Two days later, Li Yan brought a reporter from the "Heqi Evening News" to Gangji Town to interview Zhang Tan. Originally, Zhang Tan thought that he was going to Heqi City to sit down and have a cup of tea or something, but who knew that he would come to Gangji Town.

"Reporter Liu wanted to know about your living environment, so we came directly." Li Yan explained to Zhang Tan.

Zhang Tan nodded: "I understand." ”

Reporter Liu is a bookish young man with glasses, probably a reporter who has just turned regular. After all, Zhang Tan is just an author of a martial arts novel, which is very low in terms of news value, and the interview specifications are naturally not high.

At this point in time, the family members went to work and went to work, so when reporter Liu came, he didn't alarm anyone in the family. And Zhang Tan's own home, he is alone at home. Both parents went to Dayang Town and didn't come back very often. Her sister Zhang Yan went to a cram school as a substitute teacher, and the cram school was opened by her and her classmates.

Several of their high school classmates who were admitted to the university opened a summer cram school, because they were all taught by college students, their parents trusted them very much, and sent many middle and high school students over, and Zhang Tan occasionally went to make up for math classes.

"You're the only one at home?" Li Yan was busy pouring water for Reporter Liu, brought a bottle of boiling water from the kitchen, and by the way, pulled Zhang Tan to explain what to say during the interview.

She is an assistant after all, and she has to arrange all the omissions for the boss.

"Yes."

"Wait a little more to talk about the content of "Shooting the Condor", private news, be careful not to say too much, especially negative things are better not to say, say more positive news, which is conducive to creating your personal image. If you feel that you are not sure, think about it and don't rush to answer. ”

What Li Yan said, Zhang Tan naturally understands, the uncle in his thirties knows what to say and what not to say: "Well, I know." ”

Make good tea for the reporter, not much nonsense, and the interview starts directly.

Reporter Liu came prepared, took out the interview script from the folder, looked at it, and said: "The martial arts written by Hong Kong and Taiwan writers are very popular in the mainland, and martial arts works have been remade on TV three or five times, but in the mainland, there are still very few martial arts writers, and you are the best among this group of people." ”

In the face of this more formal and serious interview, Zhang Tan also put away his exaggerated side and replied very seriously: "It can be regarded as a pioneer, I wrote martial arts relatively early on our mainland, and there was no soil for writing martial arts here before, and there was no place to publish it." ”

"You have written two novels so far, "The Four Famous Catches the Kanto Earthquake" and "The Four Famous Catchers Meet the Jingshi", both of which have been published, and the response in the market has been very good."

"Yes, I have written two books, with more than 500,000 words, and the results of publication are okay."

"If I'm not mistaken, you're only sixteen?"

"Sixteen."

"Sixteen-year-old writers, this situation is really rare, can you tell us how your writing talent came about, is it born or has something to do with your life environment?"

It has something to do with rebirth, but it can't be said.

Zhang Tan thought for a while and said: "It all matters, I was exposed to martial arts novels when I was very young, and I also like to watch martial arts dramas, and I have a kind of dream of rivers and lakes." At the same time, he is more interested in the part of language, likes to write, and conceives the ideal world. The combination of interest eventually prompted me to invest more in this area. ”

"Some people commented that you are a symbol of mainland martial arts, and at the same time your novels have their own style, who inspired you more on the road of writing martial arts novels?"

"I read a lot of books, and many martial arts works have influenced me to a greater or lesser extent." Zhang Tan replied, of course, the biggest influence on him was Jingu Huang Liang Wen, but there was no way to say this.

"How do you balance studying and writing? There was a Han Jingming who was also like you, he wrote in high school, but he didn't continue to read and dropped out of school, would you drop out of school to concentrate on writing like him, or continue to study? Do you think it's important for you to go to school? ”

It doesn't make much sense for Zhang Tan to continue studying, after all, he has already experienced these in the trajectory of his previous life.

However, Zhang Tan understands that he is only a special case, and if he honestly says that learning is not important, it will have a very bad impact, and it is likely that many students will imitate his views and give up studying. Moreover, Zhang Tan himself does not support the theory of uselessness of learning, let alone bring others harm.

Therefore, the answer of some routines is necessary: "The book must continue to be read, the jade is not cut, and people don't know if they don't learn." I do have a little bit of a score in writing now, but the more I write the grades, the more I can feel that my knowledge is not enough, just like teachers often say, a person's knowledge is a circle, inside the circle is what you know, and outside the circle is what you don't know. The more you know, the bigger the circle, and the more you don't know, the more you should learn. ”

"But doesn't writing delay your studies?"

"Allocate time reasonably, in fact, there is not much conflict."

“…… What's the next new book? ”

"The Legend of the Condor Heroes" tells the story of a teenager who grows into a hero, during which ancient history will be re-fictionalized and integrated into the concept of martial arts. Overall, this story has jumped out of the traditional grievances and vendettas, and has risen to a national level, where the great man is chivalrous, for the country and the people. ”

The next interview was completely transferred to "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", Zhang Tan flickered fiercely, his understanding of the rivers and lakes, martial arts, and novels, and also defined what kind of values he understood as chivalry in the rivers and lakes.

"Usually when it comes to 'chivalry', everyone's mind will flash the image of holding a sword to punish the strong and help the weak, and doing good deeds without leaving a name, which is a kind of self-expectation of disadvantaged groups. Because our personal power is very small, we aspire to have strong power to protect ourselves and our own bottom line. ”

After a pause, Zhang Tan continued to talk eloquently: "But there is a good saying, Confucianism uses literature to mess with the law, and chivalry uses martial arts to violate the ban." The existence of chivalry is a manifestation of the disadvantaged group to break the weakness, fighting the sword and the rivers and lakes, happy and revenge, how cool! But this is a very low-level thing, society is complex, the behavior of chivalry cannot solve the problem fundamentally, you kill a bad person, and there may continue to be a bad person tomorrow. ”

"Because you have not been able to irrigate the spirit of chivalry to the end, you are the little one of chivalry, and you can only be friends and neighbors. So I write martial arts, hoping to write some chivalrous heroes who really serve the country and the people, the series of the four famous catches, which is what I think is a more realistic system of rivers and lakes, of course, it is not clear, in order to create contradictions and conflicts, many places are written more jerky. ”

"In this book "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", I hope to start from the most basic place, describing how a teenager finds the position of a hero step by step, how he resolutely devotes himself to serving the country, and really wants to be a hero for the country and the people......"

After a long speech, Zhang Tan himself became excited, and his blood boiled. The highest state of fooling people is to believe it or not, but believe it yourself.

Of course, this is indeed what he said in his heart, a real hero should be for the name of the country, righteousness, and loyalty. Among the martial arts masters, only Jin Yong has brought the heroes to life.