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What Wang Han said was right. This was indeed one of the best booths in the entire exhibition hall. It was on the first floor, not too close to the main entrance, nor too far inside. It was right in the middle and facing the main entrance, so that visitors could see their booth as soon as they entered.

They were not the only group of people in the exhibition hall. There were also other people looking at the booth.

Since Wang Han brought them here, he naturally wanted them to feel how much Director Li cared about them. So he took them around the entire exhibition hall to let them experience firsthand how good the booth Director Li arranged for them was.

Because the further you go inside, the fewer tourists there might be. Many tea merchants might have found the tea they liked and signed the orders downstairs.

The entire exhibition hall is very large, covering 20,000 square meters, with a large square-like space in the middle.

Wang Han introduced them, saying, "We will arrange performances here, with more than 30 performances." He pointed to the elliptical space surrounding the empty space and said, "The first floor is the tea display area, and the second floor is the tea set display area. We have specially invited some masters who make purple clay teapots, as well as their masterpieces. If you are interested, you can come and see them." They slowly walked up to the third floor: "The third floor is for tea clothes, tea snacks, and incense burners."

At this time, the exhibition hall was still empty, but many people had already come in, looking at the booths and discussing how to arrange them.

Some booths were simply not decorated at all, such as the booths selling tea service and tea snacks on the third floor. They simply put up a white background board, hung tea service on it, and had rows of hangers below.

Tea snacks are generally snacks, including snacks made from tea leaves and snacks eaten with tea.

There was very little that could be seen at present.

Wang Han took them around and then led them to the staff of the exhibition. After signing the lease contract and paying the booth fee, he told the staff that this was a friend of Director Li and asked them to take care of him if they had any questions. He also said to Jiang Guotai and the others, "I have work to do in the afternoon, so I have to go back first. You can look around here by yourselves. If you have anything, you can call me anytime."

He gave Jiang Guotai his personal mobile phone number, and Jiang Guotai also had Director Li's mobile phone number.

Jiang Guotai would not let Wang Han go empty-handed. He stuffed Wang Han with a lot of "local specialties" he brought from his hometown. In addition to Wugong tea from Wugong Mountain, there was also a bundle of Adenophora. Jiang Guotai put himself in a very humble position when he spoke to Wang Han, saying, "You also know that we are all from mountainous areas. There is nothing good in the mountains. Just some local specialties. This is wild Adenophora from our hometown mountains. Leader, please don't be polite."

Although Wang Han didn't know the value of this Adenophora, just by looking at the word "参", he knew it was a good thing, and it was wild.

And Jiang Guotai also said that it was just a little "local specialty". This thing is valuable, but it is indeed nothing, but if it is worthless, it is indeed a good thing.

Wang Han naturally refused to accept it, but this thing was sent together with tea. During this period, they received tea merchants from all over the country, and their office was almost filled with famous teas from all over the country. They wanted the leaders to drink the tea they brought, and if they liked it, they would recommend their tea more.

Jiang Guotai actually meant the same thing. He actually brought gifts to Li Chu, because he didn't know Li Chu's character, so it was not appropriate to send expensive items at this time. "Local specialties" like tea were the most suitable. These things should be sent in person without anyone's knowledge, and it would be difficult to ask someone to pass them on.

And Jiang Guotai was right. These things were indeed local specialties of their area, but they were relatively expensive and rare. Even Jiang Guotai himself spent a lot of money to collect some of them, and he did not keep any for himself. As

soon as Wang Han left, Jiang Guotai and his team did not continue to shop, but immediately started to design the booth. Lou Chengyu was responsible for designing the booth, and Jiang Hongjun and his team were responsible for finding out the surrounding environment and purchasing everything Lou Chengyu needed.

This time, the tea artist they invited brought his own tea sets, but when Wang Han told them that the second floor was a tea set display area, Jiang Guotai still wanted to see if he should buy a few more sets of tea sets, or prepare some disposable cups for the tourists around to taste. In this case, a lot of boiling water would be needed.

To boil water, an electric kettle is naturally indispensable.

Just setting up a booth would take at least a week to prepare. Fortunately, Jiang Guotai did not need to supervise these things himself, but only needed to hand them over to Lou Chengyu and Jiang Hongjun. He took Jiang Miao, Jiang Hongbing and a few others to the exhibition hall to see how other people's exhibition halls were arranged, or to inquire about some situations.

These tea merchants from all over the country were able to gather here. They all had some power and energy in their respective places. Jiang Guotai did not need to search all over Guangzhou by himself. He could find out the situation of these people. If there happened to be a project that needed river sand, these people alone would be enough to keep Jiang Guotai busy.

