022 [Floating Life is a Dream for Joy]

When he got up early the next morning, Huo Yaowen hurriedly washed up and went straight to Guizhou Street in Kowloon.

As soon as I got home yesterday, the people from "Oriental Newspaper" called again, this time Huo Yaowen personally went downstairs to the telephone house to answer it, and the caller was Li Daoguang, saying that he hoped that Huo Yaowen would come to the newspaper office the next day and talk about something important.

In this regard, Huo Yaowen naturally nodded in agreement, no, as soon as it was dawn the next day, he got up and set off for Guizhou Street.

Today, he is very busy all day, in addition to going to the newspaper, he also has to go to Mr. Zhang's house, tomorrow will officially start school, he, a substitute teacher, has not yet gotten the class schedule for the start of school!

I had thought of asking Director Huang for it, but Director Huang was sent on a business trip to the United Kingdom by the president, which was said to be in preparation for the opening of the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong in 1969 next year.

In addition to borrowing some law course materials from famous law universities in the UK, it is also necessary to hire several British law professors to teach in Hong Kong.

At present, there are many lawyers in Hong Kong, but there has never been a perfect school to teach law, and even the only two universities in Hong Kong have not opened a law school, so the opening of the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong is the most concerned thing for the president of the University of Hong Kong and the ordinary teachers.

According to some gossip from the faculty and staff in the school, the establishment of the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong this time is not only the meaning of the school, but also the instructions of the Hong Kong Governor David Trench.

In addition to the necessary infrastructure work to maintain the jobs of ordinary people, Hong Kong Governor Tai Lun-toe had no choice but to introduce a series of measures to improve people's livelihood during the Hong Kong riots, and to increase investment in education, and for the first time put forward a six-year compulsory education plan for primary schools in Hong Kong.

First of all, there are not many primary schools in Hong Kong, but there are hundreds of them, which not only have teachers' salaries, but also the daily maintenance of schools, electricity, water, and textbooks.

If it were all free, the money would have been borne by the British government in Hong Kong, but Hong Kong's financial situation was not very good at the moment, so the plan was not really implemented on a small scale until three years later, in 1971, when it was mentioned at the beginning of this year.

Therefore, this education policy has died for the time being, and we can only choose to start with the simplest university, and the introduction of British law to Hong Kong can be regarded as a good improvement of university education.

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362 Kweichow Street, Kowloon, Hong Kong, in Oriental Press.

Huo Yaowen was greeted by Li Daoguang and sat in a new office.

After the clerk made two cups of strong tea and came in and went out,

Li Daoguang sat on his exclusive editor-in-chief throne, looked at Huo Yaowen with a smile on his face, and said: "How is Huo Sheng? I said that the next time you come, you will definitely see a completely changed newspaper!"

"Yes, I never expected that your newspaper would change so much in just a few days. Huo Yaowen glanced at the not-so-small editor-in-chief's office and praised.

When he first came in, he was also taken aback by the changes in "Oriental Newspaper", but in only seven or eight days, the overall area has not only expanded by four or five times, but even the decoration has basically been done.

Li Daoguang pretended to be sorry and said: "It's still too rushed, many places are not completely decorated, just casually painted with white paint, and then a layer of floor tiles is laid on the ground, and when I have time in the future, I will mention this matter to Boss Ma." ”

Huo Yaowen nodded and smiled silently.

After the two chatted briefly, Huo Yaowen asked, "Editor-in-Chief Li, I don't know why you are looking for me this time?"

Li Daoguang said: "Oh, the first newspaper published by the day after tomorrow was launched, you should know about this, I notified someone to call you yesterday." ”

"Well, yesterday the newspaper called me. Huo Yaowen nodded.

Li Daoguang remembered what the clerk had reported after the phone call, and asked suspiciously: "I heard from the clerk below that Huo Sheng is a teacher at the University of Hong Kong?"

"Well, yes. ”

After receiving an affirmative reply, Li Daoguang said with a happy face: "Oh? I didn't expect Huo Sheng to be a teacher at the University of Hong Kong at such a young age, but I don't know which subject he teaches? Speaking of which, we can be regarded as senior brothers! I graduated from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Hong Kong in 1957. ”

"It turned out to be Senior Brother Li!"

Huo Yaowen never expected that Li Daoguang also graduated from the University of Hong Kong, and he was 11 years earlier, so he hurriedly smiled and said modestly: "I am now a lecturer in philosophy at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Hong Kong, but I am only a temporary lecturer, and the school will depend on my follow-up teaching content before making a decision." ”

"Philosophy class!" Li Daoguang was stunned, he didn't expect the other party to be in a philosophy class, and said with a smile: "I don't know if Teacher Zhang Chengyi Zhang is still teaching at school?"

"Teacher Zhang is my teacher. Huo Yaowen said with a smile.

"Haha, I didn't expect Mr. Zhang to still teach at the University of Hong Kong!"

Li Daoguang said with emotion: "I remember that there was often a very beautiful girl in the philosophy class back then, and the male students of our Faculty of Arts would basically go to see her in every philosophy class. At that time, Mr. Zhang often beat us, telling us to learn more knowledge and not patronize pickle girls, I never thought that ten years had passed. ”

Looking at Li Daoguang, who suddenly sighed, Huo Yaowen smiled and said nothing.

Perhaps aware of his state, Li Daoguang suddenly smiled and said: "I'm sorry Huo Sheng, it's easy for people to sigh about the past when they get old, forget about these things." This time, I am mainly looking for Huo Sheng, just to ask, do you use your pen name or your Huo Yaowen's real name to publish in the newspaper?"

