Literary Master 1983

Chapter 149 Eleventh Ring

Entering the third week of July, sales of single books remain strong.

The first reprint of 300,000 copies has been sold out, and the second reprint of 500,000 copies is planned. It is estimated that the book will sell 2 million copies throughout the year, and the first place in the literary book category is already a foregone conclusion.

If there is any competitor, it can only be Yu Qie's other single books that are ready for publication.

"Da Saba" has become a social phenomenon.

For example, if a news report says that this person is reliable and loyal, they would say, “You really look like someone like Gu Yan!”

For example, colleges and universities encouraged their graduating students to return to build their hometowns by posting banners reading “Carry forward the spirit of Gu Yan and come back to build your hometown.”

After the Los Angeles Olympic delegation of more than 100 people arrived in the United States, CCTV reporters also sent an accompanying press group to provide round-the-clock coverage. The Chinese delegation was warmly welcomed by overseas Chinese and international students.

However, the reporters also found that some recently sent overseas students were exchanging magazines containing Yu Qie's novels serially.

The reporter asked them: "Can you read Yu Qie's novels in the United States?"

They said: "We are from Yenching University. We had read Yu Qie's novels before we went to the United States, but we didn't care much about them at the time..."

The reporter asked again: "Do you mean that studying abroad is not as good as you think?"

"It's not good, it's not good!" said a senior from the Economics Department of Yan University. "I come from a high-ranking official family, and I can get access to American high-tech in China. I don't have to stay in the United States to make a living."

"We introduced the outline of this novel to Americans, and even they liked it very much. They said Yu Qie wrote a god-like Christian, and such people deserve happiness."

"Young people in the United States are also very confused now and have no faith. If everyone saw someone like Gu Yan, who suffered all the hardships by himself, how could everyone not respect him?"

Thanks to the advanced technology of the United States, the 84 Los Angeles Olympics was the first Olympic Games in human history to be broadcast live in its entirety, and it is also said to be the first Olympic Games to make a profit.

There was almost no delay between the reports sent by frontline reporters to the anchors in China. CCTV rented satellites from New Zealand National Television and Hong Kong TVB, so all kinds of news could be sent back to China immediately.

The United States Information Agency provided personnel and electronic interview equipment, and ABC Television provided program content (because some competitions did not have the broadcast rights). There were two-hour special programs every day to discuss the performance of athletes at the Los Angeles Olympics.

Before the Olympics even started, there were two topics that the show often discussed: one was in which event the gold medal (the first Olympic gold medal) would appear, and the other was to introduce the current political and economic situation in the United States to the domestic public.

Therefore, there are not many literary works that have been published abroad in recent years, and Yu Qi's "Da Saba" is also used as a reference.

The male and female hosts responded one after another.

"The Los Angeles Olympics is the first time that New China has participated in the Olympics. If anyone can be the first to win a gold medal, he will become our national hero and create a record of 'first' for New China... Dear audience, this record may be achieved in an event that was held earlier. At present, it seems that Li Ning, the gymnastics prince of the Chinese gymnastics team, is most likely to win China's first gold medal."

"However, there are still some unpopular events ahead, especially the shooting event which is held for the first time in history. If someone can win the gold medal, he will undoubtedly carve himself into a historical milestone. Will there be such a person?"

"Aren't you talking about someone like Gu Yan? He doesn't stand out in the crowd, and no one expects anything from him, but he is the one who creates miracles."

When the young shooting athlete Xu Haifeng heard these words, he secretly made up his mind to win the first gold medal.

He is a talented freak who is improving very quickly.

Two years ago, he used a domestically produced Shuangling brand ordinary air pistol worth more than 60 yuan and unexpectedly scored 370 points, defeating the provincial shooting team members who were holding German guns worth thousands of yuan. Then last year he was specially recruited into the national team and broke the national record in a shooting championship held in Shanghai.

But compared with Li Ning, he was a dull person, and no one believed that he could continue to explode and create the first in history.

