Starting from mid-May, Chang Kaishen's Central Army took the lead in launching an offensive and got off to a good start. However, the war was generally in a stalemate. Because both sides were fighting with miscellaneous troops, two-pronged warlords like Shi Yousan actually fought several times.
The victory is enough to show how bad the vanguard of the Central Army is.
It was not until late May that the elite troops of both sides began to have direct contact.
The main force of the Central Army was concentrated on the Ping-Han and Long-Hai fronts. Yan Xishan avoided danger and attacked northwest Shandong. He continuously achieved good results and the situation in Shandong developed in a direction conducive to the anti-Chiang coalition forces.
As for other aspects of the battlefield, there are back and forth, and there is no end to the stalemate.
This stalemate is the most brutal war of attrition, consuming countless amounts of money and food and soldiers' lives every day, just to see who can hold on longer.
While the warlords were fighting, exams began in Peking and Shanghai. A total of more than 1,600 college students, as well as ambitious young people who had already graduated, signed up to take part in the first exam of the "Zhou Hexuan Study Abroad Fund".
The top students are selected into the preparatory class for studying abroad and undergo two months of preparatory study - mainly to help international students improve their French proficiency, and many people can speak English.
Racecourse Road, small western-style building.
Miss Sun brought two cups of good Longjing tea, said "please use it with caution", and left very knowingly.
Zhou Hexuan picked up the tea cup and asked with a smile: "How is your newlywed life?"
"It's not bad." Li Shoumin said reluctantly with a smile. In fact, his life after marriage was very uncomfortable. The servants in this house were all invited by the Sun family. Especially the housekeeper, who was a close confidant of Sun Zhongshan. What happened?
They all followed Miss Sun's instructions and didn't take Li Shoumin seriously.
Li Shoumin was already looking for real estate. He couldn't afford the small foreign-style building in the concession, but he couldn't afford the courtyard house in Tianjin. Once he selected the house, Li Shoumin would move out of the small foreign-style building immediately. He didn't want to be scorned by the Sun family anymore.
Zhou Hexuan saw that Li Shoumin had something on his mind, so he did not expose it immediately and introduced: "Shoumin, this is Mr. Li Yaotang, your fellow Sichuan fellow."
Ba Jin stepped forward to shake hands and said: "Hello, Mr. Li, my name is Li Yaotang, and my courtesy name is Fu Gan."
"Remember," Li Shoumin said with an enthusiastic smile, "On my wedding day, Mingcheng introduced Brother Fu Gan. From your accent, you are from Chengdu (Harmony), right? I am a longevity person."
Ba Jin said: "I am currently reading "The Legend of the Swordsman of Shushan" by Brother Shoumin. The writing is so subtle that it makes people feel like they have left this world."
"I can't do it," Li Shoumin waved his hand, "I just write some recreational novels. I'm not even a writer. You who write serious novels are great writers."
"Brother Shoumin, don't be too modest. The imagination you show in your martial arts novels is really admirable." Ba Jin said with a smile.
Li Shoumin said: "I like to travel around and visit famous mountains and rivers. Every time I go to a place, I learn about the local myths and legends, and then I am surrounded by the clouds and mist in the mountains, and I can't help but think about it."
Ba Jin said with a smile: "That's a coincidence. I also like traveling and spend two or three months traveling around every year. This is also a way for me to recuperate. My lungs are not good. I always feel uncomfortable after staying in a big city for a long time.
I feel uncomfortable all over, and I feel refreshed only when I walk around."
"Is the lung disease serious?" Li Shoumin asked with concern.
"I'm almost better now. Mr. Zhou even hired a famous doctor for me two days ago," Ba Jin said.
Li Shoumin said: "I have a breathing and breathing technique, which is very good for nourishing the lungs. Why don't you practice it too?"
"Okay." Ba Jin responded.
The two of them talked and gradually talked about their hometown in Sichuan.
