Chapter 47 3. Su Manshu

Su Manshu is addicted to sugar.He loves to read Dumas fils, and because of his admiration for Margaret in the book, he especially loves to eat the Morden candy that Margaret loves, and because he eats too much sugar, he was dubbed the "sugar monk" by the contemporaries. When in Japan, Su Manshu had a close relationship with Chen Tao.One day, Chen came to visit Manshu. Manshu was suffering from lack of money to buy candy. Seeing that there were three yuan in Chen's pocket, he took out one and a half yuan without asking Chen's consent, and hurried out.After a while, I bought a lot of Morden candy from the street, sat down happily and started chewing.

In the winter of a certain year, Su Manshu went to Hong Kong and was in a poor hotel. He occasionally saw Luzon cigarettes and various chocolate candies in the store. He wanted to buy them but had no money, so he could not sleep at night.On the morning of the second day, Manshu simply knocked off the gold teeth in his mouth and put them on the market for sale. After a long time seeing no one was buying them, he threw them into the sea angrily.But on the way home, he passed a tobacco and candy shop, and finally couldn't resist the temptation of the candy, so he pawned his jacket and used all the money he got to buy the candy, even though he was cold.Zhang Shizhao wrote a poem about this and joked: "Chihuo once taught gold to make a bed, but he was addicted to gum gum; suddenly he ran out of sugar and was ashamed, and he took off the gold bed to pay for the quality room."

Su Manshu once went to Java to teach.When he left Java, Manshu still had a hundred gold in his pocket, which he actually used to buy candy. Everyone who saw it was surprised, and said how he could eat all of it in less than half a month's trip to China.Unexpectedly, before the ship arrived in Shanghai, the hundred yuan candy had already been eaten up by Manshu. Because Su Manshu is addicted to sugar, there are empty sugar bottles under the bed, which are not cleaned up.Once, when the candy ran out, Manshu had no money to buy more, so he hesitated again and again, so he collected the empty bottles under the bed and sold them as junk.Not only was he funded, but he was happy to bring Morden Tang back.Chewing candy and writing books, never ending night.

Su Manshu also loves to eat halva, and he said that he once had "30 packs of halva on a daily eclipse".Chen Qubing also recalled: "In the early Yuan Dynasty of the Republic of China, Qu and Puquan (that is, Zhang Ji) went to the Autumn Society, and they were on the same lake, and the middle-class tourists were prosperous. Yuyin made crispy candy, and there were 20 packs. Man Shu saw it, unique The look is happy, and you laugh and eat it, and you don't know it in a moment." Bao Tianxiao once said in a poem that Su Manshu was addicted to sugar: "Song Tang Tangerine Cake and roses, sweet and crispy smiles. I think the master is suffering in his heart, and he must get sweetness from the bitterness."

Su Manshu also loves horseshoe crabs (a rare seafood).He believes that shrimp and crab are the most beautiful in the aquarium, but there is no regret in getting horseshoe crabs.It is said that he eats horseshoe crabs and can chew more than ten catties a day, and he does not get tired of eating for many days. Chen Qubing's father and daughter often buy some pasta to satisfy their hunger, and six buns are enough.After Su Manshu came, the number increased to 10, which Chen thought was almost enough.However, when the rice was on the table, Manshu didn't move his chopsticks.Chen had no choice but to ask the waiter to remove the food.Unexpectedly, the waiter suddenly brought a large lotus leaf, wrapped the buns, and placed them on the table.Chen was astonished.The waiter explained that Mr. Su asked to buy it.Manshu said: "I gave the waiter a penny, but I didn't expect to buy so much!" Chen Qubing couldn't laugh or cry, and said, "Steamed buns are common food, and they are relatively cheap. If you want me to buy them, 4 copper coins are enough. Greedy like you I'm afraid that when you pass through the butcher's gate, you won't smell the stench and go to eat it!"

One day, Wang Dong, Song Jiaoren, Lin Guangchen and others gathered at the Tokyo Minbao office, just as Manshu was taking a bath. Wang intentionally said loudly: "Go eat beef dishes." Everyone pretended to open the door and put on their shoes.Manshu heard the sound and shouted in the bathroom: "Don't! Don't! Treat me!" He hurried out, and everyone laughed.Manshu opened his eyes and looked around, and said to himself slowly: "Did you lie to me?" Once, Su Manshu visited Yi Baisha as a guest.Manshu's belly is amazing, he ate a bowl of fried noodles, two plates of shrimp, ten spring rolls, and countless candies.Yi thought that Manshu was short of money and had been hungry for many days, so he gobbled it up like this, so he invited him to come over again tomorrow.Manshu shook his head again and again and said, "No, I've eaten too much! I'll be sick tomorrow, and I'll be sick the day after tomorrow. Please come back to bother me in three days."

