Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

Boss Chen liked "Seeking a Doctor" very much. Since he knew that Lou Yuyu was Mu Qiong, he liked this novel even more.

He reads "Seeking a Doctor" every day, and even starts to learn to read novels for the convenience of reading. Whenever he sees a character he doesn't know when reading a novel, he will ask shopkeeper Zhang, and wait for shopkeeper Zhang to explain the pronunciation of the word and If the meaning is told to him, he will write it several times, write down the words in a notebook he prepared, and then note the phonetic and write the meaning of the words.

Of course, his phonetic notation is not pinyin, but a homonym that he knows next to it, and the dictionaries at this time are also phonetic in this way.

For example, "Yu" will write "Yin Tongyu" next to it.

Today, on the way to the western restaurant, Boss Chen stopped a newspaper boy as usual: "Give me a copy of the Dazhong newspaper and a report."

"Sir, I'm sorry, the Dazhong newspaper in my hand has been sold out!" The newsboy gave Boss Chen a report: "Declaration for two copper dollars, do you want the news paper?"

"Why is Dazhongbao gone?" Boss Chen paid for the declaration.

"Today's "Seeking Doctor" published the ending, Dazhong Daily sold out immediately, but there will be more later!" The newsboy said: "I'm going to get it."

"Then send me a copy later." Boss Chen reported his address.

The newspaper boy has been selling newspapers in this area, and he is very familiar with the shops here. Boss Chen also knows him, so he immediately responded.

Boss Chen came to the western restaurant with the report, feeling a little hopeful.

"Seeking a Doctor" is over, and now he really wants to see the ending!

Fortunately, he soon waited for Dazhong Daily and the ending of "Seeking Doctor".

The novel "Seeking a Doctor" is written differently from "Study Abroad", or in other words, from all the novels of this period.

This novel uses a lot of flashbacks and narratives, which can be said to be ingenious.

And its ending, again, is a memory.

The crazy woman has been locked in the firewood room for a long time, and she can only eat cold food and cold dishes.

On this day, she heard the sound of musical instruments outside, as if someone was marrying a wife.

She suddenly thought of when she got married.

She is her husband's second wife.

Her husband's previous wife couldn't bear children and went crazy, so her husband married her.

When she married in, her husband's first wife was being locked up in the woodshed.

People outside said that her husband's family was kind, and the wife would not drive away even if she was crazy, and she thought so too.

She sat in her new house, looking forward to the future, and then her husband arrived.

Like her husband's first wife, she was delayed in conceiving.

Her mother-in-law and husband took her to seek medical advice everywhere, and she began to take various medicines.

At first, she felt that her mother-in-law and husband were very good, and she didn't even dislike her inability to give birth, but after a few years, taking medicine made her health worse and worse, and her family became poorer and poorer, but she faintly felt that something was wrong.

At this time, her mother-in-law said that there was a "fairy" nearby who was very good at begging for a child, so she took her to pray for a child, and left her there for one night, who was very scared, and let the "fairy" do what she wanted.

She lost her virginity, but had a child.

Her husband and mother-in-law were very happy, fed her well and drank well, and looked at her stomach with such eager eyes, as if she was not carrying a child but a golden egg.

But now, the child is dead.

They wanted to send her to practice again and let her have a baby.

If she doesn't want to, they will get married again.

And she will die in this woodshed, just like her husband's first wife.

The things in this world, back and forth, are always repeated, just like the tail of a gecko, it is broken and long, and it is long and broken.

The woman knocked on the woodshed window with a stick and ran out.

It was pitch black outside, missing a little red.

She set fire to the firewood shed, and the fire grew bigger and bigger...

She finally felt that she was no longer cold and warmed up, and she embraced the fire as if she were her own child.

Mu Qiong's ending is a tragedy, and this novel is a complete tragedy from beginning to end.

All the resentment and ugliness were finally burned away by a fire.

The woman has gone crazy in the end, and her husband has not married another wife, and he can no longer afford a wife.

Boss Chen felt complicated after watching it.

This ending was completely beyond his expectations.

But if you think about it carefully, you can figure out a lot of flavors.

And he knew that this was about reality. How many people, without any other thoughts in their lives, just want to have a son?

Boss Chen couldn't think of any comments, so he just read the ending again.At Aurora University, Zheng Weixin and his classmates had a lively discussion!

"This ending is really full of irony!"

"I hated this woman's husband very much before, but looking back now, I feel that he is a complete tragedy."

"In this book, who is not a tragedy?"

"Everyone in this book is sick, either physically or mentally."

"Superstition really hurts people!"

……

Zheng Weixin didn't speak, but he actually held back a lot of words in his heart.

He went to the free clinic with Mu Qiong. During the free clinic, he saw how those ignorant people felt in his heart. Now that he read this novel, he felt the same way in his heart.

Mu Qiong's novel is really well written, and if you taste it carefully, you can always taste the different tastes of ups and downs.

