a winter fire

12

After KFC was coldly rejected by Zhou Hanzhang, I didn't go to him for more than a week, but it didn't mean I really gave up.

I've always had no goals and only worked because I needed to.

I met with the team leader alone that day and talked for a long time. Perhaps because we left the company and sat in the restaurant with a personal relationship, the team leader's attitude towards me that day was also different from usual.

I was very honest with the team leader - I needed a job and I liked it.

But I also admit my mistakes very sincerely-I was disorganized, reckless and clumsy before.

I have stepped on many mistakes that newcomers in the workplace make. If Zhou Hanzhang hadn’t asked me that question suddenly, I might not have understood the real reason for my failure until I was persuaded to quit.

Probably sincerity is the most touching thing. Even a veteran in the workplace will feel compassion when facing a rookie with a sincere heart. The team leader told me a lot.

About the company, about Zhou Hanzhang.

The publishing industry is sluggish, or to put it simply, the publishing industry in our field is sluggish. The editors of the entire company can be said to have the lowest salary in our department, because our completion rate is always lower than the target level during performance appraisal.

Now books also need to be marketed, but unfortunately, the marketing expenses of departments with poor returns are also low. If the marketing expenses are low, the effect will not be good. .

What can we expect?

All we can count on is that one of the books we sign happens to win a high-profile award on a certain day.

The publishing industry is also competing with each other. Just like the Nobel Prize in Literature, everyone is betting on the bet. Every time a new award-winning author is announced, if a publishing house wins the bet, it will really be celebrated with champagne, because For our industry, this is not only a matter of honor and vision, but more importantly, it is about making money.

Suffering, writers are suffering, and publishers are suffering too.

Back to Zhou Hanzhang, why are several publishers scrambling to get his new book?

Because everyone is betting on this treasure.

The Nobel Prize in Literature is too far away from us. Our department mainly focuses on domestic contemporary writers. In the past century, only one Chinese writer has won this award. Of course, we dare not expect to win this award, but many people in the industry have analyzed that It is no problem for Zhou Hanzhang's books to win other awards.

If you can get a little light, you can get a little light, and there are many domestic literary awards with high gold content.

We hadn't been able to sign several of his previous books, and there were rumors that he had a new work, so editors started visiting.

After all, for money.

The team leader gave me the truth, and I finally started to face up to my job.

What literary ideals, what artistic pursuits.

Once you enter this industry, you still have to face the reality. The reality is that you have to have money to eat before you can pursue your ideals.

This reality is hard to accept.

I called my dad to complain, but my dad smiled and said: "This is where it is. The further you go, the more you will find that the cruel things are far more than these."

Come on, this is life.

As for me, the most important thing to do now is not to blame others, but to give up fantasy and accept reality.

During the more than a week when I didn’t see Zhou Hanzhang, I read the three books he had published, and I really did not think about food and tea. I never worked so hard when I was in school.

For each of his three books, I can't wait to read every sentence separately, take notes carefully, and check the information carefully.

I always think that the writer's works must hide his most concerned issues.

Everyone says that the three views of the work do not represent the three views of the author, and the conduct of the characters in the work does not represent the conduct of the author.

This is indeed true, but the core conveyed by the work can definitely express the author's own ideological tendency.

After systematically reading the three works of Zhou Hanzhang, I found that his works are all written around a similar theme—return.

There are wanderers who have wandered abroad and returned to their hometowns, and old people who have traveled far away have returned to their hometowns.

There are lost prodigal sons who return to the pure land of spirit, and teenagers who have fallen into the quagmire return to the gentle world.

I seemed to see the "root" of Zhou Hanzhang's spiritual world, which was buried deep in the ground, and I finally found it by poking open the damp soil with my bare hands.

When I finally realized this problem, I was so excited that I finally really got to know Zhou Hanzhang.

He is not indifferent at all.

An indifferent person would not hold such a burning gaze on human beings.

His writing is very restrained, but when I fell asleep holding his book, I could feel his warmth.

He can't lie to me anymore.

On the ninth day of my disappearance in Zhou Hanzhang's world, I knocked on that door again.

It was minus three degrees, and the wind made my hair fly.

Zhou Hanzhang looked at me again with that clothes on, and that half-dead look again, frowning and smoking a cigarette.

I smiled and said, "Teacher Zhou, let's talk."

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