The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

  Tianjin, Siheyuan.

  Shen Congwen was writing the manuscript last night until midnight, and in a daze, he vaguely heard someone shouting in the yard: "Brother Ziyuan, Brother Congwen, go out to work!"

   "Come, come!" Shen Congwen turned over and got up, and hurriedly came to the courtyard to wash up.

   Li Shoumin was not in a hurry, he waited patiently, and looked up to admire the birds jumping and chirping among the branches.

   After several minutes, Zhu Xiang yawned and said sleepily, "What time is it, you got up too early."

   Li Shoumin smiled and said, "It's a bit far from the newspaper office, so get up early so you won't be late."

   Shen Congwen came to Tianjin with Zhou Hexuan, and shared with Zhu Xiang in the courtyard opposite Li Shoumin. We are all bachelors. Yesterday, we invited each other out for a drink. After a meal, we became good friends.

  Li Shoumin is bold and calm, Zhu Xiang is angry and casual, and Shen Congwen is modest and gentle. The three have different personalities. In the usual chat, Li Shoumin and Zhu Xiang talked eloquently.

   Came to Hutongkou, Shen Congwen took the initiative to run to buy breakfast, and took Zhu Xiang's share with him by the way.

   "Thank you!" Zhu Xiang didn't know what to be polite, so he ate it when he took it, and didn't mention the money at all. In his opinion, there is no need to care about so many friends, it's just a treat for him another day.

  The crowd took the tram to Dongcheng, then walked to the concession, and walked for half an hour before arriving at the newspaper office.

   "Popular" as a supplement to "Ta Kung Pao", with offices next to each other. Zhou Hexuan is the editor-in-chief and the editor in charge of the novel edition, Li Shoumin is the editor of the opera edition and the life edition, Shen Congwen is the editor of the essay edition and the women edition, Zhu Xiang is the editor of the poetry edition and the comment edition, and He Yunfeng is in charge of proofreading.

   Everyone quickly entered the working state, reviewing and editing manuscripts individually, and their personalities also led to different working methods.

  Li Shoumin likes to lean on his chair and read manuscripts. He can't help but slap his thighs in admiration when he reads the wonderful parts. When he encounters unqualified manuscripts, he throws them aside.

   Shen Congwen sat upright, marking while reviewing the manuscript. As long as the manuscript is not extremely bad, he will repeatedly and patiently revise it, so his editing speed is the slowest.

   "What are you writing? It doesn't make sense!" Zhu Xiang threw the manuscript around with a look of disdain. His reading speed was fast, but unfortunately it was almost noon, and the number of manuscripts was not enough.

  Zhu Xiang is one of the "four sons of Tsinghua University". He is very talented and extremely conceited, so he is particularly picky about his articles. At the end of the selection, he simply wrote it by himself, and finished it with ease, and finally made up the number of manuscripts.

   In the afternoon, all their manuscripts were sent to the editor-in-chief's office, and Zhou Hexuan checked them as a whole.

   Just as Zhou Hexuan was reviewing the manuscript, Meng Xiaodong suddenly knocked on the door.

   "Xiaodong, why are you here?" Zhou Hexuan asked in surprise.

"I often run back and forth between Tianjin and Peiping," Meng Xiaodong smiled and took out a piece of manuscript paper, "Didn't you say last time that you should let me write some drama reviews when I have time, and get it submitted to the "Volkswagen" supplement? I'll try I wrote an article, but I don’t know if I can pass it, Brother Zhou, please help me take a look.”

   Zhou Hexuan took it over and looked at the title, it was called "My Views of Tan School Old Students", and the content was Meng Xiaodong's learning experience in the past six months. Not to mention the writing style, the words are simple and direct, but the handwriting is beautiful, Meng Xiaodong's pen writing is much more beautiful than Zhou Hexuan.

   "It's well written and can be published." Zhou Hexuan affirmed.

   "Really?" Meng Xiaodong was overjoyed, his eyes smiling like two crescents. She has always thought that writing articles is a very elegant thing, and only what a scholar writes can be printed in type.

