"How about you come with me to have a look and introduce these YUs to them? You always read books, how can you not share them?" Olivier suggested.
"They won't like to see it." Anna shook her head.
Olivier smiled and said, "How do you know they don't like watching if you haven't tried it? Come on, I'll take you there. You can only know something if you try it. It's not far anyway."
Then he saw that Anna was a little moved, and struck a chord while the iron was hot: "Didn't you complain that it is difficult to find books by Chinese authors in France? If more people like to read books by Chinese authors, the publishing house will definitely be willing to publish more
Books by Chinese writers. Look at "Resident Evil" and "Second World", aren't they..."
"'Resident Evil' is different from 'The Second World'. They are both popular novels, facing a wider audience, and they have a lot of publicity."
"In my opinion, there is no difference. We all have to work hard for the things we like, right?"
Olivier stared at Anna with tenderness in his eyes, but Anna didn't notice that she only had novels in her mind.
Regarding what Olivier said, she felt that it did make sense. After thinking for a while, she nodded and said, "I'll go take a look."
…
Cambot returned to the United States with the manuscript of "Harry Potter". He felt that the book had great potential and was worth signing.
However, considering that Rowling is not well-known now and will need a lot of publicity investment in the later stage, Campote wants to sign a three-year contract with her and take a 15% commission.
Of course, before making the decision, Cambot still went to find Jimmy.
After all, this book was finalized by YU himself, and he was afraid that there would be problems if he made the decision without authorization.
Jimmy happened to be back from Seattle and heard that YU had finalized another writer, and he was very interested.
"You can tell me the specific details later."
Jimmy took the manuscript of "Harry Potter" and asked Cambot while flipping through it.
Canbot nodded and said, "I wasn't there at the time, but later I heard from Jiang that the boss was signing books at the time, and he chatted with Rowling, the author of the book, and then learned that the other person had written a book, so he left
She came down and had a chat, and then we decided on it. I could tell that the boss was very interested in this book."
Jimmy nodded. Although Cambot was not very specific, it is conceivable that Rowling, the author of this book, went to the book signing to promote her book.
Since it can be favored by Yu Dong, this book must be outstanding.
"Okay, you go back first, I will give you an answer after reading it."
After Cambot left, Jimmy read the novel seriously.
After reading it, Jimmy fell into deep thought. From his own point of view, this book was not as good as "A Song of Ice and Fire", at least not as huge and magnificent as the latter.
But as an operator, he can see the potential of this book. The most important thing is that this book brings the magical world to life. Many of the plots in it are actually what students experience in school, but they are based on
It's just presented in a magical way.
In this way, it will definitely catch the attention of those student groups.
In addition, this series is very easy to market. It is more suitable for peripherals than Spielberg's previous "Jurassic Park" and is also very suitable for film and television.
He already understood why Yu Dong was optimistic about this book.
Then he took the book to Cambot's office and said, "Cambot, sign a two-year contract with 8% commission."
"Eight percent?" Cambot said in surprise, "We signed a 10% contract with the boss, how can we sign an 8% contract with her?"
"In the contract signed with the boss, it doesn't matter how much you share, because the boss has been increasing capital in the company in the past two years." Jimmy explained to Cambot, "The ratio given to Rowling is lower. We mainly use this series of novels.
Copyright. I bought the copyright of the novel directly, and then we can release it for marketing and promotion."
"What do you mean by proportion?"
"It's up to you. Don't ask for too much, so that the water can flow steadily."
"I see."
…
After their trip to Europe, Yu Dong and the others returned to Jinyi.
The new house was almost empty during this period. When they left, they gave the key to Fu Jing and asked her to help open a window when she had nothing to do.
So when we came back again, Yu Dong and his wife had officially moved in.
Cheng Yanqiu was lying comfortably on the sofa, but Yu Dong did not rest. Instead, he ran to the study to write a book. When he was in Paris two days ago, Yu Dong suddenly had some inspiration and remembered many things that he had not thought of before.
——About that dream before.
When people are in a foreign land, their impressions of their hometown will become clearer. These impressions may not faithfully reflect everything that really happened at that time. There will also be some active processing by the brain, but these impressions are traceable.
of.
So, Yu Dong started writing.
He created four main characters, three men and one woman, Lin Rong, Lao Xiao, Ya'er, and Xiao Ai.
In fact, they cannot be regarded as protagonists, they are just used to connect several eras.
When writing this novel, Yu Dong did not deliberately manipulate the time period, nor did he divide the novel into odd and even chapters like Jin Yucheng did. Instead, he completely let himself go and wrote wherever he realized.
One moment, middle-aged Xiao was dining with the leader, and the next moment, Lao Xiao was kicked into the river by Lin Rong.
One second the young boy Ya'er was peeking at Aunt Liu next door having sex, but then he turned around and was drinking at his wedding.
Therefore, he wrote very quickly, but considering that too much Shanghai dialect was used in it, Yu Dong often waved to Cheng Yanqiu after writing a paragraph, "Honey, come here."
