A widower's entertainment

Chapter 46 [Big Earthquake]

No one thought that after the pure love he wrote in "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree", Lin Youcheng would bring such pure love in his new novel.

This is really incredible and amazing!

The ending brings out not only an earth-shattering trap, but also an earth-shattering love.

When you love someone, you can love so calmly, love so silently, and love so desperately.

I only know that sacrificing love is the ultimate form of love, but I don't know that Shi Hong's love also takes love to another extreme.

It can be said that such a novel really caused an uproar in the entire literary world.

Because it is truly an unprecedented love mystery novel.

Speaking of detective crime-solving novels, although there are ancient crime-solving novels with the theme of "Bao Gong's Case" and "Di Gong's Case", as well as forensic cases like "The Record of Clearing Wrongs", compared with modern detective novels, ancient crime novels The purpose of the crime is to focus on ethics but not the law, the description of the case is more important than the result, the process is more important, the investigation and evidence collection are more subjective than scientific reasoning, and most of the methods of solving the case rely on "injured souls entrusting dreams", of course, there are also some such as "identifying the criminal through "grease on the hands"" Such criminal investigation methods only account for a small proportion, so it is not a detective novel in the true sense.

It was not until the mid-to-late 1896th century that the Chinese first became acquainted with Sherlock Holmes in . A group of writers in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, represented by Cheng Xiaoqing, created China's own detective literature through unremitting efforts.

In particular, Cheng Xiaoqing, the "Father of Chinese Detective Novels", has spared no effort to popularize the detective novel culture in China throughout his life. He has translated a large number of excellent detective works from Europe and the United States, and created a large number of detective novels with local Chinese characteristics. The most famous one is naturally Cheng Xiaoqing. "The Hawthorne Detectives."

Later, Cheng Xiaoqing founded China's first dedicated detective literature magazine "Detective World". Unfortunately, the magazine was forced to cease publication eleven months later. However, the enthusiasm for original mystery novels could no longer be resisted. Since then, "Detective", "Detective World" Detective magazines such as New Detective, Blue Book, and Red Book were born one after another.

These detective magazines are just a drop in the ocean in the long history. Due to the reasons of the times, many of the magazines from that year have been scattered and can no longer be found. For a long time, in history, apart from Cheng Xiaoqing and Sun Liaohong, the only other magazines known in history were those from the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. There are a large number of writers writing detective mystery novels, but the specific content is not available at all.

Compared with the golden age of Western mystery novels, the first glory of Chinese mystery novels can only become vague names in history.

However, the article "The Devotion of Suspect X" brought by Lin Youcheng is undoubtedly a love novel, but it is also undoubtedly a mystery novel.

This "The Devotion of Suspect X" is truly a thunderclap.

Such a thunderbolt made literary workers suddenly realize that in addition to trauma-reflective literature, there are also novels like this that perfectly integrate reasoning, society and love.

This is really like an extremely amazing flower blooming on the ruins of mystery literature.

Even if such a flower blooms in the literary spring era when hundreds of flowers are blooming, it will completely amaze everyone.

It's so beautiful, so moving, so novel.

It can be said that for a time, the trend about "The Devotion of Suspect X" was boiling in the entire literary circle. It really opened the door to a new world as Zhang Wei said.

"How could you miss such a novel!"

Wang Meng, the editor-in-chief of "People's Literature", looked at Zhang Wei with great regret and pity in his heart, and said sadly: "This novel by Lin Youcheng is the real pioneering work!"

"Such a groundbreaking novel should appear in the magazine People's Literature!"

Other editors in the editorial department have also read Lin Youcheng's "The Devotion of Suspect X" and they all know very well how exciting Lin Youcheng's novel is. Even editors like them, who have read countless books, are in awe, not to mention those readers who will really be amazed and impressed by Lin Youcheng's unconstrained imagination after reading this novel.

"The sales of the "Novel Monthly" magazine are really crazy right now. They keep printing it, but it's still not enough. It's all because of Lin Youcheng's article "The Devotion of Suspect X."

"Yes, right now we are discussing the sacrifice of the suspect Shi Hong."

"Should we reprint Lin Youcheng's article "The Devotion of Suspect X"?"

"People's Literature must be an original manuscript and cannot reprint Lin Youcheng's "The Devotion of Suspect X" like other magazines."

"Yes, it's a pity. It would have been great if this novel had been published by People's Literature from the beginning!"

……

Zhang Wei heard what the editor and colleagues said. In fact, he himself felt very sorry. However, he still underestimated the influence of the novel "The Devotion of Suspect X". It was really not just a sensation in the literary world.

On December 12, "Literary Review" took the lead in publishing a review article by young literary critic Zhou Yi, "Discussing Shi Hong's Love Frontally - Reading "The Devotion of Suspect X". The review wrote: "If love is used to explain Shi Hong's love, The great sacrifice of Hong's true nature is indeed unimaginable for Chen Jing and us ordinary people who read the novel, and they sigh for this level of love. But in my opinion, this is not love. No. This is a person's resistance to loneliness. All actions of searching for and maintaining spiritual beliefs are essentially a resistance to loneliness. However, Shi Hong's resistance still failed. His plan was so impeccable that he could not draw a picture by himself. When he was about to succeed in creating a circle that stunned everyone (including the readers), he still failed at the last step of coinciding with the origin..."

Immediately afterwards, on December 12, the 8th issue of "Yanjing Literature" reprinted Lin Youcheng's "The Devotion of Suspect X" and published Zhou Bo's review article, "This is a fascinating film from all angles. It's a marvelous work that's awe-inspiring. Some people see pure love in it. Some people see cruelty in it. For the sake of so-called love, they can regard the lives of innocent people as trivial and take them away. Some people see warmth in it. Some people see it in it. The ruse, the incredible and extremely powerful imagination used to eliminate crimes amazes the police. Some people see the fateful showdown, which is more difficult, designing a riddle that others cannot solve, or solving that problem? Come up with the answer yourself. Which is easier, or confirming whether other people's answers are correct? Some people see society in it, and see the homeless people who no one cares about..."

This is far from just the tip of the iceberg.

After the publication of "The Devotion of Suspect 》.

"Works and Controversies" reprinted it in two issues, "Selected Novellas" reprinted it on the front page, and "Xiangjiang Literature and Art" also reprinted it immediately...

It's really quite hot.

It can be said that in this spring of literature, Lin Youcheng's "The Devotion of Suspect X" really made countless literature lovers go crazy.

Yukawa deciphered Shi Hong's plan but could not see the loneliness and affection deep in Shi Hong's soul.

Literature lovers in the 80s never imagined that there would be such a novel, such love, such crime, and such conspiracy.

It is truly a literary earthquake!

No, it should be said that it was not just a major earthquake in literature, but a major earthquake in society.

Because even Lin Youcheng did not expect that even the police would start to study and study his article "The Devotion of Suspect X".

Yes, no one thought of that!
  　Ask for support! !

　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)