Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

Although Mu Qiong sent the letter, he knew very well that it might not change the future.

What's more, Huo Ershao might not believe his words at all.

He can only do his best and obey the destiny.

This morning, Mu Qiong still has class.

The editorial department of the Education Monthly has not yet been built, but the two newly recruited employees have to find a place to settle. Sheng Chaohui rented a bungalow near Ping'an Middle School as the editorial department.

Today is the day when the second issue of Educational Monthly will be published. He went to the editorial office early in the morning, and he will not be free to come to school until noon. His class is transferred to the afternoon, and Mu Qiong's class is in the morning.

Recently, Mu Qiong was very busy and didn't take much care of his students. Fortunately, the progress of these students' studies was very gratifying, especially in Fu Huai'an's class, everyone studied even better.

And this has a lot to do with Fu Huai'an, the representative of the English class - he leads the whole class to learn English with great enthusiasm every day. It's difficult.

During class, Mu Qiong specifically praised Fu Huai'an, and asked Fu Huai'an to come to the office after class.

After class, Fu Huai'an jumped out of his seat and chased Mu Qiong out of the office: "Mr. Mu, what do you want from me?"

When Mu Qiong entered the office, he took out a silver dollar and said to him, "Here's your manuscript fee."

"Is there a silver dollar?" Fu Huai'an was very pleasantly surprised. You know, his last manuscript fee was only [-] cents.

"Yes, the Educational Monthly is selling very well, and the manuscript fee has been doubled." Mu Qiong said, that is... the last time he gave Fu Huai'an a very small manuscript fee, so even if it doubled, Fu Huai'an still received very little manuscript fee.

The silver dollar Mu Qiong gave was brand new, shining brightly in the sun. Fu Huai'an felt that it was definitely the most beautiful silver dollar he had ever seen, so he carefully put it away.

Mu Qiong said to him again at this time: "I have read all the fairy tales you showed me, and you wrote them very well." In today's monthly education magazine, "The Little Match Girl" was published. , and besides that, Fu Huai'an has also translated "The Ugly Duckling", "The Daughter of the Sea" and "The Emperor's New Clothes".

Fu Huai'an was extremely proud when he heard Mu Qiong's praise.

However, Mu Qiong followed up and said: "Attention, what I said is good writing, not good translation. In your works, you have added a lot of your own ideas, and even added some plots. The story is written very well, but it is different from the original work. You can write the article in the monthly educational magazine like this, but if you publish the book, it is best to change it."

"Why? Did I write poorly?" Fu Huai'an was a little unhappy.

"You write very well, but this is someone else's work." Mu Qiong smiled: "I think you have a great talent for writing novels... Would you like to try writing such a story yourself?"

Fu Huai'an was startled: "I can also write?"

"Of course." Mu Qiong said: "Don't you like the story of "Thumbelina" very much? You can try to write about a person who suddenly becomes smaller and encounters such and such things."

Mu Qiong approached Fu Huai'an, on the one hand, to talk to Fu Huai'an about the publication of "Andersen's Fairy Tales".

According to Mu Qiong's thinking, it's okay for Fu Huai'an's translation to be inaccurate in the Educational Monthly. If it is to be published, it's better to publish it in the original text.After all, this is someone else's novel, and he shouldn't change it at will.

On the other hand, he wanted to ask Fu Huai'an for a draft.

Currently, the contributors to the Educational Monthly are mainly teachers from Ping An Middle School, and these teachers are actually not very good at writing fairy tales.

Mu Qiong told Fu Huai'an all this, and said, "The novels you translated may still be read by students a hundred years later, and the stories you wrote are the same...write well."

Fu Huai'an excitedly agreed.

After Fu Huai'an left, Mu Qiong wrote another call for papers, intending to publish it in the next issue of Educational Monthly.

It is impossible to rely on only a few of them to do a good job of this publication. It is still necessary to dig out as many authors as possible. If there are many good manuscripts at that time, it is also possible for them to run other publications besides the educational monthly. .

