“… In a quiet alley, Lian Ayu looked up, it was a pool of clear and almost bottomless blue sky, in the blue, leisurely swimming with patches of clouds, I couldn't help but raise my fingers, as if the fingertips were also dyed blue in the twilight, in this blue, the floating clouds, seemed to reflect Meng Xiaoyun's face that was always smiling at the corners of his mouth......

In the dormitory building of the University of Hong Kong, Huo Yaowen holds a pen in his hand and writes the final ending of "Cloud" on the yellowed manuscript paper, as a female-dominated romance, the content of this book is different from the previous "Sweet Honey", mainly based on the heroine Lian Ayu After returning to Hong Kong from abroad, she walked through the familiar and now unfamiliar streets, and the reminiscence of the past is regarded as a flashback, with the help of the heroine's memories of the past to unfold the beautiful story of her and Meng Xiaoyun from acquaintance and love to farewell.

The number of words in this "Cloud" is only about 200,000 words, which is tens of thousands of words less than the previous "Sweet Honey", mainly because this book has never appeared in reality from the beginning to the end, and it is all based on the memories of Lian Ayu to portray this Meng Xiaoyun who likes to laugh and like to lie quietly on the grass and watch the sky.

After writing the last word, Huo Yaowen didn't go to review the manuscript to rewrite the typographical errors, but directly stuffed the manuscript paper into the briefcase, changed into a suit and prepared to go out.

The day before yesterday, Li Hanxiang asked Fang Zhengde, the editor-in-chief of Aoki Publishing House, to contact Deng McKee in the literary world, and then contacted Huo Yaowen through Deng McKee, saying that he would come to Hong Kong by plane this afternoon, and the two made an appointment to meet at Yong Kee Restaurant on Hong Kong Island.

When he went downstairs, Huo Yaowen was just about to walk out of the dormitory building, but he heard Uncle Wang in the administrator's room shouting: "Teacher Huo!"

He looked back and saw Uncle Wang standing at the window and waved his hand: "Mr. Huo just received a mail from you, it is all in English I can't read, you can come and see for yourself." ”

Huo Yaowen frowned, turned around and went back to the administrator's room, under the guidance of Uncle Wang, he saw a small package on the table, which was wrapped in a layer of oilskin paper on the outside, and when he picked it up, it was actually a multinational package mailed by the American Bantan Book Company.

Without hesitation, Huo Yaowen directly tore open a layer of oilskin paper on the outside, inside was the book "1999", when he left the United States, he did give the address of Hong Kong to the people of Bantan Book Publishing Company, but he didn't expect to receive the sample book after almost three months, it has been so long, and I don't know if the book has been released in the United States.

"Mr. Huo, is this a book you bought from abroad?" Uncle Wang on the side couldn't read English, so he didn't know what was written on it, so he just thought it was a book that Mr. Huo bought from abroad.

Huo Yaowen said "um" lightly, opened the page and glanced at it casually, thanks to the help he has been helping in the printing house recently, but he saw that the paper used in this book is still relatively good, not first-class, but it also belongs to the second class, it feels very smooth to the touch, and there is no feeling of grass thorns, especially the cover of this book, Huo Yaowen likes it very much, it seems to be a starry sky, but he can't help but look like a dark and claustrophobic forest, and the starlight is like a hungry wolf in the black forest with cold eyes ready to go.

Uncle Wang noticed this somewhat scary cover, and couldn't help but say, "Mr. Huo, the cover of this book looks so infiltrating, what is it about?"

"A science fiction book about aliens. Huo Yaowen said casually.

"Aliens, just like the science fiction written by Ni Frame?" Wang Bo suddenly thought of something, and said: "Recently, I read the Ming Pao newspaper, and Ni Frame wrote a new Wesley, which seems to be talking about the tomb of aliens, and many famous people have praised him in the newspaper for his unbridled imagination, and he would actually think that the very tall pyramid in Egypt is a launcher built by aliens to connect with their own planet. ”

"Really?" Huo Yaowen couldn't help but think of the newspaper he saw with Ming Tsai a few days ago, he didn't read the follow-up content, he didn't expect Ni Frame to actually be able to link the pyramid with the alien launcher, although this idea was very common and ordinary in later generations, but now it is also novel.

The peak of Ni Box's science fiction was written in 62 years by the blue bloods, when this article was published in the newspaper, quickly swept the entire Hong Kong Island, many people lamented his unbridled imagination, but this time the "Alien Tomb" was published in the newspaper, not only praised by many celebrity writers, Jin Yong even wrote a tribute for him in Ming Pao: "The infinite universe, endless time and space, infinite possibilities, and the eternal contradiction between impermanence and life are woven from this head." ”

Because of this, many newspapers in Hong Kong are advocating that Ni Frame is a science fiction writer in Hong Kong's first starry sky, and almost his status as a science fiction writer has been held in a very high position, but he has also been jealous of many science fiction writers, and someone has published an article in the newspaper:

"Science fiction science fiction is science fiction, which began with science and originated from fantasy, and the Oxford Dictionary defines this term as a fictional event that may occur based on limited scientific assumptions (the existence of certain things, the occurrence of certain events) without conflicting with the greatest amount of information available to human beings (such as existing scientific theories, well-documented records of events).

