Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

Half a child starved to death, this group of young boys is the age that can eat the most, and they are hungry after walking for a long time.

Or it should be said that they were already hungry, but after walking for such a long distance, they became even hungrier.

The twelve or thirteen-year-old boy rubbed his stomach, took out a small piece of cake from his pocket, broke off a little and put it in his mouth.

Fifty catties of grain and two silver dollars, he brought home yesterday, his parents hugged him and cried, and then made him a cake.

Pure grain cakes without any wild vegetables in them.

But when he went out, he didn't take all the cakes with him, he just broke off a small piece and left.

The tall boy walking with him looked at him and swallowed.

"Brother, do you want to eat?" the little boy asked.

"No need." The tall boy turned his head away and stopped looking at him.

"Brother, my name is Cheng Dahai, what's your name?" the little boy asked again.

"My name is Song Yanqiu." The tall boy said.

"Brother, I'm from Gaodi Village, where is your home?"

"My family lives in the county seat."

The short Cheng Dahai and the tall Song Yanqiu were walking forward while chatting. While walking, someone in the team suddenly fell down.

"Someone's fainted!" A teenager who was in the period of changing his voice shouted.

But there were also many people who were stunned and didn't react at all when they saw this scene.

They are so hungry that they don't have the strength to bother others.

The middle man came over soon, frowning very unhappy: "Why did you faint? You must be sick, right?"

He walked closer, looked at the man, and then relaxed a lot: "I'm fainted from hunger, help me pinch his mouth!"

Someone helped to pinch the unconscious man's mouth open, and then the man took out a jar, scooped a spoonful of brown sugar for the man to eat, and when it was over, asked someone to move the man to a carriage for him to eat. He gave some water.

The team continued to move forward, and not long after, someone fainted again.

But this time, after the middleman saw it, he didn't give the brown sugar. Instead, he whipped him over with a whip: "Don't pretend to be dizzy! Get up and hurry! If you play tricks again, I'll send you back!"

The man hurriedly got up.

If they were returned, they would have to pay back the food and silver dollars... They were not willing.

Fortunately, after they had been walking for an afternoon, the middleman took them to a stop in a small village, where they huddled together to rest in a small house let out by the villagers, and each was given a bowl of sorghum porridge.

The sorghum porridge is very sticky, with white rice, beans and peanuts in it, and the pickles made from the leaves of Yong radish that go with the porridge are especially delicious.

Cheng Dahai suddenly felt that even if the Chinese wanted to take them to war, it was okay.

As long as you can eat enough.

They walked like this for another two days, and finally came to a rather big city.

The county seat of Lu County is only one street in total, but this city is different. It is very, very large, with many streets in both horizontal and vertical directions, and the streets are full of shops.

Stepping on straw sandals and wearing his father's old clothes, Cheng Dahai looked curiously at everything around him.

But the middleman didn't show them more: "Hurry up, everyone!"

The middleman took them to a place, the gate was guarded by the police, and they counted the heads and let them in. After entering, they came to a spacious stone platform.

"This place is so flat, there are no gaps!" Cheng Dahai looked at the stone platform under his feet, and was extremely surprised.

Song Yanqiu glanced at the ground and said, "This is cement."

"Cement? There's no water or mud here!" Cheng Dahai was puzzled.

Song Yanqiu pursed his lips before saying, "Cement is one thing, such a flat platform is made of cement."

Just as they were talking, there was a sound of "Kang Dang Bang Dang" suddenly, and then, a monster with two big square eyes in front, a red nose in the middle, and a green body on its body rushed towards them.

"There are monsters!" Cheng Dahai exclaimed, the boy who came with them, and some who fled back.

It's a pity that they didn't escape. The police were watching at the door, and a middleman standing behind gave them a few whips.

Cheng Dahai did not escape, but his legs were shaking non-stop and were already weak.

"This is a train, not a monster!" Song Yanqiu said.

"Is this really a monster?" Cheng Dahai's voice trembled.

"No!" Song Yanqiu said firmly.

"That's really great... This monster looks really scary!" Cheng Hai said.