It just so happened that, except for the foreign guests, the accommodation of these people was all arranged by the Guangzhou Municipal Government in a hotel. Jiang Guotai himself was a social gangster. He took his daughter with him. During the dinner time in the restaurant at night, he took the meal tray and found two empty seats at a round table where many people were already sitting. He sat down and listened to everyone's conversation. As they chatted, he naturally joined in.

After knowing that everything was going well for Jiang Guotai and his team, and knowing Director Li's care for them, Jiang Xi called Director Li to express her gratitude. Director Li treated Jiang Xi like his own junior, especially after knowing that the film and television rights of Jiang Xi's "Star Trek" were bought by a well-known foreign film and television company at a high price, he asked her to study hard, write more works, let more works go abroad, let foreigners also understand our culture, etc.

Now that "Star Mech", which has been serialized for more than half a year, has also been completed, Jiang Xi sent all the subsequent manuscripts to Wang Yong, and "Wu Xia" is still being serialized. Although Li Ang was transferred from the magazine to the Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department, he still cares about the magazine that he founded and built to its current size. After knowing that Jiang Xi had submitted all the manuscripts, he asked her if she had thought about what to write for the next work.

People will want to do what they are in. For example, when Li Ang was the director of "Wu Xia" magazine, he was thinking about how to make "Wu Xia" magazine well and expand its influence, but after he arrived at the Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department, he was thinking about the overall direction of cultural output.

He said to Jiang Xi, "Isn't Guangzhou going to hold a tea expo soon? You can also write some works to promote our country's traditional culture. Foreign countries are not only interested in science fiction works like "Star Trek", but also in our traditional culture. If we can export our country's traditional culture to Western countries..."

Jiang Xi listened to Li's words on the phone, thinking that people really do their job well.

However, she still said to Li, "Teacher Li, I am preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination at this time. I have to devote my whole body and soul to study. I will not consider writing for the time being." Li then

hung up the phone with regret.

Jiang Wu has been writing for several years, as if she is racing against time, and she dares not stop for a moment. Now she has finally saved enough money in the stock market, and she also wants to take a break and put all her energy into studying.

After Li Chu hung up the phone, Producer Li also called Jiang Wu and asked her if she had not joined the National Writers Association yet.

Jiang Wu was stunned for a moment and said, "No."

"I will send you the application form. Please print out a copy and fill it out and bring it to me." Producer Li hung up the phone quickly after saying that and sent her the application form by email.

Now it is actually time to verify the application materials. Producer Li did not care about this matter at first. He thought that Jiang Wu should have joined the Writers Association long ago since she was so famous.

Because he had taken Jiang Xi around CCTV, everyone knew that he had accepted a young apprentice, the emerging writer Xi Meng. It just so happened that the application materials for this year's Writers Association were submitted. Not only was he the director of the CCTV TV Drama and Film Production Center, he was also the deputy director of the Film Management Bureau of the State Administration of Optoelectronics and Television and the deputy secretary of the Party Branch.

Not to mention that Jiang Xi was his apprentice, even if Jiang Xi was not his apprentice, she could still join the China Writers Association if she was so famous. When the China Writers Association was verifying this year's application materials, they did not see Xi Meng's application form and called producer Li to ask about it. Producer Li then realized that this girl's books were so famous and she had filmed one TV show after another, but she was not a member of the Writers Association. He immediately called her.

After joining the Writers Association, there are many national support projects that she can apply for. Although she no longer needs them, she will still fight for some awards that Producer Li can fight for her.

Jiang Xi naturally would not refuse the kindness of her master. She quickly went to the printing room next to the school, printed out the form, filled in the information according to the form format, and listed her works over the years one by one, and took a taxi to send it to Producer Li.

When producer Li saw the application form she sent in, he said to her, "I thought you had joined the Writers Association a long time ago. You've been writing for several years and have published several books. Why haven't you joined?"

Jiang Gui first started writing purely to earn tuition and living expenses. At that time, writing, attending classes, competing, buying a house, and taking care of her grandfather's health occupied her entire life. After her rebirth, she only thought about making up for her regrets. Jiang Gui really didn't care about such unimportant things to her.

Producer Li thought that the girl was focusing on writing and studying, and that she had not been exposed to this field in the past, so she did not join. He took her application form and asked her what she had been doing recently. Jiang Xi said that she expected to complete all the credits for four years of college this year and start preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination.

Producer Li pondered for a moment, told her to study hard, and let her go back.

