Reborn since 2005

Chapter 406 Cold winter is coming

Author: Hometown Three Thousand Miles

Chapter 406 Cold winter is coming

The year 2008 started with a cold winter.

Even in Guangdong Province, the temperature is much lower than in previous years.

Yan Xin had a deep impression of this cold winter in his previous life.

The first impression was about himself. At that time, he was still working as a security guard in Fengxiang City. At the end of the year, some security guards resigned and went home, and some security guards took leave to go home. The remaining employees could only work two shifts, 12 times a day.

Hour.

At that time, working the day shift was a little better, but working the night shift was just miserable. Wearing the company-issued military coat was of no use. When the wind blew outside, I was chilled to the bone, and it was useless to wear anything else.

At that time, I felt that going to work was too hard, and I thought about giving up and going home to farm. I couldn’t make money from farming, but no matter what, I could keep food and clothing, have free time, and don’t have to suffer.

The control of others.

Just think about that dilapidated house, think about the embarrassment of being penniless, and think about living with his father every day, how boring life must be?

So, in the end, I gave up the idea.

Later, heavy snow collapsed his family's house, injuring his father.

At that time, he couldn't even go home because the traffic was paralyzed.

His father was sent for medical treatment by someone from the government.

I didn’t go home until the Spring Festival.

That year he deeply understood what it meant to add insult to injury.

As a result, I have a special fear of cold for the rest of my life.

But I don’t have that big of a worry in this life.

Living conditions have become different. The place where he lives is equipped with air conditioning. When he feels cold, he just turns on the air conditioning and heating.

And he doesn't need to work the night shift, or even the day shift. He won't have to patrol back and forth while shivering in the cold wind like he did in his previous life.

His father is not that worried anymore.

The house we live in is a new one. It is very sturdy and will not be weighed down by snow.

What he is most worried about now is that in the ice and snow, his father will slip and fall when he goes out to work, and he may be injured.

But it will never be as dangerous as in the previous life.

He called home several times, saying that he should not go out to work when the weather was cold, especially when it was ice and snow.

He not only told his father, he also told his stepmother.

Being so far apart, he couldn't supervise his father, but Wu Xiuhong could.

If he made such a request, Wu Xiuhong would take it seriously.

He is still confident about this.

This confidence does not come from anything else, but from his family status - he is now the backbone of the family.

Not only will the two old people rely on him to support them in the future, but the youngest Bai Xiaoling will also rely on him for support in the future.

With such ability, you will have a status that matches your ability, and your words will be valued.

His words may not be of much use to his father, because he is his real father.

But in Wu Xiuhong's case, it will still be executed.

What he is most worried about now is not the snowstorm, but that two people who know about his relationship with Aili already know about his relationship with Feng Xi. Does this mean that his happy time of stepping on two boats will be over?

Passed?

Even if these two people will not tell Ellie, two people know it now, but what about the future?

More and more people will know.

If Ai Lili goes to the capital with him one day, or if Feng Xi comes to Yangcheng to find him one day, this matter will also be exposed.

In that situation, there is no way to hide it even if you want to.

Thinking about it still gives me a headache.

——Although he knew that this matter could not be kept hidden forever and would be exposed sooner or later, he was mentally prepared.

But when things come to a close, you still have to worry.

He knew the personalities of both women, and it was impossible to make such principled compromises in their relationships.

If the matter was revealed, he felt that his relationship with these two women would most likely come to an end.

The best outcome is that someone forgives him and chooses to move on.

It is impossible for both of them to forgive him and accept the other's existence.

The greater possibility is that neither of them will forgive him and will choose to leave him.

That's really not what he wanted.

How to deal with the incident after it happens and who to retain is really a big problem.

At least now he doesn't have an answer.

He also fears the day when the answer will come.

Just like everyone knows that people are going to die eventually, but when that day comes, they still can't help but be afraid.

No matter how much mental preparation you make, it doesn't mean much.

On January 3, after lunch at Ai Jing's place, Yan Xin drove back to Yangcheng with Ai Lili.

Life is still the same as before, but Yan Xin has more worries.

The weather is getting colder.

It's better in the north. The winter there is already cold, and the people living there are used to that kind of temperature. A lower temperature won't be a big problem.

