The reason why Shi Zhijian chose "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" as a challenge to the world's literary giants was out of helplessness!
Mainly because the creativity of contemporary literary giants is so strong!
Not to mention that the leader of the martial arts league, Jin Yong, is super capable. In his last life, he dominated the world and unified the martial arts with sixteen novels! Now he is serializing the most classic novel "The Deer and the Cauldron" among his sixteen novels, attracting all the three sects and nine schools in Hong Kong.
Talk about how many wives Wei Xiaobao has!
Just say that the three swordsmen Sima Ling, Wo Longsheng and Zhuge Qingyun are very difficult to deal with!
Sima Ling is currently composing his classic work "The Sword Sea and the Eagle Rising", Wo Longsheng has even produced his masterpiece "Flying Swallows Startled the Dragon", and Zhuge Qingyun is working on "Thunderbolt Rose". These are all from their previous lives.
The most popular work! Just one of them is super awesome! Let alone three of them together?!
At the beginning, Shi Zhijian was prepared with both hands and a loyal heart. He prepared two works, one is "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" and the other is "Looking for the Qin Dynasty".
But after comparing and comparing, I finally chose "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp".
Although "Looking for Qin" is also an epoch-making masterpiece, in this martial arts world full of heroes, it is difficult to stand out by taking the wrong approach!
In contrast, "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" has unparalleled powerful advantages.
First of all, the title of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" alone is very awesome, giving people a weird feeling, which can be said to be a preemptive strike.
Secondly, "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" has a very strong sense of age, especially after Shi Zhijian deliberately "improved" it to tell the story that happened in the "Weng" period. Now it happens to be the early 1970s, and many people who have had personal experiences
Can produce super resonance!
Finally, Hong Kong’s literary world is now all-encompassing, with martial arts, romance, and science fiction flourishing. However, there are not many adventure and tomb-robbery suspense themes like "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", or even none at all! "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" came out to directly fill this gap!
If these are not the strongest reasons, then there is another biggest reason why Shi Zhijian finally chose to publish "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" to fight against the world's literary giants, and that is the rising tide of Western mummies and tomb robbers!
In the 1970s, world cinema began to explore spooky aspects, with a large number of horror movies and tomb-robbery-themed movies, such as "The Mummy" series, directly affecting Hollywood movies, so that the famous "Raiders of the Lost Ark" appeared in the future.
series!
For Shi Zhijian, Chinese culture is vast and profound. Since Hong Kong movies are going to develop, it is better to use "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" as a drug to start the craze for local treasure series movies in advance!
In fact, at this stage, Shaw Brothers are trying, but Shaw Brothers have taken a weird route. Most of the horror movies they shoot are limited to Liao Zhai, zombies, head-dropping and the like! In particular, Nanyang Head-dropping is played with great skill by Shaw Brothers, and the film is
It has produced many popular heavy-flavored movies.
What Shi Zhijian has to do now is to improve the "aesthetic" level of the people of Hong Kong, especially in terms of horror, suspense, tomb robbing and weird themes. He must raise everyone's aesthetic level in one fell swoop!
As for whether it can be successful, it depends on this!
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"It's miserable! It's miserable! Why did I suddenly want to poop while I was working on the manuscript!" Ni Jiang reached for a roll of paper and was about to rush out of the editor-in-chief's office.
At this time, a male editor came over with the manuscript and said: "Editor Ni, President Lu asked me to publish this proofread novel in the 'Fantasy Sword Book Alliance' section. You have a look first!"
"Put it there! Didn't you see that I was about to poop?" Ni Jiang pointed to his desk.
"But President Lu said that this novel is very important and must be reviewed and published immediately!"
"It's so important!" Ni Jiang said impatiently, holding his stomach, "The Fantasy Sword Book Alliance is about to collapse! No one can be saved! If I hadn't used "Wesley" to help support it, it would have collapsed long ago! Is it possible?
What other great figures have written some amazing masterpieces to come to save the world?"
"No! This book is really important! President Lu wants you to review and approve it as soon as possible!" The male editor pulled Ni Jiang's arm and refused to let go.
"Let go! I'm about to shit my pants!" Ni Jiang yelled, "Okay! I'm afraid of you, why can't I take it to the toilet and watch? Let me go!"
Ni Jiang bit the scroll paper in his mouth, picked up the pile of manuscripts at random, and muttered in his mouth, "If this book is so poorly written that it makes me constipated, you are the only one I can ask!"
The male editor stuck out his tongue, looking scared.
Ni Jiang rushed out early and went straight to the bathroom!
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"Pap! Pap! Oh, it feels so comfortable!" Ni Jiang closed his eyes comfortably and squatted on the toilet. At this moment, he felt that the toilet under his butt was closer than his own father!
"I don't know why President Lu is so crazy. He asked me to review this damn manuscript? And he said it can save the world? I believe you! Even a talented person like me can't save "Oriental Daily". How can I write this article?"
