Li Ye didn't know that Pei Wencong believed in himself so much, and was willing to invest the four million US dollars that had just been received into the foreign exchange market, and followed his noble man.

If he knew, Li Ye might have persuaded Pei Wencong a few words.

I am the Emperor of the Crossing Dynasty, and I will come back after my daughter is gone, you are a grassroots hard worker, and you will not be in your early thirties until you are in your early thirties, in case of a liquidation, can you stand it?

Li Ye read the analysis report for two hours at the Talang Literature Publishing House, focusing on the data of several translations with the best sales results.

For example, regional sales, reader evaluations, and delivery speed.

In the end, he called Pei Wencong over. "Lao Pei, which version do you think is the most suitable?"

Pei Wencong said with a smile: "I think it's all good, so we still need Mr. Li to select the first prize winner of the essay competition, and then we will send someone to sign a follow-up translation contract with them." ”

Pei Wencong was very modest and completely put the decision in Li Ye's hands.

Because in his opinion, the son of luck is to blow the air, and he can blow out a golden mountain "according to his words", and it is best for mortals not to disturb the heavens, just rub it obediently.

Li Ye clicked on the six documents and said, "You contact these six translators!" Have them come to Hong Kong Island to collect the final prize, and then draw up a rigorous translation contract. ”

Li Ye selected six translators, namely the top two translators in terms of sales and evaluation in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Pei Wencong saw that he was indeed the six translators with the best response to the test marketing in the market, they have different styles, but they all have strong writing skills, and they have won praise from a large number of readers.

However, he still said to Li Ye: "Mr. Li, shall we choose the first prize now?" If he is not sure whether he will be able to win the prize, Mr. Wood may not be willing to come to Hong Kong Island. ”

At the beginning, Li Ye offered a reward of 30,000 US dollars, and there were first prizes, second prizes and several winning prizes, of which the first prize was the highest, almost close to 20,000, the second prize was only 1,000, and the rest were purely consolation.

If you sit at home and write, you can get it, but if you let people fly halfway around the world, and maybe only get a consolation prize, then a well-known writer like Wood may not come.

After all, it's just a prize-winning essay run by a magazine, and it's not an influential literary award, who doesn't come for money?

A thousand? That's not enough for gas.

Li Ye smiled and said: "If they like this story, then they will come, if it is just a translation job, it is not what we need." ”

Although Li Ye has completely constructed the background, character design, and plot line of "A Song of Ice and Fire", he needs more than just a translator if he wants this book to sell well around the world and reach the original book review.

Li Ye gave "A Song of Ice and Fire" flesh and blood, and now needs a suitable writer to give it a soul.

Therefore, big names may not be suitable.

Mr. Wood of America may be an excellent writer, but if he didn't like the story very much, and didn't have the "unstoppable" desire to translate "A Song of Ice and Fire", then he wouldn't be the person Li Ye was looking for.

"Oh well! I'll arrange it. ”

Pei Wencong understood what Li Ye meant, and immediately asked Amin to quickly contact a few translators and ask them to come to Hong Kong Island as soon as possible.

Although Li Ye did not say that he wanted to meet these translators in person, Pei Wencong acquiesced to Li Ye's decision-making power and wanted to do things to the best of his ability.

Because of the time difference, it was four or five o'clock in the morning in the Americas at this time, so before leaving work, Amin only contacted four other translators.

Two of them made it clear that they would come as soon as possible as long as they offered round-trip tickets, and one said they didn't have time recently.

The other, on the other hand, is a little strange.

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Summer in the British Isles is the most comfortable time of the year, with moderate temperatures that are neither hot nor cold, and the highest temperature does not exceed 30 degrees, so there is no need for air conditioning or electric fans to help cool down.

And in Britain in the summer, the days are long and the nights are short. There is no need to turn on the lights from 6 am to 9 pm, which is a gift from heaven for those who like to bask in the sun.

Many people set up a bed in their yard and enjoy the warm and bright sunshine.