But it's different in the south.

The weather in the south is relatively warmer, and people in some places have never seen snow in their lives.

The temperature is a few degrees lower than in previous years, and the feeling is completely different.

That was really unbearable.

It was an unprepared cold, and it caught people off guard.

It did not cause any trouble to Yan Xin in life.

However, as the cold wave becomes stronger and stronger, traffic in a large area of ​​the south has been paralyzed, and some places have even suffered large-scale power outages, which has affected online sales data.

There is not much of a problem in the north, but it is a huge problem in the south.

Jinxi E-commerce Company has opened several online stores and spent a lot of money on promotion, and its business is getting better and better.

But this time the cold wave came, traffic was paralyzed in a large area, which made it impossible to mail items in many places, and orders were not allowed in several provinces.

This will naturally affect sales performance.

Entering January, due to logistics problems, the sales data of Jinxi E-commerce Company dropped by more than ten percentage points compared with last month.

Logically speaking, shopping should be more popular at the end of the year.

If such a situation occurs, it is due to the influence of weather.

Gu Ru's first solo album was also sold online. It was already on pre-sale before it was produced.

Also because there is no way to guarantee that the goods will be shipped before the Spring Festival, some return orders have been triggered.

Fortunately, Yan Xin had known about this situation for a long time and had taken some measures. The record factory he chose was from Beijing, so most of the area was not affected.

January 25th is the day they scheduled to officially release the album.

The pre-sale data calculated on January 20th totaled more than 200,000 tickets.

Originally, they decided to issue 100,000 copies. They felt that this number should not have much risk, and the loss would not be much.

Jinxi E-commerce Company's Nishang Yuyi Store also sponsored this record, and the reward was that the record came with a dozen photos of Gu Ru wearing their Hanfu, and the name and website of the online store were also attached.

An advertisement.

With this sponsorship fee, as long as 20,000 or 30,000 of these 100,000 records can be sold, there will be no loss.

I didn’t expect that the pre-sale amount would be more than 200,000.

It was beyond their expectation.

Originally, only 100,000 records were prepared, and later an additional 200,000 were added, for a total of 300,000.

It’s just that there were some chargebacks later.

As of January 25, more than 200,000 copies had been pre-sold, and the total number was even nearly 10,000 less than before.

But this puts no pressure on them. There is no loss if they have a backlog of tens of thousands of records that cannot be sold. The production cost is not reflected in the final printing and distribution. If it is just a disc, there is no cost. Tens of thousands more copies will be printed and distributed.

It will not cause any loss and can basically be ignored.

According to industry practice, if the sales data of more than 200,000 pieces is written as a soft article, it will start at 500,000.

And it’s still a sensational “first day sales of 500,000 copies”.

——Yes, on the evening of January 25, such a soft article appeared in entertainment newspapers, and also appeared in entertainment news on several radio and television stations.

This is building momentum for Gu Ru.

It is to bring her final performance career to a successful conclusion, and at the same time it is also to increase her net worth, create a persona of a mainland music diva, and obtain more and better performance opportunities and advertising endorsement opportunities.

It’s just the last month, and Gu Ru also wants to earn more.

The sales volume of her personal album is a major evidence of her strength and status in the music industry, and it is also the most powerful evidence.

Starlight Entertainment is not the first to make false publicity in the sales of records. The entire industry does this.

Putting aside the falsehoods, just talking about the real sales volume, this data is also excellent.

The main reason is that these songs of hers can be hits, and each one has the ability to be a hit song.

Although it is his first solo album, its quality is even better than a greatest hits album.

More than a dozen highly popular classic songs are integrated into one record, and she is the original singer, which is quite attractive to fans.

There is another bigger reason, that is, there is no piracy yet.

All are sold online, and they are sold by pre-sale one month in advance.

Before January 25th, this record was not available on the market, and it was impossible to pirate it even if you wanted to.

——Although some pirated copies are pirated by the original record companies themselves, but now the records are not officially sold, and they are pirated, it is a bit too much, and people should not make their appearance so ugly.

These songs of hers have been found on the Internet for a long time, and many people have downloaded them, and there are many various platter records.

