Chapter 254: Dinner and New Endorsements
The pleasant atmosphere of conversation greatly alleviated the depression of a long car ride, because today was a working day, and when the car entered the fifth ring road, it was just in time for the rush hour, so when the group of three arrived at the Cambridge Film and Television Company in Xuanwu District, it was almost half past six. Li Mudi was not interested in inspecting any activities at all, and after hastily going in to greet the existing dozen or so staff, he announced that everyone would go to dinner together, which was a small benefit given to the employees by the big boss who had never shown up.
XX Caifu, all the employees of the film and television company and their families all went out, plus the family of three who rushed over, a total of less than 40 people, and enjoyed a collective feast. Although the Torino coach is not very good at managing subordinates other than the players, so after praising the performance of the staff at the beginning, he did not give any more speeches, but his status as a top icon in the sports world still makes him loved by everyone, and even a few young people came to him to ask for autographs, and the atmosphere is still very hot.
After sending these people away with a smile, Li Mudi put his mind completely on the little bun, the little guy was just one year and nine months old, but he was extremely smart, he was called a slip when he spoke, and he was very lively, and he didn't recognize life, and anyone who teased him could get a response. Li Mudi liked him very much as soon as he saw him, and he couldn't wait to hold it in his arms and not let go, but unfortunately the little guy had passed the period when he just wanted people to hold him, so he was willing to run all over the ground by himself, and the Turin coach had to let him go, but his eyes often aimed at the child's body, always reminding him to pay attention to safety, and he was more attentive than the bun couple.
Seeing this, Baozi's daughter-in-law jokingly said: "If you like this monkey, take it away, and save us from breaking our hearts day by day." Baozi's company is too busy, basically there is no fixed rest time, and there is no hope for things at home. I commute to and from work very regularly, but I have to take care of more than 50 children during the day, and I have long been bored, and when I go home, I have to face this demon king of the mixed world, and I have been regretting giving birth to such a thing, and I wish I could give it away quickly. "She is an elementary school teacher, and she is taking a first-grade little ancestor, and there are even six-year-old children who can't eat by themselves, and the hardship is indeed much greater than that of ordinary people.
Without waiting for Li Mudi to pick up, her husband interjected: "You can save it, but the flute has found a goddess as a girlfriend, isn't it just when the old man came back, it seems that it is a good thing." If you want to have a child, just let Goddess Lin give birth to one, it's an absolutely beautiful mess, and you still need to ask for our ugly baby? ”
"Go aside! My baby is not ugly, at least much more handsome than you. The daughter-in-law of the bun was a little spicy, and directly replied to her husband, but the next sentence showed the unique brain circuit of women, and she turned her head to look at Li Mudi and asked: "I heard a colleague in the school talk about it before, saying that you fell in love with Lin Yun'er from the kimchi country, and when you went home, you asked my bun, and he didn't know the details." I happened to meet it today, you tell me what the hell is going on, and you actually soaked in that big American aluminum! His eyes kept flashing with gossip as he spoke.
As soon as he heard this, Baozi didn't care about tearing each other up with his daughter-in-law, and he also echoed the dead party to talk about the process of chasing the goddess into his hands, although Lin Zixu, who was at the same table, did not make a sound, but his very interested expression also revealed the gossip factor in his heart.
Seeing that these three of them all looked like they might not give up if they didn't hear the inside story, Li Mudi had no choice but to roughly tell about his love affair with Lin Yun'er. However, what made him feel more and more helpless was that in the process, the other tables where subordinate employees and their families were sitting suddenly fell silent, and he didn't need to look at it to know that he was eavesdropping on the anecdote of the current hottest CP.
Fortunately, after dealing with this paragraph in a few words, the noisy and warm atmosphere in the room instantly returned, and in order to avoid Sister-in-law Bao from mentioning the matter of giving birth again, Li Mudi also said that he wanted to sign his girlfriend to the company and develop in the Celestial Empire in the future. Xiao Baozi's mother is not very familiar with things in the entertainment industry, so she just thinks that this is a good thing, with Li Mudi's affection, coupled with the efforts of her husband and other good friends, it is better than staying in Kimchi Country no matter how you look at it.
