Chapter 38 Sticks and Sweet Dates

"Manager, just let him go like this?"

It had been almost five minutes since Chen Feng went downstairs. When everyone upstairs saw that Lin De had not moved, someone came up and asked.

Lind turned around and asked, "What if I didn't? I just asked you to help me beat him up, but no one did it. What are you encouraging here now?"

Linde was so angry that he couldn't express it.

However, when things happened like this, although Lind's face was still burning with pain, he felt like he had finally tasted his long-cherished wish.

It can be said that he can justifiably drive Chen Feng away.

After all, I am a middle-level manager, and I beat a junior employee like this in public. If I want to fire that person, the bosses at the headquarters should be speechless, right?

"What are you looking at! Go and do your own work!"

After making up his mind, Linde looked around fiercely and glared.

It's just that the red marks on half of his face greatly diminished his dignity and made him look a bit funny.

Tang Shuang, who had been the most quarrelsome with him before, had already packed up his package and walked out.

Linde stopped her, "Tang Shuang, where are you going?"

Tang Shuang turned around blankly, "It's time to get off work."

Linde: "..."

"Go! Go!"

Unlike Chen Feng, who has little popularity in the company, although Tang Shuang often sides with Chen Feng, she herself is very popular in the company.

Linde was very sorry that she could not be fired easily.

After returning to his office, Linde called the direct leader at the headquarters on the spot and said that he wanted to forcibly fire a junior employee.

He didn't want to explain everything at first, but the leader above him was not a vegetarian. He insisted on finding out the whole story, and even asked him clearly about every word he said.

"If the company does not compensate according to regulations and forcibly fires Chen Feng, how can you guarantee that he will not post everything you said today online after he leaves?"

the leader asked.

Linde was stunned, "Uh."

"We are an Internet company, and the market competition is so fierce now. Public opinion and reputation are very important to the company. As one of the company's leaders, you speak freely and don't know what to pay attention to. Nowadays, fans of celebrities are so fanatical. Can you afford to offend me? Did another female celebrity provoke you?"

Instead, Linde was sprayed all over his face and had to reflect again and again.

"This time I will deduct three thousand bonuses from you. I hope you will not do it again in the future."

When the complaint failed, he was actually fined 3,000 yuan, which made Lin De almost want to vomit blood.

"However, the impact of Chen Feng's beating in public is very bad, so he should be persuaded to resign. But he should be given three months' salary as compensation. In addition, if he still wants to live in the employee welfare apartment where he lives now, then He can renew the lease at a special price. Got it?"

The leader's method is like this: hit him with a stick and give him a sweet date.

Deduct Linde's bonus and directly fire Chen Feng, but at the same time give Chen Feng adequate compensation.

Such actions not only safeguarded Linde's authority as a middle-level cadre, but at the same time did not offend Chen Feng too much.

…

Upstairs above Chen Feng, gentle singing sounds could be heard from time to time. It seemed that Zhong Lei was practicing singing "Boring" a cappella.

Unlike last time, although the two parties had signed a contract, this time Zhong Lei was not in a hurry to come up with the accompaniment of "Boring" immediately.

She's still waiting for funding for "Boring" to come back.

Zhong Lei didn't tell Chen Feng anything.

In fact, she has always been very dissatisfied with the quality of "Boring" and even deeply blamed herself.

At first, she thought the final product of "Boring" was impeccable.

It's not that she's narcissistic, it's that she really can't find her own shortcomings.

But as time passed, and she listened to this song over and over again, she gradually began to notice a very subtle sense of dissonance.

Zhong Lei gradually found the reason.

There's something wrong with the accompaniment.

Although the accompaniment of purely electronic arrangements is of stable quality, it has lost its spirituality.

Art is a very subjective thing and difficult to quantify. The focus is on sensory understanding.

Therefore, the production this time was boring, and Zhong Lei decided not to rush for results. She would strive to achieve the ultimate in the details of each musical instrument accompaniment.

Pursuing perfection will definitely cost a lot of money.

Since Zhong Lei has not yet signed a contract with an agency, "Boring" is also a personal contract between the two of them, so the production fee for "Boring" has to be paid by themselves this time.

