Chapter 34、He's Sam.
It takes 13 hours to fly from New York to Jinling at an altitude of 20,000 feet.
Jack reads the printed Hunger Games again and again on the plane, and he never seems to get tired of reading it.
Along with Jack was a special legal counsel from Bantam Press, a white beauty with blonde hair, long legs, and perfect facial features, named Fanny.
Fanny felt a little strange at this time, her new colleague, this young man named Jack, had been holding a poorly bound book all the time during the long journey.
Isn't a big beauty like herself as attractive as a simple novel? This discovery made Fanny feel a little depressed and unhappy.
Women are always so weird, and if you rush to talk to her, she will mostly ignore you. However, if you ignore her directly, and don't even look at her, then she will secretly annoy you for not understanding the amorous feelings.
Fanny, who was a little angry, and really bored after a long journey, simply turned her head and sulked and went to sleep.
After sleeping for a few hours, Fanny, who had woken up leisurely because of her biological clock, looked out the window a little blankly. It didn't get dark. At this time, she kept crossing time zones, and her consciousness was a little confused.
After a moment of relieving, she turned to look at Jack to the side. found the other party asleep with the poorly bound novel in his arms.
Fanny looked at the novel that the other party didn't forget to hold in her arms when she slept, and she couldn't help but feel a pang of annoyance in her heart.
"I want to see what kind of book it is, which makes you even willing to snub the big beauty in front of you." It's true that Americans don't know how to be subtle at all.
With that in mind, Fanny reached out and tried to pull the book out of the other's arms.
Once, twice, Jack grabbed so tightly that Fanny didn't pull it out a few times. Fanny paused slightly, looked up at Jack, and saw that he showed no signs of awakening, before reaching out again.
Fanny, who looked down and pulled the book, didn't notice that Jack's eyes opened for a moment when he was asleep, and when he saw that it was her, Jack's hand holding the book loosened slightly. Let Fanny easily pull away.
Fanny pulled out the book in Jack's arms, looked at the other party again, and began to look at the humble book with some anger.
"It turns out it's a novel!" After a few glances at the beginning, Fanny had a judgment in her heart.
Continuing to watch, the protagonist of the story is actually a girl, and this setting suddenly made Fanny a little interested. The feelings of boycott have diminished a lot.
Slowly, the story unfolds more and more. Fanny became more and more engaged.
When Fanny reads the same book, her focus is completely different from that of Jack. Jack's favorite thing about the bizarre games in this book, the big setting, and the rush of urgency. Fanny, on the other hand, is immediately drawn to the book's chaotic relationship between Katniss and Gale and Peeta.
When she sees Pita and Katniss being made celebrity lovers, she only feels her heart beat faster. When Pita confesses to Katniss during the interview, a peculiar flush suddenly appears on her face.
The story continues, watching Pita suddenly betray Katnis, Fanny roars in her heart, bad man, stinky man, untrustworthy man. Is the true Son of Heaven actually Gail?
This kind of irritability made her want to finish the story quickly and see the final ending, but she couldn't help but read the novel in her hand line by line.
Eventually, she saw Katniss trapped in a tree, and Pita said in the crowd, "She can't stay in a tree forever." ”
Fanny felt like her heart was about to break. She eagerly turned the next page, but she turned the page.
Without! The novel is actually gone here?
Fanny only felt the discomfort of a hundred claws scratching her heart, and she couldn't hold back any longer, not caring that Jack found out that he was peeking at his book, and woke Jack up with some rough shaking.
"What about down there?" Fanny asked, staring at Jack.
Jack, who had just woken up from a daze, was startled by Fanny in front of him. Her eyes were red at this point, as if she had just cried. The makeup on her face was covered with tears.
"What's wrong? What's underneath? Jack asked in a panic, not knowing what was going on in a hurry.
Fanny shook the unusually poorly bound novel in her hand and asked again, "What about below?" ”
This time Jack understood. He let out a sigh of relief, lay back in his chair and said, "It's gone!" ”
"What?" Fanny yelled, causing Jack to bounce out of his seat in an instant.
Fanny herself was taken aback by herself, but at this point she didn't care about it, and didn't even pay attention to the gaze of the passenger next to her.
"How could it be gone?" Fanny stared at Jack as if he was about to fight if he didn't explain it well.
Jack looked at her in a daze. He was also thrilled when he saw half of it, but he was never so excited. It dawned on him that the potential of the book was probably more than he and the editor-in-chief had anticipated.
"Don't get excited, we're going to China this time to sign this book!" Jack was stunned for a moment before explaining to Fanny.
Fanny was stunned when she heard this. The logic of a professional lawyer immediately got her to the point.
"Did we go to China because the author of this novel is Chinese?" Fanny was a little unconvinced. If it were an American, it would be impossible for the two sides to sign a contract in China.
Jack couldn't help but open his mouth wide, this woman and the stupid girl who was crazy about the book just now are not the same person at all, okay!
