Chapter 382 Taiping Miscellaneous News
"Cough cough cough, cough cough, cough..."
The day after he caught a cold, Jiang Qi almost coughed up his lungs while sitting in the office.
"You kid, it's already May, and it will be summer in a while, but you can still catch a cold just by kicking the quilt at night. Aren't you staying in a suite in a train-themed hotel? The hotel doesn't have air conditioning? " Qiao Huifang accused while pouring the steaming ginger tea out of the thermal lunch box.
"Ahem...the air conditioner...may have broken down the night before yesterday." Jiang Qi said sorry to the train-dada-themed hotel in his heart.
"Ah, the air conditioner is broken." Qiao Huifang looked worried, "The guests won't complain, right?"
Jiang Qi:......
Is this the point?
"It seems like it only damaged my room."
"Oh, that's good." Qiao Huifang stirred the ginger tea, "Here, take a sip and it will be effective."
Jiang Qi, who was not ready yet, was caught off guard by his own mother who gave him a bowl of ginger tea, and he almost choked to death.
Jiang Qi finally discovered that since he and Jiang Bing were no longer left-behind children, the relationship between mother and son in their family has become increasingly indifferent.
Seeing that Jiang Qi had finished drinking the ginger tea, Qiao Huifang nodded with satisfaction and took out another lunch box from her bag. Inside was steaming wontons that were slightly overcooked, causing some skin and flesh to separate.
There are seaweed and shrimps in the wontons, which looks okay.
"Mom, you made wontons for me." Jiang Qi's eyes were moist.
"I bought it at the door of the Vocational High School, and it cost 4 yuan a bowl. Nowadays, there are many people living near the Vocational High School, and they all come to the amusement park or to take postgraduate entrance examinations. Not many people make breakfast at home and eat it out. There are two new breakfast restaurants in the Vocational High School. Home, this restaurant’s wontons are the best.”
Jiang Qi took the lunch box and scooped up a wonton with the spoon. Before the wonton was brought to his mouth, the skin snapped and the meat filling inside also fell back. Jiang Qi took a bite of the skin.
It tastes pretty good, quite fresh.
Jiang Qi sighed, and suddenly remembered that he had never been near a vocational high school since he quit working as a part-time agency. His impression of the vocational high school had always been when there were only three small fry shops before Bingbing B\u0026B opened.
"Mom, are there many new stores opening near the Vocational High School?" Jiang Qi asked.
"Some have opened." Qiao Huifang was not idle, and took out a glutinous rice bun and fried dough sticks from her bag to eat. "Two new breakfast shops have opened, a new fruit shop has opened, and a small supermarket selling groceries and daily necessities has opened. I also opened one.”
"Now there are stalls selling food in the morning and evening, such as pancakes and fruits, steamed buns, grilled sausages, etc. It's much more lively than before. Bingbing also went to inquire about it, and found that those stalls all live in the town."
It seems that Jiang Bing's B\u0026B and agency have indirectly boosted the economy near the vocational high school.
"Xiao Qi, when I came here I saw a new poster at the entrance of the amusement park. There will be a new show next Wednesday. I checked it online on my mobile phone. What kind of show is "The Legend of the Princess"? Why can't I find it online?" Qiao Huifang asked.
"Wang Xinghua wrote the play specifically for Feng Ling, and she auditioned it before." Jiang Qi explained.
"Xiao Wang can also write plays." Qiao Huifang looked surprised. "I didn't expect Xiao Wang to be so versatile. In addition to eating burgers, he can also write plays."
"……Okay."
Jiang Qi said that eating hamburgers and writing third-rate play scripts are just two of Wang Xinghua's many talents. She can also eat 100 fried dough sticks in one breath without getting tired of it, and drink 200 bottles of carbonated drinks in one afternoon. There are so many talents on display. If you don't come here, I'm afraid normal people won't dare to see it.
Jiang Qi looked at his phone and found that it was already half past nine, which meant that Wang Xinghua should have already learned advanced experience in selling peripherals in the toy store.
Jiang Qi hurriedly finished the wontons, put down his lunch box, put away the tissues, and was about to go to Wang Xinghua to check how she studied yesterday and whether she had learned any advanced experience in selling peripherals from the toy store.
"Mom, I'm going to the toy store. Just leave the lunch box here and I'll come back later to wash it."
