Rebirth 2004: A lone figure in the literary world

Chapter 399 This is the effect I want
The article "Damn Zhang Chao" was not only not deleted by Weibo, it was even pinned to the top based on its popularity without any bias.

Without the restrictions of traditional media, this article can be said to be a thorough criticism of Zhang Chao:

[Zhang Chao, you are a hypocrite who eats the blood of others! On the one hand, you tearfully describe the cruel reality of "selling kidneys to buy mobile phones" in your novel, while on the other hand, you help the evildoers in real life and drive up the price of iPhone to a sky-high level!

You hold the pen in your left hand and pretend to care about the country and the people, while you hold the capital in your right hand and eat the meat and skin it. Can your eating habits be any uglier? ! 】

[You denounce materialism and satirize vanity, as if you were a modern-day Lu Xun who wanted to "save the children." But look back and see what you have done?
What’s even more disgusting is that you used “Apple phones” as bait in your novel, but in reality, you made Apple phones the real “bait”! You made readers cry for “Xiao Yang”, and then you made their sons, daughters, brothers and sisters cry for buying iPhones.

What is this called? This is called a fucking "literary fraud"! You use social issues as a material library, sucking blood and tears out and reselling them, making a fortune and still wanting to build a memorial archway! 】

[Do you think we can't see through your tricks? "The Last Lesson" writes about mobile payment, and "A Letter from a Stranger" writes about identity anxiety, all to pave the way for "WeMessage" and "Fruit KungFu"!
You have already brainwashed readers in your book: "Mobile phones are organs of future humans" and "You are not worthy of being a human without an iPhone." Then you launched products to reap the market, playing a game of "precision strike."

[You are more ruthless than Penguin! QQ at least makes money openly, but you are wearing the cloak of "literary ideals" and fooling readers as fools. Your novel is not a work of art, but a tens of thousands of words of advertising soft copy! ]

[You earn your literary reputation by criticizing social issues, and you gain commercial benefits by creating social issues. Your pen is not a dagger, but a double-edged sickle, one blade cuts at the readers' sympathy, and the other blade cuts at the consumers' wallets! ]

[How dare you say that all this has nothing to do with you? As long as there is a "Xiao Yang" lying in a black clinic in the future, as long as there is a high school student who steals his parents' savings to buy an iPhone, you, Zhang Chao, will be the invisible executioner!
Your words have become a catalyst for evil, and every brick of your business empire is stained with the blood of "Xiao Yang"s! 】

[Zhang Chao, get out of the literary circle! Your pen cannot write about redemption, it is only good enough to write advertising slogans for capital! Your novels are not art, but poison wrapped in sugar! ]

【All readers, listen up: If we don’t boycott Zhang Chao today, there will be more “Xiao Yangs” waking up on the operating table tomorrow, clutching iPhones in their hands, but their kidneys will forever remain in the freezers of black clinics! 】

[Damn Zhang Chao, literature doesn’t welcome you, and reality doesn’t welcome you even more! ]

"You curse me so much!"

Many people's first reaction after reading this article is these four words.

This Weibo user with the username "鬼畜叮当猫" can be said to have expressed the feelings of many people. People are all made of flesh and blood, and "Xiao Yang" in "A Letter from an Unknown Woman" is really pitiful.

While people are full of sympathy, they also hate the behavior of "selling kidneys to buy mobile phones".

Now the two mobile phone applications related to Zhang Chao happen to perfectly confirm his own prediction. So how many "Xiao Yangs" will lose their kidneys because of this?

No one dared to think about it too much.

If Zhang Chao's previous controversies still had different aspects to debate, then this time he was just sticking to everyone's side.

"I know this future is terrible, but not only do I not mind it, I will do my best to make this terrible future come a little earlier."

Who can bear this?
For a time, the voices criticizing Zhang Chao were overwhelming, and almost all of them came from ordinary readers, while serious literary criticism was rare.

Because Bai Ye and the others were confused again. They had studied literature for decades and had never seen anyone play it this way like Zhang Chao.

It is not uncommon to use literary works to intervene and display social processes and public opinions. It can even be said that this is one of the original purposes of many writers' creation. It is not uncommon to use literary works to achieve certain commercial purposes. It can also be said that this is a common trick used by writers.

But Zhang Chao magically combined the two things: "The Last Lesson" and "Letter from a Stranger" not only gave "Chao Tide Culture" a bright future in business, but also gave a shot in the arm to the entire society to a great extent.

No other work has ever triggered such a strong social response, even Zhang Chao’s past works have not reached this level.

The public has paid great attention to marginalized groups like "Xiao Yang" and the assembly line workers mentioned in Xu Lizhi's poem.

Many volunteer organizations began to spontaneously go to rural areas to help the special group of "left-behind children"; Foxconn also had to come out and issue a statement, emphasizing that its factory provides workers with complete living and entertainment facilities, and that the situations questioned by the outside world do not exist.

