End of Volume Six, Summary and Some Words (Please read it for free)
First, I want to express my gratitude to everyone for using the votes in your hands to kick me to third place. This is the most intense month since the start of the new book month. I've been in the top three before, but not as nervous and excited as I was yesterday. Perhaps only when people start to want something will they start to value a certain goal.
I let out a long sigh. I reached my goal last month completely because of everyone's support. I'm really grateful. 7949 votes. That was a record in the year of Qing Yu. It was doubled in May, but it was still only around 8000 votes. It was really difficult for me to imagine that I would be able to get so many votes … Perhaps it was because I was getting votes more frequently and being more shameless?
Perhaps my frequent canvassing for votes would make some of my dear readers feel a little unhappy. I apologize in advance, but it can't be helped. In Jianghu, people can't help themselves. Just like the little girl on the bridge, she stretched out her hand out of habit … Handsome, buy your girlfriend a flower.
Everyone is handsome, so I have to reach out my hand for votes. I have to admit, the ranking on the monthly votes is related to the prize money, but not only is it related to the prize money. There is also a sense of satisfaction and vanity from being recognized — and I am indeed very vain, this is not an excuse.
Speed and passion are like this. A fat man can only burn fat, but not the universe. I can only say my thanks again and promise to write more seriously in the future.
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After saying my thanks, I got to the main topic of the day. After solving the third volume, I have to write an epilogue for every volume. It can be considered a summary and chat with everyone about the content of the volume. This was announced to everyone the day before yesterday, so please take some time to read it.
Volume Six is the longest volume, with a total of almost a million words. It can really be described as vast and endless, long-winded, like the Eldest Princess' footbinding.
It was clear that the sixth volume was the most important volume of the Qing Yu year. Because in this volume, all the traps buried in the previous volumes had been stripped of their disguises, and all the power they had accumulated exploded. The people hidden in the dark had all jumped to the front of the stage, and those who were alive or playing minor roles had all died.
In the first chapter, "Before Wu Zhou's son-in-law", when I finished the two songs, I was very excited. I wanted to shout, "Something big is going to happen!"
There were at least tens of thousands of people who had died in this scroll. If only those with names were counted, there were still quite a few. It was truly a tragic scene. Ever since I started writing, I had never written about so many deaths. In the Vermilion Bird Chronicles, Yi Tianxing's massacre of the heavenly soldiers always gave people the impression that he was waving light dots around. Of course, that didn't count.
Many people had died, and we had to arrange different ways of death for them. We had to make sure that their deaths matched their personalities. It was a very painful thing, and I was very tired from writing. Particularly for the commoners who had died unjustly, they could not be easily explained away. Dead people also needed to be respected, particularly people like Ku He and the Eldest Princess.
As for the ingenuity and pitfalls, it was not tiring to fill them in, because this was the content that had already been prepared when the first volume of the Qing Yu year began.
Speaking up to this point, I would like to explain a little. This is because a small number of readers think that the Emperor transforming into a grandmaster is a cheat, and that the transformation is too sudden. There are even more unkind comments that say that I am too lazy to write an outline, so I write whatever I want, and when I see that things can't be solved, I let the Emperor transform into a human.
I scratched my head. No, I really did write an outline, and I wrote a detailed outline … haha.
Perhaps there was a problem with my ability, but there was no problem with my attitude in writing the Qing Yu year. I carefully thought through each step before I continued. It was just like the Emperor's true nature, the arrangements of these few years, and even a dozen years.
In reality, before the riddle was revealed at Dong Mountain, even as early as half a year ago, there were already readers who had guessed that the Emperor was a Great Grandmaster. They had basically caught all of the threads I had hidden. It was a happy thing for a storyteller to hide something in the story and then be caught by a friend who was reading the book.
For example, the Qing Emperor's discovery of Lin Wan'er's movements in the Qing Temple before Gong Dian. For example, after a night of poetry, Wu Zhu and Fan Xian entered the Palace. For example, the Emperor's strange behavior in the royal study. For example, the source of his powerful confidence. For example, the play in the Hanging Temple. For example, how he knew of the Eldest Princess and the Crown Prince's secret and thus proved Fan Xian and Pingping's evil plan.
