Chapter 594: It's a Perfect Match!

"I've been watching Xiao Guo for three years. To be honest, the videos Xiao Guo makes are always so hardcore. He said that restaurant is fine, so I think it must be fine!"

"Does a Tenda Employee necessarily have to be in the right? I really don't understand some people's way of thinking. A Yi is a stickler for details, that's true, but as far as the evidence Xiao Guo mentioned goes, I really don't think it's enough."

"You got food poisoning, and you ate someone else's food a few hours ago, so you can say it's the restaurant's fault? That's not right, is it? So many people ate there and were fine, but you're the only one with an issue. Shouldn't you look for the cause within yourself?"

"I've been to quite a few of the shops Xiao Guo recommended before, and they were all very good. He would never make money off this; the man has money."

"Those trolls, those Keyboard Warriors, besides hurling insults, what else can you say?"

Chen Xutong checked her comment once more and then posted it.

Just as she said in her comment, she trusts Guo Qifeng very much, because Guo Qifeng says he never does advertisements.

Every time he visits a shop it's random, and even the choice of location is random, so there is absolutely no issue regarding interests.

And online, there are clearly many people who think the same as Chen Xutong.

Perhaps it's because Tenda is always trending on hot searches now, to the point where many people are a bit annoyed.

Or perhaps it's because this incident has been seen so clearly that many people feel there is indeed insufficient evidence.

In short, under the various bombardments from Shaoxi Restaurant, public opinion online began to lean to one side.

"A Yi is A Yi, Tenda is Tenda. Tenda's Lawsuits don't always win either. I want to make this clear to everyone: there are quite a few Lawsuits lost!"

"So on what basis do you think the Tenda Employee must be in the right in this matter?"

This is the effect Manager Li wanted to see. I state all these circumstances and let you judge; there is no fabrication of facts, nor is there any nonsense.

Therefore, some Self-Media who were watching from the sidelines discovered there really wasn't any problem, so they all jumped in.

"I also do shop visits, and I likewise feel that Shaoxi is fine. It's very simple: if there were a problem, they wouldn't dare to make such a big deal out of it!"

"Besides, that Tenda Employee must have reported it to the relevant departments, right? And the result? Now there is no result at all, which shows the relevant departments also think there is no problem."

"Under these circumstances, I don't understand why there are so many people attacking the Up Masters who previously visited Shaoxi. Isn't this Internet Violence?"

In Guang City, Yuan Jie looked at the statements from these Self-Media with a blank expression.

As a severe internet addict, she naturally knew about this matter, but firstly, A Yi didn't handle it personally, and secondly, the situation wasn't very clear, so A Yi's audience, like Yuan Jie and Brother Feijian, didn't say anything.

Until now, seeing the videos and articles posted by these influencers, along with their fans' comments, she was stunned.

Because Yuan Jie felt that after watching the news all afternoon, she hadn't seen many comments attacking them; basically, everyone was just speculating there.

Even if there were extreme comments, they were attacking the restaurant, believing the restaurant should be held responsible.

It can be said that it had absolutely nothing to do with these food-tasting influencers!

Yet they still jumped in, and acted particularly aggrieved, as if they had really been subjected to Internet Violence.

So what exactly is the procedure for this matter? After thinking about it, Yuan Jie dialed Zhou Yi's phone number.

She hadn't called the Pigeon Spirit for a while, mainly because she heard the other party recently got engaged and felt it wasn't very appropriate to keep calling.

However, after seeing these comments online, she just couldn't help it. They weren't even mentioned, yet one by one they jumped out and instead started attacking the Tenda Employee...

In the Chairman's office, Zhou Mouren was working. As the Company grew larger, he always felt it wasn't as leisurely as it used to be.

The General Manager, Quan Longtian, always wanted him to do more work...

Just then, his phone rang. He picked it up and saw it was actually Yuan Jie.

"Hey Yuan Jie, why did you suddenly call me? Oh right, since you called, I'll tell you by the way: I'm getting married on National Day, October 3rd. You don't have to come in person, just sending the gift is fine..."

