After Xiao Heng left, Tang Jiandong stared at the cup of coffee in front of him for a while.
Until the assistant urged him to hurry back to the company for a meeting.
"Brother Dong, where have you been these few days, the boss told us to hurry up and decide on the new album, there are still a few songs to pick..."
Tang Jiandong couldn't hear what the assistant was saying for a few seconds.
What emerged was still the words that the young man said, and the expression on his voice.
"Brother Dong? Crooked? Brother Dong, are you listening?"
"What's the noise?"
"I heard it." Tang Jiandong said back to his senses.
Lu Yan sat at the entrance of the game hall for a while, put on the earphones, turned on the music software and made up two paragraphs at random. When he finished making up a main theme, Xiao Heng's message replied: "right away."
Lu Yan: Where are you
Xiao Heng replied: I fell into the pit.
Lu Yan typed a reply with a smile: Listen to your nonsense.
Only then did Xiao Heng post: There are too many people in the bathroom, come right away.
It was true that the bathroom was crowded, Lu Yan cut out the chat page, kicked the originally bent legs on the ground, and then changed the melody.
In just a minute, Xiao Heng came from the corner.
He avoided the subject of the outlaw Agent Tang, and only asked, "Spades are gone?"
Lu Yan put the phone back: "I just sent him away. Before I left, I gave him two pieces of five yuan, and asked him to go to the Shaxian snack across the street for a meal."
Without even thinking about it, Xiao Heng could guess the grief-stricken look in Captain Spade's eyes before he left.
"You did this..."
Lu Yan got up and hooked him, with half of his weight on his shoulders: "Why, ten yuan is not bad, you can also eat a bowl of noodles, and invite him to play games, so I'm sorry for him."
yes.
It fits Lu Yan's stingy personality very much.
Xiao Heng said: "It's done pretty well. It's good that no one goes out and turns right into the supermarket to buy a bucket of instant noodles."
Lu Yan: "It's a bit too much for you to say instant noodles, am I this kind of person?"
Xiao Heng clicked his tongue: "Then you probably forgot to tell me about the rent and instant noodles."
Lu Yan: "Didn't we not work together at that time?"
Xiao Heng repeated the four words "wolf in collusion".
After reading, Xiao Heng had a sudden thought and asked, "What if we knew each other?"
This unreasonable question made Lu Yan startled.
"We need to get to know each other," Lu Yan thought for a while, and said in a prolonged voice, "then I'll just lift you up horizontally, carry you upstairs, and then..."
When Lu Yan said this, he obviously had something to say, but subtly stopped.
Xiao Heng asked.
After getting out of the elevator, Lu Yan leaned into his ear and said, "Then tell you, this room, and the person in it, are yours from now on."
He can't promise much.
I have no money, no job, and my own life is miserable. All my assets are left in this small room of less than 20 square meters. The only thing that is full is probably my dream.
But this room.
Even the room and people... can give you.
After a long while, Xiao Heng grabbed Lu Yan's hand tightly and said, "I have received it."
After leaving the game city, there was a wind blowing head-on, and the roofs of the densely packed roadside stalls on the street rattled.
Before Lu Yan came, he deposited the pre-printed leaflets in the kiosk by the side of the road, and asked Xiao Heng to stand where he was and wait for him to pick them up.
The owner of the newsstand is old, wearing reading glasses, and reading a newspaper.
"Grandpa, I'm here to get something." Lu Yan said.
"Hey, I'm back."
As the boss said, he brought up two stacks of leaflets from the bottom, and Lu Yan just finished scanning the codes.
"No," the boss quickly stopped and said, "Young man, you just put two stacks of things with me, and you don't need to pay for it."
After transferring the money, Lu Yan picked up a book from the side, folded the book on the leaflet, and said with a smile before leaving, "I'll buy the magazine with this money, thank you."
When Lu Yan went back, besides the two bundles of advertising papers tied up with the packing rope borrowed from Sister Lan's house, he also brought this Entertainment Weekly.
Xiao Heng took the two bundles in his hand and said, "Are you still looking at this?"
