Xiangye

Chapter 11 Teacher Yu's Writing Class
"What, don't...but this book is not well written?" Gao Wen's eyes widened in surprise. He didn't even like "Journey to the West". What else in this world can be called a good book? This little old man's eyes there is a problem?

"It's not bad. The story written by the young man is just a beginning, about seven or eight thousand words, and I can't see anything for the time being. As far as the poem and story at the beginning are concerned, it's not bad."

Gao Wen: "Then..."

Boss Yu: "It's a pity, according to the old man, if this book is published, I'm afraid I will lose money. I'm sorry, the manuscript will be returned to you. Otherwise, you can write another one and show it to the old man after it is finished." Look." Although he kept saying that the book was well written, his brows were full of perfunctory.

Gao Wen was very dissatisfied, and couldn't help snorting: "The old man really reads ten lines at a glance, and he will finish it so soon. It seems that you only read two pages just now, and you didn't finish the two beginnings, so you said this book is not good. , any convincing?"

"It's enough to read two pages, and it's useless to read more." Boss Yu said, "I often go to Xi'an to buy books, and I've been there many times. I also know a few well-known authors in the city, and I have discussed with them. In addition, the so-called familiarity with the three hundred Tang poems means that you can recite poems even if you can’t compose them. Even if you can’t write them, you can tell at a glance whether a book is a good seller or not.”

Gao Wen opened his mouth to say something, but Yu Xingyan stretched out his hand, interrupting him, and said, "Mr. Gao, don't worry, just listen to the old man. Since the old man bought this bookstore ten years ago, he reads every day. After so many years , I haven’t read more than [-] romance novels, but there are still six or seven thousand volumes. This is the first time Mr. Gao has written a storybook, right?”

Seeing Gao Wen nodding, Boss Yu put on an expression of "I'll just say it", and asked with a smile: "Mr. Gao, dare to ask, why do ordinary people read novels and novels?"

Gao Wen: "Turn on the light."

Boss Yu: "Yes, it is to pass the time. This life, according to the Buddhist scriptures: all living beings are suffering. People live to suffer in this world. Scholars may still have the desire to study and become an official. Leaping over the Dragon Gate will make you famous all over the world. You will enjoy all the glory and wealth when you go out and enter the palace. But ordinary people, every day when they open their eyes, they are busy until dark, and they pass like this until the day they close their eyes completely. Life is like a dream, so happy geometry."

Gao Wen: "Boss Yu has a decadent attitude towards life."

Yu Xingyan said that Boss Yu came to chat, and said: "Because of this, this person must have some fun. Some people are lustful, hang around in the flower street and willow alley, and sleep in the wind and moon; some people are good at wine, and they call three friends. The moon is long. But these two pleasures require a lot of money. In this world, there are more ordinary people. Compared with eating and drinking with prostitutes, spend tens of pennies to buy a book, or directly rent a novel book. Studying at home for two days is bearable and harmless."

Gao Wen nodded: "That's exactly what you're talking about." Indeed, reading novels is the most economical way of leisure.As far as later generations are concerned, a book is only two or thirty yuan, and a meal is only the price.If you are in health care, singing K, or clubbing, if you are not careful, you will go out for a few hundred yuan.Besides, when you get a book, you don't just read it once, you can read it over and over again.Taking himself as an example, he has read Jin Yong's novels countless times, and he can memorize them fluently.But every time I watch it, there will be unexpected discoveries and unexpected surprises, and I don't feel boring.

As for the online novels of later generations, genuine subscriptions cost only two cents for a thousand words, fifty cents for a chapter, and you can’t even buy a steamed bun.

Although today's Ming Dynasty is in a prosperous age, the market is prosperous, and the world is barely peaceful, but generally speaking, ordinary people are still very poor.The more depressed the economy is, the more prosperous entertainment methods such as reading novels will be.The reason is simple, cheap.If everyone has money, I can eat two catties of rice wine, then go to the brothel to find two girls to sing and spend the night, isn't it more refreshing than reading a book?
Boss Yu: "So, when we print a book, we, the book printing business, must first have a calculation in our minds: who is this book for, what kind of books do they like to read, and why are they willing to read it? If you don’t want to pay for such a story, you can print as long as it is a book, and within two years, even if there are gold mountains and silver seas in the workshop, you will have to pay for it.”

After talking so much, his mouth was a little dry. Boss Yu picked up the teacup to moisten his throat, and then said: "So, as far as our Hancheng County is concerned, who is reading novels? Let's take a closer look. Come on, most of them are readers and people who have read and read. For him, what is a good story. Or to ask another way, what do they want most?"

Gao Wen: "What do you want most?"

Seeing Gao Wen answer subconsciously, Boss Yu became interested in being a teacher, and said with a smile, "Everyone is an ordinary person, what they want is a family with a thousand hectares of fertile land and endless money in their hands, those beautiful women..."

"When those beautiful women saw me, they rushed forward crying and shouting, wanting to live together with me and finally get married?" Gao Wen said angrily.

"Yes, yes, Mr. Gao has a good understanding!" Yu Xingyan was amused by Gao Wen's words and laughed: "Of course, this is just thinking about how ordinary people can have such a situation. But if there is a book that can The writing of these things makes people intoxicated when reading it, dazed, like a demon, and regards the protagonist in the book as themselves, this book is considered a good book."

The sense of substitution, this is the sense of substitution, Gao Wen was an editor in his previous life, how could he not understand this.

Boss Yu: "The so-called good book is actually the same routine. It's just that the young master is in trouble and meets a beautiful woman. Although the young master is beautiful and soul-giving, the beautiful woman also has the eyes to know the pearl, and the heart is secretly promised. So, the two of them married each other. Private meetings, mountain alliances and vows, one will not marry unless you are a minister, and the other will not marry unless you are a king. But the young master is down and out, except for his knowledge, he is so poor that he has nowhere to stand. "

This... This method is too old... Gao Wen was sweating profusely, and couldn't help but continued: "Then, the troubled son came to ask for a marriage, but his mother-in-law disliked him, so he had to leave angrily. Next year, he will go to Beijing to catch the exam and win the first prize." At this time, the mother-in-law came to the door, crying and begging, and wanted to betroth her precious daughter to the number one scholar. The number one scholar made a sarcasm, and the mother-in-law was ashamed. In the end, the troubled son got the beauty back, and the lover finally got married. The flowers are full and the moon is full."

"Okay, well said!" Boss Yu praised: "Mr. Gao really knows everything. If you go this way in the future, you can only rely on your brushes. Don't be afraid to say that it's okay to have meat in your meals. Of course, It would be best to add a little bit of things between men and women when writing. People, don’t they just like this tone, the so-called fleshy flesh is fragrant, and the wind and moon are boundless. Just look at your book..."

I hate you, Mula next door, this is asking me to write Huangwen!Thinking of me, Gao Wen, although I am a strong man, I was an intellectual at least in my previous life. How can I write such dirty things? Isn't that trying to teach children badly?
Also, what do you know as an unscrupulous businessman, and you give me, an experienced publisher, a writing class, which is tolerable and unbearable.

Gao Wen's expression turned ugly: "What happened to my book?"

Boss Yu: "What are you doing with a monkey in this book? You can't study for the number one scholar in the imperial examination, and you can't go to the brothel for poetry and drinking. How can you seduce the officials into the drama? Is it possible that everyone still imagines themselves as the monkey walker in the book? , Playing with a group of female monkeys? If the material is wrong, no matter how good the book is, no one will read it, and it is useless."

(End of this chapter)