After returning from the garden, Yu Dong told his father-in-law and mother-in-law about the matter. They expressed their surprise but didn't say much. They knew that Yu Dong was rich, but they didn't know how much money Yu Dong had.
Yu Dong told them that a room had been arranged for them, but his father-in-law and mother-in-law said no, they were living well now. However, later Yu Dong said that they needed someone to take care of the baby after giving birth, and they were obviously moved.
As for Cheng Yanqiu's grandparents, Yu Dong's idea is that after they retreat, he can also take them to live in the garden if they want.
They had no control over this matter, so they just said they would talk to the old man and the old lady later.
But Cheng Liye also said that the old man and the others would probably only agree to live there occasionally. It is basically impossible to live there permanently. They have lived in Yanjing for so many years and their old friends are all there. If they move to Jinling to settle down, their circle of friends will be
broken.
…
In early June, Yu Dong received two invitations, one for the Galaxy Awards Ceremony and the other for the Saturn Awards Ceremony.
Needless to say, the Galaxy Award is a regular event every year.
The invitation letter for the Saturn Award was also within Yu Dong's expectation. As an award that focuses on science fiction, fantasy, and horror, it is impossible for "The Second World" not to be shortlisted.
At the last Saturn Awards, "Jurassic Park" received eleven nominations and finally won four awards. This year's "Second World" performed even more outstandingly, receiving twelve nominations, more than "Jurassic Park".
"Park" has one more item, and all the awards that can be nominated have been nominated.
Moreover, the two items of Best Science Fiction Movie and Best Special Effects have basically been included in the bag, and there is no rival for these two items.
The Saturn Award ceremony will be held on June 26th, and Yu Dong will definitely not attend. He has no plans to go to the United States in the near future, and he is not very interested in this award.
But he might go to England in the summer, because the questionnaire Jimmy created was in full swing in England during this time.
…
"Benny, is Manchester fun? You seem to have grown a lot taller."
At the gate of Harrow School, Charlie hugged his good friend and asked him how he was doing with a smile. They were both students of Harrow School and spent six years together.
But after graduating from high school, Benny went to Manchester to study drama, while Charlie went to the London School of Economics and Political Science to study economics.
This time, he finally caught up with Benny and had some time, so Charlie asked him out.
As Charlie said, Benny has grown taller. He was shorter than Charlie before, but now he is the same height. The key is that he is very thin, so when Charlie saw him from a distance just now, he felt that he was taller than himself.
.
Benny said with a smile, "There are many factories there, nothing else special. You haven't changed at all, just like before."
He pointed to the gate of Harrow School again, "Just like Harrow School, do we want to go in and take a look now?"
"There's nothing interesting to see." Charlie took Benny's arm and walked in another direction, "There is an event in the bookstore these two days, so we should go and have a look."
"What activity?" Benny asked.
"Have you seen "The Second World"?"
"Are you talking about a movie or a novel?"
"Listening to what you said, you should know YU."
Benny smiled and nodded, "Of course, I also bought his new book "Fatal Identity"."
"I bought it too, but I plan to buy another one today."
"Why?" Benny looked curious, "Is there anything special about buying today?"
"I heard that among the new batch of books, there is a form. As long as you fill out the form and send it to the publisher or hand it over to the bookstore, you may be able to have YU come to London to hold a book signing."
Benny raised his eyebrows. His eyebrows were slender and his brow bones were prominent. If he raised it casually, he felt as if his eyebrows were going to fly out. "Really?"
Charlie smiled and said, "Of course it's true. When I passed by the bookstore just now, I saw a lot of people filling out forms. If I hadn't been in a hurry to come to you, I would have bought it just now. What do you think, do you want to come with me?
Buy a copy and make a contribution to our London borough."
Benny scratched his head and said, "I was wondering if I should contribute a form to Manchester. After all, I spend more time there."
Charlie rolled his eyes, "Benny, you traitor."
"Haha, let's go and see what's going on with that form first."
The two rode bicycles to a relatively large bookstore nearby. At this time, the hall was full of people, many of whom were holding a form in their hands... In fact, many people were holding more than one form in their hands.
One table represents one book, which means that many people have bought more than one book. Of course, everyone is relatively restrained, and basically no one buys too many, only two or three at most.
