Chapter 191 Jin Yong’s Soulmate
After dinner, Jin Yong and Yang Ye went to the study to continue drinking tea and chatting.
Jin Yong talked about that he was revising his novels and preparing to publish them again under the name "Jin Yong's Collected Works".
For mainland readers, there are three versions of Jin Yong's novels, namely the serialized version, the triplicate version, and the century newly revised version.
In Hong Kong and Taiwan, there are also versions such as Yuanjing version, Yuanliu version, and Minghe version. These editions are the same as the triple edition, but they were published earlier.
After Jin Yong revised his novel in 1980, he handed it over to Taiwan's Yuanjing Publishing Company for publication. In mainland China, it was not until 1994 that it was handed over to Sanlian Bookstore for publication.
But... before that, at least dozens of versions had been published in mainland China, all of which were pirated copies published by regular publishing houses.
For example, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" published by Jiangxi People's Publishing House printed 500,000 copies and sold out.
There are at least tens of millions of pirated copies published by these regular publishing houses. There are countless underground pirates.
In addition to blatant piracy by publishers, some magazines are not far behind and serialize Jin Yong's novels directly in magazines to increase sales.
The mainland had no copyright awareness at that time. In short, they just took advantage of Jin Yong's wool.
Among the three versions, the serial version is more nonsense, with many monsters, dark and even pornographic plots.
For example, Guo Jing has a mythical beast. Yang Guo's armpits smelled strange, and even Huang Rong couldn't resist it. Ye Erniang exposed her nakedness in public and so on.
These nonsense plots have greatly affected the artistic achievement of the novel. Revision is necessary and necessary.
The year before Yang Ye traveled through time, Jin Yong announced that he would stop writing, and he has been revising it since then, and now the revision has basically been completed.
In the revised version, Jin Yong deleted many mythical creatures, nonsense, and pornographic plots in the serial version;
corrected the abandoned settings in the later chapters, such as the setting of Tianlong's "three good and four evils" Certainly. The serialized version mentioned three good things and four evils, but after the book was finished, the three good things were not revealed. The revised version deleted this setting;
Added foreshadowing of the new setting in the previous article, such as the relationship between Qu Lingfeng and Peach Blossom Island. foreshadowing. In the serial version, Qu Lingfeng appeared as a bunch of skeletons, but in the revised version, he also opened a tavern, which became the foreshadowing of Peach Blossom Island;
Unify the characters' contextual images, such as the redesign of Zhang Wuji's character Certainly. In the serialized version, Zhang Wuji was very cunning and vengeful when he was a child. The revised version changed it to a good old man;
The emotional clues between the characters were also repaired to make the characters and the story more complete, convincing and watchable.
Generally speaking, the Vision Edition (Triple Edition) is the best version, but there are still many flaws.
For example, there is no explanation of the origin of the "Eighteen Palms for Subduing the Dragon". Hong Qigong's "Eighteen Palms for Subduing the Dragon" were half taught by a teacher and half self-enlightened. The proud move "Exalt the Dragon and Regret" was created by himself, which is in conflict with Xiao Feng's "Eighteen Palms for Subduing the Dragon".
If Hong Qigong’s “Exalted Dragon Has Regrets” is self-realization, then where did Xiao Feng’s “Exalted Dragons Have Regrets” come from?
Moreover, Xiao Feng committed suicide, so the Beggar Clan’s Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms should have been lost. How could Hong Qigong’s Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms be taught by half of his masters?
In the twenty years since the revised edition was released in 1980, readers have continued to point out bugs that still exist in the book.
In addition, there are a group of literati in mainland China who want to promote Jin Yong's novels as classics.
Once successful, these literati will certainly become famous, but Jin Yong will benefit the most.
Because he will get rid of his identity as a writer of popular novels, enter the literary world, and officially become a literary master.
Jin Yong couldn't resist the temptation. In 1999, he revised his novel again based on the opinions of these scholars. This time the version was called the Century New Edition.
However, since the triple version is already very good and everyone has been reading this version for twenty years, the newly revised version is generally considered to be superfluous and thankless.
For example, the origin and inheritance of the "Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms" were revised to read that Xiao Feng passed the palm techniques to Xu Zhu before committing suicide, and the palm techniques of later generations of the Beggar Clan were passed down from generation to generation by Xu Zhu.
