Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

Mu Qiong and Wei Ting arrived at their destination in a rickshaw.

Huo Ershao's house has parked a lot of cars, many men wearing robes or suits get out of the cars, of course, there are also women in western clothes.

But Mu Qiong didn't see any women wearing cheongsams—there were very few women wearing cheongsams at that time.

In ancient times, women's clothes were separated from top to bottom, and men wore long gowns. In the Republic of China, women wore cheongsams, not for looking good at all, but to imitate men and learn how men wear long gowns.

And this will almost have to wait after the New Culture Movement.

Mu Qiong and Wei Ting got off the rickshaw, paid the fare, and walked to the house.

Mu Qiong had been to Wei's house before, and felt that he had gained a lot of knowledge, but now he realized that he still had too little knowledge.

Compared with Huo Ershao's house, Wei's house is nothing.

Soldiers armed with live ammunition stand guard at the gate of Huo Ershao's house. After entering, there is a large garden. After passing through the garden, there is a three-story bungalow.

At the door of the bungalow, several attendants in suits, a middle-aged man in a long gown, and two young men in military uniforms were welcoming the guests.

That middle-aged man seemed to have a wide range of friends. He could call out every guest who came, and then greeted them a few times, and then asked the attendants to welcome them in. As for the two young men in military uniforms, They had guns on their waists, and their fierce eyes swept over each guest, but they kept silent.

"Mr. Wei, you are here. This is..." Seeing Wei Ting, the middle-aged man immediately greeted him with a smile, and then looked at Mu Qiong suspiciously.

Mu Qiong could feel that the gazes of the two young men in military uniforms also fell on him.

If he was a timid one, he might not be able to help trembling right now... Fortunately, he has a good mental quality.

Wei Ting smiled and said, "Master Wu, he is my friend, his name is Mu Qiong."

"So it's Mr. Mu, please come inside." Shopkeeper Wu said, after he finished speaking, an attendant came over and led Mu Qiong and Wei Ting inside.

The ground floor of this bungalow is four or five meters high. It has no partitions and is only supported by some marble pillars. It forms a huge banquet place. There is a place for dancing in the middle, and there are sofas around it, and cold meals are provided. and drinks.

But it is such a huge empty space, it is still very hot.

Mu Qiong was wearing a suit today. Although he wore a shirt sweater and a pair of long johns under the suit, he was still terribly cold all the way.

But when he entered the room, he immediately warmed up.

Some women wearing fur shawls, as soon as they came in, took off the shawls in their hands and handed them to the attendants. The attendants took the shawls, bowed and left, not knowing where they put them.

It was the first time for Mu Qiong to see a banquet in this era, and he was very lucky at the moment, glad that when he wrote "Study Abroad", he vaguely wrote about the banquet.

"The shopkeeper Wu standing at the door is Huo Ershao's spokesperson in Shanghai. The goods in Huo Ershao's hands are basically sold through him. He knows almost all the merchants in Shanghai." Wei Ting said: "As for the two A soldier, who should be next to Huo Ershao, is watching at the door to see if there is any suspicious person."

Mu Qiong nodded.In such an occasion, it is necessary to check more strictly.

Speaking of which, fortunately, the situation at this time is not as severe as it will be 30 or [-] years later, otherwise... a new face like him probably wouldn't be able to enter such an occasion.

Wei Ting's parents are not from Shanghai, but he has lived in Shanghai for several years and knows many people.

At this moment, he took Mu Qiong and greeted many of them.

And when he said hello...Mu Qiong suddenly realized that Wei Ting didn't seem to be liked very much.

Among businessmen, Wei Ting is probably an outlier, so naturally no one likes him, especially those who are older, their dislike is clearly shown on their faces.

Wei Ting also realized this, so he decided to stay in a corner with Mu Qiong.

The banquet hasn't started yet, but many people have already come, chatting in twos and threes at the moment.

In such an occasion, everyone basically does not talk about personal matters.

Men talk about foreign goods that are more profitable, while women talk about clothes and jewelry, or... just talk about the books they have read recently.

"I recently read "Study Abroad". It is a good book."

