Back to 80: My literary life.

Chapter 863 "Welcome to sue me"

"sorry."

Fang Minghua said seriously: "If it is Sanmao's "How Many Flowers Fall in Dreams", I am willing to appreciate and discuss with you, but I will not talk about this book."

"Because it can only be considered a bestseller and not a real literary work?" the girl asked.

"That's one of the reasons, but it's not the most fundamental one." Fang Minghua looked at her and said, "Because this book is suspected of plagiarism."

"Plagiarism?!" The girl was stunned, and so were the readers present.

This book is a bestseller in the market, comparable to Han Han's novel "Triple Door", but it is actually plagiarized?!

"I recommend a book called "Inside and Outside the Circle", written by an author named Zhuang Yu. You can look at the publication time and content of the two books to see if there is any plagiarism!"

"Inside and Outside the Circle"!
"My bookstore has this book." Lei Xuecheng came up and said this at some point.

The girl immediately rushed down the stairs.

The first "Lecture" ended successfully. The next day after Fang Minghua returned home, Lei Xuecheng called her.

"Minghua, your reading lecture this time was very effective. Now my customers have spontaneously started a vote to recommend the title of your next lecture."

"Is it settled?"

"No, the voting will continue for a few more days to gather the opinions of the majority. Next time I plan to have a lottery system, so that there won't be too many people rushing up and you won't have a place to sit."

"I'll stand if I'm fine, but with so many people coming to your bookstore, you have to be careful." Fang Minghua reminded.

"So I have to control the number of people. Minghua, I didn't expect that your last sentence would make the two books in the bookstore sell out." Lei Xuecheng finally said with a smile.

"'How Many Flowers Have Fallen in Dreams' and 'Inside and Outside the Circle'?"

"Yes, many people compared these two books on the spot, wondering whether they were plagiarized or not, haha."

Fang Minghua smiled when he heard this.

What he didn't expect was that what he said at the lecture was posted on Tianya Community and quickly went viral, becoming a hot topic on the Internet.

The famous writer Minghua said that the currently best-selling novel "How Many Flowers Fall in Dreams" is suspected of plagiarism!
The author couldn't sit still.

The publishing house couldn't sit still anymore.

They even published a statement that the writer Minghua slandered our publishing house for plagiarizing the novel "How Many Flowers Have Fallen in Dreams". This is a slander against our publishing house and the author himself. We demand that Minghua retract his words and apologize to our publishing house and the author in the newspaper! Otherwise, we will hold him accountable for his legal responsibilities.
The Internet and the media suddenly became lively.

Today is also the weekend.

Fang Minghua has given three consecutive lectures on "Triple Door", "Dust Settles", the winner of the 5th Mao Dun Literature Prize, and "Breeding" by Japanese writer and Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe.

After finishing the story, I returned home and saw Song Tangtang smiling.

"Someone sued you for libel."

"defamation?"

"Yes, look at this."

It turned out to be the Literary Gazette!
Sure enough, he saw a statement accusing Fang Minghua of defaming the author of "How Many Flowers Fall in Dreams" and demanding that he be held legally responsible.

"Have you received the lawyer's letter?" Fang Minghua asked back.

"What lawyer's letter?"

"You don't even dare to send me a lawyer's letter, so why are you suing me?" Fang Minghua said and threw the newspaper on the coffee table.

"I'm hoping they'll sue me. I've never been to court in my life."

"You don't care?"

"Of course not." Fang Minghua shook his head: "Didn't I just register a Sina blog? I haven't posted anything yet, I'll post one today!"

Soon, the first update appeared on Fang Minghua’s Sina blog.

There are only four words: "Welcome to sue me."

The publisher and author's name were also mentioned.

Soon, the content of this blog was forwarded by people. Sina Blog, which had just been launched, suddenly became very popular, which made Wang Xingdong, the founder of Sina.com, very happy.
There was no movement from the publishing house.

Just when everyone thought the matter was about to end, unexpectedly, the real lawsuit had just begun. Yanjing.

Zhuang Yu just came back from Xizang.

