The day after the official holiday of the University of Hong Kong, there were no other students and teachers in the school except for the doorman and a few teachers who stayed on campus temporarily.

As soon as he arrived downstairs, Uncle Wang from the management room stood at the door and said with a smile: "Teacher Huo is home?"

"Yes, home. Huo Yaowen smiled.

"Teacher Nahuo has gone all the way. Uncle Wang knew that Huo Yaowen was suspended from his job, and he knew in his heart that if he said goodbye this time, he was afraid that it would be difficult to see each other often in the future, so he deliberately delayed his return home, and stood at the door of the administrator's office and waited for his arrival.

Huo Yaowen couldn't spare his hand to wave goodbye, so he could only nod with a smile: "Okay, Uncle Wang, you should go home early." ”

Under Uncle Wang's eyes, Huo Yaowen walked towards the school parking lot, there were no lively students in the past, and there was no teaching sound in the classroom, the whole university was unusually quiet, except for the occasional howling winter wind, there was no other sound.

Throwing all the luggage into the back seat, Huo Yaowen inserted the key, started the engine, and slowly drove towards the school gate with the accelerator under his feet. When he arrived at the school gate, he stopped the car, opened the window and looked back at the lonely building in the school, as if he was nostalgic for the days of teaching in the school, the nostalgia on his face was fleeting, he smiled slightly, continued to step on the accelerator, and drove towards the school, without stopping all the way, and went straight to the Hong Kong Island Pier.

......

About an hour and a half later, in the Kowloon Tong district, a car slowly drove from Tat Road to Gehe Old Street.

In the early years, Kowloon Tong was a villa area for the British, so most of the street names here are named after the names of British counties, such as Gehe Lao County in Gehe Old Street, Mori Ma Shi County in Mori Ma Shi Road, and Rutland County in Lu Lun Street.

No. 16 Song and Old Street.

When Huo Yaowen drove the car here, he stopped, walked to the big iron gate, and rang the doorbell.

After a while, Huo Tingting and Zhang Wanjun trotted all the way from the house with brisk steps, and after seeing that the person who rang the doorbell was Huo Yaowen, they hurriedly pulled up the hidden buckle under the big iron gate.

After Huo Yaowen drove the car in and parked the car in a small parking lot, Huo Tingting ran quickly, grabbed his arm and said, "Brother, this house is so big." ”

After buying this villa before, it has been renovated for half a month, although Huo Tingting has been here a few times, but she only came to the door to secretly look at it when she came home from school every week, but she didn't look carefully inside and outside the villa, until yesterday, when the academy was officially closed, she and Huo's father and Huo's mother and others came over, and finally saw the inside and outside of the villa clearly.

"Isn't the house big?" Huo Yaowen rubbed his sister's hair and said, "Okay, take out the luggage in the back seat, and let's go home." ”

Zhang Wanjun was well-behaved, and before Huo Yaowen could speak, she was already holding a futon from the back seat.

The three of them talked and laughed and entered the villa.

At this time, Huo's father and Huo's mother did not go out, they were still busy cleaning up the house at home, and there was still a lot of luggage that had not been sorted out when they moved in yesterday.

Huo Chengcai took the suitcase in his son's hand and said to him happily: "Yaowen, how is this house renovated?"

When Huo Yaowen heard this, he looked at the layout of the living room, except for a sofa area in the middle, the dining room on the left, the kitchen in it, and the bathroom on the first floor and a maid's bedroom on the right.

"Very good, I like it. Huo Yaowen nodded.

"It's good to like it. Huo Chengcai grinned, he single-handedly handled the decoration of the house, and contacted Ming Tsai to come over to renovate.

At this time, my mother came out of the kitchen, and when she saw Huo Yaowen coming back, she smiled, and as soon as she walked over, she noticed the futon that Huo Tingting and Zhang Wanjun were holding, and said in surprise: "Yaowen, why did you bring the futon back?"

"I've been living at home since then. Huo Yaowen didn't tell his family about his stay on duty and without pay.

Before Grandma could continue to ask something, Huo Yaowen said to the younger sister, "Where is my room?"

"On the third floor!" said the younger sister immediately.

"Let's go up and have a look. ”

"I lead the way. ”

Huo Tingting hurriedly ran upstairs, followed closely by Huo Yaowen and Zhang Wanjun.

went upstairs, Huo Yaowen did not rush to the third floor directly, but took a look at the second floor, there were a total of four rooms and a bathroom. As for the third floor, there are three rooms and a bathroom, but Huo Chengcai renovated one of the rooms into a study.

Huo Yaowen's room is bright and spacious, the bed has already been made by his mother, there is nothing to furnish at all, especially there is a small bathroom in the room that can shower, for his bedroom, he is generally very satisfied.

"Tingting helped me take out the clothes in my suitcase. After Huo Yaowen finished speaking, he didn't hear an answer, and when he looked back, he saw that his cousin Zhang Wanjun was the only one left in the house.

Zhang Wanjun blushed and said, "Cousin Yaowen, Tingting has gone downstairs." ”

"This girl. ”

Huo Yaowen looked at the futon and threw it on the bed, and said angrily, just when he was about to go forward to clean up, he heard Zhang Wanjun say: "Cousin Yaowen, I'll come." ”

"Okay, Wanjun, you can help me clean up, I still have something to do downstairs. Huo Yaowen didn't refuse, he still had something to go downstairs to tell Huo Chengcai.

