Chapter 177: It Can Sell For This Much? His Luck Has Arrived?
When Ding Lei and her best friend He Yuan arrived at the parking lot, they discovered that there were already five people there setting up advertising boards.
The key point was that they were also looking to acquire royal jelly and scar removal cream, and were offering ten thousand.
Seeing this, the two of them could only move to another side and change the content on their sign, also offering ten thousand to buy.
They truly had not expected to encounter competitors right from the start.
Just then, a small truck covered with a cloth arrived. Two people came out from inside the Chen Clan, one wearing glasses and the other burly, looking like a bodyguard.
The newcomers were Sun Kong, assistant to Liu Ye, and one of the bodyguards.
After reaching the small truck, Sun Kong had the boss bodyguard pull off the cloth, revealing a large LED advertising board on the truck, along with a big battery.
Moments later, that LED advertising board was moved down from the truck and carried over in this direction.
Seeing this, Ding Lei, He Yuan, and those five people suddenly had a bad feeling.
Sure enough, a moment later, eye-catching content lit up on the LED board.
As expected, it was also for acquiring Chen Clan lucky draw prizes.
Moreover, apart from premium thunder bamboo, they were offering twenty thousand for both royal jelly and scar removal cream.
Most importantly, they were also acquiring the calming talismans, at twenty thousand per talisman.
This price was far higher.
Sun Kong had already noticed Ding Lei and the others earlier and did not care about them at all. Since his boss had given orders for those prizes, they were not something others could compete for.
Those five people were the assistants of Lobster and her group. Seeing this, they hurriedly took out their mobile phones to report to Lobster and the others.
At this moment, Lobster, Crooked Mouth Dragon King, and several girls had already gathered in Xiao Yu’s courtyard. Today, each of them had a show appearance.
It was essentially a catwalk, letting tourists film videos.
It was just various national style activities with different forms of runway shows. A few days ago, there had been twin girls participating in a national style event, one cosplaying Ning Yao in the scenic spot, constantly photographed by tourists.
That was actually their form of catwalk performance.
And previously in Hangzhou City, several national style girls had sat on a boat greeting tourists on both sides, posing in various ways to cooperate with photos. That was also a type of runway performance.
So national style internet celebrities needed to hold up in appearance offline. Most of them had no real talents; they relied purely on looks plus hanfu plus ancient style catwalks, cooperating with tourists’ filming.
If their appearance did not hold up, offline photos would only draw ridicule. Then why would people spend more than two hundred thousand to invite them to an event?
Xing Gou was the best example. Online, she was the goddess of countless fans; offline, she really fell short and was instantly crushed by the blue-clothed war god.
The girls were in the middle of catwalk practice when they all received messages from their assistants.
“Someone is competing, and their price is higher than ours?” Lobster immediately complained, “No way, we must buy some scar removal cream. Add one thousand on top of their price.”
She directly gave instructions to her assistant over the phone.
The other girls were also very surprised. They knew how effective the stuff was, which was why they had sent their assistants early in the morning to set up boards to buy.
They also hurriedly instructed their assistants to add one thousand yuan on top of the competitor’s price.
Chen Clan Parking Lot.
After receiving orders, their assistants rewrote the prices on the boards so that royal jelly and scar removal cream were one thousand more than the other party.
Seeing this, Sun Kong could not help but smile.
Adding one thousand?
Too stingy.
He directly picked up his mobile phone, opened a program editor, and modified the advertisement content. Moments later, scar removal cream and royal jelly were raised straight to thirty thousand.
Several assistants were dumbfounded and hurriedly reported back again.
Lobster and the others were also stunned when they got the report.
How unreasonable.
They had raised their price by one thousand, and the other side had raised it by ten thousand in one go.
Would that not mean paying more than thirty thousand for one portion of scar removal cream and royal jelly?
They thought about continuing to raise the price, but when they imagined the other side increasing by ten thousand each time, that would just be humiliating themselves by following suit.
Would they really pay forty thousand for a portion of royal jelly and scar removal cream?
They could not bear that. People said internet celebrities earned a lot, but after car loans and mortgages, only they knew their real situation.
Besides, a box of scar removal cream was so small.
They could not bring themselves to do it either.
After thinking it through, they decided to give up.
It would be better to try later through connections to see if they could buy some from the Chen Family Head.
Most importantly, in this Chen Clan lucky draw, each prize had many units. The other side could not possibly buy all of them.
If the others did not buy, it would be their turn.
Parking lot.
After getting the girls’ instructions, the assistants no longer raised their bids and just left the boards with those prices there.
Seeing this, Ding Lei and He Yuan directly gave up as well.
Mainly because the amount of royal jelly and scar removal cream in one portion was not much.
If they were not real rich people, who would pay such a price?