After graduation, she worked in several professions, including being an art teacher, a screenwriter, and now a reporter. She stayed in Xizang for almost a month before rushing back to Yanjing.

She had just returned to Yanjing and went online in her dormitory. She opened QQ, which she hadn't logged into for a long time, and was surprised to find that many friends and classmates had left her messages.

"Zhuang Yu, your book "Inside and Outside the Circle" was plagiarized!"

"The famous writer Minghua speaks up for you!"

"Hey Zhuang Yu, you're famous now." Someone was teasing.

Some even jokingly asked: "What is your relationship with Minghua? Why is he sticking up for you like this?!"

what relationship?
I know him, but he doesn't know me.

After reading the messages one by one, Zhuang Yu realized that her novel had been plagiarized by a man named Guo Jingming.

This was seen by Fang Minghua, who criticized the latter in public.

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Of course, she didn't have time to say anything now, so she hurried out to the bookstore to buy a copy of "How Many Flowers Fall in Dreams"!
After returning from Xizhang, her unit leader asked her to rest for a few days, but she did not go anywhere during these days. She just stayed in the dormitory and frantically compared the two books.

Sure enough, there are nearly twelve main plots in this book "How Many Flowers Fall in Dreams" that are obviously similar!
She knew what she had to do.

Soon, a lawsuit was filed with the First Intermediate People's Court of Yenching, suing the publishing house and the author himself, demanding compensation of 50 yuan and a public apology.

The Internet and the media suddenly became lively again.

For this reason, Zhuang Yu also wrote a special thank-you letter to Fang Minghua, which was sent to the Qin Province Writers Association.

But Fang Minghua did not reply.

Today is the fourth lecture of “Let’s Talk”.

Originally, Fang Minghua intended to stop after three issues, but unexpectedly the readers were so enthusiastic that he had no choice but to continue.

For this reason, in order to control the number of participants, Lei Xuecheng had to adopt the form of limited flow of invitation tickets for sale, of course, free of charge.

However, I heard that someone has set their sights on this business and resold the invitation tickets. I heard that the price was as high as 100 yuan per ticket, which eventually forced Lei Xuecheng to adopt the real-name system - the invitation ticket has the reader's name, ID number, etc. on the back, and only the person and the ticket must match in order to get in.

Today we will talk about Jia Pingwa’s latest novel, "Missing the Wolf".

The novel tells the story of a reporter "I" who went to Shangzhou for an interview and learned that Shangzhou had organized a wolf hunting team to kill wild wolves.
Now there are only 15 wolves left in Shangzhou, and they have assigned numbers to these 15 wolves. This story aroused my curiosity, so I started looking for these wolves.

In the process of searching for wolves, "I" unexpectedly met my uncle, the captain of the wolf hunting team, and then they encountered a series of things related to wolves. 15 wolves were killed one by one, which triggered a series of thought-provoking stories.

After so many years of writing, Jia Pingwa's writing skills have become quite sophisticated, and he has mastered the magical realism writing technique to perfection.

After Fang Minghao finished his speech and was on his way home, he suddenly received a call from Jia Pingwa.

"Minghua, I heard you were talking about my book "Missing the Wolf" at the Xuecheng Bookstore?"

"Yeah, I just finished talking and am on my way home."

"thank you."

"What are you thanking me for? These were all selected by the readers of the bookstore." Fang Minghua said with a smile.

"But thank you anyway."

Fang Minghua understood what Jia Pingwa meant.

Since he started giving lectures on some literary works one after another and spreading them through the Internet, Xuecheng Bookstore quickly became a popular place for literature lovers.

The novels narrated by Fang Minghua will immediately set off a sales boom, and as a writer, he will naturally be happy.

After hearing Jia Pingwa say thank you twice, Fang Minghua joked, "Brother Jia, don't thank me. Why don't you just go to Xuecheng Bookstore and give a few talks?"

"I can?"

"That's nonsense. If I can do it, why can't you? It's settled. I'll call Lei Xuecheng right away."

I can finally free myself for a while.

(End of this chapter)