13, make an appointment with Zhang Lili again

On the second day, I tutored Yang Jiajia, and the Chinese course was not very important, because his recent progress and mastery of basic Chinese knowledge were the best among the three children, but her English grades were what I was most concerned about.

On the way back to school, I dialed Zhang Lili's phone.

The phone was quickly connected, and I said into the phone, "Lili, I'm Jiang Wan." ”

Zhang Lili on the other end of the phone, "Bang Bang, Happy New Year." I'm so glad I can get a call from you on the first day of 2015, it's a holiday, what are you doing? ”

I replied, "I haven't had anything to do lately, and I may have my final exams after New Year's Day, one is busy reviewing my own good things, and the other is the three students' revision exams, what are you doing?" ”

Zhang Lili replied, "The two of us are completely for these two things, my own exams are nothing, several of my students have indeed encountered great difficulties, you know that English learning is not immediate, although they have made great progress, but to achieve better results, it still takes some effort, so I have been helping them review every day for the past three days." ”

Zhang Lili is really a responsible tutor, I thought to myself, "You will make up lessons for students tomorrow, will it be in the afternoon or in the morning?" ”

Zhang Lili said without thinking, "My students chose the morning. In the morning, they are more focused and have a better memory, so I chose the time in the morning, do you have something? ”

I said casually, "It's nothing, I just want to ask when you have time, the two of us get together, and we haven't been in touch for a long time, I miss you." ”

Zhang Lili asked, "Then when do you have time?" ”

I said to Zhang Lili, "I just sent the students home and are on their way to school, if you have time tonight, let's talk for a while." ”

Zhang Lili warmly invited me to say, "Our classmates in the same dormitory have gone out, and they don't come back at night, why don't you come to me, the two of us live in the same dormitory, just like the last time I went to you, isn't it good to talk about him all night?" ”

I was a little embarrassed, "Of course, I'm afraid I'll get you in trouble." ”

Zhang Lili replied to me, "What do you call that?" Do our two sisters still need to be so polite? Okay, I'll be waiting for you at school. ”

I also readily agreed to her, "Then I will go to you in a while, and go directly to your dormitory." ”

Zhang Lili said, "Don't you know the place? Last time I was downstairs with your boyfriend, I was waiting for you in that place. ”

I replied, "I'll see you later." ”

I went back to my dormitory and picked up a few poetry books, and then took a taxi to the Language and Culture University, where I saw Zhang Lili already looking forward to it.

I hurriedly settled the bill for the taxi, and after taking the invoice, Zhang Lili had already opened the taxi door for me, I hurriedly got out of the car and made a tight hug with Zhang Lili.

Zhang Lili took my schoolbag and said casually, "Why is your schoolbag so heavy?" What's in it? ”

I replied embarrassedly, "The last time we sent you back, didn't we promise you to send you a few poetry books?" This time, I brought a new book, which has not yet been published, and the publisher has just edited the sample book that I brought me, which is my unpublished collection of essays. ”

While the two of us were walking, Zhang Lili said, "You have written a book in half a year, two poetry collections have been published, and a prose collection will be published, and you have really become a prolific writer." ”

I smiled and explained, "How? Among the two poetry collections, one and a half of them are poems created before, and now publishing is not necessarily written now, which is accumulated in the past few years, although it is a little green, but it also shows my mood and level at that time, so I did not make major changes except for the text, and the original was published, who knew that it was so popular with everyone. The second collection of poems is only a small amount, some of which were created recently, and this collection of essays is the same, including all the essays I have done before, and the publisher mobilized me to publish it intensively means that it is good to do publicity, so the intensive publication, as if I am a prolific writer, in fact, this is all the accumulation of several years, and it is all some illusions. ”

Zhang Lili put her arm around my shoulders and said, "You are really a veritable talented woman, and I am fortunate to know you in my third life. ”

I smiled and said to her, "Look how mysterious you are, you don't talk about good things, why don't you say it now?" ”

Zhang Lili said to me solemnly, "It's really disrespectful to say it casually to you, a great writer, when we get to the dormitory, let's sit down and talk about it solemnly, if you don't have meaning, I can start to do it." ”

I heard Zhang Lili say one thing to me so solemnly, I felt that it must be the right thing, so I didn't ask any further, at this time the elevator came, we entered the elevator, until the elevator on the 11th floor, the two of us held hands and came to Zhang Lili's dormitory.

