Chapter 151: A Simpler Way of Talking
Chapter 151 Speak in a simple way
Gu Lu knew how much sister Gu Jiayu wanted her two favorite people, mother and brother, to be fine.
Therefore, on her birthday or her mother's birthday, Gu Jiayu always tried to invite her brother to come. Now it was unexpected that he was said to be at odds with her.
"Okay." Gu Lu agreed first. Seeing his sister was relieved, he asked, "What did Jiayu hear?"
"No, it's just..." Gu Jiayu didn't know what to say.
With a series of events including winning the essay competition, being admitted to No. 8 Middle School, having his novel published in magazines, and publishing "The Little Prince", Gu Jiayu could clearly feel that her mother was no longer as resistant to her brother.
They even talked about her brother during breaks. If it were in the past, Gu Jiayu would definitely be very happy.
But now Gu Jiayu is no longer an eleven-year-old girl, she is almost thirteen years old.
Her stepfather was nice to her, but she always felt like a dependent. Gu Jiayu felt that if her brother came, he would definitely be bullied.
"If you want to reconcile," in Gu Jiayu's context, it means don't agree to come.
What's more, she was the only one who knew how hard her brother's life was, so Gu Jiayu cried while watching "The Little Prince" for the first time.
[“One day, I saw forty-four sunsets.” “You know, people fall in love with sunsets when they’re sad.” “Forty-four times in one day, how can you be so sad?”]
Just seeing this part, Gu Jiayu felt so distressed when she thought about her brother being alone in the room every night.
So even though she wanted the two people she loved most to be by her side, it would be enough for them to just have meals together. Gu Jiayu knew that her brother would be better off alone!
"Then I won't ask anymore." Gu Lu noticed that his sister was hesitant to speak, so he changed the subject. "Do well in the exam and work hard to get into No. 8 Middle School. If you succeed, I'll prepare a surprise for you."
Being the best high school in the Fog City, it is quite difficult to get in.
Gu Jiayu immediately saluted and said, "I promise to complete the task!"
Have you stopped watching martial arts TV series recently and started watching military dramas instead? Gu Lu thought.
Passing by Xinhua Bookstore, Gu Lu bought a copy of "The Little Prince", signed his name on it, and handed it to his sister.
"Your classmate asked you to bring the autograph." Gu Lu said.
"Just sign on a blank piece of paper. A book costs almost thirty yuan, and the key is that they don't even give away book covers now." Gu Jiayu felt sorry for the money.
"I get a share of the profits from every book I sell," Gu Lu said, "so it's not that expensive."
"Who said that? Isn't it more expensive? If you can get ten yuan for buying a book, then now not only can you not get ten yuan, but you have to pay thirty yuan, which is equivalent to a loss of forty!" said Gu Jiayu.
"Wait a minute, don't lie to me I'm not good at math." Gu Lu chatted with his sister and sent her to the street corner. In front was the home of Gu's mother and Xiao's father.
"Well, brother, I'm leaving." Gu Jiayu stood at the street corner and waved at Gu Lu.
Gu Lu watched his sister go up to the apartment building before he left.
Then took a bus back home from Bishan.
In terms of prosperity, there is still a big gap between Bishan and Sha District.
"I ate too many snacks from the stalls and have no appetite. That's terrible." Gu Lu looked at the leftovers in the refrigerator and felt sorry.
He would usually eat the leftovers within a day, but if it was after two days...it should be fine, but he has a bad stomach and needs to take care of it, so he wouldn't do that.
I felt it was a bit wasteful and threw away half the plate of stir-fried carrots and meat.
“You still can’t be lazy and need to be more diligent. It’s convenient to cook two meals at one time, but it will be troublesome if you have something to do the next day.” A wake-up call: don’t take shortcuts in anything.
Gu Lu picked up the book and then the notebook again. He had been busy typing recently and had not been reading as seriously as before.
You can't take shortcuts. When reading a book, you should still do it the same way as before, note the parts you find interesting, and then write down your thoughts. Only in this way can the book you have read be yours.
After the reading time, it was time for Gu Lu to deal with "work" and he received a reply to the email.
[Dear Mr. Gu Lu, I am honored to exchange emails with you for the first time. Thanks to FAUST, I have the opportunity to translate your work.
I am Yixiong Anshan, a mediocre translator with several years of translation experience.
