"Mr. Zhou really doesn't know martial arts?" Zheng Rupei looked at Zhou Hexuan in surprise.
"I really can't." Zhou Hexuan smiled bitterly.
Zheng Rupei said: "I heard people say that you drew your sword to help when there was injustice, and defeated the gangster Li Er from Qiandezhuang with three punches and two kicks. Some people also said that you used to use iron sand palms and slapped Li Er's face until it was swollen.
, I lost several teeth.”
Zhou Hexuan was speechless for a moment. This was too outrageous. He just used Chu Yupu's name to teach the gangsters a lesson, but he was actually said to be a martial arts master.
"I don't know martial arts. If you really want to compete, I'll find two people for you." Zhou Hexuan walked out and shouted to the Sun brothers who were taking a nap, "Yong Zhen, Yong Hao, someone comes to compete. Come and receive them."
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"Who? Who wants to fight?" Sun Yongzhen is a martial arts fanatic, and he gets excited when he hears that he is going to fight.
Zheng Rupei cupped his fists and said, "I'm here in Xigou. Zheng Rupei is good at using the sword, Tai Chi, and Zha Quan!"
Sun Yongzhen immediately responded: "Taiko Sun Yongzhen! He is proficient in Xingyi and Bagua."
"Brother Sun, where are we practicing?" Zheng Rupei asked with a smile.
"Just on the street." Sun Yongzhen pointed outside.
The two of them were about to go out to compete. The newspaper staff found it strange and crowded to the windows one by one to watch the excitement.
"What's going on?" Shen Congwen heard the noise and asked curiously.
Zhu Xiang likes new things. He said excitedly: "It seems that there is a competition. Come and have a look."
"Let's go together, let's go together." Although Li Shoumin has never practiced martial arts, he can speak the Dharma. Strictly speaking, he has practiced internal martial arts.
Zhou Hexuan looked at the empty office lobby and immediately couldn't laugh or cry, so he simply squeezed in to watch the show.
on the street.
The two stood facing each other, Zheng Rupei said: "Brother Sun, please!"
"Here we come, you have to be careful." Sun Yongzhen said and rushed forward.
Sun Yongzhen did not go straight. He stepped on the Bagua steps he learned from Li Jinglin, passed through Zheng Rupei's side in an arc, and punched directly towards the opponent's waist.
"So cruel!"
Zheng Rupei hurriedly dodged with his fists. If the punch was real, it was very likely that his descendants would be cut off. Because Sun Yonghao wanted to hit him in the waist, which was also known as the "kidney shot" in later online games.
Sun Yongzhen immediately wandered away as soon as he missed the hit, and stepped diagonally to get behind Zheng Rupei. Zheng Rupei had to turn around with him, and before he could stand still, he took the opportunity to rush close to him, and at the same time hit the middle goal with a Tai Chi cannon.
At this point, the characteristics of the two people's kung fu have been clearly revealed.
Zheng Rupei takes a tough approach, don't be timid, just do it. Sun Yongzhen is like an assassin, ruthless and deadly, specializing in attacking vital points with cold blows.
The two fought faster and faster, but the onlookers were disappointed because their fight was not good-looking and was no different from a street fight between gangsters.
Especially when the speed of the moves is accelerated, the moves often become deformed, and how can they be as exciting as during the performance?
Suddenly, Sun Yongzhen hit Zheng Rupei's soft ribs with a punch. At the same time, Zheng Rupei shouldered Sun Yongzhen and knocked him away. He rolled on the ground twice before getting up in embarrassment.
Zhou Hexuan didn't know what was going on and asked Sun Yonghao: "Did your brother lose?"
"It doesn't count as a loss, that person feels pain too." Sun Yonghao said.
Zheng Rupei was not only in pain, he was beaten so hard that the entire left half of his body was numb. He endured the pain and said: "Brother Sun, it's a good move, I lost!"
Sun Yongzhen smiled honestly and said: "Well, I was thrown to my knees by you, so it's a tie."
How should I put it? Zheng Rupei's kung fu is suitable for charging into battles and group fights. Anyway, he is very fierce. Especially when one person fights many gangsters, he will definitely kill everyone. Sun Yongzhen is more suitable for small-scale fights. If there are too many enemies, he will not be able to use it.
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The two of them had a sparring match and felt quite sympathetic to each other.
Zheng Rupei felt that this newspaper was very interesting, so he ran to ask Zhou Hexuan: "Mr. Zhou, is your newspaper still recruiting people?"
Zheng Rupei smiled and said: "I think your place is good and I want to stay and ask for a job."
Zhou Hexuan said euphemistically: "The newspaper office has no shortage of bodyguards for the time being."
