294. Needle threading (1/2
"Dang Tang Fantasy Night" magazine, conference room.
It's another regular meeting for the week. The editor-in-chief is reporting the comic rankings for the previous week. Wang Yinghu is nervous and worried about the ranking of "Dream Search and Travel".
This morning meeting every week is the most difficult for them and the editors, and they are nervous, like a criminal waiting to be sentenced.
Only the two editors of "Demon-Suppressing Tower" and "Flowers Want the World" are firmly sitting on Diaoyutai, and the old god is free.
Of course, they also have to compete, but they are fighting each other, not competing with other editors, because the two comics they are responsible for have always been the best in their achievements. It is too difficult for other comics to catch up with them, and there is almost no end to see.
Moreover, these two comics have a lot of momentum, and the plot quality has not only not declined, but has steadily improved.
Thanks to the healthy competition between the two comics, the comic authors are also competing.
This is a good thing, but it only makes others suffer and becomes more and more desperate.
Wang Yinghu glanced at the little girl sitting on his right, and saw her frowning.
Although Wang Yinghu was nervous, he was not too worried, because his performance in "Dream Search" has slowly increased in the past three weeks and has escaped from the dangerous area of being cut in half.
The "Prince" in charge of the little girl is very dangerous. If it is still at the bottom this time, it will not have to be published in the magazine next week. Just prepare for the finale.
However, there is also a possibility, that is, there is no chance to publish the finale, because this comic and "Dream Search" were published on the same day, only three weeks ago, and their popularity is so low that how many people will care about the finale. Instead of giving up the precious page to such a comic that no one reads, it is better to give a new comic, and there are countless possibilities.
"The last one is the Prince. Who is the editor in charge?" asked the editor-in-chief.
The little girl beside Wang Yinghu raised her hand miserably: "It's me, editor-in-chief."
The editor-in-chief looked at her expressionlessly, lowered his head and wrote and painted on his notebook, and said, "Tell the author that this comic will not be published next week."
After talking about this, the editor-in-chief started to talk about the next topic. The little girl raised her hand tremblingly and did not put it down. It took a while before the editor-in-chief noticed and asked her what else she had to do.
"Editor-in-Chief, I would like to ask, will the finale of "The Prince" be published in the monthly magazine?"
The editor-in-chief said impatiently: "Not published."
In other words, "The Prince" doesn't even have the chance to write the finale.
What's worse is that according to the contract between the comic author and the publisher, the other party has exclusive authorization, and the comic can only be published by the "Da Tang Fantasy Night" Publishing House. If it is unwilling to publish it, the comic cannot be given to others.
In other words, this comic called "The Prince" will completely disappear in front of the public, and the author's efforts will be put into vain.
This is also the reason why many well-known comics suddenly disappear. Most of them are not because the magazines are no longer published, but because the magazines are not well-managed and go bankrupt, so the comics signed with them may also die.
After the meeting, Wang Yinghu comforted the girl a few words, but was suddenly stopped by the editor.
The editor-in-chief asked about the situation of "Dream Search" and Xiaohongma Comic Studio, and then said that he was optimistic about this comic.
"You ask them if they can update twice a week? They can give them a better layout," said the editor.
Double-in-one week is a common term for online platforms serialization, that is, it is updated twice a week.
"Dang Tang Fantasy Night" magazine is a weekly magazine, and it is published once a week, so of course it is impossible for comics to update twice a week, and there is no place to update them.
That means, twice the amount published in each issue of the magazine.
Wang Yinghu was excited. After the editor left, he clenched his fists with both hands and wanted to wave them hard, but suddenly stopped them, and instead just clenched them tightly. The revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades still need to work hard.
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Xiaobai sat on a small stool, with a straight body, watching TV, but frowned and muttering, looking very dissatisfied.
There was a small stool beside her, sitting on the pier, and he was so focused about it.
Xiaobai kept looking at him and then looked at the TV. It was hard to believe that Dunzi watched this so seriously no matter how he looked at it.
There is a news broadcast on TV.
"What a matter of the matter, my uncle's claws show this to my friend." Xiaobai muttered, and reached out to shake it in front of Dunzi. Dunzi was not affected at all, so he continued to look at him.
"Dunzi~~Dunzi??? What are you living in? Are you sleeping?" Xiaobai shook Duzi's chubby shoulders.
Dunzi then reacted, wiped his nose, pointed his shiny finger at the TV, and said, "Xiaobai, you call me to watch the TV~~"
He was called by Xiaobai to watch TV together. Before Xiaobai left the village, they often played together, and except for sleeping, they were almost inseparable.
Xiaobai's TV broke down. In the evening, Bai Jianping called Bai Jianping to repair it. When he turned on, he could only watch the news broadcast.
Xiaobai seriously suspected that his uncle had tampered with her TV because the news broadcast was something his uncle liked to watch. In Pujiang, Xiaobai often scrambled with him to watch cartoons at this time.
Xiaobai was so angry that he really wanted to ask his uncle about his claws. He was bullying his little friend.
In the past, I could watch "Windmill Cars and Fake Experienced" and other cartoons. At that time, when the sun was about to set, she brought a small stool with Dunzi and sat in front of the TV to wait for the cartoon to play. They watched whatever they played, and they were all good at everything and were having fun.
Xiaobai is still the one who is still the one who is not the one who is Dunzi anymore. Dunzi actually watched the news broadcast without blinking eyes.
She couldn't understand and completely lost interest in the news broadcast.
The brazier around me is getting stronger and stronger, so warm, and grandma is embroidering flowers in the light of the fire.
She was wearing reading glasses, her eyes were far away from the cloth, and she was holding an embroidery needle in her hand, and was working skillfully but slowly.
When my grandmother was young, she had a pair of clever hands. Her best-known one was Shu embroidery. She could embroider dragons and phoenixes, flowers and birds, fish and insects, mountains and rivers, etc., and she could be snatched away at the market.
The clothes and shoes that Xiaobai wore when she was a child were almost made by her grandmother. On ordinary fabric, she embroidered a small golden flower, a bee with wings spread, and a cute little man instantly looked unique and could make Xiaobai happy for a long time.
But now my grandma's eyes are dizzy and she hasn't embroidered for a long time.
At this moment, she was embroidering a tiger head on a pair of tiger-head shoes.
"Aowu~~~ Grandma, you embroidered the big brain and love to chatter." Xiaobai was not interested in TV, so he came to grandma and looked at her embroidered tiger-head shoes.
Grandma used up her thread in her hand and was threading it back into the needle's eye. She had been threading it several times but she didn't get it in.
"This is my strength, grandma, give it to me, I'll do it."
Xiaobai took the embroidery needle from his grandmother's hand, pinched the needle with his left hand and the thread with his right hand, and was staggered and could not penetrate it.
Xiaobai's big eyes turned, glanced at grandma, and smiled awkwardly: "Hohoho~~~ Grandma, I'm just teasing you~~~ Hey!"
Chapter completed!