138 [Light of the Chinese]
In the early morning, as in the past, people who go to work in Hong Kong get up to work, people who go to school go out early to go to school in the car, and some old people who get up early to have morning tea walk into the teahouse with each other.
Lu Yu Teahouse.
Jin Yong sat in the box, drinking morning tea and eating snacks while looking at the "Ming Pao" newspaper in his hand, he had a habit, that is, he would read his own newspaper every morning, although many news and columns had been read by him, but he read it again in the newspaper to review the mistakes.
"Lao Cha!" Ni Frame opened the door of the box, looked at Jin Yong who was sitting there drinking morning tea, said hello with a smile, walked to his side and sat down, and was not polite, he directly grabbed the shrimp dumplings on the table with his hands, swallowed them in one bite, the delicacy was fragrant in his mouth, and he couldn't help but praise: "The shrimp dumplings in Lu Yu Tea House are really a must!"
"You arrived alone?" Jin Yong didn't care about the unhygienic nature of the frame, and directly put down the newspaper in his hand, raised his eyes and helped the frame.
"Well, I came by car, not with Lao Shen. After speaking, Ni Frame called the waiter and ordered a few morning tea refreshments.
Jin Yong looked at his old friend, frowned and asked, "What grievances do you have with Huo Sheng?" ”
Originally, some time ago, Jin Yong wanted to talk to Ni Frame about this matter, but the newspaper was busy, and Ni Frame himself often stayed at home to write, so when he went out, he went to drink with his friends.
"Huo Sheng?" Ni Frame was puzzled, he didn't know a few people surnamed Huo, where did he get any grievances.
"It's the floating life of writing ghosts blowing out lamps. Jin Yong replied.
As soon as he heard Fusheng, Ni Huan's face fell, he glanced at Jin Yong suspiciously, and asked puzzledly, "Do you know that Fusheng?"
Jin Yong said casually: "I've met a few times, Baoxin likes to watch the ghost blowing the lamp, and asked him for a manuscript, but the other party has not submitted the manuscript." ”
Ni Frame pursed his lips, took a sip of tea, and said: "What grievances can I have with him, I just said casually in front of reporters, you also know that I am a person who is not secretive, and then my sister froze with me for a while because of this matter, why do you all know this floating life?"
Jin Yong persuaded: "Your stinky mouth has to be changed, you fell out with Wolongsheng when you wrote the Six-Fingered Qin Demon, and it wasn't because you had a mouthful." ”
"I know, I know, I write about my science fiction, and he writes about his tomb robbery expeditions, and I just said it casually at the time. Ni Frame waved his hand, not taking this matter to heart at all, as long as others did not get in his way, he had no time to quarrel with others in the newspaper, rather than so, it was better to write more Braille and sell more money, to be practical.
At this time, the waiter cart and the small dining cart walked in, put a few refreshments ordered by Ni Frame on the table, and when he was about to go out, he almost collided with an impatient man who was running.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'll pay for the one that fell to the ground, just wait for you to write it directly, and I'll settle it before leaving." Shen Baoxin hurriedly apologized to the waiter and helped him clean up the collapsed cages, and then hurriedly walked into the house.
"Why are you in such a hurry?" Ni Frame looked at Shen Baoxin, who was in a mess, and grinned.
Shen Baoxin didn't care about the mess on his body, and handed a few newspapers he bought to Jin Yong and Ni Quan with a little excitement: "Look at this big news!"
"Literary world?" Jin Yong took the newspaper, first glanced at which newspaper it was, and found that it was the literary world, and also looked at Shen Baoxin with some consternation, this newspaper is not mainly for reporting news, most of them are essays, articles,.
However, after being stunned, Jin Yong still watched the news silently, and the headline was very eye-catching: "Shock! Hong Kong writer who has caused a sensation in the whole United States!"
A Hong Kong writer who has caused a sensation throughout the United States?
Seeing this title, Jin Yong's whole person frowned, thinking that it was a gimmick like some tabloids, but after reading the content of the article all the way, the whole person was shocked, and looked up at Shen Baoxin in a hurry: "Is this true? Huo Yaowen's book sold a million copies in the United States?!"
"It shouldn't be fake!" Shen Baoxin sat down and picked up the teapot and poured a few sips of tea into his mouth, exhaled a long breath, and said with burning eyes: "There are still many articles from American newspapers on it, even if people in the literary world want to make up such false news, it is impossible for people in the literary world to make up such false news, I just called the people in the newspaper and asked them to quickly ask someone to contact the United States to see if this news is true!"
Hearing Shen Baoxin say this, Jin Yong lowered his head again and glanced at the content of the newspaper, and noticed one of the sentences: "Mr. Huo Yaowen participated in the International Writing Program held at the University of Iowa in November 1968......"
International Writing Project, Jin Yong has an impression, Nie Hualing invited him at the beginning, but he refused on the grounds that he was busy with official business, but he didn't expect to achieve Huo Yaowen!
If the people in the literary world are reporting the truth, then the news is big!
At this time, Jin Yong didn't even have the heart to eat morning tea, and hurriedly stood up and said to Shen Baoxin: "Let's hurry up and report to the society, and let people check whether it's true from the United States!"
Jin Yong dragged Shen Baoxin to say hello to Ni Frame before leaving, but at this time, Ni Frame didn't think at all, he looked at what was written in the newspaper in a distracted manner, Huo Yaowen is famous in the United States and has a relationship with him, but this person actually wrote science fiction, and sold more than one million copies in the United States, causing a sensation in the United States, which is directly related to Ni Frame!
