Zhuang Yan stayed in the United States for more than a week and traveled to five cities, and the signing was naturally full.

After finishing from the United States, Zhuang Yan flew directly to France.

Originally, there was no European signing meeting this time, but before going to the United States, the International Courier Foreign Prize, which France had just established this year, was awarded to Zhuang Yan, and the award was presented in Paris three days later. The announcement of this award was relatively late, and Zhuang Yan only learned about it half a month ago.

This award is a new award, but it is an award issued by the French state, so although it is not yet famous, it still has weight, so Zhuang Yan has advanced the schedule of the European signing meeting, and is ready to go to Paris to hold a signing meeting first, just after the signing meeting, you can go to the award ceremony.

In fact, this is not the first foreign award that Zhuang Yan has won, but compared to other pheasant awards, this International Courier Award is enough to attract his attention.

The International Courier Award is a truly French award, and with the exception of the foreign award, the winners are all French nationals.

And this ad hoc foreign award, in fact, is only one per session, and it is not issued often. And now it is the first time, and the award jury has chosen Zhuang Yan, which proves that Zhuang Yan is valued.

The reason why the foreign award was given to Zhuang Yan is also because he was alive last year and had the highest sales volume among all foreign countries in France.

The French are still very confident in literature and art, most French people have little contact with foreign countries, but being alive is an outlier, this book has been selling well in France since it was translated into French, and if it weren't for the late market, maybe it would have been in a high position in all the sales charts in France last year.

After arriving in France, Zhuang Yan did not go directly to work, but took a day off in France and made adjustments before starting the first signing in Europe.

Unlike signing in the United States, the French book friends couldn't understand what Zhuang Yan said, and he learned two sentences of French before coming, that is, hello, thank you, such simple words could not support him to communicate with others.

Probably because I know that Zhuang Yan does not know French, many French book friends are also very caring, specially learned a few words of Chinese, and when signing, many book friends will speak not very fluent Chinese to greet Zhuang Yan.

Most book friends could not understand the Chinese Zhuang Yan, and he could only reply with words like "hello" and "thank you".

After the signing in France, Zhuang Yan has one day off, and the International Courier Award will be presented at a ceremony the day after tomorrow.

The next day, Zhuang Yan originally wanted to go shopping in Paris, after all, he rarely went abroad, especially in Europe, except for Germany, he had never been to any other country, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Louvre or something, he had only seen it on TV.

The Eiffel Tower was built more than 20 years ago, not as old as later generations, but it is of great significance to the French, standing on the Champ de Mars on the south bank of the Seine, where you can see the Eiffel Tower from almost anywhere in Paris. At the hotel where Zhuang Yan stays, open the window to see the spire of the Eiffel Tower.

Zhuang Yan originally thought that he would take advantage of the rest of the next day to take a look under the Eiffel Tower, and then go to the Louvre, both of which are on the banks of the Seine, but one south and one north.

However, his idea could only be put on hold in the end, because the next morning, someone called to invite Zhuang Yan to be a guest.

It was Yao Qian's call, the other party was a Chinese, but after chatting two sentences, I knew that he was just a translator, and the person who invited Zhuang Yan was a Frenchman, considering the phonetic problem, I found a translator.

Originally, Zhuang Yan wanted to go shopping, and he didn't want to get entangled in personnel entertainment, but when the other party reported home, he had to go to the banquet.

It was none other than the French writer Romain Rolland, who had just won the Nobel Prize the year before last.

In this world, Romain Rolland is actually not very famous, if it wasn't for winning the Nobel Prize the year before last, many people may not know that there is such a person.

First of all, his works, especially those that can be said to be very few, are mostly heroic biographies. Secondly, his works are rarely exposed to by ordinary people, so it goes without saying that they will be sold.

And the Nobel Prize examines not only, of course, not only the sales of the work, but also the contribution that the person has made to the world.

The old-timers invited, Zhuang Yan naturally had no reason to refuse, and bought a bouquet of flowers and went to Romain Rolland's house that morning.

When Romain Roland saw Zhuang Yan, he was very enthusiastic, but considering that Zhuang Yan was Chinese, he just shook his hand gently.

Of course, the two need to be accompanied by an interpreter when they meet, otherwise they will not understand each other's words.

I don't know if it's the French like this, or Romain Rolland, after Zhuang Yan entered his house, he gave Zhuang Yan the feeling that he was the kind of person with a very slow pace.

The pace of the translator's speech is also very slow, I don't know if he is originally like this, or if he is influenced by Romain Rolland.

"Mr. Zhuang Yan, allow me to take the liberty of inviting you to come over, I know that you have been slow lately and deserve a reasonable rest, but I also know that you will not be in France for long, so I do not want to miss this opportunity. Romain Rolland said very politely leaning on the sofa and smiling.

"Mr. Roland, you're polite, I should have come to visit you. ”

Romain Rolland looks less like a typical Frenchman and more like a German. However, if he knows Zhuang Yan's thoughts, I am afraid that Zhuang Yan will be kicked out on the spot, after all, the relationship between the two countries has not been very good.

In fact, Romain Rolland didn't have anything special to come to Zhuang Yan, he just wanted to see what this young man who had recently become famous in the literary world was like. He had seen Zhuang Yan's life before he saw Zhuang Yan's photo, and at that time he thought that Zhuang Yan would be a middle-aged man in his thirties and forties, and when he later learned that Zhuang Yan was a young man in his early twenties, he was also very surprised.

"Have you visited any places in Paris?"

"There are a lot of places to see, but I haven't had time to see them yet. Zhuang Yan smiled, but he was thinking in his heart that if it wasn't for Romain Rolland looking for him, he should be under the tower now.

Romain Rolland nodded, "I haven't been to China, but the scenery of Paris is probably much worse than China, and maybe you can have some inspiration for writing." ”11