Masakazu Ogasawara is the editor-in-chief of the Kyoto Literature and Art Newspaper.

In the past few days, he has been very depressed.

In the unique haiku of island countries, many island writers are actually inferior to a Chinese, and this Chinese person is actually learning and selling!

Doesn't this mean that if you have written the ancient Chinese poems and are proficient in the Chinese of the island, it is just a piece of cake to write the haiku of the island country......

Can this be endured?!

Whenever I think about it, Ogasawara Masakazu always has an imaginary scene in his mind-

"Son, let's learn haiku today. This is a classical poem unique to our island country, which is well-known all over the world. ”

"Okay, good! Father! ”

"So, son, let me first tell you what haiku is and what are the basic requirements for haiku."

"Don't listen, I don't listen to this, Dad."

"Oh? What do you want to hear, son? ”

"Hmm......" the young son frowned and thought for a moment, then smiled, "Dad, tell me the best haiku!" I'll see if it sounds good! ”

"Uh...... This ......"

"Dad, what's wrong with you? Daddy, you say! You say!! "The son is spoiled.

"Well, now the haiku that is generally accepted to be the best written is '古池や蛙飛び込む水の音'."

"Oh...... I don't know much, Dad, who wrote this? ”

“……”

The imaginary scene came to an abrupt end here, because Masakazu Ogasawara couldn't help but slap his mouth.

"In the future, whoever says haiku in front of me, I will beat him to death! There are also Uemura Hao's people, all of them are so useless, they can't even compare to a Chinese person, and a Chinese person who is now learning and selling! Did Kitano Kaisho live to be a dog at a great age? Also 'the first poet of the island country', I bah! Ogasawara said indignantly.

He felt. The current situation is inseparable from the uselessness of those people.

"They should immediately apologize!" Ogasawara Masakazu said secretly, "It's so useless, I can't write a better haiku, why are I still alive?!" ”

Angry for a while, he got up and walked to the window. Open the window.

Suddenly, an icy air flow blew in from outside, calming him down a lot.

After blowing the cold wind and taking a few deep breaths to feel himself calm, he closed the window, sat back down in front of the computer, and began to work.

Although Kyoto Literature and Art Newspaper is not as good as some newspapers that focus on current affairs and politics, it is in cultural circles. It's not a small newspaper.

In the past, many newspapers and magazines did not need to submit their real names, and only needed to leave their contact information in order to issue manuscript fees, but now, more and more newspapers and magazines have begun to implement the real-name system for submission.

You can use a pen name, but you need to include your real name in the contact information on the manuscript.

Kyoto Literature and Art Newspaper is one of the few newspapers that still insists that they do not need to be real names.

There are many people who contribute to it every day, and Masakazu Ogasawara is the editor-in-chief. Naturally, it was impossible to see them all, and what he looked at was filtered by his editors.

"Alas. What kind of garbage article is this?! Ogasawara shook his head and deleted a manuscript that his editor had rated as 68.

After reading the manuscript, the editors will grade the manuscript.

The maximum score is 100 points, and 60 points is the passing mark.

Of course, only manuscripts with more than 60 points will be selected for re-selection. It was sent to Masakazu Ogasawara here.

"These people in the literary circle of our island country have really become worse and worse recently." Ogasawara Masakazu sighed secretly and said, "Those powerful people are old, and their thinking is not as good as before, and it is difficult to make breakthroughs. Many even ran out of talents, exhausted their literary thoughts, began to regress, and had to close their pens in order to maintain their reputation. And those newcomers, whether in terms of strength or experience, are still far behind. No wonder it will be suppressed to death by a Chinese person. ”

"Doesn't our island country have such talent? Isn't there anyone who can compete with that Chinese person? Thinking of this, Ogasawara Masakazu felt very aggrieved and painful.

At the same time, his mood became more and more irritable, and the speed of reading the manuscript couldn't help but speed up, and he didn't have much heart to read carefully.

"Trash!"

"Yaga! This kind of article is also embarrassed to vote?! ”

"It's barely worth a look, so let's stay and see it first."

"Trash!"

"Garbage in garbage!"

……

Looking at it, suddenly, Ogasawara Masakazu stopped abruptly and looked at a manuscript in front of him in a daze.

100 points!

His editors gave it a 100 rating!

What's going on?!

You must know that letting the editors score is not only to facilitate the editor-in-chief to have a preliminary impression when reading it, so that the review speed can be faster, it also has another function - it is an alternative review ability of editors!

After the editor finished scoring, Masakazu Ogasawara looked at it again.

The score they gave was a score for the manuscript, but in Ogasawara's mind, why wasn't it a score for the editors' ability to review?

Which editors have strong review skills, are more accurate in grading, and can often find excellent manuscripts, through this scoring mechanism, Ogasawara Masakazu is clear.

But in the same way, because of this grading system, who dares to give a manuscript a score of 100?

So rash, looking for death?

What if the editor-in-chief doesn't think so?

He thinks it's not very good, you actually give full marks, what do you make him think of you? What do you think of your tastes and abilities?

Therefore, since the establishment of the grading mechanism, no manuscript has ever been scored 100 points.

But today, something like that is happening.

So, Ogasawara Masakazu couldn't help but be stunned.

When he looked at the name of the editor in charge of this manuscript, he couldn't help but be even more stunned.

Kazuko Sakai, his most stable editor.

"Is it out of mind?" Ogasawara muttered, took a deep breath to calm himself down, and then opened the attached document and read it.

"Snow Country".

Author: A Traveler.

"Obviously, it's a pen name." Ogasawara thought to himself and continued to watch.

"Passing through the long tunnel at the prefectural border, you will find Snow Country. It was white under the night sky. The train stopped in front of the signal post.

A girl stood up from the seat across from her and opened the glass window in front of Shimamura's seat. A blast of cold air swept in. The girl leaned out of the window and cried out as if calling into the distance:

'Mr. Stationmaster, Mr. Stationmaster! ’

……”

Gradually, Ogasawara immersed himself in the empty, clean, yet sad beauty of the words.

The manuscript was not long, only a few thousand words, and soon, Masakazu Ogasawara finished reading it.

Heart-pounding, melancholy, this is the feeling left in his heart after reading it.

This feeling has not gone for a long time, even if he has been reviewing manuscripts for many years and has read many articles, it is still difficult to let go.

At the same time, he also knows that this novel is not over, this is a serialized novel.

Moreover, the author "a traveler" also said at the end that if nothing else, he will send the manuscript every day.

After a long time, he came back to his senses from the afterglow of the article, slapped his thigh, and said happily: "Good! I've found someone who can compete with that Huaxia person! ”

——(To be continued......)