After the original dense book fans dispersed and the signing session was over, Wen Meiqi walked to Huo Yaowen's side, helped him pack up the things on the table, and said, "Mr. Huo has worked hard today, we may have to get up early tomorrow, we will take the car to Taichung, and after Mr. Huo goes back in the evening, if there is nothing to do, let's rest early." ”

"yes, I see. Huo Yaowen rubbed his sour hands, and also sighed that it was really tiring to hold a signing meeting, when he wrote a book on weekdays, it was easy to write one or two thousand words a day, and there was nothing uncomfortable, he didn't think that he was so tired just to help someone sign a name, and when he nodded in agreement, he suddenly thought that there was another person next to him when Zhu Wenqing said goodbye to him in the morning, "By the way, Miss Wen, Manager Zhu walked with someone from your publishing house in the morning, right?"

Wen Meiqi nodded, "Yes, I was going to take Manager Zhu to our publishing house in the morning, but Editor-in-Chief Fang sent someone over, and I followed Mr. Huo to the signing meeting." ”

"Then let's go back. Huo Yaowen thought in his heart that he would go back earlier to ask Zhu Wenqing how things were going, and according to the normal situation, he handed over "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" to the people of Aoki Publishing House to be responsible for publishing in Taiwan, and this matter should not be a problem.

At this time, Guo Ruopu walked in from outside, happened to see the two who were about to leave, and said with a smile, "Are you going back?"

Wen Meiqi took a step forward and thanked, "Well, thank you Boss Guo for providing the venue this time, and specially found Sanheli Middle School for us." ”

"It's not troublesome, it's not troublesome, I want to thank your publishing house for handing over the opportunity for Mr. Huo to hold a signing meeting in Taiwan for the first time to our Wenhuatang Bookstore!!" Guo Ruopu laughed, although holding a signing meeting in his store this time not only delayed business, but also arranged for the staff in the store to come out to maintain order, but this was also an invisibly good publicity opportunity for him, and then he turned his head to look at Huo Yaowen and asked, "Mr. Huo doesn't know if he can have a light meal in the evening, I have already booked a table at the Jinfeng Hotel in front." ”

"Okay, then it's troublesome Boss Guo. Huo Yaowen smiled, originally he wanted to go back to the hotel early after refusing to ask how Zhu Wenqing was talking, and then rest early and wait to go to Taichung tomorrow, but considering that he heard Wen Meiqi say that this Boss Guo's business has more than a dozen in Taiwan, and Wenhuatang is the largest bookstore among them, he wants to plan for his books to be sold in Taiwan in the future, and there is no harm in getting to know him.

"That's great, Mr. Huo, please!" Guo Ruopu has a very good impression of Huo Yaowen, since he said the origin of the word Ruopu, he likes this young writer very much, not to mention that the other party's books have recently sold in Taiwan, and if Huo Yaowen becomes more and more famous in the future, he will have the opportunity to invite him to Taiwan to hold events, which will help the bookstore a lot.

After arriving at the Jinfeng Hotel, Huo Yaowen made a phone call back to the New Peking University Hotel and asked Zhu Wenqing to come over to meet Guo Ruopu, and if there is a chance in the future, he can still cooperate.

At night, inside the New Taipei Hotel.

Huo Yaowen opened the tea box, picked up the two teacups on the table, put the tea leaves and poured hot water, walked to the coffee table with the teacup and sat down, handed the cup to Zhu Wenqing, blew on the hot tea lightly, and took a small sip, "Did the people from Aoki Press agree?"

Zhu Wenqing took the teacup and carefully put it on the table, nodded and said depressedly, "Yes, I agreed, but the price they pressed was relatively low, about two percent lower than several Hong Kong publishing companies I know, and they also hoped to get the contract for the next few parts of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", I didn't agree, but the people of Aoki didn't force it, maybe in their opinion, we will choose to cooperate with Aoki Publishing House sooner or later." ”

"It doesn't matter if it's the first time to cooperate, it doesn't matter if you make a little less money, and Aoki Publishing House can monopolize most of the Wanwan publishing business, and can suppress other Wanwan Publishing House that cooperates with Hong Kong for a long time, the strength is still there, and it's nothing to make a little less money for the time being, our main market for the time being is still Hong Kong Island, and this side is still the same as other publishing houses in Hong Kong. Huo Yaowen shook his head, there are many people with strong backgrounds in the Wanwan market at this time, and he doesn't want to get too entangled in this matter, he would rather make less money and not get into this troubled water.

