The appearance of Ryota Nakamura once again reminded Le Jing of the slowly approaching war.
The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was the most brutal war ever fought on Chinese soil.
It lasted for 14 years, with 35 million Chinese military and civilian casualties, hundreds of millions of people displaced, and caused $100 billion in direct economic losses to China and $500 billion in indirect economic losses...
That was the most embarrassing moment in the history of this country called China: the capital was massacred, 22 provinces across the country fell, the national army was defeated and finally had to retreat to Chongqing in the southwest inland, facing repeated bombings by enemy planes.
So miserable, so desperate.
Desperate to the point that fathers sent their sons to the battlefield with flags bearing the word “death”, and mothers sent all their sons away to fight against the Japanese; desperate to the point that no males were seen in villages across the country, and many villages were renamed “widow villages”; desperate to the point that countless Chinese and overseas Chinese formed death squads to return to China to fight; desperate to the point that children as young as 13 or 14 also went to the battlefield and fought the enemy with bayonets; desperate to the point that the government shouted the most tragic slogan – “One inch of land, one inch of blood; one hundred thousand young men, one hundred thousand soldiers”…
When despair reaches its limit...the army of despair will surely win.
Le Jing knows that the darkness will eventually fade away, the war will be won, the Chinese people will stand up, and they will regain the pride of being a great country.
He was just a weak scholar who could not influence the situation of the war. He could only use his pen to give spiritual support and assistance to the soldiers and the people.
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"The Animal Path" made Le Jing an overnight sensation, and his pen name "Night Watchman" also successfully spread across the country and became known to more people.
While people were engaged in a war of words over this work in the newspapers, they were also becoming curious about the author.
What kind of person is the Night Watchman? How did he get so much experience and insights at such a young age? What was his mindset when he wrote The Animal Realm? As the original author, how would he interpret his work?
It was out of curiosity and doubt that the Literature Society of Peking University sent an invitation letter to the Literary Newspaper, inviting Le Jing to give a lecture at their school.
When Yang Jinglun handed the invitation letter to Le Jing, Le Jing was doing his Chinese homework.
After all, he was a Westerner from the future, so his classical Chinese skills were naturally not as good as those of the scholars of this era who were educated with the Four Books and Five Classics since childhood. This also caused Le Jing to be unbalanced in certain subjects. His science scores were among the top in the class, and he was also the best in history, but his Chinese scores were only in the middle of the class.
Mr. Bai Nianqiu, who taught him Chinese, had no idea how many times he had talked to him, and he would occasionally give him some private lessons. Especially after Le Jing's pen name of Night Watchman was exposed, Mr. Bai looked at him with a puzzled look, as if he didn't understand why Le Jing had written several novels, but his Chinese was so bad?
Yesterday, Mr. Bai called him into his office again, frowned at his Chinese score of 75, and said anxiously, "With this score, it's a bit difficult for you to get into Tsinghua or Peking University. Your Chinese score is too low."
Le Jing: ...
He really wanted to tell Mr. Bai that, in fact, he didn't have such high ambitions that he had to go to Tsinghua University or Peking University, and he was really not picky about universities in this era.
There were only a few universities in the Republic of China, so those who could get into universities were the elites among the elites who had studied hard for more than ten years. Le Jing received a test-oriented education that was biased towards quality education in modern times, and in terms of hard work, he was definitely not as hardworking as the students in the Republic of China. In addition, Li Jingran was a poor student and did not leave him any "intellectual heritage", so Le Jing really could not have the ambition to study in Tsinghua University or Peking University.
Universities in this era set their own questions and recruit students independently, and there are no reference materials such as "Five Years of College Entrance Examination and Three Years of Simulation" or "Huanggang Secret Papers". In his opinion, he was just lucky to be admitted to university in one try.
But in Mr. Bai's opinion, Li Jingran is only 17 years old this year, and he has written so many excellent articles. He is a well-deserved child of destiny. Although I don't know why this child of destiny who makes a living by writing is not good at Chinese, but with his talent, as long as he works a little harder, won't he be able to get into Tsinghua or Peking University easily?
Out of this love for talent, Le Jing received many Chinese test papers set by Mr. Bai and hundreds of recommended readings of classic Chinese literature. This also led to him doing Chinese papers endlessly besides writing novels.
So when Le Jing heard Yang Jinglun say that Peking University wanted him to give a lecture, he was quite amused.
He was still worrying about whether he could be admitted to Peking University, and Peking University students were about to invite him to give them lectures.
Originally, Le Jing was unwilling to participate in such a show-off. Le Jing knew very well how much knowledge he had, and he was just taking advantage of the future.
Other organizations had invited Le Jing before, and the Peking Writers Association had even invited him to join! But Le Jing rejected all of them. He just wanted to write quietly and was impatient to deal with these complicated personnel relationships.
But... this is Peking University!
This is Peking University, which has nurtured countless people from all walks of life who have left their names in history! During his visit to Peking University, he might even run into many historical celebrities!
After much hesitation, Le Jing decided to write a reply letter to the Peking University Literary Society and accepted their invitation.
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In the reading room of Peking University Literature Society.
Students were standing or sitting in groups of three or four in the gaps between the thick and tall solid wooden bookshelves. Without exception, they all held a book in their hands and were completely immersed in the book.
Suddenly, in a corner, there was a harsh sound of stool legs scraping across the floor. Many students frowned and stared in the direction of the sound. Then they saw a girl with two pigtails standing up with excitement on her face.
"Great!" The girl raised the letter in her hand and shouted loudly in the quiet reading room: "Mr. Night Watchman agreed to our invitation and will come here to give us a lecture on Saturday!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the students who were originally somewhat dissatisfied immediately became excited. They surrounded the girl who was talking in three circles inside and outside, and started chattering.
"Really? What time is it on Saturday?"
"Mr. Night Watchman never shows up in public. I heard that he turned down the invitation from the Peking Writers Association to hold a seminar! I didn't expect that he would accept the invitation from our society!"
"I must bring Memoirs of a Courtesan to have signed by the gentleman on Saturday!"
"Why hasn't The Animal Realm been published yet? I really want to buy it and have it signed, sir!"
"My friend's younger brother is studying at Kaiming Middle School. He said that the night watchman is very handsome and has a gentle personality."
"Yes, yes, I heard that too. I also heard that he is a very gentleman and very kind, and he often goes to orphanages to support orphans..."
The girl with pigtails surrounded by them was called He Jingwen, the president of the Peking University Literature Society. When she heard the members talking in groups of twos and threes, she quickly reminded them, "We want the gentleman to analyze his works for us this time, so when we meet him, the focus of our discussion will be on his works. Please do not ask about his private life."
"knew."
"certainly!"
There were sporadic responses. He Jingwen looked at the members who were unable to hide their excitement, but she still felt deeply worried.
I hope her members won’t cause any trouble to my husband during the lecture on Saturday.
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On Saturday morning, He Jingwen was stuck in the corridor in front of the club activity room, staring at the long line of people in front of her (she even saw students wearing Tsinghua school uniforms in it!) and said in a very weak voice: "What's going on?"
The vice president smiled awkwardly: "Somehow the news that the night watchman was coming to give a lecture spread, so not only people from our school, but also people from other universities rushed over to listen to the lecture..."
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