Chapter 446 Looks Familiar
The bus, which had been running for who knows how many years, rumbled towards Dongshi. The people on the bus spoke with the unique briskness and Dongshi humor, which infected people's body and mind and made them laugh along with everyone else.
The audience in front of the TV also grinned as they listened, and the children just learned a few lines for fun, and they were easily addicted to it, just like the nursery rhymes they usually recited.
After changing two buses, they walked for another ten minutes before arriving at the palace of the secondary capital. This was where the Qing army was stationed before entering the pass. It was well preserved and became a famous building. It is one of the three palaces in the country!
An Zhixia and the others followed the signs to the billboard of the "Extreme Xiahua" program team and took out the task card from the mailbox.
The task card states the origin of the name of Dongshi, and also explains that in the two national censuses, ten surnames, Wang, Zhang, Li, Liu, Zhao, Yang, Sun, Chen, Gao and Ma, accounted for 60% of the population, which is very close to the pattern of major surnames in the country. This is because most of the current residents in this area are immigrants.
A major feature of Dongshi surnames is that there are many "small surnames", many of which are surnames changed by the Manchus. Moreover, there are 70 surnames in Dongshi, each with less than 50 people. It is worth mentioning that there are 18 surnames, each with only one family.
Therefore, the task card requires them to collect as many signatures as possible before the palace closes. The top six guest groups that collect the most surnames will get dinner, and the rest of the guest groups need to pay enough to buy steamed buns and pickles, and those who don't have enough money can buy on credit first.
And this is only a side quest. The main quest requires them to follow a group of tourists around the entire palace of the secondary capital and then answer questions. The group with higher scores will have priority in choosing accommodation.
Now is the peak time for tourists. Each of An Zhixia and his friends received a piece of paper and a pen, and then they found that they had to buy tickets when they entered the palace!
Just then, a parade was disbanding, and Fang Gexin ran over to say a few nice words and borrowed a banhu and a sanxian. She played the banhu, while Fang Songyan plucked the sanxian. After testing the sound, the two girls looked at each other and had a conversation using the two instruments.
Fang Qingyun was very clever, tapping her hands on her chest and changing her voice to help translate vividly. It actually turned into a bloody ethics drama, exactly the part where Fang Songyan came at the train station!
The people in Dongshi particularly liked this type of performance and gathered around. Fang Junzhuo collected money in a circle with a small hat. Every time he received money, no matter how much, he would smile and say a series of auspicious words in Beijing dialect, which made people very excited.
Some people wanted to throw the coins many times in a row to tease him, but they were praised by Fang Junzhuo so much that they felt so relaxed that they just let go and gave him a bill.
Fang Lixi and An Zhixia took a pen and paper and without wasting any time, they started asking people on both sides of the crowd to sign their names.
"Hello comrade, we are employees of Kyoto Culture Company. We are currently conducting a social survey and need you to sign your surname on a piece of paper..." An Zhixia said with a smile.
She was good-looking, even if she only applied simple skin care products and no makeup, her beauty made the summer afternoon lose three points of its scorching heat. Her voice was also that kind of slightly smoky voice, as if she had a sound card installed, which was particularly seductive.
"Ah, you are..." Someone in the crowd suddenly shouted in surprise: "You are An Zhixia, Teacher Xiao An, right? Are you recording the 'Extreme Xiahua' program?"
Although in order to avoid being recognized by passers-by, thereby affecting filming and disrupting social order, the program crew has chosen twelve cities where the live broadcast of "Extreme Xia Hua" will not be broadcast until the guests leave the city.
Logically speaking, they should not have been recognized, but there were many people in Xiahua, so it was normal for tourists to come to the East City Palace.
One person recognized her, and the others matched An Zhixia with the initiator of the "Star of Tomorrow" program. They stared at An Zhixia like a monkey in a zoo, and Fang Lixi and her two assistants were so scared that they surrounded her and kept on guard.
"Teacher Xiao An," most people are used to calling An Zhixia Teacher Xiao An, following the students in "Star of Tomorrow." They said excitedly, "You look better in person than on TV with makeup on. No wonder we think you look familiar."
"Your children are really well-educated. They are well-behaved, sensible, clean and pretty. They are not like the mud monkeys in my family. They chase after me with a stick, don't study and just play all day long, let alone have any special skills..."
After all, the common people had no concept of being crazy fans, they simply surrounded An Zhixia and wanted to say a few words to her.
An Zhixia took the opportunity to hand over the paper with a smile.
Those who were able to visit the palace were from relatively well-off families, so naturally half of them, young and old, could write. They took the paper enthusiastically and wrote not only their surnames but also their given names.
After a while, both sides of the two sheets of paper were filled with writing. An Zhixia asked the staff for a few more sheets.
Not only that, they also threw money into the hat generously.
When Fang Junzhuo saw that he had almost enough money, he quickly held his hat and said he didn't want any more.
At this time, other guest groups had also arrived, and with the help of the enthusiastic crowd, they quickly completed the task of collecting surnames and earning tickets.
Everyone grabbed their bags, bought tickets and ran into the palace of the secondary capital as if they were fleeing. Only then were they able to catch their breath, separated from the crowd.
An Zhixia said helplessly to the camera: "Dear viewers, I know you like the show we shoot, but at this moment we are doing our business, performing for the people of the country and even our friends overseas.
We have to play the game seriously, so that we can justify the cable TV fee you paid. From now on, when you see us, just wave from a distance.
We are ordinary people too, we don’t have one more eye or one more mouth than you.
Your help has made the program easier to complete, but it is a loss for the viewers in front of the TV."
Everyone can listen to what they say, but whoever sees the person on TV standing in front of him or her, he or she will be excited, right? Thinking in this way, they fully understand the enthusiasm of the tourists in the live broadcast.
In later generations, there are many reality shows, and the people are well-informed. Even if they encounter one, they will only be excited for a short moment, or take out their mobile phones to take a video and upload it to a circle of friends. They treat the matter very rationally, except for those fans of celebrity harems.
Of course, An Zhixia couldn't stop recording the show or reduce the filming of such shows because of this. On the contrary, everything has a first time. It's no longer surprising after seeing it many times. It's better to open up than to block.
Then they each followed a guided tour group and listened to the guide's detailed, lively and interesting explanation. An Zhixia did not cheat in the supermarket. She listened carefully and took notes silently.
(End of this chapter)
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