Brush Up Your Proficiency

"Harvesting wheat? Didn't Mom and Dad say it would be a few more days before we started? Why are we in such a hurry to go back now!" Hearing Wang Hao say they were going back to their hometown, Wang Lan was particularly excited, but also felt very confused.

Wang Lan really couldn't understand why her brother would suddenly decide to go home early, there hadn't been any indication of it before.

"I think it's time to say goodbye to the street stall business," Wang Hao told Wang Lan his thoughts.

As Wang Hao's fried noodles became more and more well-known, he could clearly feel the overt or covert gazes from his competitors around him.

Competition exists in every industry, and street stalls are no exception.

It was precisely because Wang Hao had been pursuing a leisurely life before, and hadn't deliberately pursued daily sales, that he was able to get through so many days peacefully.

As the saying goes: fortune and misfortune have no door, but men invite them.

Competition at the grassroots level is often fiercer than people imagine, and in the few years that Wang Hao has been running a street stall, he has seen all kinds of people and strange things. Things like "A tall tree catches the wind" are even more common.

Wang Hao told his younger sister, Wang Lan, some of his observations and thoughts in detail.

At first, Wang Lan felt that her brother was making a fuss, thinking that there wouldn't be so many dark sides.

However, when Wang Hao told her some of the details, Wang Lan couldn't help but feel a burst of fear.

"The owners of those fried rice noodles and fried noodles stalls diagonally opposite from us often gather together and stare at us, muttering something in low voices. And not only that..."

"If we are falsely accused of having food safety problems one day and get investigated, we will have to pay compensation that will bankrupt us."

"Now that there are other options available, there's no need to take that risk anymore."

Although what Wang Hao said sounded a bit like the thoughts of a paranoid patient, it wasn't entirely unreasonable.

Just as the brother and sister were busy booking tickets home, they didn't know that the wonderful chemical reaction between his erhu and fried noodles, due to the presence of Ma Yang as a "catalyst," was rapidly soaring on the internet at an astonishing speed!

Saturday, the sun was shining, and a gentle breeze was blowing, it was truly a refreshing day.

Unlike the expectant atmosphere of slacking off on Friday, there was no worry about the impending start of slacking off on Sunday.

Ma Yang was used to sleeping in on Saturdays, usually until around eleven o'clock in the morning before getting up to find something to eat.

However, this morning, as soon as the phone automatically turned on, it started buzzing non-stop, making the originally peaceful and beautiful morning exceptionally noisy.

"Who is it? Calling so early in the morning! They better have a good explanation!" Ma Yang grumbled angrily, picking up his phone to start cursing, still feeling grumpy from just waking up.

However, when he took a closer look, he found that the phone wasn't vibrating because of a call, but because it was being bombarded by a series of short video notifications.

Ma Yang thought to himself, "Is this short video platform going bankrupt? Sending so many notifications so crazily, aren't they afraid I'll sue them?"

Clicking in to take a look, Ma Yang suddenly understood that it wasn't that the platform was going to collapse, but that the video he had stayed up all night making last night had received a lot of likes and comments.

As he checked his phone, messages kept popping up.

Ma Yang, who was still a little dazed from just waking up, stared at the phone screen, his expression gradually changing from initial confusion to undisguised surprise. "I'm... I'm famous!"

Ma Yang opened his homepage on the platform, and the originally pitiful number of followers had suddenly skyrocketed by more than four thousand, which made Ma Yang feel a sense of dizziness from being hit by happiness in addition to surprise.

He rubbed his eyes in disbelief and looked carefully several times. That's right, and the number of followers was still increasing little by little.

Opening the comments section, it was full of praise. Many people exclaimed:

"It's already amazing to be proficient in one thing, but I didn't expect Fried Noodle Bro to be so good at playing the erhu. At this rate, he's going to dominate the roadside stalls."

Watching them discuss so enthusiastically, Ma Yang suddenly felt a sense of enlightenment, as if he had grasped the secret to traffic—Fried Noodle Bro was his traffic password!

A surge of excitement welled up in Ma Yang's heart, completely forgetting that he had originally planned to sleep until eleven o'clock.

He couldn't wait to start replying to the netizens' comments, continuing until noon, when his stomach started to growl, and he realized that he should stop to rest for a while and prepare to order takeout.

Just then, another platform notification popped up on the screen.

His fingers instinctively wanted to swipe up to close it, but his eyes were drawn to the content of the notification:

"Look, Big Eater Feifei is dating Fried Noodle Bro!"

This damned clickbait title successfully aroused Ma Yang's curiosity. He couldn't help but click on the link in the comments and entered the video to watch.

However, this look shocked him. He widened his eyes, his face full of surprise, as if he had seen something incredible.

In the video, Fried Noodle Bro and two girls walked out of the snack street side by side.

One of them looked like Fried Noodle Bro's younger sister, and the other was the beautiful and lovely Big Eater Feifei. Without a doubt, anyone with eyes could see that the three of them were walking together.

Ma Yang thought to himself, "Does being good at your craft allow you to be so willful? People you just met on a live broadcast yesterday are already walking and chatting together today. What kind of magical logic is this!"

An unspeakable feeling of sourness welled up in Ma Yang's heart.

After all, the scene of Big Eater Feifei's live broadcast yesterday was still vivid in his mind. At that time, they only nodded to each other at most.

But unexpectedly, by noon today, they had already gotten together.

The world is changing too fast. Ma Yang felt that he needed to sleep for a while to calm down.

The scenes in the video shocked him and completely exceeded his expectations.

His heart beat faster, and his thoughts began to race, with all sorts of ideas and guesses constantly emerging in his mind.

This unexpected discovery seemed to bring him new inspiration and enlightenment. Could this be a breakthrough? Or a completely new direction for the story of Fried Noodle Bro?

Ma Yang stared at the screen, not letting go of any detail. He was immersed in this amazing video, trying to dig out more information and possibilities from it.

This sudden event made him excited and also filled him with anticipation for future creations.