Lee Garden Restaurant is a well-known restaurant in Wong Tai Sin District, Kowloon, whose signature dish is the favorite roast goose of Hong Kong people, and it is later famous for Yung Kee Restaurant on Wellington Street in Central, Hong Kong Island.

However, the current reputation of Lee Garden Restaurant is much higher than that of Yong Kee Restaurant, thanks to the founder of Lee Garden Restaurant, Li Renhong, who was the last imperial chef of the Republic of China to cook Cantonese cuisine for the last emperor Pu Yi.

Although the reputation of Lee Garden Restaurant is very great, the price is not particularly expensive, depending on the size of the roast goose, under normal circumstances, a piece is only about 20 yuan.

Ordinary people celebrate the New Year's Festival, or guests come to the house, and buy it back to make a tooth sacrifice, but they are also willing to do it.

By the time Huo Yaowen led his uncle's family to the Lee Garden Restaurant, it was already noon, and there were not many guests inside, but when the first floor was swept away, there were almost no empty tables left.

There is a private room on the second floor, but where the consumption is relatively high, in addition to normal meals, there is also a table and card room that provides rest and entertainment.

Huo Yaowen's table is in the corner of the first floor, near the window, and the environment is relatively better.

When the group walked to the reserved table under the leadership of the waiter, Huo Chengcai had already been sitting there and waiting for a long time.

"Uncle!" Huo Chengcai saw his uncle Zhang Huawei, and hurriedly got up with a smile and waved his hand.

"Chengcai, it's been a long time. Uncle Zhang Huawei saw Huo Chengcai, and he also walked over with a happy face, looking at the other party's aging face, and once again couldn't help but sigh that time passed so quickly.

"I haven't seen my uncle in years. ”

Huo Chengcai looked at his uncle's face, the folds all over his face, and the lines clearly visible on his forehead, all telling him that the high-spirited uncle who took his daughter to the United States in the early years was old.

"Cousin!" Zhang Chunfen led Zhang Zhide over with a smile and said, "This is my husband, Zhang Zhide." Zhide, this is my cousin Huo Chengcai. ”

"Cousin. Zhang Zhide hadn't seen Huo Chengcai, but after hearing Zhang Chunfen's reminder, he hurriedly said hello.

Huo Chengcai saw his cousin-in-law for the first time, and he didn't know him very well, so he just nodded politely and said, "Zhide, how does it feel to come to Hong Kong." ”

Zhang Zhide recalled the situation along the way: "It's good, Hong Kong is much better than I imagined. ”

When he received a telegram from his uncle before, Huo Chengcai understood a little, so he said: "That's good, Hong Kong's development in recent years has been very good, and many industries need talents like your cousin-in-law." ”

"Okay, cousin won't talk about that for now. Zhang Chunfen didn't want to mention these things for the time being, so she called Zhang Wanjun, who was a little shy next to her, over and said to Huo Chengcai: "Cousin, this is my daughter Wanjun." ”

"Uncle. Zhang Wanjun shouted politely.

"Good. Huo Chengcai saw Zhang Wanjun's photo, and after seeing his cousin's girl, he replied with a smile.

The grandmother next to her said: "Okay, let my uncle sit down." ”

"Yes, my brain, uncle sits. Huo Chengcai hurriedly beckoned his uncle to take a seat, and also motioned for his cousin and others to sit down.

"Good, good. Zhang Huawei nodded with a smile, turned to his cousin and said, "Cousin, you sit in the main seat." ”

Grandma didn't care who sat in the main seat, and waved her hand and said, "It's all a family, just sit casually." ”

After some shirking, the two families finally sat down.

After a while, a waiter came over and asked if it was time to serve.

Huo Yaowen nodded and said, "Please serve the food." ”

"Yes sir. ”

After the waiter left, the uncle looked at his nephew Huo Chengcai, glanced at Huo Yaowen again, and couldn't help but sigh: "It's been almost twenty years, and it always feels like it was just yesterday." At that time, I took Chunfen to accompany my cousin Chengcai to Hong Kong, and I was here for half a year, and I went to the United States to open a restaurant with great ambitions......"

"Alright, Warwick is in the past. Afraid that her cousin would think too much, Grandma also changed the topic, looked at Zhang Chunfen and Zhang Zhide, and asked, "Chunfen, what are you and Zhide going to do when you come to Hong Kong, do you need your aunt's help?"

