However, Lang Ying was somewhat disheartened.
Although she didn't spend much money on setting up the factory herself, most of it was supported by the New Rural E-commerce Entrepreneurship Fund, but they didn't give her the money for nothing.
The project is audited every year. If the results are too bad, wouldn't it be a disgrace to their whole village?
“How about I open an account too, and film some videos of us picking mushrooms in the mountains? If they go viral, my account can sell some money, right?” Qingshan suggested.
"Can you manage all that? You're already exhausted from running back and forth every day. I'm the one who's dragging you down..." Lang Ying looked at him with guilt.
Qingshan was getting married for the first time. Logically, after the two got married, Langying should have given birth to a child for Qingshan as soon as possible. However, after the two got married, they were busy with the factory. Not to mention having a child, they could only have sex once in a long while because they were so busy.
Whether it was due to her age or the damage to her body from giving birth in the past, Lang Ying showed no signs of getting pregnant, which made her feel somewhat guilty towards Qing Shan.
Even though Qingshan said that they had only been married for less than half a year, there was absolutely no need to worry about not being able to have children.
“I’m not tired. I don’t have to run around the mountains with my master anymore. Every day I would just wait around in the village to collect mushrooms. I might as well make some videos to pass the time.”
After saying this, Qingshan went to find his "teacher's wife" Jiang Yu to learn how to make short videos.
A few days later, an account named "Runner Qingshan" appeared in the short video matrix of Langshan Village.
What angered Qingshan was that just as he was preparing to make great strides and build an empire for his beloved Yingzi, Lang Ying's live-streaming sales suddenly skyrocketed!
The story begins with the movie "The Road to Glory".
Since this ensemble film themed on rural revitalization suddenly became a hit during the Spring Festival, the entire crew, from A-list stars to unknown supporting actors, has benefited greatly, receiving numerous mainstream-themed resources.
Among them, the only one with a significant amount of screen time but still unknown in the entertainment industry is Lang Ying, an amateur who played herself.
The fans who were moved to tears by the character felt quite aggrieved.
Well, who would have thought that Lang Ying, an ordinary person who didn't even have a talent agency and had no intention of entering the industry, would be nominated for Best Supporting Actress at a film festival?
Even just a nomination, with no guarantee of winning, is enough to make a host of female celebrities in the entertainment industry green with envy...
Think about themselves. In order to break into the film industry and improve their status, they all started from supporting roles. Sometimes, in order to secure supporting roles from internationally renowned directors like Director Liang, they even had to spend money to hire people to write press releases, praise their acting skills, and hire online trolls to promote them across the entire internet.
Even after years of hard work, one might not necessarily land a memorable supporting role in a movie.
Lang Ying, an ordinary person from the countryside, was said to be a divorced woman, and her appearance was not what one would call beautiful. So why was she able to act in Director Liang's movie?
She was even nominated for Best Supporting Actress?! I'm so angry, waaaaah...
Putting aside the envy and jealousy of other actresses, the most direct benefit of Lang Ying, a complete outsider, being nominated for Best Supporting Actress is that her short video account, named "Langshan Yingzi Jie," has gained over three million followers in just a few days!
Its momentum of catching up from behind has left even the well-known fishing blogger Jiang Xiaoyu behind.
The netizens who followed were only curious at the moment, because among the Best Supporting Actress nominees at this year's film festival, only Lang Ying was a complete unknown.
So, whether they were fans of the opposing team or curious passersby, they all followed the account tagged by the film festival's official account and came to Lang Ying's account, wanting to see what this ordinary person looked like in her daily life.
Everyone thinks the same way. It's a poverty alleviation drama. For the sake of the plot, even if she is an absolute beauty, she still has to have her hair messy and her face ashen. If she has delicate eyebrows and eyes and her makeup is perfect, can she still be called a farmer?
Everyone thought that Lang Ying was at least a pretty girl, if not a great beauty, otherwise how could she have been chosen by the director to be an actress?
As it turns out, everyone really wronged Director Liang this time!
Upon entering the homepage, you're greeted by a rural woman wearing a floral apron, holding an old ceramic basin filled with oily wild mushroom sauce...
