Chapter Twenty-Nine: Talking about martial arts

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Jianghai in June, the weather has turned hot, T-shirts, black silk and parasols began to flow on the road, Jianghai's landmark Xing building Oriental Liangzhu, it seems that it does not notice the change of seasons, still towering, solemnly overlooking the perennial galloping old partner Chengpu River at the feet, a tower and a river, can occupy five points of scenery in the river and sea.

However, for those who "come to the rivers and seas to show their ambitions, but are helpless and depressed", the flowing water and the towers are particularly indifferent.

Of course, there are also some people who have a brilliant resume that has turned the river and the sea, but they are still indifferent, such as Xue Muliang in the office opposite Dongfang Liangzhu.

In the spacious and luxurious office, Mr. Xue looked terrible, sitting silently in the black boss's chair, his right fist was habitually supporting his chin, and he looked out of the window motionlessly.

On the carpet in front of the desk, a precious glass was shattered, and the spilled coffee stained the carpet a dull brown.

After a while, Xue Muliang lifted the phone on the desk and said expressionlessly: "Let the cleaner come in and clean, it's three o'clock in the afternoon...... That's it. ”

He wanted to say that the meeting would start at three o'clock in the afternoon, but after a little hesitation, he canceled this idea, and the special issue of June 1st, which was so well prepared, was trampled by the ugly local "Children's Literature and Art" and had no power to fight back.

It's been five years since his debut, and in the past five years, whenever he has released a new book, there has not been a single time that he has not been among the best, even if it is an early book, now repackaged and sold, writing a testimonial or something, it can still hit the top ten of the best-selling list, why is it so powerless in the face of those two nasty mice?

"Wow, puff" There were three cautious knocks on the door, and then the sound of cleaning came in from outside the door, "Mr. Xue, cleaning." ”

Xue Muliang exhaled, got up and said, "Come in." Then he walked over to the floor-to-ceiling window and stood with his hands in his hands.

The cleaner entered the door cautiously, quickly cleaned up the broken glass and coffee, reported to Mr. Xue softly, tiptoed out the door, Xue Muliang did not return to China once from beginning to end, in Mr. Xue's concept, a cleaner is not worth looking back.

After the cleaning left, Xue Muliang returned to his seat, at this time his mood had already recovered, after all, after being famous for so many years, this psychological element is still there, and now he wants to go online to see the reviews of his new book "Sad Forest".

Bean Sprouts' comments on his new book have always been mean and sarcastic, this kind of incompatibility has started since Xue Muliang released his first novel, so he has long been used to it, and the occasional sadness and anger in his heart were quickly replaced by the crazy praise of fans, and the reason why he kept logging in to Bean Sprouts is because his other authors are quite popular here, and first, no matter how others criticize his book, the popularity of the book will always remain at the forefront.

Xue Muliang has always managed himself in the way of running an artist, he needs exposure, he needs topics, and his own idol burden is very heavy.

However, when he entered the bean sprouts reading page today, what caught his eye was not his new book "Sad Forest", but the martial arts novel called "Seven Swords Under the Heavenly Mountain", with a rating of 8.5, which surpassed his new book in both long and short reviews.

Out of professional instinct, he clicked on "Seven Swords Under the Tianshan Mountain" with hatred, the first page was almost eight layers of praise, and some hateful netizens praised the book at the same time, but also ridiculed "Sad Forest" fiercely by the way, one of the posts was enlightened and enlightened, titled:

"Compared with "Seven Swords Under the Heavenly Mountain", "Forest of Sorrow" is simply a dream. ”

Xue Muliang snorted coldly, continued to pull down, and saw more and more posts comparing the two books, and all of them were thick and thin.

Xue Muliang angrily closed the bean sprouts and logged in to the microblog, the first content was actually a post forwarded by an acquaintance Han Shuo, the content of the post was roughly the difficulty of reviewing the cover of the self-deprecating magazine, Xue Muliang's eyes swept over the post indifferently, and his eyes fell on the hot topic of today, the first is the content of netizens discussing buns around the world, the second is the best way to prevent heat in summer, and the third is the news that a star is about to get married, and it was not until the fourth that a few familiar words finally appeared: #薛慕亮新书 "Sad Forest"#.

Finally took a bad breath, Xue Muliang's eyebrows stretched slightly, continued to look back, and unhappily found such a topic#Martial arts can actually be written like this#, click on it and take a look, it was the post of "Seven Swords Under the Heavenly Mountain", what made him even more unhappy was that the first micro-blog under this topic was sent by the famous Ziyou writer Radish Head, this ID has a good reputation on the Internet, and because of its sharp and humorous writing style, it is affectionately called "God-like radish head" by netizens.

With the title of "Don't be a Jianghu", Shenxiang Radish wrote a review article of three or four thousand words in a sprinkled manner, praising "Seven Swords Under the Heavenly Mountain" with enthusiasm and almost exaggeration, and words such as "grand event in the martial arts world" and "carnival of readers" appeared from time to time.

Smart people know that if you want to make a name for yourself on the Internet, a clear point of view is a necessary magic weapon, scolding you happily, praising you thoroughly, engaging in centrism, and a group of harmony cannot attract widespread attention on the Internet.