Compared with those movie fans and music fans, these book fans are much more sensible.
Seeing the scene in front of him, Benny felt a little emotional.
He paid attention to YU's books when they first entered the UK. It can be said that he is one of the first regular readers of YU in the UK.
YU was not well-known in the UK before. Although his book sales were good, it was only good, and his reputation was far less than it is now.
The current grand occasion is due to the release of "The Second World".
Since "Second World" became popular in the UK, the original work has also become popular. Regardless of whether they usually read science fiction or not, people will go to bookstores to buy a copy of "Second World" or a copy of "Resident Evil".
In the UK, this kind of thing is very normal. After "Schindler's List" was released last year, the book "Schindler's List" became a best-seller and stayed on the best-seller list for a year. It is still on the list now.
Of course, in addition to the effect of the movie, it is also inseparable from the marketing of major booksellers. At that time, before the movie "Second World" was released, Benny could often read about "Second World" in newspapers.
》news, and basically every news item will mention the original work.
Every time I mention the original work, I will always introduce how best-selling YU’s book is in the United States and how popular it is with American readers. The reason why I write this report is because the editor knows that the British do this.
Not only that, many bookstores at that time also placed advertisements and placed YU's books in the most conspicuous places in the bookstores.
Therefore, in just a few months, YU became the most famous writer in the UK.
Now that I heard that YU is coming to hold a book signing event, readers are certainly very motivated.
In fact, readers are highly motivated. They not only want to see YU, but this questionnaire activity has become a kind of competition, spreading from the reader group to the fan group.
When the "Second World" movie was released before, fans in some cities were very dissatisfied. This time they finally found a chance to win back the victory, and of course they didn't want to miss it.
Especially there are so many teams in London, but none of them can appear in the movie, so this time, no matter they are mortal enemies or whatever, everyone is willing to work together to bring YU over first.
It's just that it's not that easy for teams from the same city to join forces. It was okay at first, but then Arsenal fans discovered that Chelsea fans actually indicated on the form that the autograph signing must be in southwest London, so they stopped.
I also specified that I want the autograph session to be held in North London.
The fans of Tottenham, another team in North London, were naturally not to be outdone. They decided to put their mortal enemy aside first and followed the Arsenal fans in requesting that the autograph session be held in North London.
The civil war is raging here in London, but Manchester can’t stand it any longer. What’s the matter? You have so many big clubs that you are awesome? You think that the autograph session will definitely be in your London? But you have divided it into the southeast, northwest, and northwest.
Manchester United and Manchester City are working together to do what they want, and they also call on the fans to drag YU to Manchester.
That's how things began to slowly become outrageous. Even Jimmy didn't expect such a situation to happen. He really just wanted to do a simple marketing campaign at the beginning and had no intention of provoking fans of various teams.
Emotions.
If he knew fans were so useful, he would have made a fuss about it a long time ago. The situation would probably be even more outrageous than it is now.
Mainly as an American, it is difficult for Jimmy to understand the British football culture.
…
Jimmy doesn't understand British football culture, just like Yu Dong doesn't understand why Wang Hailin's novels are so poorly written.
Yu Dong looked at the manuscript of more than 50,000 words in his hand, and the word Sichuan was wrinkled between his eyebrows.
Wang Hailin stood nearby, not daring to move. He knew the situation was not good by looking at Yu Dong's expression.
After a long while, Yu Dong put the manuscript on the table, then gently pressed his hand on the manuscript and said, "Have you ever shown this novel to others?"
Wang Hailin shook his head, "No, I came over as soon as possible. I thought I would write half of it first and show it to Brother Dong. If it doesn't work, I can change it earlier."
"I suggest you go back and finish writing it." Yu Dong said.
"This..." Wang Hailin didn't quite understand, "Brother Dong, what you mean is that this novel is not bad, can you continue writing it?"
Yu Dong did not answer, but just said, "Listen to me and go back and write it out according to your own ideas."
"If it doesn't work, isn't this work in vain?" Wang Hailin muttered.
Yu Dong squinted his eyes and looked at him, "Tell me, what does it mean to work in vain? Does it mean that as soon as your novel is written, it will be sought after by thousands of people, and all publishers and directors will come to you?
Isn’t it a waste of work?”
"I'm not like that..."
