Spend weekends playing dead bodies in bed.
On Monday, Qiang cheered up and went to work.
When the regular meeting was held in the afternoon, Chu Li discovered that the wave of torture had not passed, and another round of blows came: the editor-in-chief Yu Yao assigned the task of the June issue of "Moonlight" magazine at the regular meeting on Monday, and the newcomer Chu Li And the semi-new Xiaoniao were assigned to the column of "Preface Project"—
"Preface Project" is also called "Preface Project", it is the ghost thing that is located before the catalog of the magazine, and the front page of the magazine. Advertisement preheating; some will launch a special discussion on the current hot topic; sometimes it is simply to plan a topic, and then find some interesting related content to fill it in.
The theme of the frontispiece project for this June issue is "Children's Fun". Yu Yao hopes that the editors can find some authors to write some interesting things about childhood or related stories to attract readers...
Chu Li: "How do you plan for this first volume?"
Lao Miao: "Think for yourself."
Chu Li: "Which authors are you looking for?"
Lao Miao: "Think for yourself."
Chu Li: "What's the purpose of this foreword project?"
Lao Miao: "I don't know either. In fact, few readers are willing to read this thing, but other magazines have it, so we have to have it too."
First ceremony: "..."
… … … what? No, others have it, so we have to have it too? Other magazines give editors a monthly salary of 5,000 and a bonus at the end of the year, why don't you also read it carefully and learn from it
During the whole meeting, Chu Li was dumbfounded.
Until the end of the meeting, Yu Yao probably couldn't see Lao Miao's dead pig like a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water, so he kindly told her that since it was done together with Xiaoniao, if there is any problem, he can ask her for advice or the two of them Let's discuss together... After listening to Yu Yao's words, Chuli nodded reflexively and didn't doubt too much—
Many years later, Chu Li concluded that at this time, he still had many unrealistic fantasies about "human nature", and this was the most stupid and hopeless point.
…
After a few days.
[The ghost behind you: Ah L is still missing, ah, are you okay?]
[The sailor invited by the monkey: "A hanging emoji".]
[The ghost behind you: Ah, let's have a fun chat. In this line of work, you can meet many authors. Do you feel super happy? I still remember that we used to chase after Hiukawa and Jiang Yucheng to chase articles, now you can talk to Hiukawa! Also went to his house! what! Surely it's a no-brainer to sign, right? Super envious!]
[Sailors invited by monkeys: The probability of meeting lunatics and thunderbolts in this line of work is definitely much higher than that of meeting authors... and the only few signatures Hirokawa gave me now are the ones written on the contract with official seals, It will be handed over to the organization next Monday, and there is no possibility of cutting it out and pasting it on the bedside.]
[The ghost behind you: Huh? So miserable... What about the other authors? Who else did you know? How about those grown-ups?]
First ceremony: "..."
Facing a series of questions from his friend, Chu Li sighed and paralyzed on his seat, and rolled his eyes fiercely at the ceiling: Ah Gui got the point, other authors...
She really wanted to know a few of them.
The hope of asking God to tell Buddha.
The first ceremony of the entire frontispiece planning task assigned on Monday was very unsuccessful. First of all, there is no manuscript fee for writing this thing. If you want to find the author to write this for you for free, it is purely to see if the friendship between the author and the editor is strong enough...
A newcomer arrives at the beginning of the ceremony, and there is an author who is familiar with him.
So the whole project has been done for a few days and has been standing still. Chuli didn't invite a single author... She and Ben don't know a few authors. The biggest author among the authors she knows is her little white lotus. It's not that she hasn't thought about it. Ask him for help, but when I thought about the night before I joined the job, I had privately knocked on the author's ambition to help someone publish a book, but before the book came out, I knelt down and begged him for help, how embarrassing it was.
