Chapter 13 The first video is released!
"Xia Xia in the mountains."
All of a sudden, Yang Guojun and Liu Guizhen started searching with their phones.
"Let me take a look," said Mr. Yang, who was old and had poor eyesight. He reached for his reading glasses and put them on. He held his phone half a meter away and began to write, "Xia Xia in the mountains."
Not long after, an account popped up. I clicked on it and found that it had 0 followers, 0 fans, and only one video.
"This name is well chosen. It gives people a feeling of coolness in the mountains when reading it," Mr. Yang commented as he clicked on the video.
Xia Wu and Yang Hongwen also gathered around and watched the video with him.
What I hear are the croaking of frogs and chirping of insects in the early morning. The view falls on the trembling wild grass. As the camera moves, dewdrops hanging on the green grass leaves "plop" down, as if something is emerging from the water. The camera moves up, and it is a buffalo.
Buffalo's warm eyes stared at the screen, as if he could see into people's hearts through the screen.
"My name is Xia Wu. Xia means summer, and Wu means dense and lush vegetation. At the foot of the mountain, the vegetation is lush all year round."
A reserved female voice sounded, replacing the natural sound of insects, and then a graceful figure appeared in the camera. It was Xia Wu.
She was wearing a short-sleeved top, long jeans, black cloth shoes, and her hair was tied up high. She crossed the road and arrived at the Yang family's vegetable garden. Judging from her appearance and dress, she looked more like a young and beautiful college student on a university campus than a country girl.
But when she walked into the vegetable garden, squatted down, skillfully pulled out weeds, cleared the land, and then turned the soil, and the process of her planting strawberry seedlings made people believe that she was a skilled farmer.
"Oh my," Liu Guizhen laughed as she watched, almost unable to stop laughing, "It seems Xiao Wu is really good at her job. She's really amazing!"
Xia Wu chuckled. She had been observing Liu Guizhen's movements and postures when picking vegetables, and then learned them bit by bit. How could she not be similar?
"At the beginning, I was a little unfamiliar with the work. I kept thinking about how to make myself look good in front of the camera. Then I thought, people watching the video can't be watching me acting, so I just did whatever I felt comfortable with." Xia Wu shared her experience. She really couldn't let go at the beginning, but later on, she gradually got into it.
The first video is just over six minutes long, which is quite long in the era of short videos. The overall content consists of some empty scenes, with Xia Wu appearing on camera doing farm work planting strawberries, and observing the strawberry seedlings for the following week, leaving viewers with some room for anticipation.
"Grandpa, how do you feel about the filming?"
Xia Wu interviewed each family member one by one about their views.
"I think the video is well shot. If you hadn't told me it was shot in front of our house, I wouldn't have been able to tell."
"Because my brother paid attention to the depth of field and filters when shooting, it looks a little different from reality, but the difference is not big."
The scenery of Yanggou Village is extremely beautiful. Even without these filters, it is still incredibly beautiful, but the weather is uncontrollable.
"What? Did Xiaowen take pictures of the things in here?"
Yang Guojun was stunned.
"Did Xiaowen really take this photo? He's really capable of that!"
"You underestimated my brother. He took all these photos!" Xia Wu patted her brother's back proudly. She felt like she had discovered a genius.
The world photographed by Yang Hongwen is like his inner world, where time flows very slowly. So whether he is photographing empty spaces or people, it always gives people a feeling of prolonged time and leisure.
This feeling is something you can only encounter by chance.
Xia Wu only needs to do a little editing in the later stage to create a completely different look and feel from other rural track bloggers.
Upon hearing this, Yang Guojun and Liu Guizhen scrolled back to the beginning to watch the video again. When they realized that it was all taken by their silly son, they had a different feeling when watching it again.
Liu Guizhen covered her mouth and even felt like crying.
Grandpa Yang also had mixed feelings. "That's good. God closed a door for Xiaowen, but at least he didn't forget to leave him a small window. In my opinion, you guys shot the video very well. Keep shooting. No matter what others say, shoot whatever you want!"
"Great!" Xia Wu gained his grandfather's support and jumped up happily. Then he made a request: "Grandpa, can my brother and I take a picture of you?"
Old Master Yang was stunned. "Take a picture of me? I'm almost half buried in the ground. What's there to take a picture of?"
"Then why can't we film it? You're handsome and you can treat illnesses. City people have never seen this before. If we film it, it will definitely be a hot topic!"
"That's right, Dad, just think of it as supporting your children's career and let them shoot!" Yang Guojun was watching the fun and fanning the flames from the side.
"Dad, Mom, I want to take a picture of you too!"
"ah?"
"ah?"
