Chapter 173: Knife and Pen

"What's going on again?" Zhuang Yan wrapped his clothes and felt a little headache.

"Sprout Magazine published an article about the strike of students at Maochang Middle School a few days ago. Yao Qian said.

It's this sprout again, Zhuang Yan sighed, he didn't expect such a well-known magazine in China to hold such a grudge, just because he didn't go to receive their award at that time, so he bit it.

"Are you scolding me?" Zhuang Yan asked.

"That's not true, it's just that the content of the article is very unfavorable to you, Mr. Zhuang, the person who wrote the article is very powerful, and the full text mentions "The Catcher in the Rye" once, but after reading the whole article, people can feel that the culprit of this class strike is it. Yao Qian said.

Zhuang Yan smiled, "That person is not wrong, the matter of the class strike, "The Catcher in the Rye" really can't escape the involvement." ”

Yao Qian felt a little weak when he heard Zhuang Yan speak, and he also knew that Zhuang Yan was not feeling well in the past two days, so he asked, "Teacher Zhuang, how are you doing, have you been to the hospital?"

Zhuang Yan sniffed and said, "It's no big deal, you can rest assured." ”

Yao Qian was relieved, "That's good, but this time the matter still needs to be dealt with, although the matter of the strike has something to do with "The Catcher in the Rye", but this article directly bypasses the reasons for the strike, talks about Chinese education, directly links "The Catcher in the Rye" with the strike, and hits them on the opposite side of Chinese education." ”

"Oh?" Zhuang Yan was interested when he heard this, "Then I really want to read this article and see how people beat me to the opposite side of Chinese education." ”

Yao Qian was not as relaxed as Zhuang Yan, he said in a deep voice, "Teacher Zhuang, this matter may be more serious than you imagined, this article was published on the official website of Sprout at eight o'clock this morning, and so far, several media have reprinted this article. ”

Of course, Zhuang Yan doesn't think that things are very simple, but he is now immune to the problems of the media, everyone has an open mouth, and Zhuang Yan knows that even if he has a long hand, he can't stop other people's mouths.

And for this sprout, Zhuang Yan has also been mentally prepared, when he talked to Wang Lijian on the phone two days ago, both of them were still muttering, I don't know why this sprout has no big action except for the small fight before.

Now it's okay, Zhuang Yan can be regarded as "rest assured".

"No matter how serious the matter is, it's useless to be anxious, Yao Qian, you used to be a newspaper, do you still see less things here?" Zhuang Yan said.

Yao Qian sighed and said: "Teacher Zhuang, I have seen a lot, so I know clearly what a knife and pen official is, and I also know how powerful these people are, the dead can also be said to be alive, and the white can also be said to be black. ”

Zhuang Yan nodded, knowing that Yao Qian was worried about him, he smiled and said, "It's okay, you don't have to worry about this matter for now." How's your own business going?"

In the past few days, Zhuang Yan was sick and rested at home, but Yao Qian did not have to rest, Zhuang Yan explained two things to him, one was the physical publication of "The Catcher in the Rye", and the other was the translation of "Alive".

"I am still in talks with the publisher about the physical publication of "Wheat Field", and the negotiations are still in the preliminary stage, and there is no consensus on royalties. The French and Japanese translators of "Alive" have been decided, and they are all recommended by the 'literary and artistic circles', and they are both well-known in the translation world. When it comes to work, Yao Qian reports it one by one.

"Well, you are solely responsible for these two things, and you will tell me when you have a concrete result, and if there is nothing else, you will not talk about it yet. Zhuang Yan said.

Yao Qian didn't hang up the phone, but said, "Teacher Zhuang, I still have something to tell you." ”

Zhuang Yan raised his eyebrows: "What's the matter?"

"That's the case, when we talked about publishing with the Literary and Art Publishing House in the past two days, we couldn't reflect some of our advantages. Yao Qian said.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, can we get in touch with other publishers again, so that we can shop around, and when we negotiate, we can also have more advantages and hole cards. Yao Qian said.

Zhuang Yan sucked the snot that was about to flow out, what Yao Qian said made sense, to put it mildly, although he was not in a hurry to ask for money now, no one minded making more money. In business, it is normal and necessary to have more contact with several publishing houses.

However, emotionally, Zhuang Yan still hopes to finally negotiate with the literary and art publishing house, after all, Wang Lijian and Yu Hai helped him like they did before, and he doesn't want to hurt the harmony with the literary and artistic circles because of this matter.

Zhuang Yan sighed and said: "If you can talk about it, try to talk to the literary and art circles, if it really can't be done in the end, then look at other publishing houses." ”

"Okay, I see. ”

……

After talking to Yao Qian on the phone, Zhuang Yan went to the official website of Sprout Magazine to read the article.

The Death of Literature: Butterfly Wings in Maochang Middle School

This is the title of this article, and the words "The Death of Literature" seem shocking, but Zhuang Yan knows that this is just a means to attract people's attention. But what Zhuang Yan didn't expect was that there was also a butterfly effect in this world.

The article mentions that all the students in Maochang Middle School are wearing peaked caps and have a peculiar sense of religious ritual, and the author has found that the root of this behavior is in the new book "The Catcher in the Rye", which has recently caught fire.

While lamenting the impact of a book on students, I am also worried that the book is full of negativity that will affect teenagers and make them rebellious.

He also used the strike at Maochang Middle School to prove this possibility.

"If someone had said that this book would influence teenagers, make them rebellious and cause violence, probably most people would not believe it. But now that the real-world examples are in front of us, we have to admit that our young people, the future of the motherland, have been invisibly influenced by this book and have done something that we do not want to see. ”

The catcher in the wheat is mentioned only once throughout this article, but the rest of the content is related to the book.

To sum up, the full text is that this book has a negative impact on teenagers, and will make students rebellious and behave abnormally. If we do not pay attention to the boycott of Maochang Middle School, it will be like the wings of a butterfly and gradually affect the education of the whole of China.

After reading it, Zhuang Yan had to admire the person who wrote this article, although what he said in the article was nonsense, but he couldn't be said to be a rumor, because he was just making "appropriate" speculations based on facts.

Even he said that the book "The Catcher in the Rye" was full of negative emotions, but he couldn't refute it, and Zhuang Yan couldn't run to explain that no, this book wanted to express a kind of hope, a pure wish, not a negative thought.

It's not easy to talk about, because there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people, and if you say it's not negative, people may say, Holden scolds this and that every day, it's not negative enough, it's not negative enough?

And this person actually said that the student imitated Holden's behavior of wearing a peaked cap with a strange sense of religious ritual, although this statement is outrageous, but Zhuang Yan knows that there will definitely be many people who don't know the truth to eat melons seriously.

There is something going on in the next few days.,So I don't dare to use the manuscript indiscriminately.,I can only send two chapters.,Please forgive me.,Of course,,There aren't many manuscripts.。