C16 – I’m Actually Wealthy!

“I grew them myself.”

“The seeds are a household heirloom.”

“I’ve no mother and father…”

“Single…”

“Peak: 180cm; weight: undecided.”

“I’ve by no means been in a relationship…”

As Zhao Yuegu continued to reply, he sensed that the interview was taking an odd flip.

Why would an expert journalist ask such off-topic questions?

“What does my being single must do with watermelons?”

“The viewers enjoys this type of factor, however in case you’re not snug with it, I can edit it out later.”

There was a sly glint in Ma Yabei’s eyes.

Zhao Yuegu felt the onset of a headache.

Was this actually the famend nationwide reporter?

Had this system crew not verified Ma Yabei’s credentials, Zhao Yuegu might need doubted her intentions behind the guise of journalism.

Nonetheless, Zhao Yuegu confronted the digicam and solemnly voiced the collective aspiration of his village.

“If we had a street connecting us to the surface world, Walden Village would certainly escape poverty!”

Ma Yabei expressed her help.

The considered a mountain with no street was certainly scary.

Even with a street, she may nonetheless get misplaced.

However Ma Yabei thought of leveraging her household’s affect to construct that street for Zhao Yuegu.

It was all within the identify of rural revitalization!

Actually to not make her watermelon visits extra handy.

Zhao Yuegu acknowledged Ma Yabei’s ulterior motive and let loose a sigh.

“Don’t underestimate the problem of developing this street.”

“The closest present street is simply 30 miles away in a straight line.”

“However navigating the mountain terrain may stretch the journey to 100 miles.”

“In some areas, frequent landslides wreak havoc on the paths.”

“The optimum answer can be to carve via the mountain and create a tunnel.”

At this level, Zhao Yuegu couldn’t assist however really feel a bit disheartened.

Tunneling would require a large defend machine.

The associated fee per meter may vary from 4,000 to eight,000 yuan.

For a ten-kilometer tunnel, simply the preliminary prices may soar to 40 to 80 million yuan!

And that doesn’t even issue within the bills for paving the street and ongoing tunnel upkeep!

It appeared that Zhao Yuegu must pour his complete fortune, probably over 100 million yuan, into this venture to make the street a actuality.

The prohibitive price and complexity had been exactly why the county had deserted the concept of constructing this street.

Relocating the whole village was deemed probably the most cost-effective poverty alleviation technique!

The street was a troublesome one to pave, actually and figuratively.

In the end, it boiled all the way down to funds.

The price of street development was vastly disproportionate to the advantages.

Nonetheless, pushed by their skilled integrity, they made certain to publicize the villagers’ hopes.

As soon as again on the courtyard, Ma Yabei uploaded the edited video utilizing the gear she had introduced alongside.

Zhao Yuegu mirrored for a second and grasped the workings of the communication gadget.

Not like commonplace gadgets that rely on sign towers for transmission, Ma Yabei and this system crew’s gear operated by way of satellite tv for pc.

Satellites may attain any nook of the globe.

Their solely flaw was the potential for sign loss throughout heavy rain, fog, or comparable climate circumstances.

Regardless of this, Zhao Yuegu couldn’t assist however really feel a twinge of envy.

“I ought to get a few these for my place.”

The footage Ma Yabei captured was swiftly delivered to the media workplace.

As soon as permitted, it was uploaded to varied brief video platforms.

Brief-form content material had profoundly impacted conventional media, prompting them to undertake these platforms and amass a considerable following.

This explicit story created an uproar!

“Watermelons with astronomical worth tags? Are they really price it?”

“Yabei, the goddess, doesn’t lie. May they be that tasty?”

“Is the villagers’ sole want actually to have a street main out of the mountains?”

“No street, no electrical energy, no web – life in Walden is unbearably laborious!”

“It’s no shock the path to the village is elusive!”

The video rapidly went viral, drawing extra consideration to the impoverished mountain village.

Solutions to begin a donation fund to construct the street started to flow into.

The backlash towards Zhao Yuegu on-line started to subside.

As a good conventional media outlet, fabricating such a narrative was out of the query.

The plight of this secluded, impoverished village garnered immense sympathy from netizens.

Even the exorbitantly priced watermelons had been now seen in a brand new mild.

Rich philanthropists had been able to open their wallets to assist Zhao Yuegu pave the way in which ahead.

Nobody understood the challenges of repairing that street!

The Oakroe Group stood among the many nation’s elite in tourism improvement!

Its market valuation soared previous ten billion.

Yang Guang, seated within the chairman’s workplace, stumbled upon a brief video throughout a uninteresting second.

His gaze lingered on the plush greenery and pristine waters behind, pleasure rising in his eyes.

After delving into the main points, Yang Guang rose to his ft, invigorated.

“Such an untouched pure habitat!”

“A Ming Dynasty historic city with distinctive fruits!”

“It’s the right website for a brand new vacationer hotspot!”

“This street, the Oakroe Group will certainly tackle the duty!”