"I know the president, they will send someone to Hong Kong to sign the contract with us in a few days, do you think I will go to Taichung with you tomorrow or go back to Hong Kong to prepare first?"

Huo Yaowen thought about it, after going to Taichung tomorrow to hold a signing meeting, he should not stay here for long, and he should take a plane back to Hong Kong on the same day, "You don't need to accompany me to Taichung, Manager Zhu, you will take a plane to Hong Kong early tomorrow morning and go back to Hong Kong directly, just prepare to pick up the people sent by Aoki to sign the contract, by the way, notify Editor-in-Chief Zhang, and ask him to remind the people of the engineering team to get the printing house done as soon as possible, and when I go back, I can start the publicity and distribution of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern". ”

"I know the president. ”

Without waiting for Zhu Wenqing to finish speaking, there was a sudden knock on the door outside the house, and the two of them were stunned at the same time, it was almost nine o'clock, who would come and knock on the door so late?

When Huo Yaowen got up and was about to walk over to open the door, Zhu Wenqing said, "I'll open the door, president." ”

After saying that, he got up and walked towards the door, and instead of opening the door, he shouted, "Who?"

"Mr. Huo is here, I'm Li Hanxiang!"

As soon as he heard that it was Li Hanxiang, Zhu Wenqing opened the door, only to see Li Hanxiang walking in with a smile, and when he saw Huo Yaowen sitting there, he hurriedly walked over and said, "I heard Miss Wen say that Mr. Huo is going to Taichung tomorrow to hold a signing meeting, and I am afraid that Mr. Huo will return to Hong Kong directly after the end, so I came here so late and took the liberty to disturb." ”

"Director Li, who is out of the way. Seeing Li Hanxiang, he guessed that Huo Yaowen smiled and said to Zhu Wenqing, "Manager Zhu helps Director Li pour a cup of tea." ”

"Good. ”

"Don't bother. Li Hanxiang waved his hand, but Zhu Wenqing still poured a cup and walked over.

"Thank you. Li Hanxiang thanked him, took out the script of "Sweet Honey" that he had written before from the satchel he was carrying, handed it to Huo Yaowen and said, "Mr. Huo, this is the script I wrote before, and then I changed it overnight, you can take a look." ”

"Good. Huo Yaowen wanted to refuse when Li Hanxiang wanted to shoot his own "Sweet Honey", but he didn't expect him to be so persistent, so he had to take the script with a smile and read it.

Originally, Li Hanxiang was afraid that the other party would not understand the script, and wanted to help explain it, but as everyone knows, Huo Yaowen did it in his last life, although he is a street screenwriter, he can still understand the script and distinguish the good from the bad, and he can follow the script to appear in his mind.

The script written by Li Hanxiang is roughly the same, but a lot of content and dialogues have been deleted, and the role of Li Yanran has been reduced, and it is more to show Lin Wanrong, a woman swaying in the red dust, and even the actor Huo Zainian, who has the most scenes, has changed in the script almost to promote the plot, it can be said that this is a movie about women, a veritable movie with the heroine as the main protagonist.

The content of the adaptation is very good, even Huo Yaowen has to admit that the script is great, but to be honest, this is a little wrong with his original intention of writing "Sweet Honey", and it is not quite in line with the idea of this book.

Although "Sweet Honey" is a tragic story, the ending is not a happy reunion, and the hero and heroine did not achieve positive results in the end, but from the title of the book, you can see what kind of story Huo Yaowen wants to write.

It can be said that even if you love and hate each other, it is sweet to look back.

