Entertainment: Starting with a Song of Rice Fragrance

At her sister's instigation.

With some skepticism, Zheng Ning registered an account on Feixing Music Network and uploaded the acoustic guitar version of "Rice Fragrance" that he had just recorded.

"Alright, now all we have to do is wait."

Zheng Jingjing nodded in satisfaction, picked up her phone, went to the page of the new song, and skillfully clicked the listen button.

"On this website, you can listen to each song twice and then decide whether to pay to buy it. Each song costs 5 yuan."

"Oh? Five yuan for a song? That's expensive?"

"It's a new thing after all. It'll probably get even cheaper as telecom rates go down. Okay, enough talk, bro, let's hear your masterpiece!"

Zheng Ning's singing came from her sister's phone receiver, and both of them tensed up and listened intently.

"Hey, you know what, it really does feel like listening to a celebrity's song!"

Zheng Jingjing gave her brother a thumbs up.

"I hope so... I wonder when someone will actually download it."

"Now is the time, look!"

Without hesitation, Zheng Jingjing clicked the "Paid Download" button, then quickly entered her password to complete the purchase.

"Hehe, now I'm your first paying listener, how are you going to thank me?"

"Um... those three sausages are on me."

Zheng Ning was infected by her sister's actions and her optimistic personality. Her mood, which had been full of anger from the noise upstairs last night, gradually became cheerful.

He was about to say something more to his sister when suddenly there was a loud knocking on the living room door.

"Who is it?"

He opened the bedroom door and peeked in to ask.

"It's me, your brother Kai! Ningzi, open the door!"

It's Zhu Kai. What's up with this kid? Didn't he just come here yesterday?

Zheng Ning walked through the living room with suspicion and opened the front door, only to see Zhu Kai standing at the door carrying a large pile of boxes.

"What are you waiting for? Hurry up and answer it!"

As he spoke, he handed the box in his hand forward.

"Oh? A Mayaha portable speaker? What are you trying to do?"

As Zheng Ning took the heavy box, he asked in bewilderment.

"What else could it be? To help you build your reputation! Oh, Xiaojing, hello, don't you have class today?"

Zhu Kai entered the room as if he were a familiar face, slammed the door shut, and greeted Zheng Jingjing with a smile as she walked towards him.

"Kai, what are you doing? Portable speaker, microphone stand, microphone, and even a lighting ring... Oh, I know, you're making my brother perform on the street!"

As expected of a top student from West Continental University, Zheng Jingjing knew what Zhu Kai was planning as soon as she saw the props.

"You have to admit Jingjing is smart. Look at your brother, he's as dumb as a wooden stake!"

Zhu Kai carefully placed a large pile of boxes on the living room floor, then put his hands on his hips, took a long breath, and praised them.

"You're clever, but why did you carry such a huge pile of stuff upstairs? You could have just called us from downstairs!"

Zheng Ning retorted sarcastically, "Who's like a wooden stake? It's just that I've never been there before."

"Hey...you have a point?"

Zhu Kai was stunned. The soreness from carrying the heavy things upstairs suddenly struck him, as if the pain had intensified.

In this round of our usual banter with my best friend, Zheng Ning wins.

"hey-hey……"

The little girl smiled smugly and hurriedly went to open the box.

"No, don't open it! I went through so much trouble to pack it up, and I borrowed it from several classmates. I spent all night on it!"

Zhu Kai quickly waved to stop him, then gestured with his chin towards Zheng Ning.

"What's up, Ningzi? Have you had breakfast yet?"

"not yet……"

"If you haven't eaten yet, hurry up! We'll set up a stall on the busiest pedestrian street later so you can practice and maybe even gain some followers!"

"Gain followers? Oh, right! Didn't the system just give me a task that requires reputation points? It even said there were some kind of rewards..."

Zheng Ning, who was initially a little shy and reluctant to show her face in public, immediately nodded and rushed to the kitchen, where her mother had left breakfast before leaving for work that morning.

After quickly and efficiently finishing a carton of milk, three steamed buns, and two eggs, the three of them loaded the large pile of boxes onto the tricycle they used for delivering goods and set off.

"Where to?"

"Let me think...where are the most people around here...oh, I've got it, let's go!"

Before long, the three of them arrived at the beginning of Chundong Road Pedestrian Street, the largest pedestrian street in the vicinity.

Because neither motor vehicles nor non-motor vehicles are allowed to enter, the three of them struggled to carry the boxes all the way until they stopped under a large banyan tree with a stone wall about half a person's height.

"This is fine, I really can't walk any further."

Zheng Jingjing stopped to catch her breath, her beautiful face glistening with beads of sweat illuminated by the morning sun.

"Okay, let's go here then. There's a vacant lot here."

Zheng Ning and Zhu Kai nodded in agreement.

After a flurry of activity, a simple live-streaming booth was set up.

"Hey, look! There's someone busking over there!"

Keen-eyed tourists spotted this spot, and from time to time, groups of tourists began to gather in this direction.

"Eh..."

As more and more people gathered around, Zheng Ning felt a little apprehensive.

Despite his quick wit, he is also a top student in science and engineering.

But the person he faced most alone in his life was someone who read aloud one of his better essays in class.

Moreover, those were all acquaintances; how could one have faced so many unfamiliar faces all at once?

"Don't worry, bro, we'll tie you up from behind!"

Zheng Jingjing put her hand on the other person's shoulder and patted it hard.

"Yeah, what are you afraid of? With me here, I'll make sure you don't have an awkward silence!"

"Is it that I'm afraid of awkward silences? I'm afraid of creating a lively atmosphere, okay...?"

Zheng Ning was somewhat speechless, her hand trembling slightly as she held the wireless microphone, but she eventually calmed herself down after taking a few deep breaths.

"After all, everything is difficult at the beginning."

He comforted himself quietly like this.

"Then the middle is difficult, and then the ending is difficult."

This is Zheng Jingjing's voice.

"Xiaojing, stop upseting your brother. Look how nervous he is! His forehead is so hot you could fry an egg on it, hahaha!"

"Pfft..."

Amused by these two clowns, Zheng Ning couldn't help but laugh out loud, and her tense mood finally eased a bit.

"Alright, let's begin! Look, more and more people are gathering around!"

Zhu Kai, this social terrorist, seemed oblivious to embarrassment. He simply put one arm around Zheng Ning's shoulder, held a microphone in the other, and shouted to the crowd:

Good morning, everyone! Welcome to Chundong Road! We have a new program today, so you're in luck!

"Snapped!"

Zheng Ning slapped her face, her toes practically digging out of the floor in embarrassment.

How can this guy be so arrogant? Doesn't he even have the feeling of "embarrassment" in his head?