Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

"How's your newspaper?" Mu-joon asked.

Sheng Chaohui started talking.

Sheng Chaohui's Education Newspaper was founded by him and a few classmates when they were in college.

Their original intention of running this newspaper is to publish summaries of the teaching experience of outstanding teachers in Shanghai, so that more teachers can see and learn from them.

Their idea is very good. If it is run by big figures in the education field, it may be successful, but the key is that they are just a few students.

It is difficult for them to get in touch with those famous teachers. Even if they get in touch, they may not be free to write to them.

Even if someone writes it, you print it and publish it, how to sell the newspaper is still a problem.

This kind of newspaper, the newspaper boy will definitely not be able to sell it, and of course the newspaper dealers will not want it. They can only sell it by themselves, but they need to have connections...

Sheng Chaohui and the others started out as a weekly newspaper. They published a newspaper every week. If they didn't have enough manuscripts, they wrote it themselves, but they couldn't sell it, so they had to give it to teachers in various schools.

In the end, they usually only publish one newspaper a month, so they still can't sell it, but at least they lose less money.

Waiting until now... Sheng Chaohui was a little embarrassed: "The people who ran the newspaper with me have already quit, and I can no longer support it by myself. I originally wanted to stop the newspaper, but the stories you tell may be able to Save this newspaper, do you want to buy shares?"

After he finished speaking, he looked at Mu Qiong and Wei Ting expectantly.

Wei Ting has a tall and straight figure, a handsome face, and looks like a very reliable person, but unfortunately...

Embarrassment appeared on his face: "I've been short of money recently."

Instead, Mu Qiong asked, "How much does it cost to run a newspaper?"

"I don't want much!" Sheng Chaohui said, "I usually print a thousand sheets at a time, and the wages for layout, printing fees, and paper purchases add up to about twenty or thirty silver dollars, and the most expensive thing is layout. "

When Sheng Chaohui runs a newspaper, except for the articles in it, he finds other people to do it. For example, the typesetting wage he said is the price for hiring a typesetter to type the words.

It costs a lot of money to hire compositors and typewriters, but printing actually doesn’t cost much, and it is spread out evenly. The more newspapers are printed, the lower the cost of each newspaper. This is also because the newspapers can’t be sold, but Sheng Chaohui still prints one. A thousand reasons.

Mu Qiong thought for a while, and said: "I think this education newspaper can still be run, but it really needs to be changed. For example, the customer group should be changed to children. In addition, if it really wants to publish the stories we wrote, then it's best to also Instead of running a newspaper, it is better to change it into a magazine, one issue per month, which is also easy to collect.”

Today in Shanghai, there are major newspapers such as Shenbao News, as well as some other literary publications, but there are almost no publications for children.

Chinese people, in fact, have always attached great importance to children's education.Just like Aunt Zhao's family, who rented at Yao's house, didn't even have their own house, so they would find ways to send their children to primary school.

If we really want to run such a magazine, there should be many people who read it, and it will also allow children to read more.

Mu Qiong explained his thoughts, and both Sheng Chaohui and Wei Ting thought it was all right, it was the money...

Sheng Chaohui said: "My hands are loose, I don't have any savings..."

"I do have some money in my hand." Mu Qiong said, he had already spent a lot on the manuscript fee for the serialization of "Study Abroad" in Dazhong Daily, but he hadn't touched the five hundred yuan manuscript fee for the publication of "Study Abroad".

He is now teaching in Ping'an Middle School, and he is paid every month, as well as the manuscript fee for "Seeking Doctors".

He is not the kind of selfless person, but in this era, thinking about the storms this country will encounter in the future, he always feels that he should do something.

Speaking of which, many well-known people in later generations are still children, and this educational monthly magazine he runs may become their favorite.

"Then the two of us will co-organize this education...Education Monthly! One person will contribute half of the money." Sheng Chaohui said, he also knew about Wei Ting's situation, so he didn't call Wei Ting.

"Okay, but Mr. Wei can join us, and I would like to invite Mr. Qi to write an inscription for our monthly magazine." Mu Qiong said.Old Mr. Qi's handwriting was sold at a high price in later generations!

"Also!" Wei Ting agreed, "I'll ask the teacher to write another article and put it in."

After such a discussion, many things were settled.