When Qiao Huifang leaves, Kua Kua will teleport over and take the lunch box to wash.
"Why are you leaving it alone? I have a mahjong game at noon and I won't stay in the amusement park for too long. I'll just take it to the bathroom and rinse it with water and take it back to wash." Qiao Huifang said that it was so troublesome.
"I'll bring you breakfast and ginger tea tomorrow."
"Mom, no need. Uncle Huang also made ginger tea for me yesterday. You don't need to make a special trip to deliver it." Jiang Qi advised.
"How about that?" Qiao Huifang smiled and started to collect the lunch box, "You have hated eating onions, ginger, and garlic since you were a child. If I didn't watch you drink the ginger tea, you would definitely stop drinking it after just two sips."
Jiang Qi:......
"Go and do your work. It's settled. Mom will deliver it to you tomorrow."
"...Mom, can we discuss something? Tomorrow's ginger tea will be lighter. The ginger flavor is too strong and I can't stand it."
"Do you think it's possible?" Qiao Huifang looked at Jiang Qi with a smile, "You have a cold caused by catching a cold. Ginger tea is the most effective in repelling cold."
Jiang Qi ran away on the spot.
The theater was closed in the morning. When Jiang Qi arrived at the theater, there were several opera actors on the stage who were singing the afternoon show and were practicing their moves. There were people in the backyard who were singing their voices, and there were people in the dressing room who were applying light makeup and seemed to be going there. Guest NPC in Taiping Town.
When Jiang Qi first signed the contract with Leader Feng, the regulations for theater opera actors were that they must go to Taiping Town to play NPCs on a certain number of days each month, which was considered attendance.
But the rule is that the dead are alive. When this rule was originally set, the troupe had not yet been formed. Later, as the troupe got on track, Wang Xinghua and Feng Ling discovered that if the actors had to go to the theater after rehearsals and performances, The work of playing NPC in Taiping Town is too intense.
Physical fatigue is very detrimental to performance, so the troupe later changed this rule, changing it to only actors who have no performances to perform in Taiping Town are required to appear in Taiping Town. People like Feng Ling, who sings big plays every night, only need to make a symbolic appearance twice a month.
I found that there were a lot of opera actors applying the ordinary makeup of NPCs in Taiping Town in the dressing room today. Jiang Qi counted 7 of them in the dressing room alone. There were not usually so many people.
Everyone was also dressed very exquisitely.
Jiang Qi came to Wang Xinghua's office with doubts.
Wang Xinghua is writing.
There was a large piece of white paper lying on her desk, and she was writing and drawing with a pencil and ruler. Jiang Qi walked in and found that Wang Xinghua was drawing on a newspaper.
It is a very familiar activity. When Jiang Qi was in elementary school, he often participated in similar activities of drawing newspapers by himself. In groups, a group of children who could not draw racked their brains to draw newspapers. Because Jiang Qi has a sister who has been painting since elementary school, she is a popular kid in the class. Whenever there is such an activity, the classmates in the same group will go to Jiang Qi's house with snacks and drinks to ask Jiang Bing to help draw newspapers.
Sometimes if Jiang Bing is free, he will take orders from other groups.
Thinking about it this way, Jiang Bing has been taking painting orders since he was a child. No wonder he is taking orders so smoothly now.
However, the newspapers that Wang Xinghua painted were different from those when Jiang Bing received the order. She did not use colored pencils, just a black pencil. It was very simple and very formal.
Jiang Qi detoured in the direction of Wang Xinghua and read the four largest words on it: "Taiping Miscellaneous News?"
"Newspaper in Taiping Town? Do you want to run a newspaper in Taiping Town?" Jiang Qi looked down the title, and the first report had already been written.
"He Xiucai failed in three blind dates because he made this mistake... The gold medal matchmaker Wang Matchmaker will explain to you the three indispensable skills in blind dates! 》
Jiang Qi:......
What the hell is this?
Jiang Qi carefully read the first report. It was very short and full of nonsense. The three techniques seemed useless, but it revealed that it was true that He Xiucai failed on three blind dates.
Not to mention, Wang Xinghua's calligraphy is not bad. Although it is handwritten, it looks like printed fonts, and the sizes are similar. Although Wang Xinghua's drawing is average, her calligraphy is still good.
"How was it?" Wang Xinghua asked with bright eyes when she saw that Jiang Qi had finished reading.
