Zhang Zhong was pulled by her and asked, "Why are you going?"

Xu Yuhan pointed upstairs, "You forgot, you still have unfinished tasks."

Seeing her pointing upstairs, Zhang Zhong suddenly realized that he indeed still had a task to complete, which was to paint a painting for Xu Yuhan.

But since the proposal was already completed, he simply forgot about it.

"Don't think that just because I agreed to your proposal, I can stop doing this." Xu Yuhan said with a pout.

"Didn't you say you were here to make amends?"

"I'm the one making up for it, so you should be there to help too."

"Help, that's easy to say."

…

Zhang Zhong originally thought that helping would be enough to pass things around, but he didn't expect that the workload exceeded his imagination.

Xu Yuhan didn't do anything at all, he only directed from the side and let him do all the work.

Xu Yuhan will tell him how to mix colors, how much paint to apply and where to use it.

The most important thing is that originally Zhang Zhong only had to draw Xu Yuhan, but Xu Yuhan felt that such a large wall should be fully utilized, so he added some more designs, put Zhang Zhong in, and added another one next to the two

Some views.

The workload suddenly doubled several times.

Zhang Zhong estimated that according to her plan, the work would take several weeks.

Xu Yuhan smiled and comforted Zhang Zhong and said, "There's no need to rush now, we can take our time."

Zhang Zhong wanted to cry but had no tears. This was a hole he dug himself. He had to fill the hole he dug himself. He couldn't blame others.

…

The next day, when Zhang Zhong woke up, he recalled a book he had smoked before going to bed last night.

He hasn't picked up a book for a long time, and he has published two more of his own works in succession, so he has accumulated a lot of points.

With the idea of ​​​​"playing", he picked up a "playing" novel.

What he drew was a science fiction novel, an atypical science fiction novel.

If someone had told him in advance that he would draw a science fiction novel, he could think of many famous science fiction novels, but he would never think of the book he was drawn.

This book is called "Cat City", and the author is Lao She.

Yes, this science fiction novel was written by Lao She, who wrote "Camel Xiangzi", "Four Generations Under One Roof" and "Teahouse".

If you have not seen "Cat City", I am afraid that most people will not associate Lao She with science fiction.

Of course, some people think that "Cat City" is not a science fiction novel.

But Zhang Zhong feels that most people with this kind of thinking have too many prejudices against science fiction themes.

"Cat City" is a first-person novella. The story mainly tells the story of "I" flying to Mars on a plane, but the plane crashed the moment it hit Mars. Only "I" survived.

Here, "I" met a group of aliens with cat faces and were taken to Cat City by them.

Cat people have a long history, with a civilization lasting more than 20,000 years.

After "I" arrived at Cat City, I witnessed a war with my own eyes, and the war ended with the overthrow of Cat City.

Many people think that "Cat City" has some prophetic qualities. This book was written in 1932, but it accurately predicted some things that happened later.

Of course, these prophecies have nothing to do with theology, but are just Lao She's predictions of the future based on the current situation at that time.

In Zhang Zhong's view, although "Cat City" seems to reflect the era at that time, this book has the universality of the times. Even now, it is still a great work and will not

It was eliminated because of the times.

In other words, even if you read this book apart from that era, you can still feel the power of this book.

The issues reflected in the book are things that people of every era should think about.

The full text of this book is about 70,000 to 80,000 words, and it is in Zhang Zhong's mind, but he is not in a hurry to copy it out, because he has other things to do today.

Hilde, the chairman of the World Science Fiction Association, came to Jiangyang. This time he came to discuss with the Jiangyang Science Fiction Association in detail about the branch of the World Science Fiction Association.

This originally had nothing to do with Zhang Zhong, but the Jiangyang government may have thought that it would be better if Hilde came in person and asked Zhang Zhong to come.

Since there was less than a day in total, Zhang Zhong agreed.
Chapter completed!