Chapter 408: The Dentist Who Revises the Manuscript
“The journey home is always longer than the journey lost, longer than a lifetime.”

“Reunions are always less than farewells, just once less.”

As soon as Jiang Xian sang the second half of the poem, an inexplicable emotion surged into everyone’s heart in an instant.

“Good poem.”

Zhong Acheng sighed softly.

Farewell is an active separation.

Reunion requires the right time, place and people.

Every reunion consumes the quota of destiny.

Until the balance of the last farewell is cleared.

Zhong Acheng was stunned for a moment, and suddenly he was inspired and chanted an ancient poem:
“Life is like a traveller in the world.”

He could think of no other verses.

Perhaps only the vastness of “Life in the world is like a traveler on a long journey” can support the sadness contained in Jiang Xian’s poem.

On the other side, Zhao Zhenkai’s wife Shao Fei suddenly covered her face with her hands.

Although her face was hidden, everyone could see the slight tremor in her body.

She is crying.

And she’s not just one person.

Many friends present were moved by the sadness of the poem and their eyes were red.

Zhong Acheng’s lover also hugged him warmly and wiped her tears on his clothes.

Zhao Zhenkai looked at Jiang Xian with a melancholy expression, biting his lips lightly, feeling indescribable feelings in his heart.

Jiang Xian’s poem is short, cold, profound, concise, hazy but not obscure.

In Zhao Zhenkai’s view, all the advantages of his heyday are contained in this poem.

He even felt that even compared to his best lines, Jiang Xian’s two lines of the poem would not be inferior at all.

He wrote so straightforwardly and passionately that it made people cry at the first sight.

The essential
Can you believe that this is a poem Jiang Xian just chanted? !
There is an ancient story about Cao Zhi composing a poem in seven steps.

With talent like Cao Zhijian, how many literati and poets in ancient and modern times have been impressed by his quick wit and quick thinking?
However, just now, Jiang Xian was standing there.

Never mind seven steps.

This kid didn’t take a single step!

He lowered his head and thought for a moment, and then recited this beautiful poem with profound meaning and every word is a gem.

Of course, there are two possibilities.

One possibility is that Jiang Xian had composed this poem a long time ago, and he recited it today by chance.

The other possibility is that Jiang Xian was truly inspired by a blessing in his heart.

Zhao Zhenkai believes that it is the latter.

Although the latter is incredible, the former is too coincidental. In comparison, the latter is more reasonable.

Zhao Zhenkai looked at Jiang Xian with complicated eyes.

That’s a disappointment.

Whether it is “To the Oak” or today’s poem, Jiang Xian has demonstrated absolute talent and poetic agility.

But this person doesn’t like to write poetry!
Do you think this is irritating?
“Old Jiang, your poem is so well written. You should give it a title and publish it officially!” Chen Ai Ge shouted.

Others agreed:
“Yeah, yeah, Xiao Chen is right.”

“It’s so well written, it should be published.”

“Hurry up and give your poem a title, Old Jiang!”

“Poem title?” Jiang Xian scratched his head.

Why are you making such a fuss about publishing it?
He didn’t write this poem himself.

In fact, these were originally two lines from a poem by Zhao Zhenkai called “Black Map”.

The whole poem is very long.

Just now, Zhao Zhenkai asked him to help compose a poem, and he immediately remembered these two lines. He simply picked them out and put them together to form a poem.

Well, no one will suffer if I use Zhao Zhenkai’s poems to write poems for Zhao Zhenkai.

However, because it is just two lines in the poem and lacks too many images, it seems a bit inappropriate to call it “The Black Map”.

“Look, how about calling this poem “Before the Separation”? ” Seeing Jiang Xian lost in thought, Zhao Zhenkai tried to give him a name.

Zhong Acheng nodded, “Okay, okay, this poem title is very relevant and appropriate for the occasion.”

“This is a good name given by Lao Zhao.”

“I can see it.”

Others supported that.

Zhao Zhenkai looked at Jiang Xian with a smile, “What do you think, Old Jiang?”

“I think?”

Jiang Xian shook his head.

“I don’t think it should be called ‘Before We Go’.”

“don’t want?”

Everyone was surprised.

Everyone was curious about what kind of poem title Jiang Xian thought of. In his opinion, it was better than the one Zhao Zhenkai came up with, “Before Departure”.

“I don’t want to call it “Before We Go”.”

Jiang Xian revealed the answer:

“I think it would be better called ‘Before Arrival’.”

“arrival?”

Everyone fell into thinking.

