At the end of June, Pearl and her husband, Booker, came to Shanghai to join Lin Zixuan and go to Lushan.

Lin Zixuan warmly welcomed them in Shanghai, which was the first time the two met.

Pearl Race is thirty-one years old, not beautiful by Chinese standards, she has a deep face, with an American straightness, is the kind of social type.

Her husband, Booker, was a quieter man and a well-known agronomist.

He taught courses in agricultural technology and farm management at Jinling University, founded and chaired the Department of Agricultural Economics at Jinling University, and was regarded as an expert on China in the United States for publishing books such as "China's Farm Economy."

The personalities of the two can be said to be diametrically opposed, Pearl Race is lively and enthusiastic, and Booker is introverted and deep.

In Shanghai, Lin Zixuan took the two of them to visit various scenic spots in Shanghai, and also organized a gathering between literati to introduce Pearl Race to the Shanghai literary circle, most of whom were his acquaintances.

At this time, Pearl Race was well-known in the literary world.

Because of Lin Zixuan's recommendation, she published several essays in The Atlantic Monthly, introducing her life in China and her views on China from the perspective of an American woman.

These articles have caused quite a stir in the United States.

This is because of Pearl Race's American identity and her legendary life.

In the eyes of Americans, it is very incredible that Pearl Race was brought to China since she was a child, and she can still live in China for 30 years, and she is still alive and well.

This shows how poor Americans' understanding of China is.

They think that China is a poor and backward country, full of wars and diseases, and without any security.

From Pearl Sai's article, they noticed that China was different from what they had in mind, and that although the Chinese people were poor, foreigners in China were living well.

Pearl Race wrote about Zhenjiang in his essays, allowing Americans to understand the life and customs of ordinary Chinese people.

Many Americans wrote to her to keep writing, and she was encouraged to write a novel about life in rural China.

She and her husband had lived in the countryside of Suzhou, Anhui Province for three years and had a good understanding of the lives of farmers.

However, she has no experience in writing novels, so she wanted to discuss it with Lin Zixuan this time.

In China, Pearl Race was also featured in Vientiane magazine, published by Vientiane Books.

Lin Zixuan opened a column for Pearl Race, called "China in the Eyes of an American".

In the past year, Pearl Race has published more than a dozen articles, most of which are memories or feelings, and also have views on Chinese society.

Lin Zixuan felt that these articles would be collected and published in two years, which may be the material for Pearl Sai to write a novel "Earth" in the future.

He didn't think he could instruct Pearl Race in writing, but he just told her an unbreakable truth.

That is, to write the story that you want to write in your heart, and to write words that can move you, so that the written article can have feelings and infect readers.

Lin Zixuan's social circle is relatively small, and the people who come and go are some close people.

For example, Zhou Shoujuan, the editor-in-chief of "Freedom Talk", Yan Duhe, the editor-in-chief of "Happy Forest", Zheng Zhenduo, the editor-in-chief of "Novel Monthly", as well as Ping Banya of Vientiane Bookstore, and Shen Zhifang of World Book Company.

Martial arts novel writer Xiang Yiran, Ouyang Yuqian and Hong Shen in the drama industry, Dan Du Yu and Zheng Zhengqiu in the film industry, big star Yin Mingzhu, singer Meng Xiaodong and so on.

Some of these people even brought one or two acquaintances over, so this party was quite lively, almost including half of Shanghai's literary scene.

At this time, Lin Zixuan suddenly realized that his influence was already so great.

According to foreigners, this is called a cultural salon.

This is not the first time Pearl Race has participated in such a cultural salon, and there are similar gatherings in Nanjing.

However, that kind of gathering is not at the same level as this salon, and it is the first time that she intuitively feels Lin Zixuan's status in the Chinese literary world.

The participants of this salon have more than half of Shanghai's cultural newspapers and magazines, as well as the owners of publishing houses and stars in the entertainment industry, and everyone is talking about the most cutting-edge topics in the cultural world.

There are ideological debates, cultural collisions, gossip between friends, and good stories of talented and beautiful people.

This is the real cultural salon.

Pearl Race is like a fish in water, she is well versed in Chinese culture and customs, and there is no obstacle to communication with these top figures in the Chinese literary world, and even because of her identity, she is very sought after in it.

She loves the pleasure of interacting with people of her kind.

There was also a surprising scene at the salon.

Zheng Zhenduo of the Literature Research Association and Zhou Shoujuan of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School talked.

After Zheng Zhenduo took over the "Novel Monthly", he made adjustments, in addition to continuing to promote new literature, he also added the column "Sorting out the National History", so as not to make the magazine appear too radicalized on the premise of maintaining the original style of "Novel Monthly".

Of course, the style of novels that have always cracked down on the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School will not change.

There is no contradiction between the two in private, in the Shanghai literary circle, everyone bows their heads and does not look up, and it is normal to communicate after meeting.

The reason for this surprise is that the struggle between the two literary schools is too fierce.

Actually, don't think that Zhou Shoujuan is an old-school literati, he is not yet 30 years old, he is very open-minded, he is a movie enthusiast, he likes emerging art forms, but he just writes romance novels.

The gathering was a success, and the next day it spread throughout the Shanghai literary circle.

The main reason is that after these literati go back, they will write some essays, saying that they met so-and-so at the party, and then publish them.

Lin Zixuan did not expect that this party held because of Pearl Race caused a lot of repercussions in the Shanghai literary circle, and was considered by many literati to be a high-end literary gathering.

In Shanghai, similar literary gatherings are not uncommon, but most of them are relatively simple.

For example, the gatherings of the Southern Society are all old-school poets, the writers within the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School often eat together, and the writers of the new literature often get together, but they are not such hodgepodge gatherings.

Lin Zixuan is involved in a variety of industries, so he can invite top figures from different industries to come, which expands the communication level of the participants and virtually improves the level of the party.

As a result, in the Shanghai literary circle, many literati were proud to participate in the party held by Lin Zixuan.

This reminded Lin of the elite circle in Britain with Virginia Woolf as the core, and he might be able to replicate a similar social circle in Shanghai to provide a platform for communication in the Shanghai literary scene.

However, these will be talked about after he returns from his vacation in Lushan.

At the beginning of July, they set off from Shanghai and headed for Lushan.