Reborn great writer

The sun is shining brightly and the sun is shining brightly. Today is definitely a good day for little Sajiro. .

There are two reasons. The first is because the store owner is on holiday today, and the reason is that the employees have worked hard during this period, so they only have one day off.Xiao Zuojiro knew that this was not the case. The main reason was that the boss had an affair with the shop assistant and was discovered by the proprietress. The proprietress made a fuss in the shop. The boss didn't want to lose face, so he was forced to give all the employees in the shop a holiday.

The rare holiday, Sajiro, doesn't intend to stay at home like before. Today is the day when the Mephisto Awards are announced. This is the second reason why Sajiro is so happy. The Mephisto Awards are held every year. Can bring him a good mystery novel, the quality is very high.

There is a wonderful mystery novel, is there anything more fortunate than this for a mystery novel fan?

Look at his home, there is a big bookcase, the bookcase has three layers, the first layer has the most books, the second layer has the second, and the third layer has only a few books, this is also a habit of Xiao Zuojiro, he likes He graded the mystery novels he bought according to his own preferences, and the third level was the mystery novels he thought were the best. There were very few such novels.

He got up early this morning. In fact, for an otaku, as long as he stays at home, washing his face, rinsing his mouth and brushing his teeth can all be omitted. However, considering that he will be going out today, he cleaned up impatiently.

After everything was arranged properly, Xiao Zuojiro went out, without any hesitation, he went straight to a bookstore called [Gushizhai]. Gujiji is the oldest book in the island country. It is estimated that the name of the store came from this, of course, this is not important. , the important thing is the Mephisto Award.

Mephisto's high-profile award usually only requires a small-scale bookstore to get news, and Gushizhai can be regarded as a medium-sized bookstore.

Sure enough, as soon as Xiao Zuojiro came to Gushizhai, he saw a huge poster. There were several portraits on the poster. They were all famous reasoning writers in the island country, and these writers all had one characteristic. debut, and become famous.

Large characters drawn with a red pen——[Mephisto Award No.40 Seven Times]

Under this title is a speech by Yasushi Tokugawa, chairman of the judging committee [I am very happy that many excellent authors and wonderful works have been produced in this award, which also represents the heyday of domestic mystery novels. Point me as a mystery writer is very happy.

It's hard to be a judge while being happy, because there are too many excellent authors and works. As the chairman of the judging committee of this award, it is really not an easy task to choose a better one among these excellent works.

In this grand award, there are two works that are of the amazing genre. I believe readers will know after reading it. It is a very painful thing to distinguish between these two works, so Our judges are very irresponsible and left this work to all the reasoning fans. ]

According to Tokugawa Yasushi's meaning, this time the Mephisto Awards are two works tied for best, which is really a record-breaking, it seems that this time it is worth watching.

Xiao Zuojiro is very happy, "Incomplete Crime" short story collection, scored 96.5 points.

"This score is really high. I remember that the best work of the last Mephistopheles Award was only 85 points. This time it is more than ten points. It seems that this "Incomplete Crime" is definitely a classic." In fact, this is what Xiao Zuojiro didn't understand. A score of 96 means more than just a high score.

"Wait..." Xiao Zuojiro saw a strange name, "Su Shichen? This time the author is a Chinese? The No.1 Mephisto Award is a Chinese?!"

Little Zuojiro exclaimed: "Hachi, how is this possible?"

After being excited for a long time, I calmed down, and I seemed to understand something when I saw the name: "No wonder this time there will be an unprecedented two side by side, so it seems that this Su Shichen should be very powerful, but Mephisto rewards a foreign It’s not good for people to get the best, so it’s better to find another national work and put it in parallel, and it’s also a more globalized Mephisto Award.”

It is completely reasonable for Kozajiro to think this way, but reasonableness is not necessarily correct.

Title: "Dongdong Suspension Bridge Falling"

Length: Medium

Score: 96.5 points

Author: Su Shichen

Xiao Zuojiro was stunned, the promised Chinese authors are on par with domestic authors?What about internationalization?What's the situation now? ! !

The No.40 seven-time Mephisto Award is destined to be called the most special one. One of the Mephisto Awards has been held for decades. This is the first time that two works are tied for the best.

The full score is 83 points. You must know that most of the authors participating in the Mephisto Award are newcomers, so even if they are very talented, they still have flaws in their works, so the average score over the years is only 85 points It seems that as Xiao Zuojiro knew, the score of the best work in the previous session was [-] points, which is already above the average work.

96 points, almost perfect score, which is absolutely unprecedented, but now two films are released at the same time, isn't it surprising?

Well, in fact, such a high score is not what attracts the most attention from the media. What attracts the media the most is that the works that are tied for the best are almost all written by the same person, and this person is a Chinese.

