A healing writer? No, it's a depressing writer!

Chapter 284: Set off to shock France! The dominance of a multi-million-copy bestselling author! A new journey begins!
This is not really a case of regional discrimination, but rather a rule summarized based on the dietary characteristics of each country.

This is like Japanese students. Most of the time, they give people a feeling of being very polite and well-mannered. They will nod and say hello to you when you meet them in public. Most of the time when you meet him (her), he (she) will give people a feeling of being bathed in spring breeze.

But can you conclude from this that Japan is a civilized and polite country?
Does not.

In "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword", American cultural anthropologist Ruth Benedict conducted a very thorough study of the national characteristics of the Japanese. She concluded that this is a nation that is very good at forbearance, knows how to learn, and has very twisted personality traits.

When you are strong, it will bow down to you, learn from you, show unparalleled humility, and even kneel down to you to express its loyalty.

However, if you show the slightest sign of weakness, he will turn from defense to offense in an instant, transforming from a docile sheep into a ferocious wolfdog, rushing forward to bite you fiercely, gnawing you until you bleed, until he completely devours you.

"Knowing small matters but not great principles, being particular about small matters but not great virtues, being particular about small matters but not honesty and shame, being afraid of power but not cherishing virtues."

This sentence is the most appropriate to describe the national characteristics of Japan.

Because they are not stingy with their praise, Japanese students will give sincere praise from the bottom of their hearts when they see expensive fruits that are only eaten during festivals in China placed casually at the food window:
“Are the expensive fruits in China so common here?”

“This treatment is really great.”

However, in addition to the praise, a little covetousness will arise:

“It would be even better if all these things could be moved back to Japan.”

Unlike Japanese students, Korean students are tough in words but soft in actions. Even though supplies are relatively scarce in Korea, they eat army hotpot and kimchi almost all year round. When there are days worth celebrating, they occasionally eat barbecued pork belly and feel as happy as if it were Chinese New Year.

However, even though they have never been satisfied materially, their mouths are still as hard as iron when it comes to eating:
"It's better to grill pork belly in Korean style, and dip it in sauce so that it will be more flavorful."

"Kimchi is the most delicious food in the world, okay? You guys can't even compare to kimchi."

"The birthplace of hotpot is actually in South Korea. Do you know about army hotpot? According to legend, during the Anti-Japanese War, there was a Korean Restoration Army in Chongqing. When the Restoration Army was stationed in South Korea, they ate army hotpot. Later, the army hotpot was improved and became the Chongqing hotpot you have today."

However, in the eyes of Koreans, traditional Chinese cuisine is criticized as having no merit and is inferior to Korean food in every way.

However, their bodies were extremely honest and their hands never stopped putting rice into their mouths.

One mouthful.

Another bite.

Another mouthful.
"Hey, you're right, it's true." Deng Binhai, a classmate sitting next to Jiang Hai, heard Jiang Hai's long speech and immediately began to observe the surroundings. "Although these Koreans are complaining a lot, they really don't stop talking at all."

"Look at those guys over there, they're not only eating, they're even stuffing the fruit into their trouser pockets while eating."

The more you lack something, the more you show off it.

The more stubborn a person is, the more inferiority he or she has hidden deep in his or her heart that is difficult to conceal.

If you say Yanzu is ugly, he will just smile indifferently.

If you say that some Koreans are short and make a "little bit.jpg" gesture towards them, they will really break through their defense and fight you to the death.
"Just eat some melon." Jiang Hai stuffed a piece of braised pork into his mouth, raised his head and shouted to several classmates around him, "These things, just know them in your heart, please always remember a philosophy of life, don't argue with stupid people."

"If anyone ever discusses with you the topic of the origin of the universe being Korea, you only need to respond with one sentence -"

"Oh, yes, yes, you are right."

Everyone was putting rice into their mouths.

There were a few yellow-skinned and white-skinned people around me, who were discussing in Chinese during their spare time during meals:
"Do you know that the sales of Chinese writer Jiang Hai's The Sun Also Rises in France have exceeded 3.5 million copies as of last week?"

Thanks to the French government's unremitting publicity, after Jiang Hai was announced to have won the Goncourt Prize and the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, although people had never met Jiang Hai before, his new work, The Sun Also Rises, has been popular in the French book market in just one and a half months.

The sales volume of a single book exceeded 3.5 million copies!

