Huo Yaowen stood by a pillar next to the pick-up gate, not like the people around him who also came to pick up the airport, they swarmed to the front pick-up exit and waited silently for more than ten minutes, he raised his arm and glanced at the watch on his wrist, it was already six o'clock in the morning, and he estimated the time in his heart, and the plane should be almost to Hong Kong at this point.

Drove over at five o'clock, he waited for almost an hour, early in the morning in winter, the cold is still cold, and there is no air conditioning in the airport, except for the people who pick up and take the plane, it is empty, and the air conditioning is naturally unavoidable.

Sure enough, after waiting for a few more minutes, the crowd around the pick-up gate began to shout loudly for the passengers who came out of the exit, Huo Yaowen rubbed his face with his somewhat cold hands, making his spirit look a little better, but those eyes were bloodshot, which made him look a little embarrassed and tired at this time.

Huo Yaowen didn't sleep very well last night, in order to come to Kai Tak Airport to pick up people early, he didn't go back to the university's teachers' dormitory building to rest, but dealt with it at home for a night, but he was used to sleeping in the bed, but sleeping on the ground was not as good as before, tossing and turning for a long time, and then he slept in a daze for a few hours.

Walking to the pick-up gate and standing on the periphery of the crowd, Huo Yaowen stood on tiptoe and looked towards the exit, among the people in Ulala, he saw Anna-Isabel who had just walked to the exit at a glance, although Anna's hair color was also black, but her ghost face was still more conspicuous in the crowd.

Huo Yaowen noticed that Anna was looking left and right as if looking for herself, so he hurriedly stretched out his hand and waved it a few times in place, and shouted loudly in English: "Anna!

Hearing someone shouting for herself, Anna looked around, and finally found Huo Yaowen at the back of the crowd, with a smile on the corner of her mouth, pulling the suitcase with one hand, raising it with the other hand and waving it, and said to Lilith who was following closely behind: "Lilith follow me." ”

"Evan, long time no see!" As soon as Anna approached, she put down her hand holding the suitcase and hugged Huo Yaowen with open arms.

Huo Yaowen hugged the other party shallowly, let go and took a step back and smiled: "Yes, why didn't you go back to Hong Kong with Professor Luke?"

Anna stroked her front hair, which was a little loose from the hugging action just now, and pulled them behind her ears, revealing her delicate face, and smiled lightly, "What do you say?"

"Is this making me guess?"

Huo Yaowen smiled, then he shrugged his shoulders very dryly, spread his hands and said, "I'm sorry, I really can't guess this." ”

"Well, I'll introduce you to someone, and I think you'll know why I didn't come back with Professor Luke. Anna dragged Lilith, who had been standing behind her and looking at Huo Yaowen, to her and introduced: "This is my good friend Lilith, who is also the editor of Times Publishing in the UK, and she is mainly here for you this time. ”

When Huo Yaowen heard that the ghost girl named Lilith was the editor of Thames Publishing, his eyes couldn't help but light up, he still didn't know the purpose of the other party's coming to him, and smiled happily: "Hello Miss Lilith, you are very welcome to Hong Kong." ”

"Hello Mr. Evan!" Lilith did not look at Huo Yaowen's appearance and figure as unscrupulously as she had just hidden behind Anna, but stretched out her hand without squinting: "Our Thames Publishing Company is very optimistic about the "1999" you wrote Mr. Evan, and the main reason for sending me this time is to sign a contract with Mr. Evan to publish this book in the UK. ”

"That's great. Huo Yaowen reached out and shook Lilith, turned his head to look at Anna next to him and said with a smile, "It seems that you have brought me good news." ”

The corners of Anna's mouth rose slightly: "So when will you pay for that breakfast?"

Huo Yaowen wanted to laugh a little in his heart, this is an addiction to eating pineapple buns? But also, British people like to eat sweets, and the sweet and sour taste of pineapple buns is indeed very much in line with their appetite: "Then how about today? It just happened that the time was just right, and I went to the teahouse for morning tea by the way when I went back to school." ”

"No problem. Anna happily agreed.

Lilith next to her suddenly smiled and said, "Pineapple buns, Anna, is this one of your favorite foods in Hong Kong that you always tell me?"

