arrived at Zhou's house, regardless of the son who injured his leg or the daughter-in-law who had just given birth, she bought it from the master with the compensation given to Zhou Laosan by Zhou Laosan's long-term laborer's house. Bring some unknown so-called magic medicine to Zhou Laosan.

Without money, Zhou Laosan's family can't afford to eat, so there's no use in asking for magic medicine!

In fact, most of the villagers are superstitious, but no one agrees with Mrs. Zhou's behavior. Many people secretly think that there is something wrong with her mind.

However, they also secretly said that they did not dare to really provoke Mrs. Zhou and the master behind her, for fear that the master would really have the ability.

Mu Qiong: "..."

Mu Qiong is an atheist, but he usually respects other people's beliefs.

In his opinion, it is actually not bad for a person to have a belief and find a sustenance for comfort.But you should believe what you should believe, instead of believing that this kind of mess is obviously cheating money!

"Where does that master live?" Mu Qiong asked Zhou Laosan's wife when there was no one around.

This woman came here as a refugee, her surname is Feng, and her name is Feng Xiaoya——poor people these days usually call their names indiscriminately.

Feng Xiaoya is not very old, she is only nineteen years old, and she does not believe in that master, and now she is talking about a lot of things with Mu Qiong.

Mu Qiong wrote down the master's information and asked again: "You don't have any land at home?"

Feng Xiaoya nodded. Her father-in-law originally left a few acres of land, but after so many years, her mother-in-law has completely defeated him.

No, not all of them were lost. His man's second brother allocated two acres of land back then, and the land is still there now.

Mu Qiong didn't ask any more questions, but he was also a little worried.

After a hundred days of injury, even if Zhou Laosan survived, he might not be able to work for a long time after that. If they were left here, it would be difficult for them to survive.

If possible, people should be taken away, but this will increase the cost.

Mu Qiong suddenly realized that he was short of money...

He was very short of money, but he didn't know that someone was holding money and wanted to give it to him.

"Studying Abroad" has been serialized until Jiang Zhenguo returns to China, and he is respected in China and has achieved great success.

All of this is very refreshing to see, and the sales of Dazhong Daily are even better.

There are many publishing houses in Shanghai. When they saw this situation, they immediately had the idea of ​​publishing this book... Unfortunately, they couldn't find the author!

Of course, the people looking for the author at this time are not only people from the publishing house, but also some other people who are also very interested in the author and want to talk to the author.

A newly established university.

The principal of the university and a few professors under his command were discussing about job recruitment, and they talked about "Study Abroad".

"The author of "Study Abroad" should have come back from abroad, and most of them have learned a lot of advanced foreign knowledge. It would be great if we could invite him to teach in our university!"

"He must know some other international students!"

"Shall we go to the Volkswagen newspaper and ask?"

In a bungalow.

Two businessmen who are determined to rejuvenate the country by industry are also discussing "Study Abroad": "Jiang Zhenguo in the book brought back a lot of equipment and design drawings from abroad. Maybe the author did the same? Should we find him and cooperate to set up a factory to make soda ash ?”

"There are other things written in the book. If we can produce it ourselves, we don't have to look at the faces of foreigners!"

"I'll go to the public newspaper to ask about it later."

Across the ocean, America.

In fact, most of the original Geng-style international students went to the United States to study. There is also a Tsinghua Student Supervision Office that manages these international students and sends checks to international students every month.

In Mu Qiong's "Study Abroad", Jiang Zhenguo's life is very poor, but in fact, the life of the overseas students is quite good.

Today, it is the day when the foreign students look forward to receiving the check.

Yu Mingxue received the letter from the Student Supervision Office of Tsinghua University on time, and then found that the letter sent this time seemed to be more than a check.

"It must have brought us some private goods again!" Yu Mingxue felt helpless.

The person in charge of sending checks for them is a reformist, and often sends them checks with other things, such as leaflets printed with "abolish Chinese characters and use letters".

Yu Mingxue didn't know how to argue, but he had a vague feeling that he couldn't do it.

He frowned, and impatiently opened the letter in his hand, and finally took out some clipped newspapers, which were so thick that there was a large stack.

Is this domestic news?Could it be that something happened in the country?

Yu Mingxue looked over anxiously, and discovered...it was a novel!