"Mom."

"Baby, kiss your mother."

"Hey."

Xiao Mu smiled and hugged her mother and kissed her smooth cheek with a big "pop" sound.

In the kitchen, the range hood is whirring. Xiaomu's dad is stir-frying sweet and sour pork ribs. The marinated ribs are poured into the pan and hissed, emitting white smoke. He flicked his spoon, and the flames soared.

Xiaomu put down the suitcase and stood silently beside his father, watching him cook.

"Cooking wine, salt, rock sugar, vinegar, dark soy sauce." Xiaomu secretly wrote down the order of putting the condiments, and every time his father made sweet and sour pork ribs, he put them like this.

"Tired, aren't you? Go up to your house and lie down for a while. Daddy stared at the pot and said lightly.

"No, you don't."

The pork ribs were fried, half a pot of boiling water was poured in, and the aroma was overflowing, Xiaomu's father turned down the flame, closed the lid of the pot, turned his head to look at his son, looked at it lovingly for a few seconds, and nodded with a smile.

On April 14, Xiao Mu was sent by the company to Jiangdong to look for Fang Yan, and only returned to Yanjing on August 24. He lurked in the nameless tavern and created the "Wizard Solo" and other liquors that will go down in history. After an illustrious career as a bartender, he became the company's marketing manager.

Xiaomu has lived in the Hilton Hotel for more than 4 months and has long been upgraded to a Diamond member.

"Dad."

Returning to Yanjing, returning to a warm little home, looking at his aging parents, Xiao Mu felt very sorry.

The mother felt sorry for her son. When the family had dinner, she said indignantly: "What are you calling a broken company, Galaxy Video, it sounds very good, do they use people like this, they have been walking for more than 4 months, there is no spectrum?" What if something goes wrong? ”

"You don't understand, he has made a great contribution to the company." Daddy said, and sandwiched a piece of fish meat for Xiaomu.

"What merit? Resign and go home early, son, you're 25 years old......"

"I've resigned." Kogi said.

"Huh?"

"Well, it's not dry in Galaxy Video. Mom, I started a small business with a few friends in Jiangdong. After that, I went home once a month, and the company booked me a plane ticket. Ay? Don't worry......"

"Entrepreneurship?"

"Yes, a cultural media company. The T-shirt I sent you, that's what we made. ”

"Jars?"

"Yes."

After a long time, Xiaomu's mother calmed down from the bad news and asked, "How much does it cost you a month?" ”

"......" Xiaomu has no salary. However, as a bartender, Lao Liu gave him 9,000 yuan a month. This is too little compared to the salary of Galaxy Video.

"How good is Galaxy Video, a big company, close to home, and not busy at work." The mother was very unimpressed and persuaded her son to change his mind.

"Guys." The father understood his son very well and took a leisurely sip of wine.

Xiaomu continued with his father.

After eating, cleaning up the table, my mother took out her mobile phone and flipped through WeChat.

"The daughter of the old Chen family, do you remember? When I was a child, I played with you, and I still held you and didn't let go...... I came back from studying in Australia last month, and I didn't go to work, so I stayed at home. On Saturday, let's have a meal and see each other. You haven't seen each other in years, have you? ”

"Let's talk about it."

"How beautiful that girl is, quiet, and welcome. It's the right thing again. But if you go to Jiangdong and live separately, the girls will definitely not be happy. No one is happy to change it. ”

"Let's talk about it."

……

After a day of rest at home, at 8 o'clock on Saturday morning, Xiaomu walked into the luxury office building of Galaxy Video.

"Drip." The key card can be used.

The company works at 9:30, and it's a weekend, and now there are only a few girls on the morning shift. Xiaomu walked into the pantry, picked up the paper cup with the company's logo printed on it, took a cup of espresso, added milk, and poured in a large spoonful of sugar.

No coffee is as good as the nameless tavern.

My desk is still there. The desktop and computer are spotless, but there is a lot of dust in the pen holder. A few small pots of green plants are full of life, and the shelves are full of books. On the table there is a stack of envelopes, small gifts from major record companies: records, tickets to performances, supermarket cards, Häagen-Dascar......

The familiar feeling is back. Xiaomu has mixed feelings, he still has feelings for Galaxy Video.

As if he had never left, that day, he watched the video of "Miss You Every Day", then went out for a while and came back.

Xiaomu turned on the computer. It's strange that the company's intranet can still be connected, and his email account has not been cancelled, he silently logs in to the background and looks at the data of the music channel, like an old man reminiscing about the past.

When I was away, the traffic of the music channel went all the way up, up by more than 150%. It's all brought up by "Chinese Singer".

