Zeng Wei finally chose "Sou Shen Ji", which has the same name as a well-known ancient Zhiwei novel, and its original author is the genius of Peking University.

In his previous life, Zeng Wei liked this novel very much, not only because it was his earliest fantasy novel, but also because this novel was too classic.

The story of this novel is set in the barbaric era where Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang were located. It was the time when the heroes were competing in the Central Plains, Shennong's family, the Yellow Emperor, Qiao Chiyou, the Queen Mother of the West, Kuafu, Xingtian, Zhurong, Chisongzi...... There are many mythical characters in the legend, not only heroic rangers, witches, spirit animals, and strange arts, but also the description of family, friendship, love and magnificent battle scenes in the work is not inferior to that of ancient and modern people.

In his previous life, Zeng Wei had read this novel more than once, so his memory of its storyline was also the most profound.

Of course, the reason why he chose this novel, in addition to the fact that he has the deepest memory of this novel, is also because compared with the rest of the fantasy novels, this novel is more acceptable to people of this era.

In 90, the "Fengshen Bang", jointly produced by Hong Kong, Taiwan and the mainland, was a hit, setting off a round of mythological TV dramas in the mainland. This TV series is also the most classic version of the Fengshen series, which has been repeatedly broadcast on multiple TV stations in the past two years, and even the sexy and beautiful appearance of its heroine Fu Yiwei has left a deep impression on the audience. In the play, she vividly interpreted Su Daji's youthful and beautiful, peerless, vicious and cruel image. The god-type Su Daji she created is a model of banshee in the memory of many audiences, and has become a classic in the hearts of a generation.

Of course, there is another reason, that is, Zeng Wei remembers that the Wanwan version of "The Legend of the New White Lady", that is, the TV series starring Zhao Goddess Yazhi, has been released in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and it will be introduced to the mainland next year, setting off a wave of myths and legends again.

In this context, Zeng Wei feels that the market of "Sou Shen Ji", which is based on ancient mythology, should be very good.

Moreover, Zeng Wei remembered that the great god under the tree began to write this novel at the turn of the century, which is about nine years different from the current time.

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Although he had already made a decision and had a deep memory of this novel, when Zeng Wei really started writing this novel, he still found a lot of difficulties.

Although Zeng Wei's memory is good, after all, he has no ability to forget, plus the last time he read this novel was a few years before he was reborn in his previous life, he can only have some memory of the general plot of this novel, it is impossible to remember this novel originally, and in his previous life, he was not from a Chinese department, and his literary style can only be said to be average, and now it is still very difficult to write.

Another difficulty is that handwriting with a pen is not an easy job, which makes him very nostalgic for the years when he used a computer in his previous life. However, Zeng Wei also knew that it was too far to return to this environment.

Although computers have already appeared, and even the Internet has been connected to China, Zeng Wei is probably not used to computers in this era. After all, he was in contact with the Windows system in his previous life, and the current dos system, he must not be used to it.

And then there is the computer at this time, with the current economic situation of the Zeng family, it is impossible to use it in the short term.

The work of handwriting was still something he had to insist on for three or five years.

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Although he had a relatively clear plot framework in his mind, throughout Saturday afternoon and evening, until ten o'clock when he had to go to bed at the urging of his parents, Zeng Wei only managed to make more than 4,000 words, that is, to write the wedge part of the first volume of the original book.

What made Zeng Wei even more speechless was that although the plot was similar to the original book, that is, the blue-winged sea dragon beast, one of the ten fierce beasts of the Great Wilderness, which represented a bad omen, was born and was killed by Qiao Yu, the lord of the mirage, but after Zeng Wei himself read it, he found that compared with the original book of "Sou Shen Ji", it is a completely different taste, and it can even be said that it is two completely different books.

And the day after he started writing, that is, on Sunday, Zeng Wei spent a day writing the first chapter of the first volume of the original book, Shennong's messenger, and he couldn't cry or laugh.

Although he doesn't remember the specific content of this chapter of the original book, he still remembers the synopsis of the story, that is, before the God Emperor Shennong died of baicao poison, Tuoba Ye met him, and then Shennong entrusted his relics to Tuoba Ye. He writes the same plot now, but he feels that the two are not the same thing at all.