But in Jonina's world, the sunlight has been gone since two years ago, leaving only the icy darkness surrounding her.

"Mom, can we have lunch earlier? Dean was really hungry. ”

"Luisa, there's four hours left until lunch, can you take your brother and read yesterday's storybook again?"

"But Mom, we've read it many times, okay Mom, we're not really hungry now."

Jonina looked at her eldest daughter, lowered her head and went to their small room, and couldn't help but feel a pain in her heart.

Jonina's own stomach is so hungry that she doesn't know that Luisa is comforting her incompetent mother?

Jonina opened the cabinet at home and looked at the eleven potatoes of different sizes, and she really didn't dare to "relent".

It will take three days for unemployment benefits to be paid! These eleven potatoes need to last for three days.

But even if unemployment benefits are paid, what can be done?

Two years ago, after a long tug, Jonina divorced her husband who was prone to domestic violence and moved out with her two children.

Because the children are five years old and two years old, it takes up a lot of time and energy, which makes Jonina exhausted and exhausted in the following days.

In the space of a year, Jonina changed seven jobs, and the longest one did not work for a month.

The landlord's family has no surplus grain, the capitalist does not support idlers, and no good capitalist is willing to hire an employee who can neither guarantee working hours nor work conditions.

Eventually, Jonina became afraid of finding a job and communicating with people, and people around her advised her to see a psychiatrist.

But Jonina did not dare to see a psychiatrist, she was afraid that once she was diagnosed with mental illness, she would be deprived of custody of her two children by her ex-husband.

Although he is poor, his children can at least be fed and clothed, and if he throws his two children to that drunkard, I am afraid that his five-year-old sister will have to cook for his two-year-old brother and his thirty-year-old father.

Jonina moved out of London to Manchester, where the standard of living was lower, and she barely settled down.

Her relief King Kong is enough to pay for the rent of two houses, and the cost of living needs to be worked on by herself.

With the help of several classmates and friends, Jonina found a job "polishing" the newspaper reporter.

If this reporter needs peachy news, then Giannina needs all kinds of metaphors to rub the edges and describe the crimson mood that makes the reader's heart itch.

If this reporter is a fighter for justice, then Jonina wants the reader to see a righteous knight who stands up to the sky, riding a thin and craggy war horse and fearlessly charging at the enemy in tattered armor.

Many reporters' requirements are also very tricky, and Jonina feels like she's going crazy many times.

But in this way, she can at least earn money without going out, and she can also have free time to accompany the growth of her children, so she endured it.

It's just that the income of this kind of work is very meager, and it is barely enough for their mother's meal of bread and mashed potatoes, and their lives are very poor.

Two months ago, Jonina hit an old lady on her bicycle and owed a bill of more than £700 for medical bills plus fines.

Where can Jonina afford to have no savings at all? In desperation, she wanted to find some odd jobs to make money, but found that more than a year of living at home seemed to have made her social phobia worse.

Jonina locked herself and her children in her room, looking for any money-making writing opportunity while eating only two meals a day, hoping to get through the storm by saving money and tightening her belt.

But no matter how much she tosses, her monthly income is only a little more than 100 pounds, and she wants to pay off 700 pounds of debt, and she doesn't know when this hard life will end.

"Bell bell bell ~"

The phone rang at home.

Jonina, who was secretly wiping away tears, didn't care about wiping her tears, so she walked towards the phone suddenly.

If you have a phone, you have a job, and if it weren't for the fact that she was in touch with those reporters, Jonina would have stopped the phone a long time ago.

"Hello? I'm Jonina. ”

"Hello Ms. Jonina, congratulations on making it to the final round of the essay contest for A Song of Ice and Fire, and now the organizers invite you to Hong Kong Island."

Jonina was stunned for a moment, then ecstatic in her heart, and the tears that had just stopped began to flow again.

"Did I win the first prize?"

"I'm sorry Ms. Johnina, you haven't won the award yet, the final result needs to be revealed on Hong Kong Island."

