The Goddess Shines on America

After not being in New York City for many years, and coming to Manhattan today, Alice suddenly felt that the sky had changed.

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the Rockefeller Center Plaza, and the NYPD police officers were all dispatched part-time, desperately trying to direct the traffic. The marchers, the onlookers, the endless stream of vehicles and the busy figures of the police made many passers-by have to turn around every step of the way. Everything was too lively.

"Rockefeller Center... was finally acquired by the Japanese."

It was in this central business district, in the editor-in-chief's office of Bantam Books, a high-rise skyscraper, that Alice looked out the window with her hands behind her back. Even at an altitude of 100 meters, the noise and shouts on the ground can still be clearly heard, and with Alice's vision, the large characters on the billboards are also very clear.

"Yes, Mitsubishi Land Corporation paid 1.3 billion US dollars and bought 80% of the shares of 14 buildings." Editor-in-Chief Domingo stood beside her and looked out the window together: "Director Speck The head is also parading below, and he even mobilized 20% of the company's employees to go down with him, so when you come in, you will find that there are many people missing."

"Japan's economic development has indeed made them quite arrogant." Alice said calmly: "But they can't get much benefit. Real estate is a pure real estate resource in Japan, but it is just a financial product in the United States. You If you have read the relevant information, you will know that almost all of their overseas real estate investments in the past few years have lost money."

This kind of thing, how can Domingo, a book editor, understand, but as a person in the book media industry, he has not forgotten who is standing next to him.

"So, Mitsubishi must have to spit out all these dozen buildings?"

Alice sneered: "And it's still a big loss!"

For the girl's words, Domingo firmly remembered. He is an old stock investor. While the acquisition was still in progress, he sold some stocks appropriately and bought some Japanese stocks with special care. But now it seems that it is better for me to invest in short positions in Japanese stocks as soon as possible.

"Editor-in-chief, editor-in-chief!" There was a knock on the door, and an editor opened the door: "Editor-in-chief, Ms. Wang, we have signed a contract with Kodansha, and the Japanese translation of "The Sorcerer's Stone" is about to begin!"

When the news arrived, the two people in the room had no time to continue chatting, and hurried out of the room to join the crowd. Regardless of the fact that 20% of the employees were paraded through the streets by the chairman, of course the normal operation of the company cannot be delayed, can it?

At 10:30 a.m. EST, Alice's first job after arriving in New York was to deal with her second and third affairs in the book industry, which had almost become a routine. As for the secretary Monica, at the request of the boss, she immediately went to choose a location for Vanda's US branch.

A global real estate company, starting from the UK and expanding overseas, is of course one left and one right. The whole of Europe is within easy reach and can be handed over to the headquarters in London. As for the United States, of course it is most appropriate to set up a branch in New York. Anyway, the nature of the company is also here. When another commercial plaza is completed, are you afraid that you will not be able to spare a floor for office space?

Then, there is the issue of multilingual publication of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

"I don't care about other small languages, but for Japanese, I have to translate it myself." Alice slammed the draft contract on the table, and said, "English culture and East Asian culture, especially Japanese, have a lot of expressions. It’s different, even if I ask a Japanese to translate this book for me, who knows how he can understand my original meaning? Let me do this job myself!”

It was completely unexpected, so that the editors around were all frightened. They were really just showing Alice the draft contract, why did they suddenly put forward such an exaggerated condition! ?

"Miss Wang, I know your Japanese is good, and you have written this Japanese-style mystery novel before." Today is different, Brown is no longer an ordinary editor, and Domingo personally takes care of the girl: "But this "" The Philosopher's Stone has hundreds of thousands of words, and the workload of translating the full text is very heavy. You usually..."

"Do you think I am a person who can be brave?"

One sentence directly blocked people, and Alice also directly proved her ability on the spot. She found a random piece of paper and a ballpoint pen, and quickly wrote a series of neatly written Japanese paragraphs. Domingo and other editors couldn't understand Japanese, so they rushed all over the company to call for an employee who was in charge of translating Japanese books. The conclusion is very obvious. The hundreds of words written by Alice in three minutes are exactly the Japanese version of the opening chapter of "The Boy Who Lived"!

"And the literary talent is very good!" The translator exclaimed.

