Zhou Hexuan's new work is called "The Dog Officer", and it can barely be regarded as a realistic fantasy work.
The protagonist of the novel is Gu Wangzhi. He was poor when he was young, but he was very smart. With the support of his mentor, he studied abroad in Japan. He gave up his studies halfway and ran to engage in revolution with enthusiasm. After overthrowing the corrupt Qing government, he who originally wanted to serve the country gradually lost his way.
In power and wealth.
Gu Wangzhi abandoned his wife (the daughter of his mentor) and married the daughter of a wealthy local businessman. Relying on his father-in-law's local financial resources and his reputation as a revolutionary pioneer, he climbed up the ladder step by step. He then followed the trend, clung to the powerful, and eventually became a provincial governor.
Senior officer.
The above are all character backgrounds, and the novel begins with a banquet.
Several wealthy businessmen invited Gu Wangzhi to a banquet. They wanted to build a large factory. In order to facilitate the transportation of goods, they chose a location near a village. Because it would occupy the villagers' farmland and graveyards, the relocation work could not be carried out, and the profiteers were unwilling to spend too much.
Money settlement compensation.
In addition, they needed official support, so the wealthy businessmen decided to give Gu Wangzhi shares in the new factory. Gu Wangzhi also agreed. After the banquet, he sent his men to lead the gangsters to cause trouble. In the end, a murder occurred, and the government used the name of murder to kill people.
Several villagers who resisted the most strongly were arrested and shot.
One day, when Gu Wangwai was out, he heard the people calling him a dog official. He laughed loudly and did not take it seriously. He also said to his followers: "It is difficult to be an honest official, but it is easy to be a dog official. In this world, you must become a dog official."
That night he returned home and fell into a deep sleep. When he woke up, he found that he had really turned into a dog, and he was still a local dog.
When the wife saw a dog lying next to her, she screamed in fear, called her son and servants, and drove Gu Wangzhi out of the house, who had turned into a dog.
Gu Wangzhi wanted to explain, but when his words came out, it was just a cry of "woof, woof, woof". In desperation, he fled to his concubine, only to find that his concubine was stealing a man, who was also a famous local opera actor.
When the concubine saw a local dog entering the house, she immediately beat him out with the wild man.
Gu Wangzhi, who was covered with bruises, started a conversation with his concubine's pet dog at the door of his home.
The pet dog said: "The mistress has cheated on her a long time ago. She even used the money you gave her to buy a car for that pretty boy. Even her son is not your biological child."
Gu Wangzhi said: "I am your master, you should help me drive away that wild man."
The pet dog said: "You used to be my master, but now you are worse than me. You are just a dirty, smelly and injured dog. You may die in a few days. Why should I help you?"
Gu Wangzhi said: "You ungrateful dog, if you have milk, you will be your mother."
The pet dog said: "Isn't that the same for you?"
Gu Wangzhi crawled into the courtyard through the dog hole, and watched the pretty boy sleeping with his woman, using his money, and living in his house. He was so angry that he screamed. This scream alarmed the pretty boy, so he picked up a stick and beat him again.
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Gu Wangzhi was limping and wandering on the street. He was so hungry that when he saw someone pouring sour water, he immediately rushed towards him with vicious dogs. As a result, he met two beggars. The beggars not only robbed him of the sour water, but also
They also want to catch him, skin him and eat him.
When Gu Wangzhi finally escaped from the disaster and was about to starve to death, a little girl adopted him.
The little girl lives in a village on the outskirts of the city. She originally had a few acres of thin farmland at home, but it was expropriated by businessmen to build a factory. Even the little girl's father was arrested by the government. The family was impoverished, and her mother was usurped by the bullies in the village.
Little girls were also sold into brothels and began to receive customers when they were only twelve or thirteen years old.
The little girl secretly fed Gu Wangzhi every day. Once he waited for a long time at the door of the brothel, but the little girl didn't come out yet. Later he found out that the little girl had contracted the disease and was already terminally ill.
Gu Wangzhi rushed into the brothel to comfort the little girl, but was beaten by Mr. Turtle with a stick.
He continued to wander with lame legs, and met his former wife and mentor again. The mentor was already old and seriously ill, and his wife's hair turned gray before she was 40 years old. She relied on washing and mending for others. However, they still took Gu Wangzhi in, giving him a rare chance to live.
A place to stay.
But the good times didn't last long. There was a war in the local area, and the military governor ordered to levy exorbitant taxes. Even the pots and stoves at home were taxed. My wife had no choice but to smash the pots and push the stove, and go to build stones outside the house to cook every day.
Until one day, Fa's wife went to the city to buy medicine for her mentor and never came back. When Gu Wangzhi went to look for her, he found that Fa's wife had died of illness on the roadside. When he returned home, his mentor had also passed away.
Gu Wangzhi continued to wander, observing from the perspective of a dog the country he had built with his passionate revolution, including poverty, hunger, war, natural disasters, and plagues...
The whole novel is just a dog wandering around constantly, showing all aspects of social problems in the Republic of China.
The final outcome was that Gu Wangzhi was captured and eaten by soldiers, and the commander of that army was his eldest son who had been sent to the military academy.
In troubled times, people are inferior to dogs, but many dogs secretly occupy high positions and become humans.
If we insist on comparing "The Goddess" and "The Goddess", then "The Goddess" is more cold-blooded and cruel, while "The Goddess" has more or less warm tones. For example, there is warmth in disasters, and there are good people in troubled times.
However, these good people often do not end well. Some good people are forced to become bad people in order to survive.
Zhou Hexuan showed Zhang Leyi the first tens of thousands of words he had written. Zhang Leyi only said one sentence after reading: "I will never read your novels again, it's too scary!"
"Haha, how can we alert people if it's not scary?" Zhou Hexuan packed up the manuscript of the novel and went to the post office to send it to the "Novel Monthly" magazine.
A week later, Zheng Zhenduo in Shanghai received the manuscript and saw that it was signed by Zhou Hexuan. He immediately opened it and read it excitedly.
Because the novel is called "Dog Official", Zheng Zhenduo thought it was a satire on bureaucrats. Unexpectedly, after reading it, he discovered that Zhou Hexuan was actually describing a "dog" official.
"This perspective is really wonderful!" Zheng Zhenduo couldn't help but admire.
Most of the sufferings that the dog experienced in the book were his own faults. In Zheng Zhenduo's view, Zhou Hexuan's purpose in writing this book was to let officials see how many bad things they had done, and to bring benefits to the people.
How much harm has it caused to society.
If we evaluate Gu Wangzhi, the protagonist of the novel, alone, he would be worse off as a human being than a dog. As a human being, he does not do human things, but as a dog, he still has some conscience, knows how to repay kindness, and knows how to protect his master.
Needless to say, the headline novel in the next issue of "Novel Monthly" will be another work by Zhou Hexuan.
When "The Dog Officer" came out, it caused even greater sensation than "The Goddess". Because "The Goddess" was written in a messy way, with various flashbacks and conjectures interspersed with it, readers with insufficient brains could not understand it at all.
"The Dog Official" is different. This novel is a linear description from beginning to end. The language is simple and straightforward, and anyone who can read can understand it. And everything described in the book is actually happening all over the country at this moment.
