Fang Quan slammed the door and left, Jiang Shuiyuan felt a big stone in his heart: now he had thrown the hot potato to Fang Quan and Wu Qifei, as for the final result, it depended on their decision, and it had nothing to do with him.

However, the source of the river does not care too much about the outcome. It is of course best to be able to sign a contract with "Cultivation," but it doesn't matter if you don't sign a contract or win an award; if you don't have extra points in the New Concept Essay Contest, you won't be able to go to a good university? Jiang Shuiyuan doesn't believe it! Besides, isn't there still Guo Siming and Guo Dashao to take care of it? Although the fame of "The Most Youthful" cannot be compared with the decades-old store "Cultivation" in the short term, but if you write a few articles every month, at least you don't have to worry about running out of pocket money!

Jiang Shuiyuan happily took a bath, read a few more pages of "Complex Analysis: Visualization Methods" at the same time, and then happily chatted with Zhou Gong. The next morning, I continued to get up for morning exercises, had breakfast, and then packed up my things and prepared to check out and go home. Only at this time did I feel that it was a pity that I didn't win an award and went back empty-handed.

Jiang Shuiyuan was sad for less than two minutes when he heard someone knocking on the door, and when he opened the door, he saw Wu Qifei, Fang Quan, and a middle-aged man standing outside the door. Fang Quan saw that Jiang Shuiyuan was packing his luggage, and his face became more and more gloomy: "Why is Jiang in such a hurry to leave? Isn't there an award ceremony in the morning and a luncheon at noon?"

"It's just a shortlist, it doesn't matter if you get it or not. Jiang Shuiyuan let them into the room and began to continue to pack up their things, "As for the luncheon, forget it! A finalist is mixed with a bunch of first and second prizes, I'm afraid that eating dragon meat is not fragrant, in case you can't control it again, wouldn't it be a person to sit in the corner and be unhappy? Let's go to the train station to eat instant noodles!"

Wu Qifei glared at Fang Quan fiercely, Fang Quan's heart suddenly jumped, and he even suspected that all this year's bonuses would be lost. Then Wu Qifei smiled and said to Jiang Shuiyuan: "Who said you won the finalist? Even I don't know your grades, so how can you know? Student Jiang must not spread false rumors, lest it cause unnecessary misunderstandings! As for your words to the editor-in-chief, I have already learned that although you and I have big differences on the terms of signing the contract, as long as we are willing to cooperate. No matter how big the disagreement, you can sit down!"

"Really?" Jiang Shuiyuan stopped what he was doing, "what if the conditions I said were final?"

Wu Qifei was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "The last time I ate, I heard classmate Jiang say that he had been doing business for a few days, so you should know how the merchants ask for the price and how the customers bargain? But if you want to make a business, you have to give in in the end. The same is true for our cooperation, the conditions must strive to satisfy both parties, and it is impossible to completely accommodate one side or the other. What do you think?"

"What about the conditions of your magazine?" Jiang Shuiyuan asked rhetorically.

Wu Qifei looked around: "I don't think this is a place to talk about things, otherwise, you pack your things, take our car back to the magazine, and let's talk slowly on the way." Next to me is Mr. Jiang Dongben, a well-known lawyer in the field of intellectual property protection. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask him. And so it goes. We don't have to worry about missing the award ceremony, and we can also hand it over to Mr. Jiang to draw up an agreement as soon as we reach an agreement, so as to avoid delaying your return time. How?"

Jiang Shuiyuan nodded after thinking for a while: "It's okay, then I'll rub back the president's luxury car!"

Before getting on the bus, Jiang Shuiyuan had secretly made up his mind that the manuscript could be paid more and the manuscript fee could be less. If necessary, it is even possible to waive part of the copyright of the work, but the obligation clause and the term clause are not accommodating. Because once you agree to these two articles, you will be sent to prison with the reins on yourself, and there will be no freedom during the contract period.

Who knows that these two clauses are the core of the "Cultivation" magazine's insistence, and Wu Qifei has repeatedly guaranteed that the obligation clause is to cooperate with the publicity activities, and the term clause is to protect the interests of writers and magazines. Fang Quan was also on the side to help. As for the lawyer Jiang Dongben, he quoted scriptures, from the "Regulations on the Protection of the Elderly in Weicheng" to the "Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Women and Children", from the latest interpretation of the "Copyright Protection Law" by the National Assembly to the articles of association of the "Cultivation" magazine, and there is only one central argument, that is, these two articles are beneficial to Jiang Shuiyuan.

However, Jiang Shuiyuan has already eaten the scales -- with an iron heart, no matter how they say it, even if they offer a price of 1,500 yuan for 1,000 words, as long as it involves obligations and years, they will never let go. was really forced, so he sacrificed his killer weapon: "Since this is the case, then forget it, I decided not to sign it!" Anyway, the manuscript he wrote was the emperor's daughter who didn't worry about getting married, didn't he have to eat the hairy pig without the butcher of "Cultivation" magazine?

