Zhuang Yu did not start writing, but first searched several literary websites to see what good works had appeared recently.
He put the two websites "Agitation Literature" and "Harvest Literature" at the end because he always likes to put good things at the back.
These two websites are also the ones that publish more traditional literary works among current literary websites and have relatively large traffic.
Of course, the traffic of the latter is definitely not comparable to that of the former.
First, he read "Agitation Literature", but after reading it for a while, he was quite disappointed. Maybe it was because the "Fifth Grade Vegetative" detective novel was so popular some time ago, so now there are a lot of follow-up works on the website.
"Well, today's literary workers are extremely impetuous, and everyone is eager to become famous."
Zhuang Yu sighed. In fact, he did not object to the author becoming famous. No matter who he is, it is human nature to want fame and gain, but the way to become famous is open to question.
After browsing around the agitation literature, he clicked on the Harvest Literature website.
Fortunately, at least the trend of detective novels has not spread to Harvest Literature. However, compared with agitation literature, Harvest Literature has much fewer works.
He saw a book recommended on the homepage called "Wives and Concubines". When he saw the title, he skipped it.
But after looking around, he saw the introduction to the book again.
"Reproduce the horrific scene of Chinese feudal ethics devouring human nature?"
Zhuang Yu became a little interested.
He decided to click on the book to see if the introduction was an exaggeration.
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The next day, Zhang Zhong saw a new update from Zhuang Yu on Weiyu.
Previously, because everyone speculated that the fifth-grade vegetative person was Zhuang Yu's trumpet, Zhang Zhong paid attention to him.
This development has nothing to do with fifth grade vegetative state, but it is very related to Zhang Zhong.
“When the autumn rain fills the window and the fragrance is gone, there will be resentment that is hard to put down.”
The dynamic of Zhuang Yu is like a prose poem. If you only read the title and the first part, you would have thought it was a new work by Zhuang Yu. But when you read the back part, you realize that it turned out that Zhuang Yu said a lot, and Zhuang Yu just wanted to recommend this book to everyone.
Book.
"I don't know if the author Su Ai is a woman, but this work does start from women themselves and tells the tragedy of women. The story of Songlian reminds me of my childhood..."
In this article by Zhuang Yu, in addition to admiring "Wives and Concubines", he also talks about "root-seeking literature".
In fact, the term "root-seeking literature" was proposed by Zhuang Yu. Thirty years ago, Zhuang Yu wrote an essay and said: Literature has roots, and the roots of literature should be deeply rooted in the cultural soil of national tradition.
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He also proposed that while being based on reality, we should transcend the real world to explain some of the mysteries that determine national development and human survival.
And this book "Wives and Concubines" is exactly in line with the "root-seeking literature" proposed by him. This book seems to be the story of a man and several women, a tragedy of women, but it digs out the memories of that era.
Although Zhuang Yu is not limited to root-seeking, he still wants to applaud this "root-seeking".
When netizens were asking what "Wives and Concubines" was and who Su Ai was, Zhang Zhong sat in front of the computer and scratched his head.
Things in the world are always so strange. When he published his first novel "Jieyou Grocery Store", the pen name of Fifth Grade Vegetative Man was connected with Zhuang Yu.
But he didn't expect that now that Su Ai was in contact with Zhuang Yu again, this literary giant would directly stand up and support "Honeys and Concubines".
Zhang Zhong’s first thought was that it was marketed by Harvest Literature, but then he gave up the idea. If a website like Harvest Literature had such energy, would it still be suppressed by other websites?
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"What's going on?"
Fang Qing was sitting in her office, looking at the news posted by Zhuang Yu, feeling a little unbelievable. Has their website been copied by Zhuang Yu?
In fact, it was Su Ai's "Wives and Concubines" that was copied by Zhuang Yu, but Fang Qing had ignored these details. Su Ai is the writer of their website, so what's the difference between his being copied and their website being copied?
What?
Boom, boom, boom.
Someone knocked on the door.
"Come in."
Fang Qing shouted, and Lin Ping opened the door and came in.
Lin Ping's face was full of surprise and excitement, "Editor Fang, I just watched the backstage and the click-through rate of "Wives and Concubines" suddenly increased a lot. It seems that this wave of recommendations is very effective."
Fang Qing smiled and said, "Then did you read the comments below?"
"Comments?" Lin Ping shook her head. She could only see the data of clicks and subscriptions in the background. If she wanted to see comments, she needed to go to the main website to find them.
"Then go and take a look. Our website doesn't have such a traffic-draining effect."
???
Lin Ping's head was filled with question marks, and she still didn't know what the situation was.
After returning to her seat, opening the main website and finding "Wives and Concubines", Lin Ping finally understood why Editor Fang was smiling so weirdly.
[Zhuang Yu is here to help you, as always, comment first, then read the book.]
[Niubi, is it okay if Zhuangda turns over your brand?]
[The title of this book makes people think it is pornographic.]
[Can anyone who has read it tell me whether this book is really as good as Zhuang Da said?]
【……】
[Just because of this name, I definitely have to read it.]
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After reading the comments, Lin Ping read Zhuang Yu's whispers based on everyone's comments. After reading it, she finally understood the whole story.
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Because of Zhuang Yu's Amway, the name Su Ai and the book "Wives and Concubines" have successfully entered the public eye.
Zhang Zhong could only secretly regret that if this had happened before he signed the contract with Harvest Literature, the contract terms would have been completely different.
Unlike Zhang Zhong's regret, Fang Qing was secretly glad that she had signed the copyright earlier, otherwise it would have been much more difficult to sign it now.
At the same time, in order to cooperate with Zhuang Yu's publicity, the website also temporarily moved "Wives and Concubines" from the second-level promotion to the best recommendation position, so that those netizens who come here will be able to see this book as soon as they enter the website.
Book.
And he also added a sentence in the introduction to let out the news that the book will be published next month.
Of course, the previously decided plan to first print 100,000 copies also changed because of this incident. Fang Qing raised the 100,000 copies to 500,000 copies with a wave of her hand. She didn't believe it. With Zhuang Yu's news
, "Honey and Concubines" couldn't even sell 500,000 copies.
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Zhang Zhong didn't pay much attention to this matter because New Year's Eve was approaching and he had already started preparing new year's goods.
This time we went out to buy New Year's goods. In addition to their family of four, there were Wu Aiying, mother and daughter, five adults and one child. Zhang Zhong's car could just fit it all in.