Chapter 276: Cheated

After coming to Lijin, Zhang Yunqi stayed in the studio every day.

According to his idea, the advertising company made "Daily Food" into a series, shooting one episode a day, and 24 episodes were set in the early stage. Each episode had a chef cooking a home-cooked dish, which lasted about 20 minutes. Although this thing was made in the form of a cooking program, its core was still advertising, and the format was also very ordinary. It would naturally not be popular in the future, but it was just that some creativity had not yet emerged in those days, so there was enough room for marketing.

During the filming of the advertisement, Zhang Yunqi successfully contacted people from the Xiangnan Provincial TV Station through Lin Shiyu's introduction to discuss the advertising placement.

There is no way a 20-minute commercial could be broadcast during prime time on Shonan TV, one of the leading domestic television media companies, and Liansheng doesn't have the money to invest in it. But Zhang Yunqi could not die from holding his urine, so he had to find ways to deal with the poor. He turned his attention to the junk advertising time in the morning, afternoon, and early morning hours.

At that time, there were relatively few domestic television advertisements, and they were basically spent a lot of money competing for the prime time. Almost no one paid attention to the garbage time in the morning and afternoon. As the health care product market became popular, commercials with the "expert free clinic" marketing model began to enter these garbage time slots of provincial TV stations in a big way. An advertisement was often more than ten minutes long and the format was boastful. The experts made it sound like a magic pill. But such fake stuff could be broadcast openly on many provincial satellite TV stations in that crazy era. Consumers were so gullible that they flocked to those magic pills. Children in the 1990s were very happy because they had sugar water to drink every day.

Now one wants to buy, the other is worried about selling. The two parties were very happy to discuss the advertising cooperation, and the plan was quickly finalized. The program was broadcast three times in the morning, afternoon and evening, each time for 20 minutes. The advertising fee during the day was 2 yuan per hour, and 1 yuan per hour in the early morning. Adding up, the advertising fee per day was 1 yuan. Zhang Yunqi directly signed a one-year contract, paid 1 million yuan in advance, and the rest was settled monthly.

Now that we have dealt with this, we will have almost done our work on this trip.

Early the next morning, Zhang Yunqi drove to the high-end residential area in Baizhupo. He had come here several times to pick up Ji Ling in the past few days and was already familiar with the route. He parked the car in front of the duplex building where Ji Ling lived, walked to the door and knocked.

After a while, the door opened.

But it was a woman who appeared at the door.

She was not very pretty, but her temperament was very good. She wore loose white cotton home clothes, her thick black hair was tied up high, and she wore light makeup. Her eyes were very similar to Ji Ling's. When she looked Zhang Yunqi up and down, Zhang Yunqi had already reacted and said politely, "Hello, aunt."

"Long time no see, you've grown taller." The woman was Ji Ling's mother. Zhang Yunqi didn't meet her the previous few times because she was at work. Today, Saturday, she was at home and saw Zhang Yunqi suddenly appear at the door. There was no surprise on her plump and beautiful face, nor was there a strong sense of vigilance like that of an ordinary mother.

She just glanced at the Mercedes-Benz S320 parked at the door and said, "I heard from Ji Ling that you came to Lijin for work this time. How is it going? Is there anything I can help you with?"

For some reason, Zhang Yunqi always felt that Ji Ling's mother was scrutinizing him in her words and deeds. Although he didn't seem to notice it, he smiled and said, "It's almost done. Thank you, aunt. I'll definitely find you if I need anything."

"That's good. Go out and play with Ji Ling?"

"Yes."

"Ji Ling hasn't had breakfast yet..."

"Let's eat on the way. It's getting late." Ji Ling came out of the living room, wearing a black baseball cap turned upside down on her head, a white cotton vest with navy blue denim shorts, half a piece of bread stuffed in her mumbling mouth, holding two bottles of milk. After throwing her schoolbag and a bottle of milk to Zhang Yunqi, she took the bread out of her mouth and pecked her mother on the face: "Mom, I'm leaving. Bye!"

Before Zhang Yunqi could say anything, Ji Ling had already pulled him to the car door. After they got in the car, Ji Ling's first words were: "My mother is fierce, right?"

Zhang Yunqi glanced at Ji Ling's mother who was still at the door and smiled, "She's quite amiable."

"Hey, Comrade Xiao Zhang is so sweet!"

"Oh, by the way, I forgot something. Have you asked your homeroom teacher for leave?"

"Please, please, stop talking too much. Comrade Zhang, you are the boss now, so please be less talkative and more cool!" Zhang Yunqi cooperated and shut up, then drove away in his Mercedes.

It rained heavily last night, and the usually hot Lijin was unusually cool. The two first went to Jia Yi's former residence. The houses on both sides of the bluestone road showed the style of a thousand-year-old ancient town. At the Aiwan Pavilion in Qingfeng Gorge of Yuelu Mountain, the maple leaves on the mountains have not yet fallen, and the forests are all lush green. Zhang Yunqi accompanied Ji Ling to many corners she wanted to visit, ate many street snacks she wanted to eat, and took many photos she wanted to keep with the camera.

At sunset in the afternoon, drive to Orange Island.

When Zhang Yunqi went to Lijin to study in a technical secondary school, the first place he visited was Orange Island. The reason was simple: there was no entrance fee and it was very famous. However, he just thought it was boring. He walked around the head of Orange Island for more than ten miles and was exhausted. However, he did not see the clear blue river and hundreds of boats competing for the current described in the books; nor did he see the boats swimming in the middle of the stream and the waves stopping them; nor did he see eagles flying in the sky, fish swimming in the shallows, and all kinds of creatures competing for freedom in the frosty sky! All he saw were some sparse and ordinary plants that he could not name.

Time has passed, and when Zhang Yunqi came here again, he stood on the Orange Island that runs across the middle of the Xiangjiang River, facing Lijin in the east and Yunlu in the west. The scenery is still the same as usual, but his state of mind is completely different. He can't compare with the sighs of those literati and poets. It's just that as an ordinary citizen, he was deeply beaten by the social reality and couldn't help but think of the young man who was determined to break out of his hometown on the Orange Island.

What happened in the Six Dynasties? All it did was become a private conspiracy of one family!
Ji Ling didn’t understand any of this, she was just tired.

After a crazy day of fun, my feet are sore.

Zhang Yunqi bought two ice creams and took his aunt to sit on a bench by the river to rest.

By then, the sunset had slowly set, the sky was getting dark, the red light sank into the river, the river water was dyed with the color of blood, the wind was very strong, the leaves in the forest rustled, and the white skirt of a girl passing by was blown up, her long and white thighs were clearly visible from bottom to top, for a moment, Man Yue's butt was looming, and Zhang Yunqi couldn't bear to blink when he saw it.

Ji Ling came over and said, "This girl is so beautiful."

Zhang Yunqi nodded in agreement: "Yes."

Ji Ling's eyes widened immediately: "Tell me! Who is prettier, me or her?"

Zhang Yunqi smiled and said, "Do you want to hear the truth or a lie?"

"The truth."

"You look good."

"Where are the lies?"

"What girl? I didn't see her!"

Ji Ling smiled so much that her mouth curved into a crescent shape, and she started to chatter like a little witch: "Xiao Zhang, do you coax Chu Jian like this every day at school? And then... and then you tricked her into getting her? Humph, when I get back to Jiangchuan, I'm going to tell Chu Jian."

Zhang Yunqi was about to speak.

At this moment, the pager in his trouser pocket began to beep. He took out the pager and opened it. Ten words popped up on the screen:
"Chu Dapeng died in a car accident, return quickly."

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(End of this chapter)