The next day, Yu Dong received the contract from Jimmy James.
The parties to the contract are Yu Dong and Guo Jianzhong.
After Jimmy got Guo Jianzhong's contact information from Tan Kai, he immediately contacted him. After making an appointment to meet, he went directly to Hangzhou, where Guo Jianzhong worked.
According to Jimmy, the meeting between the two went very smoothly. Guo Jianzhong directly agreed to translate "The Second World" without even asking about the cost.
In fact, this is easy to understand. For Guo Jianzhong, this is a good challenge.
In the past, in the field of science fiction literature, he always translated well-known foreign science fiction novels into Chinese and provided them to domestic readers.
But this time it was completely different. He needed to translate a domestic science fiction novel into English for foreign readers.
Throughout history, "The Second World" may not be the first domestic science fiction novel to be translated into a foreign language and published abroad, but in such a period, such a solid science fiction novel can be exported to foreign countries, which will definitely contribute to domestic science fiction.
Take a breath of fresh air.
Moreover, Guo Jianzhong also had an additional benefit in taking this job.
He is not only a translator who often contributes to "Science Fiction World", but he is also a science fiction fan. Naturally, he never reads "Science Fiction World".
Among Yu Dong's novels, his favorite is "Closed Loop", followed by "Second World". Like thousands of readers, he is waiting for the latest serialization of "Second World" every month.
Now that he has accepted the translation task of "The Second World", he can directly get the original manuscript and see the entire novel before most readers.
It was because I wanted to give him the entire manuscript that I got this contract.
The content of the contract mainly stipulates Guo Jianzhong's confidentiality obligations. Before "The Second World" is completely serialized, he must not disclose the subsequent content of the novel to anyone else.
Next, Guo Jianzhong's translation work will officially begin.
Because Guo Jianzhong has his own job and translation is only his deputy job, his speed is not very fast. The entire "Second World" has more than 300,000 words and is expected to take more than three months to complete.
The English version of "The Second World" will not be published until at least August.
…
At noon on Monday, Yu Dong took advantage of his break to go to "Zhongshan".
When passing by the deputy editor's office, he glanced inside and was stunned for a moment.
Because the person sitting behind the desk is not He Yongle, but Liu Xuemin.
Is this a personnel transfer, or is Liu Xuemin running in to take this seat without permission?
The latter is unlikely. Although Liu Xuemin is a bit careless, this kind of mistake should not be made.
Yu Dong glanced at the furnishings in the office again. It was indeed different from when He Yongle was here.
With doubts, Yu Dong knocked on the door and walked in.
"Brother Liu?"
Liu Xuemin was dealing with the work at hand. He raised his head when he heard Yu Dong's voice, stood up with a smile and said, "Teacher Yu Dong, you are here. Sit down quickly and I will make you a cup of tea."
"No trouble." Yu Dong waved his hand and said with a smile: "Brother Liu, are you promoted?"
"Hey, what is Gaosheng? Chief editor He is Gaosheng. He was transferred to the TV station to be the director of the news center. I just came to take over the job. Now I am the acting deputy editor, and I still have the word "agent" on my head." Liu Xuemin
He said with a smile.
"What's wrong with being an agent? The deputy editor is different from the editor-in-chief. Since you can be appointed as the deputy editor-in-chief so quickly, you should be removed from the agency soon. I would like to congratulate you in advance."
"Thank you for your blessing. In the future, we will need more support from great writers like you, Teacher Yu. I have read the full text of "Lu Xiulan" you published in our magazine this time. I have to say that although Teacher Yu, you are young,
But it is already at the forefront of Chinese literature."
"Brother Liu, you're commended." Yu Dong looked at Liu Xuemin in front of him with a smile. Sure enough, a person's butt determines his head. He was careless before, but now he has just become the deputy editor, and he is already impressive.
"Did you come to the club for something?" Liu Xuemin asked.
"I have some personal matters with Editor Su. I don't have much time at noon. I will go back after I find him."
"Oh, then go ahead and talk again when we have time."
"Okay, then I'll excuse you."
After coming out of Liu Xuemin's place, Yu Dong turned a corner and entered Su Tong's office.
Su Tong must have heard Yu Dong's voice and was already making tea for Yu Dong.
