Chapter 60: The Painter Who Picks the Door
This time in Beiping, Shen Mengxi harvested two items, the same is a prize for the Games, a dipping pen, one for each of the four participants.
Another thing is that Hu Hongxing took her to visit the old man Qi Huang and asked for a picture of shrimp play and a picture of cabbage. These two banners are one foot wide and three feet long, plus the withdrawal cost a total of Wu Shiyuan, and two square seals were engraved, one is Shen Mengxi, and the other is Zhang Jiayu. The side of the seal is engraved with the inscription and the year and month, and it also took Wu Shiyuan.
Qi Huang's pen fee is very detailed, flowers, vegetables, fruits and shrimps, all according to the money, engraving is also charged according to the word, four yuan per word, plus the inscription and the year and month, each cross plus four yuan.
You have to collect money first and then work.
Shen Mengxi went to visit, because of Hu Hongxing's face, he was treated, there was a plate of moon cakes and a plate of peanuts on the table, but it looked like some years, and Shen Mengxi didn't dare to eat it. came out Hu Hongxing told her that those who fortunately didn't eat it, and the old man Qi Huang would be unhappy.
Shen Mengxi smiled secretly, this little posture, a certain host surnamed Zhao, who also loves to paint, seems to have a true heritage.
Qi Huang's family has a wife, a wife, and the children in the family are all born to the deputy wife, Qi Huang is about seventy years old this year, and he still looks strong, with a big beard and bright eyes.
Shen Mengxi pondered for a while, this old man lived to be in his nineties, and after the death of his wife, he seemed to have married many young women, but he couldn't remember how many he had for a while.
Whatever, Shen Mengxi carefully put the painting and dipping pen into the ninth compartment of the Wuling space, packed a small suitcase, and stepped on the train to Shanghai.
Back in Shanghai, Shen Mengxi sent the dim sum he bought in Peking to Mrs. Lin, and gave the gadgets he bought from Tianqiao to a few children. Zhang Jiasen has returned to China, he is secretly planning something, and when he saw Shen Mengxi, he no longer had a straight face, and praised her with a smile for her actions as a battlefield ambulance. Shen Mengxi looked out the window, Zhang Jiasen asked strangely what was wrong, and she said, "I'll see where the sun rises today." ”
Zhang Jiasen said angrily and funny, "My sons are all the oldest, you are still naughty!" ”
Shen Mengxi asked, "How are you doing all these years?" ”
"We're okay, your second sister-in-law has given birth to another child, and she is almost a year old."
Shen Mengxi congratulated Zhang Jiasen and said that he would prepare a meeting gift for his nephew when he went back.
Zhang Jiasen has always disliked the country's emphasis on learning and light study, the country's weak and unpragmatic and inactive, very disgusted, learned that his sister participated in the college sports meeting, won the first place, very happy, solemnly said, "I have been abroad for all these years, I have also calmly thought about it, although you are a woman, but also have your own independent thoughts, this world is not only a man's world, but also a woman's world, the second brother used to hurt you in the wrong way, in the future you boldly live according to your own ideas, as long as it does not violate morality, the second brother will not stop you."
Shen Mengxi listened to Daqi, and he didn't know what this stubborn metaphysical ghost had encountered in Europe over the years, and his thinking had changed so much. "Ethical standards", this is Zhang Jiasen's standard for measuring everything, his metaphysical theory Shen Mengxi can't understand, they rarely have relevant discussions, to be honest, she admires people with high moral standards, as long as he doesn't touch her bottom line, of course she is willing to live in peace with him.
Shen Mengxi stretched out his hands, hugged Zhang Jiasen, smiled, and said nothing.
It is inevitable to talk about Xu Shizhe later, Zhang Jiasen deeply regretted it, saying that the literary world has lost a bright star.
Regarding Wang Shouqing's matter, he agrees with Shen Mengxi's decision, comforting her life, there are many regrets, it is normal to not get a relationship and a good person, if you blindly regret and blindly waste, you will miss the people and feelings behind you.
Shen Mengxi was noncommittal, she didn't get along with Wang Shouqing, not because he was Lu Xiaomei's ex-husband, nor was he afraid of criticism, but he was afraid of trouble, the parents of both sides were resolutely opposed, and Zhang Jiarui was mixed in it, if you add the newspaper discussions, the things they have to deal with are too complicated, and no matter how good the feelings are, they will wear them out, to put it bluntly, she just doesn't have such deep feelings for Wang Shouqing. It's not that she can't live without feelings, rather than getting tired of the last two phases, it's better to break off early and leave some good impressions.
- How can such a good man be willing to become a husband.
As if someone had said such a thing, Shen Mengxi comforted himself.
Zhang Jiasen didn't understand it, so he simply didn't say it, but Shen Mengxi smiled silently.
Zhang Jiasen was very happy that his sister had become obedient, and took out the gifts brought back from Europe to her and Ah Huan.
On this day, Lin Yuesheng suddenly brought his second wife to the door and came to Shen Mengxi, it turned out that he had just established Hengshe and founded Jimin Hospital, and specially invited Shen Mengxi to participate in management.
Hengshe is nominally a civil society, with the purpose of "cultivating morality, advocating morality and righteousness, mutual trust and mutual assistance, serving the society, and being loyal to the country", but in fact it is a gang organization, through which Lin Yuesheng recruits disciples and extends his influence to all aspects of society.
At the beginning of the establishment of Hengshe, there were only more than 100 people, but its members have been widely distributed in the Shanghai Party Department, the press industry, and the film industry.
Shen Mengxi did not join the Heng Society, but promised him to help in the hospital. Lin Yuesheng, as the leader of the Shanghai underworld, inevitably has a stain, and he also monopolizes the opium trade and transportation, but it is not completely dark, he opened a bank, opened a school, is enthusiastic about public welfare, and now runs a hospital. And he has always been resolute in resisting Japan, so Shen Mengxi is willing to help him.
