"Your voice doesn't sound right. Did you not sleep well last night?"
Chen Qing called in the morning to report on the sales of the new book. Zhang Zhong felt that his voice sounded a little tired, so he asked.
"No, maybe the phone signal is not very good and the sound is a little distorted." Chen Qing said with a smile, but this time his voice was much higher.
Zhang Zhong knew that he was not telling the truth, so he said, "You are fine in everything, but you don't take care of your body. Go and catch up on your sleep. Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. Come to my house for dinner tonight."
"Okay, I'll go there in the afternoon."
After hanging up the phone, Zhang Zhong took two rice dumplings out of the basin and gave them to Peng Peng who was watching TV, "Peel them yourself."
Pengpeng took the zongzi and asked, "Is it meat?"
"It's meat."
"Dad, I can't finish two of them, so I'll peel one off for you."
Zhang Zhong didn't really want to eat zongzi at first, but when his daughter said this, he smiled and said, "Okay."
Pengpeng peeled off one first, got closer and smelled it, nodded with satisfaction, and then peeled off another one. After peeling it off, he gave one to Zhang Zhong.
Zhang Zhong rolled his eyes, this girl didn't believe him.
Zhang Zhong was looking for her rice dumplings before, and she asked for meat, but Zhang Zhong accidentally found a white one for her. Probably because of this, she began to distrust Zhang Zhong.
"Don't throw away the leaves after you finish eating them. Your grandma should keep them."
"Yeah, I know."
Zhang Dian nodded and then went up to the second floor with the rice dumplings. Just now Chen Qing called him and told him that he had sent him a video from Chadong for him to take a look at.
When I got upstairs, I turned on my computer and found the email Chen Qing mentioned. There was a five-minute video in it.
Zhang Jian opened it and watched it. It was a short film about the Chadong boat race.
Since the release of "Border Town", the small town of Chadong has also attracted people's attention, and the local area has also revived the previously abandoned Dragon Boat Festival program.
Looking at the editing and images of this short film, it seems that it was not taken by ordinary tourists. It seems to be an official promotional video of Chadong. The picture quality is very good.
After finishing the video and finishing one rice dumpling, Zhang Zhong wiped his hands, then called up the system screen in his mind and started the lottery.
He hasn't played lottery for a long time and has accumulated a lot of points, 120,000. However, the points have been growing slowly recently because apart from the works produced by the system, he has no other works.
Since he has quite a lot of points, Zhang Zhong’s current draw is always 30,000 points per draw.
[Thirty thousand points will be drawn once.] Zhang Zhong gave the order.
[During the lottery...the lottery is completed...congratulations on winning the work "The Three-Body Problem".]
Three-body?
Hearing the title of the book, Zhang Zhong was a little surprised, but then he quickly searched in his mind. He wanted to know whether the "Three-Body Problem" referred to the first volume of "The Three-Body Problem" or the complete volume of "The Three-Body Problem".
After completing the investigation, Zhang Zhong was a little disappointed. What he drew this time was only the first part of "The Three-Body Problem", and there was no "Dark Forest" and "The Immortality of Death".
Isn't this funny? Without the dark forest and the immortality of death, would the Three-Body Problem still be called the Three-Body Problem?
Zhang Zhong was a little unwilling and spent another 30,000 points to win a prize.
[During the lottery...the lottery is completed, congratulations on winning the work "Metamorphosis"]
When he saw the book he had drawn, Zhang Zhong had a complicated mood. "Metamorphosis" was very good, very good, extremely good, but it was not what he wanted.
He originally wanted to strike while the iron was hot and see if he could hit the back two parts of the three-body system, but the result disappointed him.
The most important thing is that he could write the novel "Metamorphosis" by himself without using his brain. After all, it is only so long.
"That's all, I'm lucky to have it."
Zhang Zhong shook his head. Since he couldn't strike the iron while it was hot, he didn't continue to smoke.
But what he is struggling with now is whether to release "The Three-Body Problem".
He didn't want to send it out, he wasn't willing to do it, but if he sent it out, if he couldn't get the next two parts in the future, he felt like he couldn't fill such a big hole.
After much deliberation, he decided to copy these two books and wait until later to make plans.
The reason why he was very happy when he drew "The Three-Body Problem" just now is because this book is of great significance to Chinese science fiction readers.
This is the first Chinese work to win the Hugo Award, and it also opens the way for science fiction novels between China and the world. In China, as long as there are readers who like to read science fiction novels, there is no one who does not know this novel.
In Zhang Zhong's heart, this novel can definitely rival those world-famous classic science fiction novels.
Some people say that "The Three-Body Problem" won the Hugo Award entirely because it wrote about events in a special period. This is sheer fart.
Zhang Chong feels that if Liu Cixin were not Chinese, he might have won all the science fiction awards in the modern world.
There are really not many science fiction writers of similar age to Liu Cixin who can compete with him.
The style of Liu Cixin's works has always been grand, and "The Three-Body Problem" is one of the best. The grandeur in his works is not only the grandeur of the scenes, but also the grandeur of the artistic conception.
Some people say that Liu Cixin's novels show a lot of the scientific beauty of the universe. Although this aesthetics is based on science, it also has the sense of artistic conception pursued by Chinese culture, and no matter how grand the imagination, it can be combined with reality to show a
A spectacular weirdness.
Zhang Zhong strongly agrees with this statement, and also believes that this is something unique to Liu Cixin's novels.
In his novels, there is no need for extremely grand scenes, such as how many planets are destroyed by a plasma cannon, how many light years a battleship is, and just a dark forest law can make people fall into the abyss, far away, but
I also feel the vastness and infinity of the universe firsthand.
Feeling the weirdness of the world of "Three-Body" again in his mind, Zhang Zhong's previous entanglements were instantly wiped away. Damn it, uncle, what are you still thinking about, what are you still stressing about, and just let it go.
Making a quick decision, Zhang Zhong put down "The Metamorphosis" first and began to copy "The Three-Body Problem" seriously.
Some people criticize Liu Cixin for her poor writing style, but Zhang Zhong does not think so. Writing style is a bit mysterious, and even great writers rarely mention writing style when studying literature.
In Zhang Zhong's opinion, Liu Cixin's writing style is definitely adequate, and in some aspects the narrative is beyond ordinary people's brilliance. Except for the somewhat random character creation, all other aspects are very good.
As for the character issue, Zhang Zhong doesn’t think Liu Cixin can’t do it well, but Liu Cixin definitely knows what he wants to write, so he focuses on it.
The purpose of writing is to make readers empathize, as long as the purpose is achieved.
For example, if readers can feel the magnificent scenes he describes, it proves that he has succeeded; if readers cannot feel them, it proves that he has failed.