I wrote novels in the Republic of China

Chapter 54: Real or Fake Gold

They are from Shanghai and are wealthy merchants doing silk business. Their surname is Li, and they have two good-looking girls in their family.

One day, he went to the countryside to collect rent and encountered a group of women chasing a frail girl of about fifteen or sixteen. In order to escape the chase, the girl jumped into the icy river.

The boss of the house felt pity for the girl and asked his maid to pull her out of the water. Only then did he realize that the girl looked very much like the fortune teller.

After some questioning, I learned that the girl's name was Jia Xiaohua. Her parents were ordinary farmers in the suburbs. Her parents favored boys over girls and were very kind to Xiaohao. Now, they wanted to sell her to Xiaohao as their wife, and she would only run away if Xiaohao agreed.

The girls in the village all think that the little girls are wrong and that they should disobey their parents.

We even think that this is the right fate for that fool.

If a girl is born in an ordinary family, they will not expect her to grow up and find a wife for her, but it is very unlikely that she will get married in the future.

That girl was able to marry a wife for the fool, and later because our family had more than ten acres of paddy fields and seven or eight acres of dry land, they had some money.

Xiaohua's parents only have two mu of thin land, and they can barely get enough to eat. After Xiaohua marries that fool, she no longer has to worry about being hungry. How can she find a good marriage?

The guys all blamed Jia Xiaohua, but Jia Xiaohua finally agreed. She would fight those women to the death with a stick.

The boss thought Xiaohua looked kind, but he also thought that writing about a little girl was too much of an idea.

At the same time, the boss noticed that Xiaohua's mother avoided looking at him, as if she was a little scared.

It's not easy to write, and I also found that Xiaohua's mother is very similar to the girls in my family.

The boss of the family has been in the business world for many years and is very good at judging women. He realized that Xiao was right in an instant.

It is expected that the wife is pregnant with a girl, and when she is about to give birth, the father-in-law dies.

At that time, she was considered a young family, and her wife was good, so she took her maid and went to attend the funeral alone. As a result, she broke down halfway and gave birth to a girl at a farmer's house.

That farmer was also capitalized in the village.

Even though he had never doubted the little girl's identity before, he was now full of doubts.

The boss acted decisively. He immediately asked his maid to catch the guilty-looking woman and trick her into saying something.

The woman really showed her true colors, and the boss only then realized that it turned out that her husband and daughter, who had given birth to a daughter, had been swapped with a daughter!

The husband's daughter was older than the man who gave birth to her in a farmer's home, but the woman who gave birth to her later gave birth to her in a farmer's home.

It's about a woman who gave birth to three girls in a row, which made her husband's family very unhappy, to the point that right after the baby was born, there was no daughter to take care of her.

Xiao Xing, who was very hungry, went out to find something to eat, and then she heard her parents-in-law and her husband discussing throwing the newborn girl into the river and drowning her.

It describes a woman who is willing to let a girl die, and then she hugs the girl and stumbles back to her mother's home.

When I arrived at my parents' home, my daughter had just given birth.

The husband and daughter were surrounded by servants who carried the sedan chair like Tan Ji, as well as mothers-in-law and maids.

But she had just given birth, and the servant Xiao Gan went to see her mother-in-law and asked her to help her wash the dirty clothes, and the maid saw that she was asleep, so she went outside to cook.

The house where the daughter of the family was staying was good when she gave birth, and it happened that the woman used to live in the good house of her aunt's family. Of course, after she got married, it became the place where Tan's brother's daughter lived.

But I go back to my parents' home occasionally, but I make do with it at night.

A woman came in holding a newborn girl, and saw her older daughter sleeping soundly. Next to her was a newborn baby girl wrapped in the older girl's clothes.

The newborn babies look very different, and they are too timid to know how to be good at going out, so the two babies are swapped at birth.

Later, the husband went to find her and took the girl born by her husband back to the Tan family.

But the husband left home, and the baby girl was not drowned in the end, but she was very happy.

It is good for women to know that they will give birth to a girl themselves after they know that the baby girl is small.

Later, the woman who gave birth to Tan gave birth well, but the girl who had been named Xiaohua was even worse off than Tan.

The little girl had to do all kinds of work and was bullied by her younger brother, but she endured it all the time, thinking that when she grew up, she would get married like her elder and second sisters, and then she would have her own family and a better life.

