Chapter 248: The

At this moment, Lu Yan He didn't know how to describe his mood.

Li Zhenzhen had gotten out of the car and was looking at him with a smile.

Li Zhenzhen got out of the car and looked at her with a smile.

"What's wrong?"

Lu Yan He said, "Sister Zhenzhen, what is this—"

Li Zhenzhen said, "When we were discussing what kind of tasks to set for you all, someone mentioned the book *Jump Up*. It is a book that has received a lot of attention itself, so we contacted Jiang Yin Publishing House to collaborate on this episode of the program."

Lu Yan He was astonished.

Qin Zhibai was still asking, "What is *Jump Up*?"

Song Lin Xin hurriedly explained it to him.

Qin Zhibai looked surprised and asked, "Lu Yan He even went and made a book?"

"Yes, didn't expect that, did you?"

"No."

"None of us expected it," Song Lin Xin said. "However, he also commissioned an article from me, so there will be an article of mine in this book too. Remember to buy a copy."

Qin Zhibai nodded, "Okay."

After a brief exchange, Lu Yan He understood the matter. In fact, *Young Days* needed a location and environment to perform tasks, and Li Zhenzhen knew that Lu Yan He was collaborating with Jiang Yin Publishing House. Thinking of returning a favor, she decided to combine one of the tasks with *Jump Up*.

If Lu Yan He drew Group C, it would be Lu Yan He's group doing this task. If Lu Yan He didn't draw Group C, another group would do it. In any case, *Jump Up* would appear on *Young Days* and get a wave of promotion through this program.

Lu Yan He was, of course, very grateful to Li Zhenzhen for this.

And their task for today was also announced.

As three interns, they were to assist the marketing department in negotiating with various e-commerce channels to try and get the best possible terms. Xu Xiaoyin would follow them throughout the process as a judge and grade them.

Lu Yan He didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Song Lin Xin also laughed and said, "This book was edited by Lu Yan He, and it contains an article I wrote. The only one who has no connection is Qin Zhibai. Lu Yan He and I will definitely work very hard, but Qin Zhibai might not."

Qin Zhibai: "I am not that kind of person."

"However," Qin Zhibai suddenly turned to look at Lu Yan He, "why didn't you commission an article from me?"

"Ah?" Lu Yan He was shocked, not expecting Qin Zhibai to ask him this question suddenly.

Lu Yan He couldn't say that he wasn't familiar with Qin Zhibai, so it was awkward to commission him.

At least they had recorded an episode of *Small Song Gathering* together before.

Lu Yan He found an excuse and said, "I was planning to commission you later. I couldn't use up all the friends I know in the first issue."

This excuse was quite lame, but Qin Zhibai nodded and accepted it.

"Then I'll wait for your commission later."

While Lu Yan He was recording the program here, Chen Siqi finally finished her military training.

Although she applied a thick layer of sunscreen every day, she still got several shades darker.

Chen Siqi felt a bit depressed.

Because the video she promised to record for Ye Mai Network had to be recorded; it couldn't be delayed any longer.

As a co-editor of *Jump Up*, she, like Lu Yan He, needed to cooperate with promotional channels to record several videos, which would serve as promotional material.

Fortunately, although Chen Siqi had been on a hot search with Lu Yan He in the summer, the discussions about her were not many, and her classmates didn't seem to know about it.

This made Chen Siqi very satisfied with her current life.

Away from Liu Weian's control, Chen Siqi felt that her life was like turning a new page; everything was brand new.

Chen Siqi was now very glad that she had made a book like *Jump Up* with Lu Yan He during the summer vacation. This allowed her not to fall into confusion after entering university, but instead to have very definite things to do.

The reason she had this feeling was that there was a girl in her dormitory who, probably because she had been forcing herself to study in the past, finally got into university. As soon as the military training ended, she started playing games. At first, she only played at night, but now she spent almost all her time on games except for sleeping and attending classes. The game she played wasn't competitive, but one of those old-fashioned, story-driven games with all kinds of dungeons, which was indeed easy to get addicted to.

Chen Siqi was just a roommate with her and wasn't close, so of course, she couldn't comment on other people's lifestyles, but she just felt it wasn't good. Playing games was fine, but if you played to the point where the focus of your entire life was on it, wouldn't that be an addiction?