Su Man couldn't tell the difference between wheat and rice, and after eating four or five bowls of rice, he exclaimed, "What is this, so delicious?" When the chestnuts were on the market, Chen Qubing bought a pack for Su Manshu.After Manshu finished eating, he still felt unsatisfied, so he went to buy a few more packs and wiped them all out when he came back.As a result, my stomach was so distended that it seemed to burst, and I was in severe pain all night. I couldn't sleep, and I pressed my hands on my stomach until dawn. Once, Su Manshu stayed at Fei Gongzhi's home in Tokyo.The next day, it rained heavily and the outdoors were muddy, making it impossible to go out, so the two had to sit and chat with each other while smoking cigars.When it was time for lunch, Manshu said he wanted to eat raw abalone, so he tried his best to buy it back.After eating, Manshu was still unsatisfied, so Fei sent someone to go again.Therefore, Manshu ate three big dishes in a row.Fei Gong was afraid that he would spoil his stomach, so he hurriedly stopped him and asked someone to make coffee to help him digest.Manshu just drank it after adding a lot of sugar to the coffee.In the middle of the night, Fei suddenly heard Manshu yelling on the bed: "It's not good, hold the fire for me quickly, the abdominal pain is unstoppable, I want to go to the bathroom."

Due to a bad stomach, Manshu rested for two days before going to Kyoto.After arriving in Kyoto, he did not forget to write a letter to Fei Dao: "Don't stay in Kyoto for a while, your stubborn body is already healthy. Raw abalone is mixed with sugar and vinegar (vinegar), and the taste is not bad. After illness, I dare not eat more. A dish, should it be harmless? You must see that the word must say that the monk is greedy, just smile." Eight-treasure rice is also Su Manshu's favorite.He went to visit Liu Jiping, and Mrs. Liu Lu Lingsu prepared his favorite candies, chestnuts and other things. Manshu was still not satisfied after eating, so he asked Lu to cook eight treasure rice for him.In the early years of the Republic of China, Manshu passed by Liu's house again. The dishes prepared by Lu Lingsu were not rich, but there was eight-treasure rice in it. Manshu was very happy and ate two bowls in a row.

When he was sick and hospitalized, Su Manshu still didn't forget the eight-treasure rice, and asked the doctor repeatedly: "When will my illness be cured, and when can I go to Shanghai to eat rice cakes and eight-treasure rice?" The doctor laughed and didn't answer.During his illness, Manshu asked in a letter to He Zhensheng: "On New Year's Eve, I dreamed of going to Shanghai to eat rice cakes and eight-treasure rice. Huisheng's younger brother sent a letter saying that I could arrive in Edo this afternoon, or did I bring some rice cakes?" Su Manshu often wrote to friends asking for food. He wrote to Shao Yuanchong and said: "Four bottles of Morden sugar and a pair of foreign hams will be sent to the small garden for me." Another time, Xu Ninru sent him mooncakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival. It was too unsatisfactory, so Xu Zai sent him a reply letter, saying: "Mooncakes are very good! But eating them separately is like a tiger eating mosquitoes. Do you want to whet your appetite?"

Su Manshu likes to eat lard rice cakes. When his friend Deng Mengshuo went abroad to study, Manshu was sad that he could not eat lard rice cakes: "Nianjun is far away from home, so lard rice cakes must not be available,... I feel sad for a long time." There is a kind of malt tart cake in Wujiang, Jiangsu, Liu Yazi's hometown, which Su Manshu loves.Made of glutinous rice, bean paste, sweet-scented osmanthus, diced lard, etc., this kind of malt tart is not easy to digest. Most people only eat three or four at a time, but Manshu eats twenty at a time.After Liu Yazi returned to his hometown, he sent a letter to Manshu asking him to go to Wujiang for a visit. Manshu replied first and asked, "Do you have any malt cakes?"