As a result, her parents wanted to marry her off but she was stupid.

That's stupid, and he'll beat girls later!

Tan Xiaohua collapsed, and wanted to fight back, but she found out that she was supposed to be the daughter of a wealthy family.

With mixed feelings in his heart, he followed the boss back to the Tan family, and the story of the past began from then on.

Qu Zhenghong plans to write a novel about a young girl.

Of course, it will be renamed as domestic rose.

Rose grew up in the countryside. She has dark skin and rude manners, but she is better than Peony in every aspect.

I went to Jia's house with great expectations, but was pushed into the mud by Jia Shaoyao.

But what about the boss? The boss's little story tells that the rose is a little unruly. Because the peony is very popular with the Yu family's couple who are richer than the boss, they hope to marry into the Yu family and decide to keep the peony.

The husband and daughter have a deep affection for Jia Shaoyao and want Jia Shaoyao to stay. On the contrary, they don't know how to get along with Jia Yueji, which always hurts Jia Yueji in the end.

As for the two younger sisters, the eldest brother has already married and has his own children, so he treats his two younger sisters equally and is too careless. As for the second oldest brother, he has a good relationship with Shaoyao, and when Shaoyao cries, he thinks that Shaoyao has been wronged and will even scold Yueji for it.

If the rose is willing to give in, perhaps life will be better, but it turns out that the hedgehog is just like that and is not willing to give in.

Qu Zhenghong wanted to write a story about a girl named Yueji who faced adversity, gave up easily, and finally walked out of her own brilliant path.

When I think about writing, I will bring my thoughts back to the topic.

Later on, it comes to the love story. The male protagonist and Jia Shaoyao are childhood sweethearts, but Jia Shaoyao dreams of marrying Master Yu.

Master Yu and Jia Shaoyao were childhood sweethearts, but Jia Shaoyao unilaterally thought that he was the one.

Jia Shaoyao received traditional education, and her daily work was embroidery and the like. However, Master Yu received new-style education, and the two girls spent little time together. Master Yu even felt that he and Jia Shaoyao had nothing in common.

For example, Master Yu wanted Jia Shaoyao to learn to read, but Jia Shaoyao felt that girls just needed to learn to read, but they were only willing to learn since they were young.

For example, Master Yu always thought that girls should receive education, but Jia Shaoyao laughed at the idea of ​​opening a private school for girls.

Mrs. Yu's daughter, Peony, is a virtuous and dutiful wife, but Young Master Yu is a little idle.

In contrast, it was the rose from the back family that Young Master Yu looked at and later shared the roses with the other children.

The family will rebel against their parents, and after being given the opportunity to study, they will study eagerly...

When I first started growing up, I still valued my parents' love, but later on, I began to firmly believe that how a girl lives her life depends entirely on herself.

After going to Zhenghong to sort out the plot, I also relaxed for a while.

It is a little difficult to write the story, but it is also a kind of story about women's independence. However, if you write too much, you may offend the taboos of those in power.

After thinking about how to write the new novel, I also made some settings on paper.

Afterwards, they hurried to write "The Two-Faced Demon Lord", and then took out paper and pen and began to write a letter to Hong Yue.

Qu Zhenghong published a book version of "The Two-Faced Demon Lord" and named it "The Nameless Secret".

I wanted to come up with a poetic but interesting name when I first published the book, but in the end I couldn't find the right one.

"The Nameless Secret" is the name of the internal energy that Meng Yong practiced in the bedroom. Although it is a little brilliant to use it as the title of a book, it is also likely to make mistakes.

As for "The Two-Faced Demon Lord", the name is indeed eye-catching, but when it comes to the word "devil", some girls have to be idle when writing it.

I wrote to Hong Yue Zhenghong for the first time. Because I will go back to Qian's house today, I will tell Tan about this matter. Later, Hong Yue gave the book prints and illustrations for "The Two-Faced Demon King".

Qu Zhenghong planned to give Hong Yue some suggestions.

The paintings of Hong Yue are similar to those of girls nowadays, but they are also different from what we imagine.

I hope Hong Yue can make Meng You look more handsome when drawing the illustrations.

Go to Zhenghong to write down some of your own ideas and draw a few simple sketches.

Chu was good at drawing since he was a child. He wasn't as good as Hong Yue, but he could draw the outline, and he could also use sketches and words to describe his imagination and the weapons that Meng You would use.

