Chapter 176: Soulmates are hard to find
Uncle Jin gave instructions: "Yang Guo, I will stabilize him later, you accompany him to the stage to sit for a while, the lecture will be held as usual, I will arrange for him to communicate face-to-face with Master Mo Yan after the lecture, and you will continue to help translate at that time!" β
Uncle Jin patted Yang Guo on the shoulder and said with a smile: "I'll trouble you to help me follow today!" It's not easy to find someone who understands Swedish at this time, it's a big deal, and I'll have to report back to the top first. β
Yang Guo nodded, turned his head and was about to go back to talk to Professor Anderson, but Uncle Jin grabbed Yang Guo again and instructed: "When you tell him, remember to tell me if you have any new discoveries, don't talk to the staff below." β
Uncle Jin went to the side to make a phone call, and Yang Guo walked back to Professor Anderson.
Professor Anderson was very happy to see Yang Guo, he was here, and the only one who could communicate smoothly was Yang Guo. He actually regretted it a little, before coming, he should not be reckless, he should have applied to the embassy for an accompanying translator who understands Swedish! I didn't expect my English to be understood.
Yang Guo smiled politely at him and said, "Your Excellency Anderson, we are glad that you are here. β
He pointed to the poster standing at the door, and then said, "However, because Mr. Mo Yan's lecture here today is about to start, I wonder if you mind if we arrange for you to talk to Mr. Mo Yan in detail after the lecture is over?" β
Professor Anderson smiled, "I don't mind at all, I've always had time today. I'd like to ask, can I also go in and observe? I don't have a ticket. β
Yang Guo smiled, this request is too simple, he can answer for the staff here: "Of course there is no problem, you can come with me." β
Yang Guo turned his head to look for Uncle Jin's figure, and was about to talk to him, but Xiao Li walked up quickly and said to Yang Guo in a low voice: "Mr. Yang, Director Xu explained to me just now, if you have any needs, just tell me directly." β
Yang Guo said: "I need to take this VIP to the Multicultural Center to listen to the lecture, do you still have extra tickets?" β
Xiao Li smiled, and he said, "No ticket, I'll take you in." β
Following Xiao Li, Yang Guo took Professor Anderson to the eighth floor, bypassed the ticket gate, and walked in through the front door, Xiao Li pointed to the position in the front row and said: "The seats in the front row are all reserved, you can sit wherever you want, but it's best to stay in the middle." β
Yang Guo just pointed and signaled, and before he could start speaking, Professor Anderson shook his hand and said, "No, no, let's not sit in front." β
Under Yang Guo's puzzled gaze, Professor Anderson explained with a smile: "Wait a minute, I definitely can't understand Mr. Mo Yan's speech, and I still need your help to translate, so in order not to disturb Mr. Mo Yan, it's better to sit in a place with fewer people in the back!" β
Well, I'll have to translate it myself! However, Yang Guo is not very resistant, on the contrary, he is a little eager to try, he has not done a simultaneous translation, and it is still in Swedish, such a difficult challenge, too... Too... It's so exciting!
Yang Guo explained to Professor Anderson and led him to the back.
Zheng Yujie couldn't wait for a long time! Yang Guo has been gone for ten or twenty minutes, is it possible that he is still lost? If it weren't for the fear that Yang Guo would not find her when she came back, she would have been ready to go out to find Yang Guo!
She sat in her chair and looked around, her head glancing at the back door from time to time. At this time, there was a sound of crackling footsteps, and when she looked back, Yang Guo was squeezing her eyebrows at her. However, Yang Guo did not stop, he made a gesture of calming down for a while, and then walked back.
Zheng Yujie was confused, she watched blankly as Yang Guo carried Qiqi on her back, and walked to the back with a foreigner and sat down.
Yang Guo hugged Qiqi to his side, and he said to Professor Anderson: "Your Excellency Anderson, because you came in a hurry, we are not ready to entertain you, today I brought my daughter out, you don't mind if I hold my daughter, right?" β
If he said he minded, Yang Guo would immediately take his daughter away, so as not to serve such an arrogant foreigner!
Professor Anderson smiled kindly at Kiki, and then said to Yang Guo, "I don't mind, my granddaughter is also so old, and she looks as cute as your daughter." β
Yang Guo smiled and began to talk to him.
The advantage of being well-read and memorizing is that Yang Guo can talk to anyone, especially in the field, he has read too many books. The works of those who won the Nobel Prize, Le? Clezio's War, Hertha? Miller's "The River Flows" and "Walking the Line", Mario? Vargas? Llosa's "Green House" and so on, Yang Guo can break out some sentences in it and talk to Professor Anderson.
The writing styles of various famous artists, the outstanding characteristics of each genre and even the twists and turns of the selection of other international awards in recent years, Yang Guo can also tell the story.
What surprised Professor Anderson even more was Yang Guo's familiarity with Sweden! Selma? LagerlΓΆf, the pride of the Swedish community, Yang Guo also has a deep study of several of her representative works, which makes Professor Anderson proud at the same time, but also begins to feel Yang Guo's erudition!
