Pengpeng has become obsessed with Calabash Babies these days and draws them every day.
"Dad, how big should the gourd on Calabash Baby's head be? Can you think of my drawing?"
"Dad, is the gourd baby on the big baby's head bigger?"
"Dad, the snake spirit has no legs, how does she walk?"
"Dad, why are the snake spirits and the scorpion spirits together? Shouldn't the snake spirits be together with the snake spirits?"
"dad……"
Zhang Zhong regretted telling Pengpeng the story of Calabash Baby. If he had known that she would ask so many questions, he should have told her some stories that he was familiar with. He really didn't know much about Calabash Baby.
In the end, Zhang Zhong had no choice but to let Peng Peng perform freely.
Didn't she ask the baby if the gourd on his head was bigger? If she thought it was good, then she would draw it like this.
Anyway, this is not a math homework with standard answers. In this world, this story belongs entirely to Pengpeng. She can do whatever she wants, and there is no need to be rigid.
On Thursday afternoon, Zhang Zhong was preparing to drive to Nanhuai Film Academy when the voice of the system rang in his mind again.
[When the remaining points reach 10,000, they can be exchanged for a lottery draw, or 20,000 points can be accumulated...]
Every time the points news is broadcast, the system will tirelessly promote more advanced lottery modes.
But this time Zhang Zhong still ignored him.
【Lottery】
【Lottery in progress】
[Won the work "Wives and Concubines" from [Biqudao www.biqudao.xyz]]
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Why did the style become more and more deviated? Zhang Zhong stood in front of the car door and received "Wives and Concubines" in his mind.
After receiving it, he closed the car door and returned home.
The previous book "Love in a Fallen City" told the story of a woman and a man, but this one is amazing and tells the story of several women and a man.
The two books are somewhat similar. In a sense, they both tell the tragedy of women.
The book "Wives and Concubines" may not be Su Tong's best work, but it is definitely his most famous book.
Many people may not know Su Tong or "Honey and Concubines", but as long as the movie "Raise the Red Lantern" adapted from this book is mentioned, most people will feel thunderous.
That’s right, Zhang Yimou’s most acclaimed work, Raise the Red Lantern, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language, was adapted from Su Tong’s Wives and Concubines.
Song Lian, the daughter of a wealthy family who was in decline, chose the latter between going out to work or marrying as a concubine, and became the fourth concubine of the Chen family.
However, in addition to the wealthy life she wanted, the Chen family mansion also had fierce competition that she did not expect.
Several women compete for one man, just to hang a red lantern in front of their room, which means that their husbands will stay overnight and receive luxurious treatment.
The final result is of course a tragedy. The third wife Mei Shan died, the fourth wife Songlian went crazy, and just when the second wife thought she had won, another fifth wife came.
The appearance of the fifth wife Wenzhu seems to indicate that this struggle will never end.
Su Tong's works often use the first-person narrative perspective, but this book is different. Perhaps in order to be more objective, he uses the third-person perspective. No matter how the plot evolves, he always hides behind the words and narrates without emotion.
Zhang Zhong's first impression of Su Tong came from his novel "Binu". This book tells a story based on the story "Meng Jiangnu Cries at the Great Wall".
Su Tong's writing is very delicate and the story is full of romance.
But it would be a big mistake to think that Su Tong is a writer full of romanticism. In fact, in most of Su Tong's books, the faces of women are always ugly and vulgar, and rarely have kind and beautiful sides.
Just like "Wives and Concubines".
Zhang Zhong sat in the study, leaning on his chair and thinking for a long time.
There was just a book called "Love in a Fallen City", and now there is a book called "Wives and Concubines". While the style has changed dramatically, the styles of these two books are very similar.
He now has two choices.
First, throw these two books into the reserve library and take them out when the time is right. However, Zhang Zhong doesn’t know when this time will come, and it may never come.
Second, follow the example of Yu Dongyu, who also built a vest and used another vest to distribute these two books.
There are many writers with many pen names, such as Lu Xun, who is said to have had as many as 128 pen names, and he is not far behind, having used about ninety pen names.
It is difficult to study the reasons why writers use pen names. Some people even think that multiple pen names come from multiple personalities, which means that the writer has split personality.
Multiple pen names have pros and cons, and tragic things have happened in the literary world because of multiple pen names.
One of the most famous writers in France, Romain Kascheff, once used the pen name Romain Gary, and this pen name also gained high reputation in the industry.
He felt tired of his fame, so he took up another pen name, Emile Ayal, in an attempt to escape from his identity. In the end, Ayal's work won the Prix Goncourt, France's most famous literary award, but Gary did not
He had to refuse to accept the award for various reasons, and finally, under pressure, committed suicide at home by drinking a bomb.
Of course, there is another light-hearted story about multiple pen names, and that is the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa, who has more than seventy literary identities, spanning different genders, ideologies and sects.
The weirdest thing is that this guy also uses his various vests to quarrel with each other and point out each other, just like a child trying to attract attention.
Everyone said that Pessoa was a psychopath.
If Zhang Zhong wanted to get a vest now, he would either keep pretending like Gary, or he would be called a psycho like Fernando.
But what is much better about him than these two people is that he will not really suffer from mental problems, nor will he be unable to bear the pressure and eventually commit suicide like Gary.
Then build a vest and treat it as just for fun.
But the first problem is that he needs to give his vest a pen name.
His first pen name was "Fifth Grade Vegetative Person", so the second pen name must be different from the first pen name, making it impossible for people to imagine the connection between the two.
Moreover, his second pen name is to publish works such as "Love in a Fallen City" and "Wives and Concubines", so it seems that the pen name should be as similar to the style of the work as possible, and should he choose a pen name that looks like the female author?
After much deliberation, Zhang Zhong finally came up with a name - Su Ai - taking one word between the names of Su Tong and Zhang Ailing, which is both simple and means to pay tribute to the two.
After chewing on this pen name for a while, Zhang Zhong thought it was a good pen name and made his decision.
"Okay, that's it!"
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