The text part of the first version is very simple, its Chinese translation has a total of 50,000 or 60,000 words, and Zhuang Yan can write the text part without spending a morning.

However, apart from the text part, what made Zhuang Yan difficult was the illustration manuscript in the middle.

The manuscript of the original book is very simple, it looks like a child's graffiti, but when Zhuang Yan really started to draw, he realized that it was not simple to want to be the same as the one drawn in the original book.

This kind of whimsical painting style is completely different from Zhuang Yan's previous engineering drawing, especially those little sheep, which look strange and weird, and they can't imitate if they want to imitate.

Later, there was no way, Zhuang Yan could only use the stream of consciousness. What is the stream of consciousness, is to draw at will according to your own feelings about the original work.

For example, the lambs that the pilot in the middle drew for the little prince, and the sick one, drew the legs a little thinner and the chin a little rounder. The little ram is as simple as drawing two horns for it.

As for the old sheep in the back, just draw its legs a little bent.

……

Zhuang Yan was busy with the illustration for two days, and he had to think about Antoine's dictation and recall his experience of following the little prince.

He's going to draw a lot of things, and he's going to draw more illustrations than the original.

Zhuang Yan knew that if the book was published in the future, there would be a special illustrator to help add more illustrations, but Zhuang Yan still felt that he had experienced that dream and had close contact with the little prince, so let him draw illustrations, even if he was unprofessional, he could express more things.

For the sake of illustration, Zhuang Yan didn't sleep much in the past two days, just buried his head on the desk. On the floor of the study, Zhuang Yan's discarded A4 paper was scattered all over the ground, and there was no spare space on the desk, most of which were covered with paintings.

If someone walks in at this time, they must think that the house has been burglarized.

"Whew, it's finally finished. ”

Zhuang Yan leaned back in his chair tiredly, squinted and looked out the door, refocusing his eyes, which had been blurred by long hours of work.

After solving the painting matter, Zhuang Yan did not rush to get the second version, but ran to the bathroom to take a shower first.

He hadn't slept in bed for the past two days, and had been working at his desk, squinting on the table for a while when he was sleepy.

The reason why he was in such a hurry was simply because he was afraid that he would forget the paintings he had seen in his dreams, and although he could still remember what they looked like, he just didn't dare to take any chances.

Human memory has characteristics, and if it is something that is iconic, such as something that can be digitized and concrete, people can remember it for a long time.

And those things that cannot be concretized, it is difficult for people to remember.

For example, if you are asked to memorize an article and a formula, you can generally remember it, and after a while, you can also recite it accurately.

But if you are given a candy or a color, it is likely to be forgotten after a while, or you think you remember, but in fact you remember it at all. Because these things can't be described.

Zhuang Yan is afraid that this kind of indescribable will affect his memory of the paintings in his dreams, so he will fight so hard and want to draw the things that should be painted in the shortest time.

After taking a shower and sleeping again, Zhuang Yan found that his mobile phone had long been out of battery, and charged his mobile phone again.

As soon as the battery is charged, the phone tinkles non-stop. Zhuang Yan picked it up and saw that there were more than 20 missed calls and more than a dozen text messages.

Most of the missed calls were from Yao Qian, and seeing the text messages he sent, Zhuang Yan also knew that he was calling for, and it was the publication of "The Catcher in the Rye", and he had already negotiated with the Literary and Art Publishing House.

In addition, the translator of "Alive" has also been found.

Zhuang Yan didn't call back, but just edited the text message to Yao Qian, telling him that his mobile phone had run out of battery because of some things in the past two days, and told Yao Qian that the specific situation of the matter had been received, so that he could rest assured.

In addition to Yao Qian's phone, Wang Lijian made six phone calls and sent messages.

According to the information, Yu Hai had already told him about the publication of "The Catcher in the Rye", and also said that Yu Hai complained that Yao Qian's negotiation was too dead and he didn't give any loopholes.

In addition, he also asked Zhuang Yan about his new book, some time ago I heard him say that the new book, why there has been no movement until now, is there any bottleneck in the middle of writing.

The last call was from Duan Qirui, showing that the call time was last night, and he only called once, and he didn't send a text message.

Ignoring Wang Lijian first, Zhuang Yan called Duan Qirui first.

I thought that this old man had something serious, but he didn't expect that as soon as the phone was connected, Duan Qirui said smugly: "Zhuang Yan, although the two sentences you said are quite famous now, you have to admit that I scolded the article very happily." ”

Zhuang Yan didn't want to compare this with him, so he could only be perfunctory, this old man was a donkey, and he liked people to pat him on the back. As long as Zhuang Yan said that his scolding skills were not as good as his, he would be happy for a while.

After hanging up the phone, Zhuang Yan sighed, these historical celebrities, how do they feel not normal.

Then he called Wang Lijian again, Wang Lijian received a call from Zhuang Yan and didn't wait for Zhuang Yan to explain, he first cared: "Zhuang Yan, what's wrong with you in the past two days, the phone has been turned off?"

Only then did Zhuang Yan explain: "I've been rushing with the new book for the past two days, and I've been so busy that I can't find the north, and my mobile phone has been out of battery, and I haven't remembered it." Today it was over, and I thought about looking at my phone. ”

He said "The Little Prince", but Wang Lijian thought it was "Border City", Wang Lijian said, "I was about to ask you about your new book, you have been writing books very fast, this time it is so slow, is it because it is very long?"

Zhuang Yan also realized that Wang Lijian should have asked about "Border City", and he did not correct it, but said: "It's not too long, there are not tens of thousands of words in total, but it took me some more thought." ”

"When are you going to send it?" Wang Lijian asked.

Zhuang Yan smiled and said: "It's been this time, wait until the entity of "The Catcher in the Rye" comes out." ”

Wang Lijian also smiled: "Indeed, the speed of your book is really fast, it has only been a few months, "Alive", "Metamorphosis", "The Catcher in the Rye", and "Shuke and Beta" in the fairy tale manor, you have written a total of four long and short stories, adding up to almost a million words." ”

It's almost a million words, but "Alive" and "The Adventures of Shuck and Beta" are a bit more.

"The Adventures of Shuck and Beta" has now been released in two, with a total of 200,000 words, but Zhuang Yan sent 300,000 words to the publishing house before, so the total adds up to about 780,000 words.