"I'm not a bodyguard, I want to be a newspaper editor." Zheng Rupei said.
"Are you an editor?" Zhou Hexuan looked at the tall and thick man in front of him. His calloused hands did not look like he could hold a pen.
Zheng Rupei said: "Proofreading is also possible. I have done proofreading at the Beijing News before."
"Beijing News" is a major newspaper, but unfortunately it was closed down by Zhang Zuolin. Zhou Hexuan asked in surprise: "Have you read the book?"
Zheng Rutong suddenly jumped out and said: "My second brother was also a private school teacher."
Well, it turns out he is a versatile man in both civil and military affairs.
Zhou Hexuan's brain suddenly changed and he had a good idea. He said: "I will open a third of the page in the novel section to publish the content of Chinese martial arts, and you will be responsible for it."
Zheng Rupei said happily: "Okay, I'll take care of it. It seems that writing articles requires a pen name. Mr. Zhou, you are knowledgeable, help me think of a pen name."
"You can just pick one." Zhou Hexuan sweated violently. The person in front of him was so familiar that he didn't regard himself as an outsider at all.
Zheng Rupei thought hard and said: "In the past, the blind monk in the ruined temple in Xugu always said that he wanted to prove cause and effect. He treated me well, so I might as well call him 'Prove Cause'."
Cause?
Zheng Zhengyin!
Zhou Hexuan looked at Zheng Rupei in surprise, wondering if he was Zheng Zhengyin who wrote martial arts novels?
This guy has such a profound influence in the history of martial arts novels. He has such light skills as flying on grass, catching cicadas in eight steps, chasing clouds and moon, etc. Weapons such as sun and moon wheels, nine-link steel ring, soul-living son's mother circle, and seven stars penetrating the bones.
Hidden weapons such as needles, diamond swallow-tail darts, and plum-blossom life-killing needles were all invented by Zheng Zhengyin when he was writing novels. There are also Jianghu code words such as Bingjianzi, Anqingzi, Jialiangzi, Fengqianzhahuo, and Diandijiao, etc., which were also invented by Zheng Zhengyin.
Because it was widely used in martial arts novels at first, it was inherited and used by later writers.
To put it bluntly, it was Zheng Zhengyin who made martial arts novels more professional. Because he had practiced martial arts since he was a child, had been dealing with gangs all year round, and had a clear understanding of the world, unlike other writers who relied entirely on imagination.
This man is like a recluse who never left Tianjin after the founding of the People's Republic of China. He no longer writes novels and lives a peaceful life as a common man. Even Zheng Zhengyin's neighbors don't know that he is a novelist and only regard him as a novelist.
He is an old bachelor with an eccentric temperament (he has never married and only keeps company with swords, guns and sticks).
Zhou Hexuan found it very interesting. Although he could not change the situation, he could change the people and things around him. For example, "Ta Kung Pao" resumed publication early, Peking University resumed classes early, Hope Primary School was founded, Li Shoumin, Shen Congwen, Zhu Xiang, Meng Xiaodong, Zheng Zhengyin, etc.
Unrelated celebrities from the Republic of China came together and became friends because of him.
From the fact that Zheng Zhengyin came to discuss with us, we can see how popular "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is.
As a sequel story, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" aroused great popularity among northern readers as soon as it was published. Zhou Hexuan originally thought that the supplement of "Popular" could have a daily sales of 3,000 copies, but the actual situation was unexpected.
In just one week since the publication of "Dazhong", the sales volume has stabilized at more than 5,000 copies, and is still increasing gradually. Many readers buy "Dazhong" purely to read martial arts novels, and they don't care about other content at all.
After Zheng Zhengyin took office as editor, he was responsible for the column called "Guoshu Conglun", which specialized in popularizing the origins of various martial arts and sects. This column actually received a lot of praise from readers, far more than those edited by Shen Congwen and Zhu Xiang. Prose poems are more popular.
Zheng Zhengyin continued his efforts and introduced in detail the basic routines of Cha Quan and the two secondary fist techniques, and even drew pictures of the moves and published them in newspapers. This move aroused strong protests from the successors of Cha Quan, but readers expressed support. Some people are so idle that they actually practice martial arts based on newspapers... Well, the basic martial arts routines should have the fitness effect of radio gymnastics.
In the second week after the publication of "Popular", the daily sales volume has exceeded 6,000, which can be said to be a gratifying growth. Merchants have also begun to actively seek advertising cooperation. The monthly gross profit from the supplement's sales and advertising revenue alone has reached 5,800 silver dollars.
It was really profitable to run publications in the Republic of China.
The premise is that what you run can be sold. For example, Zhu Xiang ran his own magazine, but he ended up losing money and couldn't afford to eat.