The next day, early in the morning, in a teahouse in Kowloon.

After Huo Yaowen ordered a morning tea, he asked the waiter to bring a few of today's newspapers, and after a while, the refreshments and everything were ready, and the newspapers were also delivered.

Picking up a piece of shrimp dumplings with his fingers and stuffing it into his mouth, Huo Yaowen chewed the delicious shrimp dumplings, wiped his grease-stained hands on the paper towel on the side, and then picked up the newspaper and read it.

His favorite refreshment is shrimp dumplings, and every time he goes to which teahouse, the must-order morning tea is shrimp dumplings, and there is no one.

The waiter sent several newspapers, Huo Yaowen first picked up the "Ming Pao" and read it, I don't know if I don't read it, I don't know if I see him, I can't be happy when I see him, Jin Yong actually quoted some chicken soup golden sentences he wrote in the "Youth Books" not long ago in the column, like what: "If you lack the qi to break the ground and fight against the wind and snow, the future of the seed is not as wonderful as the fallen leaves"......

At the end of the article, Jin Yong praised Huo Yaowen for writing all the golden and jade good words, which are what contemporary young people need to deeply learn and remember the true meaning of living in the world.

"Knock Knock"

As soon as there was a knock on the door of the box, Li Daoguang hurriedly pushed the door and walked in.

Seeing him enter the door, Huo Yaowen put down the newspaper and got up and asked, "Editor-in-Chief Li, you are here, what do you want to eat?"

"Whatever. Li Daoguang sat next to Huo Yaowen in a bad mood.

Seeing that his face was not very good, Huo Yaowen looked at him suspiciously, got up and ordered two more morning teas from the waiter who was pushing a food cart not far from the door.

When the morning tea was on the table, Huo Yaowen poured Li Daoguang a cup of tea and asked curiously: "It seems that Editor-in-Chief Li is not in a good mood today." ”

"Alas......" Li Daoguang wanted to speak and stopped, and finally turned into a sigh and said: "Huo Sheng, I asked you out this time, mainly to urge you to draft. ”

"That's what happened. ”

I received a call from Li Daoguang yesterday, and when I heard his tone, it seemed that there was something difficult, and I thought something big had happened, but I didn't expect it to be a reminder.

Huo Yaowen smiled and said: "Editor-in-Chief Li, don't worry, I have free time during the recent school holidays, and I have been rushing to the manuscript at home during this time." Well, I'll start delivering the manuscript in a few years. ”

"That ......" Li Daoguang hesitated for a few seconds, but still said: "Huo Sheng, can you write some manuscripts for me in the next two days?"

Huo Yaowen was puzzled: "Why are you in such a hurry?"

"Alas, in fact, I don't want to urge Huo Sheng too much, I know that you are also busy, I have often read the newspapers in the past few months, and it is clear that Huo Sheng has a lot of things to do, if it is delivered after the year in the past, it will be just ......"

Li Daoguang paused, and continued with a bitter face: "It's just that the sales of Oriental Daily have declined recently, and President Ma came to the newspaper to check the year-end finances the day before yesterday and found that the newspaper's financial situation in recent months has not been good......

There is no need for him to say the rest, Huo Yaowen can roughly guess that it is nothing more than Ma Rulong's poor sales of the newspaper and the newspaper can't make any money, so he thinks that it is caused by his own delay, so he forced Li Daoguang to come to him to urge the manuscript.

If it were the same as before, Huo Yaowen wouldn't care too much, but now he was a little more dissatisfied in his heart, he glanced at Li Daoguang with an embarrassed face, and wanted to open his mouth to say something of refusal, but he swallowed it back when he came to his mouth.

Huo Yaowen thought for a few seconds, nodded and agreed: "Okay, then I'll rush to the manuscript in the next few days, and try to write a little bit for you." ”

Li Daoguang has also helped Huo Yaowen a few times before, especially when he was scolding Gu Shu Zimo newspaper of "Emperor Daily", the other party helped fight back several times, and this love has to be repaid in total.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you so much this time Huo Sheng. Hearing Huo Yaowen's promise, Li Daoguang glanced at him gratefully.

Ma Rulong may not read the current newspapers very much, or even if he does, he won't care about some of the news above that has nothing to do with him, but Li Daoguang is different, he knows very well that Huo Yaowen is no longer what it used to be at this time.

Not to mention anything else, he has become a well-known science fiction writer by writing books in the United States, and is the president of the Hong Kong University Press, and he also founded a new publishing company.

"Okay, Editor-in-Chief Li, you also helped me at the beginning, I tried my best to hurry up the manuscript in the past two days, but the manuscript fee can't be calculated according to the second part of the ghost blowing the lantern. Huo Yaowen waved his hand, indicating that he didn't want to hear Li Daoguang's words of thanks.