I was very satisfied that, regardless of whether it was the Qing Emperor or Ye Liuyun, these two biggest traps, they had already pointed out what they were hiding the first time they appeared. The Qing Emperor's first appearance was in the Qing Temple. Ye Liuyun's first appearance was in Danzhou and he saw Wu Zhu. The world was so big. Why did he go to Danzhou?
It had been a long time since I had been narcissistic. Today, I would be a little narcissistic. I was very satisfied with these two threads leading to the end.
As for the Qing Emperor's identity as a Great Grandmaster, the deepest hidden thread was mentioned in Chen Pingping and Fan Jian's last conversation. During the Northern Expedition, the Qing Emperor was heavily injured. His entire body was stiff and unable to move.
I have mentioned this story many times before. The more important ones were in Volume Four, Chapter 28, and Volume Five, Chapter 50, Autumn Forest, Whispers. At the time, Chen Pingping faintly said to Fan Xian, "At the time, the Emperor was injured. His body was as hard as a block of wood. He could not move at all. As for the matters of wiping his body and urinating and defecating, there had to be a careful woman left to do it."
Later, on a stormy night, the Eldest Princess also mentioned her brother's heavy injury. His entire body was stiff. What did that look like? It was actually the exact same situation after Fan Xian's Tyrannical zhenqi reached its peak and exploded.
During that Northern Expedition, the Emperor, who had already trained his Tyrannical zhenqi to the peak, fought a bloody battle and spat out zhenqi wildly. Just like the battle between Fan Xian and the Shadow, he finally exploded.
Furthermore, he exploded even more fiercely than Fan Xian. He did not have two circulations like Fan Xian or Fan Xian's monstrously thick Meridians. His luck was even worse than Fan Xian's. In the barren mountains and unruly rivers, there was no doctor, no medicine, no waste, and no begonia. There was only Chen Pingping and Lady Ning. Thus, the Qing Emperor's Meridians were shattered. He could not move at all. He bled internally and almost died. However, in the end, he survived.
Without great perseverance and great luck, one could not reach the realm of a Great Grandmaster. When it came to perseverance, without question, the Qing Kingdom's mighty Emperor fully deserved to be number one. No one could compare to him.
As for the story of that Northern Expedition, how the Emperor entered the realm of a Great Grandmaster, and the effect this experience had on him, there will be a more detailed description in the next volume, "Emperor of the Dynasty." I will not continue here.
Since we are talking about the Qing Emperor, I will say a few more words. Perhaps from the beginning, I knew what kind of ruthless character I was writing about, so I have always secretly invested my feelings in him. Even now, I still think this Emperor is very remarkable.
When a person is cold-blooded and heartless, or a bastard, you have to admit that this is another form of greatness. Furthermore, we always stand in Fan Xian's or Ye Qingmei's point of view to consider problems. Sometimes, perhaps we forget that the Qing Emperor also made many sacrifices for the sake of a goal.
In other words, he was also an idealist.
Among the people of that generation, there were three idealists. One was Ye Qingmei, the other was the Emperor, and the son of the two of them was a true realist. He was a little merciful, a little lenient, a little scheming, a small citizen, a villager, and a cynic.
Of course, this is what I like about Fan Xian. After all, he is still like a person, while his parents are not like people anymore.
Book friends often say that there are two lines in the Qing Yu years, one in the light and one in the dark. One is about Fan Xian, and one is about Ye Qingmei. In reality, when I write, there are basically three lines. There is still one line that I have always kept in mind, and that is the Emperor. From this, it can be seen how much I value and admire this person.
Admiration does not mean that I like him. My sisters, please understand this and promise me.
When a woman reaches the pinnacle, she is Ye Qingmei. When a man reaches the pinnacle, he is the Qing Emperor. These are just some of my personal thoughts. They are not necessarily correct. Furthermore, I have always thought that when things are too extreme, they are always very cruel, cruel to others and to oneself.
Fan Xian is so good, so mediocre. So, right now, he is so troublesome and difficult to endure.
Things like feelings are always obtained through interaction. There are no innate feelings. For example, his feelings for Fan Jian and his feelings for Chen Pingping.