This is really amazing. After all, none of the editors present would watch a writer write on the spot, let alone Alice's "After School", which was directly published by Kodansha. Even if it is my own article, it is really amazing to be able to translate it across languages ​​so quickly.

In this way, Alice's inevitable trip to New York came to an end soon. At the beginning of the summer vacation, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" had already been thrown on the market, and the original work was expanded to 500,000 words by writing fan fiction. Affected by the sales volume of the previous one, this One book was immediately launched in both the US and UK editions at the same time. It is not too much trouble for the writer to come to do some guiding work.

As for the plot...

"I really like the plot in the middle! It's Sherlock Holmes! Harry and the others actually formed a young detective team! And how did Sister Alice design those institutions in Hogwarts? They are simply made by an alchemist. Magic workshop!"

No, this is what Alice heard from the naughty boy at the door when she passed by a certain bookstore. But what you said is really subtle. It's the mechanism of the magic school, isn't it normal to be like an alchemist?

"Hello, Monica?"

Walking on the bustling streets of midtown Manhattan, and the voices of protesters could be heard in the distance, Alice held her mobile phone and said, "How are you doing there?"

In the early morning, the soldiers split into two groups, and now it’s lunch time, so of course Monica deserves something: "Alice, I have already collected a comprehensive Manhattan real estate information for you, let's make an appointment to meet, find a house coffee shop?"

Alice rubbed her stomach, and it was time to eat, so she suggested going to Chinatown to improve the food. Of course Monica is very happy. After all, the deliciousness of Chinese food has been unanimously verified by people all over the country. How many people use those shredded fish-flavored pork and Kung Pao chicken to improve their meals.

However, this trip is by no means such a simple act.

All the glamor and glamor of New York are concentrated on a small island of Manhattan. To say that the other districts are just slums that supply cheap labor for it is not an exaggeration, it is a fact. It is no surprise that the superheroes headed by Spiderman chose New York as the place for them to fight for justice.

But even in Manhattan, the gap between rich and poor is very obvious, and even urban areas can be confused. New York's Chinatown is the most typical example.

If the Harlem district of Uptown is a typical breeding ground for crime and violence, with a high concentration of black Mexicans, then Chinatown, which is next to the Wall Street Copper Bull, is actually somewhat similar. Even if they are both Chinese, the middle-class wealthy class will not choose to stay here, let alone other white Americans.

Stowaways, coolies, restaurant waiters, idle gamblers, retired old people, aunts in pajamas, those who drive buses, those who resell fake goods, those who sell skin and meat, a small residential area, but most of the bottom half of the Chinese society are revealed. Think how lively it is. In the shaded land, on the benches, the kind old man is leisurely and relaxed every day, doing nothing, receiving food stamps and pocket money regularly provided by the government, and his life is not generally comfortable.

"I've almost never been to Chinatown." Walking on the road with Alice, looking at the surrounding architectural styles that are very different from Manhattan as a whole, Monica said: "It really feels different. Is mainland China also like this?"

"That's really not..." Alice wanted to laugh: "Is the descendant of immigrants in Little Italy the same as the real Italian?"

The answer is self-evident, and then the two walked into a good-grade Chinese restaurant. According to Alice's introduction, Monica learned that the most obvious feature of Chinatown food is that the price is relatively low, and the overall flavor of Chinese food is also very authentic.

Spacious space, bright lighting, and elegant dining environment, but the passenger flow is obviously not high. Alice specially opened a private room for the two of them, which is really a special condition of a Chinese restaurant. After ordering a few dishes skillfully and recommending a few for Monica, she asked again: "Do you want to drink baijiu? ?”

"Baijiu..." Monica frowned, "I remember that it's similar to vodka? Why don't you try it."

Alice giggled, ordered Moutai from the unknown waiter, and smiled after he went out: "Liquor and vodka, Monica, don't forget that your boss is Chinese, and now China has also reformed and opened up. We will inevitably have to invest there on a large scale in the future. You have to give me some knowledge, or you will be in trouble in the future."

"Oh...Okay." Monica realized that she seemed to have said something stupid, but she was still a little bit unconvinced: "Am I wrong? Isn't liquor also a spirit? Isn't that the same as vodka? The Soviet Union is just to the north of China!"