Chapter 4 Filming a Variety Show
The place where Yan Xu Nian Primary School is in a small rural town, a little away from Li Village.
If you rely on two legs, it will take you an hour to go back and forth.
Yan Xutian got up before dawn, carried his schoolbag, and rushed to the direction of the school with a basket of sugar gourds wrapped in a clean white cloth.
When I arrived at the school gate, there were not many people, only three or two students walked to the school gate, but there were many vendors around.
Yan Xu looked at the flower bed not far from the school gate, there was still a vacant seat there, so he found the right place and walked over.
Sitting on the edge of the flower bed, Yan Xu put the basket next to him, took out a few sugar gourds and inserted them into the gap on the edge of the basket.
That way people can know what he's selling, isn't it?
"Eh, you're selling things by yourself again?"
The voice was a little familiar, and Yan Xu looked back.
Oh, it's an uncle who had a "peer" friendship and chatted a few words last time.
But wasn't the last time they met?
"Well, hello uncle. Yan Xu smiled, "You still come to the school to sell steamed buns?"
If I'm not mistaken, this uncle sold his own bamboo toys in the vegetable market last time, right?
He's also a craftsman.
"Yes, I come every day, what's wrong?" you haven't seen it before?" the uncle smiled, "You kid don't go to school, you sold persimmons in the vegetable market last time, what are you selling now? Sugar gourd, hey, you don't seem to have hawthorn in this bag, you should be more ...... people who buy it."
Uncle is talking to himself, and he doesn't seem to need Yan Xu to answer anything.
The steamed buns are indeed quite fragrant, which makes Yan Xu, who only drank two bowls of sugar porridge in the morning, suddenly feel a little hungry.
"Uncle, how do you sell your buns?"
The uncle hurriedly said: "Big buns are five cents each, two pieces are five! Small buns are four pieces and ten, and there are sugar dishes for big buns, depending on what you like to eat." ”
"Then, two meat buns. ”
Yan Xu sat on the edge of the flower bed with two meat buns in his hand and ate them.
Tsk, before it opened, it was upside down for a dollar.
Fortunately, the upside-down situation didn't last long, and the two children came hand in hand to buy the uncle's buns, and when they saw Yan Xu, who was selling sugar gourds nearby, they heard that as long as they were two yuan a piece, they immediately paid for one person to buy one.
Rich!
Yan Xu pinched the four yuan and looked at the backs of the two children, a little embarrassed.
Now four yuan is a lot of money, but he is not worthy of the children in the slum village.
Sugar gourds are still a rarity here, so the children in the slum village sold a dozen of them in the morning, earning about fifty yuan.
Seeing that it was almost time for class, Yan Xu hurriedly packed up his things and rushed to the school, and the rest was ready to be sold after school.
However, Yan Xu carried such a basket into the classroom, which was quite noticeable, at least the whole class saw it.
Knowing that it is a sugar gourd, rich children will still buy one to satisfy their cravings, and some will buy another one if they think it is delicious.
The children in the nearby class who have a good relationship with the class will also come to buy it when they find out.
Anyway, at the end of the day at school, what Yan Xu sells in school makes more money than what he sells in the morning, after all, it is still a friendship business.
There were a dozen left, and all of them were sold at the end of school.
After selling it, I went to a small supermarket and bought some transparent small plastic bags or something.
Yan Xu counted carefully on the way home, and sold it for one hundred and twenty-four yuan, minus the thirteen yuan for buying things, and there was one hundred and eleven yuan left, which was okay.
After returning home, Yan Xu stuffed the money into a wooden box.
This wooden box was made by Ye Yanxu himself, which used to be specially used to hold his small toys, but now it is used to make money boxes.
There was no one at home at this time, and Yan Xu knew at a glance that his grandfather was probably going to play cards with Uncle Liu.
The old man just has such a hobby, and he likes to play small cards together when he has nothing to do.
Five cents in a game, and if you lose enough five yuan, you will break up.
Of course, at this point, Grandpa Ye is still quite proud, he is the one who loses enough three yuan and won't fight!
Yan Xu finished the chores at home, and as soon as he finished cooking, Grandpa Ye came back from outside.
"Grandpa won six dollars today! Grandpa Ye said happily.
Yan Xu raised his head, "Grandpa is so lucky today, so did Third Uncle Liu win or lose?"
Grandpa Ye pouted, "Your Third Uncle Liu lost miserably, lost three yuan!
"Are you shouting here! Isn't it just five cents, take credit first! I believe that you won't lose when you play cards tomorrow!" Third Uncle Liu, who was about to send it over when he saw that Old Man Ye's things had fallen, immediately said unconvinced.
Grandpa Ye, "Huh, why don't you have to come here?"
"Send you something!" Uncle Liu threw down the things and left, "Lao Tzu wait until you get up, I don't believe you don't lose!"
"I won't go tomorrow!" Grandpa Ye pouted, "Your third Uncle Liu is very good-mouthed, but he gave me five cents!"