"Xiaomu?"

Xiao Mu looked up and found that it was his intern Sixi.

"You're back, why didn't you say it in advance? Oh, I see, it's the kind of secret. Sixi put it in his schoolbag and said stupidly. He also thought that Xiaomu was an undercover agent in a tavern.

"I'm looking for you."

"Looking for me?"

"Yes. You get busy with yours first, I'll tell you later. "Little wooden road. Now the marketing department is on his own, and he is ready to dig up Sixi as well.

"Then you can tell me about the wizard in a moment."

"Done."

"I became a full-time official after I graduated. Now the company is very busy, and there are no weekends off. I recruited 2 interns, hehe-hee, both girls. ”

Xiao Mu listened silently, as if he was in a different world.

Before 9 o'clock, Wang Yang, director of Galaxy Video Entertainment Center, arrived, like a bear with glasses, humming a song and feeling good. He beckoned to Xiao Mu: "Xiao Mu, come." ”

"Oh."

In the staircase of the company, Wang Yang lit a cigarette and asked Xiao Mu a few words about the current situation of the nameless tavern and Fang Yan, and Xiao Mu answered truthfully and did not hide it.

Xiaomu returned to Galaxy Video this time because he wanted to talk about cooperation with his old club.

In the logic of the marketing department, "Nameless Tavern" is a brand. Records, T-shirts, and Fang Yan himself are all enhancing the value of this brand bit by bit.

Now, although Fang Yan is very popular and T-shirts are selling well, no one knows much about this brand. The collaboration with Ghibli was an opportunity for Kogi to play the "Nameless Tavern" brand.

The parent company of Galaxy Video is Xinghai Group, the TOP3 giant of Huaxia Internet, which is very strong. Kogi hopes to get some resources.

For example, after signing an exclusive cooperation agreement, Fang Yan's music and videos were only released on Galaxy Video, in exchange for the huge traffic support of the old club, and then the traffic was imported into the brand advertising of the "Nameless Tavern", such as T-shirts, future APPs, etc.

Traffic is money.

Before coming to the company, Xiaomu thought about it carefully and felt that it was not a big problem.

"Brother, I'll see Mr. Cai in a while, but don't mention your resignation." Wang Yang told Xiao Mu.

"Don't worry."

This reunion after a long absence, director Wang Yang's attitude towards Xiaomu has changed. Xiaomu feels that the two are no longer the relationship between the boss and his subordinates, but on an equal footing.

Xiao Mu understood that the last time he proposed to resign, Wang Yang was deeply stimulated. The reporters and undercover agents sent out to join Fang Yan's company will appear to be very incompetent.

Therefore, when I went to see the editor-in-chief Mr. Cai this time, Xiaomu had to pretend to be very obedient and was still under Wang Yang's command. In exchange, Wang Yang will also help Xiaomu speak.

Am I an undercover agent? Kogi couldn't figure it out.

The editor-in-chief, Ms. Cai, is a middle-aged woman in her 40s, thin and straight-talking. She is a financial journalist, and she has become the editorial director of a large metropolitan newspaper step by step, and only entered the Internet field 4 years ago, and has been working as the editor-in-chief and senior vice president of Galaxy Video.

She has a good character, has a good sense of humor, and is very loved by her subordinates.

At the editor-in-chief level meeting every week, Xiaomu can often see Ms. Cai, but she has only been in her office once, and it was during the interview three years ago. It only lasted a minute, and the two looked at each other, and he got out.

This time, we talked all morning.

The small wooden bamboo tube poured beans into detail, and told the story of the nameless tavern, including Ghibli's cooperation. These are not secrets, they are told as stories. As for the tune "Sputnik", he did not say.

"Did he go to jail or not?" Teacher Cai asked.

Wang Yang interjected on the side: "I checked carefully, Fang Yan has no criminal record, Xiao Mu, you should have heard it wrong at the time." You check with him again. ”

"Okay."

Xiao Mu was surprised, Fang Yan obviously said that he had been in prison, how could there be no record? He didn't say much.

"Xiaomu is good, it's hard." After listening to the report, Mr. Cai's eyes lit up, and he glanced at Wang Yang and Xiaomu with satisfaction.

"It's all Mr. Wang's good guidance." Kogi acting.

"It's not easy."