Lu Yan doesn't like to read this kind of frivolous news. After buying it, she regrets it. If she knew it, she would have bought a stack of current affairs newspapers: "No, it's not easy when you're old."
This is true. Newsstands were fine a few years ago, but they fell along with the paper media after the rise of the Internet. Who would bother to buy magazines from newsstands when there are gossip news online
The place Lu Yan found to distribute the leaflets was not far from the game city.
This is a downtown area, with a lot of traffic, especially near the food street.
Xiao Heng became addicted to cigarettes, took out a cigarette, and took two puffs while standing at the intersection with a strong smell of oily smoke.
This looks like a typical downtown citizen.
"Will it be sent?"
Lu Yan gave him a stack, fearing that he would not be embarrassed, and the guide said: "Don't wait for others to pick it up, just stuff it where you can. Distributing leaflets does not require dignity..."
Xiao Heng didn't wait for him to finish speaking, and took two steps forward with a cigarette in his mouth: "Wait, brother will finish sending it to you in ten minutes."
It is not an exaggeration for Xiao Heng to say that he finished posting this in ten minutes.
When the man stood on the street, he didn't need to make any movements. The surrounding people automatically moved towards him, and some even reached out to take the leaflets.
Lu Yan raised his eyebrows, he didn't expect that the young master would improve so quickly.
After reading it for a while, he took the flyer and walked across the street, occupying an entrance and exit with Xiao Heng.
"Please take a look."
"Learn about the new single."
"Thanks."
Leaflets with the words "Silver Bullet" passed through countless hands. The two of them had outstanding looks, and most of the passers-by took the initiative to accept the leaflets. A thick stack of leaflets was distributed in about half an hour.
"Thirty minutes is okay." Lu Yan glanced at the time, "It's faster than I thought."
After he finished speaking, he asked again: "Are you going back to the base later?"
Xiao Heng took half a day off, and really had to go back and continue working on the project: "What about you."
Lu Yan said: "My partner has something to do at home, let me go to the milk tea shop to take care of it for two hours, and I will pack up later."
When he and Xiao Heng went out, it was Xiao Heng who was responsible for checking the route, and he just followed with his eyes closed.
"Route 21, get off after six stops," Xiao Heng patted his head with his backhand after checking, "Did you hear me?"
There was one last leaflet left in Lu Yan's hand.
He has already started to withdraw to the station, and he is not going to continue sending.
"I heard."
Lu Yan casually folded the last leaflet in half, his hands itched as he folded it, and finally got excited and folded it into a paper airplane a few times: "21, six stops."
After Lu Yan finished folding, he elbowed him: "Hey, Brother Heng, do you know how to play this?"
Xiao Heng glanced at him: "How old are you?"
Lu Yan found a good posture to throw it out: "...your son is three years old this year."
Xiao Heng laughed and directed him: "Don't raise your hands so high, you won't be able to fly far."
Xiao Heng said and put his hand on his wrist, leading him to adjust his gestures.
Lu Yan: "So?"
Lu Yan threw the paper airplane out.
That moment.
It rides the wind, as if waving its wings, and flies to the other end of the world carrying the words "silver bullet" like it rides the wind and waves.
The sales volume of Silver Bullet exceeded 1,000 in three days.
Soaring up the sales charts at an astonishing rate.
1000.
3000.
…
Gradually, not only the members of the V group went to the audio-visual store to pay attention to the sales if they had nothing to do, even the people in other bands were shocked by the soaring data, and there was a heated discussion in the air-raid shelter for a while.
"The V group is crazy. I heard that Spade said that Lu Yan wants to sell 10,000 copies this time."
"This is fucking crazy."
"What's the concept of 10,000 sheets? If you want 10,000 sheets, how can you still stay underground? What do you think?"
"This buddy is a ruthless man."
During this time, Lu Yan was busy working at the milk tea shop, so he didn't go to the air-raid shelter very much, but received a lot of greetings on WeChat. These greetings can be summed up in one sentence: What do you think, kid.
Lu Yangang sent a guest away, wiped his hands and read the news.
999+ news in the group chat of the band in the lower city, Art sent him countless messages.
