Ren Lian was taken aback by He Xiaoya's exaggerated movements, sat on the bed and scolded with a smile: "What is the fuss, I guessed that it was a short story early in the morning." ”

He Xiaoya was stunned for a moment: "Sister Lian, how did you guess, there is no news to disclose at all." ”

Ren Lian pursed her mouth: "I guessed from two directions, first, "Alive" has only been written for a long time, and you asked Zhuang Yan to publish another novel now, which is too anxious." Second, this time there was no physical release, but chose to post it online, probably because the space was not enough. Of course, these two points do not necessarily prove to be short and medium-sound, but at least they are more likely. ”

"Huh?" He Xiaoya looked surprised, and then climbed into bed with admiration and said to Ren Lian: "Sister Lian, you are too powerful, you can guess this." ”

Ren Lian pushed away He Xiaoya, who looked crooked, "What are you doing with long and short stories, just read the book carefully, this time Zhuang Yan is very conscientious, and the book is actually free of charge for the full text." ”

He Xiaoya smiled: "30,000 words, how much money can be earned, does Zhuang Yan care?"

Ren Lian changed into a comfortable position on the bed, and said with a smile: "That's me wrong to blame him, I thought he was a money-loving person." ”

"How is it possible!" He Xiaoya immediately retorted: "How can a person with such depth as Zhuang Yan love money, if he loves money, he won't be able to write "Alive". ”

Ren Lian smiled noncommittally: "Maybe you're right." ”

What they didn't know was that at this moment, far away in the southern suburbs of Jinling, a young man was touching his head and sighing, and there was a little girl next to him who comforted him: "Uncle, don't be discouraged, tell me something." ”

Zhuang Yan rubbed his hair, looked at Xiao Ying, who looked like a little adult, and felt even more like crying.

Just now, Wang Lijian called and asked him why he didn't set a fee, and laughed that he was a high-spirited festival this time.

When Zhuang Yan heard this, he was immediately stunned, he forgot about the stubble of setting the fee, when he set the regular time to send the book just now, it seemed that there was this option, what did he choose at that time? I can't remember at all, but since Wang Lijian said so, then he really set up free reading.

"That's not what I intended!" Zhuang Yan shouted in his heart.

But it's hard to recover from the water, so I can't run up to the readers now and say: "That time just now doesn't count, this time we'll do it again."

Not to mention, there are many people who are probably already reading this book, and even if fans are willing, his words will probably become a joke in the future.

But after a while, Zhuang Yan also recovered his mood, in fact, he was not as annoyed as he appeared, after all, this book is only 30,000 words, only worth a chapter of "Alive", although it is a little distressing, but it is not unacceptable.

After stabilizing his mood, Zhuang Yan began to tell Xiaoying the story again.

……

The narrative of "Metamorphosis" is somewhat obscure, Ren Lian discovered this from the beginning, and the protagonist is a foreigner, and the background of the whole text is also a foreign background, which also made Ren Lian a little surprised.

However, although the narrative was obscure, Ren Lian still read it, and her mind jumped back and forth with the content of the book.

Ren Lian felt that this book was obscure to read, and He Xiaoya was even more so, sometimes she couldn't even read it when she read it, so she could only go back and read it again.

She is no stranger to this kind of unsmooth feeling, two days ago the history teacher of their class introduced a book of "Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty" to them, she felt very sluggish when she read it, and she swallowed some places, and then immediately forgot about it.

But "The Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty" is a novel in the late Ming Dynasty, although it is also vernacular, but it is an ancient vernacular, for them modern people, although the ancient vernacular is also vernacular, but it is no different from the ancient vernacular.

And this "Metamorphosis" is a real modern vernacular, why is it so obscure to read, obviously the usage of every sentence and word is no different from now, but I still find it difficult to read.

What's even more strange is that although she can't read it, He Xiaoya has no urge to give up, because the absurd atmosphere from the beginning of the story deeply attracted her.

More than an hour later, Ren Lian put down her phone and rubbed her sore eyes, while He Xiaoya was still reading intently in front of the computer.

After Ren Lian's eyes relaxed slightly, she picked up her phone again and flipped the book back.

She has a habit of reading, although she will not immediately read it from the beginning and read it a second time, but she will turn out the plot that was more impressive when she read it for the first time, and this method is called the annotation method in the brain.

Every middle school teacher will tell students that when reading a book, if they want to read it more thoroughly, the best way is to use the circle annotation method.

The so-called annotation method is actually used in the mind to memorize the part to be circled.

However, everyone uses this method in a different way, with some people circling plots that they think are important, while others circling the obvious timelines in the book.

Either way, there is a common benefit, that is, through this method, the reader can sort out the plot of the book more quickly and form a context in their minds, which is conducive to a better understanding of what is expressed in the book.

After years of reading experience, Ren Lian has developed the habit of naturally but not deliberately annotating in her mind, and when she first read this book, she had already roughly cleared a story line in her mind.

Gregor becomes a beetle – a company representative comes to him – his family finds him out – his sister takes care of him – his mother is stunned – his father smashes him with an apple – his sister hates him – his mother bullies him – his family finds a job – a tenant comes to the house – the tenant sees him – Gregor dies!

This is the plot line that she sorted out for this book in just over an hour, and now, she wants to read the plots in these veins again, and observe what the book wants to express through the author's word by word.

When she watched it for the first time, she felt deep anger and depression, and she felt that people are so indifferent to each other, even between relatives, it is also the product of related interests. People are selfish, and when the other party is useless to them and acts as a drag, people will try to get rid of this drag.

Even if morality restricts them, deep down, these thoughts will always hide in a dark place, waiting to explode one day.