"White Deer Plain" is one of Li Kuo's favorite novels in his previous life, and it is also a novel he has read three times. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although this novel is still a traditional novel, in terms of story structure and other styles, it actually has a bit of Western literary flavor.

This book really deserves a few words.

After reading it just now, the first impression that many people get is that they have done a pseudo-'historical journey', the 'main drama' on the left is acting everywhere, and the 'secret history' on the right is full of consumptive spectacles, these dramas and spectacles you can watch or not, do whatever you want, in the long 'hidden years' you unexpectedly get a sense of leisure, and the solemnity and heaviness of the early guard can be eliminated......

If you use some very Western words to describe "White Deer Plain", it is "magical realism".

It is true that there is a lot of magic in this book, and in many places it is even absurd, but on the whole, it is a very solemn book.

Even in previous lives, some people said that this book reconstructed the national spirit in a deep sense, and after "Four Generations in the Same Hall" gave the highest praise to nationalism, the advent of this book made national literature rise in a higher sense......

Strictly speaking, "White Deer Plain" is a product of 'East and West', it has traditional realist techniques, black humor, and the extension of Latin American magical realism, which makes this book very unique.

Specifically, in terms of the content of the novel, this book takes Bai Jiaxuan as the core of the narrative, and the contradictions and entanglements of the two Bailu families organize the plot to reflect the patriarchal family system and Confucian ethics and morality represented by Bai Jiaxuan, and the persistence and decline in the changes of the times and political movements as the narrative clues, telling the story between the two major families in Bailuyuan Village, the Bai family and the Lu family......

In fact, this sounds like a very simple story, in fact, this story is not complicated, but it is very well written, and it is like this in many places.

Li Kuo chose this as the first of the "Yellow Earth Novels" he would write next, and this time he was indeed full of confidence.

Hearing the news that Li Kuo was going to write a new book, I have to say that the busiest and the first to get the news were various publishing houses, and they quickly surrounded them, and then began to talk about the price.

Such prices have been opened higher and higher.

After all, after the previous lessons, the current publishing house basically knows Li Kuo's strength, and also knows that if he still clings to the old routine and feels that he can't give Li Kuo too many things, lest he threaten everyone, then don't want to go to the next level. After all, every publishing house gave Li Kuo a big contract before, and everyone thought it was a big gamble, and the result finally showed that these people were not gambling at all - because those who followed Li Kuo basically won......

Therefore, for the next Li Kuo's book, they will definitely not let it go.

As a result, many publishing houses are involved in such a battle, and the fire of this competition is constantly spreading, and it has spread to many unrelated people.

At least Li Kuo has received some calls from lobbyists, such as "East Poster Literary Edition", they hope to use Zhong Mengyao to get Li Kuo to agree to post "White Deer Plain" on "East Poster Literary Edition", or to use serialization.

At that time, a popular literature and martial arts novel "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", a serious literature and traditional novel "White Deer Plain" will be updated at the same time, and both books will be Li Kuo's works! I have to say that "East Poster Literary Edition" did make a good calculation, but it was impossible for Li Kuo to agree, even if it was Zhong Mengyao.

"White Deer Plain" He still plans to publish two volumes, one at once, originally only wanted one to solve, but one is a bit too large: this is a book of 500,000 words!

Li Kuo is reluctant to update such a book in a serialized way, anyway, Li Kuo plans to go in the traditional direction, and in order to improve his status in the literary world, he generally does not use serialized books.

Therefore, Li Kuo also politely declined a number of newspapers and magazines, including "East Poster Literary Edition", and then Li Kuo and Zou Pinqing began to choose between various publications.

This time, Li Kuo still plans to take the route of rain and dew, give some other publishing houses that have not cooperated with a certain opportunity, and then everyone will go to the road of prosperity together.

With this in mind, five or six publishing houses soon came into their sights.

Some of these publishing houses are old qualifications, and some are new in recent years, but no matter what they are, their sincerity to Li Kuo is not high.

After careful selection, Li Kuo finally decided to choose "New Publishing House", this publishing house has a more common name, and has published a lot of books before, and now publishes "White Deer Plain", which is also the first cooperation with Li Kuo.

The editor-in-chief who docked with Li Kuo was called Yong Yunqiang, a little fat man with glasses, about thirty years old, who looked quite honest and spoke with an accent.

However, Li Kuo and Zou Pinqing obviously will not look down on people because of this, first of all, they are not people who judge people by their appearance, and secondly, Li Kuo knows that such a person can get this kind of position in this publishing house now, and he definitely has something extraordinary.

"Hello, this is the contract we gave you, you can take a look, if there is no problem, let's sign it......" Yongyun handed over a contract.

This is indeed a super-large contract, and Li Kuo will be paid a one-time salary of 3 million! And after that, there is a 30% share.

The extent of this contract has exceeded the imagination of many people, that is, the current publishing house can still accept such a price, and many people have the experience of Li Kuo's previous book writing, and they dare not underestimate him, so they can only say in their hearts that the three million are also worth it......

Although 3 million for a book sounds a bit too exaggerated, the reality is that even 3 million is a bit less......

"Okay, no problem." Li Kuo and Zou Pinqing looked at it, and after the two exchanged in their hearts again, Li Kuo raised his head and said to Yong Yunqiang.

"That's good, hehe!" Yong Yunqiang smiled: "Seriously, I've been waiting too long for this day, we have wanted to cooperate with you since the very beginning of "Chivalry Journey", but we have never had the opportunity, this time I am honored." ”

"I hope I live up to my mission!" Li Kuo said: "You give me such a high royalty, to recover the cost, the pressure will definitely be very great......

"We are confident!" (To be continued.) )