At school, many people were full of vitality, but many others were indulging in this sudden freedom because they had gone from being watched by different people twenty-four hours a day to being in control of their own lives.

Chen Siqi didn't think she would indulge herself, but having something to do and a clear goal in life was certainly better.

Chen Siqi had thought it through very clearly: during these four years of university, she would work hard on *Jump Up*. Regardless of whether this book could continue to be made, the self-media aspect would definitely work. Even if there were no one else, she could do it herself. She wanted to add some chips to her life that she could control herself. The more chips she had in her hands, the more confident she would be in getting rid of the constraints of her father and Liu Weian.

Chen Siqi had no intention of destroying them; she just didn't want to be stiflingly bound under their noses like before.

Nowadays, the types of channel distributors for a book are very rich and numerous.

Physical bookstores, large e-commerce platforms, self-media operation platforms, influencer live-streaming rooms, etc.

As interns, what Lu Yan He and the others had to do was actually very limited.

Jiang Yin Publishing House couldn't really hand over important, key work to them.

Currently, order forms from many channels had already arrived. Lu Yan He was also learning for the first time that the order volume for the physical book *Jump Up* had already exceeded 30,000 copies.

This was a number that exceeded previous expectations.

After all, it hadn't been officially launched yet, and the order volume from major channels exceeded expectations, indicating that the market response was better than they had expected.

This caused *Jump Up* to start a reprint before it was even officially launched.

Jiang Yin Publishing House had set the initial print run for *Jump Up* at 45,000 copies, and now they had added another 15,000 copies, reaching a total of 60,000 copies.

Lu Yan He was still surprised and asked Xu Xiaoyin, "Actually, this book hasn't started official sales yet. Although the market response is good, why not wait until it's officially launched and the first batch of printed books is almost sold out before reprinting? If you reprint at this time, what if it doesn't sell in the end? Wouldn't it be stuck in your hands and lose money?"

Xu Xiaoyin explained with a smile, "Publishing houses do this kind of work; they have to judge the market in advance. If you wait for the market to tell you to reprint, and then you reprint, from sending it to the printing factory to distributing it to various dealers and then to various bookstores, you would have already missed this wave of market trends. If you want to buy a book this week, but the bookstore tells you it's out of stock, and it arrives ten days later, you might not remember you wanted to buy this book. Not providing sufficient stock when it sells well will become a serious mistake for the publishing house."

Lu Yan He nodded, understanding.

Their task for the three of them today was to go to the printing factory and become assembly line workers.

The first task was to insert bookmarks. They had to insert 3,000 bookmarks into 3,000 books and then pack them into boxes.

The second task was to be responsible for contacting the dealers and channel distributors who came to pick up the goods today, and to pass the books containing different peripherals to the corresponding dealers and channel distributors in batches.

Nowadays, when publishing a book, it will be accompanied by many peripheral gifts, and bookmarks are just one of them.

Hearing these two tasks, Song Lin Xin breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Sounds very simple."

But when they really started doing it, they found it wasn't that simple.

Three thousand books, flipping through them one by one, and then loading the books.

By the time the three of them had each loaded the hundredth book, their wrists were already sore.

"So tired." Song Lin Xin shook her head repeatedly, "Let's take a break."

Several people nodded.

During the break, Qin Zhibai asked Lu Yan He curiously, "Why did you suddenly want to make a book like this? Do you want to be a writer?"

Lu Yan He shook his head quickly, "I don't have that talent and ability yet. I'm just doing this with my classmates because we all like reading magazines. At first, we wanted to make it into a magazine, but later it turned into this kind of thematic book."

Qin Zhibai opened one of the books, and the first thing he saw was the table of contents.

"Jiang Yuqian also wrote an article?!" Qin Zhibai was a bit surprised.

"Yeah." Lu Yan He nodded with a smile.

"How did you get her to write an article?" Qin Zhibai was very curious, "I don't think I've ever seen her write an article."

"Mainly because there's no such channel anymore. We used to have many newspapers and magazines, but now they are becoming fewer and fewer. Mainly because everyone rarely reads these; they all have mobile phones, don't they?" Lu Yan He said, "I became familiar with Sister Yuqian after filming *Golden Age*, so I boldly asked her for help. I didn't expect her to agree so quickly."

