"Lao Cheng, then I will wait for your good news."
When Shen Changhe was about to leave the door, he turned back and warned him again. After Cheng Liye nodded, he continued to walk forward.
But as soon as I walked out of the office, my face became embarrassed.
"Mr. Cheng, good morning."
Shen Changhe never expected that as soon as he said goodbye to Lao Cheng, he would see Mr. Cheng when he went out. The "Lao Cheng" he said just now was very loud, and Mr. Cheng must have heard it.
Cheng Huichang did hear it, but he knew that Shen Changhe was not calling him, so he said with a smile, "Looking at Director Shen's expression, he seems to be in a good mood."
"I can't change my moodiness, which made Mr. Cheng laugh. This is not a novel published by Yu Dongxin. I think it is of great research value and I plan to hold a research meeting, so I asked Cheng Liye to Go and invite Yu Dong over." Shen Changhe simply explained the matter.
Cheng Huichang smiled and nodded, "This can be regarded as the first to win the moon."
He looked at the "Harvest" magazine in Shen Changhe's hand again and asked: "Are Yu Dong's new works published in "Harvest"?"
"Yes, I just got it this morning and just finished reading it now."
Cheng Huichang thought for a while and asked: "Director Shen, can you lend me this magazine?"
Although Shen Changhe was a little surprised, he immediately handed over the book and said, "Mr. Cheng, if you want to read it, take it. This is what we ordered."
Cheng Huichang took the magazine and said, "Thank you very much."
The two nodded to each other, and then Cheng Huichang turned around and walked slowly to the other side.
Seeing Cheng Huichang's staggering steps, Shen Changhe couldn't help but sigh. Mr. Cheng's health is getting worse now.
In the past two years, Mr. Cheng not only walked much more steadily than he does now, but also smiled when he met everyone. Now, it seems that even smiling is laborious for him.
"It's not easy."
Shen Changhe shook his head, turned around and walked towards his office.
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On the other side, Yu Dong got a call from Cheng Liye when he returned home from lunch.
Hearing that the Chinese Department of Jinling University was going to invite him to attend a research meeting on "The Crowd", Yu Dong smiled and said, "Dad, would it be a little embarrassing for me to go there in this occasion?"
"What's so embarrassing about this? In many seminars, the author himself is present."
"I'm afraid that if I'm here, they'll be embarrassed to criticize."
"This is a research meeting, not a criticism meeting. It is meant to praise you. I haven't finished reading the book yet, but Director Shen is right. It is indeed of great research value."
"I feel embarrassed when a lot of people praise me."
"Okay, there's nothing to be embarrassed about. I'll have dinner with Luoluo in the evening, and we'll have a chat when we get home. I won't talk about it now. The phone bill is quite expensive."
"That's okay..."
As soon as those two words were spoken, my father-in-law hung up the phone.
Yu Dong put down the phone and prepared to take a nap. Cheng Yanqiu had been busy with the soundtrack of "The Tuner" during this time. The two of them had just eaten together in the cafeteria. After eating, she went to the piano in the complex. room, he came back alone.
After finishing "Sniper Phone Booth", Yu Dong prepared to take a good vacation for himself.
I have to take a break from writing for at least two weeks.
This is a goal he set himself.
He also made himself a work and rest schedule. In addition to taking a reasonable rest, he also added a lot of exercise items to the schedule.
Speaking of which, he is still a member of the school staff football team, and he is also a main member.
There were relatively few teachers before Jin Yi, so it was not easy to put together a staff football team. It took Bi Feiyu a long time to get it together, and he almost didn't get Uncle Zhou into the team at that time.
So even if Yu Dong didn't have much time at the beginning, Bi Feiyu would definitely drag him there.
Nowadays, there are more and more teaching staff in the school, and the team is getting bigger and bigger, so the reliance on Dong is getting smaller and smaller, so Bi Feiyu always came over to take a look, and when he saw that Yu Dong was not idle, he stopped pulling him.
However, before taking a nap, Yu Dong still called Jiang Jie and asked him to take over the script of "Sniper Phone Booth". George Schumacher was still waiting for news in the United States.
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Christmas has just passed, and the streets of New York are still full of festive atmosphere.
On January 2nd, the YU Umbrella Association headquarters held its first internal meeting after the holiday.
At the meeting, President Harnes and Vice President Jeff summarized the operation of the association last year and arranged the work for the next year.
Finally, Jeff knocked on the table and said, "Everyone, during this period, The New Yorker published two articles on "Deep Space" in succession, which caused some people to criticize YU. What do you think about this matter?
?”
In fact, the New Yorker published several articles related to Yu Dong during this period, but most of them were praising Yu Dong.
There are only two articles about the description of black holes and wormholes in "Deep Space". The contents of these two articles are similar. They both say that the description of black holes and wormholes in the novel is ridiculously wrong.
