Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

After all, it's New Year's Eve, and I have to go home to watch the new year. After chatting with Wei Ting, Mu Qiong left.

When I went back, the night was darker, but the lights of every house were on, and there were some faint laughter coming from it.

In the distance, there were a few muffled noises from time to time—it was someone setting off firecrackers.

The corners of Mu Qiong's mouth curled up, and he quickened his pace, wanting to go back quickly to accompany Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu.

As a result, when he reached a corner, he tripped and almost fell.

On the night of New Year's Eve, the moon was not visible at all, and the road was very dark, but there was a street lamp far away, and coupled with the lights streaming from the windows of every house, Mu Qiong would not be unable to see the road clearly.

But there are things on the road, and he can't see clearly.

Being tripped, Mu Qiong felt unlucky at first, but suddenly realized something, and his expression changed.

It didn't look like a stone was tripping him, this feeling... Mu Qiong looked at the dark mass on the ground.

When he came out for a night walk, he prepared some things. He took out a box of matches, and Mu Qiong lit one.

In the faint light of the matches, he saw a skinny child lying on the ground in a shabby singlet.

The kid's head is a little too big for his body, he has no shoes, and he's missing a few toes...

The match burned to Mu Qiong's hand, and Mu Qiong let it go.

Standing where he was, he took out another match and lit it.

The child on the ground may be six or seven years old, maybe a little older. He has injuries and his body is already stiff. He is curled up on the stone-paved road.

Mu Qiong was burned to the finger by the match again.

After traveling for so long, it's not that Mu Qiong has never seen poor people, even dead people.

When he went to the free clinic before, a child died in front of him. Later, he saw many patients who were dying and saw all kinds of tragedies.

But on such a day of family reunion, I saw such a child on the road who didn't know whether he died of freezing or starving...

Mu Qiong stood in the dark, motionless for a long time.

After a long time, he continued to walk forward.

Not long after arriving home, Mu Qiong knocked on the door, and Zhu Wanwan came to answer the door.

"Qioner, is Principal Wei okay at school?" Zhu Wanwan asked curiously.

"Very good." Mu Qiong said.

"That's good." Zhu Wanwan walked into the room and said as she walked, "Qioner, I cooked some water chestnuts, do you want to eat them?"

"Mother, no need...I want to take a bath." Mu Qiong said.

"Brother, you need to take a bath! I'll boil water for you!" Mu Changyu said immediately.

In summer, it is hard work to light a fire in the kitchen, but it is a good job to light a fire in the kitchen in winter, it is the warmest.

Mu Changyu went into the kitchen, lit a fire to boil water, found a newspaper, and read it by the light of the stove.

"Read less at night, so as not to damage your eyes." Mu Qiong said.

Mu Changyu stuck out his tongue at Mu Qiong, but did not put down the newspaper.

At this time, Zhu Wanwan also moved a small bench to sit by the stove and read the newspaper with her daughter.

Looking at them, Mu Qiong finally felt a little better.

He took a shower with scalding water.

Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu planned to watch the new year and didn't go to bed until midnight, but he went back to the room early.

Every night, he would write some "I'm in a Hundred Years Later", but he didn't write it tonight and went to bed early.

What happened before made him think a lot.

He remembered the fairy tale "The Little Match Girl" that he had read many times and was deeply impressed. He also remembered another story - "The Wandering Story of Sanmao", and even remembered some photos of this period that he had seen in modern times. .

Among them are many photos of children who died of freezing and starvation on the side of the road.

When the chaos was at its worst, in some cities, the government even specially arranged some corpse pickers to pick up people who died on the roadside and bury them.

Mu Qiong suddenly thought of what to write in the new article.

The protagonist of his new article will be a child living in Shanghai.

He didn't know the name of the child who died silently by the side of the road before, but he would write about such a child and let him live in his own book and live well.

Mu Qiong thought for a long time, but in the end he lost sleepiness, so he simply got up from the bed, and then wrote some outlines for new essays.

He didn't know how long he had been writing, and he didn't lie down again until his eyes felt uncomfortable.

The next day, on New Year's Day, Mu Qiong, who always got up on time, got up late, and when he walked downstairs, Zhu Wanwan was already making lunch.

On such a day, those farmers who would bring green vegetables to the county town to sell every day would not be able to come here, and had no place to buy vegetables. Fortunately, Zhu Wanwan bought some vegetables in advance for preparation, plus the leftover meat and vegetables from yesterday, it was already Enough for the three of them.