Seeing this, Sun Kong also smiled. It was within his expectations. He then had the boss’s bodyguard keep watch there, while he returned to his boss.
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People who had bought tickets for the Chen Clan national style event were not only those who had arrived at the Chen Clan last night; many had gone to Linhe County.
Because they could not book rooms at the Chen Clan or Shangyuan Village, they had to book hotels or guesthouses in the county.
Early this morning, these tourists also received the news and boarded the special “Chen Clan guiding spirit boat,” which was actually a bus, traveling from the foot of the mountain to the Chen Clan.
This “Chen Clan guiding spirit boat” route was specially arranged by the county to shuttle tourists who had booked tickets for the Chen Clan national style event. Each vehicle was painted with special paint.
The words “Chen Clan guiding spirit boat” on it were especially eye-catching. Later, this route would be set as a regular one so tourists going to the Chen Clan could ride from the county at any time.
Cai Yao and her boyfriend got on the earliest “Chen Clan guiding spirit boat” in the morning. As soon as they entered Shangyuan Village, they saw the lively scene outside the Chen Clan.
The cultivation market was already full of tourists early in the morning, along with many vendors selling goods.
Now it had also become one of the must-visit check-in spots for many tourists.
On the bus, Cai Yao took out her phone and recorded a video.
When the “Chen Clan guiding spirit boat” stopped at the parking lot, the passengers got off and looked around. Some were drawn to several advertising boards outside the parking lot.
“What is that?”
“Let’s go take a look.”
Cai Yao and her boyfriend were also attracted. When they walked closer, they discovered that these were boards buying Chen Clan lucky draw prizes.
Everyone coming to the Chen Clan national style event now knew about the lucky draw and that the prizes were very precious.
She and her boyfriend were hoping to win a prize. Whether it was premium thunder bamboo spirit tea, royal jelly, or scar removal cream, anything would be good.
They just had not expected that there would be people specifically acquiring these Chen Clan prizes, and the key thing was that the prices were jaw-dropping.
“One portion of royal jelly is actually thirty thousand?”
“People are willing to spend more than thirty thousand on scar removal cream, and these calming talismans are actually worth twenty thousand?”
“Over there, there are also boards offering twenty-one thousand to buy royal jelly and scar removal cream.”
The prices were truly shocking.
At first, everyone had thought of these things as precious, and winning one would be a surprise. Now, each of them started to calculate.
If they won one, it would be a windfall.
Nearby, a girl in her early twenties had already picked up her phone to film the acquisition information and prices on the LED advertising board and uploaded it online, writing the title:
《If it is this kind of calming talisman, if you obtain fifty calming talismans you can marry me!》
After recording, the girl directly clicked send on her Douyin.
At twenty thousand per calming talisman, fifty would be just one million.
After all, her previous boyfriend had given her thirty thousand in pocket money each month. Although they had only dated for two months and broken up because she chatted a bit with a male classmate, the experience made her feel she was worth such a bride price.
The internet is sometimes very hard to understand and interpret, let alone fully master.
Some people spend a lot of money and effort making carefully crafted videos for Douyin that get no attention, sometimes ending push stream with only five hundred views and single-digit likes.
But some topics, even if filmed casually, can easily attract attention and even gain huge traffic.
Regarding bride price, this topic not only easily attracts attention but easily creates confrontation, provoking men and women to argue and curse.
Some internet celebrity bloggers, knowing this well, deliberately use such topics to incite conflict and gain traffic in this immoral way.
When a video about bride price is tagged with the Chen Clan national style event and drags calming talismans into the bride price topic, it has all the elements for attention and popularity.
Especially when the girl posting it looks decent under beauty filters and special effects, it becomes even more discussable.
At the very least, most unmarried men will subconsciously click in, as the pressure of bride prices for marriage is huge nowadays.
Needing a car and a house is one thing; bride price often runs into hundreds of thousands. It is truly unaffordable.
Rather than spending hundreds of thousands on a bride price with the risk of divorce, some would rather spend that money more generously while dating, get the girl into bed for half a year or a year, and when it comes time to talk marriage, deliberately break it off over bride price and then move on to the next.
So it is not surprising that someone like Liu made the news, providing many men with a so-called viable path.
As long as you do not treat dating as being for marriage, then hundreds of thousands in bride price is no longer a problem.
Now, seeing a girl say that if you obtain fifty calming talismans you can use them as bride price to marry her, many unmarried men got excited.
After all, what money do fifty calming talismans cost?
You can easily get calming talismans at a daoist temple. Many temples sell them for only a few yuan each.
A girl who would marry for fifty calming talismans must surely treat money as dirt and care more about sincerity.
With this mindset, many guys went in planning to give a like and leave praise in the comments. But after watching the video, they were all dumbfounded.
The video showed one of the Chen Clan advertising boards, where the acquisition information could be seen clearly.
