There is a bug in chapter 680, which has been corrected

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After Lin Youlun left, Zhou You sat in the café for a while, took the bag and was about to get up to leave, but when she looked up, she saw a man in black and sunglasses walking towards her.

Zhou You had some impressions of this person, as if he was a bodyguard next to Lin Youlun.

"Ms. Zhou, Mr. Lin was in a hurry just now and forgot one thing, this is what he originally wanted to hand over to you."

The bodyguard handed over a book, and Zhou You hesitated a little before reaching out to take it.

The five big characters "Tang Di Gong Case" on the cover immediately attracted Zhou You's attention, and what surprised her even more was that there was a parenthesis below the author's signature of the author of this book, and there was a string of English names in it.

Zhou You's first feeling was that the author was Chinese, his Chinese name was Gao Luopei, and then the parentheses were his own English name, which was very popular among many Chinese writers, but Zhou You soon realized that something was wrong.

Even if a Chinese writer takes an English name, the basic surname will still be literally retained, but the "Gulik" in parentheses is a standard foreign surname, unless the person is a foreigner and then gives himself a Chinese name.

Foreigners take Chinese names more casually, and they don't pay too much attention to it.

This suspicion is confirmed by the author's introduction on the title page, a career Dutch diplomat who is fluent in 15 languages and was sent to Japan and China during World War II, where he developed a keen interest in Chinese culture and did a lot of very in-depth research. And this "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty" is a work independently created by Gao Deluo after translating the anonymous novel "The Four Strange Cases of Wu Zetian" in the Qing Dynasty. In the 60s, it sold millions of copies in the West. Known as the "Sherlock Holmes of the East".

After traveling around the novel, he looked at the publication date of the novel. In October last year, not long after the reprint, when he saw the words "Ming Pao Publishing House", Zhou You knew everything.

Lin Youlun's real idea should be to adapt this novel into a TV series, but what Zhou You can't understand is that the author of this book, Gao Luopei, has died in 67, and Lin Youlun left in a hurry just now. Who are you going to see in a hurry?

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In one of the Peninsula's premium suites, Lin met a guest from the Netherlands, Gorope's eldest son, Paul.

After Gao Luopei's death, Paul has always been in charge of the copyright management of his father's works during his lifetime, and when the "Ming Pao" Publishing House decided to publish "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty" last year, Paul had already dealt with this side, but Lin Youlun did not know about Lu Dao at that time, and someone later gave him a sample book of "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty" to read, and then he noticed this novel.

"Mr. Lin, you are younger than I thought."

Paul opened his mouth in Chinese. This surprised Lin Youlun.

Paul went on to explain: "My mother was a native Chinese, and she taught me to speak Chinese when I was a child. ”

Applejack added in a whisper, "Mr. Paul's mother, Ms. Shui Shifang, is the granddaughter of Zhang Zhidong, a famous minister in the late Qing Dynasty. ”

Lin Youlun nodded. Smiling, he invited Paul to sit down.

After Paul sat down, he opened up the conversation, first recounting his childhood impressions of his father Gao Luopei, and then talking about the publication of "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty" in the West.

"Mr. Lin, do you know the truth? When I heard in the Netherlands that you were going to adapt my father's novel into a TV series, I was really surprised, because the Chinese version of the novel has not been selling well. ”

Paul is telling the truth, after Gao Luopei wrote the first story of "The Case of Tang Di Gong", he once published a Chinese version in Singapore, but it did not attract widespread attention and response. On the contrary, after the publication of the English version of the book, it aroused the interest of other booksellers, and Gao Luopei later cooperated with the British publishing house to publish four books in English, "The Bronze Bell Case", "The Lakeside Case", "The Golden Case", and "The Iron Nail Case" from 1958 to 1961, which were very popular among Western readers.

Lin Youlun said with some regret: "It can only be said that Mr. Gao Luopei's novel is a little untimely, if this book appeared after the 80s, the Chinese version will definitely sell well." ”

Paul shook his head, and the stubbornness of Westerners was finally revealed at this moment.

"No, no, Mr. Lin, I don't think your statement is correct, the Chinese version of this novel has never stopped publishing, but the sales have not been good, and I have studied the detective novels of the East before, and found that they are full of ghost elements and some illogical hard injuries, but these do not prevent readers from liking these works, which is unimaginable in Western countries."

