In the early morning, the sky was still bright.

Inside the Lung Fung Tea House, No. 13 Tung Choi Street, Mong Kok.

"The waiter brought two cages of shrimp dumplings and a pot of oolong tea. ”

"Great!"

The waiter came over with a dining cart, quickly took two cages of shrimp dumplings and put them on the table, and said before leaving: "Oolong tea will be served immediately, wait a while." ”

Zhang Chengyi nodded.

Wu Liande, who was sitting at the other end of the table, called out to the waiter: "Another cage of bean paste buns." ”

"A basket of bean paste. The waiter immediately took out a basket of steaming bean paste buns from the dining car, took out a pen and wrote down something on the order, and then pushed the dining cart away.

Zhang Chengyi picked up the free tea on the table, poured a little hot tea into the bowl, cleaned the dishes and chopsticks, looked at Wu Liande and asked with a smile, "You still eat so much?"

"If you have a good appetite, if you don't eat more every day, you will get hungry easily. ”

Wu Liande smiled, and didn't wash the dishes like Zhang Chengyi, but picked up the steaming bean paste bun with chopsticks nonchalantly, and took a hard bite, and suddenly the sweet bean paste candy heart flowed down the corner of his mouth.

Zhang Chengyi looked at Wu Liande's good appetite and love to laugh, not at all like a 68-year-old man, shook his head and said: "You have such a good appetite, I can't do it, and I can't eat much at every meal." ”

After eating a baby's fist-sized bean paste bun in two or three bites, Wu Liande picked up the towel on the table, wiped the bean paste candy heart stuck to his beard, and said, "I'm not like you, I definitely can't eat at my age!"

Zhang Chengyi couldn't cry or laugh when he was told his age by a person who was four years older than him, but seeing that Wu Liande was very good mentally and physically now, he was also relieved, and said in a joking tone: "I'm four years younger than you, you tell me how old I am? ”

"Who said that I can't walk when I'm old?" Wu Liande glared at Zhang Chengyi, and said: "You don't know that I have been exercising recently, and I play with the old man downstairs every day, I am very powerful, let me tell you!"

"Yes...... Seeing that Wu Liande was not convinced of his old age, Zhang Chengyi also smiled and nodded: "You are not old, you are still very young." ”

"That's right!" Wu Liande picked up the shrimp dumplings on the table again, ate them in two or three bites, and then looked up and asked, "Are you going to ask me to have morning tea today?"

"I want to see how you're doing. ”

"Why do you ask this? You see, I'm in good health right now. ”

"Then I'm relieved. ”

"Rest assured?" Wu Liande looked at Zhang Chengyi suspiciously.

"I have a student who runs a publishing house, and so far I haven't hired an editor-in-chief, didn't you talk to me last time that you were bored at home alone? ”

"Please let me out of the mountain?"

"Yes, your good friend pictorial was so successful back then, so I wanted to invite you, an old-timer, out of the mountain. ”

Wu Liande's most proud thing in his life is to establish Liangyou Publishing Company, which created a precedent for Chinese pictorials. ”

"So I asked you out to ask if you had any intention of going out of the mountain. ”

Seeing that Zhang Chengyi said so seriously, Wu Liande hesitated, pondered for a while, and said worriedly: "I am very familiar with the process work of the publishing company, and it can be said that I can do almost everything from review, typesetting to printing, but after all, I have left this industry for so many years, and now Hong Kong has changed so much, and I may not be able to do it well." ”

"You don't have to worry about that. Zhang Chengyi remembered what Huo Yaowen said that day, and also said: "You only need to manage the staff in the publishing house, and there is someone to handle the daily review and publicity." ”

Hearing this, Wu Liande understood the meaning of Zhang Chengyi's words, which was nothing more than asking himself to go out of the mountain, managing the newspaper staff and controlling the general direction, rather than being meticulous enough to understand every step below. After thinking for a moment and thinking about it, he said, "I haven't heard you say that there is such a student before?"

