Chu Li felt that he could no longer suppress his disdain for Lao Miao.
It's like standing at the starting point together and getting ready to go. At first, you're just surprised that the person next to you is facing a different direction.
Then I found out that he was running on another track. I could still see him when I turned around and tried to imitate his running posture.
Finally, as time went by, I realized that the entire track was in the shape of a "Y" and was infinite in length. When I looked back, I could no longer see his "heroic figure", but only knew that the road he ran on was overgrown with weeds.
His and Lao Miao's ideas about "making books" were becoming increasingly incompatible.
Finally, from early on till today, I can no longer even try to hide my own disagreement - so I confront, refute and argue about everything.
After another quarrel, Chu Li took the initiative to end the fight, facing Lao Miao's taunting, "If you are so powerful, why don't you shut up those people who criticize Suo Heng for wasting paper? If you want to delete an article that no one reads, the first person to be deleted is her."
Sitting back in his seat, he went straight to Suo Heng and asked: Have you prepared the agreed topic?
Suo Heng "pa pa" sent me three. One was about the future interstellar, the story of a girl and an imperial major general; one was a sweet story about an immortal hero; and the last one was very special, it was actually a fan fiction of Journey to the West.
The style of Journey to the West is completely different from the previous two, and it directly breaks away from the romantic, light-hearted, and warm and cute routine that Moonlight magazine has always adhered to in terms of female authors.
The protagonist is the famous six-eared macaque.
It is said that thousands of years ago, the six-eared macaque was just an ordinary monkey. The Eight Phases of the Buddha's Manifestation records that countless kalpas ago, when the Buddha Dipankara was alive, there was an immortal named Shanhui who was friends with the monkey. The two often listened to the great wisdom mantra in front of the lamp stand... Over time, the monkey was fortunately enlightened by the Buddha's principles. Shanhui was enlightened and determined to save all living beings, so that they could turn from ignorance to enlightenment and get rid of suffering and gain happiness. However, after listening to the same Buddhist principles, the monkey realized a completely opposite principle and did not believe in the principle of "reincarnation". He insisted on his own opinion. (*Baidu said)
The two friends then separated. The immortal Shanhui was reincarnated, converted to Buddhism, and became Sakyamuni; while the monkey insisted on his own opinion, and was given a gift from Tathagata "a pair of bright golden eyes that can recognize the true nature of all things; and a pair of six ears that can listen to the true heart of all living beings". He came to the six realms of reincarnation, through eternity and calamity, to verify cause and effect.
From then on, the monkey became the six-eared macaque and embarked on the path of "Taoism", which was different from the "Buddha Dharma" of Sakyamuni Buddha.
The six-eared macaque transformed into Bodhi Patriarch and taught Sun Wukong the seventy-two transformations. He actually put a thorn in the "Buddha" and pulled out a piece of scales. In "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace and his proud and insolent scales were the projection of the six-eared macaque in the "six paths of calamity"...
The outline that Suo Heng brought was just a very rough summary of ideas, and even most of the things in it were scriptures and legal materials. However, Chu Li saw something different in it, and did not rush to reply to Suo Heng at that time. Instead, he sent the outline to Yu Yao and the editor-in-chief, Teacher Xia.
About half an hour later, Chu Li did not receive a reply from Teacher Xia on Q, but instead received a call from him directly.
"Which author gave you this outline?"
"Suo Heng."
"who?"
"Suo Heng."
"I don't believe it."
What the hell is this that you don't believe?
Wasn't it written by Suo Heng or was it written by me to make you happy?
Chu Li was confused, holding the phone for a moment, not knowing what to say. He looked up at Yu Yao, who was also looking up at him... Then he continued to make the call, and his tone became cautious to express that he could not predict the will of heaven: "Teacher Xia, is there something wrong with the outline? I personally think that this topic is very novel. In addition, "Journey to the West" has been broadcast every summer vacation since I was a child, so this is the most popular and common masterpiece among the four great classics..."
"I think this is good, too," Teacher Xia said slowly when Chu Li was so shocked that he thought there was something wrong with his ears. "I'm very surprised that the young author has so much knowledge and has expressed the 'Buddhist-Taoist conflict' implied in Journey to the West in a very concrete way. Can you give the author some advice? If the six-eared macaque itself represents non-Buddhism, then should there be a new interpretation for Tathagata's words 'the Dharma is not passed on to the six-eared'..."
Chu Li: "..."
Chu Li was confused and thought to himself, Teacher, I don’t know what you are talking about. My only memory of Liu Er Mihou is the real and fake Monkey King and how it was finally slapped to death by Sun Wukong.
As Teacher Xia was talking endlessly about profound things like "Buddhism" and "Taoism", Chu Li could only respond with gritted teeth while secretly using Q to screenshot the outline document and send it to Suo Heng, typing:
[The Monkey’s hired navy: “Screenshot” has been selected, this is it. 】
【Suo Heng: . . . . . . 】
[The water army hired by Monkey: It’s not because of the preference for the protagonist who is of the same type. This outline was sent to our editor-in-chief, who is also the editor-in-chief of Yuanyue Society. He likes it very much. He has been talking to me about Taoism and Buddhism for a long time, and even told me that you can consider starting with the Dharma. 】
【Suo Heng: "The Dharma is not to be passed on to the six ears"? 】
【The naval forces hired by Monkey: ……………You are the ones who are educated. I will give you Teacher Xia’s Q. You educated people can chat among yourselves?】
[Suo Heng: ...I thought you would definitely not choose this topic.]
