Chapter 7: Books as the Voice of the Heart [Revision]
The confession incident at the school gate may be a big deal for others, but Tang He doesn't care very much.
For an old man over thirty years old, the ignorant and hazy liking among children has long been weakened, not to mention that he believes that he will meet Encore again in the future, which is the self-confidence of a reborn.
The most important thing is that Tang He has no time to care about anything else now.
His college entrance examination score is so low, not to mention an ordinary university, even a low-end junior college, how can he explain to his mother?
Thinking of his mother's disappointed expression when he knew the news, Tang He had a headache.
In Tang He's impression, if the college entrance examination score is too low, there are actually some ways to add points.
For example, candidates from ethnic minorities, such as winning prizes in national or international Olympiads, and national second-level athletes, unfortunately they do not have the qualifications.
Or find a relationship to spend some money, but your family background is very average. In addition, the university atmosphere in this era is still relatively strict, and the sponsorship fee is only a rare case, and it will be very difficult to realize it.
If only there was a channel like the New Concept Essay Contest at this time!
In my previous life, there were many students who won awards in the New Concept Essay Contest and were specially recruited by some universities.
With his strength in literature and the extra ten years of experience and experience, if there is really a new concept essay contest, it is easy to win the award.
Tang He thought regretfully.
He has loved reading since he was a child, and has published articles in various newspapers and magazines since junior high school.
There is no hope of going to college, so ...... I can only find a way to prove my ability and talent, so that my mother can understand that a diploma is just a stepping stone to the society in the future, and it really has nothing to do with success.
For me, not being admitted to the university does not mean the end of the world, but rather that I can break free from the cage and start flying high immediately.
You have to find a way to convince your mother to prove your abilities to her!
How to prove it?
Writing?
That's right, it's writing, writing a novel to prove your talent!
And my mother was also a literary young woman when she was young, and a novel would make her understand that not going to college is not a big deal.
Tang He, who had made up his mind, hurried home.
Tang's mother was not at home, which made Tang He breathe a sigh of relief.
He threw his bag on the bed and sat down at the computer desk.
Although the conditions at home were not good, Tang's mother still gritted her teeth and bought a computer for Tang He from the family's savings.
The 14-inch CRT convex screen, the huge dual delphinium ball-on mice, and the old-fashioned chassis with floppy disk sockets were definitely high in 1997.
Tang He turned on the computer, opened the desktop word document in the classic boot sound of Windows, and then hesitated.
What to write?
The length of prose and poetry is small, and it is estimated that it will come out soon if you write it casually from your own memory, but the shock to your mother is also estimated to be small, after all, there are a lot of articles published in journals when you were in middle school.
Then it can only be a novel!
First of all, the number of words should not be too much, preferably about 150,000 words, so that with the memory of the previous life and your own hand speed, you can write it in two or three days, just in time to send the volunteer form back to school.
Secondly, the subject matter should be in line with one's own identity and not arouse people's suspicions.
Don't work hard to finish writing, readers will see that they actually wrote "Alive" at the age of nineteen, which is hard, and it is strange not to be suspected of being a ghostwriter.
Then there should be bluffs that can attract the attention of the vast majority of readers.
In the end, the novel must be a classic, and only a classic can surprise everyone and let mom know her talent.
There are many novels that meet these criteria......
But the most appropriate one is only this one-
"The Legend of Wukong"!
This is the most well-known of the many novels serialized on the mainland in later generations, and it has caused a monthly climax of the majority of online names on the Internet as soon as it was serialized, and enjoys the reputation of "the first book on the Internet" on the Internet. It is the "Best Novel Award" and the "Best Popular Novel Award" of the Online Original Literary Works Award, and has been ranked first in various online literature rankings all year round.
The book on the Internet is extremely awesome, and the physical publication is unambiguous.
As soon as this book was published, it won the sales champion of the physical book list that year, causing a national craze to reinterpret "Journey to the West". The well-known media "Beijing News" ranked first in the selection of "Ten Books of Contemporary Literature in the Decade", and many cultural experts and contemporary celebrities praised it.
And most importantly –
Tang He, who was reborn, felt extremely depressed in his heart in just a few days. This repression comes from a person's disapproval of the current education system more than a decade later, and the disgust of society as a whole with the almost paranoid enthusiasm for the college entrance examination and college.
Teachers, classmates, Tang's mother, neighbors, it seems that everyone thinks that only going to college is the foundation of success in life. If you don't get into college, you seem to be a loser in life, and you will be eliminated by society. This point, even Wu Wei, who has no heart and lungs and is keen on having fun, agrees with it incomparably.
What a ridiculous thing to do!
One exam can decide a person's life?!
It's really strange how I thought all this was normal back then, and I never questioned it.
Doomed to fail without going to college?
Not at all!
History will tell!
The development of the times is like a pair of big hands slapping in the face of everyone who thinks so!
The success of the older generation may be left aside for the time being, and there are countless examples of young people of the same age or even younger in later generations who have succeeded without going to college.
In the entertainment industry, the image of Chinese actresses represents Zhou Gongzi's high school graduation, Wang Silly Gen and Zhao Xiaobao have never gone to college, let alone Hong Kong and Taiwan, Dong Zhou, Deng Jinyu, Xie Lemon, Gu Heitan......