Jiang Qi then read the next article about tofu cubes. The title of the second article was "Tofu Xishi's tofu disappeared, the Yamen rushed to find the murderer, and the murderer turned out to be——".
"I don't quite understand. There may be nothing wrong with the newspaper itself, but this is a newspaper promoting Taiping Town. What does it have to do with the theater?" Jiang Qi felt that Wang Xinghua was not the kind of person who would suddenly be kind enough to advertise for Taiping Town.
"I haven't written about the theater part yet." Wang Xinghua pointed to the two largest sections that had been drawn, "I have already thought about these two manuscripts. The title of one is "The theater business is cold, the Jiang family class may be "Disbanded", and another article titled "The theater urgently launches new plays to save its business. Can The Princess's Tale be a new hope for the theater's turnaround?"
Jiang Qi: "You know how to publicize."
"The rest of the sections report some gossip, such as the stolen bacon hanging from Butcher Li's house, Capt. Zhao's son, the county magistrate may pay a private visit incognito, Wang Yuan's wife's family will have a good harvest of early rice this year, and the tea stall proprietress met Pig-killing trays and the like." Wang Xinghua continued to divide the sections excitedly, "I already asked Uncle Huang for these materials last night, he will take care of them!"
"I will publish four issues in a row first, one on Sunday tomorrow, one on Monday, one on Tuesday, and one on Wednesday. The Wednesday issue will be sold out just in time for the premiere of "The Legend of the Princess"."
"Two opera critics had a quarrel in the newspaper on Monday. One said Little Lark sang well, and the other said Little Lark was just like that."
"The war escalated on Tuesday. They also scolded Dong Yong, the eldest sister, the fifth sister, the Jade Emperor, the Queen Mother, and the actors in the afternoon tea. To gain the upper hand, the trolls must have four articles to criticize each one."
"Wednesday's issue shifted the focus to "The Legend of the Princess". The trolls trolled "The Legend of the Princess" and tried their best to slander "The Legend of the Princess". They were very unfavorable. He praised it with a hint of concern, indicating that although he was optimistic about the "Princess Princess" Bai Ling, but I am not optimistic about the theme of "The Legend of the Princess" and feel that the theme is too bold and may be ignored."
"Thursday is a super twist. The premiere of "The Princess" will definitely be full. If the tickets are not sold out by 4 o'clock, please Jiang Qi, please spend some money to hire extras to fill the empty seats for me. Standing tickets are also required. It must be full, it must create the illusion that it is full of guests.”
"This way, Thursday's newspapers can brag about the success of the premiere of "The Princess", with rave reviews, bold and innovative plot, and slap the trolls in the face with its brilliant achievements!"
Wang Xinghua said that although the first issue of the newspaper has not been published yet, she has already arranged the next plot.
Jiang Qi tried hard to digest what Wang Xinghua just said: "As expected of you."
"Yeah, thanks to Manager Dong of the toy store for reminding me yesterday, otherwise I would have forgotten that tabloids can also be used to fight and promote. I am really confused. This method is obviously the most commonly used by my father, and I have written many articles. Yes, how could I forget this!"
"Manager Dong, are you still reminding you of this?" Jiang Qi thought about the honest and round face of Manager Dong, and sighed in his heart that he was indeed a real person without showing his face. He didn't expect that Manager Dong's methods were so dirty.
Speaking of this, Wang Xinghua immediately put down her pen and began to share with Jiang Qi what she had learned yesterday: "Didn't I go to a toy store yesterday to learn from their sales experience? Manager Dong told me that the most important thing about selling peripherals is publicity. "Although toys in toy stores are easy to sell, in fact there are many relatively unpopular plush toys that have never appeared on the market. They are not well-known. Those toys that are not well-known and have no publicity are also difficult to sell."
"The toy theater drama is just a way of publicity. Many children who clamor for toys as soon as they enter the park are actually their first time at the amusement park. They have never seen a toy drama, but their classmates My classmates and friends have toys from the amusement park, which are limited edition, and this is also a way to promote them.”
"It was Manager Dong who suggested that our theater should not stick to the publicity method of theater audiences. Even though the theater's business has been very good before, only a small number of people are willing to go into the theater and spend money to watch the theater. There are many boxes. Guests in the VIP seats actually have monthly passes to watch the show multiple times, and the later they get, the less new attention they get, but the visitors to the amusement park are actually different every day."