Wang Hailin wanted to defend himself, but was interrupted by Yu Dong, "Then what do you think? Tell me. Do you know why I asked you to continue writing? It's because I want to read a story like this.
Can you continue writing the plot? If you are a cook, this novel is just a dish. You just throw all the ingredients at hand into the pot without caring about them. Then I would like to ask
You, when are you going to cease fire? Ah?"
Yu Dong suddenly became stern, which startled Wang Hailin. He did not dare to say anything. He only listened to Yu Dong continue to say, "You put the meat and vegetables in the pot together and stop the fire early. The vegetables are cooked, but the meat is still raw. Chi
When I clicked on the fire, the meat was not raw, but the vegetables were mushy. Tell me, how can you finish this book?"
"Even if you are great, after you finish writing, are you going to stew in a pot like this for people to eat? A novel of 100,000 words, which involves love killings, vendettas, perverted serial murderers, police, detectives, transnational crimes, and various killing methods.
Cyanide, daggers, falls, drowning, explosives.”
As he was talking, Yu Dong suddenly laughed out of anger. Although Wang Hailin was a little dazed, he did well in professional courses and was at the front of the class.
At that time, he came to tell Yu Dong that he wanted to write a novel. Although Yu Dong threatened him, he still had expectations in his heart. Who knew that he would hand over this thing to him later.
Seeing Wang Hailin dumbfounded and silent, Yu Dong handed the manuscript into his hand, sighed, and softened his tone, "I asked you to finish writing, and I also hope that after you finish writing, you will look back at it in a few days. Stand
Look at your novel from another perspective, so that you can find the problem. This is a process, and I have experienced it before. Don’t bring your ideas for writing scripts and essays into it. Later, you can use an ordinary
Look at it from a reader’s perspective and think about what kind of novel this is.”
"I understand, thank you Brother Dong." Wang Hailin said angrily, then took the manuscript and left.
After he left, Yu Dong found a pen and prepared to write down the specific issues that appeared in Wang Hailin's novel and show it to him next time.
But as soon as he picked up the pen and started writing, Feng Ming walked in in a hurry and said with a smile, "Old Yu, I just saw that boy Wang Hailin leaving here. It doesn't look right. I'm about to cry. Look for me."
Is he in trouble?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "It's good if he doesn't cause trouble for me, how can I still cause trouble for him?" Yu Dong curled his lips and teased Feng Ming again, "Feng Ming
The director is here, what are you doing?"
"Hey, you're still angry. I've been in office for a few months, so why don't I take care of it? I've really neglected you during this period. Aren't I here to apologize to you?"
"No, no, no, I'm covered in goosebumps." Yu Dong waved his hands repeatedly.
Feng Ming was indeed very busy during this period. The original director of the Sports Department, Ge Yiming, retired and deputy director Liu Hua was promoted. Feng Ming filled the vacancy of deputy director.
He was newly appointed, and he was still a deputy. He was burdened with all the big and small things in the department, and he was too busy to get away from it.
Yu Dong also knew about his situation, but he just joked with him out of habit.
Of course Feng Ming knew that Yu Dong was joking. He laughed and said, "I brought some chickens and some eggs from my hometown. I went over to have a drink in the evening. I also asked the others. There are also some other local specialties, tea and so on.
, I’ll give you some points later.”
"You can divide the tea leaves, but forget about the chicken. Teacher Wu is about to give birth, so leave it to her to recuperate. The old chickens raised at home are not easy to buy," Yu Dong said.
"I told you, I brought several of them, we will only eat one tonight. Besides, I won't let you eat for free tonight, I have a favor for you to do."
Yu Dong smiled and said, "Let me tell you, Director Feng's chicken is so delicious. Tell me, what are you doing?"
"You'll find out in the evening." Feng Ming patted Yu Dong's shoulder, "I told you not to ask me to invite you again tonight. Teacher Cheng's Ehime has already said that you guys should go there together tonight."
After Feng Ming left, Yu Dong smiled and shook his head, picked up his pen again and began to list the problems in Wang Hailin's novel.
It is written very carefully, divided into several big questions, and then each big question is divided into many smaller questions.
There are indeed many problems in Wang Hailin's novel. The biggest one, as Yu Dong just told Wang Hailin, is that there are too many elements and the structure is complex.
