In the evening, Huo Yaowen sent Zhang Wanjun home, and on the way back, he noticed a group of flying boys walking towards him with their shoulders hooked.

One of the young men with long hair, jeans, and a tight jacket on his upper body, after seeing Huo Yaowen, smiled and waved, "Brother Yaowen!"

"Big D!" Huo Yaowen didn't expect to meet Big D, if memory serves, Ming Tsai seemed to have said that he had joined He'anle.

Fok Yiu-man is also a popular figure in Tsz Wan Estate, almost many parents will use him as an example to urge their children, and Big D is no exception, he dropped out of school after finishing primary school to work at home, and then gradually followed the flying boy outside and became a veritable old boy.

Big D didn't know if it was for the purpose of showing off, he raised his arm, regardless of the cold weather at night, he directly rolled up his sleeves, revealing a Rolex gold watch on his wrist, with a hint of pride: "What has Brother Yaowen been doing lately? Listen to my old bean tell you about being a teacher at the University of Hong Kong, how about it? How much money can you earn in a month." ”

"I can't get any money, so I just make ends meet. Huo Yaowen didn't want to have more contact with this kid, so he followed what he wanted to express, and pretended to be surprised and looked at the watch in his hand: "Yo, Big D can mix it up now, he actually wore a Rolex gold watch, how much did it cost?"

"It's not much, it's just more than 10,000 Hong Kong dollars!" Big D waved his hand, looking like this little money was trivial, "I recently opened a bird house on the Shushui Street in front of the estate, if Brother Yaowen is interested, you can go there to play, if you lose and report my name to Big D, you can get a part of the rebate." ”

"Yes, can you return the water? Big D gives me face like this, then I'll go and see it when I have time. Huo Yaowen glanced at the few people behind Big D, there were men and women, all of them were sixteen or seventeen years old, and he couldn't help but sigh slightly in his heart.

Hearing Huo Yaowen say this, Big D suddenly felt faced, thinking that Huo Yaowen, who had been on top in the early years, was not as good as himself at this time, and he was proud and proud: "Others and I don't give face, but how can Brother Yaowen not give face? If Brother Yaowen wants to go to the Bird House to play in the future, he will tell my brother directly, he has recently taken school at home and has been helping me collect accounts in the Bird House." ”

"Did your brother drop out of school?" Huo Yaowen frowned, in his memory, when he was in college, he was often entrusted by his neighbors to help some children on the floor tutor courses, if the younger brother of Big D is not mistaken, his studies should be okay, at least much better than Huo Tingting.

"Yes, I can't get any money from studying, and I still have to spend money, I told my old bean to let my brother go to the Bird House to collect the accounts, and I can earn more than a thousand a month!"

"Hmm. Huo Yaowen pondered for a few seconds, and then looked at Big D with a smile: "Okay, I'll go play when I have the chance, Big D, I'll leave first if I have something." ”

"Well, goodbye, Brother Yaowen!"

Big D smiled and waved his hand, watching Huo Yaowen leave step by step, and a few flying boys next to him asked, "Brother D was the one on the side just now?"

The only girl paid attention to Huo Yaowen's appearance: "Big D, that person is so beautiful just now, you said he was a university teacher?"

"What? Big D glanced at the girl, looked each other up and down, and sneered: "Forget it, just now that person in my estate was the only one who was admitted to the University of Hong Kong and became a teacher, how could he take a fancy to you." ”

"Big D, I'm just asking, I still like a man like you, Big D. The girl slapped Big D's chest coquettishly.

"Haha, I like my kind of talent, is it useful to read well? It's not a poor sour, I can easily earn 10,000 yuan a month, which is enough for his salary for several months. Big D laughed, hugged the girl, and left with a few horses behind him.

The voices of several people are not deliberately evasive, there is no movement in the night, a little sound can be transmitted far away, Huo Yaowen, who walked out more than ten meters away, naturally heard it clearly, he has nothing to say about Big D, now it is indeed to make a lot of money to get out of the way, there are still a lot of Bird Houses in the housing estate, and Big D can afford to buy a Rolex, which means that his Bird House is quite profitable, and I want to come to it related to the rebate, thinking that I don't know who told him about this method, but he knows how to do side business.

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When they got home, Grandma and Grandma had already returned, and the meal had been cooked.

While serving the last dish in the pot, Grandma glanced back at Huo Yaowen: "Sent Wanjun home?"

Huo Yaowen got closer and saw the braised pork on the plate, pretending to drool and said, "Well, there is braised pork at night!"

"Your aunt bought it, and in the afternoon she went to the vegetable market to buy a few catties, saying that she couldn't finish eating, so she gave me a catty. Grandma smiled and handed the plate to Huo Yaowen and said: "What is there to eat this meat, if you can't finish it, buy a little less, this is always her love, I am embarrassed to do it." ”

"Next time, you can buy more and send them back. Huo Yaowen entered the house with his mother with the dishes, put the plate on the table, and asked the old bean Huo Chengcai, "Auntie is still helping in the bookstore recently?"

