The new round of travel officially began with Liang Shengdi repeatedly reminding him not to forget to send her meat and Lin Shuchao reminding him to come back for the Chinese New Year.
Lin Guoqing was driving the car, Chen Chunhua was holding a bucket of family bucket and waved to her family members and the meal officially began.
They drove eastward first. Shanghai was less familiar to them than their hometown, so they went around it and headed towards Jiangxi Province.
A day later, I met Chen Xiahua and his wife who were retired there. Chen Xiahua was shocked that they were still going on a road trip at their age, and was also shocked by the size of the RV.
Chen Xiahua looked around for a long time,
"Oh my! Old Jiang! I think we can get one too!"
Jiang Weimin was holding his big teacup and didn't know whether he should talk or not.
"...Even if you don't look at your own age, think about whether I can do it. I'm already 75...You still want me to take you on a road trip?"
Chen Xiahua rolled her eyes at him and said, "I don't even want to go even if you take me there!"
When Jiang Weimin first retired, they used to wander around, but after a while, they got tired, so they didn't want to go out anymore as they got older. Chen Xiahua now prefers to tend to flowers and play with cats. When she has free time, she just wanders around the area.
"I'm just thinking of buying one so I can drive it when I go out for a barbecue in the suburbs. If it rains, I can just hide inside and sit on the sofa with friends, listening to the rain and chatting. Wouldn't that be nice?"
Jiang Weimin: ...buying an RV specifically for barbecues in the suburbs? The key is that he thinks the scenes Chen Xiahua envisioned can also be achieved with an ordinary car...
Chen Chunhua and Lin Guoqing spent a week in Jiangxi Province, driving their RV with Chen Xiahua and her husband. They ate at many cheap restaurants, some of which were even unknown to them.
"Hmm~ This salt and pepper pork ribs is really delicious! Lao Jiang, try it!" Chen Xiahua also added a piece for Jiang Weimin, and looked at Chen Chunhua curiously.
"How did you two know about this store? Even though we don't live here, we're not far from the next city. At least it's much closer than you guys and you don't even know it!"
Chen Chunhua smiled and nodded at Lin Guoqing, "That's all thanks to my old Lin. He made a thick notebook full of travel guides, writing down all the delicious food and fun things to do in every city we'll pass through."
Being praised by his wife, Lin Guoqing laughed and said, "It's okay, it's okay. These are all available on the Internet. I just copied them."
"That's not easy!" Jiang Weimin was impressed when he heard he found it online. "That computer gives me a headache just looking at it. I can only watch the young people use it. I thought my generation was already obsolete... I didn't expect you to be able to use it so well?"
In fact, Lin Guoqing didn't know much at the beginning. His computer operating skills were on par with Liang Shengdi's. He could only play Spider Solitaire and Minesweeper, and he didn't know anything else.
It was Chen Chunhua who brought him up when she was doing e-commerce.
Now he not only uses the search engine Liuliu, but also registered a Weibo account. He said that many people share their travel stories on the platform, and he can find some practical tips by looking at them.
"When he was making the travel guide, he had nothing better to do and posted the photos we took on our trip on Weibo. Now he has hundreds of fans." Chen Chunhua skillfully opened her touch-screen phone to show Chen Xiahua Lin Guoqing's account - The Happy Life of Lao Lin and Lao Shen.
"A few fans praised his photos and asked him if the food was good. He was so excited that he held his phone every night to reply to their messages!"
The most important thing is that it is not enough for Lin Guoqing to fiddle with Weibo alone, he also has to ask Chen Chunhua to think of copywriting for him and how to reply to netizens' messages. What does she know!
"Some people are urging me to post travel guides!" Lin Guoqing also took out his phone to show Jiang Weimin his account, "but we both used to travel with tour groups, and the itineraries were all planned by the tour group, so there's nothing to post.
Now we are driving there by ourselves, and I will post it online once I verify that my plan is feasible!"
"Oh wow~ You took really good photos!" Jiang Weimin squinted his eyes and looked at the photos in Lin Guoqing's account, and sighed. This compliment made Lin Guoqing even happier.
"It's okay, it's okay. The main thing is that the SLR camera takes better pictures."
Looking at the man's proud look, Chen Chunhua grumbled to Shen Xiahua, "He also said he was some big Weibo influencer! Shumei said big Weibo influencers have tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands or millions of followers, and he's nowhere near that.
But this guy just felt that many fans were waiting for his updates, so he even brought his laptop into the car before leaving, saying he would post on Weibo every day.
"No wonder I see him always taking pictures before eating... Has he posted anything on Weibo in the past few days?" Chen Xiahua swiped Chen Chunhua's phone. The latest record in [The Happy Life of Lao Lin and Lao Shen] was 7 days ago. It was a photo of Chen Chunhua and Lin Guoqing standing in front of the RV. No new photos had been uploaded since then.
Chen Chunhua shook her head and pointed at Lin Guoqing with a funny look on her face and said,
"Hasn't he been drinking with his brother-in-law these past two nights? He went back to the hotel and fell asleep immediately. He only showered in the morning. How could he have thought of posting on Weibo?"
He just said that he would not disappoint his fans, but he got drunk and forgot to post. Lin Guoqing was a little embarrassed and could only try to make amends for himself.
"Then I have to export all the photos before I can post them..."
Well, he didn’t even post any photos from these few days.
However, before leaving for the next stop, Lin Guoqing still systematically edited several long Weibo posts, one for each city in Jiangxi Province, and carefully selected photos including people, food and scenery.
There is also a tourist route map of the city. He took a photo of his hand-drawn draft and uploaded it, making it clear at a glance what the most reasonable way to arrange each day is.
Lin Guoqing originally wanted to tinker with PS, thinking of retouching the photos before uploading them, but it turned out to be a bit difficult. He failed to learn the software in one night and finally gave up. He decided to study it himself the next time when Chen Chunhua drove.
"Sister! Brother-in-law! We're leaving now! I'll send you some local specialties next time!" Chen Chunhua leaned against the window and waved goodbye to Shen Xiahua and Jiang Weimin.
"Okay! Be careful on the road! Drive slowly!"
When the shadow of the RV had disappeared at the intersection, Chen Xiahua sighed that Chunhua and the others were living a much more exciting life than she did.
"Are you having a bad life?" Jiang Weimin looked at her sideways, feeling that he could not accept this injustice.
"Let's go! Where can we buy the RV? Let's go buy it now! It's okay if I can't drive anymore! Let's find a driver!"
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