"One of my favorite students is that he is now working with the University of Hong Kong to set up the University of Hong Kong Press. ”

"Isn't the University of Hong Kong Press going out of business?" Wu Liande said in surprise.

"Yes, but now it's time to do it again. ”

Wu Liande smiled: "If it is a cooperation with the University of Hong Kong, it will be a lot easier, and many things can be done in the name of the University of Hong Kong." It's just that you, the student, are not the same as before, still thinking about printing some textbooks or academics? That won't make any money, and sooner or later you'll be bankrupt like before. ”

"I don't know, you know that I don't know much about publishing houses, but I'm a writer and I've written a few best-selling books, so I guess I'll be publishing them. ”

"Oh, bestsellers, what is it?"

"One is called "Ghost Blows the Lamp", and the other is called "Sweet Honey", which is a book of Mandarin Duck and Butterfly Pie. ”

"I know that, and I watch it a lot. ”

Wu Liande didn't expect that Zhang Chengyi's student was actually the person who wrote this book: "Your student's name is Baa?"

"Huo Yaowen. ”

......

To the east of Pokfulam Road, near Bonham Road, on Pokfulam New Road, jointly funded by the Public Works Department and the dairy company Chow Hei Nian, a somewhat dilapidated truck carrying a dozen people followed a Mercedes truck in front.

"Old Bean, do you still know how to drive?"

Huo Yaowen, who was sitting in the back seat, was a little surprised that Lao Dou Huo Chengcai could actually drive!!

I also got an old Mercedes that can be said to be second-hand and can no longer be used today, and it took several minutes to ignite it earlier, so I am afraid that this car will break down halfway.

"I was going to drive when I was eighteen years old!" Huo Chengcai glanced at Huo Yaowen through the rearview mirror, and was very dissatisfied with his surprise: "You don't have you when I drive, and you ask me if I can drive?"

"Hehe......"

Seeing that Lao Dou was unhappy, Huo Yaowen smiled, he really hadn't seen Huo Chengcai drive a car, but it didn't seem unusual to think that the Huo family was also a wealthy family in Zhongshan in the early years, and it didn't seem unusual to be able to drive, but looking at the somewhat worn chairs in the car, he asked: "Where did you get this car Lao Dou?"

"The old car is like this, as long as you can travel, it doesn't matter if it is broken inside. Huo Chengcai said casually: "Your uncle and I run around every day for your business, I can't take a taxi, and I have to wait for a bus, so I want to buy an old car, and it's not expensive, only two thousand three hundred." ”

"Don't break down halfway, we're going back. ”

Zhang Zhide, who was sitting in the co-pilot's seat, followed: "The quality of this car is okay, I tried it with your father, basically there is no big problem, but the engine is a little old, and it can't be overheated for a long time, otherwise it will be easy to stall." ”

“...”

Why buy a car that can't be driven for a long time? ?

These words were only put in Huo Yaowen's heart, but he didn't say it to his face, he turned around and glanced at the truck of the engineering team following behind, "Are these people going to live in the factory temporarily?"

Huo Chengcai nodded: "Well, this side of Bofulin Road is very desolate, and it takes a long time to drive to get there, aren't you in a hurry? ”

"It's about rushing work. Huo Yaowen grabbed the front seat, straightened up and said: "The recently hired employees, if they don't work, they have to pay money, I always feel a little lost, uncle, can you start printing first?"

"Start work?"

"yes, didn't you print the book I wrote before?"

Zhang Zhide thought about it and said: "There is no problem in starting work, the personnel and machinery are ready." All you need to do is proofread your book, and then the editor will review it and arrange the typesetting for typesetting, and then send it directly to print. It's just that now the factory is going to be renovated, and you have a place to start there?"

"When we get to the place, ask the people of the engineering team if they can build a wall first, move the printing press and related materials, renovate it during the day, and start work at night!"

....