When Zhang Chunfen heard this, she glanced at her husband Zhang Zhide, hesitated for a few seconds and said: "I have been working with Zhide in the Chinese newspaper in San Francisco's Chinatown for many years, and now I can't do anything else except this, so I want to find a newspaper to work after returning to Hong Kong." ”

"The newspaper. Huo Chengcai touched his chin, thought for a few seconds and said: "There are many newspapers in Hong Kong, I'll help you two find out if there are any newspapers that are short of people." ”

"Then it's a problem for my cousin. Zhang Chunfen said with a smile.

At this time, Huo Yaowen opened his mouth and said: "Uncle, the last time I went to the United States, I heard my aunt say that you are the executive editor of printing in the newspaper?"

"Hmm. Uncle Zhang Zhide nodded.

"I have a job related to the printing department of the newspaper, I don't know if my uncle can do it?"

"What job?"

Uncle didn't see Huo Yaowen as a child, after all, he is now a teacher at the University of Hong Kong, in other words, the other party's job must not be bad, at this time the family has arrived in Hong Kong, although there are still a few thousand dollars, and there are twenty or thirty thousand Hong Kong dollars in conversion, but the top priority must be a certain job, and you can't sit back and eat.

Huo Yaowen glanced at Huo's father and grandma, saw that they were all staring at him, thought for a few seconds, and decided to say it now, anyway, sooner or later, it is not impossible to say it now.

Thinking of this, after sorting out his words and thoughts, Fok Yaowen said: "I am going to set up a publishing company to cooperate with the University of Hong Kong. ”

"Establish a publishing company!!"

At this moment, Huo's father, Huo's mother, and Grandma were surprised, and even Huo Tingting, the younger sister Huo Tingting, who was sitting next to her and chatting with Zhang Wanjun in a whisper, turned her head sideways to look at her brother in shock.

Huo Chengcai frowned and asked first, "Yaowen, why do you want to set up a publishing company?"

Huo Yaowen glanced at the surprised expressions of his family, as well as the puzzled looks of his aunt and uncle, and opened his mouth to say: "The University of Hong Kong will establish a Department of Philosophy and a Department of Law next year, and the relevant professional books and textbooks should follow the textbooks of the University of London, so the school is ready to apply to the University of London for the copyright of the Hong Kong printing of the textbooks."

Before that, the University of Hong Kong had opened a publishing house, but it closed down due to business problems, so the school had to hand over the printing of textbooks to an outside publishing house or printing house, and I thought that if I cooperated with the school, I would have been handed over to the school to deal with it. ”

Yesterday, after hearing the discussion between Professor Luke of Philosophy and Professor Jacob of Law, the Vice-Chancellor Le Pin Chun returned to Hong Kong from the United Kingdom, and decided to use the University of London textbook for the time being.

On the one hand, this is because the president Le Pinchun once graduated from the University of London, and has a little confidence in obtaining the copyright of textbooks and related professional books, and secondly, the president himself is a former student of the University of London, so it is reasonable to choose the textbooks of his alma mater.

When Zhang Zhide heard this, he frowned and asked: "If it is only to print the textbooks and textbooks of the University of Hong Kong, I think the scale of this publication will not be very large, and there are so many textbooks and books every year, will it not be in business after printing?"

"Nope. Fok shook his head and said: "In addition to the textbooks of the University of Hong Kong, I have an uncle, he is from the Education Department, and he told me earlier that in the next two years, Hong Kong will implement compulsory six-year free compulsory education, so that all school-age children must go to school." The textbooks of various secondary schools in Hong Kong are different, and the Hong Kong Governor's Government intends to unify the compilation of textbooks......"

Zhang Zhide is not stupid, although he is not very clear about the current situation in Hong Kong, Huo Yaowen said it very clearly, and he couldn't help but ask: "Do you want to win the printing of these textbooks?"

"Yes, but that's still a bit early, and I'll have to wait at least a year or two. Huo Yaowen also had nothing to hide, and said truthfully: "So recently, in addition to the printing of textbooks and books at the University of Hong Kong, I am going to open up the manuscript and publish the two books I wrote myself." ”

After the publication of "Sweet Honey", Huo Yaowen still has two books, "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" and "1999 - Our Journey is the Sea of Stars" written in the United States.

The American one, although it was handed over to the Bantan Book Publishing Company to operate, was only the copyright of the United States, and Hong Kong could be translated into Chinese and published again.