At the same time, several apple reselling gangs were smashed.

Around the article "Damn Zhang Chao!", netizens also made a large number of emoticon pictures about Zhang Chao, which were circulated wildly on Weibo, forums, and QQ groups.

There was Zhang Chao wearing a mask and a white coat, holding a scalpel, performing a kidney removal operation at the operating table;
There is a scene where Zhang Chao holds an iPhone in one hand and hands it to a young man who holds a kidney in the other;

Zhang Chao walked into a restaurant and ordered a dish called "Stir-fried Kidney Slices";

There was a picture with devil horns growing out of his head, holding a pen that had grown into a trident, and laughing evilly at the pile of banknotes...

Of course, the most widely circulated and influential one is the one that perfectly reflects the title "Damn Zhang Chao!" It was even made into a GIF: the big yellow dog behind Zhang Chao hunched his waist, and Zhang Chao's head tilted up to the sky...

"This is too much. Are you not going to do anything about it?" Yu Hua sat opposite Zhang Chao, browsing the news online with his newly acquired iPhone 3G, and couldn't help asking Zhang Chao.

Next to him was Su Tong, who was also fiddling with a brand new iPhone 3G. He was not used to the touch screen yet and could not help pressing the home button.

Unlike Yu Hua, Su Tong is more interested in WeMessage. He is good at English and has added many foreign writers and critics on Weibo. Some of them have also bought iPhone 3G and are now chatting happily.

Zhang Chao is still using his Nokia, but his addiction is not that strong.

The three of them gathered in Shenzhen, and Yu Hua and Su Tong moved into Zhang Chao's newly bought house in Houhai. In addition to the view of Shenzhen Bay, the house also has a large balcony where they can drink tea and enjoy the breeze.

Hearing Yu Hua's question, Zhang Chao smiled and said, "I can't take all the advantages. It's good for your physical and mental health to be scolded by others."

“Can you tolerate this?” Yu Hua turned the screen of his mobile phone towards Zhang Chao, and on it was a picture of “damn Zhang Chao” posted in a chat group.

Zhang Chao actually laughed out loud and said, "This picture is quite well done."

Yu Hua gave him a thumbs up and said, "If nothing else, you have a really good attitude!" Su Tong also put down his phone and said to Zhang Chao, "Could this be something you expected from the beginning?"

Zhang Chao said honestly: "I expected some of it, but not all of it. I didn't expect that "A Letter from an Unknown Woman" would make everyone so obsessed. After all, the world described in this novel is still separated from ordinary people."

Su Tong said: "You underestimate yourself and your readers. Although no one has ever seen a person like 'Xiao Yang' before, you have portrayed his fragile and gloomy temperament very well.

Most people who love reading novels have such a fragile and gloomy self living in their hearts. You have successfully discovered the resonance between the character and the readers.

And who says that a strange world will definitely create alienation? The key is whether this world can convince people. Although your two novels are about the "future world", they are based on real logic.

People scold you because they have a strong sense of substitution. "

Yu Hua listened carefully and nodded in agreement, saying, "That's true. In essence, readers don't care whether what you write is 'realistic' or not, but whether they 'receptive' to it or not.

The controversy this time is so big, which means that they recognize the world and characters you created, so they are particularly dissatisfied with your behavior in real life. By the way, how did you come up with the idea of ​​'Kung Fu Fruit'? It's so funny!
I rowed until about 2 a.m. last night. If I hadn’t been so sleepy, I might have rowed until dawn.”

Zhang Chao laughed and said, "I just provided an idea, and a few guys in the US branch made it in six weeks, just in time for the release of the phone - this was something I had not expected."

Yu Hua exclaimed: "This is the importance of creativity! When you talked about the idea of ​​your new novel on that eight-legged pedestrian bridge a few months ago, I thought it would be in the distant future..."

Su Tong also felt very emotional: "Yeah, who would have thought - speaking of which, the crispy pork Wan that store is really delicious!"

Zhang Chao raised his hand to check the time and said with a smile: "Teacher Tong, are you hungry? It's time for dinner. Let's pack up and go." (Su Tong's original surname was Tong)
Yu Hua became excited and asked, "Are we going to the industrial park you mentioned on the phone? Although I don't have to write about related topics, I really want to see what these people's real lives are like?"

Zhang Chao said, "That's right... But the two of you are not dressed well. Especially Teacher Tong, you look like a cultural scholar. Teacher Yu is okay, but your hairstyle looks sloppy, but this polo shirt betrays you..."

Su Tong looked back at himself in the reflection of the glass with a depressed look - black-framed glasses, dark blue shirt, leather belt and watch, he seemed a little out of touch with reality...

Zhang Chao waved his hand and said, "Come on, I'll take you to a place for transformation first!"

