Chapter 22 The First Farmhouse Meal
This golden finger is obviously not a human being and has bound one person after another for the so-called "performance".
This time, they didn’t give people the opportunity to choose a positive label, and used substances to induce the little girl to label people negatively.
Probably because Xue Qi refused the binding of Gold Finger 001, Gold Finger held a grudge against her and made her a candidate for the third vicious female supporting role.
Xue Qi took a deep breath.
Fortunately, the little girl still had a conscience and was not bewitched by Golden Finger 001 and marked her.
However, since she already knew that Yu Niannian had been bound by Golden Finger 001, she could not stand idly by.
Happy Food can help the villain awaken, but whether it can help the bound protagonist awaken is unknown.
Zhu Youwei and Liu Ruyu both ate her food, but they did not awaken.
After Zhu Youwei ate her food, the remaining depression and negative emotions bound to the golden finger system were cleared away, and he returned to a positive life. He reconciled with himself and gave up suicide.
But Liu Ruyu ate her food, but it had no effect at all, and the Happy Walnut Cookies tasted bitter.
No matter what, Xue Qi still wanted to give it a try and let Yu Niannian taste her happy food.
Maybe there will be another effect?
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Because he slept too late, Xue Qi did not accompany Qin Tiantian for a morning run.
When she got up, the little girl had already finished the ten-kilometer run and breakfast was prepared for her.
Hot milk, eggs and frozen cuttlefish dumplings lie neatly in the electric steamer, emitting fragrance in the steaming mist.
Xue Qi hurriedly ate breakfast and went to work, starting a busy day.
Cook for guests and take videos.
Since the amount of material required for the competition video was extremely large, Xue Qi had almost no free time to rest. When he had free time, he would watch the filmed clips with Xiaowen and discuss how to edit them later.
After receiving the last guest in the evening, Xue Qi planned to work the early shift.
After the shop assistants had all gone off work, Xue Qi called Cheng Kai and asked him about Yu Niannian.
Cheng Kai said, "Oh, Yu Niannian, I know. She's the girl who made the special entry into the competition with you in the resurrection channel. This girl has been making videos for a year, filming food videos in the mountain village, but she's never been very popular, with less than a hundred likes and comments on her videos. She recently became famous for a video of herself making a rural New Year's Eve dinner.
This girl's videos are very down-to-earth and full of the flavor of everyday life. Netizens say that watching her videos is like seeing themselves as children. So many people like her. Of course, she only had that one video that went viral, and it just happened to hit the polls. I don't think you need to worry about her. There are so many streamers like her who suddenly become viral with one video every year! Her traffic will gradually decline, and she won't be a match for you.
After Xue Qi heard what he said, she said, "Please do me a favor and help me investigate this girl's family situation."
Cheng Kai didn't quite understand: "Why are you investigating her? It's pointless to focus your energy on someone who can't be your opponent at all."
Xue Qi asked back, "What do you think about signing her to our company? I checked her Douyin account. Although only one video has gone viral, it shows that she still has the potential to become popular. Her cooking is very down-to-earth, which I like very much. She is also very pretty, and I quite like her."
As a partner and agent, Cheng Kai directly refused: "Sister Seven, our company's current scale is actually not able to support others. We can only fight for resources for you alone. Moreover, as your partner, I don't agree. Because there are too many people like her, it is not sustainable and has no commercial value."
Xue Qi was silent for a moment and then said, "Then how about this? Please help me investigate her. I'll pay for the investigation myself."
Seeing her insistence, Cheng Kai agreed: "Okay, I'll find someone to help you investigate. Don't overthink it, just prepare for the competition."
Xue Qi nodded and said "hmm".
Soon, she received Yu Niannian's information.
Yu Niannian now has her own agency team. She dropped out of school after graduating from junior high school. To support her family, she had no choice but to go to coastal areas to work as a cook in a factory.
Less than half a year later, her father asked her to go home on the pretext of illness, but in fact he had found a partner for her.