There is still a science fiction market in Hong Kong, Ni Frame's "Wesley Series" has been written in Ming Pao in recent years, and there have been many readers, and he himself became one of Hong Kong's four great talents with his science fiction series of novels in the 80s, which is enough to show that Hong Kong is much better than the science fiction desert in the mainland.

As for the book "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", to be honest, Huo Yaowen is not very worried about its sales, although it was published in the newspaper, many people actually did not see the end from the beginning.

Moreover, Huo Yaowen learned that the current book rental market in Hong Kong is still relatively broad, except for girls who like to buy romance books, most male readers read science fiction and martial arts, and they get it from newspapers and rented bookstores.

"Your book?" Zhang Zhide was stunned.

Huo Chengcai, who was next to him, explained happily: "When Yaowen was teaching at school, he occasionally wrote novels, and a romance novel he wrote two days ago sold very well, and I heard that it seemed that 10,000 copies were sold in Hong Kong and Taiwan. ”

Huo Yaowen followed: "The day before yesterday exceeded 30,000 copies, and I should have sold a lot more in the past two days." ”

As soon as these words came out, not only Zhang Zhide was surprised, but even Zhang Chunfen and her cousin Wanjun were full of incredulity.

I always thought that Fok Yaowen was just an ordinary teacher at the University of Hong Kong, but I didn't expect to write occasionally.

"yes, yes. Huo Tingting smiled openly: "The books written by Brother Ah are liked by our classmates in school, and many of them are his book fans!!"

After speaking, Huo Tingting said to the cousin next to her: "Cousin Wanjun, I'll show it to you when I go back, my brother's writing is good, and many people like it! ”

"Good. Zhang Wanjun smiled and nodded in agreement.

Listening to the conversation between the two next to him, Huo Yaowen grinned, and said to the little sister that he was really helpless, obviously he wanted to write, but he couldn't write it, and begged himself to help write it, but now it has become a persuasion for himself.

But he didn't care much about these, looked at Zhang Zhide and said: "I don't know much about printing, so I want to hire a professional editor-in-chief of the printing department, uncle, you have worked in the printing department of the newspaper for so many years, although it is a little different from the publishing house, but it is not bad, I don't know if my uncle is willing to help?"

Huo Chengcai glanced at his son, and wanted to ask him whether he was telling the truth or false, but looking at Huo Yaowen's appearance, it didn't look like he was joking, and he didn't know how to say it for a while.

"This ......"

Zhang Zhide was a little hesitant, not because Huo Yaowen's publishing company was established and disdained to work in such a small company, but because he had not been the editor-in-chief of the printing department of a publishing company, so he was not sure if he was competent.

"What is there to hesitate about Zhide. ”

Zhang Chunfen, who was next to him, patted him on the shoulder, and said angrily: "Yaowen opens a publishing company, how can you be an uncle if you don't help out." ”

Zhang Zhide hurriedly explained: "Yes, I want to help, but I have always been engaged in newspaper printing, and I don't know much about publishing and printing." ”

Huo Yaowen smiled: "Uncle, I think there should be little difference between newspaper printing and publishing and printing, and it will take at least half a month to open a publishing house. ”

In Huo Yaowen's opinion, there should not be much difference between newspaper printing and book printing, and there is one sentence he did not say, that is, he will hire a professional publishing editor-in-chief to coordinate the overall situation.

My uncle didn't know much about the difference between newspaper printing and publishing printing, in his opinion, it was just printing paper, but one was a newspaper and the other was a book, so he said: "Zhide, since you know something about this industry, Yaowen wants to open a publishing company, you must help." ”

Although the grandma next to her didn't know why her grandson wanted to open a publishing house, she also helped persuade her: "Yes, Zhide, Yaowen has never done this business, and I still need more help from your uncle." ”

Seeing that he said so, Zhang Zhide did not hesitate, nodded and agreed: "Okay, I'll familiarize myself with the printing affairs in Hong Kong as soon as possible." ”

Hearing his uncle's promise, Huo Yaowen chuckled, the printing department can be said to be one of the most important tasks of the publishing house, and now that the editor-in-chief of printing has been solved, it is easier to recruit the rest of the manpower.

At this time, the waiter also came up with the food.

Grandma saw this and said with a smile: "Let's not talk about these things for now, eat and eat." ”

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