Gourmet: Midnight Vending-Chapter 336 - 313: Viral Video Sparks Drama

"Pah!"

Gao Hao spat out the juice he had just sipped, "When did cucumber juice become bitter?"

The seven colleagues only tasted the lingering meat flavor in their mouths, treating Gao Hao’s unusual behavior as a child’s tantrum seeking attention.

"Hey, I say, you all ate, I paid, and this is your attitude?" Gao Hao put the juice on the table, "Huixiang, say something, what does it mean when they give me that task? I studied computer science in graduate school, do I know how to play with TikTok?"

Zhang Huixang looked awkward, unsure how to comfort Gao Hao.

In this matter, Haozi indeed felt quite aggrieved.

A few years ago, when the office computers were infected by a virus, the leaders asked Gao Hao, who studied computer science, to solve it.

Later, when the office network was sluggish, they still asked Gao Hao to fix it.

Anyway, anything related to computers and networks was given to Gao Hao, who studied computer science, to deal with.

"Haozi, don’t worry too much about this." Zhang Huixiang patted Gao Hao on the shoulder, after all, it’s hard to be critical after accepting favors, "This task is statewide, how many can complete it? I say, just find some non-copyrighted videos online, edit them, and post them."

Julie nodded vigorously while eating kebabs, her appetite greatly contrasting her size, "Brother Haozi, Director Zhang is right, if we had the ability to gain ten thousand followers a week, who would still work? I would become an internet celebrity tomorrow!"

"Exactly, nowadays being an internet celebrity can easily earn tens of thousands of yuan a month, who would still work."

Hearing these words, Gao Hao felt much more at ease.

"But speaking of it, now the unit has given me such a big task, also handling our unit’s official account to me, I have to do something, right?"

Zhang Huixang nodded, "The environment in this Ecological Garden is pretty nice, and just lately Director Liu is also worried, I think you could talk to him, we could use the unit’s drone to shoot some videos here."

"I think it works! Also, Yangzhou has so many old-fashioned restaurants, weren’t there some internet celebrities saying a while ago they were coming to explore or compete? We could also shoot some food videos then!"

"And more!"

"..."

The crowd started a brainstorming session, buzzing with ideas as they ate and drank to their fill, and Gao Hao was getting more in tune, feeling as if he was about to become a top internet celebrity.

Even when he got home, he was too excited, lazily lied in bed without playing on his phone, and started dreaming sweetly.

Spending over four thousand yuan today was worth it!

...

Elsewhere, Chen Mo tasted defeat for the first time. Looking at the pot with about thirty meatballs left, he sighed, carefully fished them out, sealed them with plastic wrap, and stored them in the cupboard.

"I guess I’ll just eat these for the next few days."

After closing up, Chen Mo drove the truck back to the parking lot, pondering but unable to pinpoint the problem.

Logically, all customers said it tasted good and wanted more after eating.

Over by the North Gate, there were quite a few people having picnics on the roadside, so why didn’t they sell out?

This was indeed a big problem.

Back in the room, Chen Mo took a cool shower and lay in bed, pondering new ideas.

To complete the food truck upgrade mission in Yangzhou, relying solely on meatballs wasn’t going to cut it; he had to continue adding more items!

Following the usual habit, the food sold from the truck was meant for locals, so whatever delicious food had to even be modified to suit local tastes.

Of course, the meatball was an exception. It was purely Chen Mo’s high-price item for boosting sales.

So what to do next?

The answer was imminent, food that sells in volume!

Thinking about it, he gradually fell asleep.

...

Yangzhou, in a certain residential area.

"Honey, what’s wrong, can you do it or not?"

"Wait, wait, don’t move, let me catch my breath."

Slap!

"Either you can or you can’t, what do you mean catch your breath?"

Tsk...

The middle-aged man was always helpless like this.

"Maybe it was eating too many meatballs tonight; honey, you lie down first, and I’ll come back later."

In the dark, there was no response, only silence.

Yu Hongtao carefully turned over and got out of bed, groped to turn on the light, walked out to the balcony, lit a cigarette, took a heavy puff, and slowly exhaled, as if the swirling smoke took away much of the frustration in his chest.

"This is no solution, looks like I need to hurry up and start the journey."

As long as he took the kids out traveling, eating delicacies, visiting attractions, Yuan Xiaolin would be busy, and her mind wouldn’t be filled with these things every day.

While smoking, Yu Hongtao opened his phone, thinking of checking out the recently viral North-West spicy hotpot online to see if it was worth going far to try.

The app seemed to understand Yu’s thoughts very well, and the first video that popped up was about the spicy hotpot.

In the video, the owner making the hotpot wasn’t just unsmiling, he looked utterly despondent, then the camera turned, showing a street full of lined-up tourists, with subtitles saying, can’t finish making, just can’t finish making!

Ho ho, interesting.

Yu continued scrolling down.

"Bro, can I interview you? Is this meatball delicious?"

Hey?

Yu suddenly straightened up; this video looked kind of familiar!

The camera shifted, and Yu Hongtao saw a yellow food truck behind the interviewee, "Isn’t this the Ecological Garden?"

He recognized the truck all too well, even the young man in a suit drinking a beverage inside the truck, he knew too well, with that sullen face, wouldn’t even give an eight yuan discount!

"What the hell, what’s happening?"

Yu Hongtao was shocked when he saw the video, mainly because the row of statistics on the side of his phone stunned him.

Likes, thirty thousand. Comments, fifty thousand!

It was a rare instance of more comments than likes on a video, which puzzled and surprised Yu even more was the creator of this short video.

"What is this? Yangzhou Culture and Tourism?"

Yu even clicked on the avatar to carefully verify, confirming it was the official account, as there was a verified badge under the avatar, usually indicating it’s correct.

Why did the official account post such a baffling video? And then inexplicably got over thirty thousand likes, and even more comments than likes, usually in such cases, the video content has significant controversy.

Yu instinctively double-tapped to like, then opened the comment section to see the content.

Upon seeing the first comment, he was a bit dumbfounded.

"Are you crazy? This kind of lousy meatball is dared to be sold on the roadside, and they even hired so many stooges? Even the officials joined in as stooges?"

Just this comment alone, sixty thousand likes!

More than the video likes.

Yu Hongtao extinguished the cigarette.

He had a bad feeling rising inside, there was about to be a spectacle here!