Jin Yong was planning to persuade Lin Youlun to join "Ming Pao", but a sudden incident interrupted his plan.

On this day, Jin Yong made an appointment with a few friends and was playing 'sand crabs' at home, Dong Qianshan, deputy editor-in-chief of "Ming Pao", pushed open the door in a panic and broke in, and when he saw Jin Yong, he said: "There is an accident in the newspaper!" ”

Seeing that Dong Qianshan was sweating profusely, Jin Yong hurriedly asked someone to pour him a glass of water and told him to sit down and talk slowly.

"There were readers gathered at the entrance of the newspaper office to protest, but they refused to leave no matter how much they persuaded them." After taking a sip of water, and when his breathing was a little smoother, Dong Qianshan explained the truth of the matter to Jin Yong in detail.

It turned out that "Kunlun" was serialized in "Ming Pao" until the fourth chapter, and Liang Wenjing, the hero of the prequel "Iron and Blooded Tianjiao", was written to death by the author, and many readers could not accept such a plot design, and spontaneously gathered at the door of the newspaper to protest and ask the author to revise this plot. One radical reader even threatened to go on a hunger strike in front of the newspaper office.

Dong Qianshan has been staring at the newspaper office, and he hurriedly came to Jin Yong's house to ask for ideas.

"Ridiculous!" Kim Yong slapped the table and stood up, and he was not in the mood to play poker anymore.

In "Kunlun", Jin Yong's favorite character is the male protagonist Liang Xiao, this person's life is full of contradictions, he can't meet love, he doesn't save his relatives, he is angry, but he is a real character because of contradictions.

The character of Liang Xiao is similar to the protagonist Yang Guo in Jin Yong's novel "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and his growth experience is also very similar, but the sorrow of Liang Xiao's life is far greater than that of Yang Guo. Yang Guo only loves Xiaolongnu wholeheartedly, and the lover will eventually become a family member, but the two women Liang Xiao loves are dead and parting, although the most beautiful woman is accompanied by a childhood sweetheart, but after all, regret is better than consummation.

The death of his father Liang Wenjing is the beginning of Liang Xiao's life, and if the plot is changed arbitrarily due to the request of some readers, the subsequent plot will not be able to unfold. If this novel deviates from the main line of life's misery, it will fall behind.

"In this matter, the newspaper should clearly support the author, but can ignore the unreasonable demands of a small number of readers!"

Jin Yong's attitude is very resolute, but Dong Qianshan is worried that if the situation is allowed to expand, it will be difficult to end in the end.

"At the beginning, I wrote about Xiao Feng in the battle of Yanmen Pass in "Tianlong Babu", and some readers protested like this, don't worry." Jin Yong felt that those readers would dissipate on their own after a while, so he didn't take the matter to heart.

The next day, the readers who gathered in protest at the entrance of the newspaper office left, but no one expected that the incident would then make a fuss in the media.

The reason for the incident is that some people suspect that "Kunlun" was not written by the original author, but that "Ming Pao" found someone to write it, and the reason for the other party's suspicion was that when Jin Yong wrote "Tianlong Babu" in the early years, he had asked Ni Yu to ghostwrite.

Ni Kuangwen is talented, and in terms of the number of articles, Hong Kong is unmatched. When "Heaven and Dragon Slayer" was just serialized, a newspaper owner in Singapore asked Jin Yong to continue to write "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", but Jin Yong had already started to write "Dragon Babu" at that time, and he couldn't write two novels at the same time, so he recommended Ni Yu to the boss and asked Ni Yu to write a sequel to "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", but Ni Yu politely refused on the grounds that "no one in the world can continue to write Jin Yong's novel".

Later, Jin Yong was going to Europe on a business trip, so he handed over the novel to Ni Yu to ghostwrite, and he was afraid that Ni Yu would write the plot off the line, so he specially asked another writer to "assist" him. But when Jin Yong returned from his trip to Europe, when he met, Ni Yu told Jin Yong that he had blinded Ah Zi's eyes! It turned out that Ni Yu hated Ah Zi in "Dragon Babu", so in a fit of anger, he deliberately blinded her. The serialization in the newspaper has been published, Jin Yong has no choice but to dive down and finish writing "Tianlong Babu", and he has also made an ingenious deal with Ah Zi's blindness, and finally brought the story back. …,

This old case was turned over, and some people said that the original author of "Iron and Blooded" did not plan to write a sequel, but "Ming Pao" saw that "Iron and Blooded" brought such hot newspaper sales, so they asked Ni Yu to ghostwrite to continue to write this story. Because Jin Yong did not pay much attention to this matter at the beginning, and "Ming Pao" did not come forward to clarify it in time, so the relevant article was published in other newspapers, and "Ming Pao" suddenly fell into a passive situation.

Lin Youlun was inexplicably "ghostwritten", but he didn't realize it, Lu Bo whispered in his ear several times, complaining that he shouldn't have written Liang Wenjing to death, but he prevaricated with the need for plot.

But the other protagonist of the ghostwriting incident, Ni Yu, quit, he scolded those who spread rumors in his column, and claimed that Jin Yong wrote "Dragon Babu" out of friendliness at that time, and after Jin Yong sealed the pen, no one in Hong Kong was qualified to let him ghostwrite. He is still too busy writing his own works, how can he help someone about his son's age ghostwrite a novel.

Ni Yu has a lot of works, but the level is uneven, so some good people asked him that the author of "Iron and Blood Tianjiao" received a salary of three yuan per word in "Ming Pao", and whether he had received such a high remuneration in "Ming Pao".

As we all know, Jin Yong's contribution fee to the author is not high. Lin Yanni, known as the best prose writer in Hong Kong, originally wrote for "Ming Pao" and asked Jin Yong to increase the manuscript fee, but Jin Yong said that she loved to spend money, and she added and spent it, so she did not add it. Later, Yishu also asked Jin Yong to increase the manuscript fee, Jin Yong said that she didn't like to spend money, and it was useless to increase the manuscript fee, so she still didn't add it.

When asked about the remuneration, Ni Yu couldn't hold his face on the spot, he had such a high remuneration for writing columns, but the column manuscript is one or two thousand words, which is not comparable with a novel of hundreds of thousands of words.

When this matter spread, some people made fun of Ni Yu about it, saying that he was not even as good as an author who was about the same age as his son, and he was embarrassed to claim that he couldn't look down on ghostwriting for others.

Things have developed to this point, Jin Yong had to stand up and guarantee with his reputation that "Kunlun" was not ghostwritten by others, and helped Ni Yu also say a lot of good things, and the controversy about this matter stopped.

As a result of this incident, the sales of Ming Pao in recent issues have not been affected, but have sold more than before. "Kunlun" continued to be serialized in newspapers, and as the plot with Liang Xiao as the protagonist gradually unfolded, readers were attracted to the new story, and ghostwriting slowly lost its market.

Lin Youlun didn't participate in this matter from beginning to end, but Ni Yu held a grudge against Lin Youlun, and he privately told his friends that Lin Youlun used him to hype up his new book, and he was used.

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