Zhang Chu couldn't help laughing as he looked at the speculation of his fans. Everyone was willing to look for all kinds of clues for what they like.

Most people just stay on the Internet and ask a few questions.

But there are always a few activists who call directly to inquire.

They knew that Nanhai Publishing Company and Hanlin Culture Media must be in a sympathy, and would rather donate the book than announce the listing time. It would be better to find the Confucius Institute headquarters to be reliable.

Such large institutions can find the phone number on the Internet by searching for it, so it is very clear that it is the real Lord of the Rings!

"When they find out that the set of books donated to Confucius Institute are all specially printed money, will they feel deceived?" Zhang Chu thought with a bad taste, waiting for the wailing of his fans.

Because the donation targets are foreigners who have not been in contact with Chinese for a long time, it is obviously impossible to be like ordinary published works.

Nanhai Publishing Company has specially printed a version with pronunciation. Many unknown words can be found in the pinyin. For slightly more complicated words, please refer to the annotation below.

It sounds a bit incredible and even a bit strange to let foreigners read a Western fantasy work in Chinese!

However, "The Lord of the Rings" is just one of the books given, and the rest are "Ghost Blows Out the Light", "Search of the Gods", "Da Vinci Code", and "The Legend of Wukong" all with pinyin added in Chinese.

The advantage of having a computer now is that the software can directly recognize Chinese characters and then write out the pinyin. The accuracy and efficiency are not comparable to humans.

"I really don't know if those foreigners can understand these books with the help of pinyin and annotations." Zhang Chu closed his laptop and said to himself: "If you can't understand, go buy an English version or book in the corresponding language to check it out."

If this can drive the overseas sales of books, it is obviously an excellent thing!

Others have to sit in a coffee shop when writing books, but even the most pure coffee shop is not as good as their own yard.

Zhang Chu had already brewed a pot of tea in the pavilion. Now he turned on the laptop and could directly write, which was extremely comfortable!

He obviously has to go to Cannes in a few days, but he still can't rest. He has already written "The Twin Towers" for nearly 50,000 words.

The first part was not yet launched, and the second part was already being written. He was determined to finish the series within a year to clean up his grievances.

"Soushen Ji" was slowly serialized online, and then suddenly released six physical books, with a total of more than one million words.

Now there are three volumes of "The Lord of the Rings", which takes longer than writing six volumes.

One is Oriental Fantasy and the other is Western Fantasy. Both sides can compare sales.

Writing too much will naturally be smooth, especially after a good start, Zhang Chu was typing and even Matcha knew not to disturb him.

I don’t know how long it took, and the tea I had made had cooled down, so he stood up as the phone vibrated.

In order to prevent Matcha from touching the keyboard randomly, he would always save the thing and cover it, so as to avoid the same document as before, and then he opened countless programs and applications.

The phone number was called by Zhou Kang. Recently, he has been busy with various things and has significantly increased the number of calls with his agent.

"We have finished the donation ceremony today. The leaders of the State Council of Hanban are praising you, saying that the number of applicants this year is several times that of the same period last year, and the discussion is very hot!"

It sounds like Zhou Kang is in a good mood.

Zhang Chu replied: "I saw this news, and the effect was the same as we thought."

"No, no, no, it's even more ideal than we expected!" Zhou Kang added: "Do you know how many calls and Weibo private messages have been received by Nanhai Publishing Company? Do you know how badly our Hanlin Culture has been scolded?"

"I really don't know."

"If you don't know about these, then look at your own private messages and comments. Those readers are very powerful."

"So have you chosen a good day to go public? Don't tell me that you will have to wait until June."

"How could it be? Nanhai Publishing Company has just communicated. May 8th is a good time, and it's Monday. Now they are trying hard to print 2 million copies for the first time. This should be the first book with the largest number of prints in China in recent years."

Finally, the time has been determined. It is only ten days away, and it is indeed close enough!

Since it is Zhang Chu's work, it must be its own popularity, and the entire Nanhai Publishing Company has to make way for it.

Whether from the perspective of printing or distribution, ten days are enough.

"Why do you feel like I'm still in Cannes on the 8th?" Zhang Chu went to ask for leave from the counselors and teachers to adjust classes by himself, so he naturally knew the time schedule.

"Anyway, you are not going to hold a signing or a new book launch conference. As long as the books appear on the shelves of various physical bookstores and online bookstores, will it have an impact on where you are?"

