Chapter 267 Double Happiness

Chapter 267 Double Happiness

Chapter 267 Double Happiness

"I feel that this year's mock exam is slightly more difficult than the one we took back then." Li Guyuan said with reason.

"Look at the last question on the test paper. [In △ABC, AB=AC, point D is a point on the side of BC (point D does not coincide with the endpoints), point D is about line A...]"

"Last year, our difficulty was only to prove the quantitative relationship between line segments CG and DE." Li Guyuan said, "When △AEG is an isosceles triangle, please directly write the value of CG/AG at this time. Many people will lose points on this question. Gulu, it's normal for your sister to be wrong."

As expected of a little teacher, the knowledge flowed smoothly from Gu Lu's ears without leaving any trace in his mind.

"So my sister is in danger?" Gu Lu concluded.

"No, no, no, this is just right." Li Guyuan responded, "If the math is easy, then there will be no difference in scores. On the contrary, if it is a little difficult, as long as you learn the test points thoroughly, it will be easy to open up the gap with others."

What you said makes a lot of sense, but Gu Lu always feels that something is wrong.

"Don't worry about me." Li Guyuan said, "From the test paper, I roughly know where your weaknesses are."

"The day after tomorrow, no, the day after tomorrow, I will be able to finish it. I will give you the tutoring notebook then." Li Guyuan said.

Seriously, Gu Lu is absolutely confident in Li Guyuan's work, even more confident than when he does it himself.

After finishing the story, Gu Lu was about to return to the chilly classroom when he was stopped by Tang Yuan.

"how?"

Li Guyuan said, "Cover, I gave you six covers earlier, choose the right one for me!"

Cover? Gu Lu's eyes were confused at first.

Then he recalled that when he asked Li Guyuan for help, he did receive a lot of covers.

"Two or three days have passed, you haven't had time to take a look, have you?" Li Guyuan looked him up and down.

"How is that possible? That's just nonsense." Gu Lu said, "I chose the one I like, but there is just one small thing that needs to be modified."

Gu Lu said, "And I have already revised it. I will give it to you tomorrow."

The above paragraph was basically spoken out without any thinking.

"Reliable!" Li Guyuan nodded, "Then..."

"I have also invited the editor." Gu Lu changed the subject, "I first invited the editor of Science Fiction World to share the creation of science fiction novels."

Gu Lu was not lying about this. He had a lot of connections, and with some effort he could even be invited to become the editor-in-chief of People's Literature.

"Establish a magazine and invite editors from the science fiction world?" Li Guyuan pondered.

"Not satisfied? Editor-in-chief of Science Fiction World? If that doesn't work, editor of Youth Digest will also be fine." Gu Lu said.

"It's not that I'm dissatisfied with this." Li Guyuan replied, "I just think that since we are establishing a magazine, you, as the president and famous writer, should write the articles."

"I write an article? What to write?" Gu Lu was stunned for a moment.

"It's just words of encouragement to students. 30% is determined by fate and 70% depends on hard work," said Li Guyuan.

"Oh, if the youth are strong, the country will be strong. Is this a passionate and exciting declaration?" Gu Lu said.

"If the youth are strong, the country will be strong," Li Guyuan asked. "Which work is this from?"

"..." Gu Lu was silent for a few seconds, then asked, "Tangyuan, let me ask you a historical question. Who was the main figure in the Reform Movement of 1898?"

"Yes..." Li Guyuan suddenly paused, "That's right, Gulu, you all know about the trap. The core figures of the Reform Movement of 1898 were Kang Youwei and the Six Gentlemen including Tan Sitong!"

Hearing this answer, Gu Lu understood immediately.

"Well, am I right?" Li Guyuan asked, "The answer to this question is not one person at all, right?"

"You're right." Gu Lu nodded and said, "Let me write the first issue. I roughly know what to write."

Li Guyuan nodded. He was a little excited. After all, it was he who provided the idea for the weekly magazine.

"Everyone in the school knows that there is a new club called the Publication Club. But no one knows who founded it. When our club makes its debut at the new student recruitment event next semester, it will be awesome!" said Li Guyuan.

Excited Tang Yuan pulled Gu Lu aside to discuss until the class bell rang.

During the chat discussion, Gu Lu also confirmed one thing, that the cleaning and decoration of the club office were all done by Li Guyuan.