You must know that some time ago, major newspapers in Hong Kong were still praising him for his good mind and being the first science fiction master in Hong Kong, but now there is a science fiction writer who has sold more than one million books in the United States, and his title is probably about to be given up!
"Huo Yaowen!" Ni Huan looked at the name on the newspaper, and suddenly recalled the Huo Sheng that Jin Yong mentioned to him just now, and couldn't help frowning, secretly thinking that these two people would not be the same person!
Thinking of this, Ni Frame hurriedly got up and chased after Jin Yong who left.
Originally, according to Deng McKee's intention, he wanted to report the collected news slowly in ten days and half a month, but considering that he was afraid that people from other newspapers would also learn the news from the United States, he also published the news in the newspaper the next day after discussing an exclusive interview with Huo Yaowen.
At first, the news circulated only among loyal readers in the literary world, but as word of mouth spread and other newspapers got involved in reporting on it.
In an instant, it ignited the whole of Hong Kong!
After all, no Asian writer has ever been able to publish a book in the United States that has sold more than a million copies!
Don't look at the fact that the United States now has a population of hundreds of millions, and it doesn't seem like a lot of one million books, and it can't compare to Huo Yaowen's "Sweet Honey", which sold 300,000 copies in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but different places naturally have different impacts.
In just a few days, the media in Hong Kong have more or less gotten the news about Huo Yaowen from the United States, if the reports of the literary world make them skeptical, but when they really saw Huo Yaowen's name in the content of hundreds of media newspapers in the United States, they all published the news on the front page of the newspaper without exception.
"Huo Yaowen, the light of the Chinese!" ———— Oriental Daily
"Hong Kong science fiction writer Fok Yiu-man, who was commented by the New York Times as the contemporary American dream, only took half a year to become famous with one book, selling one million copies in the United States, setting off a frenzy of American science fiction!" ———— "Sing Tao Daily"
"Infinite universe, infinite possibilities, infinite imagination. The first well-documented book of Chinese science fiction, removing Liang Qichao's "The Future of New China", the earliest local original science fiction found is "Moon Colony" written by Huangjiang Diaosu in 1904.
Over the past 60 years, countless Chinese science fiction writers have written science fiction one after another, but there has never been a single book that has had any impact overseas. Today, the book "1999 - Our Journey is the Sea of Stars" written by Hong Kong science fiction writer Mr. Fok Yiu-man has sold millions of copies in the United States and caused a national sensation, which is enough to show that Chinese science fiction has gone to the world!" ———— Ta Kung Pao
"Jin Yong's own handwriting: I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Huo a few times, when he was still writing the ghost blowing the lantern, and he made an appointment with him, and he said a story about national arts, but unfortunately he has not submitted it to me so far.
Later, I heard that the book "Sweet Honey" written by him was a big hit in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and I was surprised in my heart, and sighed that Huo Sheng's talent was not limited to one genre, but I didn't expect that Huo Sheng gave me a huge surprise again today, and actually wrote a science fiction book published in the United States, and sold millions of copies!
Adventure, ghosts, romance, science fiction, these are many types of themes, and it is already very powerful for a writer to be able to write a subject well, but I didn't think that Huo Sheng could write all of them well, he is really a genius. ———— Ming Pao
As Literary World reported the news, almost all the media in Hong Kong reported on it in the following month.
Jade Channel and Li's TV station even personally dispatched reporters to the United States to shoot the news of local bookstores and newspapers and radio stations, and the long queue to buy "1999" attracted the few people in Hong Kong who had TV sets at home, and their hearts were amazed.
These Hong Kong newspapers, radio stations, and television stations first reported that Huo Yaowen's sci-fi sales in the United States caused a national sensation, and later some reporters got some information about Huo Yaowen out of nowhere and went directly to the housing estate, but Huo Yaowen had already moved his family to the new house and let these reporters run away in vain.
But there are still smart reporters who can't interview me, and it's not bad to interview neighbors.
In the face of the interview with the newspaper reporter, the grandmothers, sisters-in-law and aunts in the housing estate were very happy, and praised the reporter for how smart Huo Yaowen was, and studied well when he was studying, not only the first person in the entire estate to be admitted to the University of Hong Kong, but also stayed in the school to become a teacher at the University of Hong Kong.
As soon as they heard that Huo Yaowen was a teacher at the University of Hong Kong, these reporters transferred to the University of Hong Kong again and tried to interview Huo Yaowen himself, but Huo Yaowen lived in a shallow way during this time, basically except for going back to school to attend classes, that is, at the publishing house, so these reporters turned their heads to interview the students and other teachers of the school, and even the principal Le Pinchun was interviewed by reporters.
If these reports only add fame to the name Huo Yaowen, but with the new week of "Literary World", an interview with Huo Yaowen and a photo of himself were published, in which Huo Yaowen was dressed in a decent suit, wearing gold-rimmed frames, under two slender sword eyebrows, a pair of charming big eyes, and a smile on the corner of his mouth sitting on a chair.
As soon as it was published, Huo Yaowen suddenly became the dream lover in the hearts of 300,000 girls in Hong Kong.
Handsome, courteous, talented, a philosophy teacher at the University of Hong Kong, and touted by Hong Kong newspapers and media, these various factors combined to make Fok Yiuwen's fame spread from Hong Kong to nearby Macau and Taiwan.