After much deliberation, Chuli finally gave up, but tried to find Hiukawa—now that I concluded afterwards that I probably had the guts of a bear, because the whole conversation process was like this—
[Saijun invited by the monkey: Teacher, it’s like this, can you do me a favor, we are going to do a theme about “Children’s Fun” for the frontispiece of the June issue, and invite the authors to talk about childhood memories and childhood anecdotes Small paragraphs like this... There are three pages in total, and what I need here is about a thousand words. If it is convenient for the teacher, can you write such a manuscript for us?]
[The sailor invited by the monkey: Please, teacher!]
[The sailor invited by the monkey: Eight hundred words are fine!]
[The sailor invited by the monkey: Just write a composition for the college entrance examination! It won't take you twenty minutes!]
[The sailor invited by the monkey: … … … … How about I write a paragraph myself and sign your name at the end? It's like "the sky has never left traces of birds, but bird droppings prove that they have come—Hikawa"?]
[Hikawa:?]
Above, in Chu Li's series of nagging, the conversation finally ended with a ruthless and disgusting "?" from Mr. Chuan, who was as gentle as jade. In the fish tank at the door!
At this moment, Comrade A Gui ruthlessly poked the pain point again, and Chu Li once again had to face this bloody past... After thinking about it now, she couldn't sit still, and seeing that it was almost lunch break, she decided to leave Standing up from his own place, he ran to the edge of the bird's seat separated by an aisle—
At that time, Xiaoniao was chatting with someone, and the cute emoticons were sent flying. Sensing someone approaching, she quickly closed the chat window, turned her head and smiled cutely at Chu Li: "Why are you here?"
Chu Li didn't take her covert behavior to heart, pulled the chair beside Xiaoniao and asked, "Have you found the author? How do you do this foreword project? Can I write a paragraph myself and put it in and sign it at the end?" : Hikawa."
Xiaoniao: "I didn't find it, and I don't know how to do it, and I can't."
First ceremony: "..."
Putting the complaints back into his stomach, Chu Li rubbed his brows with a headache: "I have asked a few authors these days, and they probably think that I am crazy. If I don't reply, I will refuse directly. There is no manuscript fee. Stuff makes people waste their efforts, and the author is doing charity?"
Xiaoniao's answer was quite expected, she said with an innocent face: "I don't know what to do, I'm also a newcomer... But I have done so many episodes before, so there is always another way right?"
Chu Li thought about it too, sighed, and thought it was impossible, so he had the cheek to ask Yu Yao or Lao Miao if they could use their names to find some authors who had published manuscripts in "Moonlight" before...
Thinking that this might be a solution, he stood up and said to go to the supermarket to buy lunch, left the office and walked halfway in the corridor, suddenly wanted to shush, so he temporarily changed his way to the toilet—
After responding to the call of nature, he stood up and was about to flush, when Chu Li suddenly heard the sound of high-heeled shoes "da da" from outside, and Chu Li retracted his hand that was about to be placed on the flush button.
The people who came were Xiao Niao and A Xiang.
Chu Li hesitated for a while, and instead of going out to greet them, he backed away, and then heard two colleagues come back one after the other, the faucet of the sink was turned on, and amidst the sound of rushing water, came a Xiang's voice: "Little Bird, why didn't you tell Chu Li that Lao Miao has already contacted Suo Heng, Nian Nian and Hippo for you?"
Chu Li was taken aback.
After a long time, the sound of running water stopped, and the voice of a bird sounded—it still sounded so harmless to humans and animals: "Hey, I didn't find the author that Lao Miao found for me. Why should I tell her?"
Ah Xiang: "Aren't you working on this project together? In case Chuli thinks that you haven't found a single author, and you have found many, many other authors, the layout will not be easy to arrange..."
A Xiang said halfway, Xiaoniao laughed, giggling and said: "It would be good to find a lot of authors, do you think that the three pages will be divided equally according to the number of authors? Hahaha, if she finds a few A dead and transparent author who is not known at all, being suppressed by them every year, seven or eight authors squeezed into one page is a beautiful picture!"
Ah Xiang glanced at the little bird who was bending over laughingly from the mirror, and hesitated for a while: "...isn't that good?"
Xiaoniao stopped laughing, glanced at A Xiang in the mirror, and said lightly: "Then you can help her."
