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Chapter 26 Writing in the Republic of China (25)

"The Last Person Who Doesn't Take Drugs" will be a short story, with a total of about 50,000 to 60,000 words. Although the content is short, Le Jing has to consider the sentences more carefully, and the difficulty of writing is much higher than that of "The Rise of Dynasties".

After all, the direction he set for "The Rise of Dynasties" is popular literature, and its audience is the middle and lower classes. Therefore, in order to fit the knowledge level of the general audience, Le Jing does not need to consider the sentences too much. The more elementary school students write, the better, so that the work can be spread among the market. Moreover, the content of "The Rise of Dynasties" is a simple and rough refreshing route. There are countless such routine articles in later generations. Le Jing only needs to put some "private goods" in it.

Le Jing also does not intend to use superb writing skills and gorgeous words in "The Last Person Who Doesn't Take Drugs". The content of this article must be down-to-earth enough to be widely spread among the people, so that the people can truly realize the harm of opium.

However, the reason why Le Jing thinks "The Last Person Who Doesn't Take Drugs" is difficult to write is that this article requires higher writing skills. He must think about how to make the satire in the article humorous and easy to understand, and also make readers think. If the article is just for readers to laugh at, then this article is a failure.

Le Jing thought a lot, and listed several versions of the outline alone. However, he considered everything, but forgot to consider the poor physical fitness of this body.

He now has two serials in his hands, one is the weekly serial "Rat Eyes Look Down on People" written under the pen name of Night Watchman, and the other is Lin Zhongqi's daily serial "Dynasty Rise". The former needs to write 4,000 to 5,000 words a week (this is because he reduced the number of words updated in order to serialize "Dynasty Rise"), and the latter needs at least 3,000 words a day, which means he has to write almost 30,000 words a week.

Under such heavy update pressure, Le Jing started writing a new novel "The Last Person Who Doesn't Take Drugs" again. Although this novel is a short story, it cannot be finished without 30,000 to 50,000 words. Such an intense updating task is a bit strenuous for a healthy person, not to mention that Le Jing is now a heavy smoker who has been drained of his body by alcohol and sex.

So after Le Jing stayed up all night twice to finish the manuscript, he fell ill as expected.

In the dog days of summer, he lay in bed, covered with a quilt, wrapped like a woman in confinement, his face was red and his whole body was sweating.

The doctor he invited was the old Chinese doctor who had said before that Le Jing's "wisdom will hurt him". He couldn't help but sigh as soon as he finished taking Le Jing's pulse, and said bluntly: "I don't know where you have so many worries at such a young age. If you continue like this, I'm afraid it will affect your life span." He shook his head and sighed: "You got sick this time because of the stagnation of qi in your heart, which dried up your essence and blood, causing the wind demon to enter your body, and then you got this heat cold. This time I gave you a prescription to calm your mind and relieve your anger, but it's just treating the disease but not the root cause. Doctors don't treat the heart, so it depends on you to think positively."

Le Jing:...

Okay, now he has really become Qingwen in Dream of Red Mansions, who has "a heart higher than the sky and a life thinner than paper".

Unexpectedly, when he traveled through time, he didn't get the script of Long Aotian, who was in high spirits, but Qingwen's script, which was really frustrating.

Although he was unwilling in his heart, Le Jing could only suspend all the serials in his hands and start his own recuperation career. A certain big boss said that the body is the capital of revolution. He still has a lot of things he wants to do, but he doesn't want to die early.

Fortunately, he still had some manuscripts saved for "The Rise of Dynasties", but he had to put "The Rat Eyes Look Down on People" on hold for the time being.

So when Yang Jinglun, the editor of the Astronomical Journal, came to collect the manuscripts as usual, he saw Mr. Li lying on the bed covered with a quilt and looking sick in the dog days of summer. He was shocked, "Are you sick, sir? Have you seen a doctor? What did the doctor say?"

Le Jing coughed and wanted to sit up, but was stopped by Yang Jinglun, "Sir, lie down quickly, don't get up, your health is more important now."