Mu Qiong has been so busy all morning, and it's time for lunch.

Lunch was eaten in the cafeteria, and Zhu Wanwan was still cooking. She had to attend a lot of classes this morning, so the meals were simple.

Minced pork is put on a plate, steamed with eggs is delicious, and boiled boiled chicken, egg drop soup with chicken broth, stir-fried two vegetables, the dishes are already very rich.

And there are many tasks here that Zhu Wanwan does not need to do. Feng Xiaoya can do steamed meat, boiled chicken and so on.

Everyone sat down to eat together, and the students in the school also ate rice and soup, and ate the dishes they brought, including Fu Huai'an.

Ping'an Middle School allows students to go out to eat at noon. Fu Huai'an used to go out to eat, but recently he is used to bringing food to eat in school.

Many people in the class use the lunch break to learn English. If they don't understand, they can only ask him, so it's not good for him to be away from school.

The dishes Fu Huai'an brings every day are very rich. For example, today, he brought an iron lunch box full of braised chicken, and an iron lunch box full of white-cut mutton.

After eating and returning to the classroom, he took out some for his classmates and exchanged them for vegetables.

This is something he didn't know how to do before. After watching "Seeking a Doctor" and "The Wandering Story" one after another, he began to pay attention to the situation of the people around him, and then he noticed that many of his classmates did not eat meat all year round.

"Brother Huai, what did Teacher Mu ask you for?" Someone asked.

"It's a good thing!" Fu Huai'an was a little proud.

"Brother Huai, you translated the article. Will it be published in the Education Monthly?" the student asked curiously.

"It's not this, but it's about the same." Fu Huai'an said, it's not the articles he translated that will be published in the Educational Monthly, but the articles he wrote himself will be published in the Educational Monthly!

Well, he hasn't actually started writing yet...

"Brother Huai...is Mr. Mu Lou Yuyu?" the student asked again.

"How do you know?" Fu Huai'an was extremely surprised.

And hearing Fu Huai'an's words, the students around him were in an uproar: "I knew that Teacher Mu must be Lou Yuyu!"

"The articles in "English Essays" are almost the same as what we have memorized!"

"Teacher Sheng is the editor-in-chief of the Education Monthly, Lou Yuyu is also the editor-in-chief of the Education Monthly, and Teacher Sheng is with Teacher Mu all day long... I have already guessed that Teacher Mu is Lou Yuyu!"

"Teacher Mu is really amazing. He is about the same age as us, yet he has written so many books!"

"He is also fluent in English and French!"

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After the students around Fu Huai'an knew that Mu Qiong was Lou Yuyu, soon the whole school knew about it.

However, since everyone had already guessed and had been with Mu Qiong for a long time, it would not be too strange.

Of course, it is certain to worship.

So Mu Qiong suddenly found that the students in his school looked at him very eagerly...

Of course, such eagerness only lasted for one day.

The next day, "Wandering Notes" published the death of the girl who had lived with Doudou for a month.

These students looked at Mu Qiong's eyes and were filled with condemnation.

This girl is very cute and very popular in the eyes of readers, but she just died like this...

Fu Yun'an, who was originally grateful to Mu Qiong because of yesterday's incident, blamed Mu Qiong for a while, and went to Mu Qiong's office to ask: "Why did you write her to death! Why!"

"Then what do you think she should do?" Mu Qiong asked.

"She can escape and go wandering with Doudou."

"The homeless life without food and clothing is not so easy. Even if she can survive, she is a girl. When she grows up, can those homeless people let her go?" Mu Qiong said.

It is not only children who are wandering around, but also many men.

Fu Huai'an was silent, but at this moment someone said: "That's the truth, in this world, it's too difficult to live well!"

As soon as the words fell, a young man in his twenties strode in, and behind him was Wei Ting.

Mu Qiong was taken aback when he saw this person.

He is no stranger to this person in front of him. He is not the most famous literati of this period, but he is also very famous, and his photo can often be seen in books.

