Go back to the past and be a schoolboy

Chapter 88

"Hey, salt and pepper, crispy sesame cakes, big fried devils!"

There was no Cheng Nuo class at Peking University in the afternoon, so I ran back early to continue compiling the dictionary. I happened to see a peddler selling shortbread pastry at the gate of the courtyard, with a pole on his shoulder, and the left and right frames were covered with cotton cloth.

Even so, the fragrance inside still couldn't cover it, and there was a child pestering the parents to buy it, so how could the parents agree, patted the child's buttocks a few times, and immediately became much quieter.

"Don't cry, just hold back!"

The child looked at the peddler aggrieved, with a look of reluctance, and took a step to look around, the tears in his eyes dared not fall.

Cheng Nuo couldn't help laughing when she saw it, but since she came back early, sister-in-law Xiu Ni didn't need to make noodles and steamed buns anymore, and bought some as a small change to the meal.

"Master, how are these biscuits and 'devils' sold?"

"The sesame seed cakes cost one-third, and those with fillings cost five cents. For 'devils', they are sold by the catty, and they are sold for ten cents per catty. They are all freshly baked and still hot."

The peddler was full of enthusiasm. In order to prove that he was telling the truth, he deliberately leaked a corner of the cotton cloth on the frame. The fragrance in the air became stronger, and a cry of a child was heard in the distance.

Cheng Nuo shook his head and said with a smile: "How about this, bring me ten sesame seed cakes with stuffing, five catties of 'fried devils', thank you for your hard work, master."

The peddler said happily, "Okay, I'll wrap it up for you now. Look at my tall scale, and I'm definitely not cheating."

It is said to be an old-fashioned pole scale, the one with weights, it is very difficult to see it in later generations, but now it is necessary for hawkers to set up a stall, Cheng Nuo took a quick look and knew it couldn't be fake, so he assured him to wrap it up.

Unexpectedly, when he was about to turn around and enter the house, the peddler put down his burden, trotted over and said politely, "Dare to ask, sir, are you an errand in the "National" magazine?"

Cheng Nuo was a little stunned, and looked at the door. It was his home, but how did this peddler know that the editorial office of "National" magazine was here.

"Yes, I work here, but how do you know about this place, Master?"

"Hey, the whole city of Beiping knows that your newspaper is the cheapest and most useful in the imperial city. Every time a new one is released, it is crowded with people. Everyone knows the good stuff. The last time you used it I've had hiccups for years, hey, guess what, he's just fine."

As soon as the words were finished, the peddler brought over a large bundle of 'devils', and said with cupped hands, "My family is poor, and there is nothing precious. These things are considered as a little gift from our family."

Before Cheng Nuo could refuse, the peddler ran away carrying the burden, and his yelling was much louder than before.

"Hey, this pair of brushes is oily, you are a big pie!"

Cheng Nuo was also a little helpless when he was moved. With so many things in his hands, there was nowhere to put them, and he might spill them on the ground when he ran.

Coincidentally, at this time, the courtyard may have heard movement outside, and a head popped out with a creaking sound, it was Li Laosan.

"Hey, sir, why did you come back so early today? I haven't had time to pick you up yet. Why do you still buy so many things? Tell my family directly later, we can do it ourselves."

Cheng Nuo handed the things over: "It's okay, school is over early today, I thought I had nothing to do at school, so I came back early to exercise, my sister-in-law has to serve so many people these days, and I'm probably exhausted, so I just happened to take advantage of it." Take a rest."

The courtyard house is no longer just Cheng Nuo and his three adults and four children. Some people from the Academy of Sciences have also moved in one after another, such as the people from the editorial office of "National" magazine. The meals are usually served by Li Laosan's wife. Xiu Ni was in charge, and she was too busy to be idle.

After learning about the origin of sesame seed cakes and 'devils', Li Laosan hurriedly stopped Cheng Nuo from chasing the peddler and took him to the kitchen.

"Sir, you may not know it after you have been outside for such a long time. Our magazine has become popular, and the common people love to read it. People often secretly give away things. One day a bunch of garlic sprouts, the next day a handful of leeks, there is no end to them."

Cheng Nuo was confused, and asked, "If people like to watch it, they like to watch it. Why did they send us something?"