"Yes. As she spoke, Anna was about to pick up the suitcase, but found that Huo Yaowen had picked up her and Lilith's suitcases one step ahead of her.

Seeing this, Lilith clasped her hands in front of her chest: "Evan looks like you're a gentleman!"

This is what a gentleman is?

Huo Yaowen smiled: "Then the two beautiful ladies are here, please." As he spoke, he compared the etiquette of inviting that appeared in foreign movies in later generations.

"Haha, it looks like I was wrong, Evan you look like a butler now!" Lilith laughed as she covered her mouth.

Hearing her say this, Huo Yaowen was not angry, but jokingly followed Lilith's words, continued to make this action, and said in a standard London accent: "Then two young ladies, please here." ”

Lilith's eyes lit up: "Oh, your London accent is standard." ”

"Evan's English is very good, and when I first met him, I noticed that his accent was very similar to that of London. ”

Huo Yaowen's English accent was learned from a ghost teacher from the UK in middle school before, of course, this was learned by the original owner, and as for himself, he couldn't even pass the fourth level of English before, let alone the London accent.

The three of them walked out of the airport with a smile and a smile, at this time the sky was gray, the cold wind was howling, and the faces of people who were scraping like knives were in pain, Huo Yaowen carried two suitcases and took the two ghost girls into the classic car.

Anna sat in the back seat with Lilith, she looked at the scenery outside the window, and although the sky was very gloomy, there was no trace of snow, and she couldn't help asking, "Has it been snowing in Hong Kong?"

Fok Yaowen glanced at Anna and the two in the back seat from the rearview mirror of the car, and replied while driving: "It rarely snows in Hong Kong, or almost no snow." ”

This year's winter in Hong Kong is much colder than last year, and some of the sewage accumulated on the road has formed a thin layer of brittle ice in the early morning, but there is still no snow. Hong Kong has a history of more than 100 years since the opening of the port, and there are only a handful of recorded snowfalls, the most recent snowfall was in 67 years, but if you count further, it was a snowfall like snow particles in 1932, and the second snowfall in more than 30 years, and no one knows when the next snowfall will be.

Lilith was surprised to hear that there had only been two snowfalls in Hong Kong in more than 60 years, and that kind of snow particles, "Really? The snow in London is already very high, and when we came to Hong Kong from the London airport, the airport was already announcing that the flight would be postponed due to heavy snowfall. ”

Huo Yaowen joked: "Then it seems that you are very lucky to be able to come to Hong Kong before the closure of the plane." ”

Lilith followed his words and continued: "I think so too, you must know that this is the last passenger plane to Hong Kong, and if it is delayed, I am afraid it will be delayed for another day or two." ”

This ghost sister is quite good at chatting, Huo Yaowen glanced at Lilith again from the rearview mirror in the car, although the other party is Thames Publishing Company, which is not the same as the Bergman Publishing Company he expected, but it is also a good thing that there are British publishing companies interested in publishing their books and want to publish them, so he naturally will not give up this opportunity.

Driving to the Kowloon Pier, it was already half past seven, and while waiting for the ferry to dock, Anna suddenly remembered something: "Evan, how is your publishing company?"

Huo Yaowen's eyes were red, he rolled down the car window a little, blowing the cold wind, and he was in a lot of energy: "It's all done, the first book has been published, and now I'm busy preparing for the textbooks of the school's Department of Printing Philosophy and the Department of Law." ”

Lilith raised her eyebrows and asked in surprise, "Evan, do you have your own publishing company?"

At this time, the ferry docked, Huo Yaowen started the car engine, drove the ferry slowly, and waited for it to stop safely, then replied: "Well, a small publishing company, it has only been established for a few months. ”

"That's pretty good. Lilith didn't expect Huo Yaowen to be not only a university teacher, but also able to write such wonderful science fiction, and he was also a young businessman.

Anna smiled and said, "Evan, did you leave a position for me?"

Hearing Anna take the initiative to mention this, Huo Yaowen thought for a moment, but nodded and said, "Of course, I have a very important position on my side that needs to be handed over to you." ”

"What? you're quitting your job as a teacher?" Lilith looked at Anna in surprise, knowing that Anna's desire was to be a teacher.