But it is superfluous, and there are ten more palms inexplicably, making Xiao Feng's palm skills become "Twenty-eight Dragon Subduing Palms", which is very confusing to read, making readers very uncomfortable and feel embarrassed.
In the end, Jin Yong’s canonization failed.
With the rapid rise of online literature in the mainland, Jin Yong’s readers have been losing a lot, and those born in the 2000s rarely read Jin Yong’s novels.
Jin Yong's novels, which have accompanied five generations of people, have fallen from the altar.
Yang Ye was very aware of these things. During the discussion with Jin Yong, he casually mentioned some bugs in the novel and his suggestions for revisions, which surprised Jin Yong.
Yang Ye said: "The character Ye Erniang is slutty and vicious. She steals someone else's child every day and falls to death when she gets tired of it. Reading it makes people feel very disgusting. Because she is Xu Zhu's Mom, I don't even like Xu Zhu anymore. I suggest you don't throw it to death and give it to someone who needs a child. In this case, at least it won't be so disgusting. The old thief Ding Chunqiu is his brother one by one, which makes it difficult for the protagonist to be a good person. "
Jin Yong met a close friend, because his revised version was changed in this way, and Yang Ye didn't read it at all, but he talked to him. We have the same opinion, we are like close friends!
Speaking of which, the revised version of the "Four Evil Men" is simply a waste of time.
Duan Yanqing is proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, the South China Sea Crocodile God respects his teacher and is a good disciple, Ye Sanniang helps others raise children and then gives them to those in need, Yun Zhonghe is known as a rapist from the beginning to the end. None of them were raped.
Jin Yong sighed: "It is enough to have a confidant in life. Little friend Yang Ye, if my wife hadn't allowed me to drink more, I would have wanted to get drunk with you and then we'd stop."
Yang Ye said with a smile. : "We can have tea instead of wine."
After chatting for a while, Jin Yong said: "My friend, are you interested in taking a look at my revised version and giving your valuable opinions?"
Yang Ye pretended to be surprised and said: "Oh? That's such an honor for me. I will definitely read it carefully."
Speaking of it, Yang Ye really tried his best to get Jin Yong's copyright.
Because this thing is the largest IP in the Chinese-speaking world. Wherever there are Chinese people, there are Jin Yong novels, which are so valuable.
In the original time and space, just one "Tian Long Ba Bu" PC game made a turnover of 40 billion.
This was done due to the confusion of copyrights in the three places across the Taiwan Strait and the chaos.
If the copyrights are unified and operated in a planned manner with prediction of future development, the value of the entire set of novels will be immeasurable.
And now, in this world, only Yang Ye knows its value.
After chatting with Jin Yong until after nine o'clock, Yang Ye went home with a lot of manuscript papers revised by Jin Yong.
This horse riding was first-hand information. Yang Ye was quite interested, so he read it all.
Yang Ye discovered that the current revised draft was not a complete triplicate edition, and there were some modifications that had not yet been covered.
So I added it to the opinion draft.
There are also some BUGs that still exist in the triple version, such as Huang Rong’s age, Yang Ye also raised them. There are also some common sense errors that Jin Yong has not corrected in the Century New Edition, and Yang Ye also pointed them out.
For example, peanuts are eaten in Condor Shooting. There were no peanuts in the Song Dynasty.
The arithmetic problems Yinggu solved were too mentally retarded and should be made more difficult.
Xiao Feng met a fierce tiger in the Northeast. The tiger actually weighed... more than a hundred kilograms. This tiger was simply underage, right?
It took Xiao Feng a long time to fight this little tiger, he was so defeated by the king!
So much so that when fans of the later generations of the Golden Book on Martial Arts boasted about it, fans of the Giant Hero would pull out this paragraph and slap them in the face.
Finally, the newly revised version was recognized as a good improvement. Yang Ye also wrote down one by one as his revision opinions.
As for whether to change or not, Jin Yong decides for himself.
After finishing everything, Yang Ye locked the revisions and Jin Yong's original manuscript into the bookcase, and will talk about it in a few months.
