Chapter 909: The Small Mountain Village

The car finally arrived at its destination.

Arrived at its destination.

Stepping onto the dirt ground, a large cloud of dust attacked the nostrils and eyes of the humans present.

Jiang Ran coughed twice, squinted his eyes, and looked around.

His brows furrowed deeply, even more profoundly than when he had encountered a psychopathic killer trying to murder him.

"Seriously, what kind of god-forsaken place is this?!"

Wang Qingzhao also stepped out, taking in the surrounding environment.

Especially the mud-walled, tile-roofed houses not far away, she was taken aback: "This really is quite desolate."

Zhang Xue walked up, smiling: "Don't let the poverty fool you, the people here are all very pure and simple."

Jiang Ran said: "You really did come here for poverty relief."

"But, as for what you said about the people here being pure and simple, I'm not so sure."

"I've only ever heard that poor mountains and vicious waters breed cunning people."

Gao Yang walked up, snorting coldly: "Jiang Ran, I didn't expect you of all people to be into discrimination."

Jiang Ran certainly didn't know about the little grudge between him and Gao Yang.

Back then, the Complete Version main personality, seeing that Gao Yang was opening his beer too slowly, couldn't stand it and offered to help.

As a result, the other party directly ignored him.

Completely refusing to acknowledge him, clearly looking down on him.

Of course, that was the Complete Version main personality's displeasure with Gao Yang.

And what Gao Yang held against Jiang Ran, who was the Complete Version main personality at that time, was this.

During that meal, they encountered three drunk burly men who were harassing Zhang Xue.

After Gao Yang himself was humiliated, he watched helplessly as his girlfriend was about to be harassed, playing the shrinking turtle, only caring about self-preservation, not daring to step forward and protect his girlfriend.

But then, the Complete Version main personality Jiang Ran stepped in.

Successfully playing the hero saving the damsel.

Stealing all the spotlight.

Then, the police arrived.

These people were all taken to the police station, and Jiang Ran, because he had punched that criminal, had to pay over 1,000 yuan in compensation.

Zhang Xue felt she should cover the cost, but Gao Yang disagreed.

The two argued and fell into a cold war.

Because of this, Gao Yang held a serious grudge against Jiang Ran.

Jiang Ran ignored this passive-aggressive Gao Yang.

Instead, Wang Qingzhao spoke up: "Many people living in cities always assume that rural folks are simple and honest. That's purely their own imagination. If you actually ask people who grew up in the countryside, do they really think rural people are simple and honest?"

Clearly, this was speaking up for Jiang Ran.

Gao Yang snorted coldly: "So, are you a rural person?"

Wang Qingzhao said: "I'm not."

Gao Yang: "Then how do you know that rural people aren't simple and honest?"

Jiang Ran chimed in from the side: "Gao Yang, are you a rural person?"

Gao Yang: "No."

Jiang Ran: "Then how do you know rural people are simple and honest?"

Gao Yang opened his mouth to retort, but Zhang Xue cut in: "Alright, you three, stop arguing. We're here to get things done, not to fight. Stop worrying about whether rural people are simple or honest or pure."

With Zhang Xue's mediation, the three of them temporarily stopped bickering.

After everyone got out of the car.

Gao Yang and Qin Chuan each took a video camera from the trunk of their vehicles, preparing to start work.

Recording all kinds of footage.

Of course, the main subject of the footage was definitely Zhang Xue.

Jiang Ran, Wang Qingzhao, Zhao Yiwan, and Zhang Xue kept a certain distance from each other.

The group began walking into the village.

This village could truly be described as god-forsaken.

Everywhere were dirt roads and dilapidated houses.

All kinds of garbage could be seen scattered on the ground.

Things like torn clothes, plastic bags, paper, and unidentifiable plastic items.

It was a genuine backwater.

The cameras in Gao Yang's and Qin Chuan's hands were far from cheap.

Such equipment, along with the way this group was dressed, felt somewhat out of place in this village.

Because of this.

They quickly attracted the attention of the children and elderly at the village entrance.

These children were also dressed in dirty, ragged clothes, their faces red and dark.

They curiously sized up Jiang Ran's group, giggling and smiling.

Zhang Xue and the others certainly didn't just randomly pick a destitute village like this to film in. Before coming to such a village, they definitely came prepared.

For example, right now, the village chief walked out from a corner, smiling and greeting Zhang Xue and the others.

This village chief was in his sixties.

He was also dressed in clothes that looked gray and dirty.

The only decent thing was that at least his clothes didn't have holes here and there.

The village chief warmly hosted the group, being extremely hospitable.

He even had someone bring out apples for them to eat.

However, none of Zhang Xue's group ate them.

Jiang Ran didn't eat either.

He just pretended to hold one politely.

Wang Qingzhao and Jiang Ran walked in the back, and Wang Qingzhao asked Jiang Ran: "Why aren't you eating?"

Jiang Ran stared at the apple in his hand that held zero appetite appeal and looked like it hadn't even been washed.

His mouth twitched: "I don't like apples."

After chatting with the village chief for a bit, Zhang Xue and the others prepared to circle the entire village to shoot some footage.

The village chief just tagged along beside them.

And the appearance of Zhang Xue and her group also attracted quite a few villagers of all ages and genders.

One by one, they looked at Jiang Ran's group like they were watching animals at the zoo.

Because this village was located on the mountain, the villagers' houses were scattered all over the place.

Some were on the flatter terrain of the mountain, others were on the slopes.

All over the place.

It took roughly an hour to finish shooting one segment of footage.

The group returned to the village entrance again. They had the village chief gather all the children in the village.

Zhang Xue and the others came to the back of the white SUV, pulling out quite a few large paper boxes from it.

They carried the boxes to the village entrance.

Opened the box lids.

Jiang Ran poked his head in for a look.

To his surprise, they were all snacks that kids loved.

Of course, things like spicy strips, bubble gum, chewing gum, cola, Sprite, and those fifty-cent or one-yuan snacks from school supply stores, there were tons of them.

Besides that, there were also many pencil cases, pencils, gel pens, and so on.

There were even school bags.

Even short-sleeved shirts for kids.

Anyway, soon enough, the children at the village entrance were all gathered together.

Their ages were all quite young, five or six years old, seven or eight years old, just over ten years old.

About thirty or forty kids in total!

Then Zhang Xue, with a smile on her face, handed out things to these children one by one.

She would also ask affectionately, what's your name? How old are you this year? What grade are you in, and what dreams do you have for the future, all that cliché stuff.

Anyway, it was all being recorded by Gao Yang and Qin Chuan.

And so they handed things out like this, and time quickly passed to around four in the afternoon.

The group drove off, temporarily bidding farewell to this village.

Jiang Ran thought this filming session was over, but after asking, he found out it wasn't over at all.

According to Zhang Xue and Gao Yang, this level of content wasn't enough, and posting it wouldn't get much traffic anyway.

They planned to come back tomorrow. Today was for giving snacks, school supplies, and clothes to the village children.

Tomorrow was for giving rice, flour, and cooking oil to the village elders.

The group drove to the nearest city to this village, where they checked into a hotel to stay for the night.

In the evening, the group, just like last time with the fishpond, went out to eat again. However, this time, they didn't encounter three drunk burly men harassing anyone like they did last time.