Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 535 Heartbeat (Third)

Leaving Jessica's house, Cheng Yanqiu looked back and said with a smile: "Your "Old Book" seems to be very popular with the elderly, Jessica's grandma...or if grandma knows that you have been here, she will probably regret going out today Alright."

"Maybe people of their age can find the shadow of their youth in this book. Everyone's love may be different, but the shadow of love in everyone's heart under the sun is the same shape. "

Cheng Yanqiu nodded, "Well, Jessica and Hardison are the same. Although she doesn't want to admit it, I can feel that he still likes Hardison very much."

"Now, still?" Yu Dong raised his eyebrows.

"Yeah, she told me that when she first saw Hardison, she liked him. She said that Hardison was very good-looking at that time, and she thought that Hardison Liked her when we got to her too. On the first day, they played together."

Yu Dong scratched his head: "Actually, Hardison's version is somewhat different from Jessica's version."

"Hadison also told you about the two of them?" Cheng Yanqiu raised his head and asked.

"Children always like to talk, maybe the two of us are more suitable for talking."

"What did Hardison say?"

"He told me that when we first met, he recognized Jessica as a boy, and for a long time, he regarded her as a buddy, even though he knew she was a girl."

"Then did he say that he learned to play the piano for Jessica?"

Yu Dong smiled and shook his head, "No, I just talked about Jessica forcing him to learn the piano."

"Then the relationship between them had problems because of another girl, did he tell about it?" Cheng Yanqiu asked again.

"No, but Hardison did say that there was something wrong with their relationship. It started when Jessica liked to dress up and wear skirts. He couldn't accept it at the time..."

While chatting, Yu Dong and the others found that what Jessica and Hardison said was completely different.

"Which one of them lied?" Cheng Yanqiu asked.

Yu Dong shook his head, "Perhaps, neither of them lied, but from each other's perspective, what they saw and felt was completely different. Although Jessica used to be dressed as a boy, she still had a girl's heart , so when I saw a handsome little boy willing to play with him, I naturally felt that the little boy liked her just like her. Later, when Jessica got older, she saw other girls dressed up beautifully, so she followed suit. She started dressing up, growing her hair long and wearing skirts, but she didn't expect that Hades was used to her boyish attire before that, so it didn't quite fit in for a while."

Cheng Yanqiu nodded: "Children's minds are indeed very sensitive."

In fact, the story between Jessica and Hades reminded Yu Dong of a movie: Heartbeat.

In that movie, there is also a little boy and a little girl living opposite each other. The two grew up together, but the perspectives of the two have different interpretations of the relationship between each other, which is quite interesting.

Maybe if he has time, he can also write this movie.

……

When Jessica's grandmother came home, Jessica was sitting on the sofa reading "Old Books", but when she heard the news of her grandmother's return, she quickly put the book back on the coffee table.

But her grandmother had seen it.

"Jessica, is the book good?" Grandma asked with a smile.

"It's okay, I'm just too bored to read this kind of book." Jessica shrugged, with an indifferent look on her face.

Grandma smiled, she knew Jessica so well.

"It's at least one book that you can read when you're bored, isn't it?" Grandma walked to the sofa and sat down, picked up "Old Book" from the coffee table: "It reminds me of your grandpa, although I told you Your grandfather didn’t meet because of a book, but I still can’t forget the scene when I met him for the first time. I was only your age at that time, and he was already in college. He was with some good friends near my house that day. Playing on the basketball court..."

Jessica didn't want to listen to her grandma talking about the old stories, but she became curious after hearing a few words. Grandma seldom talked about grandpa. Even in their family, grandpa's name was rarely mentioned. Mom and Dad were afraid of grandma. Will be sad to hear.

After talking for a while, grandma stroked the "Old Book" in her hand again. Some memories lingered in her heart like flying catkins, which could be seen and felt, but she couldn't grasp it or say it.

"That's why I said, YU is definitely the best writer in the world, and I said so after watching "The Crowd" last time."

Jessica curled her lips. Although she thought this "Old Book" looked pretty good, she couldn't read "The Crowd" at all. The whole book was rambling, and the plot skipped from time to time.Also, the world described in "The Crowd" is completely different from the world she lives in. There are many things in it that she can't understand.

In addition to "The Crowd", there is also "Westward", which is also a book that grandma likes more, but Jessica can't like it anyway.

She had read "Xiang Xi" a little before, and even felt that the author was a little bit wrong.