"In the end, what the woman smashed was not the window of the firewood house, but the feudal ethics."

"That fire is not a real fire, it is the light that this woman yearns for."

"The feudal ethics passed down from generation to generation will be smashed and burned sooner or later."

……

Aurora University students think more and more.

I'm afraid Mu Qiong didn't think so much when he wrote it.

girls' secondary school.

Li Zhenyao is also watching "Seeking Doctor".

After chasing "Study Abroad", she has been watching "Seeking a Doctor" and has never left behind.

This story made her feel very uncomfortable and aggrieved, but such an ending made her feel inexplicably happy.

Unfortunately, this woman also died...

"Mr. Lou Yuyu, you are really different from others."

"I read the popular newspaper every day. I like Mr. Lou Yuyu's articles the most, but I also read other people's. Mr. Wenda's novels, which are praised by others, do not treat women as human beings at all, but as goods, but Lou Yuyu Sir... I can see how much he cherishes women."

"I still remember when I read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", someone killed his wife and used his wife's meat to treat Liu Xuande, and he was rewarded. I felt really uncomfortable, but reading Mr. Lou Yuyu's article, I don't have to worry about encountering such a thing."

"Mr. Lou Yuyu, he must be a person who loves fragrance and cherishes jade."

……

When Li Zhenyao heard what her classmate said, she took it very seriously.

Ping An Middle School.

Fu Huai'an bought the public report early in the morning and went to school to read it. After reading it, he felt indescribably irritated.

He never cared about how hard other people's lives were before, but recently he read a lot of books, and suddenly realized that his previous self was a little shallow and ignorant.

In this world, many people are struggling to survive, but those women are especially struggling.

He suddenly thought of his mother and his father's wife.

The wife is his father's first wife, but his father can't even talk to her. She stays at home all day, either causing trouble for his mother or his father's other aunts.

His mother was once very popular with his father, but when his father had a younger and more beautiful woman by his side, his mother could only stand aside.

What about those young and beautiful women?Are they really willing to be his father's concubine?

Fu Huai'an was so upset for a moment that he simply opened the Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales in his hand. These days, he was translating "The Little Match Girl".

But the other students in the school didn't think so much.

"This woman is really ruthless!"

"She was just cornered."

"The meaning of this story is that this woman's husband can't give birth, right? I really didn't expect..."

……

When Mu Qiong arrived at school early in the morning, he noticed that many students were reading the popular newspaper and discussing "seeking medical treatment".

And when he entered the office...

"Mu Qiong, you are so ruthless that you burned everyone to death!" Sheng Chaohui said.

Others also said one after another: "Such an ending is really unexpected."

"But it's good...it's clean to die."

"There are women who can't give birth in this world, and there are men who can't give birth. It really shouldn't be blamed on women."

"There are really too many people who are bluffing and cheating with ghostly things..."

……

These people were discussing "Seeking a Doctor" very seriously, and Teacher Zhong said to Mu Qiong: "Mu Qiong, this book is a good book, but you are afraid that you will be scolded by those old scholars again.

Mu Qiong thinks so too.

In fact, someone is scolding him right now.

"This woman lost her body, she didn't jump into the river, she didn't hang herself, and she even burned her husband and mother-in-law to death. It's really outrageous!"

"Lou Yuyu's books should all be banned!"

"Women should not read such books!"

"absurd!"

……

Of course, people from the old school hate Mu Qiong very much, but people from the new school respect him very much.

"Lou Yuyu's book, Chinese people really should read it carefully! Don't be as ignorant as the people in the book!"

"Lou Yuyu's writing really becomes more interesting the more you read it, and the writing style is also novel. Everyone should read it and study hard."

"When this book is published, I will definitely buy a copy!"

……

Mu Qiong didn't know the evaluation of others.

He is now happy about one thing - he has received another huge manuscript fee, and it is bigger than any previous manuscript fee.

"Seeking Doctors" has been officially published in Dazhong Daily and is ready to be published, but the commercial press is rich and powerful, and plans to print [-] copies for the first printing!

Not only that, but another [-] copies of "Study Abroad" will be printed.

Putting these two books together, Mu Qiong can get almost fifteen hundred silver dollars in royalties, and he has another book to be published, which is the short English essay that he has written for a long time.

Zhang Che also wanted to set the price of this book at [-] cents, but Mu Qiong felt that [-] cents was too expensive, so he suggested that Zhang Che sell it for [-] cents: "This book is a reference book, I hope more people will buy it, so , the price should be lower."

"The cost of printing English books is higher than that of printing ordinary Chinese documents, not to mention transportation and the like. If each book is only sold for [-] cents, our commercial press may not make much money. .” Zhang Che said.

"I can lower the royalties. For this book, I only get 5.00% royalties." Mu Qiong said.

Even if "Studying Abroad" and "Seeking a Doctor" have a lot of meaning, they are just two novels, and it doesn't matter if they sell expensively.

