Back to 80: My literary life.

Chapter 828: Triple Door

Fang Minghua hurried to the kindergarten. The children had already finished school. He saw his daughter and a cute little boy with golden curly hair walking towards him hand in hand, talking and laughing, followed by a nanny and a white young woman.

Oops
Holding hands at such a young age?

"Xinxin!" Fang Minghua called out.

The little girl looked at Fang Minghua in a daze, and finally recognized him. She let go of the little boy's hand, opened her arms and ran towards Fang Minghua.

"Dad, Dad."

"My dear daughter." Fang Minghua picked up her daughter and kissed her on the little face.

The little boy looked at Fang Minghua curiously.

"Jim, my dad is coming to pick me up and take me home. Byebye," Xinxin said to the little boy, and then immediately asked Fang Minghua, "Dad, when did you come? Where is my mom?"

Oh my god
The conversion between English and Chinese is very smooth.

"I just got home. My mother is waiting for you." Fang Minghua replied, then smiled and greeted the little boy and his mother, then followed the nanny home.

Along the way, the little girl was very talkative and chattered about what happened in kindergarten.

"Jim said I was pretty and he wanted to marry me when he grows up," the little girl said with a smile.

what?
You want to eat my cabbage at such a young age?

And it's a white pig!

Of course, Fang Minghua understood that children’s words are not to be taken lightly.

"Really?" Fang Minghua asked deliberately.

"Really!" The little girl looked determined.

"I'm going to ask Jim tomorrow if that's what he said."

"But you can't find him."

"I'll go and block him at the school gate!" Fang Minghua said.

"Really?" The little girl looked surprised.

"real!"

Fang Minghua couldn't help laughing as he spoke.

After arriving in San Francisco, Fang Minghua took the initiative to take care of the task of picking up and dropping off her daughter at kindergarten.

Fang Minghua got up at seven in the morning, changed into sports clothes and went out to run a long circle along the road, then came back to take a shower, and then the whole family had dinner together.

Li Li drove to school, and Fang Minghua took her daughter's hand and went to kindergarten happily. The only thing she was not dissatisfied with was that she had bread and milk for breakfast and could not drink the spicy soup of Xijing City.

After sending her daughter off, Fang Minghua went about her own business. She first drove to Ashley Press to talk about work with Demi.

After several years of development, Ashley Press has long since gotten rid of the dilemma of being on the verge of bankruptcy. It is now well-known in the American publishing industry and has made a fortune with the "Harry Potter" series.

Although its scale cannot be compared with giants such as Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House, it has its own unique features.

Signed a strategic alliance with Shengshi Books, China's largest private publishing company.

In recent years, more than 40 excellent works by contemporary Chinese writers have been published, such as "The Piano in a Factory", "Wasted City", "White Deer Plain", "Ordinary World", "To Live", etc., becoming a window for American readers to understand Chinese literature.

At the same time, we actively cooperate with some famous European publishing houses to introduce the French and German versions of these novels to Europe and Latin America.

Fang Minghua was very satisfied with this.

Whether or not we make money is not important, the important thing is to export Chinese culture. "In the next step, we will not only limit ourselves to serious Chinese literature, but also publish genre literature, such as Chinese youth literature and science fiction. Excellent works can all be published."

"Mr. Minghua, is there youth literature in China?" Demi asked.

I!@##%……

Fang Minghua was speechless.

In the 20s in Europe and the United States, two very famous works of youth literature appeared, namely "The Catcher in the Rye" by American writer Salinger and "Lord of the Flies", the representative work of British Nobel Prize winner in Literature William Golding.

Lewis's fantasy novel The Chronicles of Narnia and Hinton's novel The Outsider published in 1967 became typical representatives of youth literature. In the 20s, literature began to establish the concept of "young people under 60 years old". During this period, underage literature, that is, youth literature, began to form an independent literary category.

The novels "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" in 1969, "The Bell Jar" in 1967, and "Bless the Beasts and the Children" in 1970 involve all aspects of teenage life. Their popularity has gradually made the concept of "youth literature" accepted by readers.

However, China also had its own youth literature in the 50s.

It’s Wang Meng’s book “Long Live Youth”!
Forget it, I’m too lazy to popularize Demi.

Let the work speak for itself.

Han Han’s “Triple Door” should be published by now, right?
I wonder if Shu Bin is staring at this young man?

Shu Bin did not forget Fang Minghua's instructions.

Last year, in 1999, the "Mengya" magazine affiliated with the Shanghai Writers Association held the first New Concept Writing Competition. After Han Han won the second prize, Fang Minghua called Shu Bin and asked him to take the initiative to contact the young man and show his concern for his writing.

And now, George Han appeared in Shu Bin's office.

While Shu Bin was flipping through the novel called "Triple Door", he glanced at Han Han who was sitting on the sofa.

He really couldn't connect the seemingly rebellious boy in front of him with the novel in front of him.

“There are three levels of ruling the world, and they will have few mistakes.”—The Book of Rites, Doctrine of the Mean.

The origin of the novel "Triple Door".

Just look at this book title, only a middle school student who loves to skip school and fight could come up with it?!
"Mr. Han Han, please leave the manuscript with me. The editors will review it carefully and give you a reply when it is published. Is that okay?"

Shu Bin looked very friendly.

George Han nodded and said, “Mr. Shu, I’ll leave you our home address. You don’t have to send your reply to our school.”

"why?"

"Because I'm about to drop out of school."

Shu Bin was surprised by George Han’s words.

Are you going to drop out of school just after completing nine years of compulsory education?
So as an elder, he kindly reminded him: "Student Han, don't be impulsive. You are only in the first year of high school, right? If you can't even get a high school diploma, how will you support yourself in the future?"

"Here." Han Han pointed to the manuscript on the desk.

"Goodbye, royalties!" Then he turned and left.

Shu Bin was left with a stunned look on his face.

Are all those born in the 80s so cool?
These events were later described by Shu Bin in an email to Fang Minghua. He told Fang Minghua that Shengshi Books had decided to publish the book "Triple Door", and that the electronic version had been sent to him as requested by Fang Minghua, and would be translated into English and handed over to Ashley Press for publication.

In this case, Fang Minghua immediately handed the manuscript to Li Li, and he didn't have to worry about what happened next, as he still had to deal with the 8 billion US dollars stock speculation.

So, after sending Xinxin to kindergarten this morning, Fang Minghua went home and called Phillips who was far away in Chicago.

(End of this chapter)