When the phone call came, Lu Chuanbei was sitting in the living room watching TV with Song Jiaqi and others. He would also go to check on the castle Song Tiantian was building in the corner with building blocks from time to time.
Lu Chuanbei looked at the caller ID and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. He asked in surprise, "Why did this guy suddenly think of calling me?"
"Who is it?" Song Jiaqi asked curiously.
"Old Sun."
"Your agent?" Song Jiaqi asked, "Why did he think of calling you?"
"Yeah, I thought he was going to forget me."
"Maybe there's a job for you?" Song Jiaqi guessed.
Lu Chuanbei was very self-aware and said, "I don't think he should be so upset."
"How can you say that?" Song Jiaqi urged, "Stop nagging and answer the phone first."
"Okay, I'll go out and pick it up."
"Go ahead."
Lu Chuanbei walked to the yard before answering the phone: "Hello?"
"Why did you just answer the phone?" Old Sun on the other end of the phone said anxiously, "Do you know that you're on the trending search?"
"I'm on the trending search?" Lu Chuanbei laughed: "Are you kidding me?"
"I'm kidding you." Old Sun said bluntly, "If you don't believe me, check out the trending searches. It's already number four on the trending searches list, and it's still rising."
"Is this true?"
"Of course it's true." Old Sun said, "However, to be specific, Tianbao was on the trending search, and you took advantage of her popularity and were pushed up along with her."
"My daughter? Are you mistaken?" Lu Chuanbei asked doubtfully, "What does this have to do with my daughter?"
"You really don't know?" Old Sun was also shocked.
"If I knew, would I need to ask you?" Lu Chuanbei said disdainfully, "Hurry up and tell me what's going on. If you don't, I'll hang up."
"Wait a minute." Old Sun said quickly, "Here's what happened. Okay, did you take Tianbao to the Yinfeng Department Store supermarket to buy things this afternoon?"
"Yeah." Lu Chuanbei admitted, "What does this have to do with me being on the trending search?"
"Of course it is related. When you took Tiantian to the supermarket to buy things in the afternoon, someone happened to be live streaming a shopping show and filmed you and your Tianbao together..." While Lao Sun was explaining the situation to Lu Chuanbei, Lu Chuanbei returned to the living room, picked up the tablet placed aside, and clicked on the hot search.
On the hot search list, the hot search for "Lu Chuanbei lied to me about having a daughter" has reached third place.
When Lu Chuanbei clicked on it, he saw a photo of his daughter sitting in a shopping cart, puffing up her face and eating a lollipop with her head tilted to one side. This shocking photo made Lu Chuanbei gasp, "Oh my God..."
"Oh my god! I didn't expect that after being silent for more than three years, you could become popular again thanks to Tianbao. If I knew this was the case, I should have asked you to post more photos of you and Tiantian on Weibo."
Lao Sun said excitedly: "And, you know, as soon as your trending search came up, jobs immediately came to you."
"Work?" Lu Chuanbei had just downloaded and saved Song Tiantian's photo when he heard Lao Sun say.
"Yeah, did you know that you're taking your dad to the countryside?" Old Sun said excitedly to Lu Chuanbei, "The director of that variety show just contacted me and asked if you'd be willing to bring Tiantian on the show!"
"Take Dad to the countryside?" Song Jiaqi asked Lu Chuanbei with some confusion: "Is there a variety show called this?"
"This is a new variety show that Lemon Channel has just decided on, and the recording hasn't started yet." Lu Chuanbei said.
Song Jiaqi understood and said, "I was wondering why I've never heard of it."
After saying that, Song Jiaqi asked curiously again: "But why did this show want you to take Tiantian with you?"
"Tiantian and I went shopping at the supermarket this afternoon and someone took a picture of us. We ended up on the trending search." Lu Chuanbei said, showing Song Jiaqi the photo he had set as his screensaver. "Look, this photo is the one that got me to the third spot on the trending search list thanks to Tianbao's popularity."
"Let me see." Song Jiaqi took the phone and was immediately attracted by the photo: "Oh, my Tiantian is so cute!"
"Let me see it, let me see it too." Grandpa Song and Grandma Song couldn't help but come over to take a look.
"Oh, it really is our sweet baby."
"Xiao Lu, please save this photo to my phone later."
"Yes, yes, yes, I want to set it as my screen saver and change my WeChat profile picture to this too."
"Okay, I'll set it up for you right away." Lu Chuanbei took the phone from Grandma Song and Grandpa Song and started operating it skillfully.
It looks like this has been set up many times for Grandma Song and the others.
After saving the photos, Song Jiaqi asked Lu Chuanbei contentedly, "Chuanbei, are you planning to bring Tiantian to the variety show?"
Lu Chuanbei looked up at Song Tiantian who was playing with building blocks in a corner of the living room and said, "You'll have to ask Tiantian about this. If she doesn't want to go, then she can't go."
