The host of the memorial service was Chen Zhongshi. He read the eulogy at the front while Yu Dong watched from the outside.
There were so many people present that everyone wanted to squeeze into the middle. There was a bench next to the crystal coffin with a camera on it. The photographer was carefully handling the machine. The scene was so chaotic that he had to find someone to help.
Help from below.
Halfway through Chen Zhongshi's eulogy, a long-faced man squeezed out of the crowd.
Because everyone wanted to squeeze in, this person walked out. Yu Dong couldn't help but glance at him, but he didn't expect it to be Jia Pingwa.
Jia Pingwa looked calm, holding a cigarette in one hand and pushing the crowd aside with the other.
However, he did not walk out of the crowd in the end. Over there, Chen Zhongshi finished reading his eulogy, then shouted loudly, and the crowd began to move in one direction.
Jia Pingwa had to stop walking outward and follow the crowd.
Yu Dong felt that he was very unhappy, not because of the grief of a friend's death, but because something unpleasant had happened to him.
Someone pushed the crystal coffin, as if the body was going to be cremated next. Lu Yuan, who was wearing a blue student uniform, suddenly burst out and rushed to the side of the coffin.
Her pounce made the crowd even more commotion. People behind her rushed to pull her away, and others were crying and shouting.
In the chaos, someone knocked down the bench, and the person and the machine fell off the bench, leaving the person holding the bench dumbfounded.
However, regardless of the pain, the photographers and reporters quickly raised the camera and continued filming. The sad atmosphere at the scene reached its peak because of Lu Yuan's struggling.
Even Yu Dong was infected by the atmosphere and his eyes turned red.
In the end, teenage Lu Yuan was pulled away, and Lu Yao was sent in for cremation.
Everyone began to look for a place to sit, and when they couldn't find a place, they just stood around. Lu Yao's brothers and sisters walked around and talked to the guests about their hard work, and some people started to disperse one after another.
Yu Dong took the time to chat with Lu Yao's younger brother Wang Tianxiao and asked if there was anything he needed help with.
Lu Yao had divorced a few days ago, so now all family affairs are handled by his younger brothers, so Yu Dongcai directly approached Wang Tianxiao.
Wang Tianxiao had the honesty and honesty of a man from the northwest, and he seemed very excited when he learned that the visitor's name was Yu Dong.
"My brother was talking about you before, and I was right next to him when he wrote you a reply."
Wang Tianxiao seemed to only know Yu Dong's name, but knew nothing else about it, and did not know that Yu Dong was also a novelist.
"Thank you for your kindness, but we don't need any help." Wang Tianxiao touched his head, "After my brother died, many people said they would come to help, but the time when we really needed help has passed."
Yu Dong was startled. Although Wang Tianxiao might not have meant it, these words touched Yu Dong's heart.
After Lu Yao died, the burden on the Wang family actually became lighter, leaving only Lu Yao to support.
Although her mother Linda divorced Lu Yao, she would not ignore her affairs, and with their brothers, it would not be difficult to raise a Lu Yao.
Luyao still has the copyright, and there will be income from this in the future.
It is much easier to raise a half-grown child than a bedridden patient.
But having said that, being a family member to a writer like Lu Yao is not an easy task.
Speaking of income, Lu Yao's income is not low, much higher than that of ordinary people. But he loves to smoke, and he smokes well. While writing "The Ordinary World", he smoked tens of thousands of yuan just from smoking.
Tens of thousands of yuan in the 1980s and 1990s was not ordinary.
Wang Tianxiao's words may be a mockery of the belated help, or they may be an accusation against his brother, a writer.
When Yu Dong was stunned, Wang Tianxiao waved his hand to him and left.
After standing in the funeral parlor for a while, Yu Dong was about to leave, but suddenly he heard someone arguing.
It was in local dialect, and Yu Dong could only understand most of it. It seemed like a woman was accusing her husband of cheating, and the words were harsh and merciless.
Yu Dong was wondering who was causing this on such an occasion, and then he saw Jia Pingwa, who had a gloomy look on his face. It turned out that it was his wife who was scolding, and he was the one being scolded.
Jia Pingwa argued for a few words, but found that he couldn't argue, so he ran out in disgrace.
Yu Dong shook his head, walked out of the funeral parlor, and went straight to the train station.
He originally wanted to go meet Chen Zhongshi, but then he thought about finding an opportunity next time. He didn't know what to talk about on occasions like today. Everyone was in a heavy mood, but they couldn't always talk about heavy topics.
Among the writers in the northwest, Yu Dong admires Chen Zhongshi the most. He believes that Chen Zhongshi is the Chinese writer who has the most thorough understanding of magical realism.
After returning to Jinling, Yu Dong fell asleep in his dormitory. The long journey back and forth consumed him a lot of energy. He needed a good sleep to replenish his energy and energy.
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On November 22, New York local time, "Resident Evil" was officially released.
Major bookstores have replaced it with new posters, which read: Recommended by the horror master Stephen King.
This is Jimmy's operation.
When a new book is released, it is best to find a famous author to write a recommendation or review. After thinking about it, Jimmy targeted Stephen King.
After asking someone to find connections, Jimmy finally contacted Stephen King, showed him the manuscript of his new book, and gave him a promotion fee.
Stephen King read the beginning and found that the book was surprisingly good, so he simply agreed to write a recommendation. After all, one sentence can make money, and maybe the book will become popular in the future, and he will gain some fame.
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Originally, "Resident Evil" had gained a lot of fame due to Jimmy's repeated hype, and now with the addition of Stephen King, the sales of the new book that day were beyond everyone's imagination.
A new book by a newcomer sold more than half of the first printing of 100,000 copies on the same day, which shocked the Bantam Company.
Immediately without saying anything, they began to urgently print an additional 500,000 copies.
But printing a book takes time. It doesn’t mean that if you print today, the book will be printed tomorrow. Even a large company like Bantam Books cannot do that.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! So there was a vacuum period. Many readers heard that "Resident Evil" was very popular and went to the bookstore to buy it, only to find that the poster said "Sold Out"
words.
This made Jimmy laugh to death.
He doesn't care how many copies he has bought in the past few days, and he doesn't want to hit the first-week sales list. Now this situation has increased the reputation of "Resident Evil", but it doesn't sell enough. It shows how good this book is.
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Jimmy was not idle either and immediately wrote a short story himself.
In this short story, YU, the author of "Resident Evil", spent five years working hard to create the Resident Evil series of novels, and broke through many obstacles to write the first one.
After finishing writing, he began to visit various publishing companies in the United States to publish the book.
However, many people did not agree because he was a newcomer, or they kept the price very low.
After months of searching, YU finally found Bantam Company.
Although Bantam Company has concerns about newcomers, it still provides relatively good conditions.
Originally, the person in charge of the commercial department was very optimistic about this book and planned to print one million copies for the first time. However, due to opposition from the leaders above, only 100,000 copies could be printed, which is why today's book shortage is the result.
Jimmy is a screenwriter, so he naturally knows what kind of stories people like to read, and he can quickly write a short and exciting story that is full of ups and downs, depressing in the early stage, and exhilarating in the later stage.
He was going to find a few newspapers and publish these articles.
And this time he was not prepared to pay for it himself. Not only did he not pay, he also asked the other party to pay for it.
Chapter completed!