After hearing what the director said, the male artist looked at the dark red cicada, then at the ancient and heavy mutton-fat jade, revealing a hesitant and conflicted expression.
Seeing him like this, Bai Gege almost knew the situation in her heart. She frowned slightly and smiled again: "There is no room here."
The male artist looked at the red cicada and jokingly said, "If you choose this, Xiaobai won't be afraid of chopping wood and fetching water?"
Why so much bullshit?
Shui Yiyao opened her mouth and said, "Chopping wood and fetching water are all my responsibility."
The male artist then shook his head and said, "It's mine, it's mine. If you need any physical work, just come to me."
Shui Yiyao shook her hand: "Okay, I don't need you."
The male artist went over and chose the mutton-fat jade dragon pendant.
The six artists selected their treasures one after another.
The director said, "Once the treasure is selected, it cannot be changed."
No one wants to change their choice.
Director: "Then we will announce them one by one now."
"There are six characters and three story lines. They are the protagonist line, the supporting character line, and the passerby line."
"Now, the story lines are divided according to the value of the treasures. If you choose the most valuable treasure, you will get the protagonist line. Treasures of slightly lower value will become supporting character lines and passerby lines."
"Supporting characters need to carry water and chop wood, while passersby need to cut grass and feed pigs."
"Now, we announce the passerby line."
"Those who choose treasures number 1, 3, and 4 are passersby."
Shui Yiyao looked down and realized that each treasure was numbered, with a total of six treasures. The one she had her eye on was number 6.
Yue Xi chose a jade bracelet, which was number 3, a passerby line.
Another male artist chose a small lacquer box, number 4, which was also a passerby line.
After hearing that her choice was a passerby, Yue Xi's face darkened, but she quickly concealed her dissatisfaction and smiled: "I didn't expect it."
The male artist nodded: "Just right, I got some exercise."
Director: "Now let's announce the main character's arc."
"There's only one main character arc. Which treasure will it be, number 2, number 5, or number 6?"
Shui Yiyao looked at the situation. She and Bai Gege were number 6, and Ao Yun chose number 2, a bronze incense burner. That thing was indeed valuable.
The male artist who wanted to scam someone chose number 5, a dragon-shaped jade pendant. This kind of thing is usually valuable.
"Now I declare that there is only one main character line, and the most valuable thing is - number 2!"
"Congratulations to Ao Yun for getting the main character line!"
There was sporadic applause in the hall.
The male star who wanted to scam others shook his head and smiled at Bai Gege: "It seems that we all have to go to collect firewood and fetch water. No one can help anyone else."
This is impossible.
Shui Yiyao frowned slightly. The blood-stained jade cicada she chose was definitely the most precious among the six. The others could not be compared with it at all.
The camera focused on Shui Yiyao's face, and the village chief asked, "What do you think?"
Shui Yiyao looked at the protagonist's treasure number two. "This Boshan furnace looks like an antique from the Han and Jin dynasties, but you can tell at a glance that it's aged. The craftsmanship is indeed excellent, but how can it compare to this jade cicada? This jade cicada is made of red-stained seed material, and the carving is also superb..."
Seeing that Shui Yiyao was about to take all his lines, the director hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, you have chosen the hidden line - the clan leader line."
He looked at the red cicada and said, "This jade cicada is truly extraordinary. Of the six treasures here, it's the only one that's truly ancient. A jade cicada, a burial object, is a cicada carved from jade. It's said that holding it in one's mouth can bring the deceased back to life."
"Moreover, this piece of material is a rare red seed material. It is priceless."
That's about right.
Shui Yiyao was satisfied.
But what is the patriarch line? It's not mentioned in the original novel.
Director: "The clan leader is the 'chief' and is responsible for all clan affairs, big and small. He is respected by the clan members."
"So, those who follow the clan leader's line can additionally instruct others to do something."
After the director finished speaking, he looked at Shui Yiyao and said with some surprise: "Not bad, you have good taste."