Professor Anderson exclaimed: "I have never seen a young man as good as you, and if you hadn't said that you had never been to Sweden, I would have thought you were a student of a professor at our Swedish Academy!" β
Yang Guo smiled: "I am engaged in the profession of translation, and of course, my love for it also motivates me to keep learning. I hope that one day I can become a person like Mr. Ma Yueran, a Chinese Goran_Malmqvist of your country, and contribute to the spread of culture throughout my life. β
At the mention of Ma Yueran, Professor Anderson was in awe, this one is much older than him, and the number of titles is too many to count - Professor and Head of Sinology of the Department of Chinese at the School of Oriental Languages of Stockholm University, Academician of the Swedish Academy, President of the European Association of Sinology, and a famous Sinologist.
More importantly, he is one of the 18 lifelong judges of the Nobel Prize, and he has devoted his life to the study of Sinology, and many Chinese classical classics (such as "The Book of Songs", "Analects", "Mencius", "Historical Records", "Water Margin", "Journey to the West", etc.) were translated by him before they became known to the West.
Professor Anderson is a few laps younger than Professor Ma Yueran, and he has been admiring Professor Ma Yueran for a long time. Of course, Yang Guo's admiration for Professor Ma Yueran can be regarded as a compliment to his national culture, Sweden has not been angry over the years, and it is not easy to find a bosom friend in the far east!
Professor Anderson said to Yang Guo with some joy: "I think that if you have the opportunity, you must come to Sweden to have a look, I think Sweden has more customs and customs worthy of your liking!" β
Yang Guo thought it was better to read 10,000 books than to travel 10,000 miles, and if he had the opportunity, he really wanted to travel to various places to study!
The lecture was about to start, and Yang Guo saw Zheng Yujie, who looked up from time to time, and secretly said in his heart that it was not good and forgot about her! Confess to Professor Anderson and run to Zheng Yujie's side.
"What are you doing!" Zheng Yujie twisted the flesh on Yang Guo's arm with some annoyance, and said, "Hang me here for so long!" β
"No, I've been caught!" Yang Guo explained the cause and effect of the matter.
He hesitated, looked around, and whispered to Zheng Yujie: "I tell you, don't spread it, and don't let people send it to the newspaper." He also secretly explained to Zheng Yujie the analysis of people from the Nobel Prize jury who came to Mo Yan and Uncle Jin.
"Cut!" Zheng Yujie pursed her lips and said, "I thought it was!" You think I don't know? This time, I came because I got the news that many people are optimistic about Mo Yan winning the award this year, although some people are optimistic about it every year, but I think this is an opportunity and it is worth fighting! β
Yang Guo asked puzzledly: "No, how can his book not be wanted by the publishing house?" He's been famous for a long time! β
"It's not a domestic publishing right, we want to do overseas publishing!" Zheng Yujie said in a low voice.
"I remember you didn't have this department for overseas publishing!" Yang Guo asked, "Is there going to be a new one?" β
Zheng Yujie said: "No, but this is an opportunity, if you can get the overseas publishing rights of Mo Yan's book, and it works well, it may not be possible!" My grandfather often told me that culture can't be cherished by itself, and if you close the door and make it yourself, you will have no future if you don't go out for a day! β
Yang Guo nodded in agreement.
"Hurry up and accompany the Swedish professor!" Zheng Yujie pushed him and said, "The lecture is about to start!" β
"What about you?" Yang Guo asked.
"You don't have to worry about me! I'm not a three-year-old child, and I need someone to accompany me for a lecture! Zheng Yujie said this in her mouth, but she was still very happy in her heart, and the unhappiness that had just been put aside was swept away.
"Okay, aren't you going to see Mo Yan later? After the lecture, you come with me again, and I will follow up with my uncle. Yang Guo said.
"Uh-huh!"
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Back to Professor Anderson's side, the lecture had just begun, and under the introduction of the host, a middle-aged and elderly person who was only in his early seventies walked up with a smile. This is Mo Yan, if you talk about appearance, no one will believe that he is a person who can write such a deep folklore!
However, it is such a person who looks like the village party secretary who has written such a great work as "Red Sorghum"! Yang Guo looked at him carefully, and Fang felt that under this ordinary face, there was a deep and thick temperament! That is the manifestation of the gradual accumulation of the light of the pearl and jade due to the accumulation of knowledge and achievements to a certain extent, and Yang Guo boasts that he is still 108,000 miles away!
Mo Yan began to speak, Yang Guo stabilized his mind, and began to concentrate on translating for Professor Anderson. Professor Anderson is a foreigner after all, and Mo Yan's lectures touched on a lot of Chinese customs and customs, citing many examples from his own writings, which he did not understand very clearly.
Seeing this, Yang Guo explained the difficult parts to Professor Anderson in depth on the basis of Mo Yan's lecture and according to his understanding of him. Fortunately, Mo Yan didn't speak fast, which gave Yang Guo time to translate at the same time.
Professor Anderson is finally able to listen to this lecture with pleasure!
(Ask for a monthly pass, ask for a recommendation, let's take a ticket and smash the cold door!) β§β½β¦οΌ