After dinner, Mu Qiong suggested: "Shall we go out for a walk?"

Both Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu agreed.

Since Mu Qiong bought them face cream and lipstick, they put on face cream every day, and their skin, which had been rough due to lack of water, immediately improved a lot. As for lipstick, the two of them put on a little bit of lipstick almost every day at home.

But this time when they were going out, they not only didn't touch it up, but wiped off the original lipstick on their lips.

Mu Qiong saw it and didn't stop him - it's not necessarily a good thing to look good these days.

Today's sunshine is very good, and there is no wind. There are some leaves scattered on the stone-paved road, and occasionally there are chirping sparrows falling from the sky, looking for food on the road.

All of this looked beautiful, but it was unexpected that a child died on the road like this last night.

Mu Qiong said that he would take Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu out for a walk, but it was really just a walk—he thought that on the first day of the new year, there would be no open shops on the road.

However he was wrong.

After walking to the concession, he suddenly found that some shops were open as usual.Also, in the case of making money, businessmen must be reluctant to close their doors, and the concession, a place where many foreigners live, is not as strong as other places.

When passing by a tailor shop, Mu Qiong took Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu in, intending to make a suit for himself.

Mu Qiong wore a suit at Boss Chen's, but after leaving the western restaurant, he never wore it again, and that suit was also left at Boss Chen's.

These days, he has always been wearing robes made by Zhu Wanwan.

And there is a reason for this. During this period, literati in Shanghai did not wear suits.

At this time, on the one hand, people think that foreigners are very powerful and their things are very good.

For these reasons, only those who do business with foreigners will wear suits at this time.

In this case, Mu Qiong did not wear a suit.

But according to Wei Ting, Second Young Master Huo likes to wear a suit, and he had better wear a suit when he is going to see Second Young Master Huo.

If you want to wear a suit in modern times, you can just spend money to buy a ready-made suit, but at this time you have to find a tailor to do it.

Making clothes for the New Year is expensive, and Mu Qiong chose good materials this time. The last set cost [-] yuan, and the deposit alone cost [-] yuan.

Mu Qiong paid the money readily, then went to a nearby leather shoe store and bought a pair of leather shoes for one dollar.

It would be much more expensive to make clothes for the new year, so Mu Qiong didn't make them for Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu, but the price of leather shoes was the same as usual, so Mu Qiong not only bought leather shoes for himself, but also gave them to Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu. Jade each bought a pair.

The leather shoes of the three are all black, which looks old-fashioned in Mu Qiong's eyes, but in this era, having a pair of leather shoes is a very fashionable thing in itself.

Leather shoes are very expensive!For this reason, Mu Changyu specially bought one size up.

Mu Qiong didn't think it was necessary, but Mu Changyu insisted, and in the end he bought shoes one size larger.

After buying clothes, they went home, and Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu continued to study, while Mu Qiong wrote his new book "Wandering".

When I was at Mu’s house, there were always relatives coming over from the family in the second and third grades of junior high school, but it was very clean here. Mu Qiong wrote the book for two days with peace of mind. The [-]-word "Wandering Story".

While he was writing these, the Fu family, Fu Huai'an, whose original name was Huo Huai'an, was staying in his room, concentrating on translating "Andersen's Fairy Tales".

He can't do it.

The news released by Huo Ershao is that he will not come to Shanghai until the fourth day of junior high school, but in fact, he came a few years ago, and has been staying with Fu Yun'an since then.

What an exciting time to celebrate the new year!Although Fu Huai'an promised Mu Qiong to translate "Andersen's Fairy Tales", he didn't forget to play. Originally, he wanted to take the lucky money sent by his mother all the way to buy more firecrackers and invite his classmates to have a good time. Yes, but... His second brother is here.

Fu Huai'an dared not go out to play.

Since you don't go out, you can only stay at home.

He had read those novels many times, and he didn't want to read them for a long time, and he had nothing else to do, so he simply stuck with that "Andersen's Fairy Tales".

He looked up words one by one, guessed the meaning of each sentence, and vowed to translate something... And after staring at it for a long time, he actually learned a little feeling, some things that the foreigner had taught him before. Things also came out of his mind.

He also found the stories interesting.

For example, the one he is looking at right now is about a girl who is only the size of a thumb...

