Feng Yu was in the driver seat for the negotiations for the endorsent fees. Feng Yu had listed a few examples to show that these athletes’ fees should not be compared to the celebrities as not there were not a lot of people into sports.
But Feng Yu also knew that these athletes will be eting China’s top officials, making appearances on CCTV Spring Festival Gala Night and will receive international dia attention for their performances in competitions.
Feng Yu also decided to pay the athletes so filming allowances. The training ground cannot get a share of this allowance. He will not take advantage of these sportsn who had contributed so much to the country.
……
“Wang Junxia, your competition is around the corner. Where are you going?” Qu Yunxia asked.
“My nephew is having leg pains. The doctor says he has a calcium deficiency. I am going to visit him.” Wang Junxia replied.
“Get so Bing City Pharmaceutical Enterprise Calcium Gluconate oral solution for him. When kids are growing up, they need lots of calcium. My nephew is also taking this calcium supplent now. If kids do not get enough calcium, they will not grow tall.”
“Really? Is it costly? My salary is not a lot.”
“It is not expensive at all. If it is expensive, I will also not be able to afford it. This is a product from a reputable pharmaceutical company. Don’t worry.”
The cara zood out, and the screen changed to a bottle of dicine. There was a voiceover: Bing City’s dicine, Safe dicine!
……
A group of people was training on the tracks, and Liu Dong slowed down and went to the sides. Wang Junxia walked over and asked out of concern: “Liu Dong, what’s wrong?”
“Sis Wang, I caught a cold.”
“Cold? Take so cold dicine then. Bing City Pharmaceutical Enterprise’s cold dicine is very effective.” Wang Junxia took out a packet of cold dicine from her bag by the side and passed it to Liu Dong. “I also have this cold dicine with . I have also prepared this dicine for my parents.”
The cara zood out, and a box of cold dicine appeared in the foreground with a voiceover: Household backup cold dicine, Feel better without cold. Bing City’s dicine, Safe dicine!
……
“Coach Tian, what’s wrong with you?” A group of athletes crowded around Chief Tian, who was bending over clutching his stomach.
“I am having gastric problems. Don’t crowd around and carry on with your training.”
“Coach Tian, take two gastric pills, and the pain will be gone in a while. All of us had forgotten to take our als regularly due to our training and also have gastric problems. You should be like and keep this dicine in your bag along with you. Two pills and you will be fine.” Wang Junxia walked over with a box of dicine.
The cara zood out, and a box of gastric dicine appeared with a voiceover: Backup dication in your bag, Redy for gastric pains. Bing City’s dicine, Safe dicine!
……
“Eh, where are the 3 of you going?” Coach Tian was carrying a bag standing at the entrance of Wind and Rain Training Grounds.
“Coach Tian, we are taking this multi-vitamin pills and felt it is quite effective. We want to buy so for our parents.” The 3 athletes looked at the bag Coach Tian was carrying and laughingly asked: “Coach Tian, where are you going?”
“I had also bought this multi-vitamin pills for my nephew. Kids need vitamins when they are growing up. The 3 of you be back early. You still have training.”
The cara zood out, and a box of multi-vitamins appeared in the foreground with a voiceover: Multi-vitamin pills, supplent 12 types of vitamins. Bing City’s dicine, Safe dicine!
……
Feng Yu watched all these comrcials and showed a thumbs up to Baldy Chen: “Teacher Chen, your directing skills is aweso. I am delighted with these comrcials.”
Baldy Chen laughed: “What directing skills can you see from these comrcials. All I did was to control the timing of the filming. You are the one who thought of the story behind the comrcials. You are still paying so much.”
“Ai….. Teacher Chen, you deserve it. Oh, your movie was launched soti earlier, but I did not have the ti to watch it. How was it?”
This year, Baldy Chen and Zhao Lirong had fild a movie . Feng Yu rembered about this film from his previous life. He had watched this film on Movie channels and thought it was funny. But he heard that this movie had made losses because of market influences.
“Don’t ntion about it. Although the movie was screened, no one is buying tickets to watch it.” When ntioned about his movie, Baldy Chen was apparently upset.
“Teacher Chen, why didn’t you tell about this? Have you sold the VCD rights of the movie?”
“Ah? VCD rights? I have never sold such rights before.” Baldy Chen replied.
“Then sell it to . Na a price. I will not bargain with you.”
Baldy Chen did so ntal calculations on his losses from this movie and asked: “100,000 RMB?”
“No problem. In the future, I buy out all your VCD rights to your movies. Just na the price.” 100,0000 RMB. A VCD disc was selling for 10 RMB, and the cost of the disc was only 1 RMB. How many profits were there in this deal? If over 10,000 VCD discs were sold, Feng Yu would recover his cost. This VCD disc would surely sell more than 10,000 RMB. Furthermore, it would increase the variety of VCD in the market. Wind and Rain Electronics had been buying the rights to lots of movies.
With this 100,000 RMB, Baldy Chen will not make any losses. His film was the first movie that made money since 1990 and will be recorded in history. Baldy Chen was very grateful to Feng Yu and told him that he would direct Feng Yu’s future comrcials at half of his usual fees. He will not accept anything more!
Feng Yu thanked him profusely. 100,000 RMB could help Feng Yu save lots of money in the future……
Feng Yu had let Chief Tian, a few other coaches and all the athletes appeared in these comrcials. He had also paid all of them so appearance fees. Each of them got 5,000 RMB for starring in the ads and 5,000 RMB of allowances.