Just as Gege Pig said, in front of the cave in Xi Mountain in Northern Qi, Fan Xian mainly thought of Ye Qingmei as a distant and unreachable kindred, a friend connected by blood and heart, close but unfamiliar.
However, her legacy lived on. Every breath of air carried the scent of that woman. Everyone beside him would retell the story of the past. Gradually, Fan Xian finally determined his own nature. He was already in the Qing Kingdom. He was a part of this world. Ye Qingmei was his mother.
This was the process of brainwashing.
Fan Xian kept his distance from the Emperor, but he had to admit that the Emperor treated him well. Knowing favors was a good moral character.
He could only blame himself, an orphan, for having such a pair of parents after his rebirth.
But Fan Xian had also improved, a great improvement. It was an improvement in his worldview. This was a very remarkable thing. In terms of age, he was already a middle-aged man, yet he was still able to continuously revise his ideals. Particularly, his ideals had been washed away by death and appeared incomparably stubborn and ruthless.
In the meadow, he stood up. In life, he should also stand up. He should gradually understand that life will always end. Some existences in life may be more important than life itself.
Many people died in this volume. It is truly a sad thing, but I won't write anything to mourn those pitiful people because it is already written in the book. A few days ago, I saw a blog. The girl who wrote the blog (it should be a girl, right?) wrote a long review after Dong Mountain. At the time, I remembered it. Later, I saw people transfer it in the book review section. Thank you very much. In a moment, I will move it to the public area for everyone to take a look.
I sighed again. Writing this volume was very tiring, particularly the last dozens of chapters. It was truly beyond my expectations that I had written so many words in August. Sometimes, I found that some sour words were right. After writing for a long time, it was no longer me who controlled the story, but the story that controlled me.
The people in the story had their own thoughts and were not controlled by me at all. Then, they had the desire to act and speak, and they used my hand to beat it out. That is why I wrote so quickly last month. It was because of this that I couldn't resist writing one paragraph after another.
Perhaps it was because I had feelings for the characters in the story. Fan Xian had stayed in that world for a long time, so he had love. I had written about this world for a long time, so I also had love.
Regardless of whether it was Vermilion Bird Story or Qing Yu Nian, the latter parts were better written than the former. For the work of the seventh volume, I had taken the time these two days to read Qing Yu Nian in detail from beginning to end and once again confirmed this point.
It wasn't because I didn't put in effort at the beginning. It was because the characters at the beginning were all unfamiliar and distant to me. After writing two million words, I was already very familiar with these people's faces. Like the little girl selling noodles downstairs, I was happy and naturally familiar with them.
The level of the later parts was better, but the level of the words did not improve. Especially after re-reading, I found many wordy places, sticky places, and redundant words. This was a very shameful thing.
My words were sloppy, but they were never clean. The cleanest words in Qing Yu Nian still appeared in the chapter where Fan Xian killed the assassin when he was twelve. The problem was that I had written that chapter for four whole hours, and the number of words was still very small.
For the time being, I can't solve the problems with the words. Please forgive me.
However, I still liked the chapter names I chose. Every afternoon after writing a few thousand words, I would worry about what to name it. Basically, it was all nonsense, but sometimes it was quite interesting.
In the last ten or so chapters, many readers pointed out that there were many famous foreign names. Some friends even asked in the book review section if I had been studying the history of foreign literature.
Actually … what you said was right.
The process of writing Vermilion Bird Story was a learning process. Until the end, I was still full of energy and my mind was full. Writing Qing Yu Nian was a digging process. My mind was almost empty, so I decided to read. I wanted to read the world's famous books to fill my empty mind.
Unfortunately, I still didn't manage to read a single book. I only sadly remembered many of the titles I found, such as The Grapes of Wrath, Father and Son, The Winter of Our Discontent, A Hundred Years of Solitude, and The Catcher in the Rye Field.
Hey, you don't say. The names of these famous books really matched the contents of the chapters. What a coincidence, it seemed my luck was similar to Fan Xian's.
Although I couldn't read famous books to improve myself, stealing so many names helped.
