Chapter 299 Gu Lu is the buff
Readers’ comments can be accurately said to be mixed.
First of all, let’s talk about the more negative comments -
“Is this really Gu Lu’s work? It doesn’t feel like I felt when I saw Tiezhu before. I don’t know why, it’s so literary.”
“So, in the Possibility of Evil, the old woman is mentally ill? In the other article, she is a persecutory delusional person. Is it scary?”
"It's over, it's over, it's over. I said important things three times, and what I was most worried about happened. Ever since Gu Lu was published in "People's Literature", he has become too burdened."
"I didn't read it. I understand, it’s too bad. Can someone please explain to me what’s written? I don’t understand it at all.”
The main criticism is that I don’t understand it, and the plot is not as good as before.
But there is another part that has completely opposite evaluations.
"It's wonderful, and has great stamina! Especially the crazy old woman, she is evil. Gu Lu wrote such legitimate and bright evil."
"Personally, I feel that the storytelling is a bit worse than Tiezhu, but the literary quality is higher."
"The things that are bad are those that I don't understand. Occasionally, I feel like someone is following me. Everyone has had this experience when they were young. An idea, right? This idea was written in "Random Thoughts".
The two sides were at loggerheads.
The Internet is like this. Wherever you look, there are grumpy old men. As long as there is a slight difference of opinion, give the other party a thumbs up.
Even in 2013, this atmosphere has not yet intensified, but it is already showing signs.
For example, now, those who feel that the supernatural novels serialized by Gu Luxin are not good, say that they like them "are just flattering."
Those who don’t like it will be evaluated by those who like it as “it’s only worthy of reading rubbish. If you don’t understand it, go back to school”.
Both sides scolded each other in an unpleasant way.
Oh, it doesn’t sound bad either. When the Internet evolves in a few years, the wording will be simpler. If you like it, it will be "filial son", if you don't like it, it will be "nine leaky fish".
The key is that the editorial department of "New Reading" is also happy.
Such a high popularity is far less than that of all publications in the first half of the year.
The new editor Wang who has joined the editorial department and wants to learn from Xiao Xue still maintains the shortcomings of newcomers - he loves "peace", likes to reason, and acts as a referee.
So as soon as he came back from outside, he opened a vest on the computer and wanted to stop the dispute.
Editor Wang’s ID is “Douzi loves to eat Douzi”. He wrote a relatively long book review from a neutral perspective.
Intercept one of the paragraphs:
[The stories of "Random Thoughts" and "The Possibility of Evil" are indeed not as good as Moonlight and Iron Pillar, and even worse than Huahuafan.
Because these two short stories were originally teacher Gu Lu’s experiments to explore and portray the terror in people’s hearts.
So the twists and turns of the story are not enough. This is very unfriendly to readers who like to read stories, so some people who don’t understand it and don’t like it are completely normal.
As for why many readers particularly like it and call it a masterpiece?
Also because of the writing method, Gu Lu's exploration of the evil of human nature is a commonly used method in serious literature.
Successfully writing "just and fair" evil, what is the reason why Strangeworth harmed people? She feels that human beings are so evil, and as a judge, she wants to punish these people!
There is also the extension of vigilance in "Random Thoughts" and the open ending, which shows a very high level.
The writing skills are superb, which accounts for more than 90% of the supernatural horror short stories.
……]
Intern editor Wang made it clear that the two sides were not actually arguing on the same level. One is telling stories and the other is talking about literature.
Isn't this the city gate tower and the hip axis, Guan Gong and Qin Qiong, Daju and Riwan, they are not next to each other.
"There should be no more noise now." Editor Wang breathed a sigh of relief.
As a result, his private message mailbox exploded very quickly.
And the message area for comments is full of curses.
Yes, Editor Wang was criticized by both parties.
"You're laughing so hard. It's high-level to portray characters. It's low-level to tell stories. Why don't you die?" "Are you making excuses for your lack of intelligence? These two stories don't even have a story, so they were kicked by donkeys?"...< br>
Once a quarrel starts, it is not about trying to reason, but about trying to prove that the other person is a fool.
Any comments that hinder and prove that the other party is a fool are enemies. Editor Wang’s comments hindered both parties, and it is normal to be scolded.
"Teacher Xiao Gu is Teacher Xiao Gu. The distributor called to place an order. In one morning, we sold the same amount as the previous week." Xiao Xue stood up and happily announced the good news.
If you are lucky, the editor may give you a red envelope.
