Chapter 237: Wenhu!

Chapter 237: Wenhu!

Chapter 237: Wenhu!

"Bang bang—"

Even though the door was open, Gu Lu knocked on it to alert the people inside before stepping in.

"Teacher Yu, has Director Hu finished get off work?"

There was no one in the office, and the elder brother whom Gu Lu called Teacher Yu was actually an office assistant. But in school, it was definitely right to call him teacher.

"I haven't returned yet. I was called over by the principal just now." Assistant Yu glanced at his watch. "He should be back soon. Just sit and wait for a while."

Judging from the frequency with which Gu Lu came to the office, the assistant must be familiar with him.

He sat on the sofa with ease and placed the publication in his hand on the coffee table. Assistant Yu brought him a cup of tea and some snacks, including a small bag of rice candy and fried dough twist.

Director Hu’s office is quite far from the principal’s office, and there is no way to find peace and quiet in the midst of noise.

Unless the door is closed tightly, the students will have a noisy meeting as soon as the get out of class is over - it will be very noisy.

The noise outside gradually died down until the students started their evening reading, and then Director Hu returned to the office exhausted.

Before Director Hu could say a word, Gu Lu put down the rice candy and pointed at the People's Literature on the table.

"Luckily, I got it." Gu Lu said.

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Why are there two question marks? Because Director Hu’s doubts need to be expressed with two question marks to express his feelings.

"Xiao Gu..." Director Hu said, "Xiao Gu, you can't joke with the teacher."

Gu Lu opened the People's Literature and saw the table of contents, written in black and white.

It was so shocking that Director Hu's eyes widened so wide that you could even see the whites of his eyes!
Director Hu is in his forties this year. He played "Legend" when he was in his twenties and thirties. He can be said to be one of the first online players in China.

"Legend" became unpopular due to the rampant use of plug-ins.

This is the feeling that Gu Lu gave Director Hu at the moment! Director Hu looked Gu Lu up and down, his eyes were too sharp and made the latter feel uncomfortable.

"What happened to Director Hu?"

"I wonder if your account will be blocked." Director Hu responded subconsciously.

"what?"

"Oh, it's okay. I'll take a look at the magazine." Director Hu picked up the publication and said, "Teacher Wu Du said that the current Wudu Writers Association, the entire association, has less than ten writers published in People's Literature in the past two years."

"…It's not that exaggerated." Gu Lu said in surprise.

"I thought it was exaggerated at the time, but after thinking about it carefully, it is very reasonable. People's Literature has a novella section. Don't be fooled by its thick volume. There are only 15 to 20 pieces in each issue. There are twelve issues a year. Just do the math..."

Director Hu didn't wait for Gu Lu to answer before he continued, "At most, 240 articles are published in a year. Think about it, there are more than cities in the country, and the chairmen of the writers' association in each city may not be able to be published. Wu has seven or eight, so it is already a culturally strong city."

Director Hu's statement, which is almost like dividing the cake, fully illustrates that there are too many monks and too little porridge. The value of this is much more exaggerated than Gu Lu imagined.

"With this record, it will be no problem for you to become a member of the presidium of the Fog City Writers Association," said Director Hu.

Unfortunately, Gu Lu joined the Sijiu City Writers Association.

Director Hu didn't have time to ask about the details of the article. He was sure that it was really Gu Lu's article, so he led his people out.

"Hurry up, we may be running out of time." Director Hu took big strides.

"Going to the principal's office?" Gu Lu guessed based on the direction of the road.

"Principal Chang should still be here." Director Hu said, "We must discuss this award with the principal."

Director Hu was quite excited as he walked across the playground, so he walked very fast, and Gu Lu behind him had to work hard to keep up.

Let me say one more thing off topic about Director Hu. As one of the first game players, it is no wonder that the way he encouraged Gu Lu was like completing achievement tasks in the game.

Sure enough, they blocked Principal Chang.

That’s why they say some people are principals and some are just directors.

Upon hearing the good news, Principal Chang was also very excited, but he still maintained his basic expression.

"Student Gu Lu may be very busy in the next few days," said Principal Chang.

"Hmm?" Gu Lu asked in confusion.

"We will ask a few small questions and our school will make a small report," said Principal Chang.

There is no doubt that the school must report to the education department immediately for cultivating such outstanding students.

"As for the reward for Gu Lu, we need to study it further." Principal Chang added, "We will definitely come up with a plan this week."

"Okay, okay." Gu Lu agreed.

In the end, Gu Lu stayed with People's Literature, and then he went home after school.

I took the flashlight home on the way and had to charge it for an afternoon so that I could use it for lighting at night.

Regarding the street office's repair of electric lights, Gu Lu wrote an essay "Good Things and Bad Things" and submitted it to Lao Qu, the deputy editor-in-chief of "Youth Articles".

It has passed the review now.

Gu Lu knew very well that it was not because his writing was good enough, but because he was famous enough.

Of course it can't be bad. After all, he was a failed writer in his previous life. He has read so many books in this life that it should be no problem for him to write an essay of decent quality.

