As time went by, Yuxue Shipping Company entered its busiest period, but this busyness had little to do with Bai Yu.
Bai Yu now has only one thing to do: prepare for the fishing competition.
This time, their participants are the same as before: all four members of the Ocean University F4 are participating, along with six other employees who have performed well this year.
Over the course of the 23rd and 24th, all the qualified participants arrived in Sanya one after another to begin preparing for this year's fishing competition.
Bai Yu's company had already prepared the venue in advance, setting up a competition platform in front of their company's designated parking space.
The reason they set up this podium is because their company's competitions are now much more professional than before.
Regardless of the circumstances, their company is a large corporation that earns billions a year, so they should maintain a certain level of prestige.
In the past, their company didn't have any problems with these dais or anything like that. After everyone signed in, they could just go fishing. The main thing was for everyone to have fun.
On the morning of the 24th, Bai Yu and his three companions arrived at the dock early and began the contestant check-in and draw.
This competition has ten fishing boats available for fishing spots, with each boat carrying a maximum of thirty participants.
To ensure fairness in the competition, all contestants will be assigned to fishing boats randomly. First, they will draw the boat number, and then they will draw the order of their fishing spots on the boat.
Even if Bai Yu and his three companions were members of the organizers, and the competition itself was organized by their company, they still needed to draw lots.
If they're lucky, they might end up on the same fishing boat; if they're unlucky, the four of them will have to go their separate ways.
"Brother Yu, to be honest, there's really no need for this lottery. Let's just line up according to the order of signing in, and go to whichever boat it's our turn. That way, we can all fish on the same boat."
"You tell me, as the organizers, besides a few backdoor spots, we don't get any other privileges. What kind of organizers are we?"
"Hey, Shuangzi, you need to watch what you say. My camera is on all the time, and there are also our company's live streaming cameras nearby. There are some things you can say, but some things you should try to say less of."
"Hey, I was just venting a little. Who knows where we'll get in the lottery? We might not even know anyone on the whole fishing boat. That would be hilarious!"
"Don't worry, this is a fishing competition, the main focus is fishing. If you don't know anyone here, just concentrate on fishing."
Okay, it's our turn now. Let's draw lots quickly; maybe we'll end up on the same ship.
While queuing to draw lots, Li Shuang kept complaining to Bai Yu about the format of this competition.
The rules for selecting ships by lottery are particularly unfriendly to the Ocean University F4, since they are a group and always work together. Now, it's highly likely that they will be separated.
When it was their turn, there were two lottery boxes in the lottery area. One box contained fishing boat numbers from one to ten, and the other box contained fishing spot numbers from one to thirty.
Once a boat number has been drawn thirty times, that number can be retrieved; similarly, a fishing spot number can be retrieved after ten draws.
Bai Hao then took the lead and started drawing from the ship number box. As a number six ball was drawn, Bai Hao's ship number was determined: fishing boat number six.
Then they drew fishing spot numbers again, number twenty-two. Bai Hao's fishing spot this time was number twenty-two on boat number six.
As for Wang Hai, Li Shuang, and Lu Sheng, they also quickly completed the draw. Unfortunately, the four of them had different ship numbers.
Wang Hai is on ship number one, Li Shuang is on ship number three, and Lu Sheng is on ship number ten.
However, as soon as the draw ended, Li Shuang, who had been grumbling and slightly dissatisfied, immediately brightened up.
The reason is very simple: although Li Shuang was not on the same boat as Bai Yu and the others, there were acquaintances on his boat, and one of them was a woman.
That's Keke, the top livestream salesperson in Bai Yu's company and also Li Shuang's girlfriend.
As one of the earliest streamers to join the company, and one who even brought her fans with her, Keke has always been diligent and hardworking. Every year, her performance is top-notch, so she naturally gets one of the company's reward slots.
As for company romances, Bai Yu has always advocated that they should be handled internally within the company. As long as it does not affect work, company romances are acceptable.
After all, their company's employees are all high-income earners, and their company's benefits are very high, which is comparable to those of ordinary companies.
That's why when employees in their company date each other, it's considered a good match.
Moreover, there are two role models: Bai Yu and Li Xue, one the company chairman and the other the actual person in charge of the company. They are a couple, so naturally, the people below will follow suit.
Bai Hao and the others cast disdainful glances at Li Shuang for her change in attitude.