……
Wang Zuxian and Xiao Yingying's parents took them off the plane. As soon as they exited the gate, they saw someone holding a sign with their names written on it.
The two little girls quickly pulled their parents over.
"Xiaoxian, Yingying, this way!" Zhou Huimin waved to the two of them.
"Xiao Min!" The two little girls ran over quickly.
The three little sisters were very excited after not seeing each other for a long time.
Xiao Yingying didn't see Yang Ye and said with some disappointment: "Where's Brother Ye? Why didn't you come!"
Zhou Huimin said: "If Brother Ye shows up at the airport, it will immediately cause a traffic jam. He is waiting at home. "You guys."
Xiao Yingying stuck out her tongue: "That's right, then I will forgive him."
"You cute monkey!" Little Cui Zhenzhen greeted the two little girls. .
"Hey, who are you?"
"Wo's name is Cui Zhenshi."
Zhou Huimin introduced: "She is Korean, and like me, she is a trainee."
The two little girls said oh in a friendly manner: " Hello, my name is Wang Zuxian!”
“Hello, my name is Xiao Yingying!”
Zhou Huimin asked: “Where is Jingyi?”
Xiao Yingying said: "Her mother married a Japanese, and she immigrated to Japan with her."
Zhou Huimin said regretfully: "I thought the four of us could be together again."
Wang Zuxian said: "Actually, she really wants to come. We made an appointment with her to write letters."
The children chatted happily, and Hu Yinmeng, who was in charge of picking them up, also chatted with their parents. .
"Mr. Yang is quite busy at work and will treat everyone to dinner in the evening. Let's go to the company to visit first."
After introducing some basic information, Hu Yinmeng took them on a company minibus and went straight to Baiyang Brokerage Company.
These two little girls are already twelve years old. Baiyang Agency sent them invitation letters in the name of Yang Ye, hoping that they can come to Hong Kong to be trainees.
They all once followed Yang Ye on a world tour. During the whole process, Yang Ye took good care of these little girls, so their parents trusted Yang Ye.
And Yang Ye is not only extremely well-known in Taiwan, but has also made many celebrities famous one after another. This makes their parents feel that it is more promising for their children to become trainees.
Finally, I took my children to Hong Kong for inspection.
...
Hu Yinmeng led everyone around the training room and introduced: "Currently we have more than a hundred children participating in training here, and most of them use their spare time. Although we do not accept Tuition fee, but the selection is strict, not everyone can participate.”
“Are they all from Hong Kong?”
“90% are local children, because they are relatively close, so it’s OK. Use your spare time to practice. If you are a student from other places, it will be more troublesome and you will have to find a boarding school in Hong Kong. However, there are also students from Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan. This Cui Jinzhen is Korean."
Everyone walked in. In a dance studio, Liu Hua clapped his hands and said: "Everyone did a good job, come and do it again with me. Preparation, 1234, 2234, 3234..."
While shouting the rhythm, he led a group of children to dance.
Xiao Yingying said: "I know him, he is Hua Zai in "Alien", he is so handsome!"
Hu Yinmeng explained to the parents of the two little girls : "Hua Zai is the oldest trainee here. He will make his debut soon. The company is selecting scripts and helping him take on the roles. We have more trainees here during the summer vacation, so he came over to help."
“Wow, Mingzai is here too!”
“Did you see that, that’s Xiaozhe!”
Hu Yinmeng further explained: "Xiao Zhe is also Taiwanese. He used to be a backup singer in Mr. Yang's concerts with Xiao Xian and Ying Ying. Miss Deng Lijun thinks he is very talented in singing and has accepted him as a disciple."
Dad Xiao said in surprise: "Miss Deng Lijun accepts him as a disciple?"
Hu Yinmeng smiled and nodded: "Miss Deng Lijun is a shareholder of our company. If she is free, she will also come to give birth to the child. Let’s take classes. Xiao Min is also her disciple.”
“Can my Yingying also be Miss Deng’s disciple?”
“We will make specific arrangements based on each child’s talent. Career plan. If Ms. Deng thinks Yingying has singing talent, it is not impossible to accept her as a disciple.”
"I understand!"
Although they knew there was little hope, Xiao Yingying's parents were still a little excited.
Wang Zuxian’s parents were not excited at all about this incident!
(End of this chapter)