At about ten o'clock, two customers came to Kubo's shop.

"The only regret today is that I didn't buy a ticket to go to the concert hall to listen."

"yes, I knew I should have paid more for tickets."

"I didn't go in, but the final outdoor performance was also very good, a full five songs."

"The key is still free, haha."

Hearing the guests' discussions, Kubo guessed that they should have come out after listening to Zhou Yan's concert.

Although Kubo Masashi is not a big fan of Zhou Yan, he has also paid attention to this concert, and he has been hearing news of Zhou Yan coming to a concert everywhere recently.

"Are you talking about Zhou Yan's concert?" Kubo asked.

The two looked at Kubo Masa, nodded, and said, "Well, it just ended, and my evening concert today was really exciting." It's a pity that your store is separated by a park, otherwise you can hear the concert from here. ”

The boss smiled: "It seems that you guys are really satisfied with this concert." ”

"Of course."

"What do you two want to eat?" Kubo hands them the menu.

"We're going to ......"

The two guests had just opened their mouths to order food, and a few more guests pushed the door in.

"Welcome."

Kubo said hello and was a little surprised, although there are usually guests at this spot, but today it seems to be more lively.

Moreover, the guests who came in were also discussing the concert.

"What do you think the last piece should be called?"

"I think I should order a cup of sake, didn't Zhou Yan get inspiration in an izakaya?"

"You only heard the izakaya, didn't you hear Zhou Yan say that he only had such inspiration after hearing a neon pop song? So, you should know what this song is called. ”

"I'm going to call TV Asahi and suggest that they use the name 'Tokyo Tower.'"

"The name will definitely not be adopted."

"You say, how did Zhou Yan use the bamboo flute to blow the effect of shakuhachi?"

"Because of his high level, Shizuka Kudo said before that Zhou Yan was the best person she had ever seen to play the bamboo flute."

"Haha, Shizuka Kudo must be exaggerating when he says this, but Zhou Yan plays the flute, and the stage effect is indeed very good."

Kubo was busy ordering from the customers on this side while listening intently to the conversation of the people on the other side.

He was very curious about why these people came from the concert hall to this side, and although they were not far from here, it would take more than ten minutes to walk. There are a lot of izakaya near the concert hall, and there is no need for them to go this way at all.

Just when he was wondering, three more guests came, and the three guests were also chatting about the concert.

However, unlike the previous two groups of people, after the three guests came in, they asked Kubomasa: "Boss, has Zhou Yan been to your store recently?" ”

Kubo was a little confused by the customer's question, what is this question called? Why did Zhou Yan come to his store?

Seeing the boss's puzzled face, another guest said, "Even if Zhou Yan comes, the boss may not know him." ”

Kubo Masashi immediately said, "Of course I know Zhou Yan, I saw him on TV. ”

"But even if he comes, he will definitely be disguised, and it is impossible for you to recognize him."

"Why do you think Zhou Yan will come to my store?" Kubo asked the doubts in his mind.

One of the guests said with a smile, "Because Zhou Yan said at the concert that when he first came to Tokyo a few days ago, he came to a certain izakaya here. There are only a few izakaya in the neighborhood, so that's why we asked you. ”

"Oh, yes." Kubo smiled, "That's why you came here." ”

"Well, we're coming sooner, and there's someone behind us."

Before the man could finish speaking, a few more guests came in, and Kubo was hurrying to greet him.

Looking at the waves of customers, Kubo was happy at the same time, but at the same time, he muttered a little, and began to think back to whether there had been any special customers in the store in the past few days.

Then he really thought that it was in the evening a few days ago, not long after their store opened, two customers, a man and a woman, came and wrapped them tightly.

It was his wife who greeted him outside, and he only saw the two men at the final checkout, but at that time they both covered most of their faces with scarves, and he didn't stare at other people's faces, so he didn't see what they looked like.

At the time, he only thought it was a little strange, but he didn't think much about it, after all, there are all kinds of strange people in Tokyo.

Not to mention that the two men covered half of their faces with scarves, even if they came in wearing Ultraman hoods to eat, he wouldn't be surprised.

It's just that in retrospect, that man and woman are really very strange.

Counting the time, it should be when Zhou Yan first came to Tokyo.

What made Kubo most suspicious was that the girl said at the time that her boyfriend and Zhou Yan were from the same school.