It can be seen that at such a young age, he has the talent to be a house cook.

Even Qi Caiwei, a prospective member of the club, thought that it was a female classmate who did it.

Go home after school that day.

Gu Lu searched the house in a hurry.

What are you looking for?

Not only did Gu Lu not choose the magazine cover draft that was given to him two days ago, he even forgot where he threw it.

This incident tells us that people’s excuses for their mistakes are almost a conditioned reflex.

An hour and a half later, Gu Lu slumped on the sofa.

Could it have been lost on the road?
Then Gu Lu began to doubt himself. Did he get the things back that day?
"I'm not that stupid. I won't drop the things in my hands on the road."

"That's not right. I think I bought a roasted sweet potato. Could it be that at that time..."

"Wait, I think I put it in my schoolbag, and I didn't hold it in my hand."

The more I think about it, the more confused I become.

If he had known earlier, he would have admitted in advance that he didn’t read it. Gu Lu opened Penguin and prepared to send a message to Tang Yuan to make things clear.

But... Gu Lu still stopped his action because he wanted to save face.

"Now that things have come to this, let's cook first." Gu Lu glanced out the window and saw that it was already late.

If I don’t go to the vegetable market, I won’t be able to buy food.

The vegetable market at dusk reflects the original appearance of the city.

Motorcycles were blocking the entrance, and horns were honking one after another.

Some of the adults who had just got off work were still wearing their factory clothes.

Some people pick up their children and take some food home to cook.

"Get some radishes and cook some soup, and stir-fry some meat."

"You can't do without meat, it's hard work."

"How much is this Erjingtiao? Can you tell me the answer?"

"What did the teacher teach today?"

Stepping in, it felt like walking into a magic field, and all kinds of sounds entered my ears.

To be honest, the wet market is the place that best reflects the consumption habits of the people in a region.

It seems that at this place near Gu Lu's house, if you buy a few pieces of vegetables, you have to ask the boss to give you two pieces of green onions.

In fact, if you want to get something cheaper, you have to go to the entrance of the vegetable market and compete with the uncles and aunts who are setting up stalls.

They don't have to pay stall fees, so they must sell at a cheap price.

Gu Lu followed the example of the aunties and carried a cloth bag whenever he went shopping for groceries.

There was only one person at home, so the popularity was a little low. The equipment for shopping couldn't be any worse.

Go straight to the noodle shop, where you can find all kinds of noodles, including dumpling skins, wonton skins, wide noodles and thin noodles.

After buying a few servings of wonton wrappers, Gu Lu bought some chopped meat filling and started making them when he got home.

Chao Shou is similar to wonton, but has thicker skin and more meat filling.

It seems to be called baomian in Shaanxi Province.

The reason why there are four portions is that I want to send some to Tangyuan’s family.

You can't always eat what Tangyuan brings you, you should at least show some appreciation.

The hand speed is also considered universal, Gu Lu's hand speed is very fast when making dumplings.

After two and a half hours of hard work, it was done. Although the meat filling was used up, there were still a few pieces of skin left, but it didn't matter.

"Huh? Why is this cover draft on the refrigerator in the kitchen!"

I was going to keep half and give the other half away. Then I saw the thing he had been looking for for a long time.

It's like this, when you want to find it, you can't find it no matter how hard you try. If you stop looking for it, it will just appear again.

"I don't remember bringing this thing into the kitchen!" Gu Lu looked at the draft that was lost and found.

Ding--

【Carnegie Medal for Children's Literature】【Lewis Carroll Book Award】【Studio Ghibli remake】

When the three key words appeared, Gu Lu was really confused.

Gu Lu had no idea where the Lewis Carroll Book Prize came from or even which country it came from.

But Gu Lu knew that the Carnegie Children's Literature Award was one of the most prestigious children's awards in the world, and its value in Europe and the United States was second only to the Hans Christian Andersen Children's Literature Award.

Plus the remake by Studio Ghibli… Gu Lu looked at the lost and recovered draft.

"Could it be Studio Ghibli's The Borrower Arrietty?" Gu Lu thought of it subconsciously. "Is this animated film also adapted from a novel?"

To be honest, I have seen the anime movie, but I have never heard of the novel.

"It makes me compete with fairy tale novels." Gu Lu thought about it and felt it was not a bad idea.

