"Brother Yucai! Wait a minute! As soon as Zhou Shuren walked out of the classroom, he heard someone calling him from behind. He turned around, but saw that it was his fellow countryman Lu Weifu.

"Hey, why did you come here at this time?" Zhou Shuren knows that Lu Weifu is now attending a Japanese cram school so that he can be admitted to a certain Japanese school, and now the day of the exam is not far away, it is a tense time, Lu Weifu almost does not go out, every day out of the cram school door into the rented small pavilion, out of the small pavilion, must go to school. And now, the German class of the "Tokyo Duyi Language Association" where Zhou Shuren is located is located in a far opposite location from the language school where Lu Weifu studied, from there is a public tram, it takes more than half an hour to come over, and once you go back, you have to waste an hour and a half.

"Mr. Zhang is looking for you. It seems that there is something important. Lu Weifu replied.

"Ah, Mr. Zhang looking for me?" Zhou Shuren was a little surprised, but he still immediately decided to skip lunch and rush over immediately. So he said to Lu Weifu, "Then let's go right away." Zhou Shuren knew that Mr. Zhang in Lu Weifu's mouth was referring to Mr. Zhang Taiyan. Since watching the film of the Russo-Japanese War at the medical school in Sendai two years ago, Zhou Shuren has made up his mind to abandon medicine and pursue literature, and shift his energy from healing the body to healing the spirit of the people. So, without waiting for graduation, Zhou Shuren left Sendai Medical College and went to Tokyo to start working in cultural communication. At this time, Zhou Shuren had not yet done a lot of literary creation, and naturally he did not have the pen name that illuminated history later-Lu Xun, at this time, Mr. Zhou's main focus was still on translating foreign works.

In the beginning, Zhou Shuren's translation was mainly a second-course dealer, that is, translating Western works that had been translated into Japanese by the Japanese into Chinese. However, Zhou Shuren soon discovered that there were many problems with this kind of translation, and some Western works, especially cultural and literary works, had changed their connotations a lot after they were translated into Japanese, and when they were translated from Japanese to Chinese, they were distorted again. Many ideas may end up being far from the original. So although his life was quite poor during this time, he still took out the money and began to learn various Western languages.

In 1906, after Mr. Zhang Taiyan was released from prison, he returned to Japan, and lectured in Japan on Chinese culture. On Revolution. Zhou Shuren often went to his classes with his younger brother, and he was barely a student of Mr. Zhang Taiyan. Although Mr. Zhang Taiyan will most likely not regard him as a disciple. But Zhou Shuren wrote the "Refutation of Kang Youwei's Book on Revolution" and Zou Rong's "Revolutionary Army" in the preface, and called Emperor Guangxu "Zai Xiang Clown" in the article The knowledge and character of the old-timers are particularly respectful, and now since it is Mr. Zhang looking for himself, although he doesn't know what the specific thing is, he should always rush over.

"Hu Jun, you go back and talk to my brother, and say that I went to Mr. Zhang." Before leaving, Zhou Shuren finally remembered and asked his classmates to talk to his younger brother.

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"Tree man, sit down." Mr. Zhang Taiyan smiled at Zhou Shuren and said, "I heard you mention that you studied medicine in Sendai before?" ”

"Mr. Zhang, I studied medicine in Sendai, but I didn't ......graduate," Zhou Shuren hurriedly replied.

"I know, last time you mentioned it to me, there is a difference between healing the body and healing the spirit. But it's quite insightful. Mr. Zhang smiled and said, "Tao Huanqing sent me a letter saying that they are interested in opening a medical school in Hangzhou and building a Western-style hospital. He also remembered that you had studied medicine, and asked me if I could contact you. I'll get you. ”

Zhou Shuren heard this, and was about to refuse on the grounds that "it is better to heal the body than to heal the spirit", but he heard Mr. Zhang Taiyan continue; "Tree Man, I know you think 'healing the body is not as good as healing the spirit'. I also agree with you, as you said to me before, 'All the weak people, no matter how strong their physique, can only be meaningless materials and spectators', but you must know that Tao Huanqing wants to set up hospitals and medical schools not to treat people, but to use this as a cover to carry out revolution. So he needed someone who knew medicine and was willing to work for the revolution to help him. How about it, are you willing to go back and help Tao Huanqing? ”

Zhou Shuren thought for a while and replied, "Since it is for the revolution, of course I am willing." It takes a lot of money to run a Western medical school and open a Western-style hospital, and I remember that Mr. Tao was actually a poor man. ”

