Chapter 67: Chapter 64 The Live Stream Room Has Been Banned! Chapter 67: Chapter 64 The Live Stream Room Has Been Banned! Zheng He initially signed up through a friend who contacted Vice Director Li, and Vice Director Li said the registration fee was one hundred thousand yuan, guaranteeing to get him on the show.
But he was cautious right from the beginning, after all, he had to pay one hundred thousand yuan upfront; he wanted to be on TV but didn’t want the money to be swindled away, so he went online to check, and the registration for this variety show was clearly free.
Annoyed, he went to his friend to discuss this issue, who then communicated with Vice Director Li.
In the end, Vice Director Li said: “Our program adopts an open audition process, and with the one hundred thousand yuan registration fee you pay me, I can ensure you won’t be filtered out by the audition, and you’ll directly be on the show.”
Upon hearing this, Zheng He felt it was more reasonable—if that was the case, spending one hundred thousand yuan was somewhat worthwhile.
The competition for registration was fierce; he could register himself, but if he wasn’t selected by the production team, or someone else took this shortcut, then he would miss the opportunity to be on TV and win the five million.
Zheng He took out a loan against the new car that Old Zheng had bought for him and scraped together one hundred thousand yuan from his card to hand over to Vice Director Li.
The auditions thereafter were just a formality, and as Vice Director Li had guaranteed, he successfully got on the show.
So he had bought his spot on the show for one hundred thousand yuan.
Vice Director Li, however, did not anticipate that this foolish kid, though dumb, knew how to leverage the situation to negotiate terms with him.
Zheng He is no longer just an ordinary person; he now has fans and the attention of the police.
If this matter was exposed, it would be very bad for Vice Director Li.
Left with no other choice, Vice Director Li paid the three hundred yuan fine for Zheng He, and after making a phone call to smooth everything over, he brought Zheng He back to the production team.
[What’s going on? Zheng He is back? Wasn’t he taken away for gambling? Can he still continue recording the show?]
[I don’t know what the situation is, my guess is that it wasn’t too serious, after all, it wasn’t much money, just a fine should settle it.]
[A fine? Does he have the money?]
[Please don’t let Zheng He leave the show, watching him mess up relieves the exhaustion of my day!]
[Isn’t Zheng He a negative example now? A bad example who won over four hundred yuan from gambling.]
[This time Zheng He is really unlucky, Chen Xixi got away without issues, but he had to run into trouble!]
[If he weren’t so greedy, none of this would have happened.]
Zheng He’s fourth trip to the police station once again hit the trending searches, but the production team quickly suppressed it with another trending topic.
#ShouldYouBuyExpiringDiscountedGoods#
This topic, which aligns with the current economic downturn and is closely related to everyone’s life, instantly overshadowed the news about Zheng He going to the police station.
After all, it’s not the first time Zheng He has been taken in by the police, no big deal.
Below the trending search was a segment of Chen Xixi buying expiring instant noodles.
[Who is this woman? She is so pretty, knows how to manage money, and is beautiful!]
[Is she lacking a boyfriend? Just tell me the requirements; I can fulfill them all!]
[Buying expiring products doesn’t seem right, does it? What if you get a stomachache? After all, expiring foods are about to go bad; even if they don’t cause illness, I suppose they have no nutritional value.]
[I think it doesn’t matter, even if you don’t buy expiring food, those products with various additives have no nutrition either. Expiring products can save you half the price; I think it’s pretty good.]
Netizens have various opinions on whether to buy expiring goods or not.
However, everyone unanimously admires Chen Xixi’s beauty.
Chen Xixi suddenly gains more fans for her looks.
And once again, Chen Xixi is the most popular of the day.
When the voting results came out that night, Chen Xixi secured her position as the Savings King with a balance of 2184 yuan.
Second place was Zheng He, who caught two fish and sold them for 29 yuan, plus his original 1.5 yuan, now leaving him with a total of 30.5 yuan.
Third place went to Wan Chen, who caught a fish weighing two pounds and sold it for 15 yuan after bargaining, his current balance being 15 yuan.
Fourth place was Han Qianyi, who didn’t catch any fish, so her balance remained at 4.5 yuan, unchanged.
The last place was Mr. Jin, who was quite unlucky, didn’t catch any fish all day, and still had a balance of 3 yuan.
Zheng He and the others finished fishing and began looking for Chen Xixi again to see what new money-making schemes she had come up with, which led to their encounter at the convenience store.
At night, having not eaten for the entire day, Jin Cheng couldn’t stand the hunger anymore and silently tightened his belt.
He didn’t want to end up in the hospital again from going hungry for nine meals over three days, but would it be too embarrassing to ask Chen Xixi for help?
After all, he is a man who promised to take care of Chen Xixi; how could he let a girl spend money on him?
Jin Cheng hesitated for a while, then, with his weak body, he went outside to get his phone back from the production team and sent an SOS WeChat message to his dear uncle.
Jin Cheng: “Uncle, could you pull some strings and send me some money? Your adorable nephew is going to starve to death.”
Upon seeing the message while on a plane, Zhou Jinyuan lowered his eyes and typed unhurriedly: “Don’t worry, I’ll make sure your funeral is a bit more dignified.”
What kind of uncle is this heartless?
Oh, right, it’s his own.
Is this what he’s worried about?
It seems getting Zhou Jinyuan to send him money behind his mother’s back wasn’t going to work.
Jin Cheng: “Then just send me a meal, please, uncle, I’m really going to starve to death. I can’t even catch a northwest breeze to eat, I can only survive by tightening my belt.”
Jin Cheng: “Plus, I haven’t spent any money for over ten days now; isn’t that punishment enough? Look at how good I’ve been behaving, just send me some food, will you, uncle?”
Jin Cheng finally added: “And bring extra, I need to bring a portion for Chen Xixi.”
Zhou Jinyuan had intended not to reply to Jin Cheng, but when his eyes glanced over the three characters ‘Chen Xixi’, he responded: “Stay away from her.”
Zhou Jinyuan: “She’ll think I’m as dumb as you.”
Jin Cheng: “How could that be? She’s been really nice to me on this show! She never looked down on me! She just doesn’t like you, that’s all. Haven’t I already told you, she doesn’t like uncles who have nephews.”
After sending this message, there were no further replies from Zhou Jinyuan on Jin Cheng’s phone screen.
He stared at the screen for a long time, thinking his phone was out of credit, but when he called customer service he found out he still had over two hundred thousand yuan left.
So it wasn’t a problem with his credit.
Then he sent another message: “Can you do that, uncle?”
The next second, a conspicuous red exclamation mark appeared in his field of vision.
“Zhou Jinyuan has enabled friend verification; you are not his (her) friend yet. Please send a friend verification request first and after being approved, you can chat.”
Could it be that his uncle had accidentally pressed the wrong button?
How could his uncle bear to delete him? That’s just impossible!
So it must have been an accident that his uncle touched the delete button! It had to be!!
Live broadcast, day fourteen.
The guests, who hadn’t bathed for two consecutive days, were getting extremely uncomfortable. In addition to food, figuring out how to bathe had become a major problem.
Chen Xixi brought a plastic bucket filled with well water into the house, then drew the curtains, turned off the camera, and simply rinsed off, perfectly solving the bathing problem.
Over at Zheng He’s place, his live broadcast had just begun when it was suddenly banned.
The chief director, looking at the dark screen, was totally bewildered: “What happened with Zheng He?”
A staff member beside him replied, “It was reported.”
“From what I see, the report says… it’s pornography…”