The more I thought about it, the more suspicious Kubo became.

However, there was no time to think about it for him at this time, there were so many customers in the store that he was too busy to touch his feet.

……

After the concert, of course, Zhou Yan did not go to the izakaya, he first went backstage to rest for a while, and then returned to the hotel with the army.

After returning to the hotel and washing, it was already one o'clock in the middle of the night, and Zhou Yan fell asleep.

The next morning, while still asleep, he was woken up by a ringing phone.

Zhou Yan rubbed his head, snorted twice, and grabbed the phone on the bedside table, he wanted to hear who came to disturb his dream early in the morning.

"Third brother, are you up?"

Hearing Wang Zuxian's sweet voice, Zhou Yan's anger dissipated most of the time at once, and he looked at the watch on the bedside table, it was already more than eight o'clock, and it was not particularly early.

"Well, just got up, are you going to give me a wake-up call?"

Hearing Zhou Yan's voice, Wang Zuxian knew that he shouldn't have gotten up yet, "Why don't you sleep for a while?" ”

Zhou Yan turned over, "Don't sleep, I've been sleeping for a long time, do you have a job today, do you want to go shopping?" The orchestra had a day off. ”

"I'm afraid I can't go shopping, didn't I say yesterday that someone from Shiseido went to a concert? This morning, the head of their sales department called me and asked me to introduce you to you. ”

"What's the matter with him looking for me?"

"I asked for you, and he said he wanted to cooperate with you, but as for what the specific cooperation was, he didn't say."

Zhou Yan thought for a while and said, "It's okay, you let him come to me." ”

"I'll take him with me." Wang Zuxian said with a smile, she would not miss the opportunity to come to Zhou Yan openly.

"Well, okay, then I'll wait for you at the hotel, when will I arrive?"

"Ten o'clock, you can go have breakfast first."

"yes, okay."

……

After hanging up Wang Zuxian's phone, Zhou Yan went to the bathroom to wash up, and then went to the restaurant for breakfast.

In the cafeteria, he met several members of the group, all of whom were very tired.

After asking, I found out that after they returned to the hotel last night, they were so excited that they couldn't sleep and kept chatting.

Especially Ma Dongfang, except for Zhou Yan and Yue Lin yesterday, he had the most scenes.

This kind of experience is fatal for him, a pretending criminal, so after returning to the hotel last night, he has been pulling his classmates to review the concert, where everyone has the wrong sound, where everyone plays very well, and so on.

Seeing Ma Dongfang and them so excited, Zhou Yan can also express his understanding, after all, this is their first time performing abroad, and it is very good to be able to perform like this.

After breakfast, Zhou Yan returned to the room, and he didn't rest, and began to perfect the score of the last piece.

At 9:40, there was a knock at the door.

"Here we are."

Zhou Yan got up to open the door, it was Wang Zuxian who knocked on the door, and a middle-aged man stood next to her.

Without waiting for Wang Zuxian's introduction, Jiro Hattori took the initiative to shake hands with Zhou Yan, "Hello Mr. Zhou Yan, I am Jiro Hattori from Shiseido's sales department, and I am very happy to meet you." I was there for last night's concert and it was a wonderful night. ”

He spoke a neon language, and Wang Zuxian summed it up in Chinese, "He is Jiro Hattori of Shiseido's sales department." ”

Zhou Yan blinked, that's it? Is neon so cumbersome?

He seriously suspected that Wang Zuxian had cut corners when translating.

At the same time, he also admired Hattori Jiro very much, and he followed Wang Zuxian without a translator, he overestimated Wang Zuxian too much.

Zhou Yan shook hands with Jiro Hattori and said with a smile, "Hello, Mr. Hattori, please come in." ”

This sentence didn't need Wang Zuxian to translate, Hattori Jiro saw Zhou Yan's gesture, nodded, and followed him into the house.

When they got to the house, Zhou Yan poured a glass of water for each of them, and then said straight to the point, "I heard Xiaoxian say that Mr. Hattori wants to cooperate with me, but I don't know what kind of cooperation it is?" ”

Jiro Hattori said, "We wanted to be able to buy the song 'The Street Where the Wind Lives.'" ”

Zhou Yan stared at Wang Zuxian, puzzled, "Did he really say that?" Are you sure there are no translation errors? ”

Hearing Zhou Yan question herself, Wang Zuxian was unhappy, and she pouted and said, "I've been making rapid progress in neon recently." ”

"Is it possible that the progress is fast because of the poor foundation?"