Song Yanqiu: "..." It's not a monster!

There was a commotion on the platform, but fortunately at this moment the train stopped.

Several people wearing long gowns and leather shoes and carrying suitcases got off the train, and some men in long gowns or mandarin jackets stepped into the train.

These people looked decent, and they were definitely not ordinary people. Seeing their calm faces, Cheng Dahai was not so afraid.

"Queue up and get on the bus for me! Don't be ashamed of yourself here!" Several middle-aged people cursed.

"Brother, what does it mean to be ashamed?" Cheng Dahai asked Song Yanqiu curiously. He now thinks Song Yanqiu is very powerful and knows everything.

"It's a shame that I haven't seen the world." Song Yanqiu explained in words that Cheng Dahai could understand.

Cheng Dahai nodded with a half understanding.

They got into the car and squeezed into two compartments. Some had seats, while others could only sit on the ground.

The middlemen occupied the frontmost seats in the carriage, and each of them occupied two seats, talking to a few flattering teenagers.

"You guys are lucky. Huo Ershao's factory needs some smart workers. Don't just use your strength. You are half-grown. I helped the sand shipyard find workers before, and they were all in their twenties. The one who is strong and strong. Don’t want the one whose waist is not wide enough.” The man took out something and picked it up.

There was a strange smell in the carriage, Cheng Dahai sniffed it, and then asked Song Yanqiu: "Brother, what kind of smell is this?"

Song Yanqiu said: "That's opium."

"It's opium. I heard that rich people smoke it. I don't know what it smells like."

Song Yanqiu slapped Cheng Dahai on the head: "This is something harmful, don't worry about it!"

Cheng Dahai pouted.

Song Yanqiu looked at the middle-aged man who was swallowing clouds and puffing out fog, and his heart was full of bewilderment about the future.

His family used to have a little money, but unfortunately his grandfather and uncle all smoked opium, and forcibly drained all the money in the family.

His father died young, and the family had no pillars. In the end, he was kicked out of the house by the uncle who regarded their mother and son as oil bottles.

His grandfather's family did not allow his mother to go home, and the Song family had no place for them, so they could only rent a house to survive, not wanting to have a flood last year.

Originally, he and his mother could find some work to do, but after the flood, they couldn't find any more capable work.

He signed up secretly and didn't let his mother know at first.On the day of his departure, he left the food and silver dollars and a note, and left home without looking back.

He didn't know what his future would be like, but now that they could still take the train, the situation shouldn't be too bad?

These teenagers took the train for a day and a night, and finally came to Shanghai.

In the middle, the train stopped at several stations, and there were people selling food at each station, but none of them had money to buy, so they could only look at everything around them in amazement.

For the first time, Cheng Dahai knew that the world was so big.

Even Song Yanqiu, who learned to read from his father when he was a child, read some books and read some newspapers when he was copying books for others, was shocked by what he saw and heard along the way.

But no matter how surprised they were along the way, they couldn't keep up with the surprise after they arrived at Shanghai Railway Station.

Shanghai Railway Station is very, very big, bigger than any station they have seen before. The platform is full of people, some are waiting to get on the train, and some are selling food. The people here are all very well dressed. , so that they could not help but feel ashamed.

After they followed the middle man to a corner, they saw a middle-aged man in a satin mandarin jacket approaching.

The middle-aged man nodded and bowed to the middle-aged man: "Master Wu! Are you here in person?"

"Second Master Huo is in a hurry to ask for workers, so I'll come over and have a look." Shopkeeper Wu said, and as soon as he waved his hand, several people walked out beside him.

These people carried baskets, in which were soft white steamed buns, and shopkeeper Wu took the steamed buns and gave them to the teenagers present one by one.

Cheng Dahai's hands were dirty, and the steamed buns would turn black when he squeezed them, but he didn't dislike them at all, and ate the steamed buns in two or three mouthfuls.

Song Yanqiu ate more slowly, while also paying attention to that shopkeeper Wu.

Shopkeeper Wu noticed his gaze and smiled at him: "Eat your food quickly! Then follow me to the factory!"