This is also the part that makes Yu Dong the most angry. Let alone other things, their drama students should know the structure best. A qualified script must have a clear and powerful structure.
What is structure? Structure refers to the type of story and what it tells. Take Journey to the West as an example. The structure of "Journey to the West" is that four people, the master and the apprentice, went to the West to learn the scriptures and encountered many difficulties on the way to finally obtain the true scriptures.
It's very simple and concise, so people can understand it at once.
As for the structure of Wang Hailin's novel, if I have to say it, it should be: several people committed suicide for different reasons and using different methods. Several people knew each other, so several unrelated murder cases were connected together. In the end, they were involved.
Three police officers and a detective teamed up to take it down.
Wang Hailin didn't write out the rest of the content, and Yu Dong didn't see it either. It was all his guess, but it should be pretty close.
Things like structure are something that the teacher will talk about when they are in drama class, and they are also the most basic things. It is impossible for Wang Hailin not to know about them, but he forgot all these things when he was writing novels.
Yu Dong thought that if he wanted to give writing classes to students in the future, he might be able to use this novel written by Wang Hailin as a model for making mistakes.
In order to list the problems for Wang Hailin, Yu Dong spent more than two hours, from more than two o'clock until almost five o'clock.
Seeing that it was getting late, Yu Dong got up and stretched his muscles, and then went to Feng Ming's house with Cheng Yanqiu.
When Yu Dong and others arrived, Feng Ming was preparing dinner in the kitchen, and Chen Hong, Fu Jing and Hai Guo chatted with Wu Aiyuan.
"How many are they?" Yu Dong asked.
Fu Jing smiled and said, "I'm playing cards at my house."
"Why..." Yu Donggang was about to ask why he didn't play here, but suddenly he remembered that Teacher Wu was pregnant and it was not easy for them to smoke while playing cards here.
Feng Ming shouted from the kitchen, "You can go over and play cards too. It will take a while to eat."
Yu Dong waved his hand, "Forget it, I won't inhale their second-hand smoke. Can you do it alone? Do you want me to help?"
"Hey, I can do it alone, but I guess it won't work if you are included in it."
Yu Dong shrugged, "Yeah, you treat your good intentions like a donkey's liver and lungs."
Looking back, Yu Dong went to play with Yu Haiguo again.
This kid is almost two years old now. His two thick little legs are very strong and he can run very steadily. He is currently eating a bag of oil fruits by himself.
"Hai Guo, come on, come to uncle."
Yu Haiguo was not a bird in the east, and concentrated on dealing with the oil fruit in his hand.
Chen Hong smiled and said, "Haha, you are not as popular as Uncle Feiyu. Feiyu called him and he ran over immediately."
Fu Jing also laughed: "Don't look at him as a young man, he knows everything. He knows that there are delicious and fun things to do along Bi Feiyu."
Yu Dong touched his head and said, "It seems that I will have to bribe this guy later."
"That's not true."
Several female family members laughed together. Fu Jing looked at Wu Aiyuan's belly and said, "It won't be long before we have more people, and our place will become more lively."
"Yes, it will become more and more lively. Ehime, I heard you said you had back pain the day before yesterday. Is it feeling better in the past two days?"
Wu Aiyuan nodded, "It will feel better if I go out for a walk these two nights."
"That's right, you still need to move more. Don't be reluctant to go out because you have a stomach. Sitting or lying down for a long time is not a good thing. At that time, I..."
Several women, one who has given birth, one who is about to give birth, and two who are completely inexperienced, gathered together to discuss the matter of giving birth.
Chen Hong, who had experience in giving birth, naturally said a few more words. Wu Aiyuan was about to give birth, so she understood it deeply and nodded from time to time. The other two listened attentively and learned from their experience.
Yu Dong, a grown man, could only look at Yu Haiguo, but the key was that the boy didn't pay much attention to him, and he was very stinky. He regretted that he should have gone to watch Yu Hua and the others play cards.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After staying up for more than an hour, the card game between Yu Hua and others finally broke up. Several men ran over and Yu Dong was liberated.
Feng Ming's side was almost done, and everyone started to clear the table for dinner.
It has to be said that Feng Ming’s cooking skills are good, the dishes on the table are full of flavor and flavor, and the ingredients are solid, everyone eats heartily.