"Do you want me to translate?"

"Yes, of course, I believe you unconditionally, okay?"

"That's pretty much it."

"Then you ask him, what are you buying my tunes for?"

Hattori Jiro listened to the two of them say several words back and forth, as if they were arguing, and was a little confused, so he heard Wang Zuxian ask him in neon language, "Mr. Hattori, why did you buy this song?" ”

"We wanted to use this song as our advertising song." Jiro Hattori explained.

"They're going to make an advertising song with this tune."

Zhou Yan looked puzzled, this time it was not to question Wang Zuxian's translation, but to wonder why Shiseido used "The Street Where the Wind Lives" as an advertising song.

The song "The Street Where the Wind Lives" is sad on the whole, and it is not suitable for advertising songs, and Zhou Yan can't imagine what kind of advertising can match this song.

And the general advertisement is very short, only ten or twenty seconds, do you need such a long tune?

"Do they want to license it, or do they want to buy it?"

The difference between the two is still very big, the authorization is relatively simple, Zhou Yan and they issue a letter of authorization, and Shiseido can use it in advertising.

However, there are restrictions on licensing, and generally the licensing is targeted, and Shiseido can only use it in a certain advertisement, and they don't need to use it if they do other things in the future.

If you buy it, it depends on how you buy it, whether you buy some of the copyrights or buy all the copyrights.

"Mr. Hattori, what copyrights do you want to buy for this piece?" Zhou Yan asked.

Jiro Hattori replied, "As long as we can buy it, we will buy it." ”

The copyright of a piece of music, except that the copyright is protected and cannot be bought or sold, other copyrights can be bought.

According to Jiro Hattori, Shiseido wanted to buy out this song.

If the transaction is successful, then all the income from this song in the future has nothing to do with Zhou Yan.

Not only do other people not have to use this piece, but even if Zhou Yan wants to play it in a concert, he needs to submit an application to Shiseido, which is of course impossible for Zhou Yan to agree to.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Hattori, but I'm not going to sell out any of my songs."

"Mr. Zhou Yan, don't you listen to the offer first?"

Zhou Yan nodded, "You might as well talk about it." ”

"Three million Hong Kong coins."

Hearing this offer, Zhou Yan raised his eyebrows, obediently, they really dare to report it, no wonder Hattori Jiro looked confident when he talked about the offer.

3,000,000 Hong Kong coins, just buy one song.

In the long run, this song may not be able to earn Zhou Yan three million Xiangjiang coins or even more, but it will be a matter of the future to earn more, and now this song has not been officially released, but Shiseido has to pay three million to buy it, I have to say, it is indeed very tempting.

Zhou Yan was curious, "What do you want to do with this song, just to put it in the advertisement?" ”

Jiro Hattori shook his head with a smile, "Of course not, if that's the case, there's no need for us to spend three million Xiangjiang coins to buy out this song." But what exactly is going to be done, forgive me for not being able to disclose it right now. ”

Zhou Yan stared at Jiro Hattori, he really couldn't understand what kind of medicine was sold in the other party's gourd.

For Shiseido, three million Hong Kong dollars is actually nothing, and the company spends a lot of three million on advertising every year.

But Shiseido is not a charity after all, and since they are willing to spend the three million, they must be confident that they can earn more.

But since Hattori Jiro didn't say it, Zhou Yan didn't ask again.

In fact, it doesn't matter if he asks or not, because he still decided not to sell.

Three million is really exciting, but as he said earlier, he won't sell out a single song. Even if this song can't bring him three million income in the future, he doesn't want to dig a hole for himself, and this kind of behavior of selling out the copyright is likely to have problems in the future.

He shook his head, "I'm sorry, but again, I'm not going to sell any of my tunes, no matter how much money you pay." ”

Of course, if Shiseido really wants to make a 30 million, he can't make an exception.

But unless the Shiseido boss is kicked in the head by a donkey, he will spend 30 million to buy a song.

Hearing Zhou Yan's refusal, Hattori Jiro was very surprised, he didn't expect that the three million Xiangjiang coins did not impress Zhou Yan.

