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

Chapter 328: Seoul Spring Reappears! Even the author himself can't do reading comprehension? Do I still mean this?

It is hard to believe that a Chinese writer who is still alive is not only selected by Time Magazine as one of the top ten writers who have influenced the development of Asian literature, but also has his interview portraits played on the LED screen in Times Square, New York. Even his works
It was also selected into the reading comprehension test questions for the college entrance examination that year?

June 7th.

Peking, at the gate of Tsinghua High School.

"Ding-ling-ling-ling-ling--"

As the ending bell rang.

After finishing the Chinese language test in the morning, the college entrance examination candidates filed out towards the school gate.

Outside the school gate, as usual, there were parents picking up their children, reporters interviewing, and a large crowd of people.

The reporter from CCTV stopped a candidate from the crowd and started the interview as usual:
"How was your performance today, classmate?"

"How did the exam go?"

It is different from the candidates in previous years who were full of scholarly spirit and had great potential.

Generally speaking, whenever this happens, there will always be a few standouts. Whenever asked about "how did you do in the exam?", they will say in an extremely confident tone in front of the camera:

"With a test of this level, you want me to move bricks at a construction site?"

"Don't even think about it!"

I thought that this year, there would still be a few eye-catching people to liven up the atmosphere.

Unexpectedly, all the students who finished the exam and came out of the examination room.
Their expressions were unexpectedly depressed?

The student being interviewed was a pretty girl. When the reporter asked her "How did you perform in the Chinese test today?"

It was as if his emotions were completely out of control.

Two lines of tears flowed uncontrollably down her cheeks.

She was seen with a sad face, crying and sobbing as she answered in front of the camera:

"The reading comprehension of Teacher Jiang Hai's "To Live" is really, really too difficult, wuwuwuwuwuwu"

According to convention, in actual college entrance examination every year, there is only one subject that everyone pays most attention to:

Chinese!

To be precise, they are Chinese reading comprehension and college entrance examination essay questions.

You may ask why this happens?
Let us analyze it briefly.
Leaving aside the comprehensive liberal arts and science, there are only three main subjects in the college entrance examination:

Chinese, mathematics, and English.

First of all, for the vast majority of people who have graduated, when it comes to mathematics, the main focus is on three words:

can't read!
Would you ask a passerby who has graduated for many years to re-do the college entrance examination math problems, or try to understand the analysis of the college entrance examination math problems?
Isn't this pure fantasy?
Isn't this just a eunuch visiting a brothel, with the main theme being helplessness?
Secondly, regarding the college entrance examination English, most of the passers-by nowadays have an English level that remains at:
“Nod your head for yes and shake your head for no. Come when you come and go when you leave. Say hello, hello, hello, hahaha.”

With the level of primary school students who can’t even distinguish between subject, predicate and object, how can you expect them to understand the college entrance examination English?
This is indeed too bizarre.

It is precisely because students cannot understand mathematics and cannot learn English that the Chinese language in the college entrance examination becomes a hot topic among the nation every year.

Obviously, the difficulty of this year's college entrance examination Chinese test questions was a bit beyond the standard.

Not only the girls being interviewed covered their faces and cried.

Outside the examination room, many candidates burst into tears as soon as they left the examination room:
"If you don't work hard for the college entrance examination, you can be brothers at the construction site"

The topic of the Chinese composition in this year's college entrance examination is a narrative about suffering. Its general content and viewpoint is to take suffering as the central argument, make a summary of the past era, look forward to future life, and enumerate the impact of suffering on people of different generations.

The actual essay topic is not difficult for the candidates.

For most candidates, as long as they do not deviate from the topic, as long as the word count is more than 800 words, the total score of 60 points should be around 45 points, right?
The composition topic is not difficult for the candidates.

The Chinese reading comprehension test was so difficult that the candidates who had to leave the examination room are still crying.

For this reading comprehension, the Education Bureau quoted the 1,500-word opening of the original text of "To Live" written by Jiang Hai, starting from the moment "I" met "Fugui" and the "old yellow cow" he led, until the two of them sat on the edge of the field and "I" began to listen to "Fugui" telling stories about the past.
Is this a normal beginning?
Of course, it's normal.

There is nothing unusual about this beginning.

What makes the candidates collapse and even cry is the question set by the teacher based on this short essay.

One:

[What are the similarities between the image of the old man and the cow in the novel? Please make a brief summary based on the text. (6 points)]

This question is quite standard and belongs to the common reading comprehension question type.

You say he is difficult?

That’s not the case!

As long as we grasp the relationship between the "old man" and the "old cow", we can easily find the answer -

"First, Fugui and Lao Niu are both old. What they have in common is that they are old and advanced in years."

"Second, Fugui and Laoniu have experienced the vicissitudes of life and have tasted the pain and hardship of living;"

“Third, Fugui and Laoniu share a common trait, which is the resilience of life.”