Wang Yang touched his bulging belly and said with a smile: "A reporter, working as a bartender in a bar, has been working for several months, and only people from our company can do it." ”

Teacher Cai smiled and agreed: "At that time, all the media were following this Fang Yan, and in the end, they all lost it. ”

"And Xiao Mu and Fang Yan have become good friends. Now Fang Yan obeyed him. The company returned the shares to Xiaomu...... Uh, give it, right? ”

"Gave a little." Xiao Mu said, and couldn't help but feel secretly proud. He has a 5% stake in the Nameless Tavern, and he can scare Lao Wang to death if he says it. He thought, how much equity does Mr. Cai, the editor-in-chief, have in Galaxy Video? At most, it's 1%.

"Xiaomu."

"You say, Mr. Cai."

"Now is the time to play your part. The company needs you now to do a big thing. ”

"Oh."

Teacher Cai looked at Xiao Mu, as if he wanted to increase the sense of ritual in the office, and paused for a few seconds before saying, "You have to use your influence to persuade Fang Yan to sign an exclusive cooperation agreement with us." ”

"Huh?"

"Exclusive. The previous "Pancake Blues" video and music, we have all received exclusive resources, and the influence is very wide, of course, this is your credit. But what about later? Competitors are watching. I'm going to win the exclusive. ”

"Hmm."

"I know, it's difficult."

“……”

The little wood is messy.

Unexpectedly, in the eyes of the big leader, it was very difficult to get Fang Yan's music. It's completely different from what I thought. He came to Galaxy Video to find an exclusive cooperation.

He used to be the editor-in-chief of the music channel, and usually singers send MVs, and for the sake of publicity, they will beg Xiaomu to ask for more promotion positions. Now it's replaced by Fang Yan, how did it turn upside down.

In the Chinese music scene, Fang Yan is far from being ranked first.

Wang Yang added on the side: "You may not know that the summer file of "Wolf Warrior 2" is too popular, and the box office of several films invested by our film industry is not ideal, so don't make money or lose money." Now the company needs exclusive resources from your side. ”

"Yes. The question is, how will we live in the second half of 2017? ”

“……”

Xiao Mu understood a little. Galaxy Video and its opponent "Cloud Video" have been fighting fiercely. Now online video is a long industrial chain, originality is the general trend, and everyone has invested in self-made TV series and movies to carry out brutal battles.

Exclusive, always a scarce resource.

Compared with film and television dramas, the music industry is small, but Fang Yan's performance videos are very valuable. Being able to sign the exclusivity of Xiayan is not only an additional weapon in the competition, but also a great improvement to the brand of Galaxy Video.

He recalled that in 2017, Galaxy Video's copyrights and investment in film and television dramas were not ideal, and there were fewer exclusives. Being able to win Fang Yan is a great achievement even for executives like Mr. Cai.

"I plan to sign an exclusive cooperation agreement with them for 3 years, 1000...... 15 million? Teacher Cai said.

Yes?

Kogi was messy again. He never expected that Mr. Cai would take the initiative to send money. Is this crazy?

TV series are very profitable. A well-made, big-name TV series sold to TV stations for millions of dollars per episode. For example, for a 30-episode drama, the first round of release price is 5 million per episode, then it is 150 million. Then, there is a second round of online copyright sales.

For video websites, buying the copyright of a good-looking TV series, although expensive, is a sure way to make a profit, not only to sell advertisements, but also to increase a large number of VIP paying users. In recent years, online video companies have spent the most money on TV dramas.

However, Fang Yan does music, and the videos are only singing, which cannot be compared with TV series and variety shows. How can it be worth so much money?

Like some record companies and brokerage companies, signing artists also spends tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, at a time, but artists belong to the company from now on and are a tool to make money.

And what Galaxy Video bought was just an exclusive right, and the money was still earned by an anonymous tavern.

15 million, how many T-shirts do you have to sell?

Seeing that Xiaomu didn't speak, Mr. Cai thought he was too little, and said, "20 million? ”

20 million, how many T-shirts do you have to sell?

Xiao Mu sat across from his desk, bowing his head and silently doing elementary school arithmetic problems. If a T-shirt earns 400 yuan, it needs to sell 50,000 pieces.

Xiaomu thought, is there some kind of trap? No.

Wang Yang persuaded Xiaomu on the side: "20 million is really a lot, I know, cloudy videos like to throw money, but this is not our style." It's up to you. ”

"20 million, 2 years of exclusive cooperation. You go talk to Fang Yan. Teacher Cai doubled up again.

Why are you rushing to send us money.

I just want a little bit of outreach.

I'm in the marketing department, and I'm spending money.

Huge information asymmetry.

After all, Xiaomu has been mixed in the workplace for a few years and has cultivated some scheming. He reacted immediately and asked with some confusion: "Mr. Cai, if we can't earn back 20 million, won't we lose money?" ”

Teacher Cai was happy.

