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Chapter 784: The Obsession of Square Dance
Now the construction of the village has reached a new level.

There are more street lights and more hardened roads, and some roads have been widened to better meet the transportation requirements of several factories.

There are many newly built houses in the village, and the designs of those houses are more beautiful.

——Feng Chen’s father-in-law’s construction company does this and can easily handle everything from design to construction.

If anyone in the village wants to build a new house, they will come to the Feng family for help, and the Feng family will take care of the design and construction of the house for them.

Of course, a small commission will also be charged.

But for the villagers, that little bit of kickback is worth it, as it can make their houses more beautiful and more comfortable to live in.

Now the villagers have a lot more money in their hands and don’t care so much about that little money.

The house you build will be lived in for decades, so it is not excessive to pay attention to it.

These newly built houses also make the village look more beautiful.

In the past two years, the county has launched the slogan of building a beautiful new countryside and has made some regulations on rural sanitation.

In some places, the policy was just perfunctorily implemented, but in this village, it was enforced more effectively.

The main reason why it can be implemented is that now everyone's living conditions are better and their requirements for living environment are higher. They hope to live in a clean, hygienic and beautiful environment and are willing to sacrifice a little freedom to make the village better.

Now when Yan Xin and Feng Xi walk on the small paths in the village, they can clearly feel the changes in their hometown.

In a few years, all the old houses will be demolished and new ones will be built, and this village will become even more beautiful.

After receiving donations from Green Origin Company last year, the village clinic was upgraded. The building became bigger, there were more medical equipment, and the variety of medicines became more complete.

Now, there are three medical staff working in this clinic.

Their wages are paid by the village.

The village also owns a small portion of the shares of several factories invested by Green Origin Company in the village, and can obtain some dividends, which belong to the villagers.

There is money in the treasury, so it can naturally be used in the medical field.

It can’t cure any serious illness, but it can certainly solve some minor ones.

It’s not possible to do a very complicated health check, but it’s still okay to measure blood pressure, heart rate, blood sugar, etc.

The total amount allocated to this clinic is only a few hundred thousand, and it is impossible to build any large-scale medical equipment.

Moreover, given their current conditions, even if they succeeded, there would be no one to operate it.

However, it will be upgraded in the future, from a health center to a hospital with certain medical capabilities.

Only in this way can you live with peace of mind.

In addition, a project to expand a park next to the village office is also under construction. The land is all mountainous and easy to requisition. More than ten acres of area have been leveled, some flowers, plants and trees have been transplanted, and some fitness equipment has been placed. The area is now being hardened and the square is being paved with bricks.

You can play basketball, table tennis and tennis here.

Of course, you can also do square dancing.

It will be put into use by National Day.

Yan Xin took Feng Xi on a tour here and was quite satisfied.

There is now a place for square dancing in the village.

But there is no square dance team yet.

Those elderly people who can move either play mahjong or work to earn money.

Among their leisure options, there is no such option as square dancing. Even basking in the sun at home is better than this.

This also made Yan Xin deeply feel that the village's spiritual civilization construction still has a long way to go.

But it doesn’t matter. In a few years, you will get what you deserve.

In his memory of his previous life, there were people dancing square dance in the village a few years later, but on a small scale.

In my previous life, the village was not as well developed as it is now. There was no park for the aunties to go to for square dancing, so they could only dance on the roadside where people were drying grain.

The village's economic development is doing quite well now, and there are better venues. I think in a few years, square dance culture will flourish.

The main reason why he cares so much about square dancing is that after he and Feng Xi got married in his previous life, they both envied the elderly people in the city who danced square dancing, and they both hoped that they would be able to do the same when they were old.

However, that requires having your own house in the city and having a considerable pension after retirement, enough to live in the city.

You also need to have a healthy body - otherwise you can't dance.

The rigid requirements are too high and no matter how I look at it, I can't meet the standards.

What they pursue is not square dancing itself, but a peaceful and harmonious old age.