   Zhou Hexuan encouraged: "Continue to work hard in the future, you will not only become a famous actor in Peking Opera, but also become a master of opera theory."

   Meng Xiaodong said shyly, "Brother Zhou, you are joking, I'm just a little actor, what kind of master is there?"

   "Women can also be masters, you can do it." Zhou Hexuan said.

"Hee hee, then I really believe it," Meng Xiaodong was quite delighted, and took out another ticket and said, "Brother Zhou, I will officially return to the stage on the fifteenth day of the old calendar this month, and the venue will be at the Xinming Grand Theater. If you If you have time, I hope you can come to join us.”

   Zhou Hexuan put away the tickets and said, "I will definitely go."

  Meng Xiaodong got up and said, "Then I'll go first, and Brother Shoumin will also send one."

   "Let's go together, I just finished editing my manuscript." Zhou Hexuan said.

  The two walked out of the office together, Zhou Hexuan handed the manuscript to the proofreader, and it could be printed in the evening, and sent to the major distribution points tomorrow morning.

   Li Shoumin was packing his things and was about to get off work. When he saw Meng Xiaodong coming over, he immediately joked: "Xiaodong, come to see your brother Zhou again?"

Meng Xiaodong acted like a little girl in front of Zhou Hexuan, but she got along well with Li Shoumin and was able to joke, she took out the theater ticket and said, "Brother Shoumin, you must come to support my comeback debut. "

   "Of course I'm going, haha." Li Shoumin laughed.

   There was a lively chat here, and Shen Congwen and Zhu Xiang also came. They didn't know Meng Xiaodong, and when they saw the beauty, they couldn't let go.

  Li Shoumin introduced: "Ziyuan and Congwen, this is Mr. Meng Xiaodong, a famous actor in Peking Opera."

  Meng Xiaodong cupped his hands and clasped his fists and said, "Mr. said that I don't dare to be. The little girl Meng Xiaodong has seen two older brothers."

   Shen Congwen and Zhu Xiang also quickly introduced themselves, and when Meng Xiaodong also sent them the tickets, Zhou Hexuan said, "Let's go to dinner first, I'll treat you."

   "I'm here to find a place!" Li Shoumin said quickly. He has no other hobbies, apart from watching movies, he just likes food, and Li Shoumin has eaten it all in many restaurants in Tianjin.

  The crowd started out in rickshaws, and when they were passing through a concession street, several cars suddenly approached.

  Li Shoumin saw the people sitting inside through the car window, and said in surprise, "Chu Yupu! Isn't he fighting in the south?"

   He Zhi Chu Yupu, Zhou Hexuan also saw Zhang Zongchang and Yang Yuting, these warlords gathered together, there must be another big event to happen.

   Actually, it's not a big deal. Zhang Zuolin is convening the forces of the Beiyang factions to discuss joint efforts to deal with the Northern Expedition Army and Feng Yuxiang. Today, warlords of all sizes gather in Tianjin, including Sun Chuanfang, Yan Xishan and others, but Wu Peifu is the only one missing.

   This warlord gathering was equivalent to an alliance. Fifteen provinces jointly formed the Anguo Army, with Zhang Zuolin serving as the commander-in-chief of the Anguo Army.

   At this time, Zhang Zuolin had already unified the Beiyang warlords in form, and all the commanders were willing to obey his command, but Wu Peifu was the only one left. When he officially took office as the commander-in-chief of the Anguo Army early next month, he even knelt down and worshipped the sky in a big dress, and he did not have the intention of imitating Yuan Shikai to proclaim himself emperor.

   Of course, Zhang Zuolin didn't dare to really call himself emperor, he could only get over his addiction by offering sacrifices to the sky.

   Zhou Hexuan has no interest in this, he only cares about his newspaper sales. Tomorrow, the supplementary issue of "Popular" will issue its first issue, and the novel version will be serialized with "The Condor Heroes", which should attract the attention of readers.