Chapter 215 Beautiful World
Due to the impact of this incident, Lu Yanhe even forgot to call Song Linxin. He was stunned for a while, and then he was awakened by Chen Siqi's call.
“Have you gone out?”
“Not yet.” Lu Yanhe said.
"Don't be late. Today we have made an appointment with Yemai.com and Jiangyin Publishing House to sit down and discuss the matter of "Jump Up"." Chen Siqi said.
"Oh, yes, okay, I'll go out right away."
Lu Yanhe hurriedly packed his schoolbag, put it on his back, and ran out.
The sun was shining directly on him, and he was also thinking about when his skin color would be darker and reach Chen Lingling's standards.
The place where we met today was neither the company building of Yemai.com nor the building of Jiangyin Publishing House. Instead, we found a compromise and found a cafe in the middle. We booked a big table with an opposite There was no independent area for discussion, not even a serious conference room.
Chen Siqi did it on purpose, saying: "On the one hand, I want to remind them that we are all poor students. Don't treat us as serious business partners, so as not to quarrel with us in the future. , what we both lack the most is this kind of experience. The more we talk, the more ignorant we become. Why don’t we just be willful and just say that we want both the fish and the bear’s paws, and let them accommodate us.”
"On the other hand, there is only this place to choose from. Today's communication will not be good in any company." What Chen Siqi did not say is that the things to be discussed today are not to allow one of the parties to have a master mentality and home field. Advantage content.
After hearing Chen Siqi’s reasons, Lu Yanhe was a little confused. He didn’t expect Chen Siqi to think so much. He nodded and said: "You are so thoughtful."
Chen Siqi raised the corner of his mouth and said: "Just so so."
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Both parties came. There was more than one person. From Yemai.com, Liu Qiao came directly with Xin Zixing, while from Jiangyin Publishing House, Xu Xiaoyin invited Liu Cheng to come with him.
Lu Yanhe and the others arrived fifteen minutes early, but both parties delayed their arrival until the last minute of the agreed time.
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This is not the usual style of Xu Xiaoyin and Xin Zixing. It seems that it is the intention of the two people around them. They all want to make the finale? Overwhelm the opponent?
This alone gave Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi a premonition that the negotiations this afternoon would not go so smoothly.
The two sides met each other and exchanged greetings with smiles on their faces.
As soon as he sat down, Chen Siqi spoke up and said, "Thank you to all the brothers and sisters for supporting me and Lu Yanhe's sudden idea, allowing us to actually start writing a book this summer. Originally we all thought this was just an idea, and it would never happen. An idea that will never come true."
Lu Yanhe was already somewhat familiar with her. Seeing her artificial tone and exaggerated body language, Lu Yanhe couldn't help but ask her with his eyes, what's going on? What kind of opera are you singing?
But Lu Yanhe's trust in Chen Siqi is that even if he doesn't understand what she is doing, he will definitely support her and not undermine her.
Chen Siqi glanced gratefully at Liu Qiao and Xin Zixing on the other side of Yemai.com, and equally gratefully glanced at Liu Cheng and Xu Xiaoyin on the other side of Jiangyin Publishing House, and said: "I know too , it costs a lot of money to make a book, and we are not sure whether this book can make money. In fact, from the beginning, we just wanted to fulfill a high school dream, so Lu Yanhe and I discussed Please note, the production costs of this book will be borne by the two of us ourselves. It’s hard to ask you to bear this risk. We are all just graduated high school students. Looking at the public opinion about our book on the Internet, It seems that we have taken a big advantage."
Lu Yanhe was even more shocked. Of course, his face remained as usual, as if he had already communicated this with Chen Siqi.
"Siqi, didn't you say before that our Yemai Network will be responsible for the production funds?" Xin Zixing immediately looked at Lu Yanhe.
Chen Siqi said in surprise: "But it was because there was no plan for physical publishing at that time. Yemai.com has an exclusive nature and has a lot of drainage effect on you. Now that we have to do physical publishing, you are still willing to bear the responsibility. ”
< br>Xin Zixing was stunned, and suddenly realized that she was anxious. After dealing with Chen Siqi a few times before, she was a very smart and proactive person. How could she suddenly use such an innocent tone and eyes? I'm talking to you to trick you on purpose.
She smiled slightly and said: "All the funds will be borne by us. It's not that we are unwilling, but I think since Jiangyin Publishing House wants to cooperate with you, they probably won't agree to just us. Will the family pay for it?”
Xu Xiaoyin : "Of course, although physical publishing is indeed not comparable to your electronic reading. Paper, printing, and transportation are all costs, but we will directly advance royalties to Siqi and Xiaolu. It is not easy for two young people to make books. Of course we will support it.”
"I wonder how much royalties you plan to pay in advance?" Xin Zixing asked, "Before, we planned to directly provide 100,000 yuan in production funds. You are engaged in physical publishing. You know best that for an electronic book that does not need to be published as a physical book, For a book, this should be a very high production cost, right?"
