He Wenjie did not move with the rest of the group; he went out on his own. He had already made a complete plan before coming. Earlier, when Han Chunming came to the south to purchase goods, He Wenjie had asked him to help exchange some Hong Kong dollars and US dollars, so he had one thousand Hong Kong dollars given to him by Han Chunming when he set out this time.
After leaving the lodging area, he first went to a clothing store and bought a cheap-looking suit. Dressed in it, he looked just like an ordinary lower-middle-class youth from Hong Kong. Then he took a portion of his manuscript to the Oriental Daily. After some negotiation, the other party agreed to buy He Wenjie's novel at a rate of fifty dollars per thousand words. However, this was only the price for the first one hundred thousand words; if subsequent reader response was good, the rate for later parts would be open for discussion. After receiving the five thousand dollars paid by the other party as an advance, He Wenjie spent money to hire a local resident to act as his guarantor and applied for a Hong Kong identity card. Hong Kong identity cards were still quite easy to apply for at this time; as long as one had a guarantor from Hong Kong, it could be done with ease. Less than half a month after filling out the form, He Wenjie would possess a Hong Kong identity card.
On the second day in Hong Kong, He Wenjie found an agency specializing in patent applications. He used his first earnings from the manuscript to …
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