Chapter 280: Fanatical Fan
Huang Xiaohao didn't know the thoughts in Billy's heart, such as "I can't be provoked, I slipped away", and even if he knew, he wouldn't care.
In fact, after leaving the door of the Peninsula Hotel, he simply forgot about this trick and ignored it.
Now in Huang Xiaohao's heart, what he is most concerned about is his own plan to make a fortune. The success of the negotiation with Sing Tao Daily gave him great confidence, and he was determined to succeed in another negotiation.
He and Guan Jiahui hurried up, and finally stepped into the café of another big hotel at six o'clock, and did not miss the appointment in front of the people of the "Oriental Daily".
When the waiter at the café brought them to the reserved table, the two of them realized that the people from the Oriental Daily had been there for some time.
And what is surprising is that there is only one person from "Oriental Daily", who is not the editor-in-chief of the newspaper that Huang Xiaohao is familiar with, but another young man who is twenty-seven or eighteen years old who he does not know.
"Mr. Huang, it's a pleasure to meet you, I didn't expect you to be so young, it's really surprising."
As soon as he saw Huang Xiaohao and Guan Jiahui, the young man sitting at the table, immediately stood up with a cane with an excited face, stretched out his hand and said to Huang Xiaohao.
"Hello, I'm glad to meet you too."
I didn't expect the representative sent by the "Oriental Daily" to be so excited, and it can even be said to be enthusiastic, Huang Xiaohao also had a dry smile and a somewhat surprised expression, and stepped forward to shake the man's hand.
The two sides introduced each other's identities before sitting back at the table. The man only told Huang Xiaohao that his surname was Ma and that he was the deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper, but did not elaborate on his name and identity.
However, today's negotiations are still very important, and the amount of money involved is huge, and even if the editor-in-chief of the newspaper is in person, he may not necessarily be the master.
And the man in front of him looks full of confidence, not at all like a small deputy editor-in-chief who can't be the master.
In fact, even if the young man did not report his name, Huang Xiaohao could see his identity at a glance.
After all, the surname is Ma, and he has a leg disease, in the "Oriental Daily", except for Ma Tingqiang, the son of the founder of the newspaper 'White-faced Horse', there is no second person.
This Ma Tingqiang has a great background, he is the son of the eldest brother of the Ma family's brothers, 'White-faced Ma'.
The Ma brothers are two big men, they started from scratch, from two dock coolies in the 50s to the 70s, and became one of the four major families on Hong Kong Island.
The two brothers of the Ma family directly occupy two seats among the three 'white-faced tycoons' on Hong Kong Island. It can be seen that the Ma family's power was really in full swing at that time.
In the movie "The True Color of Heroes", the scene where Brother Xiao Ma lit a cigarette with a banknote was so handsome at that time that all the viewers who didn't know the truth were stunned.
However, what the audience doesn't know is that Brother Xiaoma's hand was learned from the 'Golden Horse' in the Ma brothers.
Ma Xiping, a senior media person on Bay Island, said when talking about the 'Golden Horse' that the most famous thing about the 'Golden Horse' is that he never uses a lighter to smoke cigarettes.
"It's a well-known fact that he has to count with money."
And the little horse in "The True Color of Heroes", the banknotes used to light cigarettes are just fake dollar bills printed by himself. And the 'Golden Horse' doesn't play this kind of fictitious, every time you light a cigarette, it's a real banknote, and you have to use the biggest big golden bull.
The wealth and power of the Ma family were very few people on Hong Kong Island at that time. Even the establishment of "Oriental Daily" was only to cover the white business of their two brothers.
It is said that the original intention of the establishment of "Oriental Daily" was that the Ma brothers opened it in order to spread the information of white flour trading in the newspaper through cipher code.
By the way, the remaining one among the three 'white-faced tycoons' is a Hong Kong film that Huang Xiaohao watched before he crossed over, the 'lame man' played by Donnie Yen in the movie "Chasing the Dragon".
And the Ma Tingqiang in front of him, perhaps because of his born leg disease, coupled with his own background, was later called the second generation of lame man.
However, the reason why Huang Xiaohao recognized the second-generation lame man in front of him at a glance, Ma Tingqiang, the descendant of the Ma brothers, is mainly because this guy, in the later life, or in Huang Xiaohao's world, but in the 21st century, he married a lychee beauty who was 15 years younger than him.
Lychee Beauty not only quit the entertainment industry for him, but also gave birth to two children and three daughters for him, which is really a winner in life that everyone envies.
At the very least, Huang Xiaohao, who had not crossed over at that time, was quite envious when he learned about these things.
Of course, these are all things about the world where Huang Xiaohao was born. If there are lychee beauties in this world, she is just an eleven or twelve-year-old Lori now.
Thinking of these, and looking at the man in front of him who was nearly thirty years old, the smile on Huang Xiaohao's face remained unchanged, but he couldn't help but secretly curse 'beast' in his heart, and at the same time, it was difficult to hide his envy.
Ma Tingqiang didn't know that Huang Xiaohao was secretly scolding himself behind his back.
After the two parties sat down, he did not rush to mention the signing, but talked to Huang Xiaohao about the serialization in "Oriental Daily" with an excited face.
"Mr. Huang, I don't know if you have brought the manuscript behind "Fighting Through the Sky", do I have a chance to have a sneak peek?"
The article serialized by Huang Xiaohao in "Oriental Daily" is an oriental fantasy type.
Compared with the classical Xianxia genre serialized in "Sing Tao Daily", the oriental fantasy genre, because it is an alternate world background, can be written more openly, and the brain hole can also be opened larger, so there is no fear that readers in this era will not accept it.
In other words, because "Fighting Through the Sky" is smaller, more routine, and more YY, it is more popular with the public. Because of Huang Xiaohao's article, the sales of "Oriental Daily" have risen by about 40% in the recent period.
Originally, the title of "Oriental Daily" as "the No. 1 seller in Hong Kong" was still a bit boastful. Now because of Huang Xiaohao's article, it can be said that it is worthy of the name. It can even be said that it firmly occupies the first place.
Even the recent sales of "Sing Tao Daily" have skyrocketed because of Huang Xiaohao's "Xianzhu", which cannot shake its No. 1 name.
However, the reason why Ma Tingqiang in front of him was so excited was not because of the huge sales that this article brought to his newspaper. It's because he himself is one of the readers of "Fighting Through the Sky", and he is still the kind of reader who is an avid fan.
Knowing this, Huang Xiaohao was also a little surprised in his heart, but he also felt a little proud, so he did not refuse Ma Tingqiang's request, and took out the manuscript behind "Fighting Through the Sky" from his arms or from the storage space under the cover of his clothes.
As soon as the manuscript was taken out, it was snatched into his hands by the excited Ma Tingqiang, and then he immediately flipped through it, looking very fanatical, and Huang Xiaohao and Guan Jiahui, who saw him opposite, were both stunned.