"Of course. I'm a professional." Shui Yiyao agreed without any modesty.
Bai Gege patted Shui Yiyao on the shoulder: "I'm taking advantage of you."
She then asked the director: "What can we ask others to do?"
Director: “Anything.”
Bai Gege nodded: "It's fun."
After everyone chose the story line, they began to hold a ceremony to worship their ancestors in the ancestral hall, imitating the ancient sacrificial rituals of the past.
After the sacrifice, everyone prepared to eat.
Shui Yiyao, who chose the clan leader line, had her first meal with the production crew on the third day of recording.
After the recording, Shui Yiyao returned to the room and looked for a conch.
Just now, she suddenly discovered something in Shui Yiyao's own memory. There was a "conch" that could communicate between her and the mermaid tribe. This conch was similar to a mobile phone.
Shui Yiyao could still use it at first, but later she didn’t know where she lost it.
After searching for a long time, Shui Yiyao finally found it in a hidden corner of the suitcase.
This conch is only the size of a thumb, golden all over and translucent.
After finding it, Shui Yiyao locked the door. She thought about it and pressed the conch cap according to the method she remembered to turn on the voice call function.
"The eldest princess?"
After a while, the voice of the Great Elder came from the other side of the conch, which was very unexpected and had a hint of joy.
"Elder, I found a purifier. Where should I send it?"
"What? Purifier?" The Great Elder was puzzled. "What purifier? Could it be, the sea...?"
The Great Elder paused and did not continue.
Shui Yiyao smiled and said, "It's a seawater purifier. I've already got it, but I don't know where to send it now."
It's impossible to send them to the river where they're hiding now, and a seawater purifier wouldn't work in the river. But I wonder if there's still a place for mermaids in the sea now.
"Really? You are not kidding me?" The elder stuttered.
"Really. I can get another one later."
Perhaps happiness came too suddenly, and he couldn't accept it: "No, I don't believe it. A seawater purifier, a seawater purifier... It's so rare, how could it be found in just one day? Princess, you are not kidding me, are you?"
"Then don't worry about it for now. Just tell me where to send the purifier if I get it."
"If there is any, send it to the Holy Land."
Holy land?
Shui Yiyao agreed, chatted with the Great Elder for a few more words, and then hung up the phone.
The Great Elder talked about the current situation in the sea.
The sea water is becoming increasingly polluted, but most of the sea people cannot find sea water purifiers.
Except for the Jiao clan.
The Jiao Clan somehow managed to obtain an endless supply of purifiers. As long as one obeyed the Jiao Clan, they would be able to obtain as many purifiers as possible. Most of the sea creatures now followed their lead.
The Great Elder refused to surrender because the Jiao Clan wanted a marriage alliance.
Marriage arrangement is a nice way of putting it, but the ugly way of putting it is that you are just a reproductive machine.
As the oldest sea race, the mermaids possess the ability to purify their bloodline. Any offspring produced by a sea race and a mermaid will inevitably bear the purest and most ancient bloodline of the sea race, not a mermaid.
The mermaid herself is equivalent to a blood purifier.
Just like the Jiao clan, the Jiao clan has reproduced to the present day, and due to frequent intermarriage with other races, their bloodline is no longer pure.
The Black Dragon Jiao is the purest Jiao clan, which means it has the strongest bloodline.
But now the Jiao clan are all white Jiao, green Jiao, red Jiao... There is only one black Jiao, who is the current ruler.
If the Jiao clan and the mermaids marry, the offspring will definitely be black dragons.
This means that there may be many different Jiao tribes sharing the same mermaid, and the mermaids that marry will inevitably become breeding machines.
It's not just the Jiao clan, other clans are like this as well. Even the purest and most ancient bloodlines are very rare now. But if you have children with a mermaid, then this is not a problem.
But for the mermaids, this would mean the extinction of their entire race.
Because mermaids must mate with mermaids to reproduce mermaids.