Cheng Yanqiu walked over, picked up the manuscript, read it over, and said, "I don't understand."
Yu Dong changed his mind, and Cheng Yanqiu went back to watch TV. She was afraid that it would affect her husband's writing, so she only watched the pictures without turning on the sound. Sometimes when she was tired of watching TV, she would find a book and sit on the sofa to read slowly.
After correcting it once, Yu Dong waved again, "Wife."
Cheng Yanqiu looked at it again and said, "I understand a little bit, but not completely."
Then change it again.
Sometimes it takes four or five changes.
But later on, Yu Dong also mastered the scale and skills. Gradually, even Cheng Yanqiu could understand it when he wrote it.
"Although it's not very smooth, I can understand it."
Then Yu Dong continued to write.
I continued writing until September 1st. I had written more than 30,000 words, and only about one-tenth of it was written.
But he can no longer focus on writing the book, because he will start to get busy next.
He didn't have much to worry about about the start of school. He was getting married in just over a week, and there were many things he needed to confirm.
Just at this time, Wang Hailin came to him again with a new manuscript.
Although Yu Dong was very busy, he still took time to read Wang Hailin's new manuscript.
After reading it, Yu Dong nodded. Compared with the last time, the new manuscript has obviously improved a lot. At least the main line is clear and the structure is clear.
The novel tells the story of a murder in a high school in a small town. Han Fang, a music teacher who had worked at the school for fifteen years, was poisoned and died in her apartment. The police found a bottle of juice in the house and detected cyanide.
There were only Han Fang's own fingerprints on the bottle, which meant that someone had deliberately processed the fingerprints before Han Fang picked up the drink. Otherwise, there could not have been only Han Fang's fingerprints on the bottle.
It was obviously a homicide, but after a period of social relationship investigation and evidence collection, the case still made no progress.
Then, only one month later, another person died in the school, Liu Shangkui, the old principal who had been at the school for more than 40 years.
Liu Shangkui died on a small road less than two kilometers away from the school. He often went fishing there. This time, his throat was cut when he was riding his bike home after fishing.
Another murder case followed, and the murderer was never found. However, as more and more teachers died, the police also discovered that they had one thing in common, that is, these people had taught the same class.
Only two teachers in this class were still alive. The police finally caught the murderer by secretly observing and protecting the remaining two teachers.
This murderer was a student in the class they taught together back then. From his words, he was also implicated in a case ten years ago.
Back then, the vice principal, Liu Shangkui's son, was in the same class as them. Liu Shangkui used coercion and inducement to finally get the girl's parents.
After the girl dropped out of school, she couldn't bear the blow, so she ran to school and jumped off the building to commit suicide.
The teachers who died were actually insiders, and some even tried to persuade the girls not to call the police.
…
"The idea is pretty good and the structure is pretty good, but many details are not handled properly. For example, how can the police infer that they all taught the same class based on the deaths of the first few people? There are only so many teachers, and for so many years, people like them
Have we never taught another class together?"
"Even if they have really only worked together in that one class over the years, it would be difficult for ordinary police officers to detect this."
Wang Hailin said with a grimace, "Then this has been completely overturned."
Yu Dong smiled and said, "No, you can try another way. The police may not be able to investigate this, but those teachers may have evil intentions in their minds and they may show it. For example, after the previous teachers all died, the remaining teachers
She behaved very nervously, as if she was hiding something from the police, so as to make the police suspicious of the teachers."
"Or maybe a certain teacher knew what happened back then and usually ran to blackmail Liu Shangkui. Then after Liu Shangkui's death, he was mistakenly thought to be the murderer. The police followed this line and tried again."
After hearing Yu Dong's analysis, Wang Hailin nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, that's right."
Yu Dong continued, "In addition, the killing techniques in the novel are a bit crude, such as poisoning with juice. You didn't explain clearly how to poison, so how can readers understand it? There are several killing techniques in the novel.
It is a bright spot in itself, but if it is not explained clearly, this bright spot will be gone.”
"And the murderer. You only told him his identity back then, as a classmate who liked girls, but what is his current identity? Why was he able to kill so many people in a row? What experience made him so thoughtful? Or
, he is a doctor, he understands the human body and pharmacology?"
"In this kind of mystery novel, it's better for the truth to surface slowly, rather than popping out like what you wrote here, and the readers can't react."
"Okay, okay, I've written it down." Wang Hailin nodded like he was pecking rice.
Yu Dong waved his hand, "It's useless for you to just remember what I said. It's best to learn more about how to kill people... that is, to understand pharmacology, human structure and other knowledge. If you want to write the murderer as a doctor... of course you must
You are not a doctor, but you can learn more about doctors, put yourself in their shoes, and see how they kill people. For example, how do medical students kill mice?"
Wang Hailin shook his head, "I don't know."
Yu Dong waved to him, "Come here."
Wang Hailin approached obediently, then leaned down and listened to Yu Dong talking to him.
Yu Dong pressed his shoulder with his hand and showed a strange smile, "The first way is very simple, just fall to death directly."
"Second type."
