It was the first time for Kong Lingyi to come to such a place.

If it weren't for Meng Shaoyuan, she would never have imagined that there was such poverty in Nanjing.

And it’s right in Xinjiekou, the busiest district in Nanjing.

Isn't this also a kind of irony?

"Miss."

Gao Fanyi said kindly: "This place is really dirty and full of diseases. I think..."

"Nothing." Kong Lingyi didn't care, "Chief Meng, how do you know this place and how do you know Da Bingzi?"

"Da Bingzi's father is Yang Youcai. He is a very ordinary man. His name is Youcai, but he has no money. The only thing that is different from ordinary people is that he is a spy."

When Meng Shaoyuan said this, both Kong Lingyi and Gao Fanyi were stunned.

Meng Shaoyuan just pretended not to see their expressions and continued: "There was no Lixingshe at that time. It was just a nice thing to say. In fact, he was a low-level spy. His mission was to listen to the common people among the people.

What dissatisfaction with the government?

He lives here, and although the conditions are a little worse, he can at least provide for his family with enough food and clothing. Yang Youcai has no other pursuits. He just hopes that he and his family can be safe. In the 22nd year of the Republic of China, his son was born.

That is Da Bingzi. Miss, do you know the American missionary Pei Yili?"

Pei Yili?

Of course Kong Lingyi knew.

In 1911, the Huaihe River flooded again, and thousands of refugees poured into Nanjing.

Pei Yili, an American missionary who teaches at Jinling University, is troubled by the misfortune of the refugees.

Not only did he donate generously, he also took Chinese students to visit slums.

Most of the students come from wealthy families and have never seen such a scene.

One of the county magistrate's children followed Pei Yili from one shack to another and was very shocked.

Afterwards, the student thanked: "I have lived in this city since I was a child, but I have never paid attention to the miserable world around me. It was not until you, a foreigner, took me here that I saw all this."

Kong Lingyi just didn't know why Meng Shaoyuan suddenly mentioned Pei Yili.

"Actually, later on, there was a foreigner who did the same thing as Pei Yili, but the ending was very different." Meng Shaoyuan explained.

In the 22nd year of the Republic of China, Xia Muren, a foreign professor who also taught at Jinling University, did something similar.

But the consequences are quite different.

In class, he first showed his students a film of landscapes in various parts of China shot by the American Kodak Company, and then showed a film he made that recorded the city of Nanjing.

Because American films mostly reflected the "backward" Chinese landscape, and the subtitles included the sentence "Foreign influence has not yet penetrated into the mainland (China)", students began to be dissatisfied.

Professor Yang’s self-made film was shot in the dilapidated corners of Nanjing. Halfway through, the students finally lost patience and angrily demanded that the screening be stopped.

The incident caused a sensation in Nanjing, and the film played by Xia Muren was also called a "movie that humiliates the country" by the media.

Jinling University students demanded that the Nanjing party and government parties immediately fire the professor, but to no avail.

Later, the students discovered that this person was also filming various "vulgar social films" in Nanjing. They believed that he was "intentionally insulting China." The public was outraged and demanded that he be fired.

Considering that it is difficult to offend public anger, it may lead to an unexpected trend.

The school finally used the excuse that the foreign professor was not familiar with China's situation and sent him to a Chinese school in Peking to let him learn Chinese and understand Chinese folk customs, and the turmoil subsided.

"A large part of Xia Muren's films were based on the Rag Camp."

Meng Shaoyuan walked forward with Kong Lingyi and Gao Fanyi and said:

"Nanjing has developed rapidly in these years, but places like Rag Camp still exist. Xia Muren has no other idea, he just wants everyone to pay attention to these ordinary people who are still struggling in extreme poverty.

We are used to reporting good things but not bad things. We just don’t see the bad parts. We don’t think about how to solve them, and we don’t want others to uncover the scars on our bodies.

Finally, someone uncovered it and it hurt, so in the name of patriotism, a group of people attacked it. But has anyone thought about those people struggling in Rag Camp, who are more desperate for help than anyone else.

You can say that I am a traitor, you can say that I am licking the butts of foreigners..."

Gao Fanyi hurriedly coughed a few times and reminded Meng Shaoyuan that he should never say such vulgar words in front of the eldest lady.

Meng Shaoyuan also discovered it, apologized and continued: "But I thought Xia Muren did the right thing. No one will expose, no one will tell our bad customs, we will always anesthetize ourselves, live in the kingdom of heaven, and worship from all over the world.

in a dream.

Let's talk about Yang Youcai, he lives in Baobu Camp. In fact, like many people in Baobu Camp, he is grateful that someone finally spoke for them. Finally, someone knew that even in the capital, there are still a group of people living a precarious life.

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On the day Xia Muren left Nanjing, Yang Youcai was grateful and worried that something might happen to him, so he silently took on the task of escorting him out of Nanjing.

No one asked him to do this, he took the initiative on his own initiative. Sure enough, what he was worried about happened after all. Before he left Nanjing, Xia Muren was surrounded by a group of students.

The officials who accompanied Xia Muren had nothing to do with themselves and hid aside. Yang Youcai stepped forward to protect Xia Muren, but during the push, Yang Youcai fell.

It was his unlucky luck that his head happened to hit a protruding sharp corner, and he was bleeding profusely on the spot. When the students saw that someone was killed, they dispersed in a hurry.

The students dispersed, Xia Muren left, the officials went home. Yang Youcai died."

When Meng Shaoyuan said this, his tone was full of sarcasm: "Yang Youcai deserves it. It is not his task to escort Xia Muren. He went there on his own. If he died in the line of duty, there is no need to think about the pension.

He has a wife and a young child, but who the hell will take care of it... Miss, I'm sorry, I said bad language again.

His wife, you go around to defend men, and you don’t want anything else, just want some funeral expenses, but no one cares about you, no one takes care of you, what kind of thing are you, Yang Youcai, a lowly spy living in the slums.

In such a big city, Nanjing, if you, a dog spy, die, nothing will matter!"

Meng Shaoyuan didn't care if he said bad words there: "You are just a fucking ball, so his wife had no choice but to wrap the man's body in a torn mat and bury it.

Horse-leather shroud? That's for soldiers. When those of us who are spies die, it's good to have a torn mat. If no one spits on your body and calls you "dog spy" at the end, it means that our ancestors have a high fever.

Fragrant.

The people in the Rag Camp also want to help, but they really have no money. Think about it, if Yang Youcai was still alive and his son got sick, they would find a way to get the medicine even if it cost him his life.

I only found out about this when I joined the Lixing Society. I went to see Da Bingzi and his mother and left a little money, but I couldn't help more people. I'm incompetent, I'm useless."

Kong Lingyi's eyes turned a little red:
Chapter completed!