Zhao Zhenkai was the first to react and nodded in agreement, “Good change! You changed the name well!”

Everyone looked at Zhao Zhenkai and heard him explain:
“Parting is just parting. Changing it to arrival gives the poem an extra layer of meaning and a new hope. After reading it, you will definitely cherish and long for this reunion even more.”

After listening to his explanation, everyone suddenly understood.

“I see.”

“That’s a good change. With this title, the poem suddenly has two meanings, making it more profound.”

“You must publish this poem in Poetry Magazine! It will definitely spread!”

“.”

Jiang Xian was just helpless.

He changed the title of the poem, but his intention was not actually about the poem itself.

He wrote this poem just now to cooperate with Chen Ai’ge’s proposal, and then agreed to Zhao Zhenkai’s request to ease the sad atmosphere for everyone.

As a result, when a poem was written, one person cried and another hugged his wife.

The atmosphere became even sadder than before I wrote the poem.

If he were to title another poem “Farewell”.

Then I’m afraid both Zhao Zhenkai and Zhong Acheng will be reluctant to leave.

They were willing to give it up, but their wives were reluctant to do so too.

That’s why he deliberately changed “departure” to “arrival”.

Sure enough, the sad atmosphere just now was suddenly dispersed a lot by this “arrival”.

Who knew that Zhao Zhenkai was still doing “reading comprehension” there.

“It’s really like having a great scholar arguing for me.” He complained in a low voice.

After sending you thousands of miles away, we must eventually say goodbye.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Jiang Xian gave the two a few more instructions, and they went to the security check, looking back every few steps.

The remaining group of people who came to see him off scattered like birds and beasts.

Jiang Xian found Shao Fei.

“sister in law.”

“Xiao Jiang, what’s wrong?” Shao Fei held the child in one hand and carried the bag in the other, his eyes still red. “Sister-in-law, Brother Zhao has gone there. If you encounter any difficulties at home in the future, just tell me.”

“Oh, it’s not a big deal. No need to trouble you.” Shao Fei waved his hand.

Jiang Xian smiled, squatted down and hugged Zhao Zhenkai’s daughter.

“Do you know what to call me?”

“.”

Zhao Zhenkai’s daughter didn’t say anything. She chewed her fingers and looked at Jiang Xian warily. She yelled:
“elder brother.”

“Oh, that’s good.”

Jiang Xian was very pleased, his brows curled with joy, he took out a red envelope from his pocket and stuffed it into the little girl.

“Brother gave it to you, keep it.”

“Hey!” Shao Fei quickly stopped him, “Xiao Jiang, what are you doing? This is so inappropriate!”

“Sister-in-law, what’s inappropriate? I’ll give it to the child.”

After some refusals, Shao Fei finally had no choice but to accept Jiang Xian’s kindness.

She and Zhao Zhenkai were both artists. Although their families were high-ranking officials, they were still struggling to make ends meet and had to make do with just enough time.

After dealing with Shao Fei, Jiang Xian went to Zhong Acheng’s wife and did the same thing to her.

The two red envelopes brought him closer to the two women and stabilized the rear so that the two American brothers could move freely.

Speaking of the United States, not long ago, Jiang Xian received several letters from the United States.

One of the letters was from Smith of HarperCollins Publishers. It started with greetings and then urged me to submit my manuscript.

Smith is eager to see the manuscript for the third Hunger Games film.

Jiang Xian had revealed to him before that there would not only be two “Hunger Games” movies, but also a third one.

Well, there’s actually a prequel.

In the letter, Smith told Jiang Xian that “The Hunger Games” is extremely popular in the United States.

Moreover, the popularity of this novel has gradually gone beyond the circle.

Even the political circles have taken notice of this novel.

1984 was a particularly sensitive year.

This year, Reagan had had enough of his job and it was time for a change of leadership.

This is often the time when the United States is most likely to cause trouble.

It just so happened that the novel “The Hunger Games” was very popular in the United States.

So in recent times, both Democrats and Republicans in the United States have been very people-friendly and mentioned the novel “The Hunger Games” in their speeches.

Democrats say: Katniss, the protagonist of “The Hunger Games”, is an out-and-out supporter of the Democratic Party. People who like this novel should understand the greatness of the Democratic Party.

When it was the Republicans’ turn to speak, they angrily criticized the Democrats for being a bunch of idiots who didn’t understand literature at all!

The story of “The Hunger Games” is clearly a criticism of the Democratic Party, criticizing them for wanting to destroy the US free market economy.

