Mayday's new album is already designed, the next step should be to give it to the Sea Waves band...

Wait a minute! Has that highly successful album been released?

Liang Liang suddenly remembered this matter and quickly picked up the phone to call Chen Xiaoqi's office.

"Mr. Chen! Has the album 'Harvest' been released yet?"

Liang Liang remembered that Chen Xiaoqi said the starting lineup would be on March 1st, and today the 3rd is almost over.

"It was released on the 1st, and it's been three days since then."

"How are your grades?"

"It's hard to tell how things are going yet; things are just lukewarm."

This is an album by a folk music band.

Chinese folk music bands began to decline in the mid-1990s. The rise of Western musical instruments greatly squeezed the living space of Chinese folk music. Apart from some large-scale formal performances in China, Chinese folk music was rarely seen in other performances.

Given this environment, the sales of the Yinna River Folk Music Band's album are difficult to estimate.

Even with Liang Liang personally composing the music and adding electronic accompaniment, the sales figures are still not very optimistic.

"So how many copies have been sold so far?"

"The first batch of 50,000 sheets has been shipped out wholesale."

Fifty thousand orders have been shipped, but business is still lukewarm?

This result is already quite good.

Pacific is getting cocky now. In just three days, they've already sold 50,000 copies and are still saying it's lukewarm. How many copies of your bestselling album can you actually sell?

Even a second-tier singer wouldn't guarantee such success when releasing an album these days!

Of course, it's not very common to bring up Blue Shark's albums.

"We estimate that this album will sell 200,000 copies at best. If your Blue Shark band were to promote this album, selling a million copies would be no problem."

Listen to that! What kind of talk is that?

Two hundred thousand copies sold is already considered excellent!

"Hehe! Mr. Chen! Do you still remember your last name? You can't compare every album to ours. You should compare them to albums by ordinary singers. You'll find that their achievements are quite remarkable."

The Yinna River Band is a purely peasant band; neither the singers nor the musicians are well-known.

Releasing this album was a huge risk for Chen Xiaoqi, so he should be happy with the results he's achieved.

This album has already sold at least 50,000 copies, and given the quality of the songs on it, its final sales might even bring a surprise.

Liang Liang estimated in his mind that this one might eventually sell 500,000 copies.

“What you said seems to make sense. It seems that there is something wrong with our brains and consciousness. We unconsciously compare your Blue Shark band's albums, which is really unfair to them.”

This is obviously unfair. Compared to someone with such an invincible advantage, it's like an egg hitting a rock.

After having a clear understanding of the album's situation, Liang Liang stopped paying attention to it. He had a lot on his plate in the first half of the year, so he didn't have time to waste on this.

Most of the events in the first half of the year were related to construction. Whether in Lianwan City or Yahe City, there were a lot of construction-related issues.

I feel like I'm becoming more and more like a construction foreman.

Zhao Fang's construction team arrived at the music school courtyard on the tenth day of the first lunar month to carry out the final finishing touches on the four-story building.

Lianwan City has the warmest temperature in the entire Northeast region.

Yahe is a county-level city under Lianwan City, but regardless of winter or summer, the temperature in Yahe is on average three to five degrees lower than that in Lianwan City.

While other areas are still covered in ice and snow, Lianwan City may not be as warm as spring, but some infrastructure projects can certainly be carried out there.

Interior decorations, for example, won't delay the construction.

On March 10th, after more than a month of construction, the four-story building was completed.

It doesn't have any fancy exterior design; it's just a standard four-story building.

The building has a floor area of ​​1,400 square meters on the first floor and a total floor area of ​​5,600 square meters. The completed building uses only two-thirds of the area to accommodate the learning space needed by 2,000 students.

There's one floor left for offices.

After the small building on the west side was completed, Zhao Fang's construction team immediately demolished all five houses in the original courtyard and built a new building with the same area as the one on the west side, against the east wall. The old two-story building at the main entrance will also be demolished and built together with the new building.

This new building should be the future location of the audio-visual company.

The sound school has now entered the second phase of construction.

This would then be in mid-to-late March.

Liang Liang then prepared to go home.

He finished cleaning up the old brigade's courtyard and handed it over completely. Liang Feng called and asked him to go back and design the layout of the courtyard.

Before going home, Liang Liang bought himself a new piece of equipment: a car.

For someone like him who frequently travels back and forth between Yahe Lianwan, having his own car is quite convenient.

Even in Lianwan City, he owns several businesses that are quite far apart from each other, so it's always inconvenient to go out without a car.

Car prices in the 1990s were incredibly high; Mercedes-Benz and BMW cars cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

After inspecting the car market, Liang Liang spent very lavishly to buy a... 2020 SG City Hunter.

In layman's terms, it's a Beijin Jeep.

This car is sturdy and capable of off-road driving. It's very easy to repair; it breaks down just as quickly as it gets repaired.

All that is useless; the most important thing is that it's cheap.

At 57,500 yuan, it can be said to be the cheapest new car on the market.

An Alto costs 71,000 yuan, and a Xiali costs 78,000 yuan.

Since both of these cars are priced this way, there's no need to compare them with other cars.

Liang Liang is now worth 30 to 40 million yuan. It's not that he can't afford a nice car, but it's just that those cars are too conspicuous.

At that time, public security was not ideal. People were not afraid of thieves stealing, but of thieves eyeing them. Jeeps were still very common on the market, so opening a soup shop was not so conspicuous.

Liang Liang rode home in his new car, and Ban Ya became his driver.

Qin Wenju looked at Liang Liang's new car and curled her lip: "This is the new car you bought? That's all?"

"I can't afford a good one! I'll just have to make do with this one!"

"You should have said so earlier! If I had given you two, you wouldn't have had to buy this piece of junk."

Liang Liang rolled his eyes at the audacity to say that his first car was a beat-up car.

"The autumn waters of South Lake are still and smokeless at night; would one dare to ride the current straight up to the heavens?"

Qin Wenju's response was probably not pleasant: "What do you mean? Don't beat around the bush, just translate it directly."

Why don't you just fly to the moon?

Qin Wenju chuckled.

"I'm telling the truth. If you ask, I promise I'll give you the money."

"No need! I just like Jeeps. They can go off-road and climb mountains. Try driving your Santana up a mountain and show me."

Qin Wenju pouted: "Who buys a car to drive up the mountain?"

There aren't any now, but in the future, some people will buy cars specifically for going up mountains.