Declaring that "this is my last work of such and such a type" is a gimmick commonly used in the entertainment industry to promote new works, because all the "last part" will become the "penultimate nth part" under the ardent expectations and calls of fans, the so-called "only fans can't live up to it", to put it bluntly, it is "See, it's not that I want to break my promise, it's that the fans' voices are too strong, and it's the trend of the times." 《”

Could it be the same with Gu Yongsheng's remarks?

The time for the release of "The Legend of Deer and Ding" has been set, but as we all know, the novel was criticized by a large number of readers during the serialization period.

Because doing so can not only divert attention, attract attention, but also inspire fans to defend him.

"I've been forced to close my pen, what else are you going to do?" is a commonly used and tried and tested "kidnapping fan emotion method" for idols.

When Gu Yongsheng wants to make a comeback, as long as he is under the banner of "for the readers", this reason can be described as impeccable, as long as it is properly rendered, it can completely stage a high-sounding "return of the king" drama, full of legend and drama.

This is also the reason why Lu Yichou opposes Wei Wuzhi's call to confirm, if it is really Gu Yongsheng's intention to arrange, then actively calling to confirm, it will appear to have ulterior motives, whether it is direct inquiry or pretending to persuade, it is inevitable that there will be traces, and it is the best way to keep a wait-and-see tacit understanding.

Although many industry insiders and netizens questioned this, Liu Jingting's old rivals Cui Song and Mo Zhiyu did not question the statement of sealing the pen, on the one hand, Cui Song himself admired "The Legend of Deer and Ding". He firmly believes that Liu Jingting does not need to make public relations for this novel, and time will soon realize the value of this novel;

On the other hand, judging from the experience of fighting him and Liu Jingting. Liu Jingting is definitely not the kind of person who uses "sealing the pen" and "withdrawing from the rivers and lakes" to fool everyone at every turn;

Mo Zhiyu holds a similar view: "I was dismissive of these methods at the beginning, and now that I am in this position, it is even more impossible to do these boring things." ”

Moreover, everyone ignores the most critical point, that is, the martial arts novel from "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" to "Dragon Babu" and then to this "Deer and Ding Ji", just completed the triple jump, I believe that it is not only other martial arts writers who are difficult to innovate. Even Gu Yongsheng himself can't write more breakthrough works, and for people like him, it is impossible and unnecessary to keep repeating himself for the sake of profit. This is the fundamental reason why I believe that he will really close the pen. ”

So. There is truth to the saying that the person who really knows you is your opponent.

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In any case, "The Legend of Deer and Ding" was still released as scheduled, which may have been affected by the remarks of the closed pen, and the sales rate of the first printing of the novel exceeded that of "Dragon Babu". Booksellers strike while the iron is hot. hired Internet promoters to create the topic of "we owe Gu Yongsheng money for a book" on the Internet, and interpreted the atmosphere of "Gu Yongsheng's martial arts buy one less book" to be deeply touching.

As a loyal fan of "The Legend of Deer and Ding", Cui Song, president of the Yellow River Literature and Art Society, bought the book as soon as the novel was shipped.

It's too hard for a real bookworm like them to come across a book that they kind of love. Taking martial arts novels as an example, although the story has been remodeled, in the final analysis, it is the protagonist's adventures that have been upgraded and turned the tide. Cui Song, of course, is particularly pleased, and the reader hates the house and Wu. When transferring his resentment against Wei Xiaobao to Liu Jingting, Cui Song even moved the idea of encouraging Gu Yongsheng to stick to himself, but then he thought that Gu Yongsheng was not a person who could be easily swayed at all.

After Cui Song bought "The Legend of Deer and Ding", he roughly glanced at the content serialized in the magazine, and found that there were not many changes as always, so he continued to read the previous story with confidence.

If it is unbelievable that a young man in a green mansion broke into the palace and made friends with the emperor in the previous content, then the next Shenlong Island undercover pretending to be a fake queen mother is even more jaw-dropping.

Cui Song admired and sighed while watching, and was pleased that with the deepening of the plot and the foreshadowing of the plot atmosphere, it was basically impossible for Wei Xiaobao to become a martial arts master, and Gu Yongsheng deserved to be Gu Yongsheng.

Then, Wei Xiaobao was ordered to go to Wutai Mountain to visit Shunzhi and met the most virtuous confidante in history;

Then, Wei Xiaobao Shuang'er was deceived by Fang Yi to East Snake Island on the way back to Beijing and became a prisoner of the Divine Dragon Sect, but then Wei Xiaobao took advantage of the opportunity of the Divine Dragon Sect's internal strife to use the means of observing words and feelings, slapping horses and seeing the seams and needles to become the White Dragon Envoy of the Divine Dragon Sect.

This plot is written with twists and turns, and it is a big highlight of the book, and Cui Song is not the only reader who reads this case.