In the cultural circle, Han's father-in-law, a post-80s writer and public opinion leader, did not go to college, and Jiang Feng, who is also a post-80s representative writer who insists on pure literary creation, dropped out of college after only one year......
Speaking of the wealth circle, Li Xiangxiang, who founded Bubble.com and Autohome, graduated from high school; Huang Bus, the founder of Meizu, was expelled from school in his first year of high school; Mao Kan, the founder of MaJoy, never even went to high school; even Ma Qingyang, the richest man in China, took three university exams before he was admitted to a normal college, and he scored 1 point in mathematics in the first year and 19 points in the second year, and he was promoted to a junior college.
Tang He still remembers a report he had read in his previous life, which made a detailed and in-depth analysis of 674 billionaires in the mainland, and the results showed that most of the billionaires did not go to college. As a result, he came to the conclusion that "the boss is not cultivated, but worked hard".
Didn't all these people succeed?
Zheng Laoda, a fairy tale king with only a primary school education, once said, "The real meaning of having a college diploma is to find a job, and the real meaning of finding a job is to work for others." Therefore, a university diploma is actually a passport to join the migrant workers. The real meaning of not having a college diploma is that it is difficult to find a job, and the real meaning of not being able to find a job is to force yourself to start your own business and be your own boss. Therefore, not having a college diploma is actually a special pass into the boss sequence. ”
Tang He thought so.
Academic qualifications can only represent the student years!
360 lines of the best in the line, excellence is determined by many factors, there is no only measure of success at all!
It's a pity that when everyone thinks that the wrong idea is right, how rare and precious people are who can insist that the right thing is right. Even the current reborn Tang He has to take into account the feelings of many people and needs to compromise.
It's just that this kind of compromise, this kind of repression, is so breathtaking!
I have a dream, I think when I fly, that day let the way open, when I enter the sea, the water is also divided into two sides, the gods and immortals, see me also brother, carefree, there is nothing in the world that detains me, there is no one who cares about me, there is no place where I can't go, there is nothing I can't do, there is nothing I can't win.
It's for remembering.
- "The Legend of Wukong"
In his previous life, Jin He used "The Legend of Wukong" to tell a story of struggle, which was a subversion of his original book "Journey to the West", and he wrote the most authentic Journey to the West.
The ninety-nine-eighty-one difficulty seems to be the ordeal and test of learning from the scriptures, but it is actually a way for the gods to consolidate their power, a means to maintain their own authority, and a process of domesticating Sun Wukong.
What did Sun Wukong do all the way west to subdue demons?
The brothers who rebelled against Heaven with him back then, like the Bull Demon King and the like, Sun Wukong must kill all the sworn brothers who fought with him back then;
Finally, when I arrived in the western sky, I took the scriptures, but they were still fake. Even if you are given some scriptures with words, do you think they are true? In fact, they are still fake, there is nothing in the first place, and there is no place for dust.
If someone wants to instill the answer to you, it is not to make you smart, but more likely to make you stupid.
In the end, Sun Wukong became a Buddha. And what about after becoming a Buddha? No, nothing. The Monkey King, who was alive and blood, with feelings and dreams, finally disappeared completely from this world.
"The Legend of Wukong" is a metaphor in a sense. It represents the questioning of the legitimacy of this sacrosanct self-evident center, the hierarchy, the confrontation of authority and the effort to dissolve the center.
Tang He very much agrees with the original author's idea of where he is, and at the same time wants to express his inner resentment about exam-oriented education through "The Legend of Wukong".
Although he couldn't fully recall the "Legend of Wukong" he had read in his previous life, he was deeply impressed by the general storyline, those classic passages and phrases, and it was also handy to write a plagiarized version of "The Legend of Wukong".
The wall clock on the bedroom wall, ticking forward, the sound of Tang He tapping on the keyboard became louder and louder, and as the words on the computer screen poured out line by line, the depression in Tang He's heart also gushed out.
Writing about Sun Wukong's first battle in the Netherworld, and writing "Let my old Sun kill him happily!", Tang He's heart couldn't help but boil with some blood.
wrote that Fa Ming, the abbot of the Great Ci'en Temple, asked Xuanzang what he wanted to learn, and Xuanzang replied, "I want this day, I can't cover my eyes anymore, I want this land, I can't bury my heart anymore, I want all living beings to understand my intentions, and I want all the Buddhas to disappear!", Tang He's heart surging passion finally couldn't bear it anymore and stood up from the computer desk.
That's right,Even if you don't get admitted to the university, what can you do,With your familiarity with the future development,Even if you don't know what sports lottery lottery winning numbers,It's easy to succeed.
I know that China's housing prices are about to start rising rapidly, that Nokia and Samsung are about to take off, that the champion of the 98 World Cup is the French team, that Jobs is about to return to the sinking Apple, and that China Mobile will soon be established......
What's more, as a netizen who has been online for many years, what will you do in 1997, the first year of China's Internet, will not succeed?!
For him, China is now a huge Red Sea, and he can swim at will, change the color of heaven and earth, and make all beings bow down.
What if he doesn't go to college?
It's not the pride of the sky, it's the sun!