Chapter 88. Lychee TV

     Compared with Valentine’s Day, Li Yaolin attaches more importance to the Lantern Festival.

     This is naturally not because she is single. She believes that the Lantern Festival has a more festive atmosphere and is more worthy of promotion and inheritance. Therefore, when many employees focus on the activities of Xingzhou Island on Valentine’s Day, she proposed to focus on the activities of the Lantern Festival.

     In this way, the lanterns hung during the Chinese New Year have not been replaced, and many colorful lanterns have been added to the trees.

     On the Lantern Festival, there are not only small games such as guessing lantern riddles and throwing pots, but also free glutinous rice balls.

     Although tourists nowadays can no longer be bought by a bowl of glutinous rice balls, such scenery and such services still allow tourists to spend a very interesting, enjoyable and meaningful Lantern Festival on Xingzhou Island.

     As expected, Xingzhou Island has been on the hot search again-in addition to the opening of the hotel coinciding with Valentine’s Day and the Lantern Festival, the lantern riddle guessing activity was also very interesting, so that many people discussed it online, and Song Ruqing also contributed a part of the heat.

     The marketing account caught the news of her appearance on Xingzhou Island and began to speculate:

     “The reason why Song Ruqing appeared on Xingzhou Island is intriguing. As we all know, Xingzhou Island is known as the ‘holy island of love’. The two Zhou CPs once visited Xingzhou Island together and their relationship was exposed. Afterwards, not only did they not break up, but the fans of both families also silently blessed them. It can be said that they have achieved success in both love and career, proving that the ‘holy island of love’ is well-deserved. So did Song Ruqing follow Zhou Qunfang’s example and go to Xingzhou Island to date her underground lover to test the attitude of fans?”

     Song Ruqing’s studio hurriedly refuted the rumor, saying that Song Ruqing went to Xingzhou Island alone.

     The marketing account also spread: “She chose a special day like Valentine’s Day to travel to Xingzhou Island, which is known as the ‘holy island of love’. Could it be to get rid of being single?”

     Song Ruqing was numb.

     She didn’t want to go on Valentine’s Day, but who made her only free for these few days and could only grab tickets for this day!

     She suspected that the reason for the extra tickets was that some couple had a quarrel and refunded their tickets, so she got a chance to get a bargain.

     After that, she stayed in a hotel and saved the tickets for the next day.

     Why do these marketing accounts like to talk about relationships between men and women in everything?

     Couldn’t she come here to change her luck?

     Ahem, “changing luck” doesn’t sound very consistent with her youthful, beautiful and positive image. Song Ruqing posted a photo of herself playing lantern riddles online, with a comment: “Riddles are so difficult!”

     The lantern riddles on Xingzhou Island are not the traditional ones that put questions on lanterns and ask people to answer them. Instead, they make a QR code. After scanning the code, ten questions will pop up.

     Each question has only ten seconds. If you answer it correctly, you will accumulate 1 point. If you answer it wrong, you will get no points. In order to prevent tourists from searching for answers online and taking advantage of loopholes, the same mobile phone and account are prohibited from scanning the same set of questions for the second time.

     The haters began to mock: “How difficult can brain teasers be? Is it so difficult to admit that your IQ is not high enough?”

     Song Ruqing did not reply. If it were really a brain teaser, it would be easy. These questions are as difficult as answering questions in a treasure chest. You need to know astronomy and geography, know the history of the past five thousand years, and have to dabble in 360 trades. She thinks that those who can answer all of them must be the first in the written test of this year’s national examination.

     Fortunately, Xingzhou Island does not stipulate that all of them must be answered, because 10 points can draw a prize. If you can’t answer the difficult ones, just find an easy one! After all, there are thousands of lanterns hanging in the Lantern Festival on Xingzhou Island. There are tens of thousands of questions, and you can always answer ten questions.

     A fan said: “If it’s difficult, we won’t participate, baby!”

     She replied to the fan: “Don’t give up easily!”

     The fan was so happy: “Dear baby, you replied to me, come on!”

