Chapter 148： special cooperation

Chapter 148 Special Cooperation

Lu Yanhe went shopping with Li Pengfei, and also bought a laptop. Just after buying it, Li Pengfei suddenly thought of something and said, "Should I also buy one for Xu Zijun? She definitely doesn't have one."

"Just take your time, she may not be willing to accept it." Lu Yanhe said, "A suitcase costs a few hundred yuan, but a laptop costs several thousand. It's nothing to you, but it's nothing to her." Very expensive gift.”

"You're right." Li Pengfei nodded and accepted it readily. He did not say "Why is this so expensive" in an exaggerated tone like those rich second-generation people in TV dramas?

This is Li Pengfei, a rich second generation who doesn't usually show off his wealth and doesn't like to see "class theory" like Chu Saiying. He doesn't have the problem of "why not eat minced meat".

Just when Lu Yanhe thought this, he heard Li Pengfei suddenly say: "Next time, find an excuse and send it off in a legitimate manner."

“…” Lu Yanhe gave this guy a sidelong glance.

Is this a question of origin?

The phone suddenly rang.

It was a call from an unknown number.

Lu Yanhe answered the number with some surprise.

"Hello, hello, is this Lu Yanhe?" The other party introduced himself, "I am Xu Xiaoyin, the novel editor of Jiangyin Publishing House. Is it convenient for me to speak?"

“I, I am.” Lu Yanhe was confused, “Excuse me, what can I do?”

"That's right, I am the editor-in-chief of "Nineteen Years of Crime". I would like to thank you very much for recommending this book in the live broadcast room last night. I wonder if you are free today. I want to express my gratitude to you in person. "

Lu Yanhe was even more shocked after hearing this.

This is really an unexpected thing.

“Well, there’s no need to thank you, you’re too polite.” Lu Yanhe said, “I didn’t make any special recommendations. I just read this novel during the live broadcast, but I haven’t finished it yet.”

Xu Xiaoyin said: "But just because you read this book, more than a thousand copies of this book were sold online last night. If you have time, let me express my gratitude in person. In addition, I also have another I would like you to read this book and see if you can cooperate.”

Lu Yanhe was surprised when he heard this.

cooperate?

Lu Yanhe hesitated.

He said: "Then... is it convenient for you to come to Zhoufujing now? There is a cafe on the first floor here, if it is convenient for you now."

Xu Xiaoyin immediately smiled and said, "Of course it's convenient. It takes us thirty minutes to get here, is that okay?"

“Okay, then I’ll wait for you here.”

Lu Yanhe hung up the phone, thought for a moment, and sent a message to Chen Ziyan to tell her about the matter.

Chen Ziyan replied: Maybe they saw that you could help sell more than a thousand copies of this book by reading it live yesterday, so they want you to help promote the book. However, booksellers have low profits, and they can’t give you much if they ask you to cooperate in promotion. As for the promotion fee, you can have a chat with her first to see what her intentions are. If you really want to establish a business partnership, you will have to go through the contract seriously and wait until I come back to discuss it. But based on my understanding of publishing Knowing the industry well, it is difficult for them to offer high prices.

Lu Yanhe thought for a while and said: Then I will talk to her first.

Chen Ziyan: Well, it depends on your own mood. If it is a non-commercial cooperative promotion, you can weigh it yourself whether you like the book, whether you are willing to help promote it, and whether the content and theme of the book are suitable for it. In your live broadcast room, in short, listen to everything you say first, don't agree, I will check it for you, and then you can reply to others.

Lu Yanhe: If it’s too much trouble, I’ll just refuse it.

Chen Ziyan: If it were other artists, I would have asked them to reject it. You are different. Your live broadcast studio itself is a learning path. In the future, if you engage in live broadcasts and become a book-reading blogger, it will also be very good for your public image. Add points.

Lu Yanhe understood Chen Ziyan’s intention.