Li Laosan smiled and said: "Who made our magazine cheap? It is the popular supplement. It always writes some life tips and so on, especially some small coups for curing diseases. I heard that it helped many people. People read it. Our magazines are too cheap, I sent these things as a thank you, but also because I’m afraid of going bankrupt."

Seeing this, Cheng Nuo found a popular supplement of the "National" magazine. Sure enough, in addition to the health knowledge in each issue, there were also some popular science knowledge about planting, medicine and other natural sciences. The content was very rich.

In the beginning, the common people only ran around for three meals a day, so how could they spend money to buy magazines, and there were not many literate people.But then for some reason, I heard that a certain family suffered from a strange disease and had dysentery all day long for many years, but they were cured according to the above method.Just like this, the magazine has lived among the people for a few days.

What to do if you can't read, if you have the audacity to ask someone to read it, you won't be able to finish it. Besides, there are paintings on it, and the living can be suffocated to death by urine?
Just as he was talking, there was a sudden knock on the door. Seeing this, Li Laosan quickly put down his things and went to open the door. Out of curiosity, Cheng Nuo followed behind.

After opening the door, I found a caravan. The left and right sides of the horses' backs were full of things. It seemed that they should be visitors from afar.

The leader had a dusty look on his face, and there were some unintelligible dialects in the official dialect: "Excuse me, is this the editorial department of the popular issue of "National" magazine?"

Li Laosan looked around at the group of people, and replied vigilantly, "Yes, what are you doing here?"

Hearing this, not only the face of the leader of the caravan softened a lot, but even his fellows couldn't help laughing.

"Unload that bag of things for me, and bring it here quickly." After the leader of the caravan shouted at the caravan, he turned his head and smiled: "That's good, we finally came to the right place, and the things are for you prepare."

During the conversation, the man brought the bag of things over, and opened the sack in front of everyone, revealing a bag of things, including bacon, wild walnuts, dried mushrooms, dried vegetables and so on.

"By the way, there is another letter here. Master, please pass it on to your husband." The leader of the caravan took out a letter from his pocket and handed it over.

Li Laosan took the letter, looked back at Cheng Nuo, got a nod and handed it over.

In front of them, Cheng Nuo opened the letter and wrote:
"Hello, dear editorial staff of "National" magazine:
I am a teacher in xx Township, xx City, Sichuan Province. I got a copy of your magazine through a local caravan by chance. After reading it for the children, they like it very much, especially some interesting knowledge. They never get tired of reading it. The books were almost torn apart, and some children even copied your pictures. I am very happy. They have almost never encountered this kind of knowledge outside of books. Thank you very much for opening such a window for them.

It's a pity that we only have the copy of that issue, and we couldn't find anything else later. After many inquiries, I found out that you are in Beiping, and the cost of the magazine must be very high. These children are all poor, and it is not easy for them to go to school. People come to class while reading a book. Although we don’t have money, we don’t want to get something for nothing, so we specially sent some local local products. You can see if you can get a few new magazines. Thank you again.

Also, wash the bacon before eating.
Li Zhenhua

April [-], the sixth year of the Republic of China"

Looking at the letter, Cheng Nuo couldn't calm down the surging emotion for a long time, closed his eyes and let out a long sigh.

"Old Li, you can give the rest of the "National" magazine's popular supplement to the horse gang. After asking them for the address, you have to send some every time a new issue is released."

"As for the bacon, let's not eat it and hang it on the wall of the editing room."

The public supplement of "National" magazine does not have a fixed editorial team, but is contracted to various colleges according to different sections, and finally integrated into one magazine, which is very complicated but also many.

Fortunately, the knowledge in it is relatively shallow, but anyone who can read can understand it.

Many part-time editors were left behind, and everyone had dinner together. Most of the food on the table was dry goods from Sichuan Province. Recalling the "hard-won" food, Cheng Nuo was the first to speak out: "Zuo Qiu Ming wrote in "Spring and Autumn" There is a saying in the magazine that "the same morals lead to the same heart, and the same heart leads to comrades". From now on, we will call each other comrades within the Academy of Sciences. Then, comrades, after this incident, you may wish to speak freely about the future of our magazine."

Shi Jin adjusted his glasses: "If you make friends, you must be comrades. Comrade is a good word, Comrade Dean, I think our magazine is too small, of course it refers to the main issue, and it has only issued two issues so far. But there are only a few hundred copies, which is far from enough.”

