Chapter 40.

Su Shouan, a native of Ningbo, a member of the Old League, is now the chairman of Shouan Insurance Company, and his home is at 12 Lafayette Road in the French Concession ……

“Team leader, what do you care about this person for?” Shen Mo didn’t know why Cheng Mo asked people to investigate what this person was doing.

“I need to know what my old man does, otherwise how can I know myself and my enemy.” Cheng Mo hemmed and hawed.

“Team leader, you’re using a public weapon for private purposes.”

“Su Shouan’s daughter, Su Moer, is also a member of our group, how is this a public weapon for private use when I get to know her family?”

“Group leader, although the upper peak gave us the power to freely recruit group members, you shouldn’t use it indiscriminately.” Shen Mo reminded.

“Don’t worry, I won’t mess around, Su Mu’er is also one of the trainees trained in Qingpu class, she was originally a member of our group.” Cheng Mo nodded and said, “As long as there is a radio, she is our group’s announcer.”

“Really?” Shen Mo really didn’t know this.

“Of course, I won’t do anything that violates discipline, okay, it’s hard for you to clean up for the night, I’ll treat you to shabu shabu later.”

“You ran off on a date to watch a movie and asked me to clean up your house for a meal of shabu-shabu?” Shen Mo was dissatisfied.

“If one meal doesn’t work, then two, don’t ink, in a while, when it snows heavily, you won’t be able to go back.” Cheng Mo pushed the person directly outside and said.

“Then I’m leaving, if there’s anything, contact again.” Shen Mo said while walking out.

Returning to the upstairs study of his new home, Cheng Mo sat down and carefully considered how he should earn money for his work next.

This period of popular literature is popular is mandarin ducks and butterfly school, commonly known as worship six school, representative writers Zhang Henshui, Bao Tianxiao, and even the back of the Zhang Eileen also belongs to this school, mainly to some male and female love and hunting for entertainment novels, and take into account some exposure of social darkness and criticism, but the main is still the old-fashioned and full of criticism and accusations.

It did have its limitations and did not meet the needs of the country and the nation in this era, but it also had its rationality of existence.

This school of thought was the most popular in Shanghai’s Ten Mile Square, especially in the years after the fall of Shanghai, and the ordinary people in the fallen areas could only comfort and anesthetize themselves through this kind of thing.

Cheng Mo knew that once he started this, he was afraid that he would be a target of criticism later on.

But he just wanted to get a little funding, these days it’s not easy to be an agent, agents of the Communist Party and the Communist Party have to feed themselves before they can continue to fight, many people are hungry to do things, that’s really strong faith, the general public really can’t do it, if he can find a better way to come to money, he naturally don’t need to use this method again.

He now has three topics to choose from, romance, martial arts and science fiction.

Romance he chose is the Republic of China background novel “ghost husband”, martial arts is Liang Yusheng “Pingzong Chivalry Records” or “four famous arrests”, and then sci-fi, you can choose “Wesley”, that fire up, if serialized, is the golden chicken that lays eggs.

Because these stories he has a deeper memory, the general plot, coupled with his own experience of twenty years of mixing with the literary world, can still write, and then embellish it, but also easy to be accepted by the audience of this era.

Ghost Husband” itself is set in this era, the male and female protagonist’s sadistic, lingering love, the glorification of faithful love, especially from a female point of view, this kind of theme, in line with the characteristics of the new era of women’s emancipation, it is very easy to become a hit.

However, he has not written an ancient romance, and he does not know what it will be like when he writes it, but he still remembers the story line.

I didn’t realize that he lurked first, first to earn funds for his lurking group, and his first sideline was actually still writing.

It was a relatively easy way to make money, and fairly safe.

Still have to give themselves a pen name, can not bring the latter part of the direct use of that, inappropriate, but also can not afford to lose that person.

Forget it, it’s better to come up with a new one.

Thinking about it, Cheng Mo finally wrote down a pen name on a piece of paper: Wind Up Loulan.

This night, a great popular novelist was born, he is also a multi-faceted, romance, martial arts, science fiction and even revolutionary novels can write, simply a “demon” like existence.

This pen down, writing thoughts like a spring.

Have been writing until the fingers numb, only to find that they have actually written more than twenty pages, a little touch-up modification, you can directly submit the article.

And then look at the time, already midnight two o’clock, hurry with hot water to wash up, go to bed.

The next morning, Cheng Mo will last night’s hard work manuscript with “Song” transcription, went out to find a mailbox, sent to the editorial department of the Novel Monthly.

Novel Monthly” is the largest fiction magazine in Shanghai, with a large circulation, even in Beiping, Tianjin, Wuhan, Chongqing and other places have circulation, the most time a monthly magazine can sell hundreds of thousands of copies.