Looking at the back of Huo Yaowen leaving, Zhang Wanjun was very happy in her heart, and she kindly helped take out the bedding and suitcase clothes on the bed one by one, picked out the clothes that looked a little dirty, and prepared to wash them later, and she hung the rest in the wardrobe in the bedroom.

...

In the small garden outside the villa, in winter, except for some flowers and plants such as the four seasons of spring, most of the gardens are dry yellow, which makes this small garden look very desolate.

"Resigned?" Huo Chengcai was stunned.

Huo Yaowen shook his head: "It's not a resignation, it's a stay without pay, which means that my position is still in the school's archives, but I don't teach and don't receive a salary." ”

Huo Chengcai took a puff of his cigarette and muttered, "You decide for yourself! Now that you are a big boss, it doesn't matter if you go to school or not, but it's good to keep your position." ”

"Hmm. Huo Yaowen responded. Suddenly remembered that Huo Guantai had mentioned to him before that there would be a clan meeting before the Chinese New Year this year, which would be held in the Huo clan hall in Kowloon, and he asked again: "By the way, is there a clan meeting a year ago?"

Huo Chengcai looked at his son in surprise: "What did your grandfather tell you?"

"No, I was told by others. ”

"There is a clan reunion activity, which will be held in the Huo clan hall on the morning of January 28, and I will inform you at that time. ”

At this moment, the doorbell suddenly rang in the house.

Huo Chengcai said with a smile: "It should be your uncle or your grandfather's family, who moved to a new house today, and your grandma said that they would have a lively meal at home at noon." ”

...

Midday.

The eldest grandfather and uncle and their families all came over, but what Huo Yaowen didn't expect was that Grandma actually invited the third uncle, Huo Chengguang, to come over, and it seemed that the old lady had really let go of the past.

After the housewarming banquet at noon, in the afternoon, the three families sat around the living room watching TV, eating melon seeds, and chatting about some parents.

And Huo Tingting, who couldn't stay idle, took Zhang Wanjun and Huo Xiufen, as well as Huo Yaozu's daughter-in-law Cheng Wenhua, to a nearby shopping mall.

Most of the people who can buy single-family villas in Kowloon Tong are either rich or expensive, so the scale of the nearby shopping mall is quite large, with a full seven floors high.

Those who should play went to play, and those who should chat went to chat, Huo Yaowen went to the study, looked at the manuscript of "Datang" he had written before, and began to pick up his pen and continue writing.

Speaking of which, he has stopped writing for more than half a month, Jin Yong and Shen Baoxin don't know how many times they have urged him, and said that several newspapers have recently published something similar to "Datang", and even Ni Frame followed the trend and wrote a one called "The Legend of Zhenwu of the Great Song Dynasty", which was serialized in "Business Daily" with the gimmick of breaking the void.

A few days have passed in the blink of an eye, and Huo Yaowen now writes manuscripts at home every day, just driving out for a stroll in the car, occasionally going to Hong Kong Island, just going to the foundation or the company to have a look, not to mention how comfortable life is.

It's just that the good times didn't last long, I thought that the school was on vacation, and I would stay without pay, and I would finally be able to take a good rest for a while, but I never thought that Li Daoguang would call and ask him to come out for tea the next day, which broke Huo Yaowen's good days of writing manuscripts every day.

...

Inside the Governor's House at Albert Road, Central, Hong Kong Island.

The secretary knocked on the door of the Governor's office with a stack of papers, walked up to Governor Dai Lintoe, and said, "Mr. Governor, this is the new batch of justices of the peace. ”

"Well, put it down. Dai Lintoe kept his head down and was approving the documents.

"Yes. ”

After the secretary left, after a while, Dai Lintoe finally finished the work at hand, which was about to celebrate the Chinese New Year, and his life as a governor was not easy, and he had to deal with a lot of trivial matters every day.

Stretching his waist, Dai Lin yawned, and when he picked up the cold coffee on the table and was about to take a sip, his eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of the list of justices appointed by the peace just sent by the secretary.

He took a sip of his coffee, then put it down, picked up the list and looked at it.

Although the current justices of the peace are more just a reputation, and they do not have the real power they had more than a decade ago, this can be regarded as a means to win over the wealthy Chinese businessmen and political circles in Hong Kong, and it is an indispensable thing for every Hong Kong governor.

After a hasty flip through the list, Dai Lin's toe-flipping fingers suddenly stopped, staring at the candidates on this page, and what surprised him was that there were five joint recommendations from Justices of the Peace under this candidate profile.

"Establishment of Hong Kong's First Charity Education Foundation"

"Collaboration with the Education Department for Student Textbooks at Low Prices"

"Philosophy Teacher, The University of Hong Kong"

"The philosophical question of "Brain in a Jar" was raised at the World Philosophical Congress, which aroused extensive discussion in the British and American philosophical circles."

"President, The University of Hong Kong Press"

"Hong Kong's Famous Writer"

"Famous American Science Fiction Writer"

Dai Lin frowned tightly, and after reading the above candidate information, some of the important contents made him also curious about this candidate.

Moving his gaze up, Dai Lintoe looked at the candidate's name and muttered silently: "Evan, Huo Yaowen!"

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