Chen Ziyan said: This is the biggest difference between you and other artists. Knowledge, academic qualifications, intellectuals, these things cannot be packaged by the brokerage company, and it does not mean that you should rely on these labels secularly, but if you study well and love Reading, then let’s make articles around these and do it without guilt or apology, and others will not be able to imitate it.

Lu Yanhe replied with the word "good".

“I bought it.” Li Pengfei paid the bill and had his laptop installed for him.

There is a suitcase in his left hand and a laptop bag in his right hand. His face is full of greenness. At first glance, he looks like a young man who has just finished the college entrance examination.

“Let’s go.” Li Pengfei said.

They will go to Li Pengfei's house later.

Lu Yanhe said: "I just answered a phone call. I'm going to meet someone from a publishing house here later. How about you go back first and I'll come back by myself."

"People from the publishing house? What does this have to do with you?" Li Pengfei looked confused, "I'll go with you and wait for you here."

Lu Yanhe nodded: "Okay, I made an appointment with them to meet them at the cafe we ​​just entered. Let's go there and wait for them now."

"Okay."

The two people passed by together.

Li Pengfei listened to Lu Yanhe’s talk and then realized why people from the publishing house came to see Lu Yanhe.

“Awesome, just one live broadcast and helped people sell a thousand books.” Li Pengfei said.

Lu Yanhe was actually also surprised. The average number of stable viewers in his live broadcast room is only about 4,000. This has slowly increased in the past six months. Adding in and out, it may have been half an hour of live broadcast yesterday, which adds up to about one hour. Ten thousand people have watched his live broadcast, so a thousand people will buy this book?

How powerful is his appeal?

Lu Yanhe always felt unreliable.

However, this data comes from the publisher.

-

Xu Xiaoyin brought Xu Mingyue to the coffee shop in Zhoufujing. When she opened the door and walked in, there were quite a few people inside, but Lu Yanhe was easy to find. A search on the Internet showed his photos. He was a good-looking person among the crowd. It is always more conspicuous, and you can see him at a glance. It can only be said that human eyes are also focused on beautiful things.

 Xu Xiaoyin and Xu Mingyue are both women. They are always a little happy when they see handsome guys in real life, especially a handsome guy who has just graduated from high school.

They went over and said hello.

“Hello, Lu Yanhe, this is Xu Xiaoyin who called you before.”

Xu Xiaoyin stretched out her hand and shook Lu Yanhe's hand.

Lu Yanhe: "Hello, Sister Xiaoyin."

Xu Xiaoyin glanced at Li Pengfei, somewhat confused about his identity.

Li Pengfei took the initiative to grin and said, "Li Pengfei, classmate Lao Lu."

“Xu Mingyue, an intern in our agency.” Xu Xiaoyin also introduced them.

Xu Mingyue felt quite complicated at this moment.

A year ago, she accidentally saw Lu Yanhe's live broadcast room. Because she thought the anchor was handsome, she recommended it to her roommate in the dormitory. As a result, He Lan became his die-hard fan. A year later, she unexpectedly I met him because of things in his live broadcast room.

He probably never imagined that she was once an audience member of his live broadcast room.

Xu Xiaoyin picked up a canvas bag that looked like it was carefully designed by someone. It was heavy, put it on the table, pushed it to Lu Yanhe, and said, "Thank you very much for reading the book "Nineteen Years" in the live broadcast room. This is A small thank you gift is a series of famous hardcover books released by our publishing house.”

Lu Yanhe was a little surprised and said, "Oh! Thank you! You are too polite."

Xu Xiaoyin said: "Actually, I was very moved after I learned about this incident. Nowadays, there are many so-called reading bloggers on the Internet. They record various book promotion videos and copywriting, and they only accept money to do this. So at that time we all When I heard the news, I thought it was someone from the marketing department who did it, but later I found out that it was a spontaneous act on your part.”

