"I'm so angry!"
Xu Shang clenched one hand into a fist and grabbed his chest with the other hand, his eyes seemed to be spewing flames.
Damn it!
Just let yourself take the blame!
I didn't expect that he would slander me like this.
Xu Shang immediately opened the Metamorphosis forum and quickly typed out the post titled "The Unknown True Story of Metamorphosis Part 2", in which he argued for himself.
Just after the post was sent out, Xu Shang immediately received several replies.
But what Xu Shang didn't expect was that in the fourth reply, an ID called 'Diamond Star Fist' posted such a message.
"You are Xu Shang, right?"
Xu Shang was silent for a moment. How could this guy be recognized?
Then, Diamond Star Fist posted another comment in the thread: "It seems that I was right. You are Xu Shang."
Without waiting for Xu Shang to reply or delete the post, the entire thread, and even the entire Metamorphosis forum, became bustling with excitement.
"Oh my god! I am here!"
"I didn't expect Xu Shang to be a friend too!"
"I feel sorry for Xu Shang being a low-quality friend!"
"I'm here to reveal the truth! Let's talk about this. How much do you believe Xu Shang's words?"
Seeing that the forum was full of posts mocking and ridiculing him, Xu Shang felt extremely helpless. He knew that, at least for now, he had lost the forum, which was the most advantageous public opinion platform on the Internet.
Check out these snippets:
"I didn't cheat!"
"I, Xu Shang, am the best at collecting medicinal herbs. What? Five cents a pound. Do you know anything about medicinal herbs?"
"I'm so touched that my grandma gave me money...it shouldn't be too much for me to use it to go online!"
"I, Xu Shang, love wasting food the most!"
Oh my god!
Xu Shang just wanted to roar to the sky!
I never thought that one day I, Xu Shang, would have so many black fans!
You have to know that the forums these days have a strong ability to output meme culture. Once upon a time, the phrase "Your mother is calling you to go home for dinner" became so popular that it was known all over the country. It is impossible for Xu Shang to whitewash himself in the forums and become a clown who is made fun of by memes.
no!
We must control our own public opinion channels!
Xu Shang learned from his mistakes and started to think seriously.
Not to mention, human potential is truly infinite at critical moments. Xu Shang suddenly thought of a new public opinion position in his mind.
Online video!
This year, a video website that dominated the Internet for a while just happened to emerge. It was Youku.com, and it was known as one of the two major personal video giants in China along with MaTu.com, which had just been established for two years.
Different from other video websites of the same period, such as Fengyingshi, which mainly provide video player services, these two websites are more inclined to individual broadcasters sharing their own videos. After their emergence, countless talented individual broadcasters emerged at once, creating a precedent for the great era of online video in the future.
Xu Shang is very clear that the core users of these two websites are currently young people with a pioneering spirit, and young people are the most effective group in spreading public opinion.
But on second thought, Xu Shang found that he seemed to be short of money again.
It was not easy to be a video broadcaster in those days. Ten years later, you only need a mobile phone to complete the whole process from shooting and recording to editing and uploading. In this era, whether it is a video camera or digital camera for shooting videos, or a computer for editing videos, it is a considerable expense.
After searching the approximate prices on the Internet, Xu Shang found that if he wanted to shoot his own videos, edit them and upload them, he would need equipment worth at least 10,000 yuan.
Xu Shang gritted his teeth and said, "It's just ten thousand yuan. I'll earn it to show you!"
…
When Xu Shang returned to the village on his Mazda tricycle, it still caused a small sensation in Tianya Village.
"oh!"
The innocent children ran after the tricycle, looking even more excited than Xu Shang himself. When Jiang Fuqiang saw Xu Shang actually driving a tricycle back, he even asked Jiang Xiaotiao to buy a string of firecrackers and set them off at the door.
Xu Shang really didn't expect that the people in the village would be so excited about such a tricycle. It made him feel as if he had bought a BMW or Audi in the future.
Xu Shang also followed the local customs. Fortunately, he had purchased some things specially during his trip to the town, including a large bag of Golden Monkey milk candies. He gave two pieces to each of the children who were picking up firecrackers nearby.
In fact, there are cars in the village, but there is only one Shifeng brand three-wheeled vehicle and two agricultural tractors.
The people in the village felt that it was not cost-effective to buy a small tricycle like Xu Shang's. If they added a little more to the price of more than 4,000 yuan, it would be enough to buy a large tricycle.
However, Xu Shang would definitely not do that, because even in this era, large tricycles require a corresponding driver's license to operate, while this kind of small tricycle does not even require a driver's license to operate, just like the electric tricycles of later generations.
The villagers were also talking about it.
"Xiao Xu bought a car so quickly, he must have made a lot of money selling drugs!" Some people couldn't help but have some strange thoughts, but such thoughts quickly disappeared.
Because someone said: "Didn't you watch TV? Xiao Xu's medicine can't be sold at a high price. He secretly took money out of the bank and gave it to us!"
"It's not like everyone has a TV like yours."
Others also showed envious looks.
In 2006, televisions were already very common, but in the poor Tianya Village, only a few families had televisions, not to mention the limited channels they could receive. In fact, this family was the only one in the village who could watch the show "Metamorphosis".
However, with the presence of this family, the villagers' views of Xu Shang changed greatly.
"He went to the bank to withdraw money to pay us? Does he have so much money that he can't spend it all?
"You don't know, his father is a big boss! He makes tens of thousands a year, and his pocket money is said to be tens of thousands!"
“So rich!”
"Xiao Xu is a good kid!"
When the villagers thought about Xu Shang going to the bank to withdraw his New Year's money and paying money to buy medicinal herbs from them, the way they looked at Xu Shang changed. Although their original intention that Xu Shang was a sucker had not changed much, there was a hint of holy light in their eyes about Xu Shang, and he even had a sense of being a saint.
Xu Shang didn't know why everyone was looking at him so strangely, but he still announced his plan.
"I'm going to sell breakfast in town tomorrow! Is there anyone willing to go with me?"
Hearing this, everyone became excited.
“Are you selling chive boxes?”
"How much does it cost to hire someone per day?"
"Not selling leek dumplings." Xu Shang shook his head. He hadn't decided how much to pay per day, so he decided to discuss it with the village chief later. As for what to sell, Xu Shang felt that the production efficiency of leek dumplings was too slow. He wanted to make something that could be baked faster and have a competitive edge.
At this moment, an impressive delicacy suddenly emerged in his mind.
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