Peasant couple dancing to fame and falling into the "trouble of the net red"
Peng Xiaoying and her husband danced a "step dance" video on the hot news search, faced with "false couples" and other questions, Peng Xiaoying said he was not angry
On June 6, two strange women dressed in fashion walked into Peng Xiaoying's home in Xia'ao Village.
"Oh! I finally saw the idol, and today I have to dance together!" The stranger said first-it was 2:30 in the afternoon, when the hottest day in the Ruian area of Wenzhou, Peng Xiaoying did not mean to refuse.
Since the video of her and her husband dancing "step dance" appeared on the hot search of the news, she almost received dozens of hundreds of WeChat friend applications on her mobile phone every day, and had to cope with countless calls from all over the country. The couple has never seen such a situation.
Someone came from just outside to just take a picture with her; the boss who smelled the business opportunity turned to find an acquaintance who wanted to cooperate with her; the leaders who had never met before in the town also took the initiative to come home and let her broadcast live to help propagandize; the whole country Journalists everywhere lined up to interview her; even the variety show that had only been seen on TV in the past invited her to participate. They suddenly broke into Peng Xiaoying's life. Just like the strange woman who came here to shoot this afternoon, the dancing venue was changed three times.
First, in the living room on the first floor of the Peng family, the backlight is not good; the light of the courtyard dam at the main entrance is suitable, but the azimuth angle is not good; and it moved to a small piece of empty space on the left side of the house.
Finally, everyone returned to the house and completed a one-minute dance in the room where debris was piled. The stranger then showed a satisfied expression and smiled and said goodbye to Peng Xiaoying.
The farmer couple was caught in the “troubles of internet celebrities” because of the sudden heat-some people doubted their farmer status, some asked the authenticity of Peng Xiaoying’s husband who had suffered a car accident and suffered from depression, and some people were not polite in the video Leave a message: This is the team packaging hype.
Dancing popular
"Life is more complicated, and the brain can't turn around"
Early on Saturday morning, Peng Xiaoying ran to the pharmacy and took a bag of medicine in a white plastic bag.
Overnight, her voice was dumb-just the day before, she and her husband were interviewed by several television stations and received 11 people before and after.
According to the original plan, the TV station from Hangzhou this morning had to be interviewed, but it was also cancelled. She was so tired that the pink thermos cup soaked the fat sea with hot water. As soon as she got home, she took a few big sips and hurried upstairs to make up. She didn't wake up until lunch.
Peng's lunch is simple. Eggplant, edamame, convolvulus, and string beans are all grown in their own vegetable fields. In the past few days, many guests have come and gone, and relatives have come to help cook.
As soon as the dish was served on the table, the village chief came wearing the town's propaganda cadres. After a few words of greeting, the other party made it clear that they wanted the couple to help promote the local agricultural products, and advised them to seize the opportunity-"Red fans, fans, this is the time."
In the past few decades, this village in the western region of Ruian, Wenzhou, has never been more concerned than it is now. The Mayu town to which it belongs is a somewhat famous industry in the manufacture of glasses and shoes. Some young and middle-aged people in the village went to other provinces to do business, and some entered local shoe factories.
Affected by the epidemic this year, the cauliflower grown in the village is unsaleable. Peng Xiaoying and her husband Fan Duo have become the hopes of others. On the Douyin and Kuaishou platforms, the couple's several account fans add up to 3.144 million, the highest The number of videos played is 11.649 million, which is a veritable "net celebrity".
Peng Xiaoying is less than 1.6 meters tall, and the hair that grows on the back is dyed reddish brown, and sometimes the dance will tie into a low double pony tail. She was a little fat, and she would show a row of big white teeth when she smiled, and the wrinkles squeezing the corners of her eyes formed a deep groove. As long as the music sounds, the hair jumps with the body.
Fan Duo is five years younger than Peng Xiaoying. He is thinner, he is half a head taller than his wife, and his skin is tanned. Most of the time he is the role of assisting his wife.