Anna shook her head: "No, the job of a teacher is my ideal, how can I give up, but there are still five or six months before the official teaching, and I want to find an interesting job during this time." ”

......

followed Anna back to her own dormitory at the University of Hong Kong, Lilith didn't care that the house had not been occupied for several months, and lay directly on the bed covered with white cloth: "It's so full, I finally know why you said that Hong Kong's food makes you fat, it's so delicious, especially that shrimp ......"

Anna walked over, put the suitcase next to the bed, and followed Lilith's words in broken Cantonese, "Shrimp dumplings!"

"Yes, yes, that one tastes so delicious, it's really delicious!" Lilith couldn't help but say when she thought of the delicious shrimp dumplings she had just eaten, "Let Evan take us to eat them tomorrow, the shrimp dumplings taste so delicious." ”

"Let's talk about it then, aren't you going to talk to him about signing a contract?" Anna walked to the side of the bed and patted Lilith on the thigh and said, "Don't lie down, this bed has not been inhabited for a few months, we have to clean it." ”

Lilith reluctantly got up, sat on the chair next to her, remembered Evan just now, and asked with a smile: "I said why are you so active in finding a publishing company for Evan, it turns out that he is indeed very handsome, not only can he write books, but also speak very funny." ”

Anna couldn't hear the meaning of her words, and glanced back at Lilith as she cleaned up the bed: "Evan and I are just friends, and he is very good and has helped me a lot." ”

"Really?" Lilith looked at Anna suspiciously, seeing that there was nothing wrong with her face, and then smiled and said, "I'm quite interested in Evan, speaking of which, I haven't made any contact with an Oriental man, and he looks very good." ”

Anna stiffened as she made the bed, and then shrugged her shoulders without looking back: "As long as you don't think it's going to delay your work." ”

......

"Teacher Huo!" Uncle Wang looked at Huo Yaowen who was walking upstairs, quickly picked up a letter on the table, ran out of the administrator's room, and shouted to him as he stepped up the stairs: "Here is a letter from you from the United States." ”

"Letter from the United States?" Huo Yaowen, who stopped, walked down the stairs again in confusion, took the envelope in Uncle Wang's hand, and looked at what was written on it by the American Bantan Book Company, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

opened it casually, spread out the letter, looked at the ten lines, looked at the content, Huo Yaowen's mouth smiled, and the joy in his heart was almost indescribable!!

"Teacher Huo?" Uncle Wang next to him saw Huo Yaowen motionless there, and couldn't help but pat his arm and asked, "Is something wrong, Teacher Huo?"

"It's okay Uncle Wang. Huo Yaowen squeezed the letter paper, shook his head, and kept staring at the middle paragraph of the letter:

"Mr. Evan, although you are far away in Hong Kong, I have good news to share with you, or this is good news that belongs to you, your work "1999" sold 150,000 copies in the United States last week, and the total sales have exceeded 300,000.

We immediately asked some people who bought books in the bookstore, and they spoke highly of your book, especially Mr. Isaac Asimov's public love for your book in the New York Times.

We at Bantan Company agree that the sales of this book are much more than that, we will increase the publicity of your work next week, after professional evaluation, your book can sell at least one million copies, I think you should be the first Chinese to sell a million copies of a book published in the United States, congratulations Mr. Evan!"

At the end of the letter, Mark, the editor who had signed a contract with Fok, wrote: "I hope that Mr. Evan, the second part of your "1999" has been written, and I will come to Hong Kong in April to congratulate you in person." ”

300,000 copies!

Millions of copies!

Huo Yaowen glanced at the mailing time of the letter, it was February 25th, almost half a month has passed since now, and he doesn't know how many copies have been sold so far, but the people of Bantan Books can estimate that their books can sell millions of copies, which means that there is this potential, after all, Bantan Books, as one of the top ten publishing companies in the United States, naturally has their own set of professional evaluation skills.

Thinking that his book could sell one million copies in the United States, it can be said that it has greatly exceeded Huo Yaowen's previous expectations, he thought that it would be very good to sell two or three hundred thousand copies, but he didn't expect that he had the potential to sell one million copies!

Today can be said to be a lucky day, not only did Anna bring Lilith from the British Thames Publishing Company, but also received a congratulatory letter from the United States, these two good things came in a hurry, which made Huo Yaowen a little overwhelmed, and the joy in his heart was indescribable!

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