Her father "sold" her to the other family for a betrothal gift of 880,000 yuan.
The man has reached the age for marriage, but Yu Niannian is still a minor and is temporarily living in her parents' home.
Before getting married, Yu Niannian could not leave the mountain village. Fortunately, when she was working in the coastal area, she earned enough money to buy a smartphone and started shooting short videos of her cooking.
Originally, I was just filming for fun, but I didn't expect to be discovered by an agency team and tricked into signing a contract.
The agency team is responsible for filming and pays her 10,000 yuan a month.
However, the ten thousand yuan never reached her hands, as most of it was taken away by her parents and younger brother.
Yu Niannian entered the competition, and that video went viral, not to mention the income from subsequent live broadcasts, earned hundreds of thousands in tips alone.
But the little girl has none of these, as they were all sucked away by the agency.
There are many people in the world who need help. If we try to help them one by one, we will definitely be too busy to do everything.
But Xue Qi felt that it was fate that he met this girl by chance. Moreover, this matter was also related to himself. She was a marked candidate, so he had to find a way to help her no matter what.
The little girl lives in a poor mountain village in the south, far away from Yanjing, one in the south and the other in the north.
Recently, Xue Qi has been unable to get away, so he can only think of another way to contact Yu Niannian.
Xue Qi remembered that he had received a reward of one million yuan. He looked at his account balance, gritted his teeth, and sent a private message to Yu Niannian on Weibo.
Yu Niannian doesn’t have many followers on Weibo, only about 3,000, and she posts a lot of seemingly sad topics, making it look like a private account.
Xue Qi sent her a private message, expressing his love for the food and sharing some of his views on food with the girl. He even said that he was willing to buy 100 kilograms of bacon and hoped that the girl would add him as a friend.
Three days later, Yu Niannian replied to her, saying:
"One hundred kilograms of bacon is fine...but can you do me a favor?"
[Nian Nian You Yu's fan number 7]: "Sure, go ahead."
Yu Niannian: "Well, I'm currently selling bacon through my livestream and other channels, but I'm selling it on behalf of third parties. When it comes to me, I don't actually have much money left. I'd like to sell it to you under my own name, but I can't sell you 100 kilograms at once in a short period of time. Can I mail it to you in batches?"
Xue Qi directly called capital a blood-sucking beast!
It seems that all the money Yu Niannian earned from selling bacon during the live broadcast was taken away by the agency!
The key point is that Xue Qi cannot secretly report Yu Niannian's agency. After all, Yu Niannian is already 16 years old and has a guardian, so the other company is not considered to be employing child labor.
[Nian Nian You Yu's fan number 7]: "Okay, no problem! I'll pay you first, and you can send it to me later if it's convenient for you. I'm the only one in my family, and I can't finish even a hundred pounds of bacon at once."
Yu Niannian sent a tongue-out emoji: "Thank you! Then let's add WeChat... But my WeChat is not the one I usually use. If you're afraid I'm a scammer, forget it..._(:3」∠)_"
Niannianyouyu's fan number 7: "Well, for safety's sake, after adding WeChat, could you start a video call? Let me confirm it's you?"
Xue Qi is very cautious.
The first is to prevent account theft and the other party is really a scammer.
The second is to prevent her from having family members around her.
After the two added each other on WeChat, Yu Niannian started a video call, but her background was a place like a graveyard or a bamboo forest.
The little girl was as thin as she was in the live video. She whispered, "Sister, is it ok? I have to go home quickly. I can't stay outside for too long."
Xue Qi didn't open the video call or speak, but texted her, "Okay, thank you, little sister."
Then, he transferred 100,000 yuan to the girl.
Yu Niannian: "Sister, you transferred too much money. Bacon is not that expensive."
Niannianyouyu's fan number 7: "I'm your fan, and the remaining money is my tip for you. I know if I tip the live streaming platform, there won't be much left for you. I won't be fooled by the live streaming platform, so I'll tip you directly without giving the platform a share. Perfect, isn't it?"
