The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

   Li Shoumin also introduced his two younger brothers, Li Xiangji and Li Shouji.

   After a few greetings, everyone sat down and began to eat.

  This family is very well-behaved. Mrs. Zhou is the elder sitting on the throne, Zhou Hexuan is the guest sitting on the right, the eldest brother Li Shoumin is sitting on the left, and the two younger brothers are sitting with their backs to the door.

   There are some home-cooked dishes on the table, and only one double-cooked pork is meat, which is deliberately placed in the direction close to the guests. The rice is a bit rough and yellow in color, and it looks like it's more than three years old.

   Zhou Hexuan just glanced at the dining table and had a basic understanding of the family's situation - the family style is very strict, but the economy is not rich.

  Li Shoumin voluntarily asked about Zhou Hexuan's situation: "Brother Hexuan's accent is very straight, is he from Zhili?"

   "My ancestral home is in Hebei," Zhou Hexuan began to fabricate his resume, "I grew up in Nanyang when I was young, and then my family moved around with my parents. After the death of Er Lao Xian, I wandered around in the Western countries, and only returned to China by boat a while ago."

  Li Shoumin had only read private school and said enviously, "Which famous Western school is Brother Hexuan a top student?"

"I'm ashamed to say that although I have traveled to various countries, I don't have a formal diploma," Zhou Hexuan said with a wry smile. "The main reason is that I don't have money in my pocket. It's very difficult to fill my stomach. This time I'm going back to China, I'm going to find a job in Tianjin to make ends meet. ."

   Mrs. Zhou suddenly interjected: "Shanji, you can help Mr. Zhou pay attention."

   Zhou Hexuan hurriedly asked, "Where is Brother Shoumin going to graduate?"

   "I can't talk about Gao, I only have an errand in the "New Tianjin Evening News"." Li Shoumin briefly explained his situation.

   He used to work in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Peiping and was considered a small civil servant. Later, the second Zhifeng War started. The warlord Hu Jingyi joined Feng and Sun Diaozhi, and Li Shoumin took refuge in Hu Jingyi as a military recorder. Hu Jingyi passed away in April last year, and Li Shoumin lost his backing, so he took off his military uniform and joined the newspaper office as a proofreader.

  Li Shoumin's second brother Xiangji, who just turned 20 last year, works as a clerk in Tianjin Lili Bookstore, and his third brother, Shouji, is still in school.

   Zhou Hexuan asked, "What is the salary of the newspaper?"

  Li Shoumin smiled and said, "Then what kind of newspaper should I look at? The bigger the sales, the better the treatment. What, brother Hexuan intends to join the newspaper?"

   "My writing is okay." Zhou Hexuan said ambiguous.

  Li Shoumin said enthusiastically, "Then I'll ask you tomorrow to see if our newspaper office is still short of people."

  …

  After dinner, Mrs. Zhou cleaned the table and washed the dishes, leaving Zhou Hexuan and others to continue chatting.

  Li Shoumin talked a lot about the domestic situation, while Zhou Hexuan introduced the customs of Western countries in a mess. He didn't dare to go into too much detail, he could only talk about the folk customs of Britain, America, and France. Thanks to his travel experience before the time-travel, Zhou Hexuan still knew a little about it.

"The most interesting thing about this Italian country is Venice. The whole city is built on water. The people go to the streets not by carriages and horses, but by boats. The bridges and water streets in the city are crisscrossed and connected in all directions." Zhou Hexuan Open the chat box.

  Li Xiangji said in amazement: "That's strange, the city is full of water, and the humidity must be very heavy."

   Li Shoumin smiled and said, "It's a bit like a water town in the south of the Yangtze River."

Zhou Hexuan added: "The carnival in Venice is very famous. On that day, every citizen has to wear a mask to pretend to be someone else. At this time, people are no longer divided into classes, rich and poor. Counts can dress up as beggars, and farmers can also dress up. As a prince, commoners and nobles enjoy themselves and perform their own dramas of life."

   "Interesting, interesting, there are such festivals in the world." Li Shoumin said again and again, and he asked again, "Is there any beautiful mountains, rivers and dangerous peaks abroad?"

