Chapter 176: Agricultural Assistance Ambassador Lu Xueyan

The moment Xueyan’s classic line came out, let alone the netizens who were already melting from the cuteness and filling the screen with【Buy, buy, buy】, even Lu Ting and the others watching through the screen practically wanted to reach inside the TV and buy out the entire stock of potatoes for their sweet cub.

Buy them, buy however many there are! [Read on RanaTranslations🌸] Buy them all and bring them home, snatching up the cub and the potatoes all at once on the spot!

【So, did everyone notice? The old grandpa has been completely enchanted. If our Little Pear took the opportunity right now to ask for five yuan per potato, I suspect the old grandpa would still gladly pay up hahaha】

【Good heavens, so this is how the high sales revenue came about, right??】

However, some viewers were quite worried. Taking advantage of the situation to sell high-priced potatoes to an elderly man might lead to a scenario where, even if Xueyan and the grandpa both agreed, some anti-fans online wouldn’t. They might start spouting nonsense and steering the narrative in a negative direction.

Surprisingly, Xueyan didn’t use the opportunity to hike up the price. Instead, he softly explained to the old grandpa the reason his prices had to be lower: because he was a mobile street vendor. He even gave the old grandpa a whole bunch of free vegetables!

Seriously, how could anyone be this well-behaved?

This exact question simultaneously popped into the minds of viewers all across the country.

How on earth did Little Pear’s family raise such a cub?!

Subsequently, the scene of Xueyan successfully ascending to the throne as the Potato King of the vegetable market unsurprisingly became the highlight MVP of the episode, exactly as Director Guo had anticipated. Discussions across major platforms skyrocketed.

Just a few god-tier screenshots alone brought in countless new fans, drawing in a massive number of passersby who had never even watched the show before.

But the funniest surprise was that this soaring popularity actually managed to draw out the old grandpa’s son.

【Dragon Soaring the World: Wait, isn’t this my dad!? Dad, we grew so many potatoes back home, yet you still bought this many while strolling through the vegetable market? Who in the family is going to eat all of these? [Dazed]】

As soon as this netizen’s comment appeared, all the trolls and onlookers across the internet rushed over to point and laugh.

【Laughing to death, real or fake? You’re Potato Grandpa’s son??】

【You aren’t just here to leech off the hype, are you?】

Within minutes, this netizen named “Dragon Soaring the World” very straightforwardly posted a bunch of evidence. The man in the family photo was clearly Potato Grandpa in his younger years.

It also included a massive field of potatoes growing at their home!

【Dragon Soaring the World: 100% authentic, okay? We have so many potatoes at home that we can’t sell, and I’m currently worrying that they’ll just rot in the fields. I was planning to convince my dad to move to the city with me next year instead of staying in our hometown doing farm work. You barely make any money in a year, and it’s exhausting, but my dad just can’t bear to leave those plots of land behind. [Photo][Photo]】

This son was clearly working in the city, while his dad stayed back in their rural hometown to farm.

After countless netizens spent ages investigating his profile and confirming that he was indeed Potato Grandpa’s son, the Pear fans were the first to make a move.

【Uncle, are the potatoes at home still not sold out this year? [Read on RanaTranslations🌸] If it’s convenient, please reply to our private message. Our Lu Li Global Fan Club is preparing to purchase a batch of potatoes as a thank you for Grandpa’s support of our Little Pear. [Happy Face]】

The moment this comment from the Pear fans was posted, quite a few netizens smacked their foreheads. Right, one look and you could tell these were home-grown, organic, and healthy potatoes.

【Uncle!! I want to buy some too! Can you ship them from over there? I’ll just buy a few kilos to try making some potato delicacies!】

【I want some too! How do I contact Grandpa? If he can’t sell them, I can help buy a little.】

The overwhelming wave of purchase orders from the netizens clearly caught this uncle off guard and deeply moved him.

【Dragon Soaring the World: Don’t joke around, everyone, your Uncle here will take it seriously! The potatoes really didn’t sell well this year, and my dad even sat in the fields worrying about it for a long time. If this is real, I’ll go back to the village this weekend to help my dad pack and ship them out.】

He never expected that the wave of popularity brought by the program team would inadvertently result in his unsellable potatoes being completely cleared out.

