a winter fire

27

If I have money and leisure, then I must buy Zhou Hanzhang a Weibo hot search, the content is——Zhou Hanzhang doesn't know good from bad.

I promised him with my body that he didn't want it?

Isn't he ignorant of what is good or bad?

But having said that, I'm just making a joke, a very real joke, if he really says "yes", then I will run away.

"Mr. Zhou, you really have a unique vision." I started to get angry, "It's true that an ordinary handsome guy like me can't catch your eyes."

Zhou Hanzhang sat there reading a book and drinking coffee, looked up at me, and soon ignored me again.

I've been spending all day with him recently, and he can already treat me as air most of the time. Of course, it doesn't mean that he doesn't mean that I can't do it. It just means that my sense of existence is very low, and he can treat me as if I don't exist.

He reads his book and I read mine.

No, I also read his books.

He still doesn't talk much about the new book with me. Occasionally, when I try to ask, he immediately drives me away.

Sometimes I feel very discouraged and feel that I really can't keep my job.

These days I spend all day at Zhou Hanzhang’s place. Two or three mornings a week I go to the company to report the situation to the team leader. I can’t hold my head up because of the work report without progress, and I heard from my colleagues that the company will Layoffs.

Isn't it already the end of the year?

The sister sitting next to me is already preparing to change careers. She is the marketing editor of our department. The so-called "marketing" means finding ways to advertise and sell books. However, this is a world where everything costs money. Internet marketing can do well Well, it was all spent on real money. As for us, the marketing expenses are pitiful. If you spend all the marketing expenses for a book, it is not enough to fill people's teeth.

The older sister said, "I can't go on."

I want to persuade her, because I can feel that she likes this industry, but her words make me feel frustrated.

She said: "Yesterday, I did some calculations. The books in our department are not youth literature or best-selling novels. I do the most common binding, use the most common paper to print 8000 volumes for the first time, and the price is 40 yuan, but we all know that, Pricing comes down to pricing, and we usually give about 5% off the price we give dealers, so how much is the income item?”

I was doing calculations with a small notebook, and she laughed.

"With the income item, let's calculate the cost and other expenses next."

"Deduction of manuscript fee, deduction of design fee, as well as the management fee of the publishing house, manuscript review fee, paper fee, and printing fee," the sister said after drinking, "we don't count labor costs and time costs, and if they are deducted, it really takes a lot of money." Lost."

She sighed: "Do the math, how much money is left?"

Conservatively, only [-] to [-] are left.

"The boss is not a philanthropist. It's impossible to use all the two or thirty thousand yuan for marketing," she said, leaning on the back of her chair and looking at her computer. When I talk about money, when I meet someone who is easy to talk to, who really likes books, and who is willing to help recommend the book as long as they like it without mentioning any conditions, I really want to hug him and cry."

I remembered that when I first came here, I heard the conversation between the leader and the team leader in the big office area, saying that this list should be won and that list should be won, and then the team leader said weakly that there was a difficulty in funding, and the leader directly expressed shock : "Our book still needs to spend money to buy the list?"

Leadership is leadership after all.

Leaders sometimes really float in the sky.

"I can't do it anymore." The sister of the marketing editor said, "I really can't generate electricity from this generator."

After I left the company that day, I still went to Zhou Hanzhang’s house. Maybe I was so sad that even the inhuman Mr. Zhou could see that I was in a bad mood.

He made soup for me and asked, "Don't you want to drink it?"

"I have no appetite." I said I had no appetite, but I still picked up the small spoon.

During the meal, I said to Zhou Hanzhang: "Mr. Zhou, do you need security at your home? Cleaning is also fine."

"what?"

"Of course, it would be great if you need a pet that eats and drinks every day."

Zhou Hanzhang looked at me and said, "What are you planning?"

"No, I'm making a new career plan for myself." I said, "I chatted with my colleagues for a while today, and I feel that the book publishing industry has gone so far that it can no longer be set, and our department is struggling. The company will lay off employees at the end of the year. You will be kicked out, and it will be difficult to find a job, if you need security and cleaning, I will work for you, okay?"

He was silent for a while, and the spoon was stirring gently in the soup bowl, which disturbed my mind.

"Why did you join this publishing company?"

"How should I put it? The situation is more complicated." I said, "Because there is only one job opportunity."

Zhou Hanzhang looked up at me.

"But I really like this industry. Max Perkins is my idol." When I read the book "The Genius Editor", I learned that I like Fitzgerald, Hemingway and other writers. I found out, learned about some things that happened between them, and suddenly felt the power of editing. That's when I decided to become a book editor.

I said: "Although I can't become the second Max Perkins, I hope that I can also accompany the author on his unique journey like him."

Zhou Hanzhang didn't speak, I held the soup bowl and sighed: "Mr. Zhou, I didn't mean to sell you miserably this time. I am really miserable, because my ideal may die before the end of the year."

作者有话要说：感谢在2020-11-1408:12:25~2020-11-1507:27:33期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angels who cast mines: Jing Jiang 2;

Thanks to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution: 10 bottles of Xiaopang;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!