I have loved science fiction since I was a child, and in my early years, I read "Space Adventures" written by Mr. Zhao Zifan, and "The Mystery of Sirius A-001" written by Mr. Yangtze Jiang.

But helplessly, he was sparse and shallow, and wrote a few science fiction books that were not very popular, but he still kept his original intention and never forgot his belief in science fiction.

Recently, I heard that a newspaper praised someone as the first science fiction writer in Hong Kong, I couldn't help but laugh twice, everyone knows that most of the science fiction books written by this person are dressed in science fiction, writing some suspense detective stories, but there is no Arthur Conan Doyle's planning and wisdom, and in the end, if you can't make it up, you will use aliens to forcibly reverse the plot, which is ridiculous and generous.

Recently, someone wrote a story about the alien tomb, and the techniques used in the exploration of the ancient tomb in it borrowed more from Mr. Fusheng's "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", but the borrowing was fragmentary, a good science fiction article, and in the end it was written that the ghost in the tomb could not be explained, or the old way, and handed it over to the aliens to collect this mess, but some people praised its fantasies, which is really ridiculous......

As soon as this article was reported, it was quickly reprinted by many newspapers, and Ni Frame himself saw this article that was scolded by name, and no one knew what he was thinking in his heart, but he also responded in the newspaper, and there was indeed only one sentence: "Five years of writing, three books on the street, I want to write science fiction, goodbye early." ”

Huo Yaowen didn't know about this, after all, he didn't have time to read the newspaper recently, and he was busy with the publishing house. The external bidding of the Education Department is about to begin, and Huo Yaowen also wants to contact the principal Le Pinchun to see if he can get a little help from him.

However, after Le Pinchun went back to Hong Kong last time, he has not returned to the school for a period of time, and Huo Yaowen mentioned this matter to Director Huang, but the answer given by the other party was that the president has been busy with the opening of the department recently, and he does not have much time to care about the situation of the publishing house.

Also, the publishing house has been in poor business before, although it was handed over to Huo Yaowen to re-run, but the school still doesn't pay much attention to it, and the principal Le Pinchun is even more so, because he is the one who closed the "former" University of Hong Kong Press before.

Wellington Street, Central, Yung Kee Restaurant.

Huo Yaowen drove the blue car slowly on this road, I don't know if this car has been driving too much recently, the engine has a problem, after the ignition starts, it always makes a buzzing sound, and the movement is very loud, so he doesn't really want to drive this car.

But it is indeed a lot more convenient to have a car, and now that he has no money to buy a new car, Huo Yaowen can only drive this dilapidated classic car around.

Soon, when Huo Yaowen drove to the door of Yong Kee Restaurant and was about to find a place to park, suddenly a "roaring" engine sounded, and a red convertible sports car was driving quickly from a distance.

This not only attracted Huo Yaowen's attention, but even the pedestrians and drivers who passed by around them all showed envy.

Although the style of the convertible sports car in this era is not so eye-catching, in Huo Yaowen's opinion, this style is also relatively good-looking, and the Cadillac logo on the front of the car is very conspicuous, but in Hong Kong it is called "Jiadeli".

When Huo Yaowen parked the car and opened the door to get out of the car, he noticed a man in his thirties with a vertical head and a pair of sunglasses coming out of the Gatorley sports car.

Under the leadership of the waiter, Huo Yaowen found the private room booked by Li Hanxiang, in addition to Li Hanxiang, there was also a young woman in the room, but she had been wearing sunglasses, which was a little familiar, and if you took a closer look, this was not Zhen Zhen who I met in Taiwan last time?

Li Hanxiang saw that people were coming, and hurriedly got up and greeted him with a smile and said, "Mr. Huo is here, please take a seat here." ”

Huo Yaowen sat down with a smile on his face and sat down in the position guided by Li Hanxiang.

"Mr. Huo hasn't seen you for a long time. Zhen Zhen took off her sunglasses, and a smile appeared on her delicate baby face: "Recently, I had a movie released in Hong Kong, and it is easy to meet fans when I go out, so I have to wear sunglasses." ”

Huo Yaowen looked at Zhen Zhen who was smiling at this time and smiled: "Miss Zhen Zhen is so beautiful, it is normal for fans to pay attention to her. ”

It's not the first time Zhen Zhen has been praised for her beauty, and she has long been used to it, so she just smiled politely and nodded, "Thank you." ”

Li Hanxiang next to him said a few words to the waiter, walked back to his seat, and looked at the two apologetically: "Mr. Huo, Zhen Zhen is sorry, I still have a friend who didn't come, I'm waiting a little." ”

Huo Yaowen opened the briefcase he brought, took out a stack of manuscript paper inside, and handed it to Li Hanxiang: "It's okay, Director Li, you should take a look at the book I wrote first, after all, I just dictated a lot of content last time and didn't tell you about it." ”

"Good. ”

Li Hanxiang just took the manuscript paper, but he heard a knock on the door outside, and the waiter led a person in, who took off his sunglasses as soon as he entered the door, opened his arms and hugged Li Hanxiang: "Brother Xiang, I haven't seen you for a long time!"

"Yes, little four, I haven't seen you for a long time. ”

Li Hanxiang hugged him warmly, and then said to Huo Yaowen and Zhen Zhen: "Mr. Huo, Zhen Zhen is my good brother Xie Xian." ”