...
However, the fans had lost interest in listening to him read the recipe.
Didn't they say you could enter a prize draw if you bought something?
We're going to Langshan Village!
Immediately! Hurry up! Let's have a lucky draw!
Jiang Xiaoman: "..."
"Okay, I'll film a cooking video for everyone another day when I have time, showing how to prepare these mountain delicacies. Once you receive the goods, if you don't know how to cook them, you can watch my video again. Now, let's start the giveaway..."
Jiang Xiaoman's house has only seven rooms upstairs, and he hasn't officially opened for business yet. To open a farmhouse restaurant, you need to get a business license, a health permit, fire safety permits, and so on before you can officially open for business.
Without these documents, he can't even register on some commonly used hotel booking apps. He can't exactly go live every day and urge people to book rooms at his place, can he?
Therefore, before all the necessary permits and licenses were obtained, he could only invite a small number of fans to experience it firsthand.
And it's the kind of service that can't be charged for.
Otherwise, it would be illegal business operations...
The seven trial stay spots were drawn quickly. Jiang Xiaoman sent private messages to the winning fans one by one and created a temporary group for them. Once the event time was set, information such as transportation routes, event arrangements, and precautions would be sent to this group.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he showed up in the group, a fan with the screen name "Divorce Made Me Rich Overnight" eagerly asked: "Brother Xiaoman, I am a fan of Jiang Cancan. Is Jiang Cancan's family on the itinerary? We fans would like to visit and comfort Grandma Jiang."
"Please, please! Please make some arrangements. If it's really impossible, could you spare half a day for us? We really want to go back and see Grandma Jiang and Yueyue on Can Can's behalf!"
you?
Jiang Xiaoman stared at the two words for a while, then couldn't help but ask, "I only sent out seven spots this time, how many did you guys actually draw?"
At this point, the fan immediately straightened his back.
Everyone says Jiang Cancan is the number one star in the entertainment industry in the past two years. But if you ask her, compared to the star herself, Jiang Cancan's fans are the real stars!
It's strange, but the fan group was originally set up to make it easier to support Jiang Cancan and generate various data. However, since joining this mysterious organization, everyone seems to have been embraced by Lady Luck, and the fan group has turned into a group for sharing good news.
Today, a fan said that an old friend who had been owing money and running away for more than ten years suddenly became rich. Not only did he pay back the money, but he also arranged an excellent job for the friend's son.
Tomorrow, another fan will say that she attended a friend's wedding banquet and each person's gift bag contained a lottery ticket. Unexpectedly, she won a grand prize of 300,000!
The day after tomorrow, another fan said she was secretly doing data for Jiang Cancan in the break room, but she was caught by the department manager who had been making things difficult for her. It turned out that the manager was also a die-hard fan of Cancan, and now she has been promoted to the manager's assistant, and her salary has increased by several thousand...
After regaining their senses, the fans couldn't help but sigh in the group chat that it seemed their luck had suddenly improved since they became fans of Jiang Cancan.
Jiang Xiaoman sold over 10,000 orders in one night. Even if some people placed multiple orders to increase their chances of winning, there were still several thousand people competing for these seven trial slots.
Unexpectedly, four of them are Jiang Cancan's fans!
This person's luck is truly unbelievable.
The rest of the group was also speechless, especially Jiang Xiaoman's fans.
On the one hand, they felt infuriated that Jiang Cancan's fans had come and taken their spots!
On the one hand, he felt that he was an adult and shouldn't stoop to the level of a young girl like Jiang Cancan's fan...
What no one knew was that among these seven people, there was actually a Wei Sheng fan lurking in the shadows.
She didn't know how she was chosen.
This is definitely not Versailles!
This female fan named Kong Feifei initially followed Jiang Xiaoman because of Wei Sheng.
But later she found that whenever she was exhausted from arguing with her idol's haters online, watching this "Rural Xiaoman Brother's" videos seemed to calm her soul instantly.
Over time, Jiang Xiaoman's video account became Kong Feifei's confessional and a safe haven. When she was furious with the haters, she would come to Jiang Xiaoman's channel to see the leisurely rural life and buy some local specialties from Xiaoman's hometown... Before she knew it, she had become a loyal customer of Jiang Xiaoman!
Kong Feifei comes from a well-off family. Her family owns two buildings in the capital of G province, a place where land is extremely valuable, and they collect rent from the rent.
It can be said that as long as she doesn't make the foolish mistake of learning from others to invest, manage finances, or start a business, she can live a life of comfort and security even if she doesn't work.
