Chapter 5 Section 5

As the saying goes, "No coincidence makes a book." Some people think that this sentence means that coincidences only exist in books, but there are no coincidences in real life.In fact, this sentence is just saying that there are often coincidences in books. As for whether there are coincidences in real life, this sentence does not mention. The "book" here refers to the "book" mentioned by the "storyteller", not the "text" in "Writing as a person".People in the past treated "books" and "wen" differently. "Books" are things that are relatively low-level, and you can take them to tea shops and restaurants to tell people; while "literature" is something that is relatively young, and you need to study hard to get its essence.

From the current point of view, the so-called "book" is a story-like work, which is equivalent to a novel; while a text is a non-story-like work, which is equivalent to prose.Most of the proses use the scenery to express emotions, and express their aspirations through things, so there is a saying that "writing is like a person", because "writing" is a work used by "people" to express their minds. What kind of "text" is written. However, some people interpret "writing like a person" to mean that any text written by a person should be like a person, including writing novels, which is wrong.In fact, no one has ever said that "a book is like a person", because the purpose of a "book" is to narrate, not necessarily to narrate one's own affairs, but also to narrate other people's affairs, and most of them not only narrate one person's affairs, but narrate Many people, if you want to be "like the person", then you can only be like the person in the story, and you can be like the person when you tell someone, but it is impossible for everyone to be like the author.

"No coincidence does not make a book" illustrates a rule, a common phenomenon, that is, there is no story without a coincidence.We often hear people say that such-and-such person "has no story", or that such-and-such person "has a story". The so-called "has a story" or "no story", refers to whether such-and-such person has different experiences in life from ordinary people.If there is, there is a story; if not, there is no story.And this "different experience from ordinary people" is often composed of misunderstandings and coincidences.

I say misunderstanding and coincidence together because misunderstanding and coincidence are often inseparable and cause and effect each other.Coincidences sometimes arise from misunderstandings, and coincidences can lead to new misunderstandings.With these misunderstandings and coincidences, the novel has ups and downs, is dramatic, and worth watching.This is especially true of drama, whether it is tragedy or comedy, it is inseparable from misunderstanding and coincidence. Needless to say, comedy is basically made up of misunderstandings and coincidences. It is as small as letting an eavesdropper fall in when you open the door, or as big as mistaking your mother-in-law for your wife. These are all misunderstandings and coincidences.If we can find eavesdroppers every day when we open the door, or if each of us mistakenly regards our mother-in-law as our wife, then it is not a coincidence, but a common phenomenon, and there is no "spectacular".

Tragedy is also inseparable from misunderstandings and coincidences. If Othello did not misunderstand his wife, there would be no such tragedy as Othello; if Juliet woke up a few minutes earlier, Romeo would not commit suicide; or if Romeo was at the banquet Had he met his former sweetheart as he wished, instead of meeting Juliet by chance, the story would have ceased to exist. Misunderstandings and coincidences constitute the climax of the story, promote the development of the story, and are important factors that make the story "readable".People who can write stories pay attention to the clever use of misunderstandings and coincidences.The so-called "clever use" means that these misunderstandings and coincidences must have a basis in life, otherwise it will backfire and make us feel that the story is fake.

It is a story that actually happened. Amy doesn't need to deliberately design misunderstandings and coincidences, but when she decides to write a story or not, she has carefully considered it.The stories she chooses to write are all misunderstandings and coincidences, otherwise there will be no "readability".Online serialization is not like writing and publishing a book. Regardless of whether a book is readable or not, it is a one-shot deal. Readers buy a book and cannot return it if it is not readable. If online serialization is not readable, there will be no readers immediately. Yes, so it is best for web serialization to have something hooking readers in each episode, so that people can follow along.

Amy met these requirements, so she wrote this story.During the period of serialization on the Internet, it was true that every episode hooked people to read it. At that time, because no one knew the direction and ending of the story, and did not know what kind of person the third child was, they only knew it from other stories written by Amy. Jingqiu is not with the third child now, so readers have doubts after watching each episode. The evaluation of the third child is up and down, and there are many speculations about the development of the story. The discussion is very heated. I urgently need to watch it. to the next day.

However, when it was published in China, the planner who knew neither the principles of book advertising nor the psychology of readers wrote an introduction to the whole story in a completely unimaginative way and language, so that readers knew the ending of the story in advance and knew The third child's behavior ("a person of great friendship") has destroyed the reading interest that readers could have enjoyed.After being destroyed in this way, he actually said in the tone of an "industry insider" that this story "has no suspense", which is really ridiculous! After being hacked by such an ignorant and cruel knife and axe, where can I find it? suspense?

It can be said that the reason why domestic readers still can’t put down the book once they start reading is because the love described in the story attracts them, and because Amy’s narrative is clean, transparent and full of magic, not only will it not attract readers’ attention to the author, It can also play the role of reversing time and space, allowing readers to immerse themselves in the story, follow Jingqiu into that remote mountain village thirty years ago, get to know the third child, get to know the third child, and fall in love with the third child.Whether it is a reader who has always loved to read love stories, or a reader who has not believed in love for a long time, they all have a common feeling, that is, they cannot get out of the story for a long time after reading it.

