After I was reborn, I became a great writer

Chapter 41 The Shortest Novel
"Hehe, Tianhong, right? I read your "Country Teacher". It is very good and very educational. You don't have to be cautious. Your teacher and I are old friends. If you encounter difficulties in writing in the future, you can come to me Yes. Well, I see that your mental state is not good."

Zhu Yanlin said with a smile, seeing that Chen Tianhong's face seemed a little tired, he asked a question with concern.

"I'm fine, I've been writing a novel recently, and I sleep late at night, so it looks like"

Chen Tianhong didn't expect the old man to observe so carefully, he scratched his head and explained in embarrassment.

"What kind of novel are you writing? Why didn't I hear you tell me. Is it a science fiction novel? You child, even if you are writing a novel, you must pay attention to your body."

Cao Xingkui was only concerned about being happy just now, and only now did he see the tired look on his apprentice's face, and he hurriedly pulled Chen Tianhong to sit beside him.

"It's not a science fiction novel, it's a youth novel."

"Youth novel."

Cao Xingkui frowned, he didn't have much interest in this kind of novels, and just wanted to say a few words to Chen Tianhong, don't waste your talent, write science fiction well.

But seeing Chen Tianhong's young face, he stopped talking.For young people, it is understandable that they like to write about the beauty of adolescent love.

Zhu Yanlin's eyes flashed strangeness when he heard it, but he didn't pick up the topic, but said to Cao Xingkui with a smile.

"Old Cao, you keep saying how smart and talented you are as an apprentice. You won't have any objections if I try to find out?"

"Whatever. It's quite rare to have you, old man Zhu, speak carefully." Cao Xingkui said nonchalantly, he had great confidence in his apprentice.

Chen Tianhong hurriedly stood up and waited respectfully for Zhu Yanlin to come up with a question.

"That's right. I went to England some time ago, and I happened to catch up with the short story competition for middle school students there. The requirements for this competition are very interesting. The shorter the word count, the better, but it must involve religion, royal family, suspense, mystery, etc. and the story must be surprising and memorable, and the time requirement is within 30 minutes. A student in England only took 15 minutes to write a short story of 80 words Novel, and won No.1. Tianhong, you won No.1 in the national middle school student competition last time. If you were given this topic, how would you write it? I only give you 10 minutes to think about it. How difficult is it? ?”

Zhu Yanlin said his own question. The reason why he asked this question was because he was there when he participated in the competition.When the student from England wrote it, the director of the Writers Association over there proudly asked him how long it would take for students from your country to write such a short story that meets the requirements.

Zhu Yanlin's answer is that students in our country can write an article within 10 minutes, but the president of the English Lange Association firmly does not believe it, saying that he must have time to see and see.

As a result, the chairman of England will also come to the literary exchange meeting in Hong Kong this time, and Zhu Yanlin knows that he will definitely ask about this matter at that time.

In fact, after Zhu Yanlin came back, he also found a few schools in Kyoto, and sent out the request for this novel for the students to write.

The result was not ideal. Some of the well-written ones had too many words, and they were not completed within 30 minutes.The time is short, and those who meet the requirements are not as good as the student in England.

Originally, Zhu Yanlin was still worried when he arrived in Hong Kong City, but the president asked him how to answer.It happened that his old friend Cao Xingkui kept praising his apprentice, so Zhu Yanlin had an idea to see if his friend's apprentice could solve this problem for him. This was the real reason why he came to Zhenhua School.

Zhu Yanlin's question made everyone present think about whether they could write it in 10 minutes.Obviously, this is not easy. The number of words in the novel must be short, so many necessary factors must be added, and it must be surprising and memorable. For a while, the reception room fell into silence.

When Chen Tianhong heard the request for this novel, he immediately remembered that he had seen a similar story in his previous life when he was reading Reader's Digest, and there was one more restriction than this one.

Could it be that there are also time-space interleaving events in parallel worlds, Chen Tianhong secretly thought.

"President Zhu, you mean that England's No.1 novel was written in 80 characters, right? Are there any works with more than ten characters?"

In order to make sure everything was safe, Chen Tianhong still asked.

"A dozen words? None."

Zhu Yanlin was taken aback when he heard the words, how could it be possible, the student in England had the least 80 characters.

Hearing that, Chen Tianhong had a confident smile on his face.

