After sending Meng Xiaodong away, Lin Zixuan was also leaving Shanghai, and he and Feng Chengcheng took the children back to their hometown in Wuxi.

With children, they should have gone back to worship their ancestors during the Chinese New Year, but because of the delay of the war, now the child is about to be a year old, according to custom, it is time to go home to recognize the ancestors and return to their ancestors.

Starting from Shanghai, along the way, you can still see the traces left by the war.

Fortunately, Jiangsu and Zhejiang are originally rich lands, refugees can take refuge with relatives and friends, and the number of deaths is not so tragic.

Wuxi was not the center of the war, it was less affected, and the city was still prosperous.

In the forest garden on the outskirts of the city, Lin Zixuan planned to recuperate here for a while, put aside the trivial chores, and meditate and cultivate his temperament.

In order to finish the book as soon as possible, he received a letter from Pearl Sai, who and her husband were going to leave China in June to return to the United States for further study.

They enrolled in a graduate program at Cornell University in the United States.

Pearl's husband, Booker, applied for the Department of Agriculture, and Pearl Race applied for the Department of English, this time also to give their three-year-old daughter medical treatment to the United States.

Lin Zixuan realized that this was a good opportunity.

If he wants to send the book "The Man in the High Castle", he has to go abroad, and there is a troublesome thing here.

For Chinese, or Asians, they will be strictly checked when passing through U.S. customs, including luggage.

If it is a government official, it will be better, there will be diplomatic preferential treatment, but for ordinary tourists, this procedure is unavoidable.

If you run into a careless inspector, you may not notice the books Lin Zixuan carried, but once you meet the kind of more serious guys who still discriminate against Chinese, they will look through them one by one.

This would expose the book "The Man in the High Castle".

Lin Zixuan once thought about mailing this book to the Nanyang area, but he only found out after inquiring about the merchants in Nanyang. It was a colony of European countries, and it was very chaotic, and the inventory was even more severe.

This time, the Pearl Race couple went to the United States, and he was going to go with him.

He gave his luggage to the Pearl Race couple to avoid inspection, and U.S. customs was more lenient with Americans.

So. He wanted to finish the book as soon as possible and put it into print.

In this way, I can also visit my sister, who is already studying at Columbia University.

After some consideration, Lin Xiaoling finally chose the school where her brother once studied, and she enrolled in a major that no one expected and entered the School of Journalism at Columbia University.

Columbia University's School of Journalism was founded in 1912.

When classes began on September 30, 1912, about 100 undergraduate and graduate students from 21 countries were enrolled on campus.

The School of Journalism is well-known at Columbia, and most of the professors are experienced journalists.

Lin Xiaoling feels that it is more liberal to become a journalist, and there are many female reporters in the United States, which is a manifestation of women's independence.

Lin Zixuan couldn't laugh or cry at this. When I first arrived in the United States, I was influenced by liberal ideology, and I also talked about women's independence, and having the ability to work and earn tuition by themselves is the real independence.

But who let this be his sister, he can only let her go.

It's a big deal to let her work in Vientiane Bookstore and be in charge of news editing after returning to China, he doesn't expect Lin Xiaoling to achieve much, as long as she is safe.

In the letter sent back. Lin Xiaoling also talked about her college feelings, some of which are related to Lin Zixuan.

When in China. She knew that her brother was very famous, but she didn't have an intuitive concept.

It was only after she came to the United States that she really felt this, and in school, the book "The Catcher in the Rye" has almost become a must-read novel for students, and this trend has not yet dissipated.

More than a year. The novel sold more than 300,000 copies in the United States.

According to industry estimates, "The Catcher in the Rye" is expected to sell more than a million copies, but its predominantly teenage readership has limited sales growth.

If it can be accepted by the middle class in the United States, it could create a sales miracle.

It may be a coincidence that a writer writes one bestseller, but it takes strength to write two bestsellers. And being able to write three best-selling books will establish his status in the literary world.

If Lin Zixuan wants to be completely recognized in the Western literary world, he also needs a foundational work.

Of course, the book will never be The Man in the High Castle, and he hopes that no one will ever know about his relationship with the book.

He wanted to write quietly, but the real world made it impossible for him to be quiet.

Within a few days of his arrival in Wuxi, he received a letter from Shanghai, and Ping Banya wrote to him to tell him something.

On May 15, 1925, Japanese yarn factory workers in Shanghai went on strike again to protest against the unjustified dismissal of workers by Japanese management.

On May 17, Gu Zhenghong, a workers' representative, died in the hospital.

On May 23, the All-China Federation of Students decided to assist Gu Zhenghong in five ways, and on May 24, the trade union of cotton yarn factories inside and outside held a memorial meeting for Gu Zhenghong in Tanziwan, with more than 10,000 people participating.

The purpose of writing a letter is to ask the newspapers and magazines under the Vientiane Book Company what attitude should be expressed.

In such a situation, it is certainly necessary to protest, and it is only a matter of intensity to oppose the atrocities of the Japanese.

Since last year, there have been repeated strikes by workers in Shanghai.

First there was a strike by women workers at the Shanghai Silk Factory, then by workers at the Nanyang Tobacco Factory, and then by about 10,000 workers at the No. 5, No. 7, No. 8, and No. 12 factories of Japanese merchants.

Every time there is a strike, the newspapers will support it and fight for the rights of the workers.

The first two were strikes against Chinese industry and commerce, and the Chinese businessmen were reluctant to make a big deal out of it, and for the sake of their compatriots, they basically compromised and agreed to some of the demands of the workers.

Strikes can be resolved through negotiations.

However, the Japanese were not Chinese businessmen, they came to China to make money, and their attitude towards striking workers was extremely tough.

With the large-scale arrival of Japanese businessmen to build factories in Shanghai, the Japanese set up 23 yarn factories in Shanghai alone, accounting for two-thirds of the total number of yarn factories in Shanghai.

Japanese factory owners are very harsh on their workers, working more than 12 hours a day and earning only one and a half cents a day.

In addition, 5 percent of the savings plant will be withheld, which will not be returned until 10 years of service, and the savings of those who quit work will be confiscated.

It can be said that the Japanese yarn mill is the factory with the worst working environment and the lowest salary in Shanghai.

In the face of repeated strikes by workers, the Japanese used various forces to suppress them, and did not hesitate to use force.

This led to this tragedy.

Ping Banya knew that Lin Zixuan's relationship with the Japanese was rigid, so he wrote a letter asking for instructions on how to act.

When Lin Zixuan saw this letter, he thought of the upcoming May Day tragedy.

On May 30, the Shanghai Students' Federation sent a number of teams to march and give speeches in the concession.

In the afternoon of the same day, some students were arrested on Nanjing Road, and the rest of the students, including more than 1,000 people, went to the door of the arrest room with their bare hands and demanded the release of the arrestees.

The British patrol ordered the opening of fire into the crowd, killing four students and seriously injuring 30 on the spot, and the authorities of the public concession mobilized troops and declared martial law.

Thinking of this, Lin Zixuan couldn't help but fall silent.

He is ready to return to Shanghai overnight, and he may not be able to change anything, but he must always do his part. (To be continued.) )