Chapter 43: Letters from Readers
Midnight Talk No. 301.
Following the surge in sales of the 300th issue of Midnight Talk, Midnight Talk made persistent efforts to launch the 301st issue.
Because it was not clear why the previous sales surge had been investigated, the main focus of the 301st issue was still March.
Similarly, Huang Yifan's chat was once again hired by Midnight Talk.
However, unlike the previous one, this time the story is about the "person in the ear".
It's a pity that because "Talking Zhai-The Man in the Ear" is a short story, and it has not attracted attention, it is still ranked last in the middle of the night.
But even so, readers who read the 300th issue of Liaozhai before were the first to read Liaozhai that day.
……
is still Xiaojiang Middle School, and Xie Yanping is still Xiaojiang Middle School.
After Xie Yanping finished reading Liao Zhai in the last issue, he became a diehard in the middle of the night.
Not only that, in addition to chatting with Xie Yanping, he also pulled a few other friends who never watched the conversation in the middle of the night.
This is not Xie Yanping's strong recommendation to them, the reason is not that he talked about fasting in the dormitory before going to bed last time.
As a result, everyone in the dormitory couldn't sleep at this lecture, and the next day, everyone walked into the classroom with red eyes.
At this point, several people in the dormitory, like Xie Yanping, have become fans of Liaozhai.
"The ear of the chatter. ”
Early in the morning, Xie Yanping rushed to the newsstand and bought the 301st issue of Midnight Talk.
Some couldn't wait, and Xie Yanping turned to the end.
Fortunately, the expectation did not disappoint Xie Yanping, and the final position belonged to Liaozhai.
The author of Liao Zhai has written a new story of Liao Zhai.
This article is called the ear of the ear.
The person in the ear, it feels interesting when I look at the name, and there is actually someone in the ear.
This imagination has steadily exploded a lot of supernatural novels.
Continue to read, what the person in my ear is talking about is a "student" who is obsessed with Taoist magic all the year round and practices at home every day. A few months later, the student had learned a little and found that someone was whispering in his ear. The student was very happy, thinking that this was the success of Neidan's cultivation. So every time he cultivated, he would communicate with the people in his ears. Once, the person in the ear jumped out of the ear and found that the person in the ear turned out to be a small person of about three inches, and he looked very vicious, like a yaksha. At this time, suddenly the neighbor said that he wanted to borrow something from the student's house, and the little man was very frightened when he heard it, and he circled around the house, and after a while, he didn't know where he had gone. At this point, after the villain disappeared, the student felt as if he had lost his soul, became mentally ill, yelled all day long, and took medicine for half a year, which only got better.
This article is not like a ghost biter, and it is not scary, Xie Yanping only felt that the story was very interesting and innovative after reading it. The setting of people like the ear is not something that ordinary people can imagine. Moreover, I don't know what magic there is in this story, just by looking at it, it seems to be imprinted in the depths of my heart, and I can't forget it.
Of course, this is just Xie Yanping's first feeling.
In fact, after he finished reading this article, he still felt that this person in the ear didn't seem to be just telling a story.
Just like in the end, why did the little man suddenly disappear, and the living became mentally ill and then died?
At first, Xie Yanping couldn't figure it out, but when he reviewed history at night, when Xie Yanping read that the Northern and Southern Dynasties were obsessed with Taoism, suddenly, Xie Yanping understood, it turned out that the person in his ear was not just a story, he was also an article that used stories to secretly superstition and harm people. Where in this world is there any Jindan cultivation exercises, and where are there any people in this world. Everything was nothing more than the imagination of the magic-obsessed student. When the dream is shattered, the student ends up with a serious illness.
Oh my God, this chat is really amazing.
It was only at this time that Xie Yanping really understood Liaozhai and understood what the author wanted to express.
Awesome, really awesome.
I didn't expect that a story in a supernatural magazine could write so many philosophies.
This is not much more than some classic articles written in textbooks.
It's just that why such a classic article is placed at the end?
On the contrary, it was the March of the girl's bad writing, but it has always been the main theme of the midnight conversation.
It's infuriating.
As a die-hard supporter of the midnight talk, Xie Yanping was directly angry.
Picking up the pen, Xie Yanping prepared to write a reader letter for Midnight Talks.
He wants to scold the editorial department in the middle of the night, are you blind? Or, you don't want to talk in the middle of the night.
A good article is in your place, but I don't cherish it, but I have been blindly recommending the ghost of March.
