Chapter 12: Praise and saliva go hand in hand

Ah Qiang used the newspapers of the previous issues of "The Peerless Double Pride" to buy Cheng Long, which saved him from being fired by the boss when he learned that he was lazy.

Cheng Long took the newspapers home and spent a night reading them before he realized why so many people were chasing the novel.

The most common routine in martial arts novels is "the son avenges the father", the young man's whole family was wiped out, and the hard work of the master finally succeeded, and then the enemy was stabbed, and the revenge was avenged.

At the beginning of the story, Yulang Jiang Feng was "revenged", he lived up to the deep affection of the palace lord of the Yueyue Palace, and chose to elope with the maidservant Huayue slave; The story really began after the two were martyred, and the two brothers who were supposed to take on the task of revenge actually became the object of revenge of the Lord of the Flower Shifting Palace - the person who was supposed to take the initiative to take revenge became the object of passive revenge, which is a "variant of revenge" and the core of the story of "The Peerless Twins".

In the novel, whenever there is a plot similar to the twin brothers, almost all writers will inevitably use the dramatic conflict of "the prince and the beggar", the two brothers must be very different from each other, one of them will fall into the rivers and lakes, go through vicissitudes and torture; The other will be born in a powerful family, enjoy glory and wealth all his life, and do not know the suffering of the world. "The Peerless Double Pride" is not exempt from vulgarity, in the story, Xiaoyuer is to play the role of the Luotuo rivers and lakes, and the flower is the contrast between pampering and enjoying wealth and glory.

Such a storyline setting will inevitably attract some people's criticism, and criticisms such as no new ideas, new bottles of old wine, etc., have also begun to appear in the newspapers, but these are still small fights, and the real topic controversy has nothing to do with "The Peerless Twins" itself, but on the co-authorship of Lin Shu and Lin Xi's father and son.

This kind of thing did not surprise Lin Xi, because since "The Peerless Twins" can be used as the pinnacle of Gu Long's writing in the middle period, there are actually very few places to attack about the novel itself, and the facts have proved his inference.

Even those who criticize "The Peerless Twins" can only say that the novel is old-fashioned, but no one dares to say that the story is not well written.

Of course, on the question of whether it is well written, it is not these people who have the final say, but the readers who have the final say, since the serialization of "The Peerless Double Pride" began, it is an indisputable fact that the sales of "Oriental Daily" have increased dramatically, and no one is stupid enough to jump out to make a difficulty.

But on the question of who wrote the novel, there was a lot of buzz in the media.

"The Peerless Double Pride" is completely different from Lin Shu's previous works in style, which has become the beginning of many people's doubts, although there is Lin Xi, the co-author, but Lin Xi, who is only sixteen years old, is naturally ignored by most people, and more people feel that this book is not from Lin Shu's father and son, but someone ghostwrote.

Hong Kong media reporters jumped up and down for a while about this matter, and checked the relationship network around Lin Shu's father and son, almost digging three feet into the ground, but they didn't find out the ghostwriter.

Because there is no evidence to be found, this view slowly begins to become untenable, and some people even reason from the reverse that if this ghostwriter really exists, he can write something like "The Peerless Double Pride", so why ghostwrite, isn't it more advantageous to publish it yourself?

Some people continue to argue that it is because Lin Shu is so famous that he can sell it for a high price if he sends it out in his name.

This statement is scoffed at by many people, because people with a little long-term vision know that for a newcomer, fame is actually more important than money, as long as the first novel can open up the situation, it will only make more money in the future.

After this view was denied, another speculation arose.

People who hold such views believe that "The Peerless Twins" is indeed written by Lin Shu, and the change of style is also deliberately done by Lin Shu, in order to praise his son to the throne.

Lin Xi, who was not concerned by many people at the beginning, was suddenly pushed to the forefront of the media.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Xi's various bad deeds in the past were also exposed by the media one by one.

