Chapter 26 The author's "Conversations after Completing "Causes of Laughter and Laughter""

A general answer to the reader After finishing writing, apart from writing a preface, I thought that there was no need to write about this book.Unexpectedly, thanks to the readers' love, I kept writing to the "Newspaper Office" to ask about the plot in the book.Especially regarding the ending of the protagonist in the book, I thought it was not satisfactory, and some even asked me to make a sequel.According to Mr. Duhe, I receive many such letters every day, and it is difficult to answer them one by one, so I am asked to give a general answer at the back of this book.Firstly, I would like to thank you for your kindness; secondly, I would also like to express my opinion.

As for the composition of a novel, besides meaning and rhetoric, there are three ways of writing narrative: one is rendering, the other is interspersing, and the third is tailoring.What is exaggeration, let's take an example. In the section "Wu Song Fights the Tiger" in "Water Margin", a lot of "wine" characters are written first, which means that Wu Song was brave enough to write that he was drunk to the point of death. If he can kill a tiger, his force is even more obvious.This way of writing is completely "creating something out of nothing", and many boring things are made lively by it.What is an interlude, a novel cannot write one thing, but many things.If one of these many things is written and another one is written, the time and space will be confused, and the words will not be easy to run through.Therefore, in "Water Margin", "Walking Liu Tang on a moonlit night", a large paragraph "Song Gongming kills Yan Xijiao" was inserted along the way;What is tailoring? For example, a piece of material is used to make clothes, but it cannot be made into a whole piece.There are many who want it, and a few who don't, and then the clothes are successful. ——The same is true for novels.It is said that historians are not allowed to "cut corners" when writing articles; however, when we look at the first chapter of "Historical Records", "Xiang Yu's Benji", it is written that he has become a good man with generous and tragic songs, but he is no more than "Hongmen" and "Gaixia". Double the effort to write several large paragraphs.As for how many soldiers he led, how many battles he fought, and many, many daily life, they were all wiped out.How can we say that Xiang Yu has nothing to record except what is described in "Ben Ji"?This is because he was cut off because it was not needed.That is to say, on the opposite side of rendering, deleting something becomes nothing.To give another example from "Water Margin", after Shi Jin Beruda, he fell grass on Shaohua Mountain, and even was arrested and imprisoned, all of which have not been detailed. ——My pen is very stupid, of course I can't do the above three points, but when I do it, of course I try my best to walk towards this road.

Knowing this, readers can know where to learn rendering, where to learn to intersperse, and where to learn to cut in this book.According to everyone's inquiries, probably the tailoring aspect is the most likely to cause misunderstandings; in fact, if you think about it carefully, you will understand.For example, Fan Jiashu's uncle only made a fortune occasionally at the beginning, and didn't use him until the end.This is because I didn't need to mention his uncle in the past; later, He Lina had an exaggeration of "pursuing Tianjin", so I naturally wanted to write about him.Otherwise, there would be no need for that foreshadowing.Another example is that the Guan family's father and daughter did not write about their meeting with He Lina, but led Fan Jiashu to Xishan, and then they all got together.Some people, he was puzzled: How did Guan and He meet?You should still remember that Jiashu once introduced Xiugu and Ms. He to meet in Central Park, they are naturally acquaintances; moreover, Xiugu once pointed out to Jiashu that her family lived in a thatched hut outside the window Inside.Think about it, isn't it a long time since Guan and Hezhi met?Of course it can be kept simple.There are probably many others like this, so I don’t need to go into details.I think readers are all smart people. If you read this book carefully again, you will suddenly understand.

Again, it can be said that it is the end.The ending of the whole book, I think the pen is a little rushed.But beforehand, I have thought a little bit: if it is a little longer, I will definitely write out what should be cut, sloppy, and the air should not be tense.When the end is not tense, the whole book loses its spirit.As far as people are concerned, Fan Jiashu is just looking for an opponent, which doesn't matter.As for Fengxi, I think I have written her to death; but she is just a very clever but weak-willed woman, why put her to death and hurry up!But if I want to write about her so that she and Fan's family fall in love again, as a book writer, I will "teach others to steal".In short, with such a blow to her, madness is inevitable.Ask crazy, okay?It seems that the question is beyond the scope of this question.But I might as well give readers a little hint from my hint: didn’t her mother clearly express hopelessness?Fengxi is crazy if she doesn't see the family tree, and even crazier when she sees the family tree! ——I really can't bear to write down.The second is Xiu Gu.Before I write about Xiu Gu's appearance, I don't intend to match her with anyone.The departure of her father and daughter, of course, is like a dragon without a tail.When I asked her where she was going, I had no choice but to say "Only in this mountain, I don't know where the clouds are deep".Finally, let's talk about He Lina.At first, I only wrote that she was the opposite of Fengxi.Later, I felt that this kind of woman who was passionately in love was too suitable for the appetite of modern youth, so I wrote another paragraph vigorously, which aroused the sympathy of readers.Some people advocate that Fan and He get married, but I think otherwise: the first condition for a woman's love for a man is to be faithful.As long as you are faithful to her in your heart, no matter if you are blunt or slippery on the surface, she will love you.Ms. He's love for Fan Jiashu is because of this.But Fan Jiashu, he doesn't like women who are too lively, especially extravagant.So you can't think how much he loves He Lina.In the midst of not much love, there are two things that he can't forget: 1. He Lina's face resembles the one he loves.Second, He Lina listened to him too much.At first, he didn't have any love.Of course I don't want Miss He; now, let's go, I'm crazy, only Miss He is the object, and Miss He is so passionately in love, how can an honest person get rid of it!However, honest people's hearts are not easy to transfer. The night they met in the Xishan Villa was the beginning of their love, and what will happen next is uncertain.

