Gangcheng, isn't it bad for you to arrange Huo Yaowen like this? He is not a good-natured person, and he had a pen fight with someone else in the newspaper two years ago, but that newspaper was closed. ”

Si Guangyao, the editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine "70s", couldn't help but feel nervous when he watched the articles in many newspapers about him, for fear of following the path of the Emperor's Daily.

Sitting opposite Shugang City, he took a sip of tea and said nonchalantly: "Didn't you agree with Brother Yao at that time?

"I'm afraid, what's so scary about this!"

Si Guangyao settled down and said: "Have we named names, and then said it, we don't allow others to dislike his Huo Yaowen's works, everyone must praise him for his good writing?"

"Hey, Brother Yao, it's right if you think so!"

Shu Gangcheng smiled, and then continued to refute: "Anyway, did we name names, and what I said was the truth, I read a little bit of the books written by Huo Yaowen, all of them relied on bizarre stories, and those romances were all moaning without disease, and there was no literature department at all!"

"Hmm......" Si Guangyao nodded slightly, originally he was still a little apprehensive in his heart, but when he thought that the sales of the magazine had risen sharply recently, and the new work "The Hard Road" of Shugang City would also be published in the magazine, he was a lot more comfortable.

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"The germination of new literature marks the birth of modern literature, and the flourishing of Hong Kong's literary scene in recent years has lost the true connotation of previous literary works. At present, some people's works are naïve and ridiculous, vulgar and unbearable, but they are complimented as literary heroes, and they can't help but sigh that modern works have no blood and tears, shallow and unbearable, and there is no excitement that makes people full of emotion after reading it!"

This was written by Zhong Weishun under the pseudonym "Tianyake", almost portraying himself as an unknown literary writer, and attacking Huo Yaowen's works are almost all naïve works that entertain the public.

With the following trend and criticism, coupled with the fermentation of the incident, the article criticizing Huo Yaowen in the "Seventies" has been reprinted by many newspapers, and more and more people know about it, and many down-and-out writers and some writers who have made a lot of money in Huo Yaowen over the years have echoed it in the newspaper.

For a while, small newspapers and weekly magazines, which had always touted how Huo Yaowen's works were, turned the spearhead one after another, and began to criticize his works for being soulless for the sake of sales, whether it was romance or martial arts, they were all as belittled as possible.

It's not that there are no big newspapers criticizing, but most of those newspapers have little friendship with Huo Yaowen.

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At the moment, Yaowen Book Publishing Company.

After reading these newspapers that criticized his works for being soulless, Huo Yaowen couldn't help but sneer: "These newspapers are a wall-to-wall grass, and they are forced to fall over there!"

"You don't need to take this matter to heart, general manager, these people just can't eat grapes and think the grapes are sour..."

Yao Wenjie was afraid that the boss would be young, so when he looked at it, he also persuaded on the side: "It's all red-eyed, when Liang Yusheng wrote "Dragon and Tiger Fighting Jinghua" in the early years, the sales of the new evening newspaper exceeded 10,000 copies in one fell swoop, and he was criticized by I don't know how many newspapers at the time He wrote clichés, the plot was repetitive, and there was no novelty. But no matter how they say it, it is still a big hit, and now Liang Yu has become the founder of a new school of martial arts, and he doesn't see who says that he writes martial arts clichés. ”

"Hehe, Editor-in-Chief Yao, don't worry, I naturally know this. ”

For most tabloids in Hong Kong, of course Huo Yaowen knows what kind of urine they are, and it can be said that they are unscrupulous for the sake of sales, after all, people make money from this, plus freedom of speech, as long as they don't make personal attacks and name names, it's basically nothing.

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In the next few days, more and more newspapers criticized Huo Yaowen, and some tabloids exposed the author of this article, "Qiu Jianghai".

It turns out that this Qiu Jianghai is just a pen name, his real name is Shugang City, in the early fifties, he once became famous with the short story "Fog", and later created many realistic works such as "The Sun Goes West" and "White Orchid".

With an unpretentious tone and rich and vivid local colors, he depicts the faces of the people at the bottom of Hong Kong, and shows the bitterness of the working people behind the bustling city, so he is also known as "Hong Kong's local writer".

It can be said that Shu Gangcheng is a veritable old-school literati, born in the 20s, a native of Hong Kong, when Hong Kong fell, he fled to the mainland and worked as a proofreader in a printing house.

It was then that he began to develop a love for literature.

After returning to Hong Kong, he successively worked in foreign firms, commercial firms, construction companies, educational institutions, etc., engaged in writing in his spare time, and published a large number of essays, new poems and other works under different pseudonyms, which were published in collections.

In the early years, there were many precedents for criticizing martial arts writers such as Liang Yusheng and Kim Yong, and this time, his work "The Hard Road", which took him two years to create, was about to be published in the monthly magazine "Seventies", and in order to attract the attention of more readers, he also thought of such a method.

Of course, criticizing Huo Yaowen's garbage and promoting his books is one thing, and on the other hand, it is also a literati who are contemptuous, he thinks that he has written so many excellent works, and they are not as good as a writer of vulgar literature, which is naturally resentful.

It can be said that there is a watershed in the Hong Kong literary scene, the 50s and 60s originated from the influence of new literature, and the works at this time were more literary. Martial arts and romance are just niche works, and no matter how well they sell, they will not be recognized by orthodox literary writers, because many of the contents of these books attract readers with erotic texts.

In the 70s and 80s, martial arts and romance gradually became popular, and since then, writers such as Liang Yusheng, Jin Yong, Gu Long, and Qiong Yao have become famous.

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"Shugang City!"

Huo Yaowen, who was sitting in the study, looked at the newspaper sent by Yao Wenjie in his hand, and couldn't help muttering: "It's actually him!"

Although this person Huo Yaowen has never seen it, he still knows his person, and when he was in junior high school in his memory, he once liked to read "The Sun Goes West" written by Shugang City, because this is a story about little people, and for Huo Yaowen, who was still living in the estate at that time, it can be said to be spiritual food.

It's just that he likes to like it, and he runs to squeeze himself for no reason, and he is unhappy in his heart.

However, what Shu Gangcheng said is not unreasonable, at least the intensity of the criticism is much stronger than that Gu Shu Zimo, and it is clear that most of the books written by Huo Yaowen are more entertaining, so he only grasps this point to talk about things, and no matter what the time comes, there will be a way out.

"Native ......"

Huo Yaowen squinted his eyes slightly and began to ponder.

He thinks he is a good-tempered person, but he has also been disgusted by the newspapers of the last few days, and the empty pen battles in the newspapers will make people feel empty-hearted, so he has long thought of writing a very literary work to refute it.

However, most of the literary works he has read are based on the mainland as the background story, which is not suitable for Hong Kong, but when he saw Shugang City being called a "local writer", he couldn't help but think of a classic Cantonese song.

"There are joys in life, but there are often tears, and we all meet at the foot of the Lion Rock, and we finally laugh more than sigh......"

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