With a "gulp," the netizens who clicked in couldn't help but swallow hard.
This is definitely not lust after a beautiful woman.
It was not so much the wild mushroom sauce that captivated me.
The actress is just average-looking, but the sauce in her hand looks pretty good.
Lang Ying's homepage already features several videos, including those of picking mushrooms and bamboo shoots in the mountains and making wild mushroom sauce at home. Netizens clicked on them with a blank look, and before they knew it, they had watched several videos.
Then, my finger involuntarily clicked into the shopping cart window...
Many netizens only realized what was happening after placing their orders.
Wait a minute! Aren't they here to see the Best Supporting Actress nominees at the film festival?
Why did you order local specialties?
However, this wild mushroom sauce looks so delicious, and I didn't expect it to be so reasonably priced...
No, no! Aren't they here to dig up dirt on the Best Supporting Actress nominees?
Although the rural woman in the video seems quite honest and the products she's selling aren't counterfeit or substandard, what if the actual product is very different from the one in the video?
With a critical eye, the netizens who placed the orders patiently waited for the packages to arrive.
Since Jiang Xiaoman set up a courier station in the village, sending packages out of Langshan Village has become much faster than before. Many residents in the city can receive their packages the afternoon of the third day after placing their orders the night before.
Netizen "Zhuangzhuang Wants to Eat Meat" is a food review livestreamer. In the past two years, his favorite thing to do is to expose fake local specialties from various places, especially those that claim to be "authentic local specialties" but are actually shipped from fake food factories. He is almost always right, which has attracted a lot of traffic.
This time, he set his sights on Lang Ying.
The reasons are quite simple: First, Lang Ying herself claimed that she was selling local specialties; second, and most importantly, Lang Ying had just received a Best Supporting Actress nomination at a film festival.
A rural woman getting a film festival nomination is practically guaranteed to generate buzz and attention!
Besides, "Zhuangzhuang Wants to Eat Meat" knows all too well how to exploit loopholes in the rights protection of these kinds of streamers.
These livestreamers promoting local specialties generally have two fatal flaws: either they source directly from factories and act as middlemen to make a profit, in which case the product labels will give them away; or they actually produce the products in their own small workshops, which is even better. These products are usually unregistered or lack product testing reports.
Regardless of whether there are any health problems after eating it, you can report her for food safety issues as long as there is no test report!
However, to Zhuangzhuang's surprise and disappointment, the delivered package was nothing like the two scenarios he had imagined!
Because the wild mushroom sauce is packaged in glass bottles, in order to prevent damage during transportation, Jiang Xiaoman specially found the manufacturer that she used to sell custom glass bottles for wild honey to make glass bottles and foam outer packaging for Lang Ying.
Finally, what was delivered to the customer was a clean foam box wrapped in a sealed plastic layer, with an adhesive product label on it bearing the brand "Langshan Yingzi Sister's Secret Wild Mushroom Sauce".
"Hmph~ The outer packaging looks quite professional, could it be a OEM product?" Zhuangzhuang opened the foam box and took out two bottles of chili sauce.
As usual, check out the product label first in the unboxing video!
This look almost gave Zhuangzhuang another heart attack—
Is Sister Yingzi deliberately trying to sabotage his business?
Didn't we agree that it would be produced in a small rural workshop?
Why are the product information and test reports so complete?
Zhuangzhuang let out a heavy sigh and forced a satisfied smile at the camera that was filming: "It seems that Sister Yingzi's team is very legally conscious. All the test reports are complete. Now, let's taste the wild mushroom sauce inside and see how it tastes."
Zhuangzhuang firmly believes that this "Sister Langshan Yingzi" must have a team, and in fact, he is not wrong.
According to Jiang Xiaoman's plan, they originally intended to operate as a team. They even hired professionals to help them control product quality and brand operation. Although this required more money than starting a business independently, the actual cost, split among several teams, wasn't too high, and it avoided many legal risks—truly, "saving money is making money!"
Upon opening the wild mushroom sauce, the unique aroma of mushroom oil wafted out, causing Zhuangzhuang's smile to freeze for a moment, and he instantly wanted to turn off the camera that was being filmed.
