Li Xiang's self-media account is called "Xiang Ge'er's Secluded Farm". From registering the account to publishing the first video, he didn't go to bed until after two in the morning.
Fortunately, he didn't have to get up early to go to work, and now that he has stepped into the first-level extraordinary, he is full of energy, so staying up late is not a big deal.
Maybe the previous content didn't have any highlights, and there are many people doing this on the Internet. After a few days of publishing, the response has been mediocre, with more than a thousand likes and only five or six hundred fans.
Li Xiang didn't take it to heart. If he can do it, he will do it. If he can't do it, he will think of other ways.
Do first-level extraordinary people still have to worry about survival? It's nothing more than a quality of life issue.
In the countryside, if you have a few acres of land, even if you are poor, you will never starve to death. What's more, there are many wild game in the mountains.
Li Xiang continued to hold up his mobile phone and began to record the journey of transforming the backyard.
There is no live broadcast because there are too few fans, and his new account needs more video content to fill it.
Li Xiang thinks that everything is difficult at the beginning. In the early stage, you don't need to pay too much attention to these data. Just concentrate on making good content. Even if you don't do self-media, won't the backyard be renovated? After the renovation, the environment has improved, and it is himself and his grandmother who enjoy it.
It was a sunny day with a cool autumn day. The persimmon tree in the backyard of the Li family was full of fruits and the branches and leaves were swaying.
Two big yellow dogs were running around in the newly renovated backyard, and the pregnant old cat was lazily lying on the roof and taking a nap. In the distance, a group of chickens and ducks were playing in the mountains and forests, looking for delicious delicacies.
Li Xiang measured the appropriate position on the three large water tanks, drew lines with charcoal, and then cut a horizontal thin "long line" on each of the three large water tanks along the lines with a cutting machine.
These three long lines, about 20 cm long and about 5 mm high, penetrated the tank body. When the bamboo water pipe brought the mountain spring water over, it didn't take long for the clear and sweet mountain spring water to flow, and the "cascading water waterfall" was formed.
"It's still pretty beautiful. My craftsmanship and aesthetics are pretty good!" Li Xiang stepped back a few steps, pinched his chin and admired it for a while, feeling a great sense of accomplishment.
Next, he would find a few large bluestones to put downstream of the waterfall, and then dig a drainage ditch.
"This is good, this is good!"
After the grandmother came over to see it, she also praised the "cascading waterfall" made by Li Xiang. This is running water, and it is not afraid of freezing in winter. She can't wait to wash clothes and cook here.
"Grandma, wait a few days, wait until I build the kitchen, and then we will move to the backyard to make a fire."
Grandma said with emotion: "It's better for my grandson to come back. The small tile house in front has been there for many years, and it is tattered. I am worried that it will collapse when it snows in winter. It's better to move it here, it's better to move it here."
The old man couldn't help wiping tears.
"Grandma, what are you doing? Don't worry, with your grandson here, good days are still to come!" Li Xiang is confident. With the system, we are definitely the chosen son of heaven, and we can't be worse.
At the same time, about 1,500 kilometers away, at Li Xiang's former company, a former colleague was watching Douyin at his workstation after dinner. Suddenly, he saw a familiar video. The former colleague jumped up in surprise and shouted to the people around him: "I actually saw Li Xiang!"
"Is that the one who just resigned? What did he do?"
The former colleague showed the video to the other party and said: "He actually went back to his hometown to farm, and he also runs his own media and publishes short videos!"
"Let me see, let me see."
Soon, the news of Li Xiang making short videos spread throughout the company, and everyone was talking about it.
The previous manager also heard about it and couldn't help but sneered: "Do you really think it's that easy?"
The big sister who had instructed him to pick up the express delivery before curled her lips and agreed: "Indeed, you see, he only has so few likes and comments, and only a few hundred fans. Haha, that's it, and he also learned to make short videos from others?" Chen Huanhuan, the girl who had a good relationship with Li Xiang, also searched for Li Xiang's account out of curiosity. She clicked in and took a look. She couldn't help but pursed her lips and smiled gently, because Li Xiang in the video was so serious and handsome, although he was not dressed well and looked sweaty.
But why do I feel a fragrant smell coming through the screen?
"I hope you succeed, Brother Xiang!" Chen Huanhuan secretly wished Li Xiang well, and decisively liked and followed, and also left a message and comment below.
In other places, Li Xiang's college classmates and high school classmates also saw this video. Most people just glanced at it and swiped away.
Some people snorted: "What's going on? Why does Douyin only push these garbage videos now?"
In fact, for a short video publisher, the chance of seeing someone they know is still quite high.
Li Xiang did not buy traffic, so most of the people who saw it first were naturally people who had crossed paths.
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After Li Xiang dug the drainage ditch, he scoured sand and pebbles from the creek and spread them in the drainage ditch. This can't be called a drainage ditch, but a smaller version of the "gurgling stream" in the backyard.
He even dug some special-looking water plants and planted them in the drainage ditch, and scattered some snails he found.
At a corner, he expanded a circle and planted some pennywort.
In some green plant stores in big cities, a small pot of pennywort costs dozens of dollars, but in Li Xiang's hometown, it is just weeds and weeds, easily available.
After finishing the "backyard stream", Li Xiang cut down bamboo and started to build the kitchen.
Mortise and tenon structures were used in many places, and the top of the kitchen was covered with rainproof cloth and a thick roof made of thin bamboo branches and leaves, all fixed with wire and nails.
The ground in the kitchen was also paved with stones, and several paths in the backyard were paved with stones for walking on rainy days.
A leisure pavilion was built a little further away, with tables and chairs, swings, lounge chairs and other items.
Finally, there was enough material for the second video, and Li Xiang began to edit it and add music, subtitles, etc.
I have to say that it looks pretty good after editing. Li Xiang read it several times and thought there was nothing wrong with it, so he added a simple copy and released it.
This issue, perhaps because of the effect of the mountain spring water cascading waterfall, and the "explosive" content of the Gaomi knife cutting off a thick bamboo with one stroke, finally gained a small wave of traffic, more than 30,000 likes, and the number of fans increased to 7,000 or 8,000, and more than 2,000 people left comments.
Li Xiang smiled knowingly, feeling that it was still very successful. After all, it was just the beginning, and the requirements could not be too high.
However, some of his former colleagues and classmates saw
it and still looked down on it. "Only 7,000 or 8,000 fans, what's the use, I don't believe that someone like him can become a big Internet celebrity?"
"That's right, there are thousands of Internet celebrities, and there is absolutely no way Li Xiang can be one of them. He used to be silent, and his EQ was very low, and he didn't have any talent!"
"The end of traffic is to bring goods, what goods can he bring? Just his stupid mouth."
Many people complained sourly across the screen.