When talking about the second type, Yu Dong moved his hand from Wang Hailin's shoulder to the back of his neck.
"In the second type, they would pinch the rat's cervical vertebrae hard, and then dislocate the rat's cervical vertebrae and die."
Wang Hailin's body suddenly tensed up, and he felt Yu Dong's hand clamping down on his neck like a pair of pliers, preventing him from moving.
"There is a third type." Yu Dong approached Wang Hailin's ear and slowly moved his hand across Wang Hailin's throat. "They will cut the mouse's throat with scissors and slowly drain the mouse's blood. Sometimes, they worry
Getting your hands dirty will turn on the faucet and flush the rat's bleeding throat, which will also make the blood flow faster."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Wang Hailin was startled and took a few steps back.
Yu Dong laughed out loud when he saw him like this: "You're so big, and you have this kind of mental quality?"
Wang Hailin couldn't laugh, he was still a little scared, "Brother Dong, you are too scary."
Yu Dong waved his hand, "Get out of here, I'm still very busy."
Wang Hailin felt as if he had been granted amnesty, picked up the manuscript and ran away quickly.
Yu Dong looked at Wang Hailin's hurried back and couldn't help but smile again. This was a lesson to this guy. Who told him to bother him even though he knew he was getting married?
After Wang Hai left, Yu Dong wanted to go out, but as soon as he got up, the phone at home rang.
Yu Dong looked at the phone and sighed. When people are busy, there will always be more things to do for you.
"Hello."
"Hello, Teacher Yu Dong."
Yu Dong recognized the other party's voice, "Da Liu, why are you calling me at this time?"
"Teacher Yu Dong, I want to ask you for a favor. Didn't we talk about the Earth Navigation novel in the hotel before? When I came back to check the information, I found it was difficult. There was too little geological information, and many of them were not detailed." Liu Cixin
His tone was a little embarrassed. If it wasn't really difficult, he wouldn't have approached Yu Dong.
Originally, he wanted to ask Yang Xiao, but after thinking about it, he felt that he should be more familiar with Yu Dong.
Yu Dong smiled and said, "No problem, let me ask you. The geology of Jinling University is pretty good."
"Thank you very much." Of course Liu Cixin also knew that the geology of Jinling University was good, but he didn't have the nerve to mention it just now.
"You're welcome, I'll ask for you and I'll give you the news later."
"Okay, okay, when the novel is published, I will also attach a thank you letter."
Yu Dong smiled. Liu Cixin probably said this because he saw the thank you letter sent by "The Martian" before.
But this is also good. The linkage between scientific research and science fiction is beneficial to the popularization of science and can fully mobilize students' interest in science and technology.
After hanging up the phone from Liu Cixin, Yu Dong called his father-in-law.
His father-in-law is the deputy director of the Chinese Department of Jinling University, and this relationship is not in vain.
Cheng Liye was in the office. When he received a call from Yu Dong, he thought Yu Dong wanted to talk to him about marriage, but he didn't expect that he wanted to ask for information.
"Director Yu's office of the Department of Earth Sciences is not far from me. I'll go and ask for you. If he agrees, give him a call."
Cheng Liye then went to Yu Jianhua's office with his teacup in his arms. Coincidentally, Yu Jianhua was also in the office.
Seeing Cheng Liye, Yu Jianhua smiled and said: "How come Director Cheng has time to come to my place now? The tea here is incomparable to yours."
Cheng Liye sat down on the chair with his teacup in his arms, "Isn't it all a son-in-law's filial piety?"
"Haha, I know you have found a good son-in-law. But your father-in-law is not very good at it. He hasn't seen his son-in-law come over for a long time. I haven't seen him in person until now."
"Now there is a chance to see it."
"You know, drinking, I will definitely go there then."
Cheng Liye waved his hand, "No, it can be done earlier."
"What do you mean?" Yu Jianhua asked doubtfully.
"That's right." Cheng Liye leaned forward, "There is a science fiction writer, Yu Dong's friend, named Liu Cixin, who wants to write a novel related to geology. He couldn't find detailed information, so he asked me to write it.
Coming to find you."
Yu Jianhua understood and said, "So you are asking for something from me."
Cheng Liye waved his hand again, "No, no, Lao Yu, I'm actually here to help you. This is a good opportunity to promote your department. Once he writes this novel, if he becomes famous in the future, your Department of Earth Sciences will
It will be written into the credit book."
"Okay, it doesn't matter if it's famous or not, but what kind of information does he want? There are so many geological information, I can't bring a big truck to transport it to him, right?"
"You have to talk to my son-in-law about this. I don't understand."
"Okay, give me Yu Dong's number and I'll tell him directly."
Then Yu Jianhua called Yu Dong and explained the matter clearly.
After hanging up the phone, Cheng Liye asked, "How's it going? Are you clear?"
Yu Jianhua nodded and sighed, "This Earth Navigator's idea is very good. It seems that I have to prepare a good document for him. Maybe this novel will really become famous in the future. Your son-in-law told me that in the future
When the novel comes out, write a thank you note and attach it to the front of the novel."
Chapter completed!