"Auntie, what's wrong?" Pengpeng's voice sounded a little scared.
Before Li Yan could answer her, she saw a ray of light coming from the kitchen, and Zhang Zhong came out carrying a big cake.
The candle shadow swayed, followed by grandparents and Grandma Wu, who sang happy birthday and walked slowly towards Pengpeng.
"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you..."
Li Yan also hugged Pengpeng and sang softly in her ear.
Pengpeng scratched his head, with confusion on his face, "Who are you wishing a happy birthday to?"
…
There was a pause in the singing. Zhang Zhong smiled and handed the cake to Peng Peng, "Peng Peng, please blow out the candles and make a wish."
Pengpeng grinned, "Ah, is it my birthday?"
Zhang Dian nodded.
"Dad, can I make ten wishes?"
"Okay, you can do as much or as little as you want."
"Well, then I would like to share some wishes with my grandparents, Grandma Wu, and Aunt Yan."
Li Yan smiled and said, "There is no need to share it with us, because we can also make wishes on our birthdays."
"Okay then, I'll make a wish."
Pengpeng didn't know where she learned it from, so she clasped her hands together and closed her eyes.
After a while she opened her eyes and said, "Okay, I've made a promise."
"What wish did Pengpeng make?" his grandma asked.
"What you can't say will not work if you say it."
After Pengpeng blew out the candles, it was time to receive the gifts.
The gifts given by the three elders were very realistic. Each of them wrapped a big red envelope. Pengpeng took the red envelope and smiled from ear to ear.
She actually doesn't have a clear concept about money, but she knows that red envelopes are a good thing.
Li Yan gave a small hairpin. She knew Pengpeng's favorite, so the hairpin had a pink piglet on it.
Of course Pengpeng liked it very much and asked Li Yan to clip it on her hair on the spot.
After their gifts were delivered, Zhang Zhong clapped his hands and said, "Let's go, I will take you to see my gifts."
Regarding Zhang Zhong's gift, Zhang Xingjun and others did not know in advance. When they saw Zhang Zhong going out, they were a little confused.
"What are you doing, Chongzi?"
Zhang Zhong stood at the door and smiled, "You will know soon."
Then he walked out of the house with a few people who looked puzzled. Just when they thought the gifts were outside, Zhang Zhong took out the key and opened the door opposite.
"Chongzi, what are you doing?"
"Let's go." Zhang Zhong waved to them.
When they walked into the house, they were immediately dumbfounded. The decoration of this house was really dreamy. The white walls changed colors as the lights shone. When they looked up, they could see a blue sky, and the sky was bright.
The clouds are still moving.
Zhang Zhong led them further inside and came to another room.
Slides, small trains that rotate in circles, and animated wallpapers make it feel like a small dream kingdom.
"This...did you do this?" Li Yan's eyes were full of disbelief, everything in front of her seemed fake.
Pengpeng had already reacted and ran to the train and sat down without any further instructions.
"Dad, how do you drive this little train?"
Zhang Zhong did not answer Li Yan's question. He smiled and ran to turn on the switch of the small train. The small train started whining, carrying Peng Peng and ran slowly along the track.
…
The gift that Zhang Zhong gave to Pengpeng had a great impact on Li Yan and the others. When they walked out of the room, they did not fully react.
Zhang Xingjun and Hu Huifang knew their son's identity, so they were not surprised that he could achieve this effect. However, they did not expect that Zhang Zhong would spend such a high price just to create a place for Peng Peng to play.
Wu Aiying and the others were surprised and wondered where Zhang Zhong earned so much money. Before, they had only heard that he was doing work online, but what kind of work online could earn so much money?
It's just that Zhang Zhong and the others didn't say anything, and Wu Aiying didn't ask specifically.
After Wu Aiying and the others left, Zhang Xingjun ran over there and looked at the little train for a while, and finally exclaimed, "This thing consumes a lot of power."
…
On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Pengpeng had already gone to school, and Zhang Zhong ran to the bookstore alone.
Originally "Flowers for Algernon" was to be released at the beginning of the month, but Provoking Literature wanted to unify the release time of the Chinese and English versions, so the Chinese version was delayed by a few days.
Originally, Zhang Zhong's manuscripts for Provoking Literature were usually only in Chinese. However, last time Provoking Literature wanted to publish an English version of "Ten Little Indian Boys", it gave him a heads-up, so he published the English version this time.
I gave them not only the English version of "Flowers for Algernon", but also the English versions of several of Agatha's works.
When Agitations Literature received the English version, they were a little surprised because they were looking for a translator. Now that Zhang Zhong's English version came, it solved a big problem for them.
At first, they had some doubts. After all, they didn't know what Zhang Zhong's English level was. However, after looking for professionals to read it, they greatly praised the English version given by Zhang Zhong, saying that his level of English was extraordinary.
So they felt relieved and used it.
This time "Flowers for Algernon" is released simultaneously in Chinese and English. It is not because the publisher is optimistic about the overseas market of this book, but it is just a gimmick.
The first printing of the English version was only 100,000 copies, which was just a test of the waters.
After all, Zhang Zhong's fame is only limited to China, and the channels for agitating literature have not yet developed to the world, so they do not have high hopes for the overseas sales of this book.
"The world's simultaneous release, the latest science fiction masterpiece of fifth-grade vegetative people."
With Zhang Zhong's current fame, the bookstore not only gave him a c position on the bookshelf, but also placed a large poster at the door with the cover and slogan of "Flowers for Algernon" printed on it, including "Global"
The words "fifth-grade vegetative" are put in a large size so that people can see them at a glance, while the words "science fiction masterpiece" are ignored.
Probably the person who made this poster also thought that there was no benefit in putting the name "Fifth Grade Vegetative" together with science fiction.
Just like telling someone that a Sichuan cuisine master has cooked a Cantonese dish, others' first reaction must be that it is not authentic.
Zhang Zhong didn't pay much attention to it, but if possible, he still hoped that the word "science fiction" could be amplified in the future.
There are no competitive new books this month. I heard that a master of detective novels has written a detective novel. However, Zhang Zhong glanced at the front bookshelf of the bookstore and it seems that except for his own "Flowers for Algernon"
, I haven’t seen any new books, and it seems that the response to the new book by the master detective is not very good either.