Literary Master 1983

Chapter 185 The Living King of Hell

Readers have been complaining that Wen Ruian was "weird and weird" this time, and he actually wrote a martial art that was like the Six Meridians Divine Sword, with no foreshadowing at all.

This doesn't make sense.

Wen Ruian explained his ending in the Oriental Daily: "The serialized version is different from the single volume. After the single volume of Against the Cold Water is published, I will definitely make some changes to connect the whole story."

"I now think that Qi Shaoshang should not be such a fussy person. A great hero should have the awareness of caring about the world... He should not retire from the world at any time!"

"Of course you have to ask me, who inspired me?"

"I can honestly tell you that I was inspired by the mainland writer Yu Qie. I learned about Mr. Yu's accurate shooting skills on a cruise ship traveling between Malaysia and Hong Kong... I was so eager to write this paragraph."

Damn, it turns out that wasn’t the Six Meridians Divine Sword, but the Type 64 Pistol!

Wenshi Ruian, what the hell are you writing?

Although readers criticized this plot, the more they criticized, the more they bought Ming Pao. After Cha Liangyong stopped writing, Ming Pao rarely sold hundreds of thousands of copies. But this issue, due to many factors, sold nearly half a million copies.

"Against the Cold Current" became the most popular martial arts novel in Hong Kong in recent years. For a time, people in the streets and alleys of Hong Kong were talking about "Qi Shaoshang's final outcome" or Zha Liangyong's apology in the newspaper.

After reading it, the dock workers said, "Wen Ruian has made Qi Shaoshang into a living devil! His descendants will all rebel! There will be no end to it!"

The short mule who was mixed up in black also had a big dream: In the future, we should set up a gang in Xin'an Yi, called "Lianyun Village", and I will be the leader!
While reading the story, the middle and lower class sirs in Hong Kong imagined themselves becoming "Qi Shaoshang" in the future, carrying the Union Jack and opposing the Union Jack.

The real estate tycoon registered the words "天下布武" as a trademark and planned to name his new real estate project "新连云寨".

Several universities in Hong Kong have set up temporary "Martial Arts Novel Research Society" to discuss whether Qi Shaoshang should bow to imperial power?
One side held an opinion: "Qi Shaoshang is using the rules of the underworld to fight against the bureaucratic system! This is totally unworkable..."

Then, he was denounced as a rationalist like Cha Liangyong and stepped down in disgrace.

The other side held the opinion: "Qi Shaoshang is the representative of the rule of law spirit in Hong Kong, that is, he is a symbol of self-unity and governance among the people. In this way, the white government has become the imperial court, while Lianyunzhai represents the interests of the lowest level of Hong Kong people!"

The novel "Against the Cold Current" has increasingly become a political satire. Just like those fan fiction martial arts novels popular in Thailand, it has been banned by the Malay government. Despite this, Chinese people have tried every possible means to find it and read it.

In order to circulate it, they changed the name of "Against the Cold" to "Kowloon Walled City", or changed "Qi Shaoshang" to "Qi Lianyun" and so on... to evade supervision. Many people accidentally found out more than ten years later that what they had watched was actually a pirated copy out of necessity!

It turns out that the hero of the martial arts novel is actually based on a real person!

After writing such a famous satirical novel, Wen Ruian naturally could never return to Malaysia for the rest of his life, and he decided to settle in Hong Kong.

On a certain set, Fang Shilong (Big Nose Dragon), the action actor and director of the movie "Police Story", finished watching the full text of "Against the Cold Current" early in the morning.

He couldn't help but yell, "In future films, we should beat up foreigners!"

As we all know, TVB is a property of Shaw Brothers, while the series of films shot by Fang Shilong were all produced by Golden Harvest. The boss of Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers are sworn enemies, and the two sides have been fighting fiercely for more than a decade.

Therefore, Fang Shilong would not take the initiative to watch the TVB program "Happy Tonight" on the set, but would read the "Ming Pao" newspaper.

When his senior brother Hong Jinbao heard Fang Shilong's shouting, he said helplessly: "Hey! What are you crazy about?" "Do you know Yu Qie?"

"Is there still anyone in Hong Kong who doesn't know Yu Qie? I even found and read his novel 'The Way Out'. Isn't Qi Shaoshang Yu Qie?"

Fang Shilong nodded heavily: "Yu Qie is a powerful person! He was the one who was on the NHK broadcast in Japan last time, did you know that?"

"I don't know about that..."

Fang Shilong briefly explained his thoughts:

In his view, Hong Kong people's dissatisfaction with the white government has reached a clear point of explosion.

Previously, no one supported them, so they just dispersed when the wind blew away. But now it is different.

Therefore, future movies can cater to this trend of Hong Kong people and make local movies... In simple terms, it means picking up foreign girls and beating up white men.

"I'm going to invite a foreign actor to play the villain in the movie and give him a good beating! Preferably a British actor. If the audience sees this, they'll definitely feel great!"

Hong Jinbao asked back: "Are you going to use the same old trick again?"

"As long as the box office sells well!"

Hong Jinbao immediately stopped refutation.

After the release of Fang Shilong's film "Project A", it grossed 20 million at the box office. Inspired by Yu Qie's speech in Japan, he set the traitor in the film as a British police officer. The plot of this movie is that the Hong Kong British government is crying "stop thief", which is extremely hypocritical.

The reason why the villain Luo Sanpao wanted to rob a British ship was because he had been bullied by the British government before and his family was broken up.

The Chinese were thus driven to kill each other, and the only "fair and impartial" thing about the British Hong Kong government was this, which is undoubtedly the deeper underlying theme of the movie "Project A".

The high box office success of "Project A" shows that Hong Kong people do not mind such a plot setting, and everyone has already seen through the British Hong Kong government's tricks.

Hong Jinbao said at this time: "You should read Yu Qie's novels again, especially his "The Way Out", which describes in detail how foreigners play tricks on us Chinese... I know you don't want to read these, but you should read them sometimes, they are incomparable to martial arts novels!"

"I believe you once!"

While Fang Shilong was sending messages to interview for the male villain, he actually took the time to read Yu Qie's novel. Unfortunately, he was really a rough man and couldn't read traditional literature.

He was born in a poor family, had no systematic education, and even worked as a thief when he was young. He started to hang out in society when he was fifteen or sixteen. Although he became famous by making kung fu movies, he was never an audience for traditional literature.

After watching for a whole morning, Fang Shilong felt tired: "When will Mr. Yu leave Hong Kong? Why not go visit him directly and ask him what he thinks. I'll give him a Rolex, okay?"

"Mr. Yu, would you care about a Rolex? You are such a nouveau riche!"

Fang Shilong sent an assistant to get information. At this time, a British actor came to interview for the villain role. Fang Shilong was overjoyed and said, "Come and fight with me!"

(End of this chapter)