Zhou Zuoren lives at No. 11, Badaowan Hutong, Peiping, which is a yard purchased by Luxun in 1919.

The entire courtyard is a large house door pattern, and the adjacent street is a row of courtyard walls. When entering the gate tower, you will see a screen wall. There are two fronts and backs, nine tiled houses, and the house is divided into the main courtyard, the backyard and the west cross-yard.

The price at that time was 3,500 yuan, which was considered a luxury house in Peking.

According to the housing prices in Beijing in later generations, this is definitely a bargain price that can be picked up for nothing.

Luxun returned to China to work in 1909 and worked in the Ministry of Education in 1912.

He was a deputy in the Ministry of Education, with a monthly salary of 300 yuan. He also wrote articles to newspapers and received royalties.

This courtyard house is equivalent to his annual salary, which shows that civil servants are an enviable profession in any era.

Moreover, he sold an old house in his hometown in Shaoxing and received a house price of 1,600 yuan.

Having a house in Peking, he took leave to return to Shaoxing, and took his mother, Zhu Xing, and his younger brother Zhou Jianren to Peking.

At this time, Zhou Zuoren also brought his family back from Japan, and the three brothers lived together and became a big family.

However, the good times did not last long. Three years later, the two brothers fell in love.

Lu Xun and Zhuang moved out of Badaowan and moved to No. 61 Xisita Hutong. Zhou Zuoren and Zhou's mother stayed in Badaowan.

Therefore, later generations speculated that Zhou Zuoren had a falling out with Luxun in order to occupy the house in Badaowan Hutong. The person who proposed this statement was not someone else, but Luxun's son Zhou Haiying.

In the book "Luxun and Me Seventy Years", Zhou Haiying wrote the inside story of the Zhou brothers' life in Badaowan.

In Zhou Haiying's story, the protagonist is a woman named Nobuko Yuta. She is Zhou Zuoren's wife. She is in charge of the economic power of Badaowan, spending money like flowing water and squandering excessively.

Moreover, this Japanese woman was cruel and ruthless and had many tricks. She first drove away the third brother Zhou Jianren, and then used tricks to provoke Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren to rebel. In the end, she achieved her goal of dominating the real estate.

Even Zhou's mother was not willing to live in a cruel environment like Badaowan, but moved to live with Luxun.

The whole process is more like a palace fighting novel.

However, Zhou Haiying was born in 1929. He had never lived in Badaowan. He was only seven years old when Lu Xun passed away. These so-called inside stories are just hearsays and his own guesses.

It is unknown who told him.

Let’s talk about Zhou Jianren first. He is Luxun’s third brother and his wife is Yuta Nobuko’s sister.

In 1921, Zhou Jianren went to Shanghai to serve as assistant editor of the Women's Magazine of the Compilation Institute of Commercial Press.

He also engaged in translation work. He published articles in "Oriental Magazine", "Women's Magazine" and "Natural Science Magazine", advocating women's liberation and popularizing scientific knowledge.

This person lived with a female student when he was in Shanghai.

This seems to have little to do with being driven away by Nobuko Hata.

The breakup between Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren is probably not as simple as economic reasons.

The house in Badaowan was purchased by Luxun using the money from selling his hometown house and his own savings, so it is considered to be the public property of their family, but it belongs to Luxun in name only.

A contract was signed at that time.

The content is the industry of Badaowan, which is divided into four parts: each of the three brothers accounts for one part, and Zhou’s mother accounts for one part. This part is used as the cost of Zhou’s mother’s pension and exile.

Zhou Haiying accused Zhou Zuoren of the death of Luxun, Zhou Zuoren changed the account of Badaowan's house from Luxun to Zhou Zuoren, and for some time he did not bear the support of Zhou's mother.

Zhou Zuoren gives Zhou’s mother a monthly living expense of 50 yuan. Zhou Haiying believes that Zhou Zuoren’s income is too small.

This is very similar to the fact that a family in later generations had a quarrel over real estate. It is only because it happened in a celebrity family like the Zhou brothers, which is particularly eye-catching.

Lin Zixuan was not very interested in the family affairs of the Zhou brothers, and just watched the excitement from the perspective of bystanders.

On April 25, 1924, he arrived at No. 11 Badao Bay.

Zhou Zuoren came out to greet him in a Japanese kimono, and was accompanied by Sun Fuyuan, the editor-in-chief of the Morning Post Supplement.

After graduating from Peking University in 1921, Sun Fuyuan has been presiding over the editing of the supplement of the Morning Post, and is known as the "Supplement King".

When presiding over the Morning Post Supplement, Luxun's "The True Story of Ah Q" was serialized for the first time in the newspaper.

He also published many later well-known works such as Bing Xin's "Send to Young Readers" and Zhou Zuoren's "Own Garden". He also introduced a large number of Western cultural and scientific works and translators.

It can be said that the "Morning News Supplement" has actually become a propaganda base for New Culture.

He and the Zhou brothers have a good relationship, and they respect Luxun in particular and regard Luxun as their mentor.

Of course, he later broke up with Luxun and embarked on a different path.

Lin Zixuan's article "Where is Chinese etiquette?" was published by Sun Fuyuan as a counterattack against Chen Duxiu and others.

Most members of the Literary Research Association agreed with Tagore's visit to China. Many Chinese new literary writers were influenced by Tagore's poetry, and many young people also welcomed Tagore's arrival. Only young people influenced by Chen Duxiu would oppose Tagore.

Therefore, many literary journals in Peking will not publish articles by Chen Duxiu and others.

Most of Chen Duxiu's articles are published in Shanghai newspapers, and are non-literary newspapers.

Tagore's visit to China is a major event in the Chinese cultural circle. It is not only the center of media pursuit, but also the focus of discussion in the literary world. Zhou Zuoren and Sun Fuyuan are also talking about this matter.

They agree with Lin Zixuan's statement in the article.

Tagore is not a beast, nor does he hold a foreign gun and cannon. He just talks about Eastern culture and criticizes Western culture. Can China's national destruction lead to the destruction of its country?

Those people were too vain and imposing the debate between science and metaphysics in the Chinese cultural community on Tagore, which was a misunderstanding of Tagore.

However, since Tagore came to Peiping, Chen Duxiu has stepped up his efforts to criticize Tagore.

In his article "Tagore and Moneyism", he also used the words "someone in Beijing talked about him" to criticize Tagore for being a politician, not a poet."

"Tagor's peace movement only advises all oppressed nations to endure, obey, and sacrifice as themselves, and be lobbyists for imperialism."

In fact, Tagore has always been committed to India's independence and has made great contributions to it. He is a patriot.

We cannot say that Tagore was bribed by the West and became a "imperialist lobbyist" just because he was highly praised in Western society and won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

It is obviously unfair to say this.

During the discussion, Lin Zixuan noticed the obvious Japanese style in Zhou Zuoren's home. Perhaps the mistress in the home was Japanese, Zhou Zuoren seemed to be more accustomed to the Japanese lifestyle and lived in Japan for five years.

He was wearing a kimono, sitting on the floor, drinking tea, and his voice was not high, and he told stories about the literary world in Peking, with a celebrity style.

This year, Zhou Zuoren was 39 years old.

No one had ever thought that twenty years later, he would be imprisoned as a cultural traitor and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Chapter completed!