Reborn Bao Guowei, I really didn’t want to be a great writer!

Chapter 390 "Rural Teacher"

After looking for a while, Wu Mi turned his head again, frowned tightly, and asked in a low voice.

"Bingwen, are you sure you didn't get the wrong one? Is this really a science fiction novel?"

Wu Mi's reading speed was not slow, but it still took him seven or eight minutes to carefully finish reading the first chapter.

He didn't find any trace of science fiction here, so he kept muttering to himself.

You know, Bao Guowei's works are Wu Mi's last reputation as a university professor.

If Bao Guowei couldn't do it, Wu Mi would wish he could find a piece of tofu and hit himself to death.

The Chinese people of this era are not just ordinary people, but even more so the intellectuals.

They all have extremely sensitive self-esteem and have been suppressed and discriminated against by Westerners due to long-term failures.

So many people are full of ambition and want to show off internationally, and most importantly, in front of Westerners.

Don’t care what others think?

This is really difficult for them to do.

This is also one of the reasons why Bao Guowei was able to gain such a high status in China after being sought after by Westerners.

At this moment, Bao Guowei was eating breakfast as if nothing had happened, stuffing a piece of toast wrapped in sausage into his mouth.

He finished eating slowly, without paying any attention to Mr. Wu Mi, who was anxious as hell. After he swallowed all the food, Bao Guowei said with a smile on his face.

"Sir, please continue reading."

"This..." Wu Mi frowned, wondering what kind of medicine Bao Guowei was selling.

He looked up at the young Williamson, who seemed to be still reading the first chapter, frowning tightly, looking very confused.

Wu Mi took a deep breath and decided to take a closer look at the following content.

But he did not rush to read the following chapters. Instead, he read the first chapter again.

Because when he was reading it just now, he was in a hurry and was eager to find the content about science fiction in the text, so he ignored the details in the text.

Wu Mi was extremely careful when reading novels, especially those written by a recognized literary master like Bao Guowei.

Continue reading from the first sentence.

He immediately realized the simple yet profound writing skills that Bao Guowei was now displaying.

That is, through simple and uncomplicated texts that are easy for ordinary people to understand, a master-level text effect can be expressed.

Anyone who has been a writer should know that there is no point in unrestrainedly piling up words and adjectives, as was done in student days.

This kind of writing may help you get high grades in school, but in the field of literature, it is just a burden to your expression as a writer.

Wu Mi enjoyed the process very much.

“I don’t know what the English version will be like, and whether it can show the different feelings embodied by the Chinese characters.”

Thinking of this, Wu Mi became curious about the manuscript in Williamson's hand.

However, it didn't take long for Wu Mi to be attracted by the content of the story.

Regardless of whether it is a "science fiction" or not, "The Rural Teacher" is definitely an excellent realist work.

The plot of the story is not complicated.

The story is described in the second person. The protagonist "Teacher" is a rural teacher who is terminally ill.

Bao Guowei added a description here about why he became a rural teacher.

When he was young, he responded to the call to study abroad, but after returning, he found that his knowledge seemed unable to save the country.

The warlord wanted to use his knowledge to develop industry and expand his territory.

Those in power also wanted to use him to eliminate opponents.

In desperation, he gave up the superior treatment in the city and came to this remote village.

Teach modern scientific knowledge to poor students here.

At the beginning, his teaching was not smooth, and poor land gave birth to poor ideas.

The villagers were unwilling to learn any modern science from foreigners and were only willing to let the protagonist teach them some.

"Something that can make a kid an official."

The long-standing atmosphere of ignorance is difficult to resolve in a short period of time.

But the protagonist still has the courage to fight against "ignorance". He uses his own savings to support students, attends classes despite being sick, and refuses his friend's invitation to take him away for treatment.

It’s just for the persistence in my heart.

Seeing this, Wu Mi couldn't help but turn his head. He sighed and said, "Are there really people like this in the real world?"

Bao Guowei's eyes were deep. He looked at the Westerner whose face was gradually becoming shocked, then turned to look at Professor Hua Xia who was frowning, and said in a nonchalant manner: "Who knows? Maybe there are really such pure people in this world? And what we lack are such people, aren't they?"

For a moment, Wu Mi fell into silence. He had concluded that based on this plot alone, Bao Guowei's status in the domestic literary world was irrefutable!
In fact, Bao Guowei made great efforts to make the original work of "Rural Teachers" adapt to this era.

Because, in the rural areas during the Republic of China period, it was almost impossible for teachers to teach physics.

Bao Guowei knew the situation there, where even literacy was a luxury.

The setting of the original work is in the rural Northwest around the 20s, but even so, it is much better than the villages of this era.

Therefore, it is necessary to make some adaptations that are in line with the times.

But such a change has only exacerbated the heaviness of the early stage of this work.

At this moment, the plot began to change.

When Williamson first read this work, he even doubted his eyes.

He even thought that the other party was just trying to please him by using his past works.

But Williamson did not raise any questions. He is a very cautious person and will only make a comment after seeing the whole picture.

So Williamson watched it carefully.

The more I looked at it, the more I felt something was wrong.

He originally thought that his childhood was rough enough, but he never expected that in the far East, there was such a difficult and ignorant place.

This made Williamson feel very heavy, but at the same time, he also recognized Bao Guowei in his writing.

“This is a literary master.”

"In fact, his ability in writing in English is much better than mine."

Williamson gave what he thought was a fair evaluation in his mind.

"But this is not science fiction, it's more like a realistic rural novel."

He muttered quietly.

However, all these doubts came to a head when I turned to the second chapter.

The first sentence already caught Williamson's attention.

