Jiang Yang didn't want to move for the time being.
Another place that reminded Jiang Yang was the purely literary magazine "Qiushi" where Jiang Yang submitted "Order".
Different from the semi-monthly publications of science fiction magazines, the literary magazine "Qiushi" is bimonthly, that is, one issue is published every two months. As a domestic pure literature palace-level publication, its manuscript selection is very strict, and the editors are even big names in the literary world.
No, the authors discovered by the old editor are either strong contenders for international literary awards, or they are big names who have taken textbooks.
Wen Xue is one of the editors.
certainly.
Wen Xue is still far from achieving the achievements of the senior editor above.
As a middle-aged editor in the editorial department, the authors he unearthed were still in the Cenozoic and Mesozoic generations, when they had achieved results or were already somewhat famous, but their fame was still superficial. Wen Xue’s dream was to unearth a literary giant.
.
He has been working hard for it.
but.
He has been a little overwhelmed in recent days.
Due to a family inheritance, his old mother suffered from macular degeneration in the fundus of her eyes, which caused severe vision loss. Now her vision is no more than three meters. In order to see a doctor for his mother, Wen Xue searched for information and asked for leave to take his mother to see a doctor. He was exhausted both physically and mentally.
The condition is now considered stable.
Wen Xue breathed a sigh of relief.
He sat on the subway and checked his phone to see what the writers he was following were doing.
Then, he came across a piece of news about blind people.
Wen Xue:……
This is damn big data.
Just as Wen Xue was about to leave, he suddenly saw Jiang Yang's name.
"Um?"
Wen Xue is strange.
How did Jiang Yang get involved with the blind man?
Wen Xue got to know Jiang Yang.
Although Jiang Yang is only making waves in the circle of genre literature for the time being, the circle is so big that it is difficult for Wen Xue to understand it, not to mention, who has not had a green life that he cannot bear to look back on.
ten years ago.
That is to say, when Wen Xue was still in graduate school, the fifteen-year-old Li Yu had just made his debut. At that time, Wen Xue was chasing a girl. He heard that the girl liked Li Yu, so he spent a lot of money to buy two concert tickets and took the girl with him.
Went to Li Yu’s concert together.
Then--
Wen Xue still remembers the scene of the concert. Li Yu stood on the stage, and the lights of mobile phones in the sky turned into starlight, waiting for her tenderly. All eyes were focused on her. She seemed to have light on her body. Standing on the stage, she was so beautiful that it was breathtaking and breathtaking.
The heart beats wildly, making people fall in love with the song. It makes people want to stay there for just one day, and it feels like it will kill them.
That scene has never faded in Wen Xue’s memory.
Since then, Wen Xue has become a fan of Li Yu. Even on the online barrage of the concert video, when someone said "I don't know which stupid boy will be cheaper in the future", he replied: "I won't do it if I'm young."
clever."
later.
Probably because their common topic was the Big Devil, he became good friends with the girl who went to the concert together.
When they were talking about the big devil, they were still love rivals.
Only they are not a couple.
Later.
He graduated, he worked, he got married.
When Li Yu retired, he felt that his youth was over.
and--
When he heard about Li Yu again, it was that she was married and her husband was Jiang Yang, who wrote a book.
At this time, Wen Xue had long lost the enthusiasm he had ten years ago, and just sighed, it turns out that ten years ago, they were posting comments, and the stupid boy who was crazy and envious in the comment area looked like this.
Now.
Wen Xue looked at the photo, showing Jiang Yang running with a visually impaired person.
His mother is also visually impaired.
Wen Xue was very worried at one time, because his mother was not a person who could stay at home. Even if she couldn't see clearly, she wanted to go out for a walk and bask in the sun, but as a child, she couldn't stay at home forever.
At mother's side.
But I'm not around, and I'm afraid that she will stumble and stumble——
Wen Xue felt warm in his heart when he saw Jiang Yang running and shining while pulling the visually impaired person.
perhaps.
This is the best footnote to youth, just like Li Lei and Han Meimei being together.
Wen Xue smiled and went to look at other tweets.
When he got off the subway, entered the magazine, and just pushed out the editorial department, he heard Old Huang calling: "——Old Chen, your new manuscript is too perfunctory, you think it's you Jiang Yang
, you came here to cheat on manuscript fees."
Wen Xue couldn't help but smile.
Although he had those memories of Jiang Yang, in their editorial department, Jiang Yang was most praised for cheating on manuscript fees.
That's right.
It's called "Rejuvenation".
As the editorial department of a domestic literary palace-level publication, they also pay great attention to international literary magazines. Therefore, when Jiang Yang's "Returning to Youth" was published in a foreign mainstream English literary magazine, their editorial department was surprised and delighted.
Surprisingly, Jiang Yang was published in a well-known foreign English literary magazine without knowing it.
Fortunately, Jiangyang is not only flourishing in genre literature, but also in pure literature.
Then--
Just when they were looking forward to Jiang Yang's article, they saw comments from foreign writers about Jiang Yang's "cheating on manuscript fees."
At first, the people in their editorial department were not convinced.
Although Jiang Yang has never been involved in serious literature, judging from his talent in genre literature, such as children's and science fiction, no matter how bad it is, it is at best a mediocre work, and it is impossible to evaluate it by cheating royalties.
However.
After they saw Jiang Yang's article "Returning to Youth", the colleagues in the editorial department were dumbfounded.
This is a naked fraud on manuscript fees.
This is like after being asked to write, Jiang Yang didn't even think about it, polished the outline of a novel and sent it to a foreign literary magazine. The editorial department of the foreign literary magazine also cheated sales, and actually actually used it.
.
When Wen Xue thought about the difficulties faced by many domestic writers in getting their articles published in foreign magazines, he admired Jiang Yang for his ability to defraud manuscript fees!
actually--
Jiang Yang just didn't know.
If he knew that overseas, Wen Xue was criticized for cheating on manuscript fees, he would be so surprised that he would say, "Holy shit, you all can see it."
As for the short story "Rejuvenation"——
Many people have seen the movie of the same name and know the film's achievements, or know that its author is Fitzgerald, the author of "The Great Gatsby", so they feel that the novel "The Return of Youth" is extraordinary.
but--
Fitzgerald wrote this short story while it was published in a popular entertainment magazine.
His original intention was to earn royalties.
Readers at that time liked to read short stories, and Fitzgerald was very famous, so magazines paid a lot of money to buy short stories like Fitzgerald's. The Gerrards happened to be spending a lot of money at the time, so they had these short stories.
But Gerald himself didn't like this kind of short story.
He said in the letter that the more money I make from the trash I write, the less lazy I am to write.
In order to honor the article, later generations said that these short stories were the discarded products of Gerald's conception of the novel. Therefore, it is not wrong to say that "Rejuvenation" is the outline of a novel.
certainly.
Even if the Big Devil writes ballads, what he writes is the ceiling for many songwriters.
The same goes for Gerrard.
Even though he defrauded the royalties, in a few places in the short story "Rejuvenation", his literary talent could not help but let the words escape from the daily flow of daily life, suddenly bursting out with a fairyland-like brilliance or absurd tone.
so--
Lao Huang took the phone and continued: "——You are so easy to deceive when you are cheating on manuscript fees, you must have Jiang Yang's ability."
After hanging up the phone, Lao Huang said hello to Wen Xue and asked him about his family affairs with concern. Then, he heard the editor-in-chief come out to invite them to a meeting to discuss the appointment of manuscripts for the magazine.