Zhang Taiyan recalled that in Japan, Su Manshu "drank five or six catties of ice (note: a popular Japanese drink at the time) a day, and couldn't move at the end of the day. People thought he was dead, and he was still alive, and he would drink ice again tomorrow." A friend made a bet with Su Manshu, whoever could eat sixty meat buns at a time was the winner.When Manshu ate 50 pieces, his friend hurriedly stopped him, saying that he should not eat any more, because it was too much to digest.Manshu insisted on eating, so he argued with his friends and almost broke up with them.After eating sixty steamed buns, he drank another cup of coffee, then slumped down on the couch and was ill for several days. Zhou Yueran recalled that when Su Manshu was teaching in Anqing, he went to a tavern for dinner with his colleagues.On the way, Zhou asked Shen Yanmou: "Let's go to a restaurant, how about the monk? Do you want to prepare additional vegetarian dishes?" Shen replied: "Don't worry about it. You will know later." After arriving at the restaurant, everyone ordered meat dishes. Manshu was silent.Zheng Tongsun asked for another beet and said, "This is just for monks." When the dishes came, there was either fish or meat, as well as velvet shrimp and sea cucumber.Zhou saw that everyone moved chopsticks, and Manshu also used chopsticks. Everyone used spoons, and Manshu also had spoons.When returning from the meal, Shen Yanmou bought a pack of candied dates by the way.Zhou was puzzled and asked, "If you are so full, are you still afraid of being hungry at night?" He said, "No, how can I be hungry at night? This bag of candied dates was bought for the monk to eat. He likes it the most." What he eats is neither wine nor vegetables, but candied dates. Once, he was so poor and penniless, he had no choice but to pull out his gold teeth, mortgage the money, and buy candied dates. Don’t laugh, don’t laugh ! It's the truth, and I'm not lying." One night later, when Zhou Yueran returned to school, he also bought a pack of big candied dates for Su Manshu.Manshu was very happy, and promised: "Zhou Jun, if you want me to paint, I really can't. But no matter what, I will try it these days." Manshu's painting. In the early spring of 1913, Su Manshu, together with Li Yimin and Zhang Zhuoshen, visited the West Lake in Hangzhou.On the lake, Manshu often sleeps under a quilt during the day.Someone shouted, but he said: "I... want to eat... buns with jujube kernels..." It turns out that Cuifangju, a famous food store in Hangzhou, has a kind of buns with jujube kernels, which are unmatched in sweetness and cleanness.Every time Manshu came to Hangzhou, he would go shopping for food.The friend then complied with his request.After Manshu's death, the Zaoren steamed stuffed buns in Cuifangju also ceased to be sold. It seems that there is a special fate between Manshu and Manshu. When he was in Japan, Su Manshu once wrote a letter to Liu Yazi, inscribing it as "written by the side of braised beef and chicken slices and yellow croaker".When Liu Yazi saw the letter, he burst into laughter. In 1914, Su Manshu wrote to Shao Yuanchong in Japan, saying: "Try new clothes in the afternoon, and go to Yuanshun, eat three dishes of fried chicken with ginger, a small bowl of shrimp noodles, and five apples. Tomorrow, whether the stomach will leak or not, one's destiny and also." On January 2, 1917, when the snow was beginning to clear, Zhu Zongyuan and his friends went boating on the West Lake and visited Su Manshu by the way.Manshu was sick, and he said to Zhu: "It's great to swim in the lake after snow, don't you think I'm sick?" Zhu said: "You want to be free from illness, but if you smoke less cigars and bait, you will be free from illness. Looking around in Manshu's room, in the corner under the bed, all the piles are boxes for storing cakes and bait, and there is nothing else, but the ashes of cigars and the sleeves are full, all of them can't help laughing.Manshu looked ashamed. Some people say that Su Manshu's ability to control sexual desire is the best in the world, and his ability to control appetite is the last in the world.He wrote to Liu Yazi. In the letter, he talked about his gluttony during his illness, which was quite humorous: "The bones of the disease are scattered, wandering in foreign lands, and the old travels are like dreams. Can you not be sad! Ying was a little refreshed the day before, and ate rice cakes because of the doctor's back. Therefore, the condition of the disease is not good in the past few days. Take three doses of medicine every day, with a little milk. Try to think about it, how can the medicine be as easy to eat as eight treasure rice?" When Su Manshu recorded his relationship with his friend Zhao Sheng (named Boxian), he said proudly: "Boxian is proud of drinking, and Yu Yixiong is fond of eating." Chen Duxiu commented: "When Manshu was a fool, they were still being fooled by Manshu. Manshu's gluttony was laughed at by others. In fact, it was his suicide policy. He saw the filth of the world, and his disgusted heart was very serious. He was enthusiastic, but he couldn't find any other way out, so he ate and drank recklessly in order to die quickly." Chen further said: "Among many old friends, there are very few innocent people like Manshu."