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Chapter Eight, Small Talk

After drinking tea, Uesugi Soyuki moved a chair and placed it next to his big table. The girl sat there and started doing her homework. He took a document and began to browse it carefully.

This document is a report written by a staff member, which talks about the recent hot AkB incident. This staff member believes that since Akimoto Yasushi can select a national idol group through this audition, then why can't we Sony be so rich and have a great career?

Recently, it was the case in this regard that Uesugi Soyuki was instinctively resisting, but if you think about it carefully, he also admitted that what this employee said made some sense.

As one of RB's giant group companies, Sony has the ability to complete everything from selecting personnel, training, debut, physical sales and even online distribution of letters within the company, which is the so-called "transaction internalization."

As long as a company can internalize transactions, it can save a lot of manpower and material resources. In addition, Sony Music itself has resources and connections, it is not difficult to achieve what the employee said, establishing such an idol group.

But then? What about after establishing this idol group?

After the disbandment of Akimoto Yasushi's "Kitten Club" and before "speed" became popular, RB entered the "Idol Ice Age" that lasted for many years. Why did no idol group succeed?

Akimoto Yasushi's routine is not something that ordinary people can learn! Zong Xue sighed in her heart. He admired Akimoto Yasushi, the founder of the 48g family. Only with the endless creativity in his mind, his unparalleled connections in the idol world, his background of black and white, and the people on the five major TV stations, can we have the ability to gather all these resources and successfully give akB a female idol group the number one sales volume and millions.

Moreover, Uesugi Soyuki doesn't agree with the benefits that will be brought by the so-called "transaction internalization".

Sony's current situation is not good. The losses caused by several consecutive fiscal years are not pure economic losses to Sony. Many of the impacts are subtly changing this behemoth that originally rushed into the United States in the 1990s, killing all over the world, and showing off all the heroes.

After looking at the name of this employee, Minami Yui, Uesugi Soyuki clasped his fists in confusion and pinched his chin. He seemed to have heard of this name somewhere.

He looked up and looked at the time. Before the Minister of Human Resources had finished get off work, he picked up the phone: "Hey, I'm Uesugi, I'll immediately send a resume called Nanxiangwei to my email address."

Five minutes later, he heard the prompt sound from the computer.

Yes, Minami Yoshi, who just graduated from the University of Tokyo this year and has only been working in Sony Music for less than a month. He is a student of the same class as Uesugi Soxue. No wonder Uesugi Soxue has some impression of this name.

After a while, he picked up the phone again: "Hey, I am Uesugi, is Nan Xiangwei from the business department?"

There was a noisy inquiry sound from the phone, constantly passing on his questions, and then passing them back from afar: "Director Uesugi, he has gotten off work in Nanxiang."

Uesugi Soxue frowned unconsciously. It was less than eight o'clock now, and most of the people in the company were still working. Why did Nanxiang Wei get off work? So his tone became heavier: "What's going on? Why did he get off work? What's the reason?"

Since he went to the United States, he has been in a high position for quite a while.

There was another noisy inquiry, and then another person answered the phone: "Hello, Director Uesugi, I am from Henanxiang's only office..."

"What's going on, you'll talk about it first." Uesugi Soxue interrupted him directly.

"It seems that there is something to do at home today, so I said he left first, but...but, he seems..." There was a hint of uncontrollable excitement in the voice: "It seems that I went to the concert. I saw him holding tickets to the akB48 concert."

Going to watch akB48's concert? Well, it seems that it was summer visit recently. Uesugi Soyuki checked it with a computer and sure enough, there happened to be one tonight.

"...Well, Director Uesugi..." Seeing that there was no sound on the phone, the colleague of Nanxiangwei on the other side held back a smile and asked softly that it was not the first time that he, a colleague who graduated from Dongda University, got off work early (actually he was unwilling to work overtime). But the company clearly stipulated that the time for get off work was 5:30 in the afternoon. He had to get off work on time and could not stop him, so he planned to teach that high-end student from Dongda University a lesson and make him more knowledgeable!

"...Let him come to see me next Monday." What he heard was that Director Uesugi was not a serious matter, and was arranged like a notice. That's it?

Uesugi Soxue hung up the phone and smiled helplessly. After he learned about this, he almost instinctively wanted to punish Nanxiang Wei. His director was working overtime, so he actually went to see his idol's concert?

