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Chapter 124 "The Sheep Herding Class's Spring" (Guaranteed 2 more chapters)
Aunt Xiaoyan smiled and said, "In fact, many children's and youth magazines in China want to ask you to write articles."

Wei Ming nodded. "Yes, they don't have my contact information, so they pretend to be letters from readers. When I open them, they are all letters asking for manuscripts. I already have quite a few, especially the two from Youth Literature and Art, which are the most active."

There are two magazines named "Youth Literature and Art", both of which are quite famous. One is in Shanghai and the other is in Nanjing. The two magazines have been involved in many lawsuits over this.

Wei Ming did not choose to continue cooperating with "Children's Literature" because they are now a bimonthly magazine, and the next issue is in March. It may take half a year to finish serializing "Jumanji", which is not conducive to the spread of fame.

Therefore, in order to make the pen name "Wei Shenme" more valuable, Wei Ming hopes to publish more children's literature works and become a force that even the Shanghai Animation Film Studio cannot ignore.

Apart from the fact that Shanghai Animation Film Studio wanted the screenwriting rights for "The Magic Book", Aunt Xiaoyan fully supported Wei Ming's decision.

If it was a children's literature master like Zhang Tianyi or Chen Bochui, the Shanghai Animation Film Studio would not dare to have such a petty thought. She was just curious about what kind of story Wei Ming would write next.

Wei Ming smiled and said, "I'll show it to you after I finish writing it in a few days."

"Okay!" Lu Xiaoyan agreed readily. Although it felt like they were colluding with the enemy, they were all real relatives after all.

~
After returning to the dormitory, Wei Ming did not rush to write the script for "The Magic Book" nor did he start a new fairy tale. Instead, he continued to write the novella step by step and finally completed it at the end of January.

The next day, on a cold winter day, Wei Ming rode his 28-meter bicycle to personally deliver it to the editorial office of People's Literature.

When I went out, I saw a newsstand and thought that the January issue of "Harvest" should be on sale, so I went over to take a look, and sure enough, it was still available, so I quickly bought one.

This issue also features Sister Chen’s “Middle-Aged Man”, which is also a very excellent work and Wei Ming will definitely support it.

In addition, Lu Yanzhou, the author of "Legend of Tianyun Mountain", also published his new work "Calling" in this issue. He is very depressed now. The script had already been chosen by the famous director Xie Jin, but it was temporarily cancelled.

Although it was just the next film, it was all in vain.

"Young man."

As soon as Wei Ming put the magazine into his bag, the old man at the newsstand called him, "Are you the Wei Ming?"

Wei Ming pulled up his scarf to reveal his mouth and chin.

"Can you still recognize me even though I'm like this?"

"It's really you!" the old man said excitedly, "Why didn't you publish an article this month?"

In the past, Wei Ming published one article per month.

Wei Ming seriously reflected on why he had become slower recently, and finally felt that Melinda should bear the main responsibility.

It turns out that women only affect the speed at which one draws the sword!

"Don't be anxious, sir. I'll take my time and do a good job."

"When and where will you publish your next work?" the old man asked again.

He wanted to experience again the feeling of readers queuing for hundreds of meters to buy magazines.

Wei Ming: "It may be next month at the earliest, but it may be later. It depends on whether the editor is satisfied with it. I am about to submit the manuscript. I will let you know when I get back."

"Okay, then, let's go! Kick! Stand up and kick!"

~
"People's Literature" was located at No. 52, Dongsi th Street, and was housed in the building of the Dramatists Association, diagonally opposite which was Mr. Ye Shengtao's compound.

Now, let alone the housing difficulties faced by ordinary people, even top domestic literary magazines like People's Literature are facing difficulties.

Because we were borrowing someone else's territory, there were only five offices, two large and three small. The novel group occupied the large one, which had the most editors.

After Wei Ming knocked on the door and entered, he first found Mr. Tu Guangqun, the editor who had "passed by" Peking University last time.

Editor Tu's eyes lit up when he saw Wei Ming, and he shouted, "Wei Ming is here!"

The editors immediately saluted him, and some even exclaimed, "How young!"

Wei Ming took off his hat and scarf, thinking: Compared with my youth, my handsomeness is more obvious, right?

Maybe it was because Editor Tu’s voice was too loud, Zhou Ming, the leader of the poetry and prose group next door, also ran over and got to know Wei Ming. He also wanted to ask Wei Ming for an article.

The leader of the novel group, Xu Yi, smiled and said, "Old Zhou, they are coming for our novel group, what are you doing?"

Zhou Ming: "What's wrong with me making an appointment first? It won't delay your business, and it has already been sent to you. By the way, what's the name of the novel?"

Tu Guangqun, who received the manuscript, read it a little: "The Sheep Herding Class, haha, this time it's my turn to write about sheep."

Wei Ming took a day off specially, so they watched their own things while Wei Ming just watched whatever he saw on the side. He would spend the whole day with them.

There is no such novel or TV series as "The Chorus" in the world. There is only one classic French movie called "The Chorus", and Wei Ming's novel is based on it.

In Taiwanese dialect, "the class for the poor" refers to classes for students who have poor academic performance and are considered to have no future. Usually, students in these classes are marginalized by society and are in a state of neglect.

The original name of this movie, which has a Douban score of 9.2, actually means "The Chorus". It was translated into "The Chorus" in Taiwan, and the mainland directly used this translation. In fact, there are no cows in the movie.