Thinking of this, the editors cheered, and the cheers woke up Editor Wang who was stunned by the scolding.
"Are you ready for the gift for Teacher Xiao Gu?" Xiao Xue asked.
Editor Wang was responsible for this matter. He nodded quickly, "It's ready, and the things are here. It's downstairs. I'll take them upstairs in a moment."
"The gift is quite heavy. Yes. The weather is quite hot. You just went to buy A4 paper for copying, so take a good rest and let the air conditioner blow." Xiao Xue said.
Gu Lu’s two new works are priced at 250 per thousand words, which is the highest price the magazine can offer. It was unrealistic to raise the price any more, so Xiao Xue prepared a gift.
Hurry up and push the manuscript. Are there any follow-up works? Xiao Xue took advantage of the opportunity to announce the good news and asked Teacher Gu Lu.
Xiao Xue was shocked when he received the affirmative answer, very good!
Really, Gu Lu only needs to make a small move to reach the ceiling of "New Reading".
About two minutes later, Xiao Xue said to Editor Wang, "It's almost time to rest. It's been so long. Go get it."
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Editor Wang got up and went to get it.
One thing to say is that for Xiao Xue, two or three minutes of rest is long enough.
But for Gu Lu, two or three minutes were not enough.
He just finished copying today's history book and feels really tired.
Learning from Zhou Shuren’s habit of copying Zizhi Tongjian, Gu Lu kept it very well. Even after finishing copying Zizhi Tongjian, he continued to the next one.
"Obviously copying is useful, and I can clearly feel that reading history can be wise. Why am I still so unhappy?" Gu Lu felt that every time he prepared to copy a book, he felt the same as visiting a grave.
It’s normal, because fitness, reading, etc. are all things that we know will get better if we do them, but very few people can persist in doing them.
Why? Because playing and laziness are the nature of living things, and learning is painful.
“If my brain changes and I can do things like exercise and copying books, and my body can feel the joy of sleeping in and playing games, then I can definitely become a great person!”
Stretch out Lazy, Gu Lu put "New Book of Tang" back on the bookshelf.
What he copied was the essence version, because the full text of the New Book of Tang is more than three million words, and it contains a lot of data. No one would be interested in these except historians who study the history books of the Tang Dynasty.
After surfing the Internet for a while, Gu Lu took a break.
Because Gu Lu likes to search intensively on social platforms, Weibo easily pushes news related to Gu Lu to himself.
I saw the top ten hot searches.
#Is Gu Lu’s level improving or lagging behind#
A vote was also launched.
What the hell? Gu Lu understood the ins and outs of the matter.
"Very good, very good! You forced me to do this!" Gu Lu deleted the title of the document "Go Home, Louisa" and changed it to "Lottery".
Yes, Gu Lu originally thought about playing the trump card at the end, but now, he just goes for it!
Synthesized collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories "The Lottery". The short story of the same name in it is so awesome.
"The Lottery" is known as one of the most important short stories of the 20th century. With this short story, Shirley Jackson occupies a place in the literary history of the earth! So exaggerated and perverted.
Gu Lu also watched it after I got it. It was really cool. I felt so good after watching it. It was so bright under the summer sun. He felt something cold and strange...
When he thought of taking out this work, Gu Lu felt a little excited, and even jumped up to drink the gin from COS Conan.
“Ah Shirley!”
The second-year middle school boy has a lot of fun, but he actually has a character like Gu Lu. You don’t even know how funny he is when he is alone at home.
The code started crackling——
At night, Gu Lu went to bed at half past eleven.
Before going to bed, I was thinking about the house. The new house I bought was being renovated.
I'm going to check on the progress tomorrow. It was his first time buying a house and he had little experience. Gu Lu also knew that he might be cheated, but after spending too much money, he had to do things well! Therefore, Gu Lu went quite frequently.
In addition, I will visit Lawyer Wang tomorrow to consult on some legal matters.
At this time, some people can sleep and some cannot. Yao Xiaoju is the latter.
He couldn't sleep because he was busy. The English version of The Little Prince was translated well. I also need to find someone to translate the Japanese version of "Flowers for Algernon".
In the process of looking for someone, Yao Xiaoju discovered a very magical organization...
Name: Lu Fanhui
Full name: Gu Lu Translation Association "This thing is Real or fake?" Yao Xiaoju was confused.
It's very realistic, and there's also the association's logo "9". Lu is the capital of six, and when turned over it's nine, which makes sense.
