Chapter 51 sincere

When studying in Japan, Su Manshu once lived with Chen Duxiu and Zhang Shizhao.Once, when the three of them stopped cooking, Chen and Zhang took out some clothes and asked Manshu to pawn them in exchange for some food.Unexpectedly, Manshu didn't return for a long time, and the two of them were so hungry that they had to sleep.At midnight, Manshu just returned with a book in his hand.The two asked him, "Where's the money? What did you buy?" Manshu replied, "I can't find this book anywhere. I found it in the night market today." They said angrily, "You crazy monk! You forgot about us. Are you hungry?" Manshu replied, "I'm not the same, you won't be hungry when you get up and read this book." The two were so angry that they scolded "dead monk" and "crazy monk", and fell asleep under the quilt. , while Manshu held the book and saw the dawn.

In 1903, Chen Duxiu and Su Manshu worked for Shanghai's "National Daily". Later, the newspaper office was closed due to the involvement of the "Su Reporting Case", and they rented a house to live together.When Manshu learned that Huang Xing was carrying out revolutionary activities in Changsha, he clamored to go every day, but Chen and other friends refused.One day, when Chen Duxiu and Zhang Shizhao were out, Man Shu invited He Meishi out to watch a play.As soon as the two sat down in the theater, Manshu said he wanted to go back to his apartment. He Meishi asked him what was the matter, and he said he wanted to go back to get the money.He said that he was rich, but Manshu refused, saying: "I initiated the show today, and I should treat you, so you must go back to get the money." He had no choice but to let him go back.As a result, He Meishi waited until the theater closed, but Manshu was still missing. He hurried back to his residence and found that Manshu's luggage and bedding were gone. Before leaving, he took Zhang Shizhao's 30 yuan.

A few years later, when Chen Duxiu was eating in a certain tavern, a monk broke in. It was Manshu.At this time, he was wearing a monk's attire, but he still drank and ate meat. Everyone advised him to change to a suit, but he refused.But soon he changed it automatically, and asked him why, he said, "It's not convenient to eat flower wine!" Pay ten parties. Su Manshu acts according to his whim. In the autumn of 1905, while Manshu was boating on the West Lake, he suddenly remembered Chen Duxiu, and immediately painted "The Picture of Boating on the West Lake" in his heart.

Another time in Shanghai, Su Manshu said to his friend Li Yimin: "The moon is beautiful tonight, why don't you visit Suzhou." Li also agreed, and the two drove to Shanghai Railway Station and took the first-class train to Suzhou.Due to the continuous travel, Li Shang fell asleep as soon as he sat down in the car, and he still didn't wake up when the car arrived in Suzhou.After Manshu woke him up, the two went straight to the hotel.Early the next morning, the two returned to Shanghai, and it was not yet noon when they arrived in Shanghai.Li Yimin said with a smile: "I didn't visit a friend during this trip, I didn't buy a thing, and I went to the night to march. What's the matter, I can't help but laugh when I think about it."

When he was in Nanyang, Su Manshu had a whim and planned to draw hundreds of pictures in a month, so he took a bus to Surabaya to buy paper and painting tools for painting.After getting ready, Manshu spread out the paper and started to paint.As soon as he held the tube, a few drops of ink dripped onto the paper, he threw the pen away, put the paper in a shelf, and never mentioned it again. One day, Su Manshu asked Zhang Taiyan, "Where do children come from?" Zhang replied, "You can read such questions from a book on men's and women's hygiene in the market. Why ask me?" Manshu said, "Otherwise, Both Chinese and Western books say that a man and a woman must have intercourse, but in fact there are exceptions. In my hometown, there is a man whose husband has not returned for three years and his wife can bear children. Isn’t it true that a woman can have a child alone and does not need a man’s proof?” Everyone who heard it was amazed. , Zhang Taiyan also remained silent, but Manshu thought that everyone was stumped by him, and acted triumphantly.

