Age of Legends

Chapter 49: The older girl?

"199. It's a bit expensive!"

"It's not expensive. I'll give you a CD. You can burn it and watch it at home on a VCD or DVD player. It will be a lifetime memory for your child! It's all recorded by the TV station. It will be broadcast on TV in due time! In addition, we will have corporate reviews, and well-known companies will be present. If outstanding performers are selected, they can directly sign advertising contracts, which means your child can make money directly by appearing in advertisements!"

Zhang Chen didn't expect that the biggest trouble would be explaining the charges.

All charges are clearly marked and registered with the Price Bureau. Wang Bowen also has a studio, and every payment is made normally, with traceable sources and reasonable evidence.

These are all regular procedures.

Of course, 199 seems a bit expensive these days. In 2000, the annual salary of an employed worker in Rongcheng was about 199 yuan, and 199 was equivalent to one-fifth of a middle-class worker's monthly salary. But in other words, a make-up class at that time would cost to yuan. , including TV and CD burning, is really not expensive.

Zhang Chen is not trying to make huge profits. He is also trying to use the opportunities of the future to the present, and he will never cheat anyone.

The price is clearly marked. The chorus and the speech are all 199.

In fact, parents who decide to sign up have an idea of what they want and a budget for investing in their children.

199 is the investment budget of an average family for this opportunity.

For wealthy families with larger budgets, there are additional programs.

For groups of less than 599 people, it is more expensive, . These are for those who have a basic dance foundation, with professional dance teachers to choreograph, and makeup and teachers are an expense. For dance students to participate in a show and choreograph, it will cost about the same amount, and this time there is also the opportunity to be on Rongcheng TV's Spring Festival program, which is a very good opportunity for these families.

So don’t be fooled, there are quite a few people signing up for this group.

And then there is the big killer of corporate review. This directly dispelled many people's hesitation to take the plunge. If their children are selected by companies to shoot promotional ads, it means they have made a big profit with this little money.

Why should gambling be banned? Because gambling takes advantage of the human mentality of trying to win big with a small investment, which attracts many people and makes the casinos, which take a commission from the gambling, make a fortune.

It is easy to ban gambling, but in reality, situations similar to gambling are hard to prevent.

On the other side, when Zhang Chen was worrying about the charging issue, he saw Aunt Lightning Sloth collecting and counting money skillfully, then recording the name in the book and issuing a receipt. The whole process was as fast and accurate as a robot.

Zhang Chen was shocked. Well, well, there are so many talented people here. Aunt Song, you were so quick when counting the money, which didn't show your previous slow and indifferent personality at all.

Next to Song Xiu was a friend from the accounting firm whom Song Xiu had brought in to help with the accounting and checking for counterfeit money.

Counterfeit money is rampant these days, and cash deposits really require a keen eye. Even a keen eye is not enough, and you have to hold a money detector light in your hand to check. Every time this happens, I miss the QR code payment on my smartphone, which has greatly improved efficiency. However, this efficiency improvement is related to the growth of the entire system.

When Zhang Chen squeezed out of the crowd, he saw a long queue at the registration office.

And it's not just parents who come to register their children, some come to apply for jobs.

There were quite a few applicants, so in the cubicle next door, Wang Bowen was personally interviewing the applicants.

Zhang Chen planned to go over and take a look, just to take a breath. They really needed to recruit a few commentators to help them. He couldn't handle it all by himself. When Jiang Rong came to the TV station according to the recruitment advertisement, she saw many people from the college. The news had been posted on the campus forum of the Radio and Television College. What was the most common thing in the university campus forum? Part-time job information was the most common, and it was also the information that the college students needed most.

Obviously, TV station jobs are the most popular. First of all, they are related to their majors. Secondly, these TV station-related programs are all about insiders. Interning in such programs can make you familiar with the faces, and even build relationships with producers and old employees. When the time comes, you can directly get a direct introduction to the superiors, be selected for internship, or stay directly. This will put you ahead of many people.

