Chapter 102 Mission Completed
Time really flies when things get busy. In early May, the villagers in Hetang Village were so busy that the canteen had to open again.
Planting rice seedlings and transplanting watermelon seedlings, and after the seedlings in the rice fields grow straight and green, they start to release fish fry and loaches. Each task involves many detailed tasks and precautions, and no one in the village is idle.
By the end of May, Fang Hongye and his team had finished touring in other provinces and returned with the team.
The people who came back from the big provincial capital had a completely different mental outlook, as if they had shed a layer of shell. However, after all, they were not brought up in this environment, and their learning from the city people was a bit half-Chinese, which made An Zhixia's mouth twitch when she saw them.
It seems that she needs to give them a few more lessons, such as appearance, manners, dressing, as well as aesthetics and local customs.
Fortunately, Fang Hongye was not that eye-catching. She just tied her hair into a ponytail with a light blue handkerchief, tucked her white shirt into her black straight pants, and wore a red badge on her chest. She looked young and beautiful, and was dressed like other city students.
"Zhixia, here," Fang Hongye smiled as she put a stack of documents in front of An Zhixia after entering the room, and took out a stack of bills. "We have successfully completed the task!"
An Zhixia smiled and asked her to sit down, poured her some tea, and then picked up the document and looked at it carefully. The tour group went to three places in total, including Shanghai, Kyoto, and Shenzhen, all of which were places where she had submitted her article. As long as the article was written in line with the current situation and had eye-catching photos, it would be published as a model by the newspaper.
Once you become a little famous, manufacturers and companies will naturally come to you.
However, An Zhixia was determined to sell the show, so the touring troupe only performed once in each place. However, this time it also caused quite a stir, and she had the confidence to negotiate prices with local performance troupes.
After all, they are Shanghai, Kyoto and Shenzhen. The cities are big and have good economies, and the factories also need face. Fang Hongye followed Professor An Zhixia's negotiation skills and finally reached a price that both parties were satisfied with. The other party also signed several new stage plays written by An Zhixia on the spot, so there were 15 programs, and the total sales were 60,000 yuan!
Fang Hongye gulped down a glass of water, but she was still not calm. She pulled a chair over to An Zhixia and began to gesture and talk, "Zhixia, you don't know. When the leaders of those places came to pick us up, they saw that we were wearing ragged, old, and rustic clothes. Ouch, our eyes and noses were all over our heads. Even though we were staying in the guesthouse, they were afraid that we would bring lice in. Those contemptuous words directly made the cheeky girls and wives in the group red-eyed.
But you gave us a heads-up before we went there, so we knew this situation was going to happen, and we all trained with all our might.
Didn’t we go to the Shanghai Stock Exchange first?
The theater was very large, with thousands of people inside, lined up layer by layer, so densely packed that it made one's scalp numb. The decoration was also very retro and gorgeous. We were like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden, and were laughed at again.
Our show was generally ranked at the back. The other troupe was all dressed up in fancy clothes, with their faces rubbed like monkeys, and they showed off in front of us with their chests puffed out and their chins raised, trying to completely crush us.
Oh, since we can go to Shanghai, we are not an ordinary touring group. How can we compete with others with these equipment? We are strong!
They performed very hard, but the audience outside had seen such performances so many times that the applause was sparse. When we came on stage, our own lighting, sound effects and costumes were unveiled, and the applause almost lifted the roof off.
When we performed, we amazed the audience once again. Every time we went on and off the stage, the applause was so enthusiastic that the expressions on the faces of those in the performance troupe were distorted.
As soon as such a sensational performance ended, we did as you said and went back to the guesthouse to pack our bags and get ready to leave.
The head of the group couldn't wait any longer, so he sent someone to invite me to his office. When I got there, he was not in the office, saying he was out doing something and asked me to wait a moment.
I did as you said, and I was ready to leave, saying that I had to catch the train back. The young clerk saw that he couldn't hold back any longer, so he ran to call the man back.
The head of the group first praised our show, and then began to say that our show had been performed many times in Jiangzhou Province, and that it was no longer novel, so the price would not be high. She also said that our actors were too unprofessional and could not perform the show to its full potential, only 20% or 30% at best. Anyway, she made up all kinds of excuses, and I just listened, and then in the end she couldn't continue.
I asked her how much she wanted, and wow, she had the nerve to ask for five hundred dollars!
I will throw your words back at her face, word for word. We only get 500 yuan for a performance in a small town in Fujiang County, Jiangzhou Province. How dare a big performance troupe in Shanghai open its mouth? Do you really think we are little cats and dogs that have never seen the world?
Then she added a little bit more, I didn't respond with a cold face, and waited for half an hour before she added 2,000. I walked out without saying a word and asked the doorman where the address of their family's mortal enemy was.
The team leader should remember to chase him out and directly raise the price to five thousand.
Didn't you ask me to ask for an exorbitant price? I asked for 50,000 yuan directly, which almost made the head of the group's eyes pop out! In the end, we each compromised and negotiated 20,000 yuan for 15 shows. After all, my monthly appearance fee is more than 10,000 yuan, and the appearance fee in Shanghai is even higher!"
After saying this, Fang Hongye seemed to be still in Shanghai, filled with a sense of heroism.
The performance troupe in Kyoto had not done as much as the one in Shanghai, but they were also xenophobic and looked down on country folks, and the opening price was 3,000. Fang Hongye adopted another method written by An Zhixia and also negotiated the price to 20,000 yuan, but they asked her to go to the finance department to collect the draft.
Fang Hongye refused to give in, and asked someone to go to the post office with her, and also asked several people to identify the authenticity of the money order. After receiving the money order, she carefully wrapped it in oil paper, sewed it to the inner layer of the broken suitcase, and then took a fake money order and put it on her body, and sure enough, she lost it at the train station leaving Beijing.
The Shenzhen Stock Exchange is quite tolerant, and the negotiation went quite smoothly. Fang Hongye didn't have to waste any time to negotiate and settled the price at 20,000, which made her feel that she had asked for too low a price.
The two of them stared at each other in amazement for a long time after receiving 60,000 yuan in cash.
"This month will be over soon. When the salary is paid, I will give each of you a big red envelope! However, you'd better keep this matter to yourself and don't tell anyone about it, so as to avoid causing any trouble. Sixty thousand yuan is not a small amount!" An Zhixia specifically reminded him.
Fang Hongye nodded repeatedly, "Don't worry, Zhixia, I won't even tell my parents!"
"Take a good rest for two days, then practice the five new stage plays, and make some money from the province..."
(End of this chapter)
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