plagiarism

54 This is also a kind of "fate"

When Tan Jiabao heard about Pu Zuo's "deeds" in the bookstore, his heart was already on fire. He blamed himself deeply for not thinking about these issues when he "created" "The Godfather".He felt that he should find Pu Zuo as soon as possible. He really didn't want Pu Zuo to be hit hard because of this incident, and he would never recover from it.

In fact, they came just in time.Even Puzo himself didn't know what he would do next in this state.

Tan Xiaozhong smiled and said: "Oh, you are Mr. Puzuo? Don't you want to know who we are? Also, don't you want to know why we came to you?"

Puzo was slightly taken aback, narrowed his eyes, and said, "Hmph, I guess you must have something to do with that damn Tang Xie, and you must have something to do with the book "The Godfather"."

"Smart! But it's not the best answer." Tan Xiaozhong said while sitting on the sofa and lighting a cigarette, and then continued: "We are indeed from the 'Tang Dynasty Company', but we want to invite you to join our Tang Dynasty Towards the common development of the company, our trip has nothing to do with The Godfather."

"Hmph, invited me to join the Tang Dynasty Company? Just dream!" Puzo said coldly, "I just want to know what happened to "The Godfather"? I don't even bother to think about other things."

Tan Xiaozhong still smiled and said: "Is "The Godfather" really that important to you? Mr. Tang Xiao once read two of your works, one is "Rim". He said that the literature of any of these two books The value is much higher than that of "The Godfather", it's just that the world doesn't know what to buy."

Puzo snorted coldly and said, "Those two books are serious literature, but "The Godfather" is a best-selling book. How can they be the same? Besides, although the two books received rave reviews, their sales volume It's embarrassing. But "The Godfather" is different. It can directly bring me economic benefits, directly improve the lives of me and my family, and can quickly raise my status in the literary world! But all of this was stolen by the damn you Let's go, you are the most shameless guys in the world! You are thieves, you are robbers, you are the most shameless hooligans..."

Seeing that Puzo became more and more excited and his voice grew louder, his wife and mother both came out. The two Neapolitan women stood silently beside Puzo, their eyes filled with anger.

"Enough! You're going too far!" Tan Xiaojian slapped the table and stood up and said, "Why do you insist that Tang Xiao plagiarized your stuff? Just based on your few pages of manuscripts? Huh, I'm the last You are the shameless one! It's you Mario Puzo! When you see someone else's novel is selling well, you copy a few pages and tell others that this novel is mine..."

"You...you...you spitting blood! Shameless guy, immoral hooligan! I don't want to see you, you'd better get out immediately, or...or I won't be polite!" The fat Puzo was shaking with anger , the veins on his huge head were exposed, and he was about to fight Tan Xiaozhong desperately.

Tan Xiaozhong stood up, and he calmly walked to Puzo and the others, and said softly: "Dear Mr. Mario Puzo, look at the mother and wife beside you! What have you given them for decades?" ?Are you going to continue to entangle this matter to the end? Do you think it will be meaningful to continue this entanglement? Is it better for yourself or for these two poor women? Oh, and those poor women My child. You, think about it."

Pu Zuo was stunned, he didn't know what to say.I just heard Tan Xiaozhong continue to say: "There are many strange things in this world. If we encounter strange things, we will sigh, blame ourselves, and blame others. If we sink from now on, then this person is not worthy of pity! On the contrary, we should as soon as possible Brace yourself from this kind of unwarranted blow! Throw away all the things that you can't think about and don't understand, and start over bravely for your family, relatives, and yourself! Believe in yourself, believe in friends, and believe in the future!"

After Tan Xiaozhong's words, Pu Zuo fell silent.The eyes of the two women beside him were filled with tears, and the initial anger was gone, replaced by gratitude.

Puzo's mother, Maria, wiped away her tears and said to Tan Xiaozhong: "I swear, my son is an honest person, and I, as a mother, can guarantee this. Many stories in "The Godfather" were indeed thought up by him. He really told us the story inside. Also, I named many of the people in "The Godfather", and many of them were named after relatives and friends in our hometown in Naples. Really, all this is incredible ..."

"Dear old lady, in fact, we have never doubted Mr. Puzuo's honesty, and Tang Xiao is definitely not a bad person. Otherwise, we would never have come to your house specially. And the book "The Godfather", I can only say that it is 'purely coincidental', otherwise I don't know how to explain this matter. You put yourself in our place and think about it, how should we explain this matter? We said, you can Do you believe it?"

The Puzuo family looked at each other, their eyes softened.

Tan Xiaojian continued: "It is a very wonderful thing for two people to create the same novel at the same time and unbelievably. In China, this kind of thing is actually a kind of 'fate'. Therefore, Tang Xiaojian And Puzuo, not only should they not be enemies, but even more should be friends! Maybe the two of them will have common creative themes and inspirations in the future, isn't this also a good story in the literary world?"

Puzo nodded stupidly and said, "Your eloquence is great! It seems that you have convinced me a little bit. But I still have a little doubt, that is, will this kind of coincidence happen in the future?"

Tan Xiaozhong didn't answer him directly, but shook his head and sighed, "I don't know how to answer your question. Tang Xiao wants to invite you to Tang Dynasty Company. He wants you to adapt "The Godfather" into a movie script. Then Please write a sequel to "The Godfather". The story of "The Godfather Sequel" is like this..."

Tan Xiaozhong spent more than half an hour telling the storyline in "The Godfather Sequel" in detail.Pu Zuo opened his mouth wide open for a long time but did not close it.At this moment, he only had the outline of "The Godfather Sequel" in his mind. How could there be such a detailed plot?After hearing the story of "The Godfather Sequel", he was already convinced.

Puzo sighed and said: "Now I finally believe that this is 'purely coincidental'. To be honest, I only have the general content of "The Godfather Sequel" now, and there is no such detailed plot of "The Godfather Sequel". However, we The theme is really the same again. Babes, this is really incredible. Oh, it seems that the old man played a joke on me..."

"Then do you accept our invitation?" Tan Xiaozhong asked earnestly.

Pu Zuo looked at his mother and his wife, and he saw that the eyes of the two women were full of encouragement.Pu Zuo no longer hesitated, he nodded solemnly and said: "Now I really can't find any reason not to accept your invitation. Besides, I am eager to see Mr. Tang Xiao who is so 'destined' with me... "

Tan Jiabao blushed with shame, feeling ashamed.