"My mother teaches others how to farm through live streaming, and she earns more than I earn." A girl's post on a social network aroused the interest of many netizens, and everyone commented, "My father is a carpenter, and he can also live broadcast "?" "I think my dad can do it too. He has raised cows all his life." "My mom live broadcasts Big Cherry and asked me to set up a camera to watch it every day."
It is reported that the poster is Xiaoma, a girl from Pizhou, Jiangsu.
When a reporter from the Yangtze Evening News/Ziniu News contacted her on the evening of February 29, Xiao Ma happily said that her mother had been growing garlic for decades and was indeed an expert at growing garlic. In fact, her mother did not earn that much, but the old man was here. I found joy in live streaming.
The reporter learned that Xiao Ma’s mother, Du Xiangqin, raised her three children to become college students by growing 7 acres of garlic, and is now a well-known local “Farmer Zhibo”.
1 I bought a mobile phone for my mother to chat with, but who knew she was doing a live broadcast?
Before 8 o'clock in the morning on March 1, Du Xiangqin went to the garlic field to broadcast live as usual.
At 8:30, the reporter opened her live broadcast room and found that there were more than 100 people online.
A netizen named "Expectation" asked, "Is it too late to 'Shi Fei' now?" Du Xiangqin didn't respond for a while. Later, another netizen reminded him in the comments: "He is talking about fertilization." Du Xiangqin suddenly realized that he laughed loudly. laugh.
There are many more interesting things like this in Du Xiangqin’s live broadcast room.
She is 55 years old and lives in Pizhou, Jiangsu Province, the "hometown of garlic". She has been growing garlic for 30 years.
Du Xiangqin didn't even finish the second grade of elementary school, but now she has become a well-known local "Farmer Zhibo".
Talking about teaching people to farm through live broadcast, we should start with a smartphone that Xiao Ma bought for Du Xiangqin in 2021.
Xiao Ma told the Yangzi Evening News/Ziniu News reporter that he originally wanted to make his mother happy, so he spent 1,700 yuan to buy a smartphone. “My mother is very introverted. I taught her how to apply for an account and encouraged her to start live broadcasts and open up her heart. Make more friends.”
At first, Du Xiangqin only broadcast live on the short video platform to chat with netizens, and Xiao Ma would also go to her mother's live broadcast room to cheer her up.
"I thought she was chatting with others, but I didn't expect that she was teaching people to farm."
In 2023, Du Xiangqin heard from people around him that he could earn pocket money by live-streaming goods, and then he thought that his family had planted 7 acres of garlic. He could introduce the pesticides and fertilizers used at home to the garlic farmers, "When to plant garlic? I know how to fertilize when needed. I also know how to grow garlic, and I can be an anchor to explain it to the people."
She just started a live broadcast on her mobile phone to share her garlic growing experience, which attracted a lot of attention.
Every time during the live broadcast, she would explain to her brothers and sisters in the live broadcast room: "I really don't know many words, especially words with many strokes. If I call the wrong name, I hope everyone can forgive me." Fortunately, in the live broadcast room Most of the netizens are older garlic farmers and do not care about these small details.
2. My daughter helped sell garlic when she was in junior high school and now works as a "live broadcast assistant"
Du Xiangqin said that last year there was a live broadcast with a peak online number of more than 2,700 people.
When she saw so many people pouring into the live broadcast room, she was very excited: "I have never met so many people. I was so nervous for a long time that I was speechless."
Du Xiangqin told the Yangzi Evening News/Ziniu News reporter: "Farming is divided into three parts and seven parts are managed. I told my brothers and sisters in the live broadcast room that as long as the management is good, the garlic production will not decrease, and we will be able to sell more money." In 2023. , Du Xiangqin's family had a bumper harvest of garlic. Seven acres of land were sold for nearly 120,000 yuan, and each mu of land sold for three to four thousand yuan more than that of their neighbors.
Du Xiangqin still remembers that when her daughter was in junior high school, she would ride a tricycle to help her sell garlic by the roadside. "At that time, garlic was only 25 cents a pound. Many garlic farmers who hired people to harvest garlic lost all their money. Thanks to our family's three The children helped collect garlic, which reduced some losses."
Although Xiao Ma currently works in Wuxi, he has become a little assistant in his mother's live broadcast room. He will help his mother answer questions from netizens. "If I encounter my mother's highlight moment, I will also record the screen and help her generate a video for publication." After get off work every day, she would enter her mother's live broadcast room.