"I watched it too, I also watched "Seeking a Doctor", and I don't know what kind of person the author Lou Yuyu is."

"I heard that Lou Yuyu is an international student, but he is not an international student of Geng style."

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"Mu Qiong, your popularity is not lower than mine at all." Wei Ting laughed after hearing these comments, "In a while, Lou Yuyu's name will probably be more famous than me, the prodigal son."

"Mr. Wei, you are doing something that benefits the country and the people, not the same as those prodigal sons." Mu Qiong said.

There are a lot of real prodigal sons in Shanghai, smoking opium, playing actors and doing everything, but Wei Ting is completely different from them.

Wei Ting smiled and changed the subject: "Let's go and get something to eat. I'm going to have a tooth-beating ceremony. The dishes made by Feng Xiaoya really don't taste very good."

Wei Ting has already said so...then get something to eat.

After Mu Qiong ate something, he saw the host of the banquet, the famous Huo Ershao, appearing.

The "Grandpa Huo" in Mu Qiong's impression is an old man with white hair, casual smile, and a very serious look.

But now Second Young Master Huo...

Huo Ershao is very young, only 24 or [-] years old, but he doesn't have the vigor of a young man, and he looks a bit gloomy.

"Second Master Huo has a bad personality, but he is a nice person. He keeps his promises and says one thing, and everyone is willing to do business with him." Wei Ting said, "We'll go there too."

Mu Qiong followed Wei Ting and saw a bald man complimenting Second Young Master Huo. He praised Second Young Master Huo again and again, and then mentioned his daughter...

He brought Huo Ying and his daughter together inside and outside the words, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that he wanted to match Huo Ying and his daughter.

"You talk too much." Huo Ying looked at him suddenly: "wasting my time."

The bald middle-aged man's expression froze, and Mu Qiong was quite surprised.

He didn't expect that "Grandpa Huo", who was passionate about charity, would have such a personality when he was young, and he would be so embarrassing on such occasions.

However, even if Huo Ying is so shameless, everyone still has to support him.

The Huo family is not easy to mess with!

Although Huo Ying was very rude to the bald middle-aged man, but when chatting with others, although he was not enthusiastic, he would not be rude.

"Second Young Master, long time no see." Wei Ting stepped forward and greeted Huo Ying.

Huo Ying looked at Wei Ting, and twitched the corners of his mouth: "It's been a long time, what is Mr. Wei doing recently?"

Huo Ying knew Wei Ting. He used to do business with Wei Ting's father and met Wei Ting.

But he would call Wei Ting "Mr. Wei", not because of this, but because Wei Ting is Fu Yun'an's friend.

Their family was abroad, and they lived together at first, but later they were no longer short of money, and had their own paths to go, so they separated.

At that time, the eldest brother first found a relationship and spent money to enter a military academy. After studying for a few years, he returned to China early, while he went to study business and started to contact domestic businessmen to do business. As for Yun'an, he went to study medicine.

They didn't have much contact at that time, but they still had correspondence. He had only heard about Wei Ting's matter from Fu Yun'an.

"I'm planning to build a university recently." Wei Ting said with a smile, and then talked about building a school by himself.

After Wei Ting returned to China after studying everywhere, he has done many things and established more than one school.

However, most of the schools are organized by him in cooperation with the government, and Ping An Middle School is a private school run by him.

But he wants to run a university this time because the tuition fees of universities are very expensive except for a few. He hopes to run a university that ordinary people can afford.

Huo Ying listened, the corners of his mouth twitched, such a university is a bottomless pit... Wei Ting came to ask him for money?

Forget it, for Fu Yun'an's sake, it's okay for him to give tens of thousands of yuan.

"It's good to run a university, Mr. Wei is very ambitious." Huo Ying said.

Wei Ting said: "I want to contribute a little bit to the cause of education in China."

"For such a thing, everyone should do their best... What is this?" Huo Ying was about to spend some money to get rid of Wei Ting when he suddenly saw Mu Qiong standing behind Huo Ying.

"This is my friend Mu Qiong." Wei Ting introduced.