This is completely like a [-]-day tornado hit, and the entire island nation's reasoning circle is boiling.

"Manager, give me a copy of "Incomplete Crime" and "Dongdong Suspension Bridge Falling" on it." Xiao Zuojiro really wanted to see why the mystery novel written by the Chinese named Su Shichen could be so good. get such high marks.

"Sorry, these two books haven't been published yet," said the store manager.

"How is it possible, isn't the Mephisto Award announced today?" Xiao Zuojiro was very surprised.

The function of the Mephisto Award is to discover newcomers. Although there are no trophies, there is an invisible benefit. Every time the best work is awarded, [-] books will be printed and sold on the market. This will pave the way for authors, so every time I go to May The best entries will be available for purchase after the Pfister Awards.Of course, if it is a short story, it will be published on a very influential newspaper. Simply put, the future is bright.

what about todayIs it because the author is from Huaxia, so the judges don't give this benefit?If this is the case, Xiao Zuojiro feels that the grade of this judge's seat is a bit low.

The judges were able to rate both of Su Shichen's works as the best. How could it be possible to hide this advantage? I signed an agency copyright agreement with the two books "Dongdong Suspension Bridge Falling", so the plan is to publish it the day after tomorrow."

The day after tomorrow, there are still two days to wait, Xiao Zuojiro sighed, and could only go home resentfully.

Nuoshan Publishing House is naturally Wang Jiaxuan's publishing house, and Wang Jiaxuan has already made two-handed preparations. Whether Su Shichen can get the best is just a [-]-[-] split for her, but the news came today Wang Jiaxuan and her little friends were completely stunned.

Originally, Su Shichen was in a hurry to write. Originally, it was very difficult for the regional surname of the Mephistopheles to win the first place. Originally, there were so many amazing opponents... There are too many originals, too many originals. There are many unknown factors, but under such circumstances, Su Shichen won the first place without hesitation, and still used a record-breaking score.

This first place is confident, clean and tidy!

Well, it’s okay if you say so, the two works are so excellent, it’s enough for you to vote for one, why do you want to vote for both, isn’t this not giving people a way to survive?

Now that the two record-breaking films are tied for first place, they have completely shown their sharpness, and the island country is about to turn the world upside down.

First, the rookie novelist Yajima Mitsubishi published a comment: "I heard immediately that 96 points is a very outstanding score. I don't doubt the strength of famous foreign mystery writers, but in the Mephisto Awards, there is a strong sense of homeland. Among the grand prizes, the final result turned out to be that two works by foreigners made history and won the first place. I really want to see what kind of works these are, and I hope I won’t be disappointed.”

What Mitsubishi Yashima said was relatively subtle, and he is also a rookie, and his influence is not too great.

But not long after, Qianli, a famous mystery novelist, said something like this directly when he was interviewed by the TV station: "Maybe the judges of Mephisto felt that the Mephisto Award was too unchanged, so they wanted to Come up with a little something new and hold out a dark horse.

I fully think that the purpose of the judges' seat has been achieved. 96 points is the highest score since the establishment of the Mephisto Awards. What kind of height is this?

According to the evaluation criteria of the previous Mephisto Awards, a mystery novel with this score can be called a classic among mystery novels. It's completely abnormal.Now I just want to ask the judges to stop messing around and ruin the brand of Mephisto Awards. "

Qianli was publicly questioning the fairness of the Mephisto Award, and his tone was very sharp.

This is not over yet. Since Qianli was the leader, many famous reasoning experts have also stood up and questioned "Dongdong Suspension Bridge Falling" and "Incomplete Crime", questioning that these two novels cannot bear the height of 96 evaluate.

"I want to say that someone named Su Shichen bought the jury seat for the Memphis Awards? Such an incredible score."

"I hope to see two classic works, instead of reasoning full of flaws."

"It's been a long time since I've been so interested in mystery novels, and I hope I won't disappoint the readers who are looking forward to it."

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Breaking the record brought about huge doubts. Su Shichen's "Dongdong Suspension Bridge Falling" and "Incomplete Crime" divided the island nation's mystery novels into three factions.

One school of thought believed that the score of 96 could be supplemented by ordinary books, so "Dongdong Suspension Bridge Falling" and "Incomplete Crime" were picked up by the judges.

One group is dominated by well-known reasoning experts who debuted at the Mephisto Awards. They think that the two books "Dongdong Suspension Bridge Falling" and "Incomplete Crime" can get such high evaluations from the judges, which is naturally outstanding. .

The last faction likes to speak with facts. They think that the quality of the book will be known after two days after the book is released.

For a moment, it seemed that all the guests were focusing on Su Shichen's two books, wanting to see how "Dongdong Suspension Bridge Falls" and "Imperfect Crime" are.

Xiao Zuojiro is one of those waiting, these two days... (to be continued.)