But he suddenly remembered the experience of a technical mate.

Technical resident graduated from an ordinary university in the Tian Dynasty and studied electronic information technology. However, the job in this major is not easy to find. After passing through a relative's intermediary, he found a job in a private company along the coast.

The work of private enterprises is very hard, with only two days off a month, and they usually work overtime at any time. Working twelve hours a day is common. Although the salary is good, the life like a tight spring makes the technical occupant feel very painful, and he needs a spiritual sustenance.

When he was in college, he liked AKB48, but because of his senior year internship, graduation design, and various life trivial matters that he adapted to when he first entered the company, he gradually gave up this hobby and when he planned to pick it up again, he found out.

Why don’t I recognize these people anymore? What about the original people?

Well, they're all graduated.

At this time, Nogizaka 46 walked into his sight.

Later, in order to go to RB to meet his idol once, he worked for three months in one go without stopping, and then he wanted to meet his idol once with the money he had saved.

No, the company manager told him that you can take a break of up to three days, because you didn’t have a break and you automatically gave up on your rest.

This is different from what we agreed on!

What's the difference?! Haven't you given more money? Do you still want to do it?

Work is hard-won, and a hero knocks off his teeth and swallows them.

To push oneself to others, Nanxiang Wei did not violate the company's regulations. Uesugi Soxue thought about it, but finally gave up. Do not do to others what she does not want others to do to her.

"That...sen..." While Uesugi Soxue was silent in memory, a weak voice came from his ears.

"What's wrong?" He came to his senses.

"Senior looks so scary." Shiraishi Mai looked at Uesugi Soxue's face changing constantly, sometimes ferocious and gloomy. She knew that Soxue might have remembered something bad, so she hurriedly woke him up.

The former familiar senior seemed to have become unfamiliar again.

"Sorry, I remembered some things from the past." Uesugi Soxue shook her head, as if she wanted to throw these things out of her mind. Looking at the girl's appearance, he suddenly smiled: "This way, it seems like she is going back to the past."

After hearing what he said, Mai Shiraishi would smile.

In the past, when she was in junior high school, the two of them often found a classroom after school, sat together and did their homework together.

The senior always does his homework very quickly. He often finishes his homework in an hour, and then picks up a book. If he has any problems, he will put down the book and explain it carefully to himself. If he has nothing to do, he will read the book quietly. The afternoon sun shines on the desk, on the homework and textbooks, and also shines into the girl's heart. In those dark years, he is the ray of sunshine in her life.

So after her senior left her, she resolutely chose to study in Beijing, just because her senior was in Tokyo and she wanted to find him.

This idea supported her to spend the remaining year in the middle school.

The girl's voice helped Zong Xue dispel the haze in her memory. His expression and tone became much more relaxed. Seeing that there were no outsiders in the office, he relaxed his body and leaned completely on the comfortable boss's chair. He let out a sigh of relief, and then said to the girl: "Shirashi, are you still used to the work in the convenience store?"

"Well! The shopkeeper is a very good person and his salary is also good." The girl held the atomic pen in her hand and wrote the words in a brisk tone, and she seemed to be quite satisfied with the work.

"That's good." Uesugi Soxue was once very curious that it was his one-sided decision to help Mai Shiraishi make up for the lessons. Why did Mai Shiraishi's parents never ask much about it? Even on weekends, sometimes when the girl went to his house to do homework, Mr. Shiraishi did not object. What did the girl's parents think?

Later I learned that he underestimated his reputation among the parents of Gunma Middle School. He was often the top three in the grade and often ranked first. He has always been a typical example by teachers. He lived opposite his home for many years. Mai Shiraishi's father already knew him quite well. He was a very clean child. He did not have any bad habits and never did what high school boys like to do (actually, he was not interested in the things that naughty children liked). In addition, he could feel the good education and knowledge and talent of this child that he could feel in his good contact. Mr. Shiraishi was quite at ease with Uesugi Soyuki.

Moreover, in RB culture, parents do not have as much control over their children as the Celestial Empire, and they often choose to respect their children's decisions. Since their daughter likes them and the other party is not a bad child, it doesn't matter.

So after he returned to China to intermediary and guaranteed to handle school and accommodation, Mr. Shiraishi agreed to his daughter's request to go to Beijing.

Now, the senior is back.
Chapter completed!
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