"It's mainly because of his fame. I remember Editor Qu only took a few minutes to look at it and was OK with it." Gu Lu thought to himself.

He actually didn't want to write an essay satirizing grassroots officials, because he felt that it was not easy for grassroots officials, but the repair of street lights might have to be arranged until next year, which was really a bit too much. "Bang——" Close the door.

Oh yeah, watering the flowers… “I water them every three or four days. When was the last time I did that?”

Can not remember.

Then Gu Lu pasted a piece of white paper on the wall to mark it.

I just said I needed to take a break, so today we’ll just relax, read a book, and play chess with Zhou Gong.

Around six o'clock in the evening, it gets dark quite early in April, so I went downstairs to put it away.

Play with your phone before going to bed.

[President Wang: Our publishing house has been promoting for a long time, but it is not as good as yours, Xiao Gu. We are going to reprint "Yesterday's Park" for the third time.]
He received a text message. Although there was a note and Gu Lu knew who it was, he still felt that the other party might have made a mistake.

Propaganda?

Gu Lu didn’t even remember promoting “Yesterday’s Park” recently.

It turned out that it was Yu Xinyao, who made The Little Prince famous, who commented on Gu Lu's two new works.

[If Mr. Holmes is Gu Lu's tribute to The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, then New Interpretations of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio: The Double Lamps and New Interpretations of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio: Rui Yun are dialogues between Gu Lu and Pu Songling.

Perhaps my warning to Gu Lu worked, allowing Gu Lu to announce in the most intuitive way that he is still the genius who writes fairy tales for adults.

In the field he is most familiar with: Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
Pu Songling used Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio to write about ghosts and monsters, the corruption of the Qing Dynasty, and the oppression of the people by the ruling class.

Gu Lu used his skillful writing skills to reorganize the story in the original novel and increase the relevance of the story to contemporary readers.

I don’t know if there will ever be a complete collection of “New Meanings”, but the current two pieces are works that fully demonstrate his talent for short stories.

There are many stories about fox spirits in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, and Gu Lu is a fox spirit who became a spirit at a young age.
Yu Xinyao's book review is mainly praise, and he was so excited that he wrote it in a rather casual manner.

It was not posted on his column yet, but on Douban, which he seldom uses often.

"I have always felt that Gu Lu's short stories are very powerful. Ruiying's last four words, 'What's wrong with you?' are so amazing. Just these four words make people imagine a lot."

"Did Yu Tiezui finally get his account back?"

"Published in People's Literature at the age of 16? That's quite exaggerated."

"It's hard to imagine what kind of background this Gu Lu has. He even bribed Yu Xinyao. He just criticized me and then took back his words."

"Wenhu, what a high evaluation. Is this student's short story skills really that high? I'll go take a look."

"I just finished watching it, I don't like it very much, I feel that it is completely lacking the weirdness of Liao Zhai. As for the techniques mentioned by Yu Tiezui, I didn't feel them either. I have reason to suspect that he was paid to praise me."

Spark discussion.

Readers who love books, or people in the circle, are attracted.

There are those who believe in conspiracy theories, those who buy the book out of curiosity, and those who join the discussion after reading the book. There are all kinds of people.

It is this heated discussion that has caused Gu Lu’s short stories to gain so much attention.

The sales of Gu Lu’s only short story collection, “Yesterday’s Park”, have soared.

"Yesterday's Park" has cumulative sales of 24 copies.

"Mr. Holmes" has cumulative sales of 21 copies.

"Hyouka" has cumulative sales of 25 copies.

In addition, it has only been four months since the new year, and "The Little Prince" has already sold 100,000 copies.

According to this situation, the sales volume of Gu Lu’s books this year may exceed one million copies.

If he can keep up the momentum, he will definitely be on the list of richest writers next year. Gu Lu can definitely see it.

What’s more invisible is that Gu Lu’s status in the writer circle is rising!
The status of a circle is something that cannot be seen or touched, but it does exist. Just like meridians, it can affect you.

If a new book is released, recommend it.

Another example is the importance I attach to your opinions.

Also, people in the circle may slander you for no reason and use you as a target.

It's all about status.

Gu Lu used to be a talented writer and a very good student.

That's it.

Now, after turning to literature, he has also produced some outstanding short stories in the field of pure literature, and he has become a "rising star of Chinese writers."

This can be seen from the many interview invitations from newspapers, especially the Literary Gazette and the Tianjin Fiction News. Due to their special nature, these types of newspapers do not pursue hot topics.

Therefore, even though "The Little Prince" was so popular before, there was no response.

All in all, a circle will become complicated after existing for a long time, and there will be things that can be talked about and things that cannot be talked about.

Gu Lu had never been in the social world, so he didn't know much about the improvement in his status. He just knew that he had received many interview invitations from print media in his mailbox.

His email address is published on the Weibo homepage and anyone can see it.

"Xiao Gu, you can just choose two of the interviews, don't accept all of them."

"It's normal. It's like you won a literary award in advance. Fame and fortune are coming to you instantly. I believe you can grasp it."

When Gu Lu was a little confused, he received a call from President Jian.

(End of this chapter)