The couple were dumbfounded and embarrassed, "What's there to film about your mom and me? We don't know how to do anything..."
"Of course I can take pictures. Look at the cloth shoes my mother made for me. I haven't seen them in the city. And you, Dad, can fix all the farm tools in our house. You can even go up the mountain to chop firewood. People in the city have never seen that!"
This time it was Mr. Yang's turn to watch the fun. "Let them take pictures. There's nothing wrong with taking pictures."
Yang Guojun scratched his head embarrassedly, "How come people from the city have never seen anything like this?"
Liu Guizhen blushed and felt embarrassed when she thought about the scene, but for the sake of her child, there was nothing she dared to do.
"It's okay, shoot me, I'm not afraid!"
Xia Wu was very happy. She couldn't just have herself in her videos. What she wanted to show everyone was the countless creatures in the countryside, the flowers, trees, insects, fish, birds, animals, and all kinds of people.
After discussing it, Yang Guojun asked again: "Xiao Wu, when do you plan to shoot? Do we need to prepare anything?"
"No, you guys can do whatever you want, I'll take pictures whenever I want."
The more deliberate it is, the more unreal it becomes, and that is not the effect Xia Wu wants.
Shooting videos requires content. We just talked about beehives. Xia Wu thinks this is very interesting content. Plant more strawberries and do both wind farming and strawberry farming at the same time. How great!
As soon as she expressed her idea, she immediately received support from her whole family.
Grandpa Yang said he would go up the mountain to find Grandpa Pu to buy a box of wild bees. Liu Guizhen said the vegetables in the garden were getting old and needed to be pulled out. Yang Guojun said he would immediately find wood to build a beehive.
After posting the video, Xia Wu put it behind him and started to get busy with the next thing.
I gave the phone to Yang Hongwen and asked him to take pictures of everything his family was doing.
Encouraged by his family, Yang Hongwen was obviously more enthusiastic about shooting videos. Without Xia Wu's reminder, he just took out his mobile phone and started shooting. Sometimes he even knew to change his position to find the angle to shoot.
With him around, Xia Wu didn't have to worry about the filming, so he started working with his family.
Mr. Yang still had to see patients today. Shortly after dinner, he put on his medicine box and rode his bicycle away from home. Yang Hongwen took a picture of his back.
The Yang family's vegetable patch, about half an acre in size, is planted with several different vegetables, including beans, loofah, peppers, and pumpkins. By this time of year, the beans and loofah are already old, and the beans hanging on the vines are for seed. Liu Guizhen picks the beans and loofahs to save for seeds, and the loofah pulp can be used to make cloth shoes or clean pots.
Squeeze every last bit of heat out of these vegetables.
At the beginning, Liu Guizhen was a little concerned about the cameras that appeared in her sight from time to time, and her behavior was a little awkward, but after she immersed herself in the work, she forgot everything, deftly unscrewed the beans and loofahs, pulled the vines off the racks, put the usable bamboo sticks aside for a second time, and took the vines back to dry, which could also be used to start a fire.
Xia Wu followed her, changed into a short-sleeved shirt and long pants, and wore Liu Guizhen's ice sleeves and straw hat. He followed her example and worked together, and soon all the old seedlings were dealt with.
Regardless of whether the peppers are red or green, they are all picked, the stems pulled out, and then dried and burned.
After cleaning up for half a day, a large area of the vegetable garden was cleared. The sun was rising high and shining brightly, so several people went home first.
After returning home, Yang Guojun refused to stay idle, so he found the axe at home and said he wanted to go out for a while.
"Dad, where are you going?" Xia Wu took off her straw hat, revealing her flushed little face. Her hair was wet with sweat, sticking messily to the side of her face, and she casually hung it behind her ears.
"I'll go to the foot of the mountain and cut some bamboo to make you a straw hat."
Bamboo can also be used to weave straw hats? Xia Wu's eyes lit up. What a great material! "I want to go too!"
"It's hot now, and there are mosquitoes in the mountains. What are you going to do there?"
"I want to take a look," Xia Wu didn't care about that. He put on his hat again and followed Yang Guojun. "Mom, let's go out first."
"Okay, stand away from your dad while he's chopping bamboo so he doesn't get scratched!"
The father and daughter went out and got on a tricycle. Yang Hongwen followed them closely and never stopped taking pictures.
They did not go to the mother mountain, but went to a small hill near the village. There was a large area of bamboo planted here. It had no owner, and anyone in the village who wanted to use it could come and cut it. In recent years, fewer people have cut bamboo, and the bamboo forest has become more and more dense.
