Chapter 27

The newspapers argued for many days, and the people who came down had more and more weight.

*Sprout* editor-in-chief Zhao Changtian was completely anxious because of the decline in sales and wrote an article to fight back.

"Some people's minds are simply crooked to the edge.

You either talk about the work, criticizing from the perspective of literary, ideological, and artistic aspects where *Know but Don't Follow* is not good, is the conception not deep enough, is there a problem with the structure, is the grammar obscure, is the theme not accurately sublimated?

Everyone is eating this bowl of rice of words, so you can speak freely!

Or you can also dig out a masterpiece of your own, paste it on the newspaper, one left and one right, and compare it with *Know but Don't Follow*, declaring uprightly: The article I wrote at 28 is twice as good as Fang Xinghe's article at 14!

Oh, found that you can't compare, can't talk about literature, so you think about criticizing the person's morality?

The core theme of the person is to fight against fate, you took it out of context and criticized Fang Xinghe for encouraging children to be brave and fight, really not wanting a face at all!

What era is it, still playing that set of big-character posters?

You have to criticize from the moral level, okay, then let's talk about moral things—a child fighting, put it in the most severe time of the 83 crackdown, is it enough to be shot?

What about your style of kissing female students, what about it in 83?

Fang Xinghe wrote 'crows can't see pigs are black,' that is self-mockery; children all know how to mock themselves, but you really dare to stretch your face and scold pigs for being black, and when people next to you see it, it's a spit on the spot: Ptooey, shameful and stinky!"

Old Zhao still has two brushes, but he is really not good at doing this kind of thing, scolding people is not painful enough.

If it were Fang Xinghe, he would have to explode the name, unit, and kissing details of the person who kissed the female student~~~

Don't laugh, readers love to see this, and it will be the same in 2025.

Following closely, *Xinmin Evening News* also, under the force of Chen Danya, pasted the comments of the New Concept committee teachers on *Know but Don't Follow* again, playing a good cooperation.

To be honest, those praises look really exciting.

Wang Meng: "Fang Xinghe is the most talented teenager in this New Concept competition. Expanding it, he may also be the most talented teenager in this generation. Reading *Know but Don't Follow* makes me ashamed."

Chen Sihe: "Some people criticize Fang Xinghe's writing as rough, I disagree.

Fang Xinghe's writing is quite fashionable.

Childhood deficiency, social beating, like thirty wolves and forty tigers, mini big brother, finding existence on your father, don't panic after being bitten, King Yama's comments, scattering your ashes...

Look, how whimsical and imaginative?

I can't say that such writing must be good, but when I first read it, the surprise Fang Xinghe brought me was more intense than any work by a contemporary writer, so I use four words to describe his writing style: vibrant.

As for my evaluation of Fang Xinghe himself, it is also four words.

He is the future."

Tie Ning: "Any cleverness that appears in a work can spoil an article, novel, poem... or even a person.

And Fang Xinghe showed a great honesty in *Know but Don't Follow*, which is loyalty to his anger, and then simply venting it, launching a fierce attack on the reader in terms of emotion, soul, and thought.

This aggressiveness and attack power, I have never seen in any teenager.

He makes me feel surprised, even shocked."

Yu Hua: "I have always emphasized the importance of broad vision, wise views, and humorous language, but unfortunately, I have done far from well in these aspects, at least not as well as Fang Xinghe.

His few articles have completely and absolutely achieved the three major elements I pursue; I am particularly jealous of his talent.

The emotional core when I wrote *I Am as Timid as a Mouse* and his summary in *Know but Don't Follow* are two different sides of the same thing, but look, even his temperament is braver than mine.

So I will never attend events with him again, damn, so handsome and writing so well!"

The literary review was published, and Fang Xinghe's fans were stimulated to yell.

In fact, they had already seen the relevant content in the May issue of *Sprout*, but once it was moved to the newspaper, and it was a clear battle between the two sides, such a grand occasion still made them particularly honored.

The discussion became more and more active and enthusiastic, the battle with the opponents became more and more fierce, and during the period, they shared with friends with full joy, making Fang Xinghe's Starlight Points soar.

This is the benefit of topicality; discussion = heat, heat = mind, and only pure mind can generate a large amount of positive emotion.

Won, won hemp.

Although the result in reality is that a vast number of parents wrote to criticize Fang Xinghe's article, this does not affect his coolness at all.

Then again, what is the brain circuit of parents in this era?

A slightly intense essay broke the defense?