"I have been doing live broadcasts before. Now that I have finished the exam, I will start live streaming and read novels. I like reading novels myself." Lu Yanhe said, "I have only read the first part of "Nineteen Years of Crime" and haven't finished it yet. Woolen cloth."

"This novel is very well written, but because it is a new author, it has not received much attention since it was released." Xu Xiaoyin asked curiously, "Where did you know about this book?"

“I finished the exam the day before yesterday. I went to the bookstore yesterday and picked this book. I didn’t know this book from anywhere in particular.”

Xu Xiaoyin was surprised.

Then this is really a combination of luck.

She laughed: "That's great. I thought not many people would want to go to bookstores now."

After exchanging pleasantries, Xu Xiaoyin started talking about business.

"Yan He, I came to you specifically today. There is another thing, which is also a cooperation. Another book I am responsible for, "Star Orbit", will be released this Thursday. I don't know if we can collaborate on this book. Promotion." Xu Xiaoyin took out another book from her bag, a new one wrapped in plastic, and pushed it in front of Lu Yanhe.

Lu Yanhe looked at Xu Xiaoyin in surprise and said, "Promote it?"

"Well, I would like to ask you to read this book in the live broadcast room." Xu Xiaoyin said, "I discovered this novel two years ago, and I am also a new author. The market is not good now, and it is difficult for new authors to get ahead, okay? It was easy to get the book number and the opportunity to go public. The first printing was only 8,000 copies. I happened to meet you, so I thought about whether we could cooperate. "

Lu Yanhe looked at the book in his hand hesitantly.

"Of course, we are definitely not freeloaders." Xu Xiaoyin said immediately, "We will provide corresponding promotion fees, but our publishing industry is not comparable to other industries, and the promotion fees may not be as high as your usual quotation."

Lu Yanhe thought to himself, then you are overthinking.

This is the first time he has come into contact with this kind of promotion work.

“Sister Xiaoyin, it’s like this. If it’s a commercial cooperation, my work must be approved by my agent. I can’t reply to you right now.”

Xu Xiaoyin nodded: "Understood, we understand, because I don't have your agent's contact information. Do you think you should give me your agent's contact information, or you can relay it to me?"

Lu Yanhe: "How about I talk to my agent later and ask her to contact you?"

“That’s great.” Xu Xiaoyin said.

-

After coming out of the cafe, Xu Mingyue followed Xu Xiaoyin into her car.

Xu Mingyue asked: "Sister Xiaoyin, we usually invite artists like Lu Yanhe to do promotions. How much promotion fee do we need to pay?"

Xu Xiaoyin said: "I don't know. If you really want to pay promotion fees, you need to submit them to the publisher for discussion. Generally speaking, unless you are a dedicated reading blogger and have negotiated a cooperation framework with the publishing house, generally this kind of single The promotion of this book is all done through connections or favors, and asking people to help.”

Xu Mingyue asked in confusion: "Then you asked him for promotion fees just now..."

“That’s to show our attitude.” Xu Xiaoyin said, “You can’t really ask others for help with the idea of ​​freeloading.”

“What if someone really wants promotion fees?”

"Then just report it to the agency and settle the bill." Xu Xiaoyin said, "Lu Yanhe helped sell a thousand copies of this book during a live broadcast without saying anything. What's wrong with applying for a promotion fee? It's just that It’s not too high. In fact, after celebrities like this hear how much our promotion fee is, they usually give it to us for free.”

"ah?"

“How much promotion fee do you think we can give?” Xu Xiaoyin looked at Xu Mingyue and laughed.

Xu Mingyue: “How much do you usually give?”

"Five hundred, or one thousand?" Xu Xiaoyin said, "Unless it's a very popular live broadcast room that can help us sell tens of thousands of copies in one night, it's usually at this price."

“Isn’t this too low?”

"Then it depends on what you compare it with. The profit of a book is only so much. If you pay too much, isn't that a loss-making business?" Xu Xiaoyin sighed, "The publishing industry is really in recession now. Mingyue, do you really plan to buy it in the future?" Come to the publishing industry?”