Yuan Jie: "..."

Suddenly she didn't want to report the news to this Pigeon Spirit anymore. Everyone is familiar, but can you just mention getting married in passing?

However, both knew this was a joke, and Yuan Jie also smiled and said, "Fine, I'll definitely be there."

"Alright, no more joking. I'll invite you properly later. By the way, is there something you called for?" Zhou Yi laughed.

"Have you seen the news online?" Yuan Jie asked.

"No, what's wrong? Did something happen again? Don't tell me someone is using Internet Violence against me again?" Zhou Yi laughed again.

"See for yourself. Everyone online is saying your Company's people are extorting others, saying the restaurant is truly innocent and is just taking the blame."

The restaurant? Zhou Yi immediately thought of Shaoxi Restaurant.

"You mean Shaoxi Restaurant, right? What did they do, manipulate public opinion?"

"I won't say much more, just see for yourself."

After hanging up, Zhou Yi started searching. Forget it, no need to search; it was hanging brightly all over the hot searches.

Curious, he clicked in to take a look, and Zhou Yi was stunned.

Where did these influencers pop out from? Whether it's a Lawsuit or whatever, it's all related to the restaurant; why are these influencers jumping so hard?

After looking carefully at those videos, he realized these influencers had all filmed videos or livestreamed at the shop before.

Now they are all saying they were subjected to Internet Violence.

It's just... Zhou Yi looked online and didn't seem to find any comments attacking them; on the contrary, right now, everyone online is speaking up for them.

It feels like someone saying they were scolded, and everyone around is supporting them, but you just can't find who the person doing the scolding is...

Zhou Yi shook his head helplessly; to be honest, he didn't know how to handle this situation.

It's a pity this system always chooses three, so now he can only use legal means to solve the problem.

And legal means are not omnipotent. If the other party hasn't broken the law and it doesn't involve Tort, even having a cheat wouldn't be of use.

The main thing is that the Lawsuit has already been filed, so all that's left is to wait for the Court's verdict.

Of course, Zhou Yi didn't know that these influencers online were all watching him now.

If A Yi makes a move, then everyone will decide based on the situation.

But A Yi hasn't made any move, which means what? It means A Yi has nothing to say, so everyone doesn't need to worry about anything now.

Thus, later that evening, Guo Qifeng posted another update.

"I didn't expect that after the video was posted, there would still be so many people attacking me. Since that's the case, I'll go to Jingzhou overnight tonight, and tomorrow I'll livestream eating for everyone. I'll let everyone see if you'll get food poisoning from eating there!"

This is choosing to go head-to-head.

At the same time, Shaoxi Restaurant also issued a Serious Statement online.

That is to say, Shaoxi Restaurant has always regarded food safety as its bottom line, food responsibility is as heavy as Mount Tai, the restaurant strictly implements standards, and there has absolutely never been any situation that does not conform to food safety!

At the same time, we also welcome Xiao Guo to come and inspect.

This is the problem caused by the asymmetry of information acquisition; the Anchor signed a contract with the restaurant, and you, a person watching the video, wouldn't know.

It's just a matter of believing whatever they say.

They say "I never accept advertisements," and if you, an ordinary person, dare to say otherwise, dare to question it, then you are a little troll, you are a Keyboard Warrior.

Therefore, after this news was released, Guo Qifeng's fans became even more agitated, and Chen Xutong posted comments one after another online: "For an Anchor like this, I ask you, how could you bear to smear him?"

At the same time, inside Shaoxi Restaurant.

General Manager Deng looked at the situation online, nodded, and smiled: "Xiao Li, you did well this time. Tomorrow, strive to make the livestreaming effect even better!"

"We must not only let public opinion support us, but also use public opinion to promote our restaurant, you know? Money cannot be spent in vain."

A very popular Up Master with millions of fans across the entire internet, how could he possibly come here to eat for no reason, and come overnight at that?

