The week after returning from the Demon Capital was a period of disturbance for Xiao Fei.

The special issue of the novel "Harvest" was officially launched and went on sale the day after the press conference of Xiao Fei's new work.

The autumn and winter volumes of this novel special issue are not generally popular.

The main reasons are as follows:

First, the controversy caused by this novel in the early stage was very large, the media hyped it, and the public attention was high. In particular, the first three chapters of "Brothers" have been published by many newspapers before "Harvest" was published, and readers who read it have whetted their appetites.

Second, Xiao Fei is already a very famous young writer in China, and his reputation among readers is quite good, and each of the three novels he has published has set off a good response in China, and the feedback from readers is very enthusiastic, and readers generally believe that Xiao Fei's novels are good to read and read.

Third, Xiao Fei released a new book after more than half a year, and readers' expectations for it are still quite high.

In a week, the 1997 autumn and winter volume of the novel "Harvest" sold nearly 600,000 copies, and the follow-up trend is still hot......

This made all the colleagues in the magazine such as Editor-in-Chief Xiao and Editor Cheng almost crazy.

It seems that this issue of the long-form special issue will set a record again because of Xiao Fei's "Brothers", and if this special issue can sell millions of copies, it will be of great significance: it indicates that "Harvest" magazine seems to have returned to the literary boom of the early 80s.

Of course, the hot sale of the magazine has also directly brought a great increase in efficiency.

An issue of the magazine is worth nearly 10 million yuan, and the profit of the magazine can reach two or three million, and the editorial department of "Harvest" can do more things.

In Editor-in-Chief Xiao's plan, she really wants to greatly increase the manuscript fee of the harvest, not to mention too much, the thousand words reach 200 yuan, which is worthy of the current status of "Harvest" in the literary world.

There is another advantage to the increase in manuscript fees, that is: in this era of market economy, "Harvest" can better favor those really good writers, so that they can vote for the best works. Rather than going to other large literary journals that are comparable to the harvest.

In 1997, the manuscript fee was 80 yuan per thousand words, which was considered to be the highest in a pure literary magazine.

But it's not really the highest, at least there are a dozen or so magazines. The manuscript fee is comparable to the harvest, or even slightly higher than it.

Many writers do not regard harvest as the first choice when submitting their manuscripts.

The harvest is a bi-monthly magazine, published every two months, with about 400,000 words per issue and 30,000 or 40,000 yuan in manuscript fees. According to the benefits of the magazine now. It is to increase the manuscript fee to 200 yuan per 1,000 words, and the manuscript fee expenditure for each issue is only 80,000 yuan.

Editor-in-chief Xiao believes that the magazine can afford it at all.

She has decided to strike while the iron is hot and type this report with an increase in manuscript fees.

This can be regarded as a satellite that has been released in China.

After careful consideration, editor-in-chief Xiao believes that in the impetuousness at the end of the century, domestic literary journals can only strive for the first place if they want to develop and grow sustainably.

Only the first place is qualified to live longer and grab more literary resources.

In the final analysis, she was still influenced by Xiao Fei. It is also believed that the Internet will become popular in the future, and the living space of traditional paper media will be repeatedly compressed.

She wants to lay a good foundation for the harvest so that the magazine can be invincible in the future competition.

Not to mention the excitement of everyone in the editorial department of "Harvest".

After the launch of this issue of the novel, the sales were hot, and the controversy was also quite hot.

The domestic literary critics are really one-sided critics this time, and few critics recognize the literary value of "Brothers".

"Xiao Fei's "Brothers" has completely fallen into the quagmire of commercialization, I really don't know what the meaning of "Brothers" is?"

"Aside from being easy to read, in addition to telling the story of a country helmet, apart from vulgar humor and deliberately exaggerated suffering, what else is in 'Brothers'?"

"The novel 'Brothers' is very crudely written. It is an exaggeration, and the absurdity it describes is not a distillation of absurd events from reality, but the writer's own inner fantasy, a work that is divorced from social reality. It has lost the foundation of its existence! ”

Comments like the one above burst out in a short period of time and appeared on the pages of various newspapers.

Of course, there are many people who support "Brothers", but most of these people are not literary critics, but more readers.

Readers want to make their voices heard. In this day and age, it's hard.

Generally speaking, the media will not take the initiative to ask the average reader about their perceptions, but at most they will conduct an interview and summarize one or two sentences of the general opinion of the reader.

And the main point of view from the reader is as follows.

"'Brothers' is very good, very easy to read."

""Brothers" is very funny, very touching, and even more shocking!"

"What makes a good book? It's enough for people to be able to read it, to bring some joy, to be moved, to be shocked, to think, and to think about it, and "Brothers" can bring me that, and I think it's a very good book, and in my mind I think it's better than many of the classics in the past! ”

"A novel like 'Brothers' is enough even to win the Nobel Prize for Literature!"

It is in the midst of these controversies that the sales of the special issue of the novel "Harvest" are rising.

