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Chapter 62: The Snow of Mount Everest (Please read, collect and recommend! ! !)
I was drowsy and heard a knock on the door.

Liu Jin fell on the fluffy sofa and struggled to get up.

"Teacher Julie?"

Liu Jin was a little surprised.

He didn't expect that it was Julie who came to see him.

But there was also a man with black hair accompanying him.

He is very handsome, with angular cheeks and wears a pair of black-rimmed glasses.

Judging from her age, she is not much different from Jolie.

Liu Jin felt that this person looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where.

"Adrian, my friend, is a doctor."

Julie introduced.

"Please come in. I just moved here, so it's still a bit messy."

Liu Jin let the two of them into the room.

It's just that he is top-heavy and walks a little unsteadily.

Adrien stepped forward to support him, taking the opportunity to put his hand on his forehead.

“I have a fever!”

He said to Julie.

Then he asked Liu Jin, "Where is the bedroom? You need to rest now."

Liu Jin was indeed dizzy, but he didn't force himself and pointed to the bedroom.

"What happened? Why do you have a fever?"

Julie was a little confused.

"I came home last night and forgot to turn on the heating. Then I was busy writing the outline and sorting out the relationships between the characters until dawn..."

"So, you caught a cold?"

"almost."

"I'll go get him some medicine. It's not a big problem."

Adrian put Liu Jin to bed, covered him with a blanket, and said to Julie.

Julie nodded and didn't bother to be polite with Adrian.

She stood by the bed and looked at Liu Jin.

Liu Jin's face was flushed, showing a sickly blush.

I remembered!

Adrian is teacher Julie's suitor.

If Liu Jin had not taken the lead back then, I guess Teacher Julie would have chosen him.

A very nice guy.

"You live in such a big house. It looks like you've made a lot of money."

Liu Jinqiang smiled and nodded, "I did make some money."

"This house is hard to find. How much is the rent?"

"I took it over from someone else... It was previously rented by a senior from our school named Tina. Didn't she go on an exchange program after the New Year? I took the opportunity to take it over. It's a really nice house, I like it very much."

"Tina, her life is indeed a bit..."

Teacher Julie obviously knew Tina.

She changed the subject and asked with a smile, "Any new works?"

"It's just an idea, not perfect yet."

"I really envy you for having so many inspirations..."

The two of them chatted about this and that.

Adrian came back with fever and cold medicine.

"Is he okay?"

"It's okay, just take some medicine and rest."

"Then I feel relieved..." Julie put the medicine aside and took out a bottle of mineral water.

Liu Jin really wanted to tell her to help boil some hot water.

But after thinking about it, I decided to forget it.

"Have a good rest. I will ask for leave for you. Don't worry about attendance."

"Thank you!"

"Then we'll go first, you can rest."

Julie and Adrian left.

Liu Jin lay on the bed.

He wanted to sleep, but couldn't.

All kinds of things from past and present lives emerged in his mind.

In a trance, he flew the plane to the top of Mount Everest and saw a red flag flying on the top of the mountain. It was beautiful!

……

When I woke up, it was pitch black.

it's getting dark.

He slept all day.

My body was covered in greasy sweat and I felt a little uncomfortable.

The temperature in the room was good though, very warm.

Liu Jin turned on the desk lamp and got out of bed.

The symptoms of lightheadedness have disappeared, but my body still feels a little weak.

The most important thing is that my stomach is rumbling.

Damn, I forgot to buy food!
There is still nothing at home.

Liu Jin took another fever-reducing pill and walked out of the bedroom.

I sat on the sofa for a while...

He suddenly stood up, walked to the door of the storage room, opened the door, pulled out the suitcase, and found two packs of instant noodles inside.

White Elephant brand!

It was his mother who stuffed it into his suitcase when he came to France.

However, after coming to France, I never thought about it again.

A bowl of fragrant instant noodles, without eggs or ham...but Liu Jin ate it with relish.

This is the taste of home!

After eating a big bowl of instant noodles, I felt much better. I took a hot shower in the bathroom. Although I was still a little dizzy, my overall state was much better.

Liu Jin turned on the TV.

It was a local Toulouse channel, and they were showing an old movie.

Liu Jin is very familiar with it.

"Escape from the Tiger's Mouth"!
He watched with amusement, and suddenly the dream came to his mind.