Even someone as wealthy as her wouldn't hesitate to snatch up the most expensive rock honey item from Xiaoman's store without batting an eye.
To be honest, Kong Feifei used to stay up late often, which caused her bad skin and frequent sore throats. But ever since she started drinking Jiang Xiaoman's rock honey, she feels that her skin has improved a lot. When Jiang Xiaoman was selling mountain products in her live stream, Kong Feifei thought, "Isn't this a perfect coincidence?"
It just so happens that relatives will be coming back for the Qingming Festival soon, so buying some local mountain products and specialties to take back is much better than buying alcohol and cigarettes. So she bought a whole bunch of things! She ordered several of almost every item that Jiang Xiaoman put on the shelves.
Because Jiang Xiaoman draws prizes based on order numbers, according to the rules, the more orders you buy, the higher your chances of winning... Kong Feifei's winning probably wasn't due to luck, but rather because she spent too much money on in-game purchases.
...
Jiang Xiaoman's live stream wasn't just watched by his fans; the Shan Yan family, town officials, the regional manager of the courier company, and even many young people from the surrounding villages who stayed in their hometowns for various reasons were all silently paying attention to every move in the live stream.
Seeing that every product Jiang Xiaoman listed sold out, she eventually stopped introducing the products altogether and just listed them directly. In less than two hours, she actually sold out tens of thousands of kilograms of mountain produce!
A group of people were so excited that they wished they could run to Langshan Village overnight.
Those who are close to him naturally want to throw him a celebration banquet.
Those who weren't very familiar with Jiang Xiaoman naturally wanted to take this opportunity to build a good relationship with him, and it would be even better if they could work with him...
Just as everyone was getting excited, Jiang Xiaoman's live stream was about to end.
Taking advantage of the large number of viewers in the live stream, he seized the opportunity to promote the "Old House, New Home" program.
"I have some good news to share with everyone. I'll soon have a new live streaming room, right next door."
"But as you all know, my family is not well-off. Last year, building a house emptied our savings, so we really don't have any extra money to build another house. We had planned to rent a cheap house in the village for the time being to use as a courier station."
"I was lucky; a friend helped me get signed up for a program on our provincial TV station called 'Old House to New Home,' which is a home renovation program about remodeling old houses."
"The house is all renovated now! Would you like to see what my new home looks like? It's 9:40 now. In 20 minutes, please tune in to J Province TV's 'Old House, New Home' program. Especially for the lucky fans who won the prize, you'll be able to see the guest rooms you'll be staying in a few days!"
very good!
This statement successfully stirred up resentment among the other unlucky people who didn't win the prize.
They really wanted to see what kind of decent guest rooms could be built on top of this courier station!
...
What Jiang Xiaoman didn't know was that at the same time, in order to ride on his popularity as a million-follower influencer, the official Weibo account of J Province TV actually released a one-minute-plus program trailer for the niche program "Old House Gets a New Home".
It is evident that Ms. An Miaomiao, the head of the program team, has mastered the secrets of modern internet traffic.
The cover features a close-up of Jiang Yu catching the camera with one hand and smiling gently at the lens.
Those who stumbled upon this cover image were stunned for a moment, and their hearts immediately began to pound.
Is there a young, handsome guy here?!
Before my mind could even process it, my fingers, so focused on aesthetics, had already honestly clicked into the video.
Ms. An did not disappoint the (appearance-obsessed) netizens. It's unclear how she managed to threaten the production team, but they somehow managed to edit a home improvement program into a popular rural slow-paced lifestyle segment.
In the short one-and-a-half-minute trailer, viewers saw the misty Langshan Mountain that looked like a fairyland. In the leisurely days of sunrise and sunset, Jiang Xiaoman and his friends went into the mountains to harvest honey and went down to the river to fish. Even though they lived in a dilapidated old house and wore clothes that were not very clean, their young and handsome faces were full of vigor and hope and fighting spirit for the future!
This trailer went viral almost overnight because of its high proportion of young, attractive male celebrities!
The video easily garnered over ten million views, like a hermit monk who, with a single move, completely crushed the trailer for the Spring Festival Gala, which the provincial TV station had spent a fortune on at the beginning of the year.
The leaders of J Province TV station were practically grinning from ear to ear.
Netizens initially clicked in with the intention of admiring the visuals, because the trailer featured an abundance of handsome young men, and what's more, it included all types of good-looking guys!
