88: Chapter 88 YYDS's Senior Citizens' Propaganda Team

The vehicle continued to move forward, following the noisy sound of gongs and drums, and soon arrived at the scene.

However, looking at the scene outside the vehicle, both of them let out a sigh of relief in unison.

"Phew~" Chen Sheng felt the tension of someone about to witness some drama.

"Phew~ I... I'm okay!"

The next second! The man's tense body slumped directly onto the seat.

It turned out that the gong and drum sounds heard earlier were from a promotional team hired by a local supermarket, which was conducting street-side promotion.

This kind of street-side promotion is very common in third and fourth-tier cities.

The promotional team was composed of some elderly song and dance troupes.

A mature promotional team can be divided into three parts: walking at the very front is the placard-bearing contingent, followed by the gong and drum contingent, and trailing at the very back is the promotional contingent holding various small gifts and flyers.

Regardless of the effectiveness, it was certainly noisy.

Here, Chen Sheng had both reason and evidence to reasonably suspect that the noisy and long-lasting portable speakers they used for square dancing in the evening were bought with money earned through similar methods.

So... this is freaking aiding the enemy.

Anyway, he would absolutely not patronize a supermarket like this within the first three months of its opening.

Chen Sheng parked the car and watched as the promotional team brazenly crossed the road, then continued driving toward Tianjiao City.

About thirteen or fourteen minutes later, the vehicle stopped steadily at the west gate of Tianjiao City. Looking at the gate, which appeared slightly more deserted than in his memory, the man's originally hopeful gaze instantly dimmed. He quickly unbuckled his seatbelt, left a sentence, and ran out of the car at high speed.

"Driver, please wait a moment."

Soon the man ran back, pulled open the car door, and quickly got back in, urging in a hurried tone: "Driver, please take me to the District Government."

Seeing Chen Sheng reaching out to tap the navigation, the man, who was buckling his seatbelt, hurriedly said: "No need for navigation, I'll give you directions. You just drive along the road we just came from, and turn left after the traffic light."

"Okay!" Chen Sheng nodded. He didn't bother discussing how the fare should be calculated. He started the vehicle, shifted gears, turned the steering wheel, and the car quickly merged into the traffic.

Under the man's guidance, the vehicle drove smoothly to the street next to the one where the District Government was located. At this time, likely due to the influence of the protest group, the road in front of the District Government had traffic controls implemented at both ends; people could pass, but cars could not, so Chen Sheng had to park the car.

The man asked for the QR code. With a "ding" sound, the phone emitted a notification: "50 yuan received."

"Sorry for the trouble, driver!" The man once again pushed the door open and ran out in a flurry. He ran to the side of the traffic police officer standing at the intersection maintaining traffic, muttered a few words, and then ran off in a flurry into the main road that led straight to the District Government.

Chen Sheng restarted the vehicle. Don't misunderstand, he wasn't leaving, but rather finding a place to park the car, then returning to the intersection, and then blending into the crowd to walk toward the District Government together.

That's right! The crowd. After all, watching the drama is human nature.

Amidst the chatter of the crowd, Chen Sheng also gathered the gist of it. The Tianjiao City group had been beating gongs and drums all the way, attracting curiosity along the route. Now that they heard it was a protest against the government, everyone immediately perked up.

This was big news.

You have to know that when scrolling through videos, one often sees protests and demonstrations happening abroad at the drop of a hat. But domestically, apart from the protest years ago boycotting companies like Yi Huateng (those 'nice-living' folks), one really hasn't seen it in all these years.

Now it was great. Not only were the pedestrians along the route attracted, but the pedestrians also invited three or five friends via phone, text, or green bubble to witness this grand occasion together.

So much so that when Chen Sheng passed through the traffic control area, the originally wide eight-lane road felt like a sea of people. The closer one got to the District Government, the denser the crowd, and finally, when about forty or fifty meters away from the District Government, the phenomenon of people squeezing against each other had already appeared.

Seeing this situation, and listening to the sound of gongs and drums mixed in with the noisy discussions, Chen Sheng dismissed the idea of continuing to squeeze forward, shook his head regretfully, and said, "After all, I came too late!"

Then he decisively turned and walked toward the perimeter.

When there are too many people, if an emergency happens, it might lead to a stampede. Didn't you see the police officers mixed in the crowd who were urgently called in to maintain order? They were all sweating profusely. Of course, if one could watch the drama up close, none of this would matter.

Walking outward for about forty or fifty meters, Chen Sheng noticed that many people were standing in place, staring at their phones without blinking. Curiously, he came to a young man and asked: "Buddy, what are you all watching?"

"Livestreaming! Someone is livestreaming in there!"

"They dare to livestream this?" Chen Sheng exclaimed.

Livestreaming such a sensitive topic, aren't they afraid of getting their account banned directly?

They really don't care about anything for the sake of traffic.

He hurriedly followed up: "On which platform are they livestreaming? What is the username?"

"Duo Shou Livestream, just search for 'Blooming Wealth'."

"No wonder!" All the unreasonableness now had an answer.

Chen Sheng quickly took out his phone, downloaded the Duo Shou Livestream app on the spot, and opened it immediately after the software finished downloading. Then he entered "Blooming Wealth," and the screen quickly jumped to the livestream scene.

However, with just one look, he couldn't hold it together.

Nothing else! The scene on the screen was incredibly familiar.

It was exactly the promotional team he had encountered on the road half an hour ago, the one doing street-side promotion for a fresh food supermarket.

At this moment on the screen, the entire protest group was also divided into three parts.

The placard-bearing contingent responsible for holding up protest declarations or demands.

However, the MVP of this contingent must be awarded to the placards themselves.

It's just that these signs had white paper as a base on the front, with slogans like "Boycott the Subway" or "Destroying the Foundation" written on them with a brush or marker, while the back was exactly as it was: "So-and-so Store Opening Grand Promotion, 12% off to take home."

Obviously, this was just turning the previous promotional signs into waste utilization.

It's just that I don't know if the store owner on the sign has cried after seeing this scene.

Store owner: "More than just crying, I've freaking cried myself unconscious in the restroom."

Next is the gong and drum contingent, referred to as the atmosphere group.

One thing is certain: the protest group adding this atmosphere group, judging by the sea of people that gathered on-site, had an absolutely correct starting point.

However... it was just a bit over-the-top in its performance.

Perhaps the protest group was thinking of having a uniform, so that the group would appear formal, so the gong and drum contingent all wore unified clothing, that kind of colorful dance costume that middle-aged and elderly people often use for Yangge dancing.

But these dance costumes, placed in this kind of setting, looked inherently comical no matter how you looked at it.

Look, in the comments, netizens were already laughing in advance.

"Pfft~ Can someone tell me if this is really a protest group?"

"Haha~ I just heard that someone went to block the gate of the District Government, and I thought something that angered the heavens and the people had happened. Who would have thought..."

"Look at those police officers maintaining order. Usually, when facing us, they act all high and mighty, but now... I can only say, well done."

"That's right! Must support this wave..."