Even if you fail to stay, it can be used as a piece of successful experience. When you write it into your resume, it will be very competitive when knocking on the door of other companies!

So you can imagine how popular the recruitment for the "Star of Tomorrow" program at Rongcheng TV Station is.

But that's where the problem lies. When Jiang Rong appeared, many of her schoolmates were already whispering to each other.

Jiang Rong is an absolute celebrity in the Radio and Television Academy. In such an academy, the most eye-catching thing is to have outstanding looks and be able to stand out in various occasions. Jiang Rong is recognized as one of the "golden flowers" of their class, and she is ranked in the top five in the academy forum.

The boys in the dormitory viewed her as a goddess who was high above them. Some boys with lower quality usually had all kinds of sexual fantasies when discussing girls in the dormitory, but Jiang Rong was someone they would not easily fantasize about. It had to be said that some people just had a unique lonely temperament.

Everyone knows that she is used to walking alone in various classrooms and lectures. She will go to art exhibitions and various displays. She has a good sense of fashion and is often the most eye-catching person when she appears in some lectures and exhibition halls in the school.

There are many legends about her. Some say her family is very rich, some say she is the eldest daughter of a certain Hu Jian family, and some say her family has deep roots in Rongcheng and is not small. So the second-generation rich who drove a car to school pursued her, but also returned empty-handed.

Of course, there are many people who don't like her and think she is pretending. But there is nothing they can do except to be jealous of her behind her back.

But things are different now.

They thought that girls like Jiang Rong would definitely have a bright future. For example, there were several outstanding students in the school whose families were rich and who went abroad directly. Others had connections and went to Beijing. It was said that they got an internship at a media company with a golden signboard in the industry. Maybe in two years, they would be a regular on TV. There was also a girl whose boyfriend's family was rich and powerful, so she was transferred to the provincial TV station for an internship. She didn't come to school in her last year. When she returned to school to pick up her luggage, she looked like a princess.

In contrast, Jiang Rong, who should be no less than them, actually appeared here at the TV station's part-time job recruitment. She even had to run the scene herself and hand in her resume. Wasn't her family the rumored rich daughter or official daughter? Because if she was of that status, how could she appear in such an occasion and compete for a position with ordinary people like them?
So the case was solved.

What a cool school beauty, what a well-dressed rich girl, they are not like that at all. It is only when they are looking for a job that we know who is swimming naked.

It turns out you’ve always been pretending to be cool!
"Oh, Jiang Rong also saw the job advertisement. That's rare. I thought only ordinary people like us would look at those part-time job advertisements!"

"The phoenix on the branch has also fallen down. It turns out it's not a phoenix!" He usually disliked her, but now that he saw Jiang Rong also came here, he was willing to spend the 1 cent text message fee and used his Sharp flip phone to send a message to the people in the dormitory, which quickly spread.

Of course, there were also girls who usually regarded Jiang Rong as a competitor. Now they straightened their backs slightly, thinking that if they could defeat Jiang Rong in the recruitment of the Tomorrow's Star program, then when they return to school, wouldn't they become famous in one fell swoop?
When the internship period came, everyone in the school started discussing who was going to work. When they saw others doing well, they looked at them with envy. Those who hadn't found a job yet were all worried about the future.

The Radio and Television Academy is not big. Jiang Rong is applying for a job in the program team here today. She will go back and make sure the news spreads quickly.

If she was eliminated and one of them was selected and became the subject of discussion among others, she would have a good resume and become an anecdote before graduation, becoming a little famous. Why not?
At least I defeated Jiang Rong in the end, and my three years in college were perfect!

Someone else whispered, "Oh, actually she has good looks, she can find a rich second generation or a godfather, wouldn't it be best to just keep her as a mistress? Why is she trying to snatch the spot from us..."

While these students were talking, Zhang Chen just passed by and thought to himself, what kind of godfather is supporting you? Who chose me?
I am your godfather, business partner, and member of the Wang family. You know nothing about me!
As a result, I followed their gaze and saw Jiang Rong over there.

That female college student?

(End of this chapter)