Dust sleeps in light years

Chapter 19

[one]
The first half of April is pleasantly warm, with bright sunshine every day and temperatures as high as 20°C at noon.Girls have started to buy summer clothes one after another, and those who can’t hold back directly hide brightly colored short-sleeved T-shirts or semi-transparent chiffon skirts under knitted sweaters and motorcycle leather jackets for inner wear, and some even wear them on their feet. An ill-timed pair of sandals with thin straps struggling alone in the cold wind after sunset.

But in mid-April, a gust of cold air came down from the north and south, and the spring cold suddenly appeared. No matter how beautiful you are, you have to dig out the black and gray coat and jacket again, and complain that the school ended the heating prematurely.

This winter has been unusually long, unreasonably long.Qiu He huddled in the classroom with a sports teapot filled with boiling water, waiting for the continuous class.The class representative of the film history class last semester came to her seat: "The academic affairs asked you to go to the office." "What's the matter?"

"It's about grades." I can't think of it. The entanglement between the credits and grades of the two courses has been resolved through negotiation with the teacher. What's the problem? "Your score for this general elective course is recorded as zero."

"No, I saw it on the student platform of the Academic Affairs Office..." "It hasn't been shown on the student platform, I just changed it a few days ago. You only took 4 credits of the course, but you counted 6 credits, sorry for others It's unfair to my classmates." The teaching affairs officer said in a mechanical tone.

"I should have a grade point of 4.0, because the system can't withdraw the course, and it's unfair to me to change the grade point to 1.0. Either you withdraw this general elective course from the system and give me back the professional grade point; Or we should adopt the consensus reached by me and the teacher, and accept this kind of fairness where both parties take a step back."

"This can't be withdrawn, it's an illegal operation. But it can't be counted as your 6 credits." The academic administration was unreasonable, with a look of not wanting to talk, "Who told you not to withdraw from the class at that time?"

"I quit, but the class representative didn't write down my name. You can ask..." "I don't care what happened to you at the time, anyway, this is the only way to solve it now. You go back, I just let you know." "Then I have to retake it. Do I need to register with you when I retake it?" "Why do I have to retake it? According to what you said, you have learned this course so well, there is no need to retake it at all."

"Falling the subject will affect my employment in the future." "I will help you figure out a way to get the report card when I get a job, and see if I can overwrite this row. I know you have..." Qiu He sneered and interrupted her : "Isn't overwriting the report card a more serious violation? Speaking of which, teacher—I call you teacher to show respect. In fact, we all know that according to school regulations, the grades are given by the teacher, and you are only responsible for inputting Computer system. Isn’t it illegal to change the grades given by the teacher like you?”

Qiu He was only quick-talking for a while, but in the end the academic affairs officer still kept a livid face and refused to change the score back.After returning to the dormitory, she was at a loss for the two lines of grade records displayed in the system--Film History Selected credits 2 grades 0 GPA 0 Film History professional credits 4 grades 60 GPA 1.0 "I think this thing couldn't be easier It’s just that the class representative and the academic affairs collude to harm you, and it’s useless for you to reason with her.” Xue Tao’s tone couldn’t tell whether it was gloating, “Does the class representative in your class usually flatter the leaders in the school? Isn’t it for the sake of research? You Well, with a strong competitive face, it looks very threatening. Doesn’t he hack competitors like you? One course failure does not have much impact on job hunting and going abroad. At most, the red line on the report card is not very good-looking. But there are only the regulations of the graduate school, and if you fail a class, you will be directly disqualified."

"I don't really think about Baoyan." "You haven't broadcast this sentence to the whole school, so how do they know what you think?" Qiu He smiled, and the smile was very strange: "Forget it, let's talk about it at that time. If I don't plan to go to graduate school, I'll let him hack. You help me with something, find a junior student in the editor's office to 'accidentally' spill a glass of Coke on Shen Peng's laptop, and I'll pay for the maintenance. "

Xue Tao nodded and agreed, without asking why, even if he asked, the answer was "don't ask too much".She just needs to know that this matter is definitely good for herself and bad for Shen Peng.

[two]
It seems that good luck has come to an end, and unfavorable things follow one after another.The team worked hard day and night for two weeks, and produced the first issue of the revised magazine. The publisher replied that it will be changed to a bimonthly from now on, because the quality has declined.Qiuhe told Xue Tao about the news of changing the bimonthly magazine.Xue Tao was a little confused: "Why?" "The official statement is that the quality of the manuscript is not good." Xue Tao sat down and waited for her to continue to elaborate. Since there is an "official statement", there are other statements. "I asked a bookseller in Sichuan. Our publishing house is negotiating a big contract recently, and wants to spend a lot of money to poach a famous youth literature magazine that originally belonged to a publishing house in Beijing."

Xue Tao waited for a long time, but she didn't have anything to say, and she couldn't help being confused: "I know that magazine is very famous, but what does it have to do with us? It may not be signed, after all, it will cost a lot of money. Our magazine has also started to make money in recent issues. Yes, and it was done by my own publishing house... There are so many authors who have been cultivated by themselves... By the way, last time I proposed to the publishing house to sign a long-term contract with those three young authors, what did they say?"

