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

Chapter 324 Greatness needs no words! A magnificent masterpiece that is included in textbooks! Living itself is meaningless! 4k
Peking University, on the banks of Weiming Lake.

Like a tide, students gathered frantically towards the forest hut where Jiang Hai was practicing.

For the students who felt the same way, Kugen’s death was the last straw that broke the camel’s back for Fugui.

Even though Fugui was once young and frivolous, he had already reformed in the second half of his life.
It seems that there is no need to accept this extremely painful and tragic ending?

“I can’t accept it”

For readers with less empathy.

Even though, it is impossible to empathize with Fugui, after all, there is no real sense of empathy in this world.

However, even from the perspective of an outsider
Is Fugui also suffering so much?
He was in so much pain that it was hard to believe. How could someone in this world be in such a situation?
Or out of sympathy.

Or out of doubt.

Or in anger.

At this moment, the banks of Weiming Lake were filled with people.

If you say that Jiang Hai is in Chenghai Drama Academy, then maybe there is really nothing we can do about him?
However, if someone is in school right now, and doesn't ask for advice from him at this good opportunity,
How can I deserve such a God-given opportunity?
It was obvious that everyone was very excited. They started shouting from the direction of the cabin:
"Jiang Hai, come out!"

"Jiang Hai, we need an explanation!"

"Teacher Jiang Hai, why do you write like this?"

"I don't understand (Fenghua accent), why did you create such an ending, Mr. Jiang Hai?"

It’s indeed a grand scene.

But you want to ask whether Jiang Hai had expected this?

In fact, I had expected it in my heart.
Completely different from the students who were crying and wailing, Jiang Hai at this moment looked so calm and composed.

Looking at the menacing crowd.

Jiang Hai poured a pot of tea on the stone table beside the Unnamed Lake. He picked up the teacup and took a sip:
"Is something wrong?"

The president of the Peking University Student Union, a gentle-looking young man, immediately stood up and criticized Jiang Hai:

"Teacher Jiang Hai, why do you write like this?"

The author and the reader's considerations are actually from two completely different perspectives.

For readers, they may prefer to read some warm and healing stories or endings, which are more heartwarming.

But for the author, compared to the warmth and healing
What’s more important is to make the characters you write memorable to readers!
If "To Live" has a warm, healing and family-friendly ending, then soon after reading this book, it will become forgotten by the public like other books.

But if "To Live" ends in tragedy
Only such a work can become a timeless classic.

Naturally, I know what kind of answers these passionate students are looking for.

Facing their questions, Jiang Hai put down the teacup in his hand and uttered a philosophical statement:
“People live for the sake of living itself, not for anything other than living.”

Under Jiang Hai's narration, the intention of the ending of the book "To Live" was told.
Fugui often said: "It is better to be a normal person. Fighting for this and that will only cost you your life. People like me are getting more and more useless, but I have a long life. People I know are dying one after another, but one thing is that I am still alive."

Life is hard, but it’s meaningful to be alive.

Even though Fugui buried his loved ones one after another, and even though he had experienced too much hardship and pain in his life, he still had no complaints about life. He was like a brave fighter. Even though life knocked him down again and again, he never gave up and struggled to stand up from the ground again and again.
Through Jiang Hai's passionate narration.

Many students began to think and gain some insights.

"He was knocked down by life again and again, but he stood up again and again without fear." Through Jiang Hai's narration, a smart female student wearing gold-rimmed glasses seemed to have thought of something, "Why do I feel that Fugui is a bit like the thin but courageous old man in "The Old Man and the Sea"? "

The old man fought bravely with the sharks in the turbulent sea.

Isn't Fugui also constantly broken, reassembled, and then standing up amid the ravages of life?

A word to awaken the dreamer.

How could someone who could be admitted to Peking University be an ordinary person?
Immediately, one student after another, through their own understanding, began to understand Jiang Hai's good intentions in writing the ending like this:
"In essence, To Live is indeed a documentary literature describing suffering, but Mr. Jiang Hai wants to use Fugui's suffering to show readers a warrior who is constantly knocked down in life and dares to stick to himself in the darkness even though he is in darkness."

As soon as the words were spoken, some students began to be enlightened.

As if he had suddenly been enlightened, his eyes were filled with respect as he looked at Jiang Hai:
“To live is full of power in our Chinese language. Its power does not come from shouting or attacking, but from endurance. To endure the responsibilities that life gives us, to endure the happiness and suffering, boredom and mediocrity that reality gives us.”