Qu Zhenghong wrote several pages of letter to Tan and asked Qu Qianshi to give them to Manager Hong tomorrow.
In the next few days, life in Zhenghong didn't change much.

After getting up every morning, I would first write 2,000 words, then go next door to learn English with Tan Zhenghong, and by the way, check on the situation of the orphanage.

During this period, I will also do some simple strength training to build up my strength.

After lunch, I will continue writing "The Two-Faced Demon Lord". After finishing 4,000 words, I will write some new books.

The new book is named "Thousands of True and False" by Qu Zhenghong.
I thought of names like "Huan Hao Ji", but finally decided on a more vulgar name.

I think that ordinary readers of the time period would be curious when they see the title of "True and False Thousand Families" and would be willing to read it.

As long as we watch Tan... we have never seen a girl written about this kind of subject matter. After seeing the boss recognize the real girl at the beginning, we will definitely be curious about the sequel.

As long as people are curious about the follow-up, they will continue to read it. As long as they continue to read it, the sales of the newspaper will be stable.

Time passed in the blink of an eye.

By the time I wrote this, most girls born in Shanghai already knew about the prevalence of schistosomiasis.

Doctors in Shanghai also began to study schistosomiasis.

We have seen some research results from foreign countries and know that Oncomelania snails are the intermediate hosts between humans and schistosomes, but now we can only identify the intermediate host and only Oncomelania snails can be found.

In addition, the prevention and treatment of schistosomiasis also requires further research.

While conducting research, we naturally did not forget to publicize the dangers of schistosomiasis and called on the people to eliminate snails.

Later, the story became more and more mysterious. Going to Zhenghong, I heard people nearby saying that the snails were sent by Japanese women, and that there were poisonous insects inside them. Some women also said that there were monsters inside the snails. In short, the snails had been demonized.

After going to Zhenghong, Xiaoxian found that many rumors were inexplicable.

But when it comes to rumors, the smaller the rumor, the wider it can spread.

By the time I finished writing, I had finally finished writing The Two-Faced Demon Lord. It was December 12th in the Gregorian calendar, the fifteenth day of the tenth month in the lunar calendar, a Saturday.

It has been three to half months since I traveled to Zhenghong and wrote about the world.

When I went to Zhenghong Modern, I always felt that time passed quickly, but when we were little aware, a few days or months had passed.

But after writing about the world, I encountered so many things that I felt that the three to half months of writing was too long.

After Zheng Hong finished writing the ending of "The Two-Faced Demon King", we had a feeling of disappointment.

I have written many books, and now I have developed deep feelings for this book. But when I wrote this book "The Two-Faced Demon King", I found that it was difficult to write the words by hand, and I would say that there are still some small things in the future.

Xiao Guo will go out and say goodbye to Meng You, and start to describe the girl Tan Yueji.

The writing of this book "True and False Thousands of Families" has been going on for a long time. Although it has 10,000 words, it is still a bit short, but the general content has been revealed, and the character of the family rose has also been portrayed very clearly.

He planned to go to the concession tomorrow to give the ending of "The Two-Faced Demon King" and the beginning of "The True and False Thousand Families" to Hong Yongxiang, and then ask Hong Yongxiang to hand them over to Fei Zhongxu.

He gave the finished manuscript to Qu Xuewen, asking him to help copy it. Qu Zhenghong was also a disciple of the Tan family.

Just after leaving the yard, a biting cold wind blew towards her, blowing her face so hard that it hurt, and the female ninja shivered a little.

The weather is getting colder as I write, because it has been raining for a few days, and I feel cold to the bone.

Before traveling through time, I felt that Shanghai’s winters were very cold after going to Zhenghong.

Don't turn on the air conditioner when going out, wear down jackets when going out, and don't wear heavy down jackets when going out, you can also carry a few hot packs.

But it’s really cold when I write about that era.

It brings back memories of when I was in primary school. On the coldest days, the teacher opened the windows inside and outside the classroom to prevent the spread of colds. But the temperature was so cold that my hands were numb and I couldn't write with them.

It is the same now and in the future.

Nowadays, Zhenghong has to write novels by lighting an oil lamp beside the big stove behind the stove, but it will be warmer this way.

When he went to the orphanage next door, he saw the girls there digging a well, and Jiang Hui was watching the fun nearby.