Ah Xiang immediately stopped talking.
Xiaoniao took out a piece of paper from the toilet paper dispenser, wiped his hands, and threw it into a trash can in a ball: "Lao Miao helped me find the author and not Chu Li, his meaning should be quite obvious..."
Ah Xiang asked, "What do you mean?"
Xiaoniao tidied up her hair: "You should know that Yuanyue Society is a company that is going public and needs to increase its valuation before starting to recruit employees? Generally, no matter whether the company goes public successfully or fails, there will be large-scale layoffs in the end... "
A Xiang: "Is that so?"
The little bird hummed softly, the strangeness in her tone was different from her usual harmless appearance in the office: "So, everything is said first come first served, right? How can I let some people come later?" What about the top? After all, I’m enough for a newcomer in the editorial department of our magazine, not to mention that she hasn’t done a good job, isn’t she using Hikawa’s contract as an excuse to be lazy now—I didn’t know what the editor-in-chief was. Why do you want Chu Li to come over, really, wouldn't it be good to let her go to "Star Trails"?"
As Xiaoniao spoke, her smile burst into laughter again, she pulled Ah Xiang over, and asked her intimately what she would like to eat at noon as she walked out...
"I want to eat ice cream, Ah Xiang, can you treat me to ice cream?"
The two gradually drifted away until the sound of footsteps and conversation disappeared at the end of the aisle—from the penultimate cubicle, only then did I remember the sound of the toilet flushing. After a long time, Chu Li walked out of the cubicle with a blank expression on his face. , came to the mirror, touched up the lipstick, pressed the nose with powder, and touched up the makeup on the cheeks.
After finishing the makeup, she took a serious look at the person in the mirror, but her face was still not that good-looking.
He took out his mobile phone and wanted to find someone to complain about, but found that the person he subconsciously wanted to find was no longer in the friend list. His already messy heart suddenly became more irritable. Chu Li frowned, found [the ghost behind you], and sent a message—
[The sailor invited by the monkey: Oh my god! fresh! ! ! I seem to have met the legendary office bully! ! ! !]
[The ghost behind you: "Black question mark face expression pack"]
…
Fifteen minutes later.
Chu Li returned to the office with his lunch. When he passed by the fish tank, he suddenly found something wrong inside and went back. A tank of parrot fish was swimming leisurely. Chu Li bent down and stared at the fish tank for a long time, and finally found What's wrong... I grabbed Lao Li who was passing by and asked: "Hey Lao Li, why is the scavenger fish that the editor-in-chief put in last week gone?"
Lao Li: "I don't know, eat the parrot fish, don't you eat everything?"
Chuli: "Huh?"
Xiaoniao stood up with a smile on her lunch box, "These parrot fish have been there since they moved in from the editorial department of "Moonlight", and they have been living well without the scavenger!"
Chuli: "?"
The little bird's smile became brighter: "Don't you understand, a stable ecological environment does not need additional outsiders."
First ceremony: "..."
Seeing his own face reflected in the fish tank, Chu Li paused for a moment, then straightened up and looked at the bird with a "huh"—maybe the expressionless look was so scary that the latter was taken aback, but soon, Chu Li Then she smiled and silently squeezed the plastic bag tightly in her hand. She nodded and said in a calm and soft tone: "Oh, then this scavenger fish died a bit unjustly."
The bird stared at her for a while, making sure that there was no emotion on her face, heaved a sigh of relief, and retracted his head.
Chu Li returned to her seat with her lunch in hand, resisting the urge to pin the ten-eight-cent boxed lunch on someone's head, she put the expensive boxed lunch on the edge of her desk, forced herself to remain calm and turned on the computer, I want to watch something about "Chain Saw" to suppress the evil spirit of burning silence in my body...
Then found a guy who came to die—
Drip drip.
[System Message] ["The Missing Mr. L" requested to add a friend, is it approved?]
Additional message: girl, do you want to date online
First ceremony: "... ... ..."
ugly refusal.