After the guests left, the husband and wife had a hard time. "I don't know a few of them. I can't get these (with goods)." They didn't graduate from elementary school. They just understood the comments of netizens in the video. It will take some time. Even some of the essays in the video, the couple also consulted their children before typing.
During this time, there are people who have never met through phone, WeChat, SMS, some want to engage in advertising cooperation, some want to let them join the team packaging and make stars. The couple couldn't understand it, so they refused.
They never thought that their lives would be changed because of dancing videos. They always felt that these things are now "brainless", worrying about not being able to distinguish the real purpose of those strangers, and even more afraid of offending each other. For Peng Xiaoying, "Life has become complicated."
Just like when she received a phone call from a TV station at home for the first time half a month ago, she and her husband shook hands in fright, "Hey, I thought I made a mistake. Isn't it possible to dance the song "Desire" that does not allow Mao Amin , They came to the door."
Family daily
Working, digging bamboo shoots, picking bayberry, trying to make money to support the family
The afternoon of June 7 was a rare moment of leisure at home since this time.
When not dancing, there is still a lot of farm work to be done. Peng's father and daughter sat at the door peeling edamame. One by one, the tender beans were squeezed out of the furry green shell and jumped into a plastic basket. For farmers, these crops and fruits were the highlight of life in the past.
The blue electric tricycle bought at the door for 3,000 yuan is almost standard for every household. On the main road in the village that can only accommodate one car, this three-wheeled vehicle is the most convenient and fast transportation between the field and the home. Hoes, buckets, and rubber shoes can be stuffed into the rear bucket.
When they wanted to dance, the couple put the portable speakers into the body of the car and drove away, leaving their footprints at the edge of Tian Kan, in front of the old house and by the lotus pond in the Cultural Plaza.
The Peng family has 8 acres of land. When the year is good, the mature corn, rice, cucumbers and cauliflower can bring about 30,000 to 40,000 income for the family. However, the farmers depend on the sky to eat, and the money they receive each year is not fixed.
Peng Xiaoying lives with her husband, children, father, and aunt (wife his father will find later) in a small 2-storey building in the village.
In the village, the living conditions of the Peng family are moderate. Two years ago, the house had just been renovated for 70,000 or 80,000 yuan: the living room was covered with bright ceramic tiles, the walls were also decorated with patterned panels, the new golden door was inlaid with diamond-shaped green glass, and the bedroom upstairs was replaced. Wooden floors, home dining tables, sofas, beds, and cabinets have also been refurbished. The money came from Peng Xiaoying's brother. In fact, the house was owned by Peng Xiaoying’s parents, and the couple only lived here.
In order to increase income, Peng Xiaoying and Fan Duo once wanted to work in a private shoe factory in Ruian. They could earn about 4,000 to 5,000 yuan a month, but this year's epidemic has caused those shoe factories that do export business to lose their orders. The workers couldn't find work.
For more than ten years, Peng Xiaoying and her husband spent time working outside. The second year after their eldest daughter was born, they went to Kunming, Yunnan, and then moved to Dongying, Shandong. They only returned to their hometown during the New Year. Until the second daughter was about to enter the third grade, the family's talents moved back to the village, which only took four years.
Peng Xiaoying said that many people in the village actually borrowed foreign debts, and life was not easy. In the past, the couple also lost money in the clothing business. Originally, they would live a life similar to that of most families in the village. They would grow vegetables, dig bamboo shoots, pick bayberry, and strive to make money to support their families.
In the past few years, dancing has become a daily habit of the two. In fact, it is not as simple as imagined to successfully record a video of the whole family dancing at Tian Kanbian in the village.
Suddenly passing tricycles, acquaintance neighbors who came across to greet each other, the sound of the mobile phone connected to the speaker became smaller, the dance steps were mismatched, the stones on the ground, and the sudden rain began to cause the interruption of the shooting. Sometimes it is common to repeat a dance a dozen times.
Their dance is a popular drag dance in recent years. Peng Xiaoying was fascinated for the first time when she saw this dance with a strong sense of rhythm and fast changes in foot movements. At first, I just danced by myself. Later, I wanted to take my husband together. "Let him exercise and relax." Fan Duo is reluctant. "How can there be a big man to dance, not go or not."