The two received a total of 50,000 yuan in signing fees before tax, but this was definitely not enough.

Zhong Lei wants to make "Boring" according to the effect she wants, and the total investment should not be less than 300,000.

She has not discussed this matter with her partner Chen Feng.

After all, before this, she was not sure how popular "Boring" would be.

If she doesn't make much money, then she can continue arranging electronic music. If it becomes popular, she can make money. Only then will she really start thinking about big-scale productions.

Chen Feng was also careless at this time. After returning home, he was busy looking at projects online. He was thinking about what he should do after leaving. Should he continue to work? Or start a business now?

What to start a business for? Go all out on songwriting?

Should we open a cultural company?

Or do you just focus on being a self-employed person selling songs?

But if you are a self-employed person selling songs, should you find a hired singer who can sing demos for you?

Chen Feng can't always use Zhong Lei to sing demos for him.

Now that Zhong Lei has become famous, her status will be different in the future, and her time will be very busy. It is not appropriate to bother others to sing demos for him.

In addition, Chen Feng is also studying how employees can reasonably and legally defend their rights after being dismissed.

He didn't want to leave a clue for Ke Lai's apartment and be sent to jail.

While he was thinking about it, there was a knock on the door. It was Zhong Lei.

"What's going on?"

Chen Feng opened the door and asked.

Zhong Lei took out the guitar from behind and said, "I have slightly changed your music score, and temporarily changed it to full guitar accompaniment. Do you want to listen to me sing it once and get a feel for it?"

Chen Feng lowered his head and looked at his watch, "It's already past nine o'clock, won't the neighbors have any objections?"

Zhong Lei thought for a while and pointed to the small bathroom separated by a glass curtain wall that was very characteristic of an apartment.

"Go inside."

"ah?"

"Ah what? Come on!"

As a result, two people squeezed into the small bathroom, which covered an area of ​​less than three square meters.

One of them was holding a guitar, making the space even more crowded.

Zhong Lei closed the door with her backhand, and Chen Feng was a little nervous. He had just taken a shower before, and the air in the bathroom was still humid and stuffy.

However, Zhong Lei was completely unaware of this so-called charming atmosphere, and her fingertips traced the strings.

The crisp and rhythmic guitar sound suddenly sounded in the crowded bathroom, accompanied by her unique voice, which is magnetic when it is low, and when it is high, it is like an oriole chirping under the new rain on an empty mountain, and the impact is extremely strong.

Coupled with the wonderful resonance sound cavity formed in the small space of the bathroom, Zhong Lei's seemingly simple a cappella singing has an amazing sound effect.

Chen Feng quickly devoted himself to this classic song composed by himself.

Listening live and listening to CD are always different experiences.

Many people think that singers perform best in CDs, and no matter how good the live performance is, it cannot match the effect recorded in the studio.

But it's wrong.

If these people really have the kind of friend who sings so well that they want to call the police, and they listen to someone singing a cappella with a microphone in a KTV, they will immediately understand everything.

About ten minutes later, Chen Feng regained his senses after a series of good things.

Seeing him like this, Zhong Lei was sure of the effect of her hard training.

"Then it's settled! I'll go up first."

After saying that, she left.

Chen Feng scratched his head.

What's settled?

Why don't I remember it at all?

etc!

Damn it!

It seems that I just promised her to invest all the income from the first two months of "Boring" into the production of "Boring"!

In addition, she seems to have said that she plans to set up her own company and will not join any brokerage company.

She thought that was the only way she could remain free.

It seems that he also agreed to invest in her brokerage company?

Damn it! How many words did I just say was good? How many requests did I say yes to?

Chen Feng suddenly had one head and two heads.

This was beyond his expectation.

Although it seemed that he could hug Zhong Lei tightly, he had no experience in acting as an artist manager and didn't think he could do it well.

The key is that he is not interested in it at all.

Being a manager is so annoying. He just wants to copy and write songs quietly.

Zhong Lei just let her grow up on her own. Isn't such a small life not nourishing?