The three of them entered the Taibai Seafood Restaurant, and under the guidance of the waiter, they went up to the second floor of the boat, sat down in a position near the window, and looked at the night of the Aberdeen Typhoon Shelter Estuary.

Huo Yaowen ordered a few signature dishes of Taibai Seafood Restaurant, and suddenly noticed that there were steamed eastern star spots on the menu, which made his eyes light up, and he hurriedly ordered another dish.

At this time, two people came up at the staircase, and the leader of the person hugged his friend's shoulder with a hippie smile and said: "Youzai, the seafood here tastes the most positive in Hong Kong, and you have a good mouth tonight." ”

The corner of the friend's mouth smiled: "Then today I will follow Brother Huang to enjoy the blessings." ”

After the two of them found a place to sit down, their friends suddenly noticed Huo Yaowen and the two ghost girls sitting by the window, and said to Huang Zhan: "Brother Huang, look over there, that pretty boy is so powerful, and he actually has two ghost sisters by his side." ”

Huang Zhan looked in the direction pointed by his friend, and really saw a combination of a man and two women, among which the two ghost girls were indeed beautiful enough, and carefully looked at Huo Yaowen's appearance, and always felt a little familiar, and sighed: "Sure enough, it's easy to say anything, and it's easy to be a ghost girl, how can it be like the two of us are talented, but we can't even soak in girls." ”

"yes. The friend nodded thoughtfully, and looked enviously at Huo Yaowen, who was chatting with the two ghost sisters.

is still when the two are envious.

At the table by the window, the waiter brought a variety of seafood dishes to the table.

Looking at all kinds of delicious seafood, Anna and Lilith didn't know where to start for a while, because they couldn't use chopsticks, and the waiter who served the food was also clever, and brought knives and forks when serving food.

"Try this signature dish, East Star Grouper. Huo Yaowen beckoned the second daughter to taste the seafood here.

Anna picked up a piece of delicious fish meat with a fork and put it in her mouth, tasted it carefully, her eyes lit up, and she said with a smile: "It tastes very good." ”

Lilith has learned the same, but I don't know if she is not used to eating Chinese food, after tasting the steamed Eastern Star Spot, she found that the taste is average, but she still praised a few words with a smile on her face.

After a few people had eaten, Huo Yaowen picked up the boiled water on the table and raised it to Lilith and said, "Lilith thanks you for your help this time, otherwise I don't think the negotiations with your company would have gone so smoothly." ”

Lilith laughed lightly, also picked up the boiled water on the table and saluted him, saying, "This is not my credit, if you hadn't come up with the contract signed with the American Bantan Book Publishing Company and the manuscript fee deposit receipt, I think my colleagues would definitely continue to lower the price." ”

"I don't think so. Huo Yaowen said softly.

During the negotiations, Lilith said that Mr. Evan's first choice of publishing company was Bergman Publishing.

This sentence suddenly woke up the people of Thames Publishing Company, there are many publishing companies in the UK, and Thames Publishing Company is just one of the medium-sized companies, but Huo Yaowen's book is different, after all, not all science fiction writers' books can sell millions of copies in the United States.

"If you really want to thank me, then don't decline my invitation next time. Lilith smiled a fox at the corner of her mouth, her eyes crooked and charming.

Without waiting for Huo Yaowen to speak, Anna next to her coughed violently twice, seeing that the eyes of the two were staring at her, she hurriedly took a big sip of water and said, "This fish is so spicy!"

Huo Yaowen looked down and saw that several dishes on the table were Cantonese dishes, mainly light, but the spicy thing Anna said might be the flame drunk red shrimp, this dish is slightly soaked in rice wine, and then boiled with a flame, there may be some residual taste of rice wine.

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At this time, at noon in the United States, in a McDonald's fast food restaurant in Brooklyn, New York, Yang Zongsheng, a reporter sent to the United States from the literary world, wiped the sweat stains on his forehead, held a notepad in his hand, and asked his colleague Chen Shaomin next to him: "Shaomin, how are you recording over there?"

