Zhang Chu couldn't help but laugh when he looked at the speculations of his fans, everyone was willing to look for all kinds of clues for the things they liked.

Most people stay on the Internet and ask two sentences.

But there are always a few actioners who call directly to ask.

They knew that Nanhai Publishing Company and Hanlin Culture Media must be in collusion, and they would rather donate the book than announce the listing time, and it is better to find the Confucius Institute headquarters.

This kind of large organization can be found on the Internet by searching for the phone, so it is clear whether it is the real Lord of the Rings or not!

"When they find out that the books donated to the Confucius Institute are all specially printed, will they feel deceived? Zhang Chu thought evilly, waiting for the wails of his fans.

Because the donation is aimed at foreigners who have not been exposed to Chinese for a long time, it is obviously impossible to do the same as ordinary published works.

Nanhai Publishing Company specially printed a version with phonetics, in which many unknown words can be read in pinyin, and slightly more complex words can be seen in the notes below.

Asking foreigners to read a Western fantasy work in Chinese sounds a bit strange and even a little strange!

However, "The Lord of the Rings" is just one of the books given, and the rest of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", "Sou Shen Ji", "Da Vinci Code", and "Wukong Biography" are all in Chinese with pinyin.

The advantage of having a computer now is that the software can directly recognize Chinese characters, and then write out the pinyin, and the accuracy and efficiency are not comparable to humans.

"I really don't know if those foreigners can understand these books with the help of pinyin and annotations. Zhang Chu closed the laptop, and he said to himself: "If you don't understand, go buy an English version or a book in the corresponding language to read." ”

If this can boost overseas sales of books, it is obviously a great thing!

Others have to go to some coffee shop to sit in when they write books, but no matter how clean a coffee shop is, it can't compare to their own yard.

Zhang Chu has already made a pot of tea in the pavilion, and at this time, he can directly code words by opening the laptop again, which is extremely comfortable!

Obviously, he will have to go to Cannes in a few days, but he still can't be idle, and he has already written almost 50,000 words of "The Two Towers" by this time.

The first part has not yet been released, and the second part is already being written, and he is determined to finish writing this series within a year to wash away his grievances.

"Sou Shen Ji" was slowly serialized on the Internet, and then suddenly released six physical books, with a total word count of more than one million.

Now There are three volumes of The Lord of the Rings, and it took a little longer than writing six.

One is Eastern fantasy and the other is Western fantasy, and the two sides can compare one or two in terms of sales.

Writing is natural and smooth when you write too much, especially after a good start, Zhang Chu's crackling code words, even matcha knows not to bother him.

I don't know how long time has passed, but the brewed tea has been cold, and he stood up in the vibration of the phone.

In order to prevent Matcha from touching the keyboard, he would always save things and close the lid, saving a document from being full of garbled characters like the previous time, and then opening I don't know how many programs and applications.

The call was made by Zhou Kang, who has been busy with various things recently, and the number of calls with the agent has increased significantly.

"We have finished the donation ceremony today, and the leaders of Hanban are praising you, saying that the number of applicants this year has been several times that of the same period last year, and the discussion is very good!"

It sounds like Zhou Kang is in a good mood.

Zhang Chu replied: "I saw the news, and the effect was the same as we thought. ”

"No, no, no, it's even better than we expected!" Zhou Kang added: "Do you know how many phone calls, Weibo private messages and emails have been received from Nanhai Publishing Company? Do you know how badly our Hanlin culture has been scolded?"

"I really don't know. ”

If you don't know this, just look at your own private messages and comments, those readers are powerful. ”

"So did you choose a good day to go on the market? Don't tell me you're going to wait until June. ”

"How can it be, Nanhai Publishing Company has just communicated, May 8 is a good time, and it is still Monday. Now they are desperately printing, with a first printing of 2 million copies, which should be the largest number of first prints in China in recent years. ”

Finally set the time, it's only ten days now, it's really close enough!

Since it is Zhang Chu's work, it must be its own popularity, and the entire Nanhai Publishing Company has to make way for it.

Whether it is from the point of view of printing, distribution and publicity, ten days is enough.

"How do you feel that I'm still in Cannes on the 8th?" Zhang Chu went to ask the counselor and the teachers to ask for leave to transfer the class, so he naturally knew the time arrangement.

"Anyway, you're not going to hold a book signing or a book launch, as long as the book appears on the shelves of various physical bookstores and online bookstores, as for where you have any influence?"

Zhang Chu was speechless when he said this, it was too true, and it would end well to scare the boss like this!