"That's right!" Jack was stunned for a moment, then nodded in acknowledgement.
Fanny looked at him suspiciously, and then screamed, "How is this possible, I'm just guessing casually, aren't you really joking?" Such a good book is actually written by a Chinese? ”
Fanny looked incredulous.
Jack shrugged and said I didn't believe it either, but it was the way it was.
This time, Fanny was not calm at all. I started asking about the book and the author.
"Maybe he's an English scholar!" Finally, Fanny hypnotized herself as if to say something.
When the plane arrived in Nanjing with an hour to go, Jack and Fanny couldn't sit still at the same time. The two of them began to writhe themselves with some uneasiness.
Jack said, "What kind of person do you think this Sam will be?" ”
The closer the time of meeting became, the more curious he was about what kind of person the other person would be. Will this signing be smooth?
Fanny also lost her usual calmness: "It should be a very charming handsome guy!" "Well, this one has a attack.
At 13 o'clock in Yanjing time, the flight from New York landed at Jinling Airport on time.
Both Jack and Fanny were a little nervous, and when they walked out of customs together, they were both thinking, "I'll see Sam later." What kind of person would he be? ”
At the passenger exit of Jinling Airport, Bai Feifei also kept chattering.
"Are you coming? It's coming, isn't it? Your book is really on the lookout for bantams, isn't it? Wow, the foreigner talks to you about the contract. There don't seem to be many Chinese English writers in the world today. You're not lying to me, are you? ”
Chen Xueqian sat by himself and didn't pay attention to her at all.
If it weren't for the fact that when she went out, she changed her clothes into a pair of pencil pants, which made her round and perfect, and her long legs more than one meter long were undoubtedly highlighted. He wasn't even ready to look at her.
In other words. At this time, Chen Xueqian was staring at the long legs of Bai Feifei, a female goblin, with a pair of weak eyes. It's like you're going to open your eyes.
"This leg will definitely be able to clip my small waist, and the man really still has to have a good body!" Chen Xueqian thought secretly in his heart.
Suddenly, Bai Feifei stood up from his chair. Chen Xueqian's gaze followed the long legs, and suddenly turned to look at the end of the other party's legs.
Chen Xueqian swallowed and foamed at the mouth very angrily. And Bai Feifei never commented on his pig brother from beginning to end.
Sister just likes to see you like to eat but can't!
"When the time came, I just heard the plane landing. Let's go over and pick you up. Bai Feifei seems to be very unbelievable that Bantam will sign a book with Chen Xueqian. I've been restless for a long time.
Bai Feifei pulled Chen Xueqian, holding a cardboard with "jack, fanny" written on it. Eye-catching guards at the exit.
At the exit, two white men and women also walked out quickly with anxious faces. Look around in the middle of a dense crowd.
Bai Feifei was also looking around holding a card. For a while, only Chen Xueqian, the client, stood aside with a relaxed face.
Eventually, Jack saw a card in the crowd with his and Fanny's names written on it. Although the one holding the sign was an oriental beauty, there was a child standing next to her in an extremely unreasonable way. But you can't be wrong with the name on the cards.
Could it be that Sam sent to pick up the plane? Could it be that this Sam is still a great big man in China?
Suppressing all kinds of conjectures in his heart, Jack led Fanny over quickly.
"Hello, I'm Jack!"
Bai Feifei looked around, and saw a tall white man standing in front of him with a white woman. Opened his mouth to talk to her.
Bai Feifei was slightly stunned, but fortunately, she learned from her family and was no stranger to English.
"Hello Mr. Jack." Bai Feifei was still a little excited and nervous when he spoke. Only then did she dare to be completely sure that Chen Xueqian was not joking with her.
Jack heard Bai Feifei call him sir, and hurriedly waved his hand: "Just call me Jack, may I ask this young lady, did Sam ask you to come and pick us up?" ”
Fanny, who was following Jack, pricked up her ears with the same intent.
Bai Feifei was slightly stunned before nodding and said, "Yes, I'm a friend of Sam, you can call me Amy." ”
&nb, Bai Feifei couldn't react for a while. was stunned for a moment before remembering that it was Chen Xueqian's English pen name.
After saying hello, Jack hurriedly asked, "Amy, may I ask where Sam is now, I can't wait to meet him!" ”
Chen Xueqian, who was standing in front of him at this time, couldn't help but roll his eyes: Ni Mei, this world of looking at faces is really desperate. Lao Tzu has been standing in front of you for so long, you patronize and talk to beautiful women, and you haven't even looked at us, right? I'm embarrassed to say I want to see me!
Bai Feifei was also stunned when he heard this, and then he reacted, neither of them had met Chen Xueqian. She hurriedly pointed to Chen Xueqian, "This is Sam!" ”
Jack and Fanny's faces changed at the same time. It's all a little unhappy.
Are you kidding me? It's clearly a child, right?