When Yu Dong returned home, Cheng Yanqiu was lying on the sofa and taking a nap.
Not wanting to disturb his wife, he closed the door gently, put down his backpack, and turned around to find that Cheng Yanqiu had already woken up in a daze.
"You're back." Cheng Yanqiu rubbed his eyes, "What time is it?"
Yu Dong looked up at the quartz clock on the wall, "It's almost four o'clock."
"I've slept for more than two hours."
Cheng Yanqiu was a little surprised. She was sitting on the sofa reading a book and fell asleep in a daze. She didn't expect that more than two hours had passed since she fell asleep.
Yu Dong walked over with a smile and touched his wife's belly, "Would you like to peel an apple for you to eat?"
"Well, let's cut one." Cheng Yanqiu nodded and pointed to his stomach, "The main thing is not that I want to eat it, but that the little guy wants to eat it."
"I just asked him."
…
Before Dong finished peeling an apple, Yu Haiguo ran up, stood outside the door and shouted, "Uncle Dong, Uncle Dong."
Seeing Yu Haiguo, Cheng Yanqiu smiled and waved, "Haiguo, come in and eat apples."
Yu Haiguo shook his head, "No, Aunt Qiu, I'll ask Uncle Dong to tell us a story."
"Telling a story?" Cheng Yanqiu asked in surprise.
Yu Dong explained with a smile: "I just saw him and Chang Di and the others down there, so I told them to tell them stories. Hai Guo, you go down first. I'll be there soon."
"Well, Uncle Dong, you have to come quickly."
After Yu Haiguo left, Cheng Yanqiu asked curiously, "What story do you want to tell them?"
"Don't know yet."
Cheng Yanqiu couldn't help but rolled his eyes, "You don't even know what story you want to tell, so you allow them?"
"I saw that they were about to run away, so I wanted to stabilize them. Besides, I didn't want to be unable to tell a story."
Cheng Yanqiu said with a smile, "Then you have to be prepared. Haiguo, a kid, has very high requirements for stories. His father often dislikes him when he tells him stories."
"Don't worry, I'm still confident in dealing with these guys." Yu Dong handed the peeled apple to Cheng Yanqiu, "I'll go cook after I finish telling them the story."
"I'll go listen too."
Cheng Yanqiu helped his thighs to get up, but it was very laborious. Yu Dong quickly went to help him.
When the couple went downstairs, they found that Feng Ming had also moved a bench to sit downstairs.
"Old Feng, why are you here too?"
Feng Ming pulled the corners of his lips and said, "Isn't this being rejected by my son? Come down and study."
Cheng Yanqiu chuckled and said, "Teacher Feng, you really need to study. I heard from Aiyuan that you told Chang Di about Liaozhai before. What did you think?"
Feng Ming defended: "Didn't I also grow up listening to Liaozhai when I was a child?"
In fact, what Feng Ming said is true. The stories that his generation heard when they were young are completely different from the stories that children today hear. Liaozhai definitely accounts for the largest proportion.
Especially in rural areas, there is a big tree at the head of every village. In the evening, young and old men gather under the big tree to enjoy the shade, shaking cattail fans and chatting.
The content of the chat is either the surrounding gossip or some anecdotes, and most of these anecdotes are based on Liaozhai.
"What story are you going to tell them today?" Feng Ming asked again.
"How about we talk about a chat? How about painted skin?"
"I think it will work. It's best to give them a few boys who are too scared to listen to stories."
Yu Dong turned his head and thought for a moment, then said, "How about telling a story about Yu Xiaoguo?"
"Yu Xiaoguo, me?" Yu Haiguo pointed at himself and said in surprise.
"You are Yu Haiguo." Yu Dong smiled, "But Yu Xiaoguo is just like you. He is very bored at home and wants to go out to play every day."
"I don't have it every day..."
"Yu Xiaoguo is a little older than you guys and is already in elementary school. She has just moved to a strange town with her parents. This town is a bit strange. She lives next door to them... This morning, she thought Let her mother play with her, but she has to be busy with work, so let her read a book or watch TV by herself..."