Mu Qiong had read his book when he was very young, and admired him very much. When he saw it at this time, he was surprised and delighted: "Mr. Zheng!" The man in front of him was named Zheng Runze, a very famous thinker and writer, Has been supporting the democratic movement, and later participated in the revolution, but unfortunately was eventually killed by the Japanese army.

"You know me?" Zheng Runze looked at Mu Qiong in surprise, and said again: "Mr. Lou Yuyu, I have admired your name for a long time, and I have always wanted to see you. Unfortunately, I had something to do before and I didn't have time to come to you."

Since the end of last year, the country has been in turmoil. The magazine that Zheng Runze and his friends opened was shut down by the authorities because they published inappropriate articles. He has been busy with this matter. Recently, his magazine has reopened Only then did I have time to come to Mu Qiong.

"I have seen Mr. Zheng from afar in Beijing before." Mu Qiong said, "I have also read the articles written by Mr. Zheng, and I admire Mr. Zheng very much."

"Compared to Mr. Lou Yuyu, what I wrote is really nothing." Zheng Runze said.

Zheng Runze is indeed not very famous now. In fact, many famous people in later generations are still in junior high school, university, and some are even in elementary school...

Take Zheng Runze, for example, it has only been a year since he returned to China after finishing his university studies in Japan.

Mu Qiong admired Zheng Runze very much, and Zheng Runze liked Mu Qiong's works very much. The two held each other, and the more they talked, the happier they were.

Forgotten Fu Huai'an and Wei Ting: "..."

Zheng Runze came to Mu Qiong, hoping that Mu Qiong could write some articles and publish them in his magazine.

But Mu Qiong did not agree.

The sales volume of the magazine that Zheng Runze mentioned is not high, but it is actually more recognized and valued by those revolutionaries than Hope Monthly and Education Monthly. It mainly publishes various prose and essays, which are relatively ideological.

But Mu Qiong is better at writing stories. His stories are still about small things.

Of course, it's not that he can't write such articles. After all, he has read many similar articles, but he wrote articles that should have been written by others. What is this?

Mu Qiong finally promised Zheng Runze that he would definitely write when he was free or had an idea in the future, and was invited by Zheng Runze to have lunch together.

Zheng Runze's family is very good, and he spends money generously. He took Mu Qiong and Wei Ting directly to a famous restaurant in Shanghai. He ordered seven or eight dishes, which cost three or four silver dollars in total.

After Mu Qiong came to the Republic of China, it was the first time to eat such an expensive meal, but this big meal was really nothing unusual for him.

Let’s just talk about Peking duck, which is indeed a novelty dish in Shanghai, and many people have never tried it, but in modern times, where is there no Peking duck in all parts of the country?

Even the roast ducks on the street costing 20 yuan a piece may be more delicious than the one on the table. After all, people are willing to put all kinds of seasonings and food additives, and at this moment, it has not been long since even monosodium glutamate was discovered. Neither side has to be sold.

The three chatted a lot, and also talked about the current social situation.

And these are basically what Wei Ting and Zheng Runze are talking about.

Mu Qiong said that he was young and didn't understand, and he didn't say anything, but Wei Ting and Zheng Runze didn't doubt it.

The novels written by Mu Qiong are all written from a small point. The stories are very catchy and thought-provoking, but they never involve politics, nor do they deliberately write some ideological things.

After eating, Zheng Runze left.

Mu Qiong was quite happy to meet a famous person, but to his surprise, this afternoon, he met another very famous traitor Song Yanqiu who often appeared in some anti-Japanese dramas.

And this starts with him and Wei Ting taking some students to the factory opened by Huo Ying.

Huo Ying's factory has not yet opened, but it has recruited many workers. He also asked Wei Ting to find some students from poor families who are willing to work and study, and teach the workers in his factory every night.

Wei Ting had already selected these students, but because he was afraid that the working environment of these students would not be good, he decided to take these students to visit Huo Ershao's factory first, and Mu Qiong was very interested in it, so he followed along went.