It would be a pity if there were no more fairy tales after The Little Prince. In addition, the length of The Little Prince is not suitable for animation adaptation.

“Not necessarily. If the trigger is the draft paper, Whisper of the Heart is also possible. If the trigger is the dumplings I’m going to give away, from the perspective of a gratitude item, The Cat Returns is also possible.”

Gu Lu knew that the synthesis sequence was not triggered in real time, and there was a few seconds of afterswing.

It is not clear whether these two animations are adapted from novels, so let’s not think about them for now.

The works Gu Lu has on hand now are completely sufficient, so he is confident and not panicking.

Get the serious stuff done so you don’t get lost again.

Six drafts of the cover.

There are four pictures that are relatively standard, except that the word "Shuguang" is a variation of the word.

There are two pictures left. One shows the sun shining on the ground, with green sprouts appearing on the ground. The other shows dark clouds all around.

"This picture of dark clouds seems to be interesting. Thick dark clouds need words as a ray of light to break through them."

Gu Lu felt that the last two pictures could be combined.

I’m hungry, so the only thing left is to cook wontons.

After dinner, it was past nine o'clock. Gu Lu was carrying wontons and preparing to go to the grocery store.

As mentioned before, in order to make a little more money, grocery stores close very late.

The journey to deliver the dumplings was very smooth.

Just carrying something, Gu Lu also came back with something. Li's mother returned the gift on the spot and handed Gu Lu a box of pure milk.

"Look, Xiao Gu, Gu Yuan grew tall because he drank a lot of pure milk. If you drink one box every day, I guarantee you will grow taller." said Li's mother.

Unable to refuse such a kind invitation, Gu Lu took it home.

The next day, Gu Lu received a campus mission.

“Write a slogan for [the campus spirit exhibition],” Director Hu said.

Why use a butcher knife to kill a chicken? Director Hu thought to himself.

"What kind of activity is the campus spirit exhibition?" Gu Lu asked.

"Every three years, the leaders of the education department of Fog City will conduct a major inspection." Director Hu said, "The construction test will be held in October this year, so we are preparing in advance."

"Slogans are similar to slogans and should be catchy." Director Hu explained briefly.

"It's only mid-May, and there are still more than four months left. It would be too early to bring it forward," said Gu Lu.

"After all, it happens once every three years, and it's considered the most important checkup, so it's normal to do it a little earlier," said Director Hu.

"What was the slogan last time?" Gu Lu asked.

"No. 8 Middle School, No. 8 Middle School, No. 8 Middle School in the Fog City." Director Hu responded.

“?” Just like that, it’s too simple, Gu Lu thought.

"I'll trouble you, Xiao Gu." Director Hu said in a low voice, "You can just write whatever you want, because your name is eye-catching enough."

If he didn’t have to save face, Director Hu would even say [No. 8 Middle School, No. 8 Middle School, No. 8 Middle School in the Fog City. — Gu Lu].

While Gu Lu and Director Hu were talking, a storm suddenly arose in the writers' circle.

There are supporters and opponents of certain opinions in the literary world.

Wang Xinlei criticized "Flatland" under his real name, while another science fiction writer Guo Baojian expressed a completely different point of view in the afternoon.

[Is “Flatland” not worthy of being called a popular science work?

The person who said this may not understand what popular science fiction is.

"Aiming to spread scientific ideas and knowledge through fascinating storylines" is the definition of popular science novels by Sichuan Provincial Publishing House.

By definition, the work of popular science works is divided into: spiritual enlightenment and knowledge dissemination.

What is spiritual enlightenment? After reading this book, I became interested in two-dimensional and three-dimensional space.

It is extremely difficult to inspire this interest in readers.

The book you mentioned, From One to Infinity, was written by George Gamow, an American nuclear physicist, and its content is definitely professional.

The first chapter is about big numbers, citing Hungarian nobles and a joke about writing one million in Roman numerals. The content is not boring, but it is interesting. How many readers would specially look for it?

Not many.

Not many readers would specifically look for this popular science work, but many readers who were not interested in mathematics in the past specifically looked for Flatland.

"When dealing with women, we talk about 'love,' 'duty,' 'right,' 'wrong,' 'pity,' 'hope,' and other irrational emotional concepts; in fact, we know very well that these concepts do not exist at all, and these fictitious words have been invented for the sole purpose of controlling women's excessive emotions."

