Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 72 The Orient Express
The system said a lot, and Zhang Zhong finally understood. After reaching [-] points, a new permission can be opened, which means that you can give up a chance to draw a lottery, and then save it for the next lottery draw. In this way, it is possible to draw better works.

But Zhang Zhong ignored it, he felt that the works drawn now were pretty good, and even better ones seemed not suitable for him now.

[Just draw the lottery directly. 】

Zhang Zhong gave instructions to the system in his mind.

[The lottery draw begins...]

No persuasion, no objection, no hesitation, a cold system.

[The lottery draw is completed, and the work "Murder on the Orient Express" will be won]

It turned out to be this book. Zhang Zhong was a little surprised. What he didn't expect was that he would get Agatha's works consecutively.

This book "Murder on the Orient Express" is one of Agatha's masterpieces, and it is also a relatively famous one in the Hercule Poirot series.

Hercule is an important character in Agatha's works, and many of her works use Hercule as the protagonist.

Like Sherlock, Hercule is also a very popular detective.

However, "Murder on the Orient Express" is not Poirot's first appearance. If Zhang Zhong remembers correctly, Poirot's first appearance should be "The Strange Case of Styles Manor". It is also from this case that Poirot's legendary experience begins. It is considered to unfold the scroll.

It is said that Agatha's inspiration for writing "Murder on the Orient Express" came from the Lin Bai kidnapping case in 1932. Combined with several natural disasters encountered by the Orient Express train, this story was finally formed.

Like "And There Were None", this book also has many characters.They include a burly Italian, a thin and dignified Englishman, a big American who looks like a salesman, a serious old Russian lady and her waiter, an ambassador couple from Hungary, a colonel and a noble lady, etc. .

On the way of the train, a man named Ratchett told Poirot that his life was in danger and asked Poirot to protect him, but Poirot was unmoved.

Late that night, Ratchett died in his box. He was stabbed twelve times, but the door of the box was locked. This seemed to be an unsolved case.

Poirot spent a long time looking for evidence and motives, but all the evidence seemed to lead to an unanswered direction. Finally, he thought of a possibility, a possibility that he couldn't believe.

The whole carriage, everyone, except Poirot and his friends and the medical examiner, were murderers!

They all came to kill Ratchett, because Ratchett was the murderer of the "Armstrong Abduction Case".

This is why the first-class compartment of this express train is usually empty, but this time it is full of people.

What is wonderful about this novel is not only the mystery of the storyline and the unexpected truth revealed at the end, but more importantly, Poirot finally chose between facing the truth he has always insisted on and the justice of judging crimes. Or, this is the first time that Poirot is so flesh and blood.

Anyone who is familiar with Poirot knows that he is a stubborn, arrogant, and critical person, and his obsession with the truth is beyond ordinary people.

Zhang Zhong ran through the plot of "Murder on the Orient Express" in his mind, and felt that he had encountered a problem.

Unlike "And There Were None", this novel is not easy to modify, because the novel involves a lot of historical details. Although these are not irreplaceable, it does take a lot of time to adapt.

More importantly, this book is almost impossible to Sinicize, because many details in it cannot be transferred to Huaxia, especially Poirot, his experience, his story, Agatha created it too perfectly, so perfect that people Almost thought there was such a person.

Zhang Zhong rested his chin and thought for a long time in the study room, but he had no clue at all. He couldn't help but feel a little discouraged. He might have some way to Sinicize "Murder on the Orient Express", but after finishing the Sinicization of this book, the Poirot series I'm afraid he won't be able to write other books, and many things can no longer be connected.

Forget it, it’s not sinicized.

Zhang Zhong decided to give up Sinicization.

The reason for Sinicization is to make it easier for Chinese readers to read and have a stronger sense of identity.

Although it was decided not to Sinicize, but many places in the book still need to be changed. After all, many things mentioned in it do not exist in this world, and Zhang Zhong needs to find other things to replace them.

This is not difficult, and Zhang Zhong is not in a hurry. He wants to type all the books in his mind on the computer first, and then slowly revise them.

"Ten Little Indian Boys" has just finished its serialization on the Internet, and the physical version has not yet come out. The previous "Jieyou Grocery Store" has just been released for a short time. Now there is another 10,000+ word novel, which is really shocking.

After knocking for more than an hour, Zhang Zhong saw that it was getting late, so he went back to his room to sleep.

……

Early the next morning, I was in the office of the editor-in-chief of Surging Literature.

Li Nan pointed to the curve on the computer screen and said to Fang Xingkai with a smile, "Xingkai, do you see anything?"

After listening to the editor-in-chief, Fang Xingkai stared at the screen for a long time.

There is a meter on the screen with a total of four curves going up.

These four curves represent the total sales trend of the top four new book sales charts in October.

It can be clearly seen that although the bottom curve is always below the top three curves, when the other three curves gradually slow down and gradually level off, the fourth line still maintains an upward momentum.

And now, the fourth line is about to cross the third line.

When the two lines cross, it means that the position of the sales leaderboard is about to change.

"It seems that the sales volume of "Jieyou Grocery Store" will soon exceed that of "Country Ruin." Fang Xingkai said.

Li Nan shook her head with a smile, "You are still too conservative. I think the sales of "Jieyou Grocery Store" will exceed that of "Flying Snow 2."

Fang Xingkai was speechless, "This...it's a bit premature."

Admittedly, the staying power of "Jieyou Grocery Store" is indeed incredible, but at the beginning, it was a bit far behind the top books on the list, and it was not so easy to catch up.

Now the total sales volume of "Jieyou Grocery Store" is more than 160 million.

The third-ranked "Country Ruins" sold 170 million, the second-ranked "Xingcan" sold 250 million, and the first-ranked "Flying Snow 2" sold 310 million.

If it is possible for "Jieyou Grocery Store" to surpass "Xingcan", but it is too difficult to say that it surpasses "Flying Snow 2".

The new book period is almost over, and the sales will continue to decrease in the future. The sales gap between the two books is as high as 150 million. Even if "Jieyou Grocery Store" can sell [-] copies every day in the future, it will take more than two months.

But it's not that "Flying Snow 2" has stopped selling. Although the sales volume has been much flatter, the total sales volume has been increasing.

It will take nearly a year to catch up with thousands of copies sold a day.

But everyone knows that as time goes by, the sales volume of books will decrease a lot. Let alone selling thousands of copies a day, it is a miracle that they can still sell thousands of books a day later.

Maybe before a year has passed, "Flying Snow 3" is released, and the sales of "Flying Snow 2" are bound to increase again.

　Thanks to [Wen Jinjiang] for the 2000 reward, and thanks to [Sea Dragon Frog Soldier] for the reward, they are all regular readers.The reward is [-], there will be three chapters today, and maybe four to five chapters tomorrow
　　
　
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