Next to the vending machine in the hallway, Li Er habitually took out his wallet to buy cigarettes, but glanced at the money inside and put it back.

It looks like I'm going to quit smoking for a while.

The phone rang suddenly, and when I looked at the caller ID, it was Gao Qiao. "Hey, Mr. Gao, what's the matter?"

"Ah, that. Gao Qiao said, "I want to ask if you know a second-hand car agent." ”

"What are you asking a second-hand car agent for?" asked Lear with some suspicion.

"Actually, I have a friend who wants to buy a cheap car, so let me help ask. ”

"Oh. I know a classmate who works in a car dealership, I'll ask for you, and I'll text you later. ”

"That's good. Li Er hung up the phone and didn't think much about it. explained the situation to his classmates and sent the phone to Gao Qiao. The classmate was quite happy, after all, they could get a commission for every business.

"I always feel that something is wrong......" Li Er always felt that Mr. Gao Qiao's tone was strange, but he didn't think about it deeply.

When he was about to get off work, Zhang Huaishan took the initiative to find Li Er: "Thanks to your help, I finally don't have to work overtime today, how about going to eat barbecue?"

"Do you please?" Lear squinted at him.

"Of course I please, what's the matter, want to help me save money?"

"If you invite me, go for a walk, and see me eat you!" Li Er opened his long legs and walked forward.

"I hope Lord Li will be merciful!" Zhang Huaishan made a gesture, quickly ran to his own actions, picked up his coat, and followed behind Li Er.

The self-service barbecue restaurant they frequent, with 11 people per capita, can be regarded as cheap and good quality in Shangjing, and there are often hairy crabs and seafood to eat. By the time they arrived, it was already crowded, and everyone was sitting in the chairs outside waiting in line to call a number.

The time limit is 90 minutes, and this is because they came early and there were people lining up outside, so the time limit was limited. If you're late, you won't be driven away if you eat until it closes.

The two of them took six cold beers and put them aside. And then what fat beef, seafood, anyway, as long as it's meat, put it on the plate.

Zhang Huaishan sandwiched a slice of roasted pork belly, the sauce-colored beef was still steaming, he blew hard, put it in his mouth, and the fragrant gravy soaked the entire mouth.

"Well, it's delicious!" Zhang Huaishan opened his bow left and right, each holding a pair of chopsticks, waving so much that the four or five big men couldn't get in.

Li Er eating and Zhang Huaishan are two painting styles, his posture is very elegant, holding chopsticks in one hand and covering his mouth in the other. There is no sound when chewing, and it looks pleasing to the eye.

But he usually sandwiches a few pieces together, puts them in the cheek raiser, chews them a few times and swallows them, so the speed is not slower than Zhang Huaishan.

"If you put less, and if you don't turn it over, it's easy to burn. Li Er grilled the meat with chopsticks in one hand, and skillfully took the seasoning and sprinkled it on it with the other.

"It's a lot of trouble to wait for a piece, it's only 90 minutes, and it can be baked a little more. Zhang Huaishan pulled the contents of the plate, eager to put the entire meat in the store on the baking plate.

"It feels like going back to when I was in college, if only the other two animals were there. Lear said.

"That is, I think that when we 404 four livestock were infested, it was called a wind and clouds that changed color and swept the clouds. Eat so straight that the major buffet restaurants near the school have blacklisted us!"

"I used idioms indiscriminately, I really don't know how you got into the Chinese department." Li Er picked up the lemon and wrung some juice on the roast meat to make it more tender.

When he was about eighty percent full, Li Er leaned back in his chair, and during the intermission, he took a can of cold beer, drank it slowly, took out his mobile phone with his other hand, and looked through it.

Zhang Huaishan glanced at his screen: "Isn't this the scanned manuscript of last year's new work award that we did just now?"

"yes, it's not a bad thing to know the level of some new awards. ”

For example, the editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief didn't see it, but it was actually a very good work. ”

"Do you treat the editor-in-chief and the editor-in-chief as stupid? Basically, there will be no works like that, and everyone will look at the good works, how can they be buried. In all fairness, the score of the new work award is also fair, and the first place is also worthy of the name. However, some of the works are a bit of a pity. ”

"What's the pity?"

