Chapter 2: The Struggle for Destiny
Uncle Peter's home is a hell, and Aunt Rosa is a vicious devil who is tormented by them every day like a gas bag.
Ten days ago, Peter and Rosa had suddenly become inexplicably angry with him, and then began to abuse him. Henry lived in a storage room of less than ten square meters on the roof, which was filled with all kinds of smelly miscellaneous items in addition to a rusty bed, and that morning, when Henry was sleeping soundly, Rosa was already yelling outside.
"Broom star, hurry up and do housework!!"
"Don't think that you can eat and live for nothing when you're young! If you don't clean your house today, you won't want to eat!!"
Henry's shoulders ached, and even his hands were blistered. Peter's dirty and greasy overalls had to be washed by Henry, and Henry had to do the housekeeping every day, and the most infuriating thing was that Rosa always had nothing to do with Henry's stubble, asked him to work, and yelled at him.
Henry got up, rubbed his shoulders, put on his clothes, and walked out of the door of the storage room. Outside the door, Rosa looked at him with a vicious look.
"Lady Rosa, my hands are blistered, what do you want me to do today! Laundry, cleaning, chopping wood? You know, I finished all this work last night. So, the whole day today is my rest time, and I can use it however I want!" Henry said coldly.
"Have you cleaned up?" "Don't you know that the floor in the house is dirty again?" Rosa stared at Henry proudly, especially when she saw that he was deflated, and she felt a deformed pleasure after revenge. They didn't get 100,000 pounds, and they were disappointed, as if they had done some loss-making business. So, under the influence of this perverted emotion, in order to "make money", Rosa tortured little Henry in a different way.
Henry smiled, laughing loudly in front of Rosa. If he really was just a ten-year-old boy, maybe he would have been bullied by Rosa.
But he's not!
He is a middle-aged uncle Qin Muliang from 2015, who was originally a network engineer, but unfortunately died of electrocution in the laboratory. However, fortunately, the ancestral tomb smoked and traveled to 1984. In fact, on the day of the London car accident, little Henry was already dead, and he was replaced by Qin Muliang.
"Lady Rosa, you're happy to be deliberately abusing children, aren't you? Maybe I should call Officer Charlie and ask if child abuse is illegal under British law!" said Henry, deliberately spreading his palms to reveal evidence.
When Rosa saw the row of drainage bubbles in Henry's hands, she secretly felt weak in her heart, and her face was both angry and restrained, like a defeated hen.
Henry sneered as he walked past Rosa, then went downstairs and finally walked out of the house.
Although Rosa was scared by Henry once this time, Henry lived in this family, so he was bound to be fenced, not to mention that this family did not want to see him. If it weren't for the fact that Henry was too young, he would have run away from home a long time ago, how could he be angry here? Qin Muliang, who is now Henry Williams, although he was only ten years old, was unwilling to resist at all.
In recent days, Henry has been hiding in his storage room whenever he has time to carry out his rebellion.
He knew that if he had money, he would go anywhere, and if he had money, Peter and his wife would be willing to pretend to be their grandsons.
So, Henry wrote the words "Harry Potter" in the storage room.
Strange to say, after the crossing, Henry's mind remembered all kinds of things in his past life. Anything that you have seen or heard once can remember clearly. And in this life, his memory is also very outstanding, and his learning and comprehension skills are also super strong. Henry was ecstatic for the first two days, but over time he got used to it.
Although Henry was only a network engineer in his previous life, he had a wide range of hobbies, such as movies, music, and novels......
In the current environment, the only thing Henry can use is to write a novel to make money. But what kind of novel is good to write, Henry was just about to think about it, but suddenly found that Harry Potter was very similar to his own situation: the same was an orphan, the same fostered in his uncle's house, and was abused, and even his home was near the London train station, many conditions were too consistent, God was destined to write a novel to write "Harry Potter"!
Fortunately, Henry had read this book in his previous life, and now he has copied it, and it is smooth.
It's just that handwriting 10,000 words a day is more tiring than 30,000 computer codewords.
After a quarrel with Lady Rosa in the morning, Henry went out with the manuscript. Asking for directions, Henry came to a small publishing house nearby, Giraffe Press. There are many other such publishers named after animals, such as Penguin, one of the most famous book publishers in the UK.