Inevitably, Radish Head also mentioned another well-known new book "Sad Forest" in the same period, and he wrote sarcastically: "The pretentiousness of young people and the dripping blood of romance dramas will be profoundly reflected in this book. ”

In the eyes of these ziyou writers, Xue Muliang's ups and downs have never been well received, and Xue Muliang has never had any expectations for this, and they are classified as grape psychology.

After browsing some blogs and forums, Xue Muliang roughly figured out some of the situation, "Dajianghu" used "Dragon and Tiger Fighting Jinghua" as a foreshadowing to promote its serialized novel "Seven Swords Under the Tianshan", and their banner is "opening up a new situation in martial arts".

After Xue Muliang thought for a few minutes, a cold smile tugged at the corner of his mouth, and then he picked up the phone and began to give public relations orders.

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After the completion of "Dragon and Tiger Fighting Jinghua", Liu Jingting has been paying attention to the trend of the book, he used to tell Mi Hu that every book has to be completed, and he has to start his own destiny, he hopes that at that time he can simply be a reader, to see the growth of the certificate.

Liang Shi's creation of "Dragon and Tiger" originated from the dispute between the two major schools of Tai Chi and Baihe in Nangang, the two factions first fought a pen and ink war, and found that they could not solve the problem, and finally met in the new garden of Aomen to compete in the ring, in order to decide the male and female, this matter was rendered by the media, caused a great sensation in Nangang, and the keen newspapermen immediately realized the huge business opportunities hidden in it, so Liang Shi wrote "Dragon and Tiger Fighting Jinghua", which laid the prototype of the new school of martial arts.

In 1954, Liang Shi wrote "Dragon and Tiger", which deservedly became the founder of new martial arts, and the best-selling newspaper at that time also proved that "Dragon and Tiger Fighting Jinghua" had indeed achieved the carnival of that generation.

Although time and space are no longer the same, but the setting of the desperate need for a lot of new stories is the same, and Liu Jingting is convinced that "Dragon and Tiger" will also achieve its rightful place in this world.

The key conclusion of the comments on "Dragon and Tiger" on the Internet is that "the overall story gives people a sense of being one-size-fits-all, and it has not yet broken away from the fence of the old-school martial arts, and there is no particularly intense place in other places except for the bloody ring matches at the beginning and end......"

"There is a sense of historical vicissitudes in the novel......"

"The love clip makes people feel a little awkward and ......"

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In fact, Liu Jingting has always felt that the most eye-catching part of "Dragon and Tiger" is precisely in the description of love, in that tangled love triangle, the wonderful description of the inner activities of the three people, even in later novels, are rarely seen again, however, as a martial arts novel, readers can't see happiness and hatred, love and hatred are clear, and they will naturally be dissatisfied, which is understandable.

As for another book that has just been serialized "Seven Swords Under the Tianshan", the evaluation is obviously one-sided, and Liu Jingting himself has to admit that Liang Shi's martial arts novels have always been wonderful at the beginning and suspenseful, but they are often a little powerless at the end, and they stop abruptly and can't make people happy.

In a nutshell, the protagonists in the martial arts of the Liang school often carry too much, blindly orthodox, and move back and forth in terms of family and country and personal ziyou, and the heroes finally created seem to be too bookish, a typical representative such as Zhuo Yihang in "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch", intellectually excusable, emotionally can never have a good impression.

On the whole, Liu Jingting was very satisfied with the comments on the Internet and the media, but the arrogance of "Shuke and Beta" was an unexpected joy, and Liu Jingting felt a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment when he thought that some publishers and editors-in-chief of some magazines were watching "Children's Literature and Art" lead the way with disgust.

However, this overall good comment did not last long, and on June 10, the night before Liu Jingting asked Mihu to go out to dinner, there was a sudden wave of large-scale criticism of "Dragon and Tiger Fighting Jinghua" and "Seven Swords Under the Heavenly Mountain" on the Internet......

It is said to be a criticism, but the content of some posts has already involved warm-up attacks, such as "the author is an idiot", "the author's brain is in water", "the author's brain is squeezed by the door" and other remarks emerge in endlessly.

Others, at a slightly higher level, are aimed at the story itself, similar to "It's just a piece of, and there is no sense of substitution at all." ”

"Love triangle or something is too bloody, does the author know how to write emotional dramas?"

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The level is a little higher: "It's just a follow-up and plagiarism of the old-style martial arts, pretending to be bullshit and new-school martial arts." ”

"I can't stand it at all, I want to write without writing, and I want the plot without a plot. ”

"Does the author's family sell dogs?

Then there are some celebrities or second- and third-tier writers who criticize these two novels by name, and they criticize "Seven Swords" and "Dragon Tiger" from various aspects such as novel skills and novel feelings, which are reasonable and seem to be true.

This large-scale critical movement was set off with the addition of the well-known writer Zhou Zaidao, who published a commentary article "The Two Pounds of Dog Meat", which compared martial arts novels to dog meat that cannot be put on the table.