"The occurrence of this situation only shows that the publicity is not enough, and the attraction of the theater is declining. After the initial novelty, many tourists are no longer interested in the theater and are unwilling to try to walk in."
"If there are only 500 people in the market, then no matter how good we are, we will only have 500 customers. But if we expand the market to 5,000 people, 50,000 people, or 500,000 people, even if there are only a few of these people If a small number of people are willing to enter the theater, the final result will be more than the initial 500 people."
"Manager Dong feels that what our theater needs to do now is to promote it more widely and better, so that more tourists who have no interest in the theater will become interested in the theater and let them come in and buy tickets to experience it."
Wang Xinghua slapped her hands and raised her voice: "Manager Dong's words were like an enlightenment. They woke me up immediately!"
“I’m good at publicity!”
"What my father was best at back then was publicity!"
"I handed over the task this morning and asked the people from the theater to go to Taiping Town to dress up NPCs, a series of tasks, and deliver things along the way. The final task is to count how many sets of clothes the Seven Fairies changed in the night's drama. If they answer the right questions, they will receive random peripherals. A blind box is just enough to clear out Tian Xian Pei’s unsold peripheral inventory.”
"Similar missions will be released for a longer period of time to give everyone the illusion that the theater will also have side missions and difficult side missions, so that players who explore Taiping Town will come to the theater from time to time to check in and explore. Maybe they will feel that the show is good."
"I have many similar publicity methods. If one of them doesn't work, I'll replace it with another one. I think this newspaper can continue to be run. If the newspaper can still be sold, it will also be a source of income."
"Five yuan a piece is too expensive. There may not be many people willing to buy it. After all, there are only two pieces per piece. I can't make it up no matter how much it costs."
"How about two copies of a copper plate and a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake?"
"Who can buy two newspapers?" Jiang Qi thought it was not possible.
Wang Xinghua thought for a moment: "How about one copper plate and three pieces of sweet-scented osmanthus cake?"
Jiang Qi thought about it and thought it would be okay. If Wang Xinghua could guarantee the content and quality of the newspaper, spending 5 yuan to buy an exclusive gossip newspaper in Taiping Town and get two yuan of snacks would be considered affordable.
"When will your newspaper be finished?" Jiang Qi asked, looking at the empty newspaper.
"Soon, I have written the manuscript in my mind and just have to copy it. I should finish it at four or five this afternoon and have it printed and put on sale tomorrow."
"It's just a bit strange to sell newspapers in Taiping Town, which has an ancient setting."
"It's okay." Jiang Qi said it was actually okay. "I believe the tourists won't mind."
My God, I can read the gossip of the famous NPCs in Taiping Town, such as the magistrate, the tofu beauty, the butcher, the scholar, and the matchmaker. Who still cares about such trivial matters as whether there can be a newspaper in Taiping Town with an ancient background?
Even if you take a picture of Tofu Xishi and go up there, the tourists probably won’t care.
"Print 300 copies first and see if they can be sold out tomorrow." Wang Xinghua felt that this matter was decided happily, "I will ask the finance department to pay for it later."
"Print 5,000 copies first." Jiang Qi felt that Wang Xinghua's layout was still too small. "The content of each issue of the newspaper is different, and the visitors to the amusement park every day are also different. If you can't sell them all tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, or even next week, the next day will be different." You can continue to sell it every month and next year. If you accumulate more, you can even package it as a series and sell it to tourists, just like reading a series of novels. It doesn't matter if you print more."
Wang Xinghua gave Jiang Qi a thumbs up: "It's you who sells the goods."
"Cough cough cough...it's okay, it's okay." Jiang Qi smiled modestly.
Jiang Qi lowered his head and glanced at the unfinished newspaper again.
Taiping Miscellaneous Newspaper, pretty good.
Jiang Qi felt that it was his duty to sell newspapers in Taiping Town.
Very good, the first issue of Taiping Zabao was sold by the boss himself. This matter was decided happily.
Go to Taiping Town early to sell, as soon as the park opens, just in time to avoid the ginger soup sent by your mother.
Jiang Qi:
The old man at home had Yang, so he temporarily moved here to take care of him last night. Since he still has Yang, I am indeed the chosen one to cook.