Song Tan’s Chronicle - Chapter 105.1

The most urgent thing was to figure out what to film.

Song Tan thought it over, trying out several angles, but eventually realized there wasn’t much worth filming in the field. So, she decided to livestream the scene in front of her.

After all, it was beautiful.

A rustic countryside landscape, full of mountains and fields, with a unique charm.

A vast expanse of purple and green interwoven with blooming vetch flowers, while little chicks and ducklings scurried around, chirping and quacking away.

Below, the old yellow ox chewed its cud slowly, occasionally letting out a leisurely “moo—.”

As for Song Tan herself, she was wearing a jacket Wu Lan had dug out from the closet, a pair of green rubber shoes, and a straw hat on her head to complete the look.

What else was there to say? Better just get to work.

By tonight, there would be no more vetch in the field.

Meanwhile, unbeknownst to her, something else was happening.

Coincidentally, a meeting had just wrapped up at the livestream platform.

There wasn’t much to say at this meeting. In the current age of livestreaming, all the companies were brainstorming how to create more innovative content to attract users, because more users meant more money.

Of course, the meeting also highlighted a new focus: with the government now supporting the agricultural sector and promoting rural revitalization, the platform needed to pay extra attention to this area to align with national priorities.

“… In the upcoming recommendations, we can shift some focus to content about rural life, countryside flora, and cultural education,” the person in charge decided, and the operators started to ponder: there were already plenty of rural and farming videos, but one that stood out as particularly representative…

Well, that’s a matter for the higher-ups. As operators, they had little say in these things.

For now, they just needed to manage this phase’s content well.

Nowadays, there were many influencers with countryside content. Right around the Qingming Festival, the season was perfect: girls picking tea in the mountains, grandmas with baskets digging up wild vegetables, and farmers laboring in the fields… all kinds of scenes, each with its own unique beauty.

Among them, a video with a distant angle, so far that you couldn’t even see a person’s face, showed a cluster of pink-purple flowers swaying in the wind with a chubby bumblebee on top. It seemed quite unremarkable.

Until the fat bumblebee bent the flower again, struggling to squeeze inside, and finally—

It attracted its first viewer.

“What kind of livestream is this? The title is so lazy. It’s just called ‘Cutting Grass’?”

The camera angle looked like the phone had been propped up in the corner of a field ridge, capturing a wide view of the distant scenery.

A sloppy angle at that.

There was no commentary, no background music, nothing eye-catching at all.

Only the sight of a vetch plant with an unknown species of bee, unusually large and plump. Its fluffy, yellow-and-black striped rear end swayed and wobbled, taking up half the screen.

The other half of the screen was filled with a clear sky, a lush field of vetch flowers, and the old ox lounging idly in the field.

This scene… seemed rather boring.

But for some reason, the viewer who had joined found themselves getting more curious as they watched the bumblebee, undeterred, choose a thicker flower and try again to stick its head in—

“Can bees really get this fat?”

Just then, another viewer entered the livestream room and was immediately struck by the pollen-covered, chubby bee butt. They couldn’t help but comment:

“Whoa! This bee is mesmerizing—I’ve been staring at its butt for so long.”

Hey!

The first viewer couldn’t help but respond.

With some discussion, the viewership gradually increased. Before long, a hundred or so people had trickled into the livestream.

By today’s standards, that wasn’t a lot, but for a newcomer, it wasn’t bad at all.

The back-end operator glanced at the stream and noticed it still had no main character, but the reaction seemed decent, so they decided to push it into a more popular user pool…