Chapter Twenty-Five: Shangguo Press!
If it is said that it is a half-saying, it is really true.
Riki is a small all-round person, belonging to the kind who knows a little bit of everything, but is not proficient in anything. The only thing to be proud of is the ability to code and draw sketches, which people who have not learned these two skills generally can't do it, but if you compare him with an expert, it will definitely show the stuffing again. He taught himself Chinese in middle school, and only enrolled in a language training course when he arrived at university. At this time, if it is used for chatting, there is no pressure to flip through raw meat comics, and if you use Chinese to write articles, you will laugh off your big teeth.
"Leo Kou, Ana Giant Salamander Horse K Road (涼子、あなたにまける)."
The voice on the phone was obviously much louder, but it was still not said to Riki, but it seemed to be shouting at someone, and after a while, there was a rumbling sound. The person holding the phone said to Limu almost helplessly:
"Da Da Yi Ma Oh Rubble Masno Saucer, Shame Oh March Crying Contest (ただいま代わりますので、少々お待ちください)"
- What's going on?! Said that Ben actually replied!?
Riki blinked, stunned, this is simply a fantasy......
——I sent the Chinese version of the book!
Even if there is a bunch of Chinese on the comics, the outline of the comics sent in the past is also a dense pile of Chinese, unless enix has a person who can speak Chinese, or hires a Chinese who can understand the language, it is impossible to adopt the comic submission of "Fullmetal Alchemist". In fact, Limu didn't really want to be adopted by this publishing house at all.
"Who called Riki?" Rika Yasu shouted from the side.
After seeing Riki's gibberish in "Moses Moses", Rika suddenly felt that it was difficult to speak in this hot summer. I didn't realize that maybe I didn't feel anything, but once I shouted and focused my attention on the scorching air of Xia Yu, I suddenly felt like my throat was burning like a fire.
"Did you win an award for your painting?"
Rika Yasu casually made a move with his opponent, and asked his nephew as he walked towards the counter, and by the way, he was about to get himself a cold beer. There's nothing quite like a few sips of a cold beer when you're feeling bad.
However, Riki didn't have time to answer him, and at this time a formal reply came from the phone:
"Ah, private Masen, Shan Zai Sang fell to death? Vadahi Vario fell to his death, and Woo Ecuni lost to Panxia Nosha and died. (あっ,すみいません、断罪さんですか、私は涼子です、上国出版社の社員です)。 ”
- Sweet female voice.
This is Riki's first impression.
- The other party seems to be a little nervous?
This is Riki's judgment from Ryoko's flustered tone.
"私は断罪、何にかあります"
("Nani"——?! Riki's uncle, Rika Yasu, was stunned when he was halfway through the freezer—he heard it now! What my nephew is talking about is talking! It's the same thing as the devil who often appears in anti-Japanese dramas, and he can be 100% sure of this! At the very least, the word "Nani" will never be misheard.
Rikayasu twisted his neck like a zombie and looked at his nephew with a look of surprise.
(Hell yes!) If the nephew is really so smart and learns to speak Chinese while watching TV, it would be easy to speak, but who is he talking to! Thinking of this, the ghost of Lijiakang snatched the phone from Limu:
"Hey, hello, who are you looking for?"
“あっ! あなた誰? 断罪さんは、どこに行ってたの? ”
"Old-uncle-" crossed his left waist and stretched out a hand, wanting his uncle to declare his existence and dissatisfaction.
"Oh oh......" Rika Yasu put on a hellish look as he returned the microphone to his nephew.
"ごめんなさい、彼は私の舅父です、と言うことを続けてください。 When she got the phone, Riki apologized first, told Ryoko that her uncle was making trouble at that time, and asked her to continue the topic just now.
Then Ryoko introduced Shangguo Company and the purpose of the call......
In the end, the two discovered a major misunderstanding! It's not that the company made the wrong call, the person it was looking for was indeed Riki, but Riki felt that there were suddenly a lot of "pits" in front of him.
It turned out that the caller was a Hong Kong company called "Shangguo Publishing House", and at present, there are only four people in the company, and it is a small publishing house composed of four girls who have just graduated from university! When they visited the Mantianxia Publishing House, they happened to see the submission of "Fullmetal Alchemist", and immediately cried for the experience of saving the mother of the young Edward brothers, and immediately called the comic book author after calming down.