Yu Niannian was stunned and counted the balance in disbelief.
Xue Qi thought the girl would accept the "reward", but unexpectedly, after about ten minutes, the other party deducted the money for the bacon and returned the rest of the money to her.
Yu Niannian: "Sister, I can't accept this money, it's really too much. Where are you from? If I have the chance in the future, I will definitely go to your city to see you, and we can meet in person!"
Meeting in person?
This word is fresh.
Xue Qi searched online and found out what a face-to-face meeting meant.
Xue Qi immediately said, "Great, great! I'm looking forward to meeting my little chef! Watching your food videos is so healing. Your videos give me strength, and I love it. Keep going! The power of your videos has helped me get through a period of lows and setbacks. If you have any difficulties in life, please let me know!"
Yu Niannian was stunned.
I never thought that my video could give such great power to a stranger.
At first, she made videos just to heal herself, but she didn't expect that her videos could also help heal others.
This made Yu Niannian feel that her existence was very valuable, and not as bad as her parents, brother, and agent said.
It turns out she is so amazing!
The affirmation Xue Qi gave her from these words made her feel very accomplished.
The girl was relatively simple, and after a few interactions, she became "good friends" with Xue Qi. She would chat with Xue Qi at a fixed time every day.
But the little girl didn't talk about her family affairs, as if it was a scar on her heart.
Xue Qi asked her if she had any wishes?
Yu Niannian: "I want to go back to high school, sister. Let me tell you, I'm actually very good. I was the only one in our village who was admitted to the county high school, but I couldn't go. It's quite a pity."
[Nian Nian You Yu's fan number 7]: "Niannian, let me ask you a question. If you were given a chance to change your life, but at the expense of someone else's happiness, would you be willing? I'm just giving you an analogy. This is a desire test I saw online, and I'd really like to know what you think."
There was silence on the other end.
After about half an hour, Yu Niannian said, "If I had to choose, I might waver. Because I really want to change my life... My desire is scary, even I find it scary..."
Gold Finger 001 has been bound to her for a long time. It appears at a specific time almost every day and asks her the same question over and over again.
She really wanted to use the golden finger to mark "Xue 77" and plunder his 30 million.
But she put herself in the other person's shoes and thought, how desperate would her life be if her beautiful things were taken away from her?
So she never used Golden Finger 001.
[Nian Nian You Yu's fan number 7]: "Niannian, you have great potential and are a good girl. People are motivated only when they have desires! I have desires too, I want to make a little bit of money. You have a desire to learn, so find a way to go back to school and find a way to break through your current predicament. Tell me what difficulties you have and let me help you, okay?"
Yu Niannian: "Sister, you are so kind! I——"
However, Yu Niannian was halfway through her reply when the following words were interrupted.
Xue Qi waited for several hours but did not receive a reply from Yu Niannian. If she hadn't seen her still on the live broadcast, she might have suspected that something had happened to the girl.
From the live broadcast, Xue Qi saw the red marks on Yu Niannian's arm, which were obviously not injuries from working.
It just so happened that all the video materials for the first episode of the competition had been shot, and Qin Tiantian also happened to go to Yanjing City for collective training at school, preparing to participate in the provincial team selection, and would be away from home for a while.
Xue Qi decided to go to Guishan in southern Shu.
Cao Yue heard from Qin Tiantian that Xue Qi was going to Guishan in southern Shunan, so he immediately called her on WeChat: "Sister Qi, I heard from Tiantian that you are going to Guishan? What a coincidence, my uncle is going too!"
Xue Qi exclaimed, "What a coincidence! What is he doing in Guishan?"
Cao Yue: "Ah, it's not easy to work in middle age. Look, he was transferred to the deep mountains for an inspection. Sister 77, you said my uncle is not bad looking, why is he still single? Isn't it because he is poor... Nowadays, girls all require men to have cars and houses, but my uncle doesn't even have a house in his name, so no one would date him. It's really pitiful! He wants to find a partner, but no one respects him. In this society, does not having a house mean you have no right to choose your spouse? Alas..."