Feng Ming listened to the beginning of the story and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. Isn't this story a portrayal of Yu Haiguo and the others? Could it be that this story was made up by Yu Dong after seeing Yu Haiguo and his children?
Yu Dong didn't know what Feng Ming was thinking and continued to tell the story.
Yu Xiaoguo's parents were busy with work and had no time to play with Yu Xiaoguo. She was tired of playing with the toys at home, and there were also some boring programs on TV that only adults liked to watch.
She was so bored that she decided on a special door in her home.
It was a useless door, because it didn't lead to anything, and there was a solid wall behind it.
On the other side of the wall is a room. This room was originally connected to the room where Yu Xiaoguo and the others lived, but the owner later separated the room and rented it out separately.
The door was opened, but not closed,
There is actually another world on the other side of the door. Yu Xiaoguo found another mother and another father in this world. This mother will make delicious food for her and play with her patiently.
Not only that, her parents here will let her go out and play as she pleases.
Hearing this, Yu Haiguo sighed with envy, "That's great."
He spoke not only his own thoughts, but also those of other children.
Of course, what the children want is simple. Mom and dad can play with them, make delicious food for them, and do not restrict their freedom. They can play as crazy as they want.
The parents in that world were a little different, their skin was whiter, and their eyes were like two buttons. Apart from the parents, other things in that world were also very different, and everything was weird, but even so, the children still felt A lot of fun.
The children were not afraid of this kind of magic and weirdness, but were very curious.
When Yu Dong saw Yu Haiguo's reaction, he pursed his lips and smiled. The children really liked this story.
This story is not his original creation, but is based on the novella "Caroline" by the famous fantasy literature master Neil Gaiman.
This novel was later adapted into the movie "Caroline and the Secret Door", and the Chinese translation of the movie is "Ghost Mother".
Yu Dong also just saw Yu Haiguo and others gathering together to discuss running out, so he remembered this story.
In the story of "Caroline", the situation of the young protagonist Caroline is similar to that of Yu Haiguo and others. Their parents cannot stay with them all the time due to work reasons, nor can they take them out to play.
The difference is that there is a magical door in Caroline's home, and there is a mirror world behind this door.
The "mom and dad" here are simply perfect parents. They take care of all the food, clothing, housing and transportation in every possible way. As long as Caroline wants it, they will try their best to satisfy it.
But even though it was so perfect, when "Mom" asked Caroline to stay, she still turned around and returned to her original home.
It was only when she returned that she discovered that her original parents had disappeared.
In order to save her parents, Caroline bravely went back to fight the "ghost mother".
The ending is happy, but the process is full of horror and suspense. As a children's story, what "Caroline" wants to express seems a bit too complicated.
But the wonderful thing about this story is that even children who cannot understand the deeper meaning can still appreciate the excitement of the story. It can be said that this story is not only for children, but also for adults.
Because he was just telling a story, Yu Dong didn't go into too much detail. He just told the general outline of the story, so it didn't take too long.
Otherwise, it won’t work at all without a few hours.
After the story was told, the children all clapped excitedly, cheering and shouting for Yu Xiaoguo who successfully rescued his parents.
In their view, everything Yu Xiaoguo experienced was a brave person's adventure, full of excitement and thrills, as interesting as Shuke Beta.
Feng Ming, on the other hand, fell into deep thought.
For the same story, children and adults see completely different things.
Feng Ming saw Yu Xiaoguo's bravery and also saw Yu Xiaoguo's loneliness.
Naturally, he is not a perfect father, and he often loses patience with his son, so he felt somewhat guilty after hearing the story.
Yu Dong glanced at Feng Ming and probably understood what he was thinking, and said with a smile, "Children, I tell you this story because I want to tell you that even if your parents love you, they can't be perfect. I also know , although your parents can't play with you all the time, you still love them. If one day someone asks you to leave your parents, you will definitely not be willing..."
