Xiangye

Chapter 22 Maybe there is an opportunity for cooperation
I remember that the first time Gao Wen brought a manuscript to a bookstore to sell it, he just had to deal with it after glancing at the first thousand or two thousand words and discarding it like a shoe.I feel that a novel about gods and demons with animals and protagonists and no love affairs between men and women is a popular subject on the street and loses money.

To be honest, he didn't care about the story in the book, and he didn't even read it.

After being strongly recommended by his nephew Yu Shiyuan, he reluctantly finished reading Chapter 1. After reading it, he didn't find anything surprising, and the story was even a bit old-fashioned.

But masterpieces are masterpieces, and works that can stand at the pinnacle of Ming and Qing literature naturally have an irresistible charm.Maybe you didn't feel it when you first started reading, but when you put down the book, the monkey inside came alive, entangled in your mind and dreams day and night.It makes you wonder, what does the next story in that book look like?
Yes, the characters in the book are alive and have a life of their own.

This is only [-] words, one chapter, and I have already made myself so crazy, which shows how wonderful this book is.

In the past few days of asking who Gao Wen is, Boss Yu has been tortured by the stories in the book to the point of mania.At this moment, hearing the new chapter is like a nightmare, my ears are soaring, and I am eager to hear it quickly.

However, Gao Wen's "really is" dragged on for a long time, but he didn't follow through, leaving his heart hanging in the air, and he couldn't be at ease no matter what.

After a while, he couldn't bear it any longer, turned around abruptly, threw himself in front of Gao Wen, and hissed, "Where's down here, where's down here?"

Gao Wen: "There is nothing below."

"What, there's nothing below? It's been four or five days, and you just wrote this line. What are you doing? Don't you want to write it? Damn it, are you sent by the Supervisor of Ceremonies?" The so-called Lijian is the head of the twelve prisons in the inner palace, who is in charge of the imperial court's power to approve reds.That's right, the palm prints of Si Lijian, Bing Bi, Suitang and others are all eunuchs who received a knife in the crotch.

This sound was both desolation and grief, just like the cry of Wushan ape.

In the main room over there, the loom stopped, and Mother Gao's voice came softly: "Wen'er."

Gao Wen hurriedly said: "Mother, it's okay, it's okay."

After finishing speaking, he opened the drawer and put a large stack of manuscripts on the table: "Mr. Yu, I'm just kidding you. This is the first manuscript of "Journey to the West", just take a look. Whether it is divided into It's better to buy it out, and we can talk after you finish reading it. No matter what, we can always negotiate a plan that both you and I are satisfied with."

"So many, it's almost [-] words..." With a groan, Yu Xingyan's eyes flashed with enthusiasm, he snatched it up, sat on the chair, and read it word by word.

This reading was really hearty, and it was so enlightening that I ate a bowl of iced sour plum soup on a hot day.

I don't know how long it took, until Wukong ate the flat peaches, and then stole the golden elixir of the Supreme Lord and returned to the heaven.The Heavenly Palace couldn't bring down the powerful Monkey King, so in desperation, the Jade Emperor had to send someone to ask Erlang God to go to Huaguo Mountain to fight against the ministers.

One is Erlang Zhenjun with 36 transformations of Tiangang, and the other is Monkey King Monkey King with 72 transformations of Earth Sha.This battle between the two of them is the biggest climax in the book "Journey to the West".

And Boss Yu's mind was also ups and downs with the coming and going of the two soldiers, feeling cold sweat on his palms, and his heart was tangled into a ball.When he saw the monkey turned into a temple, but the tail had no place to rest, it could only be turned into a flagpole, and he couldn't help laughing, "This monkey, after all, can't change Feiyang's escaping temperament...ah!"

At this moment, a big hand stretched out to cover the manuscript.

I was watching happily, but was suddenly interrupted, and the anger in my heart surged up.Yu Xingyan: "What are you doing, move your hands away... Mr. Gao..."

Looking up, it was Gao Wen's somewhat smug face: "Mr. Yu, it's getting dark soon, so you can't read any more. If you think this book is good, we'll discuss how to retouch the book, and you bring your manuscript back home. Some are time to savor carefully."

"It's getting dark!" At this moment, Yu Xingyan was taken aback.

Having been a bookstore owner for more than ten years, it has become a professional habit to read one or two books every day.Just because I have read too many books, in the words of later generations, I am tired of aesthetics.Therefore, his reading speed is very fast on weekdays.A book of 60 to [-] words only takes one hour.Of course, it is still incomparable with modern people, but he didn't know that when Gao Wen used to read online novels, he could read five to six million words in one night without any difficulty.

Boss Yu looked back and thought, just now he happened to read the sixth chapter of "Journey to the West", "Avalokitesvara Goes to the Meeting and Asks the Reason, the Little Sage Gives Power to the Great Sage", and he only read about [-] words, but it took an afternoon.It seemed that he was really addicted to it.When I was reading, I even slowed down subconsciously, lest I read too fast and finish the story, because there is no follow-up, my heart will be empty and there is nowhere to go.

At this point, he fully realized the power of this book: this is the real story. In comparison, what the old man had read before was rubbish.What's the use of reading that kind of rubbish book?As the saying goes, I would rather eat a bite of fairy peach than a basket of rotten pears. "Journey to the West" is the fairy peach in the peach garden of the Queen Mother. It is fragrant and delicious. Reading it, I don't know the taste of meat in March.What's more, this fairy peach is of high quality and large quantity, enjoyable, really enjoyable!

To say that other books are rubbish is actually biased.