"Fifty thousand light years away from Earth, in the center of the Milky Way, an interstellar war that has lasted for twenty thousand years is drawing to a close." Here it comes! Here it comes!
Sci-fi elements are finally here!

The doubts that had been suppressed for a long time burst out at this moment.

While Williamson was feeling the extremely hardcore "science fiction elements" in the text, he read every word in the text eagerly.

"Star Wars"

"Carbon-based"

"Time and Space Leap"

"Sublight Cruise"

"Wormhole"

These are undoubtedly extremely hardcore science fiction elements, and some concepts have not even been introduced into science fiction literature.

Williamson knew what these words meant in large part because he frequently read scientific journals.

"But Mr. Bao is capable of writing such hardcore science fiction, so why did he write the first chapter like that?"

At the same time, countless questions arose in Williamson's mind again.

Then, he subconsciously raised his head and looked at the two people who were whispering just now.

When his eyes rested on Bao Guowei, Williamson noticed that this "great" gentleman was struggling with a plate of broccoli salad.

Soon, Williamson stopped thinking about the anomalies elsewhere because he was shocked by the content of the story in Chapter 2.

Not only does it contain extremely hardcore "science fiction elements", but it also contains a grand narrative about interstellar wars.

Countless astronomical knowledge explodes in these texts.

The war between the two interstellar civilizations was clearly presented in front of Williamson.

"Each warship dragged a long tail of fire, leaving a fluorescent trail behind. This array of more than 300,000 fireballs formed the most spectacular and tragic scene in the Carbon-Silicon War."

"They will establish a 500-light-year-wide isolation zone in the middle of the first spiral arm."

"The fleet began its second space-time jump, heading towards the first spiral arm of the Milky Way at a nearly infinite speed."

An interstellar war that lasted for 20,000 years was presented to Williamson from an extremely grand narrative perspective.

When Williamson saw the last line, he exhaled slowly.

I don't know how to express my shock.

He then summed it up in simple words.

"This is an interstellar war between carbon-based civilization and silicon-based civilization. Silicon-based life? This is the possibility of silicon-based life proposed by 19th century astrophysicist Julian Schneider?"

Williamson used his knowledge to try to interpret the contents of this chapter.

"After 20,000 years of war, it is almost over. The carbon-based civilization has won. They plan to build an isolation zone in the first spiral arm of the Milky Way and destroy most of the stars in the isolation zone to prevent the silicon-based civilization from entering the central area of ​​the Milky Way again."

"Wonderful!" Williamson seemed to have entered his own world and said with emotion.

"Will the next plot point to the Earth? Or is the Earth in this first spiral arm and about to be destroyed?
So how does the protagonist solve this problem?"

With the intuition of a science fiction writer, he keenly sensed the development of the subsequent plot.

Bao Guowei glanced at the other person with a little surprise. He had heard everything the other person had said to himself just now.

I didn't expect Williamson could see so much from just two chapters.

In particular, the birth of the concept of "silicon-based life" surprised Bao Guowei the most.

It seems that even though he has only graduated from high school, Williamson has never stopped learning relevant knowledge in his daily life.

This is as it should be. As a writer, you inevitably need lifelong learning.

"This"

Similarly, when Wu Mi saw the subsequent content, he didn't know what adjective to use to express his feelings for a moment.

Is this the science fiction novel written by Bingwen?
It looks completely different from what I've seen before.
It seems a little more advanced.

At this time, Bao Guowei was finally full. He wiped the corners of his mouth with a napkin and said with a smile.

"You two can continue watching."

The meaning is very clear, this is just the beginning, don't act like you have never seen the world!
Wu Mi and Williamson, like two puppets on strings, nodded mechanically, their movements perfectly synchronized.

Afterwards, the only sound on the dining table was the sound of turning pages.

The coffee in the hands of the two people kept running out, and Bao Guowei would wave from time to time to ask the waiter to come up and lick it full for them.

And just over 10,000 words made the two of them forget about time.

Two of them, one is a famous Chinese literary researcher, and the other is a young science fiction writer from the West.

They analyzed the work word by word and found nothing wrong with it.

From time to time, it will arise, and this sentence is the feeling of the optimal solution.

This is no wonder. After such a long period of writing practice, Bao Guowei is no longer the ordinary college student who could go off topic even when writing the college entrance examination essay.

Make use of the vast amount of textual knowledge in your head, combined with the teachings from the masters of the Republic of China, as well as a lot of your own practice.

Today, Bao Guowei's writing skills have reached a level of perfection.

As the story develops, Wu Mi and Williamson's perspective jumps from science fiction to local stories, and then from local stories to science fiction.

With each chapter as a node, the two complement each other and become two parallel story lines.

"Is this still possible?"

Williamson was amazed at this novel narrative technique and multi-timeline writing technique, which is rare in this era.

He frowned, recalled the relevant works in his memory, and muttered.

"British writer Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse uses a multi-timeline narrative technique, and Griffith's film The Incompatibility of Nations also interweaves storylines from different times and spaces.

This is the first time I have seen such a technique in science fiction."

Thinking of this, Williamson silently memorized this method and decided to try it when he had the chance.

As the story slowly progresses, everything is about to come to an end.

Especially after the children have memorized all three laws of Newton taught by their "teacher".

"He felt the last flame fading. The thoughts produced by the outstanding minds that had turned to dust in Europe over the past few hundred years echoed in the remote mountain villages of China in the 20th century with the childish voices of thick Chinese dialects. In this sound, the candle flame went out.

The children cried around their teacher's lifeless body.
"

At this moment, both of them felt the power of words.

That is a powerful force that can move people's souls.

"fantastic!"

Wu Mi took a deep breath, and after saying the last sentence, he expressed his deepest emotion.

(End of this chapter)