Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 640 We Are Just Joking

When Zhang Zhong arrived in Los Angeles, he sent the manuscript of "To Live" to Chen Qing.

During the last half day at Columbia University, they held a press conference. At that time, a reporter asked Zhang Zhong if he had any plans for a new book. After all, it has been more than two months since the last book was released.

Zhang Zhong did not disclose specific news about the new book, but only told everyone that the next book will not be a science fiction novel, nor will it be a detective novel.

Such an answer is undoubtedly very disappointing, not only for journalists, but also for readers who like science fiction and detective novels.

Especially science fiction fans.

This year is a very important year for Huaxia Science Fiction, because Jiang Yang has bid to host next year's World Science Fiction Convention, and the results will be announced in August.

Of course they hope that at this critical moment, Zhang Zhong can publish another science fiction novel to help Jiang Yang apply for fantasy.

However, things backfired. Zhang Zhong had already said at the press conference that the next book would definitely not be a science fiction novel.

The release of "Alive" will probably take more than a month, and it should be released in Chinese, English, and French at the same time.

However, although Zhang Zhong did not reveal the news of the new book at the press conference, he played with his mind.

During the signing in Los Angeles, Zhang Zhong went out of his way and drew dozens of lucky fans and signed special tickets for them.

Different from the previous special lottery, Zhang Zhong's special lottery this time is a bit inexplicable.

"Death isn't the loss of life, it's just the passing of time."

"In the beginning we came into this world because we had to come, and in the end we left this world because we had to go."

"Man lives to live itself, not to live for anything other than life."

"To live is to feel the happiness and hard work of living, boredom and mediocrity. Survival is nothing but the evaluation of others."

……

All Zhang Zhong's special signings this time are a little confusing.

And the most important thing, and the most surprising thing, is that all of Zhang Zhong's signatures are written in Chinese.

This is a little strange.

It’s not that Zhang Zhong has never held a signing event in the United States. When he held a signing event in New York before, or later in Cupertino, he would also release some special signings, but most of those special signings were In English, it is also for so-and-so, congratulations and so on.

But this time, it was all those confusing Chinese special signs.

A lot of people who got the special lottery were happy but confused because they didn't know the words on it.

So after the Los Angeles autograph session ended, there were a lot of people asking for translations online.

This weird special signing event was also discovered by more book friends.

Someone else integrated it and made a collection of dozens of special signatures this time.

It is said that there are many big (xian) gods (ren) on the Internet. This is not false at all. After these dozens of special tickets were integrated, some people pointed out that these special tickets seem to be confusing, but they all have connect.

As for what the connection is, they haven't figured it out yet.

[The frequency of death and life in these special signs is particularly high, and it must be related to this. 】

[Do you think it is a sentence in Zhang Xin's book? 】

[Sao Nian, your idea is very insightful. 】

[Zhang Zhong is playing decryption with us this time? 】

[Haha, I think he is addicted to writing Qingming Shanghetu Code and Da Vinci Code, so he plays like this. 】

[I preliminarily guessed that the new book is related to life. 】

【Life... This topic is too empty, I said it has something to do with people. 】

[But what does it mean to live just to live itself, can someone explain it? 】

[My guess is that there is no other meaning to living, it sounds quite helpless. 】

【Impossible to be so sad. 】

……

Zhang Zhong's whispers flooded in that day, a large number of book friends were asking about special signings and new books, but Zhang Zhong didn't answer, because after the signing session was over, Zhang Zhong was busy taking his family to enjoy the scenery of Los Angeles.

As the largest city in the western United States, Los Angeles has many places worth seeing, such as Hollywood, Disney, Venice Beach...

They went first to Hollywood and then to Disney.

The happiest thing in the past two days should be Peng Peng, especially going to Disney, it is simply a paradise for children.The oldest and oldest Disneyland, Los Angeles Disneyland is indeed a little more fun than Disneyland in China.

When they were in Hollywood, the young man who came to receive them from Wenner Entertainment recommended them to visit Beverly Hills, and said that this hill was the most representative of American culture, and it was a very worthwhile place to visit.

This statement aroused the interest of the old couple.

Zhang Zhong had no interest in Beverly Hills, but seeing that the old couple wanted to go, he deliberately took them to Beverly Hills on the last day of leaving Los Angeles.

In this so-called richest community in the world, famous cars can be seen everywhere on the road, luxury stores can be seen just a few steps away, and luxury villas can be seen looking up the mountain from the visitor center.

Being rich is indeed being rich, but the scenery here disappointed the old couple a little.

Standing at the entrance of the shopping street, Hu Huifang shook her head, "It's not as good as the Venice Beach I went to yesterday. Isn't this a nicer community?"

She was right, this is a good-looking community. As for what the Wenner company employee said before that represented American culture, she really didn't see it.

Is American culture so superficial?Luxury cars, luxury goods, and beautiful villas?
But speaking of it, it seems that only this shopping street can go in and walk around.

The family went into a jewelry store. Hu Huifang saw a bracelet and thought it looked good, so she asked in simple English, "How much is it?"

The saleswoman smiled and said, "Hi, the price of this bracelet is $[-]."

"Sixty thousand U.S. dollars." Hu Huifang couldn't help saying, "It's too expensive."

The salesperson smiled and said nothing, and said to another salesperson next to him in Spanish with a smile, "Haha, another one, don't they know that just asking the price in Rodeo means they can't afford it?"

When the saleswoman said this, she wore a professional smile the whole time, as if such a harsh and teasing sentence did not come from her mouth at all.

Looking at Hu Huifang and the others, there was indeed no reaction, after all, they couldn't understand Spanish.

But Zhang Zhong knew a little Spanish, and he happened to be able to understand what she just said.

"Ma'am, do you think you shouldn't ask the price when you buy something?" Zhang Chong asked in Spanish.

Hearing Zhang Zhong's words, the two salesgirls were stunned for a moment, and then quickly explained, "No, no, sir, you misunderstood, we were just joking."

(End of this chapter)