……

An hour later, the three of them emerged from the Shenzhen Dongmen Baima Clothing Market, all dressed in new clothes:

Zhang Chao was wearing a floral shirt, ripped jeans, flip-flops, and a cigarette stuck in his ear, looking pretty much the same as when he was hanging out at food stalls before;
Yu Hua was wearing a striped T-shirt, overalls, and a pair of shiny leather shoes. He had a bag under his arm and a fake gold Rolex logo on his wrist. He looked like a labor agent.
Teacher Su Tong was severely myopic and could not take off his glasses, but Zhang Chao fitted him with a cheap white shirt and black trousers, with the hem of the shirt tucked into the waistband and the watch on his wrist replaced with a string, making him look exactly like the little manager who was struggling to get by in the factory at the time.

The three of them looked at each other and burst into laughter.

……

While Zhang Chao, Yu Hua and Su Tong were experiencing life, another article on Weibo became popular, titled "Does living really only require one kidney?"

The author of this article is "大院小医", and judging by the content, he is indeed a doctor. He explains from a professional perspective why, although one kidney is enough to keep a person alive, one kidney can only keep a person alive:

【Many people mistakenly believe that kidneys are just "organs that filter waste", which seriously underestimates the complex functions of kidneys. Kidneys filter about 180 liters of blood every day. They not only maintain the homeostasis of the internal environment by regulating water and electrolyte balance, but also secrete erythropoietin (EPO) to regulate hematopoiesis...

The two kidneys form a dynamic compensation mechanism through precise division of labor. When one kidney is lost, the remaining kidney will enter a state of ultrafiltration compensation. This compensation is not a "harmless replacement" but a stress response at the expense of long-term health.

[A follow-up study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that the probability of microalbuminuria in people with one kidney within 10 years is 3.2 times that of the normal population, and the risk of progression to chronic kidney disease stage 20 or above within 3 years increases by 65%. The long-term overload of the remaining kidney leads to irreversible glomerular sclerosis and tubular atrophy.]

[Kidney macrophages are an important line of defense for innate immunity. In the case of single kidney, the number of immune cells decreases by 40%, the risk of postoperative infection increases, and the incidence of opportunistic infections such as tuberculosis increases by 2.8 times.]

[The compensation capacity of a single kidney is closely related to age. When a 30-year-old kidney donor reaches 50, the residual renal function drops to 35% of the normal value on average, and the probability of needing dialysis treatment is 17 times that of the normal population. Even more cruel is that illegal transactions prevent donors from enjoying lifelong medical care after regular kidney transplantation.]

[Donors under 25 years old have a 40 times higher risk of early-onset renal failure (<3.8 years old) than middle-aged donors. The vigorous metabolism during adolescence accelerates the loss of residual renal units.]

【Kidneys are not renewable cell phone accessories, but delicate organs that sustain life. When the absurd plot of "selling kidneys to buy cell phones" in literary works shines into reality, we need to use medical truth to pierce the lies. Remember: health is priceless, and any material enjoyment cannot be at the cost of destroying the foundation of life.】

If "Damn Zhang Chao!" is more of an emotional outburst out of righteous indignation, then "Does Living Really Only Require One Kidney?" is a rational warning based on science.

This article also received a lot of reposts and was pinned to the top of the Weibo hot list.

Everyone became even more angry and criticized Zhang Chao for his behavior of "grasping both literature and business with both hands and being despicable", and they seemed to want to really get Zhang Chao kicked out of the literary world.

Even the magazines Harvest and Contemporary suffered because they published these two works by Zhang Chao. Although their sales broke records, they received sacks of protests and letters of condemnation, which made them feel like they were back in the 1980s.

"Is this the reason why you didn't publish these two articles in your own magazine?" In the editorial department of "Youth", Ma Boyong sighed, and the others were silent and dared not respond.

This time, "Youth" also suffered some impact, but it was far less than that of "Harvest" and "Contemporary", and of course it could not be compared with the pressure Zhang Chao himself had to bear.

Just as the public was outraged, CCTV's "Face to Face" program released a preview: This Sunday at 9:30 p.m., this program will interview the author of "Damn Zhang Chao!", "Ghostly Doraemon", to reveal the story behind this popular online article.

Even CCTV is going to criticize Zhang Chao? Everyone is excited and looking forward to the program being broadcast to completely bring Zhang Chao down.

"Face to Face" started on time at 9:30 pm on Sunday night, and everyone was shocked to find that the person sitting opposite the intellectual and elegant host Dong Qian was none other than Zhang Chao, who deserved to go to hell.

Zhang Chao smiled and said hello to the camera: "Hello everyone, I am Zhang Chao, my Weibo ID is "鬼兽叮当猫", and I am also the author of "狗日的张潮!" Thank you for your attention to my novel.

In fact, today's controversy is exactly what I want!"

(End of this chapter)