Chapter 006: Gogol, Japan's Genius

After several days, Takeshita Kusaoke's short story "Rashomon" submitted by the Literary Spring and Autumn Publishing House was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no news. In addition to sending Kitagawa's mother and daughter out of the house rain or shine from Monday to Friday as always, he returned to his rented room, either continuing to write other short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, or looking up some relevant information on the Internet to enrich himself. Every day of possession and rebirth, he is just like this, and Beichuan mother and daughter always never forget to give themselves a series of "come on" encouragement with a smile when they turn to leave.

For this reason, Takeshita Grass Mustard, who had a lot of waves in his thoughts, became more and more embarrassed in the face of them, and had several inner impulses to give up his damn writing career, go to a nearby convenience store to work part-time first, and then slowly find a suitable permanent job to live. However, when I thought of mediocrity, Takeshita Mustard, who spent his short life boringly, was unwilling. I know very well that doing so will only waste the precious opportunity to be reborn and miss the current great opportunity to become a writer, and it will also disappoint the mother and daughter of Beichuan who have always supported him.

Sitting cross-legged in front of a low square table, Takeshita Kusake, as it had been for the past few days. The frequency of clicking into his personal email every day is particularly high, almost every half an hour, not only that, but he will also refresh this page several times, anxiously waiting for the editor of the Literary Spring and Autumn Publishing House to hear back to him. This kind of is neither an acceptance nor a rejection, which really makes him feel very uncomfortable and full of cranky thoughts.

Just when he was bored and impatient, he clicked the refresh button for the third time, and the grass mustard under Takeshita suddenly lit up. His whole body leaned forward, as if to burrow into the screen of his laptop. An unread, or an email from the editor of the Literary Spring and Autumn Publishing House, has attracted great attention from me.

The beating of the whole heart accelerated, and Takeshita, who was becoming more and more nervous, mustered up the courage to try to open the unread email several times, but only moved the cursor to it, but did not click to open it again. He was quite afraid of being rejected, not because he couldn't bear a failure again, but this time he carried the hope of not only him, but also the ardent hope of Kitagawa's mother and daughter.

Takeshita Kusaoke, who was talking to himself, blurted out completely with a state of unconsciousness: "Nima, die and die!" After speaking, he shook the mouse under his right hand again, and moved the cursor on the screen to the unread email, and at the same time he clicked the left button once, his eyes were also closed together. It was pitch black in front of him, and he couldn't see anything, so he couldn't help but laugh at himself again.

Takeshita Kusaoke, who took a deep breath, was completely mentally prepared for rejection. With a lot of courage, he slowly opened his eyes and looked at the computer screen in front of him. I saw that the editor named Chie Sakai gave himself a reply that we are honored to inform Your Excellency Takeshita Kusashi that your short story "Rashomon" has been adopted by our company and will be published in the near future. Not only me, but also my colleagues and their editors-in-chief have always given this article high praise. The editor-in-chief even thinks that you are our genius Gogol in Japan. I think so......

Holding his breath, he read the Takeshita Kusaokei who Sakai replied to him word by word, spread his arms, clenched his fists and shook his arms upwards to make a sound of "yes yes". Although he is an out-and-out copyist, he still shows an ecstatic side. Savoring the "Japanese genius Gogol" back and forth, as a hardcore novel lover, he naturally knows where this sentence of high praise comes from.

It was the great Russian writer Dostoevsky's famous work "The Poor" sent to the fiction publication, so that the literary critic and editor-in-chief Belinsky saw it, and said with joy that "the genius of Russia, Gogol" was born. At that time, Dostoevsky was only twenty-five or six years old, and he was about the same age as him.

Takeshita Kusaoke, who stood up, walked around his room excitedly, after all, this time he was really not disappointed. Happiness is due to happiness, and he inevitably has another layer of worry. When Dostoevsky published The Poor, his life did not improve. What's more, I really need money at the moment. So, he sat cross-legged back in front of the low square table, and carefully read the email that Sakai Chie replied to him, but he didn't see how much he was paid for the manuscript.

I asked her directly, I still believe that the Literary Spring and Autumn Publishing House will not deliberately lower the remuneration, after all, all walks of life in Japan have a clear minimum remuneration guarantee. A writer like himself who has just debuted must not get too much remuneration. At the same time, the integrity of Japanese society as a whole is still quite good.

Therefore, I don't have to worry about not being able to collect money and the remuneration is not reasonable enough, the only thing I am worried about is when the other party will be able to transfer the remuneration he deserves to his bank account. Relying on a short story alone is not enough to support himself, and he still has the consciousness in this aspect.

Takeshita Grass Mustard, who does not intend to hang himself from a tree, naturally does not rely unilaterally on the Literary Spring and Autumn Publishing House. To open up another channel, it is not uncommon to think that he only used Akutagawa Ryunosuke's short story masterpieces and representative works for submission and suffered too much, but after this verification of the literary market, he has established a certain confidence.

So, I want to mix all kinds of short stories together and take them out at intervals. Boutique, General, Boutique, General...... The purpose is to maximize their own interests at the same time, to avoid editors and readers from looking too much at their own good works, and their psychological expectations will become higher and higher, resulting in a situation where they are criticized for their lack of strength.

The short stories written by Akutagawa Ryunosuke a few days ago were based on the principle that each work was published by one publisher, and thus were respectively invested in Takeshita Kusaoke, which was published by the Literary Spring and Autumn Publishing House, the New Wave Publishing House, and the Literary Publishing House, on the one hand, because he could not waste his own labor, and on the other hand, it was targeted according to the status of each publishing house in Japan. This time, he didn't send out the representative works in Ryunosuke Akutagawa's short stories, but he just took out the other party's general "Lonely Hell", "Princess of the Six Palaces", and "Repaying Kindness......