Jonina felt a sense of loss in her heart and asked, "Hong Kong Island?" Where is it? ”

The other end of the phone was also stunned for a moment, and said: "Hong Kong Island is in East Asia, and it is the Oriental Pearl of our Kingdom of Great Britain. Ms. Johnina, don't you watch the news? ”

“.”

"Sorry, I haven't been paying attention to the news lately."

Jonina was ashamed, because she no longer had a TV at home, and she didn't even subscribe to a newspaper, so she didn't know that at this moment Great Britain was fighting with the flower growers for the ownership of Hong Kong Island.

"Ms. Jonina, Hong Kong Island provides round-trip air tickets, if you are interested, please prepare your luggage and passport, it is expected to be a flight tomorrow afternoon or evening."

"Can you not go?"

"What? Ms. Jonina, you just said you wouldn't go? ”

“.”

"Yes, can I not go to Hong Kong Island? Just put the final judging results. And the bonus for me would be fine. ”

There was a panic in Johnina's heart, and her voice dropped by a dozen decibels.

She now thinks that she is going to take her child across half the world, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, what will she participate in the final selection if she is not familiar with life?

How many people will you be dealing with during this time? How many scenes to say?

The problem is that her two children don't have a few decent clothes now.

In two years, the two children have grown up, and their former clothes are all exposed to their trouser legs, are they ashamed to be thrown into the Pacific Ocean?

"Ms. Jonina, are you going to give up on the final selection of this award-winning essay? Know that your work is very popular and has a good chance of winning the final crown."

"Heh~"

Jonnina laughed silently.

When she first started translating A Song of Ice and Fire, Giannina thought she was doing a good job.

She felt that the Daenerys Targaryen inside was like another shadow of her.

But after her initial translation, she was criticized by many people.

Because Jonina translated "A Song of Ice and Fire" into a "big heroine",

More than 70% of the pages in it are about the heroine, and the rest of them are all brushed aside, and they even deviate from the plot outline of the original text.

Jonina was so devastated that she thought about not translating the subsequent chapters, but she couldn't help but like it very much, and finally completed the translation of all the chapters of the prize-winning essay.

It's just that in the later translation process, Giannina no longer dares to read the book reviews in the newspaper, nor does she read the readers' letters sent by the organizers.

She was afraid that she would never have the courage to translate this work that she liked to her heart.

So now that the organizers say that the final results will not be revealed until they arrive on Hong Kong Island, Giannina feels that she has heard a ridiculous lie again.

In the past few years, she has heard too many lies, and she feels that her whole life has been ruined by gullible lies.

"Hey? Ms. Jonina, are you listening? ”

"I'm listening," Jonina said after a moment's pause, "What are my chances of winning the first prize?" ”

"I can't say for sure, I can only say it's promising."

"What about the second prize?" Jonina said a little hurriedly, "What are the chances of me winning the second prize?" ”

“.”

"Ms. Jonina, I can't answer your question exactly, but the second prize is promising, but I still recommend that you go to Hong Kong Island."

Jonina was silent again for a long time, a little apprehensive, and a little humble: "Then I only need the prize money of the second prize, if I don't go to Hong Kong Island, can you remit it to me as soon as possible?" ”

The second prize is a thousand dollars, enough to pay off Jonina's debt and get her out of a looming predicament.

"Ms. Jonina, why don't you want to go to Hong Kong Island? A lot of people are vying for this opportunity."

"Third prize, can you be sure that I can get the third prize? I have two children, and if we fly 10,000 miles and don't get anything, the children will be disappointed. ”

“.”

"I'll help you ask, please wait for my call."

The phone hung up, and Jonina suddenly felt a little dizzy, and quickly squatted down on the table.

Then, suddenly, she began to regret whether she had responded appropriately on the phone.

Since you don't go to Hong Kong Island, why do people give you the first and second prizes?

What do readers say? Do you think this is a prime minister election?

But what if I went to Hong Kong Island and didn't get the bonus?