To be fair, Li Shuang's question was quite good. Not only were he and Ke Ke on the same fishing boat, but their fishing spots were also adjacent, one at number sixteen and the other at number seventeen.
Even so, the two of them were still a little dissatisfied, saying, "Why aren't they number 13 and 14?"
Bai Yu and the other two all cast disdainful glances at Li Shuang, and rolled their eyes as well.
After confirming their respective boat numbers and fishing spots, Bai Yu and the others parted ways to find their own fishing boats and put their luggage down.
Bai Yu's No. 6 boat is not Yu Xue No. 6, but Yu Xue No. 16. These ten boats used for the competition are chosen by their company based on whichever boats are available, emphasizing randomness.
Although Bai Yu and his crew didn't get any special privileges at their fishing spots, they did have some privileges once they were on the boat.
For example, when it comes to accommodation, Bai Yu got himself a single room.
They brought a lot of people on their fishing boats this time. In addition to the thirty contestants on each boat, each boat also had crew members and staff responsible for filming.
All told, there are about fifty people on a fishing boat.
Although Bai Yu's company assigns forty people to each fishing boat, that doesn't mean there are only forty beds on their boats; there are still quite a few beds.
The gathering on the 24th lasted all day, and they wouldn't set sail until that evening.
As time passed, more and more contestants arrived at Fishing Snow No. 16 to register. By 3 p.m., all 30 contestants on their fishing boat had arrived.
During this period, Bai Yu didn't even disembark from the boat; they all stayed on the fishing boat and ate lunch on it.
With all the contestants present, Bai Yu had a general understanding of the personnel on the ship: there were 23 contestants in total, including 7 women.
Two of them were acquaintances of Bai Yu, whom he had met a few times before. One was Lao Deng's female apprentice, and the other was Bai Yu's editing account on Douyin.
Bai Hao was stunned when he saw his edited account. How come he was always there during the fan competition every year?
Bai Yu naturally wanted to find out more about such a miraculous thing from the other party.
As an editor who relies on creating and editing videos of Bai Yu and Yuxue Shipping Company, can he hide anything from Bai Yu when faced with his questions?
The answer is of course impossible; he will simply answer whatever Bai Yu asks.
The final result was that the other party bought the spot for 10,000 yuan, and they wouldn't sell it for less.
That's outrageous. In order to participate in a fishing competition, someone spent 10,000 yuan to buy a spot from someone else.
"Oh my god, is this spot made of gold? You're going to spend ten thousand yuan to buy it?"
"You didn't get a spot? Just tell me! Ask me for one, that's all. You're the most successful editor of my videos, how could I refuse you a spot? What if you stop editing my videos? I'd be at a loss then."
"No way, I get views and make money from editing your videos and your company's videos, so how could I not edit them?"
"Can't you understand good or bad words? If you don't have a spot in the next fan fishing competition, just tell me and I'll save you one, so you don't have to pay for it yourself."
"These spots must be hard to get. I remember our company has a time limit for confirming the spots after the draw to prevent people from trading them privately. How did you manage to get one?"
His relationship with the other party regarding this editing account, which is also the only editing account that Bai Yu has authorized to the public, is quite good.
They chat occasionally, and if the editing team has any inside information they want to know, they'll ask Bai Yu when they have time.
Bai Yu would also share some information with the other party that she could reveal. It was because of these insider details that the video editing account had nearly ten million followers.
Have you ever seen a video editing account with nearly ten million followers? That's more than the average internet celebrity.
What the editor had to do was donate 20% of the account's earnings, as he and Bai Yu had agreed.
Through communication with the other party, Bai Yu learned that there was also an online scalper on Douyin. These people browsed various live streaming rooms and grabbed all kinds of benefits in these live streaming rooms.
Even for internal company competitions like Bai Yu's, they can still snag a spot in the competition through the live stream.
Anyone who wants a spot can simply make a reservation in advance within this group. Once they've secured a spot, the scalper simply reports the participant's identity when the staff of Yuxue Shipping Company verify their information.
After listening to the other party's account, Bai Hao was a little stunned. This thing really does have a policy at the top and a countermeasure at the bottom. There really is everything on Douyin!
As the time approached six o'clock in the afternoon, the sky gradually darkened. Once the sun had completely sunk below the horizon, all ten fishing boats on the dock set off immediately after a whistle was sounded.
It's time for them to leave!
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