Zhou Zuoren lived at No. 11 Badaowan Hutong in Beiping, which was purchased by Lu Xun in 1919.

The whole courtyard is the pattern of the big mansion door, the adjacent street is a slip courtyard wall, enter the gatehouse to see the shadow wall, two before and after, nine tile houses, the house is divided into the main courtyard, the backyard and the west cross courtyard.

At that time, the price was 3,500 yuan, which was considered a luxury house in Beiping.

According to the housing prices in Beijing in later generations, this is definitely the price of cabbage picked up for nothing.

Lu Xun returned to China in 1909 to work, and in 1912 he took up a post in the Ministry of Education.

His position in the Ministry of Education was a servant, with a monthly salary of 300 yuan, and he also wrote articles for newspapers to get paid.

This set of courtyard houses is equivalent to one year's salary of him, which shows that civil servants are an enviable profession in any era.

Moreover, he sold an old house in his hometown in Shaoxing and got 1,600 yuan.

With a house in Beiping, he took leave to return to Shaoxing and took his mother, first wife Zhu Press, and younger brother Zhou Jianren to Beiping.

At this time, Zhou Zuoren also returned from Japan with his family, and the three brothers lived together and became a big family.

However, the good times did not last long, and three years later, the two brothers fell out.

Lu Xun and Zhu Ji moved out of Badaowan and moved to No. 61 Xisita Hutong to live, while Zhou Zuoren and Zhou's mother stayed in Badaowan.

As a result, some people in later generations speculated that Zhou Zuoren fell out with Lu Xun in order to occupy the house in Badaowan Hutong, and it was none other than Lu Xun's son Zhou Haiying who put forward this statement.

Zhou Haiying wrote the inside story of the Zhou brothers' life in Badaowan in the book "Lu Xun and Me for 70 Years".

In Zhou Haiying's narration, the protagonist is a woman named Nobuko Yuta, who is Zhou Zuoren's wife and is in charge of the economic power of Badaowan, spending money like water and spending extravagantly.

And. This Japanese woman is cruel and ruthless, scheming, first drove away the third Zhou Jianren, and then used stratagem to provoke Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren to turn against each other, and finally achieved her goal of monopolizing real estate.

Even Zhou's mother was unwilling to live in the cruel environment of Badaowan, but moved to live with Lu Xun.

The whole process is more like a palace fight novel.

However. Zhou Haiying was born in 1929, he had never lived in Badaowan, and he was only seven years old when Lu Xun died.

It is not known who told him.

Let's talk about Zhou Jianren first, he is Lu Xun's third brother, and his wife is the younger sister of Yutai Nobuko.

In 1921, Zhou Jianren went to Shanghai to work as an assistant editor of the Women's Magazine at the Commercial Press.

She has also been engaged in translation work, and has published articles in the Oriental Magazine, the Women's Magazine, and the Natural Science Journal, advocating women's emancipation. Popularize scientific knowledge.

This person also lived with a female student when he was in Shanghai.

This doesn't seem to have much to do with being driven away by Nobuko Yuta.

And Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren's severance is probably not as simple as economic reasons.

The house in Badaowan was purchased by Lu Xun with the money from the sale of his hometown house plus his own savings, so it is regarded as the public property of their family, but it belongs to Lu Xun in name.

A contract was signed at that time.

The content is the property of Badaowan, which is divided into four parts: each of the three brothers occupies one share, and Zhou's mother occupies one share, and this share is used as the cost of Zhou's mother's pension and death.

Zhou Haiying complained to Zhou Zuoren that after Lu Xun passed away, Zhou Zuoren changed the account of the Badaowan house from Lu Xun to Zhou Zuoren, and did not bear Zhou's mother's child support for a period of time.

Zhou Zuoren's living expenses for Zhou's mother every month are 50 yuan. Zhou Haiying thinks that Zhou Zuoren's income is too small.

This is so similar to the inseparable incident of a family fighting for real estate in later generations, but it is only because it happened in a celebrity family like the Zhou brothers that it is particularly attention-grabbing.

Lin Zixuan was not interested in the family affairs of the Zhou brothers. It's just a matter of seeing the excitement from the perspective of a bystander.

On April 25, 1924, he came to No. 11 Badaowan.

Zhou Zuoren came out in a Japanese kimono to greet him, and with him was Sun Fuyuan, the editor-in-chief of the "Morning Post Supplement".

After graduating from Peking University in 1921, Sun Fuyuan has been presiding over the editing of the supplement of "Morning Post", known as the "Supplement King".

When presiding over the supplement of the morning newspaper, Lu Xun's "The True Story of Ah Q" was serialized in the newspaper for the first time.

He also published many later well-known works, such as Bingxin's "Sending Young Readers" and Zhou Zuoren's "My Own Garden", and introduced a large number of Western cultural and scientific works and translators.

Arguably. The "Morning Post Supplement" actually became a propaganda front for the new culture.

He has a good relationship with the Zhou brothers, and he has special respect for Lu Xun and regards Lu Xun as his mentor.

Of course, he later broke with Lu Xun and took a different path.

Lin Zixuan's article "Where is the etiquette in China? It was published by Sun Fuyuan. As a counterattack to Chen Duxiu and others.

Most of the members of the Literary Research Society were in favor of Tagore's visit to China, and many Chinese writers of new literature were influenced by Tagore's poetry, and many young people also welcomed Tagore's arrival.

Therefore, many literary journals in Peking will not publish articles by Chen Duxiu and others.

Most of Chen Duxiu's articles were published in Shanghai newspapers and periodicals, and they were non-literary newspapers.

Rabindranath Tagore's visit to China is a major event in the Chinese cultural circles, both as the center of media pursuits and as the focus of discussion in the literary world, about which Zhou Zuoren and Sun Fuyuan are also discussing.

They agree with Lin Zixuan's statement in the article.

Tagore is not a beast of prey, nor is he holding a foreign gun or a cannon, just a few words about Eastern culture and criticism of Western culture, can it lead to the collapse of China?

Those people make too much fuss and impose on Tagore's head the debate about science and metaphysics within the Chinese cultural circles, which is a misreading of Tagore.

However, since Tagore came to Beiping, Chen Duxiu has intensified his criticism of Tagore.

In his article "Tagore and Moneyism", he used the words "some people in Beijing say him to criticize Tagore as "a politician, not a poet".

"Tagore's peace movement only exhorts all oppressed nations to endure and obey and sacrifice to the imperialists as he does, and is simply a lobbyist for imperialism."

In fact, Tagore has always been committed to the independence of India and has made great contributions to it, he is a patriot.

Just because Tagore is admired in Western society and won the Nobel Prize in Literature does not mean that Tagore has been bought by the West to become an "imperialist lobbyist".

It would be unfair.

During the discussion, Lin Zixuan noticed the obvious Japanese style in Zhou Zuoren's house, perhaps because the hostess of the house was Japanese, Zhou Zuoren seemed to be more accustomed to the Japanese way of life, and he lived in Japan for five years.

He wore a kimono, sat on the floor, drank tea, and his voice was not high, telling the story of the Beiping literary circle, with a famous demeanor.

This year, Zhou Zuoren was thirty-nine years old.

No one would have imagined that twenty years later, he would be imprisoned as a cultural traitor and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

The ups and downs of life are roughly like this, and one wrong step is a stain that cannot be erased in life. (To be continued.) )