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

Chapter 323 Death is also the way home! Life ends in tragedy! This time, it really aroused public outrage! 5k
What was Fugui’s final fate?

God doesn’t know.

The reader doesn't know.

Only Jiang Hai himself knew it, in a relaxed and happy, hearty and excited laughter.

Jiang Hai outlines the tragic ending that belongs only to Fugui
Huacheng Publishing House.

Editor-in-Chief's Office.

Looking at the magazine "Huacheng" in which "To Live" was serialized in the 337th and 338th issues edited by Jiang Hai, the total sales of just two issues reached an astonishing million copies.

At this moment, in the conference room, all the editors looked at the large screen in the center with extremely surprised eyes:
“Is this the appeal of a top writer?”

After only two issues, sales exceeded 9.65 million copies, with an average sales of 4.8 million copies per issue!
This was the peak period, and the level of horror could not be achieved by popular best-selling literary works such as "Yilin", "Reader" and "Story Club"!
At a time when the traditional paper industry is under attack, there are still pure literary magazines and journals, with sales of over a million copies per issue.

This is extremely rare!

But Jiang Hai has created a sales miracle that cannot be replicated in the post-media era?
Never mind a million copies.

His single issue sales directly exceeded four million copies?
Look at the final sales performance statistics of the marketing department.

Zhang Chengye, president of Huacheng Publishing House, couldn't believe his eyes:

"This is really exaggerated."

There is no harm without comparison.

During the same period, the pure literature journal "Harvest" written by literary master Jia Pingwa, in which he wrote a novella "Lao Sheng" to celebrate the May Fourth Youth Day, was released in two issues. The final sales result was -

One million, six hundred and fifty thousand copies!

However, as a pure literary journal, this is already a good result.

But
This also depends on who you compare with!
With the terrifying sales of 965 copies in the two issues of Jiang Hai, the final sales volume of Harvest was
It is so pale and powerless?

Jiang Hai explodes and kills Jia Pingwa!
This has become a fact that cannot be ignored.
Look at the sales achievements of paper journals achieved by Jiang Hai in the post-media era.

In the publishing house, many editors suddenly sighed inwardly:

"I thought that since we were all famous writers, the gap between us wouldn't be that big. Who would have thought that just a small meeting would create such a huge gap between us?"

Even so, they are all famous figures in the literary world.

However, between these celebrities and celebrities.
There is also a contrast!

Jia Pingwa's position in the contemporary literary world is naturally unshakable. If we count the contemporary veteran writers, he is definitely one of the top ones.

However, it is this veteran writer who stands tall in the contemporary Chinese literary world who, in front of Jiang Hai
So vulnerable?
In the past, when people mentioned Jiang Hai, they would often give him the title of "China's No. 1 Young Writer".

But nowadays, maybe it would be more appropriate to remove the word "youth" from the title?
Looking at the current literary world, this river and sea——

He is the number one figure in contemporary Chinese literature!
"When he was in Europe, Mr. Jiang Hai had overwhelmed the entire European and American literary world with his own strength. His book The Old Man and the Sea directly overwhelmed a group of French writers." As if extremely proud, the editor of Group 10 and his colleagues discussed, "Now that he has returned to China, isn't he more comfortable?"

"As the saying goes, the first bird to stick its head out gets shot. Haven't you seen Contemporary and October? When they saw that Huacheng had invited Jiang Hai, they took the initiative to postpone the release of their books, trying their best to avoid competing with us."

"Harvest is so stubborn that it chooses to publish on the same day as us? And then it starts to be crushed by Fangwei"

At this point, the editor who was speaking showed a classic expression of [Victory Parade.jpg]:

"Don't even mention Jia Pingwa, just add Liu Zhenyun and Su Tong together."

"None of the three of them can possibly make it across the river or sea, right?"

Readers do not know whether Jiang Hai alone can match Jia, Liu and Su.

But now we can be sure that -

Jiang Hai explodes and kills Jia Pingwa!
He stepped on Lao Jia to get to the top!

A young man in his early twenties pressed down a 70-year-old man so hard that he couldn't lift his head.
One can only sigh that the young are truly formidable!
In the center of the conference room.

President Zhang Chengye announced in front of all the editors:

"From today on, Taozi is the editor-in-chief of our Huacheng Publishing House."

A college student who just graduated from school and had just entered the workplace for only two months was directly promoted from an intern editor to a full-time editor. What a fast promotion!
It’s already fast enough!
But now, this position is not even warm enough for me.
She was actually promoted directly to editor-in-chief?
"Damn it, even the post-2000s generation can't be so aggressive in cleaning up the workplace."

Obviously, Taozi was unaware of the promotion.

When the president Zhang Chengye announced that she would become the editor-in-chief of the publishing house, she subconsciously waved her hand:
"No, it's not good, huh, president?"

"I'm new here, I'm afraid I don't have much knowledge."

Waving your hand doesn't mean rejection, but it means there's no need to say anything.

