Chapter 700: Truth System in the Entertainment Industry (16)

Actors, after all, are naturally more concerned about their image than the average person, so they one after another instructed their assistants: whenever Xie Yang puts out a new product, especially one related to beauty and skincare, buy it no matter how expensive it is!

Sure enough, they didn't buy wrong!

The two new drinks Xie Yang launched: Lemon Plum Tea and Lemon Honey Bird's Nest, had truly excellent beauty effects!

"Xiao Xie, when will you make more Lemon Honey Bird's Nest? Or can I place a custom order with you? My sister drank your bird's nest and said its skin-beautifying effect is better than any other product."

"Xiao Xie, my brother also wants to order bird's nest from you. He has a red carpet event next month, please, please!"

"Xiao Xie,..."

The result of the beauty effects being too good was—a crowd of actors' assistants flocked to her to place orders, stating that money was no object.

Xie Yang thought for a moment and said: "Then wait until I'm done with these next few days."

The Task of selling drinks at the filming base would be completed in three more days, and since the new Task hadn't been released yet, she could indeed sell a wave of bird's nest.

However, speak of the devil and the devil appears.

【Ding! Experience setting up a street stall to sell handmade Scented Soap at the Film and Television City Walking Street for ten days; if the profit exceeds the wages of an extra, you will be rewarded with 200 points and 60 seconds of Truth Duration.】

"..."

Good grief! It really can't stand being mentioned!

But a Task is a Task, can't it be released around themes like Snack Street, mobile stalls, or gourmet food?

Her newly acquired drink cart! It has to be shelved again!

She even detected a hint of schadenfreude in the tone of the Novice Sub-system.

It was as if it were saying: the last beauty product was cunningly replaced by her with kimchi; let's see how she tries to force a food-based substitute for this handmade soap!

It's just handmade soap, it's not like she hasn't DIYed it before when the mood struck.

Thus, after selling drinks for three more days, Xie Yang ran back to the Walking Street to set up a street stall.

The actors and assistants from various crews who had just gotten a taste and were thinking about buying beauty drinks from Xie Yang every day: "..."

One has to ask, in such a huge Film and Television City, can you find a more capricious stall owner than her?

—"Xiao Xie, why hasn't your cold drink cart come to our place to set up shop lately?"

Xie Yang: "Not coming for the time being."

—"Xiao Xie, what about the bird's nest my sister wanted?"

Xie Yang: "Rest assured, I've received the deposit, so I will make it and bring it over."

—"Then thank you! It's a good thing we paid the deposit in advance."

—"Xiao Xie, why don't you start a delivery service? You're setting up a stall on the Walking Street and selling cold drinks anyway, so you could deliver to us. The Sour Plum Soup you made cured my summer fatigue; I can't live without it this summer!"

Xie Yang: "..."

Look at that acting! It's truly a waste of your talents to be assistants; you should all be actors!

—"Xiao Xie,..."

Xie Yang: "Got it, got it! Your brother's bird's nest, your sister's bird's nest... I've noted them all down, I won't forget! I'm not taking new orders for now, I can't keep up! I really can't keep up!"

"Hahahaha..."

Everyone thought Xie Yang was funny; with such good personal conditions, instead of trying to get ahead in acting, she was setting up a small stall.

Setting up a stall is one thing, but she changes locations every few days.

Just graduated, so she's full of energy!

By the time the reward for the cold drink Task arrived, Xie Yang had already purchased the tools and materials for making handmade soap and began DIYing natural Scented Soap.

She had once learned Thai-style handmade soap in a certain Modern Plane; anyway, her stockpile was full of various vegetables and fruits. She picked some that looked pretty after setting, such as lemon, papaya, and osmanthus, to be dried for fixing and fragrance, and then picked some with beautiful colors, such as peach blossom, cherry blossom, and green tea, to grind into juice mainly for coloring.

For the first batch to test the waters, she made eight varieties—Peppermint Sea Salt, Lemon Green Tea, Jasmine Aloe, Papaya Taohua, Osmanthus Vanilla, and Lychee Cherry Blossom. She would test how they sold, and if they didn't move, she would switch to a different scent.

After making them, she first tried the Papaya Taohua scent, using a foaming net to work up a lather to wash her face and body. After washing, she found her skin felt fragrant and moisturized, without the slightest dryness caused by ordinary Scented Soap.

Success!

She posted a nine-grid photo on her social media to advertise her little soap stall in advance.

Less than a minute after posting, she received a call from her roommate.

"Yang Yang, are you not selling cold drinks anymore? Just now I was telling Qiqi that we should find time tomorrow to go support you."

Xie Yang smiled and said: "Not selling cold drinks for now. If you have time, come to where I'm staying, and I'll make some for you on the spot."

"We're packing our luggage; we're free these next two days. It's the final carnival before leaving the dorm, and everyone is too lazy to look for work. You're the only busy bee; we wouldn't want to bother you even if we had time."

Xie Yang checked the time and said: "Then how about you come over now? I'll whip up some food, and we can have a get-together?"

"Okay, okay!"

"Xie Yang, Xie Yang, can we come too?"

People from the neighboring dorm came over to visit and happened to hear Zhao Qin and the others on the voice call with Xie Yang, so they quickly crowded around and joked:

"Sisters, we'll bring beer and barbecue, you treat us to Golden Egg Fried Rice! After eating it that day, I wanted to go to your stall to buy more, but you ran off to the Walking Street to sell kimchi. I was just wondering when I could have another meal of your egg fried rice; how about today? Haha! By the time you become a big star, we won't have this chance!"

"Right, right! Let's take a group photo before eating and post it to Little Blue Book later; maybe we can piggyback on Xie Yang's popularity and trick a few followers for ourselves, hahaha!"

Xie Yang was amused by them: "Fine! Come on over! I can't guarantee meat and vegetables, but there's plenty of rice!"

That's what she said, but it was impossible to really only treat them to egg fried rice.

Thus, she took out some beef, lamb, and seafood, told the landlord, and set up a grill in the courtyard after the sun went down.

When Zhao Qin and her group learned she had prepared barbecue ingredients, they didn't go to the food street to buy barbecue, but instead found a well-regarded crayfish restaurant, took out two large portions of crayfish, and bought over a dozen cans of iced beer.

Seeing the crayfish, Xie Yang was truly a bit tempted.

Summer is the season for eating crayfish!

"Mengmeng, when will you release a Task for me to set up a stall selling crayfish? It would earn money and satisfy my cravings at the same time."

Novice Sub-system: 【...】

After teasing the Sub-system, Xie Yang got busy together with her roommates.

Although the beef and lamb she took out were not the grassland-raised ecological beef and lamb hoarded from the ancient plane, but rather products from the Smart Farm, they were still much better than what was sold outside—the meat was tender, had no gamey smell, and was fragrant and succulent when grilled.

The seafood also came from the Smart Farm and could be considered strictly selected quality.

Added to the seasoning mix Xie Yang prepared herself, it was simply superb!

Everyone chatted while eating barbecue and drinking beverages and beer, their joyful laughter drifting far away along with the aroma of the barbecue.

The tenant upstairs was so tempted by the fragrance that they couldn't help but poke their head out of the window: "Hey! Little sister, can you sell me a few skewers of your barbecue? You're making me die of craving!"

The landlord ran out of the air-conditioned room holding a bowl and chopsticks: "Xiao Xie, I'll give you a discount on next month's rent."

"Hahahaha..."