Yu Naisheng has recently made a lot of noise at Hexi University.

His painstaking historical novel "The Great Zhou Hou" was finally published, and his book was published by the famous Hanmo Culture Company.

He wrote this book for half a year, and inspired by Xiao Fei's serialization of "The First Close Contact" on Lifang Online, he later posted his book online.

After the book was uploaded, it was sought after by some netizens and gained a certain popularity.

Later, he took the initiative to contact a number of publishing houses and wanted to publish the book, but they were unsuccessful, and Yu Naising was disheartened for a while. Until one day, an editor of Hanmo Company found Yu Naisheng and discussed with him about signing a publishing contract.

At that time, Yu Naisheng's idea was simple: it would be a big victory to be able to publish his work without spending money.

As for the manuscript fee or something, it doesn't matter if you have it or not.

The reason why he thinks this is because when the publishing houses he found before negotiated with him about books, they all wanted him to publish books at his own expense, and they also called it co-publishing books.

For unknown young authors, most publishers are reluctant to take the risk of helping them publish their works in the normal way, and they will do everything possible to pass on the risk and let the author bear the cost of publishing the book.

The cost that the author needs to bear can range from tens of thousands to thousands.

It's not a small amount of money.

Therefore, in the end, Yu Naisheng actually had no hope of publishing his works. It was at this time that Hanmo's editor found him.

The editor told Yu Naising that the novel "After the Great Zhou" is still relatively readable, if it is properly packaged. It should be loved by some readers.

Therefore, Hanmo decided to help Naisheng publish this book.

And. They also offered two remuneration plans for Yu Naisheng: one plan was 30 yuan per thousand words, and "After the Great Zhou" was sold out to Hanmo Company for ten years. According to this remuneration plan, Yu Naisheng can get more than 8,000 yuan in manuscript fees; Another option is to pay in the form of royalties, and Hanmo pays Naisheng according to 5% of the royalties and the sales of the novel.

Yu Naisheng hesitated for a long time, and after discussing with his parents, he chose the first plan, and immediately got a salary of more than 8,000 yuan.

It was a lot more than his father's salary in a year.

The family is very happy, and Yu Naisheng is also full of accomplishment.

On November 28, "After the Great Week" was launched. On this day, the school's school radio station specially broadcast relevant news. Several newspapers in Zhongyuan City also made relevant reports.

In the past few days, Yu Naising felt like he was living in an incomparably beautiful dream.

When he walked around the school, many students would salute him, and his heart was intoxicated by the admiring eyes of the beautiful girls.

The teachers were also very polite to him, and even the head of the department personally approached him and encouraged him very much.

It was also when Naisheng was proud of the spring breeze that he noticed the news that the Lu Award was nominated, and the news that Xiao Fei, a young writer from Hexi, was nominated for the Lu Prize Prose Award made Yu Naising even more envious.

Yu Naisheng thought ambitiously that one day. I also want to compete for literary awards such as the Lu Prize and the Mao Prize.

And the news that Huaxia Youth Daily invited readers to select the award-winning works of the Lu Prize in the minds of readers also reached Yu Naisheng's ears for the first time.

It's a big deal! Yu Naising thought that if one day the domestic literary awards such as the Lu Award and the Mao Award would be judged by readers, it would definitely be of great benefit to young writers with shallow qualifications!

Huaxia Youth Daily is the most influential youth newspaper in China. Is there a deeper intention behind this newspaper's publication of this?

Yu Naisheng thought so and decided that he must participate in this activity of Huaxia Youth Daily. Carefully select the works that you think deserve the most to be awarded the Lu Prize.

He believes that he is also fighting for his own rights.

Yu Naisheng finally got a Huaxia Youth Daily with a questionnaire. He studied the list of seven individual award nominations for a long time, and found that at least two-thirds of his works on this list had not been seen.

So he ran to the city library. I found all the works on the list that I hadn't seen before, and took a cursory look at them.

"What is this written, this can be nominated for the Lu Award candidates, it's incredible!"

"It's not very well written, I can't read it."

"This one is not bad, it's kind of interesting."

"It's really a good work, it seems that there are a lot of good works that have been buried, and I didn't even notice it before."

Yu Naisheng spent an afternoon looking through all the nominated works.

Finally, he solemnly wrote down the names of all the award-winning works in the seven individual categories he had in mind on a newspaper form.

After filling it out, this form is to be cut out and sent back to the company.

When Yu Naising filled in the prose item, he shook his head, he was a little entangled, and he was entangled whether to write the name "Xiao Fei" to the first one.

"Xiao Fei's prose is written fresh and good, the imagery is ingenious, and it is pleasing to the eye, but is it really good to rank him first?"

Yu Naisheng was entangled.

In the end, he gritted his teeth and said to himself: "I compared it carefully, Xiao Fei's prose is so much higher than the character of those prose writers, he is the first place in my mind this Lu Prize Prose Award, so it's decided." ”

He brushed a few strokes and wrote down Xiao Fei's essay collection "The Sun Burned Those Old Times".

