After seeing Meng Xiaodong away, Lin Zixuan was about to leave Shanghai. He and Feng Chengcheng took their children back to their hometown in Wuxi.

With children, they should have gone back to worship their ancestors during the Chinese New Year, but because of the war, the children are almost one year old now. According to custom, it is time to go home to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors.

Starting from Shanghai, you can still see traces left by the war along the way.

Fortunately, Jiangsu and Zhejiang are originally rich places, and refugees can seek refuge in relatives and friends, and the number of deaths is not that tragic.

Wuxi is not the center of the war and has been less affected, and the city is still prosperous.

In the forest garden on the outskirts of the city, Lin Zixuan planned to cultivate here for a while, put aside the meticulous chores and cultivate his nature.

In order to finish the book "The Strange Man of the High Castle" as soon as possible, he received a letter from Pearl Buck, who was preparing to leave China in June and return to the United States to study.

They applied for graduate programs at Cornell University in the United States.

Pearl Buck's husband Booker applied for the Department of Agriculture, while Pearl Buck was applying for the Department of English. This time it was also to give their three-year-old daughter a medical treatment in the United States.

Lin Zixuan realized that this was a good opportunity.

He wanted to send the book "The Strange Man of the High Castle" and he had to go abroad. There was a troublesome thing here.

For Chinese, or Asians, they will be strictly inspected when passing US customs, including luggage they carry.

If it is a government official, it will be better and there will be diplomatic preferential treatment, but for ordinary tourists, this procedure is inevitable.

If you meet a careless inspector, you may not notice the books Lin Zixuan has brought, but once you encounter that kind of serious guy who still discriminates against Chinese people, you will read them one by one.

This will expose the book "The Strange Man of the High Castle".

Lin Zixuan once thought about mailing this book to the Nanyang area, but after asking the merchants in Nanyang, he realized that it was a colony of European countries, which was very chaotic and the investigation was even more powerful.

This time Pearl Bucks went to the United States, and he was going to go together.

He handed his luggage over to Pearl Buck for custody. He avoided being inspected, and the US customs was relatively relaxed to Americans.

So, he wanted to finish the book as soon as possible and type it and print it.

In this way, I can still visit my sister who is already studying at Columbia University.

After some consideration, Lin Xiaoling finally chose the school where her brother once attended. She entered a major that no one expected and entered the Journalism School of Columbia University.

The Journalism School of Columbia University was founded in 1912.

When classes started on September 30, 1912, about 100 undergraduate and graduate students from 21 countries entered the school to study.

The School of Journalism is quite famous at Columbia University, and most of the professors are experienced journalists.

Lin Xiaoling feels that it is relatively free to become a journalist. There are many female journalists in the United States, which is a manifestation of women's independence.

Lin Zixuan was amused and cried about this. He was influenced by liberal thoughts as soon as he arrived in the United States. He also talked about women's independence and having the ability to work and earn tuition by themselves. That is true independence.

But who told me that this is my sister and could only let her go.

At worst, after returning to China, she would just work at Wanxiang Bookstore and be responsible for news editors. He did not expect Lin Xiaoling to achieve great success, as long as she was safe.

In the letter sent back, Lin Xiaoling also talked about her college experience, which was partly related to Lin Zixuan.

When she was in China, she knew that her brother was very famous, but she had no intuitive concept.

After coming to the United States, she truly felt this. In school, the book "The Watcher in the Rye" has almost become a must-read novel for students, and this trend has not yet dissipated.

In more than a year, this novel has been sold in the United States for more than 300,000 copies.

According to industry estimates, "Watchman in the Rye" sales are expected to exceed one million copies. However, its teenager-based readership limits sales growth.

If it can be accepted by the middle class in the United States, it may create a sales miracle.

It may be a coincidence that a writer writes a bestseller, and writing two bestsellers requires strength, and being able to write three bestsellers will establish his position in the literary world.

If Lin Zixuan wants to gain complete recognition in the Western literary world, he also needs a foundation work.

Of course, this book will never be "The Strange Man of the High Castle", and he hopes that no one will know his relationship with this book.

He wanted to write books quietly, but the real world made him unable to be quiet.

A few days after he arrived in Wuxi, he received a letter from Shanghai, and Ping Jinya wrote to tell him something.

On May 15, 1925, workers from Japanese yarn mills in Shanghai went on strike again to protest against the unreasonable firing of workers by Japanese investors. Japanese businessmen shot and injured many people.

On May 17, worker representative Gu Zhenghong died in the hospital.

On May, the National Student Federation decided on five measures to aid the Gu Zhenghong tragedy. On May 24, the cotton mills and labor unions from both inside and outside held a memorial service for Gu Zhenghong in Tanziwan, with more than 10,000 people attending.

Pingjinya’s letter was written to ask the newspapers and magazines under the Vientiane Book Company what attitude should be expressed.

Under such circumstances, we must protest, and opposing the atrocities of the Japanese is just a matter of strength.

Since last year, workers' strikes in Shanghai have occurred frequently.

First, the female workers in the Shanghai Silk Factory went on strike, then the workers in the Nanyang Tobacco Factory went on strike, and then about 10,000 workers in the Japanese businessmen's domestic and foreign cotton factories, including the 5, 7, 8, and 12th factories.

Every time the strike is on, the newspaper will support it and fight for the rights and interests of the workers.

The previous two strikes against China's industry and commerce were on the verge of peace and wealth, and were unwilling to make things worse. Because of their compatriots, they basically compromised and agreed to some of the requirements put forward by the workers.

Strikes can be resolved through negotiations.

However, the Japanese are not Chinese businessmen. They come to China to make money and have an extremely tough attitude towards strike workers.

With the large-scale arrival of Japanese businessmen in Shanghai to enclose land and build factories, the Japanese set up yarn mills in only one place in Shanghai, accounting for two-thirds of the total number of yarn mills in Shanghai.

Japanese factory owners treat workers very harshly. Workers work more than 12 hours a day, and their wages are only one cent or five cents a day.

Five percent of the savings factory must be deducted, and it will not be returned until ten years of work. Those who quit their work halfway will be confiscated.

It can be said that Japanese yarn mills are the factory with the worst working environment and lowest salary in Shanghai.

Faced with the repeated strikes by workers, the Japanese used all forces to suppress them and used force.

This caused the tragedy to happen.

Pingjina knew that Lin Zixuan’s relationship with the Japanese was rigid, so she wrote a letter asking for instructions on how to act.

When Lin Zixuan saw this letter, he thought of the upcoming May 30th Massacre.

On May 30, the Shanghai Student Federation dispatched multiple teams to march and give speeches within the concession.

In the afternoon of the same day, some students were arrested on Nanjing Road, while the rest of the students and the masses came to the door of the arresting room with bare hands and demanded the release of the arrested persons.

British police ordered shooting at the masses, killing four students on the spot and seriously injuring 30 people. The public concession authorities even mobilized the army and declared martial law.

Thinking of this, Lin Zixuan couldn't help but fall silent.
Chapter completed!