[Group owner: It’s not really going to sell 10,000 copies. ]
[Lord:… ]
[Group leader: Why don't you speak, kid? ]
Lu Yan withdrew from the group chat interface, and privately chatted with the leader of a certain band who asked him why he didn't speak: How the hell did I talk, you first removed my ban.
After Lu Yan knew that they had set up a new group behind his back, he shamelessly sent hundreds of applications to the group owner, which annoyed the group owner. He finally returned to the band group and became the leader of the rock circle in the downtown area. Part of the group.
However, Lu Yan's speech status has been in a state of silence.
The group owner clearly expressed this attitude: It is okay to join the group, please shut down the microphone.
The group owner quickly replied: Sorry, I forgot.
Lu Yan was finally able to speak in the group. He propped one hand on the edge of the console and typed with the other.
[Lu Yan: Group V's latest single is on the market. If you have money, please share it. If you don't have money, please forward it. The online purchase link address is xxxxx. ]
[kangaroo:… ]
[Lu Yan: Kangaroo, how many people are there in the family? ]
[Lu Yan: Buy a few more. ]
[Kangaroo: ... ... the group leader, can you lock him up again. ]
Jokes are jokes, and at the end of the chat, everyone still expressed their support.
[Group leader: OK, brothers will forward it to you. ]
Their band's publicity is simply earth-shattering.
unprecedented.
Even Viagra’s motorcycle was forcibly installed with a unique Bluetooth speaker. When he was bravely collecting debts in the streets and alleys, accompanied by the roar of the motorcycle engine, there was also a song played on a loop... V Group’s latest masterpiece.
That day, Lu Yan was waiting to get off work and was about to close the shop when he received a message from Huang Xu.
The connection between people is very wonderful. The circle of life is different, and the connection is gradually fading. The last time I heard about Huang Xu was during the band competition. Huang Xu sent a photo. In the photo, he is hooking Jiang Yaoming's neck. Both held cans of beer in their hands.
The band's new year is playing on the TV behind them.
Probably because he was afraid of disturbing him during the game, Huang Xu only sent this photo, and didn't say anything else.
Huang Xu sent a voice message: "I just saw the group, they said you will sell 10,000 copies, what's going on?"
Lu Yan smiled, threw down the rag in his hand, pressed the voice button and moved closer and said, "It's nothing, I'm just fighting for breath... How are you and Daming doing?"
Huang Xu: "It's okay, that's it. Daming was forced to marry by his family recently. It's very pitiful. If nothing happens, he always takes refuge here." Huang Xu changed the subject and said, "Da Ming and I will each buy ten copies of that disc. The address is yours. I know, just send it over, what’s the matter with you, huh? It’s agreed that we will always be in the same band, and we don’t even think about us when releasing discs.”
Lu Yan: "Okay, if you want a dish, I'll send it to you later, so don't mention the money to me."
"No." Huang Xu insisted.
Lu Yan: "Why not, I will turn against you again."
Huang Xu didn't continue to tease him this time, but remained silent for two seconds: "Let me and Daming do our best."
"You said it yourself, even if you leave the team, we are still part of the V team."
When Huang Xu said this, he seemed to have returned to the air-raid shelter where he was carrying the piano and looking for the band to take him in. At that time, the blood flowing all over his body was as hot as the summer sun that year.
He said, "Lu Yan, take the V group and rush out."
Today marks the third week of Silver Bullet releases.
Sales exceeded 9,000 that night.
In fact, after reaching 9,000 copies, the growth rate will drop sharply in the future. No matter how much publicity is stepped up, the number of "9,000" is like an immobile hurdle.
Sales did not increase at all in the following week.
The owner of the video store looked at the few stacks of boxes left and sighed, and was about to turn over the open sign when the door was pushed open.
A middle-aged man with a pipe came in.
The middle-aged man was wearing a windbreaker, stood at the front desk and took a look: "Are you selling the silver bullets here?"
Boss: "Ah yes..."
Before the boss could finish speaking, the middle-aged man interrupted.
"How far is it from ten thousand?"
Tang Jiandong shook his head as he said, and waved his hand: "Yes, don't forget about it, just give me a thousand."