This is almost becoming their obsession.

Yan Xin may not necessarily learn to square dance in the future, but he still hopes to see more old men and women dancing square dance in his village.

This is definitely better than playing mahjong.

He stayed in his hometown for more than ten days, accepted several interviews, inspected some of his own industries, attended some meetings, met with some local bigwigs, and then returned to Beijing with his wife and children.

At this time, they could move into the large duplex house they bought in Beijing last year.

Two days after I returned, I moved my home there.

The house of more than 400 square meters is home to the couple, a two-year-old child, and a nanny.

It seems a bit empty.

It takes a long time just to clean such a big house. The nanny has to take care of the children, cook, and clean such a big house by herself. It's quite tiring work.

So, after moving in, Feng Xi also agreed with the nanny that she only needed to take care of daily hygiene.

You don’t need a nanny to do major cleaning, you can just hire a part-time worker to do it.

Hire a part-time worker to do the cleaning twice a week, which can reduce the nanny's burden.

Their house is now available for occupancy, and naturally the house occupied by Zeng Xiyue in the same building can also be occupied.

Before they moved in, Zeng Xiyue and Zeng Yan had already moved in.

Zeng Xiyue took on the role of the leading female role in a TV series and joined the crew in April. After more than three months of filming, she had completed all her scenes and then returned to Beijing. The company then allocated her such a house and she moved in with Zeng Yan a few days later.

At that time, Yan Xin had not yet returned to China.

But he knew about this because Zeng Xiyue had already told him through QQ and even showed him the appearance of the new home in a video.

When Yan Xin's family moved, Zeng Xiyue and Zeng Yan both went to help.

However, Zeng Xiyue is now somewhat famous. When she went to help, she was afraid that others would recognize her, so she wore a baseball cap and sunglasses, and did not wear any makeup.

On the first night after moving in, Zeng Xiyue cooked dinner.

——After filming the TV series, she returned to Beijing and began to learn acting, dancing, and cooking.

My cooking skills are pretty good now. Of course, I am still a little behind Ailili, but I am better than the chefs in ordinary small restaurants.

She studied these things very hard and even obtained a professional chef certificate. She is the kind of person who can make a living by her cooking skills.

Zeng Yan also came to dinner that day.

For the first meal after moving in, we still need more people to warm up the atmosphere.

But there weren’t too many people—too many people would have been inconvenient.

While eating, we talked about the TV series that Zeng Xiyue had just finished filming. This was her first TV series in which she played the leading female role, but it would not be her last.

The TV series has been completed and is in post-production. If all goes well, it will be broadcast during this year's winter vacation.

It is difficult for Zeng Xiyue to comment on her performance, and Yan Xin has never seen her performance, so it is naturally even more difficult for her to comment.

However, according to Zeng Xiyue's own words, through the filming of this TV series, she learned a lot and felt that she had made great progress.

Zeng Yan also mentioned the comments given by the director and several actors, which were all relatively positive.

But Yan Xin didn't know whether this positive evaluation came from the heart or was just polite.

But one thing is certain - after Zeng Xiyue's last TV series was broadcast, the role she played also received certain praise on the Internet.

Her acting skills are acceptable, and she is young and beautiful, so it is easy for her to get good reviews.

In addition, the facial mask advertisement she shot was broadcast during prime time on many satellite TV stations, which gave her greater exposure and she has become a small star.

The number of fans on social platforms has reached millions.

After all, she only played the third female role, and although the TV series had good ratings, it was not a hit.

It’s already very good to be able to achieve this step.

Whether or not he can become a star depends on the performance of the TV series in which he stars.

While talking about this, we also mentioned the current situation of several other actors in the company who played the leading roles.

The TV series in which the artist played the leading female role has been broadcast, and she has also appeared in some variety shows. She has gained a certain fame and has received three or four advertising endorsements - including advertisements from companies invested by Yan Xin as well as wild advertisements from outside.

Prices start in the seven figures.

