Chapter 48: The Art of Speech
Yue Qingyan did not treat Fang Anxin badly. Since he is now a partner in his research, he booked a first-class class on his journey to Hong Kong.
There is no difference between what cabins Fang Anxin said. Indeed, her wheelchair cannot be folded and she can only be loaded into the cabin with a lift, which means that there is room for the first class cabin. Fang Anxin did not covet the first class cabin, but brought a large bag of royaki and box of sushi to the plane herself... Her recipe is unpredictable for most people.
"It seems that it makes sense that you don't go out." After a while of tossing, Yue Qingyan was also a little exhausted. Just apologizing to others made him a little impatient.
"Yes. My family doesn't have enough money to buy and maintain planes. It's still a distance from the top tycoons." Fang Anxin understands her situation very well. However, she won't think about it because of various objective problems she has. She has long been very clear about.
Because Fang Anxin's wheelchair was placed in front of her, the two of them could communicate very closely on the plane. Yue Qingyan continued to write the settings, while Fang Anxin was eating and chatting with Yue Qingyan.
But when it comes to getting off the plane and entering the country, trouble comes. Fang Anxin's wheelchair is not affordable by ordinary people at first glance. However, because the electronic system and skeleton system are too complicated, it takes a lot of time to enter the country security check. Two local customs officials in Hong Kong domineeringly asked in detail about the purpose of entering Hong Kong, their itinerary, etc.
There was no itinerary for these two people to take a look at the launch ceremony of the new book, which was arranged randomly. As a result, the customs officials called police and wanted to check all the luggage of the two people in detail.
By this time, Yue Qingyan knew that he could not be good. He probably met a local faction in Hong Kong and thought that mainlanders who live too well would do whatever they wanted to enter Hong Kong, not to mention that Yue Qingyan was invaded with mainland culture. However, he was not angry, he was just a type of person.
After all, they were not detained or something, and they had sufficient contact and freedom of movement. Yue Qingyan thought about it and called Long Yuyuan, the manager of Yuanshan Club.
When Long Yuyuan heard this, he immediately calmly said that he asked them to wait for five minutes.
Then, in less than three minutes, the phone in their office rang: the phone came directly from the Hong Kong Governor's office. The customs official facing them, and the two policemen standing behind them, were pale.
In fact, the Hong Kong Governor's Office has no control over them at all, but when the two young people in front of them have a reaction from such a high-level one in three minutes, it is definitely not the ones they dare to offend. As for what they come to Hong Kong, it's okay. Anyway, what they do, at least the people in front of them cannot stop them.
"Goodbye. I hope I won't see you next time." When leaving the airport, Yue Qingyan said calmly to the few people who nodded and bowed.
"If you don't usually have any relationships, why do you want to come to Hong Kong and instead have to do relationships?" Yue Qingyan complained to Fang Anxin in surprise.
"Do you feel the Northeast?" Fang Anxin teased back.
"This is the worst time that Northeast China has been hacked. A Cantonese Northeast China, who speaks Cantonese, feels that this is a big brain and can write a novel."
"There is already a song, so don't make trouble."
The sequelae of calling Long Yuyuan came soon, and an extended luxury car parked on the side of the road, waiting to pick them up to the hotel. As the butler of Yuanshan Club, Long Yuyuan had sufficient connections and other energy. In Hong Kong, there are many companies and big bosses who rely on Yuanshan Group for dinner. Long Yuyuan ordered, and naturally someone rushed up to be a good person.
This is due to relationships... and they encountered traffic jams on the road afterwards. Because of demonstrations by local factions, the road was blocked. Then they encountered some troublemakers blocked the hotel door, and it seemed that someone was hiding in the hotel...
The troubles along the way made the driver who sent them to the hotel and another businessman who didn't know what origin apologized repeatedly. Yue Qingyan and Fang Anxin were very disappointed, but their attitudes remained cold and calm. Once they could withdraw their own impressions and put themselves in an observer's position, all the encounters were good materials and interesting samples... Of course, it was a bit anti-human to say this.
(PS: This paragraph can be written in three or four chapters, but it is not as long as it is expanded. It creates such background contradictions, renders the atmosphere, etc., and it is boring and technical. You can search for news and imagine it yourself. I believe that even if I write in three or four chapters, it will be interesting, but I think it is boring.)
"Are you really not angry?" Fang Anxin continued to tease.
"Ikebukuro West Guest Park" is put on first. I want to write two local Hong Kong themes... Well, it's a piece of the medium. It's considered."
"It seems you're still angry." Fang Anxin said with a smile: "I don't know if I'm not lucky, but I can encounter a series of such things."
"This is hard to say. Although I came to observe, no one wanted to observe the subject's stings." Yue Qingyan said coldly: "It seems that Hong Kong belongs to them."
"It's not a pain or itchy to talk back and forth by writing novels." Fang Anxin was so taken by Yue Qingyan that she couldn't get angry at all. Thinking about it carefully, it seemed that in the whole process just now, Yue Qingyan chatted with him from time to time, and the timing of making jokes was extremely accurate. Whenever he wanted to get angry, he would always attract his attention to other things.
Yue Qingyan might be more angry than himself? Otherwise, he would not put down his plans and prepare to hack Hong Kong first.
