Do Not Speak Ill of My Mother!
Chapter 287: I’m dissatisfied with the company’s arrangements.

Chapter 287: I’m dissatisfied with the company’s arrangements.

Zhongxing Camp was arranged on a farm in the outskirts of the Magic Capital.

Located on the plain with no mountains or forests, there is only a small hill less than a hundred meters high.

A one-meter-wide channel winds around the base of the hill, carrying the river water and running straight towards the direction of the sea.

On both sides are flat wheat fields, close to the harvest season, the wheat turns from green to yellow, with the gradually changing color looking soothing to the eye.

Even through the screen, the audience can feel the rare comfort and coziness, not to mention the guests who are actually among the wheat fields.

After the reforms at Zhongxing, out of the over a hundred celebrities in their ranks, now only more than twenty are left—a huge loss!

Moreover, they conducted drug tests but never disclosed the information, which led the netizens to switch from speculating at first to somewhat blindly criticizing. Seeing the official announcement of Zhongxing’s new variety show, many came to the live stream with an attitude ready to mock.

[I’m here, I’m here, what place is this? The scenery’s not bad.]

[What, you guys came for the variety show? I’m here to see who’s left in Zhongxing! I heard that out of a hundred people, only twenty-something are left, laughable, it’s like they’ve been raided.]

[I arrived early and counted. There are only twenty-three people left.]

[Meng Yinge is still there, not bad, and hey, what’s the name of that top star of Zhongxing? Chi Xianlin, right? Doesn’t seem like I see him around?]

[For sure he’s not here! I heard he went to Soaring Sky Studio, and it was the boss who personally poached him.]

[Is it the Soaring Sky Studio that produced the top star Si Younian? Chi Xianlin has good insight! But then again, Zhongxing is quite righteous, letting them leave the contract and not demanding money or anything else. You haven’t seen those companies that make a living off of termination fees; they could completely bankrupt an artist!]

This variety show was different from past shows; it will have hosts, a program schedule, and other elements.

With the cameras set up there, each guest didn’t have their own microphone after arriving. They took their missions and went to work in the fields.

Although there were several cameras capturing different shots, they were all planting shots, nothing much to see in reality.

The popularity was all due to the netizens’ live comments!

Thirteen female celebrities and ten male celebrities were divided into four groups.

Each group worked in an orderly manner: some measured in the fields, some weeded, others checked the wheat ears, all being orderly, looking quite professional.

Before long, the camera focused on an old man.

Finally, a staff member took on the role of a host, "Grandpa Wu, what do you think of everyone’s work?"

Old Man Wu took a puff from his dry pipe and repeatedly smacked his lips, "Not bad."

He was the owner of the farmland here, in his sixties but looking nearly eighty, dark-skinned and hunchbacked.

When he first heard that the production team wanted to do a reality show here, Old Man Wu refused with both hands outstretched, fearing these clueless folks would ruin his wheat field.

It was Director Tang who came over and had a good talk with Old Man Wu. Only after offering to deal with the flood problems next year for free did he relent.

Old Man Wu was an easygoing person.

"Xiao Ni, what’s that black thing you’re carrying?"

"It’s a camera, Grandpa Wu, do you watch TV usually?"

"Yeah."

"Those images on TV are all filmed with this kind of equipment."

Old Man Wu was shocked, "So I’m on TV too?"

"Yeah," Xiao Ni nodded, "Director Tang should have explained these things to you when he first came."

Old Man Wu earnestly puffed on his big pipe: "I can’t remember...when Xiao Tang came to find me, I really didn’t want to at first, afraid that you kids don’t understand anything, trampling around here and there, and ruining the whole wheat field!"

[Hahaha, the old man is so cute, not afraid to point out the shortcomings of celebrities, and he speaks out about all his concerns.]

[Some reality shows are like this, just focusing on creating hot topics, and not caring about anyone else’s life or death. I watched a countryside reality show before, wow, those artists didn’t help at all, one moment pulling up rice seedlings thinking they were weeds, the next moment eating the poultry that the farmers had raised for years... utterly speechless.]

[Right, and there are always people who use the excuse ’the show’s crew paid them’ to defend it, I can’t stand it! Looking at the sorrow and restraint in the eyes of the locals, it’s obviously not a well-discussed agreement, right?]

[Zhongxing’s boot camp variety show isn’t bad, at least for now it seems quite well done.]

Suddenly, someone said, "Yan Yueqing is here!"

The barrage of messages instantly became lively:

[Why is Yan Yueqing here? Has she terminated her contract or not? That’s what I’m most curious about.]

[I heard she did, but didn’t the boss of Zhongxing say in a public statement, whether Yan Yueqing terminates the contract or not, she is still the only spokesperson for the company!]

[At least she isn’t using, that’s the most comforting thing to me!]

[Can’t say for sure, after all, Zhongxing hasn’t made it public yet! And what about those more than eighty people who terminated their contracts, did they not want to stay at Zhongxing, or were they sent away? There has been no clear statement?!]

[Stop slandering! Give Zhongxing some time, maybe they’re cooperating with the police investigation! You people keep pressuring them, even making the criminals nervous!]

"Teacher Yan, hello," Xiao Ni approached and said, "You are our special guest this season!"

A special guest, huh?

Yan Yueqing smiled, not intending to be treated specially: "It’s okay, I’ll just do whatever everyone else does. I might not be very good at it, so I hope everyone will be patient with me."

Her humble and polite attitude made everyone feel quite harmonious.

Li Manman walked over proactively, handing over a sickle: "Come help me clear the weeds in the field."

"Sure," Yan Yueqing happily accepted.

[I still remember Li Manman not getting along with Yan Yueqing in the Cute Baby reality show, now they seem to be on better terms?]

[Probably because of the personas established at the beginning of the show for children. After all, they are from the same company, having gone through so much together, Li Manman, who didn’t terminate her contract and stayed with Zhongxing, naturally wants to maintain a good relationship with the spokesperson Yan Yueqing! She is a real support.]

Today, all the artists were dressed simply, the standard being long-sleeved white shirts + jeans.

The wheat awns were prickly, and the edges of leaves were like sickles cutting hands, causing cuts if one wasn’t careful.

Fortunately, it hadn’t completely turned yellow yet. It would be tough on the day of mature wheat harvesting.

However, since everyone chose to stay at Zhongxing and knew this anniversary celebration was happening, they all came mentally prepared and started working diligently upon arrival without any complaints or idle talk.

"Yesterday afternoon, the company gathered everyone for a meeting to introduce the artists who stayed on. Then they brought up resource allocation. Interestingly, it wasn’t distributed based on everyone’s experience and past achievements. They only mentioned there would be lots of good scripts this year, and everyone has the chance to compete for them."

Li Manman pulled weeds while half-talking, half-complaining to Yan Yueqing: "This move is not bad for newcomers, but for us veterans, it’s somewhat disheartening... The same resources, and we’ve been struggling in the industry for so long, why should we have to compete with newcomers? Shouldn’t we choose first and then leave the rest to them?"

Yan Yueqing thought for a moment: "They only said this year, not every year. It’s already August, just three or four months from the new year, there will be other changes after that."

Li Manman had been waiting for her to say this: "Yeah, that reassures me a lot! By the way, do you know Chi Xianlin?"

"I do, he went to Soaring Sky Studio, right?"

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