Chapter 104 Things Ferment
The troublemakers left and the crowd of onlookers gradually dispersed.
Xia Wu turned and left, and Zhao Jing followed closely. "Xiao Wu, things like this have happened a lot these past few days. Should we think of a solution?"
Xia Wu had a blank expression on his face. He was upset but didn't show it.
She couldn't think of any good solution.
What is the current situation of Yanggou Village? Everything is in its original state and has not been built yet, so it has welcomed a large number of guests who cannot be accommodated. From any perspective, these tourists have no experience at all.
In the past, there were fewer people, and people could enjoy themselves leisurely whether picking fruits, fishing, enjoying the scenery or even camping. But now, you can see many outsiders in Yanggou Village just by walking a few steps.
With more tourists, the quality of some people has also declined. They don’t care whether they are invited by the villagers or not. They just go in to take pictures and selfies at any scenery they see. If it is inconvenient to go to the toilet, they will just go to the corner to relieve themselves.
The villagers have been complaining a lot these past two days.
They didn't make any money from these tourists, but ended up suffering a lot.
Yang Guofeng was also very troubled. This was not the development he wanted.
Even Xia Wu felt that the peaceful days were gone forever. Making money was good, but she still had to live her own life!
If you keep going on like this, your business will be ruined sooner or later.
The most urgent task is to stop this sudden farce.
"I'll post a notice online shortly. Starting tomorrow, no tourists will be allowed to enter Yantou Mountain. All previous fruit picking activities will be cancelled. Please talk to Uncle Guofeng and ask him to find a few more people to guard the foot of the mountain tomorrow. Everyone else should go home and lock the gate. We can't let something like what happened at Aunt Wu's house happen again."
Zhao Jing nodded, "I understand."
There is a gardenia planted in Aunt Wu's yard. The flower head is very big. Every year when it blooms, the fragrance can spread to half of the village. This year is another year of blooming. Aunt Wu gives away gardenias to people in the village every day and she can't give them all away.
As a result, with the influx of tourists in the past two days, the villagers are not used to locking their doors when they go out. When the tourists saw the flowers in Aunt Wu's yard, countless people wanted to take pictures, and some even picked the flowers privately and broke the branches.
Fortunately, someone from the village passed by and discovered it in time and stopped it, so the behavior of the following visitors was restrained.
Aunt Wu was so angry about this that she couldn't eat. She kept saying to everyone she met, "They say city people are well-educated. Look at what they've done to my flowers. And there's a kid pooping in my garden. I'm not even using it as a toilet! He just squatted down and pooped! He's blind! He has no manners!"
Now everyone in the village locks the door when they go out to work. Even when they work, they are still terrified, afraid that their homes will be empty-handed when they return home.
We have to admit that the moral standards of most people cannot stand the test. There is a saying that goes, "A gentleman is cautious when alone." When alone, what you do is the true character of a gentleman. When there are many people, everyone will follow the crowd. If one person destroys, others will follow suit.
On the contrary, if the majority of people follow the rules, the minority who do not will be blamed.
But now, tourists who come to Yanggou Village are spontaneous and impulsive. After arriving, they find that the scenery is just rural, there are no consumption points, food and accommodation are inconvenient, and there are no public toilets.
The confusion is understandable, but it's not something to be happy about.
It is a very bad idea for Xia Wu to close the mountain. Now is the season when the fruits on the mountain are ripe. The fruits that have not been developed by technology have only a short flowering period and are difficult to preserve after they are ripe. The tourists who came this time helped her consume a lot of fruits. Once the mountain is closed, it will be difficult to make money.
But between making money and peace of mind, Xia Wu chose the former.
The next day, Yantou Mountain was closed. Those who did not have time to see the announcement had made a wasted trip and were furious at the foot of the mountain. However, Yantou Mountain was a private mountain and was not allowed to go up. The tourists had no choice but to leave, but they also accumulated a lot of resentment.
At the same time, Jian Zhuang, who had a conflict with Xia Wu, posted a video on Kuaishou. The video only contained a few pictures. His son's pants were torn by a dog, and there were also a few pictures of a ditch with a lot of garbage thrown in it, and a bad road that no one had repaired.
"Influencers can't be trusted! The scenery they portray is deceptive! Those who want to visit Yanggou Village in Donghua Town, Tong City, beware! Don't be fooled by illusions. That internet celebrity, Xia Xia, is just trying to trick you into making money! Yesterday, I took my son there. The fruit picking activity on the mountain costs 298, but once we got there, they didn't allow us to pick fruits. They even let dogs bite people, and my son's legs were bitten! The scenery is terrible too, the roads haven't been repaired, and they're in tatters. These are all pictures I took without filters! You can decide for yourself whether to go or not! Anyway, I'm not going!"
