The people who send blessings are usually acquaintances, otherwise Zhang Zhong would not have contact information, so Zhang Zhong basically replies to all their blessings.
In response to the blessings from the two foreign friends, Zhang Zhong also specially popularized the knowledge of Chinese festivals to them, telling them that today is not the Spring Festival, but tomorrow is.
Many foreigners don't understand Chinese festivals and always mix the Spring Festival and New Year's Eve, thinking that the New Year's Day is the Spring Festival. That's why Affleck and the others wish Zhang Chong a happy Spring Festival.
While Zhang Zhong was replying to his friends one by one, a video call came in.
Zhang Zhong connected the video, looked at Qin Zhao on the other side of the video and said with a smile, "Have a good New Year, Zhao Zhao."
"Happy New Year."
Qin Zhao waved to Zhang Zhong. Looking at the background in the video, he should be at home.
The winter in Luzhou is relatively warm, so he only wears a short-sleeved T-shirt. As for Zhang Zhong, although the heating is on at home, he still wears three pieces on his upper body, underwear, a shirt and a sweater, which he wears like Qin Zhaocheng
A sharp contrast.
"My dad asked if you have time on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year," Qin Zhao said.
"Didn't I ask you to ask it yourself..."
Zhang Zhong heard an inaudible voice coming from the video, and then saw Qin Zhao's father Qin Cheng appearing in the video. Qin Cheng said with a smile, "Teacher Zhang, I want to ask you about the fourth grade of junior high school."
There is no time, so it is inconvenient for Qin Chengfang and I to visit."
"Of course I have time, but don't you visit relatives in Luzhou? It's not convenient to come so far away," Zhang Zhong said.
"Convenient, convenient. The New Year's Eve here is more lively here, and we don't visit relatives much during the first month of the year."
Zhang Dian nodded, "Okay, I'll wait for you to come over on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year."
"Okay, okay, Teacher Zhang, I wish you a Happy New Year in advance. I'll let Qin Zhao talk to you."
After Qin Cheng finished speaking, he left the screen, leaving Qin Zhao blankly looking at the camera without speaking.
Zhang Chong started to speak with a smile, "I read the novel you recently serialized in "Zero Zero One", and it's very thoughtful. Especially the nuclear spin matrix in it is very impressive."
He was talking about Qin Zhao's latest science fiction work "The Monarch in the Core", which describes a microscopic world.
There are always some kings appearing in Qin Zhao's science fiction novels, which seems to have become a feature of his works.
Compared with the previous "Underwater Kingdom", this "Kingdom of the Core" has a significant improvement in the narrative structure, and the narrative method is much more mature.
Since the publication of "A Murder in Publicity", many young writers have been influenced by it, and their narrative techniques have traces of imitation.
Qin Zhao is no exception, adopting a circular narrative structure in his novels.
Of course, he was self-aware and knew that he could not control the chain structure, so he only echoed it at the beginning and the end. This was a wise choice. If he really wrote it according to "A Murder Case Revealed in Advance", he might eventually
Even he himself is confused when writing.
Hearing Zhang Zhong's praise, Qin Zhao unconsciously raised his lips, but his expression remained cold.
"I hope you can win the prize." After holding it in for a long time, Qin Zhao suddenly said this.
Zhang Zhong didn't react for a moment, but then he realized that he should be talking about the Goncourt Literary Prize.
"Lord of the Flies is very good." Qin Zhao said again, still very briefly.
"Thank you." Zhang Zhong smiled. Nowadays, few people would talk to him in such a cold tone. Although Qin Zhao was much more cheerful than before, he was still reluctant to express himself.
"I...hang up. Mom is cooking in the kitchen, and I want to help." Qin Zhao said.
"Well, you go ahead."
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After hanging up Qin Zhao's video, Zhang Zhong continued to reply to friends' blessings.
In the evening, after the family had New Year's Eve dinner, Liu Feng's family came over to visit, and Pengpeng took Minya to the second floor to see her masterpiece.
This year, Lin Lin and his parents went to his grandmother's house to celebrate the New Year. Song Xiang was newly married, so he didn't make an appointment to hang out.
Liu Feng and the others stayed here for a while, and two colleagues of mother Hu Huifang also came with their children. One of the children was only two years old. He wore thicker clothes in winter and could not walk very steadily.
Suddenly there were several more children in the house, and it suddenly became lively. Fortunately, the Zhang family's house was relatively large, which was enough for them to have fun.
None of the people who came to visit had any special hobbies, so the children played upstairs and the adults chatted and watched the Spring Festival Gala in the living room downstairs.
It wasn't until eleven o'clock that the people who came to visit started to leave one after another, leaving a family of four in the living room watching the Spring Festival Gala and keeping up the New Year's Eve.
When the twelve o'clock bell rang, they breathed a sigh of relief as if they had completed a task.
If Zhang Zhong was a child, they would set off a firecracker at the door after twelve o'clock, but now the city has stricter control, and no one sets off fireworks except at centralized points.
After watching the New Year's Eve, everyone went back to their houses to sleep. Peng Peng couldn't hold on anymore and lay on the sofa in a daze. When the children came over just now, she played more crazy and now she is tired.
Zhang Zhong also wants to go to bed early. He doesn't have to visit relatives tomorrow, but he is going to the cinema to watch two movies.
"The Soul-Breaking Gun" and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" should have been released by now.
Although he can choose to watch it after a while, or not to watch it at all, after all, the movie has something to do with him, so he should go and see it.
Guan Bao invited him to attend the premiere before, but Yu Dongyu came to Jiangyang at that time, so Zhang Zhong didn't go. He went to see the movie tomorrow and had to call Guan Bao to congratulate him.
In fact, he is quite interested in the finished film of "The Soul-Breaking Gun". After all, the story in this novel is relatively thin. If Guan Bao wants to make it into a big movie, he will definitely need to make a lot of filling or modifications.
Moreover, Peng Peng also participated in this movie at the time, and I don’t know if Guan Bao deleted Peng Peng’s part.
…
Early the next morning, after the family had glutinous rice balls, they headed to the cinema. For the two movies today, Zhang Zhong planned to watch "The Soul-Breaking Gun" with his family in the morning, and in the afternoon he would watch "The Bionic" by himself.
Do people dream about electronic sheep?》.
Zhang Zhong did not tell Peng Peng that "The Soul-Breaking Gun" was a movie she was starring in at the time. He was afraid that if Guan Bao deleted Peng Peng's scenes, he would be disappointed if Peng Peng didn't see it.
Even his parents didn't know that Peng Peng had participated in "The Soul-Breaking Gun" at that time. At that time, Peng Peng came back to show off to his grandparents, but he didn't tell them the name of the movie, and even if he told them the name of the movie, I'm afraid they wouldn't know it after such a long time.
Forgot too.
When we arrived at the cinema, we could clearly see the gap in popularity between the two movies. The promotional poster for "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" has not been interrupted since entering the elevator, while the promotional poster for "The Soul-Breaking Gun"
But there is only one solitary one on the edge of the hall, completely inconspicuous among the many Lunar New Year movies.