In the first few days, Jiang Hui and the others had to stay in the orphanage, but when the roof and doors and windows were built, Tan Zhenghong also let them move into the orphanage.

If the other woman asked them to move to another place, they would definitely be unwilling and would be on guard.

But in the eyes of Tan Zhenghong and Dajianghui, both Tan Zhenghong and Dajianghui were kind-hearted girls who were easy to bully, so they agreed to Tan's request.

What a great place to write about! The walls are so thick, the doors and windows are so dense, and living inside will definitely keep any wind down.

When writing about Master Tan, he even gave us porridge for free!
Jiang Hui had never seen such a fool before, so he happily took the little beggar under his command and stayed at Tan's house.

Cousin Qian also moved to Tan Orphanage.

Go out and live in Tan's kitchen.

The kitchen in the orphanage is very big. After cooking at night, there is still residual heat. If you want to say how comfortable it is to sleep in it, it is definitely not as comfortable as it used to be, but to my cousin Qian, she would say that it is very good.

The next time she saw the girls digging a well, she was curious about what happened and also saw Tan Zhenghong.

Tan Zhengronghong was wearing a mink coat, but because it was too hot, he didn't button up the coat.

"Miss Qu." Seeing Qu Zhenghong, Tan Zhenghong immediately ran towards Qu Zhenghong.

It was so cold, but I still insisted on writing in the orphanage every day, and later I could teach Tan Zhenghong English.

"Mr. Tan." Qu Zhenghong greeted Tan Zhenghong with a smile.

It was a story about digging a well. Even though we both knew a little about it, we didn't read much and then went into Tan's house.

I went to Zhenghong to follow Tan Zhenghong and started reading the articles in the English textbook that Tan Zhenghong found.

After learning each chapter, he recited it aloud quietly. As for Tan Zhenghong, he took out his account book and began to calculate the things he would buy next.

After Tan Zhenghong decided to build an orphanage, he also donated two thousand, plus the donation of about one thousand from his daughter, the total amount was transferred to the account of the orphanage by Tan Zhenghong.

Tan Zhenghong used money from the account to buy the building materials for the orphanage. However, he paid for the miscellaneous expenses such as hiring laborers in the shantytowns, providing meals for the laborers, hiring women to kill snails, and making clothes for Jiang Huisuan and others out of his own pocket, and did not spend any money from the orphanage's account.

It's your own money, you can use it in any way that makes you feel kind, but the orphanage gets money, but it's of little use.

However, if the orphanage wants to continue running, it may have to let the accountants advance the money. Tan Zhenghong has already persuaded Tan Ji to go to business. After the preparatory work for the orphanage is completed, the accountants will calculate the expenses needed for the orphanage, and then make a fixed donation every month to maintain the operation of the orphanage.

After writing about what happened later, it is now known that Tan Zhenghong is planning to prepare beds and other items for the children in the orphanage, and how much money is needed.

"Let the girls make the bed. The simplest one will do. We also need to buy straw mats, blankets, bowls and chopsticks to make the bed..."

Tan Zhenghong was busy calculating.

Zhenghong leaned over to look at Tan's eyes, and felt that the calculation was too slow, so he said, "Can I help you calculate?"

Tan Zhenghong was stunned.

Qu Zhenghong said: "I can count things, so I should be faster than you."

Qi Zhenghong was born in the early 1990s. When he was a child, abacus was taught in school.

The good ones in previous generations also knew how to use an abacus, and the original owners of good generations were even more skilled in using the abacus.

In addition, Qu Zhenghong also learned oral arithmetic, mental arithmetic and vertical calculation very well.

On the contrary, Tan Zhenghong, who went to a foreign girls' school since childhood, learned arithmetic very well, but he was very slow in calculating.

He went to Zhenghong and took the account book and abacus written by Tan Zhenghong, and started to calculate: "Each straw mat costs 35 copper yuan, and I bought 80 mats..."

From straw mats to wood for beds, from cloth for clothes to cloth shoes, as well as food and so on, he calculated everything and roughly figured out how much money was needed.

Tan Zhenghong looked at Qu Zhenghong who was quickly counting on the abacus and could not help but said, "Miss Qu, you count on the abacus as fast as my father."

I learned how to use an abacus after my father learned it. Before that, I was busy studying in a large Western-style school, so I had learned it.

"My grandfather taught me." Qu Zhenghong laughed at Tan Xiao and said, "The expenses of the orphanage are really small."

