Chapter 88: On the show
Although Wen Yue didn’t want to let too many people know about Yu Xiaoying’s existence before the show aired, it wasn’t because she was worried that the TV station would change its mind and not let her on the show after the news spread.
Although she was a law-abiding person, she was not so easy to offend. It was fine that Yang Tong was unwilling to agree to her at the beginning. Since she had agreed, the TV station would not regret it. Even though Jade Channel was the largest TV station in Hong Kong, its financial status was not as good as the Wen family. What
Wen Yue was worried about was that Feng Yaozu would take action against Yu Xiaoying after receiving the news.
But even live variety shows have a process script, so the host and director of the show must know the specific situation, otherwise no one can be held responsible if a live broadcast accident occurs.
So Wen Yue asked Yang Tong to restrain them from talking too much, and arranged for Yu Xiaoying to stay in a high-end hotel and arranged for two bodyguards to protect her.
Two days passed in a flash, and soon it was Friday night.
Yi Huai accompanied Wen Yue to the TV station, and Wen Rongsheng also called to inquire about the situation before the show started.
Wen Rongsheng actually didn't care much about Wen Yue's affairs, especially after she showed her personal ability, he knew that she could handle most things.
But the conflict between Wen Yue and the Feng family was indeed a bit big. Although the department store was not affected much, they were a little restless and began to urge Wen Yue to solve the matter. Some of them were even impatient and called Wen Rongsheng.
In fact, public opinion was not one-sided.
Although Wen Yue decided to let the bullet fly for a while, if she really let the Feng family splash dirty water on her, maybe she wouldn't have time to respond before the matter was settled.
Yes, she could still come out to clarify after the matter was settled, but the heat had subsided, who would she clarify for!
So in the past two days, Wen Yue did not have any counterattacks. First, she exposed Feng Can in her own newspaper as the main force of the drag racing gang that had disturbed the public recently, and then revealed that she would sue Feng Can for intentional homicide. At first, Feng
Yaozu felt that Wen Yue's counterattack was really a little weak.
He didn't think Wen Yue was accumulating strength, but just felt that she had no tricks left, and he felt much more relaxed, thinking that they had won this public debate.
But the public feedback surprised him.
He splashed so much dirty water on Wen Yue, but the public's favorability towards her did not drop much. Both the stock and customer flow of Lirong Department Store were as stable as Mount Tai.
Wen Yue only fought back a little, and the public's favorability towards his son dropped a lot. The next day, the number of customers in all major branches of Feng Ji Restaurant was significantly reduced.
Feng Yaozu was very confused, so he found someone to pretend to be a news reporter and randomly found people on the street to fill out questionnaires, asking passers-by about their views on the news in the past two days.
The results of the survey were surprising.
It turns out that although ordinary citizens like to watch the plot of the collapse of the rich personality, it is difficult for everyone to empathize with the bullied rich second generation.
Correspondingly, it is difficult for them to feel bad about Wen Yue because of this incident.
It is different when Feng Can is a member of the drag racing gang.
Who are affected by the drag racing gang's daytime and night activities? Of course, it is ordinary citizens like them! Every day after work, when they return home, they are exhausted physically and mentally. They finally get a chance to lie down and take a nap, but they are woken up by the roar of a sports car not long after. How can they not be angry?
Looking at the two parties in the incident from this perspective, one is an elite entrepreneur who subdued the thief king with his bare hands, and the other is a dandy rich second generation who drag races in the middle of the night and disturbs the public...
No matter how you look at it, it seems that this rich second generation deserves to have his legs broken!
In addition, when Wen Yue sued Feng Can for intentional homicide, more people supported her.
Seeing the results of the investigation, Feng Yaozu was so angry that he almost vomited blood.
I thought, what's wrong with my son being a rich second-generation? Won't rich second-generations be bullied? Even if he drove a car and disturbed people in the middle of the night, wouldn't it be too much to cut off one of his legs?
A bunch of low-class people with no values!
Feng Yaozu cursed in his heart, but he didn't dare to say a word. Although he looked down on these low-class people, he had to do business, so he couldn't show his disdain in his heart, and he couldn't come out to criticize these people for having incorrect values.
After thinking about it, Feng Yaozu decided to continue to escalate.
He followed suit and broke the news of suing Wen Yue for intentional injury, and then dragged his elderly mother, letting the gray-haired old lady accept an interview with reporters and cry about how badly her grandson was beaten.