"Pseudonym?!" Huo Yaowen frowned slightly.

"Yes, it doesn't matter if Huo Sheng uses a pen name or a real name, but I recommend using a pen name. ”

Li Daoguang said.

As soon as he mentioned the pen name, Huo Yaowen thought of the pen name Yihai Zanglong that he used in later generations, but after thinking about it, he still gave up, this pen name is too domineering, and since he has lived a new life, he should have a new life.

After thinking for a long time, Huo Yaowen felt that he should give a more elegant name, pondered it carefully, and then slowly opened his mouth and said: "Time is in a hurry, life is natural, the red dust is rolling, it is just a dream after all." Editor-in-Chief Li, why don't you call it Fusheng?"

"Floating like a dream, for joy!"

Li Daoguang subconsciously took a sentence from Li Bai's "Preface to the Spring Night Banquet from the Peach Garden", thought about it, nodded with a smile: "Floating life is a dream after all, good name, it seems that Huo Sheng, a philosophy lecturer, knows the truth of life very well." ”

"Where, where. Huo Yaowen said a few words modestly and said: "By the way, Editor-in-Chief Li, I also brought some follow-up manuscripts this time, you can see ......."

"Oh, Huo Sheng's speed is very fast, fast, show it to me. Li Daoguang hurriedly said.

Huo Yaowen saw that the other party was so urgent and wanted to ask for the manuscript fee, so he stiffly held back, and could only take out a stack of manuscript paper from the briefcase he brought with him and handed it to the other party.

"What a chapter name!!"

Li Daoguang took the manuscript urgently, and when he just looked at the first line of the manuscript on the first page, he applauded loudly.

"The Fourth Episode [Talking about Heroes, Who Are Heroes]"

At first glance, it is quite imposing.

is such a short chapter title, which attracted Li Daoguang to applaud again and again.

Seeing such a wonderful chapter name, Li Daoguang hurriedly continued to look at the text below.

I don't know if it's because I often review the manuscript, Li Daoguang reads the manuscript very quickly, no less than the starting point readers of later generations, ten lines at a glance, and hurriedly sweeps it in one minute, completely ignoring how long it took the author to write this content.

The manuscript brought by Huo Yaowen this time has a total of more than 70,000 words, and in six days, he wrote 70,000 words, an average of more than 10,000 words per day.

An average of 10,000 words a day, this is already Huo Yaowen's limit.

70,000 words, Li Daoguang read it quickly, it only took more than ten minutes, and he hurriedly swept through the general content, and there was not enough time, so he didn't have time to read it carefully.

But even so, after reading it in a hurry, Li Daoguang was still unsatisfied, thinking of the last female ghost to appear in it, he couldn't help but ask: "Huo Sheng, is this long-haired female ghost a forbidden woman in Hainan?"

"Editor-in-Chief Li also knows about the forbidden woman?!" Huo Yaowen was stunned, you must know that the forbidden woman knew that there was such a legendary female monster in Hainan after reading the tomb robbery notes, but he didn't expect that Li Daoguang in front of him actually knew it.

Li Daoguang said with a smile: "Haha, Huo Sheng, my ancestral home is in Hainan, since I was a child, I heard my father mention all kinds of things in Hainan, especially some ghost legends, every time I was naughty, my father used the forbidden woman to scare me." ”

"Yes, I did refer to the legend of Hainan and created the forbidden woman for the second time. Huo Yaowen nodded in response.

For this role, in addition to referring to the legend of the female ghost in Hainan, he also referred to the two female ghosts of the famous RB horror movie "Curse" and "Midnight Bell" in the later generations, the absolute heroine Ga Coconut and Sadako, and the horror level is not ordinarily high.

Li Daoguang looked at the manuscript in his hand and praised again and again: "Well, Huo Sheng, the content behind you can be said to be slow, and the pen is sophisticated, I really can't imagine that Huo Sheng is not only a lecturer at the University of Hong Kong at such a young age, but also able to create such an excellent novel, it's really amazing!"

"I don't dare to be it, I don't dare to be it, it's just that I think more about it in my spare time on weekdays. ”

"Huo Sheng is modest, if everyone is in their leisure time, if they can think so much, I think, the big guys don't need to read newspapers and books, just think about it with their brains, ah? hahaha..."

The two talked for a while,

Seeing that the time was already noon, Huo Yaowen was just about to mention the matter of the manuscript fee, when he heard Li Daoguang say: "Oh, this time flies so fast, it's noon all of a sudden, does Huo Sheng have time? Let's go out to eat together at noon?"

"Editor-in-Chief Li is polite, there are still things to deal with at the school, this is not going to start tomorrow, and I still have to prepare for the course. ”

"Yes. Li Daoguang smiled, nodded and said, "Okay, don't bother Huo Sheng, this time the manuscript is fine, you go directly to the finance department, and someone will settle with you." ”

Huo Yaowen was overjoyed, but he smiled indifferently on his face: "Well, okay." ”

"By the way, Huo Sheng, you lecture at the University of Hong Kong on weekdays, and it is more troublesome to come to Kowloon, otherwise, I see that your 70,000 manuscripts this time, plus the previous more than 30,000 words, should be able to be serialized in the newspaper for ten days and half a month, next time I will arrange an editor to go to your place to pick up the manuscript regularly, once every ten days, what do you think?"

"Yes, no problem. ”

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