The reporters were full of questions and asked questions enthusiastically.

"I heard that before "The Truman Show" was published, a movie of the same name had already started filming in Hong Kong. When will the movie be released?"

"Yes. The filming of the movie has indeed started and is expected to be released in the middle of next year."

"Why did "The Truman Show" cooperate with a film company in Hong Kong instead of a domestic film studio?"

"It's a long story. In fact, the reason why I wrote "The Truman Show" was related to my participation in the Academy Awards last year.

After I won the award last year, director Li Hanxiang came to me and said that Xu Guanwen was looking for a transformation and wanted me to help write a script.

At that time, due to some reasons, this idea was not discussed in depth, but this incident also gave me some inspiration.

I have watched many of Guan Wen's movies. As an actor, his acting style and personal characteristics are very distinctive.

I tried to create a protagonist in his image. The novel "The Truman Show" actually has the protagonist first and then the story.

Later, when the novel was almost finished, Xu Guanwen found me again, and we chatted about the story. The two parties hit it off and decided to make the novel into a movie."

The reporters did not expect that there was such a story behind "The Truman Show". They listened to Lin Chaoyang's narration and wrote furiously. This is all news material!

For journalists, such content is definitely more attractive than simply reporting on new books.

After that, several people asked several questions about film cooperation. Su Chen saw that the theme of the press conference was tending to deviate, so he had to step forward in time to end the press conference.

After the press conference, Lin Chaoyang accepted exclusive interviews with several media outlets present and was busy until the evening.

Early the next morning, Yanjing Road, Guangzhou.

A group of uniformed sanitation workers just came out of their homes and were ready to start work today.

In three hours, this street will wake up and become the most bustling and noisy place in Guangzhou, so they must complete the cleaning of the street before dawn.

Some sanitation workers were assigned cleaning areas close to each other, and they started working as soon as they came. They worked silently, and the only sound in the empty streets was the "rustling" of brooms sweeping across the asphalt road.

The cleaning area assigned by Lu Xu was near the Taiping Pavilion restaurant, and he had to walk half a street. As soon as he walked near the restaurant, he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a group of people in front of him. He was startled and stopped in his tracks.

After squinting his eyes and taking a closer look, he realized that it was indeed a group of people, and then he bravely walked forward.

The closer he got, hearing the whispers and yawns of the crowd, and he felt relieved.

At this time, voices and footsteps suddenly sounded in the darkness behind him.

"Hurry up, take two steps!"

"Why are you in a hurry? We are so early and there must be no one in front of us."

When Lu Xu turned around, he saw a few young figures walking hurriedly past him, and then went to the crowd.

A young man held a flashlight in his hand and deliberately glanced upward. In the darkness, a beam of light hit the signboard hanging on the second floor, illuminating the four large red characters of "Xinhua Bookstore".

"I told you to hurry up. Look, how many people are there in front of you?" someone complained.

"I got up at one o'clock, and it's only around two o'clock now. It's not that we came late or walked slowly, it's because they came too early."

"Ouch, everyone came too early!"

"You're still talking about others, but you're the same, aren't you?"

After watching the excitement for a while, Lu Xu lowered his head and swept the street.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, it was common for readers to queue up all night long whenever a popular new book arrived at Xinhua Bookstore.

In the past two years, as the shortage of domestic printing paper has improved, publications on the market have become more abundant and the supply is sufficient, and readers queuing up to buy books in the middle of the night have become less and less common.

Taipingguan Restaurant is less than 20 meters away from Xinhua Bookstore. He is responsible for the sanitation here. He has not encountered this situation for a long time and almost forgot about it.

I don’t know what new books were released today, but I haven’t seen such a scene in front of Xinhua Bookstore for a long time.

With this thought in mind, Lu Xu's men did not waste any time and kept waving the broom in their hands.

He is 26 years old, and he has been doing this kind of repetitive mechanical work for 8 years. Almost every day at work he gets up at around 1 a.m., works on the street until 6 a.m., and then goes to have breakfast.

After breakfast, he can find a place to rest and then focus on the area he is responsible for. He can get off work at 1 p.m.

Sometimes when he was swinging the broom, he couldn't help but imagine that what he was holding was not a broom, but a brush magnified hundreds or thousands of times.

And this empty street is his canvas, and the night is like ink, allowing him to paint freely.

Whenever he thought about this, he was filled with pride and felt that his talents had nowhere to be used.

But when he got home from work and planned to put his talents to use, he found that his talents might have been used on the street, sitting in front of a pen and paper for an hour or two, with nothing in his mind.

One of the great benefits of doing repetitive manual labor is that your mind can be freed. Before you know it, the sky is getting brighter, and Lu Xu's work is coming to an end.

He swept the last section of the street in one breath, rested for a while with the broom, and his eyes involuntarily fell on the door of Xinhua Bookstore.

