Cartoonist's Dream

The village feast is over.

Li Mu went upstairs to take a shower, lying on the entrance of the living room, watching the last big truck climb up the slope, drive out of Jiangbin Road along the embankment and gradually go away.The scene of cleaning up the mess gives people an inexplicable sense of loneliness.

After the celebration banquet, everything returned to calm.Just like a weightlifting champion who retired to sell roast duck, people's enthusiasm for new things cooled down quickly, and basically no reporters came to interview after a month.

March was passed peacefully, probably at the end of April. Shangguo Publishing House may have encountered a crisis—an internal crisis.After several calls, Li Mu could feel the changes. In the latest phone call, Ryoko's words were full of worry, and it was only after questioning that she found out what was going on.

The origin of the incident is a bit strange. [

Lu Lingling, the president of the Shangguo Society, plans to change locations, increase the number of editors, and hire someone to take charge of the telephone customer service... In short, the Shangguo Society is facing a major change.

Under such a premise, Wang Bingyu and Anya raised objections.

"Our agency only needs to manage 7 authors, and each editor only needs to be in charge of 1 or 2 people. Even if I am in charge of all of them, there is no need to hire a new editor." Wang Bingyu's objection is very clear.

Shangguo Club doesn't need to waste too much resources, and the four people can manage it in an orderly manner. Moreover, Limu's comics basically don't need to be rectified, drafted, sent back for re-editing, etc., which is very satisfactory.If you want to increase editors, you should first increase the number of contracted authors, and now it is difficult for ordinary and above-average authors to be favored by Shangguo Publishing House.

"I think it's better to keep the status quo." This was Anya's opinion.

"I, I can be in charge of telephone customer service." Ryoko was persuaded by the opinions of the two.

It was Lu Lingling who made the final decision for the company, but she obviously couldn't make a decision based on her own words.

By the way, Lu Lingling felt that this matter was an "internal dispute", and she never mentioned such conflicts when she talked with Li Mu on the phone.

So, this matter dragged on from March to the end of April.

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On April 4, when Wang Bingyu went home to relax at night, the phone in the apartment rang.

She looked at the display bar on the landline and knew that it was Li Mu's call.

"Li Mu, Ryoko is taking a bath, call back later."

"Why do I have to look for Ryoko when I make a phone call... I'm looking for you."

Li Mu raised his voice in displeasure.

"Oh? You actually took the initiative to find me...?"

"Well, of course, don't think that I can only pinch girls, okay!" I felt a little guilty when I said this.

Probably subconsciously, Wang Bingyu felt that Wang Bingyu was difficult to deal with. Limu usually called Liangzi, and the next row was Anya and Lu Lingling.Most of the calls with Bingyu are from her own business.

"Soft girl? Just speak up if you have something to say." [

Wang Bingyu, who was "hard girl" on the spot, seemed a little discouraged.

"You don't have to hurry. Hasn't Ryoko been taking a bath for a long time? I mean taking a bath."

"Even if I can't take a shower for a while, I still have work to do. I'm very busy..."

Although Wang Bingyu always pretended to be very busy, the fact that she just came back from a walk made her a little unconfident.

"Okay, you're busy, you're busy." Li Mu, who knew from Ryoko that she had been out "going around" at night recently, didn't expose her. If she was in a bad mood, she should really take a walk and put her work on hold for a while.But now some questions must not be shelved, "Then I will ask directly, what is the matter with you and Lingling?"

"...?"

Probably because the question was too vague, or because he didn't want to answer, the other end of the phone was silent for a while.Relying on subconscious intuition, the dull hair on the pear wood changed its shape, telling him that the phone was in […! 】or【……? 】status.Of course, he couldn't see that Dai Mao was finalized as [? 】shape.

"Regarding the matter of the company, Editor-in-Chief Lu's opinion should be for the sake of the company's development. You should be able to bear it now. After all, it is no longer a small company with hundreds of thousands of funds. Please ask a few more people to help It's still very necessary for you." Although she didn't know the reason for her silence, Li Mu added in a didactic way.

Lu Lingling is a forward-looking leader. Others like to start new recruitment when the company has developed to a certain level and the manpower is too tight.However, the president of Shangguoshe hopes to recruit employees before she gets busy. There is no doubt that she is planning for the company's expansion and development, but she is inexplicably blocked by old employees.

As an offline author of a company, Li Mu should not be the one to say this kind of thing, but when talking with them recently, I can always feel that they are a little strange.

"In short, you are talking about 'the problem of recruiting new companies'? Then let me ask you... If you recruit idlers and others, wouldn't the secret that you are the author of the seven popular comics supporting Shangguosha be leaked? "

"Eh?!"

After hearing Wang Bingyu's words, Li Mu was stunned, and after a while, she understood her thoughts.

The development of Shangguo Publishing House to this day is due to luck and hard work, but the root cause is the company's product "Steel Refining" and other seven classic and excellent popular comics.

But there is a very fatal point here, these works all point to Li Mu alone!To put it bluntly, if Limu suddenly suffered a car accident and lost his hands and feet, Shangguo Publishing House would better share the money and pat his butt for bulk goods.Continuing to struggle is likely to cause the company to shrink significantly, and in the end it will have to jump off the building when it is heavily in debt.

Wang Bingyu mentioned that the secret was leaked, not to threaten Limu that someone would assassinate him, but just worried that other companies would poach him.In fact, according to the stipulations in the original contract, with the money Limu has earned from seven comics, he can pay liquidated damages to regain his freedom at any time.

Of course, he still has concerns before the initial capital accumulation is sufficient.In particular, supporting the Creators Foundation and Comic Novice Foundation independently, and improving the environment of Chinese comics requires a large sum of money to operate.He even saved the time and money of going abroad for medical treatment, and he has delayed it until today without going to the hospital for examination.

"This... is indeed a problem..." Li Mu pondered.

"What does it mean to be sure? Is this a serious problem?" Wang Bingyu said.

"It's not such an exaggeration. As long as you keep your mouth shut and the secret workers do a good job. If my manuscript is sent directly to the apartment instead of the company, the secret will not be leaked..."

"I'm not talking about this problem!" Wang Bingyu said.

"Lu Lingling has changed, and she wants to kick us away. But before the company has established other channels, she dare not say that you are close to Liangzi and Anya. If she does this, she will dig herself Grave. You only need to threaten her with "stop serialization" and she dares not take any action. She is afraid that because of you, the Shangguo company she established by herself will stop publishing. Therefore, it is necessary to recruit people, establish another channel, and break away from—— You can't' situation.”[

"This, isn't it?"

Li Mu, who was surprised by her whimsical ideas, thought that Lu Lingling was definitely not such a person.However, after a long speech, it was clear that Wang Bingyu also had his own opinion, and a few words on the phone might not be able to change his mind.

Editor-in-Chief Lu, what kind of plane are you doing?

For the confident president, Li Mu was also full of complaints at this time.

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