In fact, the novels of the early Ming Dynasty were not very high in terms of writing skills.This is actually understandable. After all, novels and romances have just become an important form of entertainment and literary genre in this era. There are not many authors and their writing skills are uneven.Only when the society became more prosperous and stable in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and the number of citizens further expanded, would more and more outstanding authors participate in it.

As far as the works in the world are concerned, although they are all chapter-style novels, the stories are very old-fashioned. They are just about wits and beautiful women, and the writing is also rough, with no details and no climax.The most terrible thing is that they are all short, and the longest one is only tens of thousands of words, which is especially satisfying to read.Most of them are a story of several thousand words, and there is no way but to gather more than a dozen stories together and form a collection.For example, there are more than a dozen versions of the story of Xu Xian and the White Snake, but they are all seven or eight thousand words in length.Sometimes, Boss Yu thinks why the author doesn't write more.If it were an old man, if the broken bridge encounters rain, he would write a thousand words first, and White Snake and Xu Xian opened a medicine shop, and they could also tell a few stories.Eat realgar wine and write him a thousand characters, the white lady who was suppressed under the Leifeng Pagoda wrote a thousand characters, stolen fairy grass a thousand characters, and flooded the golden mountain with a thousand characters, wouldn't it be possible to publish a separate book?

I want to return to thinking, but it is really difficult to write. If it were me, the whole article might be full of water, and readers would not buy it.

Therefore, the so-called long poems in the world are, to put it bluntly, nothing but a collection of short stories.The real big novels are probably only "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin".But among these two books, the reason why "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is so long is that there is history to follow, and it should be written according to the historical facts. It only needs eight points of truth and two points of fiction, which is very flattering.As for "Water Margin", after one person finished writing, he would write the next one. The last time it was Shi Jin, the next time it was Lu Zhishen, and the next time it was Wu Song. It was like a string of rosary beads. Although they are strung together with a thread, they have nothing to do with each other. To put it bluntly, it is also a short story, but the author is so clever that people can't see it.

In "Journey to the West" written by Gao Wen, the protagonist is Sun Wukong.At the beginning of the book, it is explained that when the Monkey King was born, an abnormality appeared in the sky, which shocked the heavenly court, straight to the point, and took the lead.The next thing is to discover the Water Curtain Cave, and learn supernatural powers under the door of the Bodhi ancestor.The next step is the Dragon Palace to seize the treasure, the Dragon King sues the Heavenly Palace, and the Jade Emperor recruits the monkey.

Next, the Monkey King rebelled because he was dissatisfied with his official position.Tiangong sent King Tota and Nezha to conquer, but they suffered a big defeat.

The Jade Emperor had no choice but to agree to all the conditions of the Monkey King, and called for safety again. He made Monkey King the Monkey King and ordered him to guard the Peach Garden.

After all, the monkey is a monkey, guarding himself and stealing the flat peaches, and he is dissatisfied that the flat peach conference did not invite him, the great sage equal to heaven, to make troubles in the sky again.

Sun Wukong's mana is really powerful, and the Jade Emperor really has nothing to do, so he sent someone to invite Erlang God.

All the stories in this book are consistent and echoed back and forth.There is cause and effect, there is suspense, and it can be solved smoothly.From the beginning to the end, from the thread to the button, it is natural and smooth, with rules and regulations.If you really want to compare yourself, it really has the taste of stereotyped essays, breaking the topic, inheriting the topic, starting the lecture...the middle part...the part...the best thing is that there is a summary or a big conclusion at the end.

This kind of words with countless hooks to hook people's appetite throughout the text, it would be strange not to make people look crazy.

In the past few days, after reading "Journey to the West" for the first time, Yu Xingyan knew how powerful this book was.I saw the sixth chapter today, and only then did I truly appreciate the magic of this book.

"Get rich, get rich!" A voice in my heart shouted loudly.

Hearing Gao Wen's words, Yu Xingyan calmed himself down quickly, and said, "Mr. Gao, the division is really not good... How about I give you 100 taels of silver for this manuscript."

Gao Wen smiled and shook his head, without saying a word, he just gathered the manuscript and was about to put it in the drawer.

"Ms. Gao, this is 100 taels of silver... Don't wait, wait until I finish talking." Yu Xingyan's voice was full of tears, and he was about to pull Gao Wen's hand and bite the five words of 100 taels of silver. very heavy.

Yes, this is already a sky-high price.It can be said that the industry rules have been broken. Other people's books cost two taels, and you get 100 taels.If it gets out and other authors quit, they will definitely bargain for the next time they submit their manuscript.This caused a chain reaction, and the writers in Shaanxi might have to do somersaults in their retouching.This has virtually increased the cost of bookstores of all sizes. At that time, I am afraid that I will be scolded by other booksellers.

You must know that in the early and middle Ming Dynasty, silver from America had not been imported into China in large quantities.Generally speaking, the money supply on the market is very insufficient, and the price of silver is skyrocketing.Take the majesty of a county as an example, the majestic seventh-rank official of the imperial court, the annual salary is only about thirty taels.The price of goods in Shaanxi is low, and the dry land is only two or three taels of silver per mu, and 100 taels of silver can be used to build a small manor.To be honest, it still hurts Yu Xingyan to spend so much money all at once.

Gao Wen: "The old man is very generous, but I don't always like to take advantage of others. I haven't earned a penny for the old man, so how can I charge you so much money. I will hit it off with the old man, let's do the next book , you and I may have a chance to cooperate in the next book."

(End of this chapter)