So Le Jing lay on the bed, hoarsely smiled and replied, "The doctor said it was a heat cold, and asked me to take good care of myself. I'm really sorry that you made a wasted trip. I'm afraid that "The Rat Eyes Look Down on People" will have to be published recently."

Yang Jinglun hurriedly said, "What are you talking about, sir? Of course, your health is more important than the article. For now, don't worry about the novel, and make sure to take good care of your illness."

After returning to the editorial office, Yang Jinglun went to the editor-in-chief's office and told the editor-in-chief that the night watchman had to be published due to sick leave. The editor-in-chief was not an unreasonable person, and he immediately said: "You let Mr. Li take good care of his illness, and it's not too late to put the serialization on hold. Write a leave note and put it in the next issue of the newspaper."

Yang Jinglun nodded, and couldn't help but think of Mr. Li's pale sick face, and sighed in his heart. He is so young and his health is so poor. Is it really because God is jealous of his talent? Bah, bah, bah, what is he thinking! A talented person like Mr. Li will definitely live a hundred years!

So the next day, many readers who followed the serialization of "Rat Eyes Look Down on People" found the leave note in the "Literature Newspaper". The leave note said that because Mr. Night Watchman was ill, the recent serialization had to be suspended. This leave note with only a few dozen words caused a nuclear and bomb-level shock among readers, and countless readers wrote to the editorial department at once.

"What disease do you have? Is it serious?"

"I know a famous doctor, I can introduce him to you!"

"Please tell me your home address, I have a secret recipe passed down from my ancestors that can cure you!"

These letters were just concerns about the night watchman's physical condition and were relatively reasonable. Yang Jinglun had also received some unreasonable letters from readers that left him speechless and choked.

"Your newspaper must have bullied my husband!"

"The unscrupulous newspaper company slaved my husband to write articles in order to make money. It's all your fault that he fell ill!"

"Where did your newspaper hide Mr. Night Watchman? Let me tell you, it is illegal for you to put the author under house arrest! You must give me your husband's address, and I will personally confirm whether he is safe now!"

Yang Jinglun was choked by these letters. Did the readers who said their newspaper bullied the Night Watchman have forgotten how Mr. Night Watchman wrote an article scolding Nantang a few days ago?

And their newspaper office enslaved the night watchmen to write articles... Yang Jinglun twitched the corners of his mouth, almost wanting to grab the reader's collar to make him wake up. You see clearly, your husband is updated every week! And if you only write four to five thousand words each time, if this is called writing desperately, how can you make those authors who work hard and update every day feel embarrassed?

As for the claim that they put the author under house arrest, Yang Jinglun said that the literary newspaper will not bear the blame! It is obvious that Mr. Li has a low-key personality and does not like to be famous, and their newspaper office also does things according to his instructions. How come in the eyes of this reader, they have placed the author under house arrest for evil intentions? They are really more unjust than Dou E!

Yang Jinglun didn't know that in later generations there was a special term to describe the "blind" behavior of these readers, called "fan filter".

Under the "fan filter", fans see their idol as the last white lotus flower in the universe that emerges from the mud and remains unstained, a weak and innocent little cutie. With their idol, they have both iron armor and Their weakness is that they can fight for their idols, and they can wear dozens of vests and build buildings to fight. Compared with those fans of later generations, the readers of the Republic of China simply sent a few threatening letters to his younger brother who did not deserve a name at all.

What Yang Jinglun, a young boy, also didn't know was that many prostitutes in the Bada Hutong were crying as if they were bereaved at the news of the night watchman's illness.

Although many men say, "Bitches are ruthless, actors are ruthless." Have those men ever thought about why bitches are ruthless to them? It's just because they are equally ruthless towards bitches. The famous prostitute Sai Jinhua was kind and righteous, but she finally died in poverty in the Bada Hutong. Xiao Fengxian was kind and righteous, but why did she have such a bad fate and be homeless for half her life?

