Chapter 697

It was completely logical for something to attract more attention when it grew bigger . When a person grew in popularity, they would attract all sort of weird people . This was similar in theory, completely logical .

Or to be precise, it was not that one would start attracting weird people when one became popular . Rather, it was those weird people enjoyed approaching the popular person .

Because of Ma Zhida’s money box, someone came looking for trouble at Yuan Zhou’s restaurant .

This wasn’t something weird . In the past, there were some show hosts that were coming to cause trouble as they thought the food here was too expensive . Then, they tried the food here live and ate each of the dishes served here . This time, a different kind of troublemaker was attracted .

The ID of this person was Unworried Mulberry . He had a huge following on Weibo . Ignoring the fact of whether he had any bot accounts following him, he had followers in the millions . His main job was to look for trouble, reporting on topics that would bring trouble to others .

For example, when there was an incident where students that managed to pass the university entrance examinations were given a reward of 10,000 RMB, this Unworried Mulberry would start investigating this incident . When he found that this was fake as the money given was, in fact, the government subsidy for impoverished students . He would then came out to expose the truth .

Strictly speaking, his existence had more pros than cons . In this new era where the internet platforms were taking over the traditional media, fake news was surging out without a stop . The younger generation was no longer able to determine which ones were the fake news . Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting .

Unworried Mulberry had been paying attention to Yuan Zhou’s restaurant since a while ago . However, he had never been on site to investigate Yuan Zhou’s restaurant . On one hand, he lived quite far away from Yuan Zhou’s restaurant, and on the other hand, he rarely reported on food-related topics .

When he heard about the money box incident, he acted like a shark that had smelled blood . He decided that it was about time he went there to have a look .

Firstly, the price of the food at Yuan Zhou’s restaurant was nearly a tenfold or even more of other restaurants . Unworried Mulberry did not think much about this . As long as the price was clearly labeled, he wouldn’t mind . In any case, he had also looked into the reviews of Yuan Zhou’s restaurant on the Internet . Although many of them were berating the restaurant for being expensive, there were even more reviews that praised the food there to be tasty .

So long as the food was delicious, there would always be paying customers no matter how expensive it was . In any case, the paying customers believed that what they ate was worth the price . So it did not matter if the food was expensive .

But this time, Unworried Mulberry was sure that this money box incident was definitely Yuan Zhou’s restaurant putting up a show for publicity . As far as he was concerned, the quality of the food there must have dropped after it got popular . This was not the first time he had seen something like this . An example of this was the Granny’s Noodles that got popular after covered by the TV show A Bite of China . It had now become a franchise .

When Unworried Mulberry tried the noodles there, he found that the taste was merely comparable to Shan Cheng Noodle, yet the noodles there were much more expensive . To be frank, their popularity was the only thing carrying their marked-up price .

Therefore, Unworried Mulberry was of the opinion that this had also happened to Yuan Zhou’s restaurant . When it first opened, the food there was good . After it became popular, it started mass-producing dishes, causing the quality of the food to drop . One had to admit that this Unworried Mulberry did not have his huge following for no reason . From a tiny clue, he was able to come out with so many theories in his mind .

It wasn’t like Unworried Mulberry was suspicious for no reason . In this incident, he could clearly sense that the spam army was involved . This entire thing had gone viral in an extremely unnatural manner . Therefore, he had decided that this was most definitely Yuan Zhou’s restaurant putting on a show just to maintain its popularity .

As a journalist with a conscience, he had to expose this .

He acted on his thought immediately . He bought a ticket for an evening flight and at 3:00 pm the same day, he arrived at Chengdu and called for a taxi .

“Number 14, Taoxi Road . ” He already did his research and found out about the address before he came . This was something any smart person would do . He would not stupidly tell the taxi driver to go to Yuan Zhou’s restaurant . Normally, no taxi drivers would know where to go when the direction given was too specific .

When he thought of this, a smug smile crept onto his face .

“Number 14 Taoxi Road?” The taxi driver was first stunned before saying in realization, “Oh, got it . Young brother, you are going to Yuan Zhou’s restaurant, right? No problem . Sit tight . “

The taxi driver was a middle-aged man of about 30 years old . Therefore it was fine for him to call Unworried Mulberry young brother . After he started driving, he looked at the rear mirror . Then, he kindly reminded, “Young brother, the next time you take a taxi, just say the name of the shop you’re going directly . How will us taxi drivers know the specific road number like Number 14 Taoxi Road? Luckily you’re going to Yuan Zhou’s restaurant . If you’re going to Number 33 Taoxi Road instead, I won’t even know where that is . “

Unworried Mulberry made an expression of someone who did not feel like talking for now .

The taxi drivers of Chengdu drove at a decent speed . In any case, it was not peak hour right now . Therefore, there was no traffic congestion and they reached the intersection of Taoxi Road in about half an hour .

“There are a lot of people lining up here . There are also a lot of pedestrians walking around . We will normally stop at the intersection,” explained the taxi driver .

Unworried Mulberry looked forward and found that there was indeed a lot of people here . No other cars were driving into the street as well . He nodded, paid the driver, and got off the car .

“A tiny street hidden amid the flourishing city . The environment here is quite good,” he muttered .

It was previously mentioned that Taoxi Road was an undeveloped subdistrict . However, this street was surrounded on two sides by developed business districts . To the left were huge office buildings and to the right was a huge public square . In contrast, Taoxi Road looked tiny, like an ancient pathway hidden amid numerous skyscrapers .

Why did Unworried Mulberry get an impression that this was an ancient street? Simple . On this street, there were many vending stalls which were already very rare nowadays . Some were selling Tanghulus, some were selling cotton candies, and there were even some people making sugar figurines here . Many vending stalls that could no longer be seen in this new era could be seen here .

His greatest astonishment came from the fact that even with so many vending stalls here, the street was still very clean .

“How peculiar,” Unworried Mulberry couldn’t help but mutter .

Many streets shaped in ancient styles for tourism with many vending stalls would only look neat at a glance . The moment one approached a rubbish bin, one would be assaulted by an intense foul smell, causing one to feel like covering one’s nose and quickly walking away .

That was not the case here . The rubbish bins at the intersection looked very neat, with the trash all separated according to types . Near the rubbish bins was a circular object where sounds of peddlers shouting came out of it without a stop .

“Making sugar figurines, making sugar figurines, you can even make your own sugar figurines here . “

“Tanghulu, Tanghulus available for sale here . Even Boss Yuan agrees that the Tanghulu here is nice . Take a look . “

“Cotton candy, selling cotton candy, Boss Yuan’s favorite cotton candy . You won’t regret eating my cotton candy . “

“Interesting . ” The curiosity of Unworried Mulberry was piqued when he heard these shouts .

Along the way, he did not ask for directions . Just like that, he observed while he walked in direction of Yuan Zhou’s restaurant .

He walked at an average speed and observed everything in detail . With this, the article he wrote would feel real as well . This had always been a habit of his .