Fugui can be said to be the old man in "The Old Man and the Sea".

But there is an essential difference between him and the old man.

The old man takes the initiative to meet challenges and blossoms in the rough sea.

Fugui is the one who passively endures things. A hemp rope is cut only at the thinnest part, and misfortunes only strike the unfortunate. Even though he doesn't want to suffer, the hardships in life still come to him one after another, leaving him no room to breathe.

Even so, the choices they made when faced with suffering were fundamentally different.

but!

They both have one thing in common...

Whether facing life or the sea, they have never been defeated!
"Understood!"

"I see!!"

“I understand everything!!!”

A young man, with tears still lingering in the corners of his eyes, seemed to have been completely enlightened. He spoke out what he had realized in public:
"The will to live is the only thing in Fugui that cannot be taken away!"

"The reason why Mr. Jiang Hai created such an ending"

"It is because all the disasters that have occurred in China over the past 60 years have happened to Fugui and his family. Teacher Jiang Hai wants to use the artistic expression of the continuous death of relatives to highlight the preciousness and inalienability of the will to live!"

As if he had completely understood, he shouted with a trembling voice:

“Whether it’s life or study, no matter what difficulties we encounter, we must grit our teeth and get through it like Fugui! Because in this world, nothing is more important than being alive. Only by living can we see hope.”

As soon as the words fell, another elegant young man shouted towards Jiang Hai:

"Teacher Jiang Hai!"

This sudden shout directly caused all the students' attention to converge on Jiang Hai:
"You want to encourage us by creating a tragic character like Fugui, telling us not to lose hope in life at any time!"

"Living in this world, Fugui suffered such inhuman suffering, but he was able to live on in this world with strength? As ordinary people living in this world, how can we not live on in this world with strength and courage when we encounter setbacks?"

Two lines of hot tears flowed down my cheeks uncontrollably.

"Living itself has no meaning, what is meaningful is living!"

"Is this the truth you want to tell us by writing this tragic ending?"

For a moment, all kinds of eyes began to rush towards the direction of Jianghai.

Or shocked.

Or enlightenment.

Or an epiphany.

Feeling the various gazes of the crowd.

While Jiang Hai remained silent, he was as shocked as the students:
"I was originally"

"Is that still what it means?!?!"

In fact, Jiang Hai didn't want to say so much at the beginning. After throwing out the famous saying in the book [People live for the sake of living itself, not for anything other than living], Jiang Hai was about to continue: "You can read it if you want, or forget it if you don't want to."

Who would have known that I had just said a famous classic quote and didn't even give him a chance to express it.

These students in front of me
Just start imagining things like crazy?
Directly from the beginning, middle, to the end of the book, he was able to come up with a plot framework that he had never thought of?
Although, I have never thought deeply about these things.

but
I have to say, these students said.
He does make a lot of sense?

"You are indeed top students of Peking University." Jiang Hai applauded from the bottom of his heart as he looked at the men and women who appeared before him, not hiding the admiration in his eyes at all. "I can only say that you are very talented. I don't even need to explain in detail. You can understand this with just a little guidance?"

"I have to admit, you—"

"He is indeed very smart and insightful."

Isn’t it said that what Chinese people love to do most in their lives is reading comprehension?
When I went to school, I began to speculate on the meaning of the ancient poems written by poets thousands of years ago.

At work, I began to try to figure out what the micro-expressions of my boss and leader meant.

The boss smiled and praised: "You are really capable."

The boss said gloomily: "You are really capable~"

Even so, these two sentences are exactly the same in terms of word formation.
but!

It seems to have a different meaning?
After Jiang Hai's confirmation, he didn't even need to explain too much.

These students convinced themselves.

"As expected of Teacher Jiang Hai!"

"Through the misery and sadness of Fugui's life, the main theme of the whole article is highlighted, and the theme of living is sublimated. People live for the sake of living itself, not for anything other than living."

“So this is why the book is named To Live.”

Obviously, Jiang Hai was very satisfied with the understanding of these top students:

"Ruzi is teachable."

Even though we are all young people in our twenties, why?
Can Jiang Hai write such a compassionate classic work like "To Live"?

Even though everyone has similar academic qualifications, and even when it comes to college entrance examination scores, Jiang Hai is only a fraction of one of them who can be picked at random.
but!

Why can Jiang Hai once again reproduce such a magnificent epic work like "The Old Man and the Sea"?

"too"

“It’s shocking!”

