The one who wrote the suspense novel is back! Six years without a new work, what is he doing?

More than a decade ago, when the old literary magazine "Bud" was at its most popular, the name "Naduo" had already begun to emerge, and a large number of fans were captured with the brain-opening "Naduo Three Kingdoms Incident Book". Since then, "Nado's Strange Handwriting", "Nado Novel Vault", "Witchcraft Series"... He constantly wanders in the supernatural, reasoning, suspense, and science fiction, and is recognized as one of the pioneers of domestic suspense novels.

Over the years, it has been rare to hear Nado's movement in the literary world, so much so that some people still ask "Is Naduo not writing novels anymore?", and recently, he threw out a "bomb" that had been dormant for six years, "Nineteen Years of Murder Story". Because the story is wonderful, when the book is not finished, it is bought by the film and television company.

The book has no fancy marketing, and it is purely popular among book friends by word of mouth. Some people exclaimed, "That one who wrote suspense is back," and some people say, "That much, this time it's completely different."

What have you been doing all these years? What's so fascinating about this new work?

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Nado's mystery novel is a kind of syringe horror

The title is so low-key that it seems that there is no trace of a suspenseful mystery novel, a murder that lasts for 19 years, and he has to add a "small narrative" to the back, making people mistakenly think that they have entered the round of good afternoon tea.

It reads like a terrifying wave.

A radiant girl in the medical department suddenly began to lose her hair and her body was getting weaker, and she suspected that she had been secretly poisoned, but she could not detect any problems. Her friend was eager to help her investigate, and as a result, she fell into the morgue in the middle of the night... The beginning alone is enough to grab everyone's appetite.

Campus poisoning? It's like a poisoning case that was once a sensation on the Internet. But that's just the tip of the iceberg in "Nineteen Years of Murder." The further he read, the creepier he became, most of which was just a borrowing of material, and he really had no intention of solving a real-life case as a detective novelist.

In Nado's novels, the world laid out is much more complicated. A story spanning nineteen years, about 13 outstanding medical students who have lost their way and redeemed themselves in their growth. You look coldly at the ordinary people at the bottom of the abyss, struggling and desperately climbing up, people swaying between vague right and wrong. Everyone seems to have a certain shadow in us, and in today's rapid development of the times, we are always eager to achieve success in the secular sense with our own efforts. Once the bottom line is broken, evil, like a fierce horse that breaks the reins, runs wildly.

Screenwriter Shi Hang gave a very vivid evaluation: "The same is a speculative novel, there is a kind of horror that is sharp-bladed, and there is a kind of horror that is syringe. Nado was holding a syringe in his hand, and his hand was very steady. ”

Yes, this time, nado is like a surgeon, torturing the most complex human nature in the world, in the most stable and peaceful way to the texture.

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It is not an exaggeration to describe life in the past few years as a "great change"

In the past six years, where has that much gone? What are they doing? Why did it take so long to write this "Nineteen Years of Murder Story"?

The story was conceived in 2011, written in 2012, completed in 2017 and published in 2018. In this first eight years, I got married, lost my relatives, opened an internet celebrity restaurant, and changed from my early thirties to my early forties. Nado said that writing this novel was the most ups and downs in the middle age of his life, "the whole novel was written more than ten times as long as any of my previous novels, and during these six years, I turned around and began another life, otherwise, I could not write such a story, such a character." ”

It is not an exaggeration to describe the life of those many years as "great change".

The first is the death of his father Zhao Changtian. As a major figure in the Shanghai literary scene, Zhao Changtian is not only the editor-in-chief of Sprout magazine, but also the founder of the New Concept Essay Competition. At the memorial service of Zhao Changtian that year, Han Han, Zhang Yueran, Zhou Jianning, Cai Jun and other writers all sent farewell to this "Bole" in his writing career.

