After its release, "Let's Farm, Rich Second Generation" received a high score of 9.6 on Douban. The cumulative viewership of the two episodes exceeded 100 million, and the discussion of various topics has been consistently ranked in the top ten of the trending list.
The show's continued popularity has attracted widespread attention from netizens, but controversy has also arisen as a result.
Nan Xi's cryptic remarks during an interview have been interpreted as a veiled criticism of the five chaebols ganging up to bully newcomers.
As the farming reality show gained popularity, the incident continued to escalate, quickly making headlines on major entertainment news pages overnight.
At that time, the six people, who were completely unaware of the situation, were still planting the last piece of land.
Jiang Hexi was burning up under the scorching sun. Standing in the woods, she fanned herself with her straw hat in a very rustic manner.
"Village chief, this is the last plot of land. Once the planter rolls over that ridge, all 1,000 mu will be planted."
"Almost there, almost there!" Chu Yang stood up excitedly. "Three, two, one, run them over!"
He made a fist-clenching and fist-releasing gesture, his whole body pounding with excitement, then he opened his arms wide, looked up to the sky, and roared:
"We are liberated—"
Heaven knows how much hardship they endured to plant these thousand acres of wheat.
The heavy sense of accomplishment weighed on their shoulders, and they were incredibly excited when they took on this honor.
"We urged and scolded him every day, but we finally finished planting this thousand acres of land."
The village chief watched with satisfaction as the three tractors drove back, not forgetting to remind them:
"After the wheat is planted, it needs to be fertilized. Have you bought the fertilizer yet?"
Chu Yang snapped out of his daze: "What fertilizer?"
"If you don't fertilize the wheat when it's planted, how can it produce plump ears of wheat? And then you have to spray pesticides later. Have you prepared all the money for that?"
Chu Yang and Jiang Hexi knew nothing about it, so they finally found Shen Yingyu, the "head of the finance department," to resolve the matter.
Shen Yingyu picked up a pen and started calculating on the draft paper. Everyone was shocked when he did the calculation.
"If the cost of pesticides and topdressing for one mu of wheat is 200, then for one thousand mu it would be 200,000."
"Currently, the monthly revenue from free-range eggs is nearly 20,000 yuan. Peaches sell for a high price, with a net profit of 30,000 to 40,000 yuan per mu. Three mu would yield a profit of about 100,000 yuan. After a month, the wheat will turn green again and be fertilized. This 120,000 yuan will just cover the fertilizer expenses."
“None of these matters. The key is that I have discovered a fatal problem.”
Shen Yingyu stared intently at Director Chen and questioned him:
"The wheat yield is about 800 to 1,000 jin per mu. The purchase price of each jin of wheat is estimated at 1.1 yuan. After deducting the cost of harvesting and grain storage, it is almost impossible to pay off the program team's 900,000 yuan debt within six months."
Therefore, farming is a huge pitfall.
Yan Jie immediately realized, "The reason the production team contracted the land for a year was because they had already calculated that we wouldn't be able to pay off our debts after planting wheat, and we would have to continue planting corn. They were determined to make us work in the fields for a whole year."
Director Chen smiled noncommittally, "If you pay off the debt in six months, you won't have to farm for a year."
The five chaebols would never believe such high-sounding nonsense.
Jiang Hexi had never seen such a vicious production crew. She turned to the village chief and asked:
"Village chief, could we rent the land for only six months?"
The village chief pretended not to hear this and ran away as if fleeing.
Undeterred, Jiang Hexi shouted at his retreating figure, "Village Chief, you don't need to pay back six months' rent, five months' will do."
The village chief rode off on his electric tricycle, disappearing from everyone's sight in a cloud of dust.
Yu Xiangwan raised her hand and tapped Jiang Hexi's forehead as punishment:
"Look what you've done! You've scared the village chief away. Who's going to pick us up at noon?"
Jiang Hexi gestured with her chin, pointing to the interview vehicle in front, and the five people immediately understood what she meant.
After filming wrapped up and the staff went home, they couldn't get the six guests out of the interview car no matter what they tried. In desperation, they called Director Chen over.
Director Chen felt a headache coming on when he saw the six of them. "What are you all doing?"
Chu Yang bluntly stated, "Director, either hand over the car keys, or have the driver take us back. We can't possibly walk back in this scorching sun for half an hour."
"Who told you to scare the village chief away?"
Jiang Hexi scoffed lightly, "Director Chen, don't think I don't know that you and the village chief are in cahoots. In my eyes, riding in the village chief's tricycle or in your interview vehicle is the same thing."
This argument, which was based on sophistry, sounded quite convincing.
"I'll have the driver take you back."
Director Chen had a ton of things to deal with and didn't have time to waste here. Considering that this matter involved one of them being cyberbullied, he had to break the rules:
"Something bad happened this morning. I'll have the assistant director return your phones to you later. Take a look at the online comments and don't reply to messages easily. The production team will issue a unified response on the official Weibo account."
Jiang Hexi was still wondering why Director Chen was so easy to talk to and didn't make things difficult for them at all.
When she got her phone back and saw what it was about, she was so angry she felt like her lungs were going to explode.
Nan Xi participated in an interview program, and when the host asked her for her opinion on current variety shows, this is how she answered:
"Not long ago, I participated in a super popular variety show and found that the regular guests were very cliquish. They were all exclusive and extremely unfriendly to the guest stars."
The host asked knowingly, "It's not that comedy variety show I'm thinking of, is it?"
Nan Xi smiled but didn't say anything, basically acknowledging her guess.
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