Rebirth of the Almighty Internet Celebrity

Chapter 6
Li De is a chef in a star hotel.

In addition to his job, he also has a little-known identity, that is, a well-known Weibo big V in China.

His entertainment is very simple, and his leisure time at work is basically spent on Weibo.He has more than 100 million followers on Weibo.

Li De hasn't logged into Weibo for several days.

Not too busy with work.As the chief chef of Jinyuan Hotel, he is highly regarded by the hotel owner.It has been nearly ten years since I stayed in the hotel.On average every month, he spends no more than one hour cooking in person every day.

Li De doesn't even need to cook for himself unless a customer books the most expensive banquet in Jinyuan Hotel.

His daily job is to supervise and guide other chefs.

Li De is not in the mood to play Weibo these days.Something happened to his father back home.

The 89-year-old father, despite the dissuasion of the whole family, went to the field to pick hundreds of catties of peppers, loaded them into a trolley, and pushed them to the town to sell along the street.

The total output of chili peppers in my hometown is no less than [-] catties.Father Li pushed it to the town twice to sell it.The first time I had an accident, I received a counterfeit note.Fortunately, a kind-hearted college student passed by and bought the whole car of chili peppers at once.I couldn't eat so much, so I basically distributed it to passers-by.

The second car of chili that Old Man Li rolled out didn't meet any kind people again.

Every day from morning to night, only three or two catties are sold.For several days in a row, Father Li had to push the cart to Wei Town by himself.

Father Li accidentally twisted his foot on the way home the day before yesterday.Had to lie at home to recuperate.

The city where Li De works is nearly [-] kilometers away from his hometown.

He wanted to go home and see his father, but it was the busiest time for the hotel, so he was too embarrassed to ask for leave from his boss.

In this case, how can Li De feel better?

I don't even have time or mood to surf the Internet, let alone log in and update my Weibo.

Today, his wife made a video call in his hometown and saw that his father was already able to walk on the ground, and Li De's depressed mood eased.

Having not been online for several days, Li De couldn't wait to log on to his Weibo tonight to read fans' messages and interact with them.

After that, I clicked on my favorite "Purple Sweet Potato Video Network".

This "Purple Sweet Potato Network" is a video website that has sprung up in the past few years and won the ratings champion.

Although I haven't watched the hot search list on the website for a few days, they are basically videos that Li De has watched.

Occasionally there are one or two that I haven't seen yet, and Li De clicks on them to take a look, but he doesn't think they are very interesting.

After watching the 5-minute free trial, Li De was not interested in spending the rest of the paid part to continue watching.

Or go to the newly uploaded video list to browse.

The new video list does not occupy as much space as the hot search list. It also has an introduction and recommendations from the website editor.

They are like forum articles that only list a topic.

The newly uploaded video list contains about a thousand videos.

In order not to let the video dominate the list of new videos indefinitely like "Zombie Cars".The website stipulates that newly approved videos can stay on the list for half a month.

After half a month, the click-through rate will not increase. In principle, the website will not arrange recommendations for better locations. At that time, unless you search by yourself, it will be difficult to find your video on the website page.But let’s not talk about whether it’s good or not, no one knows about your video, so who would search for it?
Li De browsed the list aimlessly.

I saw a piece of "Treadmill, run for half an hour every day, run for a good figure in three days"...

ignore.

Li De is a big man, and he has been rolling in the kitchen for more than ten years. The length and width of his body are almost equal, so he won't be so rare and slender like girls.

There is another "Old House of the Wang Family, the Essence of Ancient Architecture in Guangdong and Guangxi"...

ignore.

What is there to appreciate about the old house?Li De grew up in an old mud-brick house, and finally managed to get a mortgage on a three-bedroom apartment in the city.Old houses have never been his thing.

Another video: "Thinking for three days and three nights, I made up my mind today to pay 32 yuan to get a [-]-square-meter duplex apartment, without having to look at my boyfriend's face."

Li Deyi said.

Click in and read it with relish.

The 15-minute video cost Li 200 gold coins, equivalent to 2 cents in cash.

The shooting is a bit exaggerated, but it can also be used for entertainment after dinner.

Li De can click "like" casually, which also allows the creator to earn more.

"I'm such a prodigal, I woke up overnight and lost [-] million."

Li De didn't react immediately, so he clicked on this video.

After watching the free part for a few minutes, I suddenly realized that this is a short video that analyzes the causes, development and effects of dreams.

Li De was disgusted at once.

Get out now.

After watching a few more videos, I don't think it makes much sense.I only watched the free part.

Keep picking videos at will.

Click on "Xialiang Cuisine Issue 39: The Birth of Spicy Niu Tou".

After watching for a few seconds, Li De jumped up from the seat as if he was electrocuted.

The scalp was numb, and the feeling of "five thunders hitting the top" did not subside for a long time.

Li De couldn't believe his eyes——

The wrinkled old face, gray hair, and lonely expression appear in the video, which looks like his old father from any angle.

Li De was so dull, watching the old father in the video squatting in front of the pepper stall, covering his face with his skinny hands, mourning and crying.