Xu Xiaoyin nodded, "Indeed, but from what I understand, The lineup of authors that Xiaolu has invited, just putting their names together may not make everyone willing to buy a book for tens of dollars, but it should attract many people to go to your Yemai website to read free books. E-books?”
“The economic returns generated by 10,000 people reading a free e-magazine and 10,000 people spending dozens of dollars to buy a book are vastly different. Something else." Xin Zixing opened her eyes wide and spread her hands, "Actually, getting financial returns from making such a book has never been our first goal. Lu Yanhe is our partner of Yemai.com, and we will create " "City Travels" documentary series, so if he wants to realize such a dream, we want to help him."
"Then we really want to help him. I thought of going together. Xiao Lu helped our publishing house sell nearly 300,000 copies of "Nineteen Years of Crime" and "Star Orbit", and also sold the book "Nineteen Years of Crime" The film and television rights have been sold. As a child who loves books, if he wants to edit a book, we certainly hope to get the opportunity of physical publishing in our hands," Xu Xiaoyin said not to be outdone.
Seeing that these two women were still fighting against each other, Lu Yanhe began to feel a big headache. Chen Siqi suddenly folded his hands in front of his chest and sighed, "Okay, it turns out that the two sisters are all for Lu Yanhe You are so willing to cooperate with us, so we are too pretentious, thinking that it is because we can produce a good book and we can recruit such a creative lineup that you take the initiative to cooperate.”
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Chen Siqi was pretending to be confused.
Nonsense, Yemai.com and Jiangyin Publishing House are willing to write this book. The first factor is of course the reason for rushing to the Lu Yan River.
But when she said this, it seemed that the cooperation intention between the two parties had become utilitarian and not so pure.
"Siqi, you know, that's not what I meant." Xin Zixing was a little confused as to what Chen Siqi's attitude was today.
Why does Chen Siqi make people feel a little arrogant today?
She doesn't usually have such a character.
Chen Siqi: "Then can we temporarily put aside Lu Yanhe's influence on this book and just focus on the content of this book? With the current lineup of writers for this book, as long as The quality of the manuscript everyone submitted in the end is not bad, and the book should be able to sell. It just depends on how much it sells, right?"
Lu Yanhe heard it, and she was trying hard to dominate the topic.
Both sides were noncommittal.
Chen Siqi said: "Actually, the production funds for a book are really small. The last thing Lu Yanhe and I don't want to see is two partners who we think are very suitable because who has more production funds and who has more production funds." I don’t want to argue about it because of the lack of it, and I don’t want everyone to argue over some interests. After all, it is just a book. Book, no matter how big the profit is, it is only that big. The production cost of 100,000 yuan, not to mention Lu Yanhe, is nothing to me. I was not kidding just now. If everyone will be angry because of these things, If this is an argument, I would rather you both don’t have to pay, and I’ll pay for it myself.”
As soon as Chen Siqi finished speaking, the table fell silent.
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At noon, Chen Siqi booked a restaurant and invited everyone to have dinner together.
Chen Siqi was relatively familiar with Xin Zixing, so he took Xin Zixing's car and followed her and Liu Qiao to the hotel.
Lu Yanhe was with Xu Xiaoyin and others.
After getting in the car, Chen Siqi suddenly fell silent and kept looking out the car window silently, completely different from the way he had just been in the cafe.
Xin Zixing more or less realized why Chen Siqi behaved like that just now.
She turned her head and glanced at Chen Siqi, who was like this, with a smile on her lips, and then glanced at Liu Qiao sitting behind.
Liu Qiao is looking down at his mobile phone.
She said: "Siqi, haven't you and Lu Yanhe considered getting together?"
"Ah?" Chen Siqi suddenly came back to his senses and looked at Xin Zixin in shock. "You're so messy today, are you doing it on purpose?" Xin Zixing said with a bit of ridicule: "I didn't want us to argue and point the finger at Lu Yanhe, so when we were arguing, he jumped out and became a target. , The purpose behind the words was to remove Lu Yanhe from the center of the discussion."
Chen Siqi's face suddenly turned red, and she immediately turned red. Then he turned and looked out the window, "What are you talking about? I don't understand." How could we target Lu Yanhe before we could coax him?"
Chen Siqi still said: "I didn't think so."
At this time, Liu Qiao, who was sitting in the back, still looking at the mobile phone in his hand, said, "I'm worried that you two will use your past friendship to compete for Lu Yanhe's support. She doesn't want Lu Yanhe to be emotionally kidnapped by you two. Okay, who?" I'm worried that you will take Lu Yanhe as the target of the attack."
Chen Siqi felt as if a thorn had grown on the chair and had been pricked in the buttocks, and she couldn't help but move.
"Huh? How can we, the ones who still have our friendship with Lu Yanhe, emotionally kidnap Lu Yanhe?" Xin Zixin questioned Liu Qiao's statement in a dumbfounded voice.