Then let someone dig up what happened in the Wen family in the past year.
What happened in the Wen family in the past year? From the distant past to the recent past, Zhou Baoyi cheated on his wife, Wen Jialiang was proven not to be his biological son, Wen Jiadong was drugged to lose his fertility, and Xu Meifeng was accused of killing Wen Kai and went to prison.
Although there is strong evidence that Zhou Baoyi cheated on his wife and made Wen Rongsheng a father, or that Xu Meifeng killed Wen Kai, there is no shortage of conspiracy theorists in this world.
Feng Yaozu instructed people to report that the Wen family is the richest and has no shortage of money. If Wen Jialiang is not his biological son, Zhou Baoyi could not have concealed it for so many years. In addition, the newspaper under Wen Yue's name was the first to break the news, so the author has reason to believe that this is a false accusation against the fourth room.
It is also possible that she was the one who drugged Wen Jiadong. Xu Meifeng was also framed for killing Wen Kai. After this series of events, Wen Yue became the last person who might inherit the Wen family.
As for evidence?
Of course there is none, but facts speak louder than words. Wen Yue is the only beneficiary. Do you think she is innocent? I don't believe it.
Although the report is full of speculations, there are still people who believe it. In the eyes of these people, Wen Yue has become a conspirator who will do anything to get to the top. Although
not many people believe it, and even fewer of them are CITIC shareholders, people's words are scary, and it is not a good thing to carry such a reputation.
More importantly, the public debate has become somewhat heated. If Wen Yue cannot win this war without gunpowder, it is very likely to affect the development of Lirong Department Store.
Wen Rongsheng did not say much on the phone. He only asked Wen Yue if she had the confidence to solve this matter. After getting a positive answer, he hung up the phone.
The program started at nine o'clock. Wen Yue arrived at the TV station around eight o'clock. Although she is very beautiful, her facial features tend to become flat on TV without makeup due to the glamorous influence. She needs to put on some makeup.
The makeup time is not long, and it is over in half an hour.
In the remaining half an hour, Wen Yue and the host and director went over the process together.
"Interview Date" is actually a personal interview, but everyone knows why Wen Yue chose this juncture to host the show and why she is willing to sponsor the show.
So whether it is the show producer or the director, they are willing to follow Wen Yue's wishes. After all, she will be the sponsor of the show in the future and must be supported.
The program is not long, only one hour, so Wen Yue does not intend to waste too much time introducing her past. She directly starts with the recent news about her, plays the dashcam video, and explains why she wants to sue Feng Can for intentional homicide.
Then she reveals Feng Can's past, focusing on the incident of killing someone five years ago, which is narrated by Yu Xiaoying. In the end, she argues whether she had someone break Feng Can's legs to bully others or to eliminate harm for the people.
After arranging the process, the program starts.
...
At nine o'clock, Feng Yaozu and his wife also sat in front of the TV.
In order to know both himself and the enemy, Feng Yaozu asked people to subscribe to three newspapers under Dongjiang Newspapers every day when he decided to fight Wen Yue to the end.
So when he was having breakfast in the morning, Feng Yaozu saw the advertisement that Wen Yue had placed in the Dongjiang Entertainment News.
Feng Yaozu was very angry. He thought he had already arranged everything. Wen Yue would not have any other channels to speak out except the newspapers under Dongjiang Newspaper.
As a result, Wen Yue was going to appear on the interview program of Jade Channel without any news!
It would be fine if Wen Yue was going to appear on the program, but he didn't hear any news before the advertisement was placed in the newspaper. This made him suspect that the person who spent money to conspire with her had turned against her. How could he not be angry?
The person who was bribed by Feng Yaozu felt very wronged and said, "I didn't expect that she would find Yang Tong! You know that she and I don't get along. She knows our relationship and of course she will try her best to hide this from me."
Feng Yaozu couldn't accept this explanation, but he also knew that he couldn't push people too hard. He took a deep breath and asked, "Can this live broadcast be stopped?"
"I'm afraid... it's not possible." The person on the other end of the phone said, "The advertisement has been put out. If the program is stopped now, the citizens will definitely guess that someone is plotting something. And you know, Yang Tong's position is higher than mine. I can't control what she wants to do, not to mention that Miss Wen has sponsored a sum of money..." For the sake of the sponsorship fee, the director would not agree to him doing something to slap Wen Yue in the face.