He didn't mean to look there, he was really attracted by the scenery in front of Xinhua Bookstore.

On Yanjing Road in the dim light of dawn, under the signboard of Xinhua Bookstore, readers who came to buy books had already lined up in a long queue at the door of the bookstore.

Yanjing Road is said to be the most prosperous street in Guangzhou, but its width is only about ten meters, so readers queue up not toward the door of the bookstore, but along the street.

Lu Xu's eyes kept moving back along the crowd. Wherever he looked, there were people queuing up, which stretched for more than a mile at least.

He couldn't help but be speechless. Which foreign classic is about to be released on the market?

It’s also very popular!

After watching the excitement for a while, Lu Xu curiously asked a middle-aged man waiting in line.

"Brother, there are so many of you queuing up, what books are on the shelves today?"

"It's Lin Chaoyang's new book, and it's also available for autograph signing, right at Xinhua Bookstore."

Lu Xu was surprised when he heard the news. He didn't expect that Lin Chaoyang's new book was about to be released.

He is not a literary lover, but he has also read novels such as "Garland Under the Mountain", "The Chess Master" and "Shutter Island".

The novels he read have a common feature, which is that the stories are very strong and have an atmosphere that makes people unable to help but immerse themselves in them. They are very suitable for readers who like to read popular books.

Lu Xu asked curiously, "Brother, what is his new book about?"

The middle-aged man said: "I heard it's quite novel. I don't know the details, but it's said that it was all made into a movie in Xiangjiang."

Hearing this, Lu Xu was surprised again.

Living in Guangzhou, Xiangjiang's movies, TV and other entertainment activities have penetrated into almost every citizen's life. Lu Xu has naturally watched many Xiangjiang movies.

He simply believes that the movies in Hong Kong are much better than those in the Mainland.

He thought of "Behind the Curtain" and "The Chess Master". It seems not surprising that Lin Chaoyang's new novel was made into a movie by Xiangjiang. It also won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay.

After being told this by the middle-aged man, Lu Xu was full of curiosity about this novel that was about to be released, and hesitated whether to buy one and take a look.

But he glanced at the endless queue of readers and thought about it, forget it. Wouldn't it be nice to take a break while waiting in line?

After thanking the middle-aged man, Lu Xu came to the morning tea shop. He glanced at the citizens sitting in the morning tea shop leisurely drinking porridge and cream cakes, with a look of envy flashing in his eyes.

He had to go to work and had no time to drink morning tea, so he came to the naan bread stall next to the morning tea shop. The stall had just been set up.

"Uncle Mujiang, let's have some naan."

Lu Xu is from Cantonese, and he was not used to eating northwest-style pasta in the past, but since Uncle Wulamujiang's naan was spread last year, it has won his favor.

Not only him, but Uncle Wulamujiang’s naan bread is also favored by many workers who are engaged in manual work nearby.

For no other reason than this thing is really hungry!

The key is that you don't have to worry about putting it away, and it's easy to carry around. You can just put it in your pocket, but it takes a little water to eat.

I found a place to eat naan for a while to fill my stomach. There was still half of the naan left, so I skipped lunch.

The leader did not arrange any tasks this morning. Lu Xu only had to wait on the street until 1 o'clock in the afternoon before getting off work.

He was sitting on the street, and his eyes couldn't help but be attracted by the long row of readers in front of Xinhua Bookstore.

The line seemed to have no end. Although it kept moving forward, there was no tail in sight.

Lu Xu sat there and counted. In a short time, more than forty people had come out of the bookstore. Each of these people had more than one book in their hands.

Some of these books are brought by readers themselves, while others are bought at the stalls set up at the entrance of the bookstore.

How many books will be sold this day?

Lu Xu couldn't help but sigh in his heart, he really deserves to be a great writer!

But what he is more curious about are these readers. Today is a rare sunny day in Guangzhou in August. The temperature is 34-5 degrees Celsius, and it is muggy and humid.

Even if you hold an umbrella and find a shady place while queuing, it is still a difficult task.

The perseverance of these readers made Lu Xu feel ashamed, and then an idea came to his mind.

Do you want to go and see what great writers look like?

With this thought, he couldn't sit still.

He got up and went outside Xinhua Bookstore. He stood on the street and looked into the bookstore. It happened that there were several readers waiting for autographs standing in the bookstore, blocking the figure of the great writer.

Lu Xu moved back and forth a few steps, almost bumping into the readers queuing up, but still did not see Lin Chaoyang's true face in Lushan.

Originally, he wasn't that curious about Lin Chaoyang's appearance, but now the person was right in front of him, but he couldn't see him at such a short distance, which was really depressing.

After waiting for a while, a group of readers changed, but he still couldn't see the great writer's face. The bookstore was not open today because of an event, and only readers participating in book signings were allowed to enter.
To be continued...