Yan Xu looked at his grandfather quite amusedly, and pointed to the things that Uncle Liu sent back, "Grandpa, what is that?"
The thing was in a black plastic bag, and it was impossible to see what it was.
"Two pieces of bacon. Grandpa Ye took out the meat and put it on the table.
Bacon?
Yan Xu put down the spoon and walked over and glanced at it twice.
Two pieces of arm-long bacon look very well smoked.
"Where did it come from?"
"The medicine money sent by your third uncle Liu has been said not to be wanted, but you have to send it. ”
Yan Xu blinked and silently hung the meat on the beam.
"If the third uncle wants to send it, he will send it, anyway, the third uncle has a lot of meat at home. ”
This is indeed not a lie, Uncle Liu's family really has a lot of meat, and the two sons are doing the work of raising and selling pigs in the town, and there is no shortage of meat.
After dinner, Yan Xu was forced by his grandfather to study for two hours.
In Yan Xu's place, there is no such thing as playing.
I couldn't afford to play before, but now I don't have time.
Every day, I think about doing business and making money, how can I have time to roll and play with the children in the village, besides, how old is he?
In the next few days, Yan Xu got up at three or four o'clock every day, took a moment to put the cut chestnuts in a pot and fried them with salt and sugar, and then put them in a basket and took them to school to sell.
Grandpa Ye naturally knew about such a big movement, and repeatedly asked Yan Xu not to do this.
But having said that, his face has also changed, and his grandson is also the same.
What he said was useless, Grandpa Ye was distressed, so he had to ask Yan Xu to sleep early at night, and then get up himself in the morning to help, so it's okay to get up early, at least to ensure that his grandson sleeps well.
A basket of hot fried chestnuts every day, packed in small bags, five yuan per bag, and two or three hundred in a few days.
There are not many small vendors at the school gate, and Yan Xu, a child, has come to sell food early these days, and the nearby vendors know him.
Even the teachers and classmates knew that there was a child in their school who was selling things at the door.
The students were curious, and the teachers were pleased.
What a sensible child! Such a young person knows how to lighten the burden on the family, why can't their children do anything?
Because of the strange ideas of the adults, Yan Xu's business is also a lot better, and the closing time is much faster.
Another week is almost over.
Yan Xu was sitting on the big stone in the courtyard thinking about his next business plan, and then he saw the people in the village hula rushing towards the entrance of the village.
What is this for?
Yan Xu stood on the stone and tiptoed to look.
The one who hit the head seemed to be the village chief, and behind his buttocks was a few famous old men and women in the village, who looked quite a big battle.
Yan Xu also saw his grandfather in the back, and together with Uncle Liu's partners, he looked very happy.
Yan Xu thought about it and followed.
The entrance of the village is lively, full of people coming and going, as if it is the New Year, there are more than a dozen cars parked behind, off-road buses and vans, all of which are brand goods.
Seeing this scene, Yan Xu suddenly remembered the last time his grandfather said that the village was going to be on TV.
Oh, yes, look at the back of people's clothes with the logo of so-and-so TV station.
I didn't ask much at the beginning, and Yan Xu was only thinking about how to make money at that time, so I can say that I forgot about the news that I was going to be on TV.
Now that I see this scene, I am a little surprised.
The relationship really has a program team coming over.
I wanted to ask my grandfather what was going on, but there were too many people to find where it was.
There was no way, Yan Xu had no choice but to catch a passing child.
"What are you here for?"
The kid looked at him and said with a smile: "Ye Yanxu, you don't know this! It's been spread all over the village for a long time, saying that it's a variety show, and the village chief said a few days ago that the Linzhou family was chosen!"
Yan Xu was silent, filming a variety show?
"What kind of variety show?
"It is said that three children from the city are coming to live in our village, and the program team chose Linzhou's house, and Linzhou is going to go to the city to be a son to the big boss in the city!"
Lin Zhou is a handsome boy in Li Village, in addition to his grandparents, he also has a younger sister. Yan Xu had a little impression of him, mainly because this kid was very kind and cute when he smiled.
Yan Xu let the child go and let him go, standing aside and listening to the discussion of the villagers.
After a while, Yan Xu could be regarded as understanding.
It turned out that this program group was here to shoot a variety show "Swapping Lives", so that the rich children in the city and the children in the countryside could exchange and experience their respective lives for three months. If the children in the city can't stay and want to come back early, they can do it, but they must give the program team 6,000 yuan.
Of course, this condition can be said to be that since the start of the show, no one has been able to do it. After all, these children are not celebrities, nor do they have any life skills, and what literary and artistic things such as violin and piano they usually learn are not appreciated at all in these places in the countryside!
If you can't do anything, how can you earn enough for 6,000 yuan?
Therefore, they all suffered until the end of three months, and under the attention of the audience, they went through hardships and transformed into excellent "three good boys" in the eyes of everyone.
As for those children who have been exchanged from the countryside to the city, will they be dazzled by the bustling metropolis, so that they will be dissatisfied, inferior to their own family background, etc., who cares about the program team and the audience who only care about the effect of the program?