"Why Tianhong, have you thought about it? Don't think about it for a while."

Seeing the smile on his apprentice's face, Cao Xingkui couldn't help asking, even though he had great confidence in Chen Tianhong, it only took 2 minutes.

"Well, think it over. Maybe the content is not very good, but it definitely meets the requirements." Chen Tianhong looked confident.

Hearing this, everyone looked at Chen Tianhong. They didn't believe that someone could think up a novel in just 2 minutes and meet so many conditions.

"Oh? Tell me." Zhu Yanlin became more interested.

"It's actually very simple. You don't have to think about so many things. You just need to meet the conditions. I only have twelve words. My God, the queen is pregnant. Who did it?"

"What is this, huh? It's interesting." Wang Chen first denied it after hearing it, but after thinking about it seriously, he found that it really fits.

"Haha, what Tianhong said is good, and it fully meets the requirements. God is religion, the queen is the royal family, whose child is the queen pregnant with? Mysterious and suspenseful. Old Zhu, how did my apprentice answer?"

After being explained by Cao Xingkui, everyone in the reception room also realized that these twelve words not only met all the conditions, but also made people listen to it with endless aftertaste.

"Not bad! Very good. Haha, this trip is not in vain. What will you say to that old ghost this time. Lao Cao, what will you do for me as an apprentice?"

Zhu Yanlin laughed happily, solved the problem, and he felt better.

"Old Zhu, if you dare, I will dismantle your old bones. Tianhong, come back quickly."

Cao Xingkui glared angrily, and immediately pulled Chen Tianhong to his side. Everyone laughed out loud at this old urchin.

In the following time, everyone began to discuss literature, mainly Zhu Yanlin, and Cao Xingkui occasionally said a few words, as for the others, they just listened.

Chen Tianhong also sat obediently and listened carefully. This is a literary master, and it is extremely rare to be able to listen to a literary master explaining literature with his own ears.

After half an hour, Zhu Yanlin stopped talking. He kept saying that he couldn't keep up with his energy because of his age.

The secretary on the side immediately got up and said that it was almost time and it was time to go.

Everyone got up and saw each other off. What was interesting was that Zhu Yanlin suddenly turned around and said to Ding Xiong before getting into the car.

"Principal Ding, Zhenhua Middle School has quite a reputation now!"

Ding Xiong immediately interjected: "Old Zhu praised it, half of it was brought by classmate Chen Tianhong."

Zhu Yanlin knew that what Ding Xiong was referring to was that Chen Tianhong won the first place in the literature competition, but he didn't mean that.

"Hehe, Principal Ding, middle school students still have to focus on their studies, and they should try their best to ease the matter of falling in love."

Ding Xiong was at a loss when he heard this, he was at a loss as to what love meant.Not only him, but others also looked blank.Even Cao Xingkui didn't understand, only Chen Tianhong's heart skipped a beat.

"Hehe, recently my granddaughter is obsessed with a novel called "Hello Old Times". I don't know if you have read it. It tells the story of children's youth. The novel is not bad. What's interesting is that in this novel The school is also called Zhenhua Middle School, I don’t know if it refers to your school, maybe it was written by the students of your school. Hehe, goodbye everyone.”

Zhu Yanlin solved the mystery and gave Chen Tianhong a meaningful look while speaking.

The car gradually went away, leaving Ding Xiong behind, Wang Chen and the others looked at each other in blank dismay, they really didn't know this novel, from this we can learn that youth literature is really a niche.

Suddenly, everyone looked at Chen Tianhong in unison.

Chen Tianhong was flustered in the wind at the moment. He looked at the watch on his wrist seriously, and said to himself: "Ah, it's time for class. Leaders, I'm going to class first." Then he hurried away gone.

"Principal Ding, do you know about this? You can't be careless about students falling in love."

The director of the Education Bureau said something seriously to Ding Xiong, then turned to ask Wang Chen.

"President Wang, do you think it was written by student Chen Tianhong? If so, this is another great event for us in Jinling. It will make Mr. Zhu say a good novel. How about you check it out?"

Wang Chen nodded. He had a premonition that this novel was most likely written by Chen Tianhong. Deep regret filled Wang Chen's heart. He knew that he should really fight Cao Xingkui.

(End of this chapter)