“If the quality is indeed good, having the company cafeteria directly sign a long-term agricultural aid purchasing order wouldn’t be a bad idea.”

Lu Xun looked at Lu Ting beside him and earnestly suggested.

They couldn’t buy the potatoes from Xueyan’s hands, but sweeping the old grandpa’s inventory clean would be as easy as pie, wouldn’t it?

“Yes, yes, and there are so many dishes you can make with potatoes, it’s very practical.”

Auntie Cheng also couldn’t bear to see scenes of elderly people struggling, and was quite touched by the sight of netizens generously lending a helping hand.

“That works. Eldest, just arrange for someone to handle it.”

Lu Ting naturally wouldn’t object to this.

After all, it was the first successful sale of potatoes on the show. Taking care of the old man could be seen as building good karma for their sweet cub.

Lu Ting, who had never believed in these mystical things before, had started paying quite a bit of attention to them ever since Xueyan was born.

Director Guo Rui, who soon received the news, was absolutely certain that the potato farmers of this entire village were about to be struck by overwhelming wealth.

However, just as Xueyan’s potatoes were about to sell out on the program, the broadcast of the big rooster pecking incident brought immense satisfaction to countless netizens.

Although the program’s post-production team had already blurred out the face of the young man disrupting the sales to prevent him from being cyberbullied after the broadcast, the viewers were still infuriated watching it.

This guy slyly jeered and caused a scene without buying any potatoes, leaving our Little Pear standing there completely at a loss. Although it didn’t cause any serious consequences, it was still enough to make the audience furious.

Fortunately, an auntie righteously stepped in first, followed by the big rooster viciously pecking the guy’s butt. This made the audience roar with laughter, feeling that this humorous resolution was quite fitting.

【Wait, hold on, this handsome Brother Chicken looks really familiar, and he’s even wearing the same bandana!】

【Yeah, isn’t this our little friend Pei Shuo’s big rooster??】

Viewers quickly realized that this vengeful big rooster was clearly the chicken Pei Shuo had drawn.

In the very next second, Pei Shuo, wearing a calm expression, naturally appeared on camera.

“I just happened to be passing by, and accidentally lost my grip on the rope.”

This sentence triggered endless “hahaha”s from the audience.

Because the moment Pei Shuo finished speaking, the program team mercilessly used a Q-version animation to review and display the exact route the two little friends had taken after entering the vegetable market.

Little friend Pei Shuo’s actions could no longer be called intentional; they were blatantly deliberate.

Moreover, in the footage captured by another camera, Pei Shuo waited for the perfect moment to let go, and that big rooster threw off its muzzle, charging forward like a divine warrior, striking exactly where directed with extraordinary swagger!

【This is so sweet, the interaction between the little friends is so adorable! Was our Pei Shuo worried that Little Pear might run into bad people in the vegetable market, so he followed him the whole time? [Starry Eyes]】

【The big rooster is great! Pei Shuo is great! Little Pear is great too! Friendship comes first, competition second!】

While netizens were beaming with smiles, completely won over by the kids’ interactions, the atmosphere at home wasn’t nearly as pleasant.

“What exactly is this brat scheming?”

Lu Huai was the first to furrow his brows tightly, pointing at the TV as he turned to look at Lu Ting and the others.

Releasing the big rooster to peck that punk was indeed incredibly satisfying. However, this kid’s sneaky, copycat-like stalking behavior was also highly suspicious.

He wasn’t properly selling his own chicken, but instead tracked Xueyan selling potatoes the entire time?

Even Lu Ting, who had never paid any mind to this kid Pei Shuo before, stared at him on the TV with a serious, suspicious gaze for the first time.

If it hadn’t been pointed out, he wouldn’t have noticed, but this kid from the Pei family really had been lingering around the sweet cub this whole time, clinging like a ghost.

Now, by casually releasing a chicken to chase away a punk, he successfully leeched off the hype, and the entire internet was praising him?

The main issue was that the sweet cub didn’t know to be wary, and even pulled out cabbage leaves to help Pei Shuo feed the chicken.

Sweet cub, couldn’t you just let this stinky brat feed it himself? Are his hands made of gold or something?

Heh, filming a show and still throwing around his young master attitude.

For every second Lu Ting watched, he could pick out three or four flaws in Pei Shuo.

Basically, he just instinctively despised this kid sticking by his sweet cub’s side.

