Huayu for engineering students

Chapter 199 Book Friends
The living room is arranged like a small bar, but there is no bar counter, some green plants, some decorations, a few small tables and sofa seats fill up the small room.

Editor Yang came earlier than Wang Xu expected. Not long after Wang Xu sat down, he saw a man and a woman walking in. The man was in his 30s, and his clothes were a bit old, with a vicissitudes of life.

The woman looked quite young, with no makeup, firm skin, and dignified appearance. She should be less than thirty years old.

As the name suggests, the living room is a place for the studio to receive guests. The people who receive the reception are familiar with each other. If a stranger comes, it is usually a guest, let alone two.

Wang Xu quickly stood up and walked quickly to the door.

"Editor Yang, I'm Wang Xu, and this is my girlfriend Wang Fei. Who is this?" Wang Xu greeted Yang Xinlan from a distance away. It's better to be warm when we meet for the first time.

He had spoken to Editor Yang, and he could still tell the difference between male and female.

"This is my colleague, editor Hong Qingbo, who is also my senior. He is also very curious about your article, so let's take a look." Yang Xinlan took two steps forward, shook hands with Wang Xu and Wang Fei, and then introduced her colleagues colleague.

"Hello, hello, Editor Hong."

After a brief exchange of greetings, Wang Xu greeted the two to sit down, while Wang Fei ran to the dessert shop to pick out desserts.Each studio will issue some dessert coupons every month as a company benefit.

Generally, the studios are used to entertain their own clients. If it is not enough, then they will pay for it themselves.At the beginning, it was to support the dessert shop, but now the dessert shop actually has some reputation, and this little bit of support is just a benefit.

Dessert shops don’t have many varieties now, the main reason is that if you make too much, it will spoil, but they don’t repeat the same every day, and there are a lot of discounts. I like this one very much. I come here from time to time. The price is really touching, so I dare to come here Not many people.

On the contrary, there are a few foreigners who come to drink coffee from time to time. They are diverted from the clothing store, and they will also provide some desserts for the guests, and then leave the address of the dessert shop for interested guests.

This kind of drainage is not uncommon in later generations, but it has not become popular now, but Wang Xu has accumulated a lot of customers here by mistake.

Birthday cakes have not become popular in the imperial capital these days, let alone dessert shops, only some foreign-related hotels have this service, and the common people in the imperial capital are really willing to eat birthday cakes, which is a thing in the late 90s.

Milk tea, coffee, snacks, many of the guests who come here are engaged in literature and art. This kind of romantic tone is very popular here, which makes this dessert shop with a low price have the first batch of loyal customers. .

Ever since Wang Fei was not afraid of getting fat, she also fell in love with desserts. Sweets can naturally stimulate happy hormones, so since Wang Fei came back, she would come down to get desserts from time to time, and today was no exception.

Four beautiful small cakes, four cups of fragrant milk tea, the milk tea is also served in a mug, not the way the later generations drink it with a straw.

Coffee, a purely Western-style drink, is not actually loved by the people of the Imperial City. Even after decades, most of the coffee shops in the Imperial City have closed down.Here, coffee-flavored milk tea sells far better than coffee.

Wang Xu chatted wildly with the two editors, talking about the origin of the idea, the hardships of creation, and the real thing. He didn't have to work so hard to make graphene, which is a world-class achievement.

Hong Qingbo was very curious about why Wang Xu wrote this novel in an almost pure dialogue method, which is really rare in this era of paper books.

Not without it, at least Hong Qingbo's favorite writer, Sa Lue, is famous for his dialogues, but works that adopt this model rarely appear in the Chinese literary world.

This is also one of the reasons why "Wukong Biography" has received a lot of praise in later generations. Of course, the temperament of the second grade also makes many young people especially admire him.

But Wang Xu's version of "Wukong Biography" has more tragic aspects, and the second one has a lot less. After all, he added the part of "A Chinese Journey to the West", which expanded the funny and absurd elements a lot.

In order to balance the rhythm and style of the whole book, Wang Xu's road to rewriting was extremely difficult. Therefore, this version of "Wukong Biography" really cannot be called a portability work.

But Wang Xu really couldn't say that he got on a pirate ship by mistake and used the conversational style of writing, so he had to chat with Hong Qingbo about Salue.

The works of this Peruvian writer have been translated to China. I don't know if he has paid copyright fees, but he is indeed a niche writer who is quite popular among literary youths.

You have to know that in any era, the minority will have a self-contained style, at least the group who loves the minority will think so.

And the public who are ignorant of this will be coerced into it from time to time, and look up to those niche works.

Before the rise of the Internet, media authors who had the right to speak tended to favor all kinds of niche enthusiasts, so there was such a rather magical phenomenon. In the 90s, the more niche things, the more compelling they were.

Sally is undoubtedly such a character. In fact, he has won many international awards in this era, so he should not be considered a minority.

But in China, not many people know him, and he has become one of the writers sought after by a small number of fans.

His "Long Talks in Bars" was written in the form of dialogues. Later, he even won the Nobel Prize for Literature for this book, and Wang Xu's recognition of him only started from the award.

But at this moment, this book should not have been translated to China. Wang Xu of later generations will see this book as a matter of the 21st century, and he has never read it. It is not for engineering students.

In this life, Wang Xu also found this book specifically for "The Legend of Wukong", and bought its English version in Xiangjiang.

Wang Xu didn't take today's meeting seriously. It's good to be able to publish, but it doesn't matter if he can't. He doesn't really want to spend energy on literature now.

To be honest, the creation process of Wang Xu's "Wukong Biography" is really not very beautiful, although he also enjoys the thrill of the final product.

Wang Xu was mostly communicating with two literary lovers. The two editors were both well-read figures. Wang Xu really rarely had the opportunity to communicate with such people, so today's chat was particularly speculative.

Wang Xu, who was chatting vigorously, naturally asked Wang Fei to go upstairs to find the book, and then Wang Fei got up and obediently went to find the book for Wang Xu, took it down, and handed it to Wang Xu with a smile.

Wang Xu took the book and squeezed Wang Fei's hand lightly. The beauty's heart was expressed without saying a word. This girl really understands men very well.

After only a few seconds of emotion in his heart, Wang Xu handed the book to Hong Qingbo again.This is borrowing, not giving away. Borrowing books among book friends is the kingly way. Have you ever heard a saying that books cannot be read unless they are borrowed.

The two editors happily accepted it. This is the etiquette among book friends. They recommend their favorite books to friends, lend them, expect their feedback, and then discuss with each other.

This is the romance of the paper book era, face-to-face communication, a book, two cups of tea, and a pack of cigarettes, two people can really talk for a long time.

In the era of e-books, the painting style is completely different, and the comment area is the battlefield for discussion. It is hard to say which one is better, but it is indeed a different style.

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(See you tomorrow)

(End of this chapter)