The student dormitory is similar, Zhang Lili's dormitory also lives 4 people, but the dormitory may be a few square meters larger than our dormitory, and this dormitory building may be much newer than our dormitory, which is the advantage of the new university compared with the old university, and the hardware facilities are much better than those of a university like ours.

After entering the house, I quickly took out three books from my school bag, and took another stack, pointed to them, and said to her, "I have signed these three books, and the other stack of books is for you to send to friends, you tell me what kind of name you need to sign, and I will sign it for you now." ”

Zhang Lili saw that I was so serious and fully fulfilled her promise, and said to me happily, "As long as I sign my signature, the other signatures will wait for a while, and I will discuss a serious matter with you now." ”

I asked her, "What's the matter?" ”

Zhang Lili said to me seriously, "I want to translate all your poems and your prose into English, because I am the first time to translate a book, and my level may not be as mature as other translators, are you willing to license your book to me?" Supposedly, I should have bought out your copyright, but you don't know my situation, that is, a poor student who just wants to introduce your work, which is loved by us young students, to English-speaking countries, I don't know if you are willing or not. ”

I was a little surprised to hear her suggestion, I smiled and said to him, "Of course I do, if I can let foreign friends also read these of mine, how happy I must be, you are willing to do this, but I can't ask for it, as for what copyright, I don't care, especially if you are willing to do this, in fact, to help me expand my popularity, to introduce my works abroad, I have recently received several manuscript fees, should I pay you some labor fees?" ”

Zhang Lili said seriously, "Since you don't want my copyright fee, how dare I ask for your labor fee, the two of us will find a place to draw up an agreement in a while, and after you become popular in the future, I will naturally have royalties to collect, and you can't regret it at that time." ”

I happily said, "Since the two of us are good sisters, and you are so interested in my poetry collection, of course I hope that your translated works will also be more artistic, and will be welcomed by foreign friends. ”

Zhang Lili also said happily, "I don't have the luxury of letting me monopolize all your works, to be honest, as long as you are popular, I can't monopolize it, but you have this intention, I am already very happy, then we will sign three books first, one book and one agreement, and the same will be true in the future, as long as I translate your works, one book, one agreement, so that it is fair to you and me." Thank you for your trust, and I will do my best to translate this book in the best possible way. ”

I happily said, "I should thank you, you introduced me and my work abroad, this is to expand my popularity, such a good thing, how can I not thank you?" ”

Zhang Lili was also embarrassed to say, "If people have good luck, they can't stop good things." I made you a friend, and it brought me good luck. Let's not talk about that, let's talk about what to eat in the evening. ”

I said unceremoniously, "Let's go to the cafeteria together, if there is anything delicious, let's eat something, I don't pay attention to this, the point is that today we are going to chat all night, I especially like to chat with you, the conversation has both content and thought, your perspective on the problem is really worth learning from me." ”

Zhang Lili saw that I was not polite, and said to me directly, "It's not early, it's still time to start eating, then let's go to the cafeteria together, what's delicious?" Let's take a pick. ”

Zhang Lili thought about it for a while, and then asked me, "Several of our canteens here eat our own dishes, but there is also a special canteen that is a Western canteen, which is for international students, and we can also buy it, would you rather eat Western food or Chinese food?" ”

Hearing Zhang Lili's question, I was stunned, there are also international students in our school, why is there no special Western food canteen? Oh, they are a large group of international students from the language college, so I have to build a canteen for Western food. I finally made up my mind, "Let's eat Chinese food, I'm not familiar with Western food, and I'm not used to eating it, so it's more convenient to eat Chinese food." ”

I wanted to have a bite to eat and return to Zhang Lili's dormitory in the shortest possible time, and the two of us talked all night. But I didn't expect that as soon as we entered the cafeteria, we were entangled by two international students.