However, the monthly magazine cannot be published so quickly, and the preparatory work will take two to three months. During this time, they have to prepare some more articles, at least the first two issues.

"You guys go to my house for dinner today!" Wei Ting offered the invitation again: "After dinner, I will ask the driver to take you home."

After the three of them chatted like this, Ping An Middle School was already out of school, and it was getting dark.

Sheng Chaohui immediately agreed, and Mu Qiong did not refuse.

There is still a car to pick up the cash-strapped Wei Ting home.

There are many pedestrians on the street, the driver kept pressing the horn on the car, and drove forward slowly... On the road, you can have a panoramic view of the bustling Shiliyangchang.

The car stopped in front of Wei's Western-style building, Mu Qiong followed Wei Ting in, and saw Mr. Qi reading Dazhong Daily.

Seeing Mu Qiong, old Mr. Qi said: "Your "Seeking a Doctor" is written like a knife, piercing people's hearts."

"I followed the missionaries to the free clinic in the countryside, and saw various scenes." Mu Qiong said.

Old Mr. Qi also knew all kinds of situations in the countryside, so he sighed and said nothing more.

Wei's food is still exquisite and delicious, and Wei Ting, even his eating movements are elegant.

After eating and chatting for a while, Wei Ting asked the driver to take Mu Qiong and Sheng Chaohui home.

When Mu Qiong came home, Mu Changyu and Zhu Wanwan were reading textbooks: "There is fruit in the bottle. My son reached into the bottle and squeezed it full. He couldn't punch out. His hands hurt and he was crying. The mother said: 'Don't be greedy. If there are too many, the punches will come out.'”

After getting rich, Mu Qiong bought all the primary school textbooks and taught them how to read according to the textbooks. Now, they have learned the characters of the first grade, and have started to read the books of the second and third grades.

"Qioner, why did you come back so late today?" Zhu Wanwan asked, "Have you eaten yet?"

"Mother, I've already eaten." Mu Qiong said.

"Then I'll go and put away the things." Zhu Wanwan said, worrying that Mu Qiong hadn't eaten yet, she kept warming the food on the stove.

"Okay." Mu Qiong agreed, sat down at the desk, and checked Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu's homework.

In fact, he didn't need to check their homework at all. The two of them always had to do more, not less.

That night, after Mu Qiong taught the two of them, he went back to his room.

He set up a desk in his bedroom, and every night he wrote "I'm in a Hundred Years Later" here every night before going to bed.

In the next few days, Mu Qiong was very busy. Even Sheng Chaohui, who was always having fun, stayed in the office all day, writing non-stop with manuscript paper.

He has written quite a few idiom stories that Mu Qiong asked him to write, but he still feels dissatisfied.

"How about you look at what I wrote?" Mr. Zhong, who teaches chemistry, suddenly took out a manuscript and handed it to Mu Qiong.

Mu Qiong took a look, only to find that what Mr. Zhong wrote was an idiom story that deceives the ear and steals the bell. Although the writing is not very vernacular, it is full of childishness.

Also, this is a complete story, not a simple explanation of meaning.

"Mr. Zhong, your writing is very good!" Mu Qiong said immediately.

"Show me!" Sheng Zhaohui took a look, and his eyes lit up: "Yes, it should be written like this! I can't write well."

"I have a lot of children in my family, and sometimes I explain the meaning of words to them. That's how I said it, so I also wrote it." Teacher Zhong said.

"Mr. Zhong, you might as well write a few more, and we will pay you for the manuscript when it is published," Mu Qiong said.

"Is there still a manuscript fee?" Mr. Zhong was a little surprised. The newspaper run by Sheng Chaohui has been losing money, and there is always a shortage of manuscripts. In the past, when they were rescued from the rivers and lakes, there was no manuscript fee, so Sheng Chaohui just bought something for them personally, or Is to treat them to a meal.

"Yes." Mu Qiong said: "Short stories like this cost [-] cents a piece, and if they are longer, they cost [-] yuan a piece."

Teacher Zhong originally just wrote an article when he had nothing to do, but now that he heard that there is still a manuscript fee, he immediately said: "Then I will write a few more articles!"

"Then trouble Teacher Zhong." Mu Qiong said.

It is impossible for them to give you good works if you let them do free work, and the manuscript fee is still very necessary.