Internet celebrities all say it's for everyone, for the family, acting like philanthropists one by one, but in the end, they earn piles and piles of money.

Many times, what is actually annoying is not that the other party is making money, but that while making money, they act like, "I am not a person who likes money, I have no interest in money."

The reason Xiao Guo was able to come overnight was because the restaurant gave another sum of advertising fees.

Under such circumstances, time arrived at the next day.

At noon, Guo Qifeng sat in the restaurant, and in order to highlight his persona of "having no team," he deliberately livestreamed alone.

"Brothers, I am now inside Jingzhou Shaoxi Restaurant. I will show you these ingredients now, without any filters. I believe this is cleaner than many people's homes, right!"

"So under such circumstances, would there be a situation of food poisoning? Everyone speak with a clear conscience!"

In the livestream room, viewers from all walks of life plus the Internet Water Army fans were constantly praising.

"Xiao Guo is awesome. I now feel that Xiao Guo is more serious than A Yi. He dares to come to the restaurant and film all of this. What else does A Yi have to say?"

"Exactly. Before, they said Xiao Guo was faking it, but now the livestream can't be fake, right? Does it look like there's a team around him?"

"What is there to say to these little haters? Xiao Guo, don't pay attention to them, just do your own thing."

The effect of the livestream was surprisingly good; at the very least, Guo Qifeng was truly excited.

Store Manager Li was even more excited; the exposure this livestream brought to the restaurant was immense!

Normally, for an internet-famous shop like this, if you want to get on the trending list once, the money spent is not small.

But yesterday, because of a leak, it went straight to the trending list just like that. Now, taking advantage of this heat, the restaurant's popularity is astonishing.

Store Manager Li even felt that even those who are not interested in internet-famous shops already knew the name of Shaoxi Restaurant.

Amidst such excitement, naturally, some people were asking what A Yi was doing, and whether A Yi wanted to come out and walk a few steps now.

In their words, aren't you, A Yi, fond of being serious? Then come out! Don't hide; hiding is useless.

Xiao Guo naturally didn't dare to say it so directly, but he still hinted: "I actually admire A Yi very much. I think he is doing something very new."

"It's just that, regarding food, I consider myself relatively professional..."

Amidst such clamor, the livestream finally ended.

Inside the office, Store Manager Li looked at Guo Qifeng and laughed: "Mr. Guo, thank you so much this time. If it weren't for you, who knows what kind of narrative our restaurant would have been dragged into."

Upon hearing this, Guo Qifeng hurriedly waved his hands: "Eh, what are you saying."

This was his "Party A Daddy," and the money given for the two promotions was enough to make Guo Qifeng truly call him daddy.

"Then this matter is temporarily fine. When the verdict comes down, if we lose, we might have to trouble you again..." Store Manager Li continued.

"Small matter. In the previous video, I already explained the situation. Whether this lawsuit is won or lost has nothing to do with the restaurant's situation."

"As for A Yi, there is no need to worry about him. Insufficient evidence is insufficient evidence. We didn't insult him, we didn't slander him; we were just telling the truth online. It's not like we can't even tell the truth now, right?"

Guo Qifeng laughed there.

This was the advice specifically given by his team; there was not a shred of illegal fact.

That day, Store Manager Li and Guo Qifeng chatted happily. It was just a pity that the atmosphere in Jingzhou had been tense recently, so there was no way to take Guo Qifeng to experience some activities, which was a bit regrettable.

Zhou Yi could naturally see these comments online, and the others at Tengda could see them too.

It wasn't that they hadn't argued with others over these two days, but it was useless.

The Court might order the restaurant to pay compensation at its discretion out of consideration for consumers or because of the rule of high probability, but in the face of such a situation, arguing was meaningless.

Ordinary people don't care about these things. You talk about evidence, and they just feel your evidence is insufficient.

Viewers like Yuan Jie didn't know what to say anymore; they were all staring at Zhou Mouren, wanting to know how the "District Bully" could be serious this time.

Inside the Tengda office, Zhou Yi looked at his phone, but felt the fire in his heart growing stronger.

