Chapter 449: What’s your level?

Chapter 449: What’s your level?

Chapter 449: What’s your level?
"That's exactly the situation." Director Zhao also knew that if Alexei hadn't come to visit him, he wouldn't have visited him three times.

"But Mr. Alexey, the ambassador of the Chinese Embassy in China, is a big fan of Tolstoy. Because of Gu's sequel, Mr. Alexey really wants to invite Gu to Moscow's Red Square to participate in the National Day activities."

It may be because Director Zhao himself does not like literature, and he is not even from a liberal arts background. He does not understand why a sequel to a play of 10,000 or 20,000 words can cause such a change in the attitude of a vice-ministerial level civil servant.

Three invitations show great sincerity. Gu Lu has never been to the Bear Country, so just treat it as a trip. Maybe this trip can trigger the golden finger.

Of course, the key factor that made Gu Lu agree directly was that his next book would explore the Russian-speaking market. As an author, there was nothing wrong with gaining some fame.

"What's the specific date?" Gu Lu asked.

"The National Day of the Bear Country is June 1990th, in commemoration of the Declaration of Sovereignty of the Russian Federation adopted by the Russian Federation in 10." Director Zhao said, "Is it okay to depart from Sijiucheng on the th? It just so happens that the celebration team led by our diplomatic department is also leaving on the same day."

Director Zhao's implication was that it would be fine if Gu Lu wanted to go alone.

"Let's go together, so we can take care of each other." Gu Lu said.

So the matter was happily settled.

After hanging up the phone, Director Zhao was also pushing forward his work. In the midst of his busy work, he received a message about Gu Lu.
The Writers Association is going to hold a "New Fairy Tale" event and gather a group of writers to produce fairy tales.

Zhou Jing, Xu Nuochen and other writers who were selected are indeed great writers. For example, the former is a leading figure among the writers born in the 1980s in Hunan Province. He has written children's stories such as "Niujiaozhou Inn", "Jingling Flower Clothes" and "A Thousand Jumping Buds", and has basically won all the children's literature awards available in the country.

In terms of awards, he even won over Gu Lu.

However, Director Zhao rubbed his eyes, and his first reaction after seeing the news was: Has the Writers Association gone crazy?

He called the Writers Association and found out that the vice chairman and the Children's Literature Research Office were responsible for this project.

"In the name of the United Front Work Department, I hope the Writers Association can make an explanation for this event. Expert Gu Lu is an expert in international think tanks for major diplomacy, and his books and works all carry diplomatic missions. What are your specific considerations for arranging expert Gu Lu to create children's works?" Director Zhao asked on the phone.

He had been in the United Front Work Department for so long and had seen many artists with United Front values, even painters who were highly praised overseas, with a painting selling for tens of millions of dollars. But in terms of importance, they were far less important than Gu Lu.

To put it more clearly, what units can give Gu Luding the task of writing articles? Foreign Affairs, United Front, and core think tanks. Take a look at the Writers Association, is it appropriate to put it together with these three units?

Vice Chairman Qi of the Writers Association was a little dazed. To be honest, their Writers Association launched the "New Fairy Tales" with the theme of creating more wonderful works for children. Choosing Gu Lu was also a gesture of goodwill. After all, the series of books must have resources to promote.

So we won’t notify them in advance at all, because we don’t believe that any author would refuse a piece of cake.

But the result...

"I'm sorry, Director Zhao. This is because we did not communicate with Gu Lu...the expert in advance." Vice Chairman Qi knew that one must stand at attention when being beaten.

"Expert Gu is responsible for overseas cultural promotion and cultural diplomacy. In addition, he is also actively promoting the Chinese language. Any activities should be communicated and agreed with Expert Gu." Director Zhao said, "This is also my suggestion."

Seriously speaking, the Writers Association is not under the jurisdiction of the United Front Work Department. There is a special department for culture. But you cannot ignore the opinions of the United Front Work Department, whether it is economics or culture.

For example, if the Wudu Online Writers Association was established with the support of the city's United Front, then the Writers Association can even be skipped. Without the need for the Wudu Writers Association's nod, the Online Writers Association can be made a regular member of the Writers Association.

"I understand, Director Zhao. This is indeed due to the carelessness of our Writers Association." Vice Chairman Qi said immediately, "We will make corrections to the New Fairy Tales event."

"The new fairy tale activity is a good activity. Excellent children's works can cultivate good habits in children." Director Zhao said, "I am just making a suggestion."

Yes, yes, but who dares not take this suggestion seriously?

Normally, when this happens, Director Zhao should ask his section chief to make this call. But this time, he wanted to use a big gun to kill a mosquito, letting certain units know that if they are not the same kind of people, they should not come to make trouble.