The two of us took the tray, chose a few foods, paid the money and sat down at the dining table to prepare for dinner.

At this time, two international students sat at our dinner table and greeted Zhang Lili while sitting down.

A blonde international student said to Zhang Lili, "Happy New Year!" Sheet! I didn't expect you to go home during the New Year's Day holiday, and you still ate in the cafeteria with us. ”

Another black girl also greeted Zhang Lili, "Happy New Year!" Sheet! It's a wonderful time to see you here in the new year. Why don't you introduce your beautiful friend to us? ”

Zhang Lili greeted them and looked at them, and I said to them, "Hi Happy New Year!" It's a pleasure to see you in the new year, this is my friend, a student at Yenching University, Jiang Bang. It's the talented poetess you often talk about, the wind and shadow. ”

Zhang Lili pointed to the blonde girl and said, "They all have good Chinese names, this one is Miss Germany, Mary Liu, and that one is a friend of Algeria, Butterfly." ”

Mary Liu looked at me very exaggeratedly and said in surprise, "Oh, this one is the most talented lady in our minds, it turned out to be a beautiful young lady, wow, you are so beautiful, I will see you in the New Year, it will definitely bring me good luck in the new year, I love you in the wind and shadow, I love your poems even more, beautiful young lady." He hugged me vigorously and kissed me on my hand with his sexy lips.

The black girl with a special bun, her expression was even more exaggerated, and after hugging me, she said to me kindly, "It is completely a beauty of a century, and there is a wonderful name, as poetic as your poems, I fall asleep watching your poems every day, and that beautiful artistic conception has increased my interest in learning Chinese, thank you, my beautiful wind and shadow, thank you, my beautiful beautiful young lady, you are really my idol in my heart." ”

Before I could speak, Mary Liu asked Zhang Lili again, "Zhang, you once said that Miss Fengying Xiaguang can sign for us and give us a collection of poems, when will you give it to me?" ”

This straightforward Western girl turned out to be so unceremonious to ask Zhang Lili, Zhang Lili looked at me, and then said to her, "Mary, you don't have to worry about the poetry book, my friend has already brought it here, it's in my dormitory, you can go to my dormitory to pick it up after eating, my friend will sign his name in front of you and give the book to you, so are you satisfied?" ”

Butterfly hurriedly said anxiously, "Zhang, Miss Fengying Xiaguang, is that me?" ”

Zhang Lili smiled and said, "Of course Miss Butterfly wants to include you, we are all good friends." ”

Butterfly clapped her hands together and made a surprised expression, her mouth kept muttering, "Oh my God, Mygod., what a magical day the first day of 2015, let me meet my idol, the most talented female poet, the wind and shadow, the most beautiful lady and sign my book of poems, I'm not dreaming, there is such a dreamy thing, it's so beautiful, it's wonderful, thank God." ”

Mary Liu hurriedly said, "Butterfly, don't be emotional, may I ask two friends, can the two of us eat with you?" It won't bother you, will it? ”

Zhang Lili glanced at me, and then said generously to the two of them, "Of course, you are welcome to sit down and have dinner with us, since we are friends, why not?" ”

The butterfly looked at me very seriously and said, "What about you, beautiful poetess?" ”

Seeing two enthusiastic foreign girlfriends, but also two hot-blooded young people, although we are different skin colors, but we all have a young heart, the same heart, the same heart, I happily said to them, "On this wonderful New Year's Day of 2015, to be able to dine with your two beautiful foreign friends, it is the most wonderful thing for me, I hope you give me this wonderful experience, this is my first legend in 2015, I am very happy to dine with you." ”

The cafeteria of the Language University is no different from the cafeteria of our Yenching University, with all kinds of snacks from all over the world, all the staple foods are readily available, and the four of us ate together while talking and laughing, and finished the dinner in joy.