Chen Shaomin took a sip of cold Coke, took a long breath and said: "I interviewed more than 20 people in the bookstore in front of me, including the owner of the bookstore, most of them have heard of this "1999", and only a small number of people who do not read science fiction have not heard of it. ”

"I don't understand why the editor-in-chief sent us to the United States to record this book. Yang Zongsheng watched Chen Shaomin drink Coke, but also felt that his mouth was dry, drank a big sip of Coke, and after burping, he relieved the heat in his heart, picked up the newly bought book "1999" on the table, looked at the weird cover and the signature on it, pouted and said: "Author Evan, Shaomin, have you heard of this writer's name?"

"I never watch sci-fi. Chen Shaomin glanced at the name printed on the book, shrugged his shoulders and said: "Maybe it's a newly famous science fiction writer in the United States, many of the people I interviewed said that this book was very well written, and they all bought it, and they also said that the law of the dark forest is a kind of conformist rule in the entire universe." ”

"Yes, the New York Times that I have collected in recent months, seven of which have been published in seven newspapers in a row, and Isaac Asimov, the author of "I, the Robot", has also praised the book's creativity and thought. ”

Yang Zongsheng has read some science fiction, but almost all of them are written by Ni Frame, and the only foreign science fiction he has read is the short story "I, Robot" written by Isaac Asimov.

Chen Shaomin hadn't heard of this person's name, so he didn't care much, touched his somewhat shriveled belly, stood up and asked, "What do you want to eat?"

"Let's have a burger. ”

"Good. Chen Shaomin turned around and walked to the counter, ordered two burgers, and waited silently when his eyes were suddenly attracted by an eye-catching headline on the newspaper column placed next to the McDonald's counter.

"Who the hell is Evan, the author of the mysterious 1999?"

Chen Shaomin picked up the newspaper and browsed it carefully and quickly, and the whole person was stunned in place, if it wasn't for the waiter next to him calling him, Chen Shaomin would have been stunned all the time.

Holding a tray containing two hamburgers, he quickly walked next to Yang Zongsheng, and Chen Shaomin said to him excitedly: "Take a look, look at this newspaper!"

"What?" Yang Zongsheng took the newspaper suspiciously, and when he saw that the title was written "1999", he raised his eyebrows, and it was the report of the book, and he read all the way down the report, and when he saw one of the sentences, he suddenly looked up at Chen Shaomin in shock: "Evan is from Hong Kong?"

"Keep reading!" Chen Shaomin clenched his fists, he finally understood why Editor-in-Chief Deng would send the two of them to the United States for no reason to interview such a best-selling science fiction book published in the United States, it turned out that the author was him!

“EvanisHuoYaowen！”

"Huo Yaowen!" Yang Zongsheng looked at Chen Shaomin with a shocked face, his eyes were full of incredulity, his eyes widened, and his pupils shrank and dilated at this moment: "Is it Mr. Huo who wrote "Sweet Honey"?"

As an interview reporter in the literary world, Yang Zongsheng naturally knew that the author of "Sweet Honey", which was a big hit in the newspaper last year, was named Huo Yaowen, and once met each other in the newspaper, but he never expected that Mr. Huo wrote an English science fiction book, and it was just a matter of writing, and it actually sold millions of copies in the United States!

Thinking of the Americans interviewed in the past two days, without exception, all of them praised how good the book "1999" was, Yang Zongsheng didn't dare to be interested, just to complete the task arranged by the newspaper, but when he saw this New York Times report, the whole person was inexplicably a little excited!

Chen Shaomin said excitedly: "It's not him, who else is there? There are many people with the same name and surname in Hong Kong, but why did Editor-in-Chief Deng let us come to the United States to report this book, he must have known that the author of this book is that Mr. Huo!"

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