"Okay, then I'll be the shopkeeper the whole time?"

"I don't think this is possible, you have forgotten the activities in Cannes? You have helped promote the movie, and you have to help promote your book! The media all over the world are paying attention to Cannes, and "The Lord of the Rings" has been released in Chinese and English, and Random House is ready to go to Cannes to sell books and promote it. ”

It seems that it is unrealistic for Zhang Chu to really enjoy participating in the film festival to watch movies, and there are so many after various activities are carefully selected.

He sighed, "Say, there's anything else I want to know, I can bear it." ”

Zhou Kang laughed: "Just after our donation ceremony ended, the director of Shonan Satellite TV in charge of the Chinese Bridge program called to ask if he could pull you to the recording site." ”

"I remember saying this before, and I seemed to refuse. Zhang Chu didn't want to answer a second time!

"He also thought that our company was the same as a brokerage company like Huayi, and it could command the signed artists, but you were the boss. He also has a small proposal, now the Chinese Bridge program team is still missing a theme song, they think the songs you wrote are quite good, so they want to ask you for a song, and the price will be calculated according to the industry standard. ”

Zhang Chu subconsciously refused and said, "Forget it, don't look for me." I'm busy right now!"

"In that case, then I'll tell them to ask them to hire another master, there should be a lot of good songwriters. ”

"Eh, wait!" Zhang Chu suddenly thought of a very suitable song, and he smiled evilly: "Will this theme song require all the contestants to sing it?"

Zhou Kang hesitated: "Probably not, after all, this is a Chinese competition, not an idol trainee, so you don't need to learn the theme song." ”

"That's a pity. Originally, I wanted to embarrass this group of foreigners and let them know the breadth and profundity of the Chinese language!"

Zhang Chu smiled, as if he saw a foreign college student who was tortured by the theme song.

It's funny just thinking about it!

Zhou Kang didn't see this smile, he said, "If you want to do the next, write the song and send it to me." Anyway, the show will not be recorded until July, and you can finish it in a month or two. But don't put it off for two months and say you can't write it, if the time is too tight, no one else can find a replacement. ”

"Uncle Zhou, don't worry, I'll send you the song when I hang up the phone later, you wait." ”

"So fast? Did you write it before, or did you just start thinking about it now?"

Zhang Chu replied, "I thought of it temporarily." ”

After saying that, he didn't care about Zhou Kang and what else he did, and hung up the phone directly.

Most people start with the melody when they write a song, either humming it themselves, playing guitar or piano.

Wait for the melody to be finalized, then give it to someone else to fill in the lyrics, and finally it will become a complete song!

Like most of Jay Chou's songs that everyone is familiar with, he made the song first, and then handed it to Fang Wenshan to fill in the lyrics, and Lin Xi is the same, he writes the lyrics after getting the melody.

However, Zhang Chu is not original in the real sense, he wants to take out a song in his memory!

This song is nothing else, it is "Chinese Words" that has been on fire on the earth for a while!

sung by the women's group SHE, has appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, won many awards, and has also caused a lot of controversy.

This song "Chinese Dialect" has a brisk rhythm and does not use the common pop singing method, but integrates tongue twisters into the style of hip-hop, and uses Rap to sing the familiar tongue twisters.

Originally normal Chinese people will have knotted tongues when saying tongue twisters, let alone foreigners.

Zhang Chu is really going to use this song as the theme song, the whole world is learning Chinese, can this be more appropriate for Chinese Bridge?

Rap is generally very particular about rhyme, and even writes some unrelated words in order to rhyme.

Just like the first sentence of the lyrics of "Chinese Words", the sentence "the flat arm is long, the bench is wide" is written as "the flat arm is wide, the bench is long"

In order to let the word "long" fall behind, it is put together with the word "shang" in the next sentence "the flat tan wants to be tied to the bench" to rhyme with the syllable ang.

This was a particularly obvious mistake, and Zhang Chu did not want to do it.

If he copied it, he would be misleading foreigners who had just learned Chinese, and he would also be scolded to death by his compatriots.

Who has a flat arm wider than a bench?

He'd rather lose a little of that rhyme than make a low-level mistake.

Zhang Chu didn't have any intention to hide it, he planned to write it now.

Many singer-songwriters write songs in ten minutes when inspiration comes, and it doesn't take much time at all.

There is a well-known saying in the industry that good songs are written by God, and most of the ugly songs are made up after holding back for many months.

Although this sentence hurts a bit by mistake, there is still a little bit of truth!