It is early March, and spring is warm and cold. In the past two days, there is a snowfall in the late spring. Yanjing City is shrouded in a snowy area.

But Xia Hongjun's heart was full of passion, and the "Youth" that had been prepared for almost a year was finally completed.

From preparing for simple plagiarism to finally abandoning the original idea, looking for a unique way, looking for various information, reading Meili's letters, writing and revising, finally completing the novel.

The book is about 100,000 words shorter than the original novel, and the time span is not that big. It only took ten years from the mid-1970s to the present, and most of the time was written in the early 1980s, which was the most intense stage of this war.

In a sense, this is a novel that reflects war, but it is mostly described from the side. As for whether it can be seen by the editor, Xia Hongjun is actually not sure, so he will send it out first before talking about it.

A week after sending the manuscript, Xia Hongjun received a call from Editor-in-Chief Wei of Contemporary Magazine, asking him to come to the editorial office to talk about the book.

Today is Friday, the weather is gradually warming up, the snow on the ground has melted, and the whole city of Yanjing looks a bit muddy. After dinner, Xia Hongjun carried a yellow bag and braved the chilly spring breeze, he rode his bicycle to the "Contemporary" magazine located near Chaoyangmen.

When he arrived at Editor Wei's office, the other party was very enthusiastic about pouring him a cup of warm tea. When he talked about this novel, Editor Wei's expression became serious and said, "Xiao Xia, you are a literary person. You should know what type of novel is the most popular at present."

"Pioneer Novel." Xia Hongjun replied lightly.

"Yes! Pioneer novels, such as Liu Sola's "You Have No Choice", Ma Yuan's "The Temptation of Gundes", Liu Xihong's "You Can't Change Me" and Mo Yan's "Transparent Carrots".

"Their common characteristic is that they focus on the pursuit of individual subjects, and the establishment of historical consciousness has become weaker. They attach importance to "stylistic consciousness, that is, the "fictionality" of novels and the meaning of "narration" in novel methods."

Speaking of this, Editor-in-Chief Wei paused and looked at Xia Hongjun: "Although your novel has escaped the shadow of scar literature that has been popular in the past few years, although it is beautiful in terms of writing, it is still a traditional narrative technique and a realistic work."

That's true. Xia Hongjun nodded, and Editor-in-Chief Wei was not wrong.

"So... from the bottom of my heart I don't like this novel."

Editor-in-chief Wei's words were very frank. Xia Hongjun was not surprised but he was already prepared. Instead, he smiled and said, "Then... Editor-in-chief Wei, are you rejecting the manuscript?"

"No," Editor-in-Chief Wei shook his head: "Although this book seems a bit old, its overall level is quite high and has certain literary value. So after careful discussion, our editorial department finally decided to publish it and print 20,000 copies first."

Xia Hongjun did not know whether the quality of the book itself is really important or considering giving him face in Editor Wei's words, but he knew that only 20,000 copies were printed for the first time. In the words of later generations, it was just an editor who signed a contract, but he probably would fail.

"Thank you, Editor Wei." Xia Hongjun stood up: "I'm the author of the quality of this book, but I believe that I will never sell only 20,000 copies."

"Haha, Xiaoxia, you are very confident in the market prospects of your book." Editor-in-chief Wei said with a smile.

certainly!

Because he knew that in 1986, a song that was popular all over the country to praise heroes was about to be born, and that was "Bloody Style"!

This song, along with the fighting hero Xu Liang, who sang this song, immediately became an idol in the minds of the people of the whole country.

Xia Hongjun remembers that this year, it seems that two books, "Bloody Style: Xu Liang's Choice" and "Bloody Style: The Life Revelation of the First Class Meaning Xu Liang" were published simultaneously; "Bloody Style" starring him was broadcast, and he won the title of "Top Ten Chinese TV Actors".

A wave of learning heroes has set off nationwide. "Youth" has only sold 20,000 copies with this east wind?

impossible!

But these Xia Hongjun said it because all this has not happened yet.

He just smiled and didn't speak.

After signing the contract, Xia Hongjun said goodbye and left, riding his bicycle on the muddy street outside Chaoyang Gate, and he was not calm.

Anyway, this novel has been published.

Compared with the bumpy road I experienced when I published "Ordinary World", I was much lucky.

By the way, it seems that the first part of "Ordinary World" was released this year, right? I wonder how Lu Yao wrote in Anxi, far away?

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Anxi, Provincial Writers Association.

Anxi is still very cold in March, and the sky is also gray, but the small conference room on the second floor of the Writers Association seems steaming, with smoke, and seven or eight people sitting chatting and laughing. These are editors from magazines from all over the country. They rushed to Anxi for one purpose: the first step of the novel "Ordinary World" by Lu Yao, vice chairman of the Xiling Provincial Writers Association, is about to be published, and they are here to make an appointment!

This kind of honor can only be enjoyed by great writers like Lu Yao who have written excellent novellas such as "Life" and "In Difficult Days".

You should know that the novel "Life" won the second National Outstanding Novella Award. After being adapted into a movie of the same name, it won the Best Feature Film Award at the 8th Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award, which caused a sensation across the country.

The love story between the protagonists of the novel Gao Jialin and Liu Qiaozhen once caused a big discussion among young people across the country, and influenced the love view of a large number of young people.

The novella is so excellent. I wonder what level is Lu Yao who hid in Ganquan County Guesthouse for three years and forgot to eat and sleep?

People are looking forward to it.

Lu Yao appeared, his face was very poor and he showed a pathological sallow yellow, but his smile looked very energetic. He smiled and greeted the editors, and then asked the staff to distribute the first manuscript of "Ordinary World" he had written to everyone.

This was made by him with his own money to find a printing factory, and it also emitted the fragrance of ink.

The editors got the manuscript and couldn't wait to look. The small conference room suddenly became quiet and there was only the rustling sound of flipping books.

Lu Yao sat aside and felt a slight pain in his lower abdomen, but he had already gotten used to it so he didn't care. He looked at everyone reading seriously, hoping to give a good evaluation.

In addition, although so many magazine editors have come, he has already thought about it. He is going to submit his articles to the first-class domestic magazine "Contemporary" - he has published his novel "The Thrilling Scene" or "Harvest" and published his "Life".

After reading it for about half an hour, a buzz began to appear in the conference room again, which was the editors talking to each other about their opinions on the book.

Without the chatting and laughing just now, the editors all looked a little serious, and Lu Yao's heart suddenly became a little nervous.

More than an hour later, an editor stood up. Lu Yao knew him, and he was the deputy editor-in-chief of Contemporary magazine, with his surname Zhou.
Chapter completed!