Zhou Hexuan's new work is called "Dog Official", which can barely be regarded as a realistic magician work. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The protagonist of the novel is called Gu Wangzhi, who was poor when he was a child, but he was smart and clever. Under the sponsorship of his teacher, he stayed in Japan, gave up his studies halfway, and ran to make a revolution with enthusiasm. After pushing the corrupt Qing government, he originally tried to serve the country, but gradually lost himself in power and wealth.

Gu Wangzhi abandoned his wife (the daughter of his mentor) and married the daughter of a wealthy local merchant. Relying on his father-in-law's financial resources in the local area and his reputation as a revolutionary pioneer, he climbed up step by step. He then became attached to the powerful, and eventually became a provincial official.

All of the above are the background of the characters, and the novel begins with a banquet.

Several wealthy merchants feasted on Gu Wangzhi, and they wanted to build a large factory, which was located near a certain village in order to facilitate the transportation of goods. Because of the occupation of the villagers' fertile land and cemetery, the relocation could not be carried out, and the profiteers were reluctant to spend too much money on resettlement compensation.

In addition, the need for officialdom to take care of it, so the wealthy businessmen decided to give Gu Wangzhi a dry stake in the new factory. And Gu Wangzhi also agreed, and after the banquet, he sent his subordinates to take the hooligans to make trouble. In the end, there was a bloody case, and the government arrested and shot several villagers with the most tough resistance in the name of murder.

One day, when Gu Wang was out of the house, he heard the people scolding him for being a dog official. He laughed, disappreciated, and said to his entourage: "It is difficult to be a clean official, but it is easy to be a dog official, and you must be a dog official in this world." ”

That night he returned home and fell asleep, and when he woke up, he found that he had really become a dog, and he was still a dirt dog.

When the wife saw a dog lying beside her, she screamed in terror and called her son and the servant to drive Gu Wangzhi, who had turned into a dog, out of the house.

Gu Wangzhi wanted to explain, but when he said it, it was just a cry of "Wangwang". In desperation, he fled to his aunt's wife, only to find that his aunt was stealing a man, and the other party was still a famous local opera actor.

When my aunt saw a local dog coming in the house, she immediately bombarded him with a wild man.

Gu Wangzhi, who was covered in bruises, started a conversation with his aunt's pet dog at the door of his house.

The pet dog said: "The hostess has already gone out of the wall, and she used the money you gave to buy a car for that little white face, and even her son is not your own." ”

Gu Wangzhi said: "I am your master, you should help me to drive that wild man away." ”

The pet dog said: "You used to be my master, now you are worse than me, you are just a dirty, smelly and injured earth dog, maybe you will die in a few days, why should I help you?" ”

Gu Wangzhi said: "You are an ungrateful dog, if you have milk, you are a mother." ”

The pet dog said, "Aren't you like that too?" ”

Gu Wangzhi went into the courtyard from the dog hole, and saw the woman sleeping with his little white face, using his money to live in his house, and screamed angrily. This scream alarmed the little white face, and he picked up a stick and beat him again.

Gu Wangyi limped down the street, he was so hungry that he saw someone pouring rancid water, and immediately the vicious dog pounced on it. As a result, he met two beggars, who not only robbed him of his rancid water, but also caught him and skinned him and ate it.

Gu Wangzhi finally escaped from the catastrophe, and when he was about to starve to death, a little girl adopted him.

The little girl lived in a village on the outskirts of the city, and her family originally had a few acres of thin fields, but they were requisitioned by businessmen to build factories, and even the little girl's father was arrested by the government. The family was destitute, the mother was forcibly taken over by the village bullies, and the little girl was sold into the kiln, and she began to pick up customers at the age of twelve or thirteen.

The little girl had to secretly feed Gu Wangzhi every day, and once he waited at the door of the kiln for a long time, but the little girl had not come out yet. Later, he learned that the little girl had contracted flower willow disease and had been terminally incorporated.

Gu Wangzhi rushed into the kiln to comfort the little girl, but was beaten by the turtle boy.

He limped and continued to wander, and met his wife and mentor again. The teacher is already old and seriously ill, and his wife has gray hair before the age of 40, so she relies on washing and sewing for people. But they still took Gu Wangzhi in, giving him a rare place to live.

But the good times did not last long, and the local war was fought, and the Overseers ordered the collection of exorbitant taxes. Even the stove at home had to be taxed, and his wife had to smash the pot, push the stove, and go outside the house every day to build stones to cook.

Until one day, his wife went to the city to buy medicine for his teacher, and he never came back. When Gu Wangzhi went to look for him, he found his wife sick and dead on the side of the road, and when he returned home, his teacher had already died.

Gu Wangzhi continued to wander, observing from the perspective of a dog, the country he once established by the bloody revolution, poverty, hunger, war, natural disasters, and plagues......

The whole novel is a dog that is constantly wandering, showing all aspects of social problems in the Republic of China.

In the end, Gu Wangzhi was captured and eaten by the soldiers, and the commander of that army was his eldest son who was sent to the military academy.

People in troubled times are not as good as dogs, but many dogs steal high positions and become people.

If you insist on comparing "Dog Official" and "Goddess", then "Goddess" is more cold-blooded, while "Dog Official" is more or less warm-hearted. For example, there is warmth in the famine, and there are good people in the troubled times, but these good people often do not end well. Some good people are also forced to be bad people in order to survive.

Zhou Hexuan showed Zhang Leyi the first tens of thousands of words he had written, and Zhang Leyi only said one sentence after reading it: "I will never read your novels again in the future, it's too scary!" ”

"Haha, how can you wake people up if you're not scary?" Zhou Hexuan packed the manuscript of the novel and went to the post office to send it to the magazine "Novel Monthly".

A week later, Zheng Zhenduo from Shanghai received the manuscript and saw that it was signed by Zhou Hexuan, and he immediately opened it excitedly to read it.

Because the novel is called "Dog Official", Zheng Zhenduo thought it was satirizing bureaucrats, but he didn't expect to read it and find that Zhou Hexuan was really describing a "dog" official.

"It's an amazing perspective!" Zheng Zhenduo couldn't help but admire.

Much of the suffering that the dog experienced in the book was of his own making. In Zheng Zhenduo's view, Zhou Hexuan's purpose in writing this book is to let the officials see how many bastards they have done and how much harm they have caused to the people and society.

If you evaluate the protagonist of the novel Gu Wangzhi alone, this gentleman is better than a dog. When you are a man, you don't do human things, but when you are a dog, you still have some conscience, you know how to repay your kindness, and you know how to maintain your master.

Needless to say, the headline novel of the next issue of "Novel Monthly" is the work of Zhou Hexuan again.

And when "Dog Official" came out, the sensation was even greater than that of "The Goddess". Because "The Goddess" is written in a mess, all kinds of flashbacks and conjectures and fantasies are interspersed, and readers with insufficient brains can't understand it at all.

"Dog Official" is different, this novel is linear from beginning to end, the language is plain and straightforward, as long as you know the words, you can read it. And everything described in the book is really happening all over the country at this moment.