"A circle in the eyes is not as good as a line in the hand."

"As a space country poet once said: 'It is human nature to have a common tendency.'"

The cry in the book, "It's up, not north," can be compared to the question in Frankenstein, "The whole of humanity has committed a crime against me, so should I be considered the only criminal in the human race?"

"From One to Infinity" and "Flatland" are both excellent science fiction works. Those who criticize one and praise the other should go back and read more books.]
Guo Baojian's reply was very impolite, even a bit of personal attack.

Gu Lu and Guo Baojian didn't know each other either. Just as President Jian had expected, there was no need for the real owner to come to justice.

Although Wang Xinlei has not released any new works for a long time, his status in the industry still exists, so he responded in the column of "Pengcheng Novel News".

Guo Baojian, who is in his thirties and is at the peak of his creative career, fought back on Douban.

The two of them were interacting with each other, it was very lively.

At first, people were arguing whether "Flatland" would work or not, but then they started to debate the map.

Readers gathered around to watch, it was quite lively.

[Flatland has imagination, connotation, and popular science, but there are people who criticize it?]
[I used to criticize him, thinking that Gu Lu was just over-promoted by the publishing house. Flatland has convinced me that it is not possible to write without a genius.]
[Although I am a fan of Gu Lu’s fairy tale novels, Flatland is the leader in the field of popular science novels in recent years. Who doesn’t agree? Stand up!]
[Are you jealous because you see Lu Nianxiao's sales are so good?]
[Yes, yes, yes, I also feel that the cultural circle does not accept Gu Lu very much. Compared with other youth novels, "Hyouka" is clearly above the standard, but many people criticize it.]
and many more.

Just look at the discussions among netizens and you will know that conspiracy theories never go out of style.

Can Gu Lu and the Juvenile and Children's Publishing House be considered as reaping the benefits? Look at the sales volume.

The better news is that the dispute between Guo Baojian and Wang Xinlei will not stop any time soon.

Because more authors were involved, supporting both factions.

King Gollum himself does not like this kind of dispute, and he personally wants to speak out to stop it.

But President Jian reminded him, "You have one foot in the serious literature circle. Let me tell you, the disputes over serious literature are even more exaggerated. This kind of quarrel is just a small scene."

Very good, so people in your circle play so violently?

President Jian, who is more realistic, hasn’t mentioned that the follow-up to the party uniting to fight against dissidents is to form cliques and factions. Currently, the literary world is divided into three cliques…

President Jian has some reputation, so he protected him well, and Gu Lu didn't encounter any bad things.

Students should keep an innocent heart and not make things so complicated. This is President Jian’s opinion.

Out of sight, out of mind. Gu Lu stopped checking Weibo and other platforms and instead opened Bilibili, which he hadn’t logged into for a long time.

did not expect……

In school.

"Teacher, may I ask why you bought so many copies of The Little Prince and Flatland?" a sophomore boy with a crew cut asked, "There are two shelves of bookshelf over there that are all filled with them."

The library teacher responded, "Because the books are good, good books have more people borrowing them, and the school is worried that they won't be able to read them all, so they bought a little more."

"Then why is there only one set of Charles IX?" The tall man with a crew cut didn't understand. "Every time I come to borrow a book, it's all gone."

"You are in high school now, why are you still reading Charles IX?" The librarian scolded her instead of answering, "Read more books that can help you gain knowledge."

Gu Lu happened to hear these words when passing by the library entrance.

Eh——Gu Lu also thinks Charles IX is pretty good-looking.

The reason why there are so many books by Gu Lu is that No. 8 Middle School purchased 100 copies to support students. Some of them were used as rewards, and the rest were naturally placed in the school library.

Gu Lu entered the office and quickly locked the door.

He had a strong sense of stealth, as if he had discovered some treasure and was afraid that others would know.

Today, the royalties for Neon's "The Prince at That Time" arrived, including the stamp duty for the first print plus two additional prints.

When I opened my phone, I saw a text message from the bank!
At the beginning of 13, CCB launched SMS notifications, so Gu Lu can now feel the happiness first.

The balance has increased by more than 3 million RMB, after tax!

"Japanese writers make a lot of money, really a lot!" Gu Lu was delighted.

Such a large sum of money made Gu Lu uneasy. Especially since it was earned from abroad, it was a double happiness.

(End of this chapter)