Chapter 148 Special Cooperation

Lu Yanhe accompanied Li Pengfei to buy things, and then went to buy a laptop. Just after the purchase, Li Pengfei suddenly thought of something and said, "Should I buy one for Xu Zijun as well? She definitely doesn't have one."

"Take it easy, she may not be willing to accept it." Lu Yanhe said, "A suitcase costs a few hundred yuan, but a laptop costs several thousand yuan. It's nothing to you, but it's a very expensive gift for her."

"You're right." Li Pengfei nodded and accepted it very readily. He didn't say "What's so expensive about this!" in an exaggerated tone like those rich second-generations in TV dramas.

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

Lu Yanhe just thought about this, and heard Li Pengfei suddenly say: "Next time, find a reason and give it to her legitimately."

"..." Lu Yanhe glanced at this guy.

Is this a question of reason?

The phone suddenly rang.

It was from an unfamiliar number.

Lu Yanhe answered the number with some surprise.

"Hello, is this Lu Yanhe?" The other party introduced himself, "I am Xu Xiaoyin, the novel editor of Jiangyin Publishing House. I wonder if it is convenient to talk?"

"I, I am." Lu Yanhe was confused, "What can I do for you?"

"It's like this, I am the editor-in-chief of "Nineteen Years of Crime Records". I would like to thank you for recommending this book in the live broadcast room last night. I don't know if you are free today. I want to express my gratitude to you in person."

Lu Yanhe was even more shocked when he heard this.

This is really something that he did not expect.

"Uh, thank you, you are too polite." Lu Yanhe said, "I didn't make any special recommendations. I just read this novel during the live broadcast. I haven't finished it yet."

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

Lu Yanhe was surprised when he heard this.

Cooperation?

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 is convenient. It is estimated that it will take us 30 minutes to come here. Is that okay?"

"Okay, then I will 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 it.

Chen Ziyan replied: Maybe they saw that your live broadcast of reading this book yesterday helped sell more than a thousand copies, so they want you to help promote the book, but the profit of booksellers is low, and they can't give you much promotion fee for cooperation with you. You can talk to her first to see her intentions. If you really want to establish a business cooperation relationship, you have to go through the contract seriously in the future. I will talk about it when I come back, but based on my understanding of the publishing industry, it is difficult for them to offer a high price.

Lu Yanhe thought about it and said: Then I will talk to her first.

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

Lu Yanhe: If it is too troublesome, I will just refuse it directly.

Chen Ziyan: If it is other artists, I will let them refuse it. You are different. Your live broadcast room itself is a learning path. In the future, you will do live broadcasts and become a reading blogger, which will also add points to your public image.

Lu Yanhe understood Chen Ziyan's intention.

Chen Ziyan said: This is the biggest difference between you and other artists. Knowledge, education, and intellectuals are things that cannot be packaged by the agency, and it is not to let you rely on these labels in a secular way, but you are good at learning and love reading, so let's write articles around these, do it without guilt, and others can't imitate it.

Lu Yanhe replied with a word "OK".

"I've bought it." Li Pengfei paid the bill and asked someone to pack his laptop for him.

He had a suitcase in his left hand and a laptop bag in his right hand. He looked very young and looked like a teenager who had just finished the college entrance examination.

"Let's go." Li Pengfei said.

They still had to go to Li Pengfei's house later.

Lu Yanhe said, "I just received a call. I have to meet someone from the publishing house here later. Otherwise, you go back first and I'll come back later."

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

Lu Yanhe nodded, "Okay, I made an appointment with them to meet at the coffee shop at the entrance just now. Let's go and wait for them now."

"Okay."

The two went over together.

After listening to Lu Yanhe's explanation, Li Pengfei knew why people from the publishing house came to see Lu Yanhe.

"It's amazing. Just a live broadcast helped people sell a thousand books." Li Pengfei said.

Lu Yanhe was actually quite surprised. The number of viewers in his live broadcast room was only about 4,000, and this number has been growing slowly over the past six months. Including the people coming in and out, he probably broadcast live for half an hour yesterday, and a total of about 10,000 people watched his live broadcast. Could there be 1,000 people who would buy this book?

Is his appeal so strong?

Lu Yanhe always felt that it was unreliable.

However, this data was said by the people from the publishing house.

-

Xu Xiaoyin brought Xu Mingyue to this coffee shop in Zhoufujing. When they pushed open the door and went in, there were quite a few people inside, but Lu Yanhe was easy to find. A search on the Internet would reveal his photos. Good-looking people are always more prominent in the crowd, and you can see him at a glance. It can only be said that people's eyes are also focused on good-looking people.

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

They went over to say hello.

"Hello, Lu Yanhe, I'm Xu Xiaoyin who called you before."

Xu Xiaoyin stretched out her hand and shook hands with Lu Yanhe.

Lu Yanhe: "Hello, Sister Xiaoyin."

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

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

"Xu Mingyue, an intern in our club." 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, Helan became his die-hard fan. A year later, she met him again because of his live broadcast room.

I guess he never thought that she was also a viewer of his live broadcast room.

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

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

Xu Xiaoyin said, "In fact, after I learned about this, I was very moved. Now there are many so-called book bloggers on the Internet. They record various book promotion videos and copywriting. They are willing to do this for money. So when we heard the news, we thought it was marketing. It was done by someone from the department. Later I found out that it was your spontaneous behavior. "

"I was also live streaming before. Now that I have finished the exam, I open the live streaming to read novels. I like to read novels myself." Lu Yanhe said, "I have only read the first part of "Nineteen Years of Crime Records" and haven't finished it yet."