After hanging up the phone, Shui Yiyao looked for information about the mermaid tribe's holy land.
Fortunately, this memory wasn't too far away. The mermaids had lived in the Holy Land before Shui Yiyao emerged. The Holy Land had been home to the mermaids for generations, boasting formidable defenses that prevented any invasion by outsiders.
When I went to the river yesterday, I heard from the mermaids that because the holy land was polluted, everyone had to find a new place to live, but they were discovered by the shark tribe and were chased, so they had no choice but to flee into the river.
Shui Yiyao has the address of the holy land in her memory.
She thought about it and decided not to change the address of the purifier to the sea area of the holy land. This place had to be kept secret because one day the mermaids would return to live in the holy land.
The things will be delivered to her house and she can just take them there when the time comes.
·
The five-day recording ended quickly.
After the filming was completed, Shui Yiyao quickly returned home without waiting for her agent and assistant. She packed her luggage and got on the car to go home.
She had to hurry up and sell the house to get a second purifier.
The real estate agent had already contacted many interested clients, and when Shui Yiyao returned home, he called him to bring people to view the house.
In the end, Shui Yiyao chose the one with the highest bid and sold it for 6.88 million yuan. She also bought the car, but unfortunately it didn't hold its value well, so she discounted it by 200,000 yuan, selling it for 2.6 million yuan.
The two of them together totaled 9.48 million.
When the filming was completed, the agency transferred her 500,000 yuan salary to her card.
Still 20,000 short.
She rummaged through her jewelry box, preparing to resell some items. She remembered that Shui Yiyao had bought quite a bit of beautiful jewelry.
Forget about that apple green bracelet. She could smash a hundred of those glass bracelets.
There are indeed quite a few jewelries in Shui Yiyao's jewelry box.
Looking at the Guanyin pendant, pearl necklace, black jade anklet, diamond watch... Shui Yiyao felt a little dizzy.
She wasn't very good at other things, but she knew about this Guanyin pendant and the black jade anklet. There was no need to look at the black jade anklet, it was a fake, made of black kava stone, and not worth even five dollars.
Shui Yiyao spent 150,000 yuan to buy a Guanyin pendant made of gold-skinned seed material with beautiful colors and ingenious carvings.
This piece of Hetian jade is genuine, but it is inferior. If it is really a gold-skinned seed material, it is indeed worth 150,000 yuan, but its real value is only 8,000 yuan, because it is not a seed material, but a fake seed made from Qinghai material.
The more Shui Yiyao looked at it, the more heartbroken she became.
The jades were almost completely wiped out, so she turned to other things. Other things were also very fake, and the few remaining genuine ones were rarely what she could appreciate.
She packed up all her jewelry and sold it at a second-hand jewelry market for 80,000 yuan. The biggest piece was the watch, which originally cost 100,000 yuan and sold second-hand for 60,000 yuan.
I didn’t sell many, but I was able to buy a new purifier.
With the remaining 60,000 yuan, she rented a small one-bedroom apartment, paying a three-month deposit of 16,000 yuan. She kept a little for living expenses and used the rest to buy jade raw materials.
Fortunately, she had some money left, otherwise she would have had to take out a loan.
Two new purifiers arrived at her house one after the other.
The purifier is not big, like an oven, but it is heavy, one box weighs one hundred pounds.
The courier was pushing the delivery cart to her door, and when she signed for it, he was wondering what she had bought.
Shui Yiyao laughed as she looked at the two seawater purifiers. With these, the mermaids would have 200 cubic meters of clean seawater.
Only three more units left before the mermaids can return to the bottom of the sea.
First send these two water purifiers to the holy land.
When Shui Yiyao was about to take the water purifier out, she received a call.
Brother Zhang.
Her agent.
Shui Yiyao frowned and answered the phone: "What's the matter?"
After recording "Comfort Home", she has been busy selling houses, cars and jewelry. She is still busy and has not paid any attention to what is happening here.