When he heard his mother's voice became hoarse, Xiao Ma would keep reminding her: "Mom, it's getting late, you need to go to bed early."
Although her daughter has been persuading her, Du Xiangqin shows no signs of stopping the show.
It turned out that she felt that many garlic farmers in the live broadcast room were asking questions, "Many of them are older than me. Since they asked me, there must be something they don't understand, and I have to tell them." Xiao Ma couldn't resist her mother. , I can only rest until my mother finishes the live broadcast.
38 years ago, her mother was diagnosed with cancer and she gave up her medical insurance.
Du Xiangqin doesn't sleep well and often doesn't rest until 11pm after the live broadcast.
Every time he sees his mother's hard work, Xiao Ma is both happy and sad.
She told the Yangzi Evening News/Ziniu News reporter that her mother is a very strong rural woman. The tuition and living expenses of the three siblings were earned by her mother from growing garlic. “She also suffered from gastric cancer in 2016 because of overwork.”
After learning that his mother had cancer, Xiao Ma's mind went blank. "I was still a college student at that time, and I was very helpless. It was not easy for my mother to support us in college, but she got this disease again." Xiao Ma said, At that time, in order to treat my mother's illness, I borrowed money from relatives and friends to help the whole family tide over the difficulties.
In the two years after the operation, my mother did not do any physical labor, and her family took her for regular check-ups.
Xiao Ma also often enlightens her mother: "It's a day for you to be happy, and it's a day for you to be depressed. Why not choose to be happy?" In order to make money as soon as possible to share the pressure of her mother, Xiao Ma, who is professional first, gave up the opportunity to study for a postgraduate degree. , choose to work directly after graduating from undergraduate degree.
Xiaoma earned money after working and accompanied her mother to Beijing, Shanghai, Shanxi, Fujian and other places, and visited Tiananmen, the Forbidden City, the Oriental Pearl Tower, Wutai Mountain, Yungang Grottoes and other scenic spots.
Du Xiangqin was very happy, "My daughter took me on airplanes, high-speed trains and subways, and visited various scenic spots." Talking about the reasons for taking her mother to travel, Xiao Ma told the Yangzi Evening News/Ziniu News reporter: "In fact, in my own heart I am still very worried, what if it relapses one day? What if she never has the chance to see it again? I will take her to see it as soon as possible while I save money."
4 Broadcast for at least two hours a day, hoping to make garlic farmers more money
Seeing her mother's current state, Xiao Ma was both happy and a little distressed.
Du Xiangqin learned that as long as the live broadcast lasted for more than two hours, the platform would provide traffic subsidies, so she continued to live broadcast for more than two hours every day.
It snowed heavily in Xuzhou recently, and she would also go to the snow to broadcast live, her whole body shivering from the cold.
Xiao Ma advised her mother: "Stop live broadcasting and go home quickly. It's too cold!" But Du Xiangqin refused to listen and kept standing on the ground, even if her hands were frozen.
Because she feels that when traffic comes, she must seize the opportunity.
In the past six months, Du Xiangqin has developed a habit of going to the garlic field to live broadcast for two hours every day, sometimes in the morning, sometimes in the afternoon, and at home in the evening.
The reporter noticed that Du Xiangqin did not use a stand, but held the mobile phone with his hand during the live broadcast.
Her hands were swollen from the cold because of the cold weather.
Talking about the reason for insisting on live broadcasting, she said that she suffered a lot when growing garlic and did not want other garlic farmers to make detours.
The reporter saw that Du Xiangqin currently has more than 3,700 fans on the short video platform and more than 40,000 likes.
In her opinion, since we have such a good platform, we must persevere and share our accumulated farming experience with garlic farmers.
She has already planned the next live broadcast plan, "As long as I know how to do it, I will have no reservations. I just want farmers' garlic to grow well. If the garlic yields high, people can sell it for more money."
However, Xiao Ma wants her mother to continue to live broadcast every day, but she is reluctant to let her do this.
"Mom has more traffic in her live broadcast room. She is very happy and can make a little more money. But I don't expect her to make much money. I worry that she is too tired and her body can't bear it. As long as she feels that she can be valuable, that's enough ”
Yangzi Evening News/Ziniu News reporter Yan Chunxu