Chapter 110: A Difficult Start for the Seminar
The driver, Lao Liu, understood the Mandarin of the two girls, and saw the expressions of the two people from the reflector, smiled honestly, and said in Cantonese, "He likes you!", the two girls didn't hear clearly, looked at each other, didn't dare to talk, and Lao Liu stopped talking.
When the car arrived at the Express Hotel, Lao Liu handed the dim sum to Sun Xiaorui and said in broken Mandarin: "Tomorrow morning at 7 o'clock." As he spoke, he gestured with his hand to "seven".
Magnolia asked, "Are you going to pick us up at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning?"
Lao Liu nodded again and again.
Bai Yulan and Sun Xiaorui thanked Lao Liu and watched the car drive away.
returned to the hotel, but Sun Xiaorui's excitement continued, pulling Magnolia to recall what she had seen and heard at Ouyang's house one by one, and talking about her yearning for a rich life. Magnolia was very helpless, she couldn't understand why seeing those big houses, big beds, and big bathtubs could make Sun Xiaorui so excited, couldn't a small bed sleep?
Sun Xiaorui was very disdainful of Magnolia, "You, you haven't seen anything in the world, so you have no desire and yearning for wealth, so you will never be able to make a fortune, because you don't have the courage to fight for a luxurious life." If you really enjoy it, you will find out how monotonous and difficult the life you are living now!"
Magnolia defended: "It's easy to go from thrift to luxury, it's hard to go from luxury to thrift, it's good for me to stay here in frugality, hehe." β
Sun Xiaorui was so angry that she had no choice but to say: "Hey, how can you say hello, the opportunity to make a fortune, you people who think like this will miss it in vain!"
Bai Yulan was anxious to revise the manuscript, she comforted Sun Xiaorui and said: "I know, you have great ambitions, and you are a soldier who wants to be a general! I won't talk to you, it's too late, I'm going to write it quickly. β
Magnolia corrected the manuscript and sent it to Mrs. Ouyang, who quickly replied, changed two idioms to make the manuscript look more 'literary', and asked Magnolia to give her the final draft, she would print it, bring it to the venue tomorrow, and send it to the participants together with her speech.
Early the next morning, Bai Yulan and Sun Xiaorui came to Ouyang's house, helped Mrs. Ouyang bind the printed manuscript and the speech separately, put two sets into the envelope, and together with Lao Liu, carried them into the trunk of the car, transported them to the venue, and handed them over to the service staff.
The venue is a conference room temporarily rented by the Literary Society in the Lianhua Conference Center, which has 50 seats. The center hired several service staff to make tea and water, and to distribute envelopes and stationery containing manuscripts.
When Mrs. Ouyang and Magnolia walked into the venue, there were already more than a dozen members in the venue, and when they saw Mrs. Ouyang, they greeted them one after another and shook hands with Mrs. Ouyang.
Mrs. Ouyang greeted them, asking about this person's business, asking about that person's children, and the sales of a certain book, and it can be seen that these people are all people with their own careers, and their common pursuit of Chinese literature has brought them together.
One after another, some more people came, and the room was lively. In fact, this annual symposium has now become a meeting for these literature lovers, and most of them usually contact each other online or by phone, so now that they meet, there is no end to what they have to say. Soon, eighty percent of the seats of fifty people were occupied.
From their titles, Bai Yulan knew that Mrs. Ouyang was the president, and a young Mr. Du was the vice president and secretary general. This time, several members brought their own envelopes, which should be the manuscripts they wanted to promote this time, including Mr. Du, who also brought a thick book.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Mrs. Ouyang stood on the podium and said, "When the time is up, I see that everyone is almost here, so let's not wait if we don't come." Let's start this year's Chinese Literature Club Symposium now. I have discussed with several executive directors and decided that this year's seminar will focus on Qin and Han literature, supplemented by literature of the Republic of China. Next ......"
Before Mrs. Ouyang finished speaking, Vice President Du Huining raised his hand to signal, Mrs. Ouyang frowned, but still asked with a pleasant face: "Mr. Du, is there anything wrong with you?"
Du Huining stood up, nodded to everyone, and then turned to Mrs. Ouyang and said, "President Jin, I agree that this seminar will discuss the literature of the Qin and Han dynasties and the Republic of China, but it remains to be discussed who is the main and who is the auxiliary. At present, in the publishing and performing arts circles, the literature of the Republic of China is a hot topic, and the people are setting off a wave of literature in the Republic of China. Du Huining turned to the members and said: "Many of your colleagues are in the press and publishing industry, and I don't need to list them, everyone should know what is hot now." Do you say, sir?"