Feng Yaozu sneered and asked, "You mean, I just watch her go on the show and target me?"
The person on the other end of the phone thought, "Aren't you guys always targeting her?" But thinking that this is the sponsor, he swallowed his words. My daughter: "How do you think about this? I will arrange a show for you later, and you will also deal with her live?"
Hearing the deception in the other party's words, Feng Yaozu was immediately furious: "Do you think I'm a fool?"
"How could it be," the person on the other end of the phone quickly denied and changed the subject, "It's just that I don't understand why you are so afraid of Miss Wen going on the show, do you have something on her?"
Feng Yaozu instantly thought of what happened five years ago, but...
Although his son was summoned by the police five years ago, even the police could not convict his son, and the things he did to help his son get rid of the crime can be said to be known to heaven and earth, and the three of them know, and no fourth person knows.
As for other things, he did not have a clear conscience, but he did not do anything shameful, so he denied it: "Of course not!"
"If not, then why are you afraid of her going on the show? Could she say something about having someone break Ah Can's leg?"
Feng Yaozu was certainly not afraid of Wen Yue saying something, but he spent money like water in the previous confrontations, limiting the possibility of Wen Yue clarifying to the maximum extent, and barely overwhelmed Wen Yue in public opinion.
Who would have thought that Wen Yue only said two things lightly in her own newspaper and reversed the public opinion disadvantage.
Feng Yaozu couldn't help but be jealous of Wen Yue, not to mention that she guessed that his son took illegal drugs and applied for a urine test from the police.
Feng Yaozu couldn't help getting angry when he thought of this. He knew that foreign countries were in chaos and sending his son abroad was a very risky thing. But Feng Can got into trouble in Hong Kong, and he really had no choice. In
order to prevent Feng Can from learning bad things, Feng Yaozu specially arranged two bodyguards and an assistant for his son to protect him and keep an eye on him to prevent him from learning bad things.
The result! His son still learned bad things!
The two bodyguards and the assistant helped his son hide it. If Wen Yue hadn't applied for his son to take a urine test, he might not know that his son started taking drugs until a year and a half later.
After knowing this, Feng Yaozu was furious. He decided to wait until this matter was resolved, and he would make those three months pay the price! All the money he made from him in the past three years, make him spit it out!
As for Feng Can... Feng Yaozu was furious in his heart, thinking that once this matter was settled, he would force his son to give up all those bad habits!
The urine test was easy to solve. He used the excuse that Feng Can had just had surgery and was in great pain, and postponed the drug test for a few days. Illegal drugs are metabolized quickly, so as long as he doesn't touch them in these few days, there will be no problem with the urine test.
Thinking of this, Feng Yaozu's worries faded a little.
He felt that the person on the other end of the phone was right, and a good cook could not cook without rice. The biggest bargaining chip in Wen Yue's hand should be the fact that his son was taking drugs.
Wen Yue might make a big fuss about this matter after the show, but as long as the urine test is fine, he can come out and say that she is lying, and take the opportunity to label her previous statement about his son's speeding as a rumor, and then accuse her of suing his son for intentional homicide as a desperate move and bluffing.
By then, public opinion should be able to turn back to their side.
Feng Yaozu thought about it and temporarily agreed to the proposal of the person on the other end of the phone to let him go on the show. Anyway, there is no harm in agreeing to it. Whether to go on the show later depends on what Wen Yue will say in this episode of "Interview Date".
The above is the main reason why Feng Yaozu and his wife sit in front of the TV at nine o'clock in the evening, waiting to watch "Interview Date".
In fact, it was mainly because Feng Yaozu wanted to see what Wen Yue would do. Mrs. Feng was very unhappy to watch this show. She might as well stay in the hospital for a while.
But the hospital has its own rules. They made an exception and let so many reporters into the inpatient department for interviews on the first day of Feng Can's hospitalization. This was already a face-giving to Feng Yaozu. They still had to follow the rules in the future, such as turning off the lights around 8 o'clock and refusing visitors.
If Mrs. Feng wanted to stay with him, the hospital would not stop her, but she had been pampered for so many years and needed someone to take care of her. No matter how much she loved her son, she couldn't do things like taking care of his excrement and urine, so the job of staying with him was given to the nurse.