     Her studio originally wanted her to delete this blog post to avoid being mocked for being uneducated and brainless. Unexpectedly, before contacting her, she saw that the official blog of Xingzhou Island had posted a post, inviting netizens to participate in guessing lantern riddles together.

     Everyone clicked on the question and fell silent.

     “Which of the following is not one of the twelve zodiac signs? A: Capricorn B: Aquarius C: Sagittarius D: Leo.”

     Of course it’s B!

     Netizens only went through the question in their minds and chose B, and then, unsurprisingly… they were all wrong. The correct answer is C.

     Netizens: “Knock, this is really not to let people answer it, right? And this is not a lantern riddle, it’s just copied from the national exam questions!”

     Xingzhou Island official blog: “This is a new lantern riddle!”

     Netizens: “…”

     Okay, they will never dare to laugh at Song Ruqing again, they are all IQ basins, no one should laugh at anyone else!

     There are also draws for participating in the event online, so netizens are having a lot of fun answering questions online. In the end, Song Ruqing also gained a wave of sympathy and gained nearly 20,000 fans. For her studio, although it is not as fast as Zhou Qunfang’s fan increase when she was on the hot search, it is also a good thing.

     It is not just Song Ruqing who is at the center of the topic this time. Xingzhou Island has also received attention from the provincial TV station “Lychee TV” because of this incident.

     In fact, Lychee TV has been paying attention to Xingzhou Island since the last time Xingzhou Island assisted in hosting the “Beibu Gulf Cup”, but they lack understanding of this “private island” and have been influenced by Xingzhou Island’s refusal to film Taozi TV’s variety show. They have always been looking at Xingzhou Island with a wait-and-see attitude.

     However, during the Spring Festival, Xingzhou Island appeared on the news broadcast several times and frequently appeared in some official tourism promotion videos. This is not something that can be seen by spending money. The attractions that can appear on them are all tourism projects that are recommended by the country. Xingzhou Island, a 4A-level scenic spot, can appear on it, which shows how much praise and recognition the country has given to the island’s environment, scenery, and the harmonious coexistence of man and nature.

     The producer of a self-organized tourism variety show on Lychee TV set his sights on the signboard of Xingzhou Island.

     Since their show was launched, they have been filmed in many places at home and abroad. It has been five years. It is considered the most well-known tourism variety show in the province, because the TV station only has their variety show focusing on tourism.

     Unlike some well-known tourism variety shows, those well-known tourism variety shows are mainly for entertainment, and secondly for promoting scenic spots, but their variety show is mainly for promoting scenic spots and driving tourism consumption.

     Therefore, although their program is broadcast on multiple channels of the TV station and also on the small TV in the subway, the ratings are not very good, and it is not ranked among the tourism variety shows nationwide.

     Recently, due to various reasons, the frequency of updates has become lower, and the station even intends to cut the program.

     In recent years, the rise of reality shows has become a weather vane for popular variety shows, and has also brought a lot of economic benefits to the TV stations that have hosted these reality shows.

     The station has also hosted reality shows, but there are no travel reality shows, so the producer wants to invest in shooting a travel reality show that can become popular.

     Although many people are pessimistic, such as “when it comes to reality shows, we have to look at Taozi Channel, Blueberry Channel and Tomato Channel” and “Only the elderly in the province will watch Lychee Channel. Even if we invite celebrities, it will only be a flop. Moreover, the cost of inviting celebrities is not low, and the station does not have so much money”…

     But the producer still got the support of the leaders.

     Now the program is in the stage of preparation and sponsorship. Seeing the hot searches of Xingzhou Island and Song Ruqing, he thought that if he could sign Song Ruqing, Zhou Qunfang and others to this program, he would definitely be able to attract a lot of sponsorship. 

     But the key is that Xingzhou Island can even stubbornly refuse Taozi Channel’s variety show, so why can the island owner agree to let their program be filmed on the island?

     Therefore, he felt that compared to finding celebrities as guests, the most important thing was to get Xingzhou Island first.

     The producer contacted Director Fu and President Chang of the Fishing Association through a friend, hoping that they would reveal what to do to get Xingzhou Island to agree to provide a venue.