Snow on Kilimanjaro?
Liu Jin suddenly had an idea, stood up, walked into the study, and turned on the computer.

The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a very famous short story by Hemingway.

It tells the story of a writer Harry who went hunting in Africa. His car broke down, his skin was punctured, and he contracted gangrene.

He and his lover were waiting for a plane to take him to the hospital for treatment.

The novel revolves around death and impending death.

But the theme is indeed a review of Harry's journey from the past to the present.

He loves the world and he has a lot of experiences.

He has worked in different professions and experienced different women. He wanted to write all of this down, but he hasn't had time to start.

The end of the story: Harry flew to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa...

This is a work that discusses death.

The entire novel is constructed by dialogues between characters, and the style is extremely simple.

Full text, 8760 words!
Liu Jin remembered that dream.

He remembered the feeling.

He remembered his emotions at the moment of death in his previous life.

Sitting down in front of the computer, he began typing frantically.

However, this book is not called "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", but he changed its name to "The Snows of Everest".

He has never been to Africa, that's easy to find out.

But he can write XZ.

For Europeans, XZ is a magical land that is more mysterious and attractive than Africa.

Snowy plateau...

The time is October 1945, after Japan's defeat and surrender.

Harry is still a writer, having escaped from a Japanese concentration camp.

He embarked on the journey to XZ to seek sainthood.

Harry in "The Snow on Everest" is a down-and-out third-rate American writer.

Unable to survive in the country, he took a boat from San Francisco to Shanghai on the eve of the July 1937 Incident in .

He has worked as a broker and a swindler.

From being a distinguished guest in the foreign concessions, he gradually became a prisoner in an isolated island concentration camp.

He had been proud, he had been disappointed, he had suffered, he...

He had countless romantic encounters in Shanghai, with women from China, Europe and America, Belarus, North Korea, and Japan... But when he came out of the concentration camp, he had nothing left, and only his Chinese lover was left to accompany him to the snowy plateau.

Injured on the way, tetanus, gangrene.

When Chiang Kai-shek's government heard that Harry, an American, was in danger in Tibet, it sent out troop transport planes to rescue Harry.

While waiting, Harry confided in his lover.

He wanted to write a book about his life experiences.

Unfortunately, he fell asleep before the plane arrived.

In his dream, he flew a plane to the top of Mount Everest and saw the body of a Chinese man standing in the wind and snow, facing the sunshine.

No one knows how he climbed Mount Everest!

……

The ending of "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is a leopard.

But in "The Snow of Mount Everest", there is only one person...

It’s hard to say which is higher or lower.

But Liu Jin feels that humans are more shocking than animals.

In this short story, he used 14,000 words, almost twice as many as in the original work.

While creating, Liu Jin's inspiration seemed to explode.

It took him three days, three days... to write these fourteen thousand words.

Then I lay on the bed, not wanting to move at all.

The whole person became even weaker to the extreme.

This was his first attempt at a large-scale modification.

The theme is still death and waiting for death, mixed with a lot of stream-of-consciousness writing methods, and at the same time it does not deviate from the "grace under pressure" for which Hemingway is famous.

In his opinion, the novel was a success.

As for whether it will be accepted by Westerners, we will leave it to fate.

The doorbell rang.

Liu Jin got up from the bed drowsily and opened the door.

"Brother Jin, are you well again? I couldn't get through to you on the phone, so I asked the teacher and found out you were sick!"

Sun Yue and Liu Sisi rushed in.

Behind them followed Yang Dongqi and Dadong, as well as Pao Jie and Selina.

Liu Jin shrugged his nose.

"What food did you bring?"

"Brother Dongqi bought fried rice from the Shandong Restaurant and specifically told the owner that he wanted Chinese-style fried rice."

"Bring it here quickly, I'm starving."

Liu Jin was starving and waved repeatedly.

He didn't feel much while writing, and he managed to get through three days by relying on the instant noodles left by his mother.

But he was starving.

"What's wrong with you? Are you a starving ghost reincarnated?"

"I've been eating instant noodles for three days."

"Didn't you just get your royalties? Why are you so broke?"

"I'm writing a book, and I'm afraid my inspiration will disappear, so I just do it at home."

Liu Jin ate the fried rice with big mouthfuls, but his face was filled with a bright smile...

(End of this chapter)