Xu Mingyue hesitated for a moment and said: "I have always had this dream, but I haven't thought about it clearly yet. If I want to do an internship now, I also want to find out in advance whether I really love this industry. I read a lot of books when I was a child. Fiction magazine, at that time I really wanted to work in a magazine, but now many magazines have ceased publication.”

“There is no way. I used to think that electronic magazines were a new way to develop, but now I find that electronic magazines are not feasible either.” Xu Xiaoyin sighed with a smile.

-

Lu Yanhe called Chen Ziyan in the car and told her about Xu Xiaoyin. When Chen Ziyan heard this, she said, "Okay, you can send me her number and I will contact her."

Lu Yanhe said yes.

Hang up the phone, Li Pengfei looked at Lu Yanhe with a strange expression and asked, "Are you so good in front of your agent? Why did you call her immediately for such a small matter?"

Lu Yanhe said: "As an agent, this is a job. Of course, I have to tell her immediately. I also need her to help me handle the follow-up matters. I have never dealt with these matters myself."

What Lu Yanhe didn't say was that he and Chen Ziyan had just started cooperating, and he didn't want Chen Ziyan to misunderstand him as a person who likes to take on private work by himself because he didn't communicate in time.

Many artists take on private work on their own and bypass their managers, which is often one of the reasons why the relationship between artists and managers breaks down.

“I forgot to ask, how did they know the number?” Lu Yanhe said suddenly.

"Huh?" Li Pengfei looked at Lu Yanhe in surprise, "Didn't she tell you?"

“I didn’t tell you, and I forgot to ask.” Lu Yanhe said, “Not many people know my number.”

-

“But it’s also very strange.” Xu Mingyue suddenly said in the car.

“What’s strange?” Xu Xiaoyin asked.

Xu Mingyue: "When we reported it to Star Entertainment, didn't we say that he had terminated his contract with Star Entertainment? Then he said he wanted to find an agent to contact us. Where did the agent come from?"

Xu Xiaoyin came back to her senses and realized the problem.

"It's true." She thought for a while and said, "Did you change a brokerage company?"

Xu Xiaoyin's cell phone rang just at this time.

is an unfamiliar number.

Xu Xiaoyin answered the phone and her phone was connected to Bluetooth. She signaled Xu Mingyue to stop talking.

“Hello? Who is this?”

“I am Chen Ziyan, Lu Yanhe’s agent.” A somewhat capable female voice said, “Are you Xu Xiaoyin?”

“Ah, yes, I am Xu Xiaoyin, Chen...agent, hello.”

"Hello." Chen Ziyan smiled, "Yan He called me just now and told me that you have a cooperation with him. I heard that he wants to help your publisher promote a novel?"

Xu Xiaoyin: "Yes, yes, I am the editor in charge of this book. In fact, it was also because Lu Yanhe read another book I was responsible for during the live broadcast yesterday. The market feedback was very good, so I wanted to see if I could edit it. Let’s cooperate and promote the new book “Star Orbit”.”

Chen Ziyan said: "Editor Xu, that's it. As for Yan He, this kid, he loves to read. Of course there is no problem in promoting the books he likes to read, but this kind of cooperation is a bit restrictive. What do you think? If your publishing house has books that you want Yan He to promote, just send one or two books over and Yan He can choose them himself. Those he likes and is willing to promote will be paid by him. As for the promotion fees, forget about it. It's not a serious marketing, he just reads a book in his live broadcast room. Accordingly, you don't specify which books to let him promote. Yan He doesn't like to select the audience for such things as books. Yes, the fans in the live broadcast room may not like it. It makes this cooperation less utilitarian, what do you think?”

Xu Xiaoyin was of course very surprised.