At this moment, Liu Shilei, the president of Peking University Literature Society, looked at Jiang Hai with extremely shocked eyes. She simply couldn't believe that "The Old Man and the Sea", a masterpiece of will and courage, and "To Live", a masterpiece of suffering and tragedy, these two magnificent masterpieces that are enough to be recorded in the history of world literature.
They actually came from the same person?
"No wonder the always arrogant teacher Yan Ruyu would be so convinced by a young man who is younger than herself?"

"To have such a terrifying talent and amazing achievements in literature, such achievements"

“I really have to admit it!”

At this moment, in the distance, Yan Ruyu was wearing a simple cheongsam, showing the style of a Jiangnan woman.

Looking at Jiang Hai surrounded by the crowd.

She bit her teeth lightly, and her beautiful eyes showed a complex expression:

"Could it be that there is a gap between us?"

“Is it really that big?”

Yan Ruyu, who is known as the "Mandarin Duck and Butterfly" literary school in the contemporary literary world and is the talented successor to Eileen Chang, looks friendly on the outside, but she is actually a very proud woman in her heart.

She has her own pride!

Before Jiang Hai wrote "The Old Man and the Sea", she always thought that she could catch up with Jiang Hai through her own efforts.

Who would have thought that when The Old Man and the Sea came out.
She knew that no matter how hard she tried, it would be difficult to surpass him?

I originally thought that "The Old Man and the Sea" was Jiang Hai's peak work.

But who would have thought
He actually came up with another short story called "To Live" which is also a masterpiece?
Yan Ruyu held a copy of "To Live" in her arms, and her slender white fingers kept stroking the book.

Don't know why.

At this moment, Yan Ruyu, who had always been proud, actually felt a deep sense of frustration?

The path of literature is her lifelong pursuit. Yan Ruyu's lifelong wish is to write a masterpiece that can be left in the history of Chinese literature and even in the history of world literature for future generations to admire.

It has to be said that Yan Ruyu has this talent and has made countless efforts for it.

But now
My lifelong pursuit was accomplished so easily by Jiang Hai?
This inevitably made Yan Ruyu begin to doubt herself:
"Beyond the rivers and seas?"

"Is this really possible?"

Don't worry about whether this possibility exists or not.

Don’t worry about how unconvinced these aspiring young people present are.

Everything that needs to be explained has been explained.

Standing among the crowd, I don't want to say anything more.

Unnamed Lakeside.

Jiang Hai turned around and returned to his cabin in the woods:
"I have said everything I need to say. If there is nothing else, you can go back first."

In the next week.

The magazine "Huacheng", which serialized "To Live", began to spread across the country at a speed as fast as lightning, like a plague.

All major bookstores, newspapers, and book trading markets are operating in a manner that is almost wholesale.

He began to make almost crazy reservations with Huacheng Publishing House and its printing houses:
"Xinhua Bookstore in YX City, Yunnan Province pre-ordered 700,000 copies of Huacheng, which will be sold daily. The book must be published within 12 hours."

"The Sisyphus Bookstore in Fog City pre-ordered 600,000 copies of Flower City. This was an order from two days ago. Why hasn't it been processed yet?"

"Why haven't the orders from Guizhou Sanxian Bookstore, Jiangsu Dazhong Bookstore, and Peking Friendship Bookstore been processed yet? A total of 1.7 million orders, start processing now."

With the massive official media publicity, "To Live" began to enter the field of vision of the general public.

In the media, not only the central media took the lead in giving high praise to Jiang Hai's new work:

【From the pain of life, we can see the tenacity of life and understand the meaning of living. 】

[The pinnacle of pioneering documentary writing! Come and see the unique works brought to you by Jiang Hai, the first person in the contemporary youth literary world.]

Even "To Live", a realistic book about the pain and suffering of adults, was authorized by the Ministry of Education.
They have even started to enter primary school classrooms?

Many elementary schools, junior high schools, and even high schools have begun to introduce Jiang Hai's "To Live" as one of the "100 Must-Read Books for Teenagers". In particular, Chinese teachers in various colleges and universities are particularly fond of Jiang Hai's "To Live".

in class.

The Chinese teacher was appreciating Jiang Hai's literary work, which is known as the pinnacle of suffering literature, to these young people in the motherland who were eager to learn:
"Jiang Hai's writing grows out of the ground, and it exudes a bitter earthy smell."

"I believe that everyone who has run barefoot on the loess land can feel a wild yet strong vitality from Teacher Jiang Hai's writings."

(End of this chapter)