After making tea, the two sat down opposite each other. Su Tong said with a smile: "Have you met Liu Xuemin?"
Yu Dong nodded, "Well, it's quite unexpected. It hasn't been long since I last came here, and this personnel transfer is too sudden. I heard that Editor He was transferred to the TV station as the director of the news center?"
"Well, I went to Jianglin TV Station."
"Jianglin TV Station?" Yu Dong was stunned, "I thought it was Jinling TV Station."
Su Tong smiled and did not continue the topic, but brought up the matter of Zhang Yimou, "Director Zhang and I have already confirmed that he will come over in the afternoon the day after tomorrow."
"Do you want me to pick you up?"
"They drive here, you don't need to pick them up. But since you're the host, it's up to you to book the hotel."
"That's natural." Yu Dong said with a smile, "Let them talk to you in advance so that I can make arrangements."
"It's just him, you can make arrangements."
"Well, that's easy to arrange. I'll book a small box at the Jinling Hotel later."
Su Tong smacked his lips and said, "Tsk tsk, it's true that you eat from the rich. In fact, it doesn't matter where you eat. According to my understanding of Zhang Yimou, he is not very particular about these aspects."
"Well, I know." Yu Dong nodded, suddenly remembered something, and said: "By the way, I have one more thing to tell you. The big office where I work will have to rewire the phone lines in two days.
There will be a telephone set up by then, so it will be more convenient for you to call me in the future."
"That's a good thing. When I get the call back, you can give me a number. But I still suggest you install a phone in your dormitory. Although there is a phone in the office that can be used, you will definitely receive a lot of calls in the future and it will take a long time.
My colleagues will have some opinions."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Su Tong took a sip from the tea cup and continued: "I didn't mention this before because it was too expensive for you to install a phone at that time, and you
Installing a phone suddenly when you just go to school can easily cause criticism. Now that all the conditions are met, you might as well mention it to Lao Wu and ask him to approve a note, and you can install one at your own expense."
Yu Dong nodded and seriously considered Su Tong's suggestion.
He had thought about installing a telephone in his dormitory before, but he had the same concerns as Su Tong at the time. Now the conditions are indeed more mature than before, and the domestic telephone business has developed rapidly in the past two years, and gradually installing telephones
It has become less conspicuous, as evidenced by the installation of telephones in their large offices.
"I'll ask Principal Wu later."
"This can definitely be done. Old Wu will not set up obstacles for you, and it doesn't cost the school money anyway."
"Okay, then I'll go to Jinling Hotel to get a table first." Yu Dong stood up and said.
Su Tong waved his hand and pointed to the phone in the office, "You have to go out and make a phone call. I'll find their phone number for you."
Then Su Tong personally called Jinling Hotel and booked a seat.
…
After returning to school from "Zhongshan", Yu Dong went to the principal's office in the afternoon and told Wu Changxin about the phone call.
Wu Changxin readily agreed and wrote a note to Yu Dong on the spot, and then Yu Dong took the note to the logistics department.
This article is equivalent to an imperial edict. After receiving the imperial edict, the logistics department arranged things properly.
This is not difficult. It just so happens that the school will be installing a few phones recently. When the time comes, just contact the branch office of the telecommunications company and ask them to install one more.
Yu Dong just came out of the logistics department and happened to meet Cheng Yanqiu.
"Teacher Cheng." Yu Dong said hello with a smile.
Cheng Yanqiu nodded to Dong, hesitated for a moment and said, "Will you still offer general education courses this semester?"
Hearing Cheng Yanqiu mention the general education course, Yu Dong couldn't help but think of what happened before. In the first class, Cheng Yanqiu wrote his name on the information sheet.
At that time, Yu Dong thought that Cheng Yanqiu had filled in the form by mistake or was joking, but later he found out that she was serious. She was present during the entire ten classes without missing a beat.
"It should be soon."
"Yeah." Cheng Yanqiu turned to leave, but then turned back and asked Yu Dong: "Do you have time tonight?"
"Teacher Cheng, what do you want?"
"I didn't understand some of the things you taught in class before, and I wanted to ask you for help."
It turned out that because of this, Yu Dong smiled and said: "Let's not talk about asking for advice, let's communicate with each other. How about you see this, we will meet at the door of the first teaching building at seven o'clock in the evening."