However, the important factors that constitute the development of the story - misunderstandings and coincidences - were destroyed by the planner's poor introduction, so that some readers could not understand these misunderstandings, so they could not understand the role of Jingqiu, nor could they understand the love of the third child .Undoubtedly, this greatly diminishes the reader's overall appreciation of the story.It can be said that due to the poor planners, readers only bought half of the book for the price of one book, and only got four hours of enjoyment from watching the screen for eight hours.

The story of the novel is constituted and promoted by two major misunderstandings before and after. These two major misunderstandings are caused by some coincidences, and these coincidences are caused by smaller misunderstandings and coincidences.A correct understanding of the causes of these two misunderstandings can help us better understand Jingqiu, the third child, their love, and this story. The first misunderstanding was that Jingqiu mistakenly thought that the third child had a fiancée.This misunderstanding was caused by many coincidences. First, when Teacher Ye came to learn how to weave men’s woolen trousers, he proposed that Jing Qiu should settle down in Xicunping because he wanted Jing Qiu to be a long-term knitting consultant, and nominated the third child as Jing Qiu male. friend candidate. Because of this proposal, Yu Min broke the news that the third child has a fiancee. It is a coincidence because if Mr. Ye did not come to learn how to knit woolen trousers that day, he would not have mentioned the third child, and because the third child happened to be in a meeting that day and did not come to the aunt’s house. If he came, Mr. Ye would not This matter will be mentioned, or the third child will come forward and explain the "fiancée" on the spot. But it was such a coincidence that what was supposed to come didn't come, but what shouldn't come did, so Jingqiu heard the news that broke her heart: the third child had a fiancée at home.Jingqiu is not a gullible girl. After the initial surprise and heartache passed, she conducted a series of investigations and thoughts. Some people think that Jingqiu loves to think wildly. In fact, if we take a closer look at Jingqiu's mental activities, we will find that her thinking is very logical. She uses all available information resources within her ability to mobilize her. All knowledge, consider the problem as comprehensively as possible.Due to the constraints of the conditions, she cannot make correct judgments every time, but the judgments she makes are the most logical judgments that people in her situation can make. The result of Jingqiu's investigation and thinking is that the third child does have a fiancée, because many facts have proved this, for example, the photos of the third child and his fiancee that were placed under the glass plate before have disappeared.Among the outsiders, only the third child has entered the room where Jingqiu and Chang Fang lived, and the "insider" has no need to take away the photo of the third child.Readers probably would not have guessed that it was Changfang who took away the photo of the third child after reading the book, because this is Changfang's bedroom, why would she need to take away the photo of the third child? In addition, the third child admitted to holding another girl's hand on the day he walked the mountain road. The third child also told the story of that young man. After Teacher Ye left, Yu Min found Jing Qiu and introduced more about Details of the third child and fiancee.All this leads Jingqiu to come to a conclusion: the third child does have a fiancée. If you think you are smarter than Jingqiu, even if you get this information, you won’t think that the third child has a fiancée, then you are really too suspicious, because that will show that you don’t trust the third child, nor Yu Min, neither Believe in facts, not in logic. Someone said, why didn't Jingqiu directly ask the third child if he had a fiancée? The answer is simple, because that era was not our present era.Now is the era of "you have to say it if you love it, and you can talk nonsense about love if you don't love it". That era was the era when all books with the word "love" were confiscated, and it was the era when love was described as "establishing a deep revolutionary friendship". Jingqiu was only a high school student at that time. The age is still far away from the legal age for dating. You shouldn't even think about the word "love" in your dreams, let alone call people and ask if they have a fiancee. Even in this day and age, we believe the opinions of eyewitnesses to be more credible than the confessions of those involved, and facts to speak louder than words.If Yu Min said that the third child has a fiancée, and Yu Min is an honest and reliable person, and has no motive to lie and frame the third child, plus there are photos as evidence, and the third child's own confession as evidence, what reason does Jing Qiu have? Don't believe that the third child has a fiancee?If you believe it, why do you need to ask the third child?If the third child was a dishonest person, he would not admit it even if asked; if the third child confessed in front of her, then why should he suffer this humiliation? The strange thing is that only the readers accused Jingqiu of not asking the third child, but no readers accused the third child of not coming to explain to Jingqiu. Why didn't the third child tell the truth about his fiancée from the beginning?He clearly knows that everyone in the aunt's family knows that he has a fiancée (not "had"), why didn't he take precautions and clarify to Jingqiu earlier? Some readers blamed Jingqiu but did not criticize the third child. I think there are two reasons. One is that the third child has passed away. One reason is that most of the female readers who blame Jingqiu are "courtship" female readers. The characteristic of this type of readers is that they like to imagine the male characters with both talents and looks in the book as their lovers, so the female characters who love this male character are just It is more harsh, because watching the story has become a love competition, and there must be hatred for the rival in love. So why didn't the third child clear up the misunderstanding of this "fiancée" as soon as possible? , let’s first see how he told Jingqiu the story of him and his fiancée on the mountain: "He told an untitled story, to the effect that there was a young man who, in order to save his father's career and future, agreed to marry the daughter of his father's boss, but he was unwilling in his heart, and this matter has been dragging on. Later he met a girl he liked, and he wanted to marry that girl, but that girl knew that he had been engaged to another girl, so she didn't trust him and hid." Before I continue writing, I would like to ask you for your opinions: What did the third child say about his relationship with his fiancée? To break up or not to break up?