Chapter 110: Going Abroad This article was published simultaneously in several newspapers...
This article was published simultaneously in multiple newspapers, so its speed and scope of dissemination were naturally very wide.
When everyone saw it, they were like, wow, no wonder they always felt something was not right when they read it, and they thought it might be because of their low awareness or low literary literacy.
After all, they can win the Nobel Prize, right? Their level must be higher than theirs.
There are so many compliments here that if they say anything different, it would seem like they have no level or they are just sour grapes...
Now Li Daohua has the facts and the truth, and she herself has won the Nobel Prize, so she knows whether the grapes are sour or sweet.
After Li Daohua said this, some people dared to question it.
Especially those who had gone to the countryside with Liu Mei, they actually lived together for a long time, and they knew each other very well what kind of person they were.
Going to the countryside is not a good thing. There is not much competition among them at the beginning, and there is no need for everyone to pretend, as their true nature will be exposed soon.
When they saw Liu Mei won the Nobel Prize, they felt that the world was too unfair. People like Liu Mei could always be successful and famous.
In Liu Mei's writing, they are those greedy and stupid people, and of course they are unhappy.
But no matter how you tell others, they won't believe you. Even if you tell your relatives, they will find fault with you or tell you to mind your own business.
Now when I read Li Daohua's article, although Li Daohua did not directly vindicate them, nor did she mention them, she indirectly spoke for them.
Especially in the small mountain village where they went to work, were there any bad people? Of course there were bad people everywhere, even in the best places.
But are you saying that there are only bad people there? That's impossible. They went to an ordinary small mountain village, not some evil valley.
If they were all bad guys, could they have come back alive after being there for so long?
After this article was published, it became very popular and newspaper sales soared. Seeing the popularity, some people who were close to the article decided to conduct on-site inspections like Li Daohua did.
When Liu Mei went to the countryside, she also published articles to speak for herself. Of course, as official media, they could not openly sing a different tune or say bad things about Liu Mei.
They just published articles, listing what contributions the local people had made.
For example, how many local people served in the army, what heroic deeds did the local people do during the Anti-Japanese War, how did the local people get rid of poverty and eliminate illiteracy after the founding of New China, who were the local people, and what touching deeds did they do...
In short, I didn't say a bad word about Liu Mei, but I also wanted to prove to everyone that not all of them are bad people. On the contrary, there are many good people here.
If everyone thinks that this is the Valley of Evil, they will never be able to live as human beings again.
Liu Mei never thought that Li Daohua could achieve this level. Don't people always exaggerate when writing articles?
What's more, he thinks these people are bad people. Why do you, Li Daohua, think they are good people? He has been to the countryside and suffered. Have you, Li Daohua, ever suffered?
Do you know how insulting it was for me, an intellectual, to work in the fields?
You don't know anything, you just know that I have a bicycle. What's wrong with having a bicycle? It's the result of my family and I's hard work, and it's what we deserve.
When he wrote this, Li Daohua was no longer sleepy. When it comes to enduring hardship, who can compare to her?
She comes from a peasant family and spent the first twenty years of her life working in the fields.
For farmers, working in the fields is not the most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing is that they don’t even have the opportunity to work in the fields, and they don’t even have the land.
You just can't stand working in the fields for a few years. People in the countryside work all their lives, but they don't have as much resentment as you.
According to your logic, the farmers should say that everyone in the world is a bad person and owes them something. You fought hard to get the bicycles, right? Just wait, I will check how you fought hard.
Li Daohua is a man of her words. If she says she will investigate, she will investigate. She knows a lot of people, so it is not difficult for her to investigate.
After Liu Mei won the prize, all the information about her family background, her parents, and her life experience could be found in the newspaper, so Li Daohua didn't have to go to open an account in person.
Some of this information was checked by the newspaper itself, and some was released by Liu Mei herself. In short, the objective situation still has a certain degree of credibility.
Liu Mei is fifty years old this year, about the same age as Li Daohua's parents. He went to a church school when he was a child and later was admitted to university from the church school.
He is different from some children from ordinary families who go to school based on their talents. He goes to school with the sponsorship of his family.
Students in church schools can be roughly divided into two types: children from ordinary families who rely on their own brains to get school scholarships, and children from wealthy families who rely on family sponsorship to go to school.
Liu Mei belongs to the latter.
His family was a capitalist family, and although their class background was not good, they were not targets for overthrow. His going to the countryside was not a matter of class background as he mentioned in his article, but rather that everyone went to the countryside at that time, even those with better class backgrounds than him, unless they were the only child.
Even after that period of time, his house and other things were returned to his family, and Liu Mei lived in the big house again.
