Lin Zixuan chatted with Hu Shi for a few words, and Hu Shi asked Lin Zixuan to sort out the speech and publish it in newspapers and magazines.

In this era, China's intellectual circles, although chaotic, are also open, and all kinds of ideas can be put forward, while at the same time facing attacks from others.

Lin Zixuan was ready to face the attack, anyway, he would return to Shanghai in a few days, and he would have his own newspaper in his own territory, and he could promote his ideas to his heart's content.

He didn't mind a cross-regional debate with the elites of the Beiping ideological circles, and there was also a group of younger brothers waving their flags and shouting.

That's the benefit of being a boss, and with the employee's salary in hand, there are naturally people willing to serve.

At this time, a shy young man walked over.

"Mr. Lin, I'm from Xiangxi, and I like your "Border City" very much." The young man said sincerely, "I have also learned to write a few articles about my hometown, please correct me." ”

The young man took out a stack of manuscript paper and handed it to Lin Zixuan nervously.

Lin Zixuan looked at this young man, who should be about the same age as him.

This man is thin, old-fashioned, and the manuscript paper is yellow, which is the cheapest kind of manuscript paper that needs to be cut by himself, and it can be seen that his family background is not very good.

When Lin Zixuan was teaching in Shanghai, he would also meet this kind of young man who recommended himself, and he thought he could publish it after writing a few articles, and wanted to ask Lin Zixuan to praise a few words, so as to double his value.

Lin Zixuan himself is a publisher and knows the doorway.

If you want to publish an article in a newspaper, the first thing is that the article must be good, have ideas and content, and secondly, you must have a relationship. There is absolutely no difference in treatment between articles that are recommended in the editorial department and those that are not recommended.

He doesn't judge people by their appearance, but he encounters this kind of thing a lot. It's numb.

Still, he smiled and took the paper. A gentle word of encouragement to the young man, and said that he would look back, this is the basic routine, otherwise he will be said to have no celebrity demeanor.

After the young man left, Hu Shi couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

As a new literary leader with appeal in Beiping, this kind of thing has been encountered more by Hu Shi, and everyone deals with it in roughly the same way, as for whether they will watch it in the future, it depends on whether they have time.

Lin Zixuan held the manuscript paper. He said goodbye to Hu Shi and walked towards the outside of Peking University.

Comparatively speaking, Hu Shi is much busier than him.

Although Hu Shi opposed the oriental civilization advocated by Tagore, during Tagore's stay in Beiping, as a representative of the cultural circles, he participated in many activities, and Tagore's visit was a major event in China's cultural circles.

Lin Zixuan is relatively free, except for some necessary activities, he can arrange his time at will.

He lives in the Songpa Library at No. 7 Shihu Hutong in Beiping. It was also the main gathering place for members of the Crescent Society, and he did not have his own car in Peiping, so he had to take the tram back.

There was nothing to do on the tram, and Lin Zixuan looked through the stack of manuscript papers.

The handwriting on the manuscript paper is correct. It is a standard small case.

However, the story is a little rougher, protracted, and in some places the sentences do not make much sense. It can be seen that the author writes with heart, but the level is not so high.

The article is also written about the story of Xiangxi's characters. There are traces of imitation of "Border City".

Although Lin Zixuan has been plagiarizing famous books, he has copied a lot. Gradually, I developed a basic sense of appreciation.

He felt that the author's level of education was probably not high, and he had not received formal education, otherwise there would be no obvious sentence errors in the article, and the author was obviously still in the stage of imitating famous articles and had not formed his own style.

Despite all these faults, this prose novel has many highlights.

He flipped backwards, and when he reached the last page, he finally saw the author's name.

"Written on April 13, 1924, by Shen Congwen."

Lin Zixuan suddenly realized when he saw this, it turned out to be the original author of "Border City".

Shen Congwen can be said to be a Beipiao family in this era.

Born in 1902, he graduated from primary school, joined the army in Xiangxi in his early years, participated in the warlord melee, was accustomed to seeing life and death, and finally came to his senses, took off his military uniform, and came to Beiping, the birthplace of new literature.

In 1922, Shen Congwen came to Peking and wanted to be admitted to the Chinese language class of Yenching University, but his cultural background was too poor and he was not admitted, so he had to audit at Peking University.

The days of Beipiao are very difficult, and it can be said that even eating is a problem.

He was ready to write for a living, and submitted articles to the major newspapers in Beiping, but none of them were willing to publish his articles.

Sun Fuyuan, the editor-in-chief of the supplement of Beiping's "Morning Post", even threw a stack of Shen Congwen's submissions into a paper basket with garbage in public at an editorial meeting, and sarcastically said that it was the manuscript of Shen Da's writer.

There are many reasons for this, one is that Shen Congwen's article was not very mature at that time, and the other is that Shen Congwen's article did not agree with the concept of Sun Fuyuan's editor-in-chief supplement.

There is also a story of Yu Dafu and Shen Congwen here.

In the winter of 1924, Shen Congwen had no way to make a living, hungry and cold, so he wrote a letter to many famous literary artists in Beiping for help, and only Yu Dafu came to visit Shen Congwen after receiving the letter.

Yu Dafu took Shen Congwen to have a meal after understanding his predicament.

The meal cost one yuan and seven dimes, Yu Dafu took out five yuan to pay the bill, and gave the remaining three yuan triangular money to Shen Congwen.

Yu Dafu also wrote a famous "Public Letter to Literary Youth" and complained about it.

and persuaded Shen Congwen not to think about going to college, the diploma is useless, and he can't find a job after studying in college, either go back to his hometown in Xiangxi, or be a thief, life is more important than going to school.

Subsequently, Yu Dafu recommended Shen Congwen's article to the supplement of "Morning Post", which made Shen Congwen, who drifted north, slowly enter the literary world.

At that time, the editor-in-chief of the supplement of "Morning Post" was no longer Sun Fuyuan, but was replaced by Liu Mianji and Zhai Shiying.

It can be said that Shen Congwen was extremely embarrassed in the first few years of Beiping, even to the point of needing relief.

It can be seen that there are risks in the north drift, and you need to be cautious when entering the industry.

But who would have thought that it was this young man from Xiangxi who graduated from primary school that became an extraordinary writer in the history of modern Chinese literature. His essays are unique, rustic, but unusually beautiful, and have even been shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Lin Zixuan took the stack of yellowed manuscript paper and thought about it.

Directly giving money to help Shen Congwen get out of trouble is simple and effective, but it may hurt the self-esteem of this young man in Xiangxi.

It's better to publish his articles and give him a proper remuneration.

Of course, Shen Congwen's article still needs to be revised, thinking that he can revise the manuscript of a great writer in the future, Lin Zixuan also has a sense of accomplishment, who made Shen Congwen's current article immature.

When he returned to his residence, he first sorted out the content of today's speech and submitted it to the supplement of the "Morning Post", and then revised Shen Congwen's draft.

He plans to meet this young man from Xiangxi tomorrow. (To be continued.) )