Watching the raging fire engulf the straw house, the Metamorphosis crew and Xu Shang fell into silence.
The director pulled Xu Shang aside and said earnestly, "Xu Shang, this was an accident. We all don't want to see this happen... I have something to discuss with you."
"What's up?"
"As for Granny Sang's losses, our crew can compensate you in full, as long as you are willing to admit that you burned the house."
Xu Shang looked at the director's thick eyebrows and big eyes, and thought to himself that one should not judge a person by his appearance. You look such an upright person, yet you want a child like me to take the blame?
"You spilled oil on it!"
The director rolled his eyes and continued, "Can you bear to see Granny Sang without a house to live in because of you... and me?"
"You spilled oil on it!"
"I can tell your father that this was a complete accident. Imagine if I told your family the truth -"
"You spilled oil on it!"
"Can you please stop mentioning the oil spill?"
"If I hadn't dodged quickly, I would have been burned to death by you."
director:"……"
The director quietly lit a cigarette and said, "Yes, I did something wrong with good intentions and spilled the oil on him, but you lit the fire, so you're not wrong. We each take half of the responsibility, don't you object?"
Xu Shang did not object to this statement. Indeed, after he was reborn, he did not know his last name and he became arrogant and went to burn the pot, but ended up burning down Granny Sang's house.
I worked as a small office leader for ten years before my rebirth, and I really don’t know my own last name.
"I admit that I am responsible!"
"It will be easy if you admit it!" The director quickly followed up the conversation and continued, "Grandma Sang and Xiaolong's home are gone, we have to give others an explanation. If you are willing to admit that you accidentally lit the straw, our crew will compensate for the house. Not only that, we will also compensate for a mud-brick house!"
"It's true that I lit the straw!" Xu Shang looked at the director, "But you were the one who poured the oil."
"So our production team is responsible for paying the compensation. What else are you going to do? Are you going to ask your father to pay the compensation for you?"
Just when Xu Shang was struggling, a ding sound suddenly rang in his ears.
"All occupation systems loaded!"
"You have been given a chance to draw from a random basic occupation pool. You can choose a occupation from it."
Xu Shang saw a lottery pool on his retina. There were three empty slots in it, and next to it was a button that said "Start Lottery". Xu Shang immediately said to himself:
"Start the lottery!"
The lottery pool rolled quickly like a slot machine, and many professions rolled on the empty seats. Then, the first position stopped. It was a black letter on a white background with two words written on it: Farmer.
Immediately afterwards, the remaining two empty seats also stopped one by one.
White, fisherman.
Blue, herbalist.
Obviously, white should be the lowest level award, and Xu Shang chose blue without hesitation, which means herbal farmer as his profession.
After choosing the profession of herbal farmer, Xu Shang immediately felt that a lot of knowledge was stuffed into his mind, how to identify medicinal materials, how to collect medicinal materials, how to prepare medicinal materials... In a short period of time, it seemed that he had learned the entire "Compendium of Materia Medica".
What surprised Xu Shang even more was that this profession actually had a very powerful skill.
Medicinal Herb Detection Radar (Level 1): Automatically displays the location of medicinal herbs within 10 meters. The skill level increases with the herbalist's level.
"Xu Shang, have you thought it through?"
Hearing the director's voice, Xu Shang finally came back to his senses from checking his profession and skills. With this profession and skills, he now had the confidence to speak, and said in a resounding voice:
"Your production team won't have to pay for it. I will give Grandma Sang a new house! And I will give her a big house!"
The director was so amused when he heard this that he said, "How are you going to compensate? Call your dad? Or do it on your own? Use the New Year's money you've accumulated?"
“I can make money myself!”
"You earn your own money?"
The director could hardly control his expression, as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world.
…
After Grandma Sang's house was burned down, people from the village rushed over.
Faced with the situation of Granny Sang being homeless and because the show had to go on, the director took out money and rented the house of the village chief, which was left idle because his children were working away from home, at a price twice the market price.
The villagers expressed their satisfaction with this and fully affirmed the program team's sense of responsibility. At the same time, they strongly condemned Xu Shang's act of setting fire to the house.
"Otherwise, this is a rebellious kid from the city. He has such a bad heart!"
"Who said it wasn't true? Just because you don't want to stay in the countryside, you burn down the house!"
"Hey, we country kids are still kind-hearted!"
Seeing that the program team dominated the direction of public opinion, Xu Shang felt very bitter. He couldn't help but explain: "Although I did light the fire accidentally, it really started because the director accidentally mistook oil for water."
After hearing what Xu Shang said, the villagers could not say that they fully agreed with it, they could only shake their heads.
"Nonsense! How could the director, who is such a good person, do this?"
"How old are you? You lie without even thinking!"
"Children in the city just know how to lie!"
"How can a big director not be able to tell the difference between water and oil?"
The director, who was filming the villagers criticizing Xu Shang, blushed and turned his head to stare at the cameraman: "That was cut!"
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