Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 583 Literature and Philosophy

After chatting for a while, Zhang Xingjun went to the kitchen to see if he needed help, and left Zhang Zhong alone to chat with them.

Lin Lin took a sip of tea and said in a good mood, "Do you remember that Zhao Jin last time?"

"Well, remember, why did you suddenly mention him?"

"He's had a hard time recently."

"Then no wonder you seem to be in a good mood." Zhang Zhong laughed.

Song Xiang didn't know Zhao Jin, and asked, "Who are you talking about?"

Hearing Song Xiang's question, Lin Lin told him about Zhao Jin and what happened to him last time at the hotel, and finally said with a smile, "In the past two years, Jiangyang's real estate business has been quite successful. The business of the family should be good, but I don’t know how to do it recently. Their family has lost their minds, and they can’t do it anymore. It seems that they can’t get money from the bank recently. The real estate business has no money and no land, and the dishes are like this Big, if you say it collapses, it will collapse.”

"Is it so serious?" Zhang Zhong had heard Chen Qing talk about TEDA's situation before, and knew that they were in a bad situation, so he planned to continue to take the land next to the school, but he didn't know the specifics. It seems that Lin Lin knew more news.

"It wasn't so serious originally, but who told him to offend me before?"

"Have you done this yet?"

"I don't call it a shot, I just mix it in properly. But I also want to thank you for making me rich in cash."

Lin Lin didn't say how he did it, but what he meant probably had something to do with money.

Zhang Chong secretly sighed, he didn't kill Boren, but Boren died because of him.

……

Kane has been smiling every day recently, and he will basically say hello to the guests who come to the bookstore.

Since Zhang Zhong's book became a bestseller in Cupertino, his bookstore had a high daily traffic flow, and his sales basically doubled. Later, after the establishment of pzday, it doubled again—maybe more than that.

It seems that another bookstore has opened nearby, but Kane is not worried. Not to mention that these stores cannot shake the influence of his bookstore in the local area, even if they are given a share of the pie, the business in the store will not be worse than before .

The comfortable life in a small city makes Kane not have any big ambitions. Like now, his happiness index is already very high.

In a few days it will be the Spring Festival.

Cupertino also celebrated the Spring Festival before, because there are many Chinese people here. As the biggest festival in China, the local Chinese people will naturally celebrate it.

The pace of life in a small city is slow, and everyone has a lot of free time. Of course, everyone will not miss the excitement.So most of the others followed suit.

It's just that everyone just joined in the fun before, but this year is different.

Mayor Cameron is going to hold a Spring Festival rally in Cupertino Square, and I heard that he will also invite lion dancers, which will definitely be more lively than in previous years.

"Hi, Lee, how is my request to you?"

Kane saw an acquaintance, walked over and asked.

This Li is of Chinese origin, and I heard that he can write calligraphy, so Kane asked him to help write a few door couplets to post in the store.

Li Lei smiled and said: "Don't worry, I will remember the matter. I will definitely send it to you before the Spring Festival, and it will not delay your work. There are many more people who asked me to write the door couplet this year, and I am a little too busy recently. , I haven't had time to read pz's new book yet."

"Yes, you can't delay reading the new book, I'll get it for you." Kane went to get a new book for Li Lei, "This book is for you."

"That's not okay, you've already paid for the Menlian."

"Hey, don't be polite to me, there are still many things that will trouble you in the future."

Li Lei couldn't shirk it, so he took the book and said with a smile, "Kane, why do I feel that you are speaking more and more like a Chinese person now."

"Right, let me tell you, I'm learning Chinese recently. I can already see that Cameron wants to turn Cupertino into a city with special features in pz. It's not enough to know a few words of Chinese."

"It's hard to say about other places, but isn't it easy to learn Chinese in Cupertino?" Li Lei smiled, "Oh, by the way, I want to ask you something, can you buy "Zero" in your bookstore? Zero One Magazine..."

Before Li Lei finished speaking, Kane smiled and pointed to the row of magazine shelves at the door, "How could there be no such thing, I buy every issue."

"I'm speaking the Chinese version. I heard from my friends in China that the content of the English version is much behind the Chinese version. Recently, I'm chasing a few novels in it, but it's too uncomfortable to read a little in a week. I want to ask you Can I get the Chinese version, if I can, I don’t need to ask my friends to send it or read it online, I heard that the electronic version on their website is one or two issues later than the physical version.”

Kane shook his head, "I'm afraid not."

Li Lei had already expected such a result, and he was not particularly disappointed. He nodded and said, "I see, I'll go to the website to catch up and watch it later. It's better to be late by one or two issues than dozens of issues late."

After sending Li Lei away, Kane was also thinking about this matter. After thinking about it for a while, he decided to ask if he could solve this matter.

There are a lot of Chinese people in Cupertino. If you can get "Zero and One" that is synchronized with China, it should sell well.

……

Not long after the winter vacation at Harvard University, the students had a month's rest and came back to formally devote themselves to intense study.

In a modern literature class, the professor who gave the lecture wrote two big words "Sophie's World" on the blackboard.

"I haven't seen you for more than a month. I don't know if you have paid attention to this new book that was just released recently."

The students all nodded, but most of them haven't had time to read it, or haven't had time to finish it.

"Today we are going to talk about a literary technique that you may not have been exposed to before. This technique is a meta-narrative method, and this "Sophie's World" can help you understand what a meta-fiction is. A novel is a novel about a novel, a novel that focuses on the fictional identity of the novel and its creation process. Traditional novels are often concerned with characters, events, and the content of the work, but meta-fiction is more concerned with how the author himself wrote the novel of……"

It is not a new thing that Zhang Zhong's works appear in literature classes. I don't know when many university professors began to study Zhang Zhong's novels.

But this time not only the literature class, but also Zhang Zhong's book appeared in the philosophy class.

In another philosophy class that was held at the same time, "Sophie's World" was also written on the blackboard.

The teacher on the stage smiled and said, "I have been thinking about how to make it easier for you lazy guys to learn the history of philosophy, but I have not found a good solution, but this problem is now solved by a book. I I never thought that the one who helped me solve this problem turned out to be a writer, not a philosopher..."

(End of this chapter)