After a few advertisements, the agency earned millions of dollars.

Of course, such artists are also arranged with houses in Beijing.

It’s just that Starlight Film and Television Company started too late, and the time that its artists have starred in TV dramas is too short. Most of the dramas have not been aired, and there are only a handful of artists who can be considered stars.

The management companies are also trying to figure out how to make their artists famous.

It’s not just about gaining national fame, but also about maintaining that popularity.

According to Yan Xin's request, try not to do anything with negative energy, such as spreading some black material or scandals to cause greater discussion on the Internet, achieve the effect of blackening and redning, and then come up with a wave of whitewashing and reversal.

It worked, but he didn't like it that way.

He is not only the boss of this film and television company, he is also the chairman of a listed company with a market value of more than 2000 billion yuan, the largest shareholder, and a member of the Provincial CPPCC. He will seek to become a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in the future. He is a well-known figure and is not suitable for engaging in shady activities.

The entertainment industry does not bring in much profit, but it can create a lot of news, and those negative news can have a great impact on the company and personal image.

There's no need to go through all that.

What we can do is to give our artists more exposure opportunities as much as possible.

For example, in a TV series that you invested in, you could let them play the leading role.

Then exchange some resources to give their artists more opportunities to appear in popular variety shows.

Yan Xin also gave Zeng Yan some advice that in the future, Starlight Film and Television Production Company should not be limited to the production of film and television works, but could also participate in the production of variety shows.

Some TV stations have already achieved separation of production and broadcasting. Their companies can also produce a program themselves and then broadcast it on satellite TV.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t have any good variety show ideas. You can purchase the copyrights of foreign variety shows and localize them.

In his impression, some large TV stations did just that and made their own TV stations top-tier.

Last year's "The Voice of China" and this year's "I Am a Singer" are both like this.

As far as he remembers, the interview for "Where Are We Going, Dad?" should be happening soon.

In his previous life, Yan Xin had watched those variety shows and quite liked some of them.

However, he suggested that Zeng Yan should not do a variety show, but an idol audition show, such as Youth With You and Rocket Girls.

Creating traffic stars and attracting more crazy fans can help them improve their online data and attract more and better investors, which is of great benefit.

These are more important than getting high ratings and earning advertising fees.

Advertising fees are one-time.

To cultivate a group of traffic stars is like opening up a piece of leek fields and harvesting leeks regularly, which is a long-term benefit.

Although fans change idols more frequently, by creating such a program, they can also regularly create new idols and continue to harvest leeks in the leek field.

Speaking of this, Feng Xi also became excited and said frankly that this is very interesting and the audience should like to watch it.

Moreover, some ideas of my own were provided.

Yan Xin felt that those ideas were very similar to the idol development programs he remembered, and he couldn't help but sigh - after all, he is a top student and a smart person. He can see the ideas of the problem right away.

Zeng Yan listened to a passage and also thought it was very interesting.

Then we started discussing when to start the renovation.

Yan Xin didn’t know whether such programs already existed in foreign countries. He had never cared about those things in his previous life. He only knew when such programs became available in China.

If we were to do this now, we would definitely be ahead of the entire industry in China.

The task he assigned to Zeng Yan was to travel to several countries to see if there were such variety shows.

If so, discuss purchasing the copyright with them.

If not, then it is their own original creation, and they will sell the copyright to others in the future instead of purchasing it from others.

As for production costs, Starlight Film and Television Company is not so short of money now, so there is no need to worry about this.

The biggest problem is whether we can find an excellent platform to cooperate with.

If you can’t cooperate with TV stations, you can cooperate with online platforms.

If you really can’t find an online platform to cooperate with, it doesn’t matter. You can start this on the Starlight Short Video Platform.

Of course, the Starlight short video platform is not so suitable for variety shows. After all, it is just a short video platform, not a long video platform.

If you have a choice, it is of course better to choose a more suitable platform.

This book should be completed within one or two months and is now in the final stage.