After looking at the gallery for a while, the two girls' minds were mostly focused on the octopus balls. Liu Minya didn't care about admiring her little sisters' works, and Peng Peng didn't care about showing off to others.
Zhang Zhong also noticed that they were not thinking, so he took them to a nearby snack street to buy octopus balls.
After buying octopus balls and taking the two little girls with him, Zhang Zhong first went to Meng Mu's small house to pick up Xu Yuhan, and then the four of them went directly back to Zhang Zhong's home.
Xu Yuhan came to teach, and Liu Minya and the others were all there, so there was no need to send her home. Zhang Chong's house has now become a studio, and Liu Minya and the others' painting tools are here.
On the way back, while eating octopus balls, Pengpeng couldn't wait to tell Xu Yuhan what someone had just praised her for.
"Teacher Xu, a big brother just said that my paintings are very good, just like the great painter Le Sai Shang."
"Le Saishang?" Xu Yuhan didn't understand. Who is Le Saishang?
Zhang Zhong, who was driving in front, said, "It's because of the traffic jam. She misunderstood."
Xu Yuhan suddenly realized, "It's him. Someone praised Pengpeng's paintings for being the same as Sai Shang?"
"Almost."
Xu Yuhan covered her mouth and smiled, "Then this person is quite artistic."
"Teacher Xu, who are you talking about?" Pengpeng was not ashamed when he heard that he had said the wrong name, and showed a studious attitude.
"Come on, he's a French writer who has been dead for more than a hundred years."
"Ah, it's been more than a hundred years, and I wasn't born yet at that time." Pengpeng said.
"Well, I wasn't born either." Liu Minya agreed.
"Yes, we were not born at that time." Probably few people who were born at that time are still alive, and if they are alive, they are at least 115 years old.
With nothing else going on, Xu Yuhan was ready to have a few words with Pengpeng and the other two, treating it as taking time to take an art history class.
"Sai Shang was very famous before and was the leader of post-Impressionism. When he was about to die, he was praised as the father of new art. As a pioneer of modern art, Western modern painters called him the father of modern art... Peng Peng, don't
Urgent, wait until I finish." Seeing Pengpeng want to speak, Xu Yuhan asked her not to be impatient, "You don't have to know all these Impressionists and modern art, I will tell you about his artistic ideas. He
The artistic ideas are mainly reflected in the pursuit and expression of the volume of objects..."
Xu Yuhan said a lot at the beginning, but Zhang Zhong might not be able to fully understand it, let alone the two children.
She didn't expect the two little girls to understand directly, but she still said it because she wanted to leave a little impression on the two girls. Maybe this impression would become an inconspicuous seed and take root in their hearts.
germination.
Of course, she wouldn't just talk about something that they couldn't understand. After finishing the theory, she started to explain it to them based on the actual situation and the drawings of the two girls.
Until I get home, the art class is over.
After returning home, Xu Yuhan was not in a hurry to teach them painting because there were still a few students who had not arrived.
Later, when all the students arrived, Xu Yuhan officially started teaching. Zhang Zhong greeted her and then went to work in the study.
After the publication of "The Last Starfish Man", Zhang Zhong now has no work to do.
"The Ordinary World" has been handed over to Chen Qing. He is doing nothing now and has two books waiting to be published.
In addition to "The Ordinary World", there is also "Tragedy on the Nile" which has not been published before.
It was originally planned to be published years ago, but with the current situation, "Tragedy on the Nile" will not be released until "The Ordinary World" is released.
Zhang Zhong now has 60,000 useless points in his hand, and he has no plans to use them. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and he will be busy signing autographs in the next few days, and he is not in a hurry to draw works.
And besides that, the big hole he dug for himself has not been filled in much yet. The students have accumulated a lot of homework without even looking at it.
In the past two days, he has also shifted his work center upward, spending more time on work every day, thinking that he can fill the hole he dug as soon as possible.
However, the work of reviewing the homework didn't last long before Zhang Zhong came out of the study and ran downstairs to cook for Xu Yuhan and the children.
Hu Huifang originally took care of all the cooking on weekends, but today the couple went to their uncle's house, so they still had to do it themselves.
He is already used to it, after all, he usually does it.
…
Green Field Bookstore is indeed the home base for Zhang Zhong’s book fans. Because the nomination list for the Nebula Awards will be announced tonight, the small bookstore has already been packed with people.
The announcement of the Nebula Awards nominations was not broadcast live on television, but was merely an announcement on their official website.
The previously announced time was announced at 8:30 a.m. local time in Washington, D.C. In January, winter time is implemented, so the time in China was announced at 7:30 p.m.
It’s just that everyone in the official Nebula Awards knows that every year, not only the nomination list is announced irregularly, but also the awards ceremony is irregular, and even the scheduled time may not be accurate.
And they are not necessarily late, they may announce it in advance or delay it.
So Zhang Junwei stared at the computer screen at around six o'clock, and kept refreshing the page, wanting to see if there was any new news on the official website.
"President, are you good at English? Why don't you bring me your computer and I'll look at it for you."
Zhang Junwei didn't even raise his head, "Let's go and cool down. I'm not good at English, but I still recognize Zhang Zhong's name."
"I'm afraid you can't find it because of your bad eyesight. Besides, even if you see Zhang Zhong's name, you don't know what it is nominated for."
"I want to see it myself."
"It's hard to climb over the wall."
Zhang Junwei ignored him. His English was indeed average, but it was more than enough to look at this kind of nomination list.
Just when Zhang Junwei was tired from pressing F5 and was about to take a rest, a piece of news suddenly popped up on the official website of the Nebula Awards.
Zhang Junwei's eyes lit up when he saw the news. In fact, there was no need to speak English at all, because the nomination list was directly attached to the cover of the work.
The first novel shortlisted for full-length novels is "Dune". Looking further down, it's even more surprising. The one immediately following "Dune" is "Flowers for Algernon".
This is not over yet. Among the medium and long novels, Zhang Zhong's "I, Robot" has also been shortlisted.
Among the short stories, "The Wandering Sea Ball" also occupies a place.
But strangely, there are many works shortlisted for the Nebula Award for Novel this year. There are eight books in total. Excluding Zhang Zhong’s two, there are still six. The number of six is quite consistent with the number of shortlisted awards in previous years.
Looking at it this way, it seems as if Zhang Zhong’s two volumes are additional.