Duan Cuilan walked quickly towards her old friends' house, "Quick, call the Wang family, the Li family, and the Liu family, let's go get the eggs!"
The five of them were all dressed up, even bringing their usual small stools for queuing. They looked at the competition on the big screen on the stage and stared blankly at Duan Cuilan. "Weren't we supposed to be getting eggs?"
Duan Cuilan then realized she hadn't explained clearly, "It's a game. As long as you play, you get eggs, and if you win, you get rice. And you can play up to ten games. Winning or losing, you get a box of eggs for each game, and if you win ten games in a row, you get that big bag of rice."
"Really?! I feel like I could play all day long!"
Duan Cuilan rolled her eyes. "A team can only play a maximum of ten games."
"That's at least ten boxes of eggs?!"
"But none of us know how to fight!!"
"My phone isn't even a smartphone, how am I supposed to make a call?!"
"They'll give you phones, but you have to return them after you're done. Don't worry, you guys watch a couple of games quickly, memorize the button layouts, and then we'll get the staff to schedule us."
The Lotus Pond Moonlight Team of Ji'an County was officially established. Looking at the eggs next to the stage, they were already in their grasp. After winning a game, they even felt that the big bag of rice next to them was a piece of cake!
"You'd better go back and have your son get you a new Liangtian phone, otherwise we won't be able to train."
Duan Xiulan looked at the three points she had accumulated today, along with the three boxes of eggs and three bags of rice in her hand, and smiled brightly. "I just asked, and the cheapest Liangtian mobile phone is nine hundred yuan. That young man said if I buy it here, I can get a hundred yuan off, only eight hundred yuan. I'm going to buy it anyway. I can go to the provincial capital for a competition later, with food, lodging, and travel expenses all covered. I can also broaden my horizons. Don't hold me back!"
Duan Xiulan's best friend Zhang Shuzhen said, "Of course! I didn't expect them to actually give us eggs. There are three boxes! If we didn't have other competitions to compete in, our Lotus Pond Moonlight team might have won ten boxes today!"
Wu Lihua happily chimed in, "The staff said it's a points system, and our Lotus Pond Moonlight team has already accumulated three points, making us a formidable team. We need to conserve our energy and prepare to face other strong teams the day after tomorrow. None of these teams can match our strength!"
"That's right, that's right! I'll go back and get the money to buy a phone right now. My little sister said she reserved the cheapest spot for me. After dinner, we'll meet at Xiulan's house for training! Let's try to each bring a bag of rice! We'll bring a small cart tomorrow; we have so much today, there will be even more tomorrow. Hehe."
The five members of the Lotus Pond Moonlight team, their faces beaming with smiles, carried eggs and rice in shopping bags printed with Flying Entertainment advertisements given to them by the staff, and hurried home with light steps.
The same scene is happening in many counties.
Duan Xiulan and her teammates started practicing right after dinner. It happened to be the weekend, and her son and daughter came back to visit her with their families and children.
"Is no one home? Did Mom go out? I knocked on the door but no one answered."
Duan Xiulan's granddaughter peered through the door and said, "There's someone inside. I heard them say 'Cai Cai'."
Just as they were about to make a phone call, the door opened. They were about to greet their mother when they discovered that there were several other elderly women in her home, where she had lived alone for many years.
"Hello, aunties, come find my mom."
After he finished greeting them, he realized that his mother hadn't looked up at all, and the other elderly women were also looking down at their phones, their hands moving occasionally, and their phones were in landscape mode, making it look exactly like his son was secretly playing on his phone.
"You guys find a place to sit, we're training right now."
The son and daughter, filled with questions, put down their things and surrounded them.
"It's the Coral Squad!!"
"I know, that's Ahai!!"
"I know, this is Da Tou! This is Xiao Man! I like Xiao Man the most!!"
The children chattered amongst themselves, looking at the characters on the phone and gesturing to see who knew the most.
"I can even sing the theme song!"
"I can sing too! We are the righteous Coral Squad~ la la la~ Together with the sea turtle, we'll thwart the poisonous fish's plan! la la la~"
Duan Xiulan breathed a sigh of relief, "Finally we won. This match took a really long time. Let's all take a rest."
The others either drank water or went to the toilet.
"You guys, keep your voices down."
Duan Xiulan's son and daughter were stunned on the sofa. Wait a minute, wasn't their mother the one who loved these kids' noisy, boisterous fun? They usually scolded them, and their mother would stop them. What's wrong today?! She's complaining about the noise?!
After chatting for a while, they looked at the new phone in his mother's hand with some resentment. They said, "I've never even heard of Liangtian phones. Why are they using this knock-off phone instead of the Apple Pie phone we bought them?"
It's definitely a scam to swindle money from the elderly. His mother was even showing off her eggs and rice. The money spent on this phone could have bought so many eggs and rice!
What kind of competition is this?! They've got their fists clenched, yet they still use games to poison the minds of the elderly, even fabricating so-called provincial and national competitions to deceive these seniors! Unforgivable!
"Wait, Mom, where did you get this bag?!"
Duan Xiulan's son and daughter stared in disbelief at the Feiyang Amusement Park advertisement on the bag. They hadn't even managed to snag tickets to take their mother to the park, and here she already had a shopping bag from the park?! Was their mother up to something?! Had she actually ditched them to get tickets and gone in by herself?! When did this happen?!
"This is the competition where they gave us bags to carry our rice because we didn't bring any."
Duan Xiulan felt that her children were a real burden. They were enough for her and her teammates to train for another game. The competition was tomorrow, and time was tight.
"Take it if you like it. We need to start training. The competition is tomorrow. They've all won a few games, just like us."
"Mom, we'll go to the event tomorrow to cheer you on!!!"
Duan Xiulan couldn't understand why her kids had suddenly changed their tune. Just a moment ago, they looked like they were about to tell her she was wasting money and getting scammed. If it had been any later, she probably would have told her a lot about scams targeting middle-aged and elderly people. Now that they had the eggs in their hands, how could they be fake?!
In retrospect, these kids aren't so bad; they actually need to keep trying.
"Mom, you're training, right? I'll learn from you too, be your opponent, and help you see how to beat the others."
The group of people suddenly got busy.
Duan Xiulan had no idea what was wrong with these guys. They wouldn't have said anything to her, but now it seemed they were going to support her?!
Duan Xiulan's children were very excited! This must be a new program from Feiyang Entertainment. They must be holding auditions right now. Don't be fooled by the eggs they're giving away now. Didn't their mother say that the prizes will be even better later? Maybe they'll even give away park tickets or something?
His mom is only in her fifties, the perfect time to strive for success!!! Her fifties are the ideal age to launch her esports career!! Go, Mom, fly high!! They'll chase after you!!!
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