On the afternoon when Yu Dong received Tan Kai's letter, the main office had a heated discussion about the news that the Russian Federation and other three countries had formed the Commonwealth of Independent States.
When he walked to the door of the office with the letter, he heard He Yu shouting: "It's broken up, it must be broken up. Just listen to me, the Soviet government will not survive this year."
"You don't have to say that. After August 19, who still believes that the Soviet Union can continue." Li Zhenguo, a counselor in the vocal music department sitting behind He Yu, teased.
"Not everyone may think so." He Yu smiled and looked at the other teachers, "What do you think?"
No one said anything to me.
It is somewhat sensitive to discuss this matter now, and many people still hold hope for the Soviet Union. They are also afraid that if the Soviet Union really falls, a domino effect will occur and China will be affected.
Liu Changmin pulled He Yu's arm and said, "Stop chatting, you haven't finished your work today."
He Yu also knew that he was too conspicuous, so he was pulled by Liu Changmin and sat down. No one took the lead in speaking, and everyone else turned their heads and continued working.
Yu Dong walked to his seat silently. As soon as he took out his pen and prepared to fill it with water, He Yu's head came over. He lowered his voice and asked, "Yu Dong, have you heard about the Commonwealth of Independent States?"
What?"
"Now I've heard about it." Yu Dongwu rubbed his hands with ink. He was not very interested in this topic.
However, He Yu was very talkative and continued in a low voice: "What do you think, can the Soviet Union celebrate the New Year? If it really breaks up, what impact will it have on us? Will it..."
He Yu didn't say the rest, probably he also knew it was taboo.
"Are we the same as the Soviets?" Yu Dong asked rhetorically.
"It's different...at least not exactly the same." He Yu shook his head.
"Since they are different, there is no need to trap us on them."
"But after all, before we..."
"Before was before, now is now, it's time for a change of mind, Teacher He."
He Yu looked at the relaxed smile on Yu Dong's face and was very surprised. It seemed that to Yu Dong, the Soviet affairs were not as important as the pen in his hand.
Is he really able to see through more things, or is he completely blind to what is happening outside the window?
Unable to chat with Yu Dong, He Yu sat back in his seat.
Yu Dong continued to pack the ink, and then took out his notebook to plan next week's arrangements. He really didn't care much about the Soviet affairs, because he had already experienced it once, and that time he was like many people who had wild thoughts.
But time is the best proof that everything is not as bad as everyone imagined, and is even a little better.
Moreover, in the game between countries, there is really very little that ordinary people can do. If they do the job at hand well, I am afraid it will already be a help.
However, not everyone was as calm as Yu Dong. The atmosphere in the big office was a bit restless throughout the afternoon. Although He Yu no longer spoke as loudly as before, there were always people whispering to each other.
Yu Dong could sometimes hear them talking, talking about everything. Some talked about the future of the Soviet Union, and some talked about the reasons why the Soviet Union had reached this stage.
Hearing them discussing various reasons, the words "Star Wars Project" suddenly popped into Yu Dong's mind.
Although the "Star Wars Project" was not the main reason for the disintegration of the Soviet Union, it was a dramatic and easy-to-remember event.
Speaking of which, just a few years ago, the U.S. government developed a strategic defense plan for an anti-ballistic missile defense system. This plan was called the Star Wars plan.
The budget of this plan is as high as more than one trillion US dollars, and it covers many aspects. The technology involved will be unimaginable even many years later.
In the end, this plan was not implemented. The United States claimed that it was due to technical defects, but many people believed that this plan was to bring down the Soviet Union.
Yu Dong had no intention of exploring the truth. The Star Wars project reminded him of another thing: he had also written several novels about space.
For a period of time, he especially liked to read novels or film and television works related to deep space.
Whether it was "2001: A Space Odyssey" written by Clark in his early years, "The Three-Body Problem" by Liu Cixin, or the movie "Interstellar", he looked for them all.
For more than two months, he was immersed in various works describing space. In order to understand these novels, he even searched for related books, such as Kip Thorne's "Black Holes and Time Warp" and
A book of the same name "Interstellar" that specifically explains the physics in "Interstellar".
After reading it, I felt itchy to write a lot more.
There are countless short stories among them, as well as some medium-length and long stories.
Because he wrote too much, he didn't remember much of it. The long and medium stories were slightly better and had a more or less general impression, but he only remembered one-tenth of the short stories.
The one that impressed me most was a novel he named "Deep Space", because he wrote it with the most care and was the most satisfied with it in the end.
It's just that... Yu Dong tapped the table with his pen. He didn't have time to get "Deep Space" out now.
This book is divided into eight volumes and he wrote more than 400,000 words. Even if he starts writing it now, he will probably finish it after the year.
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After having dinner with Liu Changmin and others in the cafeteria in the evening, Yu Dong returned to the dormitory with two letters. Why two letters? Because there was another one sent from the editorial department of "Harvest".
Yu Dong didn't open the letter when he was at work, and didn't open it until he returned to the dormitory.
He first opened the letter from Tan Kai of "Harvest". In the letter, Tan Kai mainly told Yu Dong two things. The first was to tell Yu Dong that the magazine had decided to change it to a monthly publication and that the next issue would be published in January.
The second thing was to make an appointment with Yu Dong for a manuscript. Tan Kai spent a lot of time in his letter complaining, saying that the lack of manuscripts was affecting the monthly magazine. He also said that Yang Xiao went to his office eight times a day to put pressure on him, so that Yu Dong must do it.
Want to help him.
Moreover, Tan Kai also specifically emphasized that the manuscript should be short, preferably less than 10,000 words.
After reading the letter, Yu Dong did not rush to reply to Tan Kai, but instead opened the letter from the editorial department of "Harvest".
As expected, it was not what Dong expected. It was another invitation letter, written by the literary editor named Wang Yu.
This time, Wang Yu's words were more sincere. He also mentioned that he accidentally read Yu Dong's "Mending the Sky" in "Zhongshan", and then praised "Mending the Sky" a lot, saying that it was "astonishingly written by heaven and man".
All came out.
But Yu Dong knows that newly appointed literary editors like Wang Yu, who suffer from few resources at hand, often like to coax people first, making people think that they can get it published if they just write casually. But after you send the manuscript, it will be
Chapter completed!