naruto-story Chapter 123 Online Meetings
Chapter 123 Online Meetings
Su Peixue was still asleep, wrapped in the blanket, with only a few strands of hair showing.
The comments section was flooded with messages: "Number one! I followed this from Honey Osmanthus Cake!" "Where is this persimmon grove? Can we go there during winter break?"
"There wasn't a single line in the whole thing, but I cried three times." "I rewatched the scene where she peels the persimmon five times; it was so relaxing." "Has anyone counted how many seconds it took her to peel a single persimmon?" "From the seventh to the eleventh second, I stared at that dried persimmon for a full four seconds before placing my order."
"You're not alone, I placed an order too." "Where's the persimmon cake link? Why isn't there a shopping cart?" "This is a charity video to help farmers, it doesn't have a link." "I still want to buy even without a link, does anyone know where to buy it?" "From lotus root starch mochi, why isn't this amazing blogger famous yet?" "She's already famous, millions of followers on Bilibili, check out her Magic Book daily active users of 800,000."
"I'm from Lanhu Lotus Root Starch, Lanhu people assemble!" "Osmanthus Honey is here." "This shot of the drying rack has the same sense of time flow as the sun-drying shot in the lotus root starch episode, the director is a genius."
"I took a screenshot of the persimmon swaying in the wind and used it as my wallpaper." "The moment she bit into the persimmon, my potato chips stopped tasting good." "The inside is molten, oh my god, what kind of divine persimmon is this?" "Am I the only one who noticed how nice her short jacket was?"
"You're not alone! I want the same style!" "That's a new style from Hanxue Hanfu, it's not available yet." "Hanxue, hurry up and release it! My wallet has been open for three days already!" "After seeing this, I want to go to the countryside to farm." "After seeing this, I want to go to the countryside to find a partner." "After seeing this, I want to both farm and find a partner in the countryside."
The comments section was also flooded with messages: "I'm a local, this persimmon grove is in our town. Before, the persimmons would rot on the trees and no one would pick them, but now it's all good."
"I drove here overnight with my girlfriend, and the navigation was already set." "I suggest the authorities give Su Peixue a Rural Revitalization Award." "Every video she makes helps a place; her honey helped Guishu Village, her lotus root starch helped Lanhu, and now her persimmons are helping Shilin Town."
That afternoon, the video had been viewed over two million times.
The feedback from the town came much faster than the video data. The day after the persimmon video was posted, Guo Yulun received several calls from other places asking him how to get to Shilin Town, whether there were any homestays, and whether he could pick persimmons on the spot.
On the third day, cars with license plates from other places began to appear at the entrance of the town. On the fourth day, people were seen taking short videos on the village roads, circling around the persimmon trees covering the hillsides.
On the fifth day, the first group of tourists arrived at Grandpa Lin's courtyard by car. A young couple drove four hours from a neighboring province and asked if they could buy some persimmons. Grandpa Lin told them to pick them themselves, it was free. The couple picked half a basket and, before leaving, slipped two hundred yuan into Grandma Lin's hand, saying, "Thank you for your hard work, old lady."
Grandpa Lin was a quick-witted man. The next day, he set up a stall at the gate of the courtyard, wrapped the persimmon cakes he had made earlier in oil paper, and sold them for twenty yuan a pack of four.
Su Peixue helped him write a sign with just a few words: "Persimmons photographed by Xuexue." Grandma Lin added a line next to it: "If it's not delicious, you don't have to pay."
That afternoon, all twenty-odd bags of dried persimmons were sold out. Old Master Lin squatted in the yard counting the money, all in small change, the largest denomination being fifty yuan and the smallest one yuan, piled up on the table like a small mountain.
After counting, he took off his reading glasses and said to Lin Ran, "Your video is better than pesticides." Lin Ran replied, "Grandpa, is that pesticide? That's agricultural technology promotion."
A week later, the village roads in Shilin Town were packed with cars. Not just one or two, but more than twenty cars lined up along the entire village road, stretching from one end of the village to the other.
Some people come to see the persimmon grove, some come to check out the drying rack in Su Peixue's video, some come to buy dried persimmons, and some come to film their own short videos.
The village store at the entrance sold out of bottled water, and several neighbors next to Grandpa Lin started setting up stalls, some selling persimmon cakes, some honey, and some dried chili peppers. Over the winter break, the persimmon industry in Shilin Town gained a foothold.
Halfway through the winter vacation, Lin Ran's family returned to the county town, planning to go back to the village for the Spring Festival. After returning home, Lin Ran stayed in his room in front of the computer every day. Xu Wanru brought in a plate of sliced oranges, put the plate on his desk, and said that he was ruining his eyes by staying in his room playing computer games all day, and told him to go out for a walk.
Lin Ran didn't explain. He had more than one window open on his screen—code on the left, backend data on the right, and a video conference in the middle.
Xu Wanru was unaware that her son now managed a company with nearly a hundred employees, that Magic Book's daily active users had exceeded 800,000, and that he had just received a 30 million investment.
After Xu Wanru left, Lin Ran continued the meeting. Three days after the beta version of the Magic Book short video feature went live, user feedback focused on three issues: slow video loading speed, excessively long review delays, and some user-uploaded content containing illegal traffic-driving features.
He Biqiong sent a message in the technical department group, saying that the number of CDN nodes needs to be expanded from the current three to twelve, the server bandwidth needs to be doubled, and the review team needs to set up a separate video review group.
Lin Ran opened the budget spreadsheet sent by Fang Xun and looked through it item by item. CDN node expansion, an additional 24,000 per month. Server bandwidth doubled, an additional 50,000 per month. The video review team will draw six people from the existing review team and recruit four more to form a ten-person dedicated team, increasing monthly salary expenses by 45,000.
Including existing operating costs, Magic Book's total monthly expenses are approaching 800,000. He checked the budget item by item and sent a message in the group: "Expand the CDN to twelve nodes, launch six first, and the rest in batches according to the growth of daily active users. The review team will be drawn from existing members and recruited externally, and the new team should be in place by tomorrow afternoon. The launch time remains unchanged."
Then he opened Wei Min's chat window. After the Magic Book short video feature was launched, the video content uploaded by users was diverse, including videos imitating Su Peixue's rural life, makeup tutorials, videos of daily campus life, and food reviews.
Wei Min sent a message: "Boss, could we organize an event to filter out high-quality video content? Right now, the homepage recommendations are still mainly text and image posts, and the short video entry is a bit hidden."
Lin Ran replied, "It's possible. Give me your proposal tomorrow." Wei Min sent another message: "Also, Song Yin asked me if she could do a beauty live stream on Magic Book. She said she'd stream it simultaneously on Bilibili and Magic Book, and Magic Book would give her a featured spot."
Lin Ran replied, "The live streaming feature will be launched in beta next week. Let her be among the first to use it."