Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 158 "Global Offering" (44)

"Auntie, what's the matter." Pengpeng's voice was a little frightened.

Before Li Yan answered her, she saw a glimmer of light coming from the kitchen, and Zhang Zhong came out with a big cake.

The shadow of the candle swayed, followed by grandpa, grandma and grandma Wu, singing happy birthday and walking slowly towards Pengpeng.

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you..."

Li Yan also hugged Pengpeng, singing softly in her ear.

Pengpeng scratched his head, his face full of doubts, "Who do you wish a happy birthday to?"

……

There was a momentary pause in the singing, Zhang Zhong smiled, and handed the cake to Pengpeng, "Pengpeng, blow out the candles and make a wish."

Pengpeng grinned, "Ah, is it my birthday?"

Zhang nodded.

"Dad, can I make ten wishes?"

"Okay, you can think as much or as little as you want."

"Well, then I want to share a few wishes with my grandparents, grandma Wu, and Aunt Yan."

Li Yan smiled and said, "You don't need to give it to us, because we can make wishes on our birthdays."

"Okay then, I'll make a wish."

Pengpeng didn't know where he learned it from, clasped his hands together, and closed his eyes.

After a while she opened her eyes, "Okay, I promise."

"What wish did Pengpeng make?" his grandma asked.

"If you can't say it, it won't work."

After Peng Peng finished blowing out the candles, it was time to receive gifts.

The gifts of the three elders were very realistic, each of them wrapped a big red envelope, Peng Peng held the red envelope and smiled from ear to ear.

In fact, she doesn't have a clear concept of money, but she knows that red envelopes are a good thing.

Li Yan sent a small hairpin, she knew Pengpeng's favorite, so the hairpin had a pink piglet on it.

Of course Pengpeng liked it very much, and asked Li Yan to pin it in her hair on the spot.

When their presents were finished, Zhang Zhong clapped his hands and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to see my presents."

Regarding Zhang Zhong's gift, Zhang Xingjun and the others didn't know about it beforehand. They were a little puzzled when they saw Zhang Zhongzhong going out.

"Chongzi, what tricks are you doing?"

Zhang Zhong stood at the door and said with a smile, "You will know soon."

Then he walked out of the house with a few people who looked puzzled. Just when they thought the gift was outside, Zhang Zhong took out the key and opened the door opposite.

"Chongzi, what are you?"

"Let's go." Zhang Zhong waved to them.

When they walked into the house, they were immediately dumbfounded. The decoration of this house is really dreamy. The white walls change colors with the lights shining, and they can see a blue sky when they look up, and the sky in the sky The clouds are still moving.

Zhang Zhong led them to continue walking inside and came to another room.

Sliding slides, small trains in circles, animated wallpapers, like a small fantasy kingdom.

"This...you did it?" Li Yan's eyes were full of disbelief, everything in front of her eyes seemed fake.

But Pengpeng had already reacted, and without Zhang Zhong's guidance, she ran to the small train and sat down.

"Dad, how does this little train drive?"

Zhang Zhong didn't answer Li Yan's question, and ran to turn on the switch of the small train with a smile. The small train started whining, carrying Pengpeng and running slowly along the track.

……

Zhang Zhong's gift to Pengpeng had a great impact on Li Yan and the others. When they walked out of that room, they didn't fully react.

Zhang Xingjun and Hu Huifang knew their son's identity, so they weren't too surprised that he could achieve this effect, but they didn't expect Zhang Zhong to spend such a big price, just to make a place for Pengpeng to play.

But Wu Aiying and the others wondered where Zhang Zhong made so much money. He had only heard that he was doing work online, but what kind of work could make so much money online?
It's just that Zhang Zhong and the others didn't say anything, and Wu Aiying didn't ask specifically.

After Wu Aiying and the others left, Zhang Xingjun ran over there to look at the little train for a while, and finally said, "This thing consumes a lot of power."

……

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Pengpeng had already gone to school, and Zhang Zhong went to the bookstore alone.

Originally, "A Bouquet for Algernon" was going to be released at the beginning of the month, but Jidang Literature wanted to unify the release time of the Chinese and English versions, so the Chinese version was delayed by a few days.

Originally, Zhang Chong’s manuscripts for Jidang Literature generally only have Chinese versions, but last time Jidang Literature wanted to make an English version of "Ten Little Indian Boys", which reminded him, so he also made the English version this time. It was given to them, not only the English version of "A Bouquet for Algernon", but also the English versions of several works by Agatha.

When Jidang Literature received the English version, they were a little surprised, because they were looking for a translator. Now that Zhang Zhong's English version came, it solved a big problem for them.

At first, they also had some doubts. After all, they didn't know how good Zhang Zhong's English was, but after looking for a professional to read it, they praised Zhang Zhong's English version, saying that his level was not average.

So they took it easy.

This time, "A Bouquet for Algernon" is released simultaneously in Chinese and English, not because the publisher is more optimistic about the overseas market of this book, but just as a gimmick.

The first printing of the English version is only [-] copies, just to test the waters.

After all, Zhang Zhong's fame is only limited to the country, and the channels for stirring literature have not yet developed to the world, so they don't have much hope for the overseas sales of this book.

"The world's first simultaneous release, the latest sci-fi masterpiece of fifth-grade vegetative people."

With Zhang Zhong's current fame, the bookstore not only gave a c seat on the bookshelf, but also put a big poster at the door, with the cover and slogan of "A Bouquet for Algernon" printed on it, among which "Global" The words "fifth grade vegetative" and "fifth grade vegetative" are placed very large, so that people can see it at a glance, while the words "science fiction masterpiece" are ignored.

Probably the person who made this poster also thinks that there is no benefit in putting the name "fifth grade vegetative" together with science fiction.

Just like telling someone that a Sichuan cuisine master has cooked a Cantonese cuisine, the first reaction of others must be that it is not authentic.

Zhang Zhong didn't care much about it, but if possible, he still hoped that the word "sci-fi" would be enlarged a bit in the future.

There are no competitive new books this month. I heard that a master of detective novels has written a detective novel, but Zhang Chong glanced at the front shelf of the bookstore, and it seems that except for his own "A Bouquet for Algernon" , Didn't see any new books, it seems that the new book of the master detective didn't get a good response.

　The fourth update is over today, good night everyone
　　
　
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