As long as we grasp the common point between Fugui and Niu, "old", and expand on it, these 6 points will not be difficult to get.

What makes the candidates collapse is the follow-up of this reading comprehension
[Please analyze the expression techniques and effects of the two underlined sentences in the text. (6 points)]

[(1) I led it to the waterside to eat grass, just like I was leading a child. (3 points)]

[(2) Both Fugui’s feet were covered in mud, and they swayed slightly as they walked. (3 points)]

For the first question, you are going to ask why the author wrote "Fugui" pulling "Lao Niu" to the river to eat grass? What is the meaning of this?

Also, why is the old cow compared to a child?
What emotion does the author want to highlight by using personification to compare like this?
Beijing Normal University, Yingdong Teaching Building.

As the original author of "To Live", Jiang Hai is accepting a special interview on the college entrance examination from a CCTV reporter.

After learning that his literary work "To Live" was selected into the college entrance examination reading comprehension test, the CCTV reporter wanted to interview the author about his understanding of the original text of "To Live". Jiang Hai immediately expressed his confidence:

"No problem, isn't this a no-brainer?"

How can you not know the meaning of something you wrote?
At the beginning, Jiang Hai was still in an extremely confident state.

However, after reading the question, Jiang Hai's brows suddenly began to tighten from being relaxed:

"Oh my god."

You want to ask why Fugui took the old cow to the river to graze?
What is the author’s deep meaning behind writing this?
Jiang Hai could only answer like this:
“I really didn’t think so much about it at the time.”

"If a cow is thirsty, doesn't it have to drink water?"

"If the cow is hungry, doesn't it have to eat grass?"

"There is water and grass by the river, so it's just a simple matter of letting Fugui go to the waterside to feed the old cow. What's the deep meaning of this?"

After thinking it over again and again, Jiang Hai still couldn't figure out what the deeper meaning of what he wrote was.

About five minutes later.

Jiang Hai chose to give up directly:

"next question."

Jiang Hai lowered his head and looked at the contents of the test paper:

[(2) Both Fugui’s feet are covered in mud, and they sway slightly as they walk. What does the mud on Fugui’s feet represent? What thoughts and feelings does it convey?]

Looking at the question, Jiang Hai became even more confused:

"Oh my god."

"Teacher Jiang Hai!" Seeing Jiang Hai's puzzled look, the host Xiao Sa tried to analyze the pain point of the article, "When you were portraying the character of [Fugui], why did you emphasize the [mud] on Fugui's legs?"

"And why do we emphasize 'sway' when walking and swaying the body slightly?" After hearing Xiao Sa's narration, I looked at the reading comprehension question in my hand.

Jiang Hai pondered over it again and again, and then asked a soul-searching question:
“You walk normally.”

“It’s not shaking???”

Don’t talk about Fugui, which normal person wouldn’t sway a little when he walks?
Isn't it normal to have some mud on your trouser legs when walking on a muddy country road on a rainy day?
What other thoughts and feelings can this contain???

“I don’t understand.”

Even though he had a lot of doubts in his mind, Jiang Hai still controlled his temper and finished writing this reading comprehension article about "To Live" in a disciplined manner.

Wait until Jiang Hai finishes answering the questions.

The teacher who set the questions at Beijing Normal University personally graded Jiang Hai's paper according to the standard answers.

结果
Jiang Hai only scored six points?
As the original author, Jiang Hai only got six points???
"Out of 30 points for reading comprehension, I only got six points???"

Don’t say that Jiang Hai himself couldn’t believe it. The teacher from Beijing Normal University who was grading the test papers next to him was also an expert professor who set the test paper.

Looking at the test paper in front of me, I also felt embarrassed:
"Ah this."

Originally, CCTV wanted to take advantage of the popularity of the college entrance examination to conduct an exclusive interview with the original author Jiang Hai in order to cheer up the candidates taking the college entrance examination.

Who would have thought that it would be fine if I didn't do the test paper, but once I did it...
CCTV was confused.

Jiang Hai was confused.

The person who set the question was also confused.

Jiang Hai: "How dare I have such intention???"

The teacher who asked the question: "Why is he different from what I thought???"

When the interview video was spread to the Internet, it immediately sparked a heated discussion on the Internet, especially among the candidates taking the college entrance examination this year:

"I said, even if Jiang Hai himself came to take the college entrance examination today, he would have to repeat his grade!!!"

"Now you know why the reading comprehension in previous years used articles written by deceased authors? Because there is no evidence after death!"

"This is so embarrassing that the author himself failed his own article?"

"Jiang Hai is just a book writer, what does he know about "To Live"? Funny dog ​​head.jpg"

"This is horrible! How can this be called reading comprehension? This is clearly over-comprehension."