Have you seen less of this kind of thing over the years? It's a piece of shit written in the manuscript, but what kind of gold medal reporter is it,

And since I was in school, everyone thought that I had a talent for writing, but now I don't count potatoes to live?

In this world, talent is not valuable.

"Bell bell bell ~"

The phone rang again, and Johnina, who was squatting on the ground, suddenly woke up, only to find that she couldn't stand up.

The leg is numb.

She didn't know how long she had been squatting on the ground.

Jonnina stretched out her arms as best she could, pulling the phone down.

"Hey, hello, I'm Johnina."

"Hello Ms. Jonina, do you have a bank account now?"

"Bank account?" Jonina was taken aback, and then said happily: "I have a bank account, did they agree?" When will the results be announced, and when will the prize money be remitted to me at the earliest? ”

"No, Ms. Jonina, the organizers are willing to give you an advance of $2,000 and cover your round-trip airfare to your children, but you have to go to Hong Kong Island

Believe me ma'am, this is an opportunity, a great opportunity. ”

The other end of the phone was no longer formulaic, but said enviously: "Actually, I also tried to translate this book, but I didn't get the opportunity to go to Hong Kong Island." ”

Jonina was finally convinced that she could win the first prize, after all, the second prize was only $1,000.

"Alright! I. Go! ”

Jonina agreed with difficulty, and the temptation of $20,000 overwhelmed her social fear.

"Two thousand dollars will be in your account this afternoon, please have your luggage and passport ready, I wish you all the best."

"Wait a minute, do you have anyone to accompany me?"

"There is no such thing, but someone will pick you up when you arrive on Hong Kong Island."

The phone hung up again, and Jonina seemed to have lost a little strength, but in her heart, it seemed as if something was growing again.

That's her confidence, and it's growing slowly, but it's coming back after all.

"Mom, it's eleven o'clock, can you have lunch?"

When Jonina looked up, she found that her daughter Luisa and her brother Dean were already standing in front of her, waiting for her mother to eat.

Jonnina hurried to her feet, but her numb legs made it extremely difficult for her.

"Mom, you can rest for a while, I can cook."

The sensible Luisa turned around and brought a stool, stepped on the stool and took out two large potatoes from the cupboard, and washed them on the faucet.

Her hands were still small, and several times the potatoes slipped out of her hands.

"Luisa, we don't eat potatoes today."

"What mom? But it was already eleven o'clock. ”

Louisa looked at her mother blankly, and couldn't hold back the grievances in her heart anymore.

She woke up very early this morning, hungry.

But the watch hand turned so slowly that I couldn't wait for lunch.

In the end, she had to use her brother's name to bring her lunch to the morning.

But in the end, he failed in the face of his mother's insistence.

Now I see that I am about to eat fragrant boiled potatoes, but why does my mother regret it again?

"Luisa, will you bring your piggy bank?"

Luisa: "."

Seeing that her daughter was a little stunned, Jonina said softly: "Luisa, we will have money soon, today my mother will lend you a little money, and then double it to you, okay?" ”

Jonina was ashamed of how confident she was when she left her ex-husband with the child, but now she was reduced to using her daughter's piggy bank.

But Luisa suddenly jumped three feet high.

"Mom, you should have done this a long time ago, you waited for me to get it."

"Rub rub~"

"Bang~"

"Mom, you see we have a lot of money!"

The ceramic piggy bank smashed to the ground, spilling silver on the ground.

It's all coins.

The daughter pouted her little butt and picked up the coin, and the son Dean hugged his mother's leg and asked in a milky voice, "Mom, what are we eating today?" ”

Before Jonina could speak, her sister Luisa said, "I invite you and your mother to have Chinese food, just two streets in Chinatown, every time you pass by. It's so fragrant. ”

For Britons, two slices of bread and jam can make up a meal, Chinese food is not delicious to be strange!

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"Jing Yao, did you send money home again?"

"Well, send a little."

"Didn't you send it once in the spring? How do you send it again in the summer? You always have to keep some money on you when you're out there. ”

"Sister Liqin, who doesn't have much, only sent a total of two hundred pounds"

"Alas, Jing Yao, you are really"

Yang Liqin stood in the corner of the Dongshan Restaurant, chatting with Lu Jingyao beside her.