Because of his father, Nado's life has changed a lot, "Before 2012, I would have produced an average of two novels a year. But in 2012 there was a lot of situations around me. At that time, my father was diagnosed with a very serious illness, and in order to be able to get him to my wedding, I got married in late 2012. He left in early 2013 and my father died, which hit me very hard. The next year, my wife's father also left. ”

In order to help myself get out of the pain of losing my father, that year, Naduo opened a restaurant in Shanghai, "Many people know that I did something in 2013, opened a restaurant called 'Miss Zhao does not wait', my wife's surname is Zhao, in order to make her not wait for the position, I opened this restaurant." 」 Another reason is that I strongly want to leave my original life, not to mention writing, at that time I couldn't even read books, and I hoped that there was one thing that would make me stop thinking about the loss of my father. So I opened a restaurant like this. ”

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If it weren't for my father's departure, I wouldn't have been able to write today's work

Heartless willow lining. Unexpectedly, I have never opened a shop as the owner of that much, a restaurant opened by the nature of "playing tickets" with my hand, actually accidentally caught fire, and it was not counted as a night of popularity, and if you can eat his family's meal for two hours during the peak period, you are already lucky. Nado said, "A guy who has been at home for 8 years and does nothing but write anything suddenly runs out and opens a restaurant. I really didn't expect that the result came out a month ago that the restaurant became the first in the country on the public comments, which can be said to be the originator of the Internet red restaurant, and then at the peak of the day, we opened six or seven Miss Zhao in one breath. ”

Influencer restaurants tend to be extremely popular, but they rarely last long. "After all, I'm not a professional restaurant. Later, I simply decided to close all the restaurants and come back to writing full-time with peace of mind. When Nado made this decision, forty or fifty thousand words had been written at the beginning of the novel.

When his father was not yet dead, Nado talked to him about his novel idea. "He thinks it's pretty good, it sounds like there's nothing wrong with it, he said it's better than your original novel story, you can continue to write down, but when I continue to write down, I feel that there is resistance, I feel that there is something awkward." In the few years of opening the restaurant, I sometimes came home late at night and would continue to write, but the progress was very slow, only a few thousand words per month. But this time, when I started writing again, I found that the characters and the plot were there. ”

Nado was very concerned about his father's opinion, "I used to write a book called "A Hundred Years of Curse", which was the beginning of my real crime series, and he was very happy, and he stood for me for the first time, thinking that it was called a novel. In a sense, if it were not for his father's departure, he might not have been able to write today's work, "but I wrote too slowly and too slowly, and he could no longer see it." Nado still has regrets, and writes specially on the title page of the book- "Dedicated to my father Zhao Changtian."

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The warmth of human feelings over the years has made him re-acquaint himself with the human world

Nado first worked as a civil servant for three years, sitting in the customs office, and later went to the newspaper for four years as a reporter. Then later resigned professional writing. In comparison, he feels that in these six years of ups and downs, he has really entered the society, and these years of life and death, cold and warm human feelings have made him re-understand the human world: "Before being a reporter, it seems that he can quickly cut into different aspects of society, but when you look closely, it is actually a flash in the light, even if you do in-depth reporting, when it is completed, you are withdrawn from it, and it is not really deep." It's a crime story that requires insight into people, of a society of people. If I hadn't had these years of experience, I wouldn't have been able to write this long nineteen-year murder story by relying solely on the fantasies of walking with my father. ”

Nado said, "I think this is called life, even life and death for me, after all these years of twists and turns and ups and downs, when I go to write about crime, to write about life and death in fiction, it will be much easier." It's as if many of the characters in the book are actually formed in your heart. ”

That's another example, opening a restaurant allowed him to meet all kinds of people who had never thought of before. "At that time, there was a signature dish in the store that was salt-roasted hairy crab, and once I was not in the store, I received a call from the store manager, saying that he met a customer, he opened the cover of the roasted hairy crab, caught a live bee, asked for a free order, and asked me what to do. My first reaction at that time was that there were so many customers lined up outside, if I called the police, it would definitely affect the next business. I immediately replied, then free of charge. But afterwards, I was still shocked by my reaction. If I hadn't opened this restaurant, I would have said call the police and kicked this guy out, which is clearly blackmail. But at that time, in my position, instead of doing so, I accepted the unreasonable demands of the other side. I was amazed at my reaction, which I had never imagined before. ”

(City Express reporter Pan Zhuoying Photo provided by the interviewee)