Chapter 271: Let You Open a Gourmet Shop, You Open at 3 AM

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

"I don't know how it tastes, let's try it first."

The man said, picking up a tea egg and peeling the shell in two or three moves.

The egg white had light and dark tea patterns crisscrossing like a landscape painting; he didn't even glance at it before stuffing it whole into his mouth.

His companion did the same, peeling the shell and starting to eat.

Both ate a tea egg at the same time, chewing a few times before swallowing.

"That's it?"

The two looked at each other and almost spoke in unison.

"To be honest, it does taste better than convenience store ones, but I feel it's just so-so."

The man's companion smacked his lips, frowning as he gave his opinion.

"I feel this tea egg is worth five yuan at most; selling it for eighty-eight yuan a portion is nothing but an intelligence tax."

The man snorted disdainfully, unable to understand the price of the tea egg: "Fortunately we didn't buy anything else; the things in this shop are way overpriced."

After hearing this, his companion sighed and frowned deeply: "The videos online looked pretty convincing, but after tasting it, I feel the gap is quite big."

"Those videos online are all exaggerated; we came all this way just to eat this thing. Looks like this trip wasn't in vain."

The man glanced at Lu Feng in the kitchen, then suddenly revealed a smug smile: "Thanks to this boss's false advertising, we have material for our next exposé video!"

Indeed, these two, who found fault with everything in the shop the moment they walked in, were the debunking livestream duo who had gained some fame on short video platforms recently.

The man in the black short-sleeve shirt was called Da K, and the one beside him holding up a mobile phone to film nonstop was his partner Xiao Yu.

They specifically targeted shops with high online popularity to pick fights.

Relying on editing various scenes of merchants crashing and burning, magnifying small flaws to attract attention online.

With this approach, in less than half a year they attracted over three hundred thousand followers.

These two became consumer protectors in the eyes of many netizens, but also rats avoided by all merchants.

As for why these two debunking livestreamers came to Lu Feng's shop, the reason was very simple.

Now the livestreaming industry is fiercely competitive, and there are all kinds of livestreams.

Competition in every track was intense; they originally just followed other livestreamers to film skits.

But after filming dozens of videos, not a single one broke a thousand views.

Seeing they could barely afford food, they simply changed course.

They found some hot videos online and attracted fans' attention by questioning those influencer shops or products.

They say spreading rumors takes one word, but debunking them breaks your legs.

For every one of their videos, even without substantive evidence, they could stir up audience emotions with some questioning.

Through this method of riding hot topics, their videos finally picked up, gradually accumulating quite a few followers.

Often, the merchants they filmed didn't even know about it.

Most debunking livestreamers online would blur their video content.

But these two never did that, claiming in the name of bringing Jia Ren to avoid pitfalls in reality.

This led to: every time a video was posted, the merchants they filmed would receive all kinds of accusations and abuse from online.

This operation of stepping on others to gain traffic was something they were very familiar with.

That was also why they were not only rats in the eyes of merchants, but also had a bad reputation in the livestreaming circle.

But they had their own set of survival rules: change location after every shot.

Whenever netizens reported that a merchant was shortchanging customers or a restaurant kitchen was dirty,

they wouldn't greet the merchant, but secretly went to film material.

After filming, they edited the video and posted it on their account, then ran away overnight to the next city.

This approach was quite effective; those merchants exposed by them found it hard to track them down, and finally had to swallow their anger.

Online opinions about their behavior were mixed.

Netizens who supported them felt they exposed many black-hearted merchants and helped netizens avoid pits.

But opposing voices were not few; someone dug up their previous crashing videos.

Some merchants were clearly compliant and legal, but they only relied on fans' one-sided words plus their own subjective judgment to say others were fraudulent.

These behaviors caused great losses to the wronged merchants, but they didn't even say a word of apology.

Facing netizens' questioning of them, they didn't care at all and continued to do as they pleased.

Recently Lu Feng's small shop was very popular online, and some netizens who hadn't eaten at the shop questioned the prices at Lu Feng's shop.

So they were hung in the comment section by their fans, asking them to go for an on-site evaluation to see if the prices were reasonable.

They originally made a living by picking faults, and Lu Feng's shop was still popular recently.

If they didn't ride this wave, it would be a sorry state for their reputation.

So today they came to Lu Feng's shop to film a video.

Before coming, they weren't unprepared; they looked up a lot of information about Lu Feng's shop.

The overwhelming praise online was basically saying how delicious the things in Lu Feng's shop were.

But when they saw Lu Feng's shop's price list, they felt they must come personally to evaluate it.

After all, what Lu Feng's shop made were home-style dishes, but the prices were much higher than elsewhere.

The two of them had never been to Jiangcheng before, so there were almost no local merchants who knew them.

It was precisely because of this that after tasting the tea eggs Lu Feng made, the two of them began commenting freely in the shop without any regard for others.

"Look at this price, the tea eggs don't even taste that good, yet they actually sell for 88 a portion, it's simply outrageous!"

"The stir-fried pork with chili set meal sells for 199, outside it only sells for twenty or thirty, this is already a sky-high price!"

"Even xiaolongbao sells for fifty-one a basket, I've lived this long and have never bought xiaolongbao this expensive!"

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These two spoke back and forth, not caring in the slightest that they were right now in Lu Feng's shop.

At a dining table not far from them, several people from Jiangcheng University's Dormitory 203 were eating.

Although the school had already started its break, the few of them still came to Lu Feng's place.

After going home for the break, there would be a very long period of time when they couldn't eat the delicious food Lu Feng made.

The few of them all chose without prior agreement to stay in the school dormitory for the remaining two days of this week.

Hearing those two people's unrestrained comments over there, several people simultaneously put down their chopsticks.

Dormitory leader Wu Hao couldn't help but frown: "What's the deal with these two dumbasses?"

"Don't know, probably left their brains at home when they went out."

The roommate sitting opposite him sneered and said.

"Who are you talking about!"

Their voices just happened to fall into Lao K's ears, and his face immediately darkened.