"Hey, pretzels, shortbread, big fried devils!"

In the afternoon, there was no class at Peking University, so I simply ran back in advance to continue compiling the dictionary, and I happened to see a vendor selling shortbread at the gate of the courtyard, carrying a flat shoulder on his shoulder, and the left and right frames were covered with cotton cloth.

Even so, the fragrance inside still can't be covered, and there are children pestering parents to buy it, so how can parents agree, and they take a few clicks on the child's buttocks, and they are immediately much quieter.

"Don't cry, hold it for me!"

The child looked at the hawker aggrievedly, with a reluctant face, and took a step back to look back, and the tears in his eyes did not dare to fall.

Cheng Nuo smiled dumbly when he saw it, but since he came back early, then Xiuni's sister-in-law didn't need to make steamed buns anymore, and buying some was a small change in the food.

"Master, how did you sell these baked cakes and 'devils'?"

"The baked cake is divided into three points, and the stuffed ones are five points, and the 'devil' sells them by the catty, one dime and one catty, and they are all out of the pot for a long time, and they are still hot."

The peddler's face was full of enthusiasm, and in order to prove that he was telling the truth, he deliberately leaked a corner of the cotton cloth on the frame, and now the smell in the air was stronger, and then there was a cry of a child in the distance.

Cheng Nuo shook his head and said with a smile: "That's it, bring me ten baked cakes with filling, five catties of 'fried devils', thank you for your hard work." ”

The peddler said happily: "Okay, this is wrapped for you, you see that my scale is high, and it is definitely not fake." ”

It is said to be an old-fashioned pole scale, the kind with a scale, which is difficult to see in later generations, but now the hawkers must go out of the stall, Cheng Nuo knew that it couldn't be fake after a little glance, so he let him wrap it with confidence.

Unexpectedly, when he was about to turn around and enter the house, the peddler put down his burden, trotted over and said politely: "Dare to ask sir, are you an errand boy in the "National" magazine?" ”

Cheng Nuo was a little stunned, and looked at the door, it was his own home, but how did this peddler know that the editorial office of "National" magazine was here.

"Yes, I work here, but how do you know about this place, master?"

"Hey, the whole Beiping City knows, your newspaper is the cheapest and most top-of-the-line use under the Imperial City, every time there is a new one, it is full of people, everyone knows good things, last time I used your family's method, I have been hiccuping for many years, hey, guess what, he is so good."

As soon as he finished speaking, the vendor sent over a large bundle of 'devils' and arched his hand: "The family is poor, and there is nothing valuable, these things are counted as a little heart of our family." ”

Without waiting for Cheng Nuo to refuse, the hawker ran away with his burden, and the shouting in his mouth was much louder than before.

"Hey, this pair of brushes and oil, you big pie!"

Cheng Nuo was a little helpless while being moved, there was no place to put so many things in his hand, and he was likely to spill on the ground when he ran.

It just so happened that at this time, the courtyard probably heard the movement outside, and a head poked out with a creak, it was Li Laosan.

"Hey, sir, why did you come back so early today, I haven't had time to pick you up yet, why are you still buying so many things, go back and talk to my family directly, we can do it ourselves."

Cheng Nuo handed over the things: "It's okay, school is early today, I came back early thinking about the school and had nothing to do, exercise and exercise, my sister-in-law has to serve so many people these days, and I guess I'm tired, so I just took advantage of the rest." ”

The courtyard is not only Cheng Nuo's three adults and four children, but also some people from the Academy of Sciences have moved in one after another, such as people from several editorial offices of "National" magazine, and the food is generally in charge of Li Laosan's wife Xiuni, who is busy and busy.

After learning the origin of the baked cakes and the 'devil', Li Laosan hurriedly stopped Cheng Nuo, prevented him from continuing to chase the vendor, and took him to the kitchen.

"Sir, you may not know that you have been outside for so long, our magazine is on fire, and the common people love to read it, and people often secretly send things, a bundle of garlic sprouts today, a handful of leeks tomorrow, and you can't eat it at all."

Cheng Nuo was confused and asked, "People like to watch it, why do they still send us something." ”

Li Laosan said with a smile: "Who makes our magazine cheap, it's the popular supplement, always writes some life tips or something, especially some tips for curing diseases, I heard that it has helped a lot of people, people see that our magazine is too cheap, and these things are sent to thank you, and you are afraid of going out of business." ”

Seeing this, Cheng Nuo found a popular supplement of the "National" magazine, and sure enough, in addition to the health knowledge of each issue, there were also some popular science knowledge in natural sciences such as planting and medicine, which was very rich in content.