Looking at the list of association members.
President: Natsuhiko Kyogoku, a famous weird mystery writer, whose representative work is "The Summer of the Bird". He has translated works such as "One Inch Master" and "Mirror Hell".
Vice President: Kazuma Yasuda (Junji Ito), a famous horror cartoonist, whose representative work is the "Tomie Series". He has translated works such as "The Human Chair" and "The Walker on the Ceiling".
Eiko Kadono is a cutting-edge fairy tale novelist whose representative work is "Kiki's Delivery Service". Translated "The Little Prince".
Taishan Kobayashi has not yet created anything, but he has many genius ideas. He has translated works such as "Mountain" and "Feeding God".
......
"Why do we need writers and cartoonists to translate works? Doesn't Neon have good translators?" Yao Xiaoju had a question in his mind.
Continuing to investigate, Yao Xiaoju’s questions were answered.
Instead of looking for writers and cartoonists specifically, I became cartoonists and writers after translating the works.
Junji Ito made his debut with the Human Chair, Natsuhiko Kyogoku was inspired to write The Story of a Hundred Monogatari, and Eiko Kadono felt that she had no talent. After translating The Little Prince, she casually wrote a story about a witch...
"?" Yao Xiaoju felt that this thing was too coincidental. Are Gu Lu's works so inspiring? It's just to take advantage of the heat.
“No, it’s not just to ride on the popularity. Eiko Kadono won the Noma Children’s Literature Award and the Sankei Children’s Publishing Culture Award when she debuted, and she was at the top when she debuted. Junji Ito was even known as Kazuo Kazuo. The successor is so famous that there is no need to worry about it, so..."
They are teaming up!
The information Yao Xiaoju found next proved his idea. The Lu Fan Association doesn't have many members, but by uniting together and using their influence, they can get a lot of publicity resources and higher stamp duties for the members of the association.
The next day, Yao Xiaoju contacted someone from the association.
“If you want to join, you must have translated Teacher Gu Lu’s works. If you don’t know Chinese, it is recommended to buy a Chinese-Japanese dictionary. If you translate it, you don’t necessarily need to publish it. But you must translate...”
< br>Yao Xiaoju’s Japanese is not good, and he can’t understand the other party’s English. Anyway, the current entrance ceremony for the Lu Translation Society is to translate a work by Gu Lu.
"In this case, we can collaborate on the Japanese version of "Flowers for Algernon."" Yao Xiaoju thought.
This book requires a more capable translator, because there are many typos in the work at the beginning. How to make the Japanese typos more normal without affecting reading requires a little bit of skill. It was arranged by the publishing house, so Yao Xiaoju himself was a little worried.
It’s good to have an agent, so Gu Lu doesn’t have to think about these things. He was watching the English version of "The Little Prince" at the moment.
His current English level makes it a bit difficult to read the English version. But he was also very happy.
“I don’t know when the French version will be available. Hahaha, not bad, not bad. The release date is also confirmed.” Gu Lu felt better.
"The Little Prince" was written by a Chinese. It should be difficult for Europe and the United States to reach the heights of its previous life. But even if it reaches seven, seven or eight, it is enough.
Pengpeng——
There is a knock on the door.
……
Wang Liangyan is going to the grassroots level.
Wudu is a municipality directly under the Central Government, so even though he is a small director of the sub-district office, he is one of the top three cadres in the county at the grassroots level.
Wang Liangyan is also willing to go on. Cadres without experience in townships and counties have no chance to go further.
"I'm really sorry to see you leave, Director Wang." The civil servant who took over was transferred from another street and was considered an acquaintance of Director Wang - Lao Geng.
Lao Geng is not one of our own, but he is not his opponent either, so Director Wang is willing to sell his favor.
She reminded: "In our work, we must listen to the voices of the masses, especially the masses in Building 3, 7-2."
Huh? What's wrong with the people on this floor? Could it be that he is a troublesome person who likes to petition?
Damn it! Just as Lao Geng was about to say something, he heard Director Wang continue to speak.
"Where does the famous writer Mr. Gu Lu live?" Director Wang said, "You know the one about The Little Prince and Young China, right?"
Of course, Lao Geng nodded. In particular, Young China said that some time ago, there were some new era youth team activities. But exhausted.
“Teacher Gu Lu is a talented writer, he is still young and full of vigor, so if there are any problems in the streets, he will definitely speak out.” Director Wang reminded, “Teacher Gu Lu’s voice will be seen by many people, and the leaders will also See..."