He could be certain that the food at that restaurant definitely had problems, but the other party was just relying on the fact that you couldn't collect evidence, jumping back and forth there.

And those internet celebrities, everyone is in this line of work; whether they took money or have a team can be seen at a glance, what are they pretending for?

But how could he find sufficient evidence to make the other party shut up?

With no leads, Zhou Yi was just aimlessly scrolling through his phone when, as luck would have it, he saw news about an undercover reporter exposing a certain service establishment.

This kind of news was actually often seen in the past: a certain reporter disguised themselves as a consumer, went to a certain place, discovered special services there, and pretended to be uninterested while actually calling the police.

At the time, Zhou Mouren had even complained that such places were impossible to know about, and only after they were exposed did people find out.

As a result, there was later news that when the police in a certain place were cracking down on prostitution, they swept up an undercover reporter. This guy went in to film, and after the camera was turned off, he thought about finishing his own fun before reporting it...

Others might not know, but anyway, after Zhou Yi finished reading the news, he was amazed!

Now that he saw such news again, Zhou Yi had a sudden inspiration: food safety problems are emerging one after another these days; if he sent someone in to work, could they discover their problems?

Simply put, it's going undercover, directly filming the situation in the back kitchen on a daily basis.

If it were just some simple minor problems, like those investigated by the Market Supervision Department, then it certainly wouldn't be released.

At the end of the day, if you nitpick, anyone can find problems.

However, if it involved food safety, then he was sorry; he, Zhou Mouren, was just this petty, just this serious.

I feel that you have a problem, then I must find it out!

This creative idea made Zhou Mouren very excited, and as a result, he searched online and discovered that there really are Up Masters doing this kind of undercover investigation!

And they really exposed some food safety issues!

What does this mean? It means this path is viable.

It's just a pity that he, Zhou Mouren, is famous now; going himself definitely won't work, as it would be very easy to be recognized.

In that case, he has to find someone else; this person needs to be bold, able to adapt to circumstances, and it would be best if they looked honest...

After thinking carefully for a long time, Zhou Yi discovered that he really did think of one person.

A young man with only a junior high school education who pretended to be a finance bigwig, an Up Master who dared to hammer him for "Money Laundering" without any evidence.

Back then, the other party took the initiative to apologize and permanently quit the internet; Zhou Yi had a deep impression of this. At that time, he hadn't even started large-scale Private Prosecution yet, but the other party assessed the situation very quickly and apologized immediately upon realizing something was wrong.

Of course, while it was said to be a permanent retirement from the internet, in fact, Sun Pengxing had already switched to a new account and started posting videos again this year.

This wasn't discovered by Zhou Yi, but rather Sun Pengxing contacted him proactively...

Why else would people say this guy has a sharp mind and is truly capable of doing big things?

The guy put on a very humble posture, didn't say anything about not being able to survive without filming videos, and just tentatively asked there if he could film gaming videos, without making a sound or showing his face.

Zhou Yi is the type who has always been soft-hearted but not hard-headed; since the attitude was like that, he just let him be.

Thinking about it now, this young man is very suitable; he is bold and can talk, and with a junior high school education, he fooled a group of Netizens into thinking he was a finance bigwig...

Moreover, this content could be made into a series in the future, going undercover at some restaurant every now and then; thinking about it carefully, it should be very attractive!

However, it isn't suitable to be placed in the Company Self-Media Studio, Zhou Yi thought; if Sun Pengxing agrees, he will wait until it's finished and let him find people himself to do this content.

Thinking in his heart, Zhou Yi quickly found the other party's contact information and made a phone call.

On the other side, in Lian City, Sun Pengxing was looking at his backend earnings; although he had already tried very hard, the earnings were still pitifully low.

It wasn't that he couldn't find other work, but he had already gotten used to making a lot of money as an internet celebrity; making him go back to work again, he couldn't even earn in a year what he used to earn in a month, and he simply couldn't keep doing it.