Mrs. Feng returned home at the appointed time. Knowing that her husband wanted to watch Wen Yue's interview, she also sat down, but she kept talking, criticizing: "A woman who doesn't stay at home to take care of her husband and children, but only knows how to show off everywhere all day long. It's fine that she beat us and A-chan like this, but she also has the nerve to sue him for intentional homicide, and now she has to go on TV to talk about this. Where does she get the face!"
Feng Yaozu basically agreed with Mrs. Feng's words, so although he thought she was a bit noisy, he didn't stop her until the process was played. He said: "Don't talk first."
Mrs. Feng then shut up and turned her eyes to the TV.
The video was intercepted, starting from that night when Wen Yue asked someone to stop the car. The first picture that appeared was the empty street in the dead of night.
Mrs. Feng had no patience. After watching for three seconds and seeing that the screen had not changed, she said, "What is this? Wen Yue must have run out of tricks and just played a random video to fool people?"
Almost as soon as Mrs. Feng finished speaking, the video changed. The lights came from far away, then got closer and closer until a red sports car appeared.
When it first appeared on the video, the red sports car was driving on the left lane, but at a certain moment, the sports car suddenly changed direction and rushed straight towards the camera of the dashcam, then suddenly turned and brushed past the car body.
After the video was played, not only the studio that was broadcasting live, but also Feng Yaozu and his wife in front of the TV were speechless for a long time, until Mrs. Feng's voice rang out: "This is a jerk..."
Before she finished cursing, Mrs. Feng realized that the driver in the red sports car was her biological son, and said stiffly: "Young people are impulsive, and it's normal to want to show off their skills."
The silence on TV also ended. Wen Yue said: "You may not feel it when watching the video now, but that night, I really thought I was going to be injured. I only felt that I was going to be injured because I was in the car behind, and my driver and bodyguard in the car parked in the front thought they were going to die at that moment."
The host cooperated: "Indeed, I was so scared that my heart almost jumped out of my chest just by watching the video."
"Yes, so I just can't accept Feng Can's statement that he just wanted to scare people with a joke." Wen Yue said, "And I know that there have been a lot of drag racing gangs in Hong Kong recently. From the attitudes of Feng Can and his friends at the time, it can be seen that it was not their first time drag racing, nor would it be the last time. I think that unlike other people who get out of control and kill or injure innocent people one day, I might as well break his leg that is pressing the accelerator to teach him a lesson."
"Why did she teach Ah Chan a lesson? Who does she think she is?" Feng Tai couldn't help it, stood up and pointed at the TV and said, "She also said that our Ah Chan would kill someone. Why did she make up such nonsense?"
Five years later, Yu Xiaoying, the mother of the victim, is still immersed in pain and unable to get rid of it. As the mother of the perpetrator, Feng Tai has long forgotten the sin committed by her son.
But Feng Tai's anger can't change anything. After Wen Yue explained why she broke Feng Can's leg, the topic entered the next stage - who is Feng Can?
In the past, Feng Can was not well-known, but the Feng family and Wen Yue had a few days of public debate. Now many people in Hong Kong know him. For example, the audience sitting in front of the TV watching the live broadcast basically know that Feng Can is the son of Feng Yaozu and the protagonist whose legs were broken by Wen Yue.
But more, everyone is not very clear.
Wen Yue did not elaborate on Feng Can's growth history, which was a waste of time. Her introduction to him started from when he first joined the drag racing gang. During the introduction, she put a few photos of Feng Can drag racing as an underage driver.
Of course, Wen Yue did not directly say that Feng Can drove without a license, but only mentioned the time when the photos were taken and how old Feng Can should be at the time.
The audience was not stupid, and they knew what Wen Yue meant as soon as they heard it.
Mrs. Feng in front of the TV was shouting "slander" but she was a little panicked and asked: "Yaozu, this... won't be a problem, right?"
Feng Yaozu was also a little surprised. He didn't expect Wen Yue to find out these things, but he quickly calmed down: "It's okay, just a few photos. The police came and said to pose for photos."
"That's good."
Mrs. Feng breathed a sigh of relief, but the next second she saw a new photo on TV.
The moment they saw the photo clearly, the couple's faces changed instantly. Mrs. Feng asked in a lost voice: "How is it possible! Didn't A Can say that there was no one around?"
Feng Yaozu's face was also very ugly. She didn't expect Wen Yue to find such an important photo!
As for Mrs. Feng's question, Feng Yaozu said angrily, "You know what kind of person your son is. Can you believe what he says?"
