After leaving Jessica's house, Cheng Yanqiu looked back and said with a smile: "Your "Old Book" seems to be particularly popular with the elderly. If Jessica's grandma... or grandma knew that you had been here, she would probably regret going out today.
Alright."
"Perhaps people of their age can find shadows of their own youth from this book. Everyone's love may be different, but the shadow of love in everyone's heart under the sunlight has the same shape.
"
Cheng Yanqiu nodded, "Well, the same goes for Jessica and Hardison. Although she doesn't want to admit it, I can feel that he still likes Hardison very much."
"Now or still?" Yu Dong raised his eyebrows.
"Yeah, she told me that she liked Hardison when she first saw him. She said that Hardison was very good-looking at that time, and she felt that Hardison was the first person she saw when she saw him.
I also liked her when I got her. On the first day, they played together."
Yu Dong scratched his head: "Actually, Hardison's version is somewhat different from Jessica's version."
"Hadison also told you about the two of them?" Cheng Yanqiu raised his head and asked.
"Children always like to talk. Maybe the two of us are better suited to talking."
"What did Hardison say?"
"He told me that when we first met, he thought Jessica was a boy, and for a long time he regarded her as a buddy, even though he knew she was a girl."
"Then did he say that he learned to play the piano for Jessica?"
Yu Dong smiled and shook his head, "No, but he talked about Jessica forcing him to learn piano."
"Then their relationship had problems because of another girl. Did he say anything about it?" Cheng Yanqiu asked again.
"No, but Hardison did say that there was a problem in their relationship. It started when Jessica liked to dress up and wear skirts. He couldn't accept it at the time..."
While chatting, Yu Dong and the others discovered that Jessica and Hardison's statements were completely different.
"Did any of them lie?" Cheng Yanqiu asked.
Yu Dong shook his head, "Perhaps, neither of them lied, but from each other's perspective, they saw and felt completely different things. Although Jessica dressed as a boy before, she still thinks like a girl.
, so when she saw a handsome little boy who was willing to play with him, she naturally felt that the boy liked her just like her. Later, when Jessica got older, she saw other girls dressed up beautifully, and she also followed her.
She started dressing up, growing her hair long, and wearing skirts, but she didn’t expect that before that, Hades was already used to her dressing up as a boy, so he was not used to it for a while.”
Cheng Yanqiu nodded: "Children are indeed very sensitive."
In fact, the story between Jessica and Hades reminded Yu Dong of a movie: Heartbeat.
In that movie, there is also a little boy and a little girl who live across the street. They grew up together, but their perspectives have different interpretations of their relationship, which is quite interesting.
Maybe if he has time, he can write this movie.
…
When Jessica's grandmother came home, Jessica was sitting on the sofa holding an "old book" and reading it. But when she heard the news of her grandmother's return, she quickly put the book back on the coffee table.
But her grandmother had already seen it.
"Jessica, is the book good?" Grandma asked with a smile.
"It's okay, I'm just too bored to read this kind of book." Jessica shrugged, looking indifferent.
Grandma smiled, she knew Jessica very well.
"At least it's a book that you can read when you're bored, isn't it?" Grandma walked to the sofa and sat down, picking up the "Old Book" from the coffee table: "It reminds me of your grandpa, although I have
I didn’t meet your grandpa because of a book, but I still can’t forget the scene when I first met him. I was only your age at that time and he was already in college. He was with some good friends near my house that day.
Play basketball on the basketball court..."
Jessica didn't want to listen to her grandma nagging about the past stories, but after hearing a few words, she became curious. Grandma rarely talked about things related to her grandpa. Even in their family, grandpa's name was rarely mentioned. Dad and mom were afraid of grandma.
It will be sad to hear.
After talking for a while, grandma touched the "Old Book" in her hand again. Some memories lingered in her heart like fluttering catkins. She could see and feel them, but she couldn't grasp them and couldn't describe them.
"So I said, YU is definitely the best writer in the world. I said this after watching "The Crowd" last time."
Jessica curled her lips. Although she thought this "Old Book" looked pretty good, "The Crowd" couldn't be read at all. The whole book was rambling, and the plot jumped from time to time. What's more?
, the world described in "The Crowd" is completely different from the world she lives in. There are many things in it that she cannot understand.