Li Er pointed to a work on the computer screen and said: "For example, this one, the storyboard is good, but the story is too old-fashioned, who still watches things with the theme of the Demon King and the Brave, this stalk has been more than 20 years." ”

He flipped to another part: "This is also, although it has entered the semi-finals, but the flaws of the story are also very big, the character structure is too weak, basically it is to take the popular comics and learn all kinds of things, many plots and characters can feel the place of déjà vu, I didn't dig deeper, it's a pity." ”

"I've seen a lot of comics that don't win awards because the story is bad, and sure enough, the most important thing about comics is the story, and everything is secondary. However, many manga artists have a talent for drawing, and it is too difficult for them to make up good stories. ”

Li Er said that the comics can't stop. Suddenly, he stopped, looked at Zhang Huaishan and said, "Am I talking too much." ”

"Hiccup. Zhang Huaishan had already drunk to the sixth listen, if he hadn't taken a few more beers later, it is estimated that Li Er would not have been able to drink it. "I don't know much about it anyway, I just know which comics are interesting and which are not. Anyway, I'm not interested in analyzing how to draw......"

"Isn't it necessary for everyone to write a 2,000-word analysis report on the serialized comics? ”

"Nonsense. But what's the use of analyzing so much, it's not that many comics that are favored by editors are miserable. After all, those rules and techniques are not as useful as intuition, I think. ”

"You may be right. I've heard that the geniuses who can draw the hottest comics think the same way, but we editors still have to rely on analysis. After all, not everyone has that kind of intuitive ......"

"I have it. Zhang Huaishan gulped down his beer, "Isn't it everyone who has it?"

"......" Li Er had a look on his face, "Are you kidding me?"

"You don't believe it. I'll go get some meat, and I'm starving when I hear you say so much. ”

It's obviously me who is consuming energy to speak, okay!

When Zhang Huaishan went to replenish the raw materials, Li Er recalled that Zhang Huaishan's words seemed to be correct. As the only two houses in the bedroom to watch anime, Zhang Huaishan has always had a more popular taste. In the first place, it is always the representative works of Lv5 cartoonists such as "Adventure King" and "Young Grandmaster".

Analogous to the works in his player, "One Piece" and "Naruto".

Unlike Li Er, he never wanted to admit that he liked these works that the public generally liked. Even if they are ranked, they will only be placed in the second echelon, and the first echelon will always be those works that are niche or not yet famous. Sometimes, after the works in the first echelon became popular, Lear would rank them in the second echelon.

Well, Lear is such a person who has an honest mouth.

And Zhang Huaishan's taste has always been normal, and basically the works he has recommended have sold well. Lear had barely seen him miss.

Zhang Huaishan came back with a pot of spiky meat: "I also thought about the problem you just said, which is why many cartoonists will find an original work." ”

"Well, but it's hard to find a good original. The really talented ones went to write novels. And cartoonists don't like to find original works, after all, the manuscript fee has to be divided into half, and many Lv1 cartoonists can't support themselves, so how can they want to find an original work. Li Er said as he rinsed the oil.

As I said before, although the manuscript fee of a serializer is a lot, because I have to hire an assistant and be in charge of the rent of the studio, I don't make money or even lose money in the serialization part.

Only by issuing a single book can you start making money. However, the income of literary and artistic creation is not very stable, and the more may be tens of thousands a month, and the less may not have a dime. The people who can make a lot of money are always the few people at the top of the pyramid, and more are Lv0 who don't even have a chance to be serialized.

Especially in a place like Huaxia, where there are more people than ants, the number of talented people who can draw is uncountable. To compete for twenty serialization spots from such a person simply requires superhuman perseverance, luck, and ability. Indispensable.

After getting the serialization, you should also be careful not to be cut in half within ten rounds. Otherwise, if you can't get a single book, you'll still lose money.

"But I heard that there was an editor who went to be the original.,Do you know the Fire Eye Library's "My Sister Can't Be a Gongkou Cartoonist"?,I heard that the original work is the original editor of the Fire Eye.。 ”

Huoyan Library is also a new magazine, which originally specialized in publishing light novels, and later did the work of adapting light novels into comics, which unexpectedly attracted a group of hardcores. Because of its unique style and good sales, it ranks third in the country.

“…… That work, it's quite creative. I think that manga artist was rated Lv2 because of this, and it seems that it could only be Lv0. Lear said.

"yes. By the way, didn't you write a few stories in college, and some of them are still very good, why don't you go and be the original?"

"The original?" Li Er was a little moved. But thinking of the actual situation, he shook his head decisively: "I guess it won't work now." ”

"Why? ”

"You have to find someone who can be the painter, we new editors, where do we have that kind of resources. Lear said.

Many authors have author resources in their hands, and some have submitted manuscripts in the past, but have not been serialized for some reasons. These connections are also part of the editorial prowess.

No one is stupid enough to share author resources, because there is competition in the newsroom. If you want to accumulate this kind of resources, you can only slowly boil on the post.

"Hey, why isn't this chicken leg cooked......" Zhang Huaishan said, staring at the meat on the wire rack.

Sometimes I really don't understand what Zhang Huaishan's brain gyrus is in.