"Of course it's good, but..." Xu Xiaoyin felt embarrassed, so she sent a few books to Lu Yanhe. It was nothing, it was just a free bargain. "It's not bad if you don't give promotion fees, right? It's not a public welfare. The cooperation for activities is only for one or two books. If we can cooperate for a long time in the future, we will be embarrassed to keep taking advantage of it. "

Chen Ziyan smiled and said: "Let's talk about the early stage first. If there is really room for long-term cooperation in the future, and Yan He's influence can continue to help you sell more books, then we will discuss framework cooperation. I I know that unless it is a particularly best-selling book, the profit from a book is not high. I also saw that Yan He is a person who loves reading, so I took it for him. "

Xu Xiaoyin always felt embarrassed to take advantage for nothing - this time she used the book "Star Orbit" for promotional cooperation. It was reasonable to take advantage of it and not charge promotion fees, but Chen Ziyan obviously wanted to let Lu Yanhe be in his live broadcast. She has been doing promotion for a long time. As long as Lu Yanhe likes the book they send and is willing to promote it, she will not be ashamed of it.

But Chen Ziyan clearly doesn’t need the promotion fee now, and she hasn’t received the newspaper’s consent yet, so she can force the promotion fee on her.

Xu Xiaoyin could only say: "Thank you very much."

After hanging up the phone, Xu Xiaoyin felt that it was strange that the matter went smoothly.

She asked Xu Mingyue doubtfully: "Are people in the entertainment industry so easy to deal with?"

Xu Mingyue: "...No."

-

Chen Ziyan really looks down on that small promotion fee.

If you are too lazy to earn a small profit, why not let Lu Yanhe take advantage of Jiangyin Publishing House? There may be some unexpected opportunities in the future.

Jiangyin Publishing House is also one of the large publishing houses in China. It has the background of a national brand and has many writer resources. In this IP era, it has good relations with many film and television companies, and has also participated in the investment of many film and television dramas.

This is a big consideration, but a small consideration is that Chen Ziyan does not want to let this matter smell like copper.

To be precise, I don’t want Lu Yanhe’s image of a book-loving person to be tainted with the smell of copper.

Once people know about it, his love of reading will inevitably become more utilitarian, and the good thing will become bad.

-

When he was approaching Li Pengfei's house, Lu Yanhe realized who had given his number.

Liu Qin called him and said: "Yan He, just now a classmate of mine from a publishing house contacted me and said that he was looking for a cooperation with you. Because he is an old classmate of mine, I gave it to him without thinking too much. I just responded. Come here, I need to tell you first, has she contacted you? "

"Ah, you contacted me." Lu Yanhe never expected that it was his class teacher. "Is Editor Xu Xiaoyin your classmate?"

"She? Who is she? The person who asked me for my number was Liu Cheng, who is now the editor-in-chief of Jiangyin Publishing House."

"Oh! The person who came to see me was an editor named Xu Xiaoyin." Lu Yanhe explained.

"That might be the editor under her." Liu Qin said, "Sorry, I didn't think so much just now. You have a special status and you really can't give out your mobile phone number casually. I'll tell you first next time and ask if you can. convenient."

“Okay, thank you, Teacher Liu, for taking the trouble.” Lu Yanhe said.

Liu Qin: "I haven't asked you yet, how did you do in the exam? You kids, too, didn't say anything to me after the exam, so it's not easy for me to ask."

"It's pretty good. I'm performing normally." Lu Yanhe said with a smile, "The results haven't come out yet. The results haven't come out yet. How can I be embarrassed to call you? If I say too high, I'll be embarrassed later. If I say too low, I'm afraid you'll worry. ”

Liu Qin laughed openly and said, "Just perform normally. If you improve your grades quickly later, you will definitely be admitted to a key university."

“I’m looking forward to it too.” Lu Yanhe said.

The teacher and student chatted for a while before hanging up the phone.

Lu Yanhe was sincerely grateful to the teacher Liu Qin.

Not just her, but also Lao Chen, Su Su, and Mrs. Lin.

If he hadn't met these good teachers, he wouldn't have been able to improve his grades so quickly on his own.

Especially Su Su.

