After not being in New York City for many years, and coming to Manhattan today, Alice suddenly has a feeling that the sky has changed. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Rockefeller Center Plaza, and NYPD police officers worked desperately to clear traffic. The marchers, the crowd of onlookers, the endless flow of vehicles and the busy figure of the police made many people who were purely passing by have to turn back three times in one step, and everything was too lively.

"Rockefeller Center...... It's finally been bought by the Japanese. ”

It was in this central business district, in the editor-in-chief office of Bantam Books on the upper floors of skyscrapers, that Alice was looking out the window with her back hand. Even at an altitude of 100 meters, the noise and shouts on the ground were still clearly audible, and with Alice's eyesight, the large letters on the billboards were just as clear.

"Yes, Mitsubishi Land paid $1.3 billion to buy 80 percent of the shares in 14 of the buildings. The editor-in-chief, Domingo, stood beside her and looked out the window together: "Chairman Spek is also marching below, and he even mobilized twenty percent of the company's employees to go down with him, so when you come in, you will find that there are many people missing." ”

"Japan's economic development really makes them arrogant enough. Alice said quietly: "But they don't get much benefit, real estate is a pure real estate resource in Japan, but in the United States it is just a financial product." If you have read the relevant information, you will know that almost all of their overseas real estate investments in the past few years have been at a loss. ”

This kind of thing, where Domingo, a book editor, can understand, but as a person in the book media industry, he has not forgotten who is standing next to him.

"So, Mitsubishi must still have to spit out all these dozen buildings?"

Alice sneered: "And it's a big loss!"

For the girl's words, Domingo took it to heart. He is a long-time shareholder, and while the acquisition is still underway, he appropriately sold some shares and bought some Japanese stocks with special care. But now it seems that it is better to invest in Japanese stocks as soon as possible.

"Editor-in-chief, editor-in-chief!" There was a knock on the door outside the house, and an editor answered the door and said, "Editor-in-chief, Miss Wang, we have already signed a contract with Kodansha in Japan, and the Japanese translation of "Philosopher's Stone" is about to begin!"

When the news arrived, the two people in the house had no time to continue chatting, and hurriedly walked out of the house to join everyone. Don't look at the two percent of the employees are dragged by the chairman to parade the street, the normal operation of the company, of course, can not be delayed?

At 10:30 a.m. EST, Alice's first job after arriving in New York was to deal with her two or three things in the book industry, which had almost become a routine. As for the secretary, Monica, was asked by the boss to immediately choose a site for Vanda's American branch.

A global real estate company, starting from the United Kingdom, is expanding overseas, of course, left and right. The whole of Europe is close at hand, and it can be handled by the headquarters in London, and in the United States, of course, it is most appropriate to have a branch in New York. Anyway, the nature of the company is also here, and when another commercial plaza is built, are you afraid that you won't be able to vacate a floor as an office space?

Then, there is the issue of the multilingual publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

"I don't care about other languages, but if it's Japanese, I'll translate it myself. With a snap, she slapped the draft contract on the table, and Alice said: "English culture is very different from East Asian culture, especially the Japanese way of expression, even if I ask a Japanese person to translate this book for me, who knows what he can interpret my original meaning?

It was completely unexpected by everyone, so much so that the surrounding editors were all frightened. They really just showed Alice the draft contract, why did they suddenly put forward such an exaggerated condition!?

"Miss Wang, I know that you have a good level of Japanese, and you have also written this Japanese-style mystery novel. Now it's different from the past, it's no longer Brown as an ordinary editor, Domingo personally goes into battle to serve the girl: "But this "Philosopher's Stone" is hundreds of thousands of words, and the workload of translating the full text is very large, you usually ......"

"Do you think I'm a strong man?"

One sentence directly blocked people, and Alice also directly proved her ability on the spot. Finding a piece of paper and a ballpoint pen, she quickly wrote a series of neatly written Japanese paragraphs. Domingo and other editors who could not understand Japanese quickly called people all over the company and specially found an employee in charge of translating Japanese books. The conclusion is very obvious, the hundreds of words that Alice wrote in three minutes are the Japanese version of the beginning of the chapter "The Boy Who Never Died"!

