(Thanks to the book friend for reminding me that in 1927, there was no railway from Jiujiang to Wuhan. Lao Wang checked it carefully and found that it had been changed to take the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line to Hangzhou.)
In the city of Hangzhou, a rickshaw rushed to the pier quickly.
Zhang Leyi felt indescribably happy, like a bird escaping from its cage, running towards the free and vast sky. When passing by a bookstore, she thought that taking a boat would be boring, so she quickly shouted: "Stop for a moment, I'll go buy something."
A few books.”
The driver stood guard outside the bookstore, staring intently at Zhang Leyi, fearing that the woman would run away without paying the fare.
"Boss, are there any good new books recently?" Zhang Leyi walked into the store and asked.
The bookstore owner smiled and said: "What book would you like to read, Miss? A recreational novel, a foreign classic, or a new work?"
"Anything is fine." Zhang Leyi is not picky.
The bookstore owner said: "By coincidence, our store has just received a set of the 'Seminary Series'. There are more than ten books, and they are all in rough-edged editions."
A rough-edged book is a book with rough edges. It is not crudely made, but deliberately made. This kind of book requires readers to buy it and cut it by themselves. It has a different kind of intimacy. Lu Xun is a fan and advocate of rough-edged books.
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Zhang Leyi glanced around and found that there were both foreign and domestic works in the series. For example, the foreign masterpiece "Jade Quilt" translated by Xia Jizun, and "The Philosophy of Lao Zhang" by Lao She. What pleased her the most was "The Goddess" by Zhou Hexuan.
Impressively on the list.
"Is this kind of book easy to sell?" Zhang Leyi asked.
The bookstore owner smiled and said: "No popular novels are easy to sell, but the advantage is that they are always sold out. Today's progressive young people especially like them, and they can sell several copies every day."
Zhang Leyi asked again: "Is this book "Goddess" good to read?"
"I don't quite understand it," the bookstore owner said, shaking his head. "This book is weird, and the preface doesn't match the postscript. But the sales are pretty good, and the teachers and students at the school say it's a masterpiece. As for
I don't know what's so strange about it, it feels similar to "Liao Zhai"."
"Then I'll buy this one." Zhang Leyi said with a smile.
Zhang Leyi took a car to the pier. She bought a first-class cabin with a separate room and bunks.
After the merchant ship set sail, Zhang Leyi opened "The Goddess" and read it carefully. She could understand the metaphors in it, but she didn't like this kind of book very much. It was too uncomfortable to read. This is no longer a torture of the heart, but a torture of the heart.
, like a sharp sword, stabbing hard into your heart.
Zhang Leyi had only read a third of the 200,000-word novel before she couldn't help but close the page and was surprised to find that she was sweating all over.
"No more, no more." Zhang Leyi said to herself.
She said she didn't want to read it, but she felt panicked in her heart. Zhang Leyi went out of the cabin to relax for a while, then couldn't help but go back to her room and open the book.
Not only Zhang Leyi, many readers now feel unable to bear reading "The Goddess", but also cannot resist the urge to finish it.
Since the publication of "Goddess", "Novel Monthly" has continued to increase its serialization length in response to readers' requests. From the initial publication of more than 10,000 words in each issue, to 40,000 words, it was finally serialized last month.
Then came the collection and publication, which was not published as a single book, but published as a "seminar series".
The "Research Series" is a series of books published by the Commercial Press. A batch is published every year, including various outstanding Chinese and foreign works. All those that can be selected and included are high-quality.
After all, "Novel Monthly" is a magazine. Although it has a large circulation, its audience is limited. Many people don't know about the work "Goddess". Until now, "Goddess" has been put into bookstores, and "Goddess" has once again attracted people's attention. Various articles in newspapers
Book reviews came in overwhelmingly.
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Guangzhou.
Second floor of the Bell Tower of Sun Yat-sen University.
Lu Xun sat in the room and smoked one after another. He wanted to pick up a pen to write something, but he was full of sorrow and anger in his throat. Half an hour later, the manuscript paper in front of him was still blank, only the dense smoke was there.
The house is swirling around.
Xu Guangping pushed open the door and entered. Just as he was about to speak, he was choked by the smoke and coughed repeatedly. She quickly came in to open the window and scolded: "You smoke so many cigarettes and don't pay attention to your health!"
"I feel irritable." Lu Xun sighed.
Lu Xun came to Guangzhou at the beginning of the year and served as the dean and academic director of Sun Yat-sen University. There is a saying that he lived with Xu Guangping after coming to Guangzhou. In fact, this was not the case. He lived with Xu Guangping's father, and Xu Guangping rented next door to a female worker.
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But it is true that the two of them visit each other from time to time.
Xu Guangping knew what he was worried about and comforted him: "The current situation is like this. You and I are just teachers. It is useless to think more."
"Alas," Lu Xun had no choice but to laugh at himself, "I am a useless scholar. If the reactionaries want to kill people, I can only open my eyes and watch. I don't even dare to write a few curse words in an article, otherwise I will be arrested tomorrow."
Lu Xun wrote an article, which was published two days before the president purged the party. The title was "The Side Celebrating the Recovery of Shanghai-Nanjing". The full article mentioned three issues: First, the victory of the Northern Expedition was achieved with the blood of patriotic youth.
, secondly, do not be blindly optimistic and be wary of someone stealing the fruits of the revolution. Thirdly, the reactionaries have already sharpened their knives and hope to attract everyone's attention.
Miraculously, Lu Xun quoted Lenin's original words in the article, and even bluntly said, "In the dark areas, the work of the communists is also being carried out silently." This kind of practice was not arrested as a red element. I guess it was
He was too famous and he was just a writer, so it would be inconvenient for those people to kill him.
But Lu Xun would never dare to write another article. It was important to save his life.
"Didn't you go to the bookstore? You're back so soon." Lu Xun asked, changing the subject.
"I saw Mr. Zhou's novel as soon as I arrived at the bookstore. I bought it directly without reading it." Xu Guangping said, taking out "The Goddess" from the bag.
Lu Xun was not a member of the Research Association, and he didn’t read the Novel Monthly very much. He smiled and said, “It’s not a martial arts novel again, is it?”
Xu Guangping handed the book to Lu Xun and said, "It shouldn't be. Take a look."
Lu Xun looked down and saw on the cover: A masterpiece of realistic fantasy, a new chapter by Mr. Zhou Hexuan.
"You read it first. I'm going to cook. My dad will be back soon," Xu Guangping said.
Lu Xun slowly opened the book and frowned after reading a few pages. After patiently reading the first 30,000 words, he threw the book away, feeling increasingly irritable.
Xu Guangping had been working in the kitchen for a long time. When he returned to the room, he saw Lu Xun looking up at the ceiling and smoking. He asked strangely: "What's wrong? Aren't you reading a novel?"
"It doesn't matter if you don't read this novel, your heart, liver, spleen, stomach, and kidneys will hurt every time you read it." Lu Xun smiled bitterly.
Xu Guangping asked: "Is it not well written?"
"On the contrary, it was written so well," Lu Xun said. "That Mr. Zhou actually has a thorough understanding of society."
Xu Guangping asked: "What is written in the book?"
