Chapter 40 Notice

"Business tonight is not as good as last night. Fortunately, there were a few tourists who wanted to go night fishing, so your dad took them on a boat." Zeng Zhen found a wooden bench, sat down and video chatted with them.

Yu Hao said: "Our family has finally found happiness after all the hardships we've endured. Our village was quite lucky back then, with a film crew coming to shoot a movie there. I don't know why they chose our village."

The aunt next door heard them talking and interrupted, "They must have taken a fancy to our good feng shui and wanted to make them rich."

Zeng Zhen laughed when she heard this. "If this place really was a good place, we wouldn't be poor for most of our lives."

My aunt said, "This is a blessing that's yet to come. We play that movie in our shop every day. I've seen how beautifully they filmed this place. I never knew the village was so beautiful before. I'm amazed every time I see it. Ah Hao, Ah Yin, did you know there were some behind-the-scenes stories about this movie? They were posted online. When tourists see Ah Zhen and me, they all ask if we're Aunt Gui and Aunt Zhen, who cook delicious food. This advertising campaign is really popular."

Zeng Zhen heard her say this and followed suit, "When I first saw myself in the video, I was so embarrassed. But after seeing it so many times, I didn't feel anything anymore."

Yu Hao and Yu Yin listened to them talking but could hardly get a word in. When some guests came to eat, their aunt stood up and greeted them.

Zeng Zhen then continued chatting with her two daughters.

Yu Yin said, "I'm really curious why the film chose a remote, obscure village as its filming location. Was it the government that initiated this?"

Zeng Zhen said, "No, Uncle Thirteen's son works at the town government. A few days ago, I heard him say that the people planning to make a movie first approached them and said they wanted to come to our village to make a movie, and they were completely clueless."

Yu Yin asked, "Did you tell me the reason?"

"I heard they were attracted by our village's beautiful scenery and unpolluted environment. With such a great opportunity before them, poverty alleviation and development, they couldn't refuse. Later, the person in charge got promoted, and the surrounding area became prosperous and developed. These all count as meritorious service, but what's the name? I can't think of it right now."

Yu Hao continued: "It's because of his outstanding political achievements."

Yu Yin had always thought that it was an official initiative to develop tourism, but he didn't expect that it was the film producers who took the initiative to request it. There are so many places with beautiful scenery and no pollution, but they chose this place. This is completely a blessing in disguise. Their place is really remote, and they have to cross mountains and rivers or take a boat to go to the town.

When the film was about to be shot, Zeng Zhen told her two daughters that a big star would come to film soon.

Yu Yin asked her if she had heard about the crew's boxed lunches.

Zeng Zhen said she hadn't heard of it, so Yu Yin asked her to find out. It would be easier if the village committee took over the crew lunch box business, and she could get involved. Yu Yin knew that the profit from providing crew lunch boxes was high, but it required connections.

Soon, adoptive father Yu Zhiguo called Yu Yin and said that the village chief wanted to discuss the lunch box issue with her.

Under Yu Yin's guidance, the village committee and the crew reached an agreement on the boxed lunches.

Initially, the lunches were only provided to a small number of people. The crew agreed to this arrangement to keep the filming going smoothly. Later, they found that the lunch boxes tasted really good, the ingredients were good, and the price was affordable. As a result, the orders for lunch boxes from the villagers grew larger and larger.

Later, the villagers also had a conflict with the restaurant that originally provided the boxed lunches because they were taking orders from the outside restaurant, resulting in a conflict of interest. In the end, the villagers won the boxed lunch order for the entire crew.

During the filming of that movie, Zeng Zhen and Yu Zhiguo made a lot of money. They were among the first group to participate, and those who invested later did not get as much dividends as they did.

After the movie was released, tourists from surrounding cities came here to visit because of the movie. This was an undeveloped virgin land with no accommodation or restaurants. Making boxed lunches for the crew awakened the villagers' business acumen. Those who had good houses cleaned them up and used them as guest rooms, and those who had good cooking skills provided them with food.

Yu Yin and Yu Hao persuaded their parents to seize the business opportunity, so Zeng Zhen and Yu Zhiguo partnered with the first group of villagers who made boxed lunches for the crew to open a fishing village. Now the tourism business in the small fishing village is in full swing.

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On the way back from Yu Hao's house, Yu Yin kept looking at her mobile phone. She would just take a look at any production company that appeared on the movie screen, and would not pay attention to the company that was the investor behind the production company.

Because Zhao Shunian lent money to Wu Xiangjie and Yu Hao to open an electronics factory, Yu Yin had a guess in his mind.

After some research, Yu Yin discovered that the producer's major shareholder, a well-known cultural media company, was controlled by a group company under the name of Zhaoshi Group, with several layers of shell companies. She didn't have a clear idea of ​​how many companies Zhaoshi owned or which ones it had invested in, but she had a general idea.

Yu Yin's suspicions were partially confirmed. She then spent several days researching influencers who had filmed videos related to the fishing village, starting with the earliest footage. She discovered that half of them were from a certain MCN agency, which had close ties to a cultural media company and was crucial in promoting the fishing village.

The rest of the internet celebrities are just following the trend, taking advantage of the popularity, and going there spontaneously.

Yu Yin also found out that the producer of that movie donated tens of millions of box office revenue to the local area for poverty alleviation.

This was discovered by Yu Yin based on her experience in online gossip. Otherwise, she would have been completely confused and wouldn't know where to start.

There are countless beautiful coastal villages in China, but even good wine needs to be hidden in a remote alley. Without artificial marketing promotion, it is difficult for remote villages to become popular.

After Yu Yin's guess was completely confirmed, she wanted to talk to Zhao Shunian, but she hadn't seen him for several days.

During lunch break, Yu Yin sent him a message, "Is it convenient for you to answer the phone now?"

After a long time, Zhao Shunian didn't reply, so Yu Yin called him directly, but was told that his phone was turned off.

Yu Yin threw his phone to the other side of the desk, adjusted his mood, and began to concentrate on his work.

It wasn't until around five in the afternoon that Yu Yin saw Zhao Shunian's reply. "Sorry, I just saw the message. If the call isn't too long, now would be a good time to answer it."

Yu Yin made a voice call and it was quickly connected. Zhao Shunian's voice came over, "What's going on?"

"I want to ask if you know a movie called 'After Killing'? It was filmed where I grew up."

"Know."

"It was you who asked them to shoot the scene there." Yu Yin said this with certainty.