It was already dark when we returned to Kowloon. My cousin's family had already had dinner, and my cousin Liang Ying also went to the night market to sell braised beef offal to earn money for the family.
My cousin Wu Ruiqing was watching TV. When he saw Kang Jianfei and Hu Juncai coming back, he immediately jumped off the sofa and asked with great anticipation: "I heard that my cousin went to Ming Pao to submit an article. Has the article been approved?"
Hu Juncai was feeling happy at this time, as if his novel could be published in the newspaper. He suppressed a smile and joked with Wu Ruiqing, sighing: "Oh, it's a pity that Ming Pao didn't accept it."
"That's it." Wu Ruiqing sat back on the sofa with a disappointed look on his face. It took him a lot of effort to revise "Looking for Qin". When he heard that the novel was rejected by "Ming Pao", he was so sad that he wanted to cry.
My cousin Wu Chenggang was very happy and said with a smile: "Fei, don't be discouraged if your manuscript is rejected. This only proves that you are not suitable for writing novels. You can just be an actor in peace from now on."
At this moment, the frowning Hu Juncai suddenly grinned and said: "Haha, although Ah Fei's novel was rejected by Ming Pao, it was accepted by Oriental Daily and will be officially serialized next week!"
"Wow!" Wu Ruiqing was stunned, and after realizing it, he hugged Hu Juncai and jumped up and down in celebration.
""Oriental Daily"?" Wu Chenggang was a little confused by the news, but he quickly realized what was going on and thought: Even if my nephew can publish such a bad novel, the taste of "Oriental Daily" is too low.
Come on!
Cousin Wu Ruixue was lying on the table doing her homework. When she heard their cheers, she looked up in confusion. She saw her cousin holding a Barbie doll in his hand and said to her with a smile: "Dang, dang, dang, the doll is beautiful, or...
Isn’t Ashue pretty?”
My cousin's family is very frugal, and Wu Ruixue has not bought a few toys even when she was nine years old. When she saw the Barbie doll, her eyes immediately lit up, she grabbed it and held it in her arms, saying, "The doll is beautiful, and Ashue is also very beautiful."
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When Wu Chenggang saw Kang Jianfei buying toys for his daughter, he was pleased and reproached at the same time: "Afei, you just came to Hong Kong, how much money have you made just now? You have a bad habit of spending money lavishly. If you can't control it and spend money randomly, why not
Give your aunt the money to save until you buy a house and marry a wife in the future. Let me tell you, you can have nothing in Hong Kong, but you can’t live without money. It’s difficult to live without money. I remember your cousin just came here back then.
When I was in Hong Kong..."
Yes, my cousin started talking about Tang Monk again. Kang Jianfei went in his left ear and out his right ear, pretending he didn't hear it.
Little Lolita Wu Ruixue gave her father a cute look and hugged the Barbie doll tightly, fearing that the doll would be taken away by her father.
"What did you do back then?" Zhou Mingfang came out with her little cousin in her arms. After scolding her husband, she said to her daughter, "Axue, why don't you thank your cousin for the gift?"
"Thank you, cousin!" Wu Ruixue stood on the bench with a sweet smile, kissed Kang Jianfei on the face, then ran back to the bedroom and hid the Barbie doll.
After Wu Chenggang was scolded by his wife, he stopped being Tang Monk. He pulled Kang Jianfei aside and asked seriously: "A Fei, is your novel manuscript really accepted by Oriental Daily?"
Kang Jianfei nodded.
Wu Chenggang asked: "How is the royalties calculated?"
Kang Jianfei didn't want to explain too much to him, so he just said: "For the time being, it's 50 yuan for a thousand words."
Wu Chenggang did some calculations, and found that 50 yuan per thousand words, serializing several thousand words every day, would be at least more than 5,000 yuan in manuscript fees a month, equivalent to two months of his salary.
Wu Chenggang suddenly felt frustrated. He had been living in Hong Kong for twenty years, but his monthly income was only half of Kang Jianfei's.
"Oh, forget it, I won't force you to become an actor. It's up to you to decide what you want to do." Wu Chenggang said with waning interest.
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In the next few days, Hu Juncai went to work at the Clear Water Bay studio with his cousin, while Kang Jianfei stayed at home and wrote the novel manuscript of "Looking for Qin" and the script of "Shanghai Beach".
The script of "Shanghai Beach" is planned to be sold to Wang Tianlin. It will be released after "Looking for Qin" becomes popular in the newspapers and Kang Jianfei becomes famous. This script can be sold for at least 50,000 yuan, which is much faster than writing a novel.