While many people in the Peking University Literature Society were still competing for some school awards, Producer Li was already considering applying for some important awards for Jiang Xi.

Not only was Producer Li considering applying for some awards for Jiang Xi, but Jiang Xi herself also began to brush up on awards and papers for the postgraduate entrance examination.

Time quickly came to June.

On June 5th, the first dragon boat race in Wucheng kicked off.

Regarding this dragon boat race, Jiang Xi and Song Peifeng actually talked about many things to note about the race. Since the preparations for this dragon boat race started last year, it was originally just a local race in Wucheng. However, due to its huge influence, not only Wujiang City and neighboring cities joined in, but also surrounding counties and cities joined in after learning about the dragon boat race.

Secretary Song was originally transferred from the provincial capital to Wucheng, so he still had connections in the provincial capital. Soon, with the cooperation of various localities, the advice of the strategists behind the scenes, and Secretary Song's own efforts, the dragon boat race in this small place was launched in various ways in Wucheng before the Dragon Boat Festival even arrived. A large semicircular sign was erected on the edge of the moat, which read "Jiangnan International Dragon Boat Cultural Festival".

Good guys, a small dragon boat race in Wucheng County has become the "International Dragon Boat Cultural Festival". The provincial capital TV station has even arranged reporters to interview. So the provincial TV station's highest-rated evening program "News 60 Minutes" spent three minutes interviewing and explaining this "Provincial International Dragon Boat Cultural Festival". The reporter's voice was also clearly transmitted through the news to every household in the province who watched the news every evening: "The Dragon Boat Festival is coming, and the first International Dragon Boat Cultural Festival in Jiangnan Province will kick off in Wucheng. There will be more than 20 dragon boat teams from all over the country participating in the competition. Which team will win the championship? Let's wait and see! "

Although Jiangnan TV has not produced any popular self-made dramas, their self-made variety shows are particularly good. In addition, they buy the copyrights of any popular TV series, so although the ratings of their provincial TV station are not among the top three TV stations in the country, they have always been among the top five. Many people from other provinces also watch Jiangnan TV.

I saw the dragon boat race of the "International Dragon Boat Cultural Festival" of Jiangnan TV all of a sudden. From the pictures on TV, Wucheng today is really different from Wucheng two years ago.

Although it is June in the solar calendar, it is May in the lunar calendar, the time of year when flowers are in full bloom. The banks of the moat are full of pink peach blossoms and green willows, reflecting the clear water. The camera zooms out, and the entire ancient city comes into view. The streets are crowded with people, and shops are lined up on both sides

of the streets. The entire city is clean and tidy, showing a prosperous scene. Although the shooting scene is only three minutes long, it shows the prosperity of Wucheng today vividly. Most importantly, the entire Wucheng is so beautiful!

There are three days off for the Dragon Boat Festival. This season is not as cold as winter, nor as hot as summer. It is the most suitable season for traveling. Many people in Jiangnan Province and surrounding provinces and cities who don’t know where to go for fun, after seeing that there is a dragon boat race in Wucheng, Jiangnan Province, and that Wucheng is so beautiful, have made up their minds to go to Wucheng to watch the dragon boat race during the Dragon Boat Festival.

In Wucheng, dragon boat teams from all over the country have been training for more than half a year. They originally thought that they were only participating in a small local dragon boat race, but they didn't expect it to become an international dragon boat race and be on TV. There will be TV stations interviewing them. Everyone is as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood. In addition, the competition is gradually getting hot. These energetic young men practice rowing dragon boats in the river every day when they have nothing to do. They must get a good ranking in this international dragon boat race!

Producer Li also saw the news from Jiangnan TV. After confirming that it was Wucheng, which he had promoted, he thought about it and asked people to go there to interview. The information collected may not be broadcast on CCTV-1, but CCTV has so many channels. He also had selfish motives in asking people to interview. He also wanted to see how Wucheng is developing now.

If you want to hold an international cultural festival well, there are many aspects to coordinate.

Let's not talk about public security, which is the most basic foundation, and there is also food culture.

In order to explore the local specialties, it would be best to build a special food street next to the moat. Other commodities should also follow suit, such as the crayfish and crabs that are now being cultivated by Linhe Brigade and have gone on the market this year, the various aquatic products of Yaoba Town, and the various specialties of other towns under Wucheng. All of these should be organized and brought together in due time.

Secretary Song also contacted the beer factory in the province, and then, along with the dragon boat race, a beer festival will be held in Wucheng. At that time, with the crayfish from Wucheng, there will be a night of disco dancing in the square. Drink beer and dance with thousands of people.