"Nothing." "Aren't they interested?"

"They are not interested in magazines anymore." After saying this, Qiu He changed his clothes and went out.

After she left for a long time, Guo Shujie interjected: "Xue Tao, how did Qiu He become the editor-in-chief of a business magazine?" This magazine is not very popular and has been losing money. Because of the registration of the serial number, the post office has thousands of orders and has to do it. Ask Qiuhe to contribute to this magazine. You know her style, tell the publisher directly "Your magazine is not good-looking, I don't want to write it." The president asked her what was not good-looking, and she listed a whole sheet of opinions on A4 paper. The president asked her if she had any ways to improve, and she listed a lot. I I felt that the president is also a genius, so I immediately asked her if she would like to take over the magazine as the executive editor. She said that she would consider it, and then called me that night to ask if she would like to be an editor. It was winter vacation and I was in my hometown. I was too busy to panic, so I agreed. She replied to the president the next day and said that she can form a team to do it."

"She was only a freshman at that time, right? How dare you?" "I asked the same question at the time, and I said: 'You have never been the editor-in-chief of a business magazine, how dare you?'" Xue Tao paused, "Qiu He said' Xue Tao, find me someone who was born with the experience of being an editor-in-chief'."

Guo Shujie smiled: "That's true." "As long as Qiu He is determined to do something, there is nothing she can't do. The key is whether she really wants to do it."

Xue Tao once strongly suggested that Qiuhe recommend three authors who often contribute to magazines to the publishing house. They are all born in the 90s. Surprisingly".Xue Tao couldn't think of any reason why the publishing house was "not interested". The three children hadn't become famous, so it was impossible to raise any high conditions.If you say "not interested", it can only mean that Qiu He doesn't really want to recommend.

[three]
In less than a week, even the typographer resigned.When Xue Tao heard about this at first, he thought that the workload of the typesetting staff was increasing, and he threatened to resign and wanted to raise his salary. Unexpectedly, Qiu He didn't give him a step, and let him go without hesitation.

"Did you make a mistake? I really don't understand what is going on in your mind. Isn't it just a few hundred dollars? Although theoretically, there are many people who can typesetting, but we spent so much It took a long time to get along with this typographer, how would we go on without him?"

"We can't go on." Xue Tao's follow-up lines were all stuck in his throat, and he looked at Qiu He inexplicably.She didn't raise her eyes, and she spoke as slowly as usual: "We don't need to go on.

From today, we stop all work.The same goes for Xue Tao, go about your own business. ""What's the meaning? "

"The publisher won't be taking the magazine anymore." "They informed you?" "Soon."

"That means the publisher hasn't made a decision yet? Now it's just a bimonthly magazine, why are you so discouraged? Our target audience is completely different from that well-known magazine. They are mainly college students and working women. , the articles are all in a mature style, and the content is mainly about the workplace and office romance. We are mainly middle school students as the main reader group, and the content mainly reflects the life of students. Don’t say that you haven’t signed the magazine yet, even if you sign, it will not affect each other Ah. At the end of the month, they ask us for film for the next issue of the magazine, what shall we do?"

Qiu He acted as if he hadn't heard, and kept his head buried in his book without saying a word.This is so abnormal.

"Qiu He, did you reach an agreement with the publishing house because of your novel?"

Still do not speak. "I think there is a conspiracy here. It all started with Mi Bai's resignation, no, it started with the Su Ling incident. Since the Su Ling incident, our team has never encountered a good thing. Do you know something?"

"Xue Tao, you still have important things to arrange?" Qiu He didn't intend to explain anything to her at all.

At the end of the month, although Xue Tao stopped what he was doing, he still missed the magazine.Three days have passed since the original due date, and there is no news that the final draft will be handed in.

That evening, Qiu He told her casually: "The publishing house notified me to sign the magazine's termination agreement, and the draft agreement has been sent to my mailbox."

"Okay, I've accepted the reality, and you give me a reason. As far as I know, the sales of the first issue of a well-known magazine plummeted when it was transferred, which shows how poor the marketing department of our publishing house is. With the support of this kind of marketing, we The sales volume can continue to double, you give me a reason, why do they want to terminate?"

"Because the publishing house only has one issue number, and now there are more and more magazines on the market, it is becoming more and more difficult to apply for an issue number."

"But compared with that magazine, our magazine will definitely..." Qiu He interrupted her with a wave of his hand: "The publishing house is like a shopping mall. Originally, there was a counter for a new brand with a high daily turnover, and it will grow in the future. Even better, now Chanel's flagship store is about to open, saying that I want this counter. Who will the mall choose?"

Xue Tao was silent. "The publishing house is a state-owned enterprise, and profit is not the most important thing for the leadership. Instead of achieving 'really great', it only needs to achieve 'looks great'. Besides, its profitability is not in youth literature. In this area, just for children's books that have imported copyrights from overseas, the whole society will get bonuses. That's the reason, it's useless not to be reconciled."