However, Baozi thought about it more, he thought about it for a while, looked at his old friend and said: "The domestic market is indeed a lot bigger, but the competitive pressure is not easy at all, and other aspects are easy to solve, but there will still be some problems in terms of recognition." Although you are a purebred Celestial Empire, but your nationality has been changed to Spanish, if it weren't for the fact that there is really no positive example in the football world in our country, do you think you would still have the status you have today? ”
After taking a sip of the tea in the cup, Baozi continued to express his thoughts: "If you are not engaged in the world's No. 1 sport, it is impossible to have such an impact based on the results you have achieved so far. And Yuna is like this, her popularity does seem to be very high, but it is limited to the group of people who like Hallyu after the 80s, and there is no special recognition among the group over 40 and the post-90s. If it weren't for the fact that the relationship with you was hyped up as a hot topic, the Korean restriction order after the outbreak of the THAAD incident basically announced that she would no longer be able to get invitations to film and television dramas on the side of the Celestial Empire. So you want her to completely abandon her roots in the kimchi country and go to a foreign country to reopen the market, isn't it too risky? Don't backfire in the end, completely destroy other people's careers, and affect the relationship between two people at that time, it will be too sad. ”
Li Mudi, who originally had strong confidence in this plan, also had a little wavering in his heart under the reminder of his friends, no matter how good his ideas were in advance and how well he was prepared, no one dared to succeed without reality to confirm it. Once there is a big deviation between him and Lin Zixu's estimates, Lin Yun'er, one of the largest entertainment companies in the kimchi country, will probably not be able to engage in the career of an actor, which is really a big risk! The extremely poor level of script selection and the limited market of that country are too small, and there is no great development in it, as if both choices are very bad!
Seeing that the Turin coach frowned worriedly, Sister-in-law Bao patted her husband's arm a little unhappily, blaming him for not blocking his good friend at this time, and then turned around and summoned Xiao Baozi, who had been running around the room, to come over and play with Uncle Li for a while. With Xiaomengwa's interruption, Li Mudi finally temporarily let go of the middle troubles, at least on the surface to return to the previous relaxed state, and it can be regarded as the first all-staff gathering of Cambridge Film and Television Company since its opening.
In the evening, Baozi first drove his daughter-in-law and children home to rest, and then the three men came to the booked hotel and held an impromptu meeting in Li Mudi's room to discuss the direction of the company's operation in the future and whether Lin Yun'er should join. Because today's time is a little late, the time in Kimchi Country is about an hour faster, so I couldn't contact Actor Lin, who was still filming. However, after analyzing various situations, the three of them decided to get together again tomorrow night, and at the same time have a formal communication with Lin Yuner through video, hoping to settle this matter as soon as possible, saving them a lot of long nights, and the more they put it aside, the more difficult it will be.
Although Baozi was allowed by his daughter-in-law not to return home once at night because of the rare return of the Torino coach and the fact that he really had important business to discuss in the evening, they did not rest too late. In addition to Li Mudi's unsuitability to go to bed late, but also because he was already full of things during the day tomorrow and couldn't sleep lazy, so before twelve o'clock, the three of them went back to their rooms to sleep.
At eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, after having breakfast in the hotel's restaurant, Baozi drove directly to work, while the remaining two people got into the car driven by the company employee who picked up the airport yesterday and rushed to the office of the Tianchao Football Association located in Dongjiu Building, LVGEM Xinyuan, Xizhaosi Street, Chongwen District. After learning the news of Li Mudi's return to China, Chairman Cai temporarily arranged this unofficial meeting, wanting to exchange his development experience with the head coach who has achieved good results in European football and held up the only banner for Celestial Empire football.