It seems that after Han Xia, Guo Siming and others left, the "Cultivation" magazine was indeed a little sluggish. Whenever Jiang Shuiyuan said "not to sign," Wu Qifei hurriedly came to the rescue and said: "Classmate Jiang, don't be in a hurry to refuse, what can't be resolved through negotiation? Since this issue cannot be discussed, then let's put it on hold for the time being and continue to talk about other conditions!" Then after not being able to talk about three or five sentences, we will come back to these two clauses.

The two sides went back and forth like this, all the way downstairs to the magazine, and still no agreement was reached. Jiang Shuiyuan got out of the car with his suitcase, and asked Wu Qifei with a smile: "President Wu, I should be shortlisted this time, right?"

The corners of Wu Qifei's mouth twitched, and he smiled stiffly: "What is this that classmate Jiang said? All the results of the New Concept Essay Contest are collectively decided by the judging committee and submitted to the notary office for notarization and filing, which is fair and transparent in procedure and fair and reasonable in results. As the president, Wu will neither be able to interfere with the results of the awards, so I also ask Jiang not to laugh casually. ”

"Really?" Jiang Shuiyuan looked at Fang Quan meaningfully as he spoke, as if questioning: Didn't you say yesterday that your magazine had the final say? Why did the president say that he couldn't interfere with the award results now? Fang Quan was so frightened that he almost took the initiative to jump out to prove his innocence.

"Of course!" replied Wu Qifei with great certainty.

Jiang Shuiyuan seemed to believe Wu Qifei's answer: "If I had won the finalist, the two articles I wrote during the competition would not have been published in the magazine "Cultivation", right? Therefore, I would like to write down those two articles silently and send them to Professor Tong Tianshentong of Peking Normal University, Professor Cao Wenwencao of Aurora University, and Director Ma Qingsheng Ma of Jinling University, and ask them to help me revise them and see if I can publish them in a different place. I don't know if it's okay?"

In fact, since Fang Quan left last night, Jiang Shuiyuan began to wonder if Fang Quan had really handed over his two articles to the review committee that day. Because this is the best weapon to coerce candidates into compliance!

Although Wu Qifei called the New Concept Essay Contest "fair and transparent in process, fair and reasonable in results", ordinary people can guess with their knees that there must be a small number of related households in the list of winners, after all, this is directly related to the extra score of the college entrance examination, and there will always be some people with good hands and eyes who will find Wu Qifei and ask him to do a small favor. Can he not agree? Does he dare not agree?

It is estimated that the group of judges also vaguely knew about these things, but as long as Wu Qifei didn't go too far, they would turn a blind eye after receiving the judging fee, and nothing happened. But if Jiang Shuiyuan sent the essays to the group of old professors who wanted to recruit him, or even posted them directly on the Internet, they all had the arrogance of being smoked in the ivory tower, and they would definitely not be used to seeing the "Cultivation" magazine so blatantly manipulate the results of the competition, and maybe they would issue a statement saying that they had not read these two articles during the review.

And those other small and medium-sized magazines that have been suppressed by "Cultivation" will add fuel to the fire? Will those simple and irritable netizens be excited? In these days, handsome is justice!

Wu Qifei couldn't laugh anymore at this time, and his face was so gloomy that he was almost dripping: "Classmate Jiang, there is still nearly half an hour before the award ceremony, and the content of our cooperation has not yet been finalized, why don't we go back to the office to discuss for a while and have a cup of tea by the way?"

Jiang Shuiyuan shook his head: "Thank you President Wu for your kindness! It's just that we didn't negotiate all the way just now, and I don't think that sitting in your office for a while and drinking a cup of tea will be able to go around and finalize the contract immediately." I knew a few friends during the game, and I guess it's hard to see each other after noon today, so I wanted to go over and talk to them a little longer. No, President, you should be busy, right?

Wu Qifei's face flickered and brightened, and finally gritted his teeth: "The terms of the contract are according to your wishes!"

Jiang Shuiyuan didn't expect Wu Qifei to make concessions at the last moment, and he was a little uncertain for a while: "According to my will?"

"That's right, if there is no doubt, just follow what we agreed on in the car, and if you have doubt, follow your wishes! How about it, let's go to the office now to draw up the terms and sign the contract, right?" Wu Qifei's words felt a little reluctant, "Jiang Shuiyuan, you are the writer who has made the biggest concession since I took charge of the magazine, I hope you will not make me regret it in the future!"

"Don't worry, I will do my best to satisfy you and the magazine!" replied Jiang Shuiyuan.

Wu Qifei's face looked a little better: "I hope so! In addition, I would like to solemnly congratulate you, Jiang Shuiyuan, the first prize winner of the New Concept Essay Competition!" (To be continued......)