Open up the situation

Chapter 249 Open up the situation

The entire audience was stunned, all amazed by Jiang Baobin's incredible skills.

That hand speed! Unmatched!

Jiang Baobin rushed to Gao Danyan's side in a few steps.

"Bang!" He flicked her forehead.

The long-awaited "Ah!" cry rang out once again.

The group of men instantly felt comfortable.

After feeling the pain, Gao Danyan covered her forehead with both hands and stopped wilting.

Instead, he glared angrily at Jiang Baobin and asked, "Why did you hit me?"

Jiang Baobin lowered his voice and said, "This is a stage! How can you sit on the ground?"

Gao Danyan then realized what was happening and angrily retorted, "Isn't that all your fault?!"

"Why didn't you warn me? You hit me so many times at once, you scared me to death!"

"Stop talking! The audience is watching. Take your bows!"

"Oh oh oh————"

Then: "Next up, please enjoy a solo performance—"

Gao Yueyuan introduced the program herself and sang a purely graceful version of "Me and My Motherland".

However, it has a unique charm to it.

Gao Danyan, who had just finished her performance, went to the accompaniment area and started playing the erhu, while Jiang Baobin played the guitar.

Holy crap, what kind of combination is this?

As the show progressed, Gao Yueyuan was responsible for singing popular songs to attract young viewers.

Gao Danyan performs opera to cater to elderly audiences.

Jiang Baobin also performs magic tricks (he's very good at this) and plays games.

While arousing the interest of the entire audience, its greatest function is to consume time.

So, there are still game segments these days?

Of course it can have that, but the kind of interactive elements found in later generations definitely won't be possible.

The audience in front of you doesn't even know how to clap and create an atmosphere. Isn't it pointless to interact with them?

Therefore, Jiang Baobin's game is simple and brutal: arm wrestling.

He accepted the challenge from the entire village, and the prize was his book "The Ugly Emperor of America," ten comic books, and two sausages.

That's very tempting.

Even so, the only people who challenged him were a few villagers who considered themselves strong.

After their failure, the shy villagers let it go.

Of course, they couldn't beat Jiang Baobin.

His current attributes are: "Intelligence: 36;"

"Five senses: 22;"

"Explosiveness: 27;"

Endurance: 26;

"Agility: 35;"

Total points: 146.

Both of his strength attributes are more than 2 times that of an ordinary person, so he can end a battle instantly if he wants to.

That would be a waste of time and wouldn't pique people's interest.

The people only want to watch when they're straining and putting in all their effort.

Of course, Jiang Baobin won't win everything, because that would make the audience think he was deliberately showing off.

Therefore, they will always lose one or two games, allowing the lucky winners to happily take their prizes home.

At the end of the performance, all the equipment and costumes were packed away.

It's just Jiang Baobin's solo performance left.

This program could be called a speech, or you could even say it's a storytelling performance.

He needs neither accompaniment nor anyone to sing along.

There was only a table, a chair, a gavel, and a folding fan.

The gavel is a common name; its formal name is "awakening wood" or "sounding wood".

However, some veteran artists prefer to call it "enlightenment".

It is meant to help people distinguish between good and evil, and prevent them from going down the wrong path.

That's just wishful thinking, of course. How many bad people can be persuaded to change?

Otherwise, what's the point of having prisons, right?

Those who can be persuaded are good people; they've just made a mistake and a little advice will bring them back to the right path.

The only thing to do when dealing with a truly bad person is to stay away from them; otherwise, it's all nonsense.

"Snap!" The gavel struck, and the fan was waved (to shoo away the mosquitoes).

With Jiang Baobin's current skill level, he could easily fool the rooster into crowing.

As for the content of the talk, it was all highbrow—stories from previous speaking tours.

Moreover, it can be expanded indefinitely; no wonder people say you can talk about it all night.

The content is absolutely positive: patriotism, love for the military, and love for the people!

If you really listened to Jiang Baobin, you wouldn't have gone astray.

His forte is public speaking; he can make the audience laugh and cry at the same time.

Like a puppet on a string, the emotional switches are all in Jiang Baobin's hands.

However, people these days are used to going to bed early (otherwise they'll be hungry), and their biological clocks are incredibly ingrained.

So no matter how brilliant his speech was, once nine o'clock, every listener would start yawning.

This is already more than an hour later than usual.

Jiang Baobin then ended his performance.

It's been a full four hours since 5 o'clock, that's quite a long time.

When he returned to the Zhou family home, he found three people waiting for him.

