Let's listen to the gossip of the jianghu

The grass house is home, the bright moon enters the fence, the clear spring boils tea, and the gossip is sangma.

The indisputable pastoral life is intoxicating, and the lively and extraordinary rivers and lakes are also fascinating.

Therefore, today we bring you a martial arts novel, Wen Rui'an's "Jianghu Gossip".

Wen Rui'an, a Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts novelist, is listed alongside Jin Yong, Gu Long and Liang Yusheng as the four great masters of the new martial arts. From the age of 8, Wen Rui'an has published poetry, and at the age of 16, he began to publish the "Four Famous Shops" series of martial arts novels, and has been working hard ever since. Of the nearly 800 novels he has published, more than 700 are martial arts novels, of which as many as 35 have been adapted into movies and TV series.

"Jianghu Gossip" is a short martial arts novel written by Wen Rui'an, a total of nineteen, each with a protagonist, all of which are independent dramas. In the form of two "idle people" nagging, the book combines the characters in the author's previous series of novels, such as the great hero Xiao Qiushui, the god Li Buyi, the white-clothed Fang Zhenmei, the assassin Tang Cho, the ranger Nalan, Mr. Zhuge ... Make fun of it.

In the afterword, Wen Ryan briefly reviewed the creative process of this "Jianghu Gossip". The first was the invitation of the newspaper, the newspaper designated to write an eight-thousand-word short martial arts novel, the number of words is rare, indispensable, which makes Wen Ryan feel stimulated and challenging, so he wrote a pen. Secondly, when conceiving the story, the author also made a new attempt. In a way that uses branches as branches and makes a big fuss, he pulls out the personally impressive characters in his past martial arts works and rewrites them.

In addition, the whole novel makes use of the effects of traditional Chinese crosstalk, storytelling, and dramatic dialogue, and through the dialogue of two idle people, it sets off a jianghu with flowers and swords, blood and tears. At the end, the two people in the dialogue also became the topic, the gossip people also became idle work, and the legendary people became legends.

Many of Wen Ryan's short novellas are among the best in martial arts works. If you have leisure, you may wish to read this "Jianghu Gossip" together.