Fortunately, the scene of Uncle Zhang Qingdong rushing over with a knife finally broke the somewhat subtly terrifying atmosphere in the house.

【Uncle Zhang is a real one, you can definitely count on him—】

【Thank you, Uncle, for taking care of our Little Pear today!】

The viewers were incredibly touched. [Read on RanaTranslations🌸] Although it didn’t quite require charging in with a knife, who could truly understand this unparalleled sense of security?

Moreover, Uncle Dong, acting as their think tank, even gave the two little friends a brilliant idea for selling the chicken—shift their target customer demographic and head over to the east exit, where there were more tourists.

As a result, the following scene of the two little guests bumping into that cute foreign customer, throwing English back and forth to sell the rooster, melted the audience’s hearts even more.

While maximizing the variety show entertainment value, the program team also considerately added cartoon English translation speech bubbles throughout the entire exchange.

It looked exactly like an illustration from an English textbook where two kids were conversing and making friends with a foreign child.

【I suggest the S City Ministry of Education directly invite these two little babies to record this year’s English teaching videos. Wouldn’t this be way more engaging than those cartoon English educational animations?】

【For real, my little brother, who is absolute trash at English, is actually reading along on his own! My mom was thrilled to death and made an exception, letting him watch 10 extra minutes of TV tonight haha】

【+1, and the pronunciation of both kids is very standard too!】

As countless viewers watched, they felt that the effect of Director Guo’s variety show segment was so good it could completely serve as a bilingual teaching video for children.

Some even grew a bit curious—were Little Pear’s academic grades at school usually this good too?

Just looking at the sheer volume of praise in the comments and bullet screens, Lu Ting and the others completely failed to suppress the corners of their mouths from rising.

Heh, this was just the tip of the iceberg.

The excellence and perfection of his sweet cub was something that couldn’t be fully described even if you talked for three days and three nights!

When the little friends officially finished selling vegetables after an exhausting day at the market and were on their way back to the village, the parents were already impatiently waiting at the village entrance for the children’s return.

Xueyan—who had grown a bit quiet after the initial excitement, sitting on the tricycle silently hugging his water bottle to hydrate while being watched by Pei Shuo—only stood up, holding onto the vehicle railing, when he spotted his brother at the village entrance:

“Brother—”

“Xueyan? Don’t shout! Be careful with your voice.”

The very first thing Lu Li felt upon seeing Xueyan again was heartache.

Because Xueyan was clearly sweating from all the activity, his fair cheeks flushed red, looking exactly like a piece of white, rosy-tinted rice cake steamed pink by the heat.

Yet, the very first sentence Xueyan said as he threw himself into his brother’s arms with a smile was:

“Brother, we are in first place today!”

For a moment, the other parents present to pick up their kids also looked over with smiles, and some even gave Xueyan a thumbs up.

For no other reason than the fact that Lu Li had truly raised this little guy to be far too adorable.

Even this simple phrase, “first place,” was spoken with such sweet, well-behaved innocence.

Lu Li, who was currently the focal point of all the parents, lowered his eyes to look at the little face so close to him. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t restrain himself from dipping his head and planting a firm kiss on Xueyan.

“How can our Xueyan be so amazing?”

Lu Li’s sigh-like tone filled the air, and Xueyan’s eyes curved into happy crescents as he was pulled tight into the crook of his brother’s arm.

But in reality, regardless of whether he was in first place or not, Xueyan would always be the most perfect Xueyan in his heart.

Holding the warm little body in his arms, Lu Li thought to himself.

Accompanied by the heart-warming, cute background music, the viewers’ comments in the bullet screen grew exceptionally tender and moving.

Besides, these two faces pressed together—who could even comprehend such an overload of stunning beauty! Everyone was too busy frantically taking screenshots to even have time to write out their flattering praise.

Except for the family in front of the TV, who had initially been bursting with pride. Watching this scene with Old Third, the curves of their smiles suddenly vanished in unison.

No matter how they sat or stood in front of the TV, it just didn’t feel right.

Their own arms just felt entirely too empty.

Lu Huai, who was sitting cross-legged directly on the carpet watching the show, nearly shattered his back molars from grinding them.

Heh, Lu Li, you bastard taking advantage of my absence, just you wait.

The exams were over now; this was far from finished!