Normally, after Yu Dong tells a story, he will not give this kind of preaching, but today is an exception, because the children are too young, and giving them a few sermons can deepen their understanding.
There are many things to express in the story "Caroline", and one of the more important ones is courage. However, Yu Dong did not point this out to the children because he could feel that the children had already understood it. I came to the courage that the story wanted to express, and I was inspired by this courage.
After telling a story, Yu Haiguo and the others were still not finished, "Uncle Dong, Uncle Dong, tell me one more, tell me one more."
Yu Dong looked at his watch and saw that it was already five o'clock. He waved his hand and said, "I won't talk about it today. Uncle Dong has to go back to cook."
"Ah——" The children were a little disappointed.
Feng Ming smiled and said, "How about you say one more thing and stop cooking tonight. I'll ask Teacher Wu to cook more."
Yu Dong shook his head and said with a smile, "No, our family now has a special nutrition package. Tell them a story."
Feng Ming rubbed his hands and said, "Okay, I'll tell them something."
Upon hearing Feng Ming's story, Yu Haiguo immediately said, "Uncle Feng, I seem to hear my mother calling me to come home for dinner."
After saying that, Yu Haiguo ran away. The key is, this kid didn't go upstairs, but ran towards the playground.
Yu Haiguo, the "eldest brother," ran away, and several other younger brothers also ran away. Feng Changdi glanced at his father with his neck curled up, and seeing that Feng Ming didn't say anything, he ran away after Yu Haiguo.
When Yu Dong saw the children running away in a hurry, he couldn't help but joked to Feng Ming, "Let's ask Teacher Feng to tell a story - they dispersed in a hurry!"
"They don't listen, so I'm not afraid to tell you." Feng Ming curled his lips and asked: "Where did that story just come from? Why haven't I heard it before? Did you make it up now?"
Yu Dong smiled and said: "Just think of it as a current one."
"That's you. I don't believe what others say. This story is very good. Don't you consider writing it into a novel? I feel that if it is written into a novel, it will definitely look better. When I listened to you just now, I always felt that some details were not laid out. open."
Yu Dong said with a smile, "Oh, you still listened."
"Didn't I come here with a learning attitude? Of course I listened. If you write the story into a novel later, remember to tell me and explain it to Chang Di."
"Okay, I'll think about it."
…
Yu Dong told Yu Haiguo and others this story just because it suited the situation, and he had not thought of writing it out in a book.
But now that the story is finished, it seems natural to get the book out. After all, the novel is not very long, and if I really want to write it, I can finish it in a few days at most.
Yu Dong happens to have nothing to write at the moment, so it would not be a waste to take some time to write this novel.
And he was thinking about a question on the way back today. If the Olympic Bid Committee contacts him later and asks him to serve as the Olympic Bid Ambassador, then his account in the Deep Space Tribe may become an important channel for promoting the Olympic Games.
In this case, before that, it would be best for him to run this account and increase the number of fans.
For Dong, it is of course easy to increase the number of fans. He only needs to post a few more tribes and let the company do a few waves of push for him.
But in this way, the quality of fans may not be satisfactory.
If you want to continue to increase the popularity of your account, the best way is to continue to publish content that can interest people. Otherwise, it will be useless no matter how many fans you have.
For example, in the era when the Internet exploded later, some celebrities did have many fans, and most of these fans were real people. However, when they posted their status, there was not much interaction among the fans.
From the perspective of fans, oh, this person is very good, I follow him, but the content he posts is always boring. The next time I see it, I just pass it by and don't care.
In order to avoid this problem, Yu Dong must post some useful content.
Before, he was still thinking about what to post, but now, the problem is solved.
He could write the novel "Caroline", give it to Jimmy to translate into other languages, and then publish it in multiple languages ​​on Deep Space Tribe.
This story is not long, but it can be divided into many parts. If you serialize a little bit every day, it can last for a long time.
Chapter completed!