Li Shoumin talked a lot about Mount Emei, Mount Qingcheng and other famous mountains in Sichuan and Sichuan. Due to poor health, Ba Jin had never been to the mountains. At this time, after listening to Li Shoumin's wonderful talk, he also had the idea of traveling and climbing mountains.
Zhou Hexuan suggested: "Let's go to Xiangshan for a walk. I heard the environment there is good."
"Okay," Li Shoumin became excited when he heard about the sightseeing tour, "I have lived in Peking and Tianjin for several years and have never had time to go to Xiangshan. This time, I brought Jing Xun with me and treated it as a honeymoon after marriage.
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Ba Jin will naturally not object. He is also a fun-loving person and especially likes to go around with friends.
When the weekend came, everyone set off to Peking collectively. Li Shoumin took his wife Sun Jingxun, Zhou Hexuan and Ba Jin were all traveling alone - Zhang Leyi wanted to take care of the children at home, Meng Xiaodong was studying opera in Peking, and Wanrong wanted to participate in painting club activities. As for Liao Yaquan and Zhou Hexuan,
He didn't tell her that she was going on a trip at all, only that she was going to Peking to find Meng Xiaodong.
The driver drove them to the train station. As soon as Zhou Hexuan got off the car, he saw Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin coming in a rickshaw.
Zhou Hexuan waved to them and said: "Sicheng, Huiyin!"
Liang Sicheng said in surprise: "Mr. Zhou, you are here too. Are you going to Peking or Shenyang?"
"Beiping," Zhou Hexuan pointed at Li Shoumin and others and said, "let's go to Xiangshan together to have fun."
Lin Huiyin smiled and said: "That's a coincidence. Sicheng and I are also going to Xiangshan."
Liang Sicheng explained: "We went to Xishan to inspect ancient buildings, and our main target this time was Biyun Temple."
"Then we should go together," Zhou Hexuan introduced. "This is Li Shoumin, the author of "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman", and this is his wife, Ms. Sun Jingxun. This is Li Yaotang, pen name Ba Jin, the author of "Destruction"."
Lin Huiyin nodded to say hello to Li Shoumin and his wife, and then said to Ba Jin: "Mr. Li, I like your novels very much and have admired them for a long time."
"Ms. Lin is overly praised." Ba Jin said modestly.
Lin Huiyin is also very hardworking. Her daughter is not yet one year old and she suffers from lung disease, but she still goes to great lengths to follow her husband everywhere, traveling over mountains and ridges to inspect ancient Chinese architecture.
As for the "living room of the wife's house", it happened after Liang Sicheng, Lin Huiyin and his wife moved to Peking. They still live in Tianjin. The Liang family lives together, so it is not convenient to invite people to open a salon at home.
After everyone took the train to Peiping, they went straight to Xiangshan.
It was such a coincidence that Zhou Hexuan met another acquaintance while still at the foot of the hillside.
"Classmate Ma, are you coming to Xiangshan to play too?" Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.
"Mr. Zhou, I didn't expect to meet you here," Ma Jue said in surprise, and introduced his friends, "These are my classmates from the school's poetry club, Liu Liying, Zhao Fang, Yao Weiwei, Chen Dong, and Chen Ziya
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Ma Jue often wrote letters to Zhou Hexuan, discussing literary issues, just like she often corresponded with Lu Xun. Zhou Hexuan advised Ma Jue to stop writing novels for the time being and write poetry instead. Ma Jue actually joined a school called Peking University.
The club of Star Poetry Society.
"Oh my God, Mr. Zhou!"
"There's nothing wrong with my eyes, right?"
"Miss Lin Huiyin is also there. Are you also going to Xiangshan to collect the scenery?"
"..."
Ma Jue's friends went crazy and surrounded Zhou Hexuan and Lin Huiyin. Their photos often appeared in magazines and newspapers, so they were easily recognized, while Liang Sicheng, Ba Jin and Li Shoumin were not recognized by anyone.
Well, the Xiangshan tour group suddenly increased to 12 people.