To put it succinctly, although the story written by Huo Yaowen is an unsatisfactory love, they also fell in love sweetly when they were together, and this entangled love is a matter of three people, Li Hanxiang's script is more about reflecting Lin Wanrong, an independent and confident woman, reducing a lot of scenes between Huo Zainian and Li Yanran, which is inconsistent with his original intention.

Although these are all reasons, the most critical point is that Huo Yaowen promised to hand over "Sweet Honey" to the student Xu Anhua to shoot, as for whether she can shoot it well, this is not a problem at all in his opinion, after all, Huo Yaowen likes several literary films made by the other party in later generations, especially "Starry Tonight", "Ketu Autumn Hate" and "The Thief of Years" These three are his favorites.

Thinking of this, Huo Yaowen lowered his head and pretended to be still reading the script, but when he was thinking about how to refuse Li Hanxiang, he suddenly saw a somewhat unfamiliar line: "Look at the clouds, fluttering in the wind, just like you and me, the wind blows the clouds fluttering......"

Take a closer look, it was Lin Wanrong who said this sentence to Huo Zainian, and it was also a conversation before leaving, which should have been added by Li Hanxiang himself, which is very in line with the atmosphere of literary films.

Closing his eyes, Huo Yaowen thought of another story in his mind, a female-dominated love story, which is very in line with the type that Li Hanxiang wanted to shoot when he wrote this script.

Huo Yaowen closed the script, looked up at Li Hanxiang who was full of anticipation, raised his thumb and exclaimed, "It's very well written, Director Li is really amazing, he can write such a wonderful script in such a short time!!"

Li Hanxiang's face was overjoyed, thinking that the other party had agreed, and he was busy and said happily, "Haha...... Mr. Huo said with a smile, a script can be written so quickly, this is a script that I conceived according to your book a long time ago, and I wrote a little bit before, but today I have perfected the script. Mr. Huo actually likes this script, do you agree with our League of Nations shooting?"

"Director Li told you this, I like your script very much, but to be honest, this is a little inconsistent with my original intention of writing "Sweet Honey", I don't know what you think of my book, after all, everyone has their own interpretation, but in my opinion, this story is a story dominated by Huo Zainian, Li Yanran, and Lin Wanrong, all of which ......are indispensable."

Listening to Huo Yaowen's words, Li Hanxiang's face gradually changed from happy to silent.

Huo Yaowen noticed that Li Hanxiang's face was wrong, but he still continued to speak, "But Director Li, your script is to reduce the plot of Li Yanran and Huo Zainian, highlight the role of Lin Wanrong, and do not express the love-hate entanglement between the three, and the most important thing is that when I wrote this book, it was not about separation." "Sweet honey, sweet honey, how sweet you smile, like flowers blooming in the spring breeze..."This is the preface of my book, in other words, even if you love and hate each other, it is sweet to look back. ”

In order to reject Li Hanxiang, Huo Yaowen can be said to have taken great pains to say a lot, but the fact of writing this book is indeed as he himself said, the core of "Sweet Honey" is love, the most beautiful love without adding any impurities, Huo Zainian, Lin Wanrong, and Li Yanran are entangled in different loves.

Li Hanxiang couldn't hear Huo Yaowen's refusal, but he still didn't give up, "Mr. Huo, I can change it, don't worry, I promise to change it until you are satisfied." I think Mr. Huo seems to know a lot about scripts, why don't you write the script?"

The words are beautiful, but Li Hanxiang's heart is thinking that after agreeing to sign the contract, it is not me as the director who is in charge when filming!

Huo Yaowen picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip, put it down and said, "I've always wanted to write a second romance letter before, and I also wrote a part but didn't finish it, I just read Director Li's script, which is a bit similar to the book I want to write, and it is also a story that highlights the heroine, but I didn't bring it with me, maybe Director Li You can listen to it." ”

When Li Hanxiang heard that Huo Yaowen had another story, and it was similar to the script he conceived, and it also highlighted the heroine, his eyes lit up, "I want to hear it in detail!"

"The name of the book is 'A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind'......"

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