Hogetsu

The person concerned was unconscious, still flipping through the manuscript in his hand, walked to Yu Wenzhou after a while, and pulled out an old magazine: "Even if the person who first issued the warning by the pond is explained as the disguised Mrs. Oran, It is still impossible to explain how she came to the pond and disappeared from Lilian's sight in an instant. There is no reasonable explanation for how she escaped from captivity."

Yu Wenzhou suddenly wanted to know, and asked, "Sir, have you written reviews for other novels?" Because Yu Wenzhou is the editor of "Ouzo", he was very concerned about the status of "The Castle of Oran" among similar novels. There are many.He didn't dare to face "Legend of Sicily" and "The Monk" in front of him, and boast that "The Castle of Oran" has the potential to overwhelm the crowd and attract this person's attention.

Wang Jiexi paused, as if he had a process of thinking before answering: "To be precise, it is to write feedback for the magazine. I picked up your magazine on the ground, saw the reader feedback page attached at the back, and wrote it. "

"You mean, you became our reader because you picked up a copy of "Ouzo"?" Yu Wenzhou thought of a coincidence, and somehow felt that it was just like that.

"Ah."

After receiving an affirmative answer, Yu Wenzhou asked another question that he was sure of: "Two years ago around Candlemas, right?"

"Yes."

"Sir, the person who brought the magazine at that time was my friend." Two years ago, on Candlemas, Huang Shaotian, Xiao Shiqin, and Zhang Xinjie came to Nottingburg to do surveying and mapping. Huang Shaotian himself was an investor in "Ouzo". Shi Qin and Zhang Xinjie are the concept illustrators of "Ouzo".It is not surprising that no matter who among the three brings a magazine, a must-have item for home travel that has the functions of pausing, packing food, table legs, and making kindling paper, etc.Therefore, the magazine was picked up by Wang Jiexi, and there were letters from the abandoned castle;There simply could not be a more inevitable coincidence.

Yu Wenzhou took out a magazine from the stone wall, opened it, and handed it to Wang Jiexi: "After returning home, my friend drew this illustration based on Nottingburg." The blacked-out plane outline can be seen to be a castle, with roofs, window sills, etc. Red candles are drawn here, within the range of candlelight, the texture of the building transitions from three-dimensional in the bright place to flat in the dark with the change of light intensity, and it is hard to distinguish each building from the originally connected silhouette.This painting is from Zhang Xinjie, who is an architect by profession and likes to draw various conceptual buildings.

Wang Jiexi glanced at it, a little puzzled: "I remember this painting, but I didn't know it was based on Nottingburg."

Yu Wenzhou laughed, it's not uncommon for concept artists' drawings and prototypes to be out of shape.If Zhang Xinjie hadn't said that he got the inspiration from Nottingburg, he wouldn't be able to tell.But in front of everyone, he still wanted to defend Zhang Xinjie: "This illustrator is already a relatively realistic one in our magazine. At least the architectural structures he draws are in line with engineering mechanics. He is drawing illustrations for magazines and publishing them in a serious manner. thesis."

Wang Jiexi flipped back to the cover and pointed to it: "Then who is the author of this picture? What does it look like?"

That was Zhou Zekai. The reason why Zhou Zekai's painting was used as the cover was very utilitarian. Firstly, Zhou Zekai was so famous that he was the darling of the aristocratic salon. Putting his name on the cover would increase sales; The colors are extremely rich and gorgeous, and if you arrange the inner pages, you need to spend more money to print color pages.

As an editor, Yu Wenzhou has a personality that makes friends easily, and he is familiar with the pictures and the people behind the pictures.The two chatted for a long time, one by one.Wang Jiexi suddenly asked him, "Do you want to rest?"

Having said that, he was indeed sleepy. He came up the mountain with his luggage during the day and stayed up until late at night, so he nodded and followed Wang Jiexi on the rocks to sleep in a daze.