In fact, Kang Jianfei would like to film "Shanghai Bund" by himself, but with his current fame and status, thinking of directing it himself is completely a daydream.
Li Jiading did not mention the matter of taking Kang Jianfei as his apprentice again. Kang Jianfei was not even willing to be a TVB contracted actor, so naturally he would not follow him as a dragon and tiger martial artist. The two of them had no further contact after filming "Chu Liuxiang".
For Kang Jianfei, who has been an extra for nine years and a photographer for seven years, writing scripts is much easier than writing novels. The 25-episode script only took 4 days to complete, and he can write more than 6 episodes per day on average.
After writing "Shanghai Bund", Kang Jianfei was not in a hurry to sell the script to Wang Tianlin, but waited for "Looking for Qin" to come out - the prices of scripts written by famous writers and ordinary authors are different.
Six days after Kang Jianfei came to submit the article in person, "Looking for Qin Ji" was finally serialized in the supplement of "Oriental Daily".
This morning, Wu Chenggang took Hu Juncai out. When he went downstairs, he grabbed today's "Ming Pao" from the newspaper box, which he took to the bus to read.
Riding his bicycle to the broadcast channel and transferring to the TV station's bus, Wu Cheng just found a seat and opened Ming Pao. After reading a few pages, he heard someone on the bus saying: "Hey, the author of "Looking for Qin" is called
Kang Jianfei, can't he be the Kang Jianfei who served as Chu Liuxiang's stand-in?"
"It's probably because of the same name. "Looking for Qin" is so beautiful, how could it be written by that guy from Mainland China?"
"It doesn't look like it to me. A mainlander who can swim across the sea can write novels. Do you think he is Ni Ji? Kang Jianfei, a bad guy, looks like he hasn't read a book for a few days."
"Aji, what "Xun Qin Ji" are you talking about?"
"Oriental Daily News. The new novel serialized in "Oriental Daily News" today is so sharp. It tells the story of a Hong Kong man who travels through time and space and returns to the Warring States Period, but still falls into the bed of a beautiful woman. It's not the best!"
"Is it science fiction for Hong Kong people to return to the Warring States Period?"
"No, it's a martial arts novel."
"Show me quickly."
"Wait a minute, I haven't finished reading yet."
"..."
Wu Chenggang closed his copy of Ming Pao, knowing that his nephew's novel had been published, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of joy and honor.
After arriving at the set, Wu Cheng gradually understood how popular "Looking for Qin" was. The crew members were actually talking about this novel in their spare time. Several copies of "Oriental Daily" were passed around among everyone, quite like a Luoyang paper.
You know, the first chapter of "Looking for Qin" was only serialized in the newspaper!
Kang Jianfei's version of "Looking for Qin" starts off straight to the point, without talking about a lot of time machine nonsense. It opens with Xiang Shaolong, an ordinary and frustrated Hong Kong citizen, being robbed of his girlfriend, beaten up by the thugs of his love rival, a rich man, and forced to
After going to a dead end, he travels through time and space, and is blessed with the charm of a gentle and beautiful woman from ancient times.
For Hong Kong readers who are accustomed to traditional martial arts and science fiction novels, this unprecedented time-travel novel is so immersive that they unconsciously fantasize about the protagonist being themselves, and look forward to the next chapter as if their heart has been scratched by a cat.
The plot development of the chapter.
Wu Juncai was finally proud of himself this time. He wore a costume and told Tang Zhenye, Huang Minyi, Chen Bingkun and others on the set: ""Looking for Qin" was written by Ah Fei. Last week, Ah Fei and I went to Ming Pao to submit an article, and Ming Pao published it.
If you are blind, let’s go to the Oriental Daily immediately. The editor-in-chief of the other Oriental Daily is very discerning. Before he even finished reading the manuscript, he begged A Fei to publish the novel in their Oriental Daily..."
Chen Bingkun is the smartest. When he heard that "Looking for Qin" was really written by Kang Jianfei, he immediately flattered him and said, "I said Brother Fei is not an ordinary person. Otherwise, why would he not even be a contract actor? It turns out he wants to be a great writer!"
Tang Zhenye laughed a few times, then walked to the side in a daze depressedly. A mainlander like Kang Jianfei has become a writer, but he can only play a small role on the set, and he doesn't know when he will become famous.
Thanks to Chen Bingkun, a loudmouth, who helped promote it, in less than a day, almost everyone on the set already knew that there was a boy from mainland China who published a novel called "Looking for Qin Ji" in "Oriental Daily".