The village feast is over.

Riki went back upstairs to take a shower, leaned on the window of the hall to watch the last big truck, watch it climb the slope, drive along the riverbank and out of Jiangbin Road. The scene of cleaning up the mess gives people an inexplicable sense of loneliness.

After the celebration feast, everything was calm again. Just like a weightlifting champion who retired and went to sell roast duck, people's enthusiasm for new things cooled quickly, and after a month, there were basically no more reporters.

After passing through March peacefully, probably at the end of April, Shangguo Publishing House may have encountered a crisis—an internal crisis. After a few phone calls, Riki could feel the changes, and Ryoko's words were full of worry in a recent phone call, and it was only after questioning that she realized what was going on.

The origin of the incident is a bit strange.

Lu Lingling, president of Shangguo Press, plans to change the residency and increase the number of editors, so she will ask someone to be in charge of telephone customer service...... In short, the Shangguo Society is facing a major change.

Under such a premise, Wang Bingyu and Anya raised objections.

"There are only 7 authors in our company, and each editor only needs to be responsible for 1 or 2 people. Even if I was in charge of everything, there would be no need to hire a new editor. Wang Bingyu's objections are clear.

Shangguo Society doesn't need to waste too many resources, and the four of them can take care of it in an orderly manner, and the comics on Limu's side basically don't need to be rectified, urged, and recorrected, which is very pleasant. If you want to increase the number of editors, you should first increase the number of contracted authors, and now it is difficult for ordinary authors to be favored by Shangguo Publishing House.

"I think it's better to keep it as it is." This is Anya's opinion.

"I—I can be in charge of phone customer service." Ryoko was persuaded by the opinions of the two.

It was Lu Lingling who gave the company the final decision, but she obviously couldn't make a decision just based on her own words.

Incidentally, Lu Lingling felt that the matter was an "internal dispute", and she never mentioned similar contradictions when she spoke with Limu on the phone.

As a result, the matter dragged on from March to the end of April.

******

On April 28, Wang Bingyu went home at night, and the phone in the apartment rang just in time.

She looked at the display bar on the landline and knew that it was a call from Riki.

"Riki, Ryoko is taking a bath, you can call later."

"Why do I have to look for Ryoko when I call...... I'm looking for you. ”

Riki seemed to raise his voice in displeasure.

"Oh? You're going to take the initiative to find me ......? ”

"That, that's of course, don't think I'll only pinch soft girls, okay!" It's a bit empty to say this.

Probably subconsciously felt that Wang Bingyu was difficult to deal with, and the person who Limu called was usually Ryoko, and the people who continued to rank down in order were Anya and Lu Lingling. Most of the calls with Bingyu were made by her own business.

"Soft girl? If you have something to say, just say it. ”

was "hard girl" on the spot, Wang Bing seemed to be a little discouraged in her tone.

"You don't have to be in such a hurry, hasn't Ryoko been taking a bath for a long time? I mean bathing. ”

"Even if I can't take a shower for a while, I have work to do, I'm very busy......"

Although Wang Bingyu always pretended to be very busy, the fact that she had just come back from a walk made her a little lacking in confidence.

"Okay, you're busy, you're busy-" Riki, who knew from Ryoko that she had been out "mingling" lately, hadn't exposed her, and she really should take a walk when she was in a bad mood and put her work on hold for a while. But now there are some questions that must not be put aside, "Then I'll ask directly, what's the matter between you and Lingling?" ”

“……？”

It is estimated that the question is too vague, or it may be that he does not want to answer, and the other end of the phone is silent for a while. Relying on his subconscious intuition, the silly hair on the pear wood changed its shape, telling him that the phone was in the ......! or ......? ]. Of course, holding the phone, he couldn't see that the dull hair was finally stereotyped as [?] ].

"Regarding the company's affairs, the opinions put forward by Editor-in-Chief Lu should be for the sake of the company's development, and you should be able to bear it now. After all, it is no longer a small company with hundreds of thousands of funds, and it is still necessary for you to invite a few more people. Even though she didn't know the reason for her silence, Riki didactic.

Lu Lingling is a forward-looking leader, and others like to start a new recruitment when the company has grown to a certain level and is too short to be manpowered. However, the president of Shangguo News Agency hopes to recruit employees before she is busy, and there is no doubt that she is making arrangements for the expansion and development of the company, but she is inexplicably blocked by old employees.

As a downline writer for a company, Riki shouldn't be left to him to do this kind of thing, but when I talk to them recently, I always feel that they feel a little strange.

"In short, you're talking about 'the company's recruitment problem', right? Then I ask you...... If you recruit miscellaneous people, wouldn't the secret that you are the author of the seven popular comics of the Shangguo Society be revealed? ”

"Huh?!"

Listening to Wang Bingyu's words, Limu was stunned, and after a while, she understood her thoughts.

Shangguo Publishing House has been able to develop so far, and there are factors of luck and hard work, but in the final analysis, it is the company's product - "Steel Forge" and other seven classic, excellent and popular comics.

But there is a very deadly place here, and these works all point to Riki alone! To put it mildly, if Limu suddenly suffers a car accident and breaks his hands and feet, Shangguo Publishing House would better share the money and pat his ass for bulk goods. If you continue to struggle, the company will likely shrink significantly, and in the end, you will have to jump off the building with a lot of debt.

Wang Bingyu mentioned that the secret was leaked, not to intimidate Limu that someone would assassinate him, but just to worry that other companies would poach him. In fact, according to the provisions of the original contract, with the money that Riki has earned from his current seven comics, he can regain his freedom at any time by paying liquidated damages.

Of course, he still has some concerns until the original capital is enough to accumulate. In particular, it supports the Creator Foundation and the Comic Novice Foundation on its own, and it takes a lot of money to improve the Chinese comic environment. He even saved the time and money to go abroad for medical treatment, and he has not gone to a recognizable hospital for examination until now.

"This ...... That's a problem...... indeed," Riki muttered.

"What do you mean by being sure? This is a serious problem, okay? Wang Bingyu said.

"It's not so exaggerated, as long as you keep your mouth shut, keep your secrets well. If I send my manuscript directly to my apartment instead of the company, the secret will not be revealed......"

"That's not what I'm talking about!" Wang Bingyu said.

"Lu Lingling, she has changed, and she wants to kick us away. But before the company established other ways, she didn't dare to say directly, you are better with Ryoko, and you are better with Anya, if she does this, it will be equivalent to digging her own grave. You just need to threaten her with 'stop serializing' and she won't dare to do anything, she is afraid that because of you, the company she has set up will be suspended. So you have to recruit people, create another channel, and get out of the 'you have to be' situation. ”

"This, won't it?"

Limu, who was surprised by her whimsy, thought to herself that Lu Lingling was definitely not such a person. However, after a long speech, it is obvious that Wang Bingyu also has his own opinions, and a few words on the phone may not be able to change his mind.

-- Editor-in-Chief Lu, what kind of plane are you doing?

For the confident president, Riki was also full of complaints at this time.