"Looking at the introduction, it should be the novel mentioned before."
"This kind of novel that requires special effects can't be adapted into a film or television, right? Special effects are a costly business. No matter how popular Li Qing's novel is, it's impossible to film it. Simple and crude filming will only make people laugh."
"Mojin Xiaowei? I know something about this. It is said that Mojin Xiaowei is a sect of tomb robbers in ancient times. It originated from the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. At that time, Cao Cao established the "Faqiu" in order to make up for the lack of military pay.
The military titles "Zhonglang Jiang" and "Mojin Xiaowei" sound mighty, but in fact, they are specialized in robbing tombs to obtain wealth and supplement military pay... Most archaeologists know that "Mojin Xiaowei" is a common name. After all, tomb robbers and archaeologists are the same.
Naturally opposed to each other, the Han tombs excavated in recent years can be said to be empty out of ten chambers. Archaeological experts are eager to bury the tomb robbers alive. Therefore, there is also a saying in the archaeological circle: Han tomb archeology,
It all depends on luck.”
"When you put it this way, it's very simple and clear. How dare this "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp", with its mysterious introduction, turn out to be a tomb-robbery novel?"
Many people in the venue gradually figured out the taste.
"Looking for the Qin" is a feudal superstition novel, and this "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" seems to be even more exaggerated than "The Story of the Qin". Is this meant to teach readers how to rob tombs?
At this time, as the writer of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", Li Qing walked out from the backstage and stood in the center of the stage.
People who were still talking about it suddenly burst into thunderous applause after seeing Li Qing.
Li Qing was wearing white sneakers, ripped jeans, and a black sweater, looking like an ordinary college student, smiling and waving to everyone.
He held a few small cards in his hand. When the audience's applause gradually subsided, he glanced at the small cards and began to say: "Many people may not understand the meaning of ghost blowing lanterns. I will explain it briefly here. Ghost blows lanterns."
, also called a life lamp, this is a term given by a tomb robber sect in the novel: when a tomb robber enters the tomb, according to ancient legends, a candle must be lit in the southeast corner of the tomb.
If the candles in the tomb suddenly go out, it means that the owner of the tomb is dissatisfied with your action of taking things and reminds you to put them down.
At this time, the tomb robber must immediately put the things back where they came from, kowtow three times, and retreat in order to save his life.
But in fact, this is just a superstition. The scientific explanation is very simple. It is because there is insufficient oxygen, or the corpses or toxic objects in the tomb suddenly change. This change will cause the air quality to change, and the fire will be extinguished.
At this time, people must exit quickly to avoid gas poisoning.
In the past society, science was underdeveloped, so it could only be explained by the so-called "ghost blowing out the light".
Because the expression of human beings suffocating due to lack of oxygen is exactly the same as what people imagine when they are strangled to death by ghosts."
Li Qing was quite pleased to see people listening attentively. This was a good sign.
"It is fundamentally different from "Looking for Qin". "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" is a contemporary suspense novel. This novel has a total of eight volumes and a total of almost two million words. Currently, due to my limited time, I have not completed it...
…”
When Li Qing said these words in an understatement, the entire audience who was listening attentively went into an uproar.
Dare you put it out for bidding on the auction before you finish writing it?
Among so many famous contemporary writers, Li Qing is probably the only one who is so willful.
"It's not finished yet, but it doesn't hinder readers' reading. As I said just now, I divided "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp" into eight volumes. At present, almost three volumes have been completed. What I want to release today is, "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp"
The first volume of "Blowing the Lamp: The Ancient City of Ghost Blowing Lamps"."
Li Qing said with a smile: "This is a brand new subject. It cannot be said to be unprecedented, but it is definitely unprecedented. I personally have absolute confidence in this work, but I know that I do not represent everyone, so I
I want to take out the first volume of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" to test the waters first..."
"This is really difficult to handle!
In the audience, Fang Sihai, the editor-in-chief of Tang Dynasty Publishing House, turned his head and frowned at Wu Shaobo: "The word "ghost blows the lamp" makes people feel excited. We have only released the first volume..."
Wu Shaobo was the editor-in-chief of the Tang Dynasty Publishing House who originally denounced "Looking for Qin" as a product of feudal superstition. He and Fang Sihai had different ideas. Because of the painful lessons of "Looking for Qin", he felt that Li Qing's second work must be
Take it.
Or, it proves that Li Qing is really a genius writer and that he was indeed stupid at first, but "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" became a hit, and he can also share the credit.
Or, "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" hits the market. Although he will take the blame, Li Qing's reputation as a genius writer will also be ruined.
Of course, Wu Shaobo still hopes that "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" will be a big seller. After all, with the channels and support of Tang Dynasty Publishing House, as long as the work is not too bad, it will basically not be too popular.
"Although the Ministry of Culture's inspection of books on feudal superstition has decreased, it does not mean that they do not exist. According to Li Qing, "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" is a novel about tomb robbers... It must be nothing for tomb robbers to rob tombs.
It's nice to see, there might be some kind of ghost or monster in it..." Fang Sihai frowned, with obvious confusion on his face.
Although he said this on the surface, in fact he didn't pay much attention to this regulation of the Ministry of Culture. He was worried that the content of Li Qing's novel was poor.
Because from Li Qing's tone, it was not difficult for Fang Sihai to guess that "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp" was a last-minute work by Li Qing.
Such a work, only a third of it is completed, and yet you dare to sell it
If the other party was not Li Qing, who had a huge reputation, there was no guarantee that Fang Sihai would not jump up and scold him.
"It's just the first volume, so the price shouldn't be very high. With Li Qing's current reputation, I think... we won't lose money anyway, right?" Wu Shaobo said with a smile.
Fang Sihai nodded slightly, and finally decided to accept Wu Shaobo's suggestion and acquire the publishing rights for "Ghost Blowing the Lamp".
The Tang Dynasty Publishing House's market is all in the mainland, so it only needs Simplified Chinese copyright.
In the mainland, Tang Dynasty Publishing House is the leading industry leader and has a natural advantage in bidding.
Fang Sihai is 90% confident that he can get the simplified copyright of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp".
His idea is good, but the reality is cruel.
The first volume of "Ghost Blowing Lamp: The Wonderful Ancient City" only has less than 250,000 words, but host Xu Wen's quotation has already made Fang Sihai tremble.
When the royalty rate in the market is generally 3% to 10%, Hanhai dares to ask for 15%!
In other words, every time the publishing house sells a copy of "Jingjue Ancient City", Hanhai will take 15% of the profit from it!
This is still a guaranteed price!
This price is barely acceptable, but what makes people want to yell is still behind...
When Xu Wen said that the Chinese Simplified and Traditional Chinese copyrights of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" were not divided into different families, and 15% was used as the overall package price, publishers from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and the Mainland reacted and almost cried out.
Just sprayed it out.
The smiles on the faces of Fang Sihai, editor-in-chief of Tang Dynasty Publishing House, and Wang Yong, chairman of Hong Kong Culture Publishing House, who were originally full of confidence and seemed to have pearls of wisdom, suddenly stiffened.