The second volume is full of glory and splendor in the capital, and the spirit is full of vitality in the foggy city. Chapter 180: Xiaobaiwen (Part 1)
This chapter's subtitle: "Fights Break Sphere" is not something that can't be plagiarized!
Sunday evening, April 24, 1921.
"Fighting Force, Level 3!"
"The young man stared at the five dazzling, almost blinding characters on the Test Magic Stone Stele. His face remained expressionless, a hint of self-mockery at the corner of his lips. He clenched his fists tightly, and due to the force he applied, his slightly sharp nails dug deep into his palms, causing waves of piercing pain..."
"...The moment he looked up , the ancient black ring on his finger suddenly lit up with an extremely faint and strange light. The light disappeared in the blink of an eye, without attracting anyone's attention..."
"Okay, kids. It's already half an hour past bedtime, time to go brush your teeth!"
"No, Mom. We want to listen to Uncle Neo's stories!"
"Mom, my dear mom. Let's go to bed late today."
"Mom, please. Uncle Neo's stories are so good, please listen with us."
The heartless mother shook her head grimly and said, "No, if you don't sleep now, how are you going to go to school tomorrow?"
"Mom..." The three children's faces immediately wrinkled.
Uncle Neo, who was sitting nearby, coughed and said, "Kids, how about this? Go to bed now, and you can read the next ten chapters tomorrow morning. What do you think?"
The three delicate little kids put their heads together and discussed it for a while. The eldest, who was twelve years old, turned around and said, "We don't accept this suggestion..."
"Uncle...um, Mr. Yuan, we want twenty chapters!"
"Twenty chapters..." Uncle Neo looked embarrassed. He frowned and thought for a long time before nodding. He gritted his teeth and said fiercely, "Okay, Mr. and Miss Brooks! I will write twenty chapters for you tonight."
"Oh yeah!" The three children cheered at the same time.
The second oldest ten-year-old girl rolled her eyes and suddenly threw herself on Uncle Neo, raised her hand and raised her pinky finger, saying, "Uncle, let's make a pinky promise!"
Uncle Neo patted her little head lovingly, raised his pinky finger and said with a smile, "Okay, let's make a pinky promise!"
The youngest boy, who was eight years old, also rushed over, climbed onto Uncle Neo's knees, hugged his neck, kissed him on the cheek and said, "Uncle Neo, I love you! Because you are the best uncle among all my uncles..."
"Thomas!" Ms. Brooks's pretty face flushed, a rare blush. She pointed outside the door and shouted, "And you two, both of you, go upstairs and sleep!"
"Good night, Mom."
"Good night, Uncle Neo. Don't forget to continue writing 'Fights Break Sphere'!"
"Don't worry, kids. Good night."
“Click.”
Ms. Brooks closed the door, turned around, leaned against it, and looked at our Master Yuan with pale eyes. She said, "Neo, I can't believe there's a writer living in my house now!"
Your home was once home to the United States Expeditionary Forces Headquarters.
Yuan Yanshu certainly wouldn't say something sour. He smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying, "As a writer, I can only live in your house now."
The beautiful and wealthy girl came over, took his hand and placed it on her face, saying lovingly, "Nio, you can stay as long as you want, even..."
I don't want to live here with you forever...
Well, although our Master Yuan thinks this place is really nice, this is the first time in this life... or these two lives that he has lived the life of a truly rich man.
Don’t let poverty limit your imagination. A truly wealthy person doesn’t live a life of luxury, but rather... convenience and pomp!
Yuan Yan suddenly experienced life on Downton Abbey and realized why his fiancée Wei Mingzhu, his mistress Ms. Brooks, and Huang Huilan, all true daughters of wealthy families, would travel with double-digit servants. No wonder even his fiancée had complained about the small size of their 180-square-meter river-view apartment.
Because convenience and pomp are created by employing people... by well-trained servants.
As the saying goes, it's easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it's hard to go from luxury to frugality. At first, he felt it was a bit strange to have someone do everything for him and even think about everything in advance, but after just a few days of living here, he got used to it and even liked this kind of life.
However, he was an ambitious time traveler.
It's nice to live a carefree life in a wealthy and comfortable place, but where's the excitement of fooling celebrities and changing history?
Our Master Yuan has become addicted to this feeling, and he is a little uncomfortable with not having so many historical celebrities around him.
During these few days, he became familiar with his mistress's three children, and naturally became a children's literature writer.
In fact, Yuan Yanshu did not do it on purpose. He had never considered such a low-quality thing as children's literature before.
It's just that he recently acquired over a million B-coins, with Einstein alone providing him with nearly a third of them. The only bottleneck holding back his "creative speed" is... rationality.
His current writing speed is already astonishing, and his previous works can be said to be the result of accumulated experience, but if he continues at this pace, it will be difficult to justify himself. Moreover, it is not a good thing for an author to have too many works, as it will make him look less valuable.
He is not Balzac, who needs to rely on writing novels to pay off his debts; he is not Gu Long, who cannot even pay the lady's stage fee without writing novels.
So he decided to slow down his "creative speed".
But he has "shopping spree syndrome" and was bored these days, so he started drawing randomly.
It's true that he has produced some good works, but these good works definitely need the right time or place.
Of course, most of the things he drew were a mess, including things he had read or heard of before, including quite a few online novels.
It was at this time that Ms. Brooks' three children learned that a guest had come to their house and pestered him to tell them stories.
Our... well, it was their Uncle Neo who had a sudden inspiration and translated a book that later became famous, "Fights Break Sphere"... you know the Chinese title, into English and read it to them, and the effect was very good.
While he was telling the children about "Battle Through the Heavens," he actually came to the conclusion that some of the "xiaobai" (small, unsophisticated) literature was actually children's literature...
Don't get me wrong, he doesn't mean to look down on amateur writing at all, but a lot of amateur writing really does meet the definition of children's literature.
What is children's literature?
"Gulliver's Travels" is children's literature, "Oliver Twist" is also children's literature; "Alice in Wonderland" is children's literature, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is also children's literature; "Harry Potter" is children's literature, and "Fights Break Sphere" is actually also children's literature.
Works written specifically for children are just a part of children's literature.
In a broad sense, children's literature refers to any literature for all ages that has a positive and healthy theme, does not pursue sensory stimulation, and has a plot, text, and logic (if any) that children can understand.
It is true that if you write without thinking, you will be lost. With this summary, Yuan Hongjian understood why he would fail a hundred years later.