Many of them already knew about the Chen Clan national style event and the lucky draw. They had not expected people would pay so much for royal jelly and scar removal cream.
Naturally, what stunned them most was that the calming talisman actually required twenty thousand per piece.
The saddest thing in this world is when you interpret what you understand and what others are saying as the same thing, and even get sentimental about it.
Turns out the girl meant calming talismans that cost twenty thousand each.
In other words, she wanted a bride price of one million.
“Screw this, who would hurry to take such a little fairy home!”
“Damn, why are there more and more little fairies like this online?”
“What the hell, if I had one million, wouldn’t a college girl be nicer?”
“Upstairs, high school girls are nicer, and cheaper than college girls.”
“…”
In an instant, the comment section under this video was filled with hostility.
Seriously, these little fairies always come up with some confusing tricks to fool people. It is impossible to guard against.
Naturally, many people also focused on those calming talismans.
“What kind of calming talisman costs twenty thousand each?”
“Last year I got a calming talisman at Wudang.”
“Here is a prompt for everyone: the advertising board has Hao Zhu’s Weixin contact. Anyone with calming talismans can take action.”
“Done +”
“Done +”
“…”
The girl had not expected that a casually uploaded video would suddenly go viral in just a few minutes, with like and comment notifications popping up nonstop.
This delighted her. She had not expected a random video to blow up. It was an unexpected surprise.
But when she saw certain loser guys cursing her as a little fairy, she became annoyed.
Those loser guys were acting like someone would want them. She was looking for high-quality men like her ex-boyfriend who could give her thirty thousand a month in pocket money.
After silently complaining, she saw all those “Done +” comments and was startled. She quickly set the video to private.
It seemed posting someone else’s contact online might be very bad and could even carry legal liability.
But when she noticed that sixty-three people had already shared the video, she was dumbfounded.
Did it have to be that fast?
She really had not done it on purpose.
On the other side, Sun Kong was accompanying his boss in a game of chess. Liu Ye did not have many hobbies; chess happened to be one. One reason Sun Kong could become his assistant was that he knew how to play.
The other man’s chess skills were good, able to pressure him without actually defeating him. Liu Ye played to relax and did not want to lose.
Suddenly, Sun Kong took out his phone and was stunned. In a short time, more than three hundred eighty friend requests had appeared on his Weixin.
“???”
What was going on?
Reading the messages attached to those requests, his frown deepened.
“Hao Zhu, can we get to know each other?”
“Rich guy, I have two calming talismans from Wudang. Are you buying?”
“I just came to see the rich guy’s Weixin.”
“Saw the contact in the video. I have ten thousand freshly printed calming talismans here. Brother, do you have some special channel? Please take me along!”
“…”
“…” Sun Kong was completely stunned. He had just helped his boss set up a board to acquire those prizes, and now this.
In a blink, he saw another dozen people applying.
From those messages, he more or less understood. The content from his LED board had been posted online.
Was this not causing trouble for him?
If someone actually won and wanted to sell, how was he supposed to know who was real?
Speechless, he quickly set his Weixin to disallow new friend requests.
This account was basically ruined for now.
He had not thought it through. He could only take out his phone and call the boss’s bodyguard, telling him that if anyone came to sell, they should contact him by telephone.
…
Elsewhere, Cai Yao and her boyfriend had already completed the check-in procedures. They had only been able to book a secondary feng shui room, located in the courtyard of a Chen Clan member.
But she had to admit that although it was in a Chen Clan member’s courtyard, the room was very nice, well renovated, and the courtyard environment was very good.
The most important part was the separation. The tourists’ activity areas were clearly defined and the Chen Clan people would not disturb them.
The key point was the service. Chen Clan members provided dedicated service, and they could order meals directly from them without having to go to the tourist service center.
That was pretty good.
After settling in, Cai Yao and her boyfriend put on hanfu. They had bought hanfu specifically to get a ticket discount, and besides, coming to a national style event without wearing hanfu would be a waste.
After changing, they left the courtyard. After walking only a short while, they saw one of the Chen Clan’s cows.
Many people now knew that the Chen Clan had three very clever cows named You, Lu, and Shou. This was an adult cow, and she did not know whether it was Lu or Shou.
She remembered that these You Lu Shou cows could guide guests.
But now this cow looked like it was just wandering around, without any intention of guiding anyone.
While she was thinking this, she was shocked to see the cow walk toward her, then crouch down in front of her and call out twice.
“???” Cai Yao was stunned. Was it letting her sit on its back?
But she had already checked in and did not need guiding.
Still, this sudden situation made her eager to try. She had never seen a tourist given the privilege of a cow voluntarily letting them ride.
She quickly took out her phone and started a mobile phone recording. “I just arrived, and one of the Chen Clan’s cows ran over to let me ride. Is this good luck coming my way?”