And this is just one country, France!
If we include the North American market, the European and American markets, in the two months since the new book was launched, the sales volume of Jiang Hai's new book "The Sun Also Rises" in the entire European and American regions is -

It immediately broke through five million copies!

This is an extremely terrifying number!

After hearing the French student's story, the Japanese female student in school uniform blinked and communicated with the Frenchman in front of her:
"Jiang Hai's No Longer Human is now the best-selling literary book in the Japanese book market. In Japan alone, sales of a single copy have reached six million copies, and this growth rate is expected to continue to rise."

The discussion between the two immediately aroused the interest of the Korean student next to them. He quickly put down the plate in his hand and joined the discussion with wide eyes:
"Is Jiang Hai so popular over there?"

"I don't know about other countries, but I know that in Korea, Jiang Hai's "The Crucible" and "Hope" are almost household names. Almost one in three adults has bought Jiang Hai's books."

Although the exact number of purchases is unclear, according to media reports, one in three Korean adults has purchased Jiang Hai's literary works. It is not difficult to infer the specific amount of Jiang Hai's literary works purchased.

So far, Korean media has reported that the population of South Korea is 18 million. Due to the serious aging of the population in South Korea, among these million, only about million are teenagers under the age of who are still in school.

Apart from eight million teenagers, there are about twelve million elderly people over the age of 60 who do not pay any attention to or read books.

Apart from teenagers and the elderly, there are 18 million young adults aged 60 to in South Korea. One out of every three of these people has bought Jiang Hai's works. This means that Jiang Hai's "The Crucible" and "Hope" are very popular in South Korea.

Sales have already exceeded 10 million copies!
For a writer whose cumulative sales have exceeded 10 million copies, this is a very terrifying achievement in the entire world literary world!

What’s even more terrifying is that Jiang Hai not only did it, he even sold far more than 10 million copies!
The combined sales of The Crucible and Ho Won are more than 10 million copies.

Total sales of The Sun Also Rises are five million copies.

The sales of "No Longer Human" in Japan alone is 6 million copies, and the overseas sales figures have not yet been counted.
Just like this, the total sales of these four books have exceeded 20 million copies, reaching an astonishing 21 million copies!
This level of popularity is seen in the entire world literary world——

That is also extremely rare!
When Jiang Hai was right next to them, did everyone never feel that Jiang Hai was so awesome?
Everyone's impression of Jiang Hai is...
Grounding gas.

Can take a joke.

There are no airs.

At Jiang Hai's age, his peers would be so proud of their books if they didn't mention sales:

“You and I are no longer in the same class.”

Even though Jiang Hai is already a best-selling author with a total sales volume of over 10 million copies, you can still see him happily hanging around on campus:

"Come, let me light your cigarette."

Then he put your lighter into his pocket.

When this person often appears in front of you, you can't feel how awesome he is.

However, when the foreigners heard the news about Jiang Hai, they even showed admiration in their eyes.
Chu Tianjiao directly tortured his soul:

"You're already so strong???"

I wanted to get along with you as an ordinary person, but the result was alienation?

No more pretending, I'm telling you I'm a billionaire.
Just as Jiang Hai wanted to continue talking about the topic:
"Did you just know?"

"You know your dad is awesome, so be nice to him in the future. When you bring breakfast to him in the morning, add two more fried dough sticks."

Unexpectedly, before Jiang Hai even started to show off, the fat man shut him up with one sentence:
"Since you are already so powerful, can you V me 200?"

"I'm going out to dinner with a girl from the Foreign Languages ​​Department this afternoon. It's almost the end of the month and I'm really short of money."

You use my money to pick up your girls?
Is this reasonable? It is definitely not reasonable.

If you say you want to buy an Nvidia RTX 8000 graphics card recently and you are short of money, Jiang Hai will probably transfer an extra yuan to your card without hesitation:
"Take the flowers."

"When it comes to graphics cards, you have to buy good ones. Money should be spent wisely."

But you want to say that you want to use my money to pick up girls, and even try to use my money to buy a small umbrella to make me feel more involved?
Then Jiang Hai can only give you two big slaps in the face:
"Sorry, not a cent!"

"Get together right now and get out of here!"

Jiang Hai finished eating the last grain of rice on the plate, took a sip of the seaweed egg drop soup, then picked up the plate and walked towards the plate recycling area without looking back.

"shuang"

To be honest, even though they are of the same age, Jiang Hai's eating habits are definitely the most unruly among his peers.

