A widower's entertainment

Chapter 65 [If you never forget it, there will be repercussions] (please follow up)
  Beijing, "People's Literature" magazine.

After the New Year and the Spring Festival, the weather in the capital is still very cold. The snow on the eaves of the buildings has not yet melted, and the chill still envelopes the huge Forty-Nine City.

Although the weather is very cold, the comrades of "People's Literature" magazine have already rushed to work early in the morning.

Zhang Wei walked in, rubbed his hands, took off his scarf, and sighed: "It's still warm inside the house."

"That's not."

"I don't even want to go out in this weather."

Zhang Wei took his enamel cup and poured himself a cup of hot water from the thermos bottle. While drinking, he said, "Who is not?"

Because "People's Literature" started working a few days ago, colleagues in the editorial department have also entered into work mode early. As usual, they began to read the latest letters from readers, and most importantly, read the authors' submissions, review, and proofreading.

Of course, there will also be meetings and discussions.

Editor-in-chief Wang Meng looked at the editors in the editorial department and couldn't help but said: "Comrades, the people's desire for literature is very strong now, and now they need excellent manuscripts. We must discover outstanding new authors."

"I recently read an article called "Stars" in "Yanjing Literature". It was written very well by a man named Yu Hua. I'm thinking of asking him for a manuscript."

Editor-in-chief Wang Meng nodded, looked at Zhang Wei, and asked, "Have you written a manuscript invitation letter to Lin Youcheng?"

"Yes, yes! I have written him several letters!"

Zhang Wei nodded and said: "I went to him specifically during the Chinese New Year to ask him, and told him that if he had new manuscripts, he must submit them to our People's Literature, but I don't know when his next manuscript will be out. Will you vote for our "People's Literature"?"

Wang Meng heard Zhang Wei's words and said: "No matter what, you should contact Lin Youcheng more often. You and he are both fellows from Decheng. You also know that his article "The Devotion of Suspect X" has had a great impact on literature. What an impact, recently our magazine has received a lot of mystery novels."

As soon as the editor-in-chief Wang Meng said this, other editors immediately echoed, saying: "Yes, I have read several articles, but the writing is not good enough. Maybe it is because I have read Lin Youcheng's "Suspect" "The Devotion of X", nothing else feels good enough."

"The article "The Devotion of Suspect X" written by Lin Youcheng is still too amazing."

"Yeah, it's really amazing."

"Before, some people said that Lin Youcheng's "The Devotion of Suspect X" is popular literature, not avant-garde literature, and lacks literary quality. It is really prejudiced."

When Zhang Wei heard his colleague's words, he directly said on behalf of Lin Youcheng: "It has such a great influence, it opens the door to a new world of mystery literature, and allows us to see that novels can still be written like this."

"How can such a novel be said to be insufficiently literary?"

"No wonder Lin Youcheng said before that what he wrote was not popular literature, but people's literature."

Editor-in-chief Wang Meng raised his hand to stop Zhang Weili's slightly angry words and said, "Don't worry about that. Although our People's Literature pays attention to literature, we also pay attention to storytelling. After all, as Lin Youcheng said well, People's Literature is all about writing For the people to see.”

“Although his article ‘The Devotion of Suspect

"what?"

Zhang Wei was very surprised when he heard this. He didn't expect that someone would want to set up a magazine specifically to publish mystery literature. After thinking about it for a while, he couldn't help but said, "I'm afraid it won't be that easy."

Wang Meng nodded. He knew very well that Lin Youcheng had opened the door to a new world of mystery literature. Now it was not easy to launch a magazine specializing in mystery literature. He said: "In fact, Lin Youcheng's "Suspect" The most touching thing about "X's Devotion" is not the reasoning, but the pure love that is more worthy of reading."

Other editors nodded in agreement and said, "Yes, this is why the submitted mystery novels always feel inadequate compared to Lin Youcheng's."

Zhang Wei smiled and said, "This is because your requirements are too high." Although Lin Youcheng has opened the door to a new world of mystery literature, there is no doubt that such a piece of reasoning is a combination of love and human feelings. Such a perfect novel also raises the threshold of mystery literature very high.

Of course, if it doesn’t impress people enough, how can it be in a magazine?

Although magazines like "People's Literature" are always short of manuscripts, they have not lowered their standards because of the lack of manuscripts. After all, magazines like "People's Literature" should bring better manuscripts to the people.

"Comrades, do your best."

After listening to the words of editor-in-chief Wang Meng, Zhang Wei returned to his seat.

Frankly speaking, he actually had no idea whether Lin Youcheng would contribute to "People's Literature".

He just felt that because Lin Youcheng wrote People's Literature, he should be published in the magazine "People's Literature".

Of course, Zhang Wei also knew that magazines such as "October", "Contemporary", and "Zhongshan", which invited Lin Youcheng to write articles, were also very good. It would not be surprising if Lin Youcheng really submitted articles to those magazines.

This is why Zhang Wei is not sure whether Lin Youcheng will choose "People's Literature".

Of course, now he wants to know more when Lin Youcheng's next novel will be released.

Zhang Wei couldn't help but think, should he not send a letter of invitation to Lin Youcheng?

Just when Zhang Wei was still thinking about whether to send another invitation letter to Lin Youcheng, the comrade in the mail room came in with a thick letter and walked directly to Zhang Wei. Said: "Comrade Zhang Wei, this is a manuscript sent by Comrade Decheng Lin Youcheng. The recipient is you."

"Ah? The manuscript sent by Lin Youcheng?"

Zhang Wei was very pleasantly surprised. He did not expect to receive a manuscript from Lin Youcheng suddenly.

Is this the latest novel written by Lin Youcheng?
  "Thank you for your hard work!"

Zhang Wei felt a little excited and quickly took the letter and thanked the comrades in the mailroom.

The other editors in the editorial department also heard this, and all of them looked at him in surprise.

"Lin Youcheng's manuscript?"

"Lin Youcheng has written a new novel?"

"Okay! Lin Youcheng has submitted an article to our "People's Literature"."

Obviously, the letter sent by the comrade in the mailroom really shocked all the editors in the editorial department.

Looking at the not too thin letter in front of him, Zhang Wei was very excited.

Does this mean that if you never forget it, there will be repercussions?
  While Zhang Wei was still secretly excited, someone had already taken the letter from Zhang Wei's hand and was about to open it and read it.

"Don't be anxious! Don't be anxious! Why are your own people trying to rob you?"

"I'll take a look first!"

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