After chatting for a while, Zhang Xingjun went to the kitchen to see if anyone could help, leaving Zhang Zhong alone to chat with them.
Lin Lin took a sip of tea and said in a good mood, "Do you still remember that Zhao Jin from last time?"
"Well, still remember, why did you suddenly talk about him?"
"He's been having a hard time lately."
"Then no wonder you seem to be in a good mood." Zhang Chong said with a smile.
Song Xiang didn't know Zhao Jin and asked, "Who are you talking about?"
After hearing Song Xiang's question, Lin Lin told him about Zhao Jin and what happened last time he met in the hotel. Finally, he said with a smile, "Originally, Jiangyang's real estate has made quite a lot of progress in the past two years. They
The family's business should be good, but I don't know how it happened recently. They have lost their focus and are a little bit out of business. It seems that they can't get any money from the bank recently. They are engaged in real estate. They have no money and no land, and their plates are like this.
If it is big, it will collapse if it is said to 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 now, so he planned to continue to take the land next to the school, but he didn't know the details yet. It seemed that
Lin Lin knows more news.
"Originally it wasn't that serious, but who told him he had offended me before?"
"You still took action in this matter?"
"I don't call it taking action, I just mix it in appropriately. But I also want to thank you for making me have plenty of cash."
Lin Lin didn't say exactly how he did it, but from what he heard, it probably had something to do with money.
Zhang Chong sighed secretly, he did not kill Boren, but Boren died because of him.
…
Kane has been smiling every day recently, and he basically says hello to the customers who come to the bookstore.
Ever since Zhang Zhong's book became a best-seller in Cupertino, his bookstore had very high traffic every day, and sales basically doubled. Later, after pzday was established, it doubled again - and maybe even more.
It seems that another bookstore has opened nearby, but Kane is not worried. Not to mention that these stores cannot shake the local influence of his bookstore. Even if they are given a share of the pie, the business in the store will not be worse than before.
.
In the comfortable life of a small city, Kane does not have any big ambitions. As he is now, his happiness index is already very high.
It will be the Spring Festival in a few days.
Cupertino has also celebrated the Spring Festival before, because there are many Chinese people here. As the most grand festival in China, the local Chinese people will naturally celebrate it.
The pace of life in small cities is slow, and everyone has a lot of leisure. Of course, no one will miss the fun. So most other people also follow the festival.
It’s just that before everyone just joined in the fun, but this year it’s different.
Mayor Cameron is planning to hold a Spring Festival rally in Cupertino Plaza, and I heard that a lion dancer will be invited there, which will definitely be more lively than in previous years.
"Hey, Lee, how's the thing I asked you to do?"
Kane saw an acquaintance and walked over and asked.
This Li was of Chinese descent and I heard he could write calligraphy, so Kane asked him to help write a few door couplets and post them in the store.
Li Lei said with a smile: "Don't be anxious. I've remembered the matter. I will definitely deliver it to you before the Spring Festival. It won't delay your work. There are a lot more people asking me to write couplets this year. I have been a little busy lately. Isn't that right?
, I haven’t had time to read pz’s new book yet.”
"Yeah, don'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 possible. You've already paid for the door couplet."
"Hey, don't be polite to me. There will be a lot of trouble for you in the future."
Seeing that he couldn't shirk it, Li Lei took the book and said with a smile, "Kane, why do I feel that you are talking more and more like a Chinese now."
"Yeah, let me tell you, I'm learning Chinese recently. I can already see that Cameron wants to build Cupertino into a city with unique characteristics. It won't do if you don't know a few words of Chinese."
"It's hard to say in other places, but isn't it easy to learn Chinese in Cupertino?" Li Lei said with a smile, "Oh, by the way, there is something I want to ask you. Can you buy "Zero" in your bookstore?
"Zero One" magazine..."
Before Li Lei finished speaking, Kane smiled and pointed to the row of shelves dedicated to magazines at the door, "How is it possible that there aren't any? I buy every issue."
"I'm talking about the Chinese version. I heard from my friends in China that the content of the English version lags behind the Chinese version. I've been following a few novels in it recently, but it's too uncomfortable to read a little bit in a week. I want to ask you
Can I get the Chinese version? If I can, I don’t have 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 was not particularly disappointed. He nodded and said, "I understand. I will go to the website to read it later. It is better to be one or two issues late than dozens of issues late."
After sending Li Lei away, Kane was also thinking about this matter. After thinking for a while, he decided to ask if this matter could be solved.
There are many Chinese people in Cupertino. If we can get "Zero Zero One" that is synchronized with the Chinese, it should also sell well.
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The winter vacation at Harvard University has just ended. The students took a month's rest and came back to officially engage in intense study.
In a modern literature class, the professor wrote two big words "Sophie's World" on the blackboard.
"I haven't seen you for more than a month. I wonder if you have paid attention to this new book that was just released recently."
The students all nodded, but most students 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 come across before. This technique is meta-narrative. This book "Sophie's World" can help you understand what meta-fiction is. Meta-narrative."
A novel is a novel about novels, 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 narrative content of the work, but metafiction is more concerned with how the author himself wrote the novel.
of……"
The appearance of Zhang Zhong's works in literature classes is nothing new. I don't know when, many university professors began to study Zhang Zhong's novels.
But this time, Zhang Zhong’s book appeared not only in the literature class, but also in the philosophy class.
In another philosophy course taking place 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 never found a good solution, but this problem has now been solved by a book. I
I also didn’t expect that the person who helped me solve this problem was actually a writer, not a philosopher..."