Literary Master 1978

The Hong Kong publication of "Crossing Guandong" was successfully reached, and the negotiation process was much easier than Lin Chaoyang imagined. After signing the contract, Dong Qiao said that he would treat Lin Chaoyang to dinner.

After taking him out of the Ming Pao building, there are several restaurants such as "Dunhuang", "Xinyi", and "Dongchao" within ten minutes' walk, which are frequent dining spots for Ming Pao employees.

Dong Qiao invited Lin Chaoyang to dinner, and during the period he met several Mingpao employees coming out for lunch.

The two sides said hello, and some of them felt familiar when they saw Lin Chaoyang.

TVB's live broadcast of the Academy Awards last night and this morning's newspaper bombardment all had Lin Chaoyang's face on them. In Hong Kong, a city with a population of only a few million, it's really hard to become a familiar celebrity. It's not a difficult task.

Seeing several Mingpao employees gathering together for a meal, their eyes would cast their eyes on Lin Chaoyang from time to time, and the topics they discussed must be inseparable from him.

Dong Qiao smiled and said: "Your words are really powerful. It only took one night to have such a big impact."

Hong Kong is adjacent to the mainland, and its connection with the mainland was originally very close. However, due to the political environment in the mainland and the suppression by the British Hong Kong government in the past few years, this connection has become fragile.

On the contrary, the Bay Island area has exerted an increasingly strong influence on Hong Kong due to its continuous economic development in recent years.

Especially in the film and television industry, because it is completely open to Hong Kong movies, which is several times that of the local market in Hong Kong, and has good consumption power, it has received great attention from Hong Kong.

So now, Xiangjiang has begun to act based on the faces of the Bay Island government and the market to some extent.

Therefore, when Lin Chaoyang's words were published in the newspapers, many people considered them to be simply treasonous, and naturally the topic was highly discussed.

After chatting and joking with Dong Qiao for a while, Lin Chaoyang returned to the hotel. He thought that all the things to come to Xiangjiang were done. He planned to leave early tomorrow morning, but he didn't expect a phone call to suddenly hit his room.

It turned out that Comrade Zhang from the Xiangjiang Branch of Xinhua News Agency invited him to meet, and the two parties made an appointment downstairs in the hotel.

The two met when Lin Chaoyang visited Xiangjiang last year. After greeting each other for a while, Comrade Zhang said: "Comrade Chaoyang, what you said to the reporters yesterday was not appropriate!"

Lin Chaoyang was puzzled, "What's wrong?"

"It's not conducive to unity. Now we are repairing relations with the Bay Islands. You are making such a fuss in Hong Kong, and it seems that we have great hostility towards the Bay Islands."

"I do have a bit of animosity toward them."

Listening to Lin Chaoyang's words, Comrade Zhang fell into silence. After a while, he said: "Comrade Chaoyang, you have to take the overall situation into consideration!"

Lin Chaoyang gave him a strange look, "As a writer, I express my personal opinions. How does this undermine the overall situation? If I can destroy the overall situation, it doesn't count as the overall situation."

Comrade Zhang saw some resistance in him and his tone became tactful.

"Comrade Chaoyang, you are different from ordinary writers. You are the future leader of our domestic literary circle, and to a certain extent, you represent the attitude of our literary circle..."

If Comrade Zhang kept asking him in a condescending tone, Lin Chaoyang would definitely fight back because of Lin Chaoyang's temper. But the other party suddenly softened and complimented him a few times. Lin Chaoyang couldn't act too tough.

"Okay, then I will try to be more restrained in the future." Lin Chaoyang said.

Comrade Zhang added: "I'll ask Ta Kung Pao to arrange an exclusive interview with you tomorrow to clarify the situation."

Lin Chaoyang immediately understood what he meant and refused: "There is nothing to clarify."

Seeing that Lin Chaoyang's attitude had become tougher again, Comrade Zhang tried hard to persuade him again, but there was nothing he could do as Lin Chaoyang refused to make progress.

After Comrade Zhang left, several newspapers and magazines learned about Lin Chaoyang's residence and contact information through unknown channels, and enthusiastically invited him to be interviewed.