Football in Beijing, especially fans, has been criticized by people in other parts of the country, believing that they have an official backstage and a sense of superiority for no reason, and Beijing has become one of the most famous spectacles in the domestic football circle. But it is undeniable that the football atmosphere and development prospects here are among the best in the Celestial Empire. No, from Li Mudi getting off the bus at the door of the building to when he entered the elevator with Lin Zixu, four people recognized the identity of the Turin coach in this short period of time. Among them, there was a bold girl who, after saying "wow", ran to Li Mudi's side to seek a hug. Fortunately, the latter is 10,000 loyal to his girlfriend, and hurriedly shook hands with the other party first, and finally signed it, which is not out of order.
The seventh to ninth floors of the building belong to the Football Association, and because they were notified in advance, there were staff members waiting outside the elevator door on the eighth floor, and after the door opened, they led two people to the small conference room. In addition to Chairman Cai, who has gray hair, Executive Vice Chairman Zhang Jian, Vice Chairman Wei Jixiang and Li Yuyi, who have been in contact with the Turin coach before, were also present, and they were exactly half of the board members. For this kind of reception, Li Mudi is really flattered.
In fact, this is also his previous way of thinking, at the beginning of 2016 at the Celestial Empire Football Association Congress, the name of "Football Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sports" that has been criticized by the Chinese people has finally been revoked, which means that the current Celestial Football Association has become a pure civil organization like most countries in the world in terms of form (but at present, it has not been able to make any major changes). And this has also weakened the big men of the Football Association to a certain extent, and they have always held a high-minded attitude towards other insiders, at least in the face of excellent coaches with the status of overseas Chinese, they no longer have the confidence to dare to put on their qualifications.
However, this is destined to be a fruitless meeting, and for Celestial Football, whose reputation has long been bankrupt, all plans that only want to mend the seams and cannot completely reverse and start over are just a waste of time. It's not that this country doesn't have people who know the laws of football, and there are successful examples from Europe and neighboring Japan, so they can catch the medicine according to the prescription, but the slogan "start with the baby" has been shouted for more than 30 years, but it still stays in words. If you can't let your children, especially parents, see that playing football can have a bright future, all the work is just fooling around, that is, throwing money into the Tianchao League, and you can only be called a local tyrant by others, and the national team still can't get any results.
At half past ten in the morning, after politely refusing the leaders of the Football Association, Lin Zixu and Li Mudi hurried to the headquarters of Tianchao Mobile Communications in Beijing, which intends to hire the Turin coach to become the image spokesperson of their company in the next two years. Because this giant that can be ranked in the top ten of the national top 500 is really not bad for money, and the shot is quite generous, Li Mudi agreed after a little thought, after all, shooting a 30-second advertisement and a few flat photos can get a job of 10 million soft girls after tax, and few people should refuse.
After lunch, there was a signing ceremony for commercial endorsements, and CCB Co., Ltd., which wants to challenge ICBC's banking supremacy, has reached a cooperation agreement with the Turin manager, and will use his image as a publicity ambassador in the next two years, hoping to take advantage of Li Mudi's current popularity to attract more customers to come to handle storage and wealth management business. This contract, which is worth four million a year, is also very easy, there is no need to shoot advertisements for the time being, as long as the other party is allowed to use his portrait rights, it can be said that he earns money lying down.
However, the work after that was not so easy, Li Mudi first ran to Wangfujing, for the 362 degree sports new product launch platform, and in the evening came to Xidan, attended a . Auto-Volkswagen's new car exhibition. If you take other people's money, you have to honestly fulfill your obligations, not to mention that in the project of "making children fall in love with football", these companies have also been trying their best to help, and the Torino coach who feels that he owes the adults will naturally redouble his efforts to repay the other party.
I was busy until half past seven in the evening, and then I finished the whole day's work. After pushing down the dinner invitation of the endorsement company again, the two of them returned to the hotel in a hurry, the buns had already ordered a simple meal and waited in the room in advance, and the three of them had no nonsense, and it took about fifteen minutes to fill their stomachs, and then they turned on the online video, and Lin Yun'er, who had completed today's shooting task in Kimchi Country, began to discuss the signing of the contract. After an hour and a half of exchanges, we finally reached a basic consensus and decided to try to implement this plan now.