Before she could finish her words, President Zhang Chengye smiled and said:
"Don't be modest. From the day you entered the publishing house, I knew you could do it.
Although she was smiling awkwardly, Taozi was rolling her eyes inwardly:
"I never saw you when I first joined the publishing house."

You want to ask what abilities this peach has?
Ability, I haven't seen it yet, but.
Jiang Hai is tied to her!

Taking away Taozi is like taking away Jiang Hai, and taking away Jiang Hai is like taking away a top writer in the literary world. This loss is...
Huacheng Publishing House can’t afford it!
In terms of the influence of writers, the current Chinese literary world can be roughly divided into two categories:

The first gear is Jianghai.

The other one is other writers.

In the writers' circle——

Jiang Hai is unique!

No rivers or seas
How did Huacheng achieve sales of 9 million copies in just two issues, setting a new historical record?
No rivers or seas
How could Huacheng Publishing House, as a purely literary journal, create such a miracle that cannot be replicated in literary history?
The sales volume of top journals such as Harvest is nearly nine times higher than that of other journals, and it is very high.
No one dares to even think about it!
But now, because of the appearance of Jiang Hai
They actually did it?
And, it is so easy?
Now that the final chapter of "To Live" is about to be released, Zhang Chengye has heard a lot of rumors circulating outside. More than one senior executive of a publishing house wants to poach Taozi to get her resources about Jiang Hai behind the scenes. As the president of Huacheng Publishing House.
How could Zhang Chengye just sit there and wait for death?

“It doesn’t matter where a hero comes from, and it doesn’t matter how fast he gets promoted.” As if to appease people, Zhang Chengye looked around at the other editors and said, “If you can achieve the same level as Taozi, and bring your own resources, you can sign writers like Jiang Hai to the publishing house.”

"Then it's not impossible for me to give you a promotion and a raise."

It's easy to say, but good performance can lead to promotion, and good results can lead to salary increase.

But how many Jiang Hais are there in the writer circle?
The last writer who was still alive and could stir up such a stir in the writer circle was named Zhou.
His full name is Zhou Shuren.

You want me to sign another Jiang Hai?
Doesn't this allow me to find another Lu Xun in today's literary circle?
"The thing I hate most in my life is pancakes." Even though everyone was extremely jealous, they could only watch Taozi's rocket-like promotion. "What else can we do? After all, there's Jiang Hai standing behind her."

“Then I can only congratulate you.”

Blah blah blah.
Feeling the applause and congratulations from the crowd.

At this moment, Taozi felt that all this was so unreal.

I've heard from my cousin Yang Shuman that it's hard to get by in the workplace, so why is it that I'm...
Is it so easy?
Is it so easy?
Could this be the legendary easy mode in the workplace?

Feeling the thunderous applause from the crowd.

At this moment, Taozi sighed from the bottom of her heart:
"It's nice to lean against a big tree to enjoy the shade."

“This is so cool.”

The camera switches to Xingtian Chinese website.

Today's Yang Shuman is no longer the inexperienced online writing editor who was manipulated and bullied at will.

After two years of struggle and tempering.

She has already established herself firmly on Xingtian Chinese website, growing from a new editor on the verge of being laid off to a capable editor-in-chief who can stand on her own.

I learned that my little fan girl Taozi became an editor like me after graduating from Chengxi Academy of Drama.

However, I am in the field of online literature.
Taozi is in the field of physical publishing.

Even though the industry segments are different, they all lead to the same goal.
We are all editors.

Xingtian Chinese website.

The editor-in-chief's office is full of fashion. Just as Yang Shuman wanted to give some advice to her cousin Taozi, who had just entered the workplace, as a person with experience:
[When you first enter the workplace, you must abandon your student mentality. Don’t listen too much to your leaders, but don’t disobey them either. You must]

Unexpectedly, she hadn't even finished typing her words of advice.

Taozi sent a message to share her joy:

[Sister Shuman, I've been promoted to editor-in-chief]

Editor-in-chief?!?!

Looking at these two familiar words, the mature and elegant Yang Shuman suddenly flashed a look of astonishment on her face:

"You've only been in the publishing house for two weeks, and you've been promoted directly to editor-in-chief?!?!"

It took me two years to move from editor-in-charge to editor-in-chief.

You reached the same height as me.
It only took two weeks???
As if she couldn't believe it at all, her slender fingers began to jump rapidly on the phone screen:
【? 】

【Are you OK? 】

【What nonsense are you talking about】

"Huacheng" published two issues in a row within a week, which aroused great discussion and response in the literary world.

Analyzing from the perspective of industry insiders:

The author uses an extremely indifferent narrative style to objectively and calmly narrate the sufferings of the world. Jiang Hai embeds the recurring death incidents in the trivial daily life, amplifying the breadth and depth of the "suffering", making the small and weak characters face the huge "suffering" with a huge power contrast, thus generating a strong sense of destiny; during this period, it also magnifies the shining spiritual power of the characters, making the whole work full of artistic tension.
This is a rare avant-garde documentary literary work!

