Speaking of a knife and a sword, many people will subconsciously think of the sentence: "The sword slays the dragon, commands the world, don't dare to disobey, lean on the sky, who competes." ”

However, Chen Feng has not yet reached the point of unlocking "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", and even if he does, he will not be stupid enough to give up this precious work to others.

What he said about one sword and one sword refers to Jin Yong's two short martial arts novels: Mandarin Duck Knife and Yue Nu Sword.

Although the sparrow is small and complete, although it is a short story, these two stories are high-quality masterpieces, although there is no "chivalrous man, for the country and the people" that kind of thick and mighty chivalrous spirit, but in the exquisite, there is also a charm, from a unique perspective to interpret the meaning of "chivalry", by virtue of this, the two short stories have the capital to crush most of the martial arts novels of the same era.

At first, there was no magazine "Jianghu Ke" in Chen Feng's plan, and he originally planned to submit the most famous "Wuxia" magazine with the short Yue Nu Jian with a slightly thin plot.

He even took a pen name.

Chen Feng has enough reason to believe that a "Yue Nu Sword" is enough to make him, a "rookie author", popular in the martial arts circle for a long time.

After that, he took the opportunity to launch "Mandarin Duck Knife", a work that is "surpassing" in terms of both word count and connotation, and placed it in the novel forum, so that the effect is definitely many times better than directly publishing a book.

It's just that the momentum of "Martial Arts" was forcibly borrowed in this way, and whether the effect can meet expectations is another matter for the time being, morally speaking, it is still inferior.

Just when he was hesitating, Hong Xie suddenly visited and sought the publishing rights of "Juvenile Tour" for his old friend's "Jianghu Ke" magazine, and euphemistically expressed his desire to invite Chen Feng to write for "Jianghu Ke".

This made Chen Feng's mind flash and gave birth to an idea, he began to be interested in a magazine like "Jianghu Ke", so he found a headhunting company from the Internet, spent hundreds of yuan on information fees, and made an in-depth understanding of "Jianghu Ke".

"A second-rate martial arts magazine, but due to its good geographical location, it has a wide coverage, and in recent years, it has not been able to serialize high-quality martial arts novels, resulting in it sliding from second-rate to third-rate."

"The editor-in-chief, Bai Ming, is in his forties, and is different from ordinary old scholars, he is a person who dares to break through and innovate...... The magazine's overall operations were in serious trouble, and there was even a fiscal deficit in the last quarter. ”

Almost every point was perfectly in line with the ideal situation in Chen Feng's plan, and he immediately stopped hesitating, asked Hong Xie to help him get on the line with Bai Ming, and put forward that whimsical suggestion, which Bai Ming angrily refused.

Chen Feng didn't give up, hoping that Bai Ming could meet him and talk.

The reason why it is an interview is simple, to show sincerity.

Although in Bai Ming's opinion, Chen Feng's proposal can be described as insincere, and it is not an exaggeration to call it nonsense, but it is only because Bai Ming does not understand Chen Feng's true intentions.

There are some things that we still need to sit down and talk about before we can figure them out.

So at the end of August, Chen Feng went out again with two manuscripts, "Yue Nu Sword" and "Mandarin Duck Knife".

I went to Jinling.

After more than an hour's drive, after asking a few passers-by, he came to the magazine office of "Jianghu Ke" alone.

The eight-storey office building, red bricks and blue tiles, completely antique building, looks like a big deal.

As the saying goes, "a skinny camel is bigger than a horse", in this literary era, it takes a lot of financial resources and skills to buy a magazine, even if it is second-rate.

However, the gray signboard and the moss on the wall show the current situation of this magazine.

After registering at the doorman's office, Chen Feng walked in, and as soon as he entered the hall, he was stopped by a receptionist in his twenties.

"Hello sir, may I ask you what's the matter?"

"I'm here to find Editor-in-Chief Bai Ming." Chen Feng said with a smile.

"Do you have an appointment?"

"Yes."

"Wait a minute." The front desk lady picked up the landline phone at hand and asked in a low voice, and after a while, a cold voice came from the microphone: "Let him come up." ”

The voice was not small, Chen Feng also heard it, he gestured slightly to the front desk lady, and walked onto the elevator.

Bai Ming's office is on the seventh floor.

Before Chen Feng walked into the office, he saw a thin middle-aged man with an ugly face and roared: "Don't even think about it, I'm not such an unethical person......

Chen Feng chose to stay outside the office very sensibly, and waited until Bai Ming put down the microphone angrily and sulked while sitting on the chair with an angry face, then he straightened his outfit and walked in calmly.

"Uncle Bai is good." Chen Feng greeted, Bai Ming and Hong Xie are classmates, according to their seniority, it is not an exaggeration to call uncle.

"Sit down." Bai Ming said with a dejected face, the whole person seemed to look a little old, and he didn't need to guess to know that it must be related to the phone call just now.

"You came to me this time, but don't mention that matter again."

"Uncle Bai, this is a martial arts novel that I have written in my spare time these days, take a look." Chen Feng smiled, took out the manuscript of "Yue Nu Sword" from his briefcase, and handed it to Bai Ming.

He didn't say a word about the plan, because he knew that Bai Ming's temperament was very stubborn, and since he had already rejected him once on the phone, he would still refuse the second time.

A different approach had to be found.

"Oh, you wrote that? Then I'm going to take a good look. Bai Ming calmed down and squeezed out a smile.

As the editor-in-chief, Bai Ming's love for martial arts novels is undoubted, and the last time Chen Feng's "Youth Tour" made him remember it vividly, he opened the manuscript and read it with great anticipation.

……

"Please!"

"Please!"

The two swordsmen each turned the tip of their sword upside down, holding the hilt of the sword in their right hand and placing their left hand on the back of their right hand, and bowed.

Before the two of them could stand up straight, suddenly a white light flashed, followed by a bang, the two swords intersected, and each of them took a step back.

The swordsman in Tsing Yi split three swords in a row, and the swordsman in the brocade shirt opened them one by one. The swordsman in Tsing Yi shouted, and the long sword slashed straight down from the upper left corner, and the momentum was urgent. The brocade-shirted swordsman was agile and leaped backwards, avoiding the sword......

……

In less than ten seconds, Bai Ming, who had finished reading a small part of the content at the beginning, stared blankly and sighed in his heart.

"Genius is inevitable after all, isn't it vulgar?" Bai Ming thought helplessly.

In his eyes, this series of descriptions of fights, judging from the writing, is indeed sophisticated enough, and there is no sense of condensation between words and deeds, which can be regarded as a masterpiece; From a formal point of view, what is the difference between it and those popular "martial arts novels" at the moment?

It is far less unique than the previous "Youth Tour".

But at the moment, he couldn't say anything, so he had to continue to watch patiently.