They exchanged a glance, but didn't complain. Because of the promotional video, the film festival was clearly gaining popularity.
So the four of them are actually quite happy, and this comeback song will definitely be very popular.
Although the melody has been heard in Tang Yue's movie, without their singing, the audience does not know what the official version of the song will be like.
At the same time, Zhang Yiling had also arrived in a somewhat remote small city.
Although this is a municipal administrative unit, if you look at the architectural style of the entire city, Zhang Yiling almost thought she had come to a small county town.
There were not many people on the streets, and the sky was gray, so Zhang Yiling felt a little desolate when she walked alone on the street.
She looked around, her eyes first falling on the commercial street closest to her.
"Is this really where we are going?" Zhang Yiling glanced at the serious tour guides, or bodyguards, around her.
Zhou Yiyang hired these people to ensure Zhang Yiling's safety. They also had the responsibility of answering her questions. After all, Zhang Yiling had only been back in China for a short time, and there were still many things she didn't know about the country.
The bodyguard opposite nodded: "Boss, it is indeed the place you chose."
Zhang Yiling no longer corrected them when they called her the boss. She was used to being called that.
"But I remember that when I first chose it, I was told that this place used to be quite prosperous. Twenty years ago, it was even one of the top cities outside of the provincial capital." Zhang Yiling walked to the bus stop on the side of the road and took a look. On the not-so-large map, she did see a full range of living facilities.
"It used to be quite prosperous," a thin man among the bodyguards stepped forward. "I came here when I was a kid, and the streets were quite crowded back then. But this place was able to develop because it was a resource-rich city. But now its resources have been almost fully developed, so the economy has suddenly declined."
"Is that so?" Zhang Yiling couldn't help but feel a little sad when she saw that there were almost no young people on the street.
A city where even young people are unwilling to live has no potential.
However, this kind of city is very consistent with the setting of her script. After all, after the audience saw the appearance of this city, many people felt depressed without her having to describe it.
Some people will automatically imagine the corresponding emotions through these lens languages.
Thinking of this, Zhang Yiling couldn't help but laugh. "Then let's go to the commercial street and see if there are a lot of people there!"
Zhang Yiling said this and walked towards the commercial street, but when she got closer, she found that there was only a so-called signboard left on the commercial street.
There are not many shops open on the entire street. Apart from a few noodle shops, there are clothing stores and maternal and child supplies stores.
The most important thing is that Zhang Yiling took a look at the goods in these stores and found that they were obviously behind the times.
"Tell me, if you were born here, would you want to leave here?" Zhang Yiling walked on the street and picked up a camera to record everything.
There were several elderly people sitting at the door. When they saw what Zhang Yiling did, they waved at her cooperatively, as if they had seen such a person for the first time.
"I think I'd want to leave here, right?" a bodyguard said. "But my hometown is in the village, which is even more backward than here. When I was in school, I always told myself that I must study hard and escape from here."
Zhang Yiling laughed when she heard this. "But there are still people who don't want to leave here, right?"
She walked up to an elderly man who looked very kind and asked in a low voice, "Hello, old man, can I ask you a few questions?"
"Are you from the TV station?" the old man in blue clothes asked curiously, and it seemed that he really wanted to know this.
Zhang Yiling thought about it and realized that explaining her job to him would be very troublesome, so she nodded and said, "Yes, we are from the TV station. We just wanted to ask you a few questions. Is that okay?"
The old man laughed and nodded without hesitation. "That's no problem. No one has come to interview us for a long time. I remember that more than ten years ago, we often had people coming here to learn from our development experience."
Zhang Yiling smiled politely and then asked, "Old man, have you grown up here?"
"No," the old man shook his head. "I didn't live here before. I moved here after I turned thirty."
"What about your children? Do they live here now?" Zhang Yiling continued to ask.
The old man smiled and said, "They, they all went to the big city! They really wanted me to go with them, but I didn't agree. I'm used to living here."
"But there are fewer and fewer young people here," Zhang Yiling said seriously.
After a while, the old man said, "It can't be helped. Young people can't find good jobs here, so they definitely don't want to come here. But we've gotten used to it. Maybe after we're all gone, this place will be designated as a district in another city."
"Is it just habit?" Zhang Yiling was stunned for a few seconds, but then she felt it was normal. Because habit is indeed a very scary thing, just like her grandfather and her mother, they are people who will not change easily because of habit.
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