Jessica's expression was also seen by her grandmother, who smiled and asked, "Why are you back so early today? Shouldn't you be on the coast at this time?"

"I met two friends today, and I invited them to play at home." Jessica said.

"Friends? Have they left?" Grandma looked around the house, but found no sign of any guests.

Jessica nodded: "They stayed here for a while, and I invited them to have lunch here, but they declined."

Grandma pampered Jessica's head, "Oh? Can anyone refuse Jessica's invitation? Don't they know that Jessica is a little pianist?"

"Cheng is better than me. Not only can she play the piano well, but she can also compose music. The melody of her song is very beautiful. I heard that she wrote it for a certain movie, but that movie hasn't been released yet."

"Procedure?"

"Well, she's a Chinese."

"Chinese, it's the same as YU. Speaking of which, YU's wife is also a pianist. I heard from Kai Ante that she played a piece of music written by her at the Deep Space Conference, and that piece was also written for a movie. ..."

When she said this, Jessica's grandmother suddenly froze.

"You said you had two friends just now? The other wouldn't be Cheng's husband, would it?"

"Yes."

Grandma quickly took Jessica's hand, took her to the study room, turned on the TV, searched the bookshelves for a long time, and finally found a videotape, which was the recorded video of the Academy Awards ceremony the year before.

Seeing grandma busy for a while, Jessica asked suspiciously, "Grandma, what do you want to show me?"

"Don't be in a hurry."

After a while, a handsome Chinese man appeared in the camera.

Grandma pointed to the TV screen and asked excitedly, "Is that him? Is that the man who came with Cheng?"

Jessica stared at the man on the screen, and also froze, "Who is he?"

"You answer me first, is it him?"

Jessica nodded.

Seeing her nodding, grandma raised her head and said angrily, "My God, why do I have to go out today?"

"But you go out every morning."

"Yes, I go out every morning, but why can't I take a day off?"

Seeing grandma's reaction, Jessica asked incredulously, "He can't be YU, can he?"

Grandma spread her hands, "He is YU, the best writer YU, my God, he actually came to our house, but I went out."

The corner of Jessica's mouth twitched. She had always felt that Cheng's husband was too mediocre and unworthy of Cheng.

……

Yu Dong and Cheng Yanqiu wandered around Los Angeles for two days, but did not go to see Spielberg.

After returning to New York, Yu Hua and the others were still signing contracts.

Although it was the day when Yu Dong's new book was released, Yu Dong himself had only one signing event, and Mo Yan and the others, except for Wang Xiaobo, were all arranged for at least two signing events, and Yu Hua even had three.

Two of Yu Hua's three signings will be in New York and one in Chicago, which means he still needs to fly to Chicago alone.

For this reason, Yu Hua also expressed strong protest, but it was useless.Naturally, things that have been settled cannot be changed.

Since he couldn't change it, Yu Hua focused on dragging a few others to go with him, but after a few days, no one cared about him, and finally he went to Chicago alone.

After the "Old Book" was released, it took nearly a week before the first day's sales were all counted.

There is no big problem with the previously predicted data. The sales volume of "Old Books" on the first day was 830 million copies, setting a new record.

The next day, the 48-hour sales data came out, a total of 200 million copies, which is also a record.

When Yu Dong went to the company to find Jimmy, Jimmy pointed to the data and said to Yu Dong: "Your record, I am afraid no one can break it. 48 million copies in 200 hours, more than twice that of "The Old Man and the Sea" .”

Yu Dong didn't respond to Jimmy's words.

If Yu Dong remembers correctly, the finale of "Harry Potter" sold more than 1000 million copies on the first day, and the number of countries that were simultaneously released was not as many as "Old Books" this time.

Of course, the reason why the final chapter of "Harry Potter" can achieve such a good result is because the Internet developed later, news spread quickly, and publicity was more likely to produce results.On the other hand, "Harry Potter" has the foreshadowing of the previous ones.

Now Deep Space Corporation is operating "Harry Potter" together with Warner, and if there are no accidents, it will still reach that record in the future.

However, the release of "Old Books" this time is incomparable to other books, that is, it is sold in many countries and covers a wide range. There has not been any book before, and it will be sold in so many countries at the same time, and it will be difficult to have it again in the future.

　Thank you again [Affection is also Loneliness] big brother for the 1500 reward, the total of 8237 words in the third update today, there should be more tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)