Is it okay for people who write books?" Ni Jiang muttered, opening the manuscript when he had nothing to do, and continued to mutter: "If the writing is too bad, don't blame me for being rude, I will wipe your ass directly!"
As he spoke, Ni Jiang's eyes had already fallen on the name of the manuscript---
""Ghost Blows Out the Lamp", uh, what the hell is this? It looks quite evil!" Ni Jiang frowned, "It's a sensational name! Let me see the content introduction first, if it doesn't suit my taste! Make a mark and touch it
The golden talisman, the secret of moving mountains and mountains to find the dragon; people light candles, ghosts blow out lanterns, survey and fight upside down to find the stars and peaks... This poem is very powerful!"
Ni Jiang was stunned, couldn't help but swallow, and continued to read: "The first part of "Jingjue Ancient City", Chapter 1, White Paper Man and Mouse Friend..."
Gradually, Ni Jiang's expression, which was originally disdainful, became serious. The more he looked at him, the weirder his expression became, from solemn to excited, and from excited to excited!
He forgot what he was doing and quickly flipped through the manuscript. At that moment, he felt that the most beautiful thing in the world was to read this fascinating and bizarre tomb robbery novel!
"It's so cool! It's so beautiful!" Ni Jiji didn't know how long he squatted on the toilet. He still felt that he was still unfinished after reading the entire 30,000-word manuscript!
The first thing he felt was that he wanted to find Lu Yawen right away and ask for the remaining manuscripts to read! Because Hu Bayi’s story was so tempting to him, especially since he, like Hu Bayi, had also jumped in and worked as an educated youth.
Grassland, have been to snow mountains!
But Ni Ji immediately remembered that being a human being means sharing blessings!
"Yes! I should recommend this book to the big-headed Gu Long!" Ni Jiang stood up from the toilet without caring much, directly picked up his pants, took the manuscript, and ran out of the toilet, shouting: "Big brain"
Head! Old Bear! Gu Long! Do you think I, as a brother, am loyal enough to introduce good things to you? I guarantee it will be on time!"
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In the deputy editor's office, the big-headed cologne is immersed in climbing the grid!
During this period, many literary figures in Oriental Daily were poached, leaving a mess. Gu Long had to take action to help everyone wipe their butts. He could only continue to compile the stories that would continue to be serialized!
This made Gu Long, who was tired of climbing grids, about to explode. If it weren't for his sense of loyalty that supported him, he would have really wanted to quit! Continue his romantic life, drink and have fun with the dancers, instead of sitting here and "making up for his mistakes."
!
Just when Gu Long was biting his pen and conceiving a martial arts story, he heard Ni Jiji's broken gong voice coming from his ears. Then the door was knocked open by a strong wind, and Ni Jiji ran up to him with his pants in hand.
Gu Long frowned, "You ran to the wrong place, the toilet is over there!"
"No! I just came out of the toilet! Let me introduce some good things to you!" Ni Jiang happily took out the manuscript and handed it to Gu Long, like a child sharing his private collection of lollipops, "Look at it, it's so cool.
of!"
Gu Long frowned and curled his lips: "I'm showing off the story you wrote again? It's so boring! I admit, you are very good at writing science fiction novels, okay? Don't waste my time, I have to rush to finish the manuscript!"
"No! I didn't write this!" Ni Jiang hurriedly explained, "President Lu showed it to me. I thought it was great, so I quickly introduced it to you so you can take a look!"
"Really? Are you so kind-hearted?" Gu Long said, but he took the manuscript handed over by Ni Jiang nonchalantly.
Ni Jiang was rubbing his hands beside him, paying attention to the expression on Gu Long's face.
Gu Long didn't care much at first, but gradually, the expressions on his face became colorful!
Ni Jiang could see it clearly, and his heart was full of pride and pride. He felt that he was Bole, he had discovered a treasure, and he had discovered a rising literary superstar!
Gu Long watched for a while, with an expression of horror written all over his face!
This manuscript is so weird! It’s so suspenseful! It’s full of indescribable imagination! It’s as if a magnificent and magnificent road has opened in front of him! Tell him, it turns out that novels can still be written like this!
"How is it? Isn't it great? I'm fascinated! It's so attractive! If it is published as a serial, it will definitely explode!" Ni Jiang was so excited that he was speechless.
Gu Long immediately reacted, "Who wrote this?"
"Yes, yes, I almost forgot to read the author! President Lu recommended it to me!"
Ni Jiang and Gu Long hurriedly looked at the signature of the novel manuscript, and then they were dumbfounded. You looked at me, and I looked at you.
"This... is a world-famous singer, what kind of ghost is this?!"
"You ask me, who should I ask?"
"Since it was given by President Lu, could it be that this manuscript is——" Ni Jiang and Gu Long looked at each other, and a bold guess came to their minds.
They knew the legend that Shi Zhijian went into seclusion and wrote books!
"No way! Is it A Jian?"
"Kill me, how could it be him?"
Ni Jiang and Gu Long almost hit their heads against the wall!
