Chapter 529 Boomerang

Chapter 529 Boomerang

Chapter 529 Boomerang

Why can't I get through to King Guru? Because he's asleep.

Go to bed early - for young people of the new era, 23pm is indeed early.

After all, it's not even daybreak yet.

I slept until eight o'clock the next day.

It was a cloudy day and the air was still filled with the smell of earth. It rained yesterday.

His hands were rubbing at the bedside table, his eyes half asleep, the light from the phone screen shining on his cheek.

“Four or five missed calls?”

The caller was Tang Jun, who had rejected the directorship of Love Letter yesterday.

After spending more than ten minutes washing up and restarting his brain, Gu Lu called back.

No one answered for a long while, until the voice prompt said it was temporarily unavailable and to try again later. I guess the other party hasn't gotten up yet.

Never mind, I’ll go out and buy some breakfast and take a walk and count it as a morning run.

"The buns in the store are getting worse and worse," Gu Lu felt that they might be pre-prepared dishes. He was not sure about the big meat buns, but the soup dumplings and siu mai were 100% sure.

"You still don't need to pay for the storefront fees. The food sold on the carts outside is handmade and tastes good..."

Gu Lu suddenly thought of something and took out his phone to open the memo. There wasn't much to do today. The only thing he had to do was write the preface for the German version of The Little Prince.

The more famous the writer is, the more prefaces he or she will write for his or her works. Some apps that purchase electronic copyrights of books will select all these prefaces, so that the first seven or eight chapters are not the main text.

"I won't come to school today, um, sorry for the trouble." Gu Lu hung up the phone and said to the professor. Suddenly, an idea came to his mind, and the more he thought about it, the more he thought it was a good idea.

He is currently studying for a master's degree at Peking University for one year and has the title of honorary professor at two foreign universities. To be honest, with his achievements, he can definitely graduate early.

But "Student Gu Lu" is a kind of publicity for Chinese students, and it can also have other benefits. For example, at the "World University Forum", if necessary, Gu Lu can be deployed as a trump card.

Dongda promised that Gu Lu would not be deployed unless necessary for activities related to college students.

Graduate students are also college students. They recognize Haidilao’s discounts. What’s the problem?
That is why Peking University had some tricks to develop students' abilities when Gu and Lu taught. To sum up, after Professor Lu retired, Gu did not follow the professor anymore, and the projects he was working on were a collaboration between him and the professor. He could go to school or not.

After an unsatisfactory breakfast, Gu Lu wrote a preface at home. Gu Lu has written down his experience, which is probably to say, "Hello, my German readers, this book is blah blah..."

He was working until around ten o'clock when he received a call from President Wang urging him to work harder.

There are skills to urging for updates. You can't just say it openly. After all, you're not holding a gun to your head, which will be counterproductive. If you really get hurt, there's nothing you can do.

So President Wang said, "Xiao Gu, you don't have to worry about other aspects. The advantage of our New Youth over other publishing houses is that we have good publicity. In the last cooperation with New World, Xiao Gu, you should have seen the ability of Manager Xiao."

Manager Xiao is indeed very capable, and his operations can at least increase book sales by 10%.

“The manuscript will probably be finished by the end of May. It won’t delay our publishing house’s promotion, right?” Gu Lu calculated the time he would have to write and also left out the days when he might be able to participate.

"No, no, Xiao Gu, just focus on your creation. Mid-June or late June are both good times to launch the product. There are two specific plans. We will send them to your email address when we are done."

After President Wang hung up the phone, he still didn’t ask “What’s the surprise?”

New works are more important.

Putting down his phone, President Wang picked up the Global Times on the table. The newspaper office has three types of newspapers for pre-order.

The headline on the second page of the Global Times is: Gu Xue expert invited to give lectures in Berlin, German experts amazed.

"Xiao Gu's works are having a growing influence overseas. This Professor Chen... is a little... wrong." President Wang, who was reading the newspaper, took three turns in his speech. The last sharp turn was a prediction he saw from Professor Chen.

[“Many creations require deep accumulation, and information from ten years ago may be integrated into today’s creations. As I just shared, Mr. Gu had inspiration first, regardless of whether this inspiration was beyond the scope of writing. Isn’t it counterintuitive?]
There is something. President Wang remembered the "Immortal Fugitive" he wrote when he was a teenager and read a lot of Spanish history.

[Mr. Gu is currently co-editing "The History of Scar Literature" with a professor from Peking University. Scar literature is similar to the Southern reflective literature after the American Civil War. So I infer that Mr. Gu's new work should be from the 1970s and 1980s.]
This is nonsense, President Wang feels.

Of course, overall, from Professor Chen’s speech, we can see that he knows Gu Lu very well.

On the other side, at 11:30 am, when it was almost time for lunch, Tang Jun called.

This time it was connected.

"Teacher Gu, I'm sorry for disturbing you by calling you so late yesterday." Tang Jun wanted to get straight to the point, but he couldn't say the words.

Anyway, the call didn't go through, Gu Lu thought, so he said a few polite words and continued, "Director Jun is so anxious, have you found a suitable director?"

"..."

Damn, why did you say it so absolutely yesterday? Tang Jun wanted to slap himself in the face for what he did last night.

He was already thinking of a scene in his mind, for example, the library that Nanto and Onoto looked after when they were students was a loving library. It was normal for a loving library to have a loving heart logo, right? There was also a little red heart on the borrowing card, and Nanto wrote "Chu Teng Shu" on the borrowing card with a heart.

What is the mind of a teenager!
There was no sound from the other end of the phone for a long time. Gu Lu changed the subject and said, "It's only the first day. It's normal that there is no suitable one."

"Director Jun called me and asked if he had any suggestions for the script?" said Gu Lu.

“I have no suggestions at all. At first, I felt that the setting of the story in the three northeastern provinces was a bit out of place. Later, I immersed myself in the story… I think the biggest compliment is that even though I knew it happened in the three northeastern provinces, I didn’t think of the northeastern dialect. It was top-notch immersion!”

Speaking of "Love Letter", Tang Jun was as talkative as he was yesterday.

"I thought Xiao Wanyue was the protagonist at first, but I never thought that the protagonist was..."

"Xiao Wanyue is the protagonist. There are two protagonists in the play, Xiao Wanyue and Nv Shu." Gu Lu said, "This is the original idea. Of course, there are ten Hamlets for ten readers."

Tang Juncai realized that he had not read the entire script and was careless again. Why was he so uncalm when it came to filming a movie?

When he saw the name written on the book card yesterday, he called excitedly, but no one answered three times in a row.

An ordinary person would definitely continue watching with excitement. Tang Jun is a literary youth. Excited, he made himself a little wine, turned on the projector, and began to watch the movies he had made over the years.

I cried while watching.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not crying because my work is bad, I'm crying "Wow, why can I make such a good movie?" "This is handled so well, it's simply a stroke of genius"...

Go to sleep when you are tired of crying.

Tang Jun took a deep breath.

"Teacher Gu, I have an idea about a suitable director. I'll be leaving for a while." Tang Jun said this, and only hung up the phone after getting the other party's consent.

The content of the rest of "Love Letter" is three lines intertwined together.

1. In the letter, the female Fuji recalls the male Fuji during their school days.

2. The emotional line between Xiao Wanyue and Sun Er, and how she gets out of the emotional black hole of being a substitute.

3. Nv Teng was sick. She had been suffering from a cold the whole winter. Because her father died in the hospital when she was in junior high school, Nv Teng was very reluctant to go to the hospital.

The three lines are intertwined, yet they are very neat and clear, without any mystery.

(End of this chapter)