Na Yulin nodded again and again: "Yes, now there are people talking about those things in the Republic of China everywhere, even dating back to the Beiyang era and the War of Resistance, and they are all very popular." β
Mrs. Ouyang stood on the stage, still with a pleasant face, and said: "What Mr. Du said is also reasonable, now the Republic of China is in full swing, and it has been blowing from last year to now. We are considering focusing on Qin and Han literature this time for two reasons: first, we only promoted the Republic of China in last year's seminar, and did not touch on anything else, and we want to change the focus this year; second, the Chinese Literature Society, as the largest non-governmental organization of Chinese language and literature, has a certain guiding role in the reading of the people, and Qin and Han literature has its unique position in the history of Chinese literature, which not only involves a dynasty and a period, but also contains a kind of retrospective, tracing the entire history of the Chinese nation since the Qin and Han dynasties, which is of great significance to every Chinese and anyone who wants to understand the literary history of the Chinese nationγ Of course, the importance of literature in the Republic of China cannot be ignored, especially in today's Republic of China fever. In this way, let's do a warm-up before the discussion, vote democratically, and the service lady will help you count it to see which plan is more supported. The tone is set, and then it is good to take the next step. Come, please raise your hand if you agree to focus on the Republic of China, and we will change the tone if we are more than half. Mr. Du was the first. β
Mrs. Ouyang played a clever trick that everyone could see, forcing Du Huining to give up the idea of using the literature of the Republic of China as the main theme of this seminar. In fact, Du Huining knew very well in his heart that at least half of the people at the scene would not raise their hands for any kind of proposal, because they were not concerned about which theme to use, but whether the content of the seminar was exciting and whether it could bring practical benefits, and these people were not interested in the open and secret battles between the presidents and vice presidents at all. Du Huining didn't raise his hand, he glanced at it, and saw that there were only three or five people who raised their hands, so he said with a smile: "Chairman Kim, colleagues, in fact, I just had a whim, and I don't object to the tone set by Chairman Kim for this seminar. I found that many people have been studying the Beiyang era recently, and they have also published a lot of books, so I really think about it for us and put forward my own ideas. The timeless brilliance of Qin and Han literature is indeed worthy of our good discussion. Isn't that what sir?"
"That's, that's. Qin and Han literature is the formative period of Chinese literature, and Cifu, historical biography, poetry, and Yuefu all have an extremely far-reaching influence on later generations. β
That Yulin's language is extremely talented, turning her hands into clouds and covering her hands into rain, Bai Yulan was a little dumbfounded when she heard it, she couldn't imagine that when a person disagreed, he could talk so casually and quote scriptures. It turns out that the literati are the thickest-skinned, because they are the least need-to-pay for thick-skinnedness, on the contrary, clever eloquence brings them additional benefits.
"Everyone, everyone, I'm sorry, I'm late, the seminar has already begun? Just now I was discussing the literature of the Republic of China and the Qin and Han dynasties, right? I have a novel of the Republic of China here, and I would like to recommend it to you as a gift for my first time attending this seminar. β
When Mrs. Ouyang saw that His Majesty had arrived, and as soon as she came, she muddied the water that had already calmed down, and sighed in her heart: "This daredevil!" introduced in her mouth: "Everyone, let me introduce to you, this is Mr. He Majesty, how to solve his worries, His Majesty the Emperor, the president of Dadi Publishing Company. Mr. He was invited by me to participate in the seminar, his family has a deep relationship with the literature of the Republic of China, his grandfather's generation began to invest in the publishing industry, his father is even more hands-on, he himself is also involved in this, so I believe that Mr. He's joining will bring new vitality to our association. Everyone is welcome!"
Mrs. Ouyang took the lead in applauding, and everyone applauded. People in the industry have heard of the name of Dadi Publishing Company, but this company is headquartered in the United States, and it has rarely set foot in the domestic publishing industry in the past ten years, so no one here has ever contacted the company's management. Now, when I heard that he was the president of Dadi Publishing Company, I couldn't help but talk to each other, because the company is the least profitable publishing company in the industry, but it is still very competitive when competing for new authors with strong funds, so many newcomers have been introduced. However, the management was not good, and the newcomers who launched eventually went to other publishing companies to develop, which means that he planted the banker and was accepted by others. But He Majesty is tired of this, he often says: Newcomers are living water, put into the pool of the literary world, and the literary world can remain clear.
He Majesty bowed to everyone, and when he saw that Magnolia was gesturing to him, he handed the manuscript in his hand to the person next to him, asked him to help continue to pass it down, walked to Magnolia's side, and asked, "This young lady, what is the matter?"
Magnolia looked at He Majesty strangely, and she found that He Majesty seemed to suddenly not recognize her, although the facial expressions were very similar, including the voice of the voice. And this He Majesty looked at Magnolia with a sincere and innocent face, surprised at why this beautiful woman was staring at herself.
Magnolia had no way to understand why His Majesty had changed at this time, and she put her finger to her lips to silence him.
He Majesty looked around, obediently shut up, and sat down quietly.