Fu Huai'an scratched his head and wanted to know what the story was about!

It's a pity that he can't understand most of it...

Sighing helplessly, he continued to study.

While studying, a hand suddenly took away the book in front of him.

Fu Huai'an's desk was placed under the window, and the window was open. When he looked up, he saw his second brother standing on the porch outside the window, reading the book in his hand.

He hastily swallowed the curse words he was about to blurt out, and said instead: "Second...Second brother."

"I know I've worked hard..." Huo Ying looked at Fu Huai'an with a half-smile.

Fu Huai'an's heart was about to jump out of his chest: "I'll just take a look..."

"Why are you so nervous? It's good to read this book more." Zai Huo Ying put down the book, patted Fu Huai'an on the shoulder: "Read it carefully."

After he finished speaking, he left. After walking for a while, he turned around and grinned at Fu Huai'an: "After all, this is one of the favorite stories of girls abroad."

Fu Huai'an: "..." Is this book read by girls from abroad?No way? !

Fu Huai'an was very depressed, and wanted to ask Fu Yun'an if this was the case.

However, with Huo Ying around, he couldn't get close to Fu Yun'an at all.

Fu Huai'an could only continue to compete with "Andersen's Fairy Tales" depressedly.

After teasing Fu Huai'an, Huo Ying went to Fu Yun'an's place.

Fu Yun'an was reading the original document, and Huo Ying felt dizzy when he saw the book.

He didn't bother Fu Yun'an either, and took down the "Study Abroad" given by Mu Qiong from the next bookshelf.

As soon as he opened it, he saw Mu Qiong's signature on the title page.

Although his younger brother told him to leave Mu Qiong alone, he still thought about finding a chance to meet Mu Qiong.

Maybe this person likes men too!

The person his younger brother likes will always be brought back!

After all, if it wasn't for his brother, he would have died long ago.

Thinking of this, Huo Ying looked at his right hand again.

Whether he took away Fu Huai'an's books or read "Study Abroad", he always uses his left hand, and his right hand has long been useless.

In that kidnapping, the kidnappers helped him, his eldest brother, and his mother and younger sister.

After kidnapping them, the kidnapper said that he wanted to chop off some fingers to show his father, and asked his mother to choose someone... His mother chose him.

There was only one thumb left on his right hand. Not only that, but because his right arm had been broken and had not received proper treatment, although the wound had healed, the bone inside was crooked.

Huo Ying had already investigated Mu Qiong, but he had no interest in Mu Qiong's novels.

He is not a person who likes to read, just like his elder brother, if Fu Yun'an hadn't forced him, he would definitely not be willing to read.

But this "Study Abroad", he looked at it, and he saw something interesting, especially after seeing some familiar plots in it, his mood improved inexplicably.

"This book is quite naive. How can it be so simple abroad?" Huo Ying said, "But it's really good-looking... He wrote this book and asked you a lot of things, right?"

Fu Yun'an said: "He doesn't know the situation abroad, so he asked me specifically."

"You have a good relationship." Huo Ying said again.

Fu Yun'an: "..."

On the morning of the fourth day of the lunar new year, Huo Ying left Fu Yun'an and went to his house in Shanghai.

His house is one of the most expensive houses in Shanghai, and the people living on that street are basically foreigners, and few Chinese like him can live there.

He was able to buy the house here because he met more people when he was abroad.

And tonight, he will hold a banquet in his house and invite many business partners over.

Huo Ying didn't care much about this banquet. He liked making money, but he didn't really like socializing, but there were some things that had to be done.

When they were abroad, they vowed to be masters, so naturally they had to work hard for it.

The fourth day is the day to welcome the God of Wealth. Ordinary families in Shanghai will prepare a table of meals to welcome the God of Wealth in the evening, and the family members usually gather together to worship.

But today, many businessmen did not stay at home to welcome the God of Wealth.

They don't have time to greet the illusory God of Wealth today, but they want to meet the real God of Wealth who came to Shanghai.

The current situation is unclear, but it will not affect this father. This person's position is very stable, and his business is even more stable.

The banquet was held at night, but before it was dark, everyone set off one after another.

Mu Qiong is also one of them.

Early this morning, he went to the tailor shop to get his custom-made suit, went to have a haircut, then changed into brand new clothes, and set off for Ping An Zhong'an early.

Then, together with Wei Ting, he called a rickshaw to the destination.