In addition to "The Crowd", there is also "Going West", which is also a book that Grandma likes more, but Jessica can't like it at all.
She had read a little bit of "Looking to the West" before, and even felt that there was something wrong with the author.
Jessica's expression was also seen by her grandmother, who smiled and asked: "Why are you back so early today? Aren't you supposed to be at the coast at this time?"
"I met two friends today and I invited them to come to my house to play," Jessica said.
"Friends? Have they left already?" Grandma looked around the house and found no trace of the guests.
Jessica nodded: "They stayed here for a while, and I invited them to have lunch here, but they refused."
Grandma patted Jessica's head lovingly, "Oh? Can anyone else refuse Jessica's invitation? Don't they know that our Jessica is a little pianist?"
"Cheng is better than me. Not only does she play the piano well, but she can also compose music. The melody of her song is particularly beautiful. I heard that it was written for a certain movie, but that movie has not been released yet."
"Procedure?"
"Well, she is Chinese."
"Chinese, just like YU. Speaking of which, YU's wife is also a pianist. I heard Kaiant said that she once played a piece of music she wrote at the Deep Space Conference, and that piece was also written for a movie.
…”
When she said this, Jessica's grandmother suddenly froze.
"You just said you have two friends? The other one can't be Cheng's husband, right?"
"yes."
Grandma quickly took Jessica's hand, took her to the study, turned on the TV, and then searched on the bookshelf for a long time before finally finding a video tape, which was a recording of the Academy Awards ceremony the year before last.
Seeing her grandma busy for a while, Jessica asked doubtfully, "Grandma, what do you want to show me?"
"Don't worry yet."
After a while, a handsome Chinese man appeared in the camera.
Grandma pointed at the TV screen and asked excitedly, "Is it him? Is the man who came with Cheng him?"
Jessica looked at the man on the screen and was stunned, "Who is he?"
"Answer me first, is it him?"
Jessica nodded.
Seeing her nodding, grandma suddenly held her head and said angrily: "Oh my god, why did I go out today?"
"But you go out every morning."
"Yes, I go out every morning, but why can't I take a day off?"
Jessica looked at her grandmother's reaction and asked in disbelief: "Isn't he YU?"
Grandma spread her hands, "He is YU, the best writer YU, my God, he came to our house, and I went out."
The corner of Jessica's mouth twitched. She had always felt that Cheng's husband was too mediocre and not worthy of Cheng at all.
…
Yu Dong and Cheng Yanqiu wandered around Los Angeles for two days but did not go to Spielberg.
After returning to New York, Yu Hua and others were still signing books.
Although it was the day when Yu Dong's new book was released, Yu Dong himself only had one signing event, while Mo Yan and the others, except Wang Xiaobo, were all scheduled to have at least two signing events, and Yu Hua had three.
Yu Hua's three signings will include two in New York and one in Chicago, which means he still needs to fly to Chicago alone.
For this reason, Yu Hua also expressed strong protest, but it was useless. Things that have been decided cannot be changed.
Since he couldn't change, Yu Hua focused on dragging a few other people to go with him, but after several days, no one liked him. In the end, he went to Chicago alone.
After the release of "Old Book", it took nearly a week before all sales were calculated on the first day.
There is no big problem with the previously predicted data. The first-day sales of "Old Book" were 8.3 million copies, setting a new record.
The next day, the 48-hour sales data also came out, a total of 12 million copies, which was also a record.
When Yu Dong went to the company to find Jimmy, Jimmy pointed to the data and said to Yu Dong: "I'm afraid no one can break your record. Twelve million copies in 48 hours, twice as much as "The Old Man and the Sea"."
more than."
Yu Dong did not respond to Jimmy's words.
If Yu Dong remembers correctly, the final volume of "Harry Potter" sold more than 10 million copies on the first day, and it was not sold in as many countries as "Old Books" this time.
Of course, the reason why the final volume of "Harry Potter" can achieve such good results is that the Internet has developed later, news spreads quickly, and publicity is more likely to be effective. On the other hand, "Harry Potter" has the same results as the previous films.
bedding.
Nowadays, Deep Space Company and Warner are jointly operating "Harry Potter". If nothing unexpected happens, it will still reach that record in the future.
Chapter completed!