Having lost a huge amount of wealth, Chu Li had lost half of her energy. Then, she was dragged by Zhu Chuan into Mr. Herman's villa listlessly. The villa was very large, with a courtyard in front of the door. There were green grass and ponds in the courtyard, and there were statues placed in a very humanistic atmosphere...

Not far away there is a cool corridor made of grape racks. There are rattan chairs, sofas and coffee tables under the corridor. It looks like a unique place for meeting guests.

Chu Li took two steps and focused her attention on the cobblestone road. She walked for a while and felt the man leading the way suddenly stop. She was stunned and looked up at Zhu Chuan, but found that the man was looking at the grape vines...

"What's wrong?"

Chu Li curiously followed his gaze and saw Jiang Yucheng and Gu Baizhi sitting on the sofa.

Chu Li: "..."

I took a deep breath and couldn't help looking back at the road I had come: Could it be that I had stepped into hell without knowing it?

Zhuchuan, on the other hand, looked calm and unperturbed. He put his hands in his pockets and walked over with steady steps to kick Jiang Yucheng: "Didn't you get kicked out yesterday? Why did you come back so shamelessly today?"

"Because I'm shameless. And over there," Jiang Yucheng pointed at Gu Baizhi, "there's someone even more shameless than me. He insisted on saving the body even though it was cold. After returning to the hotel last night, I had a long phone call with Mr. Herman's translator, explaining the matter of that crappy translator and using moral kidnapping at the same time."

Chu Li looked at Gu Baizhi.

Gu Baizhi took over the topic expressionlessly: "I say, a man as righteous as Mr. Hermann would definitely not let a young man full of dreams of literary creation lose his dream because of some small misunderstandings."

Chu Li: "..."

It's really a moral kidnapping.

Chu Chuan was also very good at grasping the key points: "Youth... people in their thirties can still be called youth? Then what am I, a teenager?"

Gu Baizhi faked a smile: "Later, Mr. Herman said that you will also come to visit him today. It's a good opportunity for everyone to have some fun. If you have anything to say, sit down and chat together... In fact, I didn't explain too much to him. We are all adults. Can't you tell whether some accidents are intentional? When we collaborated on "The Strange Bird on the Branch", I didn't mention the book "The Sky Tracks Carved by Dragons". I mentioned it deliberately now. Am I stupid?"

Gu Baizhi smiled calmly, as if everything was under her control.

Jiang Yucheng saw that she had excellent acting skills and did not expose how furious she was when she called Xindun Society last night and yelled at the president of Xindun Society like a shrew without any reason. He asked the society to immediately find a regular Turkish translator for her to perform a rescue whitewashing. Otherwise, when they received the Turkish air ticket reimbursement form, they would also receive her resignation letter.

...It's hard to imagine what kind of anger and conspiracy she suppressed during the day as she calmly visited tourist attractions.

Zhuo Chuan was also very open-minded. He sat down next to Jiang Yucheng without thinking about it. The two of them drank tea and chatted while waiting for Mr. Herman. But Chu Li started to think -

I originally thought Jiang Yucheng was dead.

Unexpectedly, he suddenly came back to life.

What does this mean?

It is definitely not what people say on the surface that Gu Baizhi has a special ability to whitewash or something. To whitewash, people need to listen. It is obvious that Gu Baizhi's proactive apology only gave both parties a stepping stone...

The real reason was that Herman was still interested in Jiang Yucheng and did not want to give up the possibility of cooperating with him.

——So now comes the problem.

How much intention do Herman and Jiang Yucheng have to cooperate?

Is it bigger than Zhuochuan?

Indeed, to be honest, from the perspective of the worldview structure of the two works currently being serialized, the twists and turns of the story, and the combination with Herman's personal style, perhaps "The Vanishing Emperor Girl", which was prepared for Herman from the beginning, is more favored by him...

Thinking of this, Chu Li had to be extremely alert and seriously consider everything that might happen next.

She had naively thought that the war between Zhuchuan and Jiang Yucheng had ended quietly, but she didn't expect that it had just begun!

Chu Li tugged at the corner of Zhao Chuan's clothes and said, "Be a good person."

Zhuochuan responded lazily, looking like he had no energy at all. Chu Li wanted to beat him in the head.

A moment later, Chu Li and Zhuo Chuan were led by Mr. Herman's butler to sit under the grape vines. At this time, the vines were already full of fruits. Chu Li raised his hand curiously and touched one of the bunches. The butler smiled and took out a pair of scissors from somewhere, cut the bunch of grapes directly, washed them, and brought them over.

Hot tea and snacks were also served.

No one had any appetite until Mr. Herman showed up... Chu Li just picked up the hot teacup and took a sip of tea, looking around until she was a little distracted. Then, with a flash of her eyes, she saw a figure with a cane slowly walking towards them.

Chu Li stood up first and kicked Zhu Chuan.

Then everyone under the grape vine trellis stood up.

"Everyone, take a seat."

After Mr. Herman said something, the translator beside him spoke from a distance. After everyone was seated, Chu Li dared to look at Mr. Herman openly: he was a little fatter than he looked on TV, his complexion was not as good as on TV, he dressed very elegantly, and with his beard, he looked like a handsome old man.

——This is the internationally renowned director, internationally renowned writer and screenwriter, Hermann.

When shaking hands with him, Chu Li felt like she was living in a dream: when Keyi had just graduated, if someone had told her that one day she would be able to shake Mr. Herman's hand in person, she would have sneered and told that person to wake up.

Now she has done it.

Standing in front of Mr. Herman.

"What are you excited about?" Zhuochuan leaned towards Chuli.

"Nice to meet you, sir." Chu Li glanced at him and said, "I was also so excited when I first met you."

"And then?"

