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It is estimated that many people have not heard of this school, and you will know the name of the school if you pronounce it backwards - Xiamen University.

Two years ago, due to the student turmoil, Xiamen University, which had just been founded, was split. Some teachers and students left Shanghai to re-establish the school, which is the origin of Daxia University. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Daxia University was integrated into East China Normal University as a whole.

It was the weekend and the morning was sunny.

Several female students picked up the letter and laughed all the way back to the dormitory. As they walked past a room, a girl knocked on the door and shouted, "Teacher Huang! ”

The door, a haggard woman in her 20s, asked, "Is there something wrong?" ”

The girl said, "When I went to pick up the letter just now, I saw your parcel and helped you get it back by the way." ”

"Thank you." The woman laughed.

"Teacher Huang, then let's go first!" The girl handed her the parcel and waved goodbye.

Teacher Huang's name is Huang Shuyi, pen name Lu Yin, member No. 13 of the Literary Research Association. Her current position is a teacher at the High School Attached to Daxia, and she is also the guide for female students at Daxia University, and she usually lives in the women's dormitory.

There was also a little girl about two years old in the room, looking at Lu Yin: "Mom, I'm hungry." ”

Lu Yin took out a candy from the drawer, stuffed it into her daughter's mouth and said, "Good, eat sugar first, it's not lunch time yet." ”

The little girl was very thin, and she ran back to bed with her candy, and sat down obediently without speaking.

Lu Yin opened the parcel, and inside was the latest issue of "Novel Monthly", as an early member of the Literary Research Association, she had the right to subscribe to the journal for free.

While coaxing the child, Lu Yin opened the magazine. She was soon surprised to find that the "headline" novel in this issue was actually a new work, and even Lao She's "Lao Zhang's Philosophy" was squeezed to the back.

"It turned out to be Mr. Zhou's masterpiece, but I didn't expect him to start writing novels." Lu Yin is far away in Shanghai, and he has not heard of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

For Zhou Hexuan, Lu Yin admires him very much. She once said: I envy heroes, I obey thinkers.

After reading "The Rise of Great Powers", Lu Yin thought that Zhou Hexuan was a great thinker, and she was now curious about what kind of novels the thinker would write.

Lu Yin is a novelist and quickly immerses himself in the story.

The heroine in the book has no name, and is replaced by "she" throughout. "She" talks to ghosts in prison, "she" wanders alone since childhood, "she" befriends feral cats, "she" discusses survival with wild dogs, "she" steals food and is caught by the police, "she" becomes a sacrifice for rain from the Overseers, and "she" meets the river god at the bottom of the river......

Although the weight of "Novel Monthly" is very large, it also needs to publish other content, so "The Goddess" only serialized more than 10,000 words. When the heroine meets the river god, the novel comes to an abrupt end.

Lu Yin put down the magazine and let out a long sigh. She didn't know what to say about the novel, everything in the book has a spirit, including cats and dogs can speak, but humans are like marionettes who have lost their souls.

Fairy tale?

Children simply can't understand the deeper meaning of the book, while adults shudder to read it.

Mythology?

This is not a mythological novel, and the plot of gods and ghosts in it can be understood as the protagonist is fantasizing. This is a work of realism, but the description of society is too dark. This darkness is also hidden in joy and festivity, like a sharp sword piercing the reader's heart.

Lu Yin empathized with this, and she even felt that the novel was describing herself.

Lu Yin grew up in an old-fashioned family, his father was a former Qingju person, and even served as a magistrate. But she was regarded as a disaster by her mother since she was a child, and she was thrown to raise by her wet nurse, because her grandmother died on the day she was born.

In childhood, the whole family treated her as if she didn't exist. She was covered in scabies when she was two years old, and she couldn't walk or speak at the age of three, because no one bothered to teach her. Later, she fell ill with a very severe fever, and her family did not send her to be treated, waiting for her to fend for herself. It was the wet nurse who took her to the countryside and ate the coarse tea and light rice of the farmhouse to recover from her illness.

After his father became the magistrate of Changsha County, Lu Yin was taken back to his parents. But she still couldn't get love, and once because of crying, she was thrown into the water by her father, but fortunately she was rescued by an attendant who listened to the mission.

All this because she is a woman and a disaster star.

When Lu Yin was six years old, his father died of a heart attack, and his uncle took them to his grandfather's house in Beiping. Uncle is a former member of the Ministry of Agriculture and Industry of the Qing Dynasty, and he is also the imperial doctor of the Tai Hospital, and his family is big, and there are about 20 cousins in Luyin.

But Lu Yin was still regarded as a disaster star, and he couldn't enter school, so he could only follow his aunt to learn the Three Character Sutra. She even lived with the maid in the house, and whenever there was a happy event or a treat at her uncle's house, Lu Yin was locked in the yard alone, and she could only talk to the birds, insects, flowers and plants in the courtyard to relieve her boredom.

This is just the beginning, Lu Yin's life is a complete tragedy, and she has never been smooth. Last year, her husband also died, and she was kicked out of the house by her mother-in-law, and she wandered around with her one-year-old daughter.

When he was studying in school before, Lu Yin had sores on his feet and was almost crippled, and later his lung tube ruptured and coughed up blood. At that time, she was led to religion, converted to God, and found solace in her religious beliefs. Now she believes in new ideas (freedom and science), she has been to Japan, Korea, Mukden, Dalian and Tianjin, and she has witnessed the withering of Chinese society and the misery of people's lives, and she has gone crazy to overthrow this old society.

Everything depicted in "The Goddess" is secretly in line with Lu Yin's state of mind.

Liang Qichao and Zheng Zhenduo felt panicked when they read "The Goddess", but Lu Yin felt different about it, because she had experienced this since she was a child.

At noon, Lu Yin went out to eat with her daughter, and when she returned to the dormitory, she picked up a pen to write a book review, and she planned to publish it in the "Literature and Art Talk" section of "Novel Monthly":

"Since the May Fourth Movement, China's new school of literature has first recommended "Diary of a Madman", followed by Mr. Zhou Hexuan's "Goddess". In just over 10,000 words, I only saw the beginning, and I already saw an old society that cannibalized people. 'She' seems to be a sacrifice of this dark society, destined to tragedy, peeling off the coat of gods and monsters, I see the author's analysis of the soul, the torture of human nature, this book will show readers a real and absurd Chinese ......"

Not only Lu Yin, but all the readers who got the "Novel Monthly" were shocked by this novel that only serialized the first 10,000 words.

Zheng Zhenduo himself wrote a comment in the magazine: "The 'she' in 'The Goddess' is the embodiment of China's 40,000 people, and each of us is a victim of the old society. ”

What attracted the attention of writers more was the way "The Goddess" was written. The plot of the novel is incoherent, with a lot of flashbacks and interludes, and there are various fantasies of the heroine, brewing a psychedelic and absurd atmosphere that makes it difficult to distinguish reality.

This kind of novel is unique in the whole world.

After reading "The Goddess", many writers have the same thought in their minds: I grass, can the novel be written like this?