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Chapter 309 0306 [The Village Corpse is a Real Comedy]

“This ‘Scallion-Fish Crucian Carp’ dish was taught to me by my grandfather during the Chinese New Year,” Bian Guanyue said proudly. “I even brought a jar of pickled peppers and ginger to the capital just to make this dish.”

Chen Guiliang took a bite: "Delicious."

Bian Guanyue also took a bite and asked in confusion, "Why does it taste a little off? Although it's not bad, it feels like something's missing compared to what my grandfather makes."

Chen Guiliang, who could not discern any difference in vinyl records no matter how many times he listened to them, could tell the problem with the dish after just one bite.

He commented, "You only added red Sichuan peppercorns, not green ones. Also, you used regular small red chilies, not the Seven Star Chilies, which have a much stronger aroma and spiciness. The core production area of ​​Seven Star Chilies is in Chengdu and surrounding cities and counties. You might not even be able to buy them in Chengdu, let alone in Beijing's vegetable markets."

Bian Guanyue scratched his head: "I see."

Chen Guiliang encouraged, "It's already very delicious. It's normal for the taste to be slightly different."

The annual yield of Seven Star Chili is so low that even in local restaurants in Longdu, they may use Bird's Eye Chili as a substitute.

Bird's eye chili is the worst and cheapest option. It's neither spicy enough nor fragrant enough.

Chen Guiliang probably didn't eat good food as a child. After becoming financially well-off in middle age, he became particularly fond of food and drink, and his tastes became increasingly discerning before his rebirth.

Of course, he can make do with simple meals.

Bian Guanyue smiled and said, "Next time I go home, I'll bring some Seven Star Peppers with me."

"There's no need to go to such lengths. The small red chilies are just a little less fragrant. I don't care if they're spicy enough," Chen Guiliang said.

"No trouble at all, just bring some along," Bian Guanyue said. "From now on, we won't hire a cook; the food we make ourselves tastes much better."

This silly girl is already planning her married life.

She grew up in a broken home, a regret that has always lingered in her heart, so she wants to create a perfect family by herself.

Bian Guanyue watched Chen Guiliang eat fish and continued, "I also want to learn how to make pickled vegetables. It's not easy to buy these in the capital, and the taste isn't very authentic. I heard that mustard greens are also grown in the north, so the ingredients for pickled vegetables are easy to find."

To prevent her from making a mistake, Chen Guiliang could only remind her: "The northern mustard greens are different varieties. They are root mustard greens with mustard tubers. The pickled mustard greens used in Sichuan are leaf mustard greens, which don't have mustard tubers. If you're going to use northern mustard greens to make pickled mustard greens, you might as well use Chinese cabbage instead."

"Is that so? There's so much to learn about pickling sauerkraut." Bian Guanyue felt there was so much she needed to learn.

After lunch, the two washed the dishes together and then returned to the living room to watch TV.

Chen Guiliang leaned back on the sofa.

Bian Guanyue became increasingly relaxed, her posture becoming more and more casual. She lay on her side on the sofa, her head resting on Chen Guiliang's lap, finding it very relaxing to watch TV like this.

“When I was little, I liked to watch TV with my head on my grandma and maternal grandma’s laps,” Bian Guanyue said. “But they both said it was bad to watch TV for too long and that I would get nearsighted.”

Chen Guiliang patted her head: "It's okay, you can lie down however you like from now on."

"Hehe." Bian Guanyue laughed.

There wasn't much good TV on, so they watched DVDs today.

When Bian Guanyue was decorating the house, she bought a lot of DVDs. Some were genuine, and some were pirated.

The reason people with money still buy pirated DVDs is that legitimate DVDs are mostly new releases with very limited content choices. Pirated DVDs, on the other hand, offer a much wider variety, including both domestic and international films.

"This movie is so boring," Bian Guanyue said, watching a poorly made old Hong Kong film.

Chen Guiliang asked, "How about we watch a horror movie?"

"I won't watch it. Movies like 'The Ring' and 'Ju-on' are terrifying," Bian Guanyue objected.

Chen Guiliang asked, "Have you seen 'The Haunted Village'?"

Bian Guanyue said, "I think I've heard people mention it; it's a very famous film."

Chen Guiliang said, "That's a horror comedy, similar to 'Mr. Vampire'."

“That’s alright. I’ve seen Mr. Vampire,” Bian Guanyue suddenly asked, puzzled, “but why do I remember 'The Haunted Village' being really scary?”

"It's not particularly scary, only one or two shots are frightening."

"Let's take a look."

Half an hour later...

"what!"

Bian Guanyue screamed and shrank into Chen Guiliang's arms, closing her eyes and saying, "Turn off the TV quickly!"

Chen Guiliang said, "There are plot twists. These plot points are all imagined. If you don't believe me, watch the movie to the end."

Bian Guanyue opened her eyes curiously again.

One movie left Chen Guiliang with several rows of teeth marks on his arm.

The border moon was angry and bitten.

She was so angry that she bit him relentlessly, like a dog.

……

On the second weekend, the director of the Palace Museum personally led photographers to explain some of the cultural relics. Explaining the relics themselves was secondary; the main focus was on the stories behind them. That's what netizens were truly interested in.

The school's intranet does not participate in course design and production; it only sends people to conduct live text and image broadcasts.

The "online classroom" that Chen Guiliang participated in is part of the "Voice of Civilization" online broadcasting project.

"Voice of Civilization" is part of the rectification of internet atmosphere.

At the same time, a campaign to crack down on online pornography and illegal publications was also launched.