“Disillusionment.”

“…”

After Mr. Herman took his seat, everyone stopped their pleasant chatter and waited quietly for him to start speaking... At the same time, the translator beside him began to translate simultaneously -

"I know the purpose of your visit today. I am deeply honored by your active, positive and enthusiastic intention to cooperate with me," the translator said slowly. "We have had appreciation and some misunderstandings, but these are not problems. I am still full of confidence in our future cooperation. I have a feeling that this will be one of the best works in my personal creative career..."

A wave of business praise.

Next, Mr. Herman ignored Jiang Yucheng and the others for the time being.

Instead, I chose to talk to Chu Chuan very politely about his work.

Originally, today was the home game that Chu Chuan and his friends had agreed to play, so there was nothing wrong with Mr. Herman doing this.

This process took about half an hour to an hour. Mr. Herman asked in detail about the worldview structure of "The Love Story of a Sword and a Peach Blossom". When Zhao Chuan amiably talked about the Fox Tribe, Wing Tribe and Xi Tribe in his novel in the image of "gentle and jade-like Mr. Chuan", Chu Li looked at the translator sympathetically. In the end, the translator endured and asked Zhao Chuan embarrassedly: "Excuse me, can the Xi Tribe be translated as the mermaid tribe?"

Zhuchuan glanced at him and said, "It's okay, I'll do it."

Next is the Turkish show-off mode.

Chu Li could obviously feel that the moment Zhuochuan spoke Turkish, Mr. Herman was obviously confused for a moment, and he almost couldn't hide his awakening from the serious conversation. He raised his eyes, looked at Zhuochuan, and asked something.

What did Chu Chuan answer?

Chu Li: "..."

I couldn't understand a word and was so anxious that I wanted to hang myself.

In a hurry, Chu Li looked for help at the idle translator. In order to make everyone less embarrassed, Chu Li chose to chat with him: "What did they say?"

"Mr. Herman asked Mr. Chuan why he learned Turkish, which was so shocking," the translator repeated with a paralyzed face. "Mr. Chuan said that Mr. Herman was an author he respected very much, and in order to read Mr. Herman's works and learn more about his deeds, he chose to learn Turkish."

Jiang Yucheng: "..."

Gu Baizhi: “…”

At the beginning of the ceremony, I wanted to stand up and applaud for Chu Chuan and play music.

Well done!!!!

To be honest, Mr. Herman must have been tired of this kind of flattery, but it was definitely the first time he had encountered such a heartfelt flattery from a foreigner who did not speak the same language as him in his native language.

Mr. Herman is enjoying it very much... It can be seen from the inclination of his body as he gradually leans towards Chuanchuan -

In this situation, even Gu Baizhi could only chew on dried grapes and worry: "Why don't you think about learning Turkish?"

Jiang Yucheng: "I'm not as free as Chuan Chuan."

Gu Baizhi: "One more skill means one more way to make a living."

Jiang Yucheng: "I never thought that one day I would lose my job and have to survive by speaking Turkish."

Gu Baizhi: "Have you figured it out now? Zhuo Chuan is using Turkish, who knows whether it's authentic or not, to destroy your job."

Listening to their annoying conversation, Chu Li also threw a grape into her mouth. She felt so happy that even though she didn't understand, she pretended to listen very carefully and looked at Zhuochuan and Herman with a smile. Later, when she recalled it, it was probably the kind smile of an old mother who said, "My son has grown up."

…

About an hour later.

Mr. Herman finally concluded his cordial exchange with Zhuchuan, during which the two laughed constantly and were very harmonious. The seeds of cooperation took root and sprouted, and the couple was thriving.

Until Mr. Herman's body tilted slightly to the middle, indicating that his private conversation with Zhuchuan had ended, he looked at Gu Baizhi and Jiang Yucheng——

"Today I invite you two to my private residence. To be honest, I am ready to choose a partner from among you two..." Mr. Herman said slowly, "and as far as I know, both of you have outstanding and excellent achievements in your respective fields of expertise."

Mr. Herman paused. “But as a man of letters, these are just empty names.”

He slowly glanced at the young authors who were gathered around his table: "As literary creators, be loyal to your heart, your soul, and your own eyes. I will no longer ask you what honors you have won in the past. Sitting here today, you should be the collaborators I am looking for, standing at the same starting line."

Chu Li sat up straight.

Gu Baizhi on the opposite side rolled his eyes and looked at Chu Li quietly.

At the same time, they heard Mr. Herman slowly say:

"As a senior, or a teacher, I think I still have some ability to enable you young creators to do something, and I will also select the final collaborators from this... and writers should have their own way of winning."

Mr. Herman stood up with his cane and looked around the courtyard.

Finally, I fixed my gaze on the pond that no one had paid much attention to when I entered the yard.

"There is a fish in the pond, the only one. Write an article based on it," Mr. Herman said. "In three hours, I look forward to your work surprising me. In the meantime, I am here to meet my friends from the far East."

Stop talking.

The four people sitting at the table were left bewildered.

He turned and walked away.

It was unknown whether Zhaochuan and Jiang Yucheng were too shocked or under too much pressure, but no one said anything. Chu Li looked at Gu Baizhi, who said dryly, "Why are you looking at me? I haven't written a composition for ten years, and I'm still talking about pictures..."

Chu Li wanted to say that I am the same.

Then he turned his head silently to look at the two writers who had been forced to take up arms and thrown into the arena without saying a word. After thinking for a while, he said: "The face of the entire Chinese literary world depends on you, you..."

Zhuchuan changed his sitting position and said casually: "My mind is blank."

Jiang Yucheng: "Me too, it seems that the Chinese literary world will come to an end today."

Chu Li, Gu Baizhi: "..."