At first, the YU Association did not take the article seriously.
Until today, YU has been liked by many people, but there are also a lot of people who have opinions about him.
There is never an author in this world that everyone can like, and Jeff and the others know this, so as long as it doesn't cause much repercussions, they won't care.
But these days, Jeff noticed something was wrong.
Dominic, who was the first to write an article, seems to have a lot of readers. During this period, Jeff often heard an argument, that is, although YU's novels are interesting, they are not rigorous enough and contain more fabrications.
Such comments are not very vicious, but Jeff knows that this is only the first one. As time goes by, the rhythm will be picked up, and there will be more and more such voices, which will definitely have a bad impact on YU.
For a well-known science fiction writer, if his works are only interesting but without any scientific nature, then he is completely ruined.
This matter attracted Jeff's attention, so he brought it up at today's meeting.
The members looked at each other, and one member said, "How about we also write a few articles?"
Before Jeff could respond, another member retorted, "Is it useful for us to write? I read the article in The New Yorker. Although there is no basis for it, these two authors have been doing science popularization before. Compared to us,
Readers are more likely to take their word for it.”
"Yes, if we write an article, The New Yorker may not publish it."
"It's not a possibility, it's a certainty."
Jeff scratched his head. The members were right. When they wrote articles, the New Yorker probably wouldn't even take a look at them.
This incident was a wake-up call for Jeff.
Although their association's propaganda methods are sometimes miraculous, they are still a bit low-end and they still have less say.
In this situation, they can only be blind.
Of course, the reason why Jeff didn't consider these things before was because Deep Space has been doing very well. Jimmy has a wide network of contacts in the cultural world. Every time YU's novel comes out, there are always some columnists who come out to help build momentum.
But now it seems that we cannot rely entirely on the deep space side, otherwise, the value of their association will not be reflected.
In the past, they were too small to consider these things, but now that they have grown in strength, it is time to diversify their promotional methods.
"I will talk to Deep Space about publishing the article. Is there any other way besides publishing the article?"
When Jeff asked, the discussion suddenly stopped and the scene became a little quiet.
At this time, Harns said, "Actually, as far as I know, the description of black holes and wormholes involved in "Deep Space" has attracted the attention of some scientists. And many scientists think that the descriptions in the novel are not problematic, and even
Very professional and wonderful.”
"I also know this. The key is that scientists like them don't publish articles."
"I mean, can we contact these scientists to help write a few articles?"
Jeff shook his head slightly, "I'm afraid this will be difficult. Those scientists are very busy. It is already very difficult for them to pay attention to "Deep Space". How can they help write articles to counterattack."
Haines also knew it was difficult, but he still thought he could give it a try.
"We have a member in the Los Angeles branch who is a student at the California Institute of Technology. According to him, a professor at their school who specializes in black holes and wormholes speaks highly of "Deep Space". We can try this professor and it will work.
Of course it’s good, but if it doesn’t work, there’s nothing you can do about it.”
Jeff nodded, "I'll arrange for someone to contact you."
"Don't arrange for others, I will go directly this time. The other party's identity is different, we should show enough sincerity from the beginning."
Jeff thought for a while and said, "How about the two of us go together?"
"No, the association still needs you to take charge of the overall situation. I can just go there myself."
"Okay, that's it, the president will try it first. If it doesn't work, we'll find another way and let the meeting end."
After the meeting, Jeff called Jimmy and told him about the New Yorker article.
After listening to Jeff's words, Jimmy smiled and said, "Don't worry, I have made arrangements here, and there will be two more rebuttal articles in the New Yorker in a few days."
Jimmy is always reassuring.
Jeff smiled and shook his head and said, "I thought too much. I should have anticipated your move."
"No, no, no, you should think so much. If your association can handle these tasks, it will be a lot easier for us in the future. So your idea is right, you can try to seize the high-end right to speak. This time
You can take action and try to find a few popular science writers to help you write articles." Jimmy said.
"Actually, we have this plan. Hearns is going to go to Caltech."
"Why go to Caltech?" Jimmy asked confused.
Jeff explained, "Because there is a professor in their school who specializes in black holes and wormholes, and he spoke highly of Deep Space, so Hanes thought he would go there in person and ask if he would be willing to help us."
"Is there still such a thing?"
Jimmy's voice was full of surprises. Caltech was very famous for its research in astrophysics and gravitational physics. If the professors at their school recognized the theory in "Deep Space", it would be more useful than a popular science writer writing 10,000 articles.
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"There was a student at Caltech who was a member of our association, and he showed the novel to the professor."
"That's no problem." Jimmy laughed, "Tell Hearns not to leave in a hurry, I'll go with him."
"You want to go too?" Jeff asked in surprise.
Chapter completed!