Even if they were killed, they would not believe that Shi Zhijian could write such an excellent tomb robbing novel!
This is simply a master-level work that created an era. Shi Zhijian completed it in three days? Is it possible?!
Is it Shi Zhijian who is too great, or are they the literati who are too stupid?!
Not to mention Gu Long’s disbelief at this moment, not even Ni Jiang, who always prided himself on being a talented person, didn’t believe it either!
Shi Zhijian writes novels as an amateur, but the novels he writes amaze professional writers like them!
This is so bizarre!
But looking at the actual manuscripts in their hands, their fragile self-esteem felt like they had been hit hard by ten thousand drafts!
Suddenly, Gu Long shrugged his nose with a strange look on his face.
Ni Jiang thought Gu Long had discovered something, and asked quickly: "What's the matter, Old Xiong? Do you think there's something wrong with this manuscript? It can't be written by A Jian, right?"
Gu Long covered his nose with his hand: "No! I think... this place... smells so bad!" Then he looked at Ni Jiang, "I know if you took a shit just now..."
Ni Jiang hurriedly covered his butt: "Oops! I was so excited that I forgot to wipe my butt!"
"pick!"
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Printing press----
"Click" "click" sound!
The "Fantasy Sword Book Alliance" section of "Oriental Daily" has finally published the 30,000-word new novel "Ghost Blowing the Lamp"!
At dawn, newly printed newspapers are distributed and sold to the vendors selling newspapers!
The bookstall owner nicknamed "Lame Dragon" is here to stock up again.
During this period, the newspaper "Ming Pao" sold very well because Jin Yong serialized "The Deer and the Cauldron" on it. Everyone in Hong Kong likes to read Jin Yong's novels!
Lame Dragon is no exception, he also likes to see it! So like many newspaper readers, he did not rush to pay for the newspaper reservation, but took a copy of the Ming Pao serialized novel and leaned against the wall while squatting on the ground to read it.
A few glances.
The others were just like him. They watched with great interest and occasionally talked about it.
"This Wei Xiaobao wants to pick up girls again!"
"Yes, this Princess Jianning is a masochist!"
"But I really like Jianning! Such a woman is so delicious!"
Everyone looked at this guy and collectively raised their middle fingers: "I'll punch your lungs out!"
Lame Dragon hardly participated in the comments when reading the story, but Jin Yong's novel is really attractive.
At this moment, someone said: "Hey, Oriental Daily published a new novel today called "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp"?!"
"This newspaper is about to close down, and it's a shame to publish a serial! Even gods can't save it!"
"No, I think this novel is quite interesting!"
"The title of the book is just weird, but the content is also earth-shattering?"
Everyone laughed contemptuously, yes, who else in Hong Kong can write more novels than Jin Yong? More than many literary giants?
Lame Dragon also smiled, but couldn't help being curious and picked up a copy of "Oriental Daily" which he usually didn't even bother to read or buy.
Most of the sales of newspapers in this era are supported by serialized novels. As long as the serialized novels are exciting and interesting, newspaper sales will skyrocket. If they are too bad, then newspaper sales will definitely collapse!
In the past, "Oriental Daily" had many literary giants joining forces and founded two major sections: Fantasy Sword Book Alliance and Qidian. The series of wonderful martial arts novels attracted everyone's attention, so that that period became the highlight moment of "Oriental Daily".
Sold 30,000 to 40,000 copies!
But no one thought that it would be the last song of "Oriental Daily". With many literary giants leaving, "Oriental Daily" no longer had good novels to serialize, and its sales dropped to nothing!
Lame Dragon also lamented the rise and decline of Oriental Daily, "It was originally a big newspaper that could rival Ming Pao, but it eventually fell before dawn!"
At this moment, Lame Dragon casually opened the newspaper that published "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp" and wanted to take a casual look at it.
But slowly, his eyes were attracted to the story! The story of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" was like a huge whirlpool, attracting all his energy and energy!
No, in addition to Lame Dragon, there are others. At this moment, they are all staring at "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp" as if they were possessed by an evil spirit and cannot move away!
I don't know how long it took before the lame dragon was awakened by the call of his companion, "Lame dragon! Wake up! What's wrong with you? It's time to put in the newspaper! If you don't stock up, it will be dawn!"
With the pat on the shoulder by his companion, the lame dragon woke up from the wonderful story and realized that time had slipped by without knowing it!
Immediately, Lame Dragon made a bold decision: "I will take 300 copies of this "Oriental Daily"!"
"Are you crazy, Lame Dragon? This newspaper is about to close down. The maximum daily sales volume is 3,000 copies. How dare you make 300 copies at once?" The companion was very surprised by Lame Dragon's unusual behavior.
The lame dragon grinned, showing his teeth blackened by cigarette smoke: "Believe me, this newspaper will explode today!"
"Only a ghost can believe you!" His companion looked disdainful, "Even if I get in, I will get into more Ming Pao newspapers!"
