After dreaming of getting rich, I dressed up as a collapsed idol

Chapter 333

"Is it because of the mystery novel award event that we're collaborating with a magazine in China?"

"Who said it wasn't? The company came up with this plan to cater to the group's strategy, but ended up throwing this troublesome thing at us. Ahhh!"

Inomata Shinichiro said irritably.

Kumata Yamada knows a little about this.

Countries like Fuso and South Korea, which have small land areas but developed economies, have a common problem: small domestic markets.

In order to further develop, large companies that have reached a certain scale need to continuously explore external markets.

As a neighboring big country, China has a huge market. Over the years, all walks of life in Japan have been increasing their investment there.

Hitotsubashi Group and Kadokawa Group are the most active, relying on various cultural products adapted from their comics and light novels to support their current huge market value.

Kodansha, the core company of the Otowa Group, also established a branch in the Chinese market very early on, but apart from that, there has not been much progress among its other companies.

Guangwenshe's main business has little to do with the Chinese market, so there aren't many cooperative projects.

In order to cater to the group's plan, we had to come up with a plan, which is the mystery novel award we are currently collaborating on.

This activity is mainly aimed at promoting the company's mystery novels and allowing them to enter the Chinese book market through this channel.

As for the grand prize-winning works produced during the event, they will be published in Fuso.

So far, the works produced by the six events that have been held have not achieved outstanding results in the Fuso market, and are even somewhat poor.

If there really were sales, the editorial department wouldn't have laid off so many people.

Shinichiro Inomata didn't care much about this, and even thought that trouble was normal.

"This matter has always been handled by the deputy editor-in-chief. I'm just an ordinary editor. It wouldn't be easy for me to accept it all of a sudden."

Yamada Kumata hesitated and didn't want to agree.

"Hey, you know Okada-kun has been transferred to another department, and Ono-kun doesn't speak Chinese, so I have to trouble you."

That's why he doesn't want to go.

Yamada Kumata was feeling miserable.

The company has been reducing the number of editorial staff recently. He is afraid that if he goes to China, his current job will be taken over by others, and when he returns, there will be no place for him.

Because he vaguely heard that the company planned to recruit new people to replace their old ones in order to save costs.

"Hey, Yamada-kun."

Yamada Kumata still wanted to fight for it, but the editor-in-chief looked at him with a look that said, "Everything is free from you," which made him unable to say what was in his heart.

In Japanese social occasions, there is a culture called "reading the air".

The general meaning is that the atmosphere has reached this point. Although I didn’t say it explicitly, you should know what to do.

"I understand, Editor-in-Chief."

"I'm counting on you, Yamada-kun."

A smile appeared on Inomata Shinichiro's face.

"Well, there's not much to do there. You'll mainly be working with the editors of the magazine to review manuscripts. If you don't want to put in too much thought, just follow their ideas."

"Hi."

Yamada Kumata agreed.

But I thought to myself that since I had already taken on this job, I must treat it well.

"You should leave work early today, go back and pack your luggage and get ready to leave."

"Hi."

Yamada Kumata stood up, bowed, and walked out of the office.

……

“La, la la la, la la…”

This is the mountainous area of ​​Guizhou Province. On a small road hidden among the mountains, Lu Qingfeng accompanied two little girls home from school.

The older one was humming an unknown ballad, and the younger one was looking at him with curiosity from time to time.

There were also two photographers and two directors accompanying them.

This is the fifth episode of "Sounds into the Ears", the theme of rural teachers.

The five guests came to the mountain village primary school here and served as temporary music teachers. At the end of a day's teaching, the five people were responsible for visiting one child's home respectively.

The student that Lu Qingfeng is in charge of is the oldest girl among them. Her name is Jia Yijia, a very rare surname. She is eleven years old and in the fourth grade.

The younger one is Jiayijia’s sister, Jiayiying, who is only eight years old and in the first grade.

"Yijia, do you usually have to walk such a long way to and from school?"

Lu Qingfeng didn't expect that the journey for this home visit would be so long. After school, he and the two girls had been walking for more than 40 minutes.

"Yes, Mr. Lu, we'll be here soon."

The eleven-year-old girl was both naive and mature. She couldn't help but glance in the direction of the camera while speaking, feeling a little shy and awkward.

Lu Qingfeng kept talking to her to relieve her psychological pressure.

The younger one, on the other hand, didn't look scared at all, and displayed a child's curiosity and desire to explore towards this group of people he had never seen before.

After walking for another ten minutes, we finally arrived at the village entrance.

Lu Qingfeng saw a small shop on the side of the road, so he asked them to wait a moment and went in to buy two boxes of milk.

Although he was nominally visiting the teacher, Lu Qingfeng still felt a little awkward coming empty-handed, and besides, the more courtesy, the better.

The village was quite large. Walking along the path, one could see smoke rising from every house. Occasionally, one could see some elderly people coming in and out of the doors. When they saw them, they looked at them with curiosity and vigilance.

"Little sister, where did the sliding door come from?"

"Nonsense, the teacher is here for a home visit!"

Jia Yijia explained, and Lu Qingfeng nodded in greeting.

After walking for a while, they finally arrived at the home of the two little girls, an old tile-roofed house. From a distance, Jiayijia started shouting.

"Grandma, grandma."

The accent was very strong, but Lu Qingfeng could tell it was probably someone calling grandma.

But no one answered. Instead, an old man came out from next door with a child and said.

"Your grandmother has gone to your uncle's house to see her grandson."

Probably not expecting this situation, Jia Yijia looked at Lu Qingfeng uneasily.

Lu Qingfeng smiled.

"It's okay, just think of me as a guest at your house."

The program recording and home visits are just a gimmick after all. The main purpose is to have something to film, but the children take it seriously.

After hearing this, Jia Yijia felt relieved.

Holding his sister's hand, he led Lu Qingfeng into the house.

The door was not locked, but simply closed. Pushing the door open, it was the main hall. The layout of the rural house was also simple, just square, with an octagonal table and benches placed against the wall.

There are some miscellaneous items piled up at the front, and the environment at home is not very clean, but it is not too bad either.

As soon as she entered the door, Jia Yijia put down her schoolbag, wiped the stool several times, moved it over for the program staff and Lu Qingfeng to sit on, and then went to pour water from the thermos.

Skilled in making people feel distressed.