Chapter 26: Xiaomi Heavy Industry, First Entrepreneurship

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Protagonist:

Lin Yi

As he spoke further, Lin Yi's eyes blinked, and two drops of hot tears silently slid down from the corners of his eyes.

Seeing this young man before him, about the same age as his own son, yet already standing on his own two feet, shedding tears, Ye Haiyang's heart softened; he raised his hand and lightly patted Lin Yi's shoulder:

"It's fine. Since General Manager Lin needs to film that whatever safety warning video, there's no need for me to stand on ceremony here either."

"You tell me how to film it first, then I'll see how to arrange cooperation on my end."

"Good!" Lin Yi nodded repeatedly, then another two drops of excited hot tears slid from the corners of his eyes; he raised a hand to wipe them away, then continued choking out:

"The process is very simple. We just need to borrow your venue, then we put our electric rice cooker there and plug it in."

"Then put those things that can't go inside into the electric rice cooker, heat normally, and wait for the electric rice cooker to have an accident."

"Then your people, wearing clothes, dragging fire hoses, appear."

"If there's fire, put it out; if there's no fire, just pull out the banner."

"The banner I've made ready too!"

To the side, hearing Lin Yi's words, Ji Shuangshuang beckoned with her hand, and Liu Daneng immediately appeared before Ye Haiyang and Lin Yi, holding several red banners.

The banners unfurled; there were several languages.

Reading through the text on the Chinese-version banner once, Ye Haiyang gave Lin Yi a thumbs-up, then rubbed his hands and hesitantly asked Lin Yi: "General Manager Lin, after this video is done, can you give us a copy?"

"Hm?" Lin Yi blinked, not understanding what this meant.

Ye Haiyang read the expression on his face, touched his nose, and explained:

"These past few years the country has been developing. Many places that originally had no electricity, or couldn't guarantee 24-hour power, have been connected to the grid and can now guarantee 365 days a year, 24 hours a day without power cuts."

"With electricity, ordinary people's desire to buy electrical appliances is surging."

"This is a good thing, but the problem is they don't use electricity properly."

"Random illegal wiring, and those electrical appliances they buy are also hard to describe."

"Just this month, we've responded to 9 calls; 6 of the fire causes were from not using electrical appliances according to requirements."

"What you're talking about, we happen to need too."

Explanation finished, Ye Haiyang just stood there rubbing his hands, waiting for Lin Yi's reply.

Lin Yi smiled and agreed readily.

After all, his purpose from beginning to end wasn't pure; moreover, if the fire brigade took his video to play, it would just happen to advertise his own product.

Both sides agreed; Ye Haiyang turned and left to summon the fire brigade's people.

And Lin Yi and the others, led by other fire brigade personnel, also shouldered the electric pressure cooker and shouldered those things to put into the electric pressure cooker.

Appeared at the fire brigade's training ground.

The wires were already connected.

Don't know where they got secondhand flashlight wire from; it's starting to shed its skin now.

Arriving at the venue, Lin Yi set up the camera rented from the wedding shop, picked up the microphone, and began impersonating a director, briefing the actors.

Just two actors.

Xiaomi Heavy Industry provided Ji Shuangshuang; the fire brigade provided Ye Haiyang.

"The script is very simple!"

"Shuangshuang, your task is to play that naive sweet girl, put all kinds of things not allowed into the pressure cooker, then all kinds of violations."

"Your face must keep smiling! Then when the electric pressure cooker has a problem, your expression is shock! Open your mouth wide, cover your face with both hands in shock!"

"But the whole time don't make a sound!"

Knowing she was the lead of this scene, Ji Shuangshuang was very excited; hearing Lin Yi's arrangements, her high-ponytailed head nodded vigorously.

The bell tied on her hair made crisp sounds as her head swayed.

"Captain Ye, your expression the whole time is just one: keep a straight face, unapproachable, absolutely do not laugh."

"Every time Shuangshuang puts something into the electric pressure cooker, you enter, raise your hand to stop her."

"Then she insists on putting the thing into the electric pressure cooker, you just stand to the side with arms crossed watching her."

"Wait until the electric pressure cooker has an accident, then you drag the fire hose out expressionlessly, handle the accident."

"The whole time also don't make a sound."

"After handling it, the banner enters; you must draw the camera's attention to the banner."

"The script is divided into three acts. Act 1 is the earlier putting things in. Act 2 is the pressure cooker having a problem. Act 3 is handling the scene."

"We'll film Act 1 first, then Act 2, finally Act 3."

The two leads heard the script, gestured to themselves on the spot for a while, and both nodded at Lin Yi, indicating they were ready.

Lin Yi fished a notebook from his bosom — the script written earlier — then brought the microphone to his mouth, dry-coughed twice, and shouted:

"Episode 1, Act 1! Electric pressure cooker heating canned fruit! Shuangshuang, you're performing a girl who wants to eat peach canned food, but the peach canned food is too cold, so she thinks of using the electric pressure cooker to heat the peach canned food!"

Shouting done, Lin Yi moved his head to behind the camera, aiming the lens at Ji Shuangshuang.

At the edge of the lens, Ji Shuangshuang hugging a peach canned food walked into the frame.

The peach canned food bounced back and forth between her left and right hands as she advanced.

Finally, she walked to the electric pressure cooker, put the peach canned food into the electric pressure cooker, just about to close the lid, when a hand very abruptly stretched across in front of her.

Lin Yi's lens followed, settling on Ye Haiyang's serious big face.

Ye Haiyang pointed a finger at the electricity, at the peach canned food inside the pressure cooker, gently waved his hand, then crossed his arms, making a negative gesture.

The camera panned to Ji Shuangshuang's face; she pouted her lips, made a disdainful expression, then closed the Electric Pressure Cooker, pressed the switch, turned, and left.

The camera followed her back view for a few seconds, then turned back to Ye Haiyang.

Ye Haiyang wore an expression of "good advice cannot persuade a damned ghost," then also turned and left, walking toward the Fire Hose in the distance.

Lin Yi brought the Microphone to his mouth: "Episode 1, Scene 1 ends! Props team, turn off the Fire Switch!"

Putting down the Microphone, he sat beside it and began to watch the video just taken.

Without sound, there were none of those cringey lines, so the whole film looked fine.

After watching, Lin Yi picked up the Microphone: "Episode 2, Scene 1, Electric Pressure Cooker roasting eggs!"

"Episode 3, Scene 1, Electric Pressure Cooker heating Herring Canned Food!"

"Episode 4, Scene 1, Electric Pressure Cooker blocking the pressure relief valve!"

"Episode 5, Scene 1, Electric Pressure Cooker heating gunpowder fertilizer……"

Filming from morning until noon, only the first scenes of all possible plots were finished.

The Fire Brigade had a noon meal addition, naturally the Pork and Mutton Lin Yi had delivered.

In the afternoon, formal filming of the second scene began.

Because the second scene had dangerous shots, all Fire Brigade members appearing changed into dedicated Firefighting Suits.

Under the camera, Lin Yi placed the Electric Pressure Cookers one by one, then added the corresponding things inside according to the script.

The only thing he placed Carefully was the Herring Canned Food.

After placing it, he specially instructed the Fire Brigade staff to definitely stay away from This Thing.