Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

There are so many guests that there is no room for one Eight Immortals table. Fortunately, there are two Eight Immortals tables in this house, and there is also a round table that can be placed on the Eight Immortals table to widen the Eight Immortals table.

It can be seen that the original owner's family of this house is very prosperous, or there are many relatives and friends who often walk around.

Mu Qiong placed both Eight Immortals tables in the hall for receiving guests, and on one of the Eight Immortals tables was a round table top.

A boxy frame was nailed under the round table top with wooden strips. The inside of the frame was the same size as the table top of the Eight Immortals Table, just enough to buckle the round table top on the Eight Immortals Table, and it was very stable after being placed.

The teacher from Ping'an Middle School and Wei Ting sat at this table just right, and the rest and Mu Qiong sat at another Eight Immortals table.

As for Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu, they are not at the table.

Mu Qiong thinks that it is a bad habit for men to eat outside and women to eat in the kitchen, but in this world, it is inappropriate for his mother and sister to entertain a group of male guests.

Of course, in the cafeteria of Ping An Middle School, everyone eats together, which is relatively less particular.

At this time, the generators were all burning oil, and the cost of operation was very high, so the power was not supplied until [-] o'clock in the evening, and then the power was supplied overnight, and the power supply was stopped at [-] or [-] o'clock in the morning.

There was already electricity when they ate, and Mu Qiong turned on the light. Sheng Zhaohui liked it very much: "When I have money, I will also buy a house with water and electricity."

"If you didn't spend your money recklessly and saved your money, you might have already bought a house." A teacher in the school who has a good relationship with Sheng Chaohui said.

Sheng Chaohui, as a rich second generation, likes all kinds of entertainment activities, and usually has something new to try.

Speaking of which, it's also thanks to the strict control of his family, Wei Ting also said that Ping'an Middle School doesn't allow opium smokers to come in, otherwise... Maybe he will try opium.

"I don't spend much money these days. I don't have time to spend money at all." Sheng Chaohui said, "I'm so busy with the monthly education magazine that I've even lost my sleep time."

Everyone chatted and ate, and they had to boast about the dishes on the table.

At this time, there were not as many ingredients in the market as in later generations, and the dishes on the table were all common, but when cooked by the cook of the Fu family, these home-cooked dishes became extraordinarily delicious.

Boss Chen was amazed by the food, and tried to distinguish which seasonings were put in while eating: "There are a lot of seasonings in these dishes, some of which I can't taste...Is this ordered from a big restaurant?"

"It was made by the cook at Dr. Fu's house," Mu Qiong said.

Boss Chen was amazed, while Jin Huailai said: "This cook's skill is really good, I have never eaten such delicious food."

"That's it! You haven't eaten such delicious food before, it's because you have been back to China too shortly." Fu Huai'an said, he is very good at making friends. After Jin Huailai came to Ping'an Middle School a few times, he also acknoledged.

"That's right! Food from abroad is not as delicious as food from our own country." Jin Huailai laughed.

"Sir, did you come back from abroad?" Boss Chen sat with Jin Huailai, and when he heard Jin Huailai's words, he immediately asked, and then asked about his son.

But the country is so big, and it's inconvenient to communicate these days. Jin Huailai doesn't know Boss Chen's son at all.

Mu Qiong had asked Fu Yun'an and Wei Ting to inquire before, but they also did not inquire about Boss Chen's son.

Boss Chen is doomed to be disappointed again.

This meal was a feast for the guests and host.

After dinner, Mu Qiong's colleagues except Sheng Chaohui and Wei Ting took the lead to leave. Boss Chen and Jin Huailai had to get up early tomorrow to work, so they also left.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Che and Li Ronghua also left.

During the meal before, Zhang Che promised Fu Huai'an that as long as he translated all "Andersen's Fairy Tales", he would publish a book for him, which made Fu Huai'an very excited. Fu Yun'an said: "Brother, it's time for me to learn English, let's go back soon!"

Fu Yun'an, who wanted to stay a little longer: "..."

Fu Yun'an left with Fu Huai'an, and only Wei Ting and Sheng Chaohui stayed in the end.

"Mu Qiong, isn't your house cheap? Do you have enough money?" Seeing that everyone had left, Wei Ting asked.

When he came to Mu Qiong's house, he found that the house Mu Qiong bought was so good, such a house must not be cheap.Although Mu Qiong has some money now, he probably can't afford it.

"The money is enough. I have discussed with the landlord about the installment payment." Mu Qiong said, and then explained the details of buying a house.

"You bought this house for five thousand oceans? So cheap?" Wei Ting was surprised.

"Five thousand oceans is cheap?" Mu Qiong was curious.

"As far as I know, such a house can be sold even if it sells for six or seven thousand, let alone five thousand. Moreover, there are not many such houses in the entire concession, and the price will only rise and not fall." Wei Ting said : "Some people are in a hurry to ask for money, and they may sell it at a low price, but according to what you said, they are willing to let you pay in installments, so they are not in a hurry to ask for money... How can the land be sold so cheap?"

Sheng Chaohui said: "It's very strange, is there something wrong with this house?"

Mu Qiong didn't think much about it before, but now that he thinks about it, he also feels that his house purchase went too smoothly.