Although Mu Qiong has written two books and is somewhat famous, he doesn't want people to know that he is Lou Yuyu, so he only has the identity of a middle school teacher.

Wei Ting himself was not familiar with Huo Ying, so it was not easy to introduce such a young teacher as Mu Qiong to Huo Ying, and he hadn't introduced him before, so he didn't expect Huo Ying to ask.

"Mu Qiong... Meiyu's Qiong?" Huo Ying asked.

"Yes." Mu Qiong nodded.

Huo Ying looked at Mu Qiong.The sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy is full of heroism, looking energetic... Huo Ying's smile suddenly became a little more sincere: "Good name."

"Thank you, Second Young Master, for your compliment." Mu Qiong said.He thought that he would feel a little uncomfortable in contact with the legendary person, but in fact...he was quite comfortable.

"You are a teacher, what do you teach?" Huo Ying asked again.

"I'm teaching English now." Mu Qiong said, and then I heard Huo Ying speak English.

Mu Qiong immediately answered in English.

Huo Ying asked Mu Qiong in English which university he graduated from, and said that it was great that Mu Qiong could be a teacher at such a young age.

Mu Qiong told half-truths about his experience.

Regardless of men and women, when puberty is just developing, the height is grown on the legs.

It is also because of this that adolescent boys and girls often have long legs, which account for a large proportion of their height.

Mu Qiong is still growing now, and his legs are quite long. It is impossible for a person at this age to be fat... Now when he wears a suit, he looks slim and long.

Huo Ying is very satisfied with Mu Qiong's appearance.

And Mu Qiong's conversation and knowledge are not bad... Huo Ying looked at Wei Ting: "Education is the foundation of a country. If a country wants to be strong, it must have good education. I am very willing to support the cause of education, Mr. Wei Your character is also worthy of trust. Mr. Wei, I am willing to support [-] silver dollars for you to run a university."

Although Wei Ting came here to look for Huo Ying, he didn't really expect Huo Ying to give the money, after all he was not familiar with Huo Ying.

Unexpectedly... Huo Ying gave [-] in one mouthful!

With this one hundred thousand, this university can be built!You can even start preparing for enrollment right away!

Wei Ting was very excited.

Mu Qiong was also a little moved.

One ocean is equivalent to 400 yuan, and one hundred thousand oceans is equivalent to 4000 million!

Huo Ershao only listened to a few words from them, and he was willing to spend so much money to support education... Although Huo Ershao's personality is different from the Grandpa Huo in his memory, his attitude towards supporting education is the same of.

An idea popped up in Mu Qiong's mind.

However, he didn't have time to think about it.

After talking to Wei Ting, Huo Ying asked Mu Qiong again: "You never went to college, do you plan to go to college?"

"I don't plan to go to university again." Mu Qiong said, "I'm not very good at science. If you have other knowledge, you can learn it by yourself."

Abandoning literature and theory at this moment, he can't learn much with his ability, so it's better to concentrate on writing books.

"Very good." Huo Ying said.

Huo Ying talked with Mu Qiong for a while, then stopped.

He wanted to get in touch with Mu Qiong more, but it was not good to be too obvious on such an occasion.

The person beside Huo Ying who was chatting with him was replaced by someone else, and Wei Ting and Mu Qiong came to the side again.

"I didn't expect Second Young Master Huo to be so generous." Wei Ting said with emotion, "I must not let him down!"

"Mr. Wei, if you want to run a school, why don't you run a primary school, but a university?" Mu Qiong raised his own question.

In fact, according to Mu Qiong's thinking, he is inclined to run a primary school.

The cost of running a primary school is much less. The money Wei Ting used to run a university is enough for him to run many primary schools and popularize basic education.

"Elementary school is too slow to take effect... I think the most urgent thing is to cultivate some top talents." Wei Ting said.

Wei Ting's idea is reasonable, but Mu Qiong still wants to run a primary school and... an orphanage.

Living in this society, it is impossible for him to save everyone, but he hopes to save some children within his capacity.

The banquet lasted until ten o'clock in the evening.

Wei Ting and Mu Qiong had given extra money to let the rickshaw driver wait for them outside, so they didn't have to worry about not being able to get home, but the journey was a bit freezing.