For Mu Qiong, it was not difficult to write such short stories, but he did not start writing. Every day at school, except for "Seeking a Doctor", he only wrote English short stories.

"Seeking Doctor" is a very depressing story. He was afraid that while writing "Seeking Doctor" and writing such a childlike story, his state would not be well adjusted.

"Seeking a doctor" has serialized many characters.

Bleeding children with jaundice is a folk remedy. Some children really get better after bloodletting.

But not all children with jaundice can be cured by bloodletting.

Moreover, bloodletting of children is also very particular, and it cannot be done indiscriminately.

However, the old woman that the family found to bleed the child didn't know anything, but when her child had jaundice, she pricked the child with a needle to bleed the child, and the child survived, so she felt that she had more skills and dared to give others child tied up.

The old woman gave the child many needles, and the child's buttocks were full of needle holes, and then the child bled profusely.

The mother couldn't take it anymore and wanted to take the child to the doctor.

The county seat is far away, so it is best to spend money to find a bullock cart to send it to, but the mother-in-law does not want to take the money, and the mother ignores confinement and walks with the child in her arms.

The child's blood stained its swaddling clothes, and the woman's lochia stained her skirt.

When she arrived at the county seat, the child was already cold.

The woman couldn't take it anymore, she went crazy, and was dragged back by her family and locked in a dark and cold woodshed.

Everyone told her that it was nothing if the child could not be fed, and that death was a matter of fate.

Sitting in the firewood shed, the woman began to think of stories of sickness and death.

Mu Qiong's "Seeking a Doctor" finds a woman as the introduction, but then writes all kinds of people.

These people are old or young, male or female, doing everything, but they all have one thing in common, and they all get sick accidentally.

then……

"This man! To live well and to die quickly is the greatest luck!"

"What is the cure for illness? Will the whole family be dragged down?"

"This sick young man, why doesn't he die quickly?"

"This is the magic medicine I begged from the Great Immortal, it can cure all diseases!"

"It's just a girl doll. When it dies, it dies."

……

The stories that the woman remembered were shocking.

Not all the readers of "Study Abroad" will continue to read "Seeking Doctor", but there are still many people who read this story.

And among these people, except for a few who are heartless, most of them feel very uncomfortable.

"The book "Seeking Medicine" should actually be called Difficult to Seek Medical Treatment. It is too difficult for ordinary people to seek medical treatment when they are sick!"

"People who read this book are uncomfortable, but they can't help but want to read it."

"This book is about illness, but more about people's hearts."

"The people in "Seeking Doctors" are not only sick with their bodies, but also their hearts. What Chinese people need to be healed is not only their bodies, but also their hearts!"

……

The whole book "seeking medical treatment" is about how difficult it is for the poor to seek medical treatment. At the same time, it also vividly describes the ignorance of the people at the bottom.

Zheng Weixin likes "Study Abroad" very much, and he also likes "Seeking a Doctor". Even because he once went to a free clinic, the book "Seeking a Doctor" touched him very much, and he read it many times every day.

He originally planned to stay in Shanghai to open a clinic after graduation, which would not only make more money, but also be very decent.

But after going to a free clinic and watching "Seeking a Doctor", he suddenly changed his mind.

He wanted to open a clinic in a small place.

After buying a new issue of Dazhong Daily, Zheng Weixin opened it with mixed feelings, and then...

Today's serialized "seeking a doctor", he looked at it, and for some reason, he always felt very familiar.

Isn't this exactly like something they encountered when they went to the free clinic?It was just being written by Lou Yuyu, which made people uncomfortable even more.

Zheng Weixin looked at the newspaper and frowned.

When he arrived at the school and saw Sun Yiyao, he immediately expressed his doubts.

Sun Yiyao glanced at Zheng Weixin: "You just found out?"

The author has something to say:

Today, the author read the old textbook of the Republic of China published in 1912, and found that it is actually much better than I thought...

Of course it's not so plain, it's true~

In the article, what Mu Changyu read was the article inside, and then an excerpt from "Chasing the Birds": The red sun is about to set, and the wheat threshing is over.A flock of small sparrows gathered in the field, looking for leftover grains.Several boys stood in front of the door, clapping their hands and chasing them noisily.The sparrow heard the sound of people and scattered into the forest.

Of course, the original textbook was still formatted vertically, with no punctuation and only spaces, and there was indeed a shortage of children's books at that time.