Shortly after they checked in the hotel, the head of the Hong Kong publishing house found the hotel. He was a woman in her fifties, but she looked in her early forties. She was well maintained and had a thin figure. She could tell that she was exercising regularly. But she could not hide the strong bookish atmosphere on her body.
"I'm sorry. My name is Zhu Yu, and I'm the general manager of Hongju Publishing House. Just now, an elder called me and I realized that Mr. Yue had arrived. It is said that your journey is not going well?"
Zhu Yu's tone was full of concern, but he had no pleasing or other meaning, and he looked like an ordinary elder.
"It's okay. I wasted some time by a bunch of Gang Can." Yue Qingyan explained in a low-key manner: "I had to call for help from a subordinate of Mr. Feng Yushan, but I didn't expect to alarm so many people. I'm really embarrassed."
Zhu Yu smiled and said, "The atmosphere in Hong Kong has changed suddenly in recent years. We can't say anything and do whatever we want. It's just that we are invisible. Mr. Yue doesn't have to be too modest. You are a very powerful author. According to reason, our publishing house should be responsible for the reception of the Hong Kong publishing house. However, we have always dealt with the company in Mingqian. When asked about this, they said that you should just arrange it yourself. We just want to save trouble."
"You are polite. As the author, I should cooperate with the first release of the new book, but because I still have my own creation and research, I am not sure about the itinerary. This is my problem."
"You don't know about our Hongju Publishing House? We have been printing horse scriptures or related books for a long time. In this subcategory, we have achieved the first place. We are still printing now, but we are doing culture and novels. This time, we have taken the initiative to contact Mingqian Company for a long time, but it took a while to organize papers in Hong Kong, etc., otherwise, we initially wanted to basically synchronize with the mainland, or just one to two volumes behind." Zhu Yu said: "However, now we are sending 1 to 4 volumes simultaneously, and then 5 to 8 volumes next month, and then publishing in another month. We can basically catch up with the publication speed of the mainland. Although the first print volume is incomparable to the mainland, in Hong Kong, it can be said that it is a rare number in recent years."
Yue Qingyan calculated a little and immediately understood the energy of Hongju Publishing House. Hongju Publishing House is worthy of being born with the horse scriptures. Its on-site sales ability is really strong and time-consuming. More importantly, Zhu Yu said that he had contacted Mingqian from the beginning, and it was obvious that their focus was on the cultural market in the mainland. What does a horse scripture publishing house pay attention to the mainland cultural circle? It is simply because either someone is in the circle or is counting on introducing a large amount of resources from the mainland and using their strong ground sales ability to form a cultural impact - this is obviously not a typical Hong Kong publishing house, but there will inevitably be a mainland BJ of one kind or another.
After thinking about this, even Zhu Yu's Cantonese language, which seemed a little bit wrong in details, became suspicious.
"I understand. Thank you Mr. Zhu. I can understand the hard work. If there is something I need, please give me some instructions. I believe that more excellent novels should be a good trend to enter the Hong Kong cultural market." Yue Qingyan's emphasis fell on the words "more" and "enter". A knowing smile immediately appeared on Zhu Yu's face.
"Frankly speaking, some people obstructed us from printing "Yinying" at the beginning because some good guys said that the character Treunisit had serious allusions. After this was rejected, they said that many translation names did not meet the habits of Hong Kong, but we just didn't want to change them, so they came down like this in the end. If it is convenient, I would like to invite you to attend the launch ceremony of the new book. Although we are also popular here, it is best that you can allow this link. However, the number of people signing activities here will be much smaller, and it should not cause too much burden to you." Zhu Yu said: "However, because of some previous disputes, there may be some strange things on the scene."
"Strange?" Yue Qingyan was puzzled.
"Demonstrations, protests, etc., as well as obstructing others from buying books and participating in activities. No one dared to make trouble in the agreed venue, but we couldn't control the outside of the venue."
"It's unavoidable." Yue Qingyan carefully selected this word to answer. Sure enough, Zhu Yu understood and praised him and wanted to smile.
Neither of the parties made it clear, but they expressed their meanings vividly through detailed word selection and expression. Yue Qingyan really likes this dialogue environment that requires brains to understand.
Zhu Yuming knew that this set of books has entered Hong Kong because of mainland popular literature, because of allusions or other things, because of the many ironies that can be cited by Hong Kong's current politics, and there are many controversies. Of course, whether Hongju Publishing House itself has domestic capital or the management of mainland people is also a question, but they still hope to carry out activities head-on and expand their influence. This is no longer a matter of courage. Hong Kong's e-commerce is not as developed as the mainland, and most book sales still rely on bookstores, bookstores, newsstands, etc. If the on-site sales channel cannot suppress the other party's arrogance, there will only be more trouble in the future.
Yue Qingyan had disliked these people, so he naturally had to spare no effort to help. What's more, this matter might be beneficial to him.
Yue Qingyan hesitated for a moment and said, "Mr. Zhu, I have two stories based on Hong Kong locals. I accidentally thought about it, but I don't know if it is appropriate. After I wrote the article, I will post it to you to take a look. If it is appropriate, Mingqian Company and Hongju Publishing House may be able to cooperate again."
Zhu Yu was shocked and immediately smiled happily and said, "Then I'll wait for Mr. Yue to make a masterpiece."
Chapter completed!