Chapter 4: Writing for My Father (Part I)
It took a long time for Lin Xi to come back to his senses from his surprise and stunnedness.
If Bruce Lee's death just made Lin Xi feel that this was a difference between the times and his memory, then the disappearance of Gu Long completely subverted Lin Xi's cognition.
I didn't travel back in time, but really came to another time and space.
After a brief period of love and loss, a bold and exciting idea soon filled Lin Xi's mind.
Since there is no such person as Gu Long in this time and space, there is no problem for him to take out Gu Long's works and publish them, that is the only master in the martial arts novel world who can be compared with Jin Yong, and any work can change his life opportunities immediately.
Since then, I have become the general manager, become the CEO, win Bai Fumei, and walk to the peak of life, I am a little excited to think about it!
Cheng Long shook his hand in front of Lin Xi's eyes, "Hey, are you okay?" ”
Lin Xi came back to his senses, and in the face of Cheng Long's puzzled eyes, his face couldn't help but feel a little hot.
"I didn't ...... It's okay, by the way, where did we just go? ”
Cheng Long shrugged his shoulders and was speechless at Lin Xi's reaction to the "broken line".
"Just now you asked me if there is a martial arts novel author named Gu Long in Taiwan, but seriously, I have read the novels of Sima Ling, Wo Longsheng, and Zhuge Qingyun, but I really don't know that there is a person named Gu Long."
Cheng Long's words completely confirmed Lin Xi's speculation, Gu Long became famous in the sixties, and then throughout the seventies it was a well-known golden sign of martial arts novels, especially after Jin Yong finished writing "The Legend of Deer and Ding" and announced the closure of the pen, Gu Long alone carried the banner of the martial arts novel genre, Cheng Long even knew several other martial arts novel authors in Taiwan, but he had never heard of Gu Long, which is enough to prove that Gu Long does not exist in this time and space.
"I used to read a novel in my dad's bookcase, and the author was named Gu Long, maybe he changed careers like you later, so he wasn't very famous...... Having said that, I'm still a little confused, do you really think that being a chef is more promising than being an actor? ”
"Maybe I'll open my own restaurant in the future, but ......" Cheng Long sighed softly and didn't continue, he was immersed in his lost feelings, and didn't notice that this was actually Lin Xi deliberately changing the topic.
"I always feel that you shouldn't give up, you must have dreams, maybe one day you will become an international kung fu superstar like Bruce Lee?"
Lin Xi's words came from the bottom of his heart, but how people in later generations evaluated Cheng Long, his role and achievements in the development of kung fu movies are undeniable.
It's like in the world of martial arts novels, only Jin Yong and no Gu Long will look monotonous, and only Bruce Lee and no Cheng Long in kung fu movies also feels like something is missing.
Maybe the general public in this time and space don't have this feeling, but as Lin Xi, who has traveled through, a similar feeling is particularly strong.
"It's too late to say all this now, it's been almost two years since I changed careers, and I shouldn't be able to go back." Cheng Long shook his head, looking extremely lonely.
Lin Xi didn't say anything more, but he was thinking in his heart: This is not necessarily!
"By the way, Mr. Chen, there's something I want you to help me with."
"Even if I say that as long as I can do it, I will not be ambiguous." After talking for a while and understanding Lin Xi before, Cheng Long felt that he was quite close to this young man, so he made a promise without thinking about it.
"You're sure you can do it." Lin Xi rubbed his hands excitedly, "I'll borrow some money from you, not much, as long as I can help me pay back today's meal, and then at most a month, I will definitely pay you back." ”
"Borrow money?"
Cheng Long's face suddenly showed a smile, it was not that he was stingy, but that he had only known Lin Xi for less than half a day, and he was not even sure whether Lin Xi was Lin Shu's son or not, so if he borrowed money to the other party so rashly, no matter who he was, he would hesitate.
However, Lin Xi's previous appearances made Cheng Long feel that he was unlikely to be a liar, not to mention that he didn't borrow much, compared to Cheng Long's monthly income, it could only be said to be a small amount of money.
In line with the idea of "multiple friends and multiple roads", Cheng Long finally agreed to lend Lin Xi money.
Lin Xi was not ambiguous, and wrote an IOU to Cheng Long on the spot.
Cheng Long said on the surface that there was no need for this, but with the IOU in hand, he felt a lot more relieved.
helped Lin Xi pay the bill, and Cheng Long sent Lin Xi to the door of the restaurant.
Lin Xi walked to the side of the road, stretched out his hand to stop a taxi, and suddenly remembered that he was penniless at the moment, so he had to put his hand down again.
Seeing this, Cheng Long took the initiative to come over and help Lin Xi stop a taxi, and while letting Lin Xi get in the car, he also took the initiative to help him pay the fare.
Looking at Cheng Long, who was smiling and waving his hand outside the car window, Lin Xi smiled at him gratefully, and secretly remembered this favor in his heart.
On the way home, Lin Xi leaned on the back seat without saying a word, thinking about the previous thought in his heart.
After discovering that Gu Long did not exist in this time and space, Lin Xi made up his mind to use his works as his first capital in this era, and it is not difficult to copy these novels according to the fragments in his memory, but the difficulty is how to publish them.
Lin Xi didn't think that if she wrote these novels and sent them to a newspaper casually, she could publish them and be successful.
Not to mention that the body is only sixteen years old now, and the fact that he has written several masterpieces at an age when his peers are still studying makes people doubt that the profundity of Gu Long's works alone cannot be written by a person at the age of sixteen or seventeen.
This has nothing to do with talent, it is mainly determined by life experience.
Because of the relationship between single-parent families, the former owner of Lin Xi's body is indeed precocious, but it is far from being able to write the spiritual realm in Gu Long's novels.
Lin Xi didn't want to be treated as a monster, so Gu Long's works naturally couldn't be published in his name.
Fortunately, Lin Xi also has a father who writes martial arts novels.
If these novels are published in the name of Lin Shu, there will be no problems, and they will be more acceptable to readers, as for the style of the novels, it can be said that Lin Shu is an innovation in the creation of martial arts novels.
Although this reason is also a bit far-fetched, it will inevitably arouse suspicion, but as long as Lin Xi and Lin Shu don't say it, no matter how much outsiders speculate, it is impossible to find any substantive evidence.
The crux of the problem is how to convince Lin Shu.
This is a very headache for Lin Xi, because in the memory of this body, Lin Shu has always been disgusted with other people's ghostwriting, and a publisher once proposed to let others write a novel, and only Lin Shu's final signature can get the money, and it is the majority, but Lin Shu categorically refused without thinking about it.
It can be seen from this incident that Lin Shu is a person who cherishes his feathers very much, and he went directly to Lin Shu and said that it would definitely not work, Lin Xi felt that he had to think of a more ingenious way to do this.