Chapter 127
After Liu Qingru returned, he arranged to cut off the most attractive part of the manuscript Ji Changze gave him and put it in the Rouan Daily where he worked.
Originally, there were still people in the newspaper who questioned it, but Liu Qingru had no intention of confronting them. He showed the manuscript to anyone who questioned it, and after reading it, they naturally stopped talking.
Having been in the newspaper for so long, Liu Qingru's praise for Ji Changze was naturally not because of the "teacher-son filter". He was full of confidence when he published this "Memories of Cultivation".
Soon, "Memories of Cultivation" began to be "serialized".
Now it is not uncommon to attach novels to the back of newspapers, but what is rare is that the author of the novel attached today is a person who has never appeared.
The third son of an old medical clinic likes to read the Rouan Daily as much as his father, but his father likes to read all kinds of big and small things on it, while he always reads the novels at the back.
Today, his father read the big and small things on the front of the newspaper as usual, and put it down with satisfaction, and then he picked up the newspaper.
The youngest brother in the family had been waiting for a long time. When he saw him pick up the newspaper, he immediately came over and asked, "Third brother, can you read to me when you read?"
This youngest brother had just started to study and didn't recognize many words. He was also used to being pestered to read novels every time he read them. After listening to the youngest brother's reading, he would show off to his classmates. He was very happy to be a part of the show-off, but he didn't show his dignity as an elder brother. Instead, he nodded with some reserve and said, "Then don't make any noise to affect me. Don't be like last time, making a lot of noise."
"No, third brother, I promise not to make any noise."
He was satisfied, and the old doctor, the head of the family, who was sitting behind the table, frowned slightly when he heard the conversation between the two brothers.
The old doctor didn't like the children in the family to read novels. He felt that it was not serious. Although there was no need to read the Four Books and Five Classics now, reading medical books was better than these novels.
He couldn't stand it and wanted to scold the two brothers, but the third son over there had already started reading.
"Why do I publish this article in the Rouan Daily? Because I am a Rouanese. I was born in an ordinary family. I can't remember my childhood clearly. I only remember that there were seven brothers and sisters in my family. There might have been a famine at that time. Every day, there were only cries of hunger in the house. The brothers and sisters cried loudly at first, but then the sound became smaller and smaller. One day, the second brother and the seventh sister disappeared. On another day, the third and fourth brothers also disappeared. I asked my father and mother, they were pale and only told me that the brothers and sisters didn't have to starve.
Until one day, I came back from digging tree bark. I carefully protected it all the way and kept swallowing my saliva for fear that I couldn't help eating it. , just wanting to send it to my mother who had just given birth to my sister, so that she could have milk to feed her sister. As a result, when I returned, I saw my little sister who had never been full since she was born, with a pale face, being carried out of the house by my father. They found a place, dug a pit and buried her. There was no grave, just a big stone was moved on top. Next to the big stone that had just been moved, there were five big stones lined up. I knew that they were dead. At that time, I didn’t know that I would embark on a road of immortality now...”
This beginning immediately attracted the old doctor. Digging tree roots, starving children to death, digging a pit to bury the children and putting stones on top, these slightly older people knew it was true.
At that time, there were too many people who starved to death. As a doctor, the old doctor clearly remembered how many people asked him for help.
After hearing this, he couldn’t help but be involved in it, and felt that this was a true story. When he heard the word "immortal" at the end, he was stunned immediately.
"Immortality? What immortality? Can people be immortal?"
The third son was frightened by the old doctor's voice and stopped talking. He also knew that his father didn't like him reading novels, so he stopped and looked at the old doctor blankly.
The old doctor was anxious when he saw this: "Why are you looking at me? Keep reading."
The third son hurriedly continued reading.
This memoir of cultivation written by Ji Changze took advantage of the first person and the knowledge of Ji's father. At that time, there was no information explosion like in later generations. Many things of the common people were hearsay, or read in newspapers. They didn't know what was not published in newspapers.
But the "I" described by Ji Changze has been wandering around since he accidentally embarked on the road of cultivation. He wrote a lot of things that really happened in reality, and described in detail the mentality of "I" and what "I" did when the things happened.
For example, last year, there were thunderstorms in the east for many days in a row. The sky was full of thunder and lightning. At this time, there was not much awareness of lightning avoidance, and many people were killed by lightning, which was reported in the newspapers.
Ji Changze wrote in the novel that "I" had just embarked on the path of cultivation. Because there was no master to guide me, I had to rely on myself and could only explore little by little. One day, I felt that I was going to break through. It happened to be a thunderstorm day. These thunderstorms are dangerous for mortals, but they are helpful for him as a cultivator. He plunged into it and made a breakthrough. He waited until the sky cleared before leaving with satisfaction. Before leaving, in order to thank God, he also made a palm print on the ground with force, hoping that if there are cultivators like him who come to this place in the future, they can gain some insights.
There is a palm print, but the palm print was struck by lightning and shaped like a palm. It is about the size of ten people standing together, and it was also reported in the newspapers.
Ji Changze wrote it like the slap mark was really made by "me", at least many people who read the novel were moved.
This is also a trick that Ji Changze figured out.
In later generations, there is a word called hype, which is usually used by male and female stars to attract attention.
Ji Changze is amazing.
He also hyped, but he hyped it with the thunder and lightning in the sky. With this hype, the popularity has increased, right?
When the third son finished reading, he stopped at the most exciting part. The old doctor was excited when he heard it before, and when he saw him stop, he hurriedly urged: "Keep reading, hurry up."
When he heard the third son say that it was not that he didn't want to read it, but that it was gone, the old doctor was so anxious that he slapped his thigh.
Why did the Rouan Daily only publish so little! !