A few photos, accompanied by a paragraph of resentful words, this video was bought by someone on Douyin and quickly became popular, even to netizens who didn't know Xia Wu.
Netizen 1: "I don't know any internet celebrity Xia Xia, I never believe what internet celebrities say, I don't know what there is to like."
Netizen 2: "Look at the picture, isn't this just an ordinary rural area? How can you go to a place like this if you have nothing to do? You might as well come to my house and plant rice. The scenery is much better than hers~"
Netizen 3: "I just feel that Xia Xia is not right, too fake, anyone can see it's a script. Cooking for so many elderly people, if anything happens and they blackmail her, her life will be over."
More and more people flocked to the bottom of the video, without caring about anything else or what the truth was, and started to make malicious speculations.
Related entries were pushed to the top of Kuaishou, #网红夏夏负客骗人#
Someone in the fan group first saw the video and immediately posted it to the group: "Is it true? Someone said they were bitten by a dog when they went to Yantou Mountain?"
"Which dog? Black Bean or Gold Bean? No way! Gold Bean is so well behaved, a lazy girl. Black Bean is a little fierce, but he never bites anyone!"
Some people have been to Yantou Mountain more than once and are very familiar with the place, so they raised questions at the first time.
"I don't know either. You guys go and take a look."
Someone in the group went to watch the video and soon they started arguing about it. Some people said that Jian Zhuang was lying, while others said that they were too foolish to believe Xia Wu. The evidence was right in front of them. There was indeed a charge for picking fruits in the mountains, and the roads in Yanggou Village were dilapidated, and it was impossible for them to fake the garbage in the river.
All five fan groups were buzzing with activity.
Zhou Hui's cell phone suddenly vibrated before he finished class.
This class was taught by the counselor, so Zhou Hui didn't dare to do anything tricky and waited until the end of the get out of class before looking at his phone.
Xue Pan sent him dozens of messages, the last of which read: "There's a mole in the group."
Zhou Hui: “???”
He didn't look at his phone for just a few minutes. Did someone in the group rebel?
Zhou Hui opened WeChat and saw over 999 unread messages. He quickly read through them from the beginning and finally figured out what had happened. Furious, he took a screenshot and sent it to Xue Pan, "When did this Xing Chuiye join the group?"
"yesterday."
"What about this happy life?"
"Yesterday, too."
"And this..."
After some comparison, Zhou Hui and Xue Pan discovered that the group of people causing trouble in the group was obviously organized. They specifically played a double game in the group, sowed discord, and provoked conflicts.
The obvious characteristic of these people is that they have been in the group for a short time.
"Oh my god, did Xia Xia offend someone? Who wants to mess with her? What should I do? Should I tell Xia Xia about this?"
Zhou Hui was at a loss, he didn't know what to do
Xue Pan is a few years older than him and seems to be a white-collar worker in a company. The two of them often hang out in the group and don’t chat privately much, but Xue Pan has more ideas than him.
"Wait a minute. From what I know, Xia Xia should be too overwhelmed by what's happening online to care about it. Telling her about these bossless things will only cause her more trouble."
"So what should we do? We can't let these bastards continue to cause trouble in the group, right?"
"Never mind, they say what they want. Few people are incited. Those who are familiar with the group have been in the group for a long time and know what kind of person Xia Xia is. Besides, many people like you have been to Yanggou Village, and I haven't heard you say that it is a bad place. Hearing is not believing, seeing is believing."
"Yes, yes, yes. If you hadn't told me, I would have forgotten. There wasn't so much garbage in the ditch when I went there."
Zhou Hui said this while enlarging the photo taken by Jian Zhuang. The garbage in the river included milk tea cups, snack bags, and plastic bottles. It looked like they had been thrown in just a short time ago!
Otherwise it will definitely become stale!
"Let's collect evidence first. I have some ideas. Think about who Xia Xia could have offended. It must be someone online, not real people. They know how to hire online trolls and create hype. Nine out of ten times, they're internet celebrities in the same field. Follow this line to find someone, and ask reliable people in the group to help find them."
"Okay, I understand. What about you?" Zhou Hui instantly became serious and forwarded the message to other roommates.
"I'm at work, we'll talk after get off work."
“???”
The office animals are so pitiful...
It turns out that Xue Pan's idea was correct. It didn't take Zhou Hui too long to find out that there was an internet celebrity named "Da Shuang in the Countryside" on Kuaishou who had expressed his dissatisfaction with Xia Xia more than once.
