Chapter 703: True Talk System in the Entertainment Industry (19)

In Qing Dynasty dramas, the one thing there is no shortage of is embroidered props. Inspired by the exquisite embroidery on the fan faces of round fans, Xie Yang embroidered elegant patterns like green bamboo and Taohua onto the cuffs of white cotton socks.

To be honest, in the years she lived in the Qing Dynasty Plane, she had hardly ever touched an embroidery frame. However, in the previous plane, before the Processing Workshop was unlocked, she had to mend her own clothes and even embroidered a few small animals for the children she adopted, so picking up an embroidery needle again did not feel entirely unfamiliar.

Occasionally, where there were dropped stitches, she would inlay rice-sized pearls as embellishments.

During the latter part of the previous plane, she used the Processing Workshop to break down the river mussels raised in the Smart Fish Pond into pearls of various sizes and mussel meat.

Among them, the rice-sized pearls were as numerous as grains of rice and were the least valuable. She had just kept them, thinking that a big handful wouldn't take up much space, never expecting this plane to give them a chance to show their value.

Just like that, she transformed pairs of cheap white cotton socks bought wholesale into beautiful, unique, high-end goods through embroidery and pearl embellishments.

"These socks look so pretty with little Hei Pi shoes! Xiao Xie, sell me a pair!" A lead actress, having inadvertently seen Xie Yang embroidering the socks, picked up a finished pair and said, unable to put them down, "No, make it two pairs! One with bamboo, one with Taohua. Can you?"

Of course she could!

Xie Yang smiled and quoted a "friends and family" price: twenty yuan a pair.

Don't look at the fact that the wholesale price for white cotton socks is less than three yuan a pair; the pearls are real! And the embroidery takes time.

"So cheap?"

Look at that, the other party even complained that her asking price was cheap!

"These socks of yours, I'm not just saying this, if you put them in a tourist attraction's souvenir shop, you could at least triple the price."

When the others heard that the hand-embroidered cotton socks with pearl embellishments were only twenty yuan a pair, they all swarmed over:

"Xiao Xie, I want two pairs!"

"Xiao Xie, I'll buy two pairs too!"

"I'll buy five pairs for my daughter to take to her dorm for washing and changing."

"Xiao Xie, I'll buy ten more! I just posted on my Moments, and a friend asked where I bought them. When she heard they were only available in our crew, she urged me to bring her a few pairs."

"Xiao Xie,..."

Just like that, Xie Yang set up a sock stall in the crew, and business was quite good! The profit surpassed the wages of an extra, no problem. She even felt she hadn't bought enough white cotton socks wholesale.

Main System: 【... Host is 666!】

Sub-system: 【Host, this does not meet the Task requirements.】

"But you saw it too, I can't leave the crew without authorization." Xie Yang spread her hands.

"How about this, just pretend this time that I sold them on the Walking Street, don't hold it against me. When there's an opportunity later, I'll do a few extra Tasks for you to compensate, how about that?"

"Look at how hard I'm working to complete the Task! I even contributed my own pearls... don't look at how small they are, these are eco-farmed freshwater pearls..."

"And look at my fingers... to cooperate with this Task of yours, I picked up the embroidery business I haven't touched in years, and my fingers have been pricked by the needle several times. Even if there's no credit, there's still hard work, right?"

【...】

The Sub-system's rabbit ears drooped and then stood up, clearly running its CPU frantically.

Main System: Don't calculate! You can't out-calculate the Host no matter how much you try.

【...】

In the end, the Sub-system agreed to Xie Yang's proposal.

With that, Xie Yang sold socks even more happily; not only did she break even, but she could also earn a wave of Task rewards!

Before her own scenes were finished, the white cotton socks she brought had all been re-processed into Ancient Style Embroidered Beaded Socks, and were divided up by the actors, assistants, and staff of the same crew—two pairs for this one, five for that one, ten for another.

The Task was also barely considered completed.

But the Sub-system seemed unable to stand seeing her relaxed; just after finishing the reward for the "selling socks" Task, it immediately assigned her a new one—

【Ding! Experience setting up a stall to sell Bobo Chicken in the crew for ten days; profit must exceed an extra's wage. Reward: 300 points, 120 seconds of Truth Duration.】

After issuing it, it said in a soft, milky voice: 【Host, see how good a Task I picked for you this time? Don't you like making snacks? Isn't this Task very much to your liking?】

After speaking, it stared at Xie Yang with an expression of "praise me," "praise me," begging for compliments.

Xie Yang: "... I thank you!"

The Sub-system's tone was cheerful: 【You're welcome! This is what I should do!】

"..."

Making Bobo Chicken isn't difficult; it's nothing more than needing to prepare the seasoning beforehand.

With the seasoning, you boil the ingredients like chicken meat, chicken feet, and chicken liver, then soak them in it. Once the flavor has seeped in, you can start selling.

That day, Xie Yang confirmed she had no scenes, so she asked the floor manager for leave and went out to buy all the ingredients and seasonings needed to make Bobo Chicken.

On her way back, she happened to run into Lou Yiling.

It was only when the Sub-system told her that the other party had an Energy Crystal and she took a few extra looks that she recognized this was Lou Yiling. Did she get plastic surgery?

At this moment, Lou Yiling also saw Xie Yang.

"Xie Meini, why are you here? Ugh, what are you carrying? It reeks!"

She pinched her nose exaggeratedly.

Xie Yang was just hoping she would come to pick a fight, so she smiled and retorted: "If you can be here, why can't I? Compared to an amateur like you, I'm at least professionally trained."

"Ha!" Lou Yiling laughed with a disdainful expression, "Professionally trained and you're setting up a night stall? I'm not afraid of making you jealous, but I've already filmed several dramas."

Xie Yang raised an eyebrow: "You're comparing that with me? Do you want me to count the dramas I've filmed in all these years as an extra? If we're going to compare, we should compare whose screen time is longer and who has more lines! Come, come, come, how many seconds of screen time do your dramas add up to? How many lines?"

"..."

Lou Yiling was stunned by the question, and upon reacting, she said in a flustered rage: "What does it matter how many seconds of screen time or how many lines I have! At least it's better than you setting up a stall at the night market!"

After finishing, she looked at Xie Yang triumphantly and said: "You don't know yet, right? The role I recently got is a big production, and I'm the fourth female lead!"

"Oh my, then you really are impressive! I only managed to get the sixth female lead." Xie Yang touched a sore spot, "So, does plastic surgery help with getting roles?"

Lou Yiling almost jumped up: "What plastic surgery! Who got plastic surgery! I just had a simple Scar Removal Technique done. Xie Meini, don't you go spouting nonsense!"

However, the next second, her mouth was no longer under the control of her brain, and she blurted out the truth: "So what if I did get surgery? These days, there are plenty of stars who go under the knife. Take the first female lead in our crew, isn't she also an artificial face with a shaved-down chin? If it weren't for..."

"You surnamed Lou, what kind of nonsense are you spouting!"

"Slap!"

Lou Yiling was rushed by the lead actress's manager, who was passing by, and slapped hard across the face.

She clutched her face in pain, flustered and at a loss as she tried to explain: "No, I didn't..."

She herself did not know why her brain had twitched and made her say those things.

Although these were indeed the resentful words in her heart, she also knew that these words could not be said! The other party was the female lead personally chosen by the director, while she was merely a green leaf to set the other party off.