Damn it~ This wild mushroom sauce smells so good, how bad can it taste?
He originally made this video to find fault. If he ate in front of the camera and looked even more satisfied than the streamer, then it wouldn't be finding fault, but rather promoting the product... which doesn't fit the image of his account!
However, since they've already filmed this far, and he's already given advance notice on his homepage, it wouldn't be right for him to suddenly stop filming. Besides, some haters might take the opportunity to mock him.
Thinking of this, Zhuangzhuang forced a smile at the camera: "I didn't expect it to smell so good. Let's try it and see if this Langshan specialty wild mushroom sauce is as delicious as Sister Yingzi said during her live stream."
As he spoke, Zhuangzhuang took out the steamed buns that the team had heated up.
I broke open the steamed bun, and following the way Lang Ying ate it during her live stream, I scooped out a large spoonful of wild mushroom sauce, spread it evenly in the middle of the bun, put the bun in between, and tentatively took a bite. Wow~ what kind of magical chili sauce is this?
It's so delicious!
Before the team could stop him, Zhuangzhuang devoured a steamed bun in one gulp. Before his brain could even process it, his hands had already grabbed a second steamed bun, expertly tore it open, spread sauce on it, and opened his mouth wide! He ate a third of the large steamed bun in one go!
Team Assistant: "..."
Dude, can't you at least be a little more reserved?
At this point in the filming, the entire video completely fell apart!
The assistant, in a fit of despair, also grabbed a steamed bun and joined the feasting group. Mmm~ this wild mushroom sauce is so damn delicious, I'll go buy a couple of bottles later!
Chapter 210
"Great news, everyone! Zhuangzhuang's attempt to eat meat went wrong! Go watch his latest video!"
In the past two days, the biggest joke in the food review community has been Zhuangzhuang's disastrous review of wild mushroom sauce.
Originally, I went there with the intention of finding fault and gaining some traffic, but I didn't expect that in such a poor and remote place as Langshan, a few young entrepreneurs in the village would actually be willing to spend money to make a test report for their products!
Even their product labels are more standardized than some so-called internet celebrity products.
This is practically leaving no room for product review bloggers like Zhuangzhuang to survive!
Well done!!!
Whether out of despair or envy of Lang Ying's current popularity, Zhuangzhuang actually edited up the embarrassing video and posted it online.
Well, that's it! True fans were dumbfounded, haters were overjoyed, and casual fans were successfully influenced by him and rushed to search for Lang Ying's online store, wanting to try it out to see if it was really as delicious as Zhuangzhuang said.
LOL! The online store has been sold out for ages...
The reason was unexpected by everyone.
Because the award-winning actor Jiang Yuan left the stage.
It's well known that male celebrities in the entertainment industry pay close attention to their diet in order to maintain their physique, and wild mushroom sauce, a great accompaniment to rice, would never appear on their tables.
However, that evening, Jiang Yuan, the award-winning actor who had been out of the public eye for almost two months, suddenly posted an update on his homepage—
Having probably just finished filming a night scene, Jiang Yuan, with his hair still tousled after a shower, wearing a simple T-shirt and pajama bottoms, sat at the dining table. In front of him was a plate of bland, boiled vegetables and a jar of chili sauce... Wait, has the movie star given up on dieting?
No.
Jiang Yuan picked up the chili sauce and gave the camera a typical, contented smile, like a loving father.
"When I went to Langshan to film 'The Road to Splendor,' I heard that Sister Yingzi wanted to earn money to support her two daughters' university education. I originally planned to sponsor her, but Sister Yingzi said she wanted to start her own small business to make money. Look! This is Sister Yingzi's small business, delicious wild mushroom sauce, a specialty of Langshan. Today, I'll give you a review..."
Good heavens! Even the brand owners couldn't help but bite their handkerchiefs and silently shed tears after seeing this.
They've poured tens of millions of dollars into it; even an award-winning actor wouldn't give such a gentle and soothing review of their product, right?
It's true that different people have different fates. This rural woman named Lang Ying is so lucky!
Actor Jiang Yuan personally promoted the products, and tens of millions of fans immediately went on a shopping spree at Lang Ying's online store!