But there are real sheep in Wei Ming's "The Sheep Class".

In mainland China, there is also a term similar to "cowherd class", called "herding sheep", which is a metaphor for the fact that students are undisciplined and undisciplined, just like a flock of sheep driven into the fields to forage freely. The derogatory meaning is not as strong as "cowherd class".

Therefore, the children in Wei Ming’s novel are not a group of people defined as “problem children”, but a group of elementary school students who have no teachers, no one to discipline them, and have been “left alone” for a long time.

Wei Ming often watched this movie in his previous life. In fact, he didn't like children at first, but his cousin Wei Xi got divorced every other day, and after three marriages and divorces, he had seven sons.

Uncle Ping An and his wife couldn't handle these troublemakers at all, and often had to send some trouble to Wei Ming. In order to better understand the children, Wei Ming watched this movie and watched it repeatedly. He mastered some ways and methods to communicate with the children. Later, the seven children had a good relationship with him and called him "Uncle" very affectionately.

Although he was very familiar with this film, Wei Mingjie only used the main framework of the film, and most of the content was original and in line with the local situation.

It tells the story of a music teacher and a group of students who went from being enemies to becoming friends and confidants, healing each other and soothing themselves, and music is also an important tool for them to get closer to each other.

The first chapter of the novel, "Where is Spring?", is also the protagonist's soul-searching question. From this we can tell which era it is about.

That’s right, it’s still a scar novel, a popular category, equivalent to the fantasy and urban novels on Qidian. Seeing Tu Guangqun’s novel, I feel that the sales volume is stable. Wei Ming’s most influential work, The Shepherd, is a scar literature.

It’s just that "The Shepherd" is not the conventional scar literature, and obviously "The Shepherd Class" is not either.

The story takes place in a southern village called "Tangdi", which has mountains, water and forests.

Because a few naughty children blocked the chimney of the village chief's house, causing smoke to fill the village chief's house, the village chief was furious and questioned the primary school principal how he managed his students.

The principal also felt wronged: "Dad is busy with farming these days, so he has no time to take care of me. Besides, I can barely recognize a few words."

"Then the teacher doesn't care?"

"You forgot, we treated Teacher Su too harshly a while ago, and he was too shy to jump into the river."

Seeing this, Editor Tu wanted to ask Wei Ming whether he was referring to Mr. Lao She.

However, Wei Ming was gone. Upon asking, I found out that he was taken by Zhou Ming to meet the editor-in-chief Li Ji, who is also a poet. I guess he went there to make friends through poetry.

He continued to watch. The conversation between the father and son was absurd but also had a hint of chillness.

The village chief asked: "Then, then we can't find another one."

"My God, there are no useful teachers nowadays. Even those with a little cultural background dare not admit that they can teach."

"As a teacher, whether you can teach or not is not important, as long as you can keep these little bastards in school and prevent them from making trouble all day long, it's fine. You should solve this problem quickly, or I will replace my uncle as the principal."

The old principal was in a difficult situation. As a result, a teacher fell from the sky. A university professor named Zhong was sent to the village to do labor.

The principal took one look and knew he had the candidate!
But Teacher Zhong was confused: I teach music?

"Can you read? Can you count? If you know all of them, then you can teach them. If you can teach them well, you can do less work!"

Teacher Zhong was in poor health and had been injured, so it was too tempting to work less, so he was forced to step onto the podium again and became the head teacher of a group of mixed classes with students from grades one to five.

As a result, when roll call was taken on the first day, only 23 people showed up when 3 were supposed to be there. The principal became anxious and asked the principal to call all the students back to school immediately, otherwise he would be dismissed by his son.

However, Teacher Zhong was not in a hurry. He took the three children to play games at school. Soon, the three children became five children in the afternoon.

By the next day, there were ten children.

On the third day, a dozen or so.

Day ...

In addition to playing games, Mr. Zhong’s teaching content has gradually included reading and arithmetic.

Although he teaches music, he is a university professor after all, so he can easily teach elementary school students Chinese and mathematics. He slowly regained the feeling of enjoying teaching with his students in college.

Even though these students came, the principal would stand at the door before every school day to remind them that Teacher Zhong was an "old rightist" and that they should be wary of him.

This was also the advice given by his son, the village chief, so there was always some confrontation in the relationship between teacher and student.

When the number of students stabilized, Teacher Zhong discovered that three people never came.

So he started visiting families while teaching, and the story unfolds from there...

At noon, Wei Ming found a restaurant outside to eat, then went for a walk, spent some money, and returned to the editorial office.

At this time, Editor Tu had already finished reading it, and others were scrambling to read it.

Editor Tu has something that has been on his mind for a long time.

He asked Wei Ming: "You said that the song "Little Grass" in the novel could make Chen Pipi cry. Although he held back his tears, he made two little girls in the class cry. Does this song really exist?"

Wei Ming: "Aren't all my lyrics written on it?"

“But no one knows how to sing it?”

“We were curious about how the song would go.”

"Yes, yes."

Wei Ming understood that the lyrics alone were not powerful enough and only with the melody could the tear-jerking effect be achieved to the greatest extent.

It even depends on the singer's emotional performance.

So Wei Ming decided to sing a cappella on the spot, and explained in advance that this song would have a better effect on people with tragic life experiences, such as Chen Pipi in the novel.

"I don't have the fragrance of flowers, I'm not as tall as trees, I'm just a little grass that no one knows..."

(End of this chapter)