"That sounds sweet." Song Jiaqi hesitated a little: "Aren't you afraid of missing this opportunity?"
"The opportunity is not as important as Tiantian. Besides, this program is just about to start filming. Whether it will be popular or not is another matter." Lu Chuanbei was not optimistic about this program.
After all, if Lemon TV really had high hopes for this show, they wouldn't have chosen an 18th-tier artist like him who became famous because of trending searches.
"No matter what, let's ask Tiantian first." Grandpa Song said, and then called to Song Tiantian who was still building the castle: "Tiantian, come here."
"Grandpa!" Song Tiantian came over trotting and hugged Grandpa Song, saying, "You called me."
"Yeah." Grandpa Song patted Song Tiantian's little head and said, "Your father has something to discuss with you."
"Discuss it with me?" Song Tiantian's eyes suddenly widened.
Lu Chuanbei smiled and nodded: "Yes, there is something I need to ask your opinion on."
"Ahem!" Song Tiantian cleared her throat, stood up straight, and said to Lu Chuanbei seriously, "Go ahead."
Looking at the little girl's hard-pressed face, Lu Chuanbei couldn't help but curl his lips. "It's like this. Daddy got a job, but it requires him to be on a variety show with you. I wonder if you're willing to do it."
"On a variety show?" Song Tiantian's eyes lit up. "Will it be on TV?"
"Yes." Lu Chuanbei nodded: "The recorded program will be broadcast on Lemon Channel."
"Go!" Song Tiantian responded loudly: "I've never been on TV before."
"You agreed to this before you even knew what variety show you were going to be filming?" Song Jiaqi picked her up and said, "Aren't you afraid of how hard it will be?"
"I'm not afraid, and my dad is going too. He will take care of me then." Song Tiantian said confidently.
She doesn't know yet at this moment, and it's not certain who will take care of whom when the time comes.
Song Tiantian had just agreed when the staff member who got the contact information from Lao Sun also called Lu Chuanbei.
After confirming that Lu Chuanbei was interested, he immediately sent over the program information and contract.
Lu Chuanbei opened the document. Before he even saw the information about the variety show, he was shocked by the announcement fee listed at the top of the contract. "Two hundred thousand per episode?"
"What two hundred thousand?" Song Jiaqi leaned over and took a look. "Oh my god, are your announcement fees for variety shows so high?"
"No." Lu Chuanbei immediately dispelled Song Jiaqi's fantasy: "I've been in this industry for so long, and the most expensive announcement fee I've ever received was only 15,000 yuan, and that was for a full episode."
"Then what's the deal with this price?" As she said this, Song Jiaqi flipped through the documents and saw that even the announcement fee for Song Tiantian was 50,000.
Moreover, with the show's ratings, the announcement fee can be negotiated. Song Jiaqi couldn't help but be surprised: "This, Lemon TV really spent a lot of money on this show."
Lu Chuanbei nodded in agreement: "Yeah, it seems Lemon Channel hasn't had a good time in recent years, otherwise they wouldn't have put so much effort into launching a new variety show."
Although the announcement fee was very tempting, Lu Chuanbei, Song Jiaqi and others still read the contract and the program information several times. Only after confirming that it would not cause trouble to Song Tiantian and that the program team would not use the child to hype up the show did Lu Chuanbei agree to the invitation to the program.
On the day Lu Chuanbei came to sign the contract, the staff asked Director Liu in confusion, "Director, aren't we planning to take advantage of the trending searches? Now that you've agreed, then the promotion for our show..."
"Our program relies on word of mouth, not on riding on the popularity of a child." As a veteran director of Lemon TV, Liu Zhongnian pays more attention to the effect brought by the program itself rather than the popularity that can be hyped up by others.
The recording time of the program had not been set yet, so after signing the contract, Lu Chuanbei still returned to the Song Family Pharmacy to decoct medicine and make pills for people.
It’s no wonder that the trending search has had a pretty good effect. During this period, a lot more people have come to the pharmacy to see a doctor.
Because there were so many people, Song Tiantian even chased into the pharmacy to take pictures of her and hid in her medicine hut and refused to come out.
Grandpa Song took the opportunity to assign homework to Song Tiantian, and System 008 also found time to give her Chinese medicine courses. For a while, Song Tiantian's time both in and out of sleep was arranged perfectly.
Before the heat of the hot search had died down, Zhang Yunpeng got into trouble again because of the pill issue.
It turned out that after Zhang Yunpeng and others took the pills from Lao Zhang, they started taking them on a regular basis every day, hoping that their receding hairline would be rejuvenated like Chen Jie, whose hair had grown back.
But who would have thought that after almost a week, except for a few people who seemed to have seen some results, most people's hairlines remained unchanged. Zhang Yunpeng himself was even urged by his girlfriend to get hair transplants every day.
Every time this happened, Zhang Yunpeng would stare at Chen Jie and ask, "Old Chen, I've treated you well over the past few years. How could you have the heart to treat me like this?"
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