Yu Dong's parents are coming to Jinling for the weekend, and they settled here this time.
In order to make it easier for his parents to travel and check in, Yu Dong invited some people to come there, including cleaners, gardeners, and security personnel, as well as specially equipped cars and drivers.
This time when his parents came over, his father-in-law and mother-in-law would definitely go and have a look. Yu Dong took this opportunity to call Yu Hua and the others to join them, and they would go to the Luoyuan to have fun together.
After hanging up on Yunlong, Yu Dong called back another number. He was not at home at the moment, and there were a total of two missed calls.
On the second call, Yu Dong recognized the number and it was from Cheng Yongxing's office.
It was definitely not an emergency for Cheng Yongxing to find him, because Cheng Yongxing knew his mobile phone number. If there was an emergency, he would definitely call his mobile phone.
In fact, many people have a Yudong phone number, but unless it is urgent, most people would rather call a landline several times than use a mobile phone. They always feel that calling a mobile phone is too wasteful.
After getting through, the two chatted for a few words.
Cheng Yongxing really had nothing urgent to do. He called just to tell Yu Dong that "The Crowd" has been confirmed for release and will be released in the first half of January.
Hearing this, Yu Dong laughed: "My books always seem to be published in the first issue."
Cheng Yongxing also laughed, "Haha, Yu Hua's works are always in the sixth issue, and the two of you start and end one, which is just right. By the way, will you come back before this year? You were in a hurry last time, and the Writers Association this year
We’re going to have a party together.”
"About what time?"
"It will only be within two or three days before New Year's Eve. The specific time has not been determined."
"Then I have to look at the situation. I won't go back to Shanghai to celebrate New Year's Eve today."
Cheng Yongxing joked, "You were abducted by your wife to Jinling. It's okay. If you have time, just come. If you don't have time, forget it. There are so many opportunities to eat that I don't care if you come here once or twice."
"I won't go back on New Year's Eve. I will definitely go back to visit relatives after the Spring Festival. If I can't eat before the Spring Festival, I will treat you to a meal after the Spring Festival."
"Okay, I'll wait for your meal. Oh, and I've seen more posters of "Westward" and "Alive" in bookstores these days. Are they being promoted by Deep Space Company?"
"Probably, I didn't pay much attention to it."
"That's okay, everything else is fine."
After hanging up the phone, Yu Dong smiled, guessing that the company had indeed started to promote those novels, and even Cheng Yongxing felt it.
This time we are promoting not only "Going West" and "Alive", but also "Panic Fingers", "The Golden Age" and the previous book "Red Sorghum" written by Mo Yan.
After this wave of publicity is over, the next wave will be "Xu Sanguan Sells Blood", "The Crowd" and "Big Breasts and Wide Butts".
Domestic propaganda has already started, but I don’t know what the situation is like abroad.
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During this period, Anna ran to the bookstore almost every day, just to see if there were any new works in the Chinese literature series. Every time she went to the bookstore, Olivier would follow her.
Last time Anna followed Olivier to their zombie research meeting, and she really promoted several YU books.
Those people first became interested in these novels because of the name YU, and later two of them really fell in love with these books.
Olivier suggested that Anna form a literary group with these two classmates and him to exchange the works of these YUs.
Before Anna could express her position, the other two had already agreed, and finally a four-person literature group was established.
Although the literature group is small, it does have a management team. Anna is the group leader and Olivier is the deputy leader.
So every time he followed Anna to the bookstore, Olivier had a valid reason.
I am the deputy leader of the group, and it is very reasonable to follow the leader. Anna has no choice but to let him follow.
Anna thought to herself that Olivier didn't really like literature, it was just a whim. If he was left with him for a while, he would definitely lose his patience and return to his sports and hobby clubs.
As soon as she arrived at the bookstore today, Anna felt something was wrong, because there were several posters at the door of the bookstore, and they actually said "Going West" and "Alive".
She stood in front of a poster and looked at the slogan on it.
[Alive - Recommended by Margaret Duras, a magnificent treasure from the far east.]