His translated works include: "The Cases of Judge Dee in the Tang Dynasty", "Three Heroes and Five Gallants", "Crazy——", etc.
I have studied Mr. Gu Lu's works four or five times, among which...
I hope to convey 40% to 50% of Mr. Gu Lu’s excellence and not disappoint him and everyone at the publishing house.
If Mr. Gu Lu has any expectations for the work, please be sure to tell me, and I will definitely use my lifelong knowledge of translation to try my best to meet Mr. Gu Lu's requirements. If the performance is reluctant, please don't feel uneasy, Mr. Gu Lu, I will do my best to solve it.
Finally, I sincerely look forward to the next communication with Mr. Gu Lu. ]
One note: in the reply from Neon Translation, there are three or four hundred words omitted where there are ellipsis marks, which are all Anshan Yixiong's thoughts after reading the book.
After reading it, Gu Lu felt respected and polite, and had a deeper understanding of knowing small etiquette but not big ones. But could you write it a little simpler?
The whole article can be summed up in one sentence: "Are there any requirements for translation?"
In order to maintain a strange style, Gu Lu typed quickly to reply to the email, but when he was about to send it out, he stopped.
"The hair on the other side is so long, should I also pay more attention to it?" Gu Lu thought to himself.
After pondering for a few seconds, I decided to post it like this. After all, the current Japanese market is a pleasant surprise, so it doesn’t matter even if the result is not good.
"Di Gong An seems to be a novel written by a Dutch writer?" Gu Lu read a lot of different books in his previous life. He could no longer remember the names of the foreign writers, but he remembered that he had written a book called "A Study of the Ancient Chinese Bedrooms". As a diplomat, he was keen on introducing Chinese detective novels and erotic literature to Europeans, so his knowledge was a bit miscellaneous.
Gu Lu searched Baidu and found that Crazy—— was a bestseller in the millennium, and it was hard to tell its quality. But being able to translate Three Heroes and Five Gallants did prove that he had some translation skills.
"Sherlock Holmes of the Tang Dynasty", "The Unrivaled Loyalty of the Southern Knight", "Crazy Desperate", Gu Lu searched online and found that the titles of the works translated by Anshan Yixiong were basically direct translations.
"Very good, very energetic." This was the only compliment Gu Lu could give.
If anything, The Little Prince was pretty spirited, too, with first-month sales of 31 copies, making it the best-selling book of November.
Of course, it is also related to the fact that no popular writers released new works that month.
The publishing house estimates that sales of 500,000 copies will be a problem, and subsequent resources will also be available.
In fact, the publisher's judgment was still wrong. Most people in the publishing house thought that books like "The Little Prince" were the kind of books that were meant to be harvested. They would make a profit based on the popularity, and then be lost in the ocean of books and never be heard of again.
But The Little Prince is the result of years of hard work. Many children, in particular, could not understand it when they were young, but when they grow up and look back at it, they feel a different kind of pleasure.
Just like people, it is impossible to have youth and the understanding of youth at the same time.
Of course, the child's growth is not the key, because there are many books that children cannot understand when they are young, and this one is not the most special one.
But "The Little Prince" is suitable for "sharing". In the future era of short videos, do you believe that the golden sentences in the book "The Little Prince" will be enough for you to post on your circle of friends for several weeks without repeating them?
Furthermore, it is difficult to find another book like "The Little Prince" that is as "high-end" and has a low threshold to entry.
For the reasons mentioned above, coupled with the "peripheral" products that Gu Lu is already seeking to collaborate on, The Little Prince is like an old wine, which becomes more and more famous in China as it ages, until it becomes a masterpiece!
Gu Lu's current strategy is to maintain the copyright of "The Little Prince" and continue to publish short stories to build up fame until the next "classic" appears.
On Saturday, Gu Lu left home early. He told Li Guyuan that he had something to do, and it was true.
The reunion of Class 2012 of the 5 grade of No. Middle School was held at a food court in Xin Tianze Plaza.
We are all still students, and many of our classmates' families are not that wealthy, so the core requirements for the place we choose are spaciousness and affordability.
The food city sells Bobo chicken, cold noodles, hot and sour noodles, etc., which are cheap and available in large portions.
"Why hasn't our great writer come yet?" Chen Xue asked a little impatiently.
(End of this chapter)