Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 411 Divine Beast Dominance
When Zhang Zhong woke up, the window was once again covered in silver.

But obviously he got up late, because the white land was already covered with footsteps of pedestrians, and Peng Peng was playing with the snow outside with her small shovel.

She didn't wake herself up, which surprised Zhang Zhong. Normally, when Peng Peng wanted to play in the snow, she would call him up immediately.

Zhang Zhong got up from the bed, opened the glass door of the balcony, stood on the balcony and stretched his neck and shouted at his daughter, "Pengpeng, why are you playing here alone?"

Pengpeng just piled up a big snowball, and her little face was flushed, which was especially obvious in the heavy snow.

She looked up and smiled, "Grandma told me not to disturb Dad's sleep."

Well, my daughter is very good.

"Then can you build a snowman yourself?" Zhang Zhong asked.

"I'm afraid it won't work." Peng Peng waved the shovel timidly, "I'm so tired."

Zhang Zhong laughed, "Then you wait for a while, Dad, I will help you right away."

"Yeah, I'll wait for you."

After finishing speaking, Peng Peng threw the shovel in his hand and sat down on the snowdrift.

She was wearing one of those waterproof clothes, and sitting on the snow wasn't much of a hindrance.Zhang Zhong ignored her. After getting up to wash, he was stopped by his mother as soon as he left the room.

"Eat some glutinous rice balls."

Zhang Zhong didn't like glutinous rice balls very much, but he still took the bowl.

The glutinous rice balls he eats now are all bought in the supermarket, unlike when he was a child, the glutinous rice balls were all made by hand, and when he was a child, adults would put money in the glutinous rice balls.

At the beginning, put some pennies, and then put the most one dollar.

Because there are coins in it, you have to be careful when eating, not because you are afraid that the glutinous rice balls will be too hot, but because you are afraid that the coins will hit your teeth if you accidentally eat them.

But everyone still hopes to be able to eat coins. Although the money is not much, it represents a kind of luck. If anyone can eat coins, it means that the year will be smooth.

After eating a few glutinous rice balls stuffed with black sesame seeds, Zhang Zhong went out to help Pengpeng build a snowman.

Pengpeng's ambitions are getting bigger and bigger now, she is no longer satisfied with building that kind of round snowman, but also builds some strange shapes.

At first she said that she wanted to build a pony, not too small, and she wanted to ride on it.

Zhang Chong felt that the difficulty was too high, let alone whether the two of them could pile up a horse, even if they piled up, there was probably no way to carry Pengpeng.

After thinking about it, Zhang Zhong discussed with Pengpeng whether they could build a giant panda.

Pengpeng refused at first, because she wanted to build a mount that could ride on it.

After some deception by Zhang Zhong, Peng Peng finally agreed.

"In fact, the giant panda is a very ferocious beast. It was still a mythical beast in ancient times. When fighting, they served as mounts, invincible..."

Peng Peng quickly accepted the setting that giant pandas can be used as mounts.

Relatively speaking, the difficulty of stacking giant pandas is much lower, and the bottom of the giant pandas is stable. As long as the pile is larger, Peng Peng should have no problem sitting on it.

Finally, with the joint efforts of father and daughter, a "giant panda" was piled up.

It is quite similar, mainly because Zhang Zhong made two pieces of black paper and pasted it on the eyes of the "giant panda", which looks very distinctive.

If the two pieces of paper were not pasted, it would look more like a polar bear.

"Father, let's build another big horse in the afternoon, okay?" Peng Peng said suddenly while riding on the "Giant Panda".

"Why, aren't giant pandas bad?"

"No, the giant panda is my mount. Dad, you must have a mount. Otherwise, if we go to war, you can't beat mine."

"Then I'll make a giant panda too."

"No way, the giant panda is mine, Dad, you have to make another one."

"All right……"

In the afternoon, Zhang Chongdui made a turtle.

"Yeah, Zhang Pengpeng, this is my divine beast, you dare to fight me!"

……

After playing in the snow with his daughter for most of the day, Zhang Zhong felt his muscles and bones became more active.

He also sweated a lot and was completely dry now. He was about to take a shower, but before he got into the bathroom after finding his clothes, Chen Qing called.

"Happy New Year, boss."

On the other end of the phone, Chen Qing said with a smile.

"Happy New Year, are you calling now for business?"

"Of course, the World Science Fiction Association contacted the company, and it should have sent you an email."

"What email? I haven't checked my mailbox for two days."

"As for the nomination, the nomination stage for the Hugo Awards has begun. Major members can nominate five works, and you need to submit them yourself."

Zhang Zhong remembered that the selection of the Hugo Awards is like this, which is more complicated than the Nebula Awards.

The Hugo Award is a self-recommendation system, and only major members of the World Science Fiction Association are eligible to submit up to five works for the award selection.

In order to be nominated this year, Zhang Zhong registered as a member of the World Science Fiction Association last year.

The big membership of the World Science Fiction Association is not a great thing, as long as you pay more than 100 Huaxia coins, you can become a big member, so there are a lot of big members in the World Science Fiction Association.

Of course, big members not only have the right to submit works to participate in the award selection, but also are eligible to participate in voting, which means that the final award-winning works are determined by big members.

There are pros and cons to this award system.

The good thing is that the works have been selected by everyone, and the winning works will also be the works that most people like.

But people are biased, and this bias is not only a preference for the type of work, but also many external factors.

Although there are many members, most of them are from English-speaking countries, and they may not be able to tolerate a novel in another language to win an award.

Moreover, there is still the situation of swiping votes in this award method. After all, the threshold for big members is low, and they can participate in voting with only a few tens of dollars.

Those who are interested can register new members and use the method of swiping tickets to manipulate the final award-winning works.

The Hugo Awards have been given out for so many years, there must be some voters, but under normal circumstances no one dares to be blatant, after all, it's not too difficult to find out about this kind of thing.

"There is nothing to choose from the works we recommend, anyway, there are only a few books." Chen Qing said.

"En." Zhang nodded emphatically, and allowed to recommend five books, which is completely enough.

"But boss, you have to be careful. Although the American Science Fiction Association didn't make any movement last year, maybe they will make a move for the Hugo Award this year. After all, the Hugo Award is their territory, and we can't get it right."

Zhang Chong said with a smile, "Compared to the Nebula Award, I'm not too worried about the Hugo Award."

He is really not worried. The Hugo Awards have always been highly commercial awards, and generally the winning works selected are relatively best-selling books.

If you want to say who's sci-fi work was the best-selling last year, I'm afraid no one will be able to name the second one.

Although the Hugo Awards can be swiped, Zhang Zhong believes that the World Science Fiction Association will not allow this to happen.

If one day, the commercial nature of the Hugo Awards is gone, then it’s still a joke.

(End of this chapter)