Chapter 525 [New Year's Dream]

1933, New Year's Day.

With the new year and new weather, all major newspapers and magazines are engaging in activities.

For example, Shanghai's "Star Daily" launched the "Movie Queen" selection. Hu Die was elected as the "Queen of the Best Actress" with more than 20,000 votes, Chen Yumei ranked second, and Ruan Lingyu could only come in third.

It's not that Ruan Lingyu doesn't have enough fame, but that she doesn't like to show her face in public. As long as she is not filming, she will stay at home honestly. But Hu Die likes to socialize, and often participates in many public events, and her exposure rate is much higher than that of Ruan Lingyu.

As for Chen Yumei, well, this is Run Run Shaw's sister-in-law.

The stinginess of the Shaw Brothers is in the same line. After making Chen Yumei famous, Shao Zuiweng married Chen Yumei to be his concubine in order to prevent other companies from poaching her, and also to save an actor's salary.

Chen Yumei is very famous. She has made nearly 30 films in three years, and her appearance on the screen is better than that of Hu Die and Ruan Lingyu combined. Poor and exhausted, she can't even get paid, because she is the boss's wife. But it can't be called the proprietress, because she is just a concubine, and Shao Zuiweng has done a good business with no loss.

Compared with "Star Daily"'s selection of "Best Actresses", the activities organized by "Oriental Magazine" are much more high-end.

"Oriental Miscellaneous" published a special topic "New Year's Dream" for the 30th anniversary of its publication, and sent more than 400 letters of solicitation to celebrities from all walks of life across the country, including Zhou Hexuan, who also received one.

The magazine wrote in the preface: "In these dark years, not to mention the 30 million people in the Northeast who have suffered under the guns of imperialism, even our entire country and nation have fallen into a sea of ​​suffering... We curse Today, we still have tomorrow. If the real life during the day is tense and stuffy, we can have at least one or two sweet and comfortable dreams during these long winter nights. Dreams are all our sacred rights! "

Zhou Hexuan got the magazine at noon. He took a few wives out to the theater, and sat in the car to read it slowly.

Celebrities have all kinds of dreams, Zhou Hexuan wanted to laugh at first, and then wanted to cry. Because those dreams are too simple, but for the Chinese people at this time, they seem out of reach.

For example, Zhou Gucheng, a professor at Jinan University, has a dream: Everyone can have the opportunity to sit on the toilet and defecate.

Everyone has the opportunity to sit and poop on a toilet...what a dream!

Ye Shengtao's dream is: everyone has food to eat, everyone has a job, all the food eaten is definitely not someone's blood, and all the work done will never fill the belly of one or two people.

Foreign Minister Luo Wenqian's dream is: military officers are not afraid of death, civilian officials are not greedy for money, and they will always be citizens of peaceful and prosperous times.

There are also many daydreamers, such as Xie Bingying's dream: a Datong world without countries, nations, and class distinctions.

Yu Dafu's dream is: no class, no contention, no material oppression, no one for everyone, and no need for private property.

There are also many intellectuals, such as Liu Shiying of the Nanjing National Institute of Compilation and Translation, who said: The fate of China in the future will not be determined by our dreams, but by our actions... The national identity of China in the future will still be related to the knowledge and knowledge of its constituents. Ability commensurate with morality.

Shi Zhecun, editor-in-chief of "Modern" magazine, said: I thought the political system had nothing to do with it, the problem was all with people.

Even more thought-provoking, such as Xu Tiaofu's dream is: In the future, there will be no terms such as national studies, national medicine, national skills...national humiliation, national calamity, etc.

These days Lin Yutang seems to be imitating George Bernard Shaw and playing humor like crazy. His dream is listed at the end, with only four words: I don’t dream.

When Zhou Hexuan explained his dream, he only said one sentence: This terrible time is just a dream. I just hope to wake up soon. China should be a prosperous, powerful, great and proud country.

Perhaps, as the preface of "Oriental Miscellaneous" said, Chinese people at this time are tense and depressed during the day, and only have one or two sweet and comfortable dreams at night. When this article recording the dreams of hundreds of celebrities was published, it immediately aroused the spiritual resonance of countless citizens, and the "Oriental Magazine" was sold out on New Year's Day.

At the end of this call for papers, Zhou Hexuan’s article "I Have a Dream" was published again: "I have a dream. One day, every province, every state, and every village in China will become a tall building A civilized world full of forests and factories everywhere... Our country is no longer the object of ridicule, and no longer has to sign humiliating contracts. Any overseas Chinese can straighten their waists and shout loudly: I am China people!"

I don't know how many readers, thinking of the dark reality, burst into tears.

Zhou Hexuan put down the magazine in his hand, smiled wryly and said to himself: "Everyone can dream, for these beautiful dreams, I don't know how many people will die."

Zhou Hexuan will soon meet a dying man!

When he drove to the theater, Yang Xingfo shouted from afar: "Mr. Zhou, I have long admired your name! I, Yang Quan."

"Brother Hongfu, it's a pleasure to meet you!" Zhou Hexuan shook hands enthusiastically, "Unexpectedly, brother Hongfu will come to join us today."

Yang Xingfo said with a smile: "Mr. Shizhi wrote to me, saying that Mrs. Zun would be on stage on New Year's Day, so I specially set off to Tianjin in advance to see the demeanor of everyone in Donghuang."

Zhou Hexuan hastily introduced Zhang Leyi, Meng Xiaodong and Vivien Leigh. As for Wanrong and Liao Yaquan, they have already reached their due date and may give birth at any time, so they did not come to watch Meng Xiaodong's performance today.

During the Republic of China, many concubines married concubines. Yang Xingfo was not surprised, and smiled and shook hands with the three women.

Everyone walked into the theater together, and Meng Xiaodong went directly to the backstage to prepare.

Yang Xingfo whispered: "Brother Mingcheng, are the preparations for the north going well?"

Zhou Hexuan said: "I wrote more than 50 letters, about 30 replied that I would like to join, and more than 10 expressed support."

"That's good, that's good," Yang Xingfo said happily, "Adding that Hu Shizhi invited more than 20 people, the size of the Peking branch is huge!"

Seeing his excited look, Zhou Hexuan couldn't help but remind him: "Brother Hongfu, you have worked so hard for democracy and constitutional government, but be careful of those who come from Nanjing."

Yang Xingfo sneered disdainfully: "Lao Jiang only knows how to assassinate. He kills as soon as he wants. If I die, someone else will stand up."

"Oh!" Zhou Hexuan sighed helplessly.

This person is dead!

Yang Xingfo was born in the Tongmenghui, and served as Sun Yat-sen's secretary in his early years. Over the years, he had frequent contact with the Communist Party and actively rescued the arrested Communists. His organizational and management skills are superb, and the Civil Rights League relies on him to run around in many ways. Unlike Hu Shi, who likes to talk, Yang Xingfo is a man of action.

So Yang Xingfo must die. As long as he dies, the newly formed China Civil Rights Protection League will be paralyzed. No matter how much the rest of the people shouted and shouted, Chang Kaishen could ignore it. As far as the threat to the authorities was concerned, 100 Hu Shi could not compare to 1 Yang Xingfo.

Zhou Hexuan looked at Yang Xingfo who was completely disregarding his own life and death, and suddenly felt infinite emotion. Perhaps it is because China has countless people with lofty ideals who are willing to sacrifice their lives for the country that China has dreams to speak of.