Coincidentally, the Giraffe Press is not far from Peter's house, less than 200 meters.
After Henry entered the house, he looked left and right, and stood for a long time, but no one paid attention to him. In the hall, a young man in a suit and leather shoes is hooking up with the front desk lady. And the front desk lady seems to be fascinated by the handsome guy, her eyes are like silk, and she discharges frequently, and Henry vaguely hears the name of a hotel, which is really reliable......
Just as Henry was about to interrupt the man and woman, a middle-aged man came out of the elevator, dressed in a modest suit and holding a folder in his hand, and walked slowly towards the group. The young man's eyes lit up and he immediately greeted him.
"Hello Priss Editor-in-Chief. I'm Kane Beal, the author of North Wind. The young man held out his hand and greeted.
"Hello hello, the novel "North Wind" is not bad, and the company has decided to publish this novel of yours. I called you here today to prepare to sign a contract with you. Place smiled and shook his hand.
"Oh, that's great!" said Kane Beal, looking delighted.
Henry looked at Place from the sidelines, knowing that this person was the editor-in-chief of the publishing house, and immediately stepped forward and greeted: "Hello, Mr. Price!"
Priss was stunned, he didn't know who this kid was, seeing him standing with Kane Bill, he thought it was Kane Bill who brought it, so he responded with a smile: "Hello, kid!"
"Mr. Place, can you take a look at the novel I have written? I mean, can your publisher publish my novel?" said Henry earnestly, his blue eyes bright and sincere, looking at the editor-in-chief with great anticipation. The editor-in-chief of Pulis was stunned for a moment, a teenager wanted to find his own publishing house to publish a book, no matter how you look at it, it is very funny.
"Kid, how old are you and what's your name?"
"I'm ten years old, my name is Henry, Henry Williams!"
"Oh, you're Peter's little nephew?" asked Priss.
"I think so, if Peter were a dirty, lazy, bad-tempered car mechanic!" said Henry, dissatisfied.
"Haha, that's right, you're right. Pulis laughed, then looked at Henry carefully and said to him, "I know your uncle, and I heard that he recently adopted his nephew!"
"Mr. Priss, can you read my novel?" Henry did not want to talk to him about anything else, and immediately changed the subject. At the same time, Henry handed over the manuscript in his hand.
Priss took it, flipped through it, and read two pages roughly. Before a minute was up, Pulis closed the manuscript: "Little Henry, I'm sorry that our publishing house can't publish such a naïve novel. ”
So naïve?!!
Although the first part of "Harry Potter" is a little lower, it can't be degraded to worthless. The novel is full of whimsy and childlike fun, is it possible that as an editor-in-chief, there is no such level of appreciation? Henry's face flashed with disdain.
No wonder J.K. Rowling was very miserable at the beginning in her previous life, and there was really a lack of Bole who could really read this book!
Kane Beal, a young man next to him, said with a smile: "Not everyone can write novels, without a little experience, without a little writing, you can't write a novel!"
After Kane Beale finished speaking, a look of pride unconsciously appeared on his face.
"Mr. Bill is right, little friend Henry, you are still young and lack life experience, and when you grow up, it is not too late to write a novel!" said Priss to Henry.
"Harry Potter" is really unbearable for you to say that it is worthless! Henry sneered in his heart and said in a dissatisfied tone: "Mr. Preless, who said that you can't write a good novel at a young age? My novel will definitely shine in the future!!
Kane Bilton scoffed, and Priss grimaced, a look of displeasure.
Seeing this, Henry knew that there was no hope of publication, so he took the manuscript and walked straight to the door. After Henry pushed the door and left, Pulis said lightly: "It's really naïve and ignorant!!"
"Yes, yes, Editor-in-Chief Priss is as discerning as a torch, how can that kindergarten novel get into your eyes!" said Kane Beale with a slightly flattering compliment.
Priss's face softened slightly, revealing a hint of pride.
"By the way, Editor-in-Chief Priss, what's the name of that novel?" asked Kane Beale, a little curious.
"Huh?" Pulis said after a moment's thought, "It seems to be called Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, a god's name......"
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