Cao Yue's words hinted at Xue Qi: My uncle is single! Sister 77! Look at my uncle!
But Xue Qi didn't get the meaning at all. After thinking carefully, she said, "Ah, that must be your uncle's problem. It has nothing to do with the girl. If you can't find a partner, you must first think about yourself, and don't always look for the reasons in the girl. Your uncle is not good at this."
Cao Yue: "...No, Sister 77, you misunderstood. My uncle didn't blame the girl for not being able to find a partner... He respects-"
Xue Qi interrupted him: "Cao Yue, you must not learn from your uncle! He's not bad looking, and if he's single, then he must have some other problem. You should study hard!"
Cao Yue: "...It's not that my uncle isn't picky, Sister 77. There's nothing wrong with him."
Xue Qi: "From what you've described, it seems like he has a serious problem. You should stop looking at your uncle through a filter."
Cao Yue: “…”
Guishan is a very deep mountain with a scientific research base inside. Its main research directions are radar phase detectors and friend-or-foe identification devices.
Cao Feng is a scientific researcher who not only supports the "civil-military integration" policy and collaborates with the government on military-related projects, but his company is also a major domestic technology company. Fengkai, a technology company, has also recently ventured into new infrastructure sectors such as real estate and finance.
At that time, Cao Feng was kidnapped abroad for three years because he had scientific research results that were related to the lifeblood of China. He was later rescued by the country.
No one knows what he experienced abroad. The root of his anorexia was also laid at that time.
It was also because of this incident that all information about Cao Feng was erased from the Internet.
The CEO of Fengkai Group who can be found on the Internet is Tang Xiong, the current assistant and bodyguard of Cao Feng.
However, Tang Xiong also kept a low profile. Fengkai Group was the only existing private enterprise that was both low-key and large-scale. If it were to appear on trending searches, it would definitely be removed. Fengkai Group would never appear in the entertainment industry.
This time Cao Feng went to Guishan to keep an eye on an important project.
A few days later, on a plane to Shunan, Xue Qi met Cao Feng in the business class.
This was the second time she met Cao Feng in business class. Combined with Cao Yue's description, her impression of Cao Feng became worse.
As a waiter, Cao Feng is indeed good, impeccable and hardworking.
But as a blind date partner, Xue Qi put herself in his shoes and felt that this man was not very good.
Cao Feng's own salary was just an average income level, but he relied on Xiao Cao Yue's ability to make money to live a luxurious and wasteful life. This made Xue Qi feel that this man was a bit of a spendthrift, no wonder he was single.
After all, it’s not easy for Xiao Caoyue to make some money, and he’s still a minor!
Cao Feng noticed Xue Qi and greeted her: "Boss Xue, what a coincidence."
Xue Qi: "What a coincidence, Uncle Cao Yue. I heard from little Cao Yue that you would go back to the mountains. I didn't expect that we would be on the same flight."
Tang Xiong put his luggage away and found a seat, only to discover that his seat was next to Xue Qi.
He greeted Xue Qi and tactfully asked Cao Feng, "Manager Cao...how about we switch seats?"
Cao Feng nodded and switched places with Tang Xiong.
Although he no longer works at the Happy Food Store, Tang Xiong goes there every day to buy food and pack it for him.
Sometimes when he couldn’t get a table at Xingfu Food Store, Cao Feng would play Xue Qi’s videos over and over again to go with his meals.
Xue Qi’s food videos really have the effect of curing appetite. Every time he watches them, he feels very comfortable.
The two of them were already very familiar with each other. Cao Feng didn't bother to be polite with her and asked her directly: "Your trip to Guishan this time doesn't seem like a trip. Do you have any work arrangements?"
Xue Qi thought that Cao Feng was on a business trip to Guishan, which was a big mountain after all, relatively isolated from the outside world. It would be relatively safe for him to tell Cao Feng about this.
