Chapter 5 "Set up this record" (5)

Xiaojiao "Society Daily" hasn't carried "Artists' Tired Things" for a long time, but the "Benbu Supplement" of Shanghai's "Ta Kung Pao" has carried "Literati's Tired Things". The two sounds of "wen" and "greasy" are almost the same, and things are not all "greasy". This is really called "one generation is not as good as one generation".But there are often unexpected and interesting articles. For example, under the article "Zhang Ziping (2) in the Hearts of Female Students" on September 15th, it is written: "Although he is a love story writer, he is quite a A shrewd and upright character. He does not have the romantic, enthusiastic and irresponsible habits of a writer. I am afraid that he is shrewd and capable, and he cannot be found second among writers. He is fat, short, and dressed in inappropriate clothes. His well-fitting suit suits his dark face, and he often carries a big leather bag in one hand, which looks like a manager of a large foreign company. However, there is no check book in his big bag, only love novels. Original manuscripts and university lecture notes."

The original intention was to write his "quite shrewd and upright", but it just drew the face of the boss Zhang Ziping in the era when he opened the Lequn Bookstore to make money.The most wonderful thing is "I often carry a big leather bag in one hand", but among them "only the original manuscripts of romance novels and lecture notes in college": they are all things that can make money. account, and pay by check.So when the bookstore is closed, the boss still has "a round and dark face", while some authors who sell manuscripts or collect board taxes have become a pair of sharp, unlucky faces.

CC [1] This article was originally published in the fifth issue of the first volume of the semimonthly "Zhongliu" on November 5, 1936, and it is photocopied in manuscript. [2] Zhang Ziping (1893-1959) was born in Meixian, Guangdong.He was a member of the Creation Society in the early days and wrote a large number of love triangle novels. During the Anti-Japanese War, he degenerated into a traitor.