"Okay, see you tonight."
After Cheng Yanqiu left, Yu Dong couldn't help but laugh. It seemed that Cheng Yanqiu was really interested in literature class.
…
At seven o'clock in the evening, Yu Dong stepped to the door of the first teaching building. Cheng Yanqiu was already waiting at the door. From a distance, Yu Dong saw a person sitting on the steps. When he got closer, he saw that it was Cheng Yanqiu.
She folded her legs, put a book on her knees, rested her chin on the book, and was in a daze. When Yu Dong walked up to her, she didn't even notice.
Most of the book cover was obscured by her head, but she could still tell it was the March issue of "Harvest".
Seeing that she didn't respond, Yu Dong took the initiative and said, "Teacher Cheng, I've kept you waiting for a long time."
Cheng Yanqiu raised his head and glanced at Yu Dong, then looked at his watch, shook his head and said, "You came just in time, it was me who came early."
"Well, let's go in and find a study room to sit down and chat."
Cheng Yanqiu stood up, looked inside the teaching building, and said, "There are people in the study room now. Let's walk around and talk while walking."
Yu Dong nodded, "Okay, I'll listen to you."
Cheng Yanqiu said they wanted to go for a walk together, but they didn't know where to go, so the two of them walked randomly around the first teaching building.
After walking for a while, Cheng Yanqiu said, "Yu Dong, do you believe that life is unchangeable and that it is a script that has already been written?"
This question made Yu Dong feel a little confused. Didn't she say that she wanted to ask herself questions related to the course?
But despite his doubts, Yu Dong still answered her: "I don't believe it."
Hearing Yu Dong's answer, Cheng Yanqiu looked at him in surprise, "I thought you would say you believe it."
"Why?" Yu Dong asked.
"I have read a science fiction novel you wrote, and it seems that the theme expressed is that fate cannot be changed."
Cheng Yanqiu should be talking about "Closed Loop", which surprised Yu Dong. She actually reads science fiction novels.
Seeing Cheng Yanqiu waiting for his answer, Yu Dong said with a smile, "Writing science fiction novels is just a possibility. It doesn't matter whether I believe it or not. And even if the trajectory of life cannot be changed, even if the script has already been
Even if you write it well, I won’t believe it.”
"Perhaps your disbelief is also written into the script? All your ideas are planned for you in the script."
Yu Dong shrugged his shoulders, "So what? Isn't it time to live longer?"
"If this is really the case, don't you feel sad or want to change?"
Yu Dong smiled and said: "Isn't this a paradox? Since my thoughts have been written in the script, isn't everything I do planned? If I really actively believe in fatalism, then it will definitely happen.
Falling into skepticism, because no matter what changes I made, I could say they were planned because none of us had read our script."
Cheng Yanqiu was stunned for a moment, thinking about Yu Dong's words.
Yu Dong spoke again, "Teacher Cheng, when you read a book, the story has already been written and will not change because of your reading. Will you lose interest in the book because of this?"
"No." Cheng Yanqiu shook his head, "If the story is good, I will read it more times."
Yu Dong smiled and said, "You can still remain interested in a story constructed by others, and you can even read it several times. Then why do you lose interest in a story that you only have once in your life?"
At this point, Yu Dong felt that he had said a bit too much. In fact, he just felt that the state shown by Cheng Yanqiu was too sad, and one should not be so sad in life.
Even if fatalism is true, it is already very interesting for a person to act out his own script seriously in his lifetime.
This kind of mourning in Cheng Yanqiu can be seen in many people in later generations, and it is somewhat related to fatalism.
After a while, Cheng Yanqiu said, "I'm sorry, I was looking for you to ask about the course, but I got sidetracked."
As she spoke, she opened "Harvest" in her hand and found "Death of a Widow", "You taught it in class before..."
Later, Cheng Yanqiu never mentioned fatalism again, and instead seriously asked questions related to drama.
She was well prepared and even made a small notebook to list her questions.
Yu Dong also answered her questions one by one seriously.
It was more than an hour after Cheng Yanqiu finished asking the questions in the notebook. Seeing that it was getting late, the two of them went back separately.
Chapter completed!