The Spring Festival is the most important festival in China, and every time the Spring Festival comes, everyone will return to their hometown to reunite with their families.

During this time, many cities come alive and bustling with lights.

However, there are individual cities that have different scenes before and after the Spring Festival.

The Magic City, one of the most deserted cities during the Spring Festival, is as deserted as an empty city, with few people on the streets and many shops closed, making it hard to believe that this was an extremely prosperous metropolis in the past.

But there are still many people, far from their homes and loved ones, who stick to the city.

One of them is Guo Chuan, the text editor of the monthly newspaper of Fiction, who will not be returning home for the Chinese New Year this year.

I saw him jump out of the trunk of a small pickup truck, help the driver close the door, and then shouted to Zheng Rong not far away: "Brother Zheng, everything has been moved to the car, you can go." ”

"Okay, here we are. Zheng Rong silently said "goodbye" to the tall and majestic office building standing in front of him.

Yes, their magazine has changed places.

In order to obtain the license to use the reproduction rights of "Cat's Eye" and "Dartman", he spent all the money in the magazine's account, and could no longer afford the high rent of the office building, so he rented a small warehouse in the suburbs as a temporary office location.

Guo Chuan has been in the novel monthly newspaper for five years, and there must be reluctance, and he said, "Brother Zheng, we can come back again, right?"

Zheng Rong retracted his gaze, turned around and smiled, and said, "Every unwilling departure is for the final return." ”

The two got into the car with their own concerns, and the driver drove the car towards the "new" magazine.

After an hour of stopping, we finally arrived at our destination.

Hearing the sound of the car, a twenty-three or four-year-old girl wearing glasses ran out of the small warehouse, "Brother Zheng, Brother Guo, I've cleaned it inside." ”

Zheng Rong nodded and smiled: "Xiao Dong, thank you for your hard work." ”

Dong Jie is the art editor of the novel monthly newspaper, and she has been in the company for less than a year, and she will not go home for the New Year this year.

At this time, Guo Chuan walked into the small warehouse with a cardboard box, and his eyes suddenly lit up, and said: "Xiao Dong is worthy of the most ingenious in our magazine, where is this still a small warehouse where sundries are stored, look at the lifelike paintings on the background wall, look at this neat and clean desk......"

Dong Jie said worriedly: "Brother Zheng, I'm sorry, I took the initiative to rearrange this place. ”

Zheng Rong looked at it and said with a smile: "It's very well arranged, this is what a magazine looks like." ”

The three of them worked hard for a while before they finished unloading the things on the small pickup truck.

Zheng Rong patted the dust on his clothes and said to Guo Chuan and Dong Jie: "You two have worked hard today, let's go, let's eat." ”

Guo Chuan sat down on the chair and said weakly: "Brother Zheng, I don't even want to move a finger now, just call for takeout." ”

Dong Jie also followed: "Yes, Brother Zheng, you have to walk for a while to eat before you have a restaurant." ”

"Thank you. Zheng Rong was quite moved.

He knew that Guo Chuan was not tired and Dong Jie did not choose to order takeout because he had to walk a long way.

He is very pleased to have such good employees.

"Who said that those who were not poached were old, weak, sick and disabled?"

A promising person must think from the perspective of the supervisor when he is an employee, and think from the perspective of the manager when he is a supervisor, so that he can gradually move to a higher position.

Obviously, Guo Chuan and Dong Jie both know that the magazine is in the most difficult period, and they can help save a little bit.

After lunch.

The three of them went their separate ways.

Guo Chuan and Dong Jie began to typeset a new issue of the monthly novel report.

Zheng Rong went out.

Today is the day when the first issue of their monthly novel is on sale in February, and it is the serialization of "Cat's Eye" and "Dartman".

He wanted to see how the sales were, but when he arrived at the door of the bookstore, he hesitated.

"Wait a minute, I'm afraid it's just been put into storage, and it's not on the shelf yet. ”

So, Zheng Rong walked back.

When I passed by a newsstand, I glanced at it and happened to see their monthly newspaper of novels.

Eventually, driven by curiosity, he walked over.

Zheng Ronggang wanted to open his mouth and ask the boss how many novels and monthly newspapers he sold today, when suddenly a few eleven, twelve, or thirteen-year-old boys ran to the newsstand.