This amount belongs to them. All the coaches and athletes had never earned so much money before. This way, when Chief Tian and the rest knew that the athletes would be getting additional allowances from Feng Yu, they would not report to the higher-ups, and they would close one eye.
After Feng Yu issued the allowances to the athletes, he noticed all the athletes were excited and moved. All of them thanked Feng Yu continuously.
Feng Yu also looked at the athletes and said coolly: “I am doing this to thank for the contributions all of you have put in for our nation. I hope all of you would create miracles at this upcoming World Championships!”
Hmmm…. I am only able to recover all my investnts when all of you got good results.
After Feng Yu finish speaking, all the athletes swore to put in their best performance at the upcoming competitions and will not let Feng Yu down. Feng Yu was shocked. Don’t let down? Actually, there was no need for that. If during interviews, these athletes could……
Feng Yu waved those athletes over and told them sothing. All the athletes nodded and said that this was not a problem. There were even so who said it was their duties to do all these.
……
“Chief Cheng, help change the advertisents at these slots to these comrcials. You can check these comrcials now and give the approvals.” Feng Yu passed the comrcials films to Cheng Baojun.
“Manager Feng, you kept changing your comrcials. You are currently holding CCTV’s record of changing comrcials.”
Feng Yu glanced at Cheng Baojun: “That’s right. I am also holding the record of paying CCTV the most advertising fees all these years.”
“Hahaha. Manager Feng, you also own the most advertising slots.”
“Let’s stop talking about these. Hurry up and check the comrcials. I had made a reservation at Dong Lai restaurant in the evening. Ask your wife and kids along.”
“You are too generous. How can I let you do this>” Although Cheng Baojun said these, he imdiately picked up the phone to call his wife?
After watching the comrcials. Cheng Baojun lit a cigarette: “Manager Feng, is there any fake advertising in your comrcials?”
Feng Yu was the one who exposed all the fake health products and why would he make the sa mistake?
“Of course not. Every sentence in the comrcials is real. For example, all the athletes are taking our Calcium Gluconate, and when they say their nephews are taking them, their nephews are really taking them. When they say they are buying for their nephew, they are really buying for their nephew. Everything that was ntioned in the comrcials is real!”
All these dicines are approved dicines for the athletes. As long as they do not take in a large amount of these dicines, nothing will go wrong. Chief Tian really has gastric pains and was really taking Bing City Pharmaceutical Enterprise’s Gastric dication.
“Since you dare to say this, then it should not be a problem. Which slots are you changing and do you have any other requests?”
“No other request. Just change the advertisents based on the timings of the comrcials.” Feng Yu was changing advertisents of the priti slots he got from the fake health products.
……
“Eh, isn’t that the world champion Qu Yunxia? Athletes also will catch a cold?” A young woman tapped her husband.
“Huh? Athletes are also human. Why can’t they fall sick?”
“Should we also prepare a box of cold dicine at ho? The last ti I caught the flu, you had to bring to the hospital in the middle of the night, and you are scolded by your leader for being too tired at work the next day.”
“Ok. Tomorrow I will buy a box of cold dicine. Which brand should I get?”
“Just this brand will do. Even top athletes are taking this dicine.”
“Alright. Oh, what’s the na of the gastric pills?”
“Bing City Pharmaceutical Enterprise’s gastric pills.”
“Right. I should get a box of that gastric dicine. I can’t stand gastric pains.” The man said.
“Should we get a box of anti-inflammation dicine too? Also, you have been feeling tired recently. Could it be that you lack so nutrients?”
“You still want to take those health products?” The man looked at the woman.
“What health products? I am talking about the multi-vitamins pills that were advertised on TV. It contains 12 types of vitamins.”
“Is that a real product?” The man asked suspiciously.
“The box had printed they will compensate 10 tis the amount if the product was found to be fake. Furthermore, it is manufactured by Bing City Pharmaceutical Enterprise and claims to make safe dicine. It’s settled. I will help you buy a box of the vitamins tomorrow. You must eat it. Your work is so tiring, and you must take care of your health.” The woman said.
“Fine. Buy it then.”
……
“Honey, why did you buy so many dicines back?”
“What do you know? These dicines should be back up at ho. In case any of us fall sick, we do not need to go to the hospital. Sister Zhao next door had also bought these dicines. It is not expensive too. All these dicines cost less than 10 RMB and are manufactured by a reputable factory. Don’t worry.”
“Really? Then why didn’t you buy more? We can give it to our parents.”
“Do I still need you to tell that? I have already sent the dicines to them!”
……
“Madam Wang, why are you buying so many dicines?”
“To keep at ho. If I caught a cold or fever, I do not need to go to the hospital. You should also keep so at ho. Your kid often got cold.”
“Keep at ho? Fine. Tomorrow I will buy two boxes when I pass by the pharmacy.”
As ti passes, people start to stock up dications at ho, and Bing City Pharmaceutical Enterprise’s sales begin to rise.
Translator’s notes: Here is more information about Zhao Lirong (1927-2000).
sen.wikipedia/wiki/Zhao_Lirong
simdb/na/nm0955487/
Baldy Chen was ntioned many tis in this novel. His real na is Chen Peisi.
sen.wikipedia/wiki/Chen_Peisi
Erxiao's Mother/Filial Son and Filial Piety
simdb/title/tt0353017/?ref_=nm_knf_t4
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