Qin Zhibai: "So from the time you wanted to make this book to the time you made it, it only took three months."

"This time is not short, is it?"

"But you just graduated from high school." Qin Zhibai's eyes changed as he looked at Lu Yan He, saying, "You are very amazing."

If it were Li Zhibai saying the four words "you are very amazing" to him at this time, Lu Yan He would directly reply with the three words "go to hell." But the one saying these four words was Qin Zhibai, who usually didn't talk much. Being praised so seriously, he really couldn't use banter to resolve the awkwardness of being praised to his face.

Lu Yan He said, "I hope this book can continue to be made. Please help promote it when the time comes."

"No problem, leave it to me." Song Lin Xin said, "This is my first time officially publishing an article. I used to submit articles to magazines, but they all sank into the sea."

"Your Chinese grades must be very good, right? Your article is clearly the kind written by a student with very good Chinese grades."

"It's okay." Song Lin Xin said, "Mainly because most of my time was spent studying music. I decided very early on that I would study music in the future, so I spent very little time on cultural subjects."

As everyone was chatting, suddenly, at this time, Xu Xiaoyin reminded, "A reminder to everyone, you have only completed 272 books so far, and there are more than 2,700 books left to be completed. This task must be completed before 11:00 in the morning. These 3,000 books are scheduled to be picked up at 11:30."

"Ah—" Song Lin Xin screamed, "Then we only have two hours left. We have to speed up. What should we do? I feel like we won't be able to finish."

Qin Zhibai said, "Let's start quickly."

"How about we divide the work?" Lu Yan He said, "Wouldn't it be much faster if the three of us divided the work? One person is responsible for flipping the book, one person is responsible for placing the bookmark, and one person is responsible for packing the box. We rotate every ten minutes. Wouldn't the efficiency be much higher?"

"Let's try that."

The three of them immediately started acting according to the division of labor.

Before, flipping the book, placing the bookmark, and packing the box were all done by one person. Now that the three of them were working at the same time, it became an assembly line. I don't know if the speed was much faster, but it was much easier.

"Siqi, are you going out?" the roommate asked.

Chen Siqi nodded and said, "I have an appointment to meet a friend."

"Oh, I thought you were going to buy lunch. I wanted to ask you to bring one back for me."

"I won't be back until tonight. You should go eat by yourself." Chen Siqi looked at the roommate who had been playing games since she woke up and said helplessly.

"No, I can't leave. The dungeon battle is about to start." The roommate said, "I'll see later."

Seeing this, Chen Siqi couldn't say anything more, so she left.

She had an appointment to meet Bai Yu.

Bai Yu didn't do well in the exam and got into another university here in Jiangguang. The school was not as good as Jiangguang University, but fortunately, the two universities were not far apart. They agreed to meet at a fried chicken shop in the middle.

After deciding to make the self-media "Jump Up Editorial Club," Chen Siqi contacted Bai Yu immediately.

Self-media needs a lead writer with sufficient writing ability.

Bai Yu was the most suitable person Chen Siqi knew.

She was also Lu Yan He's high school classmate and wrote a short story for the physical book *Jump Up*.

Chen Siqi liked this short story very much.

The two had met a few times in private, but they were still not particularly familiar. This time they met, there were two things to do: the first was to ask Bai Yu to help her record a video, and the second was to discuss what the content of this self-media should be.

Chen Siqi said, "By doing this self-media, we are taking advantage of this book, and our starting point is much higher than others. A group of readers will be converted into our fans, but there are too many people doing self-media now, so we have to find a way to create our own characteristics."

Bai Yu nodded.

"Besides, what kind of content should we do?" Chen Siqi asked, "Have you thought about it?"

"Didn't you say it before? Film and television reviews, life records, and artist interviews." Bai Yu said.

Chen Siqi: "These are the most routine ones. We must have an update every day, right?"

"Yeah." Bai Yu nodded.

"Then the different types of content must be arranged. We can't keep posting the same content." Chen Siqi said, "Currently, the lead writers of our self-media are you, me, Xu Zijun, and Linyu. There is no income for doing this in the early stage, so we can't commission articles. We can only rely on the four of us to do it ourselves. But after it gets started, we might have the opportunity to take advertisements. Therefore, I still hope to operate it as a self-media that is moving towards maturity and commercialization, rather than just a few of us playing around out of interest."