Chen Qubing recalled that when Su Manshu was living in the library building of the Chinese Studies Preservation Association, there was a quiet night, and suddenly he burst into tears. When he asked why, he replied, "Liu San scolded me".It turned out that Liu San once teased Manshu to marry a wife and offered to be a matchmaker. When Manshu asked him to be a matchmaker, Liu San said again: "How can a monk get married?" Some revolutionaries teased Su Manshu that Sun Yat-sen would send him to assassinate him.Manshu was very worried when he heard this, and said in surprise: "How can I be competent?" He wandered around the room, not knowing what to do.Later, everyone told him that he was joking, and he was relieved just now.

When he was in Japan, Su Manshu lived in Liu Shipei's home, and Liu's wife, He Zhen, was Manshu's disciple and learned painting from him.One day, He Zhen was taking a bath in the inner room on the second floor, and Liu was sitting alone in the outer room. Manshu suddenly rushed up to the second floor and insisted on pushing the door to go in. Liu slapped him in a hurry.Manshu felt aggrieved, and asked Liu why he beat him. After reacting, he realized his abruptness, and went downstairs with a blushing face. Su Manshu is innocent and childish, He Zhen once hugged Manshu in monk clothes and walked around the room as a play, but everyone who saw it didn't think it was strange.

After Liu Shipei betrayed the revolution, the revolutionaries assassinated the Liu family several times, but Su Manshu, who lived in the Liu family, did not notice it at all.Once, the revolutionaries dug a hole in the wall and shot Liu and failed to shoot. Manshu was by his side, but he didn't know it was an assassination; The family tried their best to move the rescued property.Ten years later, when a friend told Manshu about this, he suddenly realized. In 1908, when Su Manshu was teaching at Zhiyuan Jingshe in Nanjing, he visited Shanghai one day. It happened that Chen Chaonan returned to Shanghai from the south, and his clothes were very thin.Manshu didn't have a quilt himself, so he took Chen's quilt with him no matter how thick or thin it was.Xu Chanhui, Chen's female disciple, found it quite funny when she saw it, and immediately ordered the maid to send Chen a new quilt, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

In the winter of 1912, Su Manshu went to Shengze to play. He was on a private boat. Just in time for a strong wind, the boatman went ashore to pull the fiber. He wanted to pull it too, but accidentally fell into the water.After finally being rescued, the suit and fur coat were all wet. After arriving in Shengze, they were baked on the stove for half a day before they dried.Returning to Shanghai from Shengze, when passing through Suzhou, Manshu was riding a donkey, and fell off the donkey's back again, turning into a lame fairy.Liu Yazi joked: "It's a coincidence to pull Xian into the water and ride a donkey to the ground."

One day, Chen Qubing and Xu Chanhui went to Chen Qimei's banquet, and Su Manshu was present.The three of them hadn't seen each other for half a year, and they were extremely happy.It was late at night after the banquet, so Manshu insisted on inviting the two of them to sit down with the school secretary Hua Xuenan.Hua's family was at the racetrack, which was very close, but Manshu insisted on taking a car.Because Xu didn't know the address of Hua's house and Chen was already drunk, Manshu let the carriage drive in the opposite direction until reaching the Huangpu River, and ordered the carriage to return to the racetrack.Entering Hua's house, Hua Xuenan is ready to fall asleep.Manshu didn't invite the two to sit down, but just groped through his sleeves for a long time, took out a handkerchief to Hua Xuenan and said, "This is a gift to you." Then he said to Xu and Chen, "Let's go." The three parted and said goodbye. Xu Chanhui felt deceived, and privately said to his disciples: "The monk is really an idiot, why don't you know everything!"

Although Su Man's special nature is romantic, he likes to play narrow and evil, but when he sees people's relatives, he sits upright, wishing to be like a Taoist master.A newlywed couple invited Manshu to visit their friends, but Manshu was even more shy than the bride, and everyone who saw them snickered.