Yang Jinglun put down the newspaper in his hand. Although he had already read the original manuscript written by Le Jing, he still felt cold all over when he reread "The Animal Way" at this time.
The article "The Animal Path" lifts the veil that the Chinese nation, with the Han people as the main body, has been accustomed to for thousands of years, revealing the bloody, maggot-filled inner world.
I can't bear to finish reading it, but I have to read it.
He looked at the young man who was writing quickly at his desk to the side with almost awe.
Although the boy is thin, he has a terrifying and powerful brain, which is enough to change the world and fight against thousands of troops.
Yang Jinglun's keen intuition as an editor told him what kind of storm this article would cause.
So when the article was sent to the Shanghai branch of the Literary Newspaper, the editors unanimously decided to offer a high price of ten yuan per thousand words.
This is already the price for a first-class writer.
But anyone who sees this article will understand that it is worth the price.
This article will become a groundbreaking work, which is the tacit consensus of all editors.
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Li Tingye has been detained for two weeks.
For the past two weeks, he hadn't seen anyone except the boy who brought him food every day.
At first he could still shout a few words in anger, but after two weeks, no matter how angry he was, it had subsided, and was replaced by deep fear.
Is he really going to be locked up for life?
Why did the second uncle and his friends protect that evil beast so much? !
Could it be that the evil beast is really the God of Literature who has descended to earth? !
If that beast Li Jingliang hadn't been so smart and acted on his own, he wouldn't have ended up like this!
God is blind. How could he let him give birth to these two evil beasts!
He paced back and forth in the room like a trapped animal.
After an unknown amount of time, the door creaked open and Li Tingfang walked in.
Li Tingye was overjoyed: "Brother! Are you here to let me out?!"
Li Tingfang had no expression on his face: "Do you know where you went wrong?"
Li Tingye said aggrievedly: "I was also implicated by that kid Li Jingliang this time! It was because of his brain that he suddenly published such an article in the newspaper..."
"It seems that these two weeks are still too short." Li Tingfang sneered and threw him a newspaper. "Take a good look at it yourself! If you still don't understand, you'll stay here and never come out again!"
Li Tingye opened the newspaper in confusion, and the first thing that caught his eye was the three big words "Animal Realm".
The article is very long, but this is not the reason why Li Tingfang almost gave up on it several times.
Li Tingfang scolded: "Read it to me completely!"
Li Tingye gritted his teeth and reluctantly finished reading the article. He was sweating profusely and his whole body felt like it had just been pulled out of the water.
He gasped for breath, looked at Li Tingfang with a look of shock and asked, "This article was written by... Li Jingran?"
Li Tingfang nodded with a cold face.
Li Tingye stopped talking and just stared at the newspaper in his hand in horror, not knowing what he was thinking.
After a long while, just when Li Tingfang got tired of waiting and turned to leave, the trembling voice of that idiot finally sounded behind him: "...It's not unfair that I was locked up."
"My second uncle is right. He alone can destroy my Li family."
Li Tingfang glanced at him sideways and said, "You're not that stupid."
Li Tingye's face turned pale, and there was deep fear in his eyes. He said woodenly, "I understand the power of the pens of scholars to kill people without being seen. I will definitely be condemned by thousands of people and be infamous for eternity."
"I just don't know if Li Jingliang can understand. I'm afraid..."
Although he didn't finish his words, Li Tingfang understood what he meant, so he said expressionlessly: "I have sent him a letter in the name of the clan leader, asking him to come back."
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For the first time in his life, Li Jingliang felt what despair was.
This feeling began to germinate when he read "The Animal Path" in the newspaper, and became more and more intense when he saw the newspaper's in-depth digging into their family's past, and finally reached its peak when he received a letter of scolding from the patriarch.
He didn't understand why the wind changed overnight. Those who had previously scolded the night watchman scolded him and his parents with ten times, a hundred times more anger.
The stories of a father favoring his concubine and killing his wife, a mother forcing her legal wife to death, and a mother plotting against her eldest son spread throughout the streets and alleys, becoming a topic of conversation for countless people after dinner.
Even people in school were talking about it.
"Li Jingliang is just a sissy. With a mother like that, he is not a good person either."
"If you ask me, the insults against Mr. Night Watchman in the newspapers were too strange. Maybe it was Li Jingliang and his mother who did it."
"Li Tingye favors his concubine and kills his wife, and allows his second wife to slander and attack the eldest son and daughter left by his first wife. Such foolishness is rare in the world!"
"He even published an article to clear the name of the Night Watchman, saying that the previous insults to Li Jingran in the newspapers were all lies... He's treating us like fools! What was he doing before? He just wanted to save his reputation because his scandal was exposed."
"Li Jingran is really pitiful. He has been bullied since he was a child, and he couldn't resist because of filial piety. In the end, he couldn't bear it anymore and exploded, but they still blamed him and threw dirty water on him."
Then at the end of the discussion, they would look at him and smile: "Li Jingliang really has the same shamelessness as his mother. If I were him, I would have banged my head against the wall out of shame."
"He actually has the nerve to come to school. It's true that shameless people are invincible in the world."
"I heard that the articles in the newspapers that slandered the Night Watchmen were written by someone hired by Li Jingliang. They are so vicious."
Li Jingliang bent his back, looking as frightened as a dog that had lost its home.
What people say is scary, he knew that his future was completely over!
It was at this moment that he finally regretted that he should not have provoked Li Jingran.
He was blinded by his arrogance, so he never saw his brother clearly and didn't know how powerful he was, which led to his current disgrace.