Zhang Chu was almost speechless. It was too true. It would be a good end to confront the boss like this!

"Okay, then I'll be the boss of the whole process?"

"This probably won't work. Have you forgotten your activities in Cannes? You have helped you promote your movies, and you have to promote your own books! Media around the world are paying attention to Cannes, and "The Lord of the Rings" is released in two Chinese and English versions. Random House is ready to go to Cannes to sell books and promote them."

It seems that it is probably unrealistic for Zhang Chu to truly enjoy attending a film festival to watch movies. There are so many activities that have been carefully selected.

He sighed, "Say, I can bear it if there is any news to let me know."

Zhou Kang laughed: "Just just after our donation ceremony, the director of Xiangnan Satellite TV's program, who was in charge of the Chinese Bridge, called to ask if he could take you to the recording site."

"I remember talking about this before, and I seemed to refuse." Zhang Chu didn't want to answer again!

"He thought our company was like an agency like Huayi, and could command contracted artists, but you were the boss. He also had a small proposal. Now the Chinese Bridge program team lacked a theme song. They thought the songs you created were pretty good, so they wanted to ask you for a song, and the price was calculated according to industry standards."

Zhang Chu subconsciously refused and said, "Forget it, don't look for me. I'm busy now!"

"Since that's the case, I'll tell them to ask them to invite other clever songwriters. There should be quite a lot of good songwriters."

"Hey, wait!" Zhang Chu suddenly thought of a very suitable song. He smiled wickedly: "Will all the contestants sing this theme song?"

Zhou Kang was a little hesitant: "It shouldn't be true. After all, this is a Chinese competition, not an idol trainee, so there is no need to learn the theme song."

"It's a pity that this is the case. I originally wanted to make things difficult for these foreigners to let them know the profoundness of Chinese!"

Zhang Chu smiled, as if he saw a foreign college student tortured by the theme.

The scene was very interesting just by thinking about it!

Zhou Kang didn't see this smile, and he said, "If you are willing to write the song next, just send it to me. Anyway, the recording of the program will take until July, and you can finish it within one or two months. But don't delay for two months and say that you can't write it out. If the time is too tight, others can't find a replacement."

"Uncle Zhou, don't worry. I'll send you the song if I hang up the phone later. You can wait."

"So quickly? Did you write it before, or are you just starting to think about it now?"

Zhang Chu replied: "I remembered it temporarily."

After saying that, he didn't care about Zhou Kang's other things and hung up his phone directly.

Most people start with the melody when creating a song, either humming it by themselves, playing guitar or playing piano.

After the melody is confirmed, I will leave it to someone else to write the lyrics, and finally it will become a complete song!

For example, most of Jay Chou’s songs that everyone is familiar with are written by him first and then handed over to Fang Wenshan to write lyrics. Lin Xi is the same, and he always writes lyrics after getting the melody.

However, Zhang Chu is not really original, he wants to take out a song in his memory!

This song is nothing else, it is "Chinese" that has been popular on the earth for a while!

It was sung by the women's group, appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, won many awards, and caused a lot of controversy.

This song "Chinese dialect" is light-paced and does not use the common popular singing style. Instead, it incorporates tongue twisters into the hip-hop style and uses rap to sing familiar tongue twisters.

Originally, normal Chinese people would tie their tongues when talking about tongue twisters, let alone foreigners.

Zhang Chu is really planning to use this song as the theme song. The whole world is learning Chinese dialect. Is this more appropriate to use in Chinese bridge?

Rap usually pays attention to rhyme, and even writes some irrelevant words to rhyme.

Just like the first lyrics of "Chinese Dialect" describe the line "The shoulder pole is long and the bench is wide" that has been passed down to this day as "The shoulder pole is wide and the bench is long"

Just to make the word "long" fall behind, we put together the word "up" in the next sentence "I want to tie the pole to the bench" to syllable.

This is a particularly obvious mistake, and Zhang Chu didn't want to do this.

If he copied it, it would be misleading foreigners who had just learned Chinese and would also be scolded to death by their compatriots.

Whose shoulder pole is wider than a bench?

He would rather lose a little of this rhyme than make a low-level mistake.

Zhang Chu had no intention of concealing it, so he planned to write it out now.

Many creative singers can get the inspiration in ten minutes when writing songs, and it doesn’t take much time at all.

There is a very famous saying in the industry: good songs are written by God, and most unpleasant songs are collected after being held in for several months.
Chapter completed!