Then if my *Youth* is published, will you go crazy?

The result was that the teachers went crazy first.

The eighth day, a criticism letter written by a Chinese teacher was published in *Yangzi Evening News*.

The reason is: many students imitate Fang Xinghe's style to write essays, scolding this and that, all low scores, and if this continues, exams will become a problem, the impact is too bad, etc.

Fang Xinghe was particularly dissatisfied with this; why didn't you criticize them for imitating Han Han?

Is my big brother so faceless, not worthy of having a name?

In fact, he really wronged everyone in this matter, because even in the previous life, few students imitated Han Han to write essays.

Han Han's writing is a straight path, but it's very vegetable, and the perspective is unique and the core is angry youth, plus a decadent atmosphere of a middle-two teenager, it's really impossible to imitate; imitating him is not as good as directly imitating Qian Zhongshu.

Instead, Fang Xinghe's essays are more imitable, surpassing the era and being very rogue, looking very trendy and impactful, but in fact, it is very simple to want to set the structure.

The difficulty is the height of thinking, so it will be scored low if it is imitated.

However, writing essays randomly is really not a big deal; what really makes the school uncomfortable is that those children not only imitate essays, but also carry out a comprehensive replication of Fang Xinghe.

In just a few days, Fang Xinghe-style hairstyles appeared in middle and high schools all over the place—thinned on both sides, spiked on top, and if you can't spike it, grab it up.

To be honest, compared to the currently popular Aaron Kwok center parting, Ekin Cheng long hair, and Pheasant green skin, Chinese-style front spikes are much better looking.

Some people feel strange, why did the students start imitating only after the photos were published for more than a month?

Because whether a hairstyle is awesome or not depends not only on looks, but also on the idol's influence.

So good-looking is not the point; the point is the rebellious image established by Fang Xinghe with *Know but Don't Follow*, making him truly a symbol of cool and trendy, finally driving a new trend.

Looking at the red-haired little cubs suddenly appearing on campus, the principals, deans, and head teachers fell into a headache hell.

Can't stop it, can't stop it at all!

Those who dare to be so arrogant are definitely not good students, not afraid of beating or scolding, and calling parents may not work.

So what to do?

Criticize Fang Xinghe, throw the pot out first.

However, the social response was not particularly strong; good schools have strict management, and there is no big problem in this regard; bad schools are the same with or without Fang Xinghe; if he doesn't dye red hair, he will also dye yellow hair, just get used to it.

The attack on appearance soon sank, and did not set off much waves.

However, just as Sister Wang and Aunt Chen had just breathed a sigh of relief for Fang Xinghe, an accident happened.

Near the end of the month, a very dramatic thing was brewed in a county in Guangdong, completely detonating public opinion.

*Guangzhou Daily* published a photo.

In the photo, two groups of teenagers were confronting each other for some reason, one group on the left, red and green Fang-style front spikes, one group on the right, Haonan head and Pheasant head.

Did the two groups of little cubs fight?

Don't know.

Anyway, it looked very excited, and the mood was very dry.

The title of the newspaper was—*The Ultimate Conflict Between Fang-style Campus Big Brother and Ancient-style Off-campus Hooligans, What Happened to Our Children?*

It doesn't matter what the specific content of the report is; looking at the picture is enough.

Anyway, once the photo was published, the paper media was immediately filled with war, and the intensity of the fight suddenly soared.

Fang Xinghe also felt a headache when he saw it; he really didn't expect that a guy who wrote essays could establish such a huge influence in a group that didn't read essays at all.

Are the children of this age too easy to be restless?

But after thinking carefully, recalling the non-mainstream that lasted until about 2014, and the spiritual little guys that lasted until 2024, he felt it was not so difficult to understand.

Teenagers of any era need a spirit to lead them forward, shatter their confusion, and nourish their emotions, but our family development is too fast, and family education and compulsory education cannot keep up with the rapidly changing era, so isn't it easy to be empty?

And the turn of the century stage looks particularly different; ancient and modern, old-fashioned and trendy, broken and rebuilt... society is spiraling upward in contradictions, surging and intense, moving and moving.

Stepping on this node and appearing in the world, Fang Xinghe is destined to become the most fashionable person in the eyes of teenagers.

Now mentioning leaders is too early.

Now learning his dress and dressing is super cool.

Now scolding him, hey, just right!

So he ushered in the biggest wave of criticism and even scolding, finally alarming the county, and at the same time, reporters from outside also arrived in this quiet small town...