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Xu Zhimo and his wife Lu Xiaoman came to see him off, and reluctantly said: "Hexuan take care!" ”

"Goodbye Shima, goodbye Xiaoman!" Zhou Hexuan instructed, "Remember to help me send the 5,000 silver dollars to Xu Beihong." ”

"I'll deliver it in the afternoon." Xu Zhimo said with a smile.

Zhou Hexuan turned around and walked towards the train, and the Sun brothers also hurriedly followed.

The distance from Shanghai to Nanjing is very short, and it will take a few hours to reach the destination. When I left the station, it was quite troublesome, because the war had just ended, and the soldiers searched very strictly, and all the pistols carried by the Sun brothers were searched.

"What the hell!" The soldier immediately raised his gun and pointed it at Zhou Hexuan and the others.

Zhou Hexuan hurriedly took out a few pieces of ocean and said with a smile: "My surname is Zhou, I am a businessman, and I bring a gun just for self-defense." ”

It is indeed normal to carry a gun this year, the soldier received the money, and when he saw Zhou Hexuan in a suit and leather shoes, he no longer embarrassed him, and said: "Go over quickly, there will be no trouble." ”

"Thank you." Zhou Hexuan hugged his fists.

At the moment when Zhou Hexuan took the Sun brothers out of the station, suddenly a loud noise came from the river.

"Boom!"

British and American warships opened fire on the city.

What's the situation?

Zhou Hexuan was momentarily stunned, he saw with his own eyes a cannonball falling into a house dozens of meters in front of him. Pedestrians fled in panic on the streets, and soldiers at the station fired gunshots to warn passengers not to trespass.

"Sir, go away!" Sun Yongzhen dragged Zhou Hexuan and ran away.

The three of them buried their heads in a frenzy and ran straight out of the range of the shells, which was a little relieved.

Zhou Hexuan's mind was still a little dizzy, and he couldn't understand how the British and American warships could fire at the city, but he quickly reacted.

Nanjing Incident!

How did Lao Tzu forget the Nanjing incident?

Zhou Hexuan regretted it, if he could remember, he would definitely come to Nanjing in a few days.

"There's a foreigner over there, catch him!"

I saw seven or eight Chinese soldiers, frantically chasing a foreigner.

The foreigner couldn't run anymore, so he threw away his belongings and hugged his head and begged for mercy. The soldiers didn't care, they rushed up and punched and kicked the foreigner, and even beat the foreigner to death, and then looted the property and floated away.

The Sun brothers were dumbfounded, and Sun Yonghao said: "The Northern Expeditionary Army is really a bloody man, and even foreigners dare to kill them." ”

Zhou Hexuan smiled bitterly, if it weren't for the suffering of the foreigners in the city, would the British and American warships open fire?

Not to mention ordinary foreigners, even the vice-chancellor of Jinling University (an American) and the pre-school president of Aurora University (an Italian) were killed by soldiers. Foreign consulates, churches, trading houses, hospitals, and residences of foreign nationals in Nanjing and Xiaguan were all looted.

The situation was so bad that the generals of the Northern Expeditionary Army couldn't control it, and they could only shake the blame afterwards. First said that it was Zhang Zongchang and Sun Chuanfang's rout, and then said that our party was conspiring and organizing, and anyway, in the end, the truth was not ascertained, and a large amount of money was paid to foreigners to deal with the aftermath.

Fortunately, these soldiers are only targeting foreigners, and Zhou Hexuan is not in danger for the time being.

Because the city was so chaotic that there was no rickshaw to be found, Zhou Hexuan and the Sun brothers could only move forward on foot. There was chaos along the way, and there were ruffians and hooligans who took the opportunity to make trouble, regardless of whether they were Chinese or foreigners, anyway, they would rob those who saw money.

Fortunately, there are Sun brothers to protect him, otherwise even Zhou Hexuan would have been robbed by gangsters.

