Who will be the hero and heroine of "Cloud", Huo Yaowen actually doesn't have too many opinions, after all, it is a movie and a movie, so naturally there is a little difference.

Li Hanxiang remembered that when he was in Taiwan before, Huo Yaowen seemed to know the script very well, and he wanted to leave the script of the "Cloud" movie to him to write, but Huo Yaowen politely refused.

Before the banquet was dispersed, Huo Yaowen asked Li Hanxiang when the filming would start and how long it would take to finish, so he could take the time to let the people from the publishing house promote the printing and publishing.

However, Li Hanxiang himself is not very clear about this matter, although he cooperates with Xie Xian's Hsieh Film Co., Ltd., but Guolian Pictures has been in a difficult financial situation recently, and it is expected that the group will not be filmed until some movie theaters in Taiwan are liquidated and the box office is settled.

But I don't know if Xie Xian wanted to make a couple scene with Zhen Zhen earlier, so he patted his chest and said: "Brother Xiang, don't you look down on me? You can borrow from me if you lack money, this is good, you pull people from Taiwan to come over to build a group, I will temporarily advance the money for you, and I will give it to me after you get the money back." ”

In the early years, when he was filming "The Condor Heroes" in Emei Film Company, he fell in love with Nan Hong, who played the role of Little Dragon Girl, and knew that Nan Hong liked roses, at that time there was no flower garden in Hong Kong, most of the fresh flowers were shipped from overseas, Xie Xian directly spent 100,000 yuan to transport 999 roses from the Netherlands, and wanted to hug the beauty, it was still 60 years at the time, and a bowl full of lo noodles was only one dollar, and 100,000 yuan was enough to buy a few housing enterprises.

In the face of such a romantic and generous handsome young student in the film industry, it is easy for a girl to fall into it under these 999 roses, but Nan Hong is not very interested in the playboy Xie Xian, and directly rejected his confession in public, Xie Xian is not angry about this, nor does he speak ill of people behind his back, but often laughs and tells the same people: Nan Hong is the best woman he has ever seen in his life. At this moment, Xie Xian's reputation for infatuation spread, and he almost caught his wife in the future.

So when Li Hanxiang heard Xie Xian say this, he subconsciously glanced at Zhen Zhen, saw that her eyes had been staring at Xie Xian, and he also chuckled, nodded directly without thinking and agreed: "Okay." ”

Li Hanxiang doesn't care much about Xie Xian's own company's actresses, at this time it is normal for actresses to get married, the two men are unmarried and the women are unmarried, and they can't care about them together.

Huo Yaowen, who witnessed this scene, glanced at Xie Xian, and looked at Zhen Zhen who was sitting next to him, but understood why Xie Xian was willing to lend money to Li Hanxiang and ask him to shoot this movie as soon as possible.

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In a few days, it was Chinese New Year's Eve.

This year's Huo family's New Year is much more lively and joyful than in previous years, Grandma has been smiling every day since the first few days of Chinese New Year's Eve, as if there are countless joys in her heart that need to be told by the same people, in addition to the uncle and family who have not seen her for many years come to Hong Kong from the United States, grandson Huo Yaowen became a lecturer at the University of Hong Kong, and set up a publishing house.

Huo Chengcai put on his new clothes, walked out of the house, glanced at Huo Yaowen, who was still grinding in front of the table, and walked over and asked, "Has Awen written the couplet?"

The younger sister sat aside, turned back to him and said, "Not yet, brother said that he wanted to brew." ”

"Well, it's going to be fine right away. Huo Yaowen pondered for a while, then lifted the brush, and danced on two pieces of red paper, and in just a few tens of seconds, he wrote a pair of New Year couplets: plum blossoms dot a thousand mountains show, the year of the rooster is four seasons of spring, and the New Year is auspicious.

Looking at these two pairs of characters in one go, Huo Yaowen was still very satisfied, his kung fu in writing calligraphy can be regarded as more than ten years of skills, not as good as those calligraphers, but it can be regarded as a good shot among ordinary people.

Huo Chengcai glanced at the couplet, and the handwriting was very good, but he still urged: "Hurry up and paste it after you write it, your uncle and they will all go to the hotel." ”

Huo Yaowen looked at the handwriting on the Spring Festival couplets that had not dried, and said: "You can paste it when it is dry in a while, Lao Dou, you and Grandma will go over first, and I will take my sister to paste the Spring Festival couplets later." ”

This year, my uncle's family came to Hong Kong, and Grandma proposed that the two families have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together, and the eating place in the house was too small to stretch, so she booked a table in a restaurant outside.

"Okay, then I'll go with your grandma and them first, and you and your sister will come over early after you and your sister get the Spring Festival couplets. Huo Chengcai said a word, called Grandma and Grandma who were preparing red envelopes in the room, and the three of them rushed to the restaurant near the house first.

After waiting for a few minutes, after the handwriting on the Spring Festival couplets was completely dry, Huo Yaowen and his sister went out one by one, ready to paste the couplets on the door with glue.

At this time, Zhang Wanjun suddenly walked over from the corridor, saw the brother and sister who posted the Spring Festival couplet, and hurriedly walked over and shouted: "Cousin Yaowen." ”

"Wanjun, why are you here?" Huo Yaowen looked back when he heard the voice, and when he saw that the person who came was Zhang Wanjun, his face showed surprise: "You didn't see my old bean just now?"