     The two had similar answers, both asking him not to put on airs to seek cooperation. In addition, the principle of the island owner is that as long as it does not hinder the operation of Xingzhou Island, it is not impossible to cooperate.

     The producer breathed a sigh of relief. If it was just like this, it would be much easier.

     It is not only Litchi TV that wants to cooperate. Some variety shows on Blueberry TV and Tomato TV have also included Xingzhou Island in the list of filming locations, planning to seek cooperation when the time is right.

 

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     Li Yaolin is not yet aware that Xingzhou Island has become a popular filming location for various variety shows. At this time, she is holding the autographed photo that was stuffed to her and looking at the woman in front of her with embarrassment.

     “I said I’d give you an autograph yesterday, but you ran too fast, so I didn’t give it to you. Since we met today, I’ll make up for it. I, Song Ruqing, always keep my word!”

     Song Ruqing was glad that she brought a lot of autographed photos of herself with her this time, which came in handy.

     Li Yaolin: “…”

     She thought Lin Qitong would like this autographed photo, so she would give it to Lin Qitong when the time comes!

     After accepting it calmly, she thanked her again: “Thank you!”

     “You’re welcome. You played table tennis with me the day before yesterday. I think your service attitude is good. What’s your work number? I’ll call your hotel to praise you when the time comes.”

     Li Yaolin was confused for a moment. What was her work number?

     Then she remembered that she was not a waiter in the hotel and had no work number at all.

     So she said: “Thank you. It is our responsibility to serve every tourist well. You don’t have to praise me on purpose.”

     “Are you afraid that I will complain about you?” Song Ruqing said, “Forget it.”

     After that, she walked towards the pier of the island. When she was queuing at the dock, an employee who was off night shift saw her and came up to her excitedly: “Song Ruqing, I’m your fan, I like you so much!”

     In fact, this employee fan saw Song Ruqing yesterday, but because she was still at work, she didn’t dare to get close. Now that she is off work, she doesn’t have to worry about violating the rules, so she came over boldly.

     “Thank you!” Song Ruqing smiled slightly.

     In order to stay with her for a while longer, the staff fans took the initiative to find topics: “Are you ready to leave the island? Did you have fun on the island these two days?”

     Song Ruqing thought for a while and said: “Very good. The scenery here is beautiful, and the animals are very spiritual. There are few scenic spots in China that can compare with this place. What a pity…”

     “What a pity?”

     “What a pity that the winning rate is too low!”

     Song Ruqing took great pains to come to Xingzhou Island to buy blind boxes. In order to answer more questions correctly, she also joined the group of tourists who participated in the Lantern Festival riddle guessing activity at that time.

     After a lot of hard work, she saved 100 points and drew ten times in a row, but the limited edition postcard she wanted was not available.

     When she thought of this, she was depressed.

     Could she have been deceived? Perhaps there is no such unscientific thing as luck in the world. It must be that Zhou Qunfang and others were just blind cats that met dead mice.

     She decided to be a modern female star who believes in science and stays away from superstition from today.

     Employee fans were puzzled: “Low? As far as I know, a total of nine tourists won the annual ticket in this event. This is the highest probability of winning the annual ticket since Xingzhou Island held so many events.”

     “I don’t need the annual ticket.” Song Ruqing said that she could not go to Xingzhou Island several times a year. What’s the use of having an annual ticket? It’s not as useful as a limited edition postcard!

     “What prize do you want?”

     Song Ruqing was embarrassed to say directly that she wanted a limited edition postcard, so she said: “My friend asked me to buy a blind box, but the blind box is sold out… I heard that I can win it in the lottery, so my friend asked me to participate in the lantern riddle guessing.”

     Employee fans understood: “You want a postcard with the island owner’s stamp, right?!”

     “It’s my friend.” Song Ruqing emphasized.

     But this answer made the employee fans more confused: “But you play table tennis with the island owner, can’t you ask the island owner for one? The island owner shouldn’t be so stingy.”

     Song Ruqing: “?”