Lu Xun returned from studying in Japan and accepted the invitation of the president of Peking University to teach in Yanyuan. During this period, he also served as an official of the Ministry of Education. This can be said to be a fat job with a sky-high monthly salary. Although Lu Xun is not greedy, he really doesn't want to live in poverty, so it is natural for this position to get a high salary.
With such a large salary, he thought of buying a real estate. At that time, he took a fancy to a courtyard. Siheyuan itself is a common building in Beijing, but only the rich and bureaucrats can afford it. Ordinary civilians can only live in one family. At that time, the house that Lu Xun took a fancy to was not an ordinary house, but a big quadrangle with 32 houses. This quadrangle is expensive and magnificent, but Lu Xun didn't hesitate too much. It cost a lot of money to buy this quadrangle. The price of this quadrangle is 3765 silver dollars, which is the property that ordinary people may have to cultivate for more than ten years, and Lu Xun did not hesitate to spend it.
What is even more irritating is that Lu Xun has not regarded this quadrangle as his lifelong home. According to ordinary people's thinking, since he bought such a grand quadrangle, he must decorate it well. He lives a leisurely life in the yard every day, enjoying the happiness and ease of the rest of his life. However, Lu Xun did not. He bought this house only as his temporary residence in Beijing.
Later, Lu Xun became more famous and became a famous writer in China. After that, he often left Beijing to give lectures and be a professor all over the country, so his house in Beijing was naturally idle and uninhabited, and he didn't care much. Now, a hundred years later, that quadrangle has already had important architectural value, and now it is valued at hundreds of millions of yuan, which is more expensive than ordinary big villas. It's really amazing. But for a man of integrity, he is fighting for the rise of the Chinese nation every day, and he has no intention of taking care of the value of a house. How selfless this spirit is.