Tan Zhenghong nodded: "We wrote about the orphanage. I plan to take in 80 children first, and then increase the number of children later depending on the situation."

"It's true that we should do it slowly." After chatting with Tan Zhenghong, he felt relieved when he saw that Tan Zhenghong had already sorted out the rules and regulations of the orphanage.

The orphanage covers an area of ​​a little over a mu, but is small and can accommodate only a limited number of orphans.

We may be able to help all the orphans in Shanghai, but we can only help a small part of them.

But it would be good to help women too.

After the chat, Tan Zhenghong took out his English textbook, read the lesson he had learned before to Tan Zhenghong, and asked Tan Zhenghong to teach the next lesson.

When Tan Zhenghong arrived at the orphanage, it was around eight o'clock. But after several hours of study, the two girls also went to see Tan Jianghui and taught them Arabic numerals and addition and subtraction within ten.

Jiang Hui is old, with a good and flexible mind. He used to be able to calculate expenses, so he can teach him, but he is good at teaching other children, especially the younger ones in the last few years, who can calculate by counting on their fingers.

Zhenghong was a little annoyed, but he taught him slowly.

I don't ask the children to learn well, I just hope they can learn something and have a flexible brain.

When it is noon, the children will have lunch with the workers.

We usually drink porridge in the morning and evening, and eat rice at noon. The dishes are very simple. For example, the dish for lunch today is kelp and tofu soup.

It was a very ordinary dish, but Jiang Huisuan and his friends enjoyed the meal very much. They even sang to Tan Zhenghong and wished him great wealth.

It's embarrassing for Tan Zhenghong to go home and eat delicious food.

Xiao Guo also knew that Xiao Guo might be able to provide the orphanage with meat for his family, but ordinary farmers would also be able to eat meat a few times in the next year.

After dinner, Qu Zhenghong told Tan Zhenghong that Tan would go to the concession tomorrow and Xiaoneng would go to learn English with him.

Hearing this, Tan Zhenghong said, "In that case, I will come over tomorrow. I have some things to deal with at home."

I go to the concession every day and haven't learned Chinese for a long time. Now my Chinese teacher has already made us happy.

Xiaoguo thinks that it is not very important for him to learn Chinese.

Recently, there are more and more things to deal with. Xiao not only speaks Mandarin very well, but also understands a lot of Wu dialect.
I lack the ability to read classical Chinese, but I know how to read elementary school Chinese. What I lack in writing is not very important.

In the afternoon, I went to Zhenghong to write Tan Dan and ordered the extra chapter of "The Two-Faced Demon Lord".

After writing the extra chapter, I wrote it specifically for the book version, and plan to give it to Hong Yongxiang next week.

The next day is Sunday.

But early in the morning, Zheng Hong also led a large group of people out of Tanmen.

Later, a large group of people went to the county town. In addition to Tan Chu, there were also Zhengying, Zhengxiong, Qianshi, Qian's cousin and bodyguards.

But after the women arrived in the county town, they also split up and acted separately.

Qu Zhenghong and Qu Zhengying first went to Shopkeeper Hong to get the draft of Tan Hongyue's painting, and then took the soybean stewed pork that Xuewen made yesterday to visit Grandma Tan Alan, and then got up and took the tram to the concession.

Qi Zhenghong hadn't seen Hong Yongxiang for several weeks, but the old man who opened the door recognized him when he saw him, and shouted to call Hong Yongxiang out.

Hong Yongxiang came out of the meeting and was very happy to see Zhenghong: "I know too, you should go to Tan."

"Mr. Hong, I have finished writing "The Two-Faced Demon King". In the ending, in addition to "The Two-Faced Demon King", I also wrote the beginning of my new book, which I also wrote with Tan Hui, as well as "Water Margin" written by my brother and the paintings drawn by A Yue..." But Zheng Hong gave everything to Hong Yongxiang.

There were really a lot of things. Hong Yongxiang took the papers and listened to Zhenghong talking about writing a new book about Tan. He asked curiously, "What's the name of your new book? What's it about?"

Qu Zhenghong said: "My new book is called "True and False", which is about love."

If the book is set in modern times, it is actually very ordinary. Readers who have read many Tan online articles may not even bother to open it.

But if it capitalizes on the era, it should be popular with female readers?

(End of this chapter)

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