Chapter 28 Fine-tuning
“All students in the province who win the first prize and score more than 90 points can participate in the finals.” Principal Chang said that he didn’t just ask people to come to the office just to praise you. His score is 97 points, and he is qualified to participate.”
Not only is he qualified, Gu Lu’s score is the highest in the preliminary competition in the past years.
Gu Lu nodded. He knew the event well and was all ears to hear the address of the offline finals.
"The second round of finals will be held on June 9th at Chengdu Experimental Foreign Language School in Sichuan and Chongqing." Principal Chang paused for a moment and continued, "Teacher Li told me about your family situation, classmate. , my parents are busy at work, so the cost of participating is borne by our school.”
Busy with work - that's a polite way of saying it, but I saved on the fare. I didn't expect such a gain. Gu Lu thanked the principal.
It’s not that I can’t afford it, but it’s more cost-effective to not use my own money.
"Teacher Li will accompany you then." Principal Chang said again.
Gu Lu said, "That would be a lot of trouble for Teacher Li."
"The 9th is a Saturday, which will not affect Teacher Li's class, let alone going to other provinces alone, the school will definitely be worried. "Principal Chang said, and then added, "It doesn't matter whether you win or not, just do your best."
The Ye Cup is originally a competition for middle and high school students, so school time must not be delayed. It is reasonable to deliberately arrange the offline finals on weekends.
“Be well prepared.” With Principal Chang’s instructions, this conversation ended.
On the way back, Teacher Li told Gu Lu that the first prize certificate would be sent from the capital, and the wait would take a little longer.
Is it so ceremonial? Gu Lu was surprised. He originally thought that the certificate was certified by the organizing committee, and then the school copied and presented the award itself.
"Gu Lu." Teacher Li suddenly shouted in a serious tone.
"What's the matter, Teacher Li?" Gu Lu raised his head and asked.
"Parents' failure to fulfill their duties is a kind of giving up." Teacher Li said, "Anyone can give up on you, but you must never give up on yourself."
Well, the sudden heart-to-heart talk... …"My parents have given up on me." The original person said this to Teacher Li when he was in the second grade of junior high school. He never thought that the latter would always remember it.
However, it also made the current Gu Lu quite embarrassed, and he didn't know how to respond. Fortunately, Teacher Li did not continue, but changed the subject.
He said: "I have a lot of books at home. If you want to read any books, tell me and I will bring them to you."
No. 37 Middle School may build a school library in the future, but at least for now there is no sign of it.
“Thank you, Teacher Li, I will write well in the competition.” Gu Lu said.
The character "eight" that he completed in high school has been written. Gu Lu also celebrated and went straight to the Jiugongmiao vegetable market after school in the afternoon.
The Jiugong Temple used to be called the Nine Turtle Temple. Legend has it that a deity descended to earth and turned into nine turtles, and the people built a temple for them... Don’t ask why the deities turned into turtles, ask: it is a thousand-year-old king and an 80,000-year-old tortoise. How can he live? Long.
"Buy half a catty of pork belly. Please cut it for me. I want to cook braised pork. Thank you." Gu Lu wandered around the meat stalls and finally chose one.
"How much does this cost?"
Even though he has lived for two generations, Gu Lu is still not very good at bargaining. It's not that he is not thick-skinned, but mainly... he can't tell.
I believe that many young people like to go to supermarkets to buy food. One of the main reasons is that there is no need to bargain, the prices are marked.
He spent a lot of money to buy pork belly and prawns. He originally wanted to buy some beef, but he was afraid that he would not be able to finish it all and it would be a waste, so Gu Lu gave up temporarily.
“Before time travel, I ordered takeout, but I always had big eyes and a small belly. I ordered too much and couldn’t finish it, and ended up wasting it.” Gu Lu despised himself in his heart, “Now you have learned a lesson!”
The braised pork soup is poured on the rice, which is so fragrant, and then a piece of meat is put into the mouth. "Pigs are indeed the greatest animals in the world, praise pigs!" Gu Lu kept eating one after another.
Especially if I bought it with my own money, even if my cooking skills are not as good as Gu’s father, I still have the blessing of filters.
“In the future, we don’t have to wait for that unreliable father to come home before we can eat meat.” Gu Lu ate himself until he was chubby again.
Going to high school must be far away from this room. Gu Lu thought about renting a house by himself when he went to high school. Gu Lu imagined the future, but he needed more money to support these arrangements.
Oh, by the way, Gu Lu not only bought groceries when he returned home, he also bought a magazine "Times Reasoning".
After all, many days ago, he submitted three of the mystery stories in "The Human Chair" to this publication.
"The submission of "Story Club" will have to wait for two days. There are still two articles with more than 10,000 words. It is better to finish them all before submitting them." Gu Lu lay down on the bed after dinner, where he usually sat. It was a sofa, but unfortunately it was scrapped.
Forgot to mention, Gu Lu changed the name of the article "Human Chair" to "Human Chair (Human Chair)", because in Japanese, "Human World" means human being, just like the famous "Transparent" "Human World", translated as transparent person...
Transcript, Gu Lu is serious.
Another example is Akechi Kogoro's treatment - if the story is directly localized, Akechi Kogoro can also directly change it to a Chinese name Zhang San Li Si Ti. It seems that it is all right, because this is the simplest method.
But "Akechi Kogoro" disappeared from this world, and Gu Lu felt a bit regretful.
Of course, what’s more important is that in Ranpo’s mystery novels, many crimes show the national character of the Neon people, and direct localization would be blunt.
If you don’t change it, you won’t be able to copy it completely. It’s very strange for a Chinese author to describe a neon detective.
So he added a small setting to Akechi Kogoro in "D Banpo Murder". Akechi Kogoro is a Chinese who went to study in Neon like Mr. Lu Xun. His real name is Wu Mingzhi;
After graduation, he deeply felt that the neon society could better provide the development of the detective industry, so he stayed directly and followed the Romans. He took the neon name "Akechi Kogoro". After all, it's the Neon Police who give detectives a chance...right Conan.
In addition to the above fine-tuning, Gu Lu even left a few "little habits".
To be honest, as the No. 1 mystery magazine in China, the upper limit of price is higher than that of "Story Club", and the lower limit is also lower, so there is a lot of room, 60-200 yuan per thousand words.
I don’t know how many quotes I can get.
Follow Gu Lu’s curiosity and take a look at the first trial——
"Times Reasoning" is also a bimonthly publication, with two editions published every month, namely the gold edition and the silver edition. The former accepts medium and long articles, and the latter accepts short stories.
The difference from the Story Club is that the supervisory units and even the addresses of the editorial departments of the two versions are completely different.
The former is the editorial department of Suiyues, published by Suiyues magazine in Youcheng, while the latter is a short story magazine located in Jiangcheng, Beiguo. The reason for this factor is not complicated. "The Reasoning of Time" was just a series of books at first, but because the brand was recognized by readers, it cooperated with different publishers and units.
Gu Lu submitted the gold version, so he reviewed it at the Time Editorial Department in Youcheng.
"Walker on the ceiling, a neon mystery story?" Han Zang, the preliminary editor, is also a senior mystery fan. He originally found this job just to see more mystery novels.
The idea is good, but treating your hobby as a job... Han Zang, who has been working for two years, regrets it because many of the submitted works are nonsense.
If he is just a reader, he can just skip it, but not as an editor.
"Let me see..."
(End of this chapter)