Lin Youlun didn't expect Paul to talk about this topic, shrugged his shoulders and said: "This is because of the differences between Eastern and Western cultures, although the theme of Chinese detective novels is to break out of prison and try cases, but the focus is not on how to solve the case, but on the description of the case to carry out moral preaching, judge right and wrong, and in the eyes of Westerners, these ways of solving cases will have some problems such as arbitrary and sloppy, arbitrary reasoning, trusting myths and coincidences, simple and rough processes, etc." In some of the more recent works, this situation has actually changed a lot, of course, this also has to distinguish the background of the novel, if the story takes place in modern times, the set of Western detective novels in the Oriental reader is not at all hindered, but if the background is ancient, the situation is different. ”

Paul nodded as he listened, "Can Mr. Lin be more specific?" ”

"Take Mr. Gao Luopei's novel as an example, why is it that it can be recognized by readers in the West, but not interested in readers in the East? Because in the eyes of Western readers, Di Renjie is just a name, about his deeds, about the historical dynasty in which he lived, it will not be said that readers in the East have a very clear understanding, so they will not have any obstacles to reading this novel, and readers in the East will not be comfortable reading Mr. Gao Luopei's novel because they know who Di Renjie is and what kind of environment the historical dynasty he is in, so they will not be comfortable reading Mr. Gao Luopei's novel, because they feel that the content in it is not real. ”

As soon as Paul heard this, he immediately wanted to refute it, but Lin Youlun raised his hand to stop him.

"I know Mr. Paul, you want to say that the logic and authenticity of China's crime-solving novels are not worth mentioning at all compared to your father's novels. From the perspective of modern people, I also agree with this point of view, but the biggest problem of Mr. Gao Luopei's novel is that it ignores the background of the times, in that era, the way officials judge cases is simply not as meticulous, logical and rigorous as described in the novel, and emphasizes evidence, and the novel is written in this way is inconsistent with real history, so when readers in the East read it, they will subconsciously refer to historical knowledge, and they will find many problems in this book...... To put it simply, I think that in the context of traditional Chinese culture, there is a 'blue sky' but not a 'detective'. ”

Paul clasped his hands and was silent for a while, then suddenly stood up to shake hands with Lin Youlun.

"Mr. Lin, your words have answered the long-standing confusion in my heart, so I must thank you!"

Lin Youlun stood up and shook Paul's hand, sat down and turned the conversation to the point.

"After all this talk, Mr. Paul has not yet told me if you agree with me adapting this novel by your father into a TV series."

Paul slapped his head, "Oh, I'm sorry I'm done explaining this." ”

As he spoke, he took out the signed contract from the briefcase he put aside and handed it to Lin Youlun.

"I am very satisfied with Mr. Lin's offer, no one in Europe would be willing to pay such a high price for the rights to adapt it, and I would like to express my gratitude to Mr. Lin on behalf of my mother and brother."

"Because only in the Chinese world can this novel truly reflect its value and charm."

Lin Youlun took the contract and glanced at it briefly, then handed it to the assistant Ajie who was sitting next to him and asked him to confirm it again.

After doing this, Paul seemed much more relaxed, he picked up his coffee and asked curiously: "I really want to know how Mr. Lin plans to adapt it to realize its value?" ”

"Retain the reasoning process of solving the case in the novel, refine the historical background, and then add some more Chinese elements." Lin Youlun replied without thinking.

"Kung fu, for example?" Paul immediately asked.

Lin Youlun nodded, "The famous Western detective Sherlock Holmes has Watson as his assistant, of course Di Renjie also needs such an assistant, he doesn't need to be proficient in medical skills, but his martial arts will definitely be very strong." ”

Paul then asks, "What about the demon element?" I know that in the Oriental novels, plots such as the judgment of the Yin Si and the dream of ghosts and gods often appear, and even constitute the main channel for solving the case, in the TV series adapted by Mr. Lin, will these things appear? ”

In the Qing Dynasty China's local Di Gong case novel "Wu Zetian's Four Strange Cases", Di Renjie will have a ghost to lead the way for him when he can't find the victim's grave, and when he falls asleep, the gods come to reveal the whole case to him, and even leave a poem that alludes to the name of the murderer, and Gao Luopei also borrowed the plot in this novel in the creation of "Di Gong's Detective Case", but Di Renjie's investigation of the case is based only on first-hand exploration, "let the evidence speak", and logical reasoning based on this development, "the sun breaks the yang, the night breaks the yin", "the soul trusts the dream" When all the plots are discarded, that's why Paul asks.

"I will use some ghost elements to increase the suspense of the story, but it will not be used to promote the detection of the case, and the truth will be given when the case is solved, and the so-called supernatural events are just someone pretending to be a ghost."

Paul was greatly moved by Lin Youlun's idea, and he said very seriously at the end: "Mr. Lin, I now begin to feel that it is really the right decision to hand over this novel to you to adapt!" (To be continued......)