One of the young boys asked, "Boss, boss, has the latest issue of DreamWorks arrived?"

The boss shook his head and said, "Maybe it's because it's close to the Spring Festival and there are not enough people, so Comic DreamWorks is going to stop publishing an issue." ”

"Ah......h

Several little boys screamed.

The boss flipped left and right, found an unopened magazine, and said, "Today's latest issue of the monthly novel report has arrived, do you want any of you?"

"Fiction Monthly?"

"Don't, we haven't read the monthly novel for half a year. ”

"In the past, I could barely read the serialized novels above, but now, it's all some kind of, and it's not interesting at all. ”

"yes, the writing is not as good as mine. ”

"I don't read novels when I read comics. ”

......

A few little boys, you and I said one by one.

These words are neither soft nor hard, just like a rattan, hitting Zheng Rong's heart, but it hurts very much.

However, this also sounded a wake-up call for him, you can't just bury your head in hard work, and what they like is not necessarily what readers like.

At this time, the boss saw that a few little boys were leaving, and hurriedly said: "Wait, in this issue of the monthly novel report, there are two novels that are very well written, you can read them first, and then decide whether to buy them or not." ”

"Okay. ”

A few young boys took the magazine from their boss and sat around to read it.

After a while, one of the little boys straightened up and said with a frightened face: "Damn, this novel is really scary, I feel cold behind my back." ”

Another little boy said, "Don't look at this, I can't sleep at night, read the next article." ”

"You cowards, I think it's quite exciting...... the little boy holding the magazine sneered at his friends, but still turned to the next one, "Hey, this is a martial arts novel." ”

A few little boys were immediately interested.

"Hahaha, this little seven is too cute. ”

"Like my brother, a little adult. ”

"Is this still a monthly novel?"

"I guess it's because of the change of editors, and my vision has changed. ”

"The beginning is quite attractive, anyway, the comic book DreamWorks stopped publishing an issue, so I bought a copy and went back to pass the time. ”

......

Several little boys all paid for a copy, and the boss was also smiling.

Zheng Rong took all this in his eyes, and a smile was put on his face again.

He didn't go over and ask the boss again, and sold a few copies of the monthly novel today, because he already had the answer.

On the way back, Zheng Rong thought a lot.

It's not necessarily a good thing to be competitive, but you have to be humble, face up to the gap with your opponents, and don't rest on your laurels.

Being unwilling is not necessarily a bad thing, but you must have a good attitude, and if you are defeated or not recognized by others, you will definitely be unwilling, but you must remember that this unwillingness is not a reason to ignore and blindly seek change.

Not long after Zheng Rong left, another group of twelve or thirteen-year-old boys ran to the newsstand, and this time, they directly asked to buy the novel monthly newspaper by name.

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Zhou Hangzhou.

Today, there are guests in Yunfeng's house, and they are acquaintances, Wang Defa and Ma Siyu.

Yun Lin put the prepared melon seeds and fruits on the small table, and then asked curiously: "Brother Fa, my brother came back the day before yesterday, why did you only arrive today?"

Wang Defa grabbed a handful of melon seeds and said, "I went to your brother's house, otherwise I would have come back the day before yesterday." ”

The Ma brother in his mouth is naturally Ma Siyu.

Recently, Ma Siyu's parents have been very busy, they have been talking about business abroad, and they can't go home for the New Year, and he doesn't want to go abroad for the New Year, because there is no atmosphere for the New Year, so he plans to come to Wang Defa's house for the New Year, so he will go back to arrange the affairs of the family first.

At this time, Yun Yun came out of the kitchen, holding a boiling kettle in her hand, and said, "Brother, the water is boiling." ”

Yun Feng took the boiling kettle and said, "Thank you." ”

"Brother......" Yun Yun pouted, "It's polite to me." ”

Yun Feng just smiled, and then began to make tea.

Wang Defa looked at the professional tea utensils he used to make tea, but also made them in a good way, and asked while snorting melon seeds: "I said crazy, where did you learn this tea-making skill?"

Yun Feng said very frankly: "I didn't learn, I just watched a teacher in our department soak a few times, I just painted a scoop according to the gourd, and I just learned a sample." ”

Ma Siyu said slowly: "Tea is a good thing, drinking tea can cultivate sentiment, cultivate self-cultivation, and forget troubles." ”