Mr. Zhang sneered, "What can you do? Your behavior is a serious violation of the rules. The company has already decided to ban you. You can't sing and have no income. How can you pay back the more than 80 million?"
"You still have 11 years left on your contract with the company. Do you know what being banned for 11 years means? It means you will be permanently removed from the entertainment industry! There will be no place for you in the entertainment industry anymore! You are still young, are you really willing to be banned with a huge debt?"
Mr. Zhang advised him slowly, "You are a good candidate. As long as you are willing, I can help you mediate the ban and make you famous. You are still young, don't ruin your future. Go back and think about it carefully. You can come to me anytime when you have figured it out."
Lin Jiu: "Don't think about it, I don't want to."
Lin Jiu walked away, and Mr. Zhang's angry voice came from behind him, "Then you can expect to be banned forever! If you can't pay the money back within a month, I can put you in jail!"
Lin Jiu opened the door and went out, taking off his coat as he walked. When he saw a trash can, he stuffed his coat into it and left in his white shirt. When he looked up, he met the eyes of the person waiting by the elevator.
Lin Jiu: “…”
Lin Jiu didn't know how long Ling Chen had been standing there. He must have seen him throwing his clothes.
Ling Chen pressed the elevator button, Lin Jiu walked in, and Ling Chen followed him in.
Ling Chen didn't ask anything. He knew what kind of person Mr. Zhang was. He could hear a little about him in the company.
Neither of them spoke, watching the floor change.
When the elevator reached the fifth floor, Ling Chen spoke up, "Put on your hat and mask."
The news of Lin Jiu's return spread throughout the company in a short while, and everyone was gossiping about how he would be treated.
The girl at the front desk was a loud speaker. She shouted in the company group, "I am overwhelmed by Jiu Ge's stunning beauty." Then the word spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred. Even Ling Chen, who was hiding in the piano room, knew about Lin Jiu's visit to the company.
The elevator stopped at the first floor. Lin Jiu wanted to go down, but Ling Chen stopped him, "Go directly to the parking lot. I'll take you there."
Lin Jiu didn't look at him, "No, I can just take a taxi."
Ling Chen: "The news of your return may have spread. Be careful of radical haters."
Lin Jiu: “…”
I followed Ling Chen to the underground parking lot and got into his car.
"I'm sorry." Lin Jiu owed him an apology.
Ling Chen laughed, "No need to apologize, it's not your fault."
According to the news I found out last night, the group disbanded, and the only person who was not affected and instead rode the wind and tide was Duan Chengzhou.
Ling Chen has had almost no announcements in the past year, and Huo Wei was arranged to act in a fantasy online drama with poor special effects, a bad plot, and acting that was so embarrassing. Except for Huo Wei, the male and female protagonists in the drama are all newcomers, which is completely consuming Huo Wei's popularity.
"Avi has changed his agent. His current agent has a lot of newcomers and has limited resources, so there aren't many good ones."
Lin Jiu listened in silence, "What about you? What are your plans?"
Ling Chen smiled, "The biggest problem now is you. If you need anything, just ask."
Lin Jiu looked at the traffic outside the window and said, "Thank you. I will find a way myself."
He was discovered by a scout from Chuangxing at the age of 16 and signed with the company for 15 years.
The grandfather who adopted him had passed away at that time, and the house was taken away by his grandfather's son. He had no home and nowhere to go except school. He had no money to eat and relied on scholarships to go to school. Whenever he had some free time, he would go to bars to sing and work to support himself. It was under such circumstances that "Chuangxing" found him and wanted to sign him, offering salary during the training period and dormitory. Lin Jiu signed without hesitation.
His thoughts at that time were simple. As long as he had food to eat and books to read, he would be satisfied.
Even though he later discovered that the entertainment industry was not suitable for him, he still gritted his teeth and persevered. That contract was his indenture, and no matter how difficult it was, he would grit his teeth and persevere until the end of the contract.
Now he didn't want to persist. He didn't want to sell the only thing that belonged to him, his body, after losing his freedom. Rather than falling into such a dirty mire, he would rather go back to the Demon Sea and die alone there.
Being banned is actually a good thing for him.
Ling Chen sent Lin Jiu to the gate of the community and left.
Lin Jiu didn't have breakfast. It was almost noon and he was very hungry.
He let the system release the fish into the pond, and after a fierce battle with the ferocious silver carp, he finally succeeded in eating the silver carp.
This time, Lin Jiu ate the fish bone marrow, and the fish head and bones were recycled by the system, and he gained 1 magic point.
"System, can you conjure up money?"
Host, can I become a human
Lin Jiu: “…”
Lin Jiu's mind was now full of money, and the delicious silver fish meat no longer smelled good to him. He ate it with no appetite.
If you can’t finish the one-meter-long silver carp Lin Jiu eats, cut off all the fish meat, put the remaining fish meat in a fresh-keeping box, wrap it with plastic wrap, and refrigerate it for the next meal.
After closing the refrigerator door, Lin Jiu suddenly paused, turned around and opened the refrigerator again, took out the box of silver carp meat that he had just put in, and looking at the bright red fish meat, Lin Jiu had an idea.
He used his mobile phone to search for the best seafood restaurants in City A. Most of the star-rated ones were chain stores. The restaurants had many rules and regulations, and their purchasing channels were very fixed. They had very high requirements for the quality and origin of the seafood.
