Chapter 28 Fine-tuning
Chapter 28 Fine-tuning
"All students who win first prize and score more than 90 points in the province can participate in the finals." Principal Liu said that he called people to his office not just to praise them, "Your score is 97 points, so you are also eligible to participate."
Not only was he qualified, Gu Lu's score was the highest in all the preliminary rounds.
Gu Lu nodded. He knew the event very well and listened attentively to the address of the offline finals.
"The second round of the finals will be held on June 9th. The Sichuan and Chongqing regions will compete at the Chengdu Experimental Foreign Languages School." Principal Liu paused for a moment and continued, "Teacher Li told me about your family situation. Your parents are busy with work, so the cost of participating in the competition will be borne by our school."
Busy with work - that's a very tactful way of putting it, but the travel fare was saved, and he didn't expect to get this benefit. Gu Lu thanked the principal.
It’s not that I can’t afford it, but it’s more cost-effective if I don’t use my own money.
"Teacher Li will accompany you then." Principal Liu said again.
Gu Lu said, "Thank you so much, Teacher Li."
"The 9th is Saturday, so it won't affect Teacher Li's classes. Besides, the school will definitely be worried about you going to another province alone." Principal Liu said, and then added, "It doesn't matter whether you win the award or not, just do your best."
The Ye Cup is a competition for junior and senior high school students, so it certainly cannot interfere with school time. It is also reasonable to schedule the offline finals on the weekend.
"Prepare well." With Principal Liu's advice, the conversation ended.
On the way back, Teacher Li told Gu Lu that the first prize certificate had to be sent from the capital and it would take a little longer to wait.
Is it so ceremonial? Gu Lu was surprised. He originally thought that the certificate was certified by the organizing committee, and then the school copied it and presented the award.
"Gu Lu." Teacher Li suddenly called out in a serious tone.
"What's the matter, Teacher Li?" Gu Lu looked up and asked.
"Parents' failure to fulfill their responsibilities is a form of giving up," said Teacher Li. "Anyone can give up on you, but you must never give up on yourself."
Uh, a sudden heart-to-heart talk... "My parents have given up on me." This was what the original self said to Teacher Li when he was in the second grade of junior high school. He never thought that the latter had always remembered it.
However, this also made Gu Lu quite embarrassed and he didn't know how to respond. Fortunately, Teacher Li didn't continue talking, but changed the subject.
He said, "I have quite a few books at home. If you want to read any book, tell me and I will bring it to you."
No. 37 Middle School may build a school library in the future, but at least for now there is no sign of it.
"Thank you, Teacher Li. I will definitely write well for the competition." said Gu Lu.
The character “eight” that he had completed in high school had already been written into one stroke, so Gu Lu also celebrated and went straight to Jiugongmiao Vegetable Market after school in the afternoon.
Jiugong Temple was formerly called Jiugui Temple. Legend has it that a god came down to earth and turned into nine turtles, and people built a temple for him... Don't ask why the god turned into turtles. The answer is that turtles live for a thousand years and ten thousand years, and they live a long time.
"I want to buy half a pound of pork belly. Please help me cut it. I want to cook braised pork. Thank you." Gu Lu wandered around the meat stalls and finally chose one.
"By the way, how much is this?"
Even after two lives, Gu Lu is still not very good at bargaining. It’s not because he is not thick-skinned enough, but mainly because... he can’t explain it.
I believe that many young people like to go to the supermarket to buy groceries. One of the main reasons is that they don’t have to bargain because the prices are marked.
He spent quite a bit of money to buy some pork belly and shrimps. He also wanted to buy some beef, but he gave up temporarily because he was afraid that he would not be able to finish it and it would be wasted.
"Before I traveled through time, I always ordered takeout but never thought much of it. I always ordered a lot and couldn't finish it, so it ended up being wasted." Gu Lu despised himself in his heart, "I've learned my lesson now!"
The red-braised pork soup poured over the rice was so fragrant, and then he stuffed another piece of meat into his mouth. "Pigs are indeed the greatest animals in the world, praise the pigs!" Gu Lu ate one after another, non-stop.
Especially if you buy it with your own money, even if your cooking skills are not as good as Gu’s father’s, there is still the blessing of the filter.
“From now on, I don’t have to wait for that unreliable father to come home before I can eat meat.” Gu Lu ate until he was plump again.
High school is definitely far away from this room, so Gu Lu thought about renting a house for himself when he goes to high school. Gu Lu was thinking about the future, but he needed more money to support these arrangements.
Oh, by the way, when Gu Lu returned home, he not only bought groceries, but also bought a magazine called "Years of Reasoning".
After all, many days ago, he submitted three mystery stories from "The Human Chair" to this magazine.
"I have to wait two days for the submission to Story Club. I still have two articles with more than 10,000 words each. I'd better finish writing them all before submitting." Gu Lu lay on the bed after dinner. He usually sat on the sofa, but it was unfortunately broken.
I forgot to mention that Gu Lu changed the title of the article "Human Chair" to "Ren Yi (Human Chair)", because in Japanese, "Human" means human beings, just like the famous anime "Transparent Human", which translates to "Transparent Man"...
Gu Lu was serious about plagiarism.
Another example is the treatment of Kogoro Akechi - if the story is localized directly, Kogoro Akechi can also be directly changed to a Chinese name Zhang San Li Si Difa, which seems to be fine because it is the simplest method.
But Gu Lu felt it was a bit of a pity that "Kogoro Akechi" disappeared from this world.
Of course, what is more important is that many of the crimes in Ranpo's mystery novels show the national character of the Japanese people, and direct localization would be awkward.
If it is not changed, it will not work even if it is copied completely. It is very strange for a Chinese author to describe a Japanese detective.
So he added a small setting for Kogoro Akechi in "D-Sakagawa Murder". Kogoro Akechi was a Chinese who went to study in Japan like Mr. Lu Xun. His real name was Wu Mingzhi.
After graduation, he felt that Japanese society could provide more opportunities for the detective industry, so he stayed there. He followed the local customs and took the Japanese name "Akechi Kogoro". After all, only Japanese police can give detectives opportunities... right Conan.
In addition to the above fine-tuning, Gu Lu even left behind some "little habits".
To be honest, as the top mystery magazine in China, the upper limit of price of "Sui Yue Si Lu" is higher than that of "Guo Shi Hui", and the lower limit is also lower, so there is a lot of room for improvement, ranging from 60 to 200 yuan per thousand words.
I don’t know how much quote I can get.
Following Gu Lu's curiosity, take a look at the preliminary review——
"Years of Reasoning" is also a bimonthly magazine, with two versions published every month, namely the Gold Edition and the Silver Edition. The former accepts manuscripts of medium-length and long stories, while the latter accepts manuscripts of short stories.
What is different from the story is that the two versions have completely different supervisory units and even editorial addresses.
The former is the editorial department of Time, published by Time Magazine in Oil City, while the latter is a short story magazine located in Jiang City, Northland. The reason for this is not complicated. Time Mystery was originally just a series of books, but because the brand was recognized by readers, it cooperated with different publishers and units.
Gu Lu submitted his manuscript for the gold edition, so it was reviewed by the editorial department of Oil City Years.
"The walker on the ceiling, a Japanese mystery story?" The initial editor Han Zang is also a senior mystery fan. He originally sought this job in order to be able to read more mystery novels.
The idea is good, but treating a hobby as a job... Han Zang, who has been working for two years, regrets it because many of the works submitted are nonsense.
If he was just a reader, he could just skip it, but as an editor he couldn't do that.
"Let me take a look..."
(End of this chapter)