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Chapter 264 The Governor's Request

Before Hua Wan finished speaking, a voice came: "Today, I will read to you the latest novel serialized in Ming Pao, "A-Jiao and A-Qiang"!"

"Ah Qiang carries an old blue cloth bag on his back all year round, shuttles through the alleys of Kowloon City, collects some rags from the previous dynasty, and resells them—"

The two beauties looked up at the same time, only to see a young man standing on top of stacked empty cargo boxes, holding a newspaper in his hand and reading it aloud.

His voice was so loud that it spread tens of meters away. Many pedestrians were attracted by his voice and gradually surrounded him.

Some of the young men who read the newspaper went crazy. As the number of onlookers increased, he gradually started dancing, imitating the movements of the characters in the novel, and bowed slightly: "Button rice?"

The governor's wife was just staring curiously at the people who surrounded her, but when she heard a familiar but somewhat weird sentence, her curiosity suddenly increased, and she couldn't help asking: "Wan, what is he doing?"

Hua Wan was already attracted by the content of the story, and she was still able to react after hearing the words. She didn't explain until the Governor's wife asked again: "It seems to be a love story——"

"Romance novel?!"

The governor's wife immediately became interested, and asked Hua Wan, "What are you talking about? Tell me!"

Hua Wan has already heard the appearance of the beautiful teacher He, but Ah Qiang doesn't want restaurants or supermarkets, so she can't help but laugh.

With a smile, she briefly told the story she had just heard in English, and the eyes of the governor's wife lit up: "Learning English? Isn't that the same as learning Chinese?"

Hua Wan's attention had once again been placed on the young man reading the newspaper. Hearing him dance and move on, she was stunned for a while when she heard the sentence "The dog is hungry, hello!"

The governor's wife has been with her for the past two days, and she already has a little understanding of the personality of this new best friend-gentle and demure, even her smile is faint, like the Chinese ink and wash landscape paintings she has seen, with a brush, light and faint Just put some ink on it.

Now when I smile, it is bright and vivid, like an oil painting with ink still wet, the colors are extremely gorgeous.

This also made the governor's wife's heart itch like being scratched by a kitten. She couldn't help asking again: "What did he say again? Make you so happy?"

Hua Wan's smile couldn't fade from her pretty face, she chuckled softly: "The student in the story wanted the English teacher to teach him a sentence, you are not a pretty girl, why should I wait for you? The sentence was too long, he remembered Can't live."

"The English teacher thought about it and taught him go away!"

The governor's wife was stunned, and then burst into laughter: "Hahaha, it's okay!"

At this time, she became very interested in this story, "Wan, why don't we use this novel as a textbook!"

Hua Wan happily agreed: "Okay!"

And the young man standing on the box, at the request of the audience, has already started to read it for the second time.

This time, Hua Wan listened to a sentence and translated it into English for the governor's wife. After the young man finished reading, the governor's wife looked longingly: "I really want to know what happened to the story!"

Hua Wan also nodded repeatedly.

Because of the open air, many audiences left after listening to it, and new audiences joined. Young people read this novel over and over again.

At the beginning of the third time, from time to time, the audience asked him to pause and ask him to speak English again, and many people started to follow along.

The speech that sounded a bit weird made the governor's wife frown slightly: "This pronunciation is too substandard!"

Hua Wan: "..."

She really wanted to kindly tell the British beauties around her that your Chinese accent is also very strange!
The two took a walk and broke up. They made an appointment to officially start studying this serialized novel tomorrow, and each got into the car.

When it was time for dinner in the evening, the governor's wife took this serialized novel as an interesting discovery of the day and told it at the dinner table.

The Governor paused while cutting the steak: "What did you say? Many citizens are reading along with you?"

The governor's wife was full of smiles: "Yes, you don't know how magnificent the picture is. Men, women, and children, all read it together."

The governor was thoughtful, put down the knife and fork abruptly, and stood up: "Eat first, I have some work to do."

As he spoke, he hurried upstairs. In his office, all the newspapers of the day would be delivered to the desk by his assistant. The assistant thoughtfully circled the news editorials worth reading with a red pen.

And in today's Ming Pao, the only novel that was circled was A-Jiao and A-Qiang!

The governor only glanced at it twice, and he was sure that it was the story he was looking for.

The content of the series is not much, and Governor Black quickly read it. The whole article is written in vernacular. For most Hong Kong citizens who do not speak English, their English may be a stumbling block, but for Governor Black, it is extremely simple.

Governor Black is quick to set the tone for this novel: light, lively, funny, and above all, a novel about night schools!

And the promotion of the night school is the top priority of his work at this time!

Unexpectedly, as soon as he fell asleep, someone brought a pillow.

He immediately picked up the phone and called his assistant directly: "The serialization in Ming Pao is very good, you can say hello to the editor-in-chief of Ming Pao, praise him, and ask him if he can move this novel to a more prominent page superior."

The assistant responded, hung up the phone, and immediately found out the number of the editor-in-chief of Ming Pao Zha, and dialed it.

……

Editor Zha is working with several editors to finalize the layout of the newspaper that will be published tomorrow.

He looked up at the first review editor: "How's the reader's response?"

The editor of the preliminary review frowned, "Some readers wrote in and said that A-Jiao and A-Qiang had too much English in them, so they couldn't understand it at all. I suggest that this serialization be stopped."

Editor-in-Chief Zha frowned deeply. Sure enough, as he expected, once there is a barrier to reading text, people's reading sense will become very bad.

He sighed softly, looked at the white paper with only a few frames drawn in front of him, picked up the chess piece with the title of the book on it, and was about to move it from the position of the headline of the sub-page to the corner when the phone rang .

The preliminary review editor picked up the phone, and after a brief chat, his complexion became extremely strange: "Editor-in-Chief, Mr. Governor said that this novel is very good, and I would like to ask if you can rank it in a more prominent position."

Editor-in-Chief Zha felt as if he had eaten Coptis chinensis: All the sacrifices were the sales of the newspaper!

The popularity he managed to accumulate with Legend of the Condor Heroes and The Legend of Condor Heroes may be lost!

However, if you switch to various exclusive news from Mr. Governor——

After hesitating for a moment, the chess piece in the hands of the editor-in-chief fell heavily on the headline of the supplement, and in the original position of the headline was another chess piece, with——

Condor Heroes!

(End of this chapter)