"Tao Huanqing and they recently passed through Chen Guang, that is, the Taiping Army who was sold to North America, that Chen Guangke is a rich man, he saved the life of the richest tycoon in the United States back then, so he also made a fortune. After this man became rich, he returned to China and wanted to build a grave for his parents, but found that because of the rebellion that year, the ancestral graves were dug up, and the bones of his parents were gone. So naturally he hated the Manchu Qing to the core, and some uprisings of the Xingzhong Society were supported by him later. Chen Guang has quite a lot of connections in the United States, and now with his help, Tao Huanqing is not short of money to spend for the time being. This hospital is also said to be the capital of the Americans, and it does not need Tao Huanqing to pay for it. It's just that Chinese people don't believe in Western medicine very much, and Americans don't understand Chinese very well. So the Americans felt that they needed some Chinese to help them run and take care of it, and Tao Huanqing also felt that they could use this as a cover to prepare for the revolution. Well, Tree Man, if you are willing to go, then be prepared to leave quickly, do you have the money to go back? Tao Huanqing was really rich this time, but he was generous and sent all the money for the return trip. ”

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Although Zhou Shuren immediately began to prepare as soon as he decided to go back to participate in the revolution, it still took another week when he actually set off to go back. In the midst of this, he and his younger brother also had a little conflict, and the younger brother felt that since he had decided to save the country with literature and art, he should stick to this path to the end and should not take another path. Zhou Shuren, on the other hand, took Byron as an example and believed that literature and art and revolution could go hand in hand.

In the end, the elder brother persuaded the younger brother, and then in the same year, he boarded the ship back to China for the second time.

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Walking on the edge of the West Lake, Zhou Shuren found that many people on the road looked at him sideways. Zhou Shuren knew what was going on, and the reason was very simple, because he didn't have braids. A few months ago, when he went home to get married, Zhou Shuren also wore a fake braid. However, it was for his mother, and now, naturally, he refused to wear fake braids anymore.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty was once very strict with the hairstyles of the common people, and in the early years, they were serious about keeping their heads without hair, and keeping their hair without their heads. To the raven. After the war, especially after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Manchus became more and more unable to control the localities, and later, when the revolutionaries began to appear, the revolutionaries often used the method of cutting off their braids when they expressed their anti-Manchu revolutionary tendencies. The Manchu Qing Dynasty once also used the lack of braids as a symbol to catch the revolutionary party, but as the Manchu Qing was defeated in foreign wars again and again, its fragility was also exposed, which also made his control over the local area further weakened. Although the Manchu government did not allow this, it did not pursue it anymore. So nowadays, if it's in Shanghai, it's not unusual for people to see young people wearing suits and no braids on the back of their heads.

However, compared to Shanghai, Hangzhou is a small place after all. Here, men without braids are still relatively rare. Therefore, people will naturally look at him a little weirder.

However, this kind of vision did not make Zhou Shuren feel uncomfortable, and even this kind of vision gave him a sense of encouragement. Looking at these people, he felt that it was really a meaningful thing for him to return to China.

"Yucai, look over there, that's where our medical school is located." Tao Chengzhang pointed to an empty area overgrown with wild grass on the edge of the West Lake and said.

"Mr. Tao, where is the hospital built?" Zhou Shuren asked.

"The hospital, naturally, is in the city." Tao Chengzhang said, "It is more convenient for the hospital to be built in the city. However, the land in the city is expensive, so I chose this place. Also, it's a little more remote, so a lot of things are easier to do. ”

Zhou Shuren knew that Tao Chengzhang's so-called many things should be easier to do, referring to the things that were prepared for the revolution.

"It's just that I'm just an assistant, and the big and small things in the school are all decided by the Americans, and I'm afraid it's not easy to hide from them and prepare for the revolution." Zhou Shuren replied with a frown.

"It's not easy, but if the principal is willing to help, it's not that hard." Tao Chengzhang said with a smile, "This school was funded by the Salvation Hospital in the United States, and the money for the Salvation Hospital came from the Baptist Church. So theoretically, the Baptists would send a school superintendent. However, considering that the school is not large, and it is too far away from the United States, they don't have so many people to send, so they only sent a principal and school supervisor. This man's name is McMillan, a military doctor, and he is also a soldier. He was in Cuba and fought for the Cuban Revolution. He is a friend of Mr. Chen Guang and a completely trustworthy person. ”

"What about the other instructors?" Zhou Shuren asked again, "Are they all our comrades?" ”

"That's not that much." Tao replied, "Six of the other faculty members are Americans, and the rest need to be hired by ourselves." In addition, since the Baptist Church of America wanted to run a medical school when it paid for it, although we can borrow it, the matter of running a medical school itself is also a good thing for China, and we must also do it well. ”