Moreover, the chapter he wrote is only more than 8,000 words, and Zeng Wei doesn't remember how many words there are in this chapter of the original book, but one thing he knows very well is that this chapter must be more than 10,000 words, and there are many more.

The reason why he is so sure is that he remembers that the first volume of the original book only has six chapters, and there are only seven chapters plus the wedge part, and these seven chapters have produced an episode of novels, according to the situation at the time, the number of novels in an episode is more than 60,000 words, so the average number of words in a chapter will not be less than 10,000 words.

And when a week passed, Zeng Wei wrote the first volume of this book, and after reading it himself, he felt more clearly that what he wrote was too different from the original work of the great god under the tree.

Even because he deliberately wanted to learn the original work, the tens of thousands of words of the novel written gave people an inexplicable strange feeling when he read it, or to put it bluntly, it was a feeling that painting a tiger could not become an anti-dog.

Zeng Wei shook his head, he and the great god under the tree are not the same person after all, and there is a huge gap between the literary literacy of the two.

Although I don't know if it is a student from the Department of Chinese or the Department of History, Peking University has had a very strong literary atmosphere since its establishment.

As for Zeng Wei, although he is also from a prestigious school, the University of Science and Technology from which he graduated is the most typical science and engineering school in China, and the two schools have completely different philosophies for cultivating students. Even if Zeng Wei spent a few years in the government department in his previous life before he was reborn, and even engaged in office writing, Zeng Wei knew very well that what he wrote was never known for its ornate rhetoric.

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Zeng Wei was a little distressed, he didn't know whether what he wrote would attract the attention of editors after it was published, or whether it would attract readers after it was published.

As for the original work, Zeng Wei knew its success. This success is not only a commercial success, but also brings great honor and prestige to the author. This novel is known as the oriental fantasy style that created Chinese neo-mythology, and the author Shuxia Dashen is also known as "the local fantasy flag bearer", "Pu Songling of Peking University", and "the leader of the contemporary wave of neo-mythology".

However, now that this novel has become his own work, and even the style has completely changed, Zeng Wei is completely clueless whether it can be equally successful.

After a weekend in this tangled mood, Zeng Wei finally figured out a problem, that is, it is impossible for him to copy the original work, on the one hand, because he does not have the ability to remember the original work, and on the other hand, he is not just doing such a vote and will no longer engage in this work in the future.

Under this premise, completely repeating the original work is not conducive to one's own development in the future. After all, if you write something else, you can't continue to imitate the style of the great god under the tree. Therefore, it is better to form your own style and write in your own language from the beginning.

With this understanding, Zeng Wei knew what to do.

He decided to rewrite the novel according to his own ideas, which was combined with the general plot of the original book, or the plot of the original book in his memory, as the outline of the novel.

After making up his mind, Zeng Wei simply decided that he didn't want the fifty or sixty thousand words he had written, and he overturned it and wrote it again, just adding some of his own things to it. After all, this novel was written at the turn of the century, in the early style of fantasy fiction, and many things have not yet been systematized. And with nearly 20 years of experience and vision, I can still add a lot of things.

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The process of starting writing again is a very difficult process, because this era is not the Internet era of later generations, it is not so convenient to consult materials, and Zeng Wei himself is not from a professional class, and he does not have much memory of literature in his mind.

The only good news was that my grandfather was a real man of letters, and he owned a large collection of books that were still undamaged and available for his own consultation.

Especially in my grandfather's collection, there happened to be "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", as well as many strange novels in the Ming and Qing dynasties, which gave Zeng Wei a good opportunity to learn from.

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Another week passed, and Zeng Wei finally wrote the first volume of the new "Sou Shen Ji" again, and the word count was about 60,000 words.

This is a text with a complete Zeng Wei style, the text in it is not as gorgeous as the original, but it is not much worse, and there is a sense of humor between the lines, which is related to Zeng Wei's own character. Those who are familiar with him know that although he is not an optimistic and outgoing person, he can't make the people around him laugh all the time like a comedy star like Xing Ye, but he is not boring, he has a bit of cold humor, and a few words that occasionally pop up make people laugh. Or to put it mildly, it's a little sullen.

Although Zeng Wei is a science student, he has been very interested in literature since he was a child, and the novels he read in his previous life are calculated in hundreds of millions, and his literary literacy is not bad.

Looking at this work that almost filled a notebook, Zeng Wei showed a relieved smile.