Originally, at the beginning, the people were only running for three meals a day, how could they pay for magazines, and there were not many literate people. But later, for some reason, I heard that a certain family had a strange disease and had dysentery all day long, but I didn't expect to be cured according to the above method. In this way, the magazine survived among the people for a few days.

What should I do if I don't know how to read, can't it be over if I have the cheekiness to ask someone to read it, and besides, there are paintings on it, and the living can still be suffocated by urine?

As he was talking, there was a sudden knock on the door, Li Laosan quickly put down his things when he saw this, and went to open the door, and out of curiosity, Cheng Nuo also followed.

When I opened the door, I found that it was a caravan, and the horses were full of things on the left and right, and it seemed that they should be visitors from afar.

The person at the head looked dusty, and his official speech was mixed with some indescribable dialects: "May I ask if this is the editorial office of the popular magazine "The National"? ”

Li Laosan looked at a group of people left and right, and replied vigilantly: "Yes, is there something wrong with you coming here?" ”

Hearing this, not only did the face of the leader of the horse gang soften a lot, but even his fellow men couldn't help but laugh.

"Unload that bag for me and carry it quickly." After the leader of the caravan shouted at the caravan, he turned his head and smiled: "That's good, we've finally come to the right place, that thing is for you." ”

During the conversation, the man carried the bag of things over, and opened the sack in front of everyone, revealing a bag of things, including bacon, wild walnuts, dried mushrooms, dried vegetables, and so on.

"By the way, there is also a letter here, please help me transfer it to your husband." The leader of the caravan took out a letter from his bosom and handed it over.

Li Laosan took the letter, looked back at Cheng Nuo, and handed it over after getting a nod.

In front of him, Cheng Nuo opened the letter and wrote:

"Dear Editorial Board of The Nation,

I am a teacher in XX Township, XX City, Sichuan Province, and I accidentally obtained a copy of your magazine through the local horse gang, after reading it to the children, they liked it very much, especially some more interesting knowledge, they never got tired of reading it, the books were almost rotten, and even some children copied the pictures above you, which made me very happy, they almost never encountered this kind of knowledge outside the books, thank you very much for opening such a window for them.

It's a pity that we only have that issue of the one, and then we can't find anything else, after many inquiries, I know that you are in Beiping, I know that the cost of magazines must be very high, these children are from poor backgrounds, it is not easy to go to school, many people are looking at a book to class, although we have no money, but we also don't want to get something for nothing, so we specially sent some local goods, you can see if you can change a few new magazines, thank you again.

Also, bacons should be washed before eating.

Li Zhenhua

April 27, 6th year of the Republic of China"

Looking at the letter, the emotions stirring in Cheng Nuo's heart couldn't be calmed down for a long time, and he closed his eyes and sighed.

"Lao Li, you give the rest of the books of the popular supplement of the "National" magazine to Ma Bang them, and after asking them for the address, they have to send some every time they issue a new issue."

"As for the bacon, let's stop eating it and hang it on the wall of the editing room."

The popular supplement of the "National" magazine does not have a fixed editorial team, but is contracted to various colleges according to different sections, and finally synthesized into a magazine, which is very miscellaneous but also a lot.

But fortunately, the knowledge in it is relatively shallow, but anyone who can read can understand it.

Leaving many part-time editors, everyone had dinner together, most of the table were dry goods from Sichuan Province, recalling the "hard-won" of the meal, Cheng Nuo took the lead in speaking out: "Zuo Qiu Ming said in "Spring and Autumn" that 'with one virtue is one heart, and one heart is comrade', and in the future, we will call each other comrades within the Academy of Sciences. So, comrades, after this incident, you may wish to speak freely about the future of our magazine. ”

Shi Jin helped his glasses: "The friends you make will also be comrades." Comrade is a good word, Comrade Dean, I think our magazine is too famous, of course, it refers to the main magazine, and only two issues have been issued so far, but only a few hundred copies, far from enough. ”

Cheng Nuo nodded, was silent for a while and said: "The professionalism is too strong, the audience will naturally be small, we have expected this at the beginning of the journal, and I will find a way to hold an annual scientific meeting in the future, invite some foreign scientists to come, increase our popularity and authority." ”