Peng Xiaoying still insisted, "If you don't jump, then you can watch me jump." After watching it for a few days, Fan Duo also tried. Peng Xiaoying remembered returning home that night, and her husband told her, "I'm sweating while dancing, and I feel very comfortable."
For two months, the couple went every day. They jumped in the morning and at night. The husband also lost weight quickly. The two men were uneasy and went to the hospital to check blood pressure and heart function. The doctor told them, "Everything is normal for you."
Encountered a car accident
"At that time, there was no light in his eyes"
If you do not stare carefully at Fan Duo's face, it is difficult to find a long white line in the shape of a "7" between his lower lip and chin, which is the trace left by a car accident more than ten years ago.
At that time, he and his wife went to work in Kunming, Yunnan from their hometown, and Peng Xiaoying worked in a shoe store opened in his hometown. Peng Xiaoying still remembers that she received a phone call at about six o'clock in the afternoon, "I asked if I was free and said that my husband was "a little uncomfortable" and sent to the hospital, let me go."
When she arrived at the hospital, she was told by the doctor that she needed a surgical signature. The situation was far worse than she thought: Fan Duo had broken all three lower front teeth, and a big mouth was drawn in her mouth, full of blood.
"At that time, my legs felt "paralyzed" and couldn't stand." Peng Xiaoying said, her husband and three other friends were driving the car, hit by a large truck from the body, sitting in the back of the driver's van Much has become one of the two most injured.
Less than a year after the operation, Peng Xiaoying noticed something wrong with her husband.
His left ear lost his hearing after a car accident, and he always felt the sound of a machine "whooping" in his ears, when he was eating, and when he was sleeping, for 24 hours.
The husband was originally a person who talked and laughed. During that time, he was often silent. Many times Peng Xiaoying found that he was sitting and talking to himself, "Earing ears, car coming, ears ringing, car coming."
The irritability caused by long-term insomnia made Fan Duo feel that he was "crazy, and he wanted to jump wells and jumps from building to building several times." Sometimes, the family didn't know what to do, and only called 120 for help.
On the night when she felt the worst, Peng Xiaoying woke up in the middle of the night and found her husband was not in bed. She hurriedly found relatives and friends to split up to find it. Near two o'clock in the morning, the family found Fan much more squatting by the flower bed in a square.
The wife took him to the hospital again, first hung up the psychiatric department, the doctor reminded her that she should go to the psychiatric department. In Ruian City People's Hospital, Fan Duo was diagnosed with depression. His family also took him to the hospital in Shandong, and ran to Beijing as far away as possible. The results were almost the same.
So far, there are still some medicine boxes left in the family. These drugs named "Paxetine Hydrochloride Tablets (Selote)" and "Olazapine Tablets (Zepler)" are indicated for depression, obsessive-compulsive neurosis, panic disorder, social phobia, schizophrenia Symptoms, moderate to severe manic episodes, etc.
For Peng Xiaoying, it was the most painful period of her life.
The 23-year-old eldest daughter Dan Dan remembers that during that time her mother's mood was very low. Fear of pressure from other people’s comments, whether it’s a car accident or illness, Peng Xiaoying only informed a handful of close relatives in the family. Many relatives have only recently seen the news, only to realize that the couple have experienced this .
Two years after the car accident, Peng Xiaoying took her husband to worship a Buddha in a temple near Mayu Town. The husband and wife made a photo together. The picture was blurry. The husband climbed her shoulders and looked straight ahead. The woman smiled and raised her right hand to compare a yeah.
"Look, there was no light in his eyes at that time." Peng Xiaoying was sitting on a small wooden bench, holding the photo in his phone and looking at it while saying, "He is the head of the family, something happened to the top beam of the family, what should I do with my child ?"
