In her previous life, her eldest brother died early, her second sister went blind due to illness, her third brother became autistic, and she herself lived a life of poverty and hardship, scavenging...
Ling Ran quickly shook his head, "Wife, what I want to say is that my child is also your child. My brother-in-law is actually targeting you."
Zhou Xiang pushed him away and said, "Go away. There's no point in trying to sow discord. Jiankang and Kang are still my sister's children! You are not allowed to tease them casually."
Ling Ran blinked. Was he trying to file a complaint but ended up being criticized?
Jin Chao and An Wen rested directly in the front yard and had no idea what had happened. It was not until they came back for breakfast the next day that the blind lady told them and asked An Wen to comfort Zhong Lan.
Zhong Lan accepted An Wen's consolation and told her not to worry, she was fine!
After breakfast, Ling Ran went to Guanjia Village. Zhou Xiang took out the note that she had finally found in the space and called the number on it.
"Hello! Provincial TV News Center."
"Hello! Is Jin Xiaoling here?"
The other party paused noticeably. "Yes, who's looking for her? Do you have an appointment?"
Appointment? Looks like he got in!
"I don't have an appointment. Could you please ask her if she can answer my call? I'm Zhou Xiang."
"Okay, please wait."
Soon, Zhou Xiang heard the sound of high heels running in the receiver. The phone was picked up and an excited female voice came from it, "Zhou Xiang?"
"It's me, Jin. Uh, I don't even know what your current position is."
"Just call me Sister Jin. It's been so many years, I thought you had forgotten me!"
Uh, even if you really forgot, you can't admit it! Besides, what do you mean by acting like you haven't seen each other for years?
"Sister Jin, I want to air an ad during prime time on the provincial TV station, and the only person I recognize is you."
"Okay, okay, I'll definitely help you get it. Have you finished filming your commercial?"
"No, I don't know much about this industry. Can you recommend an advertising company to me?"
"What type of ad are you advertising? What are you going to sell? What's your selling point?"
Zhou Xiang didn't understand all this and just expressed his thoughts directly.
Jin Xiaoling smiled. "You should call this a promotional video. I understand what you mean. Don't worry! Tomorrow, I'll take people to shoot it."
"You coming? Won't it disrupt your work schedule?"
"No, no, your promotion is very meaningful. Our News Department should also go and interview the leaders of the town government and everyone involved in the park's construction. It would be even better if we had old photos. The sharp contrast would highlight the park's current beauty."
"Can a painting or a sketch be done?"
"Sure, just take a photo."
"Okay! I'll be ready. I only ask for high-quality photography and good creativity. I'm not picky about the price."
After hanging up the phone, Zhou Xiang went to find his elder brother. Zhou Niao was packing up to leave.
"Big brother."
"Sister, do you have something to ask me?"
"How did you know that, brother?"
"Aren't you on the phone? You came to me after the call, so something must have happened."
"Brother, if you are too smart, you will have no friends."
"No need, let's get down to business."
"I need a painting of the river from before."
"They are all in the capital!"
"I'm painting this now, for the commercial. They'll be here tomorrow."
"This is an excuse to keep me here!"
"I guess so! You can leave tomorrow."
"Okay! I'll draw it for you right away. What do you want?"
"The more you show how dilapidated and rotten the river used to be, the better!"
"Okay, don't bother me."
"Where's lunch?"
Zhou Niao tapped his sister on the head and said, "You still think of me as your old big brother, right? I'll come downstairs for lunch at noon."
"That's good."
At this time, Ling Ran was calling Zhou Xiang downstairs. Zhou Xiang answered him in the corridor on the second floor, really afraid that he would keep calling.
"Wife, I'm here to ask you to go to the north end. All the things have been brought over. Go and see how to arrange them."
"good!"
As soon as Guan Bo saw his goddaughter, he told her, "I have nothing to do anyway, so it's just right for me to work for you. I don't want any salary."
"Godfather, Uncle Xie Lin wants a salary, why don't you want one? If I don't pay you, it will be inconvenient for other acquaintances to come and do the work, right?"
"Well, you can't give me 150 a month! The basic living allowance in those companies is only 120."
"That's too low! Your cousin is going to suppress you again. Besides, you have to maintain these farm tools, which is a lot of work."
Unable to convince his goddaughter, Guan Bo retreated again and again until he returned to his original position.
After convincing his godfather, Zhou Xiang began to instruct Ling Ran to place the farm tools in the yard.
There were quite a few things, including large items such as cattle troughs, graphite, hand-cranked windmills, stone mills, wheelbarrows, looms, pestles, ox carts, plows and rakes.
What surprised Zhou Xiang was that there were looms and water wheels. "Godfather, we have looms and water wheels here too?"
"Yes, I got these two from the village chief's house. He was reluctant to give them away, but I told him to put them on display and mark them as his family's contribution, and then he agreed."
"Godfather, you're very suitable to be the curator of this exhibition hall. You've even thought of the content for the signage. No matter how big or small these items are, if you can remember who they belong to, hang a wooden sign next to them. On one side, engrave the name of the item, and on the other, the village name and name of the donor."
Guan Bo grinned at his goddaughter's praise, but said, "Is it too late? Aren't we going to shoot tomorrow?"
"First, carve the signboards for the two large items in the village chief's house, and then carve the others later."
If my third brother is at home, I can ask him to carve these two wooden plaques.
"Yes! I'll go find someone to carve it right away." The new official took office with three major tasks, and the director went to work.
Zhou Xiang urged Ling Ran to nail wooden nails and hang small items, trying to hang small items on the wall and leaving the big items that could not be moved or stolen below.
There were not many small items to be hung, including lanterns, rakes, wooden shovels, cattle halters, fish cages, crab baskets, and balls of bone thread.
Although there are not many of these things, Zhou believes that after a period of time, more people will donate things, because the name on the sign is a source of pride that can be shown to others.
The two of them lifted the large items and placed them, discussing whether they were suitable. It was not until Guan Bo brought people back that the two of them finally placed them properly.
The small items in the blacksmith shop had already been hung on the wall. He inspected the 12 rooms and found nothing wrong. He secretly fed the kittens some fruit and handed the key to his godfather.
After sending Zhou Xiang back to the Zhou family, Ling Ran went to the town government.
On the second day, Jin Xiaoling brought a few people to the food station in Xuzhen. As soon as they entered the yard, they saw Yuhu Park. There were not many tourists in the park. No wonder Zhou Xiang wanted to shoot a promotional video!
When Xie Lin saw Jin Xiaoling and the others' outfits, he was still stunned and asked them who they were looking for.
"Looking for Zhou Xiang. She asked us to come and film a promotional video to promote the park and its other tunnels."
Xie Lin smiled on the surface, but in his heart he cursed Zhou Xiang over and over again, "You're such a spendthrift! You're such a spendthrift! We're going to have to air this promotional video! How much money will it cost? It'll take forever to earn it back! You're such a spendthrift!"
Pressing his aching chest, Xie Lin asked Lu Jin to call Boss Zhou to come over.