Brother Zhang: "What are you doing?"
"Nothing, just tell me what you have to say."
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a moment, and then someone spoke: "Come out for dinner. I have something to tell you."
Shui Yiyao: "No. Just say it."
"That's it..." Brother Zhang paused.
He was a bit embarrassed. He had originally wanted to give this girl some time to himself and teach her a lesson. Since returning from the recording of "Anle Village", he had not contacted her for five days, thinking that he would get an apology from this girl, but it seemed that this girl was not in a hurry at all and did not contact him.
However, "Anle Village" contacted him again and asked Shui Yiyao to go to the second episode.
This was something he hadn't expected. The original contract was for one episode, but she performed so well in that one that the production team invited her to participate in the second episode.
When signing the first phase, there was a "priority consideration" clause in the contract. If the artist has other projects to participate in at the same time, Anle Village needs to be given priority. Moreover, Shui Yiyao has no other projects now, so she must go to the second phase.
"Do you want to go to the second episode of 'An Le Village'?" Brother Zhang said slowly, "If you want to go, you have to post on Weibo and apologize to Yue Xi first. Then I will arrange it for you."
The person on the other end of the phone sneered in a cold voice.
"I don't want to go." She said decisively, adding, "I won't apologize."
Brother Zhang wanted to say something, but there was a beep from the other end of the phone and she hung up.
He stared at the hung-up call, stunned, then gritted his teeth. He hadn't ignored her long enough, and she didn't know how powerful he was yet. If he left her alone for a while longer, she would learn her limits.
·
"Psycho." After hanging up the phone, Shui Yiyao cursed silently.
And asked her to apologize to Yue Xi?
And they arranged a second period for her? Who are you kidding? In the original storyline, Shui Yiyao didn't even make it to the second period.
Fortunately, she is smart. Shui Yiyao used to be stupid and had been deceived by him countless times.
She looked at the two oven-sized purifiers again.
Fortunately, mermaids are very strong, so she can move these two things with just a little effort. She found a woven bag, put them in, and prepared to take them to the sea.
“Ding Di——”
Something in her bag made a sound. She lowered her head to unzip the bag chain and saw the translucent golden conch.
Looking for her over there at the mermaid's place?
She pressed the nut, and suddenly, a picture was projected from the nut. It was the little mermaid girl she had seen.
Oh, it turns out this magical conch can also make video calls.
"I'll be right back at you, Xiaobei. Why are you contacting me all of a sudden...?"
"Princess! Don't come, please don't come. The sharks have found us in this river. They will be here soon - please, please don't come at this time!"
Shui Yiyao could see clearly then that in the picture, the mermaid girl Xiaobei was hiding in a dark corner, with an anxious look on her face and an irritable voice, but she forced herself to lower her voice.
"Call the police! Call the police right now—"
There are also coast guards in the sea.
Xiao Bei shook his head: "If we call the police, the Jiao Clan will find us."
The Alliance Coast Guard is under the jurisdiction of the Jiao Clan.
Shui Yiyao: "Hurry back to the Holy Land, go back now, don't wait! Hurry up, inform the Great Elder, don't confront them head-on, run, run back to the Holy Land!"
The holy land has a powerful defense mechanism, so it is not a problem to stop the shark tribe.
Xiao Bei was stunned: "But the holy land is seriously polluted——"
"I'll take the purifier back. Hurry up! Don't run into the sharks. Run if you can."
"You have...a purifier?" Xiao Bei was stunned and stuttered.
"Don't delay, listen to me, retreat to the holy land, quickly!"
"...Okay. Princess, I'll listen to you! I'll go find the Great Elder—" Xiao Bei bit his lip, crawled out of the dark corner, and the video call was hung up.
Shui Yiyao took the woven bag containing two purifiers and went out.
It took her half an hour to drive from where she lived to the beach. She took a taxi directly to the coastal beach, found a place where there were almost no people, and got off the car.
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