Cheng Nuo nodded, and said after a while of silence: "Too professional, the audience will naturally be small. We have expected this since the beginning of the publication. Later, I will find a way to hold a scientific annual conference and invite some foreign scientists to come. , Increase our popularity and authority."

Wu Yulin asked thoughtfully, "But because of our weak reputation, will other well-known scholars agree to come?"

Cheng Nuo was confident and said with a smile: "Don't forget, your dean is from mathematics. We haven't held an academic conference on Kronecker's youth dream last time, so we can take this opportunity to invite you They, if the attraction is not enough, then publish a few high-quality mathematics papers to attract them.”

Shi Jin originally wanted to say that high-quality papers can’t be published as soon as they are published, and he can’t be so full of words, but when he thought that the person sitting next to him was a bigwig in the mathematics world, someone who many people looked up to, he opened his mouth. It's hard to say anything.

Seeing Guo Shouchun eating non-stop, Shi Jin deliberately elbowed him: "I said, old Guo, please come over from the test field, you can't just eat, you have to produce something what."

Seeing this, Guo Shouchun stopped his chopsticks, wiped his mouth and said, "What you said is very good, but I think the food from Sichuan Province is more delicious."

Wu Yulin tilted his head and glanced at him, and said, "Old Guo, there is something in your words. Everyone here is from my own family. As the dean said, they are all comrades. There is no need to hide it."

"Well, let me tell the truth. I think our "National" magazine is too bloated. Judging by the current manpower, I am afraid it will not meet expectations." Slowly rushed: "Comrades, a thin magazine, it carries too much expectations, want to do this, but also want to do that, can our staff take care of it?"

Shi Jin didn't discourage him at all, and asked, "Then tell me, what should we do?"

"The answer is simple, reduce the burden."

"Old Guo, tell me, what should I do?"

"I don't know, think for yourselves."

Shi Jin was so angry now, his veins were bulging: "Who can speak big words, you"

Cheng Nuo hurriedly stopped them, so as not to escalate the situation, and made a pressing gesture: "Okay, okay, only if there is a conflict, I can understand your mood, Lao Shi, but what Lao Guo said makes sense. When you were talking just now, I am also thinking about this question, and the answer I got is that the next step is to reduce the burden and increase the weight in parallel.”

Everyone was stunned, you look at me, I look at you, these two words are clearly in conflict, how can they go hand in hand.

Seeing that everyone had almost digested it, Cheng Nuo said in a deep voice, "The so-called burden reduction means removing all the sub-journals of the original "National" magazine and merging them into the main journal for the purpose of professional science popularization. On the basis of the main issue and popular supplements, another periodical is set up for primary and middle school students to popularize some basic scientific knowledge and become a window for them to understand this era."

"A strong youth makes the country strong, and a weak youth makes the country weak. The name of the magazine should be "Youth"."

Guo Shouchun smiled, his tanned skin in the field set off his extremely white teeth: "Yes, Comrade Dean, that's what my old Guo meant, so that we eat the dishes brought by other students, it's so hard to swallow." Get down."

Unconvinced, Shi Jin couldn't help but sneered: "Cut, who wouldn't be an afterthought? Just remember to submit the manuscript on time when the time comes."

Guo Shouchun was also not to be outdone: "You just have to put your mind to it. The manuscript definitely takes science popularization and interest into account. Maybe in the future, people who originally wanted to learn your machinery will switch to our agronomy because of him."

Cheng Nuo hurriedly said, pointed at the rice on the table with his chopsticks and said, "Okay, sister-in-law Xiuni has almost finished serving the food, so hurry up and eat before it gets cold."

In this way, the second edition of the Journal of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been settled down, all of which are mainly in vernacular.

The main publication of "National" magazine is an authoritative and professional natural science comprehensive publication, which is aimed at various scholars and is currently published every quarter.

"National" magazine is a popular publication, focusing on popular science for the masses, entertaining and entertaining, and serving the lives of the public, with a monthly issue.

"Youth" magazine is aimed at elementary and middle school students, mainly to inspire them to explore curiosity, taking into account both natural sciences and humanities, so that the Academy of Social Sciences also has a sense of participation, sharing a lot of manpower pressure, and it is also a monthly issue.

　The story of bacon is not made up by me, it happened in the Republic of China.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)