Lin Chaoyang knew that all these media outlets had evil intentions, so he refused the interview invitation without thinking.

Comrade Zhang came to visit him. He was also a minister-level leader after all, and he would be on standby in other places. He was not too disrespectful. He just promised to talk less, and he immediately accepted an interview again.

However, he could only restrain himself to this extent. He would never be able to do what Comrade Zhang did and ask him to report to clarify the matter.

Early the next morning, Lin Chaoyang thought that there would be nothing to do in Xiangjiang, so he called Li Hanxiang to say goodbye.

Unexpectedly, Li Hanxiang asked him to stay for one more day, saying that he was invited to a party in the evening, and the party was at Li Hanxiang's home.

In the evening, he came to Li Hanxiang's house as scheduled. The theme of the evening was still to celebrate the victory of "Behind the Curtain" at the Academy Awards. Many people from the Hong Kong film industry came.

For example, the cold-faced comedian Xu Guanwen and his younger brother Xu Guanwu. Xu Guanwen's famous work was starring in "The Warlord" directed by Li Hanxiang, and Li Hanxiang was considered his talent.

For example, Ti Lung is currently going through a trough period. He is also the leading actor in Li Hanxiang's two movies. Since he stopped playing the male lead in Gu Long's martial arts movie, his development momentum has not been as good as before.

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As soon as Lin Chaoyang arrived, he immediately attracted everyone's attention.

The Mao suit on his body has become his label, but everyone's attention to him is not because of the Mao suit, but because of the fermentation of the news.

Wherever Xiangjiang is, the whole city will know about it within a few hours.

Lin Chaoyang said these two words in an interview yesterday, which became the headlines of major newspapers this morning. Not only that, even the Bay Island heard about it.

Li Hanxiang invited Lin Chaoyang to come here specifically to talk about this matter. He had been in Taiwan for a period of time in the 1960s and was considered a powerful figure in the Taiwan film industry at that time.

Unfortunately, the film company failed later and he had to return to Hong Kong to work for Shaw Brothers. Therefore, Li Hanxiang has a relatively deep network of contacts in the Taiwan film industry.

"I heard that the Cultural Bureau of Taiwan Island is studying your case."

"Studying my case? What about me?"

"Don't play dumb, what else could it be? Of course it's what you said last night."

Lin Chaoyang couldn't help but sneer when he heard this, "What can they do? Ban me?"

"With Taiwan Island's attitude of being incompatible with the mainland, it doesn't matter whether I ban or not. Do you know how Shen Congwen is treated in Taiwan Island?"

Lin Chaoyang raised his eyebrows, "FD writer?"

Li Hanxiang nodded, "Correct."

Lin Chaoyang laughed out loud, "Your poison is my honey. Well, if they really want to put this hat on me, I'd love it. The more FD, the more glorious!"

Lin Chaoyang's laughter was full of heroism, which made people around him look at him with new eyes.

In the small city of Hong Kong, because it is deeply influenced by the mainland and Taiwan Island, it will involuntarily split into three positions: left, center, and right.

Everyone has different positions, but most people are not so far from each other that they will never interact with each other. There are several right-wing people among the people present today.

They looked at Lin Chaoyang's unscrupulous appearance and felt helpless. The news that Li Hanxiang just said was more of a threat.

Lin Chaoyang is a mainland writer. Even if the Taiwan side hates him, they can't do anything about it.

"The people in Taiwan are very petty. They probably reacted like this because the influence of the Academy Awards is too great.

If there is any action, it will only be self-humiliation. After all, you are in the mainland."

Lin Chaoyang nodded and agreed with Li Hanxiang's words.

The two talked for a while, and Li Hanxiang went to greet other people. Lin Chaoyang sat in the living room for a while and planned to leave later.

Unexpectedly, Liu Xiaoqing came over. She came to the Academy Awards this time to win the title, but she only got a nomination. She felt a little disappointed.

Lin Chaoyang won the award and the interview caused heated discussions. Such honors and media attention are what she dreamed of.

"If I can win the title of Best Actress, I might be able to act in Hong Kong. I heard that the actors here can earn hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars for a film."