He pondered for a moment and said, "Perhaps, we can talk about the authorization." ”

If there is no way to buy it out, Hattori Jiro can only choose to get the authorization from Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan nodded, just if he wanted to authorize, he would definitely be fine.

"Yes, but you have to talk to my agent about the specific matter."

"Absolutely."

Hattori Jiro didn't expect to be able to finalize the matter with Zhou Yan today, otherwise he wouldn't be able to do without an interpreter, of course he knew that Wang Zuxian's neon language level was average.

After that, they didn't talk about work anymore, and Jiro Hattori began to talk to Zhou Yan about music, mainly touting how successful Zhou Yan's concert was and how shocked he was at the scene last night.

After sitting in Zhou Yan's room until half past ten, Hattori Jiro got up and said goodbye.

Wang Zuxian also left, but they made an appointment to go out shopping together in the afternoon.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, when Zhou Yan had just changed his outfit and was about to go out to find Wang Zuxian, Zhang Youan knocked on his door.

After Zhou Yan opened the door, Zhang Youan watched him put on a scarf and asked, "You want to go out?" ”

"Well, go out and have a look."

"You're alone?"

"I made an appointment with Wang Zuxian."

Zhou Yan said so generously that he wanted to go shopping with Wang Zuxian, but Zhang Youan didn't think much about it. The two of them are good friends, and it is normal for them to meet in Tokyo, and it is normal for them to go shopping together.

"Then you two be careful, whether it's you or her, it's easy to be recognized in Tokyo." Zhang Youan reminded.

Zhou Yan pointed to his outfit, "Isn't this fully armed, it's not so easy to recognize, what are you looking for me?"

"Shiseido's business, you didn't let them come to me."

"So fast." Zhou Yan was surprised.

At half past ten in the morning, Jiro Hattori left from here, and after only three hours in between, they contacted Zhang Youan.

"Because they want to put 'The Street Where the Wind Lives' in the latest commercial, of course they have to talk about it quickly. Wang Zuxian has been waiting here, and if it drags on, Wang Zuxian should be unwilling. ”

"What kind of ads do they have, and why do they use 'Streets Where the Wind Lives'? Can't you use other tunes? Zhou Yan asked.

"Yes, in fact, they don't have to be "The Street Where the Wind Lives", and your last song without a name is okay."

Zhou Yan probably understood, "So, they want a new song that hasn't been officially released yet?" ”

"It's not just about new songs, it's about being well-known. The new song means that no one else uses it, and it is easy to bind the song to the brand, as for the popularity, needless to say, they are going to advertise, of course, the higher the popularity, the better. And the tunes that meet this requirement are your two songs. Compared with "The Street Where the Wind Lives", the one that has no name in the back is a little less well-known, of course, because the song title is being called, so there is still a bit of a gimmick, and they are not out of the question. ”

"You can just talk about it, and you don't need to ask me."

"I'm not here to ask you, I'm here to tell you, you're so confused, why don't you sell this song directly for three million."

"Oh, they're telling you about it."

"Of course, people praise you as a great musician, and you are not moved by money." Zhang Youan gave a thumbs up, and then sighed slightly, "Actually, three million is not a lot, and it's normal for you to not look at it, but the positive impact of this incident on you is immeasurable." Shiseido spent 3 million to buy the tune, and in order not to lose money, he must have desperately wanted to use this tune, which is very conducive to the spread of music. ”

"Also, the main reason why Shiseido spent three million on songs, the songs are good, and you are well-known, and there is another reason, they can use this matter to make a gimmick. Taking advantage of the time you are in a neon concert to hype up the fact that they paid a sky-high price to buy your song, this news may have a better publicity effect than shooting an advertisement. At the same time, this is also very positive for your personal publicity, which can immediately raise your price increase. Now that you refuse, there is no such good press release. ”

Zhou Yan shrugged his shoulders indifferently, "Can you change the announcement, just say that Shiseido gave a sky-high price of three million, and I didn't sell the tune, not only raised my value, but also erected a tall archway for me." If you don't think three million is shocking enough, it's okay to write five, Shiseido will definitely not deny it anyway. ”

“……”

Zhang Youan put up both thumbs up this time, "I, the agent, should let you be the one." (End of chapter)