Chapter Twenty-Four: The Editing of Shoeshine and Sycophants
After having a pleasant lunch with Lin Hai, Ye Xuexin sent Lin Hai back to his rented place, and after pushing the car door, Lin Hai hesitated for a moment before turning his head and saying:
"Xuexin, you have to go back to work, right?"
Ye Xuexin pursed her lips and shook her head with a smile and said:
"It's okay, I'm out on the field."
"That's... You wait for me for a while, I'll go up and drop off my luggage, and then you accompany me to Yunhai Publishing House to have a look. ”
A look of disappointment flashed in Ye Xuexin's eyes, and then quickly disappeared, and nodded with a smile:
"Okay, don't worry, you tidy up slowly."
Lin Hai got out of the car and bent down and stretched out his head into the window:
"It's a mess at home, and no one lives in it for a few days, I'm afraid it will scare you."
When Ye Xuexin heard this, a smile suddenly bloomed on her face:
"I'll help you clean up when you come back after you go to the publishing house to report, and there's nowhere to go anyway."
"Huh? Well, don't you have to go home for dinner? ”
"I'm not a child, okay, you can go up quickly."
Lin Hai smiled, turned around and walked towards the corridor, but he was a little entangled in his heart.
Although this is a copy world, even if he quickly falls in love with Ye Xuexin or even goes further, it will not have any impact on reality in the end, but in Lin Hai's heart, there is no doubt that Ye Xuexin in this world is also Ye Xuexin, and there is no other Ye Xuexin in his heart.
Therefore, whether to follow the rhythm of the real world and wait until the matter of Reisuke and the black cat is clarified before deciding the future of the two, or whether to obey his own will here and act recklessly made Lin Hai a little entangled.
However, this question did not bother Lin Hai for long, and when he came down from the upper floor, he had already made a decision in his heart.
Yunhai Publishing House's status in the city's publishing industry is still good, but the scale is not large, and the location of the office is also very ordinary, located in an ordinary business district in Hedong District, renting a floor in an ordinary commercial building, which looks like a hundred and ten people.
Yunhai Publishing House not only publishes and distributes books in the city, but also has a fashion weekly and a comic weekly, and it is said that there was originally an entertainment publication, but later it was canceled due to poor efficiency, leaving only a reporter station, responsible for cooperating with the head office to collect information and intelligence on local public figures, and sometimes making cameo appearances on interview tasks and the like.
Of course, these were all introduced by a colleague from the personnel department who was responsible for receiving Lin Hai, and this colleague took Lin Hai around the various office areas, let Lin Hai understand the scale and situation of the publishing house, and took him to the editor-in-chief's office of the book publishing and distribution department, and handed over Lin Hai and Lin Hai's entry materials to the half-bald editor-in-chief and left.
is about fifty years old, and the editor-in-chief surnamed He, a local, likes to laugh first when he speaks, like a Maitreya Buddha, but the brilliant eyes make Lin Hai understand that this person is not as kind as he appears on the surface.
Editor-in-chief He casually flipped through Lin Hai's entry information, and chatted with Lin Hai who was sitting across the table with a smile.
"You graduated from Fusu University?"
"Yes, bachelor's degree in administration, it's been three years since I graduated."
"Well, it seems that I have worked in a lot of jobs, why do you change jobs so often?"
"The main reason is that I don't think it's right for me."
"Oh, so do you think our publishing house is more suitable? As far as I know, it seems that our publishing house has not been openly recruiting staff recently, did you introduce it through an acquaintance? ”
Lin Hai knew that this was Editor-in-Chief He who was studying his own details, so as to decide how to treat himself, so he replied according to the information given by the black cat:
"No, I submitted my resume to the long-term recruitment mailbox of our publishing house headquarters, and then asked me to report here from the HR department of the head office after passing the online interview."
"Oh, didn't anyone introduce me?"
"It's not an introduction, Manager Liu of the publishing department of the head office knows my elders, so he told me about our company's long-term recruitment of talents."
Editor-in-Chief He's squinted eyes lit up, and his hand paused for a moment, and then flipped through the documents in his hand again:
"Manager Liu? Manager Liu Zuhui? ”
"Yes."
"Hehe, that's the direct manager of our department, you and him..."
"I haven't met Manager Liu, but through a phone call, he told me to obey Editor-in-Chief He's arrangement, work hard, and don't embarrass my elders or anything."
Editor-in-Chief He laughed:
"Manager Liu is right, no matter what your education or experience is, your work performance is the most important thing, so when can you go to work?"
"Tomorrow."
"Okay, tomorrow you will go directly to the second editorial department to find Xie Zhixian Xie Editor-in-Chief Report, I will arrange it, find someone to take you first, get familiar with the work as soon as possible, and perform well in the future, I am optimistic about you."
Lin Hai stood up, smiled and bowed slightly:
"Thank you, Editor-in-Chief He, if there is nothing else, I will go out first."
"Well, go ahead, you can come to me directly if there is anything in the future."
"Thank you."
Coming out of Editor-in-Chief He's office, Lin Hai hesitated for a while, and finally did not activate Lingsuke to enter the soul level, just now he looked around, and he didn't seem to find anyone who he particularly cared about, and he would work here in the future, if there was really someone similar to himself, or even an existence similar to a black cat, he would always find out, there was no need to rush for a while, after all, soul energy points are difficult to precious, and it takes almost three months to recover a little naturally.
Lin Hai walked out unhurriedly, and left the publishing house in the face of many curious and inquiring eyes.
