Literary Master 1978.

Chapter 391 makes headlines again

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

Taking him out of the Ming Pao building, within a ten-minute walk there are several restaurants such as "Dunhuang", "Xinyi" and "Dongchao", which are frequent gathering places for Ming Pao employees.

Dong Qiao invited Lin Chaoyang to dinner, during which he met several Ming Pao employees who came out for lunch.

The two sides greeted each other, and several of them felt that Lin Chaoyang looked familiar.

Lin Chaoyang's face was seen in TVB's live broadcast of the Academy Awards last night and in newspapers this morning. In Hong Kong, a city with a population of only a few million, it is not difficult to become a familiar celebrity.

Watching several Ming Pao employees gathering together for dinner, their eyes would occasionally look at Lin Chaoyang, and the topics they were discussing must have been about him.

Dong Qiao smiled and said, "Your words are really powerful. In just one night, they have such a big impact."

Hong Kong is adjacent to the mainland and originally had very close ties with the mainland. However, due to the political environment in the mainland and the suppression of the British Hong Kong government in recent years, this connection has become fragile.

On the contrary, the Taiwan Island region has been exerting an increasingly stronger 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 films, the market is several times larger than Hong Kong's local market and has good spending power, it has received great attention in Hong Kong.

To the extent that now, Hong Kong has, to some extent, begun to act in accordance with the Taiwan government and the market.

Therefore, when Lin Chaoyang's words appeared in the newspapers, many people considered them to be extremely treasonous, and the topic naturally became a hot topic of discussion.

After chatting and laughing with Dong Qiao for a while, Lin Chaoyang returned to the hotel. Thinking that all his business in Hong Kong had been completed, he planned to leave early the next morning, but he did not expect a phone call to his room suddenly.

It turned out that Comrade Zhang from the Hong Kong Branch of Xinhua News Agency invited him to meet, and the two parties met downstairs in the hotel.

The two had met when Lin Chaoyang visited Hong Kong last year. After exchanging pleasantries, Zhang said, "Comrade Chaoyang, your remarks to the reporters yesterday were not appropriate!"

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

"It's not conducive to unity. We are now repairing our relationship with Taiwan. Your making such a fuss in Hong Kong makes it seem as if we have great hostility towards Taiwan."

“I do feel a little hostile toward them.”

Comrade Zhang fell silent after hearing Lin Chaoyang's words. After a while, he said, "Comrade Chaoyang, you have to consider the overall situation!"

Lin Chaoyang gave him a strange look. "As a writer, I am expressing my personal opinions. How can this be considered as disrupting the overall situation? If I can disrupt the overall situation, then it is not the overall situation at all."

Seeing that he was somewhat resistant, Comrade Zhang softened his tone.

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

If Comrade Zhang continued to make demands on him in a condescending tone, Lin Chaoyang would definitely fight back given his temper. However, the other party softened all of a sudden and complimented him several times, so Lin Chaoyang didn't want to act too tough.

"Okay, then I will try to restrain myself in the future." Lin Chaoyang said.

Comrade Zhang added, "How about I ask Ta Kung Pao to arrange an interview for you tomorrow to clarify this?"

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

Seeing that Lin Chaoyang's attitude had become tough again, Comrade Zhang tried to persuade him again, but Lin Chaoyang remained unmoved and he could do nothing about it.

After Comrade Zhang left, several newspapers and magazines somehow learned of Lin Chaoyang's address and contact information and enthusiastically invited him to be interviewed.

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

Comrade Zhang has come to his door. After all, he is a leader at the level of a minister. If he were in other places, he would just be a waiting envoy. He couldn't be too disrespectful to him. He had just promised to talk less, but he immediately accepted an interview there.

However, he could only restrain himself to this extent. He would never be able to go to the newspaper to clarify the matter like Comrade Zhang did.

The next morning, Lin Chaoyang thought that there was nothing left for him to do in Hong Kong, so he called Li Hanxiang to say goodbye.

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

In the evening, he arrived at Li Hanxiang's house as agreed. The theme of tonight was still to celebrate the victory of "The Last Emperor" at the Academy Awards, and many people from the Hong Kong film industry came.

For example, the deadpan comedian Michael Hui and his younger brother Michael Hui. Michael Hui's famous work was his performance in "The Warlord" directed by Li Hanxiang, and Li Hanxiang was considered his mentor.

For example, Ti Lung, who is currently experiencing a low period, was also the leading actor in two of Li Hanxiang's films. Since he stopped playing the leading role in Gu Long's martial arts films, his development momentum has been much less than before.

……

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

The Zhongshan suit he wears has become his label, but people’s attention to him is not because of the suit, but because of the fermentation of the news.

Hong Kong is a small place, but if something happens, the whole city will know about it in just a few hours.

Lin Chaoyang said just two sentences in an interview yesterday, and they became the headlines of major newspapers this morning. Not only that, even people in Taiwan and Taiwan heard about it.

