After hanging up the phone and sending "The Catcher in the Rye" to Wang Lijian's mailbox, Zhuang Yan ran to bed and fell asleep.

After Wang Lijian received Zhuang Yan's email, he originally thought that it would not be too early and the book could be read tomorrow, but he couldn't control his curiosity and clicked on the email.

At this point, it was out of control all of a sudden.

"If you really want to hear me, the first thing you want to know is probably where I was born, my upside-down childhood......"

As soon as he saw the first sentence, Wang Lijian raised his eyebrows, although Zhuang Yan had dictated the general plot of the book, but Zhuang Yan did not mention that the book would be narrated in the first person at that time.

Just when he saw that it was the first person, Wang Lijian was already looking forward to it, because the first person is Zhuang Yan's forte. His amazing first-person narration in "Alive" amazed Wang Lijian at the time.

Especially the seemingly real illusory world described in "Alive" at that time also gave Wang Lijian a lot of surprises. Thinking of this, Wang Lijian wondered if there was something illusory in this book. But then he himself denied this idea, Zhuang Yan himself said that the background of this book is New York, USA, and Zhuang Yan went to New York, USA to collect wind in order to improve the plot, so there must be a realistic background.

After reading a paragraph, Wang Lijian raised his eyebrows, although this book is also in the first person, but the narration is obviously different from "Alive", because the first person of "Alive" is diary-style.

If you want to compare, "Alive" is like a live broadcast, and the story is unfolded for you to see little by little, like real-time. This book is different, it is more like a recording, the perspective is the perspective of the future, and it is accompanied by commentary.

The first paragraph is also mediocre, the story is very simple, a rebellious middle school student fails several classes and is expelled from school.

However, Wang Lijian was also relieved, because Zhuang Yan had said before that this book would be full of a lot of swear words, but after reading such a paragraph, he didn't find much, only a few words like biaozi appeared.

But looking back, Wang Lijian realized that his breath was relaxed too early, and the swear words were all behind. Indeed, as Zhuang Yan said, whether it is in the protagonist's narrative or the protagonist's dialogue with other characters, words like "fuck" will always appear.

And Wang Lijian also guessed that some words like "bastard" may have been originally "fucking", but Zhuang Yan changed it to "bastard" in consideration of the impact.

The story continues, and the main character, Holden, returns to his dorm room after coming out of Old Spencer's house, and has a conversation with his roommate next to him that doesn't seem nutritious and has a lot of swearing.

When he saw the middle, Wang Lijian's pupils suddenly dilated, as if he saw something terrible.

"Take Maugham's "The Shackles of the World". I read this book last summer. It's a pretty good book, but you don't want to call Maugham after you read it. I can't make sense. It's just that someone like him, I just don't want to call him. ”

Sizzle, Wang Lijian took a breath, he didn't expect Zhuang Yan to write such a paragraph. Although this is what Holden said, anyone who reads the book will definitely imagine this passage as the author's thoughts.

One would not think that the author wrote this just to create the image of Holden. They will think that the author is trying to say his point through the mouth of the protagonist.

Wang Lijian's first reaction was to think like this, although he knew that it was wrong to think like this, but he still couldn't help but come up with the idea of "Zhuang Yan doesn't like Maugham".

Maugham was a man of great success in the field of dramaturgy, and his "Madame Frederick", "Jack Straw", "Mrs. Dott" and "The Explorer" were staged at the same time on the London stage.

However, this person has not made any achievements in the creation of novels, and one novel that he wrote in two years is "The Shackles of the World". But the book is not a successful novel, either in the eyes of ordinary readers or critics.

Wang Lijian himself doesn't like this book very much, and feels that the self-analysis in the book is a little embarrassing, and it looks like Maugham wants to analyze himself, but he can't write accurately.

But in any case, Maugham is also very famous in the British literary world and even in the world's literary circles, and is not a nobody.

Zhuang Yan mentioned the other party in the book in such a grand manner, and it was not a word of praise, Wang Lijian was a little worried that Zhuang Yan would get angry.

"This guy is a little too unafraid. Wang Lijian shook his head and decided to put this matter down for a while and continue to read the book.

At first, Wang Lijian didn't have much feeling about the book, just like when Zhuang Yan told him the synopsis of the story, he actually didn't have a very good opinion of the book.

But as the story continued, with the vivid language narration in the article, Wang Lijian seemed to slowly enter Holden's heart.

Haldon is not wise, but he also describes his feelings beyond imagination, revealing the other, hidden under a debaucherous appearance, like a real big boy.

Wang Lijian even felt that Holden was sitting opposite him, putting his hand against his chin and telling him the story. Holden wears a peaked cap with a disdainful expression on his face, and occasionally spits out a few swear words, but it doesn't seem harmless.

At this point, the plot of the book says that Holden got into a fight with his roommate because of a girl, but the ultimate winner was his roommate, and he was beaten to the ground.

"Listen, go wash your face. Stradletta, the roommate, said condescendingly as she looked at Holden lying on the ground.

"Did you hear that?"

Wang Lijian was already fascinated at this time, the fight between Holden and his roommate definitely did not happen suddenly, from the beginning of the essay incident, to the end Holden asked his roommate if he had a relationship with that girl, his emotions were increasing layer by layer.

In this strong and rapid emotional advancement, Wang Lijian even felt that he was brought in, and he really heard someone ask him, "Did you hear it?"

However, after listening carefully, Wang Lijian felt that something was wrong, because this voice seemed to be Hu Qinglian's voice.

He hurriedly raised his head, and sure enough, he saw his wife Hu Qinglian standing in front of him with a frown and said, "What's wrong with you, Lao Wang, I shouted you several times and didn't respond." ”

"Ah, did you call me just now?" Wang Lijian said in a bit of confusion.

Hu Qinglian rolled her eyes, "Of course I called you, otherwise who else, what's wrong with you, what time is it and you still haven't gone to sleep." ”

Wang Lijian noticed that Hu Qinglian was wearing pajamas, and he looked at the clock on the table again, it was already half past eleven in the evening!