Back to the teenage years

Chapter 552 Qingyan (asking for monthly ticket subscription)

The meal lasted until around three in the afternoon.

After eating and drinking, Zhang Yunqi picked up a bamboo basket of incense paper and candles and went to Jiangjunling to sweep the graves.

There is a high probability that he will not have time to come back for the Qingming Festival this year.

In the warm spring, the sun shines warmly on the earth that has just thawed.

In the mountain bay near Jiangjunling, peach blossoms are in full bloom. On the gentle slopes on both sides of the Crescent River, green grass sprouts that have just emerged from the ground and dead grass are mixed together, showing a vibrant vitality in yellow and green. Willow branches are like a young girl's hair, swaying in the spring breeze.

While cleaning the grave circle, Zhang Yunqi looked out at the Yunxi Village, which was becoming more and more beautiful with each passing day, and the blue sky and white clouds on the top of the mountain. He felt particularly happy.

Zhang Yunqi came to sweep the grave with his father Zhang Liushun. Zhang Yunqi turned his head and looked at Zhang Liushun who was weeding the grave and said, "Dad, has my sister and brother-in-law had any conflicts recently?"

Zhang Liushun's dark and thin face was obviously stunned for a moment, then he lit a cigarette and said, "It's nothing, just take care of yourself and don't worry about your family."

Zhang Yunqi nodded and said, "Chunlan wants to apply to Harbin Institute of Technology. What do you think?"

Zhang Liushun leaned on his hoe and sighed, "That stubborn little Chunlan told you something, didn't she? You should know that people are gossiping about our family all the time. The villagers keep telling me and your mom that Chunlan is a good candidate for Tsinghua University. Even the teacher from the No. 1 Middle School called to talk about this. Of course, we also hope that she can get into the best university in the country and have a good future."

Zhang Yunqi smiled and walked over to take the pipe from Zhang's father. His father had smoked dry tobacco all his life and was not used to cigarettes, so he liked this. He rolled one for himself and said, "Dad, my future is so good that you are worried about me."

Old man Zhang was stunned for a moment, then remained silent.

Zhang Yunqi took two puffs from his pipe and said, "Look at my brothers and sisters. They are all kind-hearted people. I will remember all my life that my eldest brother dropped out of school so that I could continue to study. At such a young age, he followed you to dig in the fields and work hard to feed us brothers and sisters, so I am willing to support them in this life. Yes, my brothers and sisters originally had no future. They were destined to be farmers in the mud for the rest of their lives. Now they have a future. They have seen more good things, their horizons have broadened, and they naturally want more. This is originally a good thing, but if your own abilities cannot keep up, and your abilities and desires do not match, you will definitely have more troubles, even so many that you see them with your eyes and hide them in your heart, and you are unwilling to tell your son."

Old man Zhang was speechless for a long time after hearing what Zhang Yunqi said. He held a pipe in his mouth, silently shoveled away the grass around the grave, built a grave mound, and placed incense, paper and candles in front of the grave. He then sighed deeply and said, "Over the years, do you know what the villagers say to me the most? The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. If I were someone else, I would also think it makes sense, but you are my son. Third brother, you are living a tiring life!"

After saying this, Old Man Zhang picked up his hoe and went down to the grave. Behind his hunched body was the high blue sky, leisurely white clouds, and the silent figure of his third son.

I don't know how much time had passed, but the smell of incense paper and candles wafted through the cemetery, and wisps of green smoke rose up and floated over Jiangjun Ridge.

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That evening, Zhang Yunqi drove back to Jiangchuan.

He has to rush back to Lijin from Jiangchuan tonight.

The flight ticket to Yanjing is the day after tomorrow.

Li Yufei and Li Xiaoman were both going back to the provincial capital and called to ask for a ride. It was already eight o'clock in the evening when Zhang Yunqi drove to pick up the two young ladies.

Zhang Yunqi was in a good mood, but he knew that Li Xiaoman was a little dissatisfied with him. It should be Li Yufei who persuaded him to take his car back to the provincial capital. He took the initiative to greet her: "Did you see the news that your father attended the signing ceremony of Aihua Electronics this morning?"

Li Xiaoman is not a little girl: "If you want to apologize to me, please say so directly."

Li Yufei gently pulled Li Xiaoman's fair and slender wrist and whispered, "Didn't I apologize to you on his behalf last night? Don't embarrass him."