Of course, bitches also have feelings, but they only give it to the right person. The Night Watchman is undoubtedly such a suitable target.

As a man, he did not despise these prostitutes for being despicable. Instead, he wrote many articles in newspapers to express his voice for these bitches and speak for them.

Although many of them are illiterate, they have ears and their hearts are literate! They understand who is really good to them and the one who makes decisions for them!

Every word in Mr. Night Watchman's article contains concern and sympathy for them. His article is emotional! This emotion was so pure, gentle, and beautiful, and it made these women living in the cold hell feel the warmth of being cared for for the first time.

The Night Watchman lets them know that the men in this world are not hypocritical, cruel, lustful people, but gentle, kind, and upright good people like Mr. Night Watchman! How can this not make them worship the night watchman crazily and fall in love with the night watchman?

Now that I hear the news that the only good man in the world is sick, the prostitutes have cried so much that their veils are wet. I don’t know how many prostitutes are cursing God in their hearts for not opening their eyes. There are so many healthy bad people in the world, but the night watchman is the only one. This great gentleman and good man is sick!

So some prostitutes wrote to contact Ms. Bai Peiyao, a former famous prostitute who had successfully redeemed herself, and asked this sister who had had a brief correspondence with Mr. Night Watchman to send a letter to the Night Watchman to inquire about Mr. Night Watchman. Current physical condition.

Needless to say, the little sisters, Bai Shaoyao has already sent a letter to the editorial office. Because she had corresponded with Le Jing many times before, Editor Yang specially forwarded the letter to Le Jing.

Because Le Jing was ill, he could only lie in bed every day to clear his mind and was very bored. Bai Shaoyao's letter immediately cheered him up. At least he had something to do.

He opened the letter and found that Bai Shaoyao still had someone write it for him.

Le Jing stared at the large cursive characters with dragons and phoenixes, and an incredible guess slowly emerged in his mind - could this letter be written by Marshal Xue?

Perhaps because the recuperative life was too boring, Le Jing began to think wildly, if this was really Marshal Xue's calligraphy, it could be passed down as a family heirloom to future generations. Then he himself shook his head in amusement.

Not to mention that he himself is a frigid asexual, but there is no telling whether his dilapidated body can survive until Li Shuran gets married and has children! There will be no trace of future generations.

He withdrew his thoughts and began to concentrate on reading Bai Shaoyao's letter. In the letter, Bai Shaoyao first spent a lot of time asking about his physical condition, and sincerely expressed that he could find famous doctors and precious medicines for Lejing, and he would definitely be able to cure his disease. Then, at the end of the letter, she repeatedly asked Le Jing if she could adapt "Memoirs of a Courtesan" into a drama, with her and some little sisters participating?

Le Jing blinked and smiled. He was very happy to adapt it into a play.

Nowadays, many prostitutes are illiterate, which undoubtedly creates obstacles for the spread of his articles. However, if it is adapted into a drama, even illiterate people can understand the plot, because this plot is their life.

Why did those prostitutes who refused to obey the reform after the founding of the People's Republic of China burst into tears and became new people after watching Cao Da Lao's drama "Sunrise"? Why is Hong Da Lao's drama "The Thousand-Year Glacier Thawed" sold out every time? Isn't it because these dramas truly reflect the hardships of prostitutes' lives?

So he immediately wrote a letter to Bai Shaoyao agreeing to her request. In the letter, he only asked for two things: one, the drama must strictly follow the plot of his novel; two, the actors must all be prostitutes.

The cast of all prostitutes will firstly bring a lot of attention to the play itself (regardless of whether it is praise or curse, there are not many TV dramas and actors in the entertainment industry that become more popular the more they are cursed?), secondly, this play will set a positive example for the liberation of prostitutes, and thirdly, he also hopes to let prostitutes know through this play that there is more than one way in this world.

Even if they are born in a lowly family, they can stand on the stage that everyone is paying attention to, shining brightly and attracting everyone.

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