Wenhao: This child has been smart since he was young

Chapter 44: Offer up

The peak period of "Youth Literature and Art" was over 800,000 per issue, but that was in the 1970s and 1980s.

At the beginning of the millennium, the physical publishing industry suffered a severe blow. In the past, a poem published in a magazine would receive countless letters from literary college sisters.

Nowadays, a large part of the halo of writers and poets seems to have been taken away by movie and TV stars.

Of course, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. In the 10s, writers were still a respected profession, and "Youth Literature and Art" maintained a sales volume of around per issue.

Students generally do not buy juvenile literature magazines on their own. After all, most people use their pocket money to buy more interesting reading materials such as Zhiyin Manke, Anime Front, and Dynamic New Force.

To put it more directly, those whose families can afford to subscribe to "Youth Literature and Art" are all from well-off families. For example, Zhang Yudong, Zhou Lin and others, of course, the former's family only subscribed to milk, while the latter also subscribed to "Reader".

Open the contents of this issue.

Reading map of this issue——

[If you are eager to read the main text, you can skip this page. In fact, you will be happy to turn to any page. Especially the fairy tale "Smash the Piglets". The author is a young boy, perhaps the same age as you, but he is very good at thinking and sharply observes the relationships around him, showing us a fable-like story.

Parents educate their children for their own good, but at certain moments, adults cannot understand their children's thoughts. "Smash the Piggy Bank" explains this phenomenon through an ordinary story about a piggy bank.

Who told you to step on my tail?

Readers who like to read humorous and interesting novels must read "Ultraman: Believe in the Light", and if you like "Smash the Pigs", you can also give it to your parents

Wander in the art gallery of novels, essays, documentary channels, poems, etc. carefully prepared for you in this issue, and enjoy the joy of reading!
Okay, see you on the review list!

Recommended by Jian Fangping
Figure · Blue Sound]
Since it is a journal for teenagers, the tone of the introduction is definitely aimed at the students who read the text. To put it more bluntly, the tone is from the students' perspective.

Secondly, there are many pictures throughout the book, and even every article has illustrations. The author of each picture will be marked in the lower left corner.

The illustration of the reading map is a piggy bank in the shape of a pig…

Many middle and high school students remembered Gu Lu, the author of "Smash the Piggy Banks", because they were strongly recommended by the book introduction!

"Is it so beautiful?"

"You can even show it to your parents. Is it true?"

"If it doesn't look good, I'll write the rest."

Some students also developed a little rebellious mentality, as journals have never praised authors like this before.

Xiaoxi, who attends a key junior high school, has similar thoughts. She uses this publication to pass the time because the scale of the physical publication is quite large. For example, it blatantly describes the naive feelings between junior high school students.

[“Don’t worry.” I whispered into its ear, “I will save you.”…]
"Is it well written? What's good about it?" Xiaoxi frowned in confusion. It was a story about a little kid saving a piggy bank?
Besides, Xiaoxi doesn’t like watching “Fruity Robo”.

This magazine has many columns, [Novel Tribe] [Fairy Tale Space] [New Star] [Prose Wind Chime] and so on.

"Smash the Piglets" is in [New Star], and there is only one article in each issue of this column. Xiaoxi still prefers the stories in [Novel Tribe] because they are more narrative.

After a while, Xiaoxi finished reading and prepared to close the door and secretly play on the computer for a while.

"Bang!" Xiaoxi realized that the door could not be closed. Because her parents bought her a computer and worried that she would secretly use it to play games, they changed the door.

Xiaoxi's father, Mr. Li, is a house structural designer. Although he is not an interior decorator, it is child's play for him to fix a bedroom door. Anyway, if the computer is in her room, Xiaoxi will have no private space. She can understand her parents' concerns, but she still has the thought that she should not have had this computer earlier.

"No..." Xiaoxi suddenly seemed to understand something, picked up the "Youth Literature and Art" he had just finished reading, and turned to the two pages about the pig.

I read it again. I don’t know why, but the second time, Xiaoxi felt a strong sense of involvement with the “me” in the story.

Xiaoxi made a decision. When her parents got home from get off work at around seven o'clock, she immediately took "Smash the Piggy Banks" to show them as the guide said.

However, the reaction of the parents was quite different from what Xiaoxi had expected.

"The author of this article, Gu Lu, is also a student? It's amazing that he has published an article in a magazine at such a young age."

"Xiaoxi, you should learn from me too. Others can write such an ordinary story about a piggy bank in such an interesting way, but you can't even write a 600-word essay."

"I subscribed to this magazine so that you can learn how to write articles. Look, Gu Lu is your role model."

"The magazine editors kept praising Gu Lu. I would be so happy if I were this child's parent."

Mr. Li and Mrs. Li gave the child a mixed oral education, while the former took up "Youth Literature and Art" and started reading other content.

The child's mother began to check the homework over the weekend.

The last page is the magazine review form - the "Youth Literature and Art" June award judging.

The questions were quite comprehensive, including the overall feeling about the issue, whether the cover was satisfactory, and favorite columns. It was very comprehensive.

The two more interesting options are [Articles I like] and [Articles I don’t like]. Xiaoxi is not interested in filling this out, but Father Li is quite interested…

Gu Lu didn't know that President Jian's strong recommendation made him a little famous in the youth literature circle. It was no exaggeration to say that President Jian was his mentor.

President Jian also registered "Smash the Piggy Bank" for the "China National Excellent Children's Literature Award", which is held every three years and just happened to be the award for the 2010 to 2012 session.

Even though it is difficult to win the award the first time you apply, President Jian thinks it is good to be nominated.

He was lacking in confidence and still hadn't responded to President Jian's proposal for signing authors. At the moment, Gu Lu only knew that there was a difficult decision before him.

A big thing happened in Class 5.

How old was it exactly? Gu Lu didn't know the details either. It was the monitor Chen Na who called him to inform him that there was something important and he had to be at school at 3:30 in the afternoon.

Gu Lu didn’t have to go to school for Sunday evening self-study, but Chen Na spoke more seriously.

"What's the big deal? He won't tell me even when I ask him. He's pretty tight-lipped." Gu Lu was too lazy to go to school, but was curious about what happened.

"Well, if the letter side is facing up, I'll go, but if the flower side is facing up, I won't go."

Gu Lu took out a fifty-cent coin from the piggy bank. As the coin fell on the back of his hand, the result appeared -

literal.

It turns out that Gu Lu should have found a day to offer up the piggy bank. Not only did it bring him "The Bus Driver Who Wants to Be God", but the coins that "spit out" also gave him the right choice.

(End of this chapter)