Wenhao: This child has been smart since he was young

Chapter 139 There is no good or bad

Why did it take two days to get it? Because the book in Yu Xinyao's hand was sent to him by the publishing house, free of charge.

It’s not that Yu Xinyao is stingy and reluctant to spend money on a book. It’s mainly because since he became famous, whether it’s a publishing house or an author who wants him to comment, they will take the initiative to send the book to him. It has become an unwritten rule.

Money is not important, what is important is the process.

Yu Xinyao never reads book covers, prefaces, introductions, etc. As for the preface - if there is a preface, then he can read the author's own preface, but there is no need for his preface.

Because his personal opinion is that the most terrible thing about reading novels is to have preconceived ideas and hold other people's opinions. For any content, you have to rely on yourself to find it in the book...

"It should be the preface, a short paragraph." Yu Xinyao saw the author dedicating the book to him, "It's quite interesting. All adults were once children, but only a few of them remember this. It's a sentence that's worth chewing."

Now it’s time to have the main meal. The story of The Little Prince is relatively weak.

Yu Xinyao's paintings with pictures are quite interesting to watch. For example, the little prince asked me to help draw a sheep. I was not satisfied after two or three attempts. Finally, I lost my patience and doodled a square cardboard box.

[This is a cardboard box. The sheep you want is inside.] The little prince actually believed the words he said to the child, and he smiled happily.

"It's such a childish perspective, and it really seems like something a child would believe," said Yu Xinyao, who read two pages before returning to the book.

Why do the children and the little prince believe it? Because they believe you, and they believe that you, as an adult, really drew a cardboard box with a sheep in it.

Adults, including him, take advantage of children's "belief" to deceive them, and at the end they say that only children will believe it.

"The more I think about it, the more interesting it becomes. I hope I'm not over-imagining things." Yu Xinyao became interested and read on. He discovered that The Little Prince is essentially a road novel, with the little prince's footsteps as the main storyline.

For the first time, Yu Xinyao discovered that a child’s perspective could be so unique. There are billions of roses in the world, but if you fall in love with a flower, then it is unique in the vast universe.

King Planet, Vainglory Planet, Drunkard Planet, Merchant Planet, Lamplighter Planet, Geographer Planet...

As a professional and foul-mouthed literary critic, Yu Xinyao usually reads novels with a critical eye, looking at aspects such as structure, connotation, writing style and story.

But when reading "The Little Prince", I was looking forward to the description of the world observed by the little prince.

It’s not that this fairy tale is so outstanding, it’s just... it doesn’t matter whether it’s good or bad, it just feels interesting.

For example, Geographer Planet, this geographer who claims to know everything, never leaves his office and he only gets information from explorers.

"It is amazing that the saying 'Practice makes perfect' can be portrayed from such an innocent perspective," said Yu Xinyao.

Not only that, he also met a fox later, and the conversation between the little prince and the fox was full of golden sentences!
"No wonder Old Jian was determined to promote it on Weibo even at the cost of his own reputation. Now I understand." Yu Xinyao put down the book.

After reading The Little Prince, he felt that his heart was baptized. Different from reading Ordinary World and Notes from Underground, The Little Prince gave him the same feeling as a social animal who worked hard all day and then sat on a park bench in a daze, recalling that he used to run around on the lawn, just like the naughty kid in front of him. Bathed in childhood memories, it seemed that the "living corpse spots" on his body had dissipated a lot.

But can I say that I felt some profound truth? No, I just saw society from another perspective.

“Who did the illustrations? The pictures in this book account for 40 percent of the credit.” Yu Xinyao turned to the front page, which had information about the editor-in-charge, special editor, etc., and then he saw [Picture: Gu Lu].

The picture was also drawn by this author? That would be interesting.

"Yes, the pictures and text are so complete, only the original author can do it."

“There is such a book…” Yu Xinyao stopped talking halfway and decided to write a book review directly!
Yu Xinyao's book reviews are not published on Weibo or public accounts. Not to mention the monthly magazine "Literary Review", which is published once a month and is too slow in timeliness. He also has columns in "ordinary" paper media such as "Capital Daily" and "People's Literature Daily".

Just as President Jian had said to Gu Lu before, The Little Prince is visibly settling down. I can't say that everyone who has read it thinks it's good, but at least ninety-five out of a hundred readers think it's good.

The word of mouth among passers-by is also fermenting——

"Dad, I want to buy this book!"

"I bought you 100,000 Unsolved Mysteries. After you finish reading it, buy a new book. Otherwise, it will be piled up on the bookshelf without being finished. How pitiful it is."

“I just want to buy it.”

A conversation between a father and his son in Xinhua Bookstore. The father is a painter who just turned 30. He happened to have no work today, so he accompanied his son Xiaohao to buy books. "One Hundred Thousand Unsolved Mysteries" is a book that Xiaohao has wanted for a long time, because his classmates all have it...

When children are in fourth or fifth grade of elementary school, the criterion for whether they want something or not is whether their classmates have it.

Everything was going very smoothly, but when checking out at the counter, Xiao Hao saw the Little Prince book cover placed together with the Little Prince books.

A book cover is a layer of transparent plastic wrapped around the textbook cover. Of course, there is a more cost-effective way. Just find harder paper at home, cut it into a suitable shape, and wrap it directly.

Xiao Hao doesn't care what kind of book it is. He likes the book cover. There is a series: there is a planet with a rose planted on it, there is a small planet with a king sitting on it, and so on. If you buy a book, you can get a book cover for free.

"So insidious!"

The painter father thought to himself, why bother writing books instead of doing these weird things?
"Excuse me, can I buy this book cover separately?" The painter father saw through the child's thoughts at a glance and got to the point.

"I'm sorry, this is a gift. We don't sell it individually. But this book is very nice. If you buy it, I can give you two book covers." The salesperson made an offer that the child could not refuse.

"Dad, two!" Xiao Hao was even more excited.

"To look good, would you use such unorthodox methods?!" The painter father picked up a copy of "The Little Prince" and started flipping through it.

Anyone who has been to Xinhua Bookstore knows that, in order to make it easier for more readers to read, almost all the books have been unwrapped and are "old books" that can be flipped through, and there are quite a lot of them.

A quick look revealed that the painter dad had indeed put in that thought, with as many pictures as words.

Of course, the painter father was not surprised, because all children's books are like this, and some books have more words than pictures.

Suddenly the painter dad saw a line of words -

[“One day,”

"I saw forty-four sunsets!"

“You know, when people are sad, they fall in love with sunsets.”

...]
Hmm? Wait, why does this taste a little different? The painter dad was stunned. He often worked until the evening, so he usually had lunch and dinner outside.

During dinner, he was afraid of seeing dusk, as he always felt that it would be dark again without him doing anything.

So the painter dad won't fall in love with the sunset, but he can understand this feeling very well.

Why does this sentence appear in a fairy tale for children? The painter father couldn't help but start reading from the middle...

(End of this chapter)