But at that time, the conditions were limited, the production was simple, and there was not much cost. The quality was not very good, just the quality of ordinary online songs.

The quality of the pirated records based on that version is naturally not much better, with a strong copycat style.

As for this solo album, she was in the best condition, hired a first-class production team, re-arranged the songs, and it took nearly a month to complete.

Each song has half a minute of content posted online, and the listening effect is completely different, directly to the next level.

This naturally attracted many fans, who were willing to spend ten or twenty yuan to buy such a high-quality album.

Of the sales of more than 200,000 copies, users of Xingguang.com accounted for more than half.

Gu Ru is the first sister and one of the bosses of Starlight Entertainment, so of course the website must vigorously promote her.

In addition, in order to make sales data better, Gu Ru will also interact with fans on music forums when she has free time.

With her current celebrity status, if she lands on a mobile website, it will definitely cause a sensation and attract a large number of people to watch.

With such publicity and momentum, it is understandable that more people will buy her album.

This solo album is Gu Ru's first album, and it is also her final work. It is the realization of her dream over the years, so she attaches great importance to it.

Even if he is busy with business performances outside, he will ask Yan Xin for online pre-sale data every day.

After the number of pre-sales exceeded 100,000, she said this:

"My life is worth it! I am worthy of my dreams! I am worthy of who I was when I was young!"

Years of persistence finally paid off.

With this achievement, you can leave a deep footprint in the music world.

This is the 21st century when industry insiders lament that "records are dead". There are only a few companies in the entire Chinese-speaking region that can achieve such results a year.

It's something she should be proud of.

This year she did not receive an invitation to the Spring Festival Gala of Brick TV because she had already participated last year but not this year, which was not surprising.

She is not a person related to the Spring Festival Gala, and she does not have such connections. She only relied on the popularity of her songs to get into the Spring Festival Gala.

It’s not easy to be in the last class. If you want to be in the class two years in a row, you haven’t reached that point yet.

However, although she did not attend the Spring Festival Gala of Zhuaner TV, she received invitations from several satellite TV Spring Festival Galas.

Those satellite TV stations have both live and recorded Spring Festival Galas. There is no conflict in time, and the ratings over the years have always been good.

The most important thing is that the price offered is quite high.

As long as the schedule can be arranged, Gu Runa will not refuse anyone who comes, and she accepted the Spring Festival Gala invitations from four satellite TV stations in one go.

In addition, there are platter concerts, annual meetings of large companies, and events in large shopping malls. There are quite a lot of performance opportunities.

At the end of the year, she received several invitations for advertising endorsements, and she had already asked Xiao Yin to talk to them.

As long as she can earn money, she doesn't want to miss it.

In January, Chen Li's physical publishing fees for the second half of 2007 were settled, and half of them were given to Yan Xin. The remaining half was enough for him to repay the more than one million he borrowed from Gu Ru.

He even used the remaining money to buy a house of more than 100 square meters in Pengcheng, and also bought a parking space.

This is what he said to Yan Xin: "If mother and son do not do well abroad and want to return to China, I will give them this house. Then I will be completely benevolent."

After he and Liang Wei rejoined QQ friends, they didn't chat much, but Liang Wei would still take the initiative to tell him about the child - after all, he paid two hundred thousand dollars.

The child has not been born yet, but the gender is already known. He is a son.

Liang Wei also asked Chen Li what name he wanted to give his son.

Chen Li replied to her: "He was born in the United States, and he will be an American from now on. Just give him an American name. You are his mother and his guardian. It is up to you. You don't need to ask me."

But looking back, he asked Yan Xin again:

"If I have a son, what do you think would be a better name?"

Yan Xin was very surprised: "You don't want a son, why did you think of this problem?"

"Isn't it available now?" Chen Li said depressedly.

Yan Xin was stunned for a moment, understood what was going on, and said to him: "You have to think about it yourself. You are a writer who doesn't know how to name yourself. Ask me? Don't you think this is funny?"

Chen Li was surprised: "What's so funny about this? Aren't you the names of the main characters in these two books?"

Yan Xin couldn't say that he plagiarized the name, so he just patted him on the shoulder and said meaningfully:

"I can't take away the joy that a father should have. Your son's name can only be chosen by you."

(End of chapter)