"Xiao Ye, if it weren't for the fact that you're our own child, I wouldn't have told you!"
While cracking sunflower seeds, the mobile phone shop owner said to Shang Yechu, "None of these phones will work!"
The shop owner, his fingers painted with red nail polish, traced a line through the air above a row of new mobile phones displayed prominently in the counter, pointing and saying:
"That little chili phone drains the battery incredibly fast!"
"That Red Cherry phone's battery bulged after only a few uses!"
"That Lightning Phone, don't let its name fool you. After using it for a while, it will freeze for a minute if you open any app!"
Shang Yechu asked, both amused and exasperated, "Aunt Lu, what kind should I buy?"
This morning, Shang Yechu told Grandma Hu about wanting to buy a mobile phone. Grandma Hu then led Shang Yechu to a familiar mobile phone store on the pedestrian street and specifically told Boss Lu not to fool the young girl.
Grandma Hu has lived on this street for over ten years. She is highly respected and well-liked. The neighbors on the old street all respect her.
Therefore, even though Shang Yechu looked like a poor wretch, Boss Lu still explained things to him very enthusiastically for a long time.
Mr. Lu spat out the sunflower seed shells and said kindly, "Buying a cell phone is like finding a man—you can't just look at appearances! Here, I'll find you one that suits you."
As he spoke, Boss Lu tossed the melon seeds aside, went to the back and rummaged around for a while, finally finding an old-fashioned secondhand mobile phone.
Shang Yechu joked, "Aunt Lu, did you find me a second-hand man?"
Boss Lu scolded playfully, "Young man, you're so smooth-talking! This is a Renxing phone I used before—don't let the name fool you, it works great!"
Shang Yechu was slightly taken aback. She had some impression of this brand. In about three to five years, this brand would rise to prominence and break the domestic monopoly on the mobile phone market with its excellent quality, becoming the largest mobile phone brand in China.
She remembered that the biggest problem with Renxing phones was their outdated design, which made them unpopular with young people...
Shang Yechu glanced again at the outdated, secondhand phone in Boss Lu's hand, which looked like an old-fashioned phone, and her lips twitched slightly, indicating her agreement with the rumor.
I didn't expect this phone to have been around so long ago.
Boss Lu wiped the phone with a cloth, plugged it in to charge, and continued to recommend it to Shang Yechu: "The battery lasts a really long time! It's durable and tough! The screen hasn't broken even after being dropped several times. I've used it for two years, and it's still incredibly smooth with a full 32GB of storage!"
Shang Yechu smiled. 32GB is still considered large memory in today's phones; in two years, 256GB will be everywhere. The times eliminate phones much faster than people.
At this stage, Shang Yechu didn't care whether the phone was new or not; a poor person like him couldn't afford to be picky. After charging it a bit, Boss Lu turned on the phone and handed it to Shang Yechu.
Shang Ye tried it out and agreed with Boss Lu's vision.
"How much, Aunt Lu?"
Seeing that he could finally get rid of his old friend, Boss Lu grinned from ear to ear: "Just give me four hundred yuan. I'll also give you a charger and a good screen protector while I'm at it."
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Upon receiving his new device, Shang Yechu immediately went to get a SIM card, painfully topped up his phone with 200 yuan, and then immediately saved all the phone numbers in his memory into it.
Besides the phone number given by director Jiang Lei, there were also the phone numbers of other junior directors, assistants, group leaders, and Jiang Lei herself.
Shang Yechu used the Wi-Fi at the mobile phone store to start searching online for Jiang Lei's teacher.
Idol dramas and period dramas were things that Shang Yechu had no connection with in her past life. Therefore, Shang Yechu really didn't know much about the relationships among the members of Jiang Lei's circle.
After entering the keywords, the interface rotated for two seconds, and the first search result that popped up was for a person named Zheng Bohan.
Zheng Bohan...that name sounds familiar.
Shang Yechu clicked into the page and began to look at it carefully.
Zheng Bohan is a renowned screenwriter. His representative works include "Xiyuan", "Donglou Mishi", "Qingyue Zhuan", and "David's Legend: The Story of Lady Yi".
Upon seeing these drama titles, Shang Yechu knew why the names seemed familiar.
These dramas, without exception, were all once the dominant force in the prime-time evening slot!
Every night, Ji Ya would sit in front of the television, obsessively watching these period dramas. Although Shang Hongxuan outwardly scoffed at these dramas, he would actually put down his books and newspapers and watch them with Ji Ya whenever they aired.
Shang Yechu's two younger sisters were obsessed with the four most handsome men in Taiwan and kept asking to watch Taiwanese soap operas. Unfortunately, that long and tedious romance series always clashed with these period dramas, so the two sisters didn't have the remote control and could only reluctantly watch what their mother liked with Ji Ya. As a result, they later became even more fanatical than Ji Ya.
Shang Yechu still remembers the magnificent opening theme song of "Xiyuan": "Flowers in the north, snow in the south; rain on the Luo River, moon over Luzhou; the mighty Yangtze River flows on, its elegance fades, but the love remains forever..."
As Shang Yechu was washing dishes in the kitchen, the familiar melody told her she needed to finish quickly. Otherwise, the clanging and banging of the dishes would enrage Ji Ya once the main program started airing.
The scripts for these films were all written by Zheng Bohan?
Is Zheng Bohan Jiang Lei's teacher?
Shang Yechu sensed something was amiss. A resume on an encyclopedia couldn't be faked. Therefore, Zheng Bohan was undoubtedly a top-tier screenwriter in the contemporary Chinese entertainment industry. Someone like that, simply by throwing out his name, would have a plethora of popular or semi-famous actors vying for his attention.
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