Bai Yu pondered for a long time, thought for a while, nodded, and said, "Then we have to think of some interesting content to let everyone pay attention to our self-media."

"Yeah." Chen Siqi nodded, "Regardless of whether the book *Jump Up* can continue to be made, I intend to do this self-media well. When it becomes an influential account in the future, it can be considered the work we are most proud of in our college career."

"I didn't think that much. I just like to write something. I'm already very happy to have such a platform for everyone to see what I write." Bai Yu said with a smile.

The short story Bai Yu wrote for *Jump Up* before received a manuscript fee of 5,000 yuan, which surprised her.

But Bai Yu really didn't write things to earn manuscript fees—she had always been writing, regardless of whether there was a manuscript fee or not.

Chen Siqi: "First of all, I definitely want to do the most basic film and television review section. My goal is to be influential to film companies. In the future, when domestic films are released, they will invite us to the premiere."

Bai Yu looked at Chen Siqi in surprise, "Will this be very difficult?"

"Of course it will be difficult, but I want to do it. If it weren't difficult, why would we do it?"

Bai Yu hesitated and said, "But I don't know if we can achieve it."

"Whether it can be achieved is a matter for the future. Now let's do it first. Only by doing it can we talk about the future." Chen Siqi said, "Bai Yu, we are all going to study for four years of university. Do you hope that these four years will only be spent on studying?"

Bai Yu: "Siqi, of course I am very willing to do this with you. It's not that I'm unwilling, I just think that we are just students who have just entered university, and we may not have that ability. I'm worried that what I write won't meet your requirements, and I won't be able to make everyone like it so much."

Chen Siqi realized that it was her "grand goal" that had scared Bai Yu.

After these few contacts, Chen Siqi had already realized that Bai Yu was actually a girl with very little self-confidence. I don't know if it was because she performed poorly in the college entrance examination and only got into an ordinary university, but she often showed a sense of inferiority when talking to Chen Siqi.

She was different from Xu Zijun's kind of inferiority. Although Xu Zijun was also a bit inferior and sensitive, Xu Zijun was always confident in herself. She was only inferior about her background and family background, but Bai Yu was timid and cowardly by nature.

Chen Siqi reached out and held Bai Yu's hand, saying firmly, "Believe me, you are very talented, Bai Yu. Lu Yan He and I have both seen your talent. Moreover, the short story you wrote will meet everyone soon. At that time, you will officially become a writer."

When the three of Lu Yan He finally finished inserting the bookmarks for 3,000 books just in time, at this moment, a profound sense of revolutionary friendship was born among the three of them.

Sure enough, you have to suffer and endure hardships together to have this kind of feeling.

Lu Yan He clapped his hands with them and said, "Finally finished."

Song Lin Xin said, "I thought this was a really simple job at first. Now it seems that as long as the quantity is large, the hardship increases exponentially. I feel like my wrists are about to break."

Qin Zhibai didn't speak, but looking at him, he was probably exhausted too.

Although this was arranged by the program team, *Jump Up* was Lu Yan He's work after all. He said, "Thank you all for helping to promote *Jump Up*."

Xu Xiaoyin said with a smile, "You've worked hard. You've been busy all morning, you must be hungry, right? I'll take everyone to the cafeteria."

The program team didn't arrange lunch for them specifically, but took them to the printing factory's cafeteria.

The cafeteria was not big, with about thirty four-person tables and two round tables.

Xu Xiaoyin accompanied them to get their meals and sat down.

All three of them ate very solidly, looking like they were really hungry.

Lu Yan He asked, "Sister Xiaoyin, have you ever collaborated with other program teams like this before?"

Xu Xiaoyin shook her head and said, "No, this is the first time. It has opened up a new way of thinking for us. In the future, we will create more such opportunities to see if we can help us do more promotion."

Lu Yan He laughed and said, "How is Brother Jiazhen's new book?"

"Still waiting for the book number. I hope it can be launched before the end of this year." Xu Xiaoyin said, "Thanks to your recommendation, his new book has received a lot of attention. The initial print run is estimated to reach 150,000 copies, which is a rare initial print number in recent years."

