The process of writing a book is long. "Chicken Head" opened in the summer of 1998.At that time, I had just finished eight years of medical school, and I was in Beijing in July, waiting to go to the United States in August to experience the decay and decline.That summer was very hot, and many white-haired old men and little-footed old ladies died. In front of the whistling electric fan, I thought, write something, and forget it after writing. Coming to the United States is a new beginning. "Pork belly" was filled in the summer of 1999.I was an intern at an old medical instrument company in New Jersey, helping them straighten out the global bidding process. The youngest member of the team, Monica, was fifteen years older than me. The company's main products have occupied more than 50% of the world's market for a long time. Monica Sister Ka told me something very state-owned: "Don't work so hard, or we will be under a lot of pressure." So when I go to work, I surf the Internet, read Sina News, and visit two forums called "New World" and "Renaissance". .The proprietress named Carmen did not understand Chinese and encouraged me: "Look carefully, there is a huge potential market for medical consumables in China." The company is located in northern New Jersey, a famous white area, where good Italian restaurants are everywhere.The only restaurant that claims to be Chinese food, the chef and the staff are all faked by Vietnamese. They can't speak a word of Chinese. They can only cook hot and sour soup and Zuo cock. It reminds me of the video I watched in junior high school. Pan Jinlian didn't say a word except for smiling and calling for bed.A place, if there is no cheap small restaurant to drink big wine, no girls to hold hands after drinking, and speak freely, for me at that time, it was a prison.So when I got off work, I hid in a restaurant and wrote.

"Cat's Tail" was collected in Atlanta during a three-week vacation in the winter of 2000.I wrote an email to the husband who was my publishing agent at the time, Shi Nai killer and publisher Shi Tao, saying, it’s snowing, and the squirrels outside my window haven’t frozen to death yet.Shi Tao said that he remembered when he was writing in Cincinnati, and said that if he felt that his literary spirit was exhausted, he should stop.After I finished writing, I returned to Beijing. At that time, the e-book leader "Boku" was still standing upright. I had a Chinese New Year gathering at the Little Great Wall Restaurant next to the Great Wall Hotel. There was wine and meat. It was the first time I met writers in Beijing. I felt I am like a chick in the phoenix's nest.The first time I drank with writers, I was drunk by one named Aidan, one named Zhang Chi, and one named Gouzi. For the first time in my life, I lost consciousness and stopped thinking outside of sleep.I went to Xiehe Hospital for gastric lavage, surrounded by more than a dozen medical school students, I thought to myself, these people will be famous professors and doctors in the future, I am really awesome.I only found out afterwards that these three guys were respectively ranked first, second and eleventh on the recognized list of alcoholic heroes in Beijing.Shi Tao later said that before I fell down, I dialed three mobile phone numbers, one answered the answering machine, the other said I was in Shanghai, and the last one didn't get through. He wanted to know who these three people were.Aidan later said, I was not fed by them at all, but by myself. Two bottles of Erguotou were done in an hour.

The book publishing process was equally lengthy.The editors of more than 20 publishing houses shook their heads and said, "I don't even want to be a eunuch, I'm covered in dicks."The good things were reluctantly passed, and they were submitted to the superiors for further approval, so I learned about the organizational structure and approval process of the publishing house: editor, editorial director, editor-in-chief, and president.Every link can kill a book.The advantage of going through more than 20 companies is that this small circle has gained word of mouth, and more than half of the editors wrote, saying, "It's a pity, the next book, be more restrained, and we will cooperate." A year later, the paper book finally When it came out, it was deleted and edited so that nuns didn't look like nuns, and monks didn't look like monks. In order to deceive people, the cover was made like a popular science book teaching the masses how to fertilize and grow flowers.

When I think back to writing now, it seems that Zeng Guofan led the army at the beginning, "I don't need money, I am not afraid of death".I even forgot some of the novel techniques I had already learned. Later, when I looked back at a long novel I wrote in my freshman year of high school, it was far more sophisticated than the writing, and looked more like it could be published.I think, I'm a bitch, so don't be too hard on yourself.Just like giving birth, there is something to express in the stomach. Cats, three dogs, and four people are standing upright in October, and something will come out naturally at that time.What is written is like a child born, "children and grandchildren have their own blessings", what kind of climate they become is his own creation.

He called me at 5:00 a.m. local time in the lower bunk of the same dormitory when he finished writing and sent it to my medical school. He said that he read it all night and decided to keep it until his daughter was eighteen years old. He showed it to her. It turned out that Dad That's how it grew up.Sent it to my past girlfriend, she called, didn't say a word, paused for a while, and hung up.I thought at the time, it’s not my best thing, and it must not be my worst thing. If there are ten similar things, I’m not a bitch, and I don’t have to be shy and shameless when drinking with writers. Bar?

After two years, the first edition is out of stock. Xiong Can, Mr. E Book, Young Woman Killer, and publisher, is a good thing. He said that he has the enthusiasm to publish the whole book, so that more people can know that some people grow up like this.I think that harming other booksellers is also harmful, it is better to harm a passionate one.The only request is that for the reprint, a word of the original work cannot be deleted. Where it should be a nun is a nun, and where it should be a monk is a monk. It is for sequence.