Chapter 794 The Power of Silt
At the same time, Li Yi's live broadcast was also opened. The live broadcast mobile phone was placed under the No. 1 seat behind Li Yi.
Within seconds of the live broadcast starting, thousands of people poured into the live broadcast room, and in an instant, barrages poured in.
“Oh shit! Look what I found!”
“Actually live broadcast secretly? Didn’t even say hello?”
“You didn’t give any notice? If I hadn’t caught it, I wouldn’t have known you were live streaming.”
“Where is this? Does it feel like it’s in a river or a lake?”
“I saw someone said on Weibo yesterday that Brother Yi and Yifei sneaked out of the hotel. So it’s true? Hahaha!”
“Is this an elopement? Where did you take Yifei?”
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A few seconds later, the number of viewers in the live broadcast room directly exceeded 10,000.
Turning back and looking at the live broadcast, Li Yixiao asked: "There are so many people still awake? Guess where I am now?"
“Reed Marsh? Is this Ning Province Film and Television City?”
“According to the refraction of light and quantum mechanics, I analyze that this should be in a body of water.”
“Must be on the way to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures!”
Seeing that their answers were getting more and more outrageous, Li Yi smiled and announced the answer: "We are now located on Zhenhu Lake in Jiayu County, Hubei Province. We are here to shoot a food documentary.
That’s right, it’s the one I mentioned in the show before. What we’re going to film this time is the process of picking lotus roots…”
With Li Yi’s introduction, the number of people in the live broadcast room also increased rapidly, and soon exceeded the display limit of 100,000+.
It is early in the morning, and it is also the time when Douyin traffic is at its lowest.
Those who stay up late have already gone to bed, while those who go to work haven’t gotten up yet.
The data of 100,000+ immediately pushed Li Yi’s live broadcast room to the first place on the live broadcast list.
Hearing Li Yi's words, many viewers in Hubei Province excitedly posted comments.
“Wow! You actually came to Hubei Province?”
“It’s under Jiangcheng! It’s so close to me!”
“The lotus root in Hubei Province is absolutely delicious!”
“Stop talking! Get dressed right now! I’m going to visit the class!”
Some of the viewers also wanted to send some gifts, but found that the gift function was turned off, so they sent comments asking Li Yi to turn on the gift function.
Seeing these barrages, Li Yi smiled and said: "I accept everyone's wishes, so forget about the gifts. I started the live broadcast just to let everyone see the process of filming the documentary and chat with everyone. This is not to make money, everyone watch." Just let it be fun, there’s no need to buy gifts.”
After chatting with the audience for a few words, Li Yi turned around and continued chatting with Shengwu.
Shengwu has become much more relaxed at this time, and is gradually no longer afraid of the camera.
With his introduction, Li Yi also learned that the eldest brother who was punting his boat was a brother of Shengwu, named Mao Rong.
Mao Rong was more talkative than Sheng Wu. When the conversation started, they started talking about their brothers' experience as lotus root diggers.
It turns out that the two brothers come here to dig lotus roots every year during this season. This is the fourth year.
Both of their children are in school, and their tuition fees are earned by digging lotus roots.
In the early years, they went to work on construction sites with the contractor team.
But at the end of the year, I couldn’t make any money and I only earned a bunch of IOUs.
So they began to find work on their own.
On weekdays, they do whatever work is available, and digging lotus roots is considered a relatively lucrative job.
Although I am tired, I can earn seven to eight hundred at the end of the day, and on good days I can earn thousands.
After learning about their income, Liu Yifei exclaimed: "That's not a lot! It's twenty or thirty thousand a month."
If you could dig lotus roots all year round, you would make a lot of money! "
After hearing this, the audience in the live broadcast room also expressed their approval.
“I can’t earn ten thousand even if I work hard in an electronics factory for a month, so I might as well dig lotus roots!” However, some viewers who knew the specific situation sent barrage reminders.
“Don’t speak too early, digging lotus roots is really not something everyone can do.”
“Digging lotus roots is very hard. If your physical fitness is not up to par, you won’t be able to dig lotus roots. You will fall down from exhaustion after a while.”
In front of the camera, the two Shengwu brothers also looked at each other, smiled bitterly and shook their heads.
Liu Yifei couldn't see the barrage. When she saw them shaking their heads, she couldn't help but wonder: "What? Am I right?"
"No way."
Shengwu smiled shyly and said, "I can't bear to work for a month. My body can't bear to work all year round."
“That’s true, it’s all manual work, and you still have to combine work and rest.”
Liu Yifei said this, but she did not have a clear idea of the fatigue of digging lotus roots.
As he spoke, the boat had already reached the edge of a lake and field above the water.
The lake and fields are covered with dried lotus stems and rolled lotus leaves, all of which have turned yellow.
The lotus root diggers arriving from the front have already parked their boats at the edge of the field and went to the fields with shovels.
The Shengwu brothers also parked the boat at the edge of the field and asked the camera crew to get ashore first before they got off the boat with their tools.
“Ouch!”
As soon as they got off the boat, Ou Tian gave the film crew a warning.
A cameraman was carrying a camera and wanted to find a good shooting angle. He planned to walk a little deeper, but after just a few steps, he got stuck in the mud.
The thick and sticky mud is like ointment. As soon as you step into it, you will be sucked into it.
The cameraman was caught off guard and almost plunged into the mud.
At the critical moment, he was afraid of damaging the machine, so he leaned back and sat down in the mud. Fortunately, he did not damage the machine.
Several cameramen nearby saw this and wanted to pull him, but they were all stuck in the mud and could not move.
Liu Yifei also knows nothing about the power of mud. She cannot move if she steps into the mud.
Li Yi helped her stand firm before taking a step forward and pulling out several cameramen.
"Oh my God!"
The cameraman was still worried: "It's not even easy to walk here, how can we take pictures?"
Zeng Shun, one foot deep and one foot shallow, also walked over. Hearing this, he turned back and pointed at the two Shengwu brothers who were wading in the mud: "Everyone can walk, why can't we?"
Upon seeing this, the cameramen were speechless and stood up one after another and began to move.
“Don’t be anxious when walking in the mud, take your time and work hard.”
Li Yi taught them his experience: "Don't hook your toes. If it gets sucked, shake it a few times to let the air in, and then you can pull it out."
According to the method he said, the cameramen finally mastered the method of walking.
Although I’m still walking crookedly, I can at least take pictures.
Li Yi saw this and returned to Liu Yifei.
Liu Yifei stood in the mud, her knees submerged in the mud, like a lotus standing on the mud.
She was looking intently at the two Shengwu brothers, who had already begun to dig up the lotus roots.
The 500 yuan salary given by the film crew was just their extra money, and poaching the lotus roots was the bulk of their money.
The two of them had already found a location and dug up the mud with shovels.
Thick silt is somewhat similar in color to cement, but it is more delicate than blended cement and has no bubbles at all.
This means that there is no ambiguity about its weight at all, it is all real, and a shovel is a shovel.
After a while, the two brothers each dug a one-meter-deep trench, but there was still no trace of lotus roots.
Seeing this scene, the barrage in the live broadcast room suddenly exploded.
“Ah? Do you want to dig like this?”
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(End of this chapter)