Zhang Yunqi didn't hear this, threw away his cigarette butt, picked up the packaged flavored shrimp and handed it to the two beauties in the back seat of the car, saying, "I've never been good at apologizing verbally. It lacks strength and sincerity. How about I treat you to a meal you've never had before?"

Li Xiaoman took the box and asked, "What is this?"

Zhang Yunqi said: "You will know it soon."

The journey was quite long, so they had to eat before setting off again. Zhang Yunqi drove the car to Yuxianli Night Market, followed by two Mitsubishi Pajero V33s, which were Xiao Wu and other security personnel.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the night market is particularly lively.

Yang Wei and Yan Shi are busy at their Yang's barbecue stall. Nothing has changed compared to before. Yang Wei has a sweat-wiping towel hanging on his shoulder and is sprinkling seasoning on the beef and mutton on the barbecue grid. Yan Shi, wearing a blue floral jacket, is skewering the barbecue, packaging the barbecue, collecting money and soliciting customers.

After Zhang Yunqi brought Li Yufei and Li Xiaoman over, Li Yufei was obviously stunned. She had not been back to Jiangchuan for a long time and did not know that these two high school classmates were selling barbecue at a stall. She felt complicated for a moment.

Zhang Yunqi didn't think too much about it and walked over with the two girls. Yan Shi stopped what she was doing and chatted with Li Yufei for a while. Zhang Yunqi handed the packaged flavored shrimp to Yang Wei and said, "Heat it up and let's taste it together later."

Yang Wei handed Zhang Yunqi a Baisha cigarette: "What is this?"

Zhang Yunqi said, "Flavorful crayfish, didn't I tell you during the Chinese New Year that you can also make this special dish? I don't know how much money you can make, but it won't be a problem to double your sales this summer."

Yang Wei smiled and nodded: "I believe you, tell me how to do this later. You guys sit down first, I'll make something to eat and we can talk while we eat."

Yang Wei simply put up a sign saying the business was temporarily suspended.

He and Yan Shi prepared the food ordered by the previous guests, and spent more than half an hour to prepare a table of delicious barbecue and spicy snails and other special dishes, and also heated up the flavored shrimps brought by Zhang Yunqi. Five people sat at the table, Yang Wei opened a beer, and Zhang Yunqi asked everyone to try the flavored shrimps. Although it was made today at noon, the taste was still authentic, spicy and fresh.

The few people present had never tasted crayfish of this flavor, and the expressions they made while eating were similar to those of the people at Zhang Yunqi's house at noon today. Even Li Yufei, who didn't eat spicy food very much, had her pretty face turned red from the spiciness, and she kept saying, "It's delicious."

Yang Wei immediately felt that this business had a future, as there was no such thing in Jiangchuan, so he asked Zhang Yunqi with great interest how to make it. Zhang Yunqi then told Yang Wei roughly how to make the flavored crayfish.

The three girls who were eating were also chatting loudly. Yan Shi hadn't seen Li Yufei for many years. Seeing that this old classmate was getting more and more beautiful, like a fairy, she always felt a little shy.

However, this girl who had been shining since high school was still as graceful and sincere as when she stood up for her in the girls' dormitory. Yan Shi couldn't help but say, "Yu Fei, you've become a famous person now. I've seen a lot of your advertisements in Jiangchuan."

Li Yufei smiled slightly, but she felt uncomfortable.

In fact, over the years, she has always felt guilty towards Yan Shi deep in her heart. When Yan Shi was bullied by Wu Yali and other girls, she knew the news in advance but did not report it to the teacher immediately. Although there were indeed various complex factors in the middle, so many years have passed. Sometimes when she thinks of this incident, she always regrets that if she had not considered so much and been braver, perhaps this ill-fated classmate would have a completely different life.

However, these words can only be buried deep in my heart forever.

Li Yufei held Yan Shi's rough, dark and thin hand and said with a smile, "This is also a coincidence. Besides, it was Yunqi's company that asked me to be the spokesperson. I'm not a big celebrity. We are classmates. Although we are now in different places and it's difficult for us to meet each other, we are lifelong friends."

These words made Yan Shi feel warm in his heart.

Yang Wei held a beer in his hand and said with a smile, "Boss Zhang's business is getting bigger and bigger now. I saw the news in the city this afternoon that Aiwa Electronics and the foreign giant Philips signed a large order of 400 million yuan. 400 million yuan! I can't make this much money from selling barbecue in my entire life."