Needless to say, Margaret Duras is well-known in France. She is the author of "Hiroshima Mon Amour" and "The Lover" and the winner of the Prix Goncourt for Literature.
Speaking of which, Duras has an indissoluble bond with China.
Her first love was a Chinese. Anyone who knows a little bit about Duras knows this, because she wrote this matter into three works.
"The Lover", "The Lover of Northern China", "The Dam Against the Pacific", one story, Duras wrote three books.
Looking at it this way, it seems reasonable for Duras to recommend novels by Chinese writers.
"Anna, look!"
While Anna was staring at the poster of "Alive", Olivier next to her suddenly shouted.
"What am I looking at?"
Anna turned her head and stared at the other poster pointed by Olivier.
There was a big title on the poster "To the West" and two big English letters, YU.
It's a poster for "Going West".
But Anna still doesn't know why Olivier is so excited.
Seeing that Anna still didn't understand, Olivier took another step closer to the poster, pointed to a line of small words on it, and said: "Anna, look, look here, look what is written here!"
Then he couldn't wait for Anna to go and see it, so he read out the line loudly: ""Second World", a new work by YU, the author of "Resident Evil"."
Olivier held his head with a look of disbelief on his face, "Did you see, Anna, this YU is that YU."
Anna was also shocked at this time, how could this be possible?
A writer of popular novels transformed into a traditional writer?
Could it be that the bookstore mistook the two YUs for one person?
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! This is obviously impossible, after all, there are two other YUs.
If this is true, it would be surprising.
It feels like one day when people tell you that the author of "Les Misérables" and "The Three Musketeers" are the same person, your first reaction is definitely impossible.
"But why are the words on this poster so small? You can't even see it if you don't look carefully. Logically speaking, for such a good publicity point, the words should be enlarged." Olivier raised doubts.
Anna also noticed something was wrong. Yes, since this YU is that YU, why do the words on the poster have to be so small? It seems a little secretive?
With doubts, Anna walked to the counter, pointed at the poster and asked: "Hello, I would like to ask, are the small words on this poster correct and not misprinted? The author of "Going West" is from
Are the authors of "Resident Evil" and "Second World" really the same person?"
After hearing what she said, the cashier behind the counter suddenly laughed, and then clapped loudly, "Congratulations, beautiful lady, you are the first person to discover the small lines of words on the poster, so we will give you a set
Signed Chinese literature series."
As soon as the cashier finished speaking, several more staff members gathered around him enthusiastically.
When other customers in the bookstore saw this fight, their attention was drawn, "What's going on?"
A staff member explained loudly, "This lady is the first person to spot the small words on the poster since the opening today, so she will get a signed Chinese literature series."
"What Chinese literature series?"
"I thought I saw it just now. It was written on the poster."
"But what's the fine print they say?"
Everyone looked for it on the poster again, and sure enough they found the small words on it.
"There is a book in this Chinese literature series, written by YU, the same YU who wrote "Second World" and "Resident Evil." Someone shouted.
"What? These two YUs are actually the same person? I also read "Westward" and I really can't imagine that it and "Resident Evil" are written by the same author."
"Oh my god, I just bought a copy of "To Live" because of Duras. Do I want to buy "Going West" now? I am a loyal reader of YU."
"No, isn't the author of "Alive" also YU? There is also another book in the series, "Panic Fingers", also written by YU."
"YU is just their first name, followed by their surname. Just like France, there are many people with the same name there," said a person who thinks he understands Chinese culture.
"No, YU is actually the surname, and the last name is the name. These writers should all have the same surname. Are they the same family?"
"In China, there are many people with the same surname, and these are just English letters, which does not mean that their surnames are the same. There are many Chinese characters with the same pinyin."
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People began to discuss Chinese names and this Chinese literature series, and Anna had already taken the signed series of books from the store manager.
Olivier smiled and said, "Anna, you should thank me, I discovered that line of writing."
Anna nodded, "Thank you."
She opened the three books one by one and saw the signatures on them.
There are three signatures and a total of seven square characters, none of which are the same. That is to say, the three Chinese characters of YU are all written differently.
Chapter completed!