Okay, Lao Geng understands. Young people are not mature at all, and they don't consider the consequences when they make trouble.
"Thank you very much. I will definitely visit Teacher Gu Lu." Lao Geng said.
Seeing that the other party understood what he meant, Director Wang nodded with satisfaction.
Just do it, and Lao Geng came to visit with his things that day. As for what it is, it will be revealed later.
"Excuse me, is this Teacher Gu Lu?" Lao Geng was not used to calling high school students teacher. This is still not as good as Director Wang.
"I am Gu Lu, but I don't know if I am the teacher you are looking for." Gu Lu smelled the smell of a civil servant from the other party.
"I have seen the photo of Teacher Gu Lu when he was interviewed by a newspaper. It is not much different from the photo in the newspaper. He looks very talented." Lao Geng said, "I especially like Teacher Gu Lu's works.
Lao Geng followed Geng introduced himself.
As expected, he didn’t have this feeling of being a civil servant after working in the system for ten or twenty years.
“What about Director Geng today? "Gu Lu welcomed the person into the room and glanced at the bag the other person was carrying.
"Isn't this to understand the living conditions of the masses..." As he said, Lao Geng took out a small note, "Just There are many things that I don't know about when I take office, so I do my own research. ”
Gu Lu poured a glass of water, but he didn't drink tea either. I glanced over and saw a lot of things written down in the notebook, which seemed to be sewers, which were easily blocked during heavy rains.
"Director Geng is really conscientious of his duties." Gu Lu praised.
“Everything should be done. Our sub-district office is to serve the people within its jurisdiction.” Lao Geng said, “Today I’m going to ask Mr. Gu Lu if he has any opinions on housing. We have If there is no improvement, then we should encourage it.”
“As for garbage, our garbage recycling is relatively slow, so when the temperature is high in summer, the smell is very strong.”
“Many people have reported this problem today.” Lao Geng said immediately, “We will discuss a solution within three working days when we get back. Don’t worry.”
"It's so efficient!" Gu Lu gave a thumbs up.
“It’s so hot, this matter is urgently needed. Special matters should be handled specially.” Lao Geng asked again, “Is there anything else?”
“No, everything else is fine. ." Gu Lu said.
"That's good. If you have any questions, come to us at the street office anytime. Teacher Gu Lu, please accept these noodles and eggs." Lao Geng stood up.
“No, no, no, we can’t have this.”
"Teacher Gu Lu, don't get me wrong, this is a care plan run by our Fuxing Subdistrict Office. As long as there are elderly people and children at home, it will be available," Lao Geng explained.
"Both of them?" Gu Lu asked suspiciously.
"There are really all of them. If you ask around here, you will know it." Lao Geng said.
“So good?” Gu Lu couldn’t believe it.
"It's all trivial." Lao Geng said, "Then I will continue to investigate and won't disturb Teacher Gu Lu."
"Okay, let's go slowly, Director Geng." Gu Lu saw him off.
Director Geng is a bit smarter than the previous director. Since Gu Lu’s complaint can be seen by the leader, can Gu Lu’s praise also be seen by the leader?
So, Director Geng should behave well.
It must be said that with Gu Lu here, the surrounding neighbors have benefited a lot.
The words are divided into two parts, and the editorial department of "New Reading" will gain even more!
The sales volume of "New Reading" exceeded 310,000 copies in the first week, and the sales volume in half a month is expected to be no less than 400,000 copies.
You must know that the average sales volume of this magazine is only about 300,000 per issue. Gu Lu's popularity has definitely raised the upper limit of the magazine.
Amidst this booming sales, time passes.
For some publishing houses, the start of school is a very important time. The exercise book must be published quickly, otherwise the students will not be able to earn money.
"Huanggang Secret Scroll", "Zhihong Optimization", "Instructions", etc. are relatively common.
Only this time, Children's Publishing House and New Youth Publishing House also made new moves. The former launched the "Children's Picture Reading Series" books.
To say that Yuan Mingjie is really capable, the series of books have been ordered by hundreds of kindergartens across the country.
You must know that children's books are very expensive because the paper materials and printing process are different from ordinary books.
Profits are high.
The work launched by the latter is naturally "Flowers for Algernon". In the last half month, the promotion has also entered the sprint stage.
"Genius writer Gu Lu's new work is on the market, so stay tuned!"
"Gu Lu: This is my best story-telling work."
(End of this chapter)