In fact, Feng Yaozu believed what Feng Can said all these years, and never thought that there would be witnesses at that time.
Not only was there a witness, but the other party also took a photo of Feng Can getting out of the car to check the boy who was hit and killed!
Why did you hide the photo? I am not poor. As long as I can save my son, it is not a problem for me to pay millions to buy the photo!
Sell the photo to Wen Yue!
How much money can she give me?
Feng Yaozu was angry and anxious, but his wife kept asking him, "Yaozu, what should we do? So many people have seen the photos, is Chan going to be finished?"
"Who should I ask if you ask me?" Feng Yaozu put his hands on his hips and stared at the TV. When he saw Wen Yue mention the victim's mother and was about to invite her to the stage, he quickly instructed his wife, "Oh, call the TV station and say that they are infringing on copyright by broadcasting Chan's photos without consent. Force them to stop the live broadcast, or I will sue their program!"
Mrs. Feng's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she quickly fell beside the sofa, picked up the phone and pressed the program number. But I don't know if there were too many people calling the TV station or something else, the phone was always on the line and no one answered.
In the studio, Yu Xiaoying also walked in front of the camera under the guidance of the staff.
In order to save time, Wen Yue did not introduce her own growth history in detail, nor did she spend too much time telling Feng Can's history of fall, but she fought for Yu Xiaoying's opportunity to tell her past.
Born in an era of developed Internet, Wen Yue knows too well how to mobilize the audience's emotions.
It is very difficult for ordinary people to empathize with the rich. Before she traveled through time, she saw those stars talking about how painful they were and how hard their lives were. She always had only one feeling - money burns.
Yu Xiaoying can be said to be an ordinary person who came out of the lowest level of Hong Kong. She found a job through her own efforts, paid for a house, and had a happy family in the eyes of outsiders. Her life is simply inspirational.
But at this time, her son was hit and killed.
The perpetrator escaped and flew abroad to continue his studies after being acquitted, wasting his life. Unable to bear the pain of her son's unclear death, her family was torn apart and her work was in a mess.
Listening to Yu Xiaoying's story, Mrs. Feng was so angry that she slammed the phone and shouted, "Why does she say that our son caused the family to break up? I even said it was her son's fault for wandering around the streets at night, causing our son to hit someone and kill someone, and was forced to go abroad for several years!"
Feng Yaozu was already upset, and he couldn't help but yell when he heard his wife's voice, "Come on, what are you yelling about in front of me? Why don't you go to the TV station and rush into their studio and say these things!"
"I, I..." Mrs. Feng was stunned by the yelling, and stammered, "Am I not worried about my son? Yaozu, what do you think we should do next? My son won't really go to jail, right?"
"How should I know what to do?" Feng Yaozu said unhappily, "I told you a long time ago, don't get used to the child, don't get used to the child, did you listen? You didn't listen to me at first, and now you just come to ask me what to do. What good solution can I come up with? If this case is investigated, not to mention Feng Can, both of us will be in trouble!"
Unlike the chaos in the Feng family, when Yu Xiaoying cried and said that she had persisted until now just because she wanted the truth and justice for her innocent son, the ordinary citizens who had nothing to do with this matter all had tears in their eyes and were dissatisfied with the Feng family.
So when Wen Yue stood up and asked, when Feng Can was suspected of killing someone and had no regrets so far, was it too much for her to have someone break Feng Can's leg?
Although they knew that Wen Yue could not hear, the audience in front of the TV still answered loudly, "Not too much!" "Well done!", and picked up the phone in their hands and called the TV station to tell Wen Yue and Yu Xiaoying that they supported them.
The citizens of Hong Kong acted very quickly. They only watched the live broadcast at 9 o'clock the night before, but they organized a sit-in demonstration team the next morning and went to the TV station and the police station to support Yu Xiaoying and force the police to find out the truth as soon as possible.
Naturally, there were many people at the door of Feng's Restaurant. They made leaflets and distributed them to every customer who wanted to enter the store to consume, telling them about the bad things the Feng family had done.
After seeing the leaflets, these customers gave up entering the store to consume. Some did not want to cause trouble and turned away, while others chose to join the demonstration team and demanded an explanation from the Feng family. The
demonstration methods were rough and effective. In less than two hours, the police arranged for people to go to the hospital, and Feng Yaozu and his wife were taken away by the police on the grounds of perjury.