Lu Yan He: "It's good to be able to help Brother Jiazhen."

"Didn't they say that the film adapted from his book *Nineteen Years* was looking for you to play a role? Have they contacted you?"

"They contacted me, but the script is still being written, so nothing has been decided yet." Lu Yan He said.

"His current market value is very good. His new book hasn't been published yet, but it has already been noticed by several film and television companies. They are talking about film and television adaptation, and we are still following up." Xu Xiaoyin said, "Several of our signed authors saw Jiazhen's situation and asked us if we could ask you to recommend their books too."

Lu Yan He was flattered, waved his hands, and said, "This is all because Brother Jiazhen's novel is well written. My recommendation is only useful if it's good. My recommendation is not the deciding factor. Teachers, please don't embarrass me. I don't even dare to speak."

Xu Xiaoyin: "Don't be humble. Being able to go against the trend in the current market and make a thematic book like *Jump Up*, many writers have reflected to me privately that they admire your move. Your book has also made our publishing industry receive a lot of attention. It's rare for a celebrity artist to be willing to do such a thankless job when they are popular."

Song Lin Xin and Qin Zhibai asked, "Sister Xiaoyin, how did Lu Yan He get to know you? Was it because of his celebrity status that you found him to collaborate?"

"No." Xu Xiaoyin shook her head, "One day he recommended a novel published by our publishing house in his live broadcast room, which stimulated the sales of this novel. I specifically contacted him to express my gratitude. Later, we had some cooperation, and our relationship became familiar. It just so happened that he had the idea of making a magazine. After we learned about it, we contacted him and wanted to win the physical publication. In the end, it became a thematic book like *Jump Up*. This book could be made not because we proposed to find him to collaborate, but because he and Chen Siqi thought of it. From beginning to end, it was the two of them doing it. We and Ye Mai Network only provided some financial and technical support."

Xu Xiaoyin specifically said these words in front of the camera to let everyone know that Lu Yan He was not just a name on *Jump Up*—in the era when magazines were popular in the past, there were indeed many magazine editors who did this.

Lu Yan He said, "Now that *Jump Up* is about to be launched, I've been nervous for several days."

"It will definitely be fine." Song Lin Xin said.

After lunch, there was a short break of half an hour.

There was no specially prepared lounge, only a temporarily vacated office.

There was only one sofa and a few chairs in the office.

After discussion, the sofa was given to Song Lin Xin to lie down for a while, and Lu Yan He and Qin Zhibai both rested on the table.

The afternoon was another whole afternoon of busyness.

Counting goods, contacting various people, loading trucks, and checking.

The difficulty of the work was actually not great. It was all very basic and mechanical work, and it was easy to get started, but it was very exhausting because you couldn't relax for a moment.

In the end, when the sunset fell, the program team's car came to pick them up.

After the three of them got in the car, Xu Xiaoyin started a summary meeting for everyone, commenting on each person, and at the same time giving scores.

Xu Xiaoyin said with a smile, "I must say, everyone's performance today really exceeded my expectations. I usually see celebrity artists on the news who are very spoiled and difficult to serve. I thought today's working environment and content would make everyone feel unacceptable. I didn't expect everyone to persist, especially the lunch break environment. You didn't have a single complaint, which really surprised me."

Song Lin Xin said, "Actually, I wanted to complain, but wasn't this recording a program? I held it back. I wanted to appear hardworking, but later I saw everyone in the factory working like this. We were only there for one day, and they work like this day after day. I feel like we don't have the qualifications to complain at this time. Everyone is working very hard, and this is what we chose ourselves."

"I have never been to this kind of place, it's actually very novel." Qin Zhibai said.

"Novel?"

"Yeah." Qin Zhibai nodded, "I have always been curious about how books are printed since I was a child, and today I finally saw it."

Xu Xiaoyin gave Qin Zhibai an A rating.

Lu Yan He originally thought that his performance was an A from any angle, but who knew Xu Xiaoyin said, "Yan He, originally based on your performance, I should give you an A, but *Jump Up* is your own book, and I have known you for a long time. To avoid suspicion, I decided to give you a B."

"Ah?" Lu Yan He was shocked.