History is really a big problem. If he hadn't met a teacher like Su Su who was good at giving lectures and solving problems, he really doesn't know if he would have finally figured it out.

Li Pengfei shrugged his arm and said, "Why are you dazing, we're here."

Lu Yanhe came back to his senses, looked up, and was shocked to find that although Li Pengfei's house was also in a community, it was a small villa with a yard. The yard was not big, only about fifty square meters, but in this area, it could Bringing a yard will definitely be expensive.

I can only say that his usual joke about "a rich family" is really not a joke to others.

“It’s so grand.” Lu Yanhe sighed with envy.

Li Pengfei chuckled.

"Go in and take a look. My dad is not here, and Aunt Zhang is the only one at home."

Lu Yanhe also knew Aunt Zhang from Li Pengfei's family. In the past, this aunt Zhang often came to school to deliver meals to Li Pengfei, and Lu Yanhe also visited her many times.

“Aunt Zhang, help me cut some fruit and make two cups of coffee and bring them over.” Li Pengfei shouted as soon as he entered the door and asked Lu Yanhe to follow him upstairs.

Aunt Zhang was sitting on the small balcony checking her cell phone. When she saw that he had returned with his classmates, she responded with a smile.

Lu Yanhe followed Li Pengfei upstairs and entered his room.

Li Pengfei put the suitcase against the wall and said, "Let's go, there's nothing interesting to see in my bedroom, go to the next door."

The next door turned out to be a game room, with an entire wall decorated with electronic screens.

This is the first time Lu Yanhe has seen a room dedicated to a game room. Two lazy sofas are placed against the other wall. People can lie down on them and pick up the controller to play games comfortably.

“This is really enviable.” Lu Yanhe said.

Li Pengfei asked: "Two shots?"

“Okay.” Lu Yanhe nodded.

-

After staying at Li Pengfei's house for a long time, Lu Yanhe went back.

Li Pengfei wanted to keep him playing for a while, but Lu Yanhe was thinking about the "Nineteen Years of Crime" that he had not finished yet, and did not want to play games with Li Pengfei here for a day, so he said he had something to do, had lunch and left.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Yanhe started the broadcast on time and continued reading the novel, "Nineteen Years of Crime Records".

As for the book "Trajectories of the Stars", Lu Yanhe hasn't received a call from Chen Ziyan yet and doesn't know what to do with it.

But if you really want to promote it later, you will definitely continue to read this book in the live broadcast room.

Lu Yanhe felt that no matter what he did, he had to finish reading "Nineteen Years of Crime Records" first.

This novel is really good. It tells a murder story that spans nineteen years.

From the beginning of college, to the end, the characters who appear are all middle-aged.

The time span is very large.

Lu Yanhe read for three hours at a stretch. As night fell, he finally finished the book.

It is June now. It gets dark relatively late, and it is only six o'clock now.

The ending of this story made Lu Yanhe feel lost and dazed for a while.

When he came to his senses, he thought about taking a look at the barrage room, and found that many people were discussing this book.

—I went to have lunch today and happened to pass by a bookstore. I remembered that Lu Yanhe read this book last night, so he bought a copy. After dinner, he opened it and read a few pages. The beginning was creepy and scary.

—Is it scary? I am so afraid of such scary stories that I dare not read them.

—It’s not that scary. The beginning is deliberately creating a scary atmosphere, but it’s actually not that scary. It’s not a thriller.

—I placed an order online, but it hasn’t arrived yet. I won’t receive it until tomorrow.

-Me too.

—It’s been a long time since I read a novel. I didn’t expect Lu Yanhe to read it in one breath for so long. How good it is.

—He has almost finished reading.

…

Lu Yanhe kept scrolling through everyone’s speeches and laughed.

He turned on mute and said: "I just finished reading this novel, and the ending was a bit unexpected. It's a very interesting story. If you like to read crime-solving mystery novels, you can give this novel a try."

(End of this chapter)