After that, Wei Xiaobao's identity as a black and white all-encompassing was even more worthy of the name, and then he was ordered to become a monk again and became a "Zen Master of Obscurity".

According to the normal logic of martial arts, the male protagonist Wei Xiaobao is in the authentic Shaolin of martial arts in the world, and his status is respected, so he has to learn several sets of earth-shattering martial arts, in fact, the novel also writes that Wei Xiaobao secretly decided in his heart to steal a martial arts, but after secretly learning for a month, "I didn't learn martial arts at all".

At this point, naturally there will be a large number of readers shaking their heads and sighing, feeling very sorry for Wei Xiaobao's loser behavior of "returning it empty-handed in Baoshan", and only old readers like Cui Song secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

In addition, during the period when Wei Xiaobao served as a Shaolin monk, because he was too bored, he actually did the absurd thing of indulging in alcohol and prostitution.

The overall style of "The Legend of Deer and Ding" is to take a relaxed and quiet path, the novel not only ridicules those moral gentlemen who are serious through the protagonist, but also makes fun of history, among which the most representative plot is that Wei Xiaobao strayed into the Rakshasa country, staged an alternative "Roman holiday" with the Rakshasa princess Sophia, and finally guided the princess to succeed in seizing power.

However, Sophia's appearance more or less destroys the novel's historical realism in subsequent chapters. Sophia never played head-on again.

Although this plot is written beautifully and funny, some readers who are proficient in history can see a heaviness, and Wei Xiaobao is fishing in troubled waters in the story. After succeeding, Sophia asked Wei Xiaobao why she knew that this would be successful, and Wei Xiaobao replied: "Chinese, it has always been like this." ”

These seven words fall into the eyes of historians, and they can be described as words and hearts. In China's feudal society, almost every struggle for imperial power was a river of blood, and its situation was tragic and experienced. There is no other country in the world that compares to it.

In the next story, Wei Xiaobao's identity as stepping on several boats was discovered by Kangxi, and he was forced to die at the end of the world and live on Tongyu Island. Later the Battle of Yaksa broke out. Kangxi transferred back Wei Xiaobao, who had a dewy marriage with Sophia, to lead the army to fight against the Rakshasa army, and Wei Xiaobao performed a trick comparable to "Zhuge Liang's fire burning the snake pan valley" in the key battle - "urine shot Luding Mountain", and defeated the Rakshasa army in one fell swoop.

This plot is another big highlight of the book, the comedy and drama effects are vividly played, and then Wei Xiaobao when he signed the "Treaty of Nebuchu", the "small" painted as a genital is even more impressive, so much so that a primary school student in Baodao once wrote when he was doing a history paper: "Since Wei Xiaobao signed the "Treaty of Nebuchu" with Russia......, it is even more impressive."

Historical facts, novels?

The art of fiction has come to this level. It's already fascinating.

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A week later, Cui Song posted a long book review of "The Story of the Deer and Ding" "Life may be like a gamble - commenting on the Deer and Ding Ji". This is the first time he has publicly written a book review of a novel by his rival or even his enemy Gu Yongsheng, and his fondness can be seen.

"The whole story of "The Story of Deer and Ding" is actually a big gamble in life, because the actor Wei Xiaobao is a complete gambler, and his brilliant life is precisely because he bet on Kangxi's treasure.

It was when Kangxi and Ao Bai confronted each other that Wei Xiaobao recognized Xiao Xuanzi as the emperor, and in a panic, he bet on the treasure that killed and compensated.

It can be said that that dice is the most brilliant one Wei Xiaobao threw in his life, although he only became a deputy dealer later, but he is already a big winner in life.

Of course, Kangxi is also gambling, and he is the Zhengzhuang of this gambling game, his chips are the Qing Dynasty, he gambles with Aobai, gambles with heaven and earth, gambles with Wu Sangui, gambles with Rakshasa country, and even gambles with Wei Xiaobao, fortunately, he finally completes the 'all-all', and does not live up to the prestige of the first emperor through the ages......"

Cui Song focuses on "gambling" and explains all the key characters in the book, which is both ingenious and quite in line with the purpose of the original text, and his special identity, and the grievances with Liu Jingting are still circulating in the community, so as soon as Cui Song's book review came out, it immediately set off a lot of waves on the Internet, and some people even began to speculate whether Cui Song's book review means that Liu Jingting and the Yellow River Literature and Art are ready to cooperate.

"I am commenting on "The Legend of the Deer and Ding" from the perspective of a pure reader, because in my opinion, "The Legend of the Deer and Ding" is not only a great martial arts novel, but also an outstanding work of fiction, and the word "martial arts" can be omitted. In addition, all the remarks of this ID account only represent my personal position, so don't guess. ”

Cui Song's book reviews are introduced, and then more and more professional and non-professional book reviews appear, and the angles are also different, some people discuss the relationship between Wei Xiaobao and his seven wives, some people analyze Wei Xiaobao's righteousness towards Kangxi, some people sigh at the pedantry of the Confucians who persuaded Wei Xiaobao to rebel and be the emperor, and some praise the wisdom of Emperor Kangxi.

