The efficiency of the project establishment of the relevant cultural departments cannot be too high, so it can take several months from "inspection" to investment.

What's more, if the new possibility of "bringing in foreign investment" is now added, it will be necessary to renegotiate and start from the initial tentative contact.

Gu Biao, a busy man, couldn't spend his time with the relevant cultural departments until the errands of the Ministry of Electronics Industry were unloaded, so around May 10, he went south to the Special Economic Zone.

However, the affairs in the capital were handed over to his fiancée Xiao Sui to deal with, and if a foreigner was needed to play a fake foreign capital, he also asked Xiao Sui to contact Princess Caroline of Monaco, and then Princess Caroline sent a horse boy to act according to Xiao Sui's instructions.

With Princess Caroline graduating from college for two years and marrying an old man who is not good at that for the second time, Princess Grace Kelly has gradually handed over part of the daily affairs of the Monaco royal family's film company to her eldest daughter.

When Princess Caroline was in Hollywood more than a month ago, she was a little familiar with Xiao Sui. At this moment, Gu Biao transferred the outreach work to Xiao Sui, and naturally there was no obstacle.

I have to say that most of the people who can be writers are quite talented in language.

Xiao Sui has studied literature for several years, and with Gu Biao, she has frequent opportunities to go abroad that are unimaginable to ordinary people of her time, so her English level has slipped away when she was an undergraduate, and it is estimated that the exam is equivalent to the eighth major, and she is usually quite fluent in oral English.

In the past six months of graduate school, because Gu Biao took her to contact the Hollywood circle and the Monaco royal family, Xiao Sui has also learned hundreds or thousands of sentences of daily conversation in French and even Italian. Nowadays, there is no obstacle to talking and laughing with Princess Caroline in French.

Although the absolute stock of "superficial mastery of three foreign languages" is nothing, the increment or learning speed is really terrifying.

It can only be said that she is talented, and it is not surprising that a girl who can win a national or even world-class literary creation award has such a talent for language.

……

Just a few days after Gu Biao left the capital, a paper on the latest issue of a national academic journal on literary research sponsored by the "Literature Workshop" also quietly appeared, which was about the study of red studies.

"Cao Xueqin's New Theory of Raiding the House: Also on the "Bankruptcy Protection" Attribute of the Errand Workers of the Internal Affairs Office in the Qing Dynasty

The second author of the paper is Xiao Sui, and in the final index literature, he also acknowledged the specific ideas and inspirations contributed by some experts.

This kind of writing is rare in domestic papers, and China only thanks to the previous articles that have been written and can be cited. And Xiao Sui's routine is a bit like the style of Silicon Valley later, for example, those experts in the Google department will emphasize those who have inspired the writer in the oral discussion session.

However, this is also because the experts of the Google Department in later generations have made money softly, and they don't care about the false reputation of the academic community.

Originally, the journal of the Literature Institute was biased, and the Institute also had its own monthly magazine. Not much attention is paid to the study of literary theory.

The academic status of the journal of the Literature Institute in these fields is not as good as that of the literary journal of Peking University and Fudan University, or even the "Literary Review", or the "Dream of Red Mansions Journal", which is more suitable for specific subdivisions.

However, Xiao Sui is willing to vote to the school, and the reviewer thinks that the writing is good, and of course it will be published.

After the journal came out, it was first circulated among the graduate students of the institute, and several young writers and writers were shocked when they saw that they had some delusions about worldly fame and fortune.

"Classmate Xiao, how did you study Red Studies? Aren't you engaged in popular creation and writing best-selling books?" several students asked with a slight sourness.

In the world of literary criticism, best-selling has always been an original sin. Your book sells well, and that is kitsch, pandering to the market, and abandoning artistic ethics.

And awards such as the Mao Dun Literature Award have also been considered many times as "what the people can understand cannot be awarded".

The discourse power of literary criticism in the entire 80s can be roughly divided into two sections, one is 83 and before, when the scars and countryside were popular, reflecting on the last decade.

One period is after 84 years, until the emergence of Han Han's best-selling style in the 90s. At this time, the real scars are enough, and the injuries are not new, and how many unknown things that happened in the dark corners of the year have been almost exposed, and they are all known. Those who are really sick are all groaning.

Then 84 began, in the past ten years, the top-level literary criticism has moved towards the "stream of consciousness", of course, it may also be related to the top boss of the food chain in the literary circle is said to be a master of stream of consciousness writing, and the following stream of consciousness awards have been written, 85 years and the next Mao Dun Literature Award, almost the stream of consciousness kind of book that ordinary people have never read to win the award.

At that time, the most compelling thing was to watch Joyce's "Ulysses", and if you can feel that you can understand "Ulysses" and publish a relevant opinion, then you are awesome.

If you don't chant a few phrases of "Dubile's bile-colored sea" and praise the asthma of the sea, you'll be embarrassed to say you're engaged in contemporary literature.