But for reference books and textbooks, Mu Qiong thinks that the price must be lower so that anyone who wants to buy can buy it.

"There's no one like you who pushes money out!" Zhang Che sighed.

"I don't wait for the rice to cook." Mu Qiong laughed.

Zhang Che took a deep look at Mu Qiong, and finally said: "Okay, just as you said, this book is priced at 5.00 cents, and your royalties will be [-]%."

"Thank you, Editor-in-Chief Zhang." Mu Qiong said with a smile.

"You're welcome. It's also a good thing for our commercial press to get a good reputation."

After Zhang Che agreed to Mu Qiong's request, Mu Qiong returned home with the village ticket in his hand.

He felt that the matter of buying a house could be put on the agenda as soon as possible. As for what kind of house to buy... there must be electric lights, and if there are two rooms, it is best to have two more rooms-it is not easy for Mu Changyu to sleep with Zhu Wanwan all the time.

In addition, there must be a school near the new house, so Mu Changyu can go to study.

After thinking about it, Mu Qiong had already returned home before he knew it, and then he took out the banknote.

Seeing Zhuang Piao, Zhu Wanwan's eyes turned red again, but everyone could tell that she did it not because of discomfort, but because of joy.

As for Mu Changyu... "Brother, you are really amazing!"

"There is no one more powerful than you in this world!"

"Brother, do you want to eat? Do you want to take a bath?"

……

Mu Changyu, who has been busy studying recently and often has no time to care about Mu Qiong, is very attentive at the moment, and even praises Mu Qiong from the bottom of his heart, which makes Mu Qiong feel a little embarrassed.

This year's Lichun falls on the third day of the first lunar month, and it is already spring now.

Coupled with the good weather recently, the temperature has risen a lot at once.

But Huo Ying was a little afraid of the cold, so in this weather, he still ordered a lot of charcoal fires to make the house extra warm.

Right now, he is staying in the very warm hall of Fu's house, gnawing on a sugar cane.

In the ninth and tenth month of the lunar calendar, the sugar cane has already grown. At this time, the sugar cane is about to germinate and grow roots. It is extremely difficult to eat sugar cane in the New Year.

But Huo Ying is rich, so someone will naturally send well-preserved sugar cane.

It was not time for dinner, Huo Ying was sitting beside the Eight Immortals table, gnawing sugar cane while reading the popular newspaper spread out on the table.

He had already finished reading "Study Abroad", and a few days ago, he took the time to read "Seeking a Doctor", and now there is only the finale that was published today.

As for this ending, Huo Ying looked unhappy.

This Mu Qiong is a pity!

The thought that Mu-joon might like women displeases him.

And he was not happy when Fu Huai'an came back.

Fu Huai'an rushed into the room with his schoolbag on his back.

After entering the room, he found that the room was extremely hot and completely different from usual. After he realized something, the smile on the corner of his mouth gradually disappeared.

However, he soon realized something was wrong and adjusted his state, then grinned stiffly at Huo Ying: "Second brother."

"Are you bluffing like this every day?" Huo Ying looked at Fu Huai'an with a half-smile.

Fu Huai'an felt uncomfortable being watched by him.

"If you look like this, you will embarrass our Huo family if you go out in the future..." Huo Ying looked at Fu Huai'an: "I want to stay in Shanghai for a few more days, I just have time. How about this, starting tomorrow morning, I will watch you practice martial arts, You also need to learn social etiquette.”

Fu Huai'an's expression became stiff, but Huo Ying smiled happily: "That's it."

Fu Huai'an: "..."

The next morning, he was dug out of bed before dawn, but Fu Huai'an refused.

When he was outside, he felt even more aggrieved when he was stared at practicing boxing and doing various movements.

What made him most depressed was that Huo Ying said he was going to watch him practice martial arts, but in fact... Huo Ying didn't get up at all, and only called a guard to watch him!

Damn Huo Dajiang!

Fu Huai'an began to slander in his heart.

By the way, Huo Ying's real name is Huo Dajiang.

Huo Dashuai was a farmer back then, so it was naturally impossible to give his son a noble name.

His eldest son was originally named Huo Dahai, but later changed his name to Huo Yong, while his second son was originally named Huo Dajiang, but later changed his name to Huo Ying.

Even himself, Huo Shengping's name was changed later, his original name was Huo Huohu.

Huo Ying didn't know what Fu Huai'an was thinking, but seeing his grinning expression, he could guess something.

"Second brother, what are you always making him do?" Fu Yun'an looked at his elder brother who was standing by the window on the second floor, a little speechless.

Fu Huai'an wasn't very likable, but he wasn't too annoying, so he and his elder brother ignored him, but the second elder brother liked to make trouble for him.

"What torment, I'm training him." Huo Ying said with a smile: "His mother wants him to be a young marshal, so why don't you train hard?"