Although Xiaomu resigned, he always considered the company and was a good comrade.

"No compensation, no compensation. Google infringed on the short film of our "Walking Street" and paid for it at once...... Mr. Cai, how much did they lose? Wang Yang asked. Google signed a non-disclosure agreement, and he was only the director, and his rank was too low to know this number.

"That's a lot."

Xiao Mu began to imagine that it was on the order of tens of millions of dollars. The company has done a great job in this matter.

"I do my best."

"Okay." Teacher Cai nodded.

"Mr. Cai, I want some resources for promotion. Fang Yan is making a T-shirt, preparing to ......"

"No problem. 5 million is enough, right? I'll help you out. ”

The sales department of the network company will price each product and each advertising space, and then provide different combination plans to sell to customers.

5 million, I can't spend it all. Xiao Mu laughed wildly in his heart, but on the surface, he said calmly: "I will do my best, Fang Yan is quite obedient to me." However, the CEO of the company is very strong, and it is more difficult to get it. ”

"Then please."

Several people began to discuss the operation plan of the video. The tentative plan is that the nameless tavern will post a video every week, and enjoy the share of advertising revenue according to the originality.

Xiaomu began to fantasize that in Fang Yan's singing video, he would put a beer bottle, put a car model, and do product placement advertising, which would make a lot of money.

After chatting for a long time, Mr. Cai kept looking at Xiao Mu with appreciative eyes, and finally said with a smile: "You have left your job now, and you didn't ask for the options you were given before, which is quite a loss." I know in my heart that the company will compensate you. ”

"Huh? Not! ”

As if stung by a scorpion, Xiao Mu instantly bounced up from his chair. The company has just started, and if there is any secret benefit transfer, he will really become an undercover agent. This is a commercial crime.

This Teacher Cai is terrible.

"I don't want anything. I brought it up by Mr. Wang, don't worry, Mr. Cai, I will try my best to help if there is anything. ”

"You're so bad."

"No, no."

Teacher Cai glanced at Wang Yang, and his mood was more complicated. She both admired and regretted it, why didn't she find out about such a good talent before?

While the director and editor-in-chief were still chatting, Xiao Mu retired first, and he walked down the dark staircase to his office area. He laughed inwardly.

"Hahahaha." He didn't make a sound.

Xiaomu suddenly remembered that one day in April, Wang Yang asked him to be an undercover agent and live in a five-star hotel. At that time, Wang Yang said, "What the company has is money." ”

NYSE-listed companies are really, really, very rich.

Kogi came to his senses. No, the hotel house should be returned immediately.

Have you spent so much time in an anonymous tavern that you have forgotten the way of thinking of a big company? Kogi began to reflect. Now the company is still making a fuss, when will it be like Galaxy Video?

He slowly returned to his workstation, attracting the crowd on duty on the weekend. A few colleagues who had a good relationship came over to gossip, and those who were not so familiar looked at him suspiciously and whispered.

Although a large piece of pie fell from the sky, Xiaomu also had something that didn't go well.

At noon, he and Sixi ate together in a small restaurant.

"If you come to me, the salary will definitely be higher than in Galaxy Video, and we are just starting out, and we can give you options."

“……”

"How about it, mess with me, let's make money together." Xiao Mu said, feeling that his offer was very good.

"Brother Xiaomu."

"You say."

"I ......"

Sixi struggled for a long time, but still shook his head. Before Kogi went to Koto, he was just a small intern with an uncertain future. Now that he has finally become a full-time employee, he is very satisfied with the current situation. Although the wizard is good, a big company like Galaxy Video is more decent.

"The company also has the index of high-tech talents, and has a Yanjing account. I want to work for two years first, and let the director help me apply and see if I can get an account. ”

“……”

Sixi frowned and said sadly: "I'm different from you, Brother Xiaomu, you have the capital to start a business." My family is rural, my younger brother is still in high school, and the family is waiting for me to make money. I don't dare, I'm afraid your company will go out of business. ”

I can't really speak.

"It's not that I can't trust you, and I want to follow you. You wait for me to have a Yanjing account......"

What age is it, and the household registration is still there.

Xiaomu understands Sixi a little, he is burdened with a lot of family responsibilities and can't take the risk of starting a business. But the nameless tavern is so good.

"Sixi, I didn't say you. For example, if you see a large piece of gold on the road, do you pick it up? ”

"Well, I don't dare now. When one day I have money, I will definitely pick it up. ”

“……”

Sixi went back to duty at the company. Xiaomu thought, Sixi should stay in a big company, it's good. He took out his mobile phone and told Fang Yan the good news.