Huo Chengcai was writing something with a pen, and when he heard his son asking, he looked up at him, nodded and said, "Well, haven't I been busy helping you with the printing house recently? ”

Huo Yaowen touched his chin and pondered for a moment, thinking that his aunt seemed to work in the same Chinese Daily as his uncle before: "Why don't you arrange a job for your aunt in the publishing house?"

"Do you still need to say this?" Huo Chengcai glanced at his son, "I told her earlier, but your aunt disagreed, saying that it was enough to have your uncle alone." ”

Huo Yaowen thought about it for a while, and understood what was going on, but when he thought of which of his shell Yaowen book publishing companies, he also said: "Recently, I have a manuscript fee in the United States that may be paid, and when the time comes, Lao Dou, you will set up which publishing company of mine and recruit my aunt to enter, so there should be no problem." ”

"How much is the manuscript fee in the United States? If there is not much money, I think it is better to keep it first, now the publishing house is very busy, is it a bit of a loss to set up a new one?" Huo Chengcai was stunned, he knew that his son had several manuscript fees not returned, the manuscript fee of the previous sweet honey book in Taiwan, and the manuscript fee of the ghost blowing the lamp, but he didn't expect that there were manuscript fees to be collected in the United States.

"I don't know how much, but at least there are hundreds of thousands, right??" Huo Yaowen estimated the manuscript fee in the United States, but he didn't know whether he sold the book, so the manuscript fee was difficult to estimate, so he could only take a minimum value, according to 500,000 copies, there should be more than 100,000 yuan.

Huo Chengcai has been busy for the University of Hong Kong Press in the past few months, so he knew how much it would cost to find a publishing company, and after a simple estimate, he couldn't help but shake his head: "Hundreds of thousands? I'm afraid this is not enough, let's keep it for you to buy a house first." ”

"I'm talking about US dollars!" Huo Yaowen pinched a piece of braised pork with his hand and stuffed it into his mouth, and said vaguely: "The manuscript fee in the United States must be calculated in US dollars." ”

"More than 100,000 US dollars!!" Huo Chengcai's voice suddenly strengthened a lot, and even his grandmother and grandmother, who came in with a bowl outside, were surprised, and they didn't understand what Huo Chengcai meant by the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Huo Chengcai shuddered and pinched it with his fingers, and swallowed his saliva: "You have more than 500,000 Hong Kong dollars for this manuscript?!"

"Yaowen's manuscript fee is more than 500,000 yuan?" Grandma put the dishes and chopsticks on the table, and looked at Huo Yaowen with a shocked face, the only person in the family who can have a manuscript fee is grandchildren, but is this manuscript fee of more than 500,000 too scary.

The last time he went to the United States, Huo Yaowen exchanged US dollar bills, which were roughly five Hong Kong dollars to one dollar, hundreds of thousands of US dollars, almost more than 500,000 Hong Kong dollars: "Well, there are almost more than 500,000 Hong Kong dollars, and the United States is settled in US dollars, which must be different from Hong Kong, just like my settlement with Taiwan Publishing House must be calculated in Taiwan dollars." ”

When the mother heard that her son not only wrote books and sold them to the United States, but also got hundreds of thousands of yuan in manuscript fees, not to mention how happy she was, she stood there and was reluctant to sit down, clenched her hands and said, "Yaowen really has so much?!"

More than 500,000 Hong Kong dollars! If this money is to be earned by a bookstore, it will not be able to earn it at all in ten years. Huo Yaowen can earn so much just by writing a book, and she is excited and sighs that her son is promising.

More than 100,000 US dollars is the minimum value estimated by Huo Yaowen, and he has no way to give a specific number now: "Well, it's not a lot, the manuscript fees of well-known foreign writers start at hundreds of thousands of US dollars, and there are a few people who spend millions of US dollars." ”

At this time, there are still very few million-dollar writers, but the American book market is very vast, and million-dollar writers can't be counted on two hands.

"It's okay, it's okay. The mother walked back and forth in place for several steps, and she was very happy when her son paid thousands of yuan for the first manuscript, and now when her son got hundreds of thousands of manuscript fees, she was not only happy, but excited.

Huo Yaowen looked at his mother's excited appearance, smiled bitterly, got up and dragged her to the stool: "Grandma sat down to eat!"

Compared with Huo's mother, after Grandma was excited, she quickly calmed down, hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars are nothing in her eyes, when she was in Zhongshan earlier, the Huo family had a large area of land and business, and the money in her hands was nothing, but Huo Zongxiong donated most of his family property to resist the Japanese, and then lost a lot in the war, which gradually fell down.

"Yes. After the mother sat down, she looked at her son Huo Yaowen, she was relieved and proud of him, she suddenly thought of something, and said busily: "I just heard from your old bean that you want to invest in the company again, you have to set aside a part of this money, and the money you said before that you have used it to do business, and now you must buy a house first." ”

"As I know, after we get this manuscript fee, our family will move to Hong Kong Island, which is much more convenient. Huo Yaowen smiled, he had already planned for this money, the first step must be to move first, and the rest of the money will be used to supplement and improve the shell company, so that it will be better to delineate the financial relationship with the Hong Kong publishing house in the future.

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