Okay, if you want to push it, you can push it, why do you let the ghost see the worry and serialize seven or eight pages, isn't this irrigation?
I strongly hope to put Liao Zhai in the key recommendation, and I strongly hope to serialize some more Liao Zhai stories.
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Talk in the middle of the night.
After the sales of the 300th issue of Midnight Talk soared, the 301st issue of Midnight Talk made another breakthrough, with sales increasing by 7,000 copies, and the total sales volume has reached more than 63,000 copies.
It was very timely, and the editor Lin Hao once again submitted an application for an increase in the standard of manuscript fees for March.
However, this application was rejected by Zhou Qing again.
He always felt that the ghost in March was written in general, although it was still serialized, although since his serialization, the sales of Midnight Talk have skyrocketed for two issues in a row.
He decided to wait a little longer.
"Editor-in-Chief Zhou, this is your midnight letter to talk about magazines. ”
Xiao Wang, who works in the postal service, handed over more than a dozen letters from magazines in the middle of the night to Zhou Qing at noon.
Zhou Qing put down the things in his hand and prepared to take a look at these letters.
Most of the letters this time were sent by readers, about a dozen, which made Zhou Qing a little surprised.
You know, I haven't heard from a reader for half a year?
A magazine that has no letters from readers, as a rule of thumb, is not far from closing.
So much so that sometimes Zhou Qing will subconsciously feel that there is still anyone watching their midnight talk?
Fortunately, after the recent surge in sales, even the letters from readers have followed.
It seems that you can't die after talking in the middle of the night for a while.
I opened the first letter with some joy.
The first letter was sent by a friend from the magic capital.,This friend probably wrote more than 2,000 words.,Three whole sheets of material paper.,But after reading the whole article.,In fact, the whole three pages are just one sentence.,I'm a fan of midnight talks.,Very supportive of your midnight talks.。
With an inexplicable smile, Zhou Wen put the first letter aside.
The reader's writing is average, how deep can you expect him to write?
After reading the first letter, Zhou Wen read the second letter again.
The second letter came from Yanjing, which is also the capital.
This reader of the capital has some level, not to mention anything else, and writes very well in one hand.
This reader first said that he was a hardcore in the middle of the night, but recently he has become more and more disappointed with the "midnight talk". Especially the ghost that has been recommended recently is really a bad word. He couldn't understand why such a bad novel could become a heavy work in the middle of the night. Could it be that the midnight talk is really going to be closed?
After reading the second letter, Zhou Wen didn't know what to say.
This letter said that the ghost was poorly written, although Zhou Wen also felt that the ghost was written in general, but this is also what Zhou Wen found strange. If readers think that the ghost is not very good, then how can their midnight talk magazine sell so well? You know, in the last two issues of the magazine, although the ghost is not very good, the other manuscripts are not necessarily good.
This is also the reason why Zhou Wen has been hesitant recently, he doesn't know whether he should give a March increase in the manuscript fee.
Picking up the third letter, Zhou Wen continued to read.
The third letter is from a reader in a central city, and he has similar thoughts to the reader in Yanjing, and he also said that the ghost is too bad, how to talk about it in the middle of the night. However, this reader mentioned another work - Liao Zhai.
Isn't this a work signed by Xiaoyu?
Liaozhai Zhou Wen has also read it, he only thinks it is average, how can he think it looks good?
Let's look at the fourth letter: Get out of the supernatural circle in March and go to be your martial arts writer.
The fifth letter: Talk about Zhai and great love, love and Zhai, please talk about it in the middle of the night.
The sixth letter: The bite of the ghost of Liaozhai, the people in the ears of Liaozhai are all classics, such a masterpiece, I just want to say, it is a pearl to talk about in the middle of the night. If you don't give me a key recommendation, I will refuse to subscribe to your midnight chat.
Seventh letter: Is the editor you talked about in the middle of the night blind, and he doesn't even push such a good story as Chatzhai, push March, is March your father, he hasn't written supernatural novels for more than ten years.
Eighth Letter: ......
There was no need to read any more, Zhou Wen put all these letters aside.
There are a total of 11 letters, and seven or eight of them are scolding March. At the same time, there are several letters that strongly praise another novel that is not taken seriously, Liao Zhai.
He has some headaches now, is it possible that the sales of the last two midnight talks have soared not because of ghosts, but because these two chats that are more inconspicuous than ghosts?