"And it's very well written!" the translator exclaimed.

This is really surprising, after all, no one who is an editor on the scene will stare at a writer to write, let alone Alice's "After School", which was published directly by Kodansha in Japan. Even if it's my own article, it's amazing to be able to translate it so quickly across languages.

In this way, Alice's necessary trip every time she came to New York soon ended. At the beginning of the summer vacation, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" has been thrown on the market, and the original book has been expanded to 500,000 words in the same way as writing fan fiction. It's not a hassle for a writer to come and do some guidance.

As for the plot......

"I love that part of the story! It's just Sherlock Holmes! Harry and the others actually formed a group of young detectives! And how did Sister Alice design the Hogwarts machines? It's like an alchemist's magic workshop!"

No, this is the naughty boy who heard Alice at the door when she passed by a certain bookstore. But this is really subtle enough, it is the mechanism of the magic school in the first place, isn't it normal to be like an alchemist?

"Hey, Monica?"

Walking down the bustling streets of Midtown Manhattan, protesters could still be heard in the distance, and Alice held her phone and said, "How are you doing there?"

In the early morning, they split up, and now it's lunchtime, and Monica certainly deserves something: "Alice, I've gathered a complete Manhattan property information for you, let's make an appointment to meet and find a café?"

Alice touched her stomach and said that it was time to eat, so she suggested that she go to Chinatown to improve the food. Of course, Monica is very happy, after all, the deliciousness of Chinese food has been unanimously verified by the people of the whole country, and how many people use that fish-flavored shredded pork and kung pao chicken to improve their food.

However, this trip is anything but an easy one.

All the glitz and glamour of New York is concentrated on a tiny Manhattan island, and to say that the other boroughs are just slums that supply it with cheap labor is not an exaggeration, it is simply true. It is not surprising that superheroes led by Spider-Man chose New York as the place for them to perform chivalry.

But even in Manhattan, the gap between rich and poor is so obvious that even urban areas can be confused, and New York's Chinatown is the most typical example.

If Uptown's Harlem neighborhood is a typical breeding ground for crime and violence, with a high concentration of black Mexicans, then Chinatown, which is next to the Bronze Bull of Wall Street, is actually somewhat similar. Even if they are also Chinese, the wealthy middle class will not choose to live here, let alone other white Americans.

Stowaways, coolies, restaurant waiters, idle gamblers, retired elderly, pajama aunts, bus drivers, reselling fakes, selling skin and meat, a small residential area, but most of the Chinese underclass society is fully revealed, you can imagine how lively it is. In the shade of the trees, on the benches, the kind old people are leisurely and relaxed every day, doing nothing, receiving food stamps and pocket money provided by the government regularly, and their lives are not ordinary.

"I've almost never been to Chinatown. Walking on the road with Alice, looking at the architectural style around that is very different from the overall Manhattan style, Monica said: "It really feels different, is Chinese mainland also like this?"

"That's really not ......" Alice wanted to laugh, "Are those descendants of immigrants in Little Italy the same as real Italians?"

The answer is self-evident, and then the two of them walked into a good Chinese restaurant. According to Alice, Monica learned that the most obvious feature of Chinatown food is that the price is low, and the Chinese food flavor is also very authentic on the whole.

Spacious space, bright lighting, elegant dining environment, but the customer flow is obviously not high. Alice opened a private room for the two of them, which is really a condition that can only be found in Chinese restaurants, and after skillfully ordering a few dishes and recommending a few for Monica, she asked again, "Do you drink baijiu?"

"Liquor ......," Monica frowned, "I remember it seems to be more similar to vodka?" ”

Alice giggled, ordered a Moutai to the unknown waiter, and said with a smile after he went out: "Baijiu and vodka, Monica, don't forget that your boss and I are Chinese, and now that China has also reformed and opened up, we will inevitably have to invest there on a large scale in the future." You'll have to give me some knowledge, or I'll be in trouble in the future. ”

"Oh...... All right. Monica realized that she seemed to have said something stupid, but she was still a little unconvinced: "Am I not right? Isn't liquor also a strong liquor? Isn't that the same nature as vodka? The Soviet Union is just north of China!"