Chapter 31: African Journalists
Not far from the foot of Phantom Mountain, on the sixth floor of the "Xugang Garden" in the relocation community, the old man Zhao Min was humming an incomprehensible song and watering the plants on the balcony.
In the pot, a vine is growing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then slowly climbs up the wall, climbs the window, and climbs all over the balcony......
Zhao Min is very happy, in summer, with this grape vine to absorb heat and shade the light, the temperature of the whole room can be several degrees lower, and there will be grapes to eat.
The soil in this flower pot was dug up by Zhao Min from the vegetable field of the manor not far away, and the water is also the water of the manor, although it is far less fast than in the manor, but it is enough.
After the grapes grew, Zhao Min cut off a few branches and planned to go back to the manor and plant some for Zhuang not far away.
When he was happy, he suddenly heard a voice from the TV, and ran to the TV in a flash, staring at the picture closely.
On TV, a female reporter is speaking into the camera:
"Ladies and gentlemen, I am Zhang Li, a reporter from Xucheng TV, and recently received complaints from enthusiastic viewers, saying that there are unscrupulous merchants who use the method of 'eating tomatoes to cure all diseases' and 'eating tomatoes to grow hair' to falsely advertise and sell high-priced vegetables.
Professor Nong, a professor of botany on TV, is a middle-aged man in his fifties, his hair is slightly gray, his literary quality is polite, and he looks very personable, and he said with a smile: "Actually, I have refuted many articles in the circle of friends this year, although I am only a botanical expert, but I can tell you very responsibly that there is no one thing in this world that can cure all diseases, if you are sick, please go to the hospital, don't believe any online articles." ”
"Ah, my teacher is on TV." At this moment, the door of the next room opened, and a young man in his twenties walked out of the room, this was Zhao Min's second son Zhao Jikun, he rubbed his sleepy eyes a little worried, saw Professor Nong, and suddenly came to his senses, opened his eyes wide, and pricked up his ears to listen carefully.
Hearing the interview on TV, the young man sneered: "In this era, there are still people who believe this? What a stupid comparison, do you still need to interview my teacher for this kind of thing? I can make it clear to him......" he said, sitting next to him with relish.
Soon, the reporter ended the interview with Professor Nong, and the camera turned to a stop sign.
"Ladies and gentlemen, now we have come to the stall reported by enthusiastic visitors...... Look, there's already a lot of people around. ”
The camera focused on the back of the stop sign, scanned it, and found that there were many young men and women, standing next to the stall and talking about something.
There were several of them, all holding a tomato and munching on it slowly.
Of the four outputs, tomatoes are the best sold because tomatoes can be eaten as fruits.
The camera swept over the vendor and the sign next to it, and the output on the vendor was running out, especially the tomatoes, which were empty.
"Now I'm going to interview someone who is eating tomatoes." After the camera flickered, the female reporter Zhang Li interviewed a young man and said, "Hello gentleman, are you here to buy tomatoes?" ”
"Yes."
"So why did you come here to buy tomatoes?"
"Oh, I watched the live broadcast on the Internet, and a lot of people came to buy it, saying that the tomatoes here are amazing, so I bought them."
"So do you feel anything change now?"
"No, I'm more wrong, maybe I'll have to eat more."
"That said, the tomatoes here aren't a cure-all, are they?" The female reporter asked with a bit of seduction.
"A cure-all? Not really. The young man was a little dazed, "I just want to have more hair." ”
"So do you think 50 dollars for a tomato is worth it?"
"I thought it was a little worthless at first......," the young man was about to say something, but the reporter had already finished the interview and said, "Okay, thank you for the interview." ”
I interviewed a few more people, I don't know if the video has been cut, the female reporter concluded: "According to our interviews, most people feel that the vegetables here are not worth spending 50 yuan to buy, and there is no effect after eating, let alone curing all diseases." Let's not talk about whether this kind of publicity is reasonable, I don't know whether this kind of price has been approved by the Price Bureau, or whether the stall here has been approved by the Industrial and Commercial Bureau and the Urban Management Bureau, we hope that the relevant departments will supervise it, and then we also hope to be able to interview the owner of the vendor to see what they have to say. The owner of the vendor is out! ”
"I'd like to see who the owner of this vendor is." Zhao Jikun's eyes widened, and then he saw a familiar figure.
Zhao Min came out of the manor with a basket, hurriedly poured a basket of tomatoes on the stall, and then turned around and left.
The female reporter in the back shouted a few times: "Uncle, uncle!" Zhao Min didn't hear it at all.
"When was this filmed?" Zhao Min was very puzzled, during the day yesterday, he helped watch Xiao Dian, and he didn't remember what happened at all.
Next to him, Zhao Jikun was stunned, he pointed to the screen and said, "Dad...... That's you? How...... What's going on? Why would you sell vegetables there? ”
"Oh, I recently got a job helping people grow and sell vegetables." Zhao Min didn't say much.
"Looking for a job? Dad, I know you can't be idle, didn't I say before, if you want to work, go to our botanical garden, help take care of some experimental fields, and have one or two thousand yuan a month, why do you go to work for others, and work for this kind of liar! ”
"Don't talk nonsense!" When Zhao Min heard his youngest son say this, his face suddenly turned cold: "What do you know?" The owner is not a liar! ”
"Owner? No wonder I always think that you speak strangely in the past two days, as if you are evil, Dad, I know you are unhappy at home, but this kind of person, this kind of liar ......"
On TV, the female reporter didn't interview Cheng Zhao Min, and waited for a long time, and didn't wait for anyone to come out, she walked to the front of the vendor and said to the camera: "It seems that the owner of this vendor doesn't want to be interviewed, so let's try this so-called sky-high vegetable, how about it......"
Saying that, she picked up the tomato and said to the camera: "Most of the agricultural products have pesticide residues, I'll wash them first......"
Someone next to her gave her a bottle of pure water, so she washed the tomatoes with pure water, and then took a bite, and her expression suddenly changed.
"Hmm, what do you mean about this vegetable...... No...... It's not unpalatable, but you know, tomatoes, they all taste like this......" said something against her will, the female reporter ate the tomatoes in three or two bites, looked at the remaining tomatoes, and couldn't help but say: "It is said that you have to eat a few more to see the effect, I will come today to try the method and try what the effect of this sky-high price tomato is......"
As she spoke, she ate a few more in a row, and the juice flowed, and then she said: "I finished eating four tomatoes, and it doesn't seem to be any different, that's all for today's interview, and we'll take a few other vegetables later and go back to the experiment." We'll come back tomorrow to follow up on the report, and I don't know if we'll be able to meet the owner of the vendor. ”
Zhao Min was dumbfounded and said, "I said that I didn't charge a lot of money yesterday, it must be that this woman didn't give money after eating!" I ate four tomatoes for nothing, and I didn't give money before leaving! How can this reporter do this! ”
Hearing that the reporter said that he was coming back today, Zhao Min quickly turned around and ran: "I have to keep an eye on it, don't let this reporter steal it again!" What a journalist! ”
"Dad? Father! Zhao Jikun hurriedly followed.