Why are some girls in big cities who like to talk about half-hour romances unwilling to go to work? It's the same logic; once you get used to money coming in fast, earning a few thousand yuan a month working is not as much as what others earn in an hour, so who could stand that?

"Pengxing, why don't... why don't we add voice? If you can't do it, I'll do it; otherwise, our videos have no traffic now," a girl nearby spoke up.

Sun Pengxing smiled bitterly upon hearing this: "It won't work, Shanshan, that's A Yi!"

"You've seen it these past two years; basically everyone who has slandered A Yi is inside Treading the Sewing Machine. That I can be perfectly fine now is truly burning high incense."

The girl nearby is his girlfriend Liu Shan; she sighed upon hearing this. That is A Yi; he will definitely be serious.

Just as he was pondering what to do, his phone rang; he picked it up and saw it was actually A Yi!

No way, didn't he say before that gaming videos could be filmed? Is this not allowed now?

It wouldn't matter if it were anyone else, but the other party is A Yi; Sun Pengxing didn't worry in the slightest about the other party's determination to be serious to the end.

Although he was scared in his heart, he still answered it.

"Hello, Brother Zhou Yi."

This "Brother" was called out very naturally; Sun Pengxing being able to survive like this naturally has his own set of survival philosophy.

"Xiao Sun, nothing going on lately, right?" Zhou Yi's voice sounded from the phone.

"Nothing at all, Brother Zhou Yi, is there something you need me for?"

"I do indeed have a matter; I need to film a video recently and need someone to help. I considered it and felt you were quite suitable, but don't rush to agree; listen to me finish speaking first."

Then Zhou Yi explained his idea and continued: "There are already Up Masters filming these kinds of videos online now. If you want to do it, I can support you in doing it later; you consider it."

Over there, Sun Pengxing's eyes widened; he didn't expect A Yi to actually give him an opportunity!

Although it was still impossible to show his face in A Yi's videos, and his voice would have to be processed, this was an excellent opportunity!

There are countless internet celebrities online now who want A Yi to give them a hand, but it's a pity that A Yi doesn't have much interaction with other internet celebrities in his daily life.

Moreover, this matter really spoke to his heart; upon hearing the matter, Sun Pengxing knew that he was truly suitable!

It wasn't just because he was bold, but he had done this kind of work before; before filming videos, he had worked in many restaurants, so it could really be said that his profession matched!

Looking at his girlfriend beside him, Sun Pengxing took a deep breath and said: "Brother Zhou Yi, no need to consider, I'll do it, I guarantee there will be no problem!"

"I have worked in many restaurants before, I don't even need to act..."

As for the filming, it would all be covert; be careful and no one will be able to discover it.

"Then it's decided; I'll have someone book a flight for you, come to Jingzhou."

"Eh, no problem, Brother Zhou Yi!"

Waiting for Zhou Yi on the other end to hang up the phone, Sun Pengxing hugged his girlfriend with a face full of excitement.

"Shanshan, we will definitely succeed this time; once we earn money, we will go back and hold the wedding!"

Over at Tengda, Zhou Yi naturally didn't know that the kid had started raising his flag again; he prepared to go see Lawyer Fang.

Doing this kind of thing without Lawyer Fang to advise a little, he always felt uneasy in his heart.

And he also had to ask Lawyer Fang what kind of evidence would be more powerful to find when the time comes.

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Inside the law firm, Lawyer Fang looked at the notebook on the table with a face full of melancholy.

It really has been a long time, a long time since he encountered a case that could make him feel satisfied, and the research progress is also very slow.

Zhou Yi keeps saying every day that he has a lucky koi, but he hasn't seen him bring out any good cases.

Not thinking about these useless things, Lawyer Fang stared at the content on the notebook again and fell into deep thought.

One could vaguely see some words: current behaviors such as paid store visits should be regarded as advertising behavior and be subject to the constraints of corresponding laws...

If there is False Advertising Crime behavior that reaches the criminal standard, it should be punished according to the False Advertising Crime...