When I was still in middle school, I wanted to learn to form a band, but unfortunately I didn't have any results for half a year; Because he skipped school too many times, he was finally expelled from St. Francis College...... All kinds of signs show that Lin Xi is a gentleman who eats and waits for death.

Things have developed to this point, and many people have begun to sympathize with Lin Shu.

Not to mention such a superb son, in order to let him have a good future in the future, he actually went to such great lengths to write a novel to help him pave the way, but unfortunately in the eyes of most people, Lin Xi, who has a bad record, must be muddy and can't support the wall.

Early the next morning, while the kitchen was not very busy, Ah Qiang secretly came to Cheng Long.

"Brother Chen, this is the latest issue of Oriental Daily, put it away quickly, don't let others see it."

Ah Qiang quickly took out a newspaper from his arms and stuffed it into Cheng Long's hand.

Cheng Long was a little depressed by Ah Qiang's actions, "What are you doing secretly, we are not thieves!" ”

Ah Qiang anxiously gestured to Cheng Long for a silence, looked at the surroundings and saw that there was no one, then lowered his voice and said: "You don't know, how popular such a newspaper is now, the newsstand will be gone as long as it is a few minutes late, and now many people on the bus every morning have a newspaper in their hands, no need to read more, nine times out of ten it is "Oriental Daily...... Just now, Da Fei asked me if I had bought today's newspaper, and I lied to him and said no, and if he mentioned it later, you can't sell me. ”

Cheng Long nodded at this time, but secretly wondered in his heart: No wonder he didn't buy it this morning, it turned out that this newspaper was so popular.

It's just that Cheng Long can't figure it out, since the newspaper is so popular, why doesn't "Oriental Daily" print more?

Although it is a bit of a casual feeling, but in fact Cheng Long misunderstood the "Oriental Daily", it is not that they are unwilling to print, now the number of newspapers printed every day has increased by 30% compared with the past, and it is easy to start the printing press, but once the serialization of "Peerless Shuangjiao" ends, the sales of the newspaper will drop too much, which will seriously disrupt the normal operation of the newspaper.

The increase in sales brought by the serialization of "The Peerless Double Pride" to the newspaper is immediate, but the newspaper has to consider long-term operation, and "Oriental Daily", as one of the three major newspapers and periodicals in Hong Kong, naturally harmonizes with the truth.

"Okay, I'll keep this matter a secret for you!" Cheng Long accepted the newspaper, which is equivalent to inheriting Ah Qiang's favor.

"Brother Chen, there has been a lot of discussion about Lin Shu's father and son in the newspaper recently, and people like me who don't care much about the news have read some of it, do you say that this story was really written by Lin Shu to help Lin Xidai?"

Hearing this, Cheng Long couldn't help frowning.

I don't know why, Cheng Long always has an inexplicable confidence in the young man who has only met once and borrowed 200 yuan from him, or the young man's words have aroused the movie dream in his heart that has never been completely extinguished, so from the bottom of his heart, Cheng Long really hopes that this novel is really written by Lin Xi.

"Why do you all think that if the father is helping the son, it can't be the son helping the father?"

Cheng Long said this purely out of anger, and Ah Qiang was stunned when he heard the whole person, and he couldn't speak for a long time.

"Alright, let's get busy!"

Cheng Long waved his hand, a bit of a start to drive people away.

Cuong was about to leave when the kitchen door was pushed open.

"Brother Chen, there are two guests outside who want to see you by name!"

It was another waiter in the restaurant who came to pass the word, Da Fei, because Ah Qiang had just deceived the other party, it was inevitable that he would be a little embarrassed to see it, but Cheng Long was puzzled.

He hadn't even started cooking today, and it stands to reason that no guest would be satisfied or dissatisfied with eating his cooking, so he called him out to talk, so he asked more.

"What's the situation?"

"I don't know, as soon as the two of them sat down, they called and said they wanted to see you...... Oh, by the way, they say their surname is Lin, as if they know you! ”

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