Lin Chaoyang listened to Liu Xiaoqing's words and said with a smile: "That would require a well-known movie star."

"I don't expect hundreds of thousands, just one tenth of that would be fine. You can only get salary and subsidies when you make a film in the mainland, which is too far from making a film in Hong Kong.

To be honest, when "Behind the Curtain" was released last year, Director Li gave me a red envelope of 1,000 Hong Kong dollars, which was the largest pay I have ever received."

Liu Xiaoqing's words revealed her strong dissatisfaction with the current situation and her envy of the Hong Kong film industry. This can be said to be utilitarianism, but it is also human nature.

After chatting for a while, Liu Xiaoqing went back to socializing with people in the Hong Kong film industry.

Lin Chaoyang was not interested in the party, so he said hello to Li Hanxiang and left.

As a result, he just walked downstairs of Li Hanxiang's house, and he was surrounded by a group of people without noticing. He was relieved when he saw that these people were all holding cameras.

He thought he had encountered gangsters!

"Mr. Lin, Mr. Lin, the outside world is now rumored that the Taiwan Island side is very dissatisfied with your remarks yesterday. What do you think about this?"

"Mr. Lin, a newspaper commented that your previous remarks may have a negative impact on cross-strait relations. Have you considered this issue?"

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Lin Chaoyang really didn't expect that in just one day, the news spread quickly, and how did the reporters know this face? They could recognize him as soon as he came out of Li Hanxiang's house?

He was surrounded by these reporters and asked questions non-stop, as if they would not let him go unless he answered the questions. It was simply difficult to move.

Seeing that these reporters were as sticky as a dog-skin plaster and would not let go, Lin Chaoyang pointed his hand forward with a surprised look on his face: "Lin Qingxia!"

The reporters immediately turned their heads like hyenas that saw their prey. Some of them even started running before they saw the person. If there was a first runner, there would be a second runner. Everyone was afraid of being one step slower than the other.

As a result, after running more than ten steps, everyone looked left and right, where was Lin Qingxia?

Looking back, they saw the figure in the Zhongshan suit running away at the speed of a 100-meter race.

The reporters didn't understand that they were fooled by Lin Chaoyang. While they were angry, the smart reporters had already raised their cameras and quickly pressed the shutter at Lin Chaoyang's back.

Tomorrow's headline is: "Why run wildly in the middle of the night? Mainland writers chase Taiwanese actresses wildly."

The next morning, Lin Chaoyang was ready to return to the mainland. Li Hanxiang came to see him off, and he was still drunk.

"Behind the Curtain" has won both box office and awards. Li Hanxiang wanted to hold a three-day banquet. Yesterday's party lasted until the early morning. He slept for more than five hours in the morning and got up to see Lin Chaoyang off. It was also a kind of respect for Lin Chaoyang.

When he saw Lin Chaoyang, he laughed and threw a newspaper to Lin Chaoyang.

"Chaoyang, amazing! You have been on the headlines of major entertainment newspapers in Hong Kong for two consecutive days!"

Lin Chaoyang looked puzzled. When he saw the news headlines and the photo of himself running wildly on the street in the newspaper, he regretted it.

If he had known it would turn out like this, he shouldn't have been so clever last night.

"You Hong Kong gossip reporters are shit, don't touch me!"

Seeing him being humiliated, Li Hanxiang couldn't help laughing again.

After dating Lin Chaoyang for several years, this was the first time he saw such an expression on Lin Chaoyang's face.

In one word--satisfying!

"You are right!"

After the pleasure, the two said goodbye, and Li Hanxiang couldn't help but secretly asked, "Did you really chase Lin Qingxia last night?"

Lin Chaoyang's face immediately darkened, "Did you invite Lin Qingxia?"

"You didn't tell me earlier, if you had told me earlier, I would have invited her for you."

Li Hanxiang was not bragging, Lin Qingxia had starred in his "The Dream of Red Mansions" that year, and the two had some friendship.

Lin Chaoyang said sarcastically: "He is a hot star. You are an outdated director. Don't try to ride on his popularity."

"You kid..."

After taking advantage of Li Hanxiang, Lin Chaoyang waved his hand and left without waiting for Li Hanxiang's reaction.