As a result, this is the case.In short, I can't marry all three women to a man named Fan like in "Ten Beauties", but I don't want to choose one to marry a man named Fan.Because of that, it would be mediocre.After reading it, the reader will never read the words of the people in the book except for the other two people sighing - what's the point of that?The universe is full of regrets, leaving some regrets will make people think about it later, like chewing an olive, with relish.If it must be written at the end, there will be a lot of excitement, like fat chicken and big meat, it will be over after eating, I am afraid that the taste is not as good as the taste of such endless olives!

Soon, I will write another one, Passionate Love Under Fire, which is still published in "Merry Forest".Or, in a slightly sympathetic way, I'd better ask for advice then. whether to make a sequel - Breaking a charade for the reader The "News" transferred the letter to me from readers, and I know that some people advocate that I make a sequel to "The Cause of Laughter". I thank you for your love, but I am a little bit sentimental.All kinds of works, no matter scripts or novels, or even prose, have a place where enough is enough and cannot be continued randomly.This is what the ancients advocated when traveling in the mountains, not to play it all, and to leave two or three out of ten to not play, so as to leave some thoughts.So recently, some people advocate that you only need to eat 80% full.Come back, let's talk about novels again.Although the novel is trivial, it also has its own rules: it is not necessarily "non-reunionism", nor is it necessarily "reunionism".If you don’t believe me, look, what is more chewy is the one that is reunited, or the one that is not?For example, in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", what are the characters in the minds of readers, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Kong Ming?Conversely, those whom the readers are most reluctant to read, such as the Cao family and the Sima family, are considered emperors.If Luo Guanzhong didn't want to write history one by one, how would it feel?This is still limited to facts and cannot be falsified.We might as well look at it again, its ending was terribly tragic, and it was extremely "disunionist".Later, some people "courageously acted when they saw righteousness", such as "Re-Dream", "Host-Dream", "Re-Dream", and "Dream Realization", there are more than ten kinds, and they continued randomly.However, to this day, is everyone willing to reunite, or not? "Causes of Laughing and Laughing" is far inferior to the ancients.The book of the ancients cannot be continued, let alone a mere book!Let's take another example of two paragraphs: The first is the song version of "The West Chamber". Up to "A Dream at the Caoqiao", not only the matter is not finished, but the text also seems to be unfinished.But he didn't want to express the meaning of "chaos from beginning to end", so let everyone think about it.And a 40% discount was added at the end. Although it is related to Hanqing's handwriting, it is still inevitable to be cursed by future generations!Let's look at "Robinson Crusoe" again. The author wrote the first episode, which shocked the world.It's okay to leave the desert island.Because he answered the request of most readers, he made a sequel again.When I was writing, I was suffering from insufficient facts, so I made up random ones, and the result was that the sequel dwarfed it; some people even doubted that the previous episode was not written by the original author.The same is true of the indiscriminate continuation of the book!Naturally, it is an extremely naive work, but since readers love it, of course I don't want it to be self-constructed or self-destructed.If a childish thing is made childish again, I am afraid that this will also lose the love of readers.So it comes down to one sentence: I can't continue, I don't need to continue, and I dare not continue.

Answers to several important questions I know that many readers have inquired about the whereabouts of the protagonist from the information relayed by the "News".In fact, the benevolent sees benevolence, and the wise see wisdom, so there is no need to inquire.Fortunately, let me talk about this matter casually, and it is not about the art of books. Here is a brief answer as follows: 1. The whereabouts of Guan Xiugu has disappeared since then.If you want her to come back, she can come back whenever you want.But don't tarnish the innocence of chivalrous women. 2. The whereabouts of Shen Fengxi is due to his illness.I don't write about how there is no improvement, so that you will not cry.smile.

3. The whereabouts of He Lina, those who have gone have gone, the sick have fallen ill, and the only opponent of the family tree is her.Guess what to do next?If you are really passionate, you might as well go to the book to be Tao Bo and the second, and match them up. 4. He Lina said that she went abroad and appeared in Xishan, which makes sense.A child plays hide-and-seek, and B says, "Have you hidden?" Jia says under the table, "I'm hiding." Isn't that bad?Ms. He's words are far and near, that's because she doesn't want to be a child. 5. Guan and He meet because they are neighbors and have known each other in the park.

Guan's father and daughter originally wanted to reconcile Shen, He Jun, and Fan Yan, so Shoufeng said: "Two points of effort, only one point." And Xiugu clearly said: "My family lives at the foot of the mountain." It must be clearly stated at a glance.However, since readers have come to ask, I have already added a paragraph in the separate volume. (, December 1930, Shanghai, Sanyou Publishing House) Idol