You know, all the negative information about Gu Lu on the Internet is in a semi-monitored state.

What is semi-surveillance? If ordinary people post comments saying that Gu Lu's new book is terrible or say a few words of abuse, nothing will happen. But if there is an organized attack on Gu Lu, then the door will be opened for investigation.

The reason is simple, if your role is big enough, you will be protected accordingly, even if Gu Lu himself is not aware of the protection.

After finishing the conversation, I hung up the phone.

Vice Chairman Qi felt his back was wet, which was really scary.

"Overseas cultural propaganda, cultural diplomacy, promotion of Chinese..." Vice Chairman Qi was speechless. Look at you, is this what a writer should do?

Can a writer just be a writer? Don't look around.

Very quickly, Vice Chairman Qi called Secretary-General Tian Mengge and Director Wang of the Children's Literature Research Office.

"Teacher Gu Lu will be temporarily removed from the list of new fairy tales." Vice Chairman Qi said.

"No problem. We do have many children's writers in our laboratory, so the choices are very diverse." Director Wang responded quickly.

Secretary-General Tian Mengge immediately objected, "Although Mr. Gu Lu has only created The Little Prince, this one fairy tale book is enough to establish his position in the fairy tale field. Moreover, Mr. Gu Lu himself has a very high national recognition. It is really inappropriate not to invite Mr. Gu Lu to the new fairy tale event."

What you said makes sense, but it's useless.

Vice Chairman Qi conveyed the leadership's suggestions without reservation. After hearing them, Tian Mengge and Director Wang had an expression of disbelief in their eyes, as if they were listening to a foreign language.

If Vice Chairman You Qi had not said it seriously, people would definitely think it was a joke, and a very low-level joke at that.

"..." Director Wang opened his mouth, but in the end, he said nothing.

Tian Mengge scratched his head. He wanted to ask if the leaders of the United Front had made a mistake, or if they had the same name and surname. But such a low-level mistake was impossible.

"Go ask Mr. Gu Lu for his opinion," said Deputy Editor-in-Chief Qi. "If Mr. Gu Lu is interested in participating, then our Writers Association warmly welcomes you. If Mr. Gu Lu has a more important task, we must not delay him."

"Forget it, I'll call and ask in person. This will better express the sincerity of our Writers Association." Deputy Editor-in-Chief Qi said.

After saying that, he sent Tian Mengge and Director Wang away.

Director Wang felt that this winter was very cold. He was half a member of the Northwest Circle. Of course, when Yan Feng and Gu Lu had a dispute on the Internet, he did not take sides. Because it was not worth his statement. His identity as half a member of the Northwest Circle would not make him do anything to trip up Gu Lu, not to mention. But he agreed to replace Gu Lu from the event without hesitation, which was also worth being happy about.

Now...the Diplomatic Trilogy, oh no, the "red" content of Gu Lu, who wrote the Diplomatic Trilogy and "On Youthful China", has become concrete in Director Wang's heart.

"Yan Feng, and the writers in our Northwest circle, do you know who your opponents are?" Director Wang suddenly remembered these words.

In other words, why does China allow such a great writer to exist?

"Secretary Tian," Director Wang showed his unique ability of changing his face, "You and Teacher Gu Lu are quite familiar with each other."

This voice brought the somewhat confused Tian Mengge back to his senses, "Not bad, he even sent me a blessing message on New Year's Eve."

Tian Mengge wanted to call out the news, but then gave up the action and said, "Be calm." Although it is something to be proud of, you must be calm.

"That's a really good relationship. Teacher Gu Lu still remembers Secretary Tian while he is busy with overseas affairs." Director Wang said.

That's true. Tian Mengge also agreed with this statement. An event caused the big boss to call and inquire. From the big boss's words, Gu Lu's burden sounded heavy.

"Secretary Tian has a keen eye for talent. I remember that when Teacher Gu first joined the club, you had a very good relationship with her." Director Wang praised.

Gu Lu was initially pulled into the Sijiu City Writers Association by President Jian, and then joined the National Writers Association as its youngest member. He was quite popular for a while at that time.

In other words, Gu Lu had been a member of the Writers Association for several years, but during the years when he stopped writing, he refused many invitations to activities and meetings of the Writers Association, which made several old men in the Writers Association feel that this young man was a bit arrogant. Therefore, apart from being a member, he no longer held any position.

What’s worse, Gu Lu has never been included in the several literary awards organized by the Writers Association.

Thinking of this, Director Wang suddenly felt less cold, because he wanted to see how those good guys would end up.