Next, Ye Xuexin went home with Lin Hai, cleaning and cleaning, and completely changed the appearance of Lin Hai's rented nest, to be honest, Lin Hai felt that Ye Xuexin was so hard and a bit of a waste, after all, it was a rented place, not his own house, but Ye Xuexin was tired of it, quite a hostess's posture, Lin Hai even felt that Ye Xuexin inadvertently revealed a thoughtful look when she looked at the room, maybe she was thinking about how to place things if she moved in.
In the end, the two cooked a sumptuous dinner at home together, Ye Xuexin fully demonstrated her passable cooking skills, around eight o'clock, Ye Xuexin said goodbye and went home early, the girl still had to be reserved, this is what Ye Xuexin's mother said on the phone when she was urged to go home just now.
The next day, Lin Hai got up early to wash and dress up, he couldn't be late for work on the first day, although he slept late last night, but Lin Hai didn't feel sleepy at all on the subway, but was thinking about this wonderful parallel world.
When there was something in his heart, time flew by, and even the crowded and turbid space around him did not make Lin Hai feel depressed, as if it had only been long after getting on the train, and the radio in the car reminded Lin Hai that he had arrived at the station where he got off.
When Lin Hai arrived at the publishing house, there were already people in the office, and he thought he had come early, it seems that there are still a lot of diligent people, Lin Hai came to the large office area of the book publishing department, and saw that several colleagues were already in the office, looking at their haggard appearance, isn't it simply working all night? This speculation made Lin Hai a little uneasy, the work of this publishing house would not be so cruel.
Finding the office area of the second editorial department, Lin Hai randomly found a seat where no one was sitting, and waited patiently until work time, but unexpectedly found that there were not many people working in the office area of the second editorial department, and when he saw that the editor-in-chief's office opened the door, he waited for ten more minutes before he stepped forward to knock on the door.
There was a 'please come in' from inside, and Lin Hai put some smiles on his face and pushed open the office door.
"May I ask if you are the editor-in-chief of Xie?"
"I am, you're the new editor Lin Hai?"
"Yes, Editor-in-Chief He asked me to report to you today, and I will ask you for more advice in the future."
"I can't talk about advice, let's support each other, hehe, come, sit, drink tea?"
"No, no."
Editor-in-Chief Xie is thin, about forty years old, quite tall, fair-skinned, with a pair of half-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose.
Of course, kidney deficiency is not really a bad kidney, nor can it be said that it is overindulgence or anything, overwork and rest disorders will cause kidney deficiency, of course, these knowledge are heard from the fat Taoist priest's class.
Editor-in-Chief Xie sat down with a smile and looked at Lin Hai, Lin Hai showed a slightly respectful smile and let the other party look at it, and after a while, Editor-in-Chief Xie cleared his throat and said:
"Xiaolin, it's okay for me to call you that, right?"
"Of course."
"That's right, what about our second editorial department, the main job is to ask for manuscripts, that is, to find authors to ask for manuscripts, do you know this?"
"Well, I don't understand, but literally, did you get the publishing rights of the book from the author?"
"Yes, the competition in the publishing industry is also fierce nowadays, so basically good writers are to grab, on the other hand, it is to find good seedlings from new writers to establish relationships, as for the publishing rights or something, it is easy to get, anyway, there are ready-made rules, plus there is coordination from the legal department, so the most important job for us is to establish a good relationship with writers, to put it bluntly, is to pat the writers on the back and shine their shoes, although it is a little discouraged, but it is a fact."
Lin Hai was stunned for a moment when he heard this, he originally thought that editing a publishing house was a high-level job, but now listening to the editor-in-chief Xie, it seems that this job is no different from the real estate agency he does, the real estate agent is to pat the customers and fool them into making deals, and the editor is to pat the writers and fool them into signing the publishing contract.
Sure enough, everything in the world is actually the same, or what Lao Tzu said, Tao Yiye!
Hey? Why did you think of the Tao Te Ching again, is this poisoning?
Lin Hai quickly put away his divergent thoughts, and said in his heart that fortunately, he didn't really want to be the editor who shines the shoes of the writer, the real job is the soul worker, and that is the lofty job.
"I understand that in fact, all jobs are the same, and there is no easy way to make money."
"Hehe, it's good if you understand, today's young people, it's very hypocritical, I don't mean you, our editors here are also like a marquee, today's young people disdain to do this kind of work, feel ashamed, in fact, it's the same everywhere, don't eat a cold bone, where can the plum blossoms be fragrant, even if everyone understands the truth, but it's hard to say if you put it on yourself."
"I understand, thank you for the editor-in-chief's teachings, I will work steadily, in fact, compared to the work I have done before, this is nothing."
"Hehe, that's good, that's good, you're very good, so let's do it, originally Editor-in-Chief He said to find someone to take you, but now you have seen it, these people outside are all incompetent, people with skills are always running outside all day long, I have some information here, including a list of writers, and some work progress files and cases, you take a look at it first, and then I'll find someone to take you out for a run, it's easier to practice with questions, what do you say?"
"No problem, I'll listen to Editor-in-Chief Xie."
"Haha, okay, then let's do it first, I still have a meeting here, if you have any questions, you can ask those colleagues, or wait for me to come back and ask me."
"Okay."
Editor-in-Chief Xie searched some folders and put them in front of Lin Hai, picked up the phone and pressed four numbers, and the phone rang in the open office outside.
"Xiao Zheng, come here."
After finishing speaking, he put down the phone and said to Lin Hai again:
"Xiao Zhengren is not bad, but he is a little shy, let him set you up a desk, then this is the case first."
"Okay, thank you, editor-in-chief."
As soon as Lin Hai stood up with a bunch of folders, there was a knock on the office door, and Editor-in-Chief Xie put away his smiling face and replied, "Please come in."