She briefly explained Yu Niannian's situation, saying, "I'm a fan of that girl and had some contact with her. Ever since she 'disappeared,' I've felt more and more that something's not right. Every time she goes live, I can see from her eyes that she's in pain. I'm worried something might have happened to her, so I came to see her while I'm free, and I'll also treat it as a trip to relax."
Cao Feng frowned and asked her in a low voice: "Go over there, do you have any friends to pick you up?"
Xue Qi shook his head: "I'm alone, so it shouldn't be a big problem."
Cao Feng thought for a moment and said, "After you get off the plane, you can take our car and go back to the mountains with us. I'll go with you after I finish my business."
Xue Qi: "Will it be, not so good?"
Cao Feng's voice was low and gentle. "Boss Xue, you may not be familiar with the situation in the mountain village over at Guishan. The people there have relatively low levels of education and weak legal awareness. In the early 2000s, it was also a hotbed for human trafficking. Although public security has improved over the years, it's too dangerous for a woman like you to go there rashly. Tang Xiong and I will go with you, firstly to keep an eye on you, and secondly, we crave your cooking. You can go with us after you're done, and we'll treat it as a trip at our own expense. It's a mutually beneficial thing."
After hearing what he said, Xue Qi no longer refused. At worst, he could just go with Yu Niannian and cook a delicious meal for them as a reward.
She nodded. "Oh. Okay, how many days do you need to handle your work? And where should I meet you?"
Cao Feng patiently said, "Well, our company has employee dormitories at our base over there. However, for outsiders like you, I'm afraid you can only stay in the dormitories and can't go to other areas. Also, there's no external network in the dormitories, only a local area network. I might have to ask you to stay in the dormitories for three days. Is that okay with you?"
The man's voice was soft and gentle, and every word he said was focused on her thoughts, which made Xue Qi feel very comfortable.
Xue Qi nodded: "Okay, if it's three days, I have no problem."
After a two-hour flight, a car from Cao Feng's company came to the airport to pick them up after landing.
After getting in the car, Xue Qi, who was sitting in the passenger seat, opened his mobile phone, sorted out his work matters, and then went to Douyin to watch the live broadcast.
Sure enough, at this point in time, Yu Niannian was still live streaming.
The driver saw Xue Qi watching Yu Niannian's live broadcast and said with a smile, "Yu Niannian? Our children from Guishan are really capable. This girl is capable and hardworking. Many people in our base are watching her live broadcast 24 hours a day. Recently, she has been able to broadcast for 12 hours! She also has to record videos during the rest of the time. She is really a hardworking girl."
Xue Qi frowned: "Even a body made of iron can't withstand such torture."
The driver nodded. "That's true. But everyone in the mountains is poor. For a family like Yu Niannian's, the annual income probably doesn't exceed two or three thousand. She can make some money doing livestreams, so she must want to do more and earn more money while she still has fans watching."
Cao Feng asked the driver, "How far is our base from Yu Niannian's village?"
The driver thought for a moment and said, "Well, it's not far. It's just that their village is located in a special place. There's only one mountain road leading to it. It would take at least five hours to walk from our base. What? You want to go there?"
Xue Qi nodded: "Yes, I know this girl. Since I'm here, I naturally want to go see her."
Just as Xue Qi was about to exit the live broadcast, he saw golden subtitles appearing above the little girl's head:
[Please select "Happy Food Xue 77" as soon as possible. You have chosen to bind with me. If you do not use my functions for a long time, my performance points will be deducted. If the performance points are deducted to a certain amount, you and I will both be punished accordingly.]
You refuse to be labeled again.
Goldfinger 001 seems to be going berserk:
"Think it through. If you mark yourself, you can escape your current predicament. Don't forget, you're getting married next week. Do you really want to spend your whole life in the mountains?"
"I think you're crazy! Why would I bind a lunatic like you? Do you think you're the Virgin Mary?"
Yu Niannian remained unmoved and continued the live broadcast.
Xue Qi grasped the key point.
It turns out that if the bound person does not use the mark, not only will the performance points be deducted, but he will also be punished!
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