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

"I finished the exam the day before yesterday, and went to the bookstore yesterday. I picked this book, and I didn't know about this book from anywhere in particular."

Xu Xiaoyin was surprised.

Then this is really a kind of luck that happened by chance.

She laughed: "That's great, I thought there are really not many people willing to go to bookstores now."

After the greetings, Xu Xiaoyin started to talk about business.

"Yanhe, I came to you today for another matter, which is also a cooperation. Another book I am responsible for, "Star Orbit", will be released this Thursday. I wonder if we can cooperate to promote this book." Xu Xiaoyin took out another book from her bag, a new book with a plastic cover, and pushed it in front of Lu Yanhe.

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

"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. It is also a new author. The market is not good now. It is difficult for new authors to stand out. I finally got the book number and got the opportunity to be released. The first print run is only 8,000 copies. I just met you, so I was thinking about whether we can cooperate."

Lu Yanhe looked at the book in his hand hesitantly.

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

Lu Yanhe thought to himself, you think too much.

This is his first time to come into contact with this kind of promotion work.

"Sister Xiaoyin, this is the case. If it is a commercial cooperation, my work here must be approved by my agent. I can't reply to you right now."

Xu Xiaoyin nodded: "I understand. We understand. Because I don't have your agent's contact information, do you want to give me your agent's contact information, or can you tell me?"

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

"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, how much promotion fee do we usually pay for artists like Lu Yanhe to promote?"

Xu Xiaoyin said: "I don't know either. If we really want to pay promotion fee, we need to submit it to the publisher for discussion. Generally speaking, unless it is a special book blogger who has discussed a cooperation framework with the publisher, the promotion of this kind of single book is usually through connections or favors, asking for help."

Xu Mingyue asked puzzledly: "Then you mentioned the promotion fee to him just now..."

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

“Then what if people really want 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, the price is usually like this."

"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 of development, 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, send me her number and I'll contact her."

Lu Yanhe said yes.

After hanging up the phone, Li Pengfei looked at Lu Yanhe with a strange look on his face and asked, "Are you so good in front of your agent? Why did you call her immediately for such a trivial 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 liked to take on private work because of his lack of timely communication.

Many artists take private jobs 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 just now, how did they know the number?" Lu Yanhe said suddenly.

"Ah?" 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 weird?" 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 he get the agent?"

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.

It's an unknown 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 manager." 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 and gave Lu Yanhe a few books. It was nothing, it was just a free bargain. "It's not bad if I don't give you a promotion fee, right? It's nothing. Cooperation in public welfare activities is only for one or two books. If we can cooperate for a long time in the future, we will be embarrassed to take 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 popular book, the profit from a book is not high. I also saw that Yan He is a person who loves reading, so I helped him pick it up."

Xu Xiaoyin always felt embarrassed to take advantage in vain - this time she brought a 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 The live broadcast room has been doing promotion for a long time. As long as Lu Yanhe likes the books they send and is willing to promote them, she will not be embarrassed.

But Chen Ziyan clearly didn't need the promotion fee now, and she still couldn't force the promotion fee without the consent of the newspaper.

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

After hanging up the phone, Xu Xiaoyin felt that it was incredible 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 a national brand background and has many writer resources. In this IP era, it has good relationships with many film and television companies and has also participated in the investment of many film and television dramas.

This was considered in a big way, but in a small way, Chen Ziyan didn't want to let this matter smell like copper.

To be precise, he didn'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 an 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 may 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 your 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 hard 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 Old Chen, Su Su, and Old 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.

All I can say is that his usual joke about "rich people" 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 alone 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 him coming back with his classmates, she responded with a smile.

Lu Yanhe followed Li Pengfei upstairs and entered his room.

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

Next door turned out to be a game room, with an entire wall decorated as an electronic screen.

This was the first time Lu Yanhe saw a room dedicated to a game room. Two lazy sofas were placed against the other wall. People could 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 half a day, Lu Yanhe went back.

Li Pengfei wanted to keep him for a while, but Lu Yanhe was thinking about the unfinished "Nineteen Years Crime Record" and didn't want to play games with Li Pengfei all day, so he said he had something to do and left after lunch.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Yanhe started the broadcast on time and continued to read the novel "Nineteen Years Crime Record".

As for the book "Star Track", Lu Yanhe had not received a call from Chen Ziyan and didn't know what to do.

But if he really wanted to promote it later, he would definitely continue to read this book in the live broadcast room.

Lu Yanhe felt that he had to finish reading "Nineteen Years Crime Record" first.

This novel is really good, telling a murder story spanning nineteen years.

From college to the end, the characters who appeared were all middle-aged.

The time span is very large.

Lu Yanhe read for three hours in one breath, and when night fell, he finally finished the book.

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

The ending of this story made Lu Yanhe feel lost and stunned for a long time.

When he came to his senses, he thought about checking the comments and found that many people were discussing this book.

—— I went to have lunch at noon today and happened to pass by a bookstore. I remembered that Lu Yanhe read this book last night, so I bought a copy. After lunch, I 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 is not that scary. The beginning is a bit of a deliberate creation of a scary atmosphere, but it is not that scary. It is not a thriller horror novel.

—— I placed an order online, but it has not arrived yet. I will receive it tomorrow.

—— Me too.

—— I haven't read a novel for a long time. I didn't expect Lu Yanhe to read it for so long in one breath. It must be so interesting.

—— He almost finished reading it.

...

Lu Yanhe kept flipping through everyone's comments and laughed.

He turned off the mute function and said, "I just finished reading this novel. The ending was a little unexpected for me. It's a very good story. If you like to read detective stories, you can try this novel."