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Shen Congwen wrote until midnight last night, and in a daze, he vaguely heard someone shouting in the yard: "Brother Ziyuan, Brother Congwen, go out to work!" ”

"It's coming, it's coming!" Shen Congwen turned over and got up, and hurriedly came to the courtyard to wash.

Li Shoumin was not in a hurry, and waited patiently by the side, looking up to admire the birds jumping and chirping among the branches.

After a few more minutes, Zhu Xiang appeared yawning and said sleepily, "It's only a few o'clock, and you guys are up too early." ”

Li Shoumin said with a smile: "It's a little far away from the newspaper here, so you won't be late if you get up early." ”

Shen Congwen came to Tianjin with Zhou Hexuan and shared a house with Zhu Xiang in Li Shoumin's hospital. Everyone is a bachelor, and yesterday they were invited out for a drink, and they became good friends after a meal.

Li Shoumin is bold and calm, Zhu Xiang is angry and casual, and Shen Congwen is modest and gentle, and the personalities of the three are different. Usually chatting, Li Shoumin and Zhu Xiang talk about it, and Shen Congwen sat next to him and occasionally made up a sentence, which then caused laughter.

When he came to the mouth of the alley, Shen Congwen took the initiative to buy breakfast, and by the way, he also brought Zhu Xiang's share.

"Thanks!" Zhu Xiang didn't know what politeness was, so he took it and ate it, and didn't mention the money at all. In his opinion, there is no need to worry so much about friends, just change him for a treat another day.

The group took the tram to Dongcheng, and then walked to the concession area, and walked for half an hour to reach the newspaper office.

As a supplement to Ta Kung Pao, "Popular" is located next to each other. Zhou Hexuan is the editor-in-chief and editor-in-charge of the novel edition, Li Shoumin is the editor of the opera edition and the life edition, Shen Congwen is the editor of the essay edition and the women's edition, Zhu Xiang is the editor of the poetry edition and the commentary edition, and He Yunfeng is also in charge of proofreading.

Everyone quickly got into the work mode, reviewing and editing their own manuscripts, and their personalities also led to differences in the way they worked.

Li Shoumin likes to lean on the chair to read the manuscript, and when he reads the highlights, he can't help but pat his thighs and admire, and throw the unqualified manuscripts aside.

Shen Congwen sat upright, making marks while reviewing the manuscript. As long as it is not an extremely bad manuscript, he will patiently revise it repeatedly, so his editing speed is the slowest.

"What's written? Bullshit! Zhu Xiang threw the manuscript casually, with a look of disdain. His reading speed was fast, but unfortunately it was almost noon, and the number of manuscripts was not enough.

Zhu Xiang is one of the "Four Sons of Tsinghua University", talented and extremely conceited, so he is particularly critical of articles. In the end, he simply wrote by himself, easily swiped it, and finally made up the number of manuscripts.

In the afternoon, all their manuscripts were sent to the editor-in-chief's office, which was checked by Zhou Hexuan as a whole, and those who did not meet the requirements were sent back and started again.

Just as Zhou Hexuan was reviewing the manuscript, Meng Xiaodong suddenly knocked on the door and entered.

"Xiaodong, why are you here?" Zhou Hexuan was surprised.

"I often run back and forth between Tianjin and Beiping," Meng Xiaodong smiled and took out a piece of manuscript paper, "Didn't you say last time that I should write some drama reviews when I have time and get the supplement of "Popular" to submit?" I tried to write one, but I don't know if I can qualify, Brother Zhou, you can help me take a look. ”

Zhou Hexuan took it and looked at the title, the name is "I See the Old Students of the Tan School", the content is Meng Xiaodong's learning experience in the past six months. can't talk about any writing, the words are simple and direct, but the handwriting is beautiful, Meng Xiaodong's pen writing is much more beautiful than Zhou Hexuan's.

"Very well written and ready for publication." Zhou Hexuan affirmed.