Because of the recent situation in Britain and planting flowers, there are fewer customers in the restaurant, so the two of them can chat for a while.

"Xiao Yang, Xiao Lu, come over here."

The big proprietress of the restaurant suddenly called Yang Liqin and Lu Jingyao, who were chatting.

"What's wrong, Sister Sun?"

"That's right, as you've seen lately, there are a lot fewer customers in the restaurant, so it's not so busy

In the future, the two of you will either come alternately every other day, or only keep one, and I can't help it, this month's rent has gone up again. ”

Yang Liqin and Lu Jingyao's faces suddenly changed.

Because of the summer vacation, Yang Liqin discussed with her boss and adjusted her working hours to the daytime, although the working hours were extended, but she didn't have to walk at night.

But it was only a few days after it was settled, and the proprietress saw that the "overlapping posts" were coming.

If the two of them are staggered and become one person, they will open one person's salary, and they can save one point is one point.

"Sister Sun, you see that we just told Brother Zhao that it was not easy."

"You Brother Zhao are thin-skinned and embarrassed, but we also have to have a conscience, don't we? The business of this restaurant is obviously not good, so it is decided. ”

Yang Liqin only said one sentence, and was scolded by the proprietress for eight sentences.

Boss Zhao is kind-hearted, but the proprietress is shrewd!

"Don't be stupid, it's a guest again, hurry up and say hello."

The proprietress glanced at the two of them and turned to leave.

Yang Liqin and Lu Jingyao glanced at each other, and they both saw each other's helplessness.

Especially Lu Jingyao, she was introduced by Yang Liqin, and at this time, she was reasonable and reasonable, and she had to be "humble".

Yang Liqin waved her hand and said: "Okay, let's go one day, maybe it's good to get through this period of time, you go to greet the guests first, and then I'll go to find the boss." ”

Lu Jingyao sighed and beckoned the three members of Johnina's family who had just entered the door to sit down.

Before Jonina could order, her daughter Luisa rushed to say, "Today I invite my mother and brother to dinner, and we will eat sweet and sour chicken, sweet and sour tenderloin and seafood soup." ”

Lu Jingyao turned around to order the kitchen, while Jonina looked at Luisa fondly, and the mother and daughter looked at each other, both looking at each other and smiling.

Although Luisa is small, she knows her mother's temperament, they only have a steel hammer in their hands, and if the daughter invites her mother to dinner, it will save Johnina's embarrassment.

The meal came up quickly, and the Johnina family ate very sweetly.

At this time, the news of the negotiations between Britain and the planting of flowers appeared on the TV in the restaurant.

Qiao Nina and Lu Jingyao both paid attention to the news.

When she saw that Hong Kong Island citizens were rushing to buy goods because of their loss of confidence in the Hong Kong dollar, Qiao Nina suddenly realized that the place she was going to might not be so peaceful.

And when she saw the tough pronunciation of the flower planter, Jonina realized that she didn't know the language of planting flowers, and in case of an accident, she still had a child.

After the news ended, Lu Jingyao turned her head and found that the face of the guest who had just arrived was wrong.

So she walked over and asked, "Hello ma'am, is there anything I can do to help you?" ”

Jonnina shook her head, bowing her head and eating her share of Chinese food.

However, she only ate a few bites, then suddenly looked up at Lu Jingyao and asked, "Excuse me, are you flower growers?" ”

Lu Jingyao sighed and said, "Yes, but we are just students, not politicians." ”

Jonina said: "Please don't get me wrong, what I want to know is that there is anyone of you who is willing to translate for me for a few days, I need to go to Hong Kong Island." ”

Lu Jingyao was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and said, "Can you be more specific?" ”

Jonina told her about her situation, and finally said with some embarrassment: "I'm sorry, I won't be paid too much." ”

"You're Jonina? Jonina. Walls? ”

(End of chapter)