   Zhou Hexuan said: "The highest peak in the world is Mount Everest in the Chinese Himalayas."

   "The highest peak in the world is actually in China?" Li Shoumin was surprised. Many people don't know this kind of science knowledge.

   "At the border of Tibetan areas, it is covered with snow and ice all year round, and no one has ever climbed it successfully." Zhou Hexuan said.

   Li Shoumin’s favorite is mountain climbing and swimming. When he was a child, he climbed Emei three times and Qingcheng four times. Later, he climbed famous mountains such as Mount Tai, Mount Hua, Qilian Mountain and Diancang Mountain. He dreamed: "I must go to the Himalayas in my lifetime."

   Zhou Hexuan continued: "The second highest peak in the world is the main peak of the Kunlun Mountains. It is called 'Jogori' in Tajik, which means tall and majestic..."

   Li Shoumin clapped his hands and praised: "The mountains and rivers of China are really extraordinary, and the second highest peak in the world is also in China!"

   His third brother Li Shouji suddenly asked: "Is it the Kunlun Mountain that is said to be the Queen Mother of the West?"

   "I don't know if there is the Queen Mother of the West on the mountain." Zhou Hexuan smiled and did not explain the difference between Kunlun Mountain and Karakoram.

  The crowd continued to chat until more than 10 o'clock in the evening before Zhou Hexuan got up to leave, and asked Li Shoumin for a stack of old newspapers before leaving.

   Returning to his bedroom, Zhou Hexuan found that most of these newspapers were "New Tianjin News", "New Tianjin Evening News" and "New Tianjin Xiaobao", that is, newspapers and periodicals issued by the newspaper office where Li Shoumin worked.

   He roughly browsed the social news in the past six months, and quickly turned his attention to the "New Tianjin Evening News". This newspaper serialized storytelling and novels. Forget about storytelling, novels were the kind of very primitive martial arts novels that had not yet departed from the category of Three Heroes and Five Righteousness.

   Maybe you can contribute to the "New Tianjin Evening News", copy a few martial arts novels to earn some royalties, Zhou Hexuan wants to redeem his watch as soon as possible.

   A good night's sleep.

   The next morning, Zhou Hexuan estimated the time to get up. After getting dressed, he went to the landlord to ask for some water to rinse his mouth.

  Tianjin had a water supply company in the late Qing Dynasty, but water pipes have not been popularized until now. Those who have their own wells drink well water. Most of the citizens have to buy drinking water. There is a special occupation called water delivery workers.

   Zhou Hexuan asked the landlord for a bowl of clear water. When he returned to the courtyard, he found Li Shoumin standing in the courtyard.

   This gentleman squatted with his legs slightly apart, his hands were placed on his chest and abdomen, his eyes were slightly closed, his breathing was long and silent, as if he was practicing some kind of exercise.

   Zhou Hexuan looked at it strangely, and waited for the other party to finish his work before walking over and asking, "Brother Shoumin, are you practicing qigong?"

   Li Shoumin explained: "I have been practicing breathing techniques from an old Taoist priest in Mount Emei.

   "So you are still a martial arts master, so disrespectful and disrespectful." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.

   Li Shoumin waved his hands again and again: "I'm not a martial arts master, I haven't even learned a trick or a half, just breathing and breathing."

   Zhou Hexuan asked a few more questions before realizing that Li Shoumin was telling the truth. This breathing technique is only used to strengthen the body, and it does not help much in fighting.

  The three brothers of the Li family soon went to work and school, and Zhou Hexuan also carried Da Yang to go to the street to buy. Pots and pans need to be purchased, as well as pens, ink and manuscript paper for writing.

  Walking on the street, Zhou Hexuan suddenly remembered Li Shoumin's identity, isn't that the author of "Shushan Swordsman Biography" Huanzhu Zhuzhu?

   The transcendence of tribulations in the immortals and fantasy novels of later generations was invented and pioneered by Li Shoumin. Many settings in Jin Yong, Liang Yusheng and Wen Ruian's novels also borrowed from Li Shoumin's works. This gentleman can be said to be the master of Xianxia novels!