There are also people who have found another way, paying attention to the "Platonic Love" of Yum Sword King Hu Yizhi to Chen Yuanyuan, and some people have found the true meaning of this book's advocacy of "great integration of famous races" from the setting of Wei Xiaobao's final "unknown origin".

A longitudinal comparison of all the martial arts of Gu Yongsheng can summarize the history of changes in martial arts novels;

A horizontal comparison of popular martial arts works on the market can judge the overall pattern of the current martial arts market.

And so on and so forth.

It was also at this time that readers suddenly realized that "The Legend of Deer and Ding" also has so many plots worth discussing, and there are so many unforgettable episodes, it turns out that Wei Xiaobao is not so annoying, and if you recall it carefully, he is even very cute.

In addition, the novel's description and exposure of officialdom is simply three-pointed, Wei Xiaobao's way of being an official does have too many references, including the thirty-seventh chapter of "Who is on the court to level the barbarian policy, the court first issued an edict to Shu" wrote that Kangxi and the ministers discussed the matter of cutting the domain, and the ministers, especially Mingzhu, represented by Mingzhu, showed the officialdom samadhi vividly, vividly, and clearly at a glance.

"He is free, affectionate to sexuality, although his temperament itself may not be noble, but it is rare that it is not hypocritical, he fell in love with Ake, and immediately vowed to chase after him, although the fundamental purpose may not be "true love", but at least more pure than the humble gentleman Zheng Keshuang on the surface;

He didn't promise Chen Jinnan to harm his good brother Kangxi, and he didn't promise Emperor Kangxi, who could give him glory and wealth, to harm the brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society.

Wei Xiaobao destroyed false Taoism to a certain extent, tore through the mask, and exposed false benevolence and righteousness, perhaps this is Gu Yongsheng's intention to create such a character. ”

As Cui Song expected, after the release of "The Legend of Deer and Ding", negative reviews were quickly overpowered by positive analysis, and the strong artistic charm of the novel once again conquered real readers.

At the same time, everyone is also faintly aware of the significance of "The Legend of Deer and Ding" as a martial arts novel - Gu Yongsheng wants to use this **-type martial arts book to announce to everyone that he is really ready to withdraw from the field of martial arts novels.

The question is, after "The Legend of Deer and Ding", what more bizarre martial arts novels can be?

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At this time, the editors of "Craftsman Record" were looking for clues to Gu Yong's birth of this book.

In the ninth episode of "Journey to the West", "Yuan Shoucheng's clever and selfless song, the old dragon king's clumsy plan to commit the rules of heaven", Liu Jingting said that the title of the next novel is this one, but this time there are so many words and so many clues, which one is it?

"I made a count of the words that can be used as the title of the book, and sent it out for everyone's reference. ”

Su Jin, who is the best at data statistics, said in the work group.

""Butterfly Love Flower", "Xijiang Moon", "Linjiang Immortal", "Grinding Axe", "Ethereal White Cloud Flying", "Hidden Trace", "Abandoned Sword", among which I personally think that "Hidden Trace" is the most suspicious, because the title of this book is just the scene of the boss's pen, hidden traces. ”

"I choose "Ethereal White Cloud Flying", this is both poetic and in line with the martial arts atmosphere, do you still remember "Yunhai Jade Bow Edge"?"

"Abandoned Sword" is more appropriate. Wang Jianshan said.

Everyone was discussing enthusiastically, and Liu Jingting also replied: "The idea of choosing the title of the book from the words is correct, but Misu didn't find the right answer." ”

"Huh?"

"Let me give you another hint, in the end, this novel and some previous martial arts novels can form a couplet: 'Flying snow shoots white deer in the sky, and the smiling book god leans on the blue duck'. Okay, let's go and find out. ”

After Liu Jingting typed in that couplet, he couldn't help but recall the first time he came to this world to write this couplet in his notebook. More than ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.

"The last book begins with the word 'laugh'. Chang Youdao quickly made an elimination method.

Su Jin: "Smiling and arrogant?"

Kang Lingyue: "Smiling proud of the rivers and lakes!?"

Xu Qing: "It should be smiling proudly." ”

Liu Jingting: "That's right. The title of the new book is from the sentence of "Xijiang Moon", "The taste of cooking is strong, and the rivers and lakes are laughing." ’”

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(I could have finished the book on "one day in February" as planned, but the train was delayed for two days, and I did my best to keep it unchanged for a few days during the New Year, so I may have slightly postponed the completion of the book for two or three days, and you just think I remember that there are 31 days in February.) Ashamed...... (To be continued......)