Song Yanqiu couldn't understand Shanghai dialect, but he suddenly felt relieved while chewing on the white steamed buns.

Maybe...they really came to Shanghai to work.

Two oceans a month, in Lu County, ten oceans can marry a daughter-in-law, he used to keep copying books for others, and he couldn't earn two oceans a month!

He works hard and saves money to take home, which will definitely make his mother and younger siblings live a better life!

Song Yanqiu and his party were full of hope for the future.

Huo Ershao has been very busy recently.Opening a factory is no easy task!

If we don't take care of it well, the people on the road in Shanghai can make troubles every day, not to mention, even the government can make a lot of troubles.

No background, opening a factory will only make others cheaper in the end. Huo Ershao met a young man who wanted to rejuvenate the country through industry before, but ended up bankrupt. Just a few days after opening the factory, several corpses were thrown into the factory , was involved in a homicide case, he was exhausted physically and mentally, and the factory could not continue to operate, so he had to sell the factory at a low price in the end.Not long after that, the factory was taken over by the police commissioner's younger brother, and it started up in a hurry, making a lot of money.

As for him...he is running errands for Huo Ershao now.

Fortunately, Second Young Master Huo is a man of great background.

Looking at the guards with guns on their waists beside Huo Ershao, he secretly endured anyone who wanted to make trouble.

Huo Ershao's factory was built just like that. Today, he just built a row of bungalows for employees, and the first batch of employees lived in them.

Although the bungalows for the staff are oriented north-south, they are more than ten meters deep and are next to each other. Except for a window facing south, there are only walls on the east and west sides, so it is very dark.

There is no bed in this room. Except for a four-foot-wide aisle in the middle, there is a whole "bed" on both sides, which is more than ten meters long and is padded with bricks. Twenty people can sleep on one side of this bed. There are forty people to live.

Now, a group of teenagers have settled down here, they can rest for a day, as for tomorrow...they will help build the factory building!

After all, the factory building has not been built yet!

Of course, what they have to do is not just to build a factory... Huo Ershao contacted Wei Ting and asked Wei Ting to find some students from poor families in Ping An Middle School, and asked them to teach those recruited people how to read at night.

Mu Qiong was quite surprised when he heard the news.

At this time, the factory owners wished that their workers could work twenty hours a day, but Huo Ershao actually asked his workers to study at night...

Mu Qiong finished writing another "I'm in a Hundred Years Later", but he didn't have time to send it. He thought about sending it tomorrow, and then wrote a letter to Huo Ershao.

As for why he is busy, and why he wants to send it tomorrow... Today is his moving day.

It has been several days since he bought the house, Mu Qiong has moved a lot of furniture to his new home one after another, and today, he will move all the last things to the new home.

In addition, he invited some people to his house for dinner.

The landlord of the house that Mu Qiong rented after moving away from Yao's house is a very negotiable person.Mu Qiong was about to move out, and after seeing the house, he returned the deposit, and Mu Qiong reciprocated, and moved out before the end of the month, so that the landlord could find the next tenant.

Today is Sunday, Mu Qiong moved the last sheets and quilts to the new home early in the morning, and then bought a lot of vegetables for the evening reception.

He also bought a lot of chicken, duck and fish, as well as some vegetables and fruits.

Mu Qiong originally planned to make these things with three of his own family, but at noon, the cook from Fu Yun'an's house knocked on the door, saying that Fu Yun'an asked her to come over and help cook.

About today's dinner, Fu Huai'an and Fu Yun'an brothers both invited him, and Mu Qiong naturally would not refuse, and immediately took the cook into the kitchen, and then saw her start cooking skillfully, and went to Fu's house to bring them in the middle Many seasonings came.

Mu Qiong planned to help her in the kitchen with Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu, but she refused, so they could only watch her cook from the sidelines in the end.

The cook was very quick, she asked the coachman of the Fu family to light the fire for her, and cooked two pots at the same time, and the dishes were still delicious and delicious.

She also made the braised pork and stewed duck that Mu Qiong had eaten at Fu's house before, the color and taste were exactly the same as what Mu Qiong ate that time.