Wu Yulin pondered and asked, "But because of our weak reputation, will other well-known scholars agree to come?" ”

Cheng Nuo was confident and said with a smile: "Don't forget, your dean is from a mathematical background, and we haven't held an academic conference so far in the last Kroneck's dream of youth, so we can take the opportunity to invite them, if the attraction is not enough, then send a few more high-quality mathematics papers to attract them." ”

Shi Jin originally wanted to say that high-quality papers can be sent as soon as they are spoken, and the words can't be so full, but when he thought that the person sitting next to him was a big man in the mathematics world, an existence that many people looked up to, it was difficult to say anything when he opened his mouth.

Seeing that Guo Shouchun on the side was constantly eating, Shi Jin deliberately poked him with his elbow: "I said Lao Guo, invite you, the great god, from the test field, you can't just eat, you have to produce something." ”

Seeing this, Guo Shouchun stopped his chopsticks, wiped his mouth and said, "What you said is very good, but I think the food from Sichuan Province is more fragrant." ”

Wu Yulin tilted his head and glanced at him, and said, "Lao Guo, you have something to say, all of you here are from your own family, as the dean said, they are all comrades, and they can't hide it." ”

"Well, I'll be honest, I think our "National" magazine is too bloated, and with the current staff, I'm afraid it won't meet expectations." Guo Shouchun, who has been used to being alone outside, slowly rushed out of his temper: "Comrades, a thin magazine, it carries too many expectations, we want to do this and that, can we take care of it?" ”

Shi Jin didn't intimidate him at all and asked, "Then you say, what should we do?" ”

"The answer is simple, reduce the burden."

"Then Lao Guo, what should I do?"

"I don't know, you think for yourselves."

Shi Jin was angry now, and he was bruised: "Who wouldn't talk big, you"

Cheng Nuo hurriedly stopped them, so as not to expand the situation, and made a downward gesture: "Okay, okay, there are conflict problems that can be exposed, Lao Shi, I can understand your feelings, but Lao Guo's words also make sense, just now when you were talking, I was also thinking about this problem, and the answer I came up with is that the next step is to reduce the burden and gain weight in parallel." ”

Everyone was stunned, you look at me, I look at you, these two words are clearly conflicting, how can they be parallel.

Seeing that everyone had almost digested it, Cheng Nuo said in a deep voice: "The so-called burden reduction is to remove all the discipline sub-journals of the original "National" magazine and merge them into the main journal for the purpose of professional science popularization. The so-called weight increase, that is, on the basis of the existing main journal and popular supplements, another journal for primary and secondary school students is set up to popularize some basic scientific knowledge and become a window for them to understand this era. ”

"If the youth is strong, the country will be strong, and if the youth is weak, the country will be weak. The name of the magazine is "Shonen". ”

Guo Shouchun smiled, his tanned skin in the field set off his teeth unusually white: "Yes, Comrade Dean, that's what my old Guo meant, so let's eat the dishes sent by other students, which is delicious." ”

Shi Jin was not convinced, and couldn't help but sneer: "Cut, who won't be an afterthought, when the time comes, your agricultural college just remember to deliver the manuscript on time." ”

Guo Shouchun is also not to be outdone: "You can put a hundred hearts on this, the manuscript definitely takes into account popular science and fun, maybe in the future, the people who originally wanted to learn your machinery will be because he changed careers to our agriculture." ”

Cheng Nuo hurriedly spoke up, pointed to the food on the table with chopsticks and said, "Okay, sister-in-law Xiuni has almost finished the meal, hurry up and eat, so as not to get cold for a while." ”

In this way, the second edition of the Journal of the Academy of Sciences was thus decided, and all of them were mainly vernacular.

The main journal of the journal "National" is an authoritative and professional comprehensive journal of natural sciences, open to all kinds of scholars, and currently runs once a quarter.

The popular magazine of "National" magazine focuses on popular science for the masses, edutainment, and serves the public life, once a month.

"Youth" magazine, aimed at primary and secondary school students, focuses on inspiring them to explore curiosity, taking into account the natural sciences and humanities, so that the Academy of Social Sciences also has a sense of participation and shares a lot of manpower pressure, and it is also published once a month.

The story of bacon is not made up by me, the Republic of China is indeed a fact.

(End of chapter)