The more copies sold, naturally the more manuscript fee given to the author, and is a novel is calculated according to the thousand words of the manuscript fee, usually 2-3 yuan, a little better 4-6 dollars, the top can reach a thousand words of 10 yuan, where the yuan used to be silver dollars, now it is the fiat currency.

That is to say, if according to the writing speed in the previous life, as long as the article is adopted, it can earn more than four hundred dollars a month.

This is also in the Republic of China is definitely the existence of high income, at least is considered a petty or middle class.

But this approach to money is still too slow, the fastest is to sign a contract with the publisher, print the book, and get royalties directly.

A novel, if the issue of 100,000 copies, according to the current price of a novel price between one and one and a half.

Royalties are calculated according to ten percent, 100,000 copies, he will get ten thousand to fifteen thousand dollars.

He decided to spend a week writing The Ghost Husband, first serializing it in Novel Monthly, and then publishing the book.

If he could get a small hit, he should be able to get a few thousand dollars, and in case his fate was good and he got a big hit, he didn’t know how much.

This depends on fate.

Novel Monthly belonged to Lianhua Advertising Company, a company that had several publications under its umbrella, the famous Tea Language and Shanghai Life were all owned by this company.

This is also the reason why Cheng Mo chose it.

After submitting the article, it’s time to wait, it’s only the beginning of the month, even if it’s used, we won’t know until the end of the month.

After breakfast, Cheng Mo called a yellow cab and headed to the old gates arrest house, yesterday he was going to the Bureau of Public Works building to report for entry procedures.

Today he was going to the place of work.

The old gate arrest house three-story brick structure, red facade, and because the public concession Indian arrest (Sikhs, head wrapped in red scarves) are here, so it is also known as: red house arrest house.

Originally, the door was open to the main road (Nanjing Road), but after the May 30th tragedy, the main door was opened to the side of Guizhou Road, and everyone entered and exited through this door.

At the entrance, there were Indian arresters standing guard, with red scarves around their heads, leather shoes on their feet, tall men, big horses, with curly mustaches under their noses, and a high and mighty look similar to that of the later generations.

The Chinese agents are the lowest level in the Concession Arrest Office, and upwards are the Indian, Japanese and Western arresters, with the Western arresters receiving the highest treatment.

Of course, the treatment of Chinese arrestees will increase when they are upgraded, but compared to the same level of Indian arrestees and Western arrestees, it’s much worse.

But most of the Chinese arrests are in the help, when the Chinese arrests will have a lot of gray income, especially when the sheriff (inspector general) up, the real income is not worse than the western arrests, of course, that the western arrests also have a way to make money, anyway, the arrest room corruption that is the norm.

Civilians, powerless, it is best not to enter the police station, not dead also have to let you peel a layer of skin.

Entered the building, directly on the second floor of the chief inspector’s office.

As the second established arrest house, jurisdiction is one of the most prosperous area, the daily affairs here is naturally the busiest, people come and go in the hallway, and occasionally you can hear the sound of quarrels, Chinese, English and some unintelligible bird language.

The chief inspector of the Old Gates Constabulary was an Englishman, whose Chinese name was York, and who had previously served in the British navy with the rank of captain.

Not tall, yellow hair, but some thinning, looks with the style of the old-school English gentleman.

Of course, looking down on yellow-skinned Chinese was their usual practice.

“You graduated from Waseda University in Japan?” York saw Cheng Mo’s resume and put down the cigar in his hand with some surprise.

“Yes, Mr. York.” Cheng Mo replied in English.

“Your English is good?”

“Self-taught in college.” Cheng Mo gave a slight nod and said in an unassuming manner.

“What do you think about this war between Japan and China?” York suddenly threw out a question and, with a glaring gaze, stared at him.

Cheng Mo froze for a moment, what does this York mean, but since it was asked, he couldn’t not answer, so he thought for a moment, “The strong can bully the weak wantonly, and the weak have the right to fight to the death, we have a saying in China: when a piker is angry, his blood is spilled three feet.”

“When a piker is angry, blood splatters three feet?” York repeated Cheng Mo’s words and contemplated for a short while, “I think, you are going to do a good job with this, in the future, but whenever the Japanese commit crimes in my jurisdiction, it will be handed over to you to handle.”

“Me?” Cheng Mo was startled, he had only come over, how could he take over such an important matter, was there no one who had handled cases with the Japanese before?

“Yes, it’s you.” York said heavily.

Cheng Mo slightly frowned, the moment he came, he was reused, this is not a backstabbing or as a sacrifice, this opening is not a small difficulty ah.

However, he obviously heeded the wrong, the political unit in the old gate catching room there is a detective, that is the overall responsibility, he is just a new tie agent.

Rolling on the ground begging for collection, follow the reading!

41.Chapter 41 First Day at Work