"Tony, let me introduce you, this is my good friend Nichols, and he is the one who has produced the most popular imitation furniture on the market recently!" At the reception in Irene on this day, Irene helped Monet introduce him.

Hearing the words "Nichols" and "imitation furniture", Monet's mind suddenly flashed and he asked Nichols: "Mr. Nichols, let me ask you if you got the inspiration for the imitation furniture because of the fire in your home?" ”

The reason why Monet asked this question was because he remembered that one of the arguments he used when he wrote essays in high school was related to this Mr. Nichols.

"In 1924, the house of Nichols, an American furniture merchant, suddenly caught fire. The fire burned everything in the house, along with the furniture he was ready to sell.

After the fire, Nichols, who was unwilling to face the mess on the ground, searched everywhere and finally found a piece of red pine that had been charred. His gaze was long on the unique shape and beautiful grain of the wood.

Nichols then retrieved a piece of broken glass, carefully scraped the ash off the red pine, smoothed it with sandpaper, and then applied a layer of varnish to it. After some care, the charred red pine takes on a warm sheen and a particularly clear wood grain.

Nichols had the idea, if this luster and wood grain were applied to the production of furniture, the effect should be good, right?

Inspired by this, Nichols immediately set out to make faux pattern furniture. Sure enough, as soon as this imitation pattern furniture came out, it was warmly welcomed by customers. Everyone rushed to buy, and Nichols' business got better and better. Today, Nichols created the first set of faux-grain furniture, which is still in the collection of the New York State Museum.

Life cannot be smooth sailing, and it is inevitable that disasters will befall us unexpectedly. But as long as our hearts are full of hope, we can find life under disasters and find a new path in life. That path is actually the best gift that disaster can give us. ”

Unexpectedly, Nichols was stunned after hearing this question, and asked rhetorically: "Mr. Monet, who are you listening to?" ”

"Huh? Isn't there such a thing? Monet asked with some confusion.

"Of course not, who made this rumor?" Nichols asked displeasedly.

Because he didn't think of any excuse for a while, Monet had to retell the composition material, and Nichols replied with a smile: "This, this is too ridiculous, who made it up?" We've been studying this imitation furniture for a long time, how could it be inspired by the pine wood after the civic fire? ”

But then the conversation changed and said: "But at first glance, it sounds quite philosophical......

Hearing this, Monet knew that he had been fooled again, in fact, there are really many such cases, many celebrity anecdotes or small stories that we use as arguments in argumentative essays are simply made up or falsely spread, such as Washington's axe, Edison used a mirror to focus the light on his mother at the age of seven, Einstein failed math, and Qingdao German sewers, these classic rumors...... (There are also many such situations in China, for example, Liang Shanbo is actually a Qing official of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Yingtai is a woman of the Northern Wei Dynasty, where do these two turn into butterflies?) Chen Shimei Wu Dalang must be known to everyone, so I won't talk about it. ）

"Monsieur Monet, what philosophical words have you uttered again?" At this time, a familiar coquettish female voice came from behind him.

Monet looked back and saw that it was the female star Mae West, who had worked with Playboy at the beginning, so he greeted with a smile: "Long time no see, Miss West!" ”

He then explained, "Actually, I was telling Mr. Nichols a rumor about him just now. ”

"Hey, you're lucky, Nichols, at least the rumors are positive!" West let out a long sigh.

"Are I lucky that my house was burned down?" Nichols retorted with a wry smile.

"That's better than me, do you know what rumors they're spreading about me?" West turned his head and said quietly.

Although Monet has not heard of rumors about West, he knows that it must be related to men and women, after all, West often plays a slut on stage, which will definitely lead to the blind imagination of some unqualified audiences and spectators.

Just when Monet was thinking about how to comfort West, West seemed to have adjusted his mood, and changed the topic: "I happened to meet Mr. Monet today, and I originally wanted to go to you for help." ”

"Oh? What's the matter? Monet asked curiously.

Unexpectedly, a bold and open West replied a little awkwardly at this moment: "Well, I wrote a book, and I want to ask Mr. Monet for your guidance!" ”

To be honest, Monet really didn't expect West to write a book, so he said casually with some surprise: "I thought Miss West, yours would be a script!" ”

Unexpectedly, West actually nodded and agreed: "I did think about adapting him into a screenplay, but I hope to publish this book first, so that everyone will have a basic impression and expectation of this story when watching the play, and it will look and feel better!" ”

Although most of the adaptations are adapted and filmed because the original book is popular and in order to take advantage of the popularity of the original work, as West said, the situation of coming out first in order to have a better performance effect does exist, but it doesn't seem to be there at this time, so Monet praised: "Miss West, your idea is very creative, because it is limited by the performance duration and stage effect, so some more tortuous and complex plots on the stage are not suitable for performance, and if the audience has a certain understanding of the plot and characters in advance, Then these drawbacks can be avoided. So tomorrow you will see when you have time, I will send someone over to fetch the manuscript, and then I will read it carefully! ”

"Don't bother so much, I'll send it to you myself tomorrow, so that you can guide me at any time." West said with a smile.

"That's fine." As soon as Monet casually agreed, he saw Nichols on the side looking at himself and West with a very ambiguous look, and immediately understood, this guy must have misunderstood, but unfortunately he couldn't explain it directly......

PS: Is there a history based on Dali in the Southern Song Dynasty, such as crossing over to Duan Yu, unifying the whole country, conquering Asia or something, but unfortunately I'm really not good at writing military essays, otherwise I'll write it myself. (Actually, I tried to write a few chapters, but I wasn't satisfied...... ）