Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 888 Nightmare
As soon as Linde was dismissed, Xu Yuhan came back with Pengpeng.

"Father, why are you at home?" Pengpeng called.

Seeing Zhang Zhong at home, both Peng Peng and Xu Yuhan were a little surprised, Xu Yuhan said, "Didn't you say that Chairman Hilde came to Jiangyang today, why are you going to meet him? Why did you come back so soon?"

Zhang Chong said with a smile: "Hilde went to sleep in the hotel, so I'll be back first."

Xu Yuhan expressed her understanding: "It's really tiring to come from such a long distance. Then will you or I cook today?"

"I'll do it." When Xu Yuhan asked this sentence, Zhang Zhong knew how to answer it.

"Well, I bought a sea bass and steamed it. There are also ribs, make rib soup, and then stir-fry some vegetarian dishes." Xu Yuhan ordered a few words, and then took Pengpeng into the room to do homework.

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After eating, Zhang Zhong went to the study on the second floor.

Originally, Xu Yuhan was going to drag him upstairs to finish the unfinished painting, but she was a little tired today, so Zhang Zhong could also rest.

But Zhang Chong did not choose to rest, he was going to take advantage of the time in the evening to transcribe the "Cat City Tale" that he had drawn.

In addition to its sci-fi elements, the novel "Cat City Tale" also has Lao She's own language style.

Lao She's writing has always been plain and simple, witty and humorous.

As he himself said, if the text is to be lively and interesting, it must use humor.

He also said that if dryness, obscurity, and dullness are fatal injuries to literature and art, then humor would be of great importance, which is probably why it has become one of the factors of literature and art.

So in Lao She's opinion, humor is very important to literature and art.

This may not be a golden rule, but it is something he insists on.

So in "Cat City Tale", he also embodies humor through words.

But he himself is not satisfied with the humor in "Cat City Tale".

Lao She said that he never wrote a preface to his own works, and this sentence was written in the first sentence of the preface of "Cat City Tale".

He said he was afraid of trouble and didn't know what to say.

Since everything to be said has been said in the book, why bother to babble?
I don't want to praise myself, but I don't want to scold myself. After much deliberation, it's better to keep silent.

But he finally wrote the preface. In his own words, it was an order given to him by the bookstore.

He said that "Cat City Tale" was well written, because his second sister and nephew thought it was very good.

But he also said that he himself was a little dissatisfied.

The reason is - not enough humor.

It can be seen that he is very persistent in the matter of humor.

Then he excused himself for not being humorous enough.He said that the biggest reason why "Cat City Tale" could be written was because he ate too much.

Since I ate too much, I naturally couldn't write too humorously, because if it was too humorous, I would laugh out loud after eating too much, and my stomach would burst and I would be unable to eat any more.

Zhang Zhong felt that when this book was written, Lao She was not in a stage of being full and full, but rather hungry and thirsty, with an empty stomach.

But since the original author said so, Zhang Zhong can only believe so, it doesn't matter anyway.

As for how to transcribe this book, Zhang Chong had his own ideas.

Although the things expressed in this book are generally applicable to all ages, there are still some details that are not suitable for publication now.

Like the beginning of the story.

The protagonist "I" of the novel took a plane to Mars with his friends, the plane crashed, and he survived alone.

And they flew for half a month.

This is the limitation of the times. Lao She obviously thought too much about the performance of the aircraft.

As for whether there is life on Mars, no one can say for sure the answer, but most people have the impression that there is no life on Mars, which is shown by the detection results of these years.

So it is obviously inappropriate to use Mars as the place where the story takes place.

If Zhang Zhong really wrote it according to the original text, a bunch of people would definitely jump out and say that there is no life on Mars.

So it is necessary to change to a planet that is farther away.

But these are small things, and you can change them later, and it won't affect anything.

This is why some people think that "Cat City" is not a science fiction novel.

For example, there is no problem at all if the background of this book is placed in the depths of the forest or on a distant continent, because the science fiction knowledge involved in it is indeed very little.

In fact, this is exactly the same reason that people said when they criticized "Dune" as not being a science fiction novel. If "Cat City" cannot be classified as a science fiction novel, then "Dune" may not be spared either.

The "I" in the novel was captured by the cat man after waking up, and then rescued by a cat man named Daxie.

The reason why Daxie saved "me" was not out of kindness, but because he wanted "me", a foreigner, to help guard Miye.

On this planet, there are not only cat people, but also many other foreigners, such as the enemy dwarves who later wiped out the cat country.

The cat country people are a group of dirty, lazy, corrupt, ignorant and cowardly people.

They don't eat, they only eat the leaves.

Mi leaf is a kind of thing that can lift the spirits after eating, and you don't need to eat after eating.

So after "I" refused to eat the lost leaves, the scorpion could only provide "me" with other food.

To be honest, the cat country is too much like China at that time, of course, Lao She's description is exaggerated.

It seems that when Lao She wrote about the country of cats, he magnified the disadvantages of China, and then created such an absurd world and country.

There is also the race of dwarves, which seems to have something to do with it.

In the end, because the politicians of the cat country forgot to have fun with the ji girls at the meeting discussing the enemy, the army of the cat country was defeated and fled.

Moreover, these defeated soldiers ran back later, scrambling to surrender and offer the city, hoping to be rewarded by the enemy.

But the dwarves eventually killed the cat people.

The most ridiculous thing is that after the annihilation, there were still more than a dozen cat people who fled to the mountains.

If they lurk and recuperate, they may not be able to make a comeback.

But these dozen or so cat people are not fighting against each other, but killing each other.

In the end, there were only two cat people left. When the enemy found these two cat people, they found that they were still biting each other.

Later, the enemy put them in wooden cages, and they bit each other to death.

The cat country was completely destroyed.

"I" also witnessed the whole process of cat country's self-destruction from beginning to end.

Finally, Lao She wrote: I lived on Mars for another half a year, and then I encountered an expedition plane from France, and I was able to survive my great, bright and free China.

Lao She said that this novel originated from one of his nightmares.

But when he saw the last sentence, Zhang Zhong felt that it was more like a daydream.

Or, the last sentence was just added because he wanted to alleviate the pain caused by this nightmare.

(End of this chapter)