In the second version of the advertisement, Director Wang suggested that Grandpa Li and Zou Wenjuan come and play roles.

If we're still short of actors, there are plenty of students here; we can just pull a few in to make up the numbers.

Xing Baohua nodded in agreement, since both Grandpa Li and Zou Wenjuan had been on television and had some fame.

Once the cassette tapes are released, the star power will be there. It'll also save on a lot of endorsement fees!

Just think about the fee Brother Long paid for endorsing Subor; it could have built several factories.

Xing Baohua stayed in the studio until the morning, had lunch with them, and then went to the symphony orchestra in the afternoon.

Little did they know that Liu Haibo and his group had been looking for Xing Baohua for two days, and after finally finding out about the Normal School Guesthouse, they came up empty-handed.

"Where did that kid run off to?" Liu Haibo said.

“I called the factory, and they gave me this number too. The receptionist said they just left last night. Isn’t that a coincidence?” Sun Changjie added.

“I just asked, and he hasn’t cancelled the room. He’s probably out running some errands. Don’t we have the front desk’s phone number? We can call them every night, and if he comes back, they can transfer us to the front desk so we’ll know he’s back,” Zhang Taoming said.

"Okay! It's settled then. Let's go to the Silishan Cultural Market and check out the prices." Liu Haibo said.

“I heard that printing books is quite profitable these days. Don’t we have a publishing house? Why don’t we try it out?” Zhang Taoming suggested.

"Forget it, that's too much trouble. The cycle is long and the return is slow. We'd make enough money just from the tapes and videotapes." Liu Haibo shook his head and walked out of the guesthouse with his two companions.

Xing Baohua rushed to the symphony orchestra and told Grandpa Li and Zou Wenjuan to go to Director Wang's place after their rehearsal.

He then rushed to the southern mountainous area to pick up the person.

Around four o'clock in the afternoon, Dalia and Kiva had basically finished filming their scenes, and there wasn't even time to celebrate. After giving instructions to the chubby captain, Xing Baohua left with the two Russian girls.

Of course, I had to give them some instructions. They told me what time I needed to be back at my accommodation.

This gave Xing Baohua a headache. Even though it was just shooting an advertisement, he didn't know if he could finish filming it in one night.

Xing Baohua argued with the captain for a while before finally getting an extra hour.

That means she had to get back to her accommodation by 1 a.m. and have the two female table tennis players report to her.

It's too much trouble. But even if it's troublesome, we have to follow the rules!

On the way back to the city, the two girls really let loose, laughing loudly and chattering away. The noise made Xing Baohua's ears ring.

“Comrade, I haven’t had a single drink since I came to your country. Aren’t you going to take us out for a drink?” Kiva poked her head out from the row of seats and said.

Xing Baohua suddenly remembered a sentence that the warrant officer in the movie "Quietly" had said: "I only want soldiers who don't drink alcohol."

That was incredibly prescient.

You're about to start working, and you're still thinking about drinking?

"After we finish filming our scenes, I'll have a drink with you all, but we can't let it interfere with tomorrow's recording," Xing Baohua said.

A Shandong native, with a penchant for drinking, encounters a Russian man with a heavy drinking habit. Who can outdrink whom?

Xing Baohua wondered to himself whether to have something low-alcohol or high-alcohol tonight. He'd heard that vodka was around 60 or 70 proof, and domestically produced spirits were usually around 50 proof or higher.

These Russians who drink vodka like water, low-alcohol drinks are just like water!

However, Xing Baohua was a little surprised that the vodka he used to drink at the bar was 40 degrees.

Forget it, one bottle of Erguotou each, let's not let it interfere with tomorrow's plans. Even if it's not enough, we'll have to endure it.

After taking the person to Director Wang's place, we waited for Zou Wenjuan, Uncle Li, and Wang Weibao to arrive, and then invited them to have dinner together.

They found a restaurant and booked two tables, but it was still the kind of large-pot cooking. Xing Baohua was worried that stir-frying the dishes would take too long.

After eating and drinking to our hearts' content, let's get to work.

We encountered a small problem during filming. There was a close-up shot of fingers tapping on the keyboard, and typing required a rhythmic frame; we couldn't just randomly tap!

No one here, except Xing Baohua, has ever touched a keyboard. There's no way to do any makeup on the back of Xing Baohua's hands to make them look clean and white.

The footage only shows the fingers flying across the keyboard. Xing Baohua is typing blindfolded with his eyes closed.

Like a pianist, the fingers dance across the keyboard. The distinctive click-clack sound of a mechanical keyboard is particularly crisp and has a very high-tech feel to it.

In addition to recording his duties, Director Wang also brought a recorder to record the sound of keyboards on set.

As for the recorded sound effects, they weren't very good.

Xing Baohua said to Director Wang, "If it doesn't work, let's go to the recording studio. Anyway, they're going to record songs too."

Director Wang nodded and said, "That would be best."

The foreign teacher they hired wore a white coat and pretentiously pointed to the television as a monitor. Dalia sat in front of the learning machine, casually pressing the keys as if she were typing.

Meanwhile, Kiwa touched her chin and struck a pose.

After filming repeatedly for three hours, it was finally finished. In those three hours, Xing Baohua saw Director Wang change the reel five times.

How many tapes did they use?! And it's less than a minute of advertising! The shortest one is only ten seconds.

It's better not to look at it, because once you do, it breaks your heart.

The second version's shots are also simple. A room has been transformed into a home setting, with a sofa and flower pots.

Grandpa Li was sitting on the sofa reading a newspaper, wearing his reading glasses.

The door opened, and Zou Wenjuan walked in, carrying the packaging box of the learning machine.

He said softly, "Dad, I bought a learning machine for my sister?"

Grandpa Li put down his newspaper, looked at the box, and asked, "What's it for?"

The granddaughter of a retired makeup artist appeared, happily pressing buttons randomly with her fingers.

The camera then begins to capture the little girl's happy smile.

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