Originally, it was the president who called, and he was also a Chinese.
Because Riki asked in the Chinese language at the beginning, they mistakenly thought that it was Yu himself who submitted the manuscript, so they sent the only person in the publishing house, Ryoko, to connect the wire.
When Ryoko sighed at the end, "I originally submitted a manuscript from the mainland, I thought you were Chinese, but I didn't expect you to be myself." Hearing that he was being regarded as himself, Riki scolded, "I'm grinning!" You are said to be yourself, and your whole family is said to be yourself! "Eventually it was learned that it was a misunderstanding.
However, Riki's curse is useless, Ryoko's family is originally said to be herself, and she will definitely not be ashamed of it.
Riki also gave them a reply to wait for a reply before hanging up.
- Is it to sign with Dongman, or to keep up with the country?
This was a struggle for him.
Dongman Publishing House is undoubtedly a large publishing house, the company's reputation and treatment of cartoonists are guaranteed, and it is also considered to have a long history, established in 1976, the location is Tainan, the president is an early cartoonist, belongs to the family business model.
Shangguo Publishing House is a small four-person publishing house that has just been established, and God knows if the small company run by these little girls will collapse in half a year? However, the conditions they gave made Limu moved: directly out of the single book! And he was willing to send someone to sign a contract and promised to help convince his parents.
- It's hard to choose, it's hard to choose......
Limu's predicament is like posting at the starting point, and the starting point finally said that he wanted to sign with the author. At this time, a small website with no name suddenly appeared, and the website said: I will give you a ban and a high buyout, personally send an editor to your home to sign a contract with you, and if your parents do not agree with your writing, we will help you persuade and educate.
In terms of treatment and sincerity, Rimu is inclined to Shangguo Press, but God knows when it will go out of business? Later generations have never heard of the name of this publishing house, and it is estimated that it really went out of business in the competition.
- Such a headless and brainless one, just finalize a single book for me...... Deserved to go out of business.
In this book, manga is usually serialized in a magazine first, and if it is popular, it will continue to be serialized and become a feature. When the serialization volume is enough to publish a single book, the publisher will publish a single book, which is usually seen as a comic book.
It's obviously a bit hasty for a small company to directly finalize a single book; And the big company, although it is not well treated at first, has its own huge business network, and it is not a problem to quickly promote a manga or a writer, as long as the comic and the writer are in their sight.
- Alas~ It would be nice if Dongman could also help me convince my parents......
Riki shook her head, throwing her unrealistic fantasies out of her head.
"Mu Mu Mu Mu ...... Wood! You, you, you...... Just now...... In in, in...... With whom...... Tell me about talking? The village stammerer asked.
At some point, the villagers who were watching the game of chess had gathered around him.
They didn't want to criticize Riki as a traitor, but a strong fire of curiosity and gossip burned in their hearts. Just now, I thought something was wrong when I saw that Li Jiayasu didn't come back to play chess, but I didn't expect to hear a fluent language as soon as my attention was distracted from the chessboard. Follow the voice to find it, isn't it the little pear wood holding the microphone who said that whisper!
Little Riki can speak!?
Who is he talking to in Dialect!?
Two questions flashed in their minds in an instant, and they all gathered around to listen to what he was saying, but they were only "Baga", "Kill **", and "Lead the way for the imperial army...... Ahem, the last one doesn't count. Except for those words that are familiar in the anti-Japanese drama, I can't understand Limu's tirade at all.
"A sore publishing house and a sore misunderstanding." Limu said.
If it weren't for the conversation in their club, how would Riki think that they were the company, and they wouldn't have talked so much after learning that they were Shangguo Publishing House instead of Enix!
"You, you, you......," stammered again.
"Tell me who called." Li Jiayasu couldn't stand it the most, this friend, took the stammering words and said for him.
"I used comics to submit, and there was such a small company that hurt me to sign a contract, and it was this small company that I just called."
"Huh?"
"Knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing, it is wisdom - only to increase troubles." Reading the texts he hadn't yet learned, Riki slipped into the store from the counter, dodging his uncle and his "pig friends" and running up to the third floor through the side door.
Leaving a group of villagers and uncles - you look at me, I look at you, confused.