There are not a few onlookers around.

There are constant voices of discussion in the video.

"Why is this old man crying so sadly? Could it be that there is an unfilial son in the family who doesn't even give him a bowl of rice and asks him to grow vegetables and peppers for sale, making a living?"

"No way? I'm afraid this old man is over 90 years old. Don't you care about the children of such an old man? If I give birth to such an unfilial son, I will slap him to death!"

"Don't make wild guesses! This old man is from our village. He received a counterfeit hundred-yuan note, and he was sad. It took half an hour for the person who gave the counterfeit money to leave, and he asked me to help him because of lack of confidence. Look at that piece of money, it's actually fake..."

"Even if this is the case, if an old man in his 90s comes out to set up a street stall, his children will not be much better."

"Perhaps the family has no children..."

"Don't say that. There is a son in his family who is a chef. It's a pity that he works far away in the northeast and sends money home every month. The old man can't live at home to grow something."

……

While the onlookers were chattering, a handsome young man squeezed in from the crowd.

After the young man briefly asked about the situation, he hesitated for a moment, took out a few red banknotes from his trouser pocket, and stuffed them directly into Father Li's hand.

The young man said that he would buy all of Dad's peppers.Ask Dad to calculate how much the chili is sold in total?If the money given just now is not enough, he will make up for it.

Father Li looked at the young man in disbelief.

All the onlookers said that the old man met a kind person.Repeatedly urging him to settle accounts quickly.

Father Li was reminded and couldn't care less about crying.Busy calculation.

A basket of peppers weighs 120 catties in total, so Father Li certainly knows it well.I only sold one catty this morning, and received counterfeit money.

Mr. Li also has a conscience. Someone will buy all the remaining 119 kilograms, so naturally he has to give them to them at the wholesale price.

After the calculation, he still had to find 39 yuan to give to the young man.

The young man generously said that there is no need to change the 39 yuan change.

But where does Father Li agree to?Repeatedly said that he had change.Insist on looking for young people.

The young man simply took the change.Immediately, I took a plastic bag and filled most of it, which weighed about four or five catties.According to him, these are enough for his stewed ox head.

There were more than a hundred kilograms of chili peppers left, but the young man said that he couldn't eat that much, so everyone should share it.

Next, the crowd of onlookers took plastic bags, and they didn't take too much. Each person took three or two catties, and divided up a complete basket of peppers in an orderly manner.

As the crowd dispersed, the video came to a screeching halt.

Of course, it's not the end of filming, but the payment stage.

Li De was sweating profusely.

After a moment of trance, he recovered.

Pay without hesitation and continue watching.

The rest of the content is that the young man, that is, "Xiao Liang" continued to appear on the scene, went to the vegetable market early in the morning to buy a few kilograms of big bull heads, and then went to the hypermarket to buy a large electric cooking pot... After that, it was stewed. Every step of the preparation, all the way to the tasting.

These contents are nothing new to Chef Li Deda, who cooks big meals every day.

But he still watched the entire video in silence with a grateful heart.

good!It is the heart of gratitude.

A strange young man can help a strange old man in distress, even if he needs to shoot a video, but Li De's father is really benefited.

Even if a few hundred yuan is not much, but the old father is so old and can't think about it all the time. If he becomes depressed and sick, it will be serious.

Doesn't Li De still know his father's character?
There is a high probability of getting sick from qi.

Therefore, Li De is now very grateful to the "Little Liang" who created this video.

From a professional point of view, or according to Li De's well-informed vision, the video that "Xiao Liang" hired someone to shoot can only be regarded as passing the mark.

Not to mention anything else, just the lighting, Xiaoliang’s video didn’t work at all.

Do other types of video use lights?Li De didn't understand either.

However, in food programs, the visual effects of various foods are not the same whether there is lighting or not.

Food must have "color, aroma and taste".It is difficult to show the taste and aroma in the video. Due to this, the "appearance" of the food is particularly important.

The star-rated hotel that Li De works for also hired a dedicated filming team to make food promotion videos for the hotel.People use more than one million shooting equipment, of which lighting equipment costs more than one hundred thousand.

Of course, Li De could guess that the video shot by "Xiao Liang" omitted lighting to save money.

If you have no money, you can only save money.

Followed "Xiao Liang", and by pressing his profile picture, you can pull out a total of 38 food videos released before.

There are very few hits in each issue, which is terrible.

As far as this problem is concerned, I can't even earn the money to invest in a camera, so I reluctantly omitted the use of lighting equipment, which is understandable.

From the beginning to the end, Li De never thought that Liang Teng's filming of the food show was the result of doing it on the spur of the moment. "Xiao Liang" was completely unaware of the importance of lighting for food photography (in the later stage, he wanted to buy some lighting equipment to squander the start-up capital of the system, but unfortunately the system did not approve it).

Li De felt that he was obliged to provide help within his ability to Xiao Liang—Xiao Liang who was in a difficult entrepreneurial situation.

To put it bluntly, Li De was going to help Xiao Liang promote his video.

(End of this chapter)