Xiao Sui was originally literary and artistic, but it still has a little bit of the delicacy of a small jasper, which is quite marketable. Suddenly, according to the direction of the future leadership of the jury, the study of red science made some people feel threatened.

Is this a best-selling award? Who can't please you?

Xiao Sui instantly felt the alienation of the atmosphere.

Alas, in the circle of literati, it is true that harmony only exists under the premise that there is no sharing of resources in a pot. When she wrote best-selling books, she was staking in the blank market, plus she was rich and generous in dealing with others, so others never showed jealousy in person.

Now, seeing that she has the idea of running for the award, she is in a hurry, and feels that money is **** art.

Xiao Sui can only deal with it tactfully:

"I just borrowed to live in Yuyuantan, and a while ago I watched Zhu Lao from the Palace Museum repairing the garden there, and talked about some insights about the Dream of Red Mansions, Lijia Mansion and Cao Xueqin's life.

Zhu Lao was not energetic and couldn't write a book himself, so I felt that the insights were novel and rare, so I helped him sort them out. ”

As soon as she said this, those people were speechless and could not accuse her.

People want to study the cause of red science, but they just live there and have some experience from their ears and eyes, so she can't be blamed for being snobbish, right?

What's more, Xiao Sui immediately quietly transferred her hatred, and after making everyone feel that "there are many people who go to her friend's house to investigate and write essays on red studies", the attention of some thoughtful students has shifted to those students who "specially ran to rub red studies".

A person who lives there and writes casually, the hatred value is not as good as rushing over to write. The former is only a "temporary idea", and the latter is "deliberate".

According to American law, these two subjective mentalities are applied to homicide, the degree of intent of the former is called "second-degree murder", and the degree of intent of the latter is called "first-degree murder".

There is no first article, no second martial arts, people with resources, if you want to brush up on the exposure rate in the eyes of experts on the right to speak, you can't do it. Since you are mixed with this circle, you must be conscious.

……

After having this introduction, in the following months, Xiao Sui also calmed down, while making up his mind to save a "stream of consciousness" manuscript for next year's competition.

While doing a little more red research, I will publish a related paper in a month or two, and I will have a sense of presence with the future leaders of the jury.

Girls are more likely to read Dream of Red Mansions than boys, and if they are willing to think about it, it is relatively easy to get results in the early stage. At the same time, Xiao Sui has a good cover identity, so that she can focus on the "play culture" of building in the Dream of Red Mansions, which will not seem too utilitarian.

Because she was already living in this fine environment.

It's like if a paparazzi writes a report and studies how Wang Xcong lives every day, it will be disliked by some people. But if Wang Xcong writes a few moments of friends from a literary and artistic perspective, then no one will think that he is pretending to be X.

The journals in which the articles were published were no longer limited to the journals of the Literature Workshop, but some of them took the literary and artistic journals of Fudan University, Xiao Sui's alma mater at the undergraduate level, and even the Journal of Dream of Red Mansions.

As for "Literature and Art Review", it is still not that Xiao Sui's article is not good, but that the direction of this research content is a bit biased towards historical evidence, while "Literature and Art Review" does not accept literary research that is biased towards historical evidence.

Most literary academic journals rarely let papers be illustrated, after all, they are not science and engineering or art, and they need charts or graphs to illustrate the problem. However, considering Xiao Sui's subject matter, it is often necessary to show "what a certain type of architectural decoration style lost in ancient documents is actually restored", so the editors of the journal also pinched their noses to give Xiao Sui face and asked her to illustrate in a large scale.

The source of the illustration is actually Gu Ao's residence. Xiao Sui is tantamount to taking such a trivial matter as "sending the decoration process of his home to the circle of friends", and he swiped N papers.

However, the relevant cultural departments are just preparing for the crew of "Dream of Red Mansions" and collecting all the materials that will help to concretize the text content.

Later, the leader of a certain preparatory committee also called the editors of several journal publishers, asking them to take a copy of the manuscript when they received it, regardless of whether the journal decided to publish it in the end.

Xiao Sui's reputation has also brushed from the film and television and screenwriters of the relevant cultural departments to the top of the literature and writers' associations. The whole process is untraceable, it is natural.

The relevant departments gradually began to come to her to contact her directly, and then heard that Xiao Sui actually befriended Princess Caroline of Monaco and some foreign film and television capital during the Hollywood awards, and the follow-up was logical.

Gu Biao is now on official business, and he is not suitable to be this broker, and the people from the relevant cultural departments directly asked Xiao Sui to try to contact the Royal Pictures of Monaco behind Princess Caroline.

In July and August, the two sides reached a consensus on the intention and mode of cooperation, and also surveyed the site. Finally, in September, when the autumn was cool, the construction of the Grand View Garden was officially broken.