From Sunday to Tuesday, Chen Muwu spent three days and finally finished the first chapter of "Shooting the Condor".

Looking at the heavy manuscript in his hand, a difficult problem appeared in front of his eyes, that is, where to put this novel in?

If it is a physics paper, Chen Muwu can still treasure the current physics journals.

But this is a martial arts novel, and his limited knowledge reserve is somewhat lacking.

Like "The Legend of Jianghu", cast on the "Red Magazine" of the Qianhai World Book Company?

Regardless of the fact that the manuscript is sent by post, there is a risk of being lost on the way from Shaojing to Yanhai.

It's just that it takes three or four days on this mail route, plus the editing and review, typesetting and publishing, and it is estimated that it will take more than a month before he can get the manuscript fee for this first chapter.

The same is true for "Novel Monthly", not only is the editorial department also far away from the Commercial Press, but since the change of editor two or three years ago, this magazine has also changed from a simple Mandarin Duck and Butterfly novel publication to a new culture and new literature, and popular novels such as "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" may not be able to enter their eyes.

This is very inconsistent with Chen Muwu's need to make quick money, more than a month, he has already returned to the sea, wouldn't it be faster to get money directly from home?

What if it is not serialized in newspapers and magazines, like "The Legend of Wonder Heroes", and directly finds a bookstore to publish and distribute it?

It is also not very feasible, because it also takes a long time for the bookstore to go from proofreading and typesetting to publishing.

Moreover, Chen Muwu's current manuscript volume is only less than 30,000 words, which is far from meeting the word count requirement for a book.

Then the only way left is to serialize it in the local newspaper in Shaojing.

It's just that Chen Muwu didn't read much newspapers at his home in Qihai, and after coming to Shaojing, he only bought a copy of "Morning News" from a newsboy on the side of the road on the day Cai Yuanpei resigned.

He didn't know which newspaper in Shao Jing had the largest circulation and paid a lot of money.

So on this day, Chen Muwu played a trick and specially borrowed the newspapers of the last few days from the Ma family, saying that he wanted to read the news.

Ma Yuzao's wife, Chen Dexin, took out a stack of newspapers, he went back to the house and flipped through them, and all of them were "Morning News".

Seeing this name, Chen Muwu was suddenly awakened as if he was being poured cold water.

The newspaper "Morning Post" may not be so famous, but the name of its supplement, "Morning Post Supplement", is like thunder.

In the Chinese textbooks from elementary school to high school, countless classic texts are from the supplement of this newspaper, such as "Stars and Spring Water", "Sending Young Readers", and of course, the famous "The True Story of Ah Q".

Chen Muwu didn't expect to be able to catch up with Mr. Lu Xun's literary attainments, but Xie Wanying, who was the same age as herself, began to publish some philosophical sentences imitating Tagore in the "Morning Post Supplement" a few years ago to earn manuscript fees.

She can, can't she herself?

Maybe "Morning Post Supplement" is really a good choice?

Just do it, Chen Muwu took the manuscript and went straight to the editorial office of the "Morning Post" in the Prime Minister's Hutong at Caishikou.

The person who received Chen Muwu was Sun Fuyuan, the editor-in-chief of the "Morning Post Supplement" and the "King of the People's Supplement" who appeared in Mr. Lu Xun's diary and letters many times.

On the lintel of his office hung a sign that read "Editorial Department of the Morning Post", and yes, "Supplement" is just a common name for people, and "Vice" is the real name of the newspaper.

There is only one desk in the huge office, and Sun Fuyuan is in charge of this supplement from draft selection to review.

He took the manuscript handed by Chen Muwu and read the words on it carefully.

Seeing that his two eyebrows gradually moved closer to the middle, Chen Muwu muttered in his heart, could it be because he was lazy for a while and wrote too many simplified characters, so that the editor couldn't understand it?

In fact, his worries are completely unnecessary, most of the simplified characters are a variant of calligraphy, and now people's cultural cultivation is very high, how can there be no reason not to understand!

Sun Fuyuan's browsing speed is ten lines at a glance, and what Chen Muwu writes is also a popular novel, so he doesn't need to taste it word by word.

After a while, he finished reading the last piece of paper in his hand, and after knocking the manuscript neatly on his desk, he returned it to Chen Muwu: "Sir, I'm sorry, I'm afraid that our "Morning Post Sub-Engraver" will not be able to publish this masterpiece of yours. ”

"Huh? Can I ask if there is something wrong with this novel? Chen Muwu couldn't figure it out.

"Not really. The writing of your novel is very smooth and the conception is very exquisite, but the content is still old-school literature, which emphasizes chivalry and righteousness, which does not quite meet the requirements of our supplement, which is mainly for new literature. ”

Yes, it's new literature.

Chen Muwu only thought that the articles of Lu Xun Bingxin and others were published in this newspaper, but he didn't want to think about why their articles could be published on it.

Seeing that the young man who came to submit the article looked a little lost, Sun Fuyuan kindly comforted: "This gentleman, if you are rejected, you don't have to be so sluggish, we are not the only newspaper in the whole city, I can recommend you to try your luck in another newspaper." My classmate Cheng She, who works as an editor in the Shaojing branch of Tianyi's Yishi Daily, and their newspaper's supplement, "Yizhi Zong", is more aimed at the general public, so I will write a note that you can take this manuscript and try your luck with them. ”

Chen Muwu thought to himself, so he had no choice but to do so, so he nodded: "Then thank you." ”

After coming out of the editorial office of "Morning Post", he took the manuscript and the note written by Sun Fuyuan, and ran to the editorial office of "Yishi Bao" outside Xuanwu Gate.

Coincidentally, the Cheng She I wrote on Sun Fuyuan's note went out to interview and run the news today, and I was not in the editorial department.

The person who received Chen Muwu was an editor named Zhang Xinyuan.

After reading the manuscript, Editor Zhang was full of praise for this work.

"Sir, your masterpiece has good content and good pen power, which is different from the common martial arts novels on the market, and our "Yishi Bao" lacks such a good draft. I think if it is published in the newspaper, it will definitely lead to a lot of sales growth. It's just that," Zhang Xinyuan changed his words, "I don't have the final say on what is published in the newspaper." How about you please leave your contact information and wait for the editor-in-chief to come back, and then we will contact you? ”

"I would like to ask, if it is published in your newspaper, how should the manuscript fee be calculated?"

"Generally, articles are two or three oceans of 1,000 words, but please rest assured, I will definitely try my best to fight for your masterpiece to the editor-in-chief, and I should be able to add another one or two pieces."

Hearing this offer, there was a bit of a gap with Chen Muwu's expectations, how could "The Legend of Jianghu" be ten yuan per thousand words, but when it came to himself, it would become three to five yuan per thousand words?

But no matter how small the mosquito's legs are, they are still meat, and their 28,000 words can be exchanged for more than 100 oceans, and they will be able to rescue another national treasure this Sunday.

So he wrote down the phone number and address of the Ma family on the paper provided by the newspaper.

"Yao Fulan?" Zhang Xinyuan stared at Chen Muwu suspiciously.

"This ...... This is one of my sisters, and she didn't want to show her face, so she asked me to do it for me. ”

Where did he have a sister, it was just a tribute.

Besides, walking the rivers and lakes, who can't prepare a few more vests to defend themselves!

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Thursday, January 25, 1923, 2 p.m.

Chen Muwu opened the first lecture of the Shao Jing lecture in the auditorium of the Second Courtyard of Shao University in the Mashenmiao Second Courtyard of Jingshan East Street, entitled "Relativity and Space".