After three rounds of drinking, Feng Ming raised his glass and said, "Brothers, brothers, sisters-in-law, I called you here today because I have a big matter to discuss with you."
Seeing how solemn Feng Ming was, everyone else also became serious and waited quietly for him to continue.
"Ehime will give birth soon, but the baby hasn't been named yet, so I called you here because I wanted to brainstorm a name."
"Hey, I thought it was something. I was so surprised." Bi Feiyu shook his head, "Why don't you just give it a name and start such a big battle?"
Feng Ming smiled and said, "Actually, we haven't had dinner together for a long time. I was thinking of getting together together, and I happened to resolve the name issue."
"You shouldn't look at us about this, you should look at these great writers." Liu Changmin pointed at Yu Dong and the others and said.
Yu Hua waved his hands repeatedly, "You know me, I don't know much about literacy. If you ask me, you have to look at Feiyu and Yu Dong, two top students in the Chinese Department."
As soon as the words finished, Bi Feiyu waved his hand, "You know me, I have trouble naming my characters. If you ask me, I have to look at Yu Dong, he is good at naming."
Yu Dong quickly followed, "You know my..."
Everyone looked at him, and Feng Ming asked, "What's wrong with you?"
"I have never given birth to a child, so I have no experience."
Yu Hua smiled and said, "You mean how many of us have had children?"
"You can mention one, and we'll decide whether it's good or not." Feng Ming said.
Yu Dong did not refuse this time. He looked at the lively scene in the room, thought for a while, and said with a smile, "Then let me mention one, if it is a boy, how about calling him Chang Di?"
"How to write it?" Feng Ming asked.
"Chang Di's flowers are like the flowers of Hubei." Bi Feiyu answered helpfully, "The Book of Songs·Xiaoya·Chang Di, Chang Di's flowers are connected with several branches, which is a metaphor for the deep love between brothers. The second half of this poem has a beautiful meaning.
, is a joyful scene, just right at this moment. And this period happens to be the flowering and fruiting period of Changdi flowers, so I think the boy’s name is Feng Changdi, which is very good.”
"I think it's good too." Wu Aiyuan said with a smile, "This is the decision for boys, what about girls?"
Since the mother has agreed, it will naturally be settled like this. Feng Ming also thinks that the name Feng Changdi is good. He nodded and said, "Then this is it. Where is the girl, Yu Dong."
Yu Dong smiled and spread his hands, "As I said just now, I'll just mention one. I suggest that the girl's name be given to Yu Hua. He must have thought of many girls' names before, but Hai Guo came out and didn't use them.
"
Everyone looked at Yu Hua again.
Yu Hua smiled and said, "My names are very common, but they have nothing to do with the Book of Songs."
"How about you mention one thing first and let everyone listen and then talk about it."
"Okay." Yu Hua nodded, "If it's a girl, I think Feng Lele is pretty good."
"Why?"
"I just think it sounds good, happy, and happy when I meet people, Feng Lele."
Feng Ming was quite interested when he heard it, and raised the cup again, "Okay, I'll prepare these two names first, thank you all."
As soon as the glass was finished, the atmosphere on the table became lively again. Everyone drank a lot of wine that night, and Yu Dong also showed his extraordinary performance and drank half a catty of white wine.
And after drinking, he was in pretty good condition. Holding hands with Cheng Yanqiu, the couple took a walk in the school. As for why he was able to perform exceptionally well, Yu Dong himself also made a summary. It was probably because he often drank with his father-in-law recently.
, although I don’t drink much every time, my drinking capacity has increased after many exercises.
However, when I returned to the dormitory later, after Cheng Yanqiu left, I started to feel drunk again.
He sat dazedly on the edge of the bed, thinking about taking a shower, but was too lazy to move. He simply stopped thinking about taking a shower and leaned against the bed, staring at the window in a daze.
He doesn't think about anything in particular, but something always pops out of his head, as if there is an open space in his head with various leaves falling on it. A gust of wind blows and the leaves float up.
When the leaves are floating, even the lines can be clearly seen, but when the leaves fall, they are so blurry that nothing can be seen.
What are those lines?
Yu Dong got up, ran to the table, took out his notebook and pen. He would write down whatever was floating in his mind. However, there were always some things that disappeared before he had time to write them down. He had to stop and write them down.
Write down something.
Chapter completed!