This blogger is a man in his thirties with a wife and children. Although he is also in the rural farming track, he takes the route of enduring hardship and selling misery.
The content of the video is probably about getting up at four or five in the morning to cut grass and feed pigs, and the wife carrying the children to work in the fields. Sometimes it is busy and hard, and the couple has to make do with eating food that looks unpalatable, and saying things like life is hard and difficult in the countryside to make people like their posts.
He has more than 200,000 followers.
Zhou Hui reluctantly flipped through his videos, wondering how such a person could have more than 200,000 fans.
It’s all half of Xia Xia’s.
Zhou Hui found a clue when he came across a video from three months ago. Under this video, someone commented that Da Shuang and his wife ate rudely and that it made people lose their appetite. He also said that the couple's video was deliberately smearing the countryside. The countryside can also be beautiful. If you don't know how to shoot, you can refer to Xia Xia's video.
After this video, there were more and more comments of this kind, and more and more comparisons. Da Shuang's replies were also very aggressive. He would block anyone who mentioned Xia Xia in the comments.
Zhou Hui also discovered that Da Shuang had signed a contract with a company. Unlike Xia Xia, who signed a contract with a platform, Kuaishou had many self-media incubation companies, the largest of which was called HCN, and Da Shuang was an internet celebrity of HCN.
HCN is headquartered in Dongzhou, and the IPs of these water armies belong to...
Dongzhou.
After confirmation, Zhou Hui went to check with other bloggers in the same field signed by HCN, and found that there was a blogger with several thousand followers who was obviously imitating Xia Xia's style, and one of his videos was even showing signs of becoming a small hit.
It's very clear now. The water army was most likely hired by HCN to specifically target Xia Xia. As for why it wasn't Da Shuang, hiring water army also costs money!
There is no real grudge between Da Shuang and Xia Xia. At most, Da Shuang was annoyed by Ky's few words. But as long as HCN can bring down Xia Xia, its fake bloggers will take the opportunity to rise.
Zhou Hui first saved the evidence and sent it to Xue Pan.
After Xia Wu closed the mountain, many netizens who came specifically for the event were unhappy. Some people also chose to express their dissatisfaction online. Jian Zhuang was very happy to see that some people shared the same opinion as him, and posted another video to refute his doubts. Now, even if some people did not believe him, they could not say anything more to refute him.
"I can't kill you, bitch. You really think you're so great! You're even renting a house. Who knows where a woman gets the money from?"
Jian Zhuang echoed netizens' doubts about Xia Wu online while cursing to himself.
More and more uninformed netizens followed Xia Wu's long video, some scolding him and some laughing at him.
The atmosphere in Yanggou Village is not as good as before. Most of the tourists have left and the village has suddenly become much quieter.
Yang Guofeng arranged people to clean up the plastic garbage in every corner, while feeling worried.
He followed fashion and trends, and asked his son to teach him how to use the Internet. He also opened an account named "Yanggou Village Secretary Guofeng" and usually posted some pictures of the village. However, apart from the villagers and his family who viewed them, it did not make much splash.
Now all the bad things on the Internet have been pushed to Yang Guofeng. Even the villagers who work outside often call Yang Guofeng after hearing about what happened in the village.
Most people were relatively normal and just cared about the affairs of the village, but there were also some people who felt that Xia Wu was messing around and bringing outsiders into the village to ruin its reputation and cause damage.
Yang Guofeng scolded these ungrateful people.
At this time, Xia Wu, the central figure of the topic, was spending his days leisurely at home.
She was really annoyed by those uninvited netizens and had to stop and think about what to do next.
She definitely wanted to make money, but if earning money meant being tortured like this, she felt that money wasn't so attractive anymore.
Seeing their daughter's expression, Yang Guojun and Liu Guizhen both felt that she was so upset that she didn't even dare to look at her phone. How pitiful! What if something bad happened to her again? What would they do then?
Zhao Jing shared the same worries as Yang's father and Liu's mother. She was even more anxious. Xia Wu was her boss! If his erratic behavior affected her job, she might not be able to work at home and would have to go out to work. The thought of that made Zhao Jing want to yell, "No!"
Everything in the Shuijing Courtyard was running normally, except for Xia Wu.
Zhao Jing could only find Yang Shuhua and ask him to help think of a solution.
Yang Shuhua scratched his head: "What can I think of? I've already gone online to argue with them!"
Zhao Jing was so disappointed: "Stupid! Can't you meet Mr. Xia? They are staying at Ji Yunzhou's place, so they will definitely tell Ji Yunzhou!"
"Will it be useful if Ji Yunzhou knows it?" Yang Shuhua looked puzzled.
Zhao Jing: “…” She was speechless about the straight man.
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