Yu Peichen quickly walked into the study and said to Zhou Hexuan who was writing a novel: "Mr. Zhou, this is a telegram from Wuxi!"
"Wuxi?" Zhou Hexuan was confused.
Yu Peichen said: "Xu Zhimo has been found, and it is at Xiangfu Zen Temple in Wuxi."
Zhou Hexuan laughed dumbly: "He is quite leisurely and at ease."
This telegram was sent by Xu Shenru, hoping that Zhou Hexuan could go to Wuxi and persuade Xu Zhimo to come back.
Money is most useful. Just two days ago, the owner of a bookstore in Wuxi County discovered Xu Zhimo who came to buy Buddhist scriptures. The owner did not act rashly, but followed Xu Zhimo all the way to Xiangfu Temple and sent Xu Zhimo to Xiangfu Temple.
Find out clearly where you will stay.
Immediately afterwards, the bookstore owner took a train to Shanghai and informed Xu Shenru of the news in person.
Xu Shenru had received too many false clues these days and was doubtful about this. But the bookstore owner swore by it and even took out 500 yuan as a deposit, saying that if he was a liar, he would not give up the 500 yuan.
Xu Shenru immediately led people to Wuxi, and sure enough he found Xu Zhimo in the temple. But no matter how he tried to persuade him, Xu Zhimo refused to leave, and even Lu Xiaoman's intervention was of no avail.
Seeing that his son was determined to become a monk, Xu Shenru was anxious. He sent out more than 30 telegrams in one breath, asking Xu Zhimo's friends to go to Wuxi, hoping that these friends could talk. The invitees were not only Zhou Hexuan, but also
Lin Huiyin, Liang Sicheng, Hu Shi, Liang Shiqiu, Wen Yiduo, Zhu Xiang, Rao Mengkan, Sun Dayu, Shen Congwen, Jiang Baili...
Yu Peichen asked: "Mr. Zhou, do you want to go?"
"What do you think?" Zhou Hexuan smiled.
Yu Peichen said: "I think you should go, after all, Mr. Xu is your friend."
"Then go." Zhou Hexuan felt it didn't matter. It wasn't that he didn't care about Xu Zhimo, but Lin Huiyin was definitely going, and Lin Huiyin's words were more effective than anyone else's.
Yu Peichen said: "I'll buy a ticket first."
Zhou Hexuan said: "No need, let's go directly to the train station."
After simply tidying up and grabbing a few changes of clothes, Zhou Hexuan took Yu Peichen and Sun Yongzhen out.
As soon as the car drove out of Zhou's mansion, it bumped into Ruan Lingyu coming in a rickshaw. Ruan Lingyu asked, "Is there anything important, Mr. Zhou?"
Zhou Hexuan asked the driver to stop the car and replied: "I am entrusted by someone to go to Wuxi."
"Then when will you return to Shanghai?" Ruan Lingyu asked nervously, fearing that Zhou Hexuan would never come back.
Zhou Hexuan said: "I'm not sure. It could be three to five days, or it could be half a month."
"Then I'll go with you." Ruan Lingyu said and stepped forward to open the car door.
Zhou Hexuan was a little confused and didn't understand what Ruan Lingyu wanted to do, but he couldn't get people out of the car. He said funnyly: "Aren't you going to film a new movie?"
"No more shooting," Ruan Lingyu said.
Zhou Hexuan did not understand the profound meaning of this sentence. He was too lazy to ask again and ordered the driver: "Drive!"
It wasn't until the car was speeding on the road that Ruan Lingyu finally calmed down and regretted her impulsive behavior just now. According to her usual passive character, she would never follow a man around shamelessly. What she did just now was purely hot-headed.
The scene seemed a bit awkward. Ruan Lingyu had a lot of words stuck in her throat, but she didn't know how to speak at the moment. What's more, there were Yu Peichen and Sun Yongzhen in the car, so she couldn't express her love in front of others.
In order to lighten the atmosphere, Zhou Hexuan asked, "Has Ms. Ruan been to Wuxi before?"
Ruan Lingyu shook her head and said: "No, I have always lived in Shanghai. I have only been to Suzhou and Hong Kong when I was filming and taking refuge. I have never even been to Nanjing."
"Then you really should walk more." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.
As a well-known popular actress in the country, Ruan Lingyu is such a homebody that she has been living in Shanghai. As you can see, Hu Die runs around everywhere. She even met Zhang Xueliang three years ago. Well, by the way, she became a "beautiful woman". .
According to legend, on the night when the "September 18th Incident" broke out, Zhang Xueliang was dancing with Hu Die in his arms. He only loved beauties and did not care about the country.
Ma Junwu composed a poem about this: "Zhao Si is romantic and Zhu Wu is crazy, and the fluttering butterflies are just walking. Gentle Township is the Tomb of Heroes, who cares about the Eastern Division entering Shenyang. The urgent military letter comes in the middle of the night, and the opening orchestra urges it again. Shenyang has fallen into rest. Looking back , and even hugged the beautiful lady and danced several times."
This poem contains too much information. "Zhao Si" refers to "Miss Zhao Si" and "Zhu Wu" refers to "Miss Zhu Wu", both of whom are Zhang Xueliang's underground lovers. But the heroine of the whole poem is Hu Die, It was also said that the battle report of the fall of Shenyang came, but Zhang Xueliang still dismissed it and just continued dancing with Hu Die in his arms.
This incident caused an uproar across the country, but Hu Die didn't know about it because she was busy filming locations in Peiping. When she returned home to Shanghai, her mother's eyes were red from crying, and her father was sulking. Hu Die quickly asked what was going on, and his father He grabbed a pile of newspapers and threw them at them: "We don't know what you are doing in Peking. You can see for yourself!"
Hu Die picked up the newspapers and saw various headlines: "Beauty is a disaster for the country", "Don't love the country, love the beauty", "This is how the three eastern provinces were lost"...
In fact, it's all nonsense. On the night of the fall of Shenyang, Zhang Xueliang was watching Mei Lanfang perform, accompanied by Song Zheyuan and others, who were totally incompatible with Hu Die.
Ma Junwu's writing of poetry was not honest. Even if he had a personal grudge with Zhang Xueliang, or was disgusted with Zhang Xueliang's lack of resistance, he should not have involved a female star for no reason. Fortunately, Hu Die has a strong ability to withstand pressure and was reviled by newspapers across the country. The witch who brought disaster to the country could resist, but Ruan Lingyu would have committed suicide long ago.
However, it may not be without reason.
Hu Die went to Peking to film a movie and did meet Zhang Xueliang. Ma Junwu used this fact to spread rumors.
It can be seen that it is better for female celebrities to have less contact with politicians. If they are involved casually, they will be ruined.
No more gossip, let’s get down to business.
Everyone chatted leisurely all the way, and the train soon arrived at Wuxi Station.
As soon as we reached the exit of the station, someone from the Xu family came to greet us. A man in his 50s said, "Mr. Zhou, the car is ready. Please go to Xiangfu Temple immediately."
"No problem." Zhou Hexuan nodded.
Xiangfu Zen Temple is located on Maji Mountain outside the county town, also known as Xiaolingshan Temple. Zhou Hexuan first took a bus for a while, then transferred to an ox cart, and finally arrived at his destination as it was getting dark.
This temple was destroyed by the Taiping Army. Although it was rebuilt, it has long lost its former glory. Including the abbot, there are only 16 monks in the temple, living a peaceful and self-sufficient life.
But today it seemed particularly lively. More than a dozen of Xu Zhimo’s friends from Shanghai alone came, some of them uninvited. As for friends from other provinces, many were still on the way. The weather will be more lively.