Li Daoguang patted his chest and said: "This is natural, the manuscript fee is definitely satisfactory to Huo Sheng." ”

...

After eating morning tea with Li Daoguang and chatting about the current situation of Oriental Daily, Huo Yaowen drove home.

From many outline drafts, the content of the last part of the ghost blowing the lamp was taken out.

Originally, Huo Yaowen planned to write the ghost blowing lantern in eight parts, but because of the incident of Gu Shu Zimo halfway, he revised the outline, eliminated many plots of tomb robbery, and finally summarized all the content, which is also the final part of this book.

Because he hadn't written the content of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" for a long time, Huo Yaowen took out the second draft of the Ghost Blowing Lantern he wrote before, and after briefly reading the ending and the content of the outline, he began to write the third part.

He didn't write until noon, when Huo Yaowen went downstairs for a meal, and when he was about to come back to continue writing, a phone call from the company called him out again.

...

Two hours later, in the conference room of Yaowen Book Publishing Company.

As soon as Huo Yaowen pushed the door in, he noticed that there were three men in straight suits sitting opposite Yao Wenjie, all of whom had small heads.

After the three of them saw Huo Yaowen come in, they immediately stood up.

Yao Wenjie heard the movement, turned his head to take a look, and saw that it was Huo Yaowen, and he also got up and introduced: "Chairman, these three are Fujiwara Daibita, the executive editor-in-chief of Japan Kodansha, Ryosuke Kimura, and the translator Miura Egami. ”

Immediately, Yao Wenjie said to the Miura translator: "This is our chairman and the author of "1999", Huo Yaowen. ”

After Miura whispered a few words in Japanese with the two people beside him, Fujiwara Nobita and Kimura Ryosuke immediately bowed respectfully at 90 degrees and said, "Twitter, croak, croak, ......."

When Huo Yaowen was confused, Miura said in fluent Chinese: "Mr. Huo, Mr. Fujiwara and Mr. Kimura ask you again and say that you are their idol." ”

"Okay, you can help me say hello to them. Huo Yaowen was still a little confused, although he didn't like the Japanese very much, but seeing these two people bending down so respectfully, it was also for the sake of face.

After Miura and Fujiwara and Kimura translated Huo Yaowen's words to them, the two of them were excited to bend down at 90 degrees again and say a lot of words.

Huo Yaowen had a headache when he heard this, and hurriedly said to Miura: "Okay, okay, this Mr. Miura, let the two of them sit down." ”

"Sit down and have a cup of tea, and we'll come right over. ”

Yao Wenjie saw that the chairman was not very clear about the situation, so he also said a word to Miura, and pulled Huo Yaowen out of the door.

Waiting out of the door of the conference room, Huo Yaowen couldn't wait to ask, "Editor-in-chief Yao, what the hell is going on? Why are there three Japanese?"

Yao Wenjie said: "I don't know the specifics, but I just heard the translator Miura say that it seems that the "1999" written by you, the chairman, is a big hit in Japan, and the people at Kodansha want to continue to cooperate with you, the chairman. ”

When he heard that Kodansha was sent to seek cooperation with him, Huo Yaowen realized a little, and it seemed that his "1999" was selling very well in Japan, otherwise, the other party would not have sent someone to cooperate with him without prior notice.

Huo Yaowen is very happy that Kodansha continues to cooperate with him, after all, he can make money from little devils, and he doesn't make money for nothing, but he hasn't figured out how "1999" is selling in Japan, and he doesn't even have any rumors, just listening to them, who knows if these little devils will pit themselves.

Huo Yaowen pondered and didn't speak, Yao Wenjie naturally didn't say anything, and stood quietly by his side waiting for the chairman's speech.

After a long time, Huo Yaowen said: "In this way, you now arrange for someone to investigate the sales of "1999" in Japan, they are in such a hurry to come over and not notify in advance, who knows what they think." ”

"Okay chairman. Yao Wenjie nodded, and when he was about to leave, he suddenly heard Huo Yaowen say again: "Editor-in-chief Yao, do you know some translators who can speak Japanese?"

Yao Wenjie pondered for a few seconds, nodded and said, "I know one." ”

"Is it close to the company?"

"It's a bit of a road, about half an hour. ”

"Call him over for a favor, you and I don't know Japanese, and the only translator is a Japanese, so it's not good. Huo Yaowen actually didn't say anything, that is, the little devil scolded himself in Japanese, and the translator Miura probably wouldn't tell him, so it was better to find someone of his own.

"Yes. ”

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