One approach promotes good, the other punishes evil; a two-pronged approach.

This event was held once last spring, but at that time it was limited to radio stations nationwide (including campus radio stations).

This year, People's Daily Online took the lead in participating, and Renren.com immediately followed suit.

The guiding units include departments such as the Communist Youth League, radio and television, foreign affairs publicity, and civilization, and websites from all over the country have joined one after another. Each has its own activities and methods, but they are all actively cooperating with this work.

Chen Guiliang was just one of the early adopters; the other websites weren't stupid either. They wanted to please the relevant authorities and boost their website's popularity, so of course they were going to do it on a grand scale.

Even more amusingly, Qianlong.com joined forces with 12 major websites in Beijing to form a "Beijing Online Classroom" alliance.

In addition to Renren.com and HaiNei.com, Sohu and Sina also joined in.

Sina is forming an alliance to oppose Sohu in its Olympic coverage, and has also joined forces with Sohu to run an online classroom...

Chen Guiliang was amused by them.

There are many similar alliances; NetEase also created an alliance to host "Online Classroom".

Chen Guiliang suggested promoting and explaining the history and artifacts of the Forbidden City, and other websites in the alliance followed suit. Some promoted Yuelu Academy, some promoted Mazu culture, some promoted the ancient capital of six dynasties... basically, they were digging into history and culture.

Coincidentally, the "Lecture Room" program has been very popular in the past two years, making Professors Yi, Yan, and Yu highly sought after. Major websites have extended invitations to them to collaborate on lectures, attracting a lot of attention.

Not long after the leaders from the Civilization Office finished their inspection, another leader from the Youth League came to ByteDance.

"I heard that more than half of the undergraduate, junior college, and graduate students in the country have registered accounts on the school's intranet?" the group leader asked as they walked.

Chen Guiliang said, "When the fall semester started last year, it was close to 50%. Now it is estimated to be over 50%. This figure far exceeds the proportion of college students who own computers."

The group leader nodded and said, "With so many college student users, Renren.com should pay more attention to positive publicity."

Chen Guiliang led the group of leaders to the computer and browsed through the activities held on the school's intranet over the past two or three years.

There's no need to bring up things like the school beauty pageant.

What Chen Guiliang is showing at this moment are all positive and uplifting activities.

He also highlighted the Three-Line Poem activity: "We started holding the Three-Line Poem activity the spring after the founding of Renren.com. It caused a great sensation at the time, and people from all walks of life across the country followed suit. Now it is held every spring. At the beginning, it mainly focused on three-line poems, but now the content of the poems has expanded to various aspects."

Chen Guiliang pulled out the three-line poems that had won awards over the years.

The group leaders took a look and, sure enough, they found that all the poems were positive and uplifting. Even the love poems could be interpreted as praising love.

The leader nodded repeatedly, saying, "This event is well organized."

After a full 40 minutes of inspection, the leader finally brought up specific cooperation.

In the future, any national events that the Youth League guides, initiates, or organizes, if they are related to schools or students, can be handled online through the school's intranet.

For example, the "National College Students' Extracurricular Academic and Scientific Works Competition" is hosted by major universities across the country on a rotating basis, and jointly hosted by campus networks and other educational websites.

Renren.com can also participate in the selection and reporting of activities such as the "Top Ten Outstanding Youths in China". Outstanding young people selected by Renren.com can even receive a candidate spot to represent the student group in the competition for awards.

For the first two or three years, Tuantuan collaborated with Zhanzuo.com because the founder had connections.

But Zhanzuo.com officially shut down last fall, and now Xiaonei.com has regained its dominant position. The Communist Youth League must find an opportunity to bring Xiaonei.com to its side.

After seeing the leaders off, Chen Guiliang convened a meeting with his staff.

He gave a brief account of what happened today: "We'll be hosting so many official events in the future, so we can't do without hiring more staff, but that won't work either. Renren is an SNS website, so content is mainly generated by users. Therefore, hosting these official events will primarily depend on the students themselves..."

"We need to actively connect with student organizations and clubs. We want to recruit student union and club leaders from across the country as our partners. They will organize any activities, disseminate any information, and report any news..."

The employees in the meeting all laughed; it was just making the students do unpaid work.

But student union and club leaders will definitely be willing, and will be very enthusiastic, because they need to be evaluated for excellence, receive awards, and enhance their resumes.

Even without partnering with Renren, they would still need to do those things. Partnering with Renren can sometimes make things more convenient. At the very least, it helps with promotion and event organization.

Ao Yanzhen cautioned, "We shouldn't be like the 'seat-grabbing website,' which loudly proclaims its cooperative relationship with the Communist Youth League and the school administration. We should also try to downplay our cooperation with student unions of various schools. That might sound more authoritative, but it would actually offend ordinary students."

Xie Yang agreed, "That's right. Renren.com is a network community for the vast majority of students, and it shouldn't be mixed with any official forces. Even if there are, we should try to downplay it. We should let students have fun on Renren.com and feel completely at ease."

Chen Guiliang agreed: "Your opinions make a lot of sense. Renren.com is a student communication platform, not a place to convey official decrees. Users are the foundation of our survival, and cooperating with the Youth League is at most icing on the cake. Zhanzuo.com was just established and it already had exclusive online cooperation with the Youth League and China Youth Daily, but they announced their closure last year."

The others also spoke freely, discussing how to undertake various official collaborations in the future.

The school's online community already had a dedicated team for planning events, but now they need to recruit more people. Ideally, they should directly hire recent graduates with experience in student unions or clubs.

(End of this chapter)