Just looking at the way he eats, you can’t even say that he is a scholar. Chunchun looks like a starving ghost reincarnated.

"Why do you think Jiang Hai can eat white rice as if it were a state banquet?"

“Can this thing really be so delicious?”

That was when the fat man stared at the white rice on his plate and began to doubt his life.

Beside him, the foreign students who were discussing the sales of Jianghai’s books just now walked straight towards the fat man.

Among them, a Japanese girl in a short skirt asked him in a somewhat stiff Chinese accent:
"Hello, classmate."

"I want to ask how to get to the classroom in Lide Building."

In principle, the fat man didn't want to show the Japanese the way. After all, this was Chenghai, where the defenders of the Sihang Warehouse had fought hard against the Japanese.

But apparently, fat guys just can't resist women.

"What white legs, what a sweet voice." Pretending to be nonchalant, he glanced at the place where all men would look, and pointed the way to the cafeteria exit, "Turn left first, then turn right, and then walk east for 700 meters. There is a dense forest there. Push aside the dense branches and leaves of the forest, and finally you will see a river, and then you can go straight in."

Obviously, for a Japanese girl whose Chinese is not that good, the fat man's description completely confused her.

What woods?
What river?
What is direct plug?
I always feel that you are referring to something, but I can't tell what it is.
The fat man talked for a while, looked at her confused look, and finally gave up giving directions:

"What are you doing in Lide Building?"

"Attend class?"

“Do international students have to attend classes too?”

The Japanese girl blinked her confused eyes and told the purpose of her group directly:
"We heard that Lide Building is where Mr. Jiang Hai teaches, so we wanted to try our luck and see if we could run into Mr. Jiang Hai in Lide Building."

Let’s not talk about other countries for now, just talking about Japan, Jiang Hai is an author who has been openly praised and respected by writers Haruki Murakami and Keigo Higashino on their personal social media.

Haruki Murakami praised Jiang Hai as: "The hope for the rise of Asian literature."

Keigo Higashino once openly stated: "Jiang Hai's book No Longer Human has made the Japanese literary world leap forward by more than 30 years."

As the founder of Japan's "sorrow culture".

He is also the founder of Japan's "sorrowful literature school".

Jiang Hai's status in the Japanese literary world can simply be described by the word "legend".

Now, having traveled across the ocean to the other side of Mr. Jiang Hai’s hometown, I naturally want to visit the place where Mr. Jiang Hai usually studies and writes.

If you can meet Jiang Hai in these places, it would be great
I heard the visitor's narration.

The fat man looked at the person in front of him with confusion:

"so."

"Your ultimate goal is to meet Jiang Hai, right?"

The Japanese girl nodded obediently: "Yes."

The fat man pointed directly at the entrance of the cafeteria, where Jiang Hai had just left:
"But."

"Jiang Hai just left the cafeteria."

"He was just sitting next to you eating. Why didn't you tell me earlier that you wanted to see him?"

Hearing this, the Japanese girl opened her eyes wide, and her expression showed how shocked she was at the moment:

"and many more!"

"You mean Jiang Haijun was sitting next to us just now?!?!"

"Yes." The fat man nodded truthfully, "Just now, the one who picked up the plate and ate the rice, eating like a starving ghost."

In the minds of most Japanese readers, Jiang Hai's image has always been that of a weak scholar with a deep and somewhat depressed temperament.

After all, a book like "No Longer Human" is really hard to write unless the writer is naturally pessimistic or melancholic.

But when you tell me that a writer with depression and world-weariness can eat five bowls of rice in one go
This immediately overturned the Japanese girls' perception.

"What's wrong with you?" The fat man was confused when he saw the girl's shocked expression.

Did not directly answer the fat man's question.

After a long silence.

She was quite shocked when she took out her cell phone and found her brother, Yayoi Kusama, who is also known as the first person in Japanese youth literature in the Japanese literary world:

"Brother, this Jiang Hai."

"It seems to be different from what the rumors say."

Time always slips away silently.

Once people become busy, they tend to lose track of the passage of time.

Accompanying Jiang Hai, I travel back and forth between the dormitory, classroom, film and television shooting base, and animation studio every day.

A month passed in a flash.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Jiang Hai, wearing a windbreaker and carrying a black backpack, picked up the luggage backpack that had been packed long ago.

Then he pushed open the door of the dormitory with great vigor and confidence:

"set off!"

"France Trembling"

(End of this chapter)