Moreover, Xu Haifeng is a nervous person. His results are not stable and are greatly affected by his condition.

The target used by shooting athletes is only the size of a coin. That is the target, not the red heart. Ten meters away, even the target is just a black dot.

Xu Haifeng can only aim by muscle memory all day. During his time in the United States, Xu Haifeng found that his state was fluctuating, so he always used Yu Qie's novels to motivate himself. He likes Yu Qie as a writer very much, because many of Yu Qie's works are to motivate people to move forward, unlike other works that make him feel depressed. There are too few writers like this in China.

"Snapped!"

Hit the ten rings.

"Snapped!"

The nine rings are crooked.

"Snapped!"

Still nine rings.

Xu Haifeng adjusted his mindset, thinking about how Gu Yan had gone through all the hardships, but in the end he calmly let go of everything and forgave everything. This "saint"-like perfect person made Xu Haifeng's heartbeat slow down. Between the breathing interval and the previous heartbeat and the next heartbeat, he chose to shoot, "Bang!"

Xu Haifeng fired the bullet, and it hit the bull's eye. There is no such thing as eleven rings in airgun shooting, but in archery, there is a maximum single score of ten point nine rings. If the score reported this time is based on the archery standard, it is ten point nine.

Xu Haifeng suppressed his excitement and shot several times in a row, scoring ten rings each time. If the two times of nine rings were ignored, this result created the best domestic result.

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The popularity of single-volume books has reached such a level that Yu Qie himself is even more popular. Not only his novel, but also his previous novels have been put on the schedule, and they are all preparing to publish single-volume books and comic books.

He went to the editorial office of "October" to get the letters. This week, hundreds of letters came from readers. Readers believed that the characters in Yu Che's novels were based on prototypes, and asked Yu Che for the addresses of some of the characters in the novels, expressing their willingness to donate money and materials to these people.

To the extent that Yu Qie wrote a special article to introduce his creative ideas, and pointed out that there is no corresponding real-life character, so readers are asked not to waste their money.

Now a large number of media reporters come to interview Yu Qie every day, many newspapers and magazines send people to ask Yu Qie to write articles, some literary societies of colleges and universities invite him to give speeches, and many film studios and theater troupes come to Yu Qie to discuss the "novel adaptation script" matter.

Zhang Shouren teased him: "Yu Qie! You have become a public figure, a big star."

Yu Qi now particularly regrets having his photo in the book, and also regrets appearing in an interview with CCTV while on the set of "Dream of Red Mansions".

More and more people knew Yu Qie, so he couldn't even play table tennis in school. Because table tennis was not included in this Olympics, the national players liked to come to Yanda for training. These people came to Yanda's amateur table tennis champion Yu Qie to compete with them. Of course, Yu Qie couldn't beat them no matter how hard he tried.

"I should play bridge with those who play table tennis, and play table tennis with those who play bridge. Isn't that a win-win situation?"

Soon, the Yanda Bridge Association held a competition to decide the top ten players in the school, who were ready to compete with the top players from other schools.

Because Yu Qie provided the venue for everyone to use, everyone accepted Yu Qie as the honorary vice president of the association.

"Yu Qie, what do you want?"

"I just ask for one thing, don't abuse me like those guys who played table tennis did."

The honorary vice president’s card skills are indeed not very good.

Therefore, every time he came, everyone would play Sichuan Senior Officials Cards (Southwest Bridge), taking turns to play and teach him everything they knew, in order to make Yu Qie a bridge master, or at least invincible among ordinary people.

This one asked: "Yu Qie, if you write a novel like "The King of Chess" called "The King of Cards", would you write about international bridge or your domestic bridge?"

The answer was: "He must have written that he played against foreign players, beat the foreigners, and then came back to improve the domestic brands, because he wanted to keep up with the international standards!"

Yu Qi heard that they were talking about the plot of "Big Scatter", and could only say helplessly: "Please spare me and stop talking to me about the novel."

(End of this chapter)