If I wasn't reading famous books, what was I reading? Of course, novels from Qidian. I read a lot of novels. You can see on the rankings, I basically read them because I like to read. This was the starting point of my writing.
Yes, it was time for the book recommendation at the end of each paper. Of course, I won't talk about the old books, because everyone on Earth knows about them. I'll just talk about the books I liked in the past few days.
The first book is called The Ordinary Life. This is my favorite in the past half a year. Warning, it's a book for girls. Don't read it unless you like it. But I want to strongly recommend it to everyone. It's not just light, not just the irrepressible mockery at the beginning, not just the detailed descriptions, the key is the portrayal of the characters, the fluency of the writing, and the most alluring fantasies at the bottom of the words …
Shuning is the most suitable character to be a daughter. That's why Fan Xian named his daughter Shuning because I hoped that Xiaohua would be like Shuning.
Wan Ning is the best character I've described in the books I've read in Qidian. Who does she resemble? Like Ding Ya, Li Shiming, Shi Xiongzi, Li Xiuning, these seniors in the long river of history … In Qidian novels, there are very few characters that make you like … I can't say it, but it's good.
And I always thought that the boy that the author wanted to make fun of at the beginning … didn't die. That's what I firmly believe.
My friend Especially Bai insists that Shuning is the best match for Si Si, and he went to make a lot of noise. But I think that unless this Si Si isn't the Si Si, then we should just forget about it.
Coincidentally, the second book I recommend is my friend Especially Bai's new book. He's written about Shaolin monks and Evil Ming. Now he's writing about the Fist Qi. He always goes the hard route, and it makes people like me feel a bit of pain. I want to read about love and ambiguity, these urban things, but he wants men to go to this extent.
The Fist Qi should be published today. This story is really hard. If everyone wants to read something straightforward, then read this book and train your spirit.
The third book I recommend is Chaotic Clouds, Student Cui Hua's new work. The quality is guaranteed. Cui Hua is Ning Cui Ya. That guy is finally back.
Yes, of course, this book has very few words. If I recommend it, it will certainly attract discussion. But I have to admit that I've been reading this book since the beginning. I've been reading it all the way until the end of his draft. Of course, the draft is more than just the words posted now.
If I remember correctly, Chaotic Clouds should have been written more than half a year ago. In the end, it took so long for it to be posted. Xiao Cui put in a lot of effort. She put in so much effort that it took her a lot of effort to write. It was truly admirable.
I need to read it carefully.
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After talking about the sixth volume and recommending books, I will talk about the seventh volume, which is the final volume of the Qing Dynasty. This volume is very troublesome, very troublesome. I will try to finish it before the end of the year and draw a satisfactory full stop. I don't need to worry about a bad ending because cats care about their tails the most. Cat owners all know this.
The seventh volume, Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, has three periods. Of course, it is still the traditional way. It is impossible to suddenly and inexplicably start. However, there are some things that started in the eighth year of the Qing calendar that I cannot talk about specifically. Everyone, please follow me as I unfold it.
The joy in front of the palace is not joyous. As for Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, perhaps it looks a bit depressed, but I want to twist it into a bright youth. Everyone, look at how happy I am writing this summary. You will know what kind of emotions I am cultivating.
However, because the seventh volume is too troublesome, I need time to organize my thoughts and outline. I ask for a day off from everyone so that my mind, which was empty because of the end of the sixth volume, can be taut again. Today, other than this summary, there is no main text. I ask for everyone's understanding.
However, I have written over 5,000 words in the summary. I really am as long-winded as ever.
It is very strange that I did not update on the first day of the month, but I cannot help but urge everyone to vote for me.
It is said that it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. It is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. It is difficult to go from the vast ocean to the water. Apart from Mount Wu, it is not clouds. Taking a flower bush, I am lazy to look back. Half fate, the monthly vote and half fate, I raise my cup to invite the bright moon.
I do not want to be scolded, so I quickly stop being sour. Finally, I congratulate Teacher Wang Haidong for having children. Mother and daughter are safe. As a mother, her stomach was stabbed, but as a father, his feet hurt. This is a small matter. Haha, I congratulate him again. Yes, it is about the same time as Fan Xian's father.
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