In Jiangyang in February, it was a bit chilly at night. Xu Yuhan wrapped herself in a quilt and picked up the phone on the bedside to check the time. It was already past twelve o'clock.
The time for announcing the results of the Goncourt Literary Prize was set at six o'clock in the evening local time in Paris. In Jiangyang, it was probably one o'clock the next morning, and there was less than an hour before the results were announced.
Xu Yuhan turned over. She didn't know whether it was because of the effect of the coffee she drank before or because she was a little excited because the results were about to be announced. Anyway, she didn't feel sleepy at the moment.
He simply sat up and whispered.
There are many people who haven't slept like her, and many of them are chatting in Zhang Zhong's exclusive tribe.
At the moment, the posts on the homepage of the tribe are all about the Goncourt Literary Prize, and everyone is paying attention to the same thing.
[What should I do? I’m so excited that I can’t sleep. Can’t the Goncourt Literary Prize consider the feelings of readers in China and adjust the time? 】
[If you really adjust the time, wouldn’t it be equivalent to directly telling others that Zhang Zhong won the award this year?]
【That's true.】
[If the boss wins the prize tonight, I am determined to go on a diet for two months and lose 30 pounds.]
[Well, your ID looks familiar. I remember you said the same thing during the Hugo Awards last year...]
[I lost weight at that time, but recently I gained weight again.]
【Are you a puffer fish? If you say you are fat, you will be fat, if you say you are thin, you will be thin?】
[It’s past twelve o’clock, do any of you know that today is the day when the dragon raises its head?]
[I know, I know, my mother asked me to go to the barber shop to get a haircut tomorrow.]
[The Goncourt Literary Prize is very good at choosing the date. The boss of the Dragon Head will win the prize, tsk tsk.]
[I wonder if the boss is asleep. Is he waiting for the result like us? 】
【Sure, such a big prize.】
[This is not certain, it is said that the boss has a big heart.]
Seeing the topics discussed by netizens, Xu Yuhan lifted up the quilt, tiptoed to the door and opened it.
She opened the door only a crack, and then looked through the crack into the room diagonally opposite.
That is Zhang Zhong's study. The lights in the room are still on at this moment, which means that Zhang Zhong should still be working at this time.
[He must not have slept, he is usually working at this point.]
[Is this a bastard meal upstairs? Do you even know the boss’s schedule so clearly? 】
【No, no, I just live relatively close to him.】
[Oh, it seems to be from the same community. Hey, no, even if he is from the same community, how do you know he is working? 】
Hehe, I live closer than you think.
Xu Yuhan was lying on the bed holding her mobile phone, thinking that Zhang Zhong was opposite, and she felt inexplicably good.
Time passed minute by minute until one o'clock in the morning.
Xu Yuhan quickly opened the webpage and directly searched for the word Zhang Zhong.
Because the attention is so high, search engines now only need to search for the word Zhang Zhong, and real-time updates of the Goncourt Literary Prize will appear.
She clicked the search button, and the real-time news page of the Goncourt Literary Prize immediately popped up.
But she couldn't see the message immediately because an animation popped up as soon as the page opened.
In the animation, a red dragon hovers into the sky, followed by the sound of crackling firecrackers.
Seeing this animation, Xu Yuhan's heart skipped a beat.
This is already obvious. There must be good news, otherwise there would be no such animation.
But she didn't feel relieved when she didn't see it. When the animation ended, she immediately looked at the latest news.
Bold black characters hang at the top.
[Congratulations to Zhang Zhong for winning the 2023 Goncourt Literary Prize!]
"Wow!" Xu Yuhan couldn't help shouting after seeing this news.
Got it, got it, finally got it.
Zhang Chong became the first Asian to win the Goncourt Prize for Literature.
Xu Yuhan was so excited that she didn't know where to put it. She wanted to share the good news with Zhang Zhong immediately, but she was afraid that Zhang Zhong would be busy at a critical moment and suddenly go there and disturb him.
Squeak——
When she was thinking wildly, the door to the room was pushed open, Zhang Zhong poked his head in and asked softly, "What's wrong?"
The moment she saw Zhang Zhong, Xu Yuhan finally couldn't bear it anymore. She jumped up from the bed and ran directly towards Zhang Zhong.
Zhang Zhong watched Xu Yuhan running over, but before he could react, someone was already hanging on him.
"You are so awesome!"
Zhang Zhong raised his eyebrows, where to start?
Of course, he knew he was powerful, but right now he didn't do anything.
Just when Xu Yuhan was about to fall, Zhang Zhong supported her in time.
"Are you dreaming?"
"You won the prize."
Hearing Xu Yuhan say that he had won the award, he realized that today was the day when the results of the Goncourt Literature Prize were announced. He had remembered it before, but after working in the study for a while, he forgot about it.
.
"Is the news out?"
"It's out, let's show it to you, there are also animations." Xu Yuhan put one hand around Zhang Zhong's neck, and with the other hand, she used her mobile phone to find the real-time updates of the Goncourt Literary Prize for him to see.
But Zhang Zhong was not interested in any award news at this time. Xu Yuhan was hanging on him like an octopus. Even if the boat didn't move, the sails would still move.
He lifted Xu Yuhan up and said with a smile, "Don't look at it, we have more important things to do."
Xu Yuhan felt a blast of hot air blowing by her ears, and her body stiffened instantly. It wasn't until Zhang Zhong was carried to the bed that she remembered to push Zhang Zhong: "Hurry up and take a shower."
…
Netizens who were watching the news about the Goncourt Literary Prize were really shocked by the animation of the ferry search engine.
Is there such an operation?
In fact, it’s not like they haven’t seen similar animations before. Nowadays, when opening the webpage and opening the app during the holidays, such animations will pop up.
But this was the first time they saw such an animation coming out of a search engine.
There is a card, indeed there is a card.
【Just ask who else!】
[Don’t ask, asking is unprecedented.]
【Hahaha, everyone, I am going to lose weight now.】
[This time I want to add chicken legs to the artists of Ferry Search Engine.]
["Lord of the Flies" Niubi, Zhang Zhongniubi.]
[I have finally given up on pursuing the Goncourt Literary Prize for so long. I will go to bed now, and I will start waiting for the new book "The Call of the Wild" tomorrow. 】
【Can't sleep.】
…
Fang Ya was shocked when he saw the news in the group. He was also from China, and Zhang Zhongneng was the first Asian to win the Goncourt Literature Prize. He was naturally honored.
Compared with the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award, Fang Ya pays more attention to the Goncourt Literary Award. After all, this is the award in "their circle".
And precisely because he is an insider, he knows how difficult it is for Asians to win the Goncourt Literature Prize.
If it were not for a nuclear weapon like "Lord of the Flies", I am afraid that the judges of the Goncourt Literary Prize would not let the award go to a non-French writer this time.