It's not hot in June, but ice cream and popsicles are also expensive.

There is nothing else beside the moat, but the place is very large. In addition to a pure natural wetland, there is also a vast undeveloped land. In the past, this place was outside the city and was called a place where chickens don't lay eggs and birds don't shit. Now, simple cabins have been built, and many merchants who make food have rented small stalls here.

Most of these ideas were from Jiang Xi. Every little idea she casually said made Secretary Song applaud.

It was not that they could not think of such an idea, but Wucheng was too remote and old. Most of the staff in the Wucheng County Government were locals. Many of them had never seen the outside world. Their vision and thinking were already fixed and difficult to break through. The younger generation had not grown up yet.

Secretary Song was also a man of amazing action. He even thought of setting up a stage on the large lawn next to the moat that could accommodate 10,000 people and inviting a rock band of this era to perform.

Unfortunately, due to financial pressure, they invited several well-known rock bands to their small place. As for unknown bands, they had no contact information, and more importantly, they didn't know them.

Secretary Song also found several singing and dancing troupes and teachers and students from art schools who sang well in the provincial capital.

After He Qiaosheng entered the university, he formed a band with his classmates. He was both the keyboardist and the lead singer of the band, so he naturally knew the information of his hometown.

He learned from other friends who were in bands that his hometown was inviting bands to perform. The Wucheng County government only saw a slight increase in fiscal revenue last year, but the bulk of it was spent on building Wucheng. The prices offered by the Wucheng County government to these bands were not high, just a little higher than the prices offered to the teachers and students from the art academies. These bands far away from the prosperous circle of Beijing had to pay a lot for the trip alone, so naturally they were unwilling to go.

But He Qiaosheng was willing to go. He was graduating from college this year, and his current main development direction was to become a singer. He had promised his family before that he would finish his studies before pursuing his dream. Now that he had graduated from college, he wanted to go back to his hometown and treat this performance in his hometown as his first public appearance in front of people and as a farewell to the past.

He hadn't seen Jiang Xiao for a long time.

In the past few years, he and his band had been attending classes at school during the day and singing in bars at night, and they were more and more like people from two different worlds.

He could only occasionally see some news about her on the Internet.

The last time he saw news about her was from their school's magazine, "Warm Spring Breeze", which described Jiang Xiao in "her" eyes.

Even though he knew that it was a slander against Jiang Xiao, He Qiaosheng still read it with relish. This was the only channel he had to get some news about her.

He knew better than anyone that "Xing Meng" was not a ghostwriter at all. Those works were all typed out word by word on the computer by herself in her spare time from her heavy schoolwork.

So now he reads every issue of the Kyoto University magazine. Since his own school doesn't have it, he specially asks someone to help him get it. From the writing of "Warm Spring Breeze", he knows her current situation and knows that she is practicing hurdles every day to prepare for the Universiade next year.

So his roommates and bandmates all know that He Qiaosheng is still a senior "Moe fan".

He Qiaosheng also smiled and said nothing about the roommates and bandmates' guesses.

The decision to go back to his hometown to perform was not his alone. He still sought the opinions of the entire band. However, his friends heard that it was an international cultural festival in his hometown, and there was money to be made. Although it was not much, they were only a small bar in Beijing, and the money they made every day was limited. It would be better to show up at such an international cultural festival than to stay in the same place waiting for opportunities.

So He Qiaosheng immediately called his parents and asked them to help him sign up.

He Qiaosheng's parents did have some acquaintances in the county government, and they quickly found the county party committee's publicity department and told them that their son had formed a band at school and had performed in bars for several years. Now that he had graduated from college, he heard that his hometown was holding an international cultural festival and was looking for a band. He found his friend, but his friend was not available, so he recommended himself.

He also brought the CDs that He Qiaosheng and his band had recorded when they performed outside and showed them to the county party committee's publicity department.

The main songs that He Qiaosheng and his band sang were still those that He Qiaosheng wrote himself. Sometimes customers would also request some popular songs at the time, and they would sing them.

When the publicity department saw that they had a singer and band that sang well, and they didn't have much money, they decided on He Qiaosheng's band.

After He Qiaosheng got a positive response from his parents, he quickly set off and returned to Wucheng.

He hadn't been back for more than a year. When he got off the bus and saw the bus station was crowded with people, and Wucheng was much more lively than before, He Qiaosheng felt a sense of time dislocation, as if he hadn't been back for more than a year, but had been away for many years.