Even though the industry insiders have explained it clearly, if we analyze it from the reader's perspective -

"This Fugui is so fucking miserable"

At this moment, Xinhua Bookstore is packed with people.

The front of the bookstore was crowded with students and citizens who were rushing to buy books.

You want to ask why these people gathered in the bookstore?
What are they waiting for, looking so anxious?
The bookstore owner can only answer you like this:
“To Live is now in the store.”

Accompanied by the lifelong cry of the bookstore owner.

A boy who looked like a student and was wearing a scarf grabbed a copy of Huacheng from the shelf, threw the money he had prepared long ago onto the stage, and then turned around and walked away in a rather cool manner:
"Give me one!"

Bookstore reading room.

In the reading room of hundreds of square meters, every seat is filled with people. If you observe carefully for a while, you will find that in the hands of these readers,
Eight out of ten readers are holding Jiang Hai's "To Live" and savoring it carefully?
I couldn't wait to open Huacheng and found the professional page with the serial "To Live":
“Finally arrived at the store”

I don’t know how long it took.

A young girl who looked like a female student, holding "To Live" in her hands, the expression on her face changed from the beginning to -

(≧≦) (happy)
Gradually it began to transform into:

(╯_╰) (Pain)
And finally:

(╥﹏╥) (crying bitterly)
She was in tears and couldn't control herself from wailing in the bookstore:
"My Fugui, why are you so miserable?"

Did the warm and healing ending that everyone imagined happen?
does not exist at all!
Jiang Hai used concise and extremely cold writing to depict the tragic life of the protagonist Fugui:
[After the whole family left, the old and frail Fugui and his grandson Kugen, who was still in his cradle, lived a hard life in this cruel society. Knowing how difficult it was for Fugui, Kugen was able to help with the housework when he was just over five years old. He was a very sensible child. Because of the lack of food and clothing at that time, Fugui cooked the beans he earned from farming and gave them to Kugen as food. However, he never thought that Kugen would choke to death after swallowing the beans whole.]

[Fugui returned home and found his grandson's body. Two lines of tears flowed down his face uncontrollably. From then on, there was no longer any of his relatives in the world.]

Why does a person——

How could he live such a miserable life?

Why does a person——

How could he live in such pain?

Ordinary people, when faced with the death of a loved one in front of them, are heartbroken just by the separation of life and death.

But such pain
Fugui experienced this seven times!
Seven times!!!!
"Teacher Jiang Hai, what on earth are you going to do!!!"

The entire bookstore.

Suddenly it was filled with wails of incomparable pain.

On the one hand, they are venting their pain.

On the other hand, they are also responsible for Jiang Hai
Why did you write Fugui so miserably?
Why? ? ? ?

"This ending could have been avoided." As if immersed in this grief, unable to extricate herself, the student-like female youth immediately began to complain, "Choked to death while eating beans? What is this? What kind of outrageous excuse is this???"

"Even Final Destination didn't dare act like this. Huang Yiyu (director of Final Destination) called it outrageous after watching it."

"Knife man, that's not how you use a knife!!!"

Here, the condemnation of Jiang Hai has just ended.

Over there, a sad and angry voice suddenly sounded:

"Jiang Hai, give me back my bitter roots!!!"

Anyone can see that this ending
It's just a knife for the sake of a knife!

It doesn’t matter whether Kugen died from eating beans or stones!

The important thing is
Kugen must die!
Only in this way can the tragic life of wealth and honor be highlighted!

If the story ended with Fugui and his grandson Kugen dying of illness together, perhaps everyone would not feel so sad?
But rather.
Is Fugui still alive?

He is still alive???

"You let a man who witnessed the death of his father, mother, wife, daughter, son, son-in-law, and grandson live alone in this world."

“Isn’t this cruel?”

"A kind of great cruelty???"

In this world, is there anything more painful than seeing your siblings and loved ones dying one after another in front of you, but deceiving yourself that there is nothing you can do about it, is there anything more desperate and painful than that?

Fugui, a prodigal son who returns home.

Fugui, a kind person.

Fugui, an honest man.

Why should he endure such grief and pain???
Inside the bookstore, a heart-wrenching cry suddenly resounded throughout the room:

“I don’t understand!!!”

People with poor empathy.

At this moment, the scene is devastated and tears are streaming down my face with pain.

People with strong empathy, who think of themselves as the protagonist Fugui, are completely immersed in the story.
I just want to kill someone!!!

Why create such a displaced protagonist?

Why do we need to describe a person who, despite having tried his best, still cannot live a good life?
Could it be that the author wants to highlight the main point?
Is this world going to end with death?
Could it be that the author wants to tell the readers the conclusion
Is this world destined to end in tragedy?

Inside the bookstore, readers were wailing.

He was extremely anxious because he couldn't find Jiang Hai's address.

Inside Peking University, students have organized a massive protest.

Some students directly held up blood-red banners, and as if overwhelmed by grief and anger, they rushed towards the shore of Weiming Lake in groups:
"Jiang Hai, today you——"

“We must be given an explanation!!!”

(End of this chapter)