Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 151 Go to His Romero
Unexpectedly, Yu Dong wrote very quickly.

He wrote more than 1 characters every day, and he finished writing the first 24 characters in only twenty days.

After finishing writing, Yu Dong stretched his waist, then got up and went to the refrigerator to find watermelon to eat.

But when he opened the refrigerator, he couldn't find any watermelons. He turned around and saw Jimmy sitting in the yard, holding a shelf of watermelons in one hand, eating happily.

On the ground, there is also a pile of watermelon rinds, which is also his masterpiece.

Yu Dong gritted his molars. Since Jimmy, the watermelon thief, came, his daily watermelon intake has dropped sharply.

Jimmy arrived in Shanghai a week ago. He booked a room in a hotel a few kilometers away, went to the hotel to sleep at night, and stayed at his host's house during the day to eat and drink.

In addition to eating and drinking, he is also waiting for "Resident Evil".

After he knew that Yu Dong was writing a zombie-themed novel, he kept pestering Yu Dong to read the manuscript.

But Yu Dong told him that he had to wait until the manuscript was finished before showing it to him.

Seeing Yu Dong coming out at this moment, Jimmy slashed left and right, and ate up the watermelon in his hand in just a few mouthfuls. Then, regardless of the watermelon in his mouth, he hurriedly asked Yu Dong: "Dong, have you finished your new book?"

"It's finished." Yu Dong nodded.

"Then show me quickly." Jimmy wiped his hands and walked towards Yu Dong's room.

But Yu Dong stood in front of him, "You can read the manuscript if you want. You need to do two things first. First, clean up the watermelon rinds in the yard. Second, go and buy me a watermelon."

"It's all trivial, for a while..." Jimmy was about to perfunctory, but suddenly saw Yu Dong's expression that was about to go crazy, and hurriedly took two steps back, "Okay, okay, I'll go buy it for you right now, isn't it just eating you?" A few watermelons, be stingy..."

It has to be said that Jimmy's language talent is indeed high. He has not been in Shanghai for long, and his words have a bit of Shanghai flavor.

Jimmy honestly cleaned up the watermelon rinds on the ground, and then ran out to buy watermelons.

After a while, he came back with two big watermelons, "How about it, buy one get one free, I bought two for you."

Yu Dong rolled his eyes, "You ate more than two watermelons from me."

Jimmy smiled mischievously, put down the watermelon, and then went into the room to read Yu Dong's manuscript.

Yu Dong put the watermelon in the refrigerator, made himself a cup of tea, and sat down comfortably on the recliner in the yard.These days, in order to catch up with the manuscript, his whole body is tense. It is really rare to have a leisure time like now.

In a few days, he will go to school.

Two days ago, Wu Changxin called him and told him to go to school early to prepare. They were going to officially start preparations for the drama department. According to Wu Changxin, Bi Feiyu had already arrived at school.

Su Tong also called and heard Yu Dong say that "Harvest" used his manuscript, so he insisted that Yu Dong also contribute a manuscript to "Zhong Shan" as soon as possible.

Although Yu Dong explained to Su Tong that this was an accident, Su Tong didn't listen at all, and insisted that Yu Dong come up with a manuscript.

"Science Fiction World" hasn't heard much. Recently, they should be preparing for the publication of "The Last City".

Speaking of the title of the book is quite interesting. At that time, they sat together and discussed the title for a long time, and finally used the name that Tan Kai proposed at the beginning.

"Okay!"

Yu Dong was lying on a chair and letting himself go, when suddenly Jimmy's thunderous cry sounded in his ears.

"What's wrong? You finished reading it so soon?" Yu Dong opened his eyes and asked strangely.

Jimmy held the manuscript in his hand, and said excitedly, "I haven't finished it yet, but I can't help but praise you. Dong, you——you are such a genius, you don't need to read the rest, this is already invincible at the beginning Okay? What kind of umbrella, what kind of computer mastermind, what kind of virus... No one can resist such an opening, and no one can hold back from continuing to read."

"Have you read the beginning so far?"

"Just the first eight or nine pages, I read back and forth three times!" Jimmy held up the three fingers in the middle, as if swearing, "As a screenwriter, I am very responsible to tell you that if this novel To make it into a movie, don’t even adapt the beginning part, just apply it.”

Without Jimmy saying it, Yu Dong almost forgot that he was originally a screenwriter.However, he has been a screenwriter for several years and knows a lot of directors, so it is impossible without some professional skills.

He was right, the beginning was the beginning of the movie, and Yu Dong didn't make any changes here.

"However..." Jimmy frowned suddenly again, "Your writing is too brilliant, I'm afraid that if I can't find a good translation, it will affect the overall level."

"Aren't you supposed to change it into a script first? As for the script, the requirements in this aspect are not high." Yu Dong said.

Jimmy waved his hands again and again, "No, no, no, I've changed my mind now. Fuck his George Romero, f**k his movie, my first priority now is to quickly find someone to translate it, and then publish it in the English-speaking region. You don’t have to pay for it this time. I can guarantee that there must be publishers who are interested in this book. Unlike “Second World”, this is a novel that appeals to Americans, and its bestseller can basically be Foresight. As for the movie, now it's Romero's turn to come to us."

"I suggest you read it first, because sometimes a beginning may not mean anything. The translation is indeed important, but we have to wait until you have finished reading the draft." Yu Dong reminded.

"Okay, I'll read it now." Jimmy ran back to the room with the manuscript.

Yu Dong sat in the yard for a while and felt a little hot, so he got up and walked out of his yard towards the village. His destination was the small shop in the village.

When he arrived at the small shop, he bought a popsicle and sat at the door of the shop to eat it.

There is no business at the moment, the owner of the store, old man Wang, asked Yu Dong with a smile, "Xiaodong, why do you have time to go shopping today, I don't usually see you."

After eating two popsicles, Yu Dong felt that the heat from his body dissipated a lot, and he replied with a smile, "What's the matter, Uncle Wang, blame me for not coming to take care of your business."

"What's the matter." Old man Wang laughed dryly, and then sat back in the back room to blow on the electric fan.

Old man Wang originally wanted to talk to Yu Dong, but seeing that Yu Dong didn't want to talk to him, he didn't continue talking.

After a while, when Yu Dong was about to finish one popsicle, two men in overalls walked to the door of the small shop, and one of them spoke with a Central Plains accent and said, "Boss, here are two bottles of beer. I want them to be iced. Get another one." A bag of salted peanuts."

When business came, old man Wang came out with a smile and took out the things they wanted.

After buying beer and peanuts, the two of them didn't leave, they just sat down at the door of the small shop, picked peanuts and drank wine.

(End of this chapter)