Yang Guojun is obviously very experienced. He does not cut down the bamboo that is too old. He even feels the texture of the bamboo before cutting. He stops after cutting only four or five bamboo strips. "This is enough. It doesn't take many bamboo strips to weave a straw hat."
After dragging the bamboo onto the tricycle, Xia Wu sat on it, holding the bamboo with one hand. Just then, a gust of wind blew by, and she held on to her big straw hat with the other hand, her face flushed.
Yang Hongwen filmed a video of the tricycle pulling the bamboo before getting on the tricycle and going home together.
After returning home, Yang Guojun started to cut bamboo strips, while Liu Guizhen was processing the dry and hard loofah pulp. Yang Hongwen was busy patting here and there.
Xia Wu's decision to shoot videos and create her own media was unanimously supported by her family. Suddenly, she had more materials. She was busy shooting new materials and forgot about the videos posted on her account.
After a busy day, Xia Wu had dinner and went to bed before eight o'clock after washing up.
When she woke up, Bugs Bunny was still sleeping soundly beside her arm, lying on his back with his furry little belly with a white bottom and his three-lobed mouth still moving. I wonder what delicious food he was eating in his dream.
Xia Wu was touched by its cuteness, so he took out his phone, took a selfie with it, and sent it to Qi Miaomiao.
Given the time difference, Xia Wu ignored Qi Miaomiao's lack of a reply and checked her account to see the video. The red 99+ startled her so much that she sat up straight. Bugs Bunny rolled around on the bed, then sat there in a daze, unsure of what was happening.
“Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Ahhhhh!”
Xia Wu grabbed Bugs Bunny and kissed him passionately, "Oh my god, there are so many people watching!"
Less than 24 hours after the video was released, Xia Wu's account gained more than 400 followers, the video was played more than 90,000 times, received over 1,000 likes, and received more than 300 comments.
Clicking on the comment section, the top comment is: "What a beautiful girl!"
This comment has more likes than Xia Wu’s video.
"Of course I'm pretty, superficial~" Xia Wu giggled. She's very self-aware, okay? She's never had any cosmetic surgery other than skincare. It's all natural, that's awesome!
Xia Wu changed his position and lay on the bed, holding Bugs Bunny to his chest and continued to read the comments.
"The filming is so beautiful, you can tell they've learned it! The background music is also very suitable. When I first clicked on it, I thought it was a program on a national channel. Hhh, the beautiful women are so eye-catching. It's very comfortable to watch. Thumbs up!"
"Fire Tongs Liu Ming! Blogger, look at me, look at me, I'm going to be your old fan from now on!"
"Is there a link to the strawberry seedlings? They look really good!"
When she comes across a comment that she likes, Xia Wu likes it and occasionally responds with a playful emoji. When someone asks her for strawberry seedlings, she says, "I just bought them from a store with high sales volume on Taobao. You can check it out yourself."
Xia Wu scrolled through hundreds of comments, reading them several times with gusto and giggling. This account of hers was off to a good start, wasn't it?
Great, I’m more motivated to make money by making videos!
Hearing the noise outside, Xia Wu quickly got up and ran to the yard in his slippers.
Yang Guojun was sweeping fallen leaves in the yard. "Why are you up so early?"
"Dad, look! Someone is watching my video!"
"What? Let me see," Yang Guojun took out his phone and started looking at it. "Hey, it's true! So many people are watching it, and some are even praising your good looks!"
"What?" Liu Guizhen, who was in the kitchen, heard the noise and came out. She wiped her hands on her apron and quickly pulled out her phone. Soon, she grinned. "Isn't that nonsense? Our daughter must be beautiful. Hey, someone even praised Xiaowen for taking great photos!"
Liu Guizhen was so happy with her children being praised that she couldn't stop smiling. She quickly went to the front room to find her grandfather and said, "Dad, check your phone! Someone has watched Xiao Wu's video!"
Xia Wu ran to her brother's room like a bird of good news. Yang Hongwen loved to sleep, so he was still asleep when Xia Wu entered his room.
Put Bugs Bunny next to his face, and Bugs Bunny began to lick his face. "Brother," Xia Wu squatted beside the bed and called softly.
"Wake up, get up!"
Yang Hongwen opened his eyes in confusion. Seeing Xia Wu, he was still a little unresponsive. After a moment of hysteria, he spoke: "Sister."
"Brother, hurry up," Xia Wu pulled him up, sat beside his bed, and clicked on the video. "Look, a lot of people are watching our video, and many of them are praising you!"
Yang Hongwen's eyes gradually brightened. He had studied for two years, but he still couldn't read. However, this didn't stop him from reading the tadpoles on his phone over and over again.
Xia Wu looked at his silly brother and felt warm in his heart. How about buying his brother a mobile phone now?
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