Return to Hong Kong Island for a Century

Chapter 47 Return to Yangcheng (First update, please collect, read, and vote)

After Li Song finished eating, he took out the questions for the written driver's license test and started reading them. These were given to him by his coach.

After the written test, you can take the test after about 20-30 hours of training. The instructor said that it depends on connections, and you can choose a simpler road test route by paying some money.

Of course Li Song agreed, because if you don't pay, he might deliberately make things difficult for you, draw the most difficult routes, and even let other people sabotage your exam.

This routine has been around for a long time. On the same road section, others don’t have cars when taking the test, but you encounter some weird ones when you take the test?
It's just a few hundred Hong Kong dollars anyway, there's no need to waste your time.

I will take the written test when I come back from the mainland, and then try to get my driver's license next week. After that, I will start the company.

Uncle Xun has already recommended a place to set up a company. It is a small detached house on Hollywood Road. It is now the location of the Central Police Station and is also the most prosperous place.

The first single volume of Ghost Blows Out the Light has begun publishing, with the first batch of 50 copies printed and going on sale at the beginning of next month.

In addition, the publishing rights in Taiwan are also under negotiation, as well as the publishing house in Southeast Asia.

In addition, Wanwan is still negotiating the copyright of the TV series, but the New Evening News has decided to wait and see the ratings of ATV. If the ratings of ATV are high, the copyright price will have to increase. Then we will see how the sales of the single volume go.

If the ratings aren't high, the price won't increase much.

Anyway, there is newspaper sales as a foundation.

Of course, Taiwan also holds the same view. If a TV series is popular in Hong Kong, then we can even import it directly. Of course, this also needs to be discussed.

On the morning of January 26, 1980, Liu Jiale came to visit and saw Li Song looking at the written test for his driver's license. He said, "A Song, are you going to take the driver's license test?"

"Well, it's good to learn a skill. If I can't write in the future, I can go drive for others." Li Song answered humorously.

"Haha, your joke is not funny at all. Uncle Xun is ready to retire." Liu Jiale said.

Li Song was not surprised at all when he heard this. Editor-in-Chief Luo was almost sixty years old, and the New Evening News was currently the best-selling newspaper. Both conditions were met.

This is called retreating at the peak of one's career. No flower stays in its prime forever, and no one stays popular forever. Who knows when the New Evening News will become the second most popular.

"So what's your plan, Brother Le? Do you want to help me?"

"Brother Le, you can take a look at the beginning of this immortal cultivation novel I wrote, as well as part of the outline." Li Song took out a copy of the beginning and outline of the novel.

"No need to look. I plan to resign after the new year to help you. From now on, you will be my boss." Liu Jiale said.

"Okay, I'll leave the magazine to Brother Le from now on. This is the main direction of the magazine I wrote." Li Song took out a plan and said.

Liu Jiale picked it up, opened it and started reading.

Liu Jiale discovered the nature of Li Song's plan for the future magazine, which was to create a novel incubation platform, starting with "Ghost Blows Out the Light" to develop feng shui tomb-robbing novels, with Li Song's "Grave Robbers' Chronicles" being the main product in the early stage.

There are also Western fantasy novels, horror novels, Eastern fantasy novels, science fiction novels, etc.

Of course, a magazine is not just a magazine. It can also develop comics and transform novels into movies, TV series, etc.

Liu Jiale found that Li Song's ambition was bigger than he thought. He nodded and said nothing. At worst, he could just let Boss Li keep writing.

"Boss..." Liu Jiale just called him boss.

"Brother Le, please call me Asong. You will be in charge of this magazine from now on. I don't have the time." Li Song said quickly. "Okay, Asong, this plan is great. I fully agree." Liu Jiale nodded.

"Okay, I'll leave the magazine's formalities to you. You'll also be responsible for arranging the office location," Li Song continued.

"Isn't the place Uncle Xun introduced a magazine publishing house?" Liu Jiale asked.

"Well, I plan to open a trading company to do some import and export trade between the mainland and the outside world." Li Song shook his head and said.

"Okay." Liu Jiale nodded, then said goodbye. He would first learn about the situation and then talk to Li Song. The procedures were easy to deal with, but the key was manpower, finance, personnel, etc.

In the afternoon, A'lin came again and saw Li Song looking at the information for the driver's license test. She asked, "Brother Song, are you going to take the driver's license test?"

"Well, it's good to learn one more skill." Li Song nodded.

"Well, it's easier to find a job now if you can drive. It's a pity that I'm under 18, otherwise I would also learn to drive." Alin thought Li Song learned to drive in order to find a job.

Although Li Song has become rich, he has not changed much. He still wears the same clothes, lives the same way, and lives in the same place.

It’s not that Li Song doesn’t want to move, but if he moves now, he doesn’t have much money. Buying a two-bedroom apartment is no problem, but Li Song thinks that if he has to buy something, he should buy a villa.

Moreover, in a few years, after the mainland and Britain sign an agreement, housing prices will plummet. At that time, many elite wealthy people who are loyal to Britain will sell their properties and leave Hong Kong Island. If you buy a house yourself at that time, it will be much cheaper than now, and there will be many properties in good locations for you to choose from.

"Yeah." Li Song nodded.

"Brother Song, can you read this kind of novel now?" Alin asked when she saw Li Song reading the English version of The Lord of the Rings.

"Watch it slowly, and add some English TV programs." Li Song nodded.

"Oh." Arlene said, feeling that Li Song was learning faster and faster, and there was not much left for her to teach him. But when she thought about it, it was just a part-time job anyway.

After Arlene left, Li Song continued to work on his manuscript. He studied English during the day and continued working on it at night.

On January 28, 1980, the eleventh day of the twelfth lunar month, Li Song bought a few newspapers and took a boat to the mainland.

In addition to the serialized novel, the New Evening News also announced that the physical book of Ghost Blows Out the Light will go on sale on the 1st of next month. The first single volume has 22 words and is priced at HK$11. Reservations can be made in advance at newsstands and bookstores on Hong Kong Island.

Some tabloids also came out to attract traffic, saying that the content of Beipai Sanshu was nonsense and that it interviewed some Feng Shui masters, some unknown Feng Shui masters who talked nonsense.

The newspapers wanted to take advantage of the popularity of other writers, but the two novelists in the New Evening News were not to be trifled with.

Let’s not talk about Beipai Sanshu. Anyone who can write so many things must know something. If you accidentally annoy the other party, he may give you something you don’t understand, and you won’t even know how you died.

As for the Galaxy Ghost, a certain great science fiction writer has now become a laughing stock in Hong Kong. People often say on the streets, "You are a certain brand of plastic bag. How can you hold so much?"

When you are moved by the scene, you can use two words.

It is said that a certain great writer was pointed at and talked about whenever he went out, and he even went to a mental hospital for treatment. The latest news is that the great writer and his family are preparing to immigrate to California because he can't stand it anymore.

Li Song was not surprised at all, because when he signed the agreement and came back from Hong Kong Island, this guy said that he would never return to the mainland for the rest of his life. Later, he even went to America. No one knew how he came back to Hong Kong Island.

"Literature has no borders, but authors do. This kind of banana person should get out as soon as possible." Li Song muttered to himself, thinking about going to Hong Kong Island later and criticizing this kind of garbage in the newspaper a few more times to make it run away faster.

(End of this chapter)