Zhang Wanjun smiled and said, "I saw it, but my uncle and aunt asked me to come over and call my cousin you and Tingting." ”

"Cousin, you're so beautiful today, this dress matches you very well. The younger sister walked to Zhang Wanjun's side and looked at her cousin who was completely different from the past today, especially her naturally curly long hair, which made her very envious.

Today's Zhang Wanjun's appearance is indeed different from the past, with long fluffy and slightly curly hair, an ordinary black coat on her body, loose sweater and trousers, natural thick eyebrows and black eyes, her lips are light, she did not apply any makeup on her face, she squinted slightly in the cold wind in the aisle, pursed her lips, and the sides of her face may be blown by the wind, and she is a little red, but it is precisely because of this that her beautiful and moving face is like a bitter woman who came out of Qiong Yao's drama.

"Really?" Zhang Wanjun was overjoyed when she heard her sister's praise, and glanced at Huo Yaowen to see that he was still busy pasting Spring Festival couplets, and couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

Huo Yaowen pasted the Spring Festival couplets, handed the glue to the fine sister and said, "Okay, the little sister sent the glue in, we should go." ”

"Oh. Huo Tingting took the glue, ran into the house quickly, and after throwing the glue on the table casually, she picked up her small satchel and walked out.

When the three of them arrived at the hotel, the upper and lower floors of the restaurant were full of guests, and at this time many tables had been opened, and the voices of people were boiling, shouting and persuading the wine to rise and fall, and they searched left and right for a while, and only under the leadership of the waiter did they find grandma and uncle.

Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the two families ate very happily, although Huo Yaowen is an adult and still working, but according to the custom in Zhongshan, as long as the unmarried person can receive a red envelope.

Huo Yaowen has lost interest in red envelopes, but the younger sister has received seven or eight red envelopes, although it is only a few hundred yuan, but it is also a huge amount of money for her, enough to eat and drink for a long time, and she can buy several beautiful clothes.

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On the one hand, the University of Hong Kong will start classes after the Spring Festival, and he will be busy preparing for classes earlier, and on the other hand, the order for the printing of textbooks and books by the Education Department has also been set, that is, on March 2.

After a few busy days, Huo Yaowen felt that he had lost a lot of weight.

On this day, in the office of the University of Hong Kong Press, Fok Yaowen came here early in the morning to discuss with Wu Liande, Zhang Zhide and others about the bidding of the Education Department in a few days.

Wu Liande distributed some of the information he had recently investigated to the two of them, and his face was a little solemn: "There are more competitors for the order from the Education Department than I thought before, and I got the list of publishing companies participating in this bidding from an old friend, there are a total of 33, the largest of which is Joint Publishing House, Oxford Publishing House, Chung Hwa Book Company, Mingguang Publishing House, and my old employer, Commercial Printing House. ”

"The Commercial Printing House also participated?"

Huo Yaowen frowned, he knew how famous the Commercial Printing House was, it was not only the first publishing house in China to publish a dictionary of Chinese characters, but also played an unparalleled role in the propaganda of anti-Japanese propaganda during the Anti-Japanese War in the 30s, and thus became a thorn in the side of the Japanese. Only by burning down the Commercial Press, China's most important cultural institution, it will never be restored. ”

"Yes, but I'm not optimistic about my old club. Wu Liande knew that it was impossible for the ghosts of the Education Department to hand over this order to the Commercial Printing House, so he said directly: "Although the Commercial Printing Museum participated, it was impossible for the ghosts to hand over the order to them, so remove the Commercial Printing House, as well as Sanlian Bookstore, Oxford Publishing House, Zhonghua Book Company, and Mingzhuang Publishing House, these four are very strong." ”

Huo Yaowen thought for a few seconds, then turned his head to look at his uncle Zhang Zhide and asked, "Editor-in-Chief Zhang, I asked you to calculate the minimum printing cost of textbooks?"

Zhang Zhide said: "Because the number of pages of textbooks in each grade of primary school is different, the cost price is also different, but I have calculated comprehensively, the cost of labor, ink, paper and electricity, the cost of a textbook is about one piece, which is the lowest publishing price after mass production, and I have not calculated the profit in it." ”

"Can't it be lowered?" Huo Yaowen frowned and said, "Even if it drops a dime a little more?"

"It can't be reduced, unless the Kowloon Paper Mill and the printing ink dealer can reduce the price for us, otherwise this is already the lowest price. Zhang Zhide shook his head helplessly, the price given by the paper mill is not the lowest price, and the price of the ink dealer is also very high, although the paper and ink are general, but the cost of textbooks can not be reduced.

Wu Liande said at this time: "That is the amount we need is still not enough, if we can win the order, with these hundreds of thousands of textbook orders, I think we can still talk to them about the price." ”

Zhang Zhide silently calculated in his heart, "If you can talk about it, I think I can only reduce the cost price of textbooks by one and a half cents at most." ”

"That's nine cents!"

Huo Yaowen squinted his eyes and asked, "What is the cost of extracurricular tutoring books?"

Zhang Zhide replied: "If the whole page is printed, it will probably cost about five yuan per book, because the number of pages in the tutorial book is much more than that of the textbook, and the fee will have to be paid to the several professors and teachers who compile it." ”

Hearing this price, Huo Yaowen gradually had a plan in his heart.