Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 471 "Ordained" Award Winning

It's not that the signing of Qin Zhao's new book is not good for Qin Zhao at all. If the signing is at least it will give him a wave of Zhang Zhong's popularity.But according to Qin Zhao's current situation, there is absolutely no need for him to rub Zhang Zhong's heat, the effect will not be too great, and he has to suffer side effects.

"Oh, and, I plan to publish another collection soon." Zhang Zhong said.

"Okay, since "Lotus Leaf Collection", you have published a lot of short works, among which "Fate Like Strings" and "Broken Soul Gun" are both top-notch works, it would be a pity not to have this collection .And the two poems I wrote to Master He Ruchu before, I think they can also be included in the collection, and if possible, it would be good to photocopy the paintings into the book.”

"Forget about the photocopying of the painting, I will send you my work later, and you let Lin Lin and the others make a layout."

"Okay... hey, there's a call, I'll answer it."

Zhang nodded emphatically, "Well, it's okay, you can take it."

The phone call was probably related to work, so Chen Qing didn't evade, and connected directly, "Well, yes, oh, ok, ok, thank you, I see, goodbye."

The phone call was brief, but Zhang Chong could tell that the call should bring good news, and he knew it from Chen Qingxi's smiling expression.

Sure enough, as soon as the phone was hung up, Chen Qing said excitedly, "Boss, you have won the award."

"I won the award? The Hugo Award?" Zhang Zhong could only think of one Hugo Award. If it was another small award, Chen Qing would not be so excited.

But Zhang Chong guessed wrong, Chen Qing shook his head and said, "It's not the Hugo Award, and it's not the science fiction award, it's the Pu Songling Award."

"Pu Songling Award? Which book?" Zhang Zhong was a little surprised, and at the same time his brain was spinning rapidly. The Pu Songling Award mainly rewards short and medium-length works. The awards set up include novellas, short stories, reportage, excellent poetry, and excellent prose , Excellent essays... All he can touch are novellas and short stories.

"It's The Ordnance, which won the Outstanding Short Story Award."

It turned out to be "Abstaining Precepts", which was reasonable but unexpected.It is reasonable that Zhang Chong felt that "Being Precepted" was completely worthy of the Pu Songling Award. As for the unexpected, Zhang Chong believed that "Border Town" should win the Pu Songling Award for Novella.

Of course, the jury probably didn't have the guts to award both awards to Zhang Zhong.

The Pu Songling Award is held every three years, and it is also the highest award for short stories in Chinese traditional novels. The most important award is the novella award, followed by the short story award.

It takes three years for these two awards to have one work each, which shows their importance.

But now, the Pu Songling Award has awarded the short story award to "Being Ordained", which means that they believe that this novel is the best short story in China in the past three years.

Zhang Zhong also thought so, but he was still very surprised, because before that, the youngest winner of the Pu Songling Award was Zhuang Yu.

When he was 38 years old, he won the Pu Songling Award for Excellent Novella with "Iceberg and Hurry".

Before Zhuang Yu, no winner of the Pu Songling Award was under the age of 45. Some people joked that although there is no age limit for the Pu Songling Award in terms of selection criteria, there is actually a 45-year-old hurdle secretly set. At the age of 45, it is impossible to win this award.

Later, when Zhuang Yu won the award at the age of 38, he directly raised the age from 45 to seven years old, which is also an exception.

People also said that Zhuang Yu's record probably has no one to come after, but no one thought that after only a few sessions, Zhang Zhong jumped out and raised the number by eight years.

Chen Qing clenched his fists, "It was the organizing committee of the Pu Songling Award who called just now. The award has been confirmed and will be officially announced tomorrow. I'm afraid there will be a bunch of people who will be surprised by then."

"Let's talk to Lin Lin about this in a while, let him get ready, release "Being Ordained" on the website first, and when the awards are officially announced, readers will be able to find this book at once, and it won't be too late. As for panic at that time," Zhang Zhong said.

Chen Qing patted his forehead, "I'm so happy to be patronizing, I almost forgot about the business, I'll call Boss Lin now, the awards will be announced tomorrow, the sooner I tell him, the better."

In front of Zhang Zhong, Chen Qing called Lin Lin.

"Boss Lin, let me tell you something... don't be too excited, I'm calling to tell you to make preparations on the website... Of course, I'm at the boss's house right now... Eating here tonight... oh well."

After Chen Qing hung up the phone, he said to Zhang Zhong, "Mr. Lin knew I was here, and he said he would come over too."

"What is he doing here, not at home for the holidays?"

"I don't know about that. Anyway, he said he would be here in a while."

Lin Lin said that he would come over in a while, and it took only a while, about ten minutes, before he was already standing at the door of Zhang Chong's house.

"I said you can fly, you came so fast?" Zhang Zhong teased.

"I was just wandering around here, and when I heard that Chen Qing was here, I came over directly."

"I called you before that, and you didn't say anything, or I would have called you over directly."

"When you called me, I was still sleeping at home. Not to mention anything else, I brought two bottles of good wine. Let's celebrate tonight." Lin Lin said holding up a box.

Zhang Xingjun came out of the kitchen, heard Lin Lin talking, and said with a smile, "Lin Zi is here, what are you celebrating?"

"Hello Uncle, congratulations to Zhang Chong for winning the award. How can we not celebrate such an important award?" Lin Lin said with a smile.

"How long has it been? Are you still celebrating? Besides, you still bring your own wine when you come here?" Zhang Xingjun said, he thought Lin Lin was talking about the Nebula Award.

"Uncle, you don't know yet, your son, my brother, he won another award." Lin Lin said with an exaggerated expression.

Zhang Xingjun was taken aback, "Won another award?"

"Well, I won another award, I just got the news." Zhang Zhong said.

"What award?"

"Pu Songling Award."

"The Pu Songling Award? I've heard of the Pu Songling Award, but I don't know about the Pu Songling Award."

Lin Lin smiled and said, "Anyway, you know it's the grand prize, and I'll drink the wine I brought tonight. Uncle, I managed to get this wine from the original Xuanjiu factory. It's absolutely authentic. You can try it tonight. "

"Yo, that's right, then I want to try it." When it comes to literature awards, Zhang Xingjun doesn't know much, but when it comes to wine, the pores of his whole body are immediately opened.

……

The winners of the Pu Songling Award were announced the next night.

And the Pu Songling Award this time will also become the one with the highest attention in history, because the names of the most commercial writers in the Chinese literary world today are impressively included in this list.

　Thank you [hsclaker] for your reward
　　
　
(End of this chapter)