Of course, the group of servants he once had are definitely gone, and his family can only fend for themselves. Such a big house would be empty for just one family, so they might as well rent out part of it and collect rent.
It is a bit difficult to investigate his family's business because his parents no longer do the family business and it is well hidden, so we don't know the specific circumstances.
However, Li Daohua found out that Liu Mei's brother and sister were both in America. They went there to study abroad at a church school and never returned.
Li Daohua asked Ian to check these two people.
Li Daohua made all these things known and told Liu Mei explicitly that she wanted to see how his parents struggled and how they achieved such a comfortable life without exploiting the common people.
You can struggle, but your struggle cannot be to exploit the common people.
This is really ridiculous. In the past two years, the situation has improved and the country no longer cares about the issue of background.
Liu Mei's words, spoken so loudly, put his family at the center of public opinion once again.
"Look at you, you are so grown up, but you are always talking nonsense. When you were young, I told you to be low-key and be an honest person! Why don't you understand?"
At the Liu family, Liu's father was scolding Liu Mei. He did not object to Liu Mei's involvement in culture, although before this, Liu Mei was not a professional in culture.
Last year, after seeing Li Daohua win the award, he suddenly had an idea to use this method to gain recognition from Western countries. His brother and sister also agreed with this idea.
The reason is that they both learned this method to integrate into the local community in America.
By the same token, they believed that it shouldn't be too difficult for Liu Mei to integrate into the international cultural circle using this method, and they were indeed successful.
It's a pity that he met a stubborn person like Li Daohua. If he had faced someone else, the consequences would have been very different.
Liu Mei was also panicking. He began to criticize Li Daohua for not respecting human rights and not having freedom of speech, saying that she was taking history in the opposite direction...
"Allowing you to speak is the best embodiment of freedom of speech, so shut up, haters."
Li Daohua is urgently investigating the dirty laundry on his family. It's too old and there aren't many documentary records, so it's not easy to investigate. However, his brother and sister have made a lot of opposing remarks in America.
Li Daohua felt that this was of little use. His brother and sister were still his brother and sister, and he did not gain anything from these opposing remarks.
However, Ian found out that Liu Mei showed a particularly strong tendency to immigrate in the letters he wrote to his brother and sister. Unfortunately, this is not the same era as before, and there is no church school to help him operate.
He is old and not eligible to study abroad at public expense. He and his family do not have any special skills. He has applied several times, but could not get a visa even for visiting relatives. After all, there are too many people who use this reason.
Many people have various reasons, but after arriving in the country, they all tear up their visas, hide from place to place, and become illegal immigrants in the United States.
Li Daohua felt that it would be better to send such an outstanding talent to the other side rather than keep him by his side.
Li Daohua discussed with Ian to bring Liu Mei over.
As long as there is a work unit in America to accept you and someone to help with the process, it is not difficult to get your application approved.
After Li Daohua's exposure, no matter how much Liu Mei said, his novels were still questioned by everyone, and he did not have the glory that Li Daohua had when she won the award.
Even when he attended a lecture, most students didn't buy his ideas, except for a few who flattered him.
Liu Mei was also anxious. Just when he was anxious, he received a call from his brother, who said that he had found a job for him in America and the company could help solve the visa problem. Now as long as he applied for a visa, he would be successful.
He couldn't believe it. When he was communicating with his brother and sister before, they complained in their letters that life in America was not easy and asked their family to send them money.
But there is no money at home. The money at home is not enough for their expenses. Although there are few people in his family who stay in the country, they are all good at spending money. They will never use bad things if they have good ones. Think about their family back then. Balabala...
This time his brother actually made an international call. Life is really getting better.
Of course he had to go, he had to go. Not only did he have to go, he had to go in a big way and tell everyone that he left because he was excluded and wronged.
He wants to leave this unfree country and go to a free and civilized country.
As soon as he said this, public opinion immediately changed. It was different whether there was this person or not.
Everyone began to think again, is Li Daohua too aggressive? She even forced people to go to America. Does she really want to be the only Nobel Prize winner in the country, as Liu Mei said?
Faced with such doubts, Li Daohua said nothing.
It was not until Liu Mei successfully arrived in America and the people sent by Ian saw him tearing up his visa with their own eyes that Li Daohua continued to publish the evidence he had obtained in the newspaper at a leisurely pace.
Including Liu Mei's persistent application to go to America, and the various reactionary remarks in Liu Mei's family's reply to his brother and sister.
These things are more shocking than the novels written by Liu Mei. They include private letters and everything else.
His reputation in the country is completely ruined, but I feel like he doesn't care about that anymore. He should be more concerned about survival.
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