Chapter 60 - Using Mo Yan’s Prize Acceptance Speech! (1/2)
“It’s gone mad! Everyone has gone mad!”
“How many votes did she say!? Did I hear wrongly?”
“Is that true? Isn’t this result just shooting out of the universe?”
“How can there be so many!? It isn’t scientific! Really too unscientific!”
“150,000? The dozen or so works from the Writers’ a.s.sociation combined have fewer than Zhang Ye’s votes alone?”
“And it’s really true! One against ten! Complete victory!”
“All the Teachers from the Writers’ a.s.sociation combined lost out to him? Holy ****!”
Too many people could not believe their ears. It was too unbelievable!
More than 150,000 votes? What did this mean? This meant that it was going against the Heavens! Others may not understand this, but how could they, as people from the radio station, not understand? This was because the poetry meet was special and it had an upper limit to the amount of attention it could garner. Every year’s Mid-Autumn Poetry Meet was not broadcast on television; it was just broadcast live through the radio. The year before last’s Hebei province’s Mid-Autumn Poetry Meet had an old man from the Hebei Writers’ a.s.sociation for its champion. He won weakly with about 23,000 votes. And last year, the champion of the Jins.h.i.+ Mid-Autumn Poetry Meet was an operatic actor from the Jins.h.i.+ literary circles. As he had used the moon as his topic and performed an operatic piece, he won with an undisputable 37,000 votes!
20,000+!
30,000+!
Even considering all the previous years, the number of votes the champion garnered had never exceeded 50,000 votes!
However, this year, what had happened in the Beijing Mid-Autumn Poetry Meet? Alright, Beijing had more people, so it had greater influence than provinces like Jins.h.i.+ or Beihe. The Beijing Radio Station’s frequencies provided a greater coverage area than even provinces like Tianjin and Hebei could broadcast to, but it should not have been so ridiculous!
150,000?
Are you all f***ing pumping stimulants!?
And what was most shocking was that “Shuidiao Getou” had only about 20 minutes of voting time! It was not even half an hour! 150,000+ votes! This far exceeded everyone’s imagination and beliefs. Hence, no one had thought of this possibility! This was because it was too unreal! But the fact was that Zhang Ye had done it! “Shuidiao Getou” had done it! Zhang Ye had used a melody poem that he came up with on the spot to create such a Heaven-defying miracle!
No one questioned the authenticity of the votes. Everyone knew this was not a statistical error, as the two notaries were present. They were monitoring the entire process!
Big Thunder remained silent!
Little Red Mushroom and Zheng Anbang turned sullen!
Meng Dongguo choked to the point of not being able to say a word. He moved his lips, but no words could come out from them!
Zhang Ye, this person who Meng Dongguo and the Writers’ a.s.sociation looked down upon and said did not know literature! He had used a single “Shuidiao Getou” to smack them all in the face! And it was the type of smacking that slapped them repeatedly! Their faces were really swollen! Meng Dongguo had only obtained 40,000 votes! The ten thousands spot of Zhang Ye’s vote numbers were more than his by 10,000 votes! Zhang Ye’s single vote count exceeded their combined vote count by a lot more! Wasn’t this a smack in the face? Describing it as hanging them on a tree while smacking them wasn’t too much! It was even too light a description!
Zhang Ye was an amateur?
All of you are the professionals?
Meng Dongguo, Big Thunder and company’s ravings were still echoing in their ears. Just thinking of those words, those members from the Writers’ a.s.sociation who had come with them felt their faces turn green. They had disgraced themselves along with Meng Dongguo! They were completely ashamed! They had been pulled into this for no reason!
“Who is the real amatuer?”
It was as if they could see the evening news’ headlines for tonight!
Speaking of this, up until now, Big Thunder still did not understand how “Shuidiao Getou” managed to garner so many votes. He admitted that this melody poem was extremely well-written, but it shouldn’t be so exaggerated. The commoners also liked it that much? 150,000 votes? About half of those tuning into the Mid-Autumn Poetry Meet had voted for “Shuidiao Getou”?
Zhang Huo was very relieved, and was most gratified. He was very happy to see this scene. It was time for someone to kill these so-called expert Teachers’ momentum and their unrelenting words. Just because of these expert Teachers’ baseless rhetoric and unrelenting words, how much public controversy had they caused in society over the past few years? Maybe, as Zhang Huo was in the news-reporting business, his philosophy was that as public figures, one had to respect the facts and be proper with their words. If they spoke blindly, then they could mislead the public, causing great harm!
Just because of a few words from them, how much criticism did Zhang Ye endure? They nearly ruined an excellent and great poet! If Zhang Ye did not have a good psyche, he would not have been able to create this work today. Zhang Huo firmly believed that if “Shuidiao Getou” was killed in its infancy, then it would have been a great loss to the cultural world! The entire People’s Republic would suffer!
Thankfully, Zhang Ye had not been disappointed, and was not put down by those words. In fact, he became braver, despite the setbacks. And for this, Zhang Huo gave Zhang Ye a huge thumbs up in his heart!
Great!
He had really made the Beijing Radio Station proud!
Zhang Huo raised his microphone, “Let us congratulate Teacher Zhang Ye in becoming the champion with an overwhelming number of votes for ‘Shuidiao Getou’! It is well-deserved!”
A round of applause exploded!
The female host, Sun Mengjie, said, “Next, let’s invite the top three placed Teachers onstage for them to say a few words to our listeners.”
Big Sis Zhou laughed, “Little Zhang, quickly go!”
“They are calling for you. Hurry, hurry!” Aunt Sun urged.
Another colleague slapped him on his shoulder, feeling excited for him, “You sure are awesome! I thought you wouldn’t be able to enter the top ten! In the end, you obtained first place!”
Zhao Guozhou was also laughing, “Hurry up and go, Little Zhang. Say a few words. You deserve this honor.”
Zhang Ye could only squeeze out and walk towards the stage from the back of the auditorium.
When he reached the stage, he saw that Meng Dongguo, who was sitting in the first row, was shaking his hand at the host. He had no intention of going up!
Zheng Anbang, who had obtained third place, decided not to go up and embarra.s.s himself once he saw that Vice-President Meng had no intentions of going up. What glory was there with third place? In his opinion, it was shameful and humiliating! Zheng Anbang also shook his hand, indicating to the host that he was not going up onto the stage.
Zhang Huo also ignored Meng Dongguo and company as he smiled. “Then let’s invite this meet’s champion, who is also my colleague, Teacher Zhang Ye, to say a few words.”
What should he say?