I even wrote an article specifically about this:
Freeing the Katniss in You

In short, people on both sides hold different opinions and neither can convince the other, except for the official confirmation from Jiang Xian, the original author.

In addition, the popular talk show “The Tonight Show” is well-known in the United States.

Later, they replaced the host with a man named Jimmy and changed the name to “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon”. They often invited a lot of celebrities, such as Lady Gaga, Avengers, and Trump.

Later, someone revealed that this host Jimmy was a workplace bully.
Of course, Jimmy is not the host at this moment.

Johnny, the third host in the show’s history, expressed his feelings during the show:
“That’s outrageous.”

“Do you know how outrageous our election is?”

“One sentence from the author of The Hunger Games can change the final outcome!”

“You know what’s even more outrageous?”

“This author is not even American!”

Jiang Xian also found it outrageous. How could he have become such an important figure inexplicably?

This means that he has returned to his country and is no longer there.

If he were still there, wouldn’t people from both sides be chasing him and giving him money to ask him to stand up and say a few words for their people?

Jiang Xian thought about it, what if his words were really useful?

Isn’t that the same as Musk?

First-class “merit of following the dragon”!
But it’s dangerous to think about it.

The water here is too deep.

Jiang Xian knew that even a time traveler couldn’t grasp it.

What kind of mysterious island is that over there? What kind of mysterious meeting is that over there?
oops.

It’s better not to get involved in this.

In addition to Smith’s letter, Jiang Xian’s agent Marshall was of course also in contact with him.

According to Marshall, the eight major film studios in Hollywood, including Warner, Paramount, Fox, Disney and Jiang Xian’s old friend MGM, were all chasing to adapt his novels “Castaway” and “The Hunger Games”, and the adaptation fees offered by each were higher than the other.

Marshall asked Jiang Xian what his opinion was.

Jiang Xian said that my family would not give it.

The film and television adaptations of “Castaway” and “The Hunger Games” were, as far as Jiang Xian knew, incredibly successful in later generations, or in the original historical trajectories, and were the kind that would go down in film history.

“Drifter” grossed $5.6 million worldwide.

The Hunger Games is even scarier.

The first film alone grossed $6.95 million. With the second, third and fourth films, plus the prequel, the entire series is simply a money-making machine, raking in nearly $30 billion at the global box office.

How scary.

What does a box office of 30 billion US dollars mean?
“Nezha 2” now has a box office of 20 billion US dollars.

The combined box office of the two IPs “Drifter” and “The Hunger Games” is probably equivalent to that of two “Nezha 2” films.

Jiang Xian has already handed over “Letter from an Unknown Woman” and “The Moon and Sixpence” to MGM.

He felt that the two films, “Drifter” and “The Hunger Games”, should be kept in his own hands, leaving these two big IPs comparable to “Nezha” to his “Today”.

Shanghai Railway Station.

It’s only August, and there’s still more than a month to go before National Day, but the train station is already preparing. This year marks the 8th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, and there will also be a military parade this year. It’s another military parade after 35 years, and the whole country is paying attention to it. Research and preparations began last year.

Red flags were hoisted and national flags were hung in the station, and portraits of leaders were posted. The station was solemn and dignified, just like before.

But if you look closely at the people coming and going, the colorful clothes and subtle decorations, as well as the literary newspapers and magazines that are always on hand, and the occasional bold joke, you can feel the desire to be released between closed and open.

“Comrade, where are you going?” A gay man chatted with another gay man who was waiting for the bus.

“I’m going to the capital.”

“What are you going for?”

“Revise the manuscript.”

Yu Hua was wearing short-sleeved shirt and sandals, his outfit couldn’t be more rustic, holding a copy of Harvest in his hand, and answered very immaturely: “My manuscript was picked up by the Beijing Literature, and they asked me to revise it.”

“Revise the manuscript? Really?” The other party looked at him suspiciously.

“Why did you lie to me?”

“What do you do?”

“dentisit.”

“A dentist can write articles? You’re just bragging.” The other party didn’t believe it at all, and glanced at the magazine in Yu Hua’s hand, “Have you finished reading this book “Harvest”?”

“I’ve finished it. I’ve watched it three times on the train.”

“Look at this.”

The other person took a magazine and said, “I’m going to take the bus. I’ll give you this magazine and you’ll give me this magazine. I haven’t read yours and you haven’t read mine. Let’s exchange them. No one will suffer. Is that okay?”

“Change?”

Yu Hua looked at him hesitantly, “What kind of magazine is this?”

“People’s Digest.”

The other person replied, “Take a look at it, it’s quite interesting.”

(End of this chapter)