Xu Xiaoyin said, "There is no way. If I give you an A, the three of you are all As. But the director team said that every group must have one person who is a B. Qin Zhibai and Song Lin Xin were very serious and hardworking today. Of course, you are the same, but after all, *Jump Up* is your book. To thank them for their efforts, I can only give this B to you."

Lu Yan He sighed, "Am I that miserable? Then I got a B, what should I do?"

Xu Xiaoyin shook her head and said with a smile, "I don't know about that. The director team just asked me to give ABC, but didn't tell me how this evaluation would be used."

Then, Xu Xiaoyin got out of the car.

The car continued to drive, taking them back to the House of Youth.

Li Zhenzhen was waiting for them here.

They were the last group to return.

Lu Yan He and the others reunited with Peng Zhixing and the others. Three groups, nine people, all visibly exhausted.

"Tired."

"So tired."

"What was your task?"

Everyone chatted about it, and Lu Yan He learned that Peng Zhixing and the others' task was to be waiters in a restaurant, and Li Zhibai and the others' task was to clean the animal enclosures in a zoo.

By comparison, they were really the most relaxed.

Then, at this time, Li Zhenzhen came to announce.

"Thank you all for your hard work today, congratulations to everyone for completing your tasks." Li Zhenzhen said, "So, I have also received the evaluations from the judges of each group. We will announce them later. Before announcing, I need to tell everyone our new rules. This evaluation is divided into group evaluation and individual evaluation. The group evaluation determines the dinner you can enjoy, and the individual evaluation determines your living environment at night."

A group of people looked at each other.

"What? There is also a group evaluation?"

Li Zhenzhen: "First, announce the group of Peng Zhixing, Xiao Yun, and Su Xiao, who received a B evaluation, because your group broke 3 plates and failed to serve dishes on time 2 times."

Xiao Yun immediately stood up and apologized to everyone: "This is my fault, I broke the plates."

Peng Zhixing hurriedly said: "It's okay, it's okay, why apologize so seriously, sit down."

"Yeah, it's okay." Su Xiao also said.

Li Zhenzhen said: "This is your dinner tonight."

A cart was pushed in by the staff, with a total of four dishes. When the lids were lifted, there was a portion of seafood fried rice, a steamed fish, a eggplant casserole, and a fried egg.

"Not bad, quite good." Peng Zhixing said, "Enough to eat."

Then they started to announce the group of Li Zhibai, Yan Liang, and Liu Zhiyin.

"Your group evaluation is C, because Li Zhibai was too slow in the individual section, seriously delaying the progress of members Yan Liang and Liu Zhiyin, and also had a fierce quarrel with Liu Zhiyin, causing a bad influence on the small animals."

Lu Yan He was stunned.

I saw Li Zhibai looking down expressionlessly, not saying a word.

Liu Zhiyin was also looking down.

The atmosphere between the two was indeed a bit awkward.

How did they quarrel?

Yan Liang immediately gave Lu Yan He a look at this time, signaling that it was okay.

Li Zhenzhen looked at the two of them.

"Then, Li Zhibai, Liu Zhiyin, do you have anything to say to each other?"

"I apologize." Liu Zhiyin took the initiative to stand up and said: "My temper is indeed more urgent, easy to get anxious. Today, I saw that the progress was very lagging, so I couldn't help my temper. I should have done a good job of emotional management."

Li Zhibai looked at Liu Zhiyin and said: "Don't apologize either. It's true that my ability to work is not good. Next time you try to have better luck, don't draw into a group with me. My ability to work is really not very good."

The atmosphere was a bit awkward.

Seeing that they had nothing to say, Li Zhenzhen asked the staff to send up dinner.

Their dinner was much worse than Peng Zhixing and the others'.

A portion of ordinary fried rice, a plate of dumplings, a portion of stir-fried vegetables, and a portion of steamed sausage.

Li Zhibai's face collapsed.

Liu Zhiyin's face was normal, without any expression of disgust.

When it came to Lu Yan He's group, Li Zhenzhen said: "Your group is the only group that received an A evaluation today, and you have successfully completed today's task."

Lu Yan He and the three of them were full of surprise.

The dinner they received was much richer, with six dishes, and many big dishes, including a roast duck, a spicy crayfish, a crab roe tofu...

