"What's wrong?" Chen Zhihai snorted angrily and said, "You better let your apprentice tell you." What is the difference between what a person is doing at such an age and a child? ”

Lehi looked at his apprentice Lao Yang with a puzzled expression, not understanding how he had provoked this "evil god". With Lao Yang's experience for so many years, he won't fail to understand the temper of this editor-in-chief. What the hell did this stinky boy do?

Lehi muttered to himself.

Looking at the master's puzzled eyes, Lao Yang smiled helplessly, and then told the matter of signing a contract with Liu Yu today.

"That's the way it is, before I could explain it, the editor-in-chief started to get angry. ”

Lao Yang said that he was also wronged, after all, it was his master Li Hai who agreed to this contract, and he didn't understand what his master thought, so he couldn't explain it, and the editor-in-chief didn't give him a chance to speak.

"Hey, what am I talking about?" After hearing this, Li Hai patted his thigh and said, "This contract is indeed for me to negotiate, Lao Chen, don't blame him." ”

"You...... What do you say you're doing here?" Chen Zhihai wanted to get angry, but he endured it in the face of the old man. "Is this kind of contract something that can be signed casually by an individual?

"Don't you ask me why I'm willing to sign this contract with him?" said Lehi with a smile, as if it was a pleasure to watch this "evil" god hold back his temper.

"Don't sell it, let's talk about it. ”

Chen Zhihai waved his hand, turned around, and was annoyed when he saw Li Hai's expression, especially this kind of ridiculing eyes.

"Old Chen, what do you think of the current martial arts?" Li Hai didn't say why, but asked Chen Zhihai a different question, which seemed to be changing the topic.

"What else can you think? Isn't the mainstream of the market now martial arts? Whether it is the Internet or the physical market, there are some big markets. ”

Although Chen Zhihai wanted Li Hai to be simple and direct, he still sighed when he looked at Li Hai with a solemn expression.

"Then I'll ask you one more question, Old Chen. Li Hai's eyes became serious, and he looked directly at Chen Zhihai, "Do you believe that martial arts will decline in less than ten years?"

"Ten years?" Chen Zhihai sneered: "Lao Li, have you drunk too much today? ”

Ten years of martial arts decline? Who believes it? You say that I still believe a little bit in 30 years, but that will be a long time later.

Lao Yang next to him didn't believe it when he heard what his master said, you must know that the one in the Han Dynasty who doesn't know martial arts novels now?

Up to 80-year-old people, down to a few years old children have seen or heard of it. Especially the movies adapted from martial arts novels, and the TV series are countless.

These martial arts cultural transmissions have long been deeply rooted in people's hearts, and even other small countries around them have not hesitated to invest in martial arts novels and TV series of the Han Dynasty at a large price.

It can be seen that martial arts novels have an influence.

So even if it was a teacher who brought him into the industry and respected him very much, Lao Yang couldn't help but doubt the authenticity of his words in his heart.

"You don't believe it, do you?" Lehi explained, knowing that no one would believe his baseless inferences:

"I don't know if you have noticed that in recent years, from paper media to online media, martial arts novels have also been updated for several generations, and several generations of masters have carried forward martial arts to the point where there is almost nothing to write. ”

"In recent years, after switching to online media, the method of becoming an author is even simpler. Although it has also brought a new storm to martial arts novels, there is something criticized in this storm. ”

Seeing that the attention of the two had been attracted by himself, Lehi paused, and then said:

"That's innovation!"

"Innovation?" Chen Zhihai and Lao Yang were a little puzzled.

"I don't know if you have noticed that although the influx of new authors in recent years has brought explosive growth to martial arts novels, the works created are almost the same and have no new ideas. ”

"That doesn't prove that the martial arts you said will decline. Chen Zhihai said: "After all, the creative themes are limited, and there are still so many people pouring into the martial arts author industry in this limited theme, which shows that martial arts will not be like you said at all." ”

"Definitely. Lehi nodded, "But have you noticed that in recent years, because of the Internet media, more people can easily read, but the survey reports of major websites show that the satisfaction of readers is getting lower and lower, and there are more and more people who fill in the column without new ideas." ”

"And the most intuitive proof is the sales data of our publishing house in recent years, although martial arts still occupy the majority of the publishing house, but the data of this column is not as good as year by year. On the contrary, love, science fiction, and supernatural have increased. As the editor-in-chief, you should know better than I do. ”

"This ......" Chen Zhihai was speechless, indeed, as Li Hai said, martial arts novels do have more and more readers complaining about the plot similarity or something.

"But what does this have to do with the decline of martial arts you said?"

"If martial arts continues like this, like a pool of stagnant water, will it decline? ”

Li Hai said that the light in his eyes kept flickering, and Chen Zhihai, who was sitting opposite, fell into deep thought, he clearly knew how poisonous his colleague's eyes were, and more than ten years of working together made him extremely aware of this.

Because every time a major decision gives some advice, Lehi has this expression. Extremely confident, determined. For more than ten years, even if there are more furrows and wrinkles on the face, and the hair has gradually grayed, this expression has not changed once.

"And this opportunity to speed up the process is in our hands now......"

"Master, are you talking about today's ......?"

"That's right, it's the contract in front of Editor-in-Chief Chen now. ”

"This contract?" Chen Zhihai looked at the documents that he casually threw on his desk, "Could it be that the contract you signed today at a high price is the opportunity you said?"

Li Hai nodded silently and said, "Now you understand why I didn't travel thousands of miles to Dongshan City." And you're willing to pay this share of a well-known writer to sign it?"

Chen Zhihai's eyes became extremely serious, if what Li Hai said was true, then this contract would not only not lose the interests of the publishing house, but would give the publishing house a chance to be reborn and even soar into the sky.

Having said so much, Chen Zhihai will choose to believe what Li Hai said, entirely because of the trust he has gained from working together for more than ten years.

Because he knows that the person in front of him is a person who has dedicated his youth to this publishing house, and even regards the publishing house as his "child", even more important than "child".

He believed that Lehi would not joke about such things.