Yan Shi also smiled. She was happy today and drank some beer. Her pockmarked face was red. "My classmates are slowly becoming big shots. That's great."

Zhang Yunqi picked up a Coke and drank a glass with Yang Wei: "We have been brothers and friends for many years, don't say such things, try to make this flavor of shrimp specialties this summer, and getting rich is no problem."

Yang Wei drank a glass of beer.

Li Xiaoman said, "By the way, Boss Zhang, you have opened so many companies. Are you interested in starting an entertainment and media company? It's also easy to make money in this field."

Zhang Yunqi hasn't thought about this yet.

Objectively speaking, he doesn't know the ins and outs of the entertainment industry. He only knows which movies and TV series will be a big hit, and which currently unknown stars will become famous in the future. For example, the most impressive one is "My Fair Princess" released in 1998, and the script has not yet been written.

If he were to enter the entertainment and media industry, this would be his biggest asset as a layman.

Currently, the main industries that United Times has achieved success in are still the agricultural industry, electronic manufacturing industry and catering service industry. Financial services and land asset operations are what he wants to develop the most because they are basic industries and the layout is relatively deep at present. However, due to policy restrictions, it will not be a matter of one day for his private enterprise to get involved and stir up the capital market and land market.

Of course, after entering the 21st century, the rise of the Internet and the booming development of China's entertainment and media industry, the value of this sector will soar. People will gradually realize that this is a stronghold for the output of ideology and values, a mainstream narrative carrier and a pioneer in cultural export. Especially in the digital age, the entertainment and media industry is the social operating system, which is not only a booster of economic growth, but also a router for the evolution of civilization.

Its ultimate value lies in its ability to continuously reconstruct the way humans perceive the world through the allocation of attention resources!
Thinking about it this way, Zhang Yunqi felt that this link was indeed indispensable in the business empire of United Times.

How much money you make is important.

But more importantly, if we don’t occupy the cultural and ideological positions, the enemy will.

As for him not understanding the ins and outs and not having the time to deal with them, let those who do understand deal with them. Pony Ma doesn’t have the time to read online novels, but the China Literature Group he runs is still as awesome as ever. Except for a few flops who have spent six years writing a crappy novel and still haven’t finished it, there are a lot of writers worth tens of millions.

Of course, entertainment media is an extremely broad sector. Zhang Yunqi also wants to take over the basic channels of social entertainment media such as WeChat, Weibo, and Douyin, but those things are still far from being born.

The best entry points at the moment should be film and television production, artist management, music distribution and variety shows. Different directions have different focuses. For example, film and television production requires scripts and director resources, and artist management requires connections and management capabilities.

Zhang Yunqi thinks that starting a small company and engaging in artist management + film and television script procurement + music sector procurement + film and television investment is a good way. The essence of the entertainment industry is ultimately a game of attention economy and resource leverage. By accurately positioning popular artists, popular directors, and popular works, it is entirely possible to leverage a billion-level valuation with 500 million start-up funds.

Of course, if you have the chance to recruit the now unknown Twin Ice and Four Dan Actresses and Fairy Sister Liu Yifei under your wing, although you can only look at them but not touch them, calling them "Sweet Boss" all the time should be the most beautiful enjoyment in the world.

Seeing that Zhang Yunqi didn't respond for a long time, Li Yufei asked, "What are you thinking about?"

Zhang Yunqi came back to his senses and smiled: "Nothing, I just think Li Xiaoman's suggestion is quite good."

Li Xiaoman became interested: "You will 100% sign Yu Fei when you open an entertainment media company. How about asking me to be her agent?"

"So you were waiting for me here." Zhang Yunqi said happily, "You are studying Chinese language and literature, right? Why don't you study the elegant Eight Great Masters of Tang and Song Dynasty? Why do you want to dive into the big dye vat of the entertainment industry and do the job of matchmaker?"

This sentence offended both Li Yufei and Li Xiaoman. Li Xiaoman's eyebrows were raised, Li Yufei frowned, and even Yan Shi couldn't help but say, "Yunqi, how can you say that? Yufei just started this business."

"There are always some girls who are pure and innocent." Zhang Yunqi drank the Coke in his cup and said, "It's getting late, let's hurry up."

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