Later, Li Jingliang disappeared from Beijing. Some people said that he returned to his hometown in Northeast China and was locked up by his family to reflect on his mistakes. People didn't care about his ending. After a few words, they talked about the recent popular "Animal Path" again.
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The article "The Animal Realm" was first published by Le Jing in the Shanghai branch of the Literary Newspaper. A day later, the Literary Newspaper headquarters in Beijing also reprinted it.
Three days later, newspapers in Tianjin and Nanjing reprinted "The Animal Realm".
Two days later, newspapers in Jiangsu and Hebei reprinted "The Animal Realm".
A few days later, even the Fengtian newspapers published "The Animal Realm" word for word.
With Shanghai and Beijing as its center, "The Animal Way" quickly swept across China from north to south. For a time, the sound of "beast" was heard everywhere in the streets and alleys.
At first, most of the comments in the newspapers focused on criticizing Li Tingye and Wang, but the situation soon got out of control.
The small sword in "The Animal Way" is sharp. At first glance, it seems that the author, the Night Watchman, is stabbing the knife at his own original family, but in fact, he is pointing the sword at the foolish filial piety and patriarchy that have ruled China for thousands of years.
Such a shocking act naturally shocked the whole country and also triggered a major debate on filial piety that would be recorded in later history books.
"Literary News": How many more years will the Chinese filial piety continue to consume people?
"Tianjin City News": Ridiculous words from a bastard! The authorities should ban it!
"Pingyuan Evening News": Full of righteousness and morality, but with murderous intentions in mind.
"Xuzhou New Things": Filial piety is the foundation of a country! Without filial piety, China will perish!
Zhejiang Morning Post: From the Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars to The Path of Animals, what is filial piety?
"Jinzhong News": The night watchman who betrayed his ancestors and disregarded human ethics is condemned by thousands of people!
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Scholars from all over the world used pens as weapons and newspapers as battlefields to start a bloodless fight for their own ideals.
Beneath this battlefield without the smoke of gunpowder, an undercurrent is slowly brewing and flowing.
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The white-haired old woman sat on the ground, wiping her tears and crying to the villagers who were watching: "What's the point of me living? It would be better for me to die! The son I raised with great difficulty has turned his elbow out and married a wife who doesn't want me anymore! That vixen will only hold on to men! I shouldn't have let her in the first place!"
The son's face flushed, and he humbly said, "Mom, stop making trouble. I beg you, let's go!"
The old woman stopped crying, stared at her son, and asked with full strength, "Do you know you are wrong?"
"…It's all my son's fault. Please don't hurt yourself."
The old woman curled her lips proudly: "Then divorce your wife!"
The son said in embarrassment: "Mother, Chunniang has worked hard for our family for so many years, has always served you wholeheartedly, and has given birth to three good children for our family. She is the most virtuous one in the world. How can you divorce her?"
The old woman was so angry that her eyes were spitting fire. She slapped her thigh and started crying again: "What's the point of me living! My son is a softie who only listens to his wife, a coward! That bitch Xie Chunniang has bad intentions and wants me to die sooner! Everyone says that raising a son is a way to prepare for old age, but my good son has to watch me being killed by his wife!"
"Mom!" The son finally said angrily, "Please stop being unreasonable! Chunniang's virtue is well-known, please stop being unreasonable!"
"Gensheng! How can you talk to your mother like that?" one of the villagers scolded.
After finding someone to back her up, the old woman cried even louder, and she refused to give in, asking the villagers to judge for her opinion: "Listen to what you are saying! Fine, fine, you are grown up now, and I am old and useless, and you don't care whether I live or die! You lost your father when you were seven years old, and I raised you as both your father and your mother..."
"Enough!" The son finally roared out, staring at his mother who was throwing a tantrum on the ground, as if he was looking at some kind of man-eating monster: "As the saying goes, a loving mother makes a filial son. If the mother is not loving, how can the son be filial? Chunniang visits you every morning and evening, fans your pillow and warms your quilt, but how do you treat Chunniang? Chunniang was six months pregnant, but you punished her to kneel and set rules, and eventually she miscarried. Now she is still lying in bed and can't get up. You don't feel sorry for her, but I do!"
The old woman glared and was about to say something, but her son interrupted her impatiently: "Son, you have endured for more than ten years and I have had enough! Today, I may have to be called a beast by the night watchmen! Even if I have to be criticized by thousands of people, I want to live a good life with Chun Niang!"
"Mother, let's separate now!"
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"If you ever step out of the house, you are not my son!" The old man stood guard at the door with a sullen look on his face.
The middle-aged man was silent for a while, then heaved a sigh of relief, "Then I won't be Dad's son anymore."
"You!" The old man blew his beard and glared angrily: "Evil beast! Evil beast!"
The middle-aged man laughed bitterly: "Because I am the eldest, I cannot go out to study or work. I can only farm at home to support my parents. My knowledge and talent are not as important as the word 'filial piety'!"
"If it weren't for The Animal Path that enlightened me, I would have just spent my whole life in confusion!"
"Now that I've become this evil beast, I'm living a very happy life!" The middle-aged man laughed and strode out of the door, leaving the old man far behind.
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Wherever "The Animal Realm" goes, there are many people who have awakened like the son and the middle-aged man.
Where there is oppression, there is resistance.
The mountain of filial piety has been weighing on the Chinese people for too long. Countless people have suffered a fate worse than death because of the word "filial piety".
Now the sudden emergence of "The Animal Realm" has given them the best example.
Instead of being a filial person, it is better to be a free and happy "beast".
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