The Literary Hero of the Republic of China (民国之文豪) [MTL]

Chapter 19- 20

　　Chapter 19

　　On this day, Mu Qiong took out the newspaper first, read the newspaper to Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu by candlelight, explained the meaning by the way, and then continued to teach them how to read.

　　Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu lived in Beijing. Although they didn't go out very often, they could understand some Mandarin because they had to talk to the people in charge of purchasing. It was not difficult to learn.

　　It's just that the time Mu Qiong can teach them is really too short... After learning for less than two hours in total, Zhu Wanwan stopped letting Mu Qiong teach them: "Qioner, you have to do something tomorrow, go to bed early."

　　Mu Qiong did not refuse.

　　He is still growing now, so he can't sleep less.

　　Zhu Wanwan was thinking that Mu Qiong would have to get up early for work tomorrow, so she specially asked Mu Qiong to go to bed early, but compared to before, they went to bed late... One mistake, they all overslept the next day, and Mu Qiong didn't catch up. Get on the first tram.

　　"Boss, I'm sorry, I'm late." As soon as Mu Qiong arrived at the store, he took the initiative to admit his mistake.

　　Boss Chen glanced at Mu Qiong and sighed: "With so many people, you live the farthest... Forget it, you might as well go to work at ten o'clock in the morning from now on."

　　There was no business in their store before ten o'clock, so it was okay to ask Mu Qiong to come later... He asked Mu Qiong to come earlier at first, but he actually wanted Mu Qiong to be in charge of the shopping in the store.

　　"Thank you boss." Mu Qiong didn't expect to have such an unexpected surprise, and was very happy.

　　"By the way, it's still early. You can tell me about this newspaper first. After the lecture is over, you can take the newspaper back tonight." Boss Chen took out two newspapers, one for the declaration and the other for the report. It is a popular newspaper that is half the price of the declared price.

　　Although Mu Qiong came a little late, it was only around nine o'clock, which was still early.

　　Mu Qiong took the newspaper, read it first, and then began to tell Boss Chen.

　　There are quite a lot of content on the declaration, and there are even more than 20 advertisements, but there is no news about the First World War in it.

　　Boss Chen was obviously a little disappointed, but he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

　　After finishing the report, Mu Qiong began to talk about Dazhongbao.

　　The content of the declaration was very serious, while the Dazhong Daily was biased towards entertainment, and it also published serialized novels, among which Mr. Wen Da's novels were strongly recommended by the newsboy.

　　This novel has been serialized quite a few times. What Mu Qiong saw was that a person was oppressed by a local official and couldn't survive. In a fit of rage, he killed the official, and wanted to kill the official... On the way there, He meets another gang and joins their ranks...

　　The background of the article is set at the end of Ming Dynasty. Although Mu Qiong only saw the middle part, he has already discovered that the style of this novel is the same as that of popular novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the plot is still very similar to a famous novel.

　　It can also be regarded as vernacular, but the vernacular is not thorough. After the New Culture Movement, this type of novel is generally called popular classical Chinese. Of course, compared with classical Chinese, it is already well understood.