After filling out all the forms, Yu Naisheng cut out the forms from the newspaper and put them in the prepared envelope, and when he came out of the library, he put the envelope in the mailbox at the entrance of the library.

After doing all this, he breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, in China, many literary young people like Yu Naisheng have enthusiastically participated in the readers' selection of Lu Prize's works by Huaxia Youth Daily.

Like Yu Naisheng, they all think that Huaxia Youth Daily's play will help break the current pattern of a group of decrepit judges controlling the selection of domestic literary awards.

They strongly hope that the literary awards will eventually be selected by readers across the country. They will get a fairer chance.

In addition to the above people, there are also many ordinary readers who have little contact with literature to actively participate in the event. They participated in this reader interactive contest purely for fun or for the cash draw.

These people are making their own choices. As Xiao Fei said, most of them look at which writer is familiar with and which work has a more pleasing title, so they choose which.

And the name Xiao Fei is obvious, most readers who often read newspapers are very familiar with him, people are familiar with his deeds, and his works are also familiar.

As a result, Xiao Fei took a great advantage.

Almost when these people chose the winning works of the Lu Prize Prose Award, they selected Xiao Fei's collection "The Sun Burned Those Old Times". And almost without exception, put it to the forefront.

By the end of the first week of the selection of the China Youth Daily, the newspaper had received more than 8,000 letters from the event.

Meng Xidong led people to make statistics first.

This is also for the follow-up series of news.

It can be said that Meng Xidong never expected that so many readers would participate in this readers' selection of the Lu Award.

This shows that the event was extremely successful.

The readers' response was enthusiastic, the leaders of the newspaper also gave full recognition to his work, and the newspaper colleagues also had all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred for the activity he presided over.

Meng Xidong was in a good mood, so good.

When the statistics of the first week came out, Meng Xidong took the results in his hand and looked at them carefully.

He found. Those works with a relatively large circulation in China and a relatively large reputation of the author have been selected by readers.

Especially in terms of prose awards, Xiao Fei's "The Sunshine Burns Those Old Times" was recommended by 8,354 readers, which shocked Meng Xidong.

So far, the newspaper has received more than 8,400 letters from readers!

Say. Xiao Fei's collection of works has almost been unanimously recommended by readers, which is really rare.

After Meng Xidong got the results, he immediately arranged for reporters to write news reports.

"In the first week, there were 8,400 letters from readers. Xiao Fei's works have been recommended by readers several times! ”

This is a headline on the front page of the Huaxia Youth Daily. On this day, all the readers of Huaxia Youth Daily and those who followed the selection of the Lu Award were shocked by this news.

"Really? Almost all readers recommend it with full votes. This, this is a rare situation. ”

"Huaxia Youth Daily shouldn't be fake, right?"

"Counterfeiting is impossible! A national-level authoritative newspaper. Do you think someone like Xiao Fei has the ability to make it fake? ”

"If there is no greasy here, then Xiao Fei is really too powerful, it seems that the reader's recognition of him is not ordinary."

"I saw Xiao Fei so famous before, and I was a little unimpressed, thinking that a young man in his twenties couldn't write profound and heavy things no matter how he could, and I thought he was hyped up! But after reading the Youth Daily's Lu Award reader survey, I found that his popularity was ridiculously high, and I couldn't hold back and went to find his book to read, and I found that what this kid wrote was really good, the narrative, language, and storyline were very good, and I was fascinated. ”

There was a lot of talk.

This news once again put Xiao Fei on the cusp of public opinion.

Especially on the campus of Peking University, this news is even more sensational.

Most of the students in the Chinese Department were sour when they saw the news, and the students and teachers of other departments who were originally dissatisfied with Xiao Fei also began to re-examine Xiao Fei.

"The reader survey of Huaxia Youth Daily is absolutely authoritative! It seems that Xiao Fei's call for winning the Lu Award is not ordinarily high! ”

"I think Xiao Fei is really going to win the Lu Award this time."

"Tsk! The winner of the highest literary award in Japan in his 20s is unprecedented! ”

"I think the school leaders will not be able to sit still this time, which is also a great honor for the school."

Listening to the discussions of his classmates, Zhang Qiang was very uncomfortable, the fact that Xiao Fei actually had the opportunity to hit the highest literary award made him crazy with jealousy.

Zhang Qiang, who has finally regained a little confidence recently, has once again suffered a heavy psychological blow.

So, out of control, he shouted loudly at the students who were talking, "Whew! What is the use of high voices among readers? It's not that the judges are unanimously optimistic, or all the readers in China like him, and the judges don't like it, so he still can't win the Lu Award! If you don't believe it, we can make a bet, if Xiao Fei can win the Lu Award this year, I will eat in public! ”

Zhang Qiang also has a deep understanding of the domestic literary world, he knows that the domestic literary world is also about seniority, Xiao Fei, a young man who has just emerged, wants to get the award, it is simply a fantasy!

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Qiang will stand up and bet with other classmates. (To be continued......)