Chen Siqi thought silently, that's because you don't know how stupid and kind Lu Yanhe is.
Liu Qiao raised the corner of his mouth and said, "If you care, you will be in trouble."
Chen Siqi weakly denied: "I'm not, don't talk nonsense."
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A conversation similar to this also took place in another car.
"That little girl named Chen Siqi is Xiao Lu's classmate, right?" Liu Cheng asked.
Xu Xiaoyin drove and nodded, "Yes."
Liu Cheng smiled tenderly and said softly: "Xiao Lu, you have to cherish me."
Lu Yanhe immediately blushed.
"Huh? What?"
"Just pretend." Xu Xiaoyin continued what Liu Cheng said, and then said something similar to Liu Qiao.
Lu Yanhe realized in shock that the different side of Chen Siqi just now had such a purpose?
He still felt a little frustrated in the morning, feeling like he had no place to talk.
After finally finishing a sentence or two, he wanted to help Chen Siqi smooth things over, but he was soon interrupted by Chen Siqi.
Did Chen Siqi have this purpose?
Lu Yanhe was speechless, falling into shock and astonishment, and there was an indescribable complex emotion in his heart.
Xu Xiaoyin said in a nostalgic and envious tone: "Think about it, writing a book together in the summer after graduating from high school, this kind of thing is really romantic that cannot be replicated."
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Liu Cheng also laughed.
“How about you go back in time?”
“Forget it, Editor Liu, look at what Xiao Lu and Siqi look like, and then look at me when I am eighteen... Forget it, you can’t see it either, it’s better not to see it, now I am a beautiful city girl, when I was eighteen and just graduated, I was just a country girl who deep down thought I was facing the sea, but in fact I was facing a sandstorm. "Xu Xiaoyin said, "I don't want to go back to that time."
Liu Cheng: "That's what you think now. When you get to my age, you will understand what it means to want to go back to that time." Xiao Lu probably didn't understand the mood of his youth anymore. "
"Huh?" Lu Yanhe recovered from his trance and didn't listen to the whole conversation.
"At your current age, you can't understand our feelings of wanting to travel back to the age of eighteen." Xu Xiaoyin said happily.
Lu Yanhe opened his mouth and smiled absently.
Time travel...?
Lu Yanhe looked at the bright sunshine and clear blue sky in front of him, raised the corner of his mouth and said, "Yes, although my head teacher always said when I was in school, we are always at our best age. , but we don’t know how to cherish it. In fact, I also feel that it is very good now. I actually cherish it very much.”
He knew that Liu Cheng and Xu Xiaoyin must have thought that they understood what he meant, but he knew that only He knows what he's talking about.
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In the end, regarding "Jump Up", the preliminary intentions reached by the three parties are:
1. The content production funds for the team of Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi will be 70,000 yuan by Yemai.com and Jiangyin Publishing. The publisher is responsible for 30,000 yuan, and they are only responsible for the content of the manuscript. The layout design of the e-book is provided by Yemai.com, and the layout design of the physical book is provided by Jiangyin Publishing House.
2. "Jump Up" will be available for online pre-sale as a physical book at the same time as it is available on Yemai.com. It will be officially released on e-commerce and bookstores three days later. It will be free to read in the first three days, and it will be paid for reading after three days. , the price is one-third of the price of the physical book, and the revenue share will be communicated by Yemai.com to Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi.
3. The e-book shelf page of Yemai.com provides a link to purchase the physical book. Jiangyin Publishing House also states in the promotional materials that e-reading is exclusively provided by Yemai.com.
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The two partners did take care of the two young people, Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi, or in other words, they were willing to take care of these two people, did not let them suffer, and gave them very good conditions.
During lunch, contrary to Lu Yanhe’s expectation, Chen Siqi picked up his wine glass gracefully and toasted a small glass of rice wine to several people: “I don’t drink much, so I can only drink this little. I would like to express my gratitude to you all. The teacher apologizes, what I just did was really It's so rude. Although I know that I am riding on the east wind of Lu Yanhe, it is absolutely impossible to realize such a dream without your help. I also express my gratitude to all the teachers. ”
A few others. Get the cup quickly.
Only Liu Qiao, Liu Cheng and Lu Yanhe had rice wine in their cups.
Neither Xu Xiaoyin nor Xin Zixing drank juice because they had to drive.
At this moment, Chen Siqi finally returned to her usual calm and generous appearance.
She has a small personality and temper in front of Lu Yanhe, and has no scruples about her sharp points in front of Liu Wei'an, but outside, she has always been such a girl who has received a good education since she was a child.
Lu Yanhe feels that in this regard, he is really not as conscious as Chen Siqi who is always online.
It’s really the difference between someone who has taught you since childhood and someone who hasn’t.
Stay alert, Lu Yanhe.
(End of this chapter)