Chapter 645 Cannot Carry People
Hearing the commotion, the village chief came out of his house and immediately met the eager, watchful eyes of the crowd.
"What...are you trying to do?"
"Village chief, we'd like to go to a nearby town to buy some things. Could you lend us this car?"
The village chief was surprised that the group had such a plan, and said with difficulty, "This... I'm afraid it won't work."
"Why?"
The people present looked surprised. In their view, borrowing the car should have been a sure thing. When the village chief refused, they were dumbfounded and couldn't help but feel a sense of foreboding.
"Could it be that I have to complete some kind of mission to borrow this car?"
"Yeah, yeah, I've been watching those rural variety shows, and it seems like you have to complete a task before you can borrow anything. Ah, I knew the production team wouldn't really let us film a variety show like this, it turns out they were waiting for us to do this."
“It’s almost three o’clock. If we delay any longer, we probably won’t be able to get back in time to cook dinner. Village chief, please tell us what you need us to do, and we will definitely cooperate.”
Village chief: "..." That's not what he meant.
The production team: "..." We didn't do it, we really have nothing to do with it!
The viewers in the live stream burst into laughter upon hearing the whispers of the group.
[Yun'er is so adorable! It's an open secret that variety shows have scripts, but is it really okay for you to say it out loud?]
[You can practically feel the production team's utter despair even through the screen. Shouldn't they just honestly ask why at times like this? Why do you all have such wild imaginations? You've ruined all the surprise for everyone.]
The village chief couldn't get a word in edgewise for a while, and only after the others finished talking did he say quietly, "It's not that I don't want to lend it to you, but this tractor is for our village to carry goods, not people. A couple of years ago, a man from the village wanted to take it easy, so he drove the tractor to our village to help with the rice harvest with some of his relatives, but he was caught halfway there."
"They gave me a verbal warning, saying that the vehicle was only for carrying goods, not people, especially not people on the road, otherwise it would be easy to cause an accident and be dangerous. In the end, they were also fined. After that, no one in the village dared to use the vehicle to carry people."
After the village chief's explanation, the group of people who had been eagerly preparing to make a big splash were immediately speechless.
An awkward silence spread among them, until finally someone couldn't help but burst out laughing.
The others immediately broke character and burst into laughter: "Sorry, sorry, we didn't know that."
Everyone present found the whole thing a funny misunderstanding, unaware that it had inadvertently caused quite a stir.
How embarrassing! They don't even know basic common sense like tractors can't carry people on the road. Are the standards for becoming a celebrity really this low these days?
[Yeah, I thought this was common sense that even a three-year-old would know. How can adults not understand this? Are these people mentally challenged?]
[It's not necessary to put it so harshly. Years ago, during the busy farming season in my hometown, I often saw tractors carrying groups of people to work. It's only in recent years, with stricter regulations, that they've become less common.]
[Yes, yes, I've seen this all the time, so much so that I always thought it was reasonable and normal. Seeing this today really gave me the chills. There's only so much land behind the tractor, and no safety measures whatsoever. If the road is bumpy or someone can't avoid it in time for an accident, and someone gets thrown out, it's unimaginable.]
【Huh? So you can't carry people on the back of a tractor? I've seen tractors carrying people on several variety shows before, and I always thought it was okay...】
This discussion stirred up a hornet's nest.
In recent years, audiences seem to find it interesting to see celebrities who are usually glamorous carrying hoes and sickles to plant, pick fruit, and harvest rice in a down-to-earth manner.
Many variety shows use the slogan of returning to simplicity and nature, and they especially like to set the reality show location in a remote village.
In such small villages, people often rely on their means of transportation for getting around, with tractors being the most common mode of transport.
This has led to the frequent occurrence of tractors carrying passengers in the film, giving the audience the illusion that this is a matter of course and uncontroversial.
Suddenly, a contrary opinion emerged, and after some discussion, the fire spread directly to variety shows that had encountered similar problems.
Before long, several variety shows were caught in the crossfire and ordered to be taken down and rectified after being reported. Some of the shows that went particularly outrageous even alarmed the traffic department, which named them directly online.
The production teams of these variety shows were also quite bewildered. They knew that their shows had already finished airing, and if there were any problems, they should have been in trouble long ago. Why were they being brought up to settle old scores now?
Upon investigation, it was discovered that the problem originated with Ye Wanxi and her group, infuriating many who wished they could jump into the screen and cover their mouths.
Ye Wanxi and the others were unaware of the online uproar.
After hearing their apologies, the village chief waved his hand and said with a smile, "It's alright, it's alright. If this hadn't happened before, we wouldn't have known either."
"So what do we do now? We can't take this car, and we can't really walk there, can we?"
They had only seen this one tractor on their way here, otherwise they wouldn't have bothered with it.
The village chief pondered for a moment and said, "I do know who in the village has a car, but I don't know if they would be willing to lend it to you."
Upon hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up, and they hurriedly said, "Who can say for sure whether we'll lend it or not? We should at least give it a try. Please take us there to look for it."
"Okay, sure."
The village where Ye Wanxi and her friends lived was called Xiaoxi Village, and most of the villagers had the surname Mo.
Xiaoxi Village is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and there is only one road leading to the outside world, which can be described as very inconvenient.
As the saying goes, if you want to get rich, build roads first. The inconvenience of transportation has greatly limited the economy of this place.
There aren't many people in the village who can afford a car, and most of them are business people who are away from home all year round and don't stay in the village.
The village chief led them to find the two brothers, Mo Dazhuang and Mo Erzhuang, who were well-known as wealthy in their village.
"Dazhuang and Erzhuang are not very old, but they are smart. After studying for a few years, they went out to make their way in the world. The two brothers worked together to start a seafood wholesale business. They were really busy with work, and they made a lot of money. These two kids are kind-hearted. After making money, they did not forget their roots. They went back to their hometown, built a house, bought a car, and even paid for the repair of the village roads."
The village chief spoke of the two brothers with great enthusiasm: "The cement road we are walking on now was built with their money. It's new, only two or three years old. Before it was built, this road was very difficult to walk on. It was full of gravel and clods of dirt. Not only was it hard to walk on, but it was also very muddy and full of potholes when it rained. If you fell, you would scrape your skin."
(End of this chapter)
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