Xue Tao let out a long breath and nodded.Seeing that she had no objection, Qiu He took the water bottle and went downstairs to fetch water.Hearing her footsteps disappear at the end of the corridor, Xue Tao put on gloves and took out the newly bought keyboard film from the closet, wiped it carefully with disinfectant, applied a thin layer of wax, and replaced Qiu and the original keyboard film with it. Keyboard Cover.After doing all this, she waited for Qiu He to return to the dormitory, washed the clothes as usual, added softener and soaked them in water, and then sat back in front of the computer and turned it on.

5 minutes is enough for Qiu He to read an email and make two phone calls.

One is to the director of the publishing center, saying that the terms of the termination agreement have been reviewed and there is no problem, and it is agreed to sign at the publishing center at [-] pm the next day.

The other is for Ye Xuan—maybe she thinks Chaoyang District is too far away—to ask him to pick her up by car.

Of course, Qiu He, who has always been cautious, will never forget to turn off the computer before going to the water room to wash the softener on the clothes again.But this is not important anymore.Xue Tao quickly took back the keyboard membrane and put it in the closet for safekeeping, and returned Qiuhe's keyboard membrane to the original owner.

Qiu He always likes to say "don't ask too many questions", Xue Tao doesn't ask too many questions, but she has to figure it out by herself.

[Four]
Waji recorded two passwords, Qiu He's power-on password and personal mailbox password.It took Xue Tao half a day to separate and confirm the two.She successfully logged into Qiu He's personal mailbox with her notebook in the editor's office of the school magazine, and as she expected, she found the following item in the termination agreement clause in the read email: "Party A regards Party B as a key writer Cultivate and provide convenient conditions for Party B's creation, the goal is to make Party B into a popular idol writer."

Party A is the publishing house, and Party B is naturally Qiuhe.She spoke so reasonably and acted so provocatively, she was almost deceived by her.Xue Tao sneered at the screen, almost applauding his cleverness.But at this time, a certain item in the agreement caught her attention again: "Party A agrees to pay Party B the editing fee of the first issue of the revision of the magazine book and the processing fee of 8000 yuan for the related drafts." After the revision, each issue of the publishing house should Give the magazine production team 3 yuan.If the magazine is withdrawn from the first issue of the revision, and the manuscript is not used, the manuscript fee does not need to be paid, but the drawing is an appointment system, and the painters have to pay if they have already drawn.This is easy to understand.What is difficult to understand is that 8000 is not an integer, but after adding the original typesetting staff's salary of 2000, it becomes an integer.

During the journal production process, the publisher will not know the internal process of the team, and naturally will not know the production progress.The publisher would not have known that Qiu He had stopped the production of the current issue early on, and it would not have known that there was no need to pay the typesetting staff.

If Qiuhe had proposed the figure for handling manuscript fees, Xue Tao felt that she would not have confessed "You can give me 2000 yuan less" like a two hundred and five. Can be good one last time.

If this number is proposed by the publishing house, how can the publishing house predict it?Unlike other team members, the typographer is not a student.He suddenly proposed to resign, Qiu He immediately let him go, and immediately announced that he would "stop all work", but the publishing house, which should have been unaware of this, already knew that he did not need to pay his salary.

Xue Tao felt that his whole head was in chaos.She opened and read all the emails between Qiuhe and the publishing house.I found an email written by Qiu He to the director of the publishing center at the beginning of October last year, which seems to explain the doubts-"In order to standardize the work, I will not contact the publishing house directly for typesetting in the future. The contract is a cooperation contract I signed with the publishing house. So the publishing house only needs to contact me alone... I will send the final product to the publishing house by express. Please sort out a complete written opinion and send it to my mailbox. I will convey the details to the team. The magazine has fewer articles and more pictures, but I don’t want it to happen again.... I also hope that my team members can be more simple... If the main resistance for me to do this magazine comes from collaborators, it will cause Quite an unfortunate contradiction."

Qiu He's tone can be said to be very blunt.Xue Tao believes that the reason lies in the second half of the letter—“It is stated in the contract that the manuscript fee should be paid within one month after the book is published, and the manuscript fee bill should be issued immediately after printing. But our production has reached the December issue, The October issue is about to go on the market, but I still haven't received the manuscript fee for the September issue..."

Xue Tao had never heard Qiu He talk about the arrears of manuscript fees. She was surprised but not particularly surprised. Qiu He was not a person who would complain to unrelated people. Xue Tao was an editor, and he was undoubtedly unrelated to financial issues.

Remitting manuscript fees to writers and painters is not a heavy labor. Why does she keep answering the phone every time she sees Mi Bai and doing business?Why did she quit in the end?Why did Qiu He take over those chores after she resigned, and even some writers came to report that they did not receive their manuscript fees on time?Originally, she just thought that Qiu He had more things to do in life than Mi Bai, so she couldn't take care of them.But now it seems that the reason is not so simple.

Xue Tao no longer wanted to pursue the root cause of the magazine's suspension, because she suddenly found that there were too many things she didn't understand.

(End of this chapter)