"What are you doing? Aren't you going to rest?"

Gao Danyan smiled and said, "I'm waiting for your late-night snack."

Jiang Baobin took a look and, sure enough, there was a wicker basket in the center of the table, covered with a cloth.

He lifted the lid and laughed – boiled sweet potatoes!

He handed one to each person: "Since no one is sleepy, let's have a debriefing meeting."

"There were still many shortcomings in the first performance —"

Gao Danyan immediately interjected, "Could you please stop throwing knives at me from now on?"

"Oh dear! If this keeps up, my heart can't take it!"

"Couldn't you have used a scarecrow or hung a gourd or something instead?"

Jiang Baobin smiled and asked in return, "What if you were a viewer?"

"Would you rather I have a beautiful woman as my target?"

"Is it more appealing to target a scarecrow?"

Gao Danyan was speechless. Wasn't the answer obvious?

Although Jiang Baobin praised her as a great beauty, Gao Danyan was very pleased.

But as a "veteran actor," a touch of affectation is necessary: ​​"But you can't keep messing with me like this, what if you accidentally do something wrong one day?"

Jiang Baobin patted his chest and assured her, while praising and encouraging her greatly.

In his words, Gao Danyan became the mainstay, an indispensable protagonist!

They're hoping to use her as a target to attract viewers, so they have to appease her.

Gao Danyan knew Jiang Baobin's tricks all too well, but she was already on the wrong path, so what could she do?

We can't go back to making cardboard boxes.

Life is so comfortable now, who would want to go back to being in a cage?

After reassuring one person, Jiang Baobin then praised Gao Yueyuan and Lao Gao lavishly.

Old Gao just laughed it off; they're all old foxes, no need for them to play the ghost story.

However, Xiao Gao blushed with excitement at the praise—this was the life she had always dreamed of.

She can sing freely and to her heart's content, with an audience listening, and the eyes that look at her are full of envy.

Because they stayed up late, most of the art troupe members slept in the next day.

This certainly does not include Jiang Baobin.

Before dawn, he went into the mountains with two old hunters he had arranged to meet.

The main task is to patrol for traps.

Forget about shooting prey with a gun; that requires an ambush.

Wild animals have incredibly sharp hearing.

At the slightest disturbance, they would have already fled.

The two old hunters quickly separated to check their respective traps.

This is the norm for hunting.

Another method was to raise hunting dogs for hunting.

When they left the mountain, they had a considerable haul: they had caught a pheasant and two wild rabbits.

After returning to the village, they skinned the animals, removed their internal organs, and cured them with salt.

Otherwise, it will smell bad in no time in this hot weather.

Each household contributed mountain products such as wood ear fungus and wild mushrooms.

As a token of gratitude to the art troupe.

At this moment, the other team members looked at Jiang Baobin and asked, "Isn't this free? Can we take it?"

Of course I'll accept it! This kind of reward, which is essentially a gift, is something that can't be controlled even when one is at the height of their fame.

This was exactly what Jiang Baobin had in mind, because he had already spread the word.

Apart from themselves, all of these actors are unemployed and only came out to perform because of their passion.

The people are kind-hearted; they felt that since they had seen such a wonderful performance...

It would be really unreasonable to let them go hungry.

That's how they managed to gather local specialties.

You have to understand that there are more than 30 households. Even if each household contributes just an ounce, that's still several pounds.

Besides, who would be so petty?

The cultural troupe members were overjoyed with their harvest.

If you take these into the city, you can exchange them for money!

They said goodbye, and the village provided a car to take them away.

The driver who took the car earlier had already left after paying for a meal and settling the bill; they couldn't afford to compensate them.

Actually, there was no need to send the art troupe too far; it was just a village near Zhoujiazhuang on the way back.

According to Jiang Baobin's plan, the performance would continue throughout the city.

Next time we go out, we'll take a different route.

So, apart from the transportation cost to and from the village, they ate and stayed there, and even took some local specialties with them when they left.

There were plenty of wild vegetables, fruits, and greens along the way.

In fact, unless it's in the suburbs, it's very difficult for people from the countryside to go out.

If no one comes to the countryside to buy the produce, it will just rot in the fields.

Therefore, Jiang Baobin limited each performance to no more than five shows.

To prevent the local specialties donated by the villagers from spoiling.

When they return to Nanluoguxiang, they can sell the goods to their neighbors, so everyone can benefit from the deal.

The actors were able to rest at home for more than a day, so they weren't too tired.

And so, according to Jiang Baobin's plan, the art troupe made a breakthrough.