After walking for about an hour, Zhou Hexuan finally came to the door of Zhang's mansion by asking for directions, and it took a long time for a servant to come out and open the door.

"Hello, I'm looking for Mr. Zhang Mouzhi." Zhou Hexuan said.

The servant's answer made Zhou Hexuan very broken: "The master left Nanjing half a month ago and returned to Lushan." ”

Zhou Hexuan supported his forehead: "......"

I'm Nima!

Lushan can be in Jiangxi, more than 500 kilometers away from Nanjing.

That's it, that's it, let's cooperate with Xu Shenru honestly, and there is no need to get involved with the Zhang family anymore.

Zhou Hexuan had no choice but to take the Sun brothers to the hotel, and as soon as he finished the opening procedures, he saw two foreigners, a man and a woman, running in in a panic.

The foreigner said in fluent Chinese: "Boss, open a room quickly." ”

"Well, I don't dare take you in. If those soldiers knew, they wouldn't have smashed the store. "The shopkeeper is embarrassed.

The female foreigner's Chinese was better, and she couldn't hear the voice at all, so she took out dozens of silver dollars and said: "Please, please let us stay for a few days, all this money will be given to you." ”

The shopkeeper hesitated for a moment, but finally couldn't resist the temptation of money, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I'll let you stay, but don't walk around, stay in the room honestly." ”

"Yes, yes, thank you boss!" The two foreigners hurriedly thanked them.

It just so happened that Zhou Hexuan lived next door to them.

Anyway, he had nothing to do when he was idle, so Zhou Hexuan accosted him when he went upstairs: "Hello two foreign friends, may I ask your surname?" ”

The foreigner looked at Zhou Hexuan vigilantly and replied, "My name is John Booker, and this is my wife Pearl." ”

The female foreigner added: "My name in Chinese is Pearl Sai. ”

Zhou Hexuan was speechless for an instant, staying in a hotel can meet a future Nobel Prize winner in literature, this world is too small.

Although Pearl Sai is an American, she grew up in China, and even writes articles in Chinese, speaking of China is her true hometown.

Zhou Hexuan smiled: "Hello two, my name is Zhou Hexuan." ”

"You are Zhou Hexuan who wrote "The Goddess"?" Pearl Sai was pleasantly surprised, "I like your work very much, it's so special, I heard it's called realistic magicalism." ”

Everyone went to their rooms to settle their luggage, and soon the pearl and his wife came to visit the door.

Zhou Hexuan asked, "Where do you plan to go in the future?" ”

"I don't know," Booker shrugged and complained, "the Chinese soldiers are so crazy that they will fight and rob foreigners when they see them, and we dare not continue to live in Nanjing, and we are going to go to Shanghai to see the situation first." ”

Zhou Hexuan sent out an invitation: "It's better to go to the north, the two of you can go to Peking University to be teachers." ”

Pearl Sai, who is now a professor at Jinling University, said: "Peking University is one of the top universities in China, will it hire us?" ”

"I am the president of Peking University." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.

Booker said, "That's just right. Pearl, let's go to Peking University. ”

Pearl Sai didn't dwell on where to go, but asked, "Mr. Zhou, I want to translate your "Goddess" into English so that more American readers can know about it. Is that possible? ”

"Absolutely." Zhou Hexuan said.

There are many Chinese folk legends of ghosts and gods in "The Goddess", and it will be difficult to maintain the original appearance if it is translated by other foreigners. Pearl Race is different, she knows China very well, just listen to the name of her translation of "Water Margin" - "All Brothers in the Four Seas".

This translation is definitely trustworthy, reachable, and elegant, far more clever than "The Story of 105 Men and 3 Women" (the European translation of the Water Margin).

Being able to meet Pearl Race, Zhou Hexuan felt that the trip was worthwhile, not to mention that he also abducted Pearl Race and his wife to Peking University.

Zhou Hexuan didn't know that after Pearl Sai introduced "The Goddess" to Europe and the United States, it caused quite a stir in the Western literary world.