"And those with an individual evaluation of A can stay in the rooms of the House of Youth. Those whose individual evaluation did not reach A will not be able to stay in their own rooms tonight and can only sleep in tents outside the house." Li Zhenzhen announced, "The tents must also be built by yourselves."

Lu Yan He's eyes widened in shock.

Ah?

"Live in a tent outside?" Lu Yan He was stunned.

Li Zhenzhen nodded.

After announcing these things, the director team led by Li Zhenzhen left.

The remaining artists looked at each other.

"Let's eat, everyone is hungry." Peng Zhixing said.

"Then how do we eat? Divide into three groups to eat?" Yan Liang asked.

Li Zhibai's face was not good. He looked at the dishes of his group. The three of them couldn't be full at all, so he said directly: "I'm too lazy to eat, you guys eat."

Liu Zhiyin said: "If you don't eat, will you have the strength to work tomorrow?"

Li Zhibai's mouth twitched.

Lu Yan He asked Qin Zhibai and Song Lin Xin in a low voice: "How about we eat with everyone? The three of us can't finish six dishes."

Song Lin Xin and Qin Zhibai had no opinion, "Okay."

"Let's eat together." Lu Yan He said, "Just one table, why divide into three groups? The director team didn't say we couldn't share with each other."

"Yeah, let's eat together." Song Lin Xin said, "We have all meat here, no vegetables."

Seeing this, Peng Zhixing and the others immediately said: "That's fine, just like that, eat together."

"The director team is not human, but our own people are reliable, loving each other." Xiao Yun's eyes were shining with excitement, "Crayfish! My favorite!"

Everyone happily brought the dishes to the table.

"Come on, first of all, welcome our two new friends, Liu Zhiyin and Su Xiao!" Peng Zhixing said.

Everyone raised their glasses together.

"Thank you, I'm very happy to join this program."

"Please take care of me."

Once they started eating, the topics were much more than the last recording.

Everyone was talking about what happened when they completed the tasks during the day, and there was a lot to say.

Yan Liang said at this time, "It's a pity that Old Lu, you weren't in our group today. The scene of Li Zhibai shoveling elephant poop is too classic."

"Everyone is eating." Song Lin Xin immediately protested.

Li Zhibai was speechless and said: "I haven't done as much work in the past ten years as I did today."

Lu Yan He ruthlessly complained: "That's because you are usually too lazy."

"Exactly." Yan Liang helped, "The hygiene in our dormitory is all done by me and Old Lu. You don't care at all."

"He is so lazy, and you are still friends with him?" Xiao Yun asked immediately.

"After all, besides being a bit lazy, Brother Bai is still very loyal in other aspects." Yan Liang said again.

Liu Zhiyin picked up the cup and looked at Li Zhibai, "Li Zhibai, I apologize to you again. I shouldn't have lost my temper today."

"Don't apologize anymore. If you apologize again, I will be ashamed." Li Zhibai said, "It's true that I held you back."

Liu Zhiyin said: "There is no such thing as holding back. Everyone is in the same group, so we should help each other."

Yan Liang nodded.

Seeing Liu Zhiyin's attitude, Lu Yan He understood why Yan Liang gave him that look that he didn't need to care about.

Lu Yan He was really nervous just now, worried that after Meng Li with an extreme temper left, a hot-tempered Liu Zhiyin would come.

Peng Zhixing said: "It seems that completing tasks in groups may become the norm for our program. In the future, everyone will likely have the possibility of teaming up with anyone. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. Let's take the strengths and make up for the weaknesses. Don't let the director team succeed. They just want to see us quarrel."

"Hahaha."

The atmosphere at the dinner table was harmonious.

In the workroom next door, Li Zhenzhen watched the real-time screen and listened to the sound coming from the headset, smiled, and thought, in order to let you young people truly develop feelings for each other, is it easy for us to act as this "stepmother"?

Why arrange tasks for them?

Why does the director team want to play such a "villain" image?

Because only in this way can they gradually realize each other's difficulties, empathize, and then understand and accommodate each other.

Just like today.

Divided into three groups to give different food, in the end, the three groups of people still sat together for dinner.

This is the goal. ===== CHAPTER 249 =====