This was introduced by Fu Yun'an, and Fu Yun'an would definitely not cheat him, but he was able to buy it so easily, perhaps because of Fu Yun'an's favor.

Mu Qiong said: "Dr. Fu introduced this house to me. Maybe they gave me a low price because of Dr. Fu's face."

Wei Ting smiled: "That should be the case. You should invite Dr. Fu to dinner alone some other day to express your gratitude."

Mu Qiong complied.

After Wei Ting and Sheng Chaohui left, Mu Qiong went to the kitchen, only to find out that the cook had cleaned up the kitchen for them, even the dishes and chopsticks had been washed.

That night, Muqiong wrote some more analysis of his own future.

He wrote very late that day, and early the next morning, he sent all the manuscripts behind "I'm in a Hundred Years Later" and the things he wrote to Huo Ershao.

After posting the letter, he felt relieved for a while, and then went to the suburbs to see the orphans.

When he got there, Jin Huailai was teaching the children to read and write.

Jin Huailai just started learning Chinese, and his learning is not very good. The handwriting is very ugly, and the writing of those children is even uglier. But both Jin Huailai and those children wrote very seriously, as if they were doing something extremely Important things like that.

Especially those children, even if they are only four or five years old, they are not very sensible, and they are not distracted at all.

These children are very precocious.

Mu Qiong stood at the door and watched for a while, and found that there were three more children in the study team.

Mu Qiong didn't disturb these children's study, and left gently to find Wu Ma.

After Jin Huailai took over these orphans, he recruited two more people, so Mama Wu only needed to help take care of the baby girl and didn't need to cook anymore.

But Mama Wu's job is not easy, because not long ago, someone threw the third baby girl at the gate of the orphanage.

As for the three extra children... Among them is a pair of brothers and sisters that Li Zhenyao brought just yesterday, and the other is a seven-year-old girl whose mother kowtowed to Jin Huailai, begging Jin Huailai to take her daughter.

The girl's father was a heavy drinker, and when he was drunk, he would beat the child at home, and beat the girl all over the body, and that was fine. He had no money to buy alcohol, so he planned to sell his daughter to a brothel.

No matter how much the mother tried to persuade her, she sent her daughter here and begged Jin Huai to take her in.

Speaking of which, most of the street children taken in before were boys, and a small number of girls.

This is not because girls are valued, but because most of the abandoned girls are baby girls, and most of them never have the chance to grow up.

Children who are six or seven years old or older have a chance to survive if something happens to them and they have to wander outside.Boys of this age are generally not wanted. After all, they are not well-raised, and they can easily become vagrants. Girls are different.

Many families who are not wealthy these days often have no money to marry their sons, so they are happy to raise a child bride.Get a little girl to come to your home, first let this child work for them as a cow, a horse, do housework and take care of the children, and then marry their son when they grow up... How good is it?

In addition, brothels are also willing to take girls of seven or eight years old.When such a girl is bought back, she will first do some work of serving people with tea and water, and she will be able to pick up customers after a few years of raising her, and she will only make money and not lose money!

A well-groomed girl will generally not live on the streets.

Mu Qiong has known about this situation for a long time. In fact, in his "Wandering Notes", there is a similar description, a cute girl appeared.

This girl is about the same age as Doudou. She was sold by her parents to someone else's family as a child bride, and the family beat her or scolded her, and didn't give her enough food. She was so hungry and took her "little husband" The leftover dumplings were eaten, and one hand was discounted.

Then she escaped and wanted to go home, but she didn't know the way home.

Doudou was very enthusiastic and offered to help her find a home, and they started wandering together.

This girl can do needlework. She picked up clothes thrown away by others, used fish bones as needles, removed the thread, sewed a dress for Doudou, and sewed the old clothes together to help Doudou make a new one. Bed quilt - Doudou in the book, ushered in autumn.

This girl became Doudou's best friend. When Doudou got something delicious, she was reluctant to eat it and gave it to her. She said she was full and let Doudou eat.

The two children shared weal and woe, lived together for a month, and finally found the girl's parents.

The girl rushed towards her parents, not wanting her parents to beat her up, and then send her back to the family who bought her.

Because she ran away, the family wanted her parents to return the money that bought her, but her parents were unwilling to pay back the money.

This girl was once again sent to the tiger and wolf den by her parents, and the family got worse and treated her even worse, clamoring to beat her until she became obedient.

She doesn't like to laugh anymore, she is no longer as lively and cheerful as she was when she just escaped and saw Doudou, and she doesn't even want to run away.

She became numb and had already resigned to her fate.

Doudou secretly went to see her and brought her food, but she didn't respond at all, just working mechanically.

Doudou is a lively child, but his life is indeed a tragedy.

This girl died of illness in the end... Of course, she may have died of starvation.

Then, the family that tortured her to death went to her parents and demanded that they pay back the money.

Her parents threw themselves on her dead body and cried, not knowing whether they were crying for the dead daughter or crying for having to pay back half of the money.

The girl was wrapped in a straw mat and thrown away. Doudou carried her to the outskirts, dug a hole and buried her...

Mu Qiong stayed in the house here all morning and then left.

Another day passed, and the second issue of Educational Monthly was published.

Because of Fu Yun'an's suggestion, this issue of Education Monthly has added some content and made it thicker.

As soon as this monthly magazine was launched, it immediately attracted panic buying.