[Suo Heng: Tell me who wants to watch something that doesn’t involve showing affection or being cute. ]
【Suo Heng: Or maybe the readers of Moonlight simply cannot understand this kind of subject matter.】
[Suo Heng: Or maybe you could just suggest that I change the six-eared macaque into a female monkey to give Sun Wukong a romantic relationship... ah, even I feel ridiculous just saying this.]
[The Monkey’s hired navy: Don’t think that documents can’t have their own aura. When you sent me three files, this document only lacks a six-word bold title: Choose me, choose me, choose me! ]
[The water army hired by the monkey: I know you want to write this, right? ]
【Suo Heng: Yes.】
[Suo Heng: I’m really happy! I almost can’t type anymore!]
【Suo Heng: Thank you XD! 】
[The monkey's hired navy: No thanks, my job is just to help you sell this book. ]
[The Monkey's hired water army: In my opinion, the marketing model of a book is only auxiliary. For a book to create miraculous sales, the author must first write with passion.]
[The navy hired by the monkey: Come on, Teacher Suo Heng. ]
【Suo Heng: QAQ】
Chu Li glanced at the emoticon sent by Suo Heng, and said, "Write a draft first, and we'll find a chance to meet and discuss in detail." Then he turned around and made an "OK" gesture to Yu Yao who was staring at him eagerly. Yu Yao then nodded and lowered his head to do his own thing.
Chu Li asked Yu Yao for a serial slot for Ah Gui on Q.
Yu Yao readily agreed, and Chu Li had little trouble convincing her.
Chu Li turned around and reported the serialization to Ah Gui. Ah Gui, the optimistic elder, happily agreed and made an appointment with Chu Li to call in the evening to discuss what topics would be better to serialize in "Moonlight".
——That’s all. I looked up after finishing all the work. It was noon sharp and I was off work.
Chu Li had just stood up from his seat, stretched his back with a refreshed look, and was walking to Ah Xiang's seat to discuss with her what to eat today, when Jiang Yucheng arrived - bringing with him the publishing contract for "The Vanishing Amusement Park" signed by him, as well as enough seafood and freshly fried vegetables packed from a very famous seafood restaurant in G City, enough for the entire editorial department to have a meal together.
"You didn't tell me what you wanted to eat last night," Jiang Yucheng put down his food. Ah Xiang and Xiao Niao came over happily and started to unpack their packed food. "You haven't ordered takeout yet, have you?"
When Jiang Yucheng said this, he was looking at Chu Li. A lot of "No, No"s instantly responded from behind him. Chu Li stood there, the corners of her lips twitching, but she didn't know what to say.
As Ah Xiang exclaimed, "My goodness, what a big abalone!" and Yu Yao exclaimed, "There's also seafood porridge!", Chu Li took the contract for "The Lost Amusement Park" and put it away properly, then took advantage of the situation and grabbed Jiang Yucheng's wrist and dragged him out of the editorial office door.
"Teacher, I'm glad that you fell in love with me despite being blind. Logically, I should happily agree and take good care of you. After all, you are already blind, which is so unfortunate... But before that, I still have to say that there are people who became blind earlier than you."
Chu Li stood still, and before he could even slow down, he blurted out the speech he had prepared when he left the house this morning.
Courage.
one two three--
"I, I, I have a boyfriend!"
Chu Li stared at Jiang Yucheng's mature and handsome face and the gentle smile on his face. She felt almost overwhelmed and suffocated by the sense of guilt.
Three seconds of silence.
"Oh," Jiang Yucheng smiled slightly, but the smile did not reach his eyes, "Who is it?"
It's really scary to be stared at like this by a mature man who is almost 18 years old.
At the end of winter, Chu Li felt her back was wet with sweat. She lowered her head and stared at her toes.
"...I've known him for a long time, an online friend. Yes, that's right. We met on the Internet. Online dating was not outdated at that time," Chu Li tried to make her voice sound particularly sincere and matter-of-fact. "At that time, he imitated Zhu Chuan's writing. We were in the forum together, chatting and so on... He was a person called the disappeared Mr. L."
Chu Li finished speaking, mustered up his courage and raised his head suddenly, but unexpectedly found...
The expression on Jiang Yucheng's face changed.
His smile seemed to become much clearer than before, and there was light in his eyes.
Chu Li was stunned——
What's going on?
What are you laughing at?
Do you know the missing Mr. L?
Well.
Likes to imitate Chu Chuan's writing in a semi-mischievous way.
At first, there were all kinds of hints that she should take the initiative to find Jiang Yucheng to sign the "Disappeared" series of works, as if he already knew that Jiang Yucheng would agree, that -
Disappeared, Mr. L.
Disappeared zoo.
The amusement park disappeared.
“……………………………………”
In a flash, Chu Li's eyes widened: No way? Not good? No way?