For those who go there to eat seafood, tasting the delicious food is secondary; improving the quality is the real purpose.
Lin Jiu’s fish are “illegal”, with unknown origins and species. Star-rated restaurants may not dare to take the risk to try them. It would be fine if they don’t buy them, but it would be troublesome if they mistook the fish for a new species and sent them for research.
Lin Jiu needed a restaurant with good quality and good taste. He had been eating seafood for so long and was very confident in the taste of Mohai Seafood.
Lin Jiu started searching in the foodie circle. This circle will never miss any good restaurant. They don’t care about the star rating or the size. As long as the food is delicious, it’s fine. Even if it’s a small sesame shop, as long as the taste is good, someone will recommend it.
After some searching, Lin Jiu successfully locked onto a store - Baigewan.
This store meets almost all of Lin Jiu's requirements: elegant environment, emphasis on taste, and it is a private store, the only one of its kind.
Judging from gossip in the foodie circle, the owner of "Bai Ge Wan" is a second-generation rich man who is not short of money. The boss himself is a senior foodie. He opened this store mainly to serve himself and only secondarily to make money. The ingredients entering the store are guaranteed to be fresh, and all the dishes served on the table must pass the boss's taste buds.
"Bai Ge Wan" has a very good reputation among foodies, and the owner is also quite weird, so Lin Jiu decided to choose this restaurant.
Pour some ice cubes out of the refrigerator, take an ice crusher, crush the ice cubes, and put them in a new storage container.
He took out the silver fish meat from the refrigerator, washed the knife and cutting board, cut the silver fish meat into small pieces of even thickness, and placed them neatly on the crushed ice, put toothpicks on them, sealed them with plastic wrap, and put them in an insulated box.
There are no vegetables or fruits at home, so I can’t arrange the dish, so I can only put the meat on it.
The grandfather who adopted Lin Jiu used to be a chef in a big hotel. Lin Jiu grew up with his grandfather and learned from him. His cooking skills are far superior to those of ordinary people.
Lin Jiu packed himself up and went out with his insulated box.
It was already past three in the afternoon when we took a taxi to "Bai Ge Wan". There were no customers in the restaurant at this time. The waiter was preparing dinner. Lin Jiu walked in carrying a thermos box.
The waiter noticed him and came over, "Hello sir, it's not dinner time yet, you can come after five o'clock."
Lin Jiu was wearing a hat and a mask, and his long black hair was very conspicuous. "Excuse me, I want to ask if your boss is in the store?"
The waiter couldn't see Lin Jiu's face, but he thought her voice was nice. "The boss usually comes over at dinner time. If you have something urgent, we can help you call the boss. If it's not urgent, you can also wait in the store."
Lin Jiu chose this spot because he didn't want to be seen by too many people. It was not appropriate to sell seafood of unknown origin in front of customers.
Lin Jiu thought for a moment and asked, "Is your chef here?"
At this time, the chef should be preparing ingredients for dinner.
The waiter was a little confused, "Excuse me, what can I do for the chef?"
"I caught a kind of sea fish that tastes very good. I wanted to ask your boss if he wants some. Since the boss is not here, it doesn't matter if the chef is here. I brought some fish meat over, and you can give it to the chef to try first." Lin Jiu raised the thermos box in his hand.
The waitress didn't expect that this man had such a good figure and was dressed so elegantly. She didn't expect that he was a marine fish salesman. They saw such salesmen every day. Under normal circumstances, they would not have good goods. Their boss was quite picky and would not accept any of these seafood that came from unknown places.
The waiter's tone was polite, but his words were blunt, "It's almost dinner time, and the chef is busy, so he may not have time to see you."
The glass door was pushed open, and a young man in a casual suit walked in quickly, with the car key hooked on his finger. He shouted as soon as he entered the door, "Lao Fang, is the seafood platter I ordered ready?"
"Alright, alright."
A middle-aged fat man in chef's uniform came out, holding a square take-away box in his hands, and handed it to the young man with both hands.
Jiang Ge took it and took a look, "Has the bluefin been released?"
Fang Qiankun smiled with a fat face, "Let it go, the best big fat one."
Jiang Ge said nothing more, picked up the takeaway box and turned to leave.
When passing by Lin Jiu and the waiter, he glanced at Lin Jiu, but didn't see her face, only her long black hair.
Jiang Ge stopped and asked, "What's wrong? What are you doing here?"
The waiter hurriedly bowed his head and called the boss, "This gentleman is here to sell sea fish, and I was just about to ask him to leave."
Jiang Ge asked casually, "What sea fish?"
He had already taken the first step, and it was obvious that he had little interest in sea fish.
Lin Jiu said hurriedly: "It's delicious silver fish."
Jiang Ge stopped again. For a foodie, the most unbearable thing is the three words "very delicious", and the second most unbearable thing is fish whose name he has never heard of.
"What fish?" Jiang Ge suspected that he had heard it wrong. It was a fish he had never heard of before.
"Silver croaker. I accidentally discovered this fish when I was sea fishing. Its scales look like silver. I couldn't find any similar fish on the Internet, so I gave it a name myself. The fish meat is very delicious. You can try it."
As Lin Jiu spoke, he quickly opened the thermal box he brought, took out the fresh-keeping box inside, peeled off the plastic wrap, handed over the toothpicks he had prepared in advance, and waited for Jiang Ge to try it.