If you're looking for a tough guy with eight-pack abs, Brother Shanyan's physique is sure to make anyone with that kind of taste drool.
If you want to see a handsome man with exquisite features in traditional Chinese style, Jiang Yu's every smile and frown can make many "online tyrants" wish they could send a million troops to add such a handsome man to their harem.
There's also the friendly and warm-hearted Jiang Xiaoman, the sunny boy A Hu, the handsome big-eyed Qing Shan... The quality is amazing! If you didn't know better, you'd think this was an idol talent show.
At this point, netizens couldn't help but exit the video and go back to carefully watch the program preview. Sure enough, the program was indeed called "Old House to New Home," which is obviously a home renovation program that has long been overused.
If it were any other similar program, unless the production team could invite the designers of the Bird's Nest and Water Cube, viewers might be willing to lower themselves to watch it.
As for those designers who claim to be from foreign design institutes, those outside the industry wouldn't even have the desire to turn on the TV!
After all, televisions these days are not like they used to be. In the past, you could simply turn on a television and change the channel; now, you have to turn it on, find several remote controls, and then locate the channel changer.
You think that's the end of it?
Hilarious! Some people don't even know when their cable TV was cut off due to unpaid bills, so they can't watch anything!
The TV station probably knows that fewer people are using cable TV these days, so in order to boost the show's ratings, the official trailer also includes a link to watch the show on the TV station's official website.
The netizens nodded in satisfaction, thinking that this little-known TV station was quite considerate, as it even knew to provide a web link for its viewers. They figured it was about time to go and take a look.
Chapter 160
Just as netizens were clicking on the viewing link for the sake of the handsome men Shan Yan and Jiang Yu, Jiang Cancan, far away in City B, also obediently sat in front of the TV and asked her assistant to switch to the J Province TV station for her.
After thinking for a moment, the girl took out her phone again, snapped a picture of the opening sequence of "Old House Gets a New Home," and posted it on her personal Weibo.
Jiang Cancan's Weibo account was created for her by her agent after she signed the contract. Zhou Mingxing is really good at playing the "idol-raising" game. The account is usually maintained by her staff. If fans ask, they just say that Cancan can't bring her phone to school.
Even when Jiang Cancan was busy with classes and recording shows on weekends and holidays, Zhou Mingxing insisted that she post at least one update every day. Sometimes it was a selfie before her vocal class, and sometimes it was a photo taken by her teacher while she was practicing her posture.
In short, we must create a high-quality idol image of hard work and dedication for our fans!
Because of this, many of her contemporaries gradually disappeared after the competition. However, under Zhou Mingxing's guidance, Jiang Cancan's career has steadily progressed, and she now has more than seven million followers on her personal account.
What's enviable is that many of these fans had never used Weibo before, but downloaded it specifically for Jiang Cancan, just so they could see their daughter's daily struggles in the entertainment industry...
Today happens to be the weekend, and fans were excitedly refreshing the page, knowing Jiang Cancan would be online and updating her daily life every weekend. Suddenly, they came across a fresh new post—
"I'm a little homesick. I heard that the J Province TV program 'Old House, New Home' is filming in our village tonight at 10 pm. If you want to know what my hometown is like, click here to see it."
Jiang Cancan directly forwarded the program team's Weibo post, which contained a link to watch the online video. The program had just started when she forwarded it, and many fans who saw it immediately were curious when they heard that the program was filmed in Cancan's hometown, so they couldn't help but click on it.
If we go in through this point, it'll be incredible!
I originally thought that Can Can's hometown must be a poor and dilapidated remote mountain village like the one shown on the show, but the Langshan Village shown on the show, although the houses are indeed very dilapidated and the clothes worn by the villagers are not very good, the scenery is really healing!
Many of Jiang Cancan's fans are over thirty years old, especially those who used to live in the countryside. Seeing this familiar scene is like a dream come true, bringing back memories of their childhood and making them feel instantly warm and fuzzy inside.
If older fans watch this show for a nostalgic trip down memory lane, then younger fans are simply drawn to the dazzling array of handsome men on the show.
Well, even though their true love is Jiang Cancan, it doesn't stop everyone from admiring the handsome guy!
Moreover, after seeing so many stunningly beautiful faces meticulously crafted by stylists in the entertainment industry, it's like someone who's used to eating delicacies suddenly drinking a bowl of millet porridge and instantly feeling that the millet porridge is a million times tastier than the bird's nest porridge they usually eat, right?