To save the music festival, winning the championship is not too much.

At this time, the phone rang, and David answered it and said: "The first version of Qiao Su's work has been sent. Do you want to hear this story first, or read Qiao Su's work first?"

Carl Hadley stood up: "I think we have listened to your interesting story on the way to the reading room together, but I still think that Qiao Su's literary works are not suitable for us."

David shrugged, stood up, and followed Carl Hadley to the reading room.

On the way, David briefly explained the matter, and Carl Hadley was also shocked.

This capital, which was against the parent company of Qiaosu, not only spent 20 million US dollars to lobby the Booker Prize organizing committee, but also finally spent 20 million US dollars to bribe the Booker Prize organizing committee to serve as behind-the-scenes members.

The meaning is very simple. This year, Qiaosu himself must come to the Booker Awards, but he cannot award Qiaosu.

Then, next year, we will operate Qiaosu again to win the prize.

In fact, when it comes to this, Karl can roughly understand that this is the Chinese capitalists trying to win over Qiao Su.

Not allowing Qiao Su to win the award this year, but allowing Qiao Su to win the award next year, is showing favor.

That's why David Stephen said it was interesting.

This company, or this Huaguo Capital, has spent nearly 50 million US dollars, and what it ultimately wants is Qiaosu's 'ownership rights'.

As a literary writer, isn’t this enough attention for the Booker Prize?

The two came to the reading room. Someone had already sorted out the manuscripts sent from China and sent them to two computers.

This part of the manuscript is top secret information. The British side pays more attention to copyright, so they must always be careful not to leak Qiaosu's original manuscript to the Booker Prize.

Of course, other writers' manuscripts are treated similarly.

"Stephen, would you like to make a bet? Qiao Su's works must be story-based. Most of them are adapted for movies. He can't come up with anything too meaningful." Carl Hadley said with a smile.

Looking at all of Qiao Su's English works, they are all stories and novels, and there are very few literary works with connotation.

Of course, this does not mean that there is no literary content at all, but that there is very little that the Booker Prize can appreciate.

To be honest, "Forrest Gump" and "Les Misérables" are still very surprising.

But these are not Booker Prize dishes.

David Stephen shrugged indifferently: "Don't underestimate a world-famous writer. Have you forgotten about the last World Edition, Karl?"

Karl sat down indifferently and opened the computer file: "Then let's take a look at the English works written by this world-class literary master!"

The two stopped talking. As the top leaders of the organizing committee, they would first read the works they were more concerned about before sending them to other judges.

The original work of "Life of Pi" is the English version. Xu Xuan purchased it from the system and copied it directly.

So you don’t have to worry about your literary skills.

The content at the beginning may not be very profound, nor may it be very shocking.

On the contrary, the flat exposition of the content makes people feel that this is not Qiao Su's work.

After all, most of Qiaosu's works can be adapted into movies, which results in the works having a strong storytelling quality.

But this work is obviously different from before.

Carl Hadley didn't pay attention to this work at first, because many literary works are often like this, and they start to change as they read.

And the same goes for "Life of Pi."

After a family encounters a storm at sea, the whole story becomes confusing.

The content description of the text version hints at a lot of content.

For example, the injured zebras, monkeys, hunting dogs, and tigers on the boat. Are these animals really animals?

These are just hints.

In fact, there is a loophole in the story from the beginning, and this loophole is actually the first metaphor.

First of all, all the animals on the ship were kept in cages and fed sedatives by their father. Then, how did the zebras, orangutans, hyenas and tigers escape when the ship was in danger?

So the question is, are these animals animals or are they hinting at something?

Secondly, during the more than 200 days of rafting, despite the violent storms and rough waves, not a single boat was overturned.

However, throughout the whole process of getting along with Pi and Tiger, they remained unscathed until they were rescued. This is also logically unreasonable.

In addition, many meerkats appeared on a cannibal island that suddenly appeared in the sea. Meerkats are obviously desert animals, so how could they live in large numbers on the islands?

The original story is even more clearly written, and the appearance of these meerkats is too abstract.

So we have to think deeply about what the author is metaphorizing? What exactly is it hinting at?

Carl Hadley raised his head in surprise: "David, what did you see?"

David Stephen also raised his head in horror and hesitated for a moment: "I saw the cannibal island! This Qiaosu! How dare you write about it!"

Carl Hadley knew immediately what was on his mind.

So the content is that the cook deliberately killed the sailor, then killed Pi's mother, and was finally killed by Pi. The Bengal tiger represents the bestiality in Pi.

So, what seems to be one story is actually two stories.

On the surface, this is a wonderful voyage on the sea, but in fact, it is a road of redemption embodying human nature!

The first one is wonderful and absurd, the second one is realistic and cruel. The experience of drifting at sea is terrifying.

Human nature is unleashed under extreme circumstances, and no one wants to recall such a painful experience.

Carl's scalp was a little fried: "So, in the end, Pi only survived by eating his family, right?"

How much better could David Stephen be?

This horse riding is simply a dark sailing fairy tale!

Words are beautiful, and of course the sea is also beautiful.

But the metaphorical story content is terrifying.

David Stephen looked at Carl Hadley, and something exciting exploded in their hearts.

Isn’t this the kind of literary work the Booker Prize is for?

The two finally insisted on reading the entire story.

But at the same time, the two fell silent.

This story is too dark. If you don’t understand it, you will be happier. This is a very interesting story of sailing and drifting on the sea.

But when you really understand the content, you feel a little confused, even a little flustered and nauseous!

Carl Hadley suddenly asked: "David, now, can you still let Qiao Su lose the election this year?"

David Stephen stood up and said: "Go to the public relations lobby of Ta Ma. If this work cannot win this year, why is there any need for the Booker Prize to exist?!"

Carl Hadley smiled when he heard this, so that capitalist in China spent tens of millions of dollars in vain, right?