Lin Yuesheng didn't want Shen Mengxi to be a doctor, but needed a trusted person who knew medical knowledge to do supervision and management. After Shen Mengxi responded, Lin Yuesheng handed over all the financial power to her, so Shen Mengxi participated in the preparation of Jimin Hospital throughout the process, from civil engineering, to equipment procurement, to personnel recruitment, she participated in the whole process, although she had no similar experience before, but she had more knowledge, and gave Lin Yuesheng a lot of suggestions, such as setting up an emergency center, purchasing ambulances, setting up a night children's emergency department, setting up an independent ward for infectious diseases, and medical waste disposal and other details. Lin Yuesheng was very pleased, feeling that he was discerning, and was full of praise for Mrs. Lin, who smiled and narrowed her eyes, "Of course my daughter can do anything!" ”
Shen Mengxi went to Shanghai Medical College to audit the course, and also wanted to discuss with them the experience of medical device procurement, and met a professor named Tang Feifei, about 367 years old, who had studied at Harvard Medical School, devoted to the study of mycoplasma microorganisms, published the paper "Research on Bacillus trachoma and trachoma", and after returning to China, he served as an associate professor in the Department of Bacteriology of the Central University School of Medicine. At that time, the medical school had only 29 students and only 8 teachers, and Tang Feifei was the only teacher in the Department of Bacteriology. Last year, the Central University School of Medicine was changed to Shanghai Medical College, and Tang Feifei was promoted to professor.
He is not only engaged in teaching, but also research infectious diseases, including trachoma, mumps, encephalitis, influenza and other research, but the laboratory equipment is poor, government funding is far away, Shen Mengxi after several contacts with it, was moved by Tang Feifei, she persuaded Lin Yuesheng to sponsor the laboratory, and he also took out 50 gold bars, claiming that it was sponsored by a friend surnamed Shen who fled to Beiping in the northeast.
Jimin Hospital plans to buy a set of X-ray equipment, Shen Mengxi suggested that some business companies buy it, but Lin Yuesheng wanted to go out to see it in person, and took his fourth wife with him, and went sightseeing by the way, and asked Shen Mengxi to follow to do a translation, she brought Ah Huan, the child is 16 years old, it is time to go out to see the world.
The speed of the cruise has increased a lot, and half a month later, it arrived in Los Angeles.
At this time, Los Angeles was in a recession, and all walks of life were unemployed workers, and a friend of Lin Yuesheng was a guide for them, and he pointed to a construction site and said, "A big observatory is being built here." "This is a weapons store."
Lin Yuesheng was very interested in weapons, glanced at Shen Mengxi, and invited her to take a look together.
It was easy to buy, but it was a big problem to ship it back to China, and Lin Yuesheng just looked at all kinds of pistols and rifles, and finally left in pain.
They took the train to New York, a distance of more than 3,000 kilometers, and sat in the dark.
The prosperity of New York was beyond Shen Mengxi's expectations, it turned out that New York had been so developed so early.
Ah Huan remembered what her mother said, to stay calm, and when she encounters something amazing, she can only praise it in her heart, and she is not allowed to show too much on her expression.
But seeing the skyscraper, Ah Huan still exclaimed, 70 floors, 259 meters, Ah Huan saw that his hat fell to the ground, and he was a little embarrassed to quickly pick it up, and when he saw that no one paid attention to him, he quickly put it on.
Friends who found Lin Yuesheng's friend, in short, all kinds of tossing and turning, finally visited the state hospital once, and contacted the dealer again. After several comparisons, they bought the most advanced equipment. Two sets of operating room equipment, a set of X-ray chest X-ray equipment, blood type test reagents, a large number of scalpels, surgical forceps, infusion tubes and other instruments. Shen Mengxi asked casually, is there any penicillin?
The other party repeated in confusion and shook his head, indicating no.
Shen Mengxi suddenly realized that the famous penicillin had not yet been invented.
Lin Yuesheng took Ah Huan to see a circus performance, Shen Mengxi was not interested, she didn't go, she flipped through books about penicillin in the Wuling Space Bookstore. Ah Huan came back and excitedly talked about the thrill of the flying knife performance, the excitement of the beast taming performance, and the trapeze.
Then they waited for the equipment to arrive, and they traveled around, went to the mall, went to the library, and ate Western food.
More than two months later, Shen Mengxi finally returned to Shanghai with Ah Huan, no one knew that in New York, in Los Angeles, Shen Mengxi quietly bought a large number of weapons, although he did not have an American identity, isn't there a saying that money can make ghosts grind.
She also bought large vasks of milk, as well as large quantities of flour and corn.
Shen Mengxi rested for a while, and she didn't have time to take care of the affairs of Jimin Hospital, so she found Tang Feifei and asked him how much he knew about penicillin, Tang Feifei said that when he was studying at Harvard, he had seen a paper on penicillin published by the British, but no one seemed to pay attention to it. Shen Mengxi suggested that he should devote himself to it, and that the drug should be very critical in the treatment of tuberculosis, and even more so if war breaks out one day.
Tang Feifei carefully considered it and resolutely decided to go to the UK for further study. Shen Mengxi provided him with financial support and asked his wife to go to London with him. The two reached a consensus, and after Tang Feifei returned to China, the two established an independent laboratory specializing in penicillin.
In fact, Zhang Xinhuai sent an invitation to teach at Central University before, and the days on campus were naturally much more leisurely, but Shen Mengxi considered leaving Shanghai, and the garment factory, Yunshang Company and columns occupied part of the energy, so he politely excused herself.
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