Mu Qiong decided that if it was not necessary, he would not wear a suit in the winter.

In modern times, if there is an air conditioner at home, and he goes out by car, he can wear a suit all year round, but there are no such conditions in this era.

Of course, he has had a better life than many people.

"Uncle, it's so cold, how are you doing?" Mu Qiong asked.

"Isn't that the case? I can eat enough, not bad." The uncle pulling the cart said.

"I saw starving children on the road before..."

"This kind...it's not uncommon. Some children's lives are bad, and what can they do without their parents?" said the uncle.

This rickshaw driver has a completely different personality from Aunt Zhao's husband, and he is quite talkative.

Or maybe it was because they were the only ones on the road at night, so he wanted to talk because they were so deserted——Wei Ting was going back to Ping An Middle School, and they had already separated.

Under Mu Qiong's questioning, the driver who pulled the cart said a lot about the homeless children.

Mu Qiong wrote down these one by one.

After returning home, Mu Qiong went to bed early.

Ping'an Middle School didn't officially start classes until the seventh day of the junior high school. When Mu Qiong woke up early the next morning, he didn't go out, but spread out the manuscript paper and began to write.

What he wrote was not his new book "Wandering", but a letter, a letter to Huo Ershao.

Mu Qiong didn't study chemistry and physics in his previous life, but he liked history and read a lot of miscellaneous books, so he knew a lot of things.

He couldn't make his country produce more guns and ammunition than other countries, and he couldn't come up with any new inventions, but he had a lot of money-making ideas.

For example, he knows that opening an enamel factory to produce enamel cups and washbasins will definitely make money.

But he couldn't do it himself.

In this era, people without background are not allowed to do business well.

Someone in China has built a factory. Not only those foreign businessmen will try to squeeze his factory down in order to make more money, but even domestic officials may make a move for profit.

During this period, in fact, many businessmen did not end well. For example, the founder of Yunnan Baiyao was killed because he was unwilling to donate the formula.

Mu Qiong knew that his ability was limited and he had no background, so he would definitely not be able to do it well, since that's the case... it's better to let someone else do it.

As for this candidate, he thinks Huo Ershao is the most suitable.

If Second Young Master Huo is willing to help, he can even do other things.

Mu Qiong's letter was very long, in which he wrote a way to make money, and then said that he knew how to make a miraculous drug, and that drug could save many, many people.

The medicine Muqiong said was antibiotics.

When he went to the free clinic with Fu Yun'an before, he thought of antibiotics countless times.

If antibiotics were available at this time, many people would be able to get rid of the torment of illness, and many, many people would die less in wars.

You must know that in the original history, although antibiotics appeared ten years later and were mass-produced in the 40s, they were difficult to buy in China.

At that time, it was completely controlled by foreigners, and only foreign-funded hospitals had it, and the price was even more expensive.

Antibiotics saved the lives of many European soldiers in World War II, but in this country, soldiers who were desperately fighting off invaders often had to wait to die after their wounds became infected.

If only they could produce their own antibiotics...

Mu Qiong took a deep breath.

In fact, this matter has always been on his mind. He had considered telling Fu Yunan to study antibiotics before, but he hesitated when he thought of the chaotic officialdom and the foreigners who were eyeing him. He was afraid that if he did this, he would instead It hurt Fu Yun'an.

However, Second Young Master Huo should not be afraid of these.

At least, for the next ten years while his father was alive, he had nothing to fear.

Of course, antibiotics also have disadvantages, but compared to the advantages, the disadvantages are really insignificant.

And... the dangers of overuse of antibiotics, he will naturally remind people of this era in the future.

Worried that this letter would fall into the hands of others, Mu Qiong did not say in detail what the medicine was, but said that if Huo Ershao was interested, he could publish a small notice in Hope Monthly.

After Mu Qiong finished writing the letter, he signed "Tian Xing" at the end of the letter.

Along with this letter, there was also the third draft of "I'm in a Hundred Years Later".

In this manuscript, antibiotics appear for the first time, and the protagonist Zhang Xing will also see this miraculous drug.