Moreover, he was already using the pen name 'Qinglian Jushi' when he submitted his work for the competition!
Shen Zizhen nodded, but quickly said:
"This is also what I admire most about this Qinglian Hermit. He was clearly a man, yet he could write such gentle and graceful verses as 'To the Oak Tree' and 'April'..."
Zhang Xi suddenly had a brilliant idea and said:
"Um... Lao Shen, do you think it's possible that there are actually two poets behind this Qinglian Jushi?"
One of the men wrote something like "Birds and Fish," and the other woman wrote something like "To the Oak Tree."
Hearing this, Shen Zizhen looked at the other person with a strange expression and said in an annoyed tone:
"Then you might as well say that this 'Qinglian Jushi' is actually composed of many individuals, each of whom writes a poem."
"We have men if you want men, women if you want women, young if you want young women, and old if you want old women..."
"Hehe, I was just saying that. Who told this guy to be so secretive!"
Zhang Xi gave a somewhat awkward laugh and then said:
"By the way, I wonder if your Chairman Zhou will try to recruit this Qinglian Jushi into the Modern Poetry Association."
If the other person joins the Modern Poetry Association, then it will be clear whether they are male or female; we won't need to speculate here.
"That's true!"
Shen Zizhen nodded.
...
But what neither the poet nor the essayist expected was that their wild guesses were actually very close to the truth.
Although the person behind the pseudonym 'Qinglian Jushi' is Xu Lu, these poems actually come from many people.
What surprised them even more was that although President Zhou had invited Qinglian Jushi to join the association, he still didn't understand anything about it.
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