Hu Shi never expected that Chen Muwu completely turned a blind eye to his kind advice: "Mr. Shizhi, thank you for your favor." The son said: 'My parents are here, and I don't travel far. When it comes to studying abroad, Mu Wu still has to go home and discuss it with his brother before he can decide. ”

He even talked about him left and right, and started Tai Chi: "The book "Trial Collection" given by Mr. half a month ago has been carefully read by the younger generation.

"A few days ago, I had the courage to change a few of my favorite poems and add a melody to it. Mr. was too kind to me, and Mu Wu couldn't repay it, so he had to give this song back to Mr., please forgive me for being reckless. ”

Chen Muwu knew that if he didn't agree to study at Cornell, Hu Shi would probably be pestering himself for the sake of face, so he could only attract Dr. Hu's attention in other ways in order to get out successfully.

A few days ago, he had been staying at Ma's house to catch up on the draft of "Shooting the Condor", and once wrote that his fingers and brain were stiff at the same time, so he could only put down his pen and find some other entertainment.

Then, Chen Muwu saw the copy of "Trial Collection" given to him by Hu Shi when he first arrived in Shaojing.

Anyway, reading newspapers is also fun, and reading poetry is also fun.

What's more, in order to save costs, the newspaper is full of dense fly-headed small characters, which is far less pleasant than this large-scale poetry collection.

Chen Muwu wants to see what masterpieces Hu Shi, the first person in Chinese vernacular poetry, has written.

Except for the "Two Yellow Butterflies" in the first song of this opening, the rest are basically unfamiliar words that he has never read before.

After reading most of the books, in the penultimate poem of the third part of the poetry collection, Chen Muwu finally saw another poem that he was familiar with.

When he saw those lines, his first reaction was to hum along.

"I came from the mountains with orchid grass. Planted in a small garden, I hope the flowers will bloom early. ……”

Then Chen Muwu realized that this Tuoma was not the demonic brainwashing BGM of the sprinkler truck that drove around the street downstairs every morning and caused a lot of mental pollution?

Before, he always thought that this was a campus ballad in Taiwan Province, and the name was "Orchid Grass".

I didn't expect that its abuse could be traced back to Hu Shi!

This new poem called "Hope", the text is inconsistent with the lyrics in Chen Muwu's memory, but the general content is the same, a friend gave Hu Shi a pot of orchids, but this unlucky egg was not raised well, and the flowers never bloomed.

In order to chase the girl, Chen Muwu studied guitar for a few years in college, so he has a certain musical foundation, coupled with his natural sense of musicality, there is no problem in memorizing the humming tunes into scores.

So he quickly picked up the pen and paper again, and wrote down the lyrics and the sheet music one by one in case he needed it.

You see, it's not going to be used today!

Chen Muwu had already noticed that there was a piano in the corner of the stage.

He didn't wait for Hu Shi to nod his head in agreement, so he walked straight to the piano and sat down, lifted the lid and said, "Everyone, I'm ugly." ”

Chen Muwu, who has never taken much music lessons since middle school, has all his shallow piano knowledge from stickers hanging on the walls of primary school music classrooms.

He only knows that on the piano keyboard, white three black two plus white four black three is an octave, and the leftmost white key is dox (C).

As for the fingering of the piano, Chen Muwu is really powerless.

Fortunately, the melody of the song "Orchid Grass", that is, "Hope", is very simple, and he feels that it is completely enough for him to practice one-finger Zen on the keyboard.

Chen Muwu stretched out the index finger of his right hand and put it on the keys, cleared his throat, and sang as he played:

"I came from the mountains with orchid grass. Planted in a small garden, I hope the flowers will bloom early.

"I watch it three times a day, and it takes a lot of time. The orchids are still there, and there are no buds.

"In the blink of an eye, autumn has arrived, and I have moved into the greenhouse. The dynasty is frequently cherished, and the night is not forgotten.

"I hope that the flowers will bloom early and my long-cherished wish will be fulfilled. The garden is full of flowers, adding a lot of fragrance. The garden is full of flowers, adding a lot of fragrance. ……”

Fortunately, his voice is a good cover for the lack of piano.

Hu Shi's original poem is a group of four five-character sentences, a total of three groups.

However, Chen Muwu chose the lyrics of the original song, adding the three groups of five-character sentences of the original poem to four groups, and changing a few words in the details.

I have to say that Chen Muwu's song is really a stroke of genius, a simple and brainwashing melody, which is very in line with the current level of domestic music development, coupled with catchy lyrics, so that the audience present listened to it once, although they couldn't remember the lyrics, but they also memorized the melody of the whole song.

After he finished singing, many people in the audience were still humming the tune over and over again, as if hundreds of sprinkler trucks were parked in the audience.

Nowadays, the new poetry school in China has developed from the experimental school represented by Hu Shi and Liu Bannong during the exploration period to the free verse school influenced by the American poet Whitman, which believes that poetry only needs to pay attention to rhythm and does not rhyme, and the representative work is Guo Moruo's "Goddess".

Xu Zhimo, who began to try to write new poems last year, has written several new poems now, which basically belong to the genre of free verse.

But after listening to Chen Muwu's singing today, he suddenly had a new experience, and felt that whether it was a new poem or a song, it was better to rhyme with each other.

A few years later, the History of Chinese Literature was published in the "Three Beauties" section of the Crescent School, which wrote: "The so-called musical beauty originated from Xu Zhimo's perception after listening to Chen Muwu's singing of "Orchid Grass" in a lecture in 1923, and was carried forward by his colleagues in the Crescent School, and finally took shape. ”

Hu Shi was also very happy after hearing this, he felt in his heart that Chen Muwu was his biggest lucky star.

He was not only invited by himself to give lectures at Shao University, but also personally composed songs to help further promote and promote his new poems, which was a double happiness!

"What a beautiful tune!" Hu Shi also didn't care about the instructions of the American minister Shulman, he clapped his hands and said quickly, "Hanchen, you should write down this score and publish it in the newspaper, I dare to pack tickets, this song will definitely be sung throughout the country!" ”

Yes, yes, you're right.

Where do you want the song to be sung all over the country, in fact, you just want the word "Hu Shi" in the lyricist's column to be famous all over the country again, right?

Zhang Hatshui also joined the "battle situation" in a timely manner, he squeezed into the crowd, showed his ID and said: "I am a reporter from Shaojing's "Yishi Daily", Professor Hu Shizhi said well, Mr. Chen, why don't you publish this song in our "Yishi Daily", how about it?" The reputation of our newspaper is quite good, and naturally we will not treat the two of them badly in terms of remuneration. ”

"Well said, well said."

Nowadays, Chinese people's awareness of copyright is like child's play, and the publication of lyrics and music scores in newspapers means that they are reprinted and used for free.

However, Chen Muwu didn't plan to make money by writing songs, but since "Yishi Daily" was in a hurry to send money, he just let it go and pushed the boat to send personal favors.

Zhang Hatshui struck while the iron was hot: "Mr. Chen, Professor Hu, can you let me have a brief interview?" ”

"Of course."

Chen and Hu spoke in unison.