King Gollum, who knew nothing, was reading the comments on Bilibili. The update of his time capsule was released, and the subsequent popularity and comments were actually quite good.

The comment section in particular has become a place for youthful memories. "I don't have much impression of that dark-skinned boy, but I do remember Tangyuan. He was a child when we shared tips on top students a few years ago. It turns out that top students can also fail to realize their dreams." "Seven or eight years ago, I didn't want to eat the food my grandma cooked, but now I can't." "Eight years ago, my parents just divorced, which led to my poor academic performance and a hopeless life. Thank you for letting me meet something I love that can keep me alive"...

The video even became popular, but this was not because of Gu Lu’s fame, and not even because of the quality of the video.

Rather, it is about "wanting to change the present but being unable to do so, and being able to only hope for the future", so many people regard this video as an electronic time capsule.

"It's a pity that I didn't write a time capsule when I was in school, so I will write an electronic capsule for myself five years later - will you get a promotion and a raise in five years? Are you still a zyx bootlicker? Can you stop letting small things affect your mood?"

……

"Let me be very realistic. If there is no major change, such as winning the lottery or the death of an important person in your life, things that cannot be changed now will only become inertia in a few years." Gu Lu closed the webpage.

Seeing too much misfortune and helplessness of others was a bit distressing, so Gu Lu went to the supermarket to buy food and do something with his hands.

Eating a lot of meat and fish can make people happy. It is said that this comes from animal instinct because animals are happy when they eat a lot.

Gu Lu’s current cooking skills are definitely not as good as Aunt Fang’s, but if he spends time and effort on it, the food will definitely taste good.

After a delicious meal, Gu Lu lay on the sofa and planned his itinerary.

"I'll go to Hubei Province in two days to continue shooting the new time capsule series." Gu Lu got in touch with Tian Xiao. Unexpectedly, Tian Xiao actually settled in Seoul.

It’s not the Hancheng in Seoul, it’s the capital of Hubei Province, the city of hot dry noodles!
Next up was the French Cultural Conference in mid-February, and it was hard to refuse this time. Because the French Embassy held a "New Year's Banquet" before the New Year and invited "French friends" to attend, Gu Lu refused.

If we agree to France, we cannot favor one over the other. We have to agree to the annual banquet invitations from countries like Britain, Norway, Spain, etc. That would be too much trouble.

To be honest, forget about Norway and Spain, Gu Lu has accepted it. He has already written "The Gloom over Weymouth", can he still be considered a friend to Britain?
"Oh, by the way, we have to finish making the pine nuts and send them to the New Youth Publishing House before February." Gu Lu made arrangements using the memo on his phone.

So - a celebration meeting for the sales of 150 million copies of "Who Moved My Cheese (A Book for Dibo)" was held in Paris.

The population of France is only over 60 million, and it is outrageous that the sales volume reached 1.5 million in more than a year.

It is indeed worth celebrating.

"Should I go or not?" Gu Lu thought, and it seemed that he could choose not to go, because the original author wanted to leave enough space for the translator Di Bo to show off.

Another point is that France is not comparable to the Bear Country. He is very popular in France. There are only a few works in the history of French novels that sell 1.5 million copies a year. Therefore, there is no need for Gu Lu to build up his fame.

"I just don't like traveling abroad - I should make some time to visit Japan." Gu Lu made the arrangement because he really couldn't refuse.

The new book is intended to "heal" readers, but it is a Japanese work, so they will definitely like this style, so first of all, the new book promotion. Secondly, it is estimated that the location of the filming will be completed by the hegemony agency in April, and he can go to see the progress of the animation production.

Finally, a celebration for From the New World breaking 80 copies.

Before you know it, 2020 has just begun and there are already a lot of things on the memo.

"Woo woo woo——" the phone vibrates.

Gu Lu glanced at the number and saw it was an unfamiliar number, so he answered it.

"Excuse me, is this Mr. Gu Lu?" The other party's voice was a middle-aged male.

"I'm Gu Lu, who is it?" Gu Lu also felt the voice was unfamiliar.

"Teacher Gu Lu, I am Qi Dongling, the vice chairman of the Huaxia Writers Association. I asked for the phone number from Tian Mengge, the secretary general of our Writers Association. I hope I didn't disturb Teacher Gu Lu's work."

How could Vice Chairman Qi's attitude be so flattering?

"Oh oh oh, Chairman Qi." Gu Lu greeted.

"I heard that Teacher Gu Lu and Secretary Tian have a very good personal relationship." Vice Chairman Qi said, "So this time our Writers Association has a [New Fairy Tales] event and recommended Teacher Gu. I wonder if Teacher Gu has time?"

(End of this chapter)