Chapter 430: What You Think

Hong Lengshuang also knew about the Seven Star Literature Cup that has been raging recently.

The reason why she knows about the Seven Star Literature Cup is not because she likes this competition so much. In her subconscious mind, it is a "stage" for college students who like literature in China to show themselves. Maybe a group of excellent literary seedlings will emerge , but if you want to say how excellent the work is, I dare not agree.

"A literary work written by a college student, no matter how good it is, how good can it be!"

This is almost everyone's usual view on this event... just like ordinary people who are sick and go to the hospital to see a doctor. When choosing a doctor, they often subconsciously choose someone who is obviously older from the appearance Like doctors, in their opinion, being older means having more experience, which often means being more reliable.

I am not a genius, so I will subconsciously deny the existence of genius!

Hong Lengshuang was no exception, until one day her subordinates recommended a short story called "The Necklace" to her. excellent work.

After some understanding, I learned that this short story named "The Necklace" was published by Li Chungang in the seven-star literature cup audition stage, and Hong Lengshuang changed his usual routine and began to pay attention to this short story among domestic college students. event in between.

When a person completely loses his habitual thinking, and then looks at many things, he will have many completely different views.

After Hong Lengshuang put aside her inherent prejudice against the Seven Star Literature Cup, she really let her discover many good works in the short stories of this year's Seven Star Literature Cup audition stage. She hit a wall everywhere in the publishing house and magazines, and suddenly came up with an idea:

Since the path of traditional publishing house magazines has repeatedly hit a wall and cannot go through, why not change the way of thinking! Most of the users who use Weibo are young people, and the new way of reading is also used by young people. If this is the case, why bother to stick to traditional magazines? When it comes to young people, contemporary college students, it starts with the "Seven Star Literature Cup"!

Both parties wanted to expand their influence among young people, so when Hong Lengshuang's subordinates contacted the organizer of the Seven Star Literature Cup to discuss cooperation matters, it was a concubine's love, and they hit it off quickly.

It is an extremely simple thing in itself, that is, the Weibo literature section gets the right to publish the excellent entries of the Seven Star Literature Cup, and the Seven Star Literature Cup can get a lot of publicity on Weibo.

at the same time……

Hong Lengshuang has been silently looking forward to Li Chungang's new short stories after entering the preliminary stage.

Immediately found the new short story "Maggie's Gift" written by Li Chungang.

"Look what you wrote this time."

Although it is a bit of a pity in my heart, if Li Chungang's short story is not used for competition and published in the Seven Star Literature Cup, but directly published on their Weibo literature section, how much attention can it bring to the platform after some hype and publicity? , maybe it will be able to inject new impetus into the struggling literature section at once. Unfortunately, there are no "what ifs" in this world, but Hong Lengshuang, who is a little bit regretful, is also very curious about what Li Chungang wrote in this new work and whether it can Keep up that high standard as always.

Many people who have not read the content of the short story may not understand the meaning of "Maggie's gift". From the literal meaning, they would think that the protagonist of the story is called Maggie, but as an experienced reader, Hiroshi Lengshuang's intuition told her that the protagonist probably wouldn't be this Maggie——

In fact it has something to do with a Christmas legend.

Although there are many people in China who celebrate Christmas every year, Christmas has never been a major festival. On the contrary, it is the western countries that pay attention to the tradition of celebrating Christmas. The reason for all this is that many people in the West believe in the base According to legend, when Jesus was born, three wise sages sent gifts, and since then there has been a habit of giving gifts to each other at Christmas——

This may be the correct origin of the title.

Skipping the reverie about the title of "The Gift of the Magi", Hong Lengshuang officially started reading at this time:

[One yuan, eighty-seven cents, that's all, of which sixty cents is a penny of copper coins, and a penny is bought from the grocer, the greengrocer, and the butcher, and every time there is trouble His face was dry, and he felt that this kind of deal that weighed so much was really embarrassing. Jenny counted three times, it was still one dollar and eighty-seven, and the next day was Christmas. 】

The protagonist's name is Jack?

The author's name is too random.

Hong Lengshuang couldn't help complaining in his heart, because according to the Westerners' habit of naming names, the name Jack is equivalent to the random names such as Xiaoming, Xiaoqiang, and Xiaohong in China. Walking on the main road, ten women It is very likely that there are seven or eight people named Jenny in it. Fortunately, the content of the first paragraph somewhat understands the expression of the story.

Not surprisingly, this is a protagonist living in a difficult life. He is counting the few money he has on hand over and over again, and at the same time, he is worrying about the fact that tomorrow is Christmas.

It can be seen from here that the background of the story should be in Western countries, and it must be very old in terms of age. At that time, technology was very lagging, and the currency value that had not experienced several inflation and bubble crises It's still very high, even so, this one octagonal seven must not be much, even pitifully little!

【…】

[Suddenly, she whirls from the window and stands in front of the wall mirror. Her eyes were shining brightly, but within twenty seconds her complexion lost its luster. She tore her hair hastily, letting it fall loose. 】

What is she going to do?

As she read along the way, Hong Lengshuang quickly began to guess Jenny's intentions, and at the same time, she also guessed in her heart how the author Li Chungang's next plot would unfold. Various guesses quickly emerged in her mind, even There is also an extremely dramatic scene where Jenny sells her body in order to raise enough money to buy Christmas gifts, and finally the first guest she meets is her husband.

Of course, all of this is just her personal guess, if it is really so easy for readers to guess...

Then this "Gift of the Magi" cannot be called a very good short story.