After Fan Duo's car accident, Peng Xiaoying's WeChat nickname was changed to "No matter how troubled you have to smile at others." Later, in an interview with the media, he learned the meaning of his wife's sentence: smile at everyone who visits, so that her husband can't see the sadness on his face.
Netizens question
"Compared to those hardest days, what are these?"
Dancing brought them unexpected happy events: After Fan Duo danced for several years, his body became better and his mood was comfortable. Although he did not go to the hospital for a review, he was completely different from the state of depression. , Become cheerful and talkative, do not have to rely on drugs to fall asleep.
In the first two years, the couple danced in the square with a little fame. Many people wanted to learn from them. One year, they paid 300 yuan for a symbolic hardship. Afterwards, there were occasions where they needed to dance. The performance costs per person per head for dim sum, 50 yuan per person.
In the beginning, there was some gossip in the village, "If you have this time to dance, you are exhausted, it is better to rest at home." The couple continued to dance regardless of these voices.
In fact, dancing did not cost much to Peng Xiaoying and his wife. In addition to the two external speakers that can be dragged and dropped on the Internet, the preparation before dancing is to pour a pot of water in the thermos in advance.
The elderly at home are still healthy, and the eldest daughter is sensible. After becoming a dance teacher, she never had to worry about the couple. The second and third children only had to pay for living expenses, less than 1,000 yuan a month. The whole family is basically self-sufficient in food and drink, with no additional material costs.
As early as two years ago, Peng Xiaoying successively released videos of dancing on the Internet. Sometimes the couple is together, sometimes with the second daughter and the youngest son, the dancing place has been changing, from the park to the relative's community, from the square in the daytime to the bridge at night.
Until the beginning of April this year, the two of them were self-edited and skipped a song "Aspire" by Mao Amin because of boredom in the epidemic. The background was in front of Fan Duo's old house. Her husband wore a blue jacket often worn by old men in the 1970s , With green liberation shoes on his feet, and bamboo hats on his head.
The night after the video was posted, 99+ new messages have been displayed in their accounts, and the number of fans has continued to increase. So far, the couple has not fully understood why the video became popular, just remember that the two of them watched the phone excitedly until late at night and did not sleep. "It has never been like this, like a sudden heavy rain."
Fan Duo can only understand some simple words. Some netizens' comments need to be quoted by children. "After reading the comments, I am getting happier and more and more motivated, and feel that I am in a good mood."
But what followed was doubt. In those dancing videos, the two of them opened their movements to a large extent, their bodies swayed with the rhythm of the beat, there was no trace of restraint and shyness-this made them look very different from the traditional impression of farmers-this also Many netizens feel that they are "fake farmers" and doubt their true identity is "dance teacher".
When dancing early, they often wore trendy sportswear suits. The whole family was uniformly black, red, white or green. The logo of the sneakers on the feet was also a well-known sports brand. After these pictures became popular, they became one of the evidence that netizens questioned their true identity and packaged up their hype.
"These clothes were bought by my eldest daughter for us. They encouraged us to dance and said that they are young and beautiful." Fan Duo felt wronged. "A pair of 45 yuan, are you saying it is true?" The eldest daughter Dan Dan is in Ryan As a jazz teacher in a dance studio in the city, she helped her parents register a video account.
Some netizens said that their dress after the change of style was deliberately dressed. Fan Duo didn’t deny that the clothes were turned out of the closet for dancing purposely. “Who doesn’t have a few old clothes in the countryside. Although they have been wearing them for many years, they haven’t been put on without throwing them. Where do I go? Buy outside."
Under the comments of "fake couples", Peng Xiaoying said he was not angry. She pointed to the coffee table in the middle and replied, "Like you and I are across this table, they are happy to let him say, it's okay."
Peng Xiaoying remembered that in order to make her husband feel better, he danced with him and jumped to his foot. After waking up one morning, she was so swollen and painful that she couldn't move. She went from the bedroom on the second floor to the living room on the first floor. She was sitting on the stairs and moved down level by level.
"So, compared with the hardest and most sad days, what are these now?" Peng Xiaoying persuaded himself.
Beijing News reporter Du Wenwen