"Really?" Meng Xiaodong was overjoyed, and his eyes smiled like two crescents. She has always felt that writing articles is a very elegant thing, and only what is written by a reader can be printed in lead.

Zhou Hexuan encouraged: "If you continue to work hard in the future, you will not only be a famous actor in Peking Opera, but also a master of opera theory." ”

Meng Xiaodong said shyly: "Brother Zhou, you are laughing, I will be a little play, where is the master." ”

"Women can also be masters, you can do it." Zhou Hexuan said.

"Hehe, then I really believe it," Meng Xiaodong was quite happy, and took out another theater ticket and said, "Brother Zhou, I will officially make a comeback on the fifteenth day of the old calendar this month, and the venue is at the Xinming Grand Theater." If you have time, I hope you can come and cheer. ”

Zhou Hexuan put away the ticket and said, "I will definitely go." ”

Meng Xiaodong got up and said, "Then I'll go first, and Brother Shoumin will also go and deliver one." ”

"Let's go together, I just finished editing the manuscript." Zhou Hexuan said.

The two walked out of the office together, and Zhou Hexuan handed over the manuscript to the proofreader, which could be printed in the evening and delivered to the major distribution points tomorrow morning.

Li Shoumin packed up his things and was about to get off work, when he saw Meng Xiaodong coming over, he immediately teased: "Xiaodong, come to see your brother Zhou again?" ”

Meng Xiaodong behaved like a little girl in front of Zhou Hexuan, but she was generous with Li Shoumin, and she could afford to joke, she took out the ticket and said: "Brother Shoumin, you must come to my comeback debut." ”

"Of course I want to go, haha." Li Shoumin laughed.

There was a lively conversation here, and Shen Congwen and Zhu Xiang also came over. They didn't know Meng Xiaodong, and when they saw the beauty at first glance, they couldn't let go.

Li Shoumin introduced: "Ziyuan, Congwen, this is Mr. Meng Xiaodong, a famous actor in Peking Opera. ”

Meng Xiaodong clasped his fists and said: "Mr. Cheng doesn't dare to be, the little woman Meng Xiaodong has seen two brothers." ”

Shen Congwen and Zhu Xiang also hurriedly introduced themselves, and when Meng Xiaodong also sent them tickets, Zhou Hexuan said: "Let's go eat first, I'll have a treat." ”

"I'm looking for a place!" Li Shoumin hurriedly said. He has no other hobbies, except for watching dramas, he just likes food, and Li Shoumin has eaten all the restaurants in Tianjin.

The crowd set off in rickshaws, and when they passed through a concession street, several cars suddenly drove towards them.

Li Shoumin looked through the car window and saw the people sitting inside, and said in surprise: "Chu Yupu! Didn't he fight in the south? ”

Not to mention Chu Yupu, Zhou Hexuan also saw Zhang Zongchang and Yang Yuting, these warlords got together, there must be another big event to happen.

In fact, there is no big deal, Zhang Zuolin is gathering various factions in Beiyang to discuss joint efforts against the Northern Expeditionary Army and Feng Yuxiang. Now warlords of all sizes are gathered in Tianjin, including Sun Chuanfang, Yan Xishan and others, but Wu Peifu is missing.

This gathering of warlords was equivalent to a meeting alliance, and 15 provinces jointly formed the Angolan Army, with Zhang Zuolin as the commander-in-chief of the Angolan Army.

Zhang Zuolin had formally unified the Beiyang warlords at this time, and the commanders of all parties were willing to listen to his command, and only Wu Peifu was left to die. When he officially took office as the commander-in-chief of the Angolan National Army at the beginning of next month, he even knelt down in a ceremonial dress to worship the sky, not without learning from Yuan Shikai to be the emperor.

Of course, Zhang Zuolin didn't dare to really be the emperor, so he could only live by worshipping the sky.

Zhou Hexuan has no interest in this, he only cares about his newspaper sales. Tomorrow, the "Popular" supplement will issue its inaugural issue, and the novel version will serialize "The Condor Heroes", which should be able to attract the attention of readers.