Who could have imagined that on June 7th and 8th, the day of the college entrance examination, which is a sacred day that all candidates attach great importance to, the writer Jiang Hai.
It has been on the hot list for three consecutive days?

All of a sudden, various topics became hotly discussed on the Internet, and candidates and test setters launched a fierce and rapid discussion on the topic of "Are college entrance examination reading questions about reading comprehension or over-comprehension?"

It was precisely because of this terrifying popularity that Jiang Hai’s original literary work "To Live" was discussed on the Internet for three consecutive days.

The popularity remains high for a long time.

I still remember that at this time last year, people were talking about a youth fantasy literature book called "Dragon Clan" which was serialized in a magazine.

Chenghai Drama Academy.

In the dormitory.

Chu Tianjiao and Yang Wei were frantically searching for information about Jiang Hai in recent times through the campus network, social media, newspaper interviews and other media that could receive and spread information.

"Wow, this Brother Hai is really fierce!"

Who could have imagined that wherever the river and the sea go, the hot spots will shift to that place?

The book "To Live" he wrote at Peking University caused a sensation across the country and was even included in the college entrance examination papers?
In the forum, some readers started to compare last year's hottest novels "Dragon Race" and "To Live":

"Have you noticed that last year's popular best-selling literary book "Dragon Race" and the traditional realistic literary book "To Live" actually have something in common?"

“They are all a tragedy.”

“They all tell about the constant departure of people around them.”

Muscle maniac Chu Tianjiao sat in front of his computer desk, eating melon seeds and grinning happily:
"It's getting better, and Haizi can stand with Yanyu Rujiangnan"

I don't know why, but I saw a comparison between the two authors on the forum.

A thought suddenly popped up in Chu Tianjiao's mind:
"This Jiang Hai's surname is Jiang."

"This Jiangnan also has the surname Jiang."

"How come the Jiang family is so good at writing novels? They both write tragedies, but one writes realistic literature and the other writes popular readings. How come both of them can write so well? Could it be that authors with the surname Jiang have some kind of bonus when writing tragedies?"

As soon as the words fell, a post about [Daojiang Dog, Follow Me] in the Dragon Tribe forum began to update the latest news of the writer [Yanyu Rujiangnan] in real time:
"The latest battle situation!"

"The latest IP address of Yanyu Rujiangnan is in Beiping!"

"The mist and rain have appeared in Beiping. Brothers in Beiping, please pay attention."

Chu Tianjiao has been following the "Dragon Clan" forum for a long time. This tracking post [Daojiang Dog, Follow Me] has long been dedicated to exposing the real offline identity of the writer [Yanyu Rujiangnan], just as the original intention of this post was when it was first created -

"You gave Eri an ending, so today we will give you an ending!"

I don’t know why, but I see my friends following the latest updates from [Jiangnan Old Dog].

Chu Tianjiao immediately felt a striking similarity:
"Not a buddy"

"How come the mist and rain in the south of the Yangtze River, like the river and the sea, is also in Peking?"

"What a coincidence!"

"Could it be."

Before Chu Tianjiao could think deeply, the fat man Yang Wei walked in from the dormitory door with an envelope in his hand:
"Brother Chu, here is a letter from Brother Hai"

From the information on the postmark, we know that the letter was sent from South Korea, and the address on the cover shows that the mailing place is actually
South Korea’s Blue House?

"South Korean Presidential Palace?" Looking at the letter from South Korea, Fatty and Chu Tianjiao were immediately puzzled, "Oh my God, who are the people in Brother Hai's social circle?"

"How come it was the Queen of England yesterday and the President of South Korea today? This is too scary."

Before Jiang Hai left Chengxi for Beiping, he authorized Fatty and Chu Tianjiao to help him deal with the trivial matters in Chengxi.

I thought it was another letter from some crazy book fan in South Korea?
The fat man subconsciously opened the letter:
"Brother Hai has too many fans of his books. How come there is another President Han?"

Unexpectedly, it would be better if the letter was not opened.

As soon as he opened the letter and read its contents, the fat man's speech suddenly became halting:

"Oh, my god!"

"Brother Chu, it looks like something is going to happen."

"What happened?" Chu Tianjiao looked at the fat man's panic and didn't care. He lit a cigarette and said, "What a fuss! What could possibly happen?"

The fat man handed the envelope over:

"look by youself!"

"Look at what you have accomplished." Chu Tianjiao took the object, shook the envelope, and then began to look at the letter paper. "It's not a big deal. You can be scared like this just by reading a letter."

Unexpectedly, before Chu Tianjiao finished speaking, he saw the contents of the envelope clearly.

The cigarette butt in his mouth fell out of his mouth in shock.

At the beginning of the letter, there were these words clearly written:

"Dear Mr. Jiang Hai!"

"Tonight, we will launch a coup in the Blue House."

(End of this chapter)