Of course, as time went by, some writers who worked closely with Hanmo Culture Company also began to speak out in support of Xiao Fei, and these writers all gained enough benefits from their cooperation with Hanmo Company, and after receiving Liu Zelai's request, they began to help Xiao Fei in terms of public opinion without hesitation.

"I've been reading "Brothers" recently, and I have read it very carefully, and many details of "Brothers" are very well written and very good, and I have to say that Xiao Fei's words are as exquisite and vivid as ever." Zhang Yi, chairman of the Hexi Provincial Writers Association, said.

Zhang Mingyuan, a famous literary critic and former dean of the Hexi Provincial Academy of Literature, also said: "There is no one among the young generation like Xiao Fei who can write the absurd history of the Wenge period to such an extent!" Let's just say that! In recent years, I have read almost all the long stories in China that have a slight repercussions, and only "Brothers" can attract me so much like "Brothers"! ”

"What value, meaning, these general standards for measuring the quality of a work, I don't think it's a good standard! A novel, good or not. Just look at its sales, just look at its readership, just look at its popularity, that's enough! The literary world leader Meng Lao said.

"In my spare time preparing for the college entrance examination. Xiao Fei can write a work like "Brothers", which is too commendable, and I think that we can't be too harsh on young writers, and we should give them more encouragement. And not bashing! Those who criticize the loudest, do you think that "Brothers" is not good here and bad there, and you have the ability to write a copy yourself and see if you can reach its height? This is what Dai Houying said to the reporter of "Literary Daily".

One after another, famous writers in the literary world stood up, and they gave Xiao Fei high praise, believing that Xiao Fei's ability to write works like "Brothers" has established his height and status in the history of Chinese literature!

This situation and this scene made Xiao Fei very moved.

However, he said to Mr. Dai's sentence, "If you have the ability, you can write a book yourself." Let's see if we can reach its heights" always has a sense of déjà vu.

In the prosperous era of online literature in later generations, when trolls were spraying some online authors, the defenders of those authors often said: Do you have the ability to write a book yourself?

Thinking about this, he was a little ridiculous.

There are so many writers who support him, especially some famous artists, which makes Xiao Fei's heart more calm.

What does this mean? It shows that Xiao Fei's public relations, Xiao Fei's network maintenance is already working.

He has always been quietly befriending well-known writers and literary authorities in China.

Many of these people are judges of the Mao Dun Literature Award. Having a good relationship with them in advance and giving them a good impression of themselves will be good for the future.

The publication of "Brothers" in the autumn and winter volume of the 1997 novel issue of "Harvest" naturally sparked a big discussion on the campus of Peking University.

Especially in the Chinese department, there is a lot of noise all day long.

Many students have read the new issue of Harvest.

These students discovered: "Brothers" is not surprisingly the main title of this issue of the novel, which makes them envious.

No matter how many people keep trying, in order to publish a small tofu cube on the harvest, they can't.

And Xiao Fei is a blockbuster work every time it is published.

The treatment of people and people. It's a world of difference.

As a result, the stinky problem of the literati broke out again, and "Brothers" was not only criticized by many old professors in the Chinese department, but also had a bad reputation among students.

In many lectures held by the Chinese Department, some people have used "Brothers" to talk about things, and some critical remarks have been used over and over again.

This made Xu Fengjuan very angry and depressed.

Because of her identity as Xiao Fei's girlfriend. She was even isolated and besieged by her roommates in her dorm room.

This phenomenon is abnormal.

Until the school made a voice and expressed its grand congratulations on the publication of Xiao Fei's latest novel "Brothers" in the special issue of "Harvest" novels, the school believes that "Brothers" is a very good literary work, and Xiao Fei can write such an important work at the age of 20, which is commendable, and this is also an honor of Peking University!

When this voice came out, the criticism of Xiao Fei in the Chinese department was much smaller.

"Feng Juan, don't pay attention to these people, these people are jealous, Xiao Fei's "Brothers" is actually very popular with most students, and they all say that it is a good work worth reading, and many people are even secretly imitating the language style and narrative techniques of this novel!" Lin Xiaomei said to Xu Fengjuan.

"It's okay, Sister Xiaomei, Xiao Fei also told me, saying that this is all normal, this situation will not last long, it will eventually become a thing of the past, what is the value of the work "Brother", let time make the final judgment." Xu Fengjuan said with a faint smile.

This is Xiao Fei's enlightenment to her.

She thinks Xiao Fei is right.

In this week's time, Xiao Fei was not idle, in fact, he was quite busy. Liu Zelai personally brought Liu Bei to the capital, and the second series of tomb robbery novels "Notes on Tomb Robbery" began to be created.

This classic adventure novel of tomb robbery has been published in a total of 9 previous lives, and each book is about 1780,000 words, which is a total of 140,000 or 500,000 words.

This book, like "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", is also divided into independent and complete stories. (To be continued.) )