On August 26, 1926, Lu Xun and Xu Guangping left Beiping and took a train south along the Jingpu Line.

In the early morning of August 29, the train arrived in Shanghai

Lu Xun stayed in a hostel, and Xu Guangping stayed at her uncle's house that night, and the two did not appear together in public.

There are many reasons why Lu Xun went south this time.

One is that the political environment in Beiping is harsh, and life is quite difficult.

That's right, even Lu Xun will have livelihood problems.

Lu Xun was originally a staff member of the Ministry of Education, with a monthly salary of 300 silver dollars, and he also taught part-time at the university, writing articles and publishing novels to make money.

However, because the Ministry of Education of the Beiyang government has serious salary arrears, civil servants cannot afford it.

Lu Xun described the experience of receiving a salary in his essay "Recording the Payroll", from which it can be seen that it is normal for the Beiyang government to make white slips.

According to the article, from January to July 1926, he received only four salaries, totaling 190 yuan, and the salary owed to him by the Ministry of Education over the years was as high as 9,240 yuan.

The equivalent of owing him two to three years of salary.

In order to ask for a salary from the Ministry of Education, Lu Xun was also knocked out of a front tooth by the police in the process of asking for a salary.

Thinking about it, civil servants in this era really can't afford to hurt, Lu Xun still has part-time jobs, and other civil servants can only suffer.

Even so, Lu Xun almost lost this civil servant errand.

Because of his support for the trend of female teachers, he was dismissed by the Ministry of Education in August 1925, and in order to keep his position as a civil servant, Lu Xun took the Ministry of Education to court in a fit of rage.

The case ended with Lu Xun's victory, which was a case of "civil prosecution of officials". But not representative.

If it weren't for Lu Xun's fame, he would have enough influence. With the support of all sectors of society, it is extremely difficult to win the case.

The Ministry of Education does not just owe salaries to civil servants. Teachers are also owed salaries, so there is a widespread phenomenon of unpaid salaries in universities in Peiping.

In other words, Lu Xun can only make a living by writing articles and getting manuscript fees.

At this time, he received a salary and travel expenses totaling 500 oceans from Xiamen University, and the monthly salary offered was 400 oceans.

This high salary is a temptation that scholars in Peking cannot resist.

The high-salary employment is only one of the reasons why he went south, and another reason is that Xu Guangping graduated from the Women's Normal University.

As a native of Guangdong, she plans to return to her hometown and be recommended by an acquaintance to teach at the Guangdong Women's Normal School in Guangzhou.

It's been more than a year. The relationship between the two is getting closer and closer, and there are too many people who are familiar with them in Beiping, and it is easy to be exposed.

After all, Lu Xun is a celebrity, and he still has a wife who is married to Ming Media at home, if it is revealed that he is living with a female student, it will not have a good impact, and public opinion will definitely not let them go.

They went south together, which also meant a change of environment.

On the evening of August 30, Zheng Zhenduo hosted a banquet for Lu Xun at Qingxian Villa, and most of the members of the Literary Research Society were at this banquet.

Including Shen Yanbing, Ye Shengtao and Zhu Ziqing. Naturally, Zhou Jianren, who works in Shanghai, is indispensable.

Out of good intentions, Zheng Zhenduo invited Lin Zixuan, his original intention was to resolve the grievances between Lin Zixuan and Zhou Jianren.

Last year, the Commercial Press's "Women's Magazine" released an album of New Sexual Morality, which caused great criticism in the society. Lin Zixuan played a role in fueling the flames.

Eventually, Zhang Xichen, the editor-in-chief of "Women's Magazine", resigned, and Zhou Jianren was also implicated.

It was from that time that the relationship between Lin Zixuan and the Zhou brothers turned cold. There is still some connection with Zhou Zuoren.

In the Shanghai cultural circle at this time, the status of Lin Zixuan and Zhou Jianren was very different. You can ignore it at all, just for the sake of Lu Xun's face. He accepted the invitation anyway.

Speaking of which, he and many people here have contradictions.

In the case of Tagore, he had an unpleasant quarrel with Shen Yanbing, in children's literature, he criticized Ye Shengtao's children's stories, and he had an argument with the Literary Research Society on the direction of the development of new literature.

This is the Chinese literary world, but the views are different, and there is no personal grudge.

Lin Zixuan is right about things and not people most of the time, since Zheng Zhenduo has this meaning, he is not a stingy person, just laughing and grudging, they are all Chinese, where there are so many grievances.

But apparently some people don't think so, and Zhou Jianren said one thing during the banquet.

Zhang Xichen, who resigned from the Commercial Press, opened an enlightened bookstore at No. 60 Baoshan Lane, Baoshan Road, on August 1.

Lin Zixuan knew about this.

At the time of the opening, Zhang Xichen sent invitations to various publishing houses in Shanghai, and he should be thoughtful in his courtesy, regardless of whether others come or not.

However, he did not send invitations to Vientiane Bookstore and the Commercial Press, and it is clear that he still has a grudge.

Think about it, think about it from another perspective, as a winner, Lin Zixuan can smile generously, but as a loser, he will definitely keep it in mind and prepare to turn the tables.

These are two different mindsets.

To be honest, Lin Zixuan didn't care much, it was just a small bookstore.

The goal of Vientiane Bookstore is the Commercial Press, to build a large-scale publishing house in China and even the world, and other small bookstores are not in his eyes.

Lin Zixuan found that most of the scholars present were from Zhejiang, and Zhu Ziqing and the Zhou brothers were still fellow villagers in Shaoxing.

In the literary world, it is not uncommon to divide factions by origin, such as the famous Tongcheng faction.

What's even more interesting is that Zhou Jianren lived with female students in Shanghai, and Lu Xun did the same, and went to Xiamen for Xu Guangping.

This meal was not interesting, and Lin Zixuan left early.

Late at night on September 1, Lu Xun boarded the steamship "Xinning" and headed for Xiamen at 7 a.m. the next morning.

At 8 o'clock in the morning of the same day, Xu Guangping also took the "Guangda" to Guangzhou.

They agreed to serve the community for two years, not only for their careers, but also to accumulate some necessary money for their own lives.

However, Xu Guangping wrote to Lu Xun while still on the boat: "I may not be able to keep the appointment time before leaving, and I will resist." ”

As soon as Lu Xun arrived in Xiamen, his luggage had just been unloaded, and he immediately "felt too idle and a little bored, but hoped to start school as soon as possible, and the contract expired early."

It can be seen how passionate the two are and how unbearable they are with each other.

The funniest thing is that a third person appeared at this time, this person is called Gao Changhong.

Gao Changhong was born in a dilapidated scholarly family in Shanxi, and his family has a wife with bound feet and children.

He came to Peking and founded the magazine "Hurricane", and was a literary radical.

Lu Xun and Gao Changhong had a close relationship, and in less than two years, the two met no less than a hundred times, and during this time, Gao Changhong secretly fell in love with Xu Guangping.

It's just that the cruel fact that Lu Xun and Xu Guangping are together makes Gao Changhong miserable.

He wrote a poem on "Hurricane", in which he regarded himself as the sun, used the moon as a metaphor for Xu Guangping, and cursed Lu Xun for being the night, and the night forcibly possessed the moon.

Lu Xun is a stingy person, known as not letting go of any of them.

In "Running to the Moon" in "New Stories", he wrote the story of Hou Yi, who was good at shooting, and was plotted by his apprentice Fengmeng after returning from hunting, which was obviously an allusion to Gao Changhong's attack on him.

This is the battle between literati and rivals in love with poetry and novels. (To be continued.) )