Fortunately, Xiao Yunhai's works were nominated for the next few awards. Otherwise, he would have fallen asleep.
"Congratulations to Mr. Xiao Yunhai for winning the best essay award with The Song of the Stormy Petrel."
Xiao Yunhai stood up, tidied up his clothes, and walked onto the stage with a smile.
Taking the trophy from the host, Xiao Yunhai looked at it carefully and said, "I really didn't expect that one day I would stand in the highest hall of honor in literature to receive this award. I'm ashamed. Since I was young, other than writing essays for exams, I've only written one essay, The Song of the Stormy Petrel. I feel a little ashamed. Thank you to the Hua Xia Literature Association for awarding this award to me. Especially Teacher Zhang Xuanlin who recommended this and two other works to the Ministry of Education. This makes me feel very honored. Thank you everyone. "
Amidst the applause, Xiao Yunhai held the trophy and walked down from above.
Xiao Yunhai didn't notice that Wang Xichen, who only won the second prize, didn't look good. There was a hint of hatred in her eyes.
Next was a poetry recital by the organizing committee. The recital was Xiao Yunhai's The Song of the Stormy Petrel. This made Wang Xichen's face even more ugly.
After the poetry recital, Xiao Yunhai won first place again with Lu Xun's The Diary of a Madman. He became the biggest winner of this award ceremony.
This wasn't the end. When it came to the best poem award, it was still Xiao Yunhai's Young Hua Xia.
In the last speech, Xiao Yunhai said, "I really don't know what to say. I can only say thank you for liking my three works. This is the third time I'm on stage tonight. It will definitely be the last time. Taking advantage of this opportunity, I want to announce something to everyone. In order to promote and develop our Hua Xia's traditional culture, Teacher Zhang Xuanlin and I plan to hold a competition for young writers under the age of 35 every year. For each genre of literature, there will be a first, second, third, and excellence award. In addition to commendation, the winners will also receive cash prizes ranging from 100,000 to 5 million yuan. We hope that everyone will sign up enthusiastically. The details will be announced on the Hua Xia Literature Association's homepage. Thank you. "
Xiao Yunhai's words caused a round of applause and cheers from everyone.
Many writers who didn't know why Zhang Xuanlin bowed to Xiao Yunhai finally understood.
"Mr Xiao really spent a lot of money this time. It's estimated that it will cost at least 100 million every year to hold this competition. "
"No wonder Teacher Zhang bowed to Mr. Xiao. He was thanking him for his contribution to our Hua Xia literature."
"Mr Xiao's actions this time really contributed greatly. This is really beneficial to the development of Hua Xia literature. "
Amidst everyone's discussion, the Best Story Award ceremony began.
Without Xiao Yunhai, Wang Xichen won first place again.
According to tradition, at the end of the Hua Xia Literature and Arts Awards ceremony was the time for the writers to perform. Whoever wrote an outstanding work could go on stage and recite it in front of everyone.
If they received everyone's praise, their reputation would immediately soar.
Not only that, the vice president of the Hua Xia Literature Association, Li Jinwu, would personally write a calligraphy piece for the most outstanding person.
One had to know that Li Jinwu's semi-cursive was famous in the Hua Xia literary world. He was known as the great calligrapher who was closest to the master of calligraphy, Wang Xizhi, in decades. His copy of "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion" was already 60% of Wang Xizhi's. It had once been sold at an auction for a high price of 10 million yuan.
One could imagine how attractive his calligraphy piece would be.
Therefore, those writers went on stage to recite their proud works. Most of them were prose and poems. Occasionally, there would be some short stories, but their standards were not very good.
The most outstanding one was Wang Xichen. He wrote a classical Chinese essay to encourage learning. His words were precise and his expression was clear. It was quite extraordinary and received the approval of the writers present.
Amidst the huge applause and cheers, Wang Xichen bowed and suddenly said, "Today, Mr. Xiao's three works all won first place. I believe that such a person will definitely have new works. I just don't know if we will have the opportunity to listen to it."
"Yes, Mr. Xiao's works are really amazing. How can we miss him today?"
"Mr. Xiao, come on."
"Mr. Xiao, go for it."
The reporters and audience below the stage did not know that Xiao Yunhai was not prepared at all. They all thought that the program team had discussed it beforehand and cheered.
Zhang Xuanlin frowned and looked at Wang Xichen, who was slightly proud of himself on stage. His face could not help but become gloomy. He said, "The ancients said that virtue comes before talent. What Wang Xichen did is really too much. "
Next to him, Li Jinwu said with a worried face, "Does Mr. Xiao know that there is such a segment? If he was prepared in advance, it would be fine. If he didn't even know about this segment, then it would be really troublesome. Wang Xichen must have seen Mr. Xiao get three first places and felt a strong sense of jealousy in his heart. That's why he did this. Sigh, what a good seedling. It's just that he is too narrow-minded. "
Zhang Xuanlin snorted and said, "He doesn't know who Mr. Xiao is. Does he care about these things? When we go back, I must teach him a good lesson. "
Li Jinwu said, "The key is now. How is Mr. Xiao going to pass this round?"
Everyone present looked at Xiao Yunhai, who was sitting in front of them. The camera also gave him a close-up.
Xiao Yunhai was slightly taken aback. Clearly, he didn't expect Wang Xichen to do such a thing. Then, a smile quickly appeared on his face. He stood up and said: "Since that's the case, then I'll embarrass myself."
"Clap, clap, clap."
Seeing that Xiao Yunhai was really going to go on stage to recite, an earth-shattering applause quickly sounded.
Zhang Xuanlin took a deep breath and said, "Good, good. Mr. Xiao looks like he has a card up his sleeve. It seems that he is prepared. I was really afraid that he would take his anger out on the literature competition because of this. "
Li Jinwu said, "As long as his recitation is passable, I will give him the 'Love of the Lotus' that I painstakingly wrote yesterday."
Zhang Xuanlin was shocked and said, "Mr. Li, you are really going all out. Even I am going to go on stage."
The 'Love of the Lotus' was more than 300 words. With Li Jinwu's fame, it was worth at least 3 million.
Xiao Yunhai went on stage and looked deeply at Wang Xichen. Then, he took the microphone from him and said, "During the New Year this year, there was a heavy snow in Beijing. Looking at this vast expanse of whiteness, a heroic spirit rose in my chest. My poetic interest was aroused, and I wrote a poem, 'Spring Snow in Qin Garden.' Even my wife did not know about this. Today is the first time it has appeared in front of the world. Everyone is a big shot in the literary world. Please do not be stingy with your guidance. "
This time, Xiao Yunhai plagiarized the most magnificent poem written by Mao Taizu in his previous life, 'Spring Snow in Qin Garden'.
Wang Xichen was narrow-minded. Doing such a sudden attack on Xiao Yunhai was nothing more than wanting him to lose face.
But what Wang Xichen did not know was that Xiao Yunhai had countless poems from his previous life in his mind. How could he fall for such a trick?
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