Li Hanxiang asked Lin Chaoyang to come 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 the time.

Unfortunately, the film company failed and he had to return to Hong Kong to work for Shaw Brothers. Therefore, Li Hanxiang has relatively deep connections in the Taiwanese film industry.

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

"Study my business? 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?"

"Given Taiwan's intolerant attitude towards the mainland, it makes no difference whether he is banned or not. Do you know how Shen Congwen is treated in Taiwan?"

Lin Chaoyang raised his eyebrows, "FD literati?"

Li Hanxiang nodded, "That's right."

Lin Chaoyang laughed out loud, "Your poison is my honey. Well, if they are really willing to give me this hat, I would 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 admiration.

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

Everyone has different positions, but most people are willing to stop interacting with each other forever. There are several right-wing people present today.

They felt helpless as they looked at Lin Chaoyang's unscrupulous behavior. The news that Li Hanxiang had just said was more of a threat.

Lin Chaoyang is a writer from the mainland, and even if the Taiwanese hate him to death, there is nothing they can do about it.

“Those people in Taiwan are very petty. I guess their reaction is because the Academy Awards are so influential.

If you really take any action, you will only bring shame upon yourself, after all, you are in the mainland."

Lin Chaoyang nodded, agreeing 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, planning to leave soon.

Unexpectedly, Liu Xiaoqing came over. She came to participate in the Academy Awards this time with the intention of winning the award, but ended up only getting a nomination. She felt a little disappointed.

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

"If I can win a Best Actress award, maybe I can come to Hong Kong to act. I heard that the actors here are paid hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars for a film."

Lin Chaoyang listened to Liu Xiaoqing's words and said with a smile: "She has to be a well-known movie star."

"I don't expect to earn hundreds of thousands, I'd be happy if I could earn one tenth of that. I can only get salary and subsidies when I make movies in the mainland, which is a huge gap compared to making movies in Hong Kong.

To be honest, when The Last Emperor was released last year, Director Li gave me a red envelope of HK$1,000, which was the largest remuneration I have ever received.”

Liu Xiaoqing's words reveal 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 continued to socialize with people from the Hong Kong film industry.

Lin Chaoyang had no interest in the party, so he said hello to Li Hanxiang and left.

As a result, as soon as he walked downstairs to Li Hanxiang's house, he was surrounded by a group of people without noticing. He only breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that all these people were holding cameras.

I thought I had run into gangsters!

"Mr. Lin, Mr. Lin, the outside world is now saying that the Wandao side is very dissatisfied with your remarks yesterday. What is your comment on this?"

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

……

Lin Chaoyang really didn't expect that the news would spread quickly in just one day. How did the reporters know this face and recognize him the moment he came out of Li Hanxiang's house?

He was surrounded by these reporters who kept asking him questions. They seemed to be determined not to let him go unless he answered their questions. It was impossible for him to move.

Seeing that these reporters were sticking to him like a dog-skin plaster and wouldn't let go, Lin Chaoyang pointed his hand forward, his face full of surprise: "Lin Qingxia!"

The reporters immediately turned their heads like hyenas seeing their prey. Some of them even started running before they saw anyone. Once the first one ran, the second one followed, and everyone was afraid of being a step slower than the other.

After running a dozen steps, everyone looked left and right, but Brigitte Lin was nowhere to be seen.

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

The reporters now understood that they had been fooled by Lin Chaoyang. While they were angry, some smart reporters had already raised their cameras, aimed at Lin Chaoyang's back and quickly pressed the shutter.

Tomorrow's headline will be: "Why is he running so fast in the middle of the night? A mainland writer is madly chasing after a Taiwanese actress."

The next morning, Lin Chaoyang was about to return to the mainland. Li Hanxiang came to see him off, still reeking of alcohol.

"The Last Emperor" won both box office and awards, and 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, which was a kind of respect for Lin Chaoyang.

As soon as he saw Lin Chaoyang, he laughed and threw a newspaper to Lin Chaoyang.

"Chaoyang, amazing! He has been on the headlines of all the entertainment newspapers in Hong Kong for two consecutive days!"

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

If he had known it would turn out like this, he shouldn't have done that clever thing last night.

"You Hong Kong gossip reporters are shit, don't get involved with them!"

Seeing his deflated look, Li Hanxiang couldn't help but burst into laughter again.

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

Just one word - awesome!
"You are right!"

After the pleasure, the two said goodbye. 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?"

"If you had told me earlier, I would have invited you earlier."

Li Hanxiang was not bragging when he said this. Brigitte Lin had starred in his "A Dream of Red Mansions